jason fried, lafco staff. i am presenting a preliminary report and more data that we could put into a final product. there has been a lot of interest in what we have found out so far on the big picture items. as we start drilling down, i will be coming with a more drill down approach. the objectives of the survey is to look at what are the basic voting systems we use an san francisco and what type of informat

jason fried, lafco staff. i am

madam clerk: item no. 6, authorization to extend two lafco staff positions. chairperson campos: miss miller. >> as you will recall, we have board of supervisors by ordinance passed lafco with monitoring and advising the san francisco public utilities commission and implementation of the c.c.a. program. to further that task, we entered into an mou with sfpuc in 2009 which provided non-general fund funds to provide for those activities and subsequently this commission, through working with city and county staff, authorized the hiring of two staff -- or, actually, the setting up of two staff positions for that work. mr. fried was hired in our senior program officer position. the community development assistant, we did originally fill. that person left the job. i've not refilled it because that position is really for once we get into program launch, but those two positions are term positions and they were to be termed out as of august of 2012. so this item before you is to extend that, since we've had an extension of the launch of our c.c.a. program, is to extend

jason fried, lafco staff. i am presenting a preliminary report and more data that we could put into a final product. there has been a lot of interest in what we have found out so far on the big picture items. as we start drilling down, i will be coming with a more drill down approach. the objectives of the survey is to look at what are the basic voting systems we use an san francisco and what type of information is available for us to be able to determine how the impact of voters as far as over-0 vote, under-a vote, who shows up on election day, what are they choosing to participate in. there are two main sources of data, the department of elections has a lot of data on their website. a lot of their data in recent years is much more informative than what they provided an older years, so it is harder to compare rank choice voting out compared with the old december runoff's we used to have because the data available back then is not quite as in debt as the data is today. what i am doing is trying to figure out t

welcome to the april 27, 2012 meeting for the lafco for the city and county of san francisco. my name is david campos, the chair of the commission. we're joined today by commission vice chair john avalos, as well as christina olague. we have commissioners mar, hope schmeltzer, and leah pimentel. the clerk is linda wong. we would like to think john and greg from sfgtv staff. please call item number two. >> item number two, approval of lafco minutes from march 23, 2012 regular meeting. supervisor campos: is there any member of the public who would like to speak on item number two? the seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, this is an action item. motion by supervisor avalos. a second by commissioner olague. without objection. please call item 3. >> community choice aggregation activities report. status update on clean power sf program. status update on proceeding at the california public utilities commission. status update on the state legislation. supervisor campos: great, thank you very much. we have three items under item three. i like to turn it over to robert, t

miller is expected to testify by declaration as to her knowledge of sheriff mirkarimi's presence at a lafco event. >> why is that relevant? >> the mayor has alleged that on that date the sheriff was in gauged in encouraging others to destroy evidence. -- engaged in encouraging others to destroy evidence. >> is she going to be able to identify specific times? >> yes. >> commissioners, ms. miller? >> in anticipation of that offer, i cannot see how that would cover the whole time frame. an earlier point about letting the defense put on the defense they want -- i would not object to receiving that for whatever weight. >> i agree. mr. mirkarimi i think we can skip. ms. [unintelligible] >> would only call her potentially as a rebuttal witness to miss florez or ms. lemon. >> i see your point with florez. lemon is an expert. why does nyevez rebut lemon? >> my understanding is that ms. lemon would testify that there must have been some other conduct at issue, or some other instances that would qualify as official misconduct regarding how the sheriff has interacted or interact with other people in hi