lafco has allocated $50,000.seeking funding for the second and third parts of the survey, but i have reached out and several organizations are interested in covering some or all of the gap. we hope to have some or all of that funding in place by september. >> chair fewer: okay. first, let's take public comment. is there any member of the public that would like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair fewer: okay. i believe commissioner mar needs to excuse himself. i'll make a motion for commissioner mar to excuse himself. seconded by commissioner haney. can i have a motion to approve the item? >> chair fewer: thank you, and seconded? and item six? global global madam clerk, before you is the proposed budget for 202 final budget for 2020. every year, the city and county of san francisco is required to fund the lafco from the general fund, in addition we have an m.o.u. from the san francisco public utilities commission which funds our work as the oversight authority for cleanpowersf. i'm

other line items, lafco memberships are slightly higher this year. travel and training, this is mostly to attend lafco events and community choice energy conferences. the rest of the line items are pretty cut and dry. the biggest difference, and -- in this proposed budget, because we do have about $50,000 to play with, i'm proposing 25,000 additional dollars to our labor study, this is to help with media outreach on the final report, printing, photography, i hope to establish a website that would be a resource for on-demand workers, and i also like to bring on a part-time research associate to assist me with the labor study, this is to ensure that i can manage my time while working on both the study and clean power s.f. i should let you know that we do have about $450,000 in funding requests. there are currently pending for our labor study with the san francisco foundation and the state legislature, i'm not sure how much of that is going to come through, but keeping my fingers crossed. so all told, the budget will have about a $26,000 carryover, plus

. & e even prior to that report coming up -- at lafco even prior to that report coming out to expand our understanding of lafco and to hear the broader public about this kind of moment we are in right now, and understand potential options. i don't necessarily have anything specific in mind, but i was just wondering, since it seems like that report and where the discussions and possible actions go from there, is directly related to the role that lafco plays in overseeing clean power s.f. >> go ahead. >> executive officer. commissioner mar, i would be happy to work with you on preparing a presentation for our next meeting. i know that by our next meeting the report will be out, sorry be happy to work with you and prepare a presentation on that as well as asking the p.u.c. to prepare a presentation as well. >> thank you very much. colleagues, any other future agenda items? seeing none, let's open this up for public comment. seeing no speakers, public comment is closed. mr. clerk, is there any other business before us today? >> that completes the agenda. >> thank you very much. this meet

i want to thank you, and i think on behalf of the whole lafco, thank you so much for this. this is as i said the tip of the iceberg but really gives us food for thought on our next steps and this information to be added also to the further studies that we're doing. thank you so much. we totally appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you for your time and consideration. thank you very much. >> chair fewer: so let's hear some public comment on this item. are there any members of the public that would like to speak? you have two minutes. >> all right. first of all, these situations where the drivers are considered contractors, it's a trick and device that's used by the management of the taxi drivers. you've got a different preferential treatment of different drivers, like the medallions. i'd like to ask the students to study and ask the opinions of the medallions. they're being charged $250,000 to drive a taxi where other drivers are not being charged. it's differential treatment and it's discrimination based on race. i come to another hearing to speak on economically disadvantage