lafco has allocated $50,000. we are still 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 cle

hire a consultant to support lafco's oversight of clean power s.f. and the implementation, including the review of upcoming integrated energy resource and 10-year capital planning work and the development of new energy programs and services to assist disadvantaged and low-income communities in san francisco with their energy burden. that concludes my remarks and i'm happy to take any questions that you might have. >> supervisor mar: thank you. colleagues, any questions? thanks are thank you. now i'd like to invite the budget and legislative analyst office to share their findings on this item. >> good morning, chair. and i'm with the budget analyst office. the board is being asked to approve a one-year extension between p.u.c. and lafco. and extended to fiscal year 2019-2020. and it would actually -- as mr. hines said it does not increase the amount as we see in our report, about $1.89 million has been spent under this agreement so far and the remaining balance is about $200,000 which would be spent on continuing oversight of clean power s.f. and we r

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