torres, and by understand there is a new lafco commissioner as well? i would like to welcome you as well. we look forward to continuing to work together to bring cca online. it is an exciting opportunity. as far as expectations, i am hoping we can hear a bit about the schedules and something about the rfp process, where we are, what we can see as far as the conclusion and when we can receive our recommendations from lafco staff. it would also be great to hear about finances. i know there was a budget hearing yesterday with a request to release monies from the reserve. it would be great to get an update with that in conjunction with the items on the agenda. i know we have a couple people here, one from marin, one from san joaquin. we look forward to hearing about your cca process. supervisor mirkarimi: this is going to work and beautifully. why don't we opened this up to public comment, as our process provides for. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will continue that item t

lafco, community choice. i would love to see, under a new administration, consolidation of those efforts. we waste a lot of time, money, citizen time, and we don't move forward very fast. if we have a pile of money, we can solve all of these issues. but we have to be practical. sophie, thank you so much. supervisor maxwell: public comment is closed. we will continue this item to the call of the chair. supervisor mar: i was just going to say before i have to leave, it has been such a great pleasure to work with you on the land use committee. i have learned so much from you and i think your the sharpest dresser on the board. i have learned a lot about how to address community concerns, criticisms, and how to bring people together from your leadership. we butted heads on a couple of different things, but it has been an honor to serve with you. i want to thank you for sharing the land use committee. supervisor maxwell: it has been great working with supervisor maxwell: you. -- working with you. supervisor chiu: i wanted to echo his comments. we are going to miss you greatly. you have had a tr

since the last meeting, lafco staff has sat down with petro solar twice. they are the contract for the new jersey -- they are providing the pole-mounted solar units. we clarified a lot of the specifics of such a program and how it would work specifically. the first meeting in included richard smith. the second meeting included the general manager of power enterprise at the sfpuc. and the streetlights team. and just some major sticking points that i would like to call out, we would have to reach an agreement with pg&e. simply because we are feeding the energy into the grid. another point is that it is a question of what kind of communication mechanism might be used in order to manage and monitor the unit. the solar units are monitored by the technology. i think there are plans to have the new puc -- to use existing communication mechanisms. another point is metering and how to measure the output of the solar units. each would have the meter installed. and lastly, the city processes as well as teh puc -- the puc mentioned there would have to be a ceqa process. and they brought this up regard