Development for soma filipinos. So that [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and its also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. I studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. Working at imarket is amazing. Youve got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. When i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of Filipino Food, it was like oh, wow, thats the closest thing ive got to home, so, like, im going to try everything. Fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. I havent tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. The binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. But here, we put a twist on it. Why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. Were not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. We try to cook food that you dont normally find from Filipino Food vendors, like the lichon, for example. Its something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and its one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. This, its kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. When i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. I think its a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. Everybody keeps saying Filipino Food is the next big thing. I think its already big, and to have all of us here together, its just it just blows my mind sometimes that theres so many of us bringing bringing Filipino Food to the city finally. Im alex, the owner of the lumpia company. The food that i create is basically the filipinoamerican experience. I wasnt a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my Favorite Foods i like to eat, put into my favorite Filipino Foods, put together. Its not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. Maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the Different Things that i put in are just the Different Things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. Well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia it wasnt the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia. There was a time in our generation where we didnt have our own place, our own feed to eat. Before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. Now, im taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. It can happen in the San Francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. Its basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the opeRating System. So right now, im eating something that brings me back to every Filipino Party from my childhood. Its really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. One of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, theres little communities there that act as place makers. When you enter into little philippines, youre like where are the businesses, and thats one of the challenges were trying to solve. Undercover love wouldnt be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our Community Partnerships out there. It costs approximately 60,000 for every event. Undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipinoamerican culture. I think in San Francisco, weve kind of lost track of one of our values that makes San Francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. Weve become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. When people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. When youre positive and committed to using that energy, the meeting will can the order. This the is the may 15, local meeting of the local agency formation. I am sandraly fewer joined by gordon marand cynthia pollock. 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You may submit Public Comment be in the following ways. Email to myself. If you submit Public Comment it will be forwarded and included as part of the official file. That concludes my announcements. Thank you very much. Can you please call item 2. Approval of the lafco minutes from the april 17, 2020 regular meeting. Thank you. Any comments from my colleagues . Seeing none. Lets open for Public Comment. Any members of the public to comment on item number 2 . Madam chair, no callers wish to speak. Thank you. I would like to make a motion to approve the minutes of the lafco meeting of april 17, 2020. Could i have a second please. Second. Supervisor mar. Roll call vote. The motion to approve the minutes. Commissioner fewer. Aye. Commissioner pollock. Aye. Commissioner haney. Aye. Commissioner mar. Aye. There are four ayes. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call item 3. Consideration and approval of the proposed lafco budget for fiscal year 20202021. We have mr. Bryan goebel, executive director presenting. Thank you, madam chair. Good morning, commissioners. Today i am bringing you a proposed budget which needs to be approved by the end of may. At the last meeting you asked me to bring two proposed budget options, one a significant increase in our budget for the general fund. Another would be a status quo of the lafco budget. The first option the general fund request would be under 7 84,000. Status quo would receive the amount that we are statutorily required to receive each year from the general fund which is 297, 342. This is because of uncertainty abuse of the budget situation. Commissioner mar asked to talk about the impact if the commission chooses to move forward with the status quo budget. This is the general fund balance over the years. Lafco has not had an increase in 10 years. We receive the same amount every year if from the general fund 298,000. We do expect carrying over to next budget as you can see in the column at the bottom that is our general fund balance. To the right in the right column you can see we are going to have about a 28,000 carryover to the next fiscal year. For those not familiar with lafco, i want to give a brief history and mission of lafco. Our lafco is unique. Most lafcos in california oversee special districts. Ours was formed in 2000 with a voter petition drive to create a municipal utility district. Over the years we worked primarily in energy issues. In 2007 we were assigned oversight of clean power sf. It would not exist without lafco. We led to the creation of clean power sf. Lafco is successful at exercising special studies powers. We have that authority under the act which governs all lafcos. We are allowed to initiate study os issues that impact Municipal Services. These are advantageous to help the city assess Municipal Service needs. In 201920 we did important projects. We commissioned the most representative study of on demand workers. Today as you will see we present a report offering a slate of recommendations on how to improve the working conditions on demand workers. We continue to derm avenues the city can take to curtail labor abuses. You heard a report last year about the troubling amount of disconnections, power disconnections in San Francisco, especially in neighborhoods that have suffered historical burdens. To do the special studies work, we have had to raise the money. In this fiscal year lafco raised 365,000 from five foundations, biggest from the ford foundation. We worked the bay and the casey foundation, San Francisco foundation, the family foundation. Through that fundraising we were ability to double the budget in this fiscal year. That money is the biggest source of funding. You can see where the general fund money falls in here as well as work order from the cca. That funding under 200,000 for clean power sf is to cure and will carry on in the next fiscal year. With increased resources for lafco, the significant increase that we are asking for, we will be able to carry on our work that we started in this fiscal year. We are hoping to do another round of Research Related to on demand workers and companies. We want to have an Engagement Process for recommendations we present today to vet those with a variety of stakeholders and city departments. We would like to Commission Additional surveys. The findings presented today, the broader survey of on demands workers was about halfway into the data gathering when it had to be suspended because of covid19. We hope to work to Cross Platform level data on worker trips and earning. We didnt get to do that during the initial phases of the survey. Of course, there is the work on public bank pending legislation, providing a consultant to support a Public Bank Task force. You will see in the presentation today from the lafco Research Associate recommendations that involve engaging with communities of color to traffic covid19 assistance from banks and organize listening sessions with limited English Proficiency communities how Crisis Response has affected bans responsibility. There is a Communications Plan to allow the work to increase Public Participation and engagement. Also to provide additional fundraising capacity. Significant amount of my time was spent fundraising this year. We have a slight increase in Legal Council budget because of increased workload and more item to review. Looking ahead in the next fiscal year clean power sf. This happens regardless of option one or two. We have that money from the p. U. C. We will manage and work with Renewable Energy consultant to provide improved oversight. We will have expertise working with staff to really strengthen our oversight role. We will develop and manage r. F. P. , hire another consultant to dive into the report on power disconnections in San Francisco. As we think longterm i would like a funding strategy to ensure it is supported after the m. O. U. And after the funding is gone. This requires no increased resources to do this work on clean power sf Going Forward. Speaking of clean power sf. This is the work order balance. We have under 200,000 left in that fund. Here is the first option. Increase resources for lafco. What does that mean . Two fulltime positions. Executive officer currently works as independent contractor. This would make the executive officer a fulltime city and county employee. We would hire a fulltime policy analyst and provide money for Labor Research and Communications Plan. The total increase we are requesting from the general fund would be under 487,000. Total request under 7 84,000. Budget option two. Again with the status quo budget. I propose most of our work focus on clean power sf. No additional funding required for this. If we go forward with this option we have money left from the amount we raise from private foundations for the survey team. There is funding there to do additional work. I am trying to derm what the scope of that would be. Moving forward with the status quo no funding for public bank. Limited staff capacity to fundraise for special studies, limited staff capacity to conduct further Labor Research. We could bring in Research Associates from graduate classes. We have been successful at this to work around it. Because of delays in the citys budget process, regardless which option you choose to move forward to, lafco will operate on the status quo budget july 1 through september 30. That is because the budget process is delayed. The earliest to get additional funding would be october 1st. These are the two options i bring before you today. Option one increase resources for lafco, allow us to follow up on the work we have been doing this year versus option two. Status quo budget no fulltime positions, move forward focusing mostly on clean power sf with no money to support the Public Bank Task force. These are the line items for each option. You can see budget option one, two, and then what the contingent appropriation would be if you approve budget option one. These are the numbers. For the first column most increases for the fulltime positions. They are for the public bank consultant, Communications Plan, budget option two status quo budget. Working within the amount we are required to get every year from the general fund. Column three shows the contingent amount if the citys budget process moves forward and lafco is favored in that process. We would receive that money after the citys budget process is complete. With that, commissioners, i am happy to answer questions and get your feedback. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions for mr. Goebel . I have a question. Mr. Goebel, thank you for presenting option one and two. That is helpful. I want to ask two questions. First is whether the sfpuc has talked about whether or not there would be a new m. O. U. For our clean power sf work Going Forward. The other is did you do the math quickly on what our spending was this past fiscal year when you count fundraising plus money from the general fund. It seems like we werent operating at status quo budget this year because we had fundraising. Is that the amount that would be with the fundraising and the general fund amount . How that differs . It looks like only about 100,000 difference in that option one budget. Thank you for that question. The first question about the m. O. U. I am in conversation with the Public Utilities commission. They michigan it may not be they think it may not be necessary to extend the m. O. U. And appropriate the money to lafco. We are investigating right now. I have been talking with mik mikeheims at clean power sf. They support lafco receiving the money. We are trying to figure out the best way to move forward if it is allow us to spend it moving forward. That is for the 200,000 . That is correct. Are there any discussions to earmark money to receive either i guess that would be like a change an addendum to the m. O. U. That would be for an additional amount . I was thinking after 200,000 is used it makes sense for our ongoing work with clean power sf that we receive additional funding from the sfuc. I have not had any discussions with the p. U. C. About future funding Going Forward. If the commission desires for me to initiate those discussions, i would be happy to move forward with them. So on the e on the expenditure. We spent the allocated amount 298,000. We have about 23,000 left of that. The total amount we raised for the survey and study 365,000. That has all been paid out to the survey team. Just the craziness of switching to covid19 survey and suspending the broader survey. We are trying to figure out what is in that pool of money. I hope to have an answer soon. I dont have an answer today. The 365,000 did you say. Thats correct. I am sorry. I dont have a calculator handy. Let me add that up. I will do the math on that. 639,000 total that is minus the 23,000 carryover, 639,000. The proposed option one budget was do you remember . 700 . Let meet put that back up on the screen for you, commissioner. These numbers are different than the staff memo because i had to revise these numbers. 150,000 difference if we were to continue with option 1. We are on track to spend at least i am just sort of thinking Going Forward if we were to do the type of work that we just did that without any additional fundraising we would need an option 1 budget. For the commission my colleagues to decide. I want to point out i know we were spending a lot more than the allocated amount from the general fund. Yes. You are absolutely right. I would like to mention that lafco has not had an increase in the 10 years it has been in existence. It has always been at 297,342. We have not had an increase even though the budget of the city and county of San Francisco has grown tremendously over the last years. We at la