Im curious on the budget details are they provided to you for example, the dental coverage thats not much discretion right. With respect to the services of the other departments you get to quote how much you want to buy. Their negotiated to in terms of the ones that effect us most of the things are told to me by the other departments in terms of of the will utilization like whats the board history been the priest hours whats the share of the cities cost whats mostly negotiated is the city attorney. Im concerned those numbers are flat i wouldnt be surprised in their adjust they involve other people. Thats primarily why you held them flat because you dont know the information. Everything is flat. Do you want a motion. Yeah. Lets move to approve the budget for the next few years. Any Public Comment on the budget seeing none. On that motion from the president to adapt the recommendations p commissioner fung. President hwang. The vote is 4 to zero the recommendations are adapted. No further business were adjourned. Weve never been in so much focus worldwide and will not be this this is a the moment in time when a story going and make a wish is a program that fulfills wishes for children we operate in every cities there are 62 chapters. Our chapter was formed in 8984 we fulfilled 24 wishes. Our chapter covers from movntd ray 17 communities and we expect to fully 3 hundred and 50 wishes this year. We send verizons it out to the wish families and interviews the wish child and if you do their heartfelt wish then go to work to make it happen. Dismissals is a 5yearold boy who was diagnosing diagnosed with life without parole when he was 20 months old hes 5 hose now in remission he had his port removed hose monopoly on the chemotherapy. This particular wish the parents wanted to wait until he had energy. I began assigning this wish with the family in march and started to understand the two miles how are we going to achieve that i made a bold statement into turning this into goth am city. It codify catapulted. So, now its a much for ininaccurate indicate from the divorce. People starting twoet and reposting and it went viral. It was incredible about make a wish he wanted to be thinking about being batman. Theres been a lot of super issues that have happened cross the country but i think that can only happen in San Francisco the mayors on board and the city hall its an incredible outpouring and i love how San Francisco is in the spotlight here and people around the world sending their love to San Francisco. You kids we thank you for your encourage and we wish we can erase the pain we hope this is the day of magic and that youll remember this forever. Bat kid forever in San FranciscoSan Francisco is unique in this way and its part of our compassion and we have a civic duty to be involved and people are stepping forward if in huge way. Its about San Francisco and its inspired by miles and about every child who has a severe welcome to our rules Committee Meeting for thursday, february 20, 2014. I am supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing this meeting. Im joined by supervisor campos and katie tang. The committee would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv jennifer low and ross. Who record the meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements. Please submit speaker cards to the clerk. Items will be on the march agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor norman yee madam clerk please call item no. 1. City clerk item 1 130401 health code Hazardous Materials]1304011. Ordinance amending the health code to require electronic applications for registration of Hazardous Materials and for underground storage tanks be filed through the California Environmental reporting system, to eliminate the requirement that registration of Hazardous Materials plans include a program for reduction of Hazardous Materials, and to provide for fee adjustment; and making environmental findings. City clerk sf 11234 supervisor norman yee i believe cindy from the department of Public Health is here to present. Good afternoon supervisors, my name is cindy, i manage planning and fiscal policy in the Environmental Health branch. Im here with paula, our senior staff at our Hazardous Material and waste program. Its part of the Environmental Health branch of the San Francisco department of Public Health. The program implements six state environmental mandates and two local mandates. There are three amendments being proposed to article 21 of the health code. The first so conform to state law 25404 of the health and safety code. They require all facilities to present certification through the California Environmental reporting system also known as sers. The regulated committee will be able to enter data. State legislation was at ab 2236. Environmental health staff has provided Technical Support on our reporting system and now its easy to update their existing information and provide a paperless one stop shop for multibusinesses. The 2nd amendment eliminates the Hazardous Material plan for the use of Hazardous Materials and generation of hazardous waste. This is again conforming to local legislation state law. This was enacted in the early 1980s when Hazardous Materials were more abundant. Most facilities are reduced their hazardous storage to low levels. We have a Health Prevention and Green Business program and we now accomplish reduction through working with our businesses and consultation instead of regulatory action. Businesses are still required to provide health waste reduction plan. A 3rd amendment is a fee adjustment. If the fees in the facilities invoiced from the department dont accurately reflect the facilities current activities, the facility may now address a fee adjustment for them with correct information with the fee payment. The businesses may have reduced or inventory since their last renewal and inspection may not be conducted in this time period. The fee adjustment form allows for a mechanism to adjust their fees accordingly. Im happy to answer any additional questions to the amendment and legislation. Supervisor norman yee thank you very much. Colleagues, any questions . No questions. Thank you. Any Public Comments on this matter . Seeing none Public Comment is now closed. Can we have a motion to move this to the full board. No objection. Item passes. Item no. 2. City clerk item 2 130710 [terms of and expansion of scope existing local Agency Formation commission positions]1307102. Sponsors avalos; campos and marresolution amending the terms of the existing local Agency Formation commission lafcoo positions by expanding the scope of services for the Senior Program officer; extending the term of employment additional three years through june 30, 2016; and utilizing the existing lafco budget to continue funding this position. City clerk item 2 130710 [terms of and expansion of scope existing local Agency Formation commission positions]1307102. Sponsors avalos; campos and marresolution amending the terms of the existing local Agency Formation commission lafcoo positions by expanding the scope of services for the Senior Program officer; extending the term of employment additional three years through june 30, 2016; and utilizing the existing lafco budget to continue funding city clerk item 2 130710 [terms of and expansion of scope existing local Agency Formation commission positions]1307102. Sponsors avalos; campos and marresolution amending the terms of the existing local Agency Formation commission lafcoo positions by expanding the scope of services for the Senior Program officer; extending the term of employment additional three years through june 30, 2016; and utilizing the existing lafco budget to continue funding this position. Supervisor norman yee 1234 okay, i see supervisor avalos office is present. Please come to the microphone if you have comments to make. Thank you, good afternoon supervisors, frances shea with avalos office. Thank you very much chair yee for scheduling this on the agenda today. Since the membership of the rules committee has changed a little bit since we last heard this item i hope you will indulge me if i go over it again. Supervisors, as you are aware lafco Advisory Board of the Community ChoiceAggregation Program has diminished. Supervisor avalos response to these changes is start to examine lafcos future scope of work. The item before you doesnt focus on that element of the discussion but this item. Specifically given that less time is required to assist with the development, implementation and operation and management of the c ca program it would be better to develop the cost duties to include executive officer duties. Currently lafco contracts with miller and ian for its General Council service. Ms. Miller was also the council and filled the director position on an interim basis. Direct deuces include preparing contracts and rfps and commission items and Staff Reports and sfpuc staff and monitoring contracts and preparing budgets and reports for the commission and General Services related to what comes up on the agenda for lafco. In the last fiscal year the amount that has charged for General Council services was a little over 2,000 for 8 hours of work. During that same period of time, the amount for executive services is in the current year lafco has paid a little over 5,000 and nearly 28,000 for the executive director work. Regardless of the duties she fulfills whether they are the General Council, the bill is the same. The resolution before you today is a result of conversation that lafco has had in a few years and an attempt to address this inefficient use of budget. This resolution does two things by consolidating the executive director duties into 1975 Senior Development specialist position and that rate those services could be built at the lower rate of 52. 86 an hour. In the last fiscal year this would have saved 54,000. This allows for the Funding Source of the director duties. This allows for the continuation of that. And i know there is a question about how much was in there. Currently there is a little over 375,000 still in the fund and we have an agreement with sfpuc with cca and there is 665,000 left. This also does is it extends the possible term for the 975 position for the 3year period. To be clear this resolution doesnt guarantee that this position will remain for 3 years. It allows the position to stay open, to extend for another 3 years. As i referenced earlier lafco and its commissioners are planning to review the work scope and future work plans and as a result of that discussion, that will ultimately determine what the future work scope and length of contract for the 9975 position is. This resolution allows it to go up to 3 years. So i hope thats enough background and information for you to support this item today. I can try answer any questions you might have. The clerk of the board isnt here and available, so we may have to call on lafco staff if you have any operations questions. In the meantime if you have anything, any questions for me. Supervisor norman yee thank you, frances. Supervisor campos . Thank you very much for the excellent presentation. Im actually somewhat surprised that this item has taken so long to get out of committee. I would strongly urge my colleagues to move its item forward. I have been a member of lafco since i got elected to the board of supervisors and for a number of years was the chair of lafco. What you have to understand is that the history of the lafco in San Francisco is a unique one and lafco in San Francisco has not played a role as other jurisdictions. I think that has been a mistake in the sense that there is a lot of potential for lafco playing the role of ensuring good government, best practices within city agencies. In fact thats what other lafcos do. They provide oversight and provide ideas on how to more efficiently effectively manage and provide government services. And it allows for agencies like the board of supervisors to use resources other than the general fund to conduct issues and reviews. The perfect example is what would with the issue of garbage and Waste Management where lafco was instrumental in helping with that. What this does is it simply allows us to be able to proceed with expanding the scope of that work. In that sense it brings the San Francisco lafco in line with every other lafco in the state of california. I also think that to the extent that there are specific concerns about how the individual position has been filled will be filled and how that will be managed. I can tell you as chair of lafco and i know the commissioner supervisor avalos does the same thing that there is a lot of time and care that goes into managing lafco staff. When i was chair of lafco as is the case with supervisor avalos, its very careful monitoring of staff, scheduling and all of that. I think that its really imperative to move this item forward. I dont know what the hesitation has been but i know that we are sort of tying lafcos hands by not moving forward and i ask that that happen expeditiously. Supervisor norman yee supervisor tang . Supervisor katy tang thank you supervisor campos. I do agree with the change of the scope of the position for the Senior Program officer and i believe the cost and savings is very justified. The question that i do have, again i do understand that we as a board of supervisors we are not here to i mean lafco is here to serve and there are members of our board who serve directly on lafco, but die want to know given the current state of affairs what are some of the things that we are directing lafco to work on and i think that the component that im a little bit concerned about which i know that frances did address was extending the term of employment for an additional 3 years given this. I was wondering why we could not consider doing this on a year to year basis. Again, i know that discussion are supposed to happen to determine the exact duties and what will be coming out of lafco and then at that point you will be determining the length of time for the employment, but i want to know here at this point why we could not take that on a year to year basis. Supervisor david campos i dont know what ms. Sheas response would be. From my point it would be very impractical. The scope of the duties determines how much work the person will be able to do. If you have a situation where the process requires lafco to come back every year and we have seen this happen. There are delays and maybe when committees meet, when something gets scheduled. I think what this does in the best way to do it is that to not do a five or 10year term but actually for a 3year period so lafco doesnt have to come back every year to make sure that the definition of the responsibilities of the individual are broad enough that the person is busy. So i think that 1 year in my experience having been chair of lafco, doesnt make sense. It doesnt mean that lafco will indeed use the 3 years, but having that possibility is important and to the extent that lafco needs to shorten the period, i think its more appropriate for lafco to make that decision given that we have members of the board of supervisors that are on lafco. If someone feels very strongly, i think there might be a vacancy on lafco. If a member feels so strongly about that and they are able to serve through lafco to do that. I dont think its good Public Policy for the board to micro manage lafco that way. I think its better to give them flexibility. That would be my response. Supervisor katy tang i appreciate that response. Im not here to micro manage lafco. I just want to understand the nature, the scope of the work to justify the 3year extension is really my question. I think supervisor campos hit the nail on the head is to give lafco that freedom that at the time actually this was put together and as he also pointed out this has taken some time. We werent quite sure of the scope of work and lafco is still having those discussions. At the time this resolution was developed they hadnt passed cca at the board. It was really to give lafco that flexibility and give it that sensibility that there would be that staff person through that transition period and really let lafco make that decision whether they wanted the staff purn person on for one or two or 3 years. That 3 years would be a time to make that transition. Supervisor katy tang my follow up when will that discussion be happening in terms of determining the length of time that person will be serving at lafco. Supervisor david campos i think that lafco as i understand and supervised or avalos is the chair and breed is the vicechair. They are waiting for the board to provide the authority to have that conversation. But, they are not going to be able to have that discussion unless they first have the au