Any announcements . Yes, be sure to silence devices, speakers to be included part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Madam clerk, could you call item number two. Item two, approval of the lafco minutes from the december 9, 2016, regular meeting. Do any of the commissioner vz any changes to the december 9, 2016, regular Meeting Minutes . E seeing no comments, i would like to call public speakers. Does any member of the public have any changes to the Meeting Minutes . No . Seeing no public speakers, Public Comment is closed. Can i have a motion to approve the minutes . So moved, by commissioner rohnen and a second . By commissioner fewer. And these minutes are approved. Madam clerk, could you please call item three. Election of the chair person and vice chair person for 2017. Great. Do any of the commissioners before taking nomination foz the chair and vice chair, lets open this up for public xhenlt, are there any members of the public that wish to comment o iment it em three. No. Seeing no public speakers, Public Comment is closed. Could i have a motion to elect could i have a motion to elect the chair and vice chair for 2017. Move. Oh, can i make a motion, may i . Sorry chair, this is my first meeting. May i make a nomination at this time . Yes. I nominate Hillary Ronen to be the chair person. Are there any other nominations . Wait, are we calling these together . You can call them separately or together. Would i like to call them together chair if that would be permissible. I would like to nominate Hillary Ronen for chair person and cynthia for the vice chair. Okay. Are there any other nominations or second foz that motion . Second. Seconded by commissioner ronen. And do we want to take this to i cant so moved. Yes. And nomination rz approved. The nominations are approved. Congratulations, chair, ronen and to myself to continue to serve this body. Could you call item four . Consideration and approval of the proposed lafco budget for fiscal year 17, 18. I believe executive officer jason frieed will be providing an overview and direction on this matter. Direct, executive officer for lafco. In your packet you have a proposed budget that goes over what the spending will look like over the course of the next fiscal year. As always we look to the state amount of 297,342. Because we have access to another fund of money outside of our general fund, we normally do not need to use that full amount in that he given year, at some point we will. What i would recommend is that we will continue to keep our rights to that money, but that to the degree possible that we return what we can as is the tradition of lafco and take what we need and give back the rest of it to the city and county so that they can ko do all of the functions that they need to do as well. On that note, we did since a couple of you are new, normally in december, the borz comes and say what do you need for the following year. This is much earlier than what the state requires to us do or responsible to do by the state law, we are covered by the state rules not by the city and county of San Francisco rules. Our budget process is by may 15th. We need to pass a proposed budget, by may first, we need to pass, and by june 15th, we need to pass a final budget. What we are doing today is that proposed budget not the final budget whashgs we do is we transmit whatever actions we take today will transmit to the city and county of San Francisco and here is what we are looking at and opens it up for any comments that they choose to make or anyone else choose to make and at our next meeting we will pass the final budget. One of the things to keep in mind since this is our first meeting of the year, and we have for the most part a brand new commission. We have, and thank you for returning to this body and being the one lone body that was returned from last year. We were not sure exactly what this body was going to be doing this year. Because last years body most of them were termed out and left. And so what we transmitted to the city and county, was what was the very basic status quo budget . If we did nothing different than what we are doing exactly today whashgs would that budget look like . And what that budget looked like at the time was we would need about 144,000. Since december, we have gotten new updates and that number seems to be consistent, the reality is that we are going to hold a discussion about the future agenda items, if we take on a new item, depending on what we take o there could be the potential of needing additional money, what i did do is i looked back for the discussions today, when have we used outside consultants outside of the cta, they are expensive whshgs we have done those project therz large and bigger than what we would need to do for the next calendar year, based on the sug matter discussion that we have it, i look to the report that we did on how the garage collection is done in the city, we spent did 50,000 without sult ant and i will put that report together. So i used that as if we did one of the reports oefr the course of the next year, we would need to add that amount to budget in order to make sure that we have the correct amount to do things. And that amount comes under the 297 number and so what i will be proposing today is at a mun mum that we approve a budget that we know where it is going to need the 144, based on fsh further discussions between today meeting and the next meeting we, may need an additional 50,000, we are retaining our rights to the 297 number, but that we are figuring out what that exact number is less than that, and i dont think that we are going to need that full amount and we are trying to full out the exact details given that it is the first meeting of the year and commission. And we need a little more time and i am hopeful that the city and county will be understanding of that and give them a range of here is what we think is going to be needed for the budget and on that i will if you have any questions on that part or process, i am happy to answer it, and miss miller is here to answer any legal questions of how the budget process itself works, if you need it. Great. And just to clarify for the new commissioners, is that the state regulation is that or the state legislation says that we must ask for the same amount that we asked for last year, which is the 297342. Could you, do you remember the amount that we paid for the report which would be a more robust report than the garage collection . The report was more than one fiscal year, the entire report itself ended up costing us, i want to say 200,000, but that is a much different type of thing that anything that we are looking at right now at doing, outside of the cca so i dont know if we will need to get that level for that report. And we might want to have that discussion and we to have a much different budget as that will eat up the entire budget just to have that one report done i want to keep that in mind if we talk about the future items Going Forward. Because there is a difference between 250, in the budget that is small, and if we were for do an indepth report based o you know, an item that this Commission Wants to we want to mindful of that if it is a prelim report this year and something larger that we would have to go to the board of supervisor foz funding. The thing to remember is that it is not it is a final product report, you are looking at something that is multi year, we may not issue an official like report t was a specialized report. Right. I would view what we are doing as something that is not, it is detailed but not in the same way and not with the same level of expertise, but i do agree with you, that they can range widely and what, i think that we more need would support for at least the next year would be more like outside the legal tech support of exactly how to do the stuff that we are looking at doing and maybe, an expert here or there might be needed as well. Okay, great. I have one question. Chair, thank you very much. Mr. Fried, just for clarification, so i pdz that the 297,000 that is in the lafco budget. Correct. If we dont, if we actually are looking at a Budget Proposal of like we might spent, 144,000, and retain another 50,000 in case we need to hire an consultant, but dwoe have the remapder of the funds that we can access if we should need to; is that correct . . No. We get one bite at the apple. Once we give it back that is it. Once we do the not todays budget, once we get to the budget we approve in may, we get one time to say yes or no to our money. That is it until the following fiscal year. Just as for those of you that may be familiar with the board of supervisor these like to put money on reserve. They cannot, we are separate agency, they cant say that we are going to take that 50,000 and put that on reserve, it is one time that we get to do it. There say provision for some reason we spent more money than we had, we couborrow money off the next year, there is language that allows for us not to be insolvent but to be able to pay the bills. Would i never want to get in that situation, i always have a little bit left over, a small amount, this year we will end up with 5 or 10,000 left in our account, little bit of wiggle room not too much. Then i would say, it would be my preference to be more cautious. If we decide that there is something that we would like to investigate and do a report o that could be more extensive. Than 50,000 is the minimum amount that we would put aside. Sorry. Thanks. Nancy Miller Council to lafco. I just wanted to say just a couple of things because this process of where we adopt the budget at 297 and we dont use the 297 is has a historical context. Which is we used to have a very large reserve, close to million and we would not have to take from the city general fund every year. Because we had our own reserve that was set up years and years ago. We have spent that down and we have also received funds from other sources such as the sfpuc account that was set up to help us monitor and work with the sfpuc. So what we are trying to do is say, well, the revenue will come from other sources. And then the city and county of San Francisco. So we have this accounting that we go through, which is we adopt the budget for 297 and we actually say that is our budget, but we are going to give back to you, a certain amount and only keep what we really need for that year. That is, the the one time that jason is talking about. We do have to figure out what that amount is. You are entitled to the same budget and so if the other sources of funds go away, our reserves are mlu, and you would still have funds to continue to do what you want to do with respect to the activities of the commission. So, we do have this one time, where we talk about it, but i want to be really clear that we talk about it in terms of we are starting with 297,000 and then we are deciding how much of that, where that is coming from, and only so much of that will come from the city and county each year. Correct. I hope that that is. Sure. So, what i think we should do now, since the final budget wont be decided until may, is if i could make a motion where we sort of estimate the range of what we will probably end up using and to p that we will return the rest to the city and county of San Francisco for other needs and then while we are figuring out sort of what the focus of lafco will be Going Forward and refining that and having a better estimation of the budget when we need it and if we are indeed going to have contribution from other source and then we can revisit this at our next meeting and perhaps give a more exact figure, does that make sense . And i can make a motion to that effect . Sure. Sure. I think, so let me just clarify. You are saying that you would ask for the 297, but not include a number that we would return and just leave that part open . So ask for the 297,342, and reserve our right to request that amount Going Forward. But it suggests that we are going to keep amount lesser than that. Within a range. And then when we further flush out the role and sort of the focus of this body and that at our next meeting or in the future meetings, certainly by may. We will settle on an exact figure. Okay. Sure. And i just also twoont say i think that is fine, i agree. Personally, i know that there is some maybe, some political things we should consider, but personally, i dont mind spending the 297,000, the full amount even though it has been practice to rush some of comblont to the city. And i know thatvy been in this position for two months,vy seen the city spend money. So i think that really if we should need it then we should use it. Because it is what allocated for. And it is not a huge amount of money. When i have seen what has come before the board and what we have approved, the million and hundreds of millions, of dollars. Actually this money, very little amount of money for the work that it does. Thanks. Thank you. So with that is it okay if i make a motion . I want to clarify one more thing and we should open it up for Public Comment before we entertain a motion. So just to clarify with miller, do we have to specify today the amount that we will return . Or can that be left open until may . We do not have to specify the amount that we will return, you can estimate it today and come back it may and finalize it or june whenever you choose. Okay, great. So like to open this up for Public Comment. Is there any member of the public that would like to speak on this item . Hello commissioners, eric brookz. I am representing San Francisco, the coalition for San FranciscoClean Energy Advocates. Which has been working on clean power sf and Community Choice. Also, california for Energy Choice which does that kind of work on the state level. I didnt speak to your previous item because you are all great and it didnt matter who was president and vice president. I just want to get that out there. And we are not dising you, and on this budget issue i kind of like would launch off of and amplify which is what commissioner fewer said. We now as Council Miller pointed out. We have burned through our reserve, and this lafco is going to have important things coming up like public broadband is something that we have talked about in the past year. And that is going to be on the horizon and it is going to be big this year, especially with the trump trying to privatize the internet. We need to get that on this year. That might require more studies if we find that the department of technology does not get off the dime and do what needs to be done to set up public broadband and then with the clean power sf, we are finding that, you know, sfpuc staff has done a great job of moving the ball forward when in far in the past that was not happening, but we are finding that because the sfpuc is an Enterprise Agency that is focused on the rate and pair and protecting the rate pairs and the things like getting a local build out plan, are dragging a little. And in the past things like that, that would be on the level of the expanse or maybe even the report were needed to get the vision of clean power sf moving for ward. We might need the lafco to create a build out of a local build out plan like sidny australia, for San Francisco. And in that case, not only do you need your whole 297 budget but you might need to do what was done before and which is request from the board and the mayors office, some added funds are there any other speakers . Public comment is closed. Can i have a motion to approve the proposed lafco budget for physical year, 17, 18 . Moved. Sure, i am going to make a motion to approve the proposed budget for fiscal year, 17, 18, at 297,342 dollars and reserving the right in future years to the full amount of 297,342 that is receives in the city and county of San Francisco to keep between, 144,000 and 200,000 for use in the next fiscal year and return the unneeded portion back to the city. And that staff should make needed adjustments to the final budget in may. Could i have a second for that motion. Second seconded by fewer. Seeing no objections, the motion is passed. Madam clerk, could you call item five . Community choice activities report, status up date on the clean power sf program, status up date on the proceedings of the California PublicUtility Commission and up date on the state legislation. All right. I believe that we have presentations from general manager bar bra hail and executive officer, jason fried . Thank you. Good morning. Assistant general manager at the San Francisco puc. Welcome, i am pleased to be here to present the status of clean power sf. I will also address, if it aappropriate, chair, all of the items that the secretary read together before turning the microphone over to executive officer fried. Snaechlt is great. Thank you. And just to kick things off i wanted to introduce the support team at clean power sf at the puc. That you will be seeing over the course of the year. Making presentations responsive to your questions here at lafco. I introduce myself, im bar bra hail assistant general manager for power, with me is mike heinz, if you would stand. The director daytoday director of the clean power sf program and the clean power sf staff report to him at the puc. Charles, our acting Communications Director at the puc is here. And his staff person, pasaro and we are happy to welcome, this is what . Week two . And marina report to charles. She is the Communications Lead for power enterprise at puc and as i say she only just joined us. So you will be seeing us as a Team Responding to your inquiries. So i wanted to take our first meeting as an opportunity to introduce the team. So now move og this to where we are at with the program and if i may i would like to switch microphones. So by way of making sure we are all understanding the Program Opportunity here, S