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Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the friday january 25, 2013 meeting of the San Francisco local Agency Formation commission. My name is david employ campos and i am chair of the commission. We welcome everyone to the meeting and wish everyone who is watching a very happy new year. Madam clerk if you would call roll. President campos. Present. Commissioner avalos. Commissioner schmeltzer. Absent. Commissioner mar. Commissioner pimentel. If i may i know with commissioner pimentel there is an illness and if we could excuse here. Okay. Mr. Chair, we have a quorum. Before we start we would ...

Interpretations of it that Congress Later had to reject and correct. The passage seems a bit wearied as if to say havent we been through all this before . But it also has the sound of a boxer jumping back into the ring for another round. Others who fought so long and hard might have grown frustrated for disappointments a fight equality entails. But as anyone who knows her can tell you, as the trainer whom we share as Justice Ginsburg told you often tells me justice indefatigible. Justice ginsburg would have been a giant of the law even if he would have never been a justice. The same is true of...

Commissioner pimentel there is an illness and if we could excuse here. Okay. Mr. Chair, we have a quorum. Before we start we would like to thank the clerk linda wong and acknowledge the sfgtv staff for covering the meeting today. Madam clerk if you can please call item two. Item two is election of the chairperson and the vicechairperson for 2013. Okay colleagues this is something that we do every year at the local Agency Formation commission, and ive had the honor of serving in the capacity of chair of lafco for the last two years following the tenure of then commissioner that was before me an...

A question. Actually two questions. One, the portability aspect of new slegs legislation, how much does it conflict with state level Health Insurance and state level mandates that differ, of course, widely . How do you reconcile the provision that we have Health Coverage, all of it has a 10th amendment contest really. We stipulate that anybody that has a nexus for their Health Coverage with the federal government, then thats where it applies. So for example if our individual membership associations which would have a nexus with the federal government because it allows paur cross state lines, t...

Commissioner avalos. Thank you. And thank you for your confidence and i will accept the nomination and i would like to acknowledge your great work on the committee, on lafco and the commission, especially the approve of cleanpower sf which i see is one of the most landmark pieces of work, legislation that we have done in recent years at the board and at lafco together, and i would want to count on your work and expertise and your knowledge and serving as vice chair of this commission will be very helpful for me and the commission overall to make sure we have good continuity of your work so i w...