Chair fewer good morning everyone. This meeting will come to order. This is the july 31, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco local Agency Formation commission. Im sandra lee fewer. Im joined by gordon mar and matt haney. Do we have any announcement. Clerk yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect commissioners City Employees and the public city hall is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the various local and state federal orders, declarations and directives. Commission members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgov tv. Com are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments to speak are available via phone by calling 4156550001. Then pound and then pound again. When connected you will hear the meet discussion and in listen mode only. When your item come up, dial star three to be added to the speaker line. Best practice is speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email to myself the lafco cle clerk, or by u. S. Mail at one dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california 94102. That concludes my announcements. Chair fewer thank you very much. Please call the item number two. Clerk approval of the lafco minutings from the june 19, 2020 regular meeting. Chair fewer any comment or questions. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. Please dial star three to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. Is there anyone on the line . There are no callers in the queue. Chair fewer Public Comment is now closed. I want to make a motion to approve the lafco minutes from june 19, 2020. Do i need a second for that . Clerk yes. Chair fewer second please . Second. Clerk motion to approve the minutes. [roll call vote] you have three ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Do we need to excuse missioner pollock from this meeting . Should i make a motion . I like to make pa motion oexcuse commissioner pollock from this meeting. Could i have a second please . Supervisor mar second. Chair fewer roll call vote please. [roll call vote] you have three ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Please call item number three. [agenda item read] chair fewer thank you very much. We have our executive director presenting on this. Thank you, good morning commissioners, bryan goebel executive officer. This item will authorize the lafco to enter an construction with banner production to provide Renewable Energy consulting to the lafco. The lafco is mandated to provide oversight of cleanpowersf in august of last year we issued a request for qualifications for Renewable Energy expert in three Service Areas. I outlined all of this in your packets. By the okay deadline, we haved a total of seven responses. They met the minimum qualifications to work with lafco. There was only one response for service area one, which is to support lafcos oversight of cleanpowersf. We gave all of the respondents a Second Chance to apply and by the february deadline received a total of four responses. On march 13th, we convened an r. F. Q. Evaluation panel made up of chelsea from chair fewers office and a legal counsel. Of all four respondents, vanir scored the highest in the supervisor and proposal evaluation. On june 16th of this year, the lafco issued an intent to award a contract to vanir. The panel were impressed with vanirs presentation during the interview and their understanding of the role lafco plays with cleanpowersf. They have done their homework. As well as by the firms documented expertise and proven record in the Renewable Energy field. They are a minority and women owned company. The staff member for the role at vanir will be jenny witson with Extensive Knowledge of Renewable Energy issues. The team who will work with lafco, i outlined this in your packet, includes developing the framework for the c. C. A. Program in los angeles. They have c. C. A. Experience. This would allow us to significantly strength and our oversight role of cleanpowersf by retaining expertise from a firm with experience in this field. Im very excited to work vanir going forward. My recommendation is that you approve the contract. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, lets open up for Public Comment please. Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. If you have not already done so, please dial star three to line up to speak. Please wait to indicate the system has unmute you. Are there any members of the public wish to provide Public Comment on this item . Yes, i have one in the queue. Hello commissioners, eric brooks with californian for energy choice, i worked the last 14 years to get cleanpowersf off the ground. Support of this, the diversity and the expertise that this company and team has is both crucial and impressive. Its great to see this going forward. Theres one big caution and hopefully vanir is watching this as well so they get this message to both the commissioners and to vanir, the big caution is that all the expertise looks great but the one thing that i dont see from either of the commission or the contractor is the plan and the ability to integrate all that spirit expero plan a Virtual Power Plant for the San Francisco bay area like the sydney, australia renewable plan. Thats what the advocates have been watching for 14 years. Its not coming from the sfpoc. We need this contractor to be expert on power plant and hire contractor to build it. Thats absolutely crucial. Its the one thing i would say to step up your game on both the commission and the contractor. Thank you. This looks great. Its great to see that were moving forward and i look forward to communicating with all of you in the future including vanir. Clerk thank you for your comment. Anyone else on the line . That completes the queue. Chair fewer Public Comment is closed. Mr. Brooks, comments are noted. I think we are now able to make a recommendation to approve the contract with vanir Construction Management as mr. Goebel has recommended to us. Supervisor mar i had a question for mr. Goebel. I wanted to clarify is the contract with vanir going to cover all three Service Areas . I noticed lafco received responses to the r. F. P. From different bidders in the three different Service Areas. Vanir only submitted a response to service area one and Service Area Two but not service area three which identify proposed programs for communities of concerns. I wanted to clarify whether the scope of this contract will cover all three Service Areas . Chair fewer mr. Goebel . Thank you for that question commissioner mar. I want to add that Jenny Whitson from vanir johnson us as well. No, this contract only covers service area one, which is supporting lafcos oversight role of cleanpowersf. I think it could maybe be possible that vanir could help us develop scope of work for service area three, which other service they didnt apply for. This is mostly to support service area one. Chair fewer commissioner mar, would you like to hear from Jenny Whitson from vanir. Shes available for comment to answer questions. Supervisor mar yes, sure. Im curious how whether lafco will be pursuing consultant support for Service Area Two and three . It is my goal that well be able to based on what i heard from commissioners in the past that service area three is a priority, particularly picking up on Winston Parsons work that he did with his report with number of power disconnections in San Francisco and doing work in this area and other work that the commission deems a priority for communities of concern. Im not sure if ms. Whitson would care to say a few words. Mr. Goebel and commissioners, vanir is excited to support the lafco and service area one oversight of cleanpowersf. In termings of the comments that we heard, well work with mr. Goebel and commissioners to consider any advocacy comments be and recommendations and incorporate those accordingly into lafcos recommendations. Were very excited and we look forward to working with lafco and many other stakeholders that are looking at the cleanpowersf implementation plan. Chair fewer thank you very much. Ms. Whitson to reiterate the question from commissioner mar about working in areas two and three. Would you be able to lend any expertise. I know that your contract for Service Area Number one. Im assuming that you have the expertise for two and three should we expand the scope. Is that correct . Yes, we we do have the Technical Support and expertise for Service Area Two. We are willing to help develop the scope for service area three. We can certainly help with developing that as well. Chair fewer commissioner mar, any other questions or comments . Supervisor mar no, thank you so much. Chair fewer thank you very much. I think that seeing no one else in the queue, i like to make a motion to approve this contract. Could i have a second please . Supervisor mar second. Chair fewer roll call vote please. [roll call vote] you have four ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Please call item number four. [agenda item read] chair fewer mr. Goebel . Thank you madam chair. Commissioners, this item would allow the lafco to extend its contract with the jobs with Justice Education Fund to conduct another survey of on demand workers in San Francisco. The focus of this survey would be delivery workers. Who are among our front line workers now. Our previous survey, those delivery workers who participated in the survey, mostly in San Francisco, more than 60 of them. I gone into detail on this in your packet but the survey would have two part. The team would recruit for a representative survey of workers on four platforms, two grocery and two food with a target of 200 workers on each platform. They would also conduct a survey of delivery workers are unionized. To understand how the work is performed when the workers are employees with union representation. This will then compare the difference and have some analysis on that. The first step of this next phase will be to do a pilot to develop a methodology that Prioritizes Public Health and safety for the team who will be working in the field. A part of that how they will determine whether or not this would be inperson survey using all the safety protocols and or whether it would be a phone survey. I think thats something they hope to work out with the pilot. We do have funds left over from the previous representative survey since it was cut short. That would cover the pilot phase and then conducting the next survey would actually be dependent on additional funding from private foundations to the tune about 360,000. Weve already applied for one big grant and im starting to work now with the team on fundraising strategy moving forward. I feel confident that we can raise those funds. Im looking forward to this next phase of work with the survey team. The contract will be extended for one year and my recommendation is that you approve the contract. With that im happy to answer any questions. Chair fewer thank you. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, lets open up for Public Comment please. Clerk operations checking to see if theres callers in the queue. For members waiting online and wish to speak, please press star three now to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please continue to wait until the similar indicate you have been unmuted. Anyone on the line . I have one caller in the queue. Hello general commissioners. Eric brooks again. This time representing our city of San Francisco, local Grassroots Group and the San Francisco green party. I wanted to really you probably already thinking in this direction, it is vital during the virus crises that we get responsive and data on what front line workers need because of the virus crises. Especially with were just finding out today that congress is totally dropping the ball on support unemployment support maybe a lot lower and that essential workers like this, is vital that were paying them a lot of money. Soothe like doing this. We really need to get data and responses specifically on that. Not just for this industry but this will cover but if we get the right kind of responses it will apply to uber and lyft and maybe even whole foods workers, Grocery Store workers, you name it. So we can get some guidance on giving real relief to front line workers and make sure theyre paid well enough to justify the hard work that were having them do. Those are my comments. Chair fewer thank you very much. Anyone else in the queue . Clerk i dont believe theres anyone else in the queue. Madam chair, that completes the queue. Chair fewer thank you. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Commissioner mar. Supervisor mar thank you. I wanted to thank executive officer goebel and my former colleague, the academic partner and others for all your work on this groundbreaking study on workers in San Francisco. I fully support extending the contract for jobs for justice, to do a new surveys with the food and grocery delivery workers. Im very interested in following up on recommendations that came out of first round of survey and supervisor haney particularly the recommendation to explore licensing system for food delivery. I think the second phase of the survey of those workers will align well with us and initiatives that can support these workers better. So thank you. Chair fewer thank you commissioner mar. Any other comments . I like to add my ditto to exactly what commissioner mar said and thank mr. Goebel especially for staying with it and being able to fund these really important studies. Thank you very much. Having said that, anyone else in in the queue . I make a motion to approve the reservation authorizing the Second Amendment no, Second Amendment to the agreement between lafco and the jobs for Justice Education Fund for on demand delivery workers. Can i have a second please . Second. Second. Chair fewer roll call vote please. [roll call vote] you have four ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Can you please call item number five. [agenda item read] chair fewer i think today we have our counsel inder khalsa to present this item. Good morning madam chair and members of the commission. It is my pleasure to bring to you today an extension to the chair fewer i see no one in the queue. We can open this up for Public Comment. Clerk operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please press star three now to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Is there anyone on the line . I have one caller. Its eric brooks again. This time representing all four of the groups that i mentioned. Just to give thumb us up to renewing the executive officers contract. Its been very refreshing to work with bryan. Todays meeting is a clear indication that bryan is getting stuff done and his ability to get the supervisors to realize the importance of this commission has been important as well. I would urge you to approve this. Thank you. Clerk i believe that is the only caller in the queue. That is correct. That completes the queue. Chair fewer thank you. Public comment on item number five is closed. I would like to make a motion to approve resolution for bryan goebel executive of office services. Second please. Second. Chair fewer thank you commissioner cink. Singh. [roll call vote]. You have four ayes. Chair fewer please call item number six. Clerk item number six is Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 4156550001. If you have not already done so, please dial star three now to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicate you have been unmuted. Is there anyone in the line to speak . Yes, i have one caller. Hello again one last time. Commissioners, eric brooks representing all four of the groups that i mentioned before. I cant say this with enough urgency. If you look whats happening in washington d. C. Right now, the trump administrations handling of the Economic Crises that has merged from this virus and other problems with the economy is dismal at best. Even the leadership of the Democratic Party is not stepping up to make sure that things are funded and the people are funded the way they need to be. Housing is producted the way it needs to be. I would urge you to take the public bank off the back burner because were now facing a situation where San Francisco is likely to be under extreme crises, especially for housing even with the protections that weve got in place. Its vital that we make sure and get the public bank on the front burner and moving forward as quickly as possible so we can get people out of harm and get coops funded and things like that. So we can fund things like cleanpowersf that will be much easier to build than saving the planet if we get money from a public bank to build that Virtual Power Plant. Sydney, australia power plant that i was talking about before. I dont think that we can leave public bank to decide at this point. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Clerk that is the only caller. Chair fewer okay, Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, is there any more business today. Clerk no further business today. Chair fewer thank you very much everyone. We are adjourned