And happy earth day welcome to the local Agency Formation commission my name is john avalos to my right is by vice chair commissioner crews and to my left is by commissioner campos our clerk alicia share your announcements Development Cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Id like to announce our sfgov staff leo and Jessie Larson thank you for your service id like to motion to excuse commissioner mar and that can be seconded by by commissioner crews and without objection im sorry moved by commissioner crews. Commissioner crews seconded by. Actually, i mad the motion myself. Not very good of me i know. Well take that without objection. And call item 2. Item 2 approvals the lafco minutes from the regular meeting colleagues, any questions or changes on the minutes okay open up for Public Comment on the lafco minutes from march 18 seeing no member well Public Comment is closed. Mauve seconded by by commissioner campos and well take that without objection. Next item. Item consideration of the lafco budget for 20162017. Jason fried. Jason fried, executive officer last month i presented to you a proposed budget nothing a nothing has changed from the proposed budget to the requesting the money legally loud for in the city and county we only keep this year and return some monies back to the county for other budgetary needs. Thats to what department in the city and county of San Francisco. Back to the general fund we dont control how they use it. To the clerk of the board or the city and county. Im not sure within their process i think that is city and county though i know our budget goes through the clerk of the board but the money from the general fund. Thank you for those i think lafco didnt help the general fund of the city and county of San Francisco theres evidence we do okay we can open up for Public Comment anyone wish to comment on looufkz budget seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And commissioner crews. Id like to make the motion that we reserve the full amount of 2 plus and to return the two 57 plus did i get that right. A motion from commissioner crews and seconded by by commissioner campos well take that without objection. Next mr. Chair did you take Public Comment. We the. The status on the cleanpowersf program and the proceedings of the California PublicUtilities Commission. Barbara hale welcome. Thank you barbara hale assistant general manager for powell at the San Francisco public works id like to share with you outreach materials that we have put together so first of all, we are tracking activities of California PublicUtilities Commission we dont have anything to announce or announce in our efforts to insure that costs concurred by pg e are not inappropriately passed to our customers a number of procedures that touch on that and weve talked about the power cost and adjustments and will related proceedings. We do have a paper be enforcement form if weve prepared this is start started with the request from commissioner lynn do and commissioner campos has expressed an interest in the ability of having a leaflet for customers to fill out and immoral in our program and also have happy to report in that we have additional folks in our sign up cue waiting to join the program those are folks enrolling prior to service in november one we had 9 additional supergreen residential or total residential customers 5 was supergreen and the city hall morning event we were successful in signing up 16 more that brings our number up to 25 we have a number of other earth day activities were at usf sustainability fair and the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development earth day staff party at others the events and tabling on twittering and and or they invited us in to market to their workforce and then we also have the all day earth street fair between valencia and mission thats our second city sunday streets event that will be marketing the clean power so thats quick update on the marketing and jason perhaps a comment or two before i set up the movie. Seem jason fried im personal be and eco so if anyone available and wants to attend are be and eco center ill be there but were letting the folks know they can sign up for the properties of paper sign for the Internet Access well make sure were getting everyone signed up as many people as it possible possible for the august deadline thank you. Sfgovtv when were ready ill hit the go bottom to show the screen if you keep it on us sfgov until you hear the blip thanks. Power is all around us in the sun and wind it is power that can light our home and energize by these it provides more renewal power to all san franciscans less expensive and greaterer and best of you will it offers a 100 percent renewal option called intra the way to arise Green House Gas emissions and meet the citys goal awe. Im the director of h. R. Standpoint at the produce we decided to sign up four supergreen we mirrored our goals after the city of San Francisco the sites on zero 50 one hundred groups and trying too big figure out how to get solar panels and solve the problem of 100 percent power in the business after years of wondering clean power said if you want 100 percent renewal caliber. When you sign up you have a couple of options to sign up for 45 renewal power with the remainder if traditional sources and thats cheaper we tend to sign up 100 percent supergreen we wanted all renewal this is a little bit more expensive but the difference is not large. It was clicking a button i took it was super simple. We we do through the Comment Company to grab the energy of sun and wind renewal power having clean power to be a partner with San Francisco it is like nothing changes. I have small kids i think about the roll their inherent and making those decisions are small things to reduce the Carbon Footprint and support renewal caliber. This is affects us in so many ways pollution and we all invent to create jobs loss of my neighbors it really is us in control of being locally sustainable it is community over profit. The city has been on the forefront of so many things if so the next optimistic objective to be pardon this this were proud and whats the deal why are we all doing that. Sign up for supergreen. Sign up 70 for supergreen. Sign up for supergreen today. That was great, thank you. Are we are doing anything yet. Okay. Were supposed to be filming for 100 percent. Thank you commissioners so that was the that movie day viewed at the earth breakfast at the department of the environment hosted yesterday with mayor ed lee telex the zero 51 hundred we can prepurpose the sun and showcase and on social media to continue to raise awareness of the offering we have there cleanpowersf. How about it there going out on radio or television psas. Well again, that phase of the outreach will begin after we get past the may one date remember this may 1st date has mostly commercial customers the august enforcement deadline with november one that has mostly residential that part of audience wear hoping to reach with the media. Thank you. Great video love it operationally is there a thought of doing that that spanish or chinese. Ill bring that back i imagine the staff is working on that probably yes ill double check on that. Great, thank you any other updates for us from the puc okay. And from our chief executive officer no fantastic okay open up for Public Comment. Good afternoon happy architecture day hopefully this is an architecture day people will be cultivatingville lets and things like that in their home purple amplifies the emotional moment so i want to once again im eric brooks sf green party our city sf Clean Energy Advocates and californians for Energy Choice working declining on Community Choice statewide i thank the San Francisco public works for getting us to that the it is spectacular less than one hundred percent opt out and clearing up that video is excellent shows that the San Francisco public works staff are dedicated to this program what all the good stuff weve putt together and critique we meet with staff will a local build out no Citywide Network for efficiency is planned for cleanpowersf until 2020 and were finding in that meeting the sf puc staff are more conservative than the lafco might be the sf puc is an agency that needs to protect the rate players for economics i think this is really important for the board and the lafco to step in and do the work necessary to take what weve got but with the nexus study to the next step for a build out plan for local installations sooner 2020 because the new projection for Sea Level Rise are do you believe we need stuff built right away thank you. Additional Public Comment and seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Barbara hale. My apologies i forgot to mention one item before our commission on tuesday with our property Net Metering Program for the cleanpowersf Customer Base this will be up are for vote on tuesday afternoon. Basically approving that. We presented it at the previous meeting at this meeting were hoping the commission will approve the Program Design were proposing. Very good thank you. Thanks. So this is an informational item so we can go on to the next item number 5. Number 5 draft report only what the city and county of San Francisco can do to help increase the voter turnout. So we have enrique a policy Research Intern presenting his work on expanding the Voter Participation and lets make sure we hear from mr. Aguilar first. Perfect. Jason fried, executive officer for lafco first ill give you some highlights and im going to turn it over to to enrique the key points are the voting mechanisms that increase the Voter Participation and have currently loud in california and San Francisco charter law you what our potential reviews at the state and county level from external factors so were asked to identify factor that may increase voter turnout and government Voter Participation because of work ive been doing on psa i talked with the university of california, San Francisco with theyre Political Department any had a Great Success in the past of finding graduate students for studies weve been working and enrique isemulsification this as a cap stone for his program with that, im going to turn it over to the bulk of the presentation and come back with the next steps at the ended. First and foremost thank you, commissioners for this hearing for the rest of the nation for this as well. Research for this report includes contributions from john arts of San Francisco department of the elaboration and the Organizations Community organizations and academic professionals at the university of california, San Francisco turning to my first point what is allowed by california state law online Voter Registration was implemented in california in 2012 to register on line 3 identification requirements to determine the equity and those include a california drivers license or identification card number last 4 dithsz of a persons Social Security number and the date of birth for voting age english dish and another election data for a set percent of l e p age earlier persons voting against 29 days before protection day and voters are able to cast their plastic bottles in 8 to 5 00 p. M. During normal business housed and the last two weekends before the election at the moment the california secreting is reviewing the automatic Voter Registration and vote any mail the automatic Voter Registrations gives the government offices to look at the business with the vote by mail all registered voters get ballots several weeks before an election they can mail back and take to a drop off location or polling place santa clara allowed the county in 2015 to hold all mail location a absent i didnt voting is called vote by mail in california not the same since ab at the for a voter to request an absence at the ballot the two bar graphs it is increased in San Francisco and in california since 2000 now id like to discuss Voting System reforms discussed in this report that would require an amendment to californias constitution or the enact time of new protective California Law allows on probation to reregistration to vote but restoring the voting right to folks in prison requires the enact time of new protective it makes casting a ballot able to connect to any location nevertheless, potential treats and the lack of annunciate make that impossible with the currently technology with organizations like the initiative or experimenting with internet protocol masking technology to tackle it and make that secure and amaze those in of favor of lower the voting age to 16 agree it could increase voter turnout for had been actually teen voters that face major transitioned at 18 and they will be less likely to be long term voters. It is california were to pass legislation to expand Voting Rights to nonsense that will be the first state in the nation to do so nonsense cannot participate in local elections in maryland and new york city it reviewing proposing paroles to give nonresident the right to vote in the 2020 election. Turning now to what will require to the San Francisco charter in 20159 San FranciscoYouth Commission passed the resolution advocating for the extension of Voting Rights to 16 and 17 yearold their evidence from tacoma park maryland have lowered the voting age for a higher participation rates then older voters as a chartered city San Francisco has tried to modify its chartered by putting on ballot the opposition in 2004 and proposition d in 2010 to allow nonsense to vote in school board elections, however, those noncitizen ballot consumers or measures didnt receive enough support to pass my final point in regards to external factors outside of the government control the relevance or candidate on ballot can be central to come out to vote and has a advantage as a candidate outreach for political campaigns are instrumental in getting voters and nonvoters to the polls mobile listing them there grassroots has proven to be effective as a result of door to door canvassing on election day the communitybased organizations and public gleaning in. To summarize the main points of my presentation id like to directing your attention to voting reforms in california the vote cal system is currently in the late testing stage before the launch the california skrairt is collaborating with voters automatically and extending Voting Rights to nonsense and restoring the Voting Rights is not allowed by California Law a policy decision for the state of california or San Francisco if they want to pursue the legislation that allows more people in the communities to par take in the democracy feinstein technology has been the driving force behind any innovations that have revolutions the way we completing complete our tasks i urge california to modernize the organized registration so temp like the internet and social media and devices leads to sustainable increase in turnout in minority groups with the status of nonvoter. Now im going to turn it over to to jason fried to discuss the next steps. Jason fried what weve done we have released this out to those we implicit input in other words, to get feedback weve received some feedback im expediting anymore we ask the comments turned in today, of course, over the weekend we will put that and rework it there is also a couple of things the go legislative will include the Incorporated New items at the state level to make sure we have a full report and assuming we dont get and crazy amount of changes or over the weekends we have a final report and upcoming with that, if you have any questions. Thank you, mr. Aguilar for your presentation a good and thorough report i appreciate that one thing that comes up for me weve now you know measuring our ability insure that everyone that wants to vote votes in a this way especially in the country in the primary elections were seeing there was Clark Community in nevada Lottas Fountain earthquake and phoenix and parts of new york city real challenges to make sure there were enough ballots and voting places we saw long lines in many of the places we were turned away im not sure to what extent this is you know happened here in San Francisco there are a lot of deceptions ive not seen it get to that level but important to assess you know what changes have happened in excess that might be able to anticipate with the situations that happened in the communities. Jason fried ive been following the things nationally personal interest as well as what were worked onion well see these types of problems we have a strike set of rules you have to have per population and number one, the rules have changed weve seen nationally the Supreme Court makes rulings to metrological up the rules and some says take that actions youll see a whole bunch of people off the roles or like california has not gone that path were looking at ways to make that easier for people to vote and making sure that people are able to register like the cal system when it to goes on line it ties the communities together from one county to another the county will move our name if you move out of San Francisco so san mateo it will registration you and tell San Francisco to remove the persons name california is in the opposite direction california thanks to the secretary of state and the citys goals has been doing everything we can to not see as problems, of course, in june we have the june primary but ive not seen that happen in the state of california. Commissioner crews. Thank you so much for this report mr. Aguilar i thought very informative i have a couple of things to follow up on just to clarify citizens in california can vote as long as theyre off parole. So people that are incarcerated from or not off patrol. Right currently two states that allow this vermont and maine and so thats someone i was able to find in the research and looking at San Francisco were looking at the number of people of color especially men of color in state prisons it is one of those things to consider giving back those Voting Rights to people in prison or inmeats. If you could include in the next report the version of the report one the why tuesday movement of why changing the election day from tuesday and some efforts or discussion around what it would involve and how it can change the voter turnout if on the weekends and then there was some proposed legislation before in San Francisco for same day Voter Registration. Yes. And there was actually an buff with the office of cal of state of secretary with the new system theyre considering and looking at is being able to apply the same day Registration System in california so if you to happen it had have had the opportunity come to San Francisco as well im not sure if jason fried has anything to say about that you. The part about or same day registration has to be a statewide issue the city what potentially off the top of my head do something for local election but not for state or federal level this is one of the things the secretary of state now, when we have the statewide system going to San Francisco county and going to san mateo can we have the option for the same day reggie know that is forecast down the path i understand the stairts is looking at we didnt reference that but we remember looking at the Bigger Picture not just about tuesday but saturday with the new Voting System the city is looking at doing an open sour system you can have thirty days of early voting not just saturday but citywide in voting there are potentials there but you once again we need a new system before we can do that. Great that would be interesting so sort of see what is possible on the state and local level the last question i have is this is something you learn already but how would outreach by the department of elections impact the voter turnout in San Francisco it is interesting to know that their education and outreach efforts and i know you talked about communitybased organizations and campaigns but ill be interested to know like a Public Service what we can do within the city of San Francisco. I mentioned i had the opportunity to sit down with director john he talked about what the department of elections is doing as far as outreach he mentioned the means that happen 4 times a year in which cbos can come to the meetings and express any suggestions anything related to Civic Engagement how the city helped in a nonpartisan way to get people out to vote this is a one thing and the other on the website it is calendar of all the Community Events they do tabling and another thing that was helpful that the city is doing is doing presentations in outreach at the Reentry Service programs so once an inmate is out theyre able to be registered and to be able to vote again. Thank you. Then ill add on top of the department does a lot of Community Outreach and going to events the only way to do more if they increased the budget and had more staff they do a lot already and did on kwlent job of educating people not only in voting but that forces them to go out and make sure that people understand though to use that system and their educating people in voting in general one of the things not just this report but how much they do out in the community they dont necessarily need to do they want people to get out and vote. Thank you i definitely agree they do a lot and i just wondered if their were to have that extra budget what the impacts. The other question you asked about the bilingual presentation that was mentioned they have centers that present them in spanish and chinese in San Francisco. Thank you commissioner campos. Thank you just a quick comment i want to thank mr. Aguilar and mr. Fried well done and informative. Thank you for your great work. Thank you, commissioners. Thank you okay we can open up for Public Comment anyone wish to comment and again want to thank mr. Aguilar for your work on the presentation and go back. Good afternoon again eric brooks sf green party our city sf Clean Energy Advocates local grassroots orientation really good report excellent especially youth voting is great they have to live in the world should be able to vote and showed shown in the democratic election there are Democratic People in the country and is important to elections some things to consider in california we have a particular and other states a problem there is quote unquote independent party a separate Political Parties a lot of voters get confused think their declaring themselves an being independent of party and that has tricked any voters in california they might not be able to vote in the next upcoming primary it would be good to clarify that for people and another thing that is this is more difficult but i think important when were talking about quote unquote citizens voting id like us to recognize the fact that get away from legal terminology of the idea people that dont have legal documents are not citizens the point of voting for everyone is that everyone is a citizen what i personally put out there i think im hearing from a lot of people folks without documentation or undocumented citizens of the United States and of california and San Francisco it would be great even the law makes if difficult to reframe the picture around that and then as a green i want to point out something that will be important to work on at this point you know same day registration would be great for third partys to be able to register folks it is 0 problem of automatic voting to choose the Party Important if you have explained how this will work we dont want automatic im sorry automatic registration to bar people from choosing a Political Party so especially third partys you might have an answer to that so thats i think it those with r my comments thanks. Great next item, please. Gadget commissioners and lafco im interfering aura student at the university of San Francisco i want to commend mr. Fried and mr. Aguilar to increase the Voter Participation and turn out this is a very important issue for me when we look at the dismal devastating turn out in the elections it is important to doing everything we can to increase the Voter Participation in light of the currently approximately primaries if you look at the issues at the forefront of the election the immigration policy, criminal Justice System reform i mean increasing participation to felons he that their barred from participation so many other ways i think could be a great step in introducing them to taking part of their government and also as far as nonsense of the again, you look at the election and so many people new voters have come out and participated so many young people that is crucial to lower the voting age to keep the enthusiasm, the mobilization of the young people to have a voice in the government so i think gentlemen, i hope thank you very much. To you for Public Comment. Seeing other members of the public coming forward well Public Comment is closed. And this is an information item dont have to accept a report thank you a really great report and i wanted to make sure we can you know look at how we can enact the recommendations madam clerk our next item please. Item chief executive officers report. Jason fried. Next month is on the third the friday the third week want to make sure and wish everyone a happy earth day thank you very much happy earth day to you the chief executive officers weve opening up for Public Comment and any members of the public wish to speak on chief executive officers seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item please. Item 7 Public Comment. General Public Comment is now open. 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Good afternoon one more time eric brooks sf green party our city sf Clean Energy Advocates the other day i was fortunate to bump into commissioner campos we get into a discussion of a particular item it seems like an option to get lafco the Sea Level Rise and its impacts on Real Estate Development in the bayview Hunters Point and Treasure Island for i timely upwards of a decade i and many other people are repeatedly comments on the Environmental Impact reports and at public hearings about the bayview and Treasure Island about lennar and mostly land transferred from the navy in which weve seen cover ups and corruption and seen contractors lying about their work and testing for radiation and chemicals and also weve had a situation we repeatedly in public hearings and comments said that the Sea Level Rise projections that the bay folks are using and the San Francisco folks are using for planning the developments are adequate based on i pcc projections that have now been clearly shown to be wrong james hanson came out with a report that shows that Sea Level Rise will be at least twice as high as we think that will be maybe as much as 5 to 7 meters higher number one, the developments in Treasure Island and bayview Hunters Point are being halted to reassess on the Sea Level Rise question that needs to happen we need lafco or the board to do a study and show the numbers Sea Level Rise increases liquid faction and chemical is getting lose a serious problem thank you very much any other anyone wish to comment and seeing none, Public Comment is closed that was general Public Comment and madam clerk our next item. 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