We have among naomi kelly the city administrator and other appointed officials i want to single out for special recognition the war memorial managing drooshgs ethically murray clapping clapping. she has been the heart of the project and its vision for nearly 20 years i want to recognize San Francisco public works city architecture edgar lopez and San Francisco Arts Commission decoration tom deacon i didnt i want to significantly out public works Veterans Building pg e tara relay la monday night clapping if beth were the heart of the project tara was its soul id like to acknowledge andy are you mellone and solace a project of this scope doesnt get accomplished without additional partners and id like to recognize a number of them on behalf of the San Francisco post to the American Legion a nelson the commander the integrity and paul chair of the american legacy War Memorial Commission clapping. also the project engineer ron hearing of simpson and hearing and bret and projector superinten
Local Agency Formation commission please stand by. [ gavel ] good morning. Today is september 29, 2016. Welcome to the local Agency Formation commission of San Francisco. My name is john avalos, chair of lafco. Joined by cynthia pollock, welcome, and joined by the commissioner david campos and commissioner march and i would like to congratulate ms. Pollock for her wedding. And our clerk. Please share your announcements. Clerk please silence all electronic phones and devices. Speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Supervisor john avalos okay, todays meeting is broadcast by sf govtv staff. Thank you for your service. Weve done no. 1. Roll call. Item no. 2. Clerk approval of lafco minutes from july 29, 2016, regular meeting. Any comments. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can we have a motion to approve . Okay, motion from commissioner pollock and second from commissioner campos. Next item, please. Clerk item no. 3. Community choice a
Campos. Mme. Clerk would you please call the first item. Item 1 is the call to water and [roll call vote] which weve arrayed done okay item 2. Item 2 is approval of the lafco minutes from the meeting of june 13, 2016. Do we have any Public Comment . Unless there is a ghost in here than i dont think they were going to have any Public Comment. I will close Public Comment. Can i please have a motion and a second . We have a motion and a secondthe minutes of july 13, 2016 are approved. [gavel] mme. City clerk please read item 3. Item 3 is that Community Choice aggregation activities report by barbara hale and jason fried. Good morning, barbara hale. This is the lowest topdown rate that we have seen so far. Great, do you know any reasons that people do opt out when they do . We have had a lot of interest in the program and we are seeing a lot of commitment to it. The super green participation is also good. The rate of participation in our super Green Program is currently 3 . We are continui
Administration, but the delays are remarkable. I would like that put on the agenda and go through those. I dont want to take 10 minutes on everyone, but and the second part of that is and i will announce publically, that many bear notation that the District Attorney is investigating and therefore handsoff. We are not touching it. I know thats a principle and criminal law investigation which commissioner keane knows better than i. But im approaching this as the new boy on the block, and i dont believe there is any law which prohibits us from proceeding, and i think as a matter of policy it should be on a case by case basis. Will i would like to raise that. I agree with that and i raised that in the past particularly in the form of the executive director using the opportunity to defer any sort of get off his desk matters by saying, well, this is going over to the District Attorney or someone else is looking at it. And we used to get those things from him. So i think it bears more inquiry
Serious and rigorous analytical work and research to get us to where we are today and i want to thank the Parks Community and parks advocates generally. I see Rachel Norton here from the parks and lands and for pushing us to be the best Parks Department i think we can be so lets talk a little bit about this lens, and how we hope to apply it. It starts with the actual charter language which we have which asks us to develop a set of equity metrics to establish a baseline of existing services and resources in low income neighborhoods and disadvantaged communities compared to those Resources Available to the city as a whole and literally maybe the day after the proposition passed we began thinking how we were going to do this so we have been at this sort of internally from an analytical standpoint for quite some time. I want to emphasize this is an evolvingity riffive conversation. There is no perfect answer. You dont immediately land on the perfect formula and metric. Demographics change