And welcome to the local Agency Formation commission. My name is john avalos the chair of the commission, joined to my left by london breed, the vicechair. And commissioner eric mar and to my right by commissioner hope schmeltzer. The clerk of the committee is alisa miller and i want to thank sfgovtv staff who are broadcasting today. Madame clerk, could you please call the next item. Roll call, would you like me to call the roll. Commissioner avalos . Here. Commissioner breed . Breed is here. Commissioner campos . Campos absent. Commissioner mar . Here. Mar here. Commissioner schmeltzer schmeltzer here. Mr. Chair, we have a quorum. Great. Lets go to our next item, please. Item no. 2, approval of the lafco minutes from the january 24, 014 regular meeting and march 3, 2014 special joint meeting with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Colleagues my comments or questions of the minutes . Okay. Seeing none, we can open this item up for the many people who are in our audience wai
Understand most of the time. Maybe thats true. Most of the time theres someone on the legislators staff who understands it. Thats not necessarily the case with intelligence bill. On the senate side you have one dedicated staffer who is clear, who can talk to their boss about these things. On the house side they are pretty dependent on the committee staff. For example sessen brenner who wrote freedom acts bill is completely cut out of the negotiations with the administration over what to include in the final version of the reform bill. This is nothing i reported, in cq. He didnt have sufficient security clearance. You have a situation where you have some legislators for one reason or another may not be the best prepared to grasp these particular issues, who dont have the necessary staff to help them grasp it. Theres another aspect to this, too. I think its a little harder for the public and for the media to grasp it as well. Its not like health insurance. Health care policies are very c
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