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LAFCO adopts proposed FY2025–26 budget; commissioners ask PUC to restore $593,120 MOU funds
Summary
LAFCO approved a proposed budget of $627,833 and requested a statutory allocation of $408,630 from the City and County of San Francisco; the package excludes roughly $593,120 of SFPUC MOU funding that staff and commissioners said they are seeking to have restored.
At its March 21, 2025 regular meeting, the Local Agency Formation Commission approved a proposed budget and work plan for fiscal year 2025–26 totaling $627,833 and requested a statutory general-fund allocation of $408,630 from the City and County of San Francisco.
Acting executive officer Khaled Samura said the proposed budget is approximately $1,466,000 lower than the prior year, primarily because the SFPUC has notified LAFCO it will not carry forward $593,120.52 in MOU funds that had been earmarked for LAFCO projects. Samura said commissioners are engaged with PUC commissioners to attempt to restore the funds; if restored, LAFCO would amend its work plan to add the previously planned studies.
The adopted proposed work plan focuses on three priorities: Clean Power SF oversight (including potential studies under the MOU if funding is restored), assessment of a municipal housing agency pilot, and continued work on public banking and municipal financial services.
The motion to approve the proposed budget and work plan passed on a roll call: Vice Chair Williams, aye; Commissioner Severe, aye; Chair Fielder, aye — three ayes.
Samura summarized MOU studies that would be added back if funding is restored: a green bank financing study, a natural-gas decommissioning study (identified in the city's climate action plan as Strategy ES5), an electric-vehicle charging study focused on emergency adoption barriers, and an "emerging clean energy technologies" study. LAFCO will hold a final budget adoption at its May meeting, as required by state law.
The commission took no additional action at the meeting beyond approving the proposed budget and requesting the statutory amount from the general fund.
