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LAFCO workshop narrows strategic focus to CCA, public-private partnerships and municipal banking; item continued to January
Summary
At a Nov. 30 workshop LAFCO reviewed sea-level-rise planning, public-private partnerships and municipal banking as candidate strategic priorities; commissioners voted to hold a public workshop in December and continue the item to the January meeting to finalize scope and next steps.
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission used a Nov. 30 workshop to identify three near-term strategic focus areas — continued work on Clean Power SF, scoped review of public-private partnerships, and exploring a municipal bank — and directed staff to hold a December public workshop and return with a final scope in January.
Pamela Miller, executive director of the California Association of Local Agency Formation Commissions, summarized the commission's discussion and listed four topics the panel considered: sea-level rise, public-private partnerships, municipal banking and housing/navigation centers (the latter was not advanced in the workshop). "You would need to define a clear scope of this study," Miller said, stressing limited LAFCO funding and the need to avoid duplicating work already underway by other agencies.
Commissioner Hillary Ronan proposed continuing LAFCO's work on the Clean Power SF CCA and to "start a new work area and look into and define the scope further of what it would take to create a municipal bank in San Francisco." Commissioners and staff emphasized narrowing scope to match capacity and exploring funding options and legal constraints before launching detailed analysis.
Public commenters including Jed Holtzman of 350 Bay Area and Eric Brooks of the San Francisco Green Party supported continued CCA involvement and the municipal bank review, while urging attention to staff capacity and duplication of city efforts.
Motion and next steps: Commissioner Cynthia Pollock moved, and Commissioner Hillary Ronan seconded, a motion to continue the strategic-plan item to the commission's January meeting and to direct staff to schedule a December public workshop to collect broader input; the commission approved the motion and left the January meeting date to the chair's call.
The commission did not adopt a final scope or allocate new funding at the Nov. 30 meeting.
