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Good morning, and welcome to the joint meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and local Agency Formation commission. My name is john avalos. This meeting is brought to you by sfgtv staff. Call item no. 2 please. Roll call. Avalos present, breed present, commissioner mar . Present, schmeltzer is absent and Leah Pimentel is absent. President torres, commissioner cane present, commissioner moran, and commissioner courtney is excused today. Mr. Chairman, we have a quorum. Very good...

X vacation of the structural steel enclosures and the ceilings he represented been 55 percent of the Transit Center. So this was also kind of seen as a critical point in the bidding of the work because weve received the bidding on the 3 larger components of that. We have two to bid but in remitting short order and beyond that scope it comprised a lot of systems and a lot of individuals packages so thats one of the reasons the Cost Reduction opportunities beyond those first 5 projects become more...

The peace pipeline. Its nothing that hes forced to take but baluchistan as you know the insurgency historically you dont have rules in that area and the most surprised area and also the report shows the Pakistan Government that broke down on the insurgency and its very similar. But most control of and of course iran over the region so so they are not doing enough to secure the border. Its going on for quite some time but in the media you would see that they are kind of blaming the Pakistan Gover...

Number two, it doesnt matter, this oil is going overseas period. Every ounce of oil that recovered from the ground even in the United States is sold on the market of the world. We produce more oil than anything else. Our number one export is gasoline. Host okay, mr. Pourbaix. Guest carl was braking up there a little bit. Once again, he was referring to the environmental issue of the oilsands and talking about this argument that the oil is for export. Let me say right off the bat. Nothing could b...

Is it different than any other Oil Crude Oil thats coming from the ground or how does it differ . What are the concerns there . There have been a number of studies taking a look at that. Those independent credible reviews have concluded that there isnt any difference. The composition of it is the same of the oil we import from venezuela. Its actually liker than some of the oil that comes out of california. The speculation and thats pretty much what it is about the composition of oilsands is just...

Good morning and welcome to the local Agency Formation commission as a joint meeting with the Public Utilities commission. My name is chair avalos, john avalos chair of the lafco. I am joined by other lafco members, commissioner olague and commissioner pimentel. This is a joint committee so i will pass on the mic on our chair from the Public Utilities commission. Yes, art torres member of puc and other members. Thank you very much for being here. We make a very legionary and strong quorum on thi...

Objection to this . With that, margaret, will you work on making that happen and work with the general manager on seeing if we can put that as a oneitem meeting and make sure we get packets in sufficient time. We have everything. We do have everything, all right. So we have the packets in sufficient time. That is only other thing under item 13. Is there anyone else . Okay. Is there any Public Comment under commissioners matters . Being none, public Public Comment is closed. Item 14 is new busine...

The Public Utilities commission. Yes, art torres member of puc and other members. Thank you very much for being here. We make a very legionary and strong quorum on this rainy day. Okay. And of course our general manager is here as well, har an kelly and the staff of the puc. Thank you. I want to thank sfgtv for their work broadcasting this meeting, and madam clerk if you could chair with us your announcements. Please make sure to silence all electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents sh...

Concerned today than i was a day or two ago. In the sense at the moment policymakers are moving in opposite directions. In part thats the ways of washington and i think well see a few collapses before we ultimately get together somewhere in the days before christmas on a compromise. We have been talking about marginal tax rates, which i think are a key part not only of the budget question, but a key part of the broader economic question in terms of Economic Growth. And im hopeful that any soluti...

Today. And the order of business will be that i will start with an Opening Statement, provide some background, and will yield to mr. Cummings this morning, and other members who wish to be heard, then well turn to our witnesses. Well hear from all of them and then go to questions. Pleased to welcome, again, everyone this morning. Now, this is one of a number, we have actually held fourth in a series of full Committee Oversight hearings on amtrak and u. S. Passenger rail policy in the United Stat...