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Farrell present. Supervisor kim. Kim not present. Supervisor mar . Mar present. Supervisor tang . Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Wiener present. Supervisor yee. Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Colleagues, we have our may 13, 2014...

Will call a roll, signify by saying aye. If there is no objections from the colleagues, i will call item number eight out of order and i am going to hang it over to the general manager, kelley. And thank you very much. And and i just wanted to provide this afternoon to talk to you about proposed legislation, that supervisor weiner is presenting. From the conversations that we have been having about the financial situation, and we have been as we presented to the commission and the Mayors Office ...

Twitter, and reminded also, in a really good interactive thing where the people now remind us about things and they see the water running or the like and so it has been helped us create that relationship and finally, the coverage and that has always been an important thing for us. Has a very Strong Communications aspect about that, and we have been very fortunate with the media and we have continued that here and since of today, we are out, with assistant general manager mary cruise at the south...

Right now. And yeah, from, and to be clear, in terms of it, and it does not and we will have a conversation about this, in terms of what the threshold is emphasized and it does not necessarily need to be in the legislation because the agency has the discretion. And one thing that i want to point out is also, this is just, as you know this, but for the benefit of the members of the public is that sometimes, whenever we are talking about any version of public power, we get a response from some say...

Access to the base i think is what you said. The concern that i have sometimes, and it is not all that, when you are talking about a nonprofit and it has the people that work for it that do the tree stuff. And there is the wages and there is benches and there is healthcare. I used it and now i understand it. So i just wanted to maybe highlight the fact that their role in the last several years has been planting trees, and so, they are going to continue to plant the trees, but we are trying to wo...

Totally against criminal backgrounds on any Affordable Housing or any housing that the agency or the Government Agency doesnt doss bylaw that holds back a lot of people when i was growing up in the 50s they laid out a lot of people in the Hunters Point shipyard and the fathers and the mothers had to go on welfare they were denied the opportunities because their husbands were in the housing because they didnt allow the males to be there so a lot of the kids luckily i wasnt one of them the fathers...

Example, they asked all their gardeners to reduce watering times by 10 . Turned off a lot of fountains and youll see a lot of dry fountains around the city and the only ones running is the ones to keep the mechanisms from falling apart. Were working with them. Were going to try to work with them to get fixtures replaced in the Recreation Center that will reduce water usage. I started producing a report for rec and park that shows by individual meter, their water use. Currently its all rolled up ...

Preserve the supplies overall our picture going 0 into next year is relatively good on the precipitation front were at the beginning of the year if you look at this closely youll see a bump from last saturday from the mens show it was not anything to speak about and prpgs later this week and the good news is the peak about 3 weeks ago we hit a hot spell were staying below the level to achieve the 10 percent demand for the year in looking at our custom water savings we calculated and need to save...

And so when we start working together as part of the cbot committee, we actually we really worked well together and when i became president , she was the Vice President and she managed me well. And at the event, we started together started with 13 folks, was it, bj . And it was over 500 people going to the event, and ill tell you, bj has taken the responsibility of organizing that people and talking to people getting people excited. She has been an inspiration to me and to the whole cbot committ...

Tunnels and we have prioritized that on age. Were doing assessments, which robotic and video, so weve gotten several assets and were finding a lot of new information well be bringing back to you. Some assets are looking good, but some are going to be pushed at the top of the pile and have to require some work and some construction in phase 1. Theyre up to 100 years old that were looking at. On the Climate Change side, some breaking news. We have maps for the base side and west side which is goin...