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>> ameena matthews father was one of the biggest gang leaders in the history of chicago. she gets in where a lot of guys cant get in. >> this is unacceptable for me to be holding this young mans obituary. stop. >> tonight ofrontline... >> were trying to stop the violence. thats it and thats all. >> the acclaimed documentarthe interrupters. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting....

month, but you should have an answer to your questions for the last year-and-a-half. >> if you would like a preview, i am happy, but i know commissioner vietor wanted us to be brief today. >> in the mou, do you know any advance if we have any say sell about the approval of the arts that will be in our facilities? >> i do. [laughter] >> will you share with us? >> i would love to share with you. what we uncovered as part of the process is that in 2004, there was a city attorney opinion t...

program is typically for above- ground facilities, so you cannot but anything in for pipes, before the water system improvement program, it is something in the neighborhood of $4 million to $4.5 million in total being spent on art for the sewer system improvement program. it will be laid the decision of the digesters, and they are above ground, but there is not a lot of our opportunities. it could be $6 million and more. >> and thank you to commissioner vietor. >> we look forward to he...

but anything in for pipes, before the water system improvement program, it is something in the neighborhood of $4 million to $4.5 million in total being spent on art for the sewer system improvement program. it will be laid the decision of the digesters, and they are above ground, but there is not a lot of our opportunities. it could be $6 million and more. >> and thank you to commissioner vietor. >> we look forward to hearing from you next meeting, next month. >> the third item, sever...

>> on the power rate for the hospitals, have we adopted them for the next fiscal year? >> no. for a number of years the commission has not adopted power rates other than expectations for revenue. we have had conversations with the city attorney about how and when. adopted rates have traditionally not been adopted by the commission for a number of years. >> i do not want to get into a long discussion about this today, but this represents a further erosion of the city power base for us, ...

your agenda today, item 12 i believe it is, which is a water read item -- that is one of the reasons we have to also increase rates, is to satisfy the timing of the revenues for when the debt service is due. our debt covenants say we cannot go below 1.25 times coverage, which is why you prudently adopted the reserve policy that you have, and it is also why every quarter, we come back before you and point out how close we are getting to that ratio. we know as an entity because of our ve...