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Contingency required to cover the additional risk. I just want to make sure you heard you correctly you said only covering 65 percent with our current budgeted these are things that may happen or may not happen so we run an analysis to get the probability of how much of the list budget we think might need to be used. So you dont think well have enough money . Thats not what im saying. So actually were 65 percent confident that the remaining contingency will cover the remaining construction risk ...

65 percent would be an appropriate level for where we stand today. Certainly it is a policy call and so as the policy component of our organization if you would like us to revisit that 65 percent we would certainly be willing to do that but this is what we believe to be the best but if theres concern over 65 percent and a desire to go with a higher contingency profile certainly we would do that. I think i want to add i want to thank commissioner torres i think the conversation is valuable and th...

Awful lot of sense but i think we have to get staff. Its now what . May 13th . And so the meeting is in 14 days i think we have to really give staff an opportunity to present on key Critical Issues that were dealing with. Commissioner moran . Thank you one thing that occurs to me is that we often think about the provision of hetch hetchy power as a cost benefit the fact is we also provide assistance to city departments to minimize their consumption and above and beyond the rates that we provide ...

[laughter]. And you also dont want to tell your contractor that just in case you have another hundred thousand tucked away in in a corner. So to cover a hundred percent of it we think would be inappropriate but we also think 50 percent is too low, 65 seems appropriate. Before you start again so the will of the body is we want a short memorandum and once we receive that memorandum well discuss whether we want to revisit or change or delete or leave it as is is that our will . I dont think its a C...

How were going to get to where we need to go. Water conservation. How long is this meeting . 13 hours . [laughter] no. The conversation should take place in the public we should encourage everybody to attend if theres nothing further to add at this point ill go ahead and call for public comment. Commissioners are we okay . Yes Vice President king. I just wanted to backtrack to when we initially came up with this idea there was something that prompted it and what was it . Food waste. What . Or fi...

Legal architects of the agencys secret programs after 9 11. Hasnt been tortured. As a lawyer, we have a certain standard and other people have their own moral beliefs about what is torture, but had it been torture, as a lawyer, that would have ended it right then and there. Today, john rizzo, former acting general counsel of the cia versus human rights attorney and law professor scott horton. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im ...

That question . Thank you commissioner vietor. Todd rydstrom assistant general manager and cfo we have in the past looked at our rates both water and sewer to provide indicators to conserve the water and so this, under new legal not case law but Legal Practice has been discovered that we should move towards a uniform rate and this is one example where were proposing to smooth rates over the next 4 years to move to a single uniform rate for sewer that will level ize rates and make the calculation...

Story kind of peaked my interest too. My pleasure. Okay. Ej booker. Good afternoon, brother. How are you . Im well, how are you . I come baring gifts for the commissioners. Thats always good to start. These are pamphlets from the last summers program. But for that dont know me, im ej and im the director in the bay view. And boy, can i say how time flies. I cant believe that im standing here before you and this is the third summer with the sewer improvement program. Its known as ssip to the kids,...

For being here. Any other Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary, next item. City clerk item 9 is the response on the proposed march 14 revised [inaudible]. Good afternoon, commissioners. Dan wade, and im pleased to report today on a response to the comments and recommendations, that basca gave us in the letter dated 2014 regarding the march 2014 revised water system improvement program. Now just very quickly refresher on the revised march 2014 water...

Everyone is aware of that and were pushing strongly the idea that you dont need to keep your grass green. It can be slightly brown. You can watch it enough to keep it alive. We do not need to kill things and this is not a mandatory reduction. Our water use has reduced by 19 on a per capital basis in the last ten years. Theres not that great amount of savings that can happen inside. You have to achieve these savings, hit the outdoor water use. Were pushing that strongly. Many of our cities have a...