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Organizations are actually having it for the wage applied to that work. That they are not under cutting other department whens it comes to those, and i mean, that it is. And it is not so hungry for the jobs, like we were three or four years ago. So now, we get to be a little more selective about who is doing that work. So hopefully we will be able to have it. Definitely. So one more thing that i would just throw out there is that the department of public works was or is responsible for some tree...

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...

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 ...

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...

Direction thats going to go, but whats likely is a state wide percent reduction and thats something to come up in the regulations. I think theyll focus on recommended actions that they would try to put in place as requirements for all users of water. But well see as those come out on july 9. So in summary, the drought is still on. Well continue with 10 conservation through calendar 2014 and were working closely with the customers to achieve that demand and were doing better. We need to keep on t...

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 and to the board, at that time, we had some consider concerns about our financial situation, and a c...

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 east plant talking about the plans there and so look for that on Channel Seven and if you dont, we will send you a link and you will miss it and i am sure that you can find it later on....