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because of that differential, we understand that that may be good policy, but because of that gap, we think its a policy matter for the board. >> thank you. >> colleagues, any further questions for mr. rose? okay, any follow-up questions for mr. reiskin at this time? okay, seeing none, well open this up to public comment. if anybody wishes to publicly comment on this item, please step forward. i do have one speaker card. zachary malet. and if interester any other members of the public,...

and it has increased the budget by $55.1 million to $4.64 billion. sorry for the error there. and none of these changes change the level of service that was set by the commission as a goal for the overall project. the two projects that are changing are calaveras dam and alameda creek. calaveras dam, even after doing a thorough pre-design site investigation which had an array of boring test [speaker not understood] conditions, in construction we found an underground land slide of an his...

construction is worth 19 million. ~ when i think about it. because if we had known about it from the beginning, we would have committed the additional funding. yes. im not sure if i explained this right. >> yes, commissioner moran. >> thank you. the additional 54.9 million -- >> um-hm. >> -- where does that come from? >> well, when we issue bonds, theres no differentiation between water bonds or wsip bonds. so, we have a schedule for, you know, how were going to issue bonds over the ne...

again, thats not a suggestion. i just want to make sure that we dont feel burdened to do something that we shouldnt do because of that. and the last thing is a question of timing on some issues. i think that gets back into the level of service issue, that the timing issues are ones of when level of service will be provided. so, i think thats something that would be hepful. >> any other questions? well proceed to public comment. [speaker not understood]. item number 11. you defer to oth...

years, we can consider changes. again, thats not a suggestion. i just want to make sure that we dont feel burdened to do something that we shouldnt do because of that. and the last thing is a question of timing on some issues. i think that gets back into the level of service issue, that the timing issues are ones of when level of service will be provided. so, i think thats something that would be hepful. >> any other questions? well proceed to public comment. [speaker not understood]. ...

question of timing on some issues. i think that gets back into the level of service issue, that the timing issues are ones of when level of service will be provided. so, i think thats something that would be hepful. >> any other questions? well proceed to public comment. [speaker not understood]. item number 11. you defer to others? if you do, you lose your space. thats all i have to tell you right now. all right. [speaker not understood] rosencrans, welcome to the commission. youre wi...

again, thats not a suggestion. i just want to make sure that we dont feel burdened to do something that we shouldnt do because of that. and the last thing is a question of timing on some issues. i think that gets back into the level of service issue, that the timing issues are ones of when level of service will be provided. so, i think thats something that would be hepful. >> any other questions? well proceed to public comment. [speaker not understood]. item number 11. you defer to oth...

now, given the magnitude and significance of the differing site conditions on calaveras, i wanted to recap for you the cost impact of that discovery. three months ago you approved an additional $117 million to cover the construction costs required to address this major change. as emelio mentioned, we have just completed the negotiation of a new change order for that issue, and it totals 126 million. so, the additional amount, the 88.2 million, were asking you to approve today covers th...

havent finalized those adjustments yet. >> so thats pretty much still a work in progress. >> yes. >> mr. president, we received correspondence from bawsca raising a series of issues. and the first of those issues was about wsip scope. i think what we heard today is that there is no abandonment of any project thats in wsip. there is no change of scope to any project in wsip that would impact the level of service provided by that project. >> yes. >> and that the only impact to levels of ...

-- to rescind those. thank you. item number 6. >> contract cs914 for construction services jacobs and incorporated. where are authorized to increase the agreement by $1.5 million for a total agreement amount of $26 million. chairperson chu: thank you. we have juli from the puc. >> this is an item that pertains to a consultant agreement with jacobs engineering group. it is one of multiple agreements for the water improvement program. it was awarded in 2008. it has a value of $25 million...