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A 100 new to how are you today i dont know that i am just fine thank you very much and i want ill come to you odd to viewers out there we have a lot in store for you on todays program so lets take a quick look at whats lined up today. In senegal we visit some students who i think with the new solar car. In germany we hear about a push to make textiles some locally sourced through. And can you know we learn once again how crucial it is to protect our Water Resources. First we had to the south of the continent south africas energy comes almost exclusively from coal fired power plants which is a major factor behind rising up pollution in an alias the government has announced plans to significantly increase the use of renewable sources within 10 yes being solar wind or hi joe pa they mischa to his being spat at by green cape a Nonprofit Organization that provides assista ....
And, for example, installing the 8 megawatts of rooftop solar on city facilities as well as the grants that have been provided for private solar on rooftops. But the system is aging and needs a great deal of improvement. Take a moment and think about our mountain title as an example, its been in Continuous Operation for over 80 years with very minimal improvements. And, so, you will hear from us as our commission has been deliberating over the last several months, that our Capital Needs have increased significantly. We run a system that is in large part 50 to 100 years old. And many of those assets have had little to no refurbishment because they were built to last that long, and thats a testament i think some of the [speaker not understood] soundness of the men and women in San Francisco and those that came before u ....
Entire career on defending the rights of lgbt people globally. To add to that background to what you obviously all are knowledgeable this particular antigay crack down in russia right now, i think its important to under a teeny bit the context for that, which is that president putin, after his second reelection, experienced for the first time opposition, and this has been part of an overall crack down to keep opposition at bay. And in particular, to take all the freedoms away from Civil Society actors. The most important law that has impacted lgbt people in russia is actually the foreign agents law which is in the process of taking down any civil any no. Nongovernmental organization that receives funding from outside of russia. Just yesterday in st. Petersberg, the longest standing human rights mainstream organization, the moriales was to shut its doors. Every lgbt organization in russia with a few exceptions are in the process of ....
Can you call item number one please . Item number one, hearing to receive update on the budget for fiscal years 2014, 15 and fiscal year 2015, 16. This is this is a first of two herings we have today. I want to thank you for being here and all the [inaudible] thank you for being here. You can take it away. Thank you. Good afternoon chair farrell and supervisor avalos, breed and wiener. My name is har long kelly and im the general manager of the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. This is my first two year budget and i am posing as a general manager so supervisor farrell asked for me to give a brief high level presentation today and then on may 21 we will go a deeper presentation on our two year budget proposal. Todays presentation is organized in the following ing manner. First id like to give a p birds eye view of our bud jed and a year ago at this committee and also ....
The rate setting package. They determined the rate proposal is fair and concur with the staff recommendation. Just regarding the sewer replacement and now that its underway, im sure those of us that are here all the time can you tell us the rate were doing it today, how thats going and also what we fra digsly traditionally did versus what were doing now on our streets. What we were doing before years ago we had a rate freeze on the sewer side and now as its ageing were trying to catch up. The life of a sewer is about 100 years and the sewer is 100 years old. Were experiencing more sewer main brakes and water main brakes so we are in the process of doing Asset Management to determine a replacement program. In order to bring our pipes in a state of good repair, we reupped it from 7 miles to 15 miles per year so were trying to prioritize and hit each community to really make an impact. Where are we kind of on pace to be doing that ....