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Is doing, both about helping our public, our residents, our rate payers understand where their water comes from and the benefits of drinking tap water. To start, i just wanted to i wanted to begin by just sort of situating our work around promoting access to tap water in the context of our broader Public Outreach and education efforts. A you all know, the puc provides water, wastewater and municipal power here in San Francisco. And as we think about our Public Education work, we really focus on sort of the theme of one water one system. We want people to understand where their water comes from...

Where it comes from. But also as people had Water Quality concerns, some of the concerns that christina alluded to in her presentation, people started calling 311 more. So, we had a 10 increase in Water Quality concerns and that again became another vehicle to talk to people about where their water came from to test to make sure the water was safe and assure them that, you know, in fact it was safe to drink. We also do tours of our water system. So, Community Residents and organization has an opportunity to go up to hetch hetchy to see the water system at work. Supervisor cohen has been a big ...

Bottled water as an environmental concern, but the concern that that raises sometimes has been that makes water not available and what are the other options that can be sold in a small package and offer something with added sugar. Looking at those policies, unexpected consequences of what that are. And then lastly, continuing to do outreach and awareness, particularly with populations that we want to do more outreach to. As i mentioned earlier, there is National Data showing that lower income populations tend to buy bottled water. We dont want them to. For so many reasons. But if there are iss...

Our best to make this an incl u. S. Ive report. The impet u. S. Is on the agencies themselves i think you guys have done an incredible job and now its incumbent on us to make sure that all the agencies are as informed as they can be chances are they are because they were involved in this process and participated and shared information with you but i want to make sure that happens. Supervisor mar. I was going to say the rapidly aging population and how critical longterm care and the planning counsel their work help s us understand for budgets for the department of aging Adult Services and like ...

Example remote appointments with providers if you are not able to get there whether its web based or phone based or Something Like that and to be honest i dont know about plans for current plans for expansion but thats something we address in the plan and seen as a promising opportunity really to increase access to vulnerable populations to make sure they get the care they need. Great. Colleagues any other questions . I think that theres so much information here i think its just really impress ive and incredible and i want to thank you for all the work you have done and for the outreach and th...