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Sfgtv. Do we have any announcements . Yes mr. Chair, submitted to the clerk. Items after the date will appear on the may 6, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. 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 lon...

We had to increase the general fund customers rate by half a penny each year for four years. We also did some severe cuts and deferral capital projects. We were able to cut 224 million, about 30 percent of our capital plan to a chieve a balanced budget. These are two things we were able to continue to provide 50 million of savings to the general departments and others. This is a slide that talks about what the cuts were and here, 224 million in cuts and deferrals looks like. So you can see we had to cut Energy Efficiency and also City Renewables as well to achieve a balanced budget. We figured...

The gasoline has gone up their electricity bill will go down 8 . A coalfired plant supplies their electricity. This administration is busy saving the earth they are willing to sacrifice the american family. Im sorry to be so aggravated, but i keep thinking of them and cant imagine the sensitivity of this president and the administration of their polite, but it is evident to see. I yield back. Recognize the gentle lady of california for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. May i ask permission to include in the record a letter from several Public Health organizations in favor of this ruling ....

Under the Clean Air Act. The decisions were made before the state of texas even had an opportunity to comment that they had a memo or a checklist almost after the fact. Are you aware of that . I am not sure what you are referring to, congressman. We had many conversations with states, both individually and in groups. Of course, this is a proposal. We are still taking comment. I have had a least multiple hours of conversation with states since june 2nd. So there have been lots of upper today to talk. Just as an example, are you aware of the fact that if texas coast down every existing fossil fu...

Power state. They are all working together. That is the good news. The bad news is, they are completely panicked in how to actually do the plan and how to actually meet the 26 percent mandated a reduction because we are 72 reliant upon cool. So in reaching out to them, they are frustrated with the lack of direction, what they see as conflicting information from the epa on how to move forward, but one of the areas that they would like to have nailed down is the percentages for reductions based on, is it 2012 numbers or 2005 numbers . Where we look to start was the data, most recent, 2012. That ...