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if i may ask the commission in commission president for further direction. >> thank you. >> several things come out of it. i thought it was useful, as we get into the budget process, but that it controls what we do. we are not free agents. a lot of what we do, we do not incorporate free agents, we hire according to the purchaser. we implement policy as law. so, a good deal of what we do is basically, we are writing the check for things that were promised some time ago. i think that that is important to recognize. there were two things in particular that i wanted to focus on, however....

thing to buy green. >> when he said blue or white, he was referring to the color of the vehicles. >> of. [laughter] -- oh. [laughter] >> water department vehicles, fired a bargain vehicles, blue, red -- fire department vehicles, blue than red. >> with logos. what's [laughter] a couple of -- [laughter] >> a couple of years ago we did adopt a vehicle policy regarding replacement? >> i have tried to dusted off. we talked about it three years ago at the camp -- at the chair's request. in those three years, we have never elevated it again. our practice has been three years and 100,000 mil...

life cycle cost basis. my guess is that we are going to do some experimentation as we go forward. it is important to start it, because in two years we will have to stand and deliver to the ratepayers. but >> i lost you a little. you are saying, not to get to micro? >> yes. >> but i think it is an important niche in an important thing to buy green. >> when he said blue or white, he was referring to the color of the vehicles. >> of. [laughter] -- oh. [laughter] >> water department vehicles, fired a bargain vehicles, blue, red -- fire department vehicles, blue than red. >> with logos. w...

number. i will just highlight a couple money to slide. the key ordinances', charter section, as well as in some cases the california constitution and government code. debt law is present as well. a policy that we adhere to it with requirements under the charter section, as well as the debt management policy did you have elevated as one of the commission adopted policies. the other keep out -- a key policy -- the other key policy is the environmental justice and community benefit policy. adjusted in 2009 and 2011. but we discussed in december, as well as previously, is the race policy...

there would be something that could be audited by a third party. our direction to staff is that we want you to be tightfisted. we want someone to come in and say who they are. how we structure that, i am not entirely clear. part of the genesis of this is, as we look at -- there is just a mind-boggling amount of information coming out of the budget. huge. try as we might, and i have done budgets for a long time. as much time as we have to give it, we will never really have control over the detail of what is in the budget. we can pick out things that look bad and act on those, but as f...