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For the scientist who advised seven u. S. President s. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] i interview a lot of fantastic people in this room and that does not happen very often. In 1988, nasa scientist james hansen told a congressional hearing that it was 99 certain that burning fossil fuels was heating the earths atmosphere. The next day, a New York Times headline proclaimed a Global Warming has begun. Decades later, dr. Hansen and others are still trying to convince the United States of these basic observations. About half of american now accept the fact. 40 do not. Over the ne...

Nelson mandela. And one of the things that he wanted was all young people, all children get an education. Now, the sheriff was standing there i fought very hard for him to do exactly the things that have been stated here. Hes a man that not only talks the talk but walks tot the walk. I have followed him. Im not saying that because hes by the door. I say to him whatever is right. Most of the time he agrees with me. So this situation is very important to our community. Its the same with our general manager kelly. Its the same with our police chief gregory. Its the same with our mayor edwin lee. ...

Are here and it gives us a lot of opportunity to key this in the front of our minds as well as we go into budget deliberations and where we may have capacity look at revenue bonding as a source. With that, im happy to answer any questions. Commissioner vietor . I have a question and sorry, im missing the gene when i was born about getting my head around this. I know some of the questions i seem to ask repeatedly. I dont know when its going to appear, when the conversation happens where once we use our hechy power and what happens when the water to generate power, do these bonds help back fill ...

Federal subsidy bonds as we did with Energy Conservation and clean revenue bonds. Thats anywhere from zero to one 1 2 percent. So its no surprise that we used that money first and we went to borrow out the cheepest money possible first and the california state loan and that is 35 percent. We are always looking to try to get access to the cheapest amount of Capital First and then work our way from there. The credit considerations are many but just to highlight a couple. All the financials are teed up for the rate agencies. We have a lot of explanation to do and build as part of our official sta...

The southeast building we had a very good program. We had a gentleman who had a stellar record graduating drop outs and giving them a ged. So in course of time, that program went away. I am graduate that the Sheriffs Department is now looking at the southeast to fulfill the aspirations of many of our trunts and drop outs. This is very important. Today in south africa we are remembering a great leader, nelson mandela. And one of the things that he wanted was all young people, all children get an education. Now, the sheriff was standing there i fought very hard for him to do exactly the things t...