Page 10 - Malcolm Davis News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Special meeting january 26th and january 29th special meeting is there a motion to approve the minutes. So moved and second any comes, questions. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes are approved next item, please. General Public Comment mr. Da costa good afternoon. Good afternoon commissioners first and foremost i want to thank the commissions and others that attended the services for dr. Espanola jackson so i hope i heard the people that spoke at that service judge quinton and george and some others so what really happens when an advocate passes away it is difficult to fill the shoe...

Call the roll. Commissioner Vice President moran commissioner courtney commissioner kwon we have quorum. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Item 3 is pitifully special meeting january 26th and january 29th special meeting is there a motion to approve the minutes. So moved and second any comes, questions. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes are approved next item, please. General Public Comment mr. Da costa good afternoon. Good afternoon commissioners first and foremost i want to thank the commissions and others that attended the services for dr. Espanola jackson so i hope i heard the p...

In eight different projects in each of the watersheds to see which once are most effective and coming back to invest another 4 million in those types of projects to see if they improve the overall performance of the system so having said that we are committed to continue to work on that this. We have invested in this area and committed to another 10 Million Investment that didnt solve the problem and studying the connector tunnel and if thats the policy of the puc and the city to move forward in that direction and continuing to look at short term improvements. I should mention looking at tryin...

Lot was done to alert people during the december storms but i worry as you were saying from your great presentation the change Climate Change and when did you say . By 2100. And you alluded to super storms and the number of large storms coming so i think projects like youre proposing i could see the urgency of it especially for people that live in the area but thank you for the great presentation. And just looking at our agency on the whole we have these challenges where we have these 25 and hundred year storm happening in the same year as a drought so we dont have enough Potable Water and yet...

Under public law challenges with making improvements to private property using public funds. We found a way around that by creating this Grant Program which would allow residents to go out and purchase the water gates and we would reimburse them and put in the back flow preventers and we would reimburse them. The sand bags we provide to the residents during the storms. The Flood Insurance i talked about and operationally during the storms were doing what we can. Midterm actions were looking at are were evaluating the expansion of the Grant Program. We want to see more people take advantage of ...