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Good afternoon, everyone, id like to call to order the general meeting of the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. Todays date is february 10th, 2015. Roll call, please. President caen, here. Commissioner courtney, here. Commission moran, here. Commissioner vietor is00 her way here. Next item is approval of the mibts. Second. All those in favor . Opposed, the motion carries. Any general comment on those minutes . The next set of minutes, january 30th, special joint sf puc lafco i will move it. All those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. Any Public Comment . Seeing none we will move on to item 4, which is Public Comment on any item not on the agenda. Yes, please come forward. Hi, my name is Maria Robe ....
Today. Public speaker . Jeff brooks. This is sort of a related item very important and coming up as an imminent issue filling of the final seat on the sf puc by appointment. That final seat is the seat that is required to have a person that has ratepayer or consumer advocacy experience. And i think it would be, im pretty much directing this at lafco. I have a feeling this wont be entirely wrapped up by the end of february and it might be a good idea to in case its not resolved why it to schedule an a discussion of proposition e in 2008 whiches the proposition that gave the board of supervisors power to vote on this. The vote was loud and clear in proposition 8 that we want the Public Utilities commissioners. For example commissioner vietor has clear environmental just justice experience. I have to put on my consumer activist hat we have to do more digging. We may apply for a different sfpuc. We must honor that ballot measure and ....
To continue with our demand reduction to make sure that we keep pace with achieving the 10 percent reduction again this year, which would be a demand of 209 million gallons a day. Again the key to those numbers for us, were ahead of pace to achieve that but we need to work hard to keep there and were working our wholesale customers on different messages to make sure we accomplish that. A couple more statistical slides on up country precipitation. For the month of february the average is about 6 inches and basically out of this last storm we got 3. 9 inches of precipitation, so we got about twothirds of the amount of precipitation we would normally get in february just out of these last storms so thats a good thing. Its early in the month and the chances of a wetter than normal february look promising at this point. In the bay area its about half of what the normal precipitation is for february so it was a good precipitation for february in the bay area as well. On the regulatory front ....
Minutes . The next set of minutes, january 30th, special joint sf puc lafco i will move it. All those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. Any Public Comment . Seeing none we will move on to item 4, which is Public Comment on any item not on the agenda. Yes, please come forward. Hi, my name is Maria Robertson and i am here today to request that the plan to put a sewer overflow tank at the corner of folsum and 17th street be reconsidered. It was up for consideration a year or so ago because of the flooding that constantly occurs at folsum and septemberth street but it was tabled and i am here to request that it be inaudible . The microphone is not working. The solutions that have been put forward and offered to us at that area or in that area of San Francisco are ....