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Contingency required to cover the additional risk. I just want to make sure you heard you correctly you said only covering 65 percent with our current budgeted these are things that may happen or may not happen so we run an analysis to get the probability of how much of the list budget we think might need to be used. So you dont think well have enough money . Thats not what im saying. So actually were 65 percent confident that the remaining contingency will cover the remaining construction risk in the program. Thats not very comforting that you are 65 percent confidence id like to hear that yo...

65 percent would be an appropriate level for where we stand today. Certainly it is a policy call and so as the policy component of our organization if you would like us to revisit that 65 percent we would certainly be willing to do that but this is what we believe to be the best but if theres concern over 65 percent and a desire to go with a higher contingency profile certainly we would do that. I think i want to add i want to thank commissioner torres i think the conversation is valuable and then your response about whether or not we want to take a long hard look at that policy but i want to ...

[laughter]. And you also dont want to tell your contractor that just in case you have another hundred thousand tucked away in in a corner. So to cover a hundred percent of it we think would be inappropriate but we also think 50 percent is too low, 65 seems appropriate. Before you start again so the will of the body is we want a short memorandum and once we receive that memorandum well discuss whether we want to revisit or change or delete or leave it as is is that our will . I dont think its a Commission Policy more a policy as it relates to industry type of practice when you are doing a progr...

And this was from. 1 to. 4 and the lake didnt change were not getting a lot of ash and again confirming what we already knew from monitoring closely the water coming from the dam. This is where you can start to see the water clarity. The water is not covered. It was smokey in places. But it wasnt like ash was falling it was just general smoke. Again, some spot fires on the south side of the reservoir it wasnt like the whole south room was on fire you can see that the rock again, the smoke was the big issue on air quality in the area. This is the road there was spots where the road was going to...

I think the v. A. Tries very hard to bring in counselors and psychologists who have that service. I will tell you that in vermont we initiated a program, an Outreach Program that is the people who do the outreach are all veterans. They are knocking on doors and talking to fellow veterans. That works well because they have a shared experience. They both know what they are talking about. I agree, everything being equal you want to get folks to do counseling who know what veterans have gone through. Host just to show you what took place at the hearing you can watch the whole thing on cspan. Org. ...