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Call of the sfpuc to order it is one 37 madam secretary can you please take the roll commissioner Vice President moran commissioner caen commissioner courtney commissioner kwon everybody is present we have quorum thank you. Next speaker, please. Next item is approve the minutes of february 9, 2016, a motion to approve the minutes. 70 second questions or comments Public Comment on the minutes hearing none. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes passes unanimously next item, please. Item 4 general Public Comment. Mr. Da costa good afternoon. Good afternoon, commissioners so im here to spe...

70 second questions or comments Public Comment on the minutes hearing none. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes passes unanimously next item, please. Item 4 general Public Comment. Mr. Da costa good afternoon. Good afternoon, commissioners so im here to speak on a number of issues i am very interested in getting a set of salutation on the water Improvement Project especially mountain tunnel and then im very interested in knowing about our water pipes the city some one miles plus in view what is happening in flint im not saying to make a comparison a detailed comparison but we need to...

I am absolutely sure of that. It is going to require not just what the president does, but what all of us do. It will require people once again being inspired by the spirit that has animated american history. We do not just diagnose our problems and complain about them. We roll up our sleeves and solve them. Learning more about the lives of people here and what you want for your futures is critical to what kind of president i would want to be. There is nothing i take more seriously than that. I said to people, i will try to earn every vote i can. Even if people do not vote for me in november, ...

And so im concerned that we dobo what works. And now what were seeing by ; were not out of it by any means, but we helped save american jobs in theu 6 x . Rue auto withi5u home equity and 401 k s and losing jobs, everything happening in the great÷ recession, its beginning to come back. Fewer young people are working. Ii au want to say, the first thought that came to my mind is thats because the folks in theaf taking the jobs now attanc fastfood restaurants. Weve go the yearly deficit and it seems the challenge is for us to make sure that whoever needs a job that pays well will have one job to...

Our recovery still has a way to go. Too many middleclass americans hounded by decades of flat wages are still struggling to make progress. And i want everybody to understand my bottom line for this congress. When working families see bigger paychecks, americas economic recovery is going to go from a block to a run. I spend time working with businesses and my state about the challenges they face. Its pretty clear that there are a lot of oregonians and americans waiting for the economic recovery to kick in for them. For the middle class moving the recovery from walk to run comes down to technolo...