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Subdecision are back home this morning after a 100 acre wildfire forced them out for seven hours. The fire broke out at 12 30 yesterday afternoon in wooded terrain. It destroyed one outbuilding and a couple of vehicles. 60 percent of the fire has been contained. Officials say a preliminary investigation shows the fire was started accidentally by someone using mechanical equipment in the hot weather near dry grass. A brushfire burning in Southern California has grown to 150 acres. The fire began after noon yesterday is burning above glendale in the hills. No evacuations are ordered. Firefighter...

Pleased to see that. With respect to the puc ill give you my view the puc has taken the position if a bulb out is being built over water pipes its the mta responsibility to pay to move those water pipes so theyre not under the bulb out is a significant expense on the mta and frankly its not necessary to move the water pipes its for the future theoretical convenience of the puc if in 20 years they need to reach the pipe they dont want to dig underneath the sidewalk but underneath the streets that are a significant burden that the project sponsors from doing those bulb outs for a savings for the...

Pipes its for the future theoretical convenience of the puc if in 20 years they need to reach the pipe they dont want to dig underneath the sidewalk but underneath the streets that are a significant burden that the project sponsors from doing those bulb outs for a savings for the puc when frankly when youre doing a bulb out they can look at the pipes and see if its old and switch it out and did do it. Many cost shouldnt be passed on. I dont know if this is the future of a future hearing in terms of enforcement i know i held a hearing last year about double Parking Enforcement and excuseme. I s...

More and more tomb on 7 or 8 projects to give you an idea of what happens for instance, when another project becomes a provided and jump projects in the cue. We may have regular projects were working through and the mta directions the priorities and theres a group that needs to have that conversation and we may decide nor whatever reason a project needs to happen faster it will leap frog the projects in the cue. So theres a lot of complexity in the design there are several teams at dpw along with our traffic routine folks and the designers at a certain point they become a technical consultant ...

To implement this protocol, and it is being done today as we speak. The department is going to request funding to meet the increased demand that this is going to create for testing of Sexual Assault kits in our asap program for our expansion. Last year at the crime lab we had two super vicers and 13 criminals in the dna unit and we hired two additional supervisors in the unit and we are in the process of hiring three additional analysts for the dna unit in the laboratory. Once, those hires are completed, that is going to bring us to four supervisors and 15 analysts in the dna unit. The Departm...