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Could we vote wherever to disclose. I move to not disclose. Item nine. Adjournment. Could i have a motion. So moved. Thank you very much. We are done. clapping. sociogood morning, everyone. Good morning. Good morning. My name is harlan kelly the director of the Public Utilities Commission Im excited to welcome you here today, its a Diverse Group were going to talk about the issues were looking and facing the drought. The puc youre in headquarters of the puc its a if you dont know about the puc were responsible for water wastewater and power our water system is a vast water system we provide water to 2. 6 million yourselves in the bay area not only in the retail but wholesale swill as the a regional issue we talk about the water not only our Drinking Water see but our wastewater we have a unique opportunity to look for opportunities to expand our water supply and a lot of is it reconstrict were looking at ways to take advantage of that. This headquarters represents what the puc is about later today, youll take a hour of the building and so we treat our wastewater on city i site we recircle it through the urinalysis and the toilets its a amazing building and youll look at all the great features we have today so i wanted to first start off with introducing the mayor of San Francisco hes an infrastructure mayor hes been promoting investor in San Francisco infrastructure and one the great things were able to do t is fix a lot of our that is my understanding that bring water here we had a lot of leaking that is my understanding our system is over one hundred years old and with the ability to reinvest in infrastructure thats the 4r5rg9 saving of water are weve experienced at the puc donates my great pleasure to introduce the mayor of San Francisco clapping thank you harlan letting express my appreciation for hosting this beautiful building. I also want to say thank you to you all of you. Those are important and serious times. In our state and i suggest to you that this is an emergency that were in thats why we are could i convening xhvnlt with our great governors request we hold those he meetings on the basis of the state of california weve got to manage this impending disaster were experts in Disaster Preparedness and management i want to thank the governor mark for hosting this recreational meeting thank you all how are stakeholders in this to be working and sharing information with each other as an entire region. San francisco while we will do our best we have to work in concert with the north bay arresting and all regions this is not going to go away weve not be lucky like maybe in the world series or something where we can count on someone elses failure to be our success we have to make our own success were doing our best in San Francisco. Since 2007 our San Francisco Government Agencies have reduced water by 20 percent but still thats not enough ive called for on ailed 10 percent because if we are going to have some serious conversations with our businesses before i do that before i indicate to them what we need from them and they are the biggest water yourselves in our city we have to demonstrate our own commitment per diem and having the puc and our compliment department of working together to reduce an additional 10 percent is important so we have the moral foundation but the practicality to begin those discussions with our businesses. Not only is water reduction important i think were at a cutoff we have to signal behavior real life changes have to happen in order to manage this pending disaster so im about making sure our kids grouping just as theyve done with education to emphasis the demands for education we want to get all our our city represent the effort to conserve and collect as much ground water and recycled water where a appropriate to keep the freshwater this is what we have to do an aggressive agenda thanks to the Governors Office for leading this effort those conversations have to go more than a regional approach weve got to have actions that well promise the public were manage a crisis in the making not only do we lead by example and cut

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