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The installation of radar facility. A new hightech facility radar facility on top of Montara Mountain which is a regional effort were taking part in with other water and floodcontrol agencies in the bay area called the advanced quantitative precipitative information system, aqpi is the acronym for short. But the whole concept is to establish a Radar Network that can provide much better accuracy in terms of predictions of prescription in various parts of the bay area. What weve seen historically and recently is more extreme evens s and those are going to be significant for us to deal with as well as other agencies. Weve got a cooperative effort being largely funded from a grant to acquire radar facilities and then operate them in cooperation with National Oceananic and Atmospheric Administration and folks from Colorado State university. There are various agencies involved in the east bay for radar facility there. So these are being located at Strategic Points around the bay area. This i
Negative declaration fmnd , the mitigation monitoring and reporting program mmrp , and the findings as required by the California Environmental quality act ceqa for the Montara Mountain rainfall prediction and radio replacement project; approve Montara Mountain rainfall prediction and radio replacement project to install a weather radar and Communications Tower on Montara Mountain; adopt the required ceqa findings, fmnd and mmrp; and authorize the general manager to implement the project. This this is a sequa action that youre taking today to adopt the final mitigated declaration and Mitigation Monitoring Program as required under ceqa for the Montara Mountain rainfall prediction and radio replacement project. The real key of this project is the installation of radar facility. A new hightech facility radar facility on top of Montara Mountain which is a regional effort were taking part in with other water and floodcontrol agencies in the bay area called the advanced quantitative precipi
Yes. So what jobs are you talking about in terms of lean hiring process and the dashboard stuff . What are you talking about . Are you talking about staff at puc or construction . What does that mean . So the first one is the lean hiring process. Thats actually looking at how we do recruitment. So we actually have controllers recruitment for what . Personnel. So how we go about recruiting staff. What are the various steps with going through the posting, the announcement, the actual interview process, all of these things we have identified ways to improve that process, to speed it up. We have noticed a lot of issues around the agency in terms of the time, how long it takes to recruit staff. So this effort is associated with streamlining the process so we can recruit people faster. Is this through the d. H. R. . Yes well, its through the Controllers Office through their lean training process which is about business improvement. It is advised by the d. H. R. But being runned by the Contro