There any additions or corrections. No. I move approval. Second. Any Public Comment . All those in favor . Opposed . The vote carries. At this time id like to call for general comments. Any item thats not on todays agenda. I have no speaker cards and i see no one indicating so lets move onto the next item communications. I have a couple of items. On 5 b the state of the Regional Water system report that lays out a very rational and comprehensive approach not just replacing things as they break but actually managing the things that you have. The focus was on the water system and my question is a couple of questions one is the degree to to which that represents Current Practice as opposed to being an aspirational kind of a document and the other is whether that same kind of thinking and systematic approach is being incorporated in the Clean Water Program and the power side of hetchy as well. So i can actually get back to you on as far as any other programs, but steve . This is Steve Ritc
Test commissioner king. Im just making sure should this thing go off the rails for some reason this vote that were making right here is hey were going in the right direction keep it going not slam did you slam dunk dont come back to us thats fair. What do you think director raphael. Yes im happy to work with my staff to draft a letter and circulate it for approval based on what we have here and sounds like this will be another agenda item for this commission and so as the puc progresses through the commission process and things start to get more formulaed and that soft boiled egg becomes firm er well come back and keep you addressed. Right as this information gets out to more people and i hear back from Community Members i want to be able to say okay this is where we are. Im hoping this isnt the last time we have some say so on this. And do a letter maybe jointly from myself and director raphael to president cane and general manager kelly what do you think . That would be fine unless i
And things start to get more formulaed and that soft boiled egg becomes firm er well come back and keep you addressed. Right as this information gets out to more people and i hear back from Community Members i want to be able to say okay this is where we are. Im hoping this isnt the last time we have some say so on this. And do a letter maybe jointly from myself and director raphael to president cane and general manager kelly what do you think . That would be fine unless its awkward for me to be saying. Oh. We want our department to be doing things but let me see how it sounds. Okay. Maybe we leave it maybe in this motion leave it at the discretion of whether we actually draft whether it will come from myself on on the commissions behalf or if it fits for our director to join as well okay. So can i get a motion then for this commission to send a letter to the sfpuc that indicates that we support moving forward with the new version of cleanpowersf that offers a product that is affordabl
In colombia, a great allies ally of ours. There seems to be a real situation in colombias largest port and the scent of its population were over half a million inhabitants, over 90 of them are black. They are mired in crime and poverty, and over 80 live below the poverty line. 30 are unemployed and virtually none have access to supplies of electricity, water or basic wrote infrastructure. This violence thats going on, i know we want to make sure we are able to address underlying social problems so if theres anything that what were doing there. And, finally, on the lines of what Ranking Member engel had asked, he talked a special about tuberculosis, but thanks in huge party was investment in Global Health, the world has cut by 50 the number of children who die before age five whether its pneumonia, malaria or tuberculosis. The leading killers of Children Worldwide. Were on the verge of some exciting breakthroughs and lifesaving potential. For example, another Usaid Youtube to prevent an
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