The presiding officer the senator from new york. Mr. Schumer i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that as if in legislative session the senate proceed to the consideration of s. 1774, a bill it to reauthorize the undetectable firearms act of 1988 for one year introduced earlier today, that the bill be read three times and passed, and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action. The presiding officer is there objection . Mr. Sessions mr. President , reserving the right to object, this is not a good day to move forward with this legislation. Wed be glad to give it serious attention. I know its the kind of thing we probably can clear at some point, but i would object. The presiding officer the objection is heard. Mr. Schumer mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from new york. Mr. Schumer i appreciate my friend from alabama, my gym mate an
Some level of oversight around that money that comes through. From my understanding of it, the puc is generally and the commission has acted to say when you do receive any of these mitigations that they be used to sure up the transmission lines or some of the other things that its meant to mitigate, that via contract or the intention was for mitigation fee, correct . Thats correct. And so, i think whats going to happen is if we have every 100,000 to the budget and finance committee for the same purpose over and over again, that might earn be the best and highest use of our time. Not the puc has come up with alternatives to make sure we still have oversight over it. Can you explain that a bit . Yeah, i think we would recommend that those funds be held on the controllers reserve and we work with the controller to provide reports to the board on expenditures of funds in excess of 100,000 so that it can be done in effect an administrative matter but still reported to the board in a way the
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These mitigations that they be used to sure up the transmission lines or some of the other things that its meant to mitigate, that via contract or the intention was for mitigation fee, correct . Thats correct. And so, i think whats going to happen is if we have every 100,000 to the budget and finance committee for the same purpose over and over again, that might earn be the best and highest use of our time. Not the puc has come up with alternatives to make sure we still have oversight over it. Can you explain that a bit . Yeah, i think we would recommend that those funds be held on the controllers reserve and we work with the controller to provide reports to the board on expenditures of funds in excess of 100,000 so that it can be done in effect an administrative matter but still reported to the board in a way the board feels like it has full knowledge and ability to control it if there is something going awry. Why dont we go to the budget Analyst Report. [speaker not understood] repor
That it can be done in effect an administrative matter but still reported to the board in a way the board feels like it has full knowledge and ability to control it if there is something going awry. Why dont we go to the budget Analyst Report. [speaker not understood] reported under the proposed ordinance, the initial mitigation agreement between north star solar and puc would be for 2. 9 million for a procurement of transmission capacity. However, the budget they gave us is actually for higher than that. It is about 2. 9 68 million. Although they didnt have any kind of detailed expenditure plan. So, we are recommending a budget and finance committee reserve on those funds pending budget details. I believe they concur with. The second recommendation was this would in fact proactively approve 35 future such mitigation agreements, total of expenditures up to 28. 3 million, with no further board of supervisors oversight. We do consider that to be a policy matter. We further recommended th