Hello. Is so good to see you. I read the book with a rise of women in american politics. I am so proud of this book you must be proud it should be required reading of colleges and in universities what are you thinking about when you decided to write this book . We had such a phenomenal change on the democratic side at least over the past 30 years and people are asking me to write this book for years a half to get the record out there for what we have done and how it has changed in the process although women and the races the world is a different place looking at congress threequarters of the women are Democratic Women which we are very proud of and then seed than an action all the time. I think back with a first came into office as a matter of fact some 60,000 was huge. And i am very appreciative. But i just want to ask when you walked into the room with thousands of women ready have gathered under the leadership he will see Barbara Boxer and hillary what does that feel like . It was p
General economy, Interest Rates, the regulatory requirements that are imposed and competing local demands in our communities. What is very clear is the annual need for investment in our Water Infrastructure is going to grow dramatically in the coming decades, it will at least triple and possibly quadruple by 2040. Buried no longer, confronting americas Water Infrastructure challenge specifically, it looked at our aging water mains, what that report concluded is that we will require an investment of 1 trillion over the next 25 years to replace the water mains that will become obsolete during that time frame. That number include nothing for Drinking Water needs nor for cso, sso or other wastewater types of issues. Clearly a significant number when you compare it to what were currently spending. Another important feature to recognize, that Water Services are the most capital intensive that we provide in our country. What this means is that when we invest bigger dollars, more dollars in th
Up for cleanpowersf i think that commissioner courtneys point we want to make sure that every avenue exfoliated to get interpose e people into the program and theyre telling their friends and not get lost in the overall puc program. How long to build a twitter follows they have over 8 hundred formals. Thats been dormant and we have about 13 thousand followers on the cleanpowersf. The hash tag clean power. Right . What. The hash tags will cross the traffic; right . So, yeah that is the request and if you can keep us posted on the piece i think the wanting to do this marketing and activate the social commitment it is important. We have a couple of good things general manager kelly mentions for getting ready for a grassroots using video for signing up and ill be happy to to share that with you. That sounds like great, thank you. Anything else so theres an item action item before you is p there oh. 18 sorry. So next item, please. Item 18 for the general manager to seek the board of supervi
Our countrys system for admitting refugees is a major story right now. Many americans want to stop any effort to bring more Syrian Refugees into the us. But a des moines woman who was originally from bosnia hopes her story encourages some elected leaders to reconsider their stance on refugees. Today, the us house ssed a bill that requires new background checks for any syrian and iraqi refugee who applies to come to this country the vote came after last fridays terrorist aatacks in paris that killed 129 people and injured hundreds more. French authorities believe one of the attackers` entered that country illegally from syria by posing as a refugee. Since the attacks, more than 30 us governors have opposed letting Syrian Refugees settle in their states. That includes Iowa Governor branstad. On monday h h ordereestate agencies to stop work on relocating the refugees. Tonight kcrg tv nines Sarah Mccarthy reports on how one iowa womans explanntion of the refugee applicatii process is reach
Proud of what we do at the Environment Commission. One of the things we want to write out of the gate was to introduce some very special folks were providing translation tonight. So, can we please get around warm round of applause for oscar [applause]. And monica wong. [applause] and julie barrios. If you want to givethank you, joe. If you want to get a quick word maybe starting with oscar here at the microphone. Write up here. Into the microphone. Just like that. Excellent. So, if anybody needs interpretation in spanish, [foreign language]. Thank you. Monica, where is monica . Good evening, monica. Hi. My name is monica wong, cantonese interpreter. If anyone needs help up the back of the room. [foreign language]. Thank you, monica and joy. Good evening. My name is joy audio. Im the teacher of the filipino teacher at uc berkeley. [foreign language]. All right, thank you for everything you do. My name is joshua arce. I have the honor of chairing our commission and on behalf of all of us