Aye. Wow, this feels like a major win. Thank you, all. Great job, everyone. Great job. We already put the time in on this. Well done. All right. And i think were on final item here. Which is agenda item number 8 am i correct . Is there a seven . My script is missing. Item seven. Commissioner comments and questions. That is it. Thank you. I should have been looking at the agenda. Sorry. Item seven, commissioner comments and questions. Who has something to say . I do tonight. I dont know if anyone has noticed over the last month our officers have been wearing pink Police Patches on their shoulders, and i am remiss and i actually bought everyone one and i forgot to bring them tonight. I will bring them to the next meeting. This was an effort of our chief will scott as well as our Police Officers association who are present tony montoya and over the last month we raised over 20,000 for the cure. Simply selling our patches and pink shirts. And by the way, if you would rather get a pink shir
We have a quorum. Commissioners, before you, we have the minutes of november 12. Are there any additions or corrections . I would like to move the item. Second. Is there any Public Comment on this item . All those in favor. Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item. Item 4 is general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Mr. Decosta. Commissioners, today i want to give you my subjective opinion on some very important matters linked to the river. So any way you look at it, you have to go back years, thousands of years, to the tribes that preserved and protected and performed their sacred rituals. Very important when we talk about cultural competency. We talk about cultural competency, equity and resiliency but we dont know the meaning of those words. If we did, we would be more serious. So at times, there are some individuals, and im one of those, i like to talk about thos
We have a quorum. Commissioners, before you, we have the minutes of november 12. Are there any additions or corrections . I would like to move the item. Second. Is there any Public Comment on this item . All those in favor. Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item. Item 4 is general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Mr. Decosta. Commissioners, today i want to give you my subjective opinion on some very important matters linked to the river. So any way you look at it, you have to go back years, thousands of years, to the tribes that preserved and protected and performed their sacred rituals. Very important when we talk about cultural competency. We talk about cultural competency, equity and resiliency but we dont know the meaning of those words. If we did, we would be more serious. So at times, there are some individuals, and im one of those, i like to talk about thos
Also said if we could expand the reservoir. Im just thinking are there any ways to hold water other than building dams, or reservoirs. I mean, are there more progressive ways are there anybody anywhere on the face of the earth doing something different. Maybe beavers have they changed their plans yet . To make a system work particularly our system given our water rights. Ours is a storage bay system. The storage has to occur in a storage reservoir or in a groundlevel basin. You said ours is a storage based system. That means there is what are the other systems besides storage based . Those are the folks that divert from the river based on their water rights. Either you have to have storage or you have to have a steady supply of water. One of the other is necessary to make a water system work. That is why groundwater is starting to factor into these like the daly city project. Like the Union Sanitary district, how they use the groundwater and we can extend our supply. Like a reservoir b
[reading notes] existing obligations to existing customers, 184 million gallons per day is our water supply assurance to wholesale customers. It is contained in the water supply agreement but it is also very clear the obligation exists regardless of whether it is in the contract with our customers. The rest of the 265 supply to retail customers in San Francisco. We need to bridge some gaps there. Some of the project may not deliver the full water supply that we anticipated. We need to make sure second, permanent and regulatory requirements to maintain healthy habitat. It could be a very large number of 293 million gallons per day to maintain our level of Service Goals while meeting the bay delta plan requirements. That may decrease based on the outcome of state negotiations or litigation. San mateo creek we are contributing about 3. 5 mgd. Alameda creek we have been streamflow which we are currently meeting and we will be bringing to the Alameda Creek recapture project where we are wor