Many states across the u. S. Have been dealing with drought this summer. To up states deal with the droughts the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Held a hearing focusing on drop trap preparedness and Water Management. Ge Water Technology division and state water agencies gave lawmakers the recommendations for increasing Water Supplies. This hearing is little more than one hour. [inaudible conversations] this hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources a committee on water and power will come to order. The purpose of todays hearing is receive testimony on water supply and drought issues. We will hear testimony on a range of water related topics including infrastructure and supply, certainty in planning, and innovative Management Practices that are critical to maintaining secure Water Supplies. This includes items that are crucial to arizona such as the Colorado River drought planning and watershed restoration, better use of existing reservoirs, reliable water supply
Or the west are the high clouds that are going to overtake the sunshine today. We are still going to have a mild day, if not temperatures before average we will have partly sunny conditions at 63 to 70 around the bay and inland it is tighter at 67 to 70 and tighter along the coast at 58 to 61 and not so breezy as yesterday. With the dry start we will find out if the commute is going well. It is going well. Dry roads looking good for the commute. We have one accident in san bruno southbound along 280 but it does not appear to be locking anything or causing delays. Drive time traffic 101 across the Golden Gate Bridge is nine minutes. Across the bay bridge it is only eight minutes from the maze to San Francisco. San mateo bridge is 13 minutes from hayward to foster city. You can see how empty the toll plaza is on thursday morning and a view from emeryville camera along the eastern span to Treasure Island with a few cars headed westbound and taillights with no delays reported into the city
This measure if we pass it today will be the strongly e cigarette legislation on any city in the united states. I wanted to thank the Youth Institute tobacco reduce like malaysia centers and the commissioners and many others from the b y d c and the grassroots for helping to educate me. Last december i introduced this legislation to strike it in San Francisco it will amended the Current Health care and prohibit the Electronic Cigarettes where smoking is prohibited. Im going to do a demonstration so i can see the simulation like at about Electronic Devices side when you inhale it a little light goes on and it emits a substance that has nicotine and other harm fill toxins in the room. Its important i had a banana flafrd one but other flavors from bubble gum and gummy bears and other flavors are not targeted at elders their targeted at the teens and youth. Different billboards that are in our coalition have put up over the year the e cigarettes are being sold in American People wild west
Discussion excuse me. Supervisor avalos i note we have Law Enforcement in this room laughter . I was just asked by our clerk to make that clear. With that, colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection this ordinance is passed on First Reading item 23 an ordinance to dissolve the enforcement of marijuana offenses. Same house, same call . This ordinance is passed reading from and item 26 and 27 were considered by Land Use Committee on a regular meeting on monday and sent to the board item 26 to amend the third street alcoholic district to allow alcoholic control and type of two winegrowers license same house, same call . This ordinance is pass on the First Reading. This is declaring the intent of the board to order the portion of certain streets along with the elicits that are in the shipyard and the confidentiality redevelopment plan area and order the additional vacational for various purposes and reserve and setting a hearing date on this motivator of ap
To give the public prospective good afternoon. I want to thank the board of supervisors for role the leadership theyve stone shown over the decades on this issue of tobacco produces. 195040 percent of people smoked sects and by 1990 down to 40 powers we now have 12. 9 percent in San Francisco that have been smoking thats a terrific accomplishment and we want to preserve that accomplishment and thats the social norms around making smoking unacceptable. Smoking e cigarettes is a safe alternative to smoking cigarettes this is the Harm Reduction argument. Another argument smoking e cigarettes may help people to stop smoking cigarettes heres what theyre saying therefore we should continue to allow anyone to Smoke Cigarettes anywhere and we dont want to do that. Right now people can go ahead and Smoke Cigarettes anywhere that will reduce the smoking norms weve achieved. We dont know wyoming want to provide free e cigarette attorneys to our children and obviously not promote nicotine addictio