Of the sun and its setting. For the beauty of the earth and the glory of the skies, we give you praise. Today, make our lawmakers heirs of peace, demonstrating that they are your children as they strive to find Common Ground. May they take pleasure in doing your will, knowing that by so doing they are fulfilling your purposes in our world. Lord, you are never far from us but often we are far from you, so show us your ways and teach us your paths. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The presiding officer please join us in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington,d. C. , december 4, 2019. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1 paragraph 3 of the stranding rules of the senate i hereby appoint the honorable kevin
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
First . Why did this project rise to the top or not is something worth considering. Lastly, you have a lot of knowledge now about what it takes to do Capital Projects in this region and throughout the state, and i think it would be helpful to reflect what youve learned as far as costs and difficulties and all those types of things into what is your projections for your Capital Projects and if theyre in there, its helpful to reference them, and if not, then understand why not. Because for better or for worse, you now have become an agency that does a lot of capital work, and you have quite a bit of experience with that. And i think its important for that to be reflected in the c. I. P. , so we have relayed this study to Steve Ritchie and kathy howe or to dan wade, actually. And i know my staff has been talking to them on this. Im happy to answer any questions you have. Its also been conveyed to the bosca board. Great. Thank you. Commissioners, questions . Comments . Any Public Comment o
And i know qualitative prioritization. Why do you rank this project first . Why did this project rise to the top or not is something worth considering. Lastly, you have a lot of knowledge now about what it takes to do Capital Projects in this region and throughout the state, and i think it would be helpful to reflect what youve learned as far as costs and difficulties and all those types of things into what is your projections for your Capital Projects and if theyre in there, its helpful to reference them, and if not, then understand why not. Because for better or for worse, you now have become an agency that does a lot of capital work, and you have quite a bit of experience with that. And i think its important for that to be reflected in the c. I. P. , so we have relayed this study to Steve Ritchie and kathy howe or to dan wade, actually. And i know my staff has been talking to them on this. Im happy to answer any questions you have. Its also been conveyed to the bosca board. Great. T
St test test test. This is a test. This sophomore a captioning test. California are looking at Carbon Pricing. Many as you heard over 30 have their own gas taxes. Some are going to tolling. So there are a lot of different ways we can raise revenues without focusing only on eds, which states are thinking about right now. I like to say there are no silver bullet, we need to learn from the states and see which work. We now have our chair and Ranking Member from our transportation infrastructure subcommittee. I want to salute them and their stats and leadership they are providing as we go through this process. Thank you. Senator boseman. Thank you, senator braun. Mr. Braceras, arkansas, it was significant, record breaking floods both in height and just the force of the water. Tremendous damage, lots of damage to the infrastructure, the good news is, like utah, arkansas is working very hard, theyre going to recover, great leadership in our state and all of those kind of things. I guess what