Supervisor. Go giants. Supervisor cohen. Cohen present. Supervisor elsbernd. Present. Supervisor farrell. Present. Supervisor kim. Present. Supervisor mar. Present. Supervisor olague. Present. Supervisor wiener. Present. And mr. President supervisor chiu is not in the chamber. Thank you. Given that supervisor chu just got married we will excuse her this week and will be excused and will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Pledge one and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Colleagues we have board minutes from the meetings. Could i have a motion on approve those minutes . Moved and seconded. Without objection that will be approved. Madam clerk do we have any communications . There are no communications mr. President. If you could read items one through six. These item are from the Consent Agenda and if want to called separately we. Colleagues any separate . calling roll . There are ten ayes. Those ordinanc
Summarizing the two action items before you today. In the first item we are seeking your approval for the release of 34. 9 million that is currently on reserve with this committee. And 27 million from Program Reserve to six projects. In a previous appropriation board put on reserve funding for Program Management that was after june of this year. Now we have reached and are past june we need these funds in order to complete the program and shown on this slide are some of the Program Management services that are being covered by that funding. In late 2011 the board of supervisors approved the creation of a wsip Program Management reserve, where we could set aside some of the savings at the project level. We had initial balance in that reserve of 144. 5 million. That was put on reserve with this committee. Recently our Commission Approved the increase in budget for six projects, as shown here on this slide. What we are doing today is seeking your approval for reallocating a total of 27. 4
Might happen. Lets figure that out. Lets not have a conversation based on hypobole, in terms of sean saying there are 7 reports saying its not feasible, thats not true. Whats unfortunate about all those is the city of San Francisco has boycotted participating in those studies. San francisco says, wait a minute we have a unique responsibility here. Were the only city that stores our water in a National Park so lets see how we can do better because we dont do a very good job. Orange county recycles 30 million gallons of water a day, we recycle zero. We have a great opportunity to guarantee our water future and undo the damage to yosemite National Park. Sean, one point i know is the hydroelectric power generated by that dam, if i remember its 41 Million Dollars . Do i have my numbers right . There are a number of reasons why hetch hetchy is such a benefit to the city, not the least of which is that it produces carbon free public power to the city of San Francisco. One of my favorite lines
Certain things. And then, they have to go to the Sunshine Ordinance Task force and fight for those rights under the sunshine ordinance. Then to get enforcement, they have to have it referred to you and you simply allow mr. St. Croix to dismiss them all. And you wonder why i am a little ticked. I have four things on the 150 word summaries that i mentioned before that have all been approved by the Sunshine Ordinance Task force, and mr. St. Croix spent 134 pages dismissing against you so that you would not have the guts to hear it. The discuss on items for future meetings . On the executive directors report, the list of the whistle blower complaints, is this something that we used to have that and we have taken it off . It goes into the confidential report, dont we . We do. We get those in the confidential listing. I will see what we can add back on again. Okay. Public comment on number 8 . Could i ask you to repeat what you said about the whistle blower complaints . Will they be in or no
No. Can you hear the rain . Yeah. Is there a motion to adopt the minutes of the july 23, july 24th and september 11th . Is there a second . Second. All in favor . Aye. Opposed . Hearing none, the motion passes. Executive directors report. Okay. Two highlights, one is i expect that the november meeting will probably run kind of long. We are going to go back to sunshine. We have the item that we kicked over from tonight. Which deals with the run and red issue. November 26th . Never mind. I can check. Yeah. I guess. And it is the first monday after thanksgiving. So, if people are on travel and Everything Else, you might want to remember that, too. Meaning what . Remembering that we have a long meeting. What we are going to do our best to do and i think that we be able to do is have packets ready, the week before thanksgiving, so that you will have them during the rush of the holidays, you will have extra time. The monday before . Hopefully the week before. Even the week before that . I se