takers already chos are detained so all we have they they they are not likely to avoid any kind of opposition to what the end of the put it outside or even on the streets so for them is a pretty doomed life for their political career to do to be carrying on in the any kind of form in efficient home home our correspondent with the very latest there thank you so much. now at least 6 people have been killed in myanmar after security forces fired on them during demonstrations they were taking part in protests in the town of neon against last month s military coup which overthrew the elected government in the city of yangon there are also reports that at least one other person has been killed this latest violence comes after the u.n. security council demanded the military restore democratic control in myanmar. it is absolutely essential to respect the results of the elections and to a low for situation reach we move back to a democratic transition. we can speak now to journalist a
[gavel] good afternoon. Welcome to the board of supervisors meeting for the city and county of San Francisco home of the National League champions San Francisco giants. It is tuesday october 23, 2012. Madam clerk can you please call the roll. Supervisor avalos. Present. 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 cl
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