Special meeting january 26th and january 29th special meeting is there a motion to approve the minutes. So moved and second any comes, questions. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes are approved next item, please. General Public Comment mr. Da costa good afternoon. Good afternoon commissioners first and foremost i want to thank the commissions and others that attended the services for dr. Espanola jackson so i hope i heard the people that spoke at that service judge quinton and george and some others so what really happens when an advocate passes away it is difficult to fill the shoes of the advocate and nobody can fill the shoes of dr. Espanola jackson because she had a unique way of disarming and at the same time making a point i know you for coming too very much so advocates if they have their heart in the right place we expect the commissioners to center your heart in the right place we need to Work Together to make the right decisions for example, when the San Francisco
Call the roll. Commissioner Vice President moran commissioner courtney commissioner kwon we have quorum. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Item 3 is pitifully special meeting january 26th and january 29th special meeting is there a motion to approve the minutes. So moved and second any comes, questions. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes are approved next item, please. General Public Comment mr. Da costa good afternoon. Good afternoon commissioners first and foremost i want to thank the commissions and others that attended the services for dr. Espanola jackson so i hope i heard the people that spoke at that service judge quinton and george and some others so what really happens when an advocate passes away it is difficult to fill the shoes of the advocate and nobody can fill the shoes of dr. Espanola jackson because she had a unique way of disarming and at the same time making a point i know you for coming too very much so advocates if they have their heart in the right place
In eight different projects in each of the watersheds to see which once are most effective and coming back to invest another 4 million in those types of projects to see if they improve the overall performance of the system so having said that we are committed to continue to work on that this. We have invested in this area and committed to another 10 Million Investment that didnt solve the problem and studying the connector tunnel and if thats the policy of the puc and the city to move forward in that direction and continuing to look at short term improvements. I should mention looking at trying to make some improvements to private property up flow that would reduce the flooding more down flow and working with the City Attorney to figure out how we can do that without violations of public law and again i believe we will get there. We are forcing a creative approach to try to deal with the problem. Mr. Cruz thank you very much for the presentation. Before i turn it over to Public Comment
Lot was done to alert people during the december storms but i worry as you were saying from your great presentation the change Climate Change and when did you say . By 2100. And you alluded to super storms and the number of large storms coming so i think projects like youre proposing i could see the urgency of it especially for people that live in the area but thank you for the great presentation. And just looking at our agency on the whole we have these challenges where we have these 25 and hundred year storm happening in the same year as a drought so we dont have enough Potable Water and yet we get the massive storms that hit us so hard we cant select it effectively to benefit the drought so market nature is being real. Mother nature is challenging with us. Thank you mr. Cruz and the commission. I have a number of speaker cards and when i call your name please line up on your right, our left. [calling speaker names] and anyone who want like to speak on this item please line up and pl
Under public law challenges with making improvements to private property using public funds. We found a way around that by creating this Grant Program which would allow residents to go out and purchase the water gates and we would reimburse them and put in the back flow preventers and we would reimburse them. The sand bags we provide to the residents during the storms. The Flood Insurance i talked about and operationally during the storms were doing what we can. Midterm actions were looking at are were evaluating the expansion of the Grant Program. We want to see more people take advantage of it. We heard some residents talk about some stumbling blocks given the limits on the program and looking to expand them. We are increasing the outreach to the diversity of the community that exists there and doing what we can from a scientific perspective so right now given our radar detection capability we can see a storm with a four hour notice and have a general idea of how big the storm will b