Steps and talking some of the infrastructure some of the things you raised pr i think its important to watch this go so there the legislative progress theyre looking for workers anyone who is looking for a job any classification of any orientation theyll be embraced with open arms working under the master agreement working on the master projects youre talking about and there so much work come up we want to keep reaching out to the community. Thank you very much for being here. Any other any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary item 5 communications. Commissioners. Ill entertain a Public Comment if no observations pblth seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary item 6 is other commission business. Commissioners. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Well move on to the next item item 7 is the report of general manager. Thank you, mr. President. We have a couple of honorees who are retiring we want to present them to you as a special recog
Situation and all those things like that are important as well as preparing the community for the reductions if they have to do that taking those drought managed plans and dusting them off so theyve taken all the actions as well as increasing the message to the community about reducing the water use. And to do that its been actually, the response is almost immediate in my office. Shortly after the announcement from the puc we got several calls from local schools or a water agencies to increase the messages out to Community Fire departments that level of activity has increased and were anticipating to see that in all the activities around the region. Weve been having discussions with our Public Information office so the Regional Campaign for drought messaging and taking the managed fund and the grants weve received to take advantage of that and the water statement was certainly a success loose time that was our recent experience. So were looking to do that and putting forth everything t
Just a few things i want to talk about in particular the mountain tunnel and the drought response. But youve had a lot of chances to talk about the water tunnel and ive been reporting on that to both my leadership and my board chair and the board and our policy committee. Pleased to be able to let them know i got the response from mr. Richie well get a positive affirm active answers if question one from a Public Policy prospective this is the one thats has the most immediate need from my Board Members is the question of the emergency plan and what that entails how do we insure our community is prepared. Ive am waiting that answer and will see what the answer is but from any prospective it contains two things what do you do to prepare in advance in the upstream to prepare in the event of a failure and your alternative of the Water Supplies and plans in place locally. None of those are things that have to be done in places but because the unique and different and new nature i think its i
An emergency situation. What weve got is clearly not an emergency we can clearly save 7, 8, 9 million gasolines a day if we much more aggressively produce watersheds restoration and come posting toilets. You know, we havent begun to do those things and for us to assume the big problem is not that were loort deacceleration but thats not on equal but we need to look at this as a last resort the question is using the technology as opposed to to the technicalities. I dont think that this commission as considered deacceleration from other water supply. I think thats part of the triple bottom line my consideration you fly away those considerations if i can can i respond for a second. I would tend to agree with the commission but often they do and commissioner torres a couple of years ago or about a year and a half ago asked to have a really robust process around the deacceleration issue and today weve had only one presentation in San Francisco and one in the east bay and not had a good stron
Actions as well as increasing the message to the community about reducing the water use. And to do that its been actually, the response is almost immediate in my office. Shortly after the announcement from the puc we got several calls from local schools or a water agencies to increase the messages out to Community Fire departments that level of activity has increased and were anticipating to see that in all the activities around the region. Weve been having discussions with our Public Information office so the Regional Campaign for drought messaging and taking the managed fund and the grants weve received to take advantage of that and the water statement was certainly a success loose time that was our recent experience. So were looking to do that and putting forth everything to watch things carefully and make sure we can act and encourage customers to do what they can to save in the future so. Just one thing i continue to talk to any agencies and told memo Committee Last week the situa