Use and the summer is our biggest area to achieve those savings and specifically we looked to the urban areas. Everyone is aware of that and were pushing strongly the idea that you dont need to keep your grass green. It can be slightly brown. You can watch it enough to keep it alive. We do not need to kill things and this is not a mandatory reduction. Our water use has reduced by 19 on a per capital basis in the last ten years. Theres not that great amount of savings that can happen inside. You have to achieve these savings, hit the outdoor water use. Were pushing that strongly. Many of our cities have adopted ordinances are the ones youre talking about in which theyve asked their parks and Rec Department to reduce their water use, certain parks are not being irrigated, other ones depending upon the activity level at the parks and theyre being irrigated less and the recycled water makes that go farther for those areas which is a great benefit of recycled water, but its a big focus. In
Item two, approval of the minutes of the september 23, 2014, action. Any comments . Any member of the public that would like to comment. Seeing none, we will close. Avalos . Aye. Breed. Aye. Campos. Aye. Chiu. Aye. Cohen . Absent. Ferrill. Aye. Kim. Aye. Mar. Aye. Tang. Aye. Weiner. Absent. Yee. Aye. Item passes. Okay. Lets go to the next item. Item three, three chairs report, this is an information item. Colleagues, in what has become a ritual i begin high report with the sad news that four pedestrians were hit by cars in the past couple of days, one of whom, 87yearold, mr. Louis van belson died of his injuries after being hit, and as he tried to catch a bus. And this is truly an acceptable and, we must act to make the streets safe and her to ask our drivers to slow down i appreciate the work of the sfmta the Police Department and the department of Public Health and other agencies supporting the citys vision zero team, around town reminding everyone that every intersection is a potent
That we must continue to invest in the infrastructure in earthquake preparedness and resilientcy planning and this will take levels of eninvestment and coordination and public involvement and i am pleased by several key initiatives that they are already under way, and including the transit core, capacity study, freeway, Core Management strategy and the neighborhood, transportation, Improvement Program and on the issue of capacity, i want to add my support to many other colleagues, and including commissioner kim, cohen and weiner, who are calling for cal train to purchase, compatible electric vehicles with future Blended Service with california high speed rail. This is a very important Investment Decision that will determine the capacity and Operational Flexibility of the system for years to come. With that, colleagues, icon include my remarks. Public comment is open if any member of the public, seeing none, we will close Public Comment and go on to the next item. Item four. Directors r
Chairman for his tireless efforts on behalf of the weekend vulnerable. Week and vulnerable. I like to thank my good friend for pulling todays hearing together amid the escalating outbreak of ebola across west africa, countries including liberia, sierra leone, guinea, and now nigeria. Although i am not a member of the Foreign Relations committee, i do serve on the state and foreign operations appropriations subcommittee which funds the state department and foreign aid programs. I would also say to the witnesses that if you need extra money, ask for reprogramming. You should not wait for september, october you should ask for it immediately and him confident the appropriate committees will allow it. But if there is any doubt, there should be request for reprogramming. The current ebola epidemic has claimed over 900 people. It was detected earlier this year and is proving to be the worlds worst outbreak of the virus ever recorded. It now appears this alarming, contagious disease could be o
The departments relationship with Small Businesses that can take part in the sbirsttr program and it encourages the secretary to enter into agreements with the program at the National Science foundation. Our National Labs have been at the cutting edge of Technological Development and we must always ensure that development is in the national interest. A discovery lost in the labs is a discovery wasted. Thats why id like to thank my good friend, mr. Kilmer, for partnering with me in this effort, as well as mr. Fattah and mr. Nunnelee, who were sfounding founding members with me. Chairman smith and chairman lummis as well as Ranking Members johnson and swalwell were also key in this legislation coming together and bringing it to the floor. This is a true bipartisan, bicameral effort and senators have a similar companion bill on the other side of the hill. I encourage my colleagues to support this bill and i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves the