Boycott off iran. The Chinese Government intervenes to prop up its struggling stock market. And an aging population is creating a shortage in germany, can refugees fill the void for skills . Hello. The Syrian Opposition has released the list of demands ahead of u. N. Brokered peace talks later this month and wants to see confidence leading steps from damascus and release of arbitrarily detained people and calling for immediate hold to bombardment of cities and towns by heavy artillery and jets and also wants to make sure there is inhindered access to those in desperate need of aid and we have the founder who specialized in syria and the gulf region and is questioning if talks can take place while fighting is still going on. The peace talks were pretty much in intensive care anyway and i think they are probably flat lining now. The opposition cant go to the table while such carnage and starvation taking place on the ground and are not new demands and the closer to the crisis of last yea
Well get to that in just a minute. Lets start with the good totals we picked up today in the south bay. Impressive numbers to tell you about, just under one inch of rain in sarah tea go and here in campbell 2 10ths and that is a good total for a 24hour period. I want to take you live to tahoe, show you the snow flakes coming down now. This is live from squall valley and the mountains hold the key. You may not be aware but snow pack supplies 1 3rd of the total supply for california. The snow pack replenishes in the summer months when we dont get that much rain and its critical to the drought. Were at 36 of normal snow pack for this time of year. That number could jump as high as 40 when we get the april 1st snow survey. Here is the deal. Tomorrows survey is incredibly significant because typically snow accumulates up until prim april 1st and melts thereafter. Were still dun down 60 but every little bit counts and this late series of storms has actually made a pretty good difference. So
Call item no. 2 please. Roll call. Avalos present, breed present, commissioner mar . Present, schmeltzer is absent and Leah Pimentel is absent. President torres, commissioner cane present, commissioner moran, and commissioner courtney is excused today. Mr. Chairman, we have a quorum. Very good. Thank you very much. If you can call item no. 3, please. Item 3 opening remarks and discussion of expectations for the joining meeting. Sf lafco chairperson john avalos and sf puc president art torres. Sf 31234 thank you very much. As chair of local Agency Formation commission, i would like to thank you for joining us at this meeting. We are at a very critical juncture now to approve the water program. We have received a lot of information from people across San Francisco and even across california that we are an approving a shell contract today and that is not the case. We are here to approve a rate for clean for sf program. Its well within the ability to negotiate a contract for our clean four
Colleagues. Okay. Does anyone have any new items . Seeing none. Id like to entertain some Public Comment . Anyone . Pub click comment is closed. General Public Comment. General pub click comment. Speak now or forever hold your peace or until the next meeting. Thank you, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Are there any other matters before this body. No, item number 12, adjournment. Thank you, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you everyone. Good morning, and welcome to the joint meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and local Agency Formation commission. My name is john avalos. This meeting is brought to you by sfgtv staff. Call item no. 2 please. Roll call. Avalos present, breed present, commissioner mar . Present, schmeltzer is absent and Leah Pimentel is absent. President torres, commissioner cane present, commissioner moran, and commissioner courtney is excused today. Mr. Chairman, we have a quorum. Very good. Thank you very much. If you can call item no. 3, pl
Require the committee, it would require continuance at the full board. ~ thats exactly right. And a reduction, simple reduction in height. If that happens, im not saying it will, would not require continuance . Thats right. Okay, thank you. Mr. Givens, did you want to make another comment about these . Yeah, sure. Early in the discussion before Public Comment, the committee was discussing different types of impact fees. And supervisor kim mentioned theres a total of 115 million in benefits and contributions coming from the developer here. And i just wanted to clarify for the benefit of the public really that there are some Development Fees that flow from the boards Regulatory Approval i believe somewhere in the range of 17 million and there is a separate proprietary agreement between Successor Agency and the developer where the parties have negotiated for a number of other benefits and contributions that total approximately 97, 98 million, totaling 115 that the developer is paying out.