Youre watching cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2022] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me. Holy and gracious god, thank you for the countless times you demonstrate the intimacy of your love for us. Through the affection of a loved one, a desire met, moments that grace our days with evidence of your hand in our lives. How easy it is to believe, having seen your power at work, your creative activity in the living of our days, in the healing of those we love and care for. We are truly blessed. Lord, we believe. Help our unbelief. We ask your blessing when we cant see, when the hurts, the evil and the confusion of the world obscure any evidence of your concern for us and deny your willingness or ability to bring order to our chaos. In this c
Advancing the nomination of a judge to be 2nd circuit court. And later, a shortterm spending bill to fund the government past september 30th. Senator Chuck Schumer says hell bring a bill on samesex marriage. Will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, lord of hosts, we praise you for choosing to make yourself known to us in the unfolding of your loving providence. Our hearts expand with joy because of your presence. Empower us to keep our minds steadfastly on you. Lord, use our senators to make a better nation and world. Give them an openness of mind and heart that they may receive the fullness of your grace. Consecrate them to the laudable task of permitting your kingdom to flourish in this generation and beyond. Lord, make our lawmakers instruments of your peace. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to th
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President Ann Moller Caen any other comments . Any other Commission Business . Seeing none. I wanted to stop for a moment and say that ms. Hood is going to keep us apprised of the score. Bottom of the third. 40 giants. Okay. Item 7. City clerk item 7, Sea Level Rise. Madam president , emilio cruz. What i would like to present you today a brief presentation on the Sea Level Rise and the Program Improvement prament. Program. The multibillion Dollar Program to create and invest in the city sewer system. We are not only looking at new technology but whats going to influences from the operational system. We are looking at industry trends. We are also looking at regulatory requirements and what we are projecting for the next few years and based on the facilities that we are designing for the next few years and Climate Change as Sea Level Rise and how those will impact the structure. The csip has invested in our analysis of the Sea Level Rise. We have a bright scientist by chris may, she has
Those are still and fouling following whats really happening. We do have the experts in place to address what is happening. Some of it in good faith was addressed, and im talking about calaveras and then we had to deal with removal of over 2 million tons of dirt. Thats not a joke, but its being done. If you read yesterdays, todays news, the United States geological is survey is talking about the hayward fault. If anybody knows where that fault is its very near calaveras. Im not saying that we are not ready for the big one, but what i am saying is that this particular project should have been done some years ago. We cant cry over spilled milk, but we have to make note of it. Having said that, some of those in the community are interested in the sewer system Improvement Project and in that project where 2. 6 million have been set aside to address the digesters. Now, we know that that project is not a very easy project because of many elements. The constraints of being in a general area.