Xhaerl for restarting this program and calling upon our department to lead the way with all the other partners weve identified today but; right when governor jerry brown said this was something right and the state should offer up to 10 million of back up just in case people have a fear its about reducing the boyers for people to make the choices by people who want to parent. Were reminded of that recently because this launch of the program is relevant today as weve all trying to help the victims of the typhoon recover and storms of this nature are on our minds as well as other climate changes as we want to make our world alert better. Scientists continue to tell you those storms will only get worse because of climate change. Thats why our response to 81 phenomenas has to go beyond disaster relief. So knowing that 50 percent of our Greenhouse Gas echoes come from that the more we can do on a individual basis and the more our cities hopes to reduce the barriers of the out lay that has to
Welcome one and all. Great to see our witnesses. Great to be here with senator johnson, and well call this hearing to order. I appreciate the effort of all of you to get here today. Im glad were having the hearing today, and not tomorrow. If we were having it tomorrow we might not be having a hearing. Todays hearing, as you know, is focused on the costs of not being prepared for extreme weather events, and exploring the ways that our federal government can increase resiliency in our communities, and just to underbehind this, and save money. Save money in the long haul. We have deficits coming down, theyre still too much. Down from 1. 4 trillion, i think, four years ago, this year expected to be down to about 550 billion. Only 550 billion. Thats still way too much and we have to continue to look in every nook and cranny and figure out how do we save more money. Thats the focus of todays hearing. But, i will try to take about five minutes for my Opening Statement and yield to senator joh
Agreements that are being worked out with some of the cemetery and those are taking longer than anticipated. We have a forecast of 22 months beyond the approved schedule and has an additional cost of 10. 4 million. The team is looking for ways to pull that back through looking for additional, to remove access constraints during construction, but that is the current forecast and we are looking into how to mitigate that further. Moving to the calaveras stem in the project. Of course you have the existing dam on the foreground and the hill and the current conditions. You may recall that we had landslide a in the upper portion of the slope. That has been largely removed and that slope has been excavated about 500 feet down. There is a remnant of that slide left in place. At the time of discovery of that slide, there was this area b that we also knew could be a slide but it wasnt certain at that time. Now that we have excavated down at the full excavation at the slide, we know thats a slide
Thus, the significant of the building make it eligible for rating as a building of context all importance. As documented in our report its based on a sin thus and document of fire map historic photo that was collected and other primary resources. The primary resource information is set within the broad context of the old st. Marys cathedral. And the work of Edward Charles chuck bassett. Evaluation above demonstrates the building is important. We therefore found the old st. Marys directy is a contribute building in category 3. Thank you thank you. Commissioners any questions for staff or sponsor . Seeing none, wool open it up for public comment. I have one speaker card. Commissioners im edward the fortress property group. Ive about that designated as the person to help old st. Marys take this through to recategories the building. I think the report speaks for itself so i probably shouldnt be up hero. Several years ago st. Marys were rezoned and you might recall those properties were rez
Local with 16 projects worth nearly 2. 7 billion in construction actively. We completed construction on 62 of 82 projects. We only have a few projects left of the ground water restoring recovery and the pipeline which will be going in in the spring. We have a number of accomplishments to report this last quarter. As has been reported in the last quarter we passed the instruction of the program. You can clearly see in august 2012, we had a much higher rate of work hours than we do in december 13th. We do anticipate that rate to come back up in the spring and summer months this year as construction gets more active in the summer months, but we are clearly passed the peak of construction but we have a long ways to go. 20 percent of a lot of program is still a lot to complete. We did obtain certification of the Environmental Impact report. We have received 5 bids and awarded that contract to a ranger pipeline. We will award it to a ranger pipeline and will inspected to begin in spring of t