Matter is taken to address it immediately. Thank you very much. Okay. Next item please. Item 8 is a Citizens Advisory Committee update. Good afternoon commissioners. I wendy and the chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee. I am proud to say that i celebrated my first year on the Citizens Advisory Committee and its been a great year. We have three long standing appointees and 13 new appointees. Most of the appointees have experience in dismpt disciplines and represent constituent groups around the city. We have 50 of color, 50 people of non color and 11 women on the cac which is really wonderful. We have been doing some orientations and trainings around our enterprises since we are so new and some of those have included review overview of the water supply and drought on the committee. Sewer improvements updates on the committee and we talked about operations and capital budgets and Work Force Development and the drought and impact on the agency. I want to give quarterly reports to the
John kerry arrived in vienna to seal all deal over Irans Nuclear program. The turkish Prime Minister is in irbil to meet leaders of iraq and they held talks with iraqi Prime Minister alabaddi in baghdad and going to khan live in the capitol baghdad and he has just met with brazani and what were the main points of discussion . Four points being discussed around to ideas and energy and security. Energy front what he said was that the kurds were very important in supplying energy to the turkish region and kurdistan was a key partner and agreed a deal for oil to be supplied from kurdish region into turkey, a Sticking Point with the federal government, in baghdad accused the kurds of being unconstitutional when they were selling oil to the turks and that deal has been formalized, indeed also said look if there are any disputes between baghdad and the kurds but the turks were willing to step in, this is a big deal for turks and dont have their own Energy Supply and have to import everything
Turned out to be. When they discovered that we were going to have a long and drawnout scenario as to who actually won this election, the news media as they usually do clapped their hands and said, boy, weve got something going here for a long time. Now all we have to do is get somebody on that Supreme Court who is willing to tell us how the court is going to rule. Thats the florida Supreme Court. Well, obviously they couldnt get that. The next thing was well, lets find somebody who is on the Supreme Court and maybe he or she can help us out. Thats how they got to me and i appeared in about 75 to 80 interviews on tv and on the radio give them my opinions as to what i thought may happen next. And it might surprise you to know that i was on every major network, even on pbs, even on Geraldo Rivera whats his name again . Rivera. Anyhow, i was on his show, which was an experience in and of itself the one night they had me standing by in a tv studio in miami and he was wherever he was conduct
Plant because there is going to be so much construction happening at the same time we initiated this integration plan because we have to keep the plant running 24 7 even so we have different projects moving plus our planned r and r in addition to maintenance so were looking at utilities and mapping that out in terms of gif so we know where they are and where foot prints are at facilities or planned or existing. Were identifying the staging and layout areas and folding into a master schedule, really a logistical effort. When do we need it available . When will each project start . And how will the plant form with these constructions so maintenance and operations can be fully up to speed. Were doing work on climate change. We completed the mapping for the areas and we are looking at the areas of risk are. Pump stations at risk sooner . Will we get salt water into the system . This includes Sea Level Rise as well as storm surge. We are updating our contacting plant. As we move forward wit
We discussed with the commission and have been endorsed. We have 37 projects that are in planning or design and three projects in construction. Phase one represents 2. 7 billion dollars and to date we have spent 88 million. So now for some Program Level updates. Were doing a lot of work on cellties plant because there is going to be so much construction happening at the same time we initiated this integration plan because we have to keep the plant running 24 7 even so we have different projects moving plus our planned r and r in addition to maintenance so were looking at utilities and mapping that out in terms of gif so we know where they are and where foot prints are at facilities or planned or existing. Were identifying the staging and layout areas and folding into a master schedule, really a logistical effort. When do we need it available . When will each project start . And how will the plant form with these constructions so maintenance and operations can be fully up to speed. Were