This action will give them we are at war and in a true sense we are at war and we are fighting and invincible enemy. Ainsley more than a dozen states issuing lock down measures to keep people safe and at home. Brian yep. Right now, there are more than 35,000 cases of covid19 in the nation. At least 471 people have died and, guys, that number has increased but nothing like what we are seeing in italy and nothing like what we have seen over in china. So, the question is, with all theist states now locked down, will we start to see some positive results . Ainsley we are in separate studios this morning. Steve brian, today we are in day 8. Ainsley obviously its going to take a few days. Steve a talk over. Go ahead, ainsley. Ainsley i was just saying, yes, there is going to be awkward talkover please bear with us as we are trying to listen to the president and social distancing ourselves keep our country safe and folks at fox safe. We have pa big lineup. Who is on the show today. Steve we d
compost giveaways and many of the things recology provides, which i think is great. i love that recology provides these services to our city. just to get a sense of what the benefits are. we have a sense of whether the residential rates are comparable and whether the fees are comparable compared to the services that other jurisdictions are getting. it would be good to get that. could you also talk a little bit more we are out of compliance with state law. are the penalties associated with that> there are no penalties. it is a concern that we do not have 15 years as part of our plan. it is mandated, but there are no penalties. supervisors kim: i know we have the impact on the county, which i think many other jurisdictions do not have. that is something we have with recology and the department of environment. can you talk about what we use those fees for? many of the impound account fees go to different departments. department of environment get some portion. the departme
the lafco hearing, some numbers about the fact that we do essentially and effectively have a franchise fee that anywhere between 10% to 30% in san francisco. that comes from a number of the fees and free services provided to the city of san francisco through recology. it equals about $29 million. although we do not have a formal franchise fee agreement through the rate process, we have set up many programs and many incentives for recology to provide either free services or additional programming. in terms of the timing, we have concerns for all the reasons. regarding union pacific hon. supervisors, i m chief operating officer of recology. the current agreement expires may 31, instead of april 31. at this point in time, we would have to go back to the union pacific. there s a union pacific representative in the audience that would be capable of responding to this. we would have to go to them to request an extension. at that point, depending on their ability to extend would