Everyone is aware of that and were pushing strongly the idea that you dont need to keep your grass green. It can be slightly brown. You can watch it enough to keep it alive. We do not need to kill things and this is not a mandatory reduction. Our water use has reduced by 19 on a per capital basis in the last ten years. Theres not that great amount of savings that can happen inside. You have to achieve these savings, hit the outdoor water use. Were pushing that strongly. Many of our cities have adopted ordinances are the ones youre talking about in which theyve asked their parks and Rec Department to reduce their water use, certain parks are not being irrigated, other ones depending upon the activity level at the parks and theyre being irrigated less and the recycled water makes that go farther for those areas which is a great benefit of recycled water, but its a big focus. In fact, one of the areas that were pushing is our lawn be gone Rebate Program which is a Turf Replacement Program
Use and the summer is our biggest area to achieve those savings and specifically we looked to the urban areas. Everyone is aware of that and were pushing strongly the idea that you dont need to keep your grass green. It can be slightly brown. You can watch it enough to keep it alive. We do not need to kill things and this is not a mandatory reduction. Our water use has reduced by 19 on a per capital basis in the last ten years. Theres not that great amount of savings that can happen inside. You have to achieve these savings, hit the outdoor water use. Were pushing that strongly. Many of our cities have adopted ordinances are the ones youre talking about in which theyve asked their parks and Rec Department to reduce their water use, certain parks are not being irrigated, other ones depending upon the activity level at the parks and theyre being irrigated less and the recycled water makes that go farther for those areas which is a great benefit of recycled water, but its a big focus. In
We spent probably 2 million on our side alone of the race and voters turnout was what i mentioned earlier. It would be hard to be a resident in jersey city during the election and not know there was a may recall election going on from a house to house standpoint. I think people vote on things that areless of substance and the more we try to educate them, people try to gravitate towards things that arent meaningful and move the dialogue forward, sometimes gender or race or geographic location or who their neighbor is. I dont have a answer for you long term. We are working on it. Im a former organizer with food and water watch. I want to thank you for your opposition to the pipeline that is now in service between jersey city and manhattan, a 42 inch gas pipeline going under the hudson. I know that jersey City Attorney is going to argue now yesterday. There are some arguments coming thursday. But the Regulatory Commission is approving these pipe lines right and left all over the country f
So its never perfect but we work on it every day. I think we have a great team that strives to do the best thing. Weve encouraged a lot of new people to get involved in politics and government whether on the board of education or our city council which the majority of those people its the first elected office theyve ever held and i think you will see neem have a different view about Public Service as opposed to selfservice. Congratulations on election of mayor in jersey city. I taught at Jersey State College which is a different type of environment. Im a little concerned and a think history will bear this out. You have something in common with the governor of the state of new jersey action robert secretary of treasury under bill clinton and mayor bloomberg. All four of you came out of wall street. It doesnt make sense to me why a young aspiring wall Street Investment banker didnt list that he was an investment banker at Goldman Sacks Sanford Bernstein and its a very diversified city. T
Story kind of peaked my interest too. My pleasure. Okay. Ej booker. Good afternoon, brother. How are you . Im well, how are you . I come baring gifts for the commissioners. Thats always good to start. These are pamphlets from the last summers program. But for that dont know me, im ej and im the director in the bay view. And boy, can i say how time flies. I cant believe that im standing here before you and this is the third summer with the sewer improvement program. Its known as ssip to the kids, but thank you to the commissioner and the executive team at the puc for showing what a Public Private partnership looks like. It looks like those students you saw earlier. Weve doubled the amount of private sector partners which includes those at akon and brad and caldwell, black and beach, mwh and urs. Were just excited and ecstatic to kickoff this third year. I wont take too much of your team. I want you to hear from those job shadowing. I want them to talk to you about their experience and w