Commissioners, item 3 the approval of minutes for november 8 to any additions or corrections we i will move the approval moved and seconded. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes] opposed . The minutes are approved. We are on to item for this is opportunity for general comments from the public for items under our jurisdiction that dont happen to be on calendar today. I have two speaker requested [calling Public Comment cards] commissioners, my name is franciscoi took a trip to [inaudible] to stand by the sioux tribe the dakota sioux tribe and to witness really held the protectors of the water are really respecting mother earth. Over there, they want to build a pipeline and if they decide to put the pipeline under the missouri river, which is a very wide river, it could pollute millions and millions of gallons of water. I want to connect it with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Recently, its been over a week we get some foul smell in our Drinking Water. When you rep
[gavel] i will call the summer meeting of the Public Utilities commission to order. Please take roll call Duran Kwon Caen and vietor are excited charlie a quorum is present. Commissioners, item 3 the approval of minutes for november 8 to any additions or corrections we i will move the approval moved and seconded. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes] opposed . The minutes are approved. We are on to item for this is opportunity for general comments from the public for items under our jurisdiction that dont happen to be on calendar today. I have two speaker requested [calling Public Comment cards] commissioners, my name is franciscoi took a trip to [inaudible] to stand by the sioux tribe the dakota sioux tribe and to witness really held the protectors of the water are really respecting mother earth. Over there, they want to build a pipeline and if they decide to put the pipeline under the missouri river, which is a very wide river, it could pollute millions and millions of gallon
Franciscoi took a trip to [inaudible] to stand by the sioux tribe the dakota sioux tribe and to witness really held the protectors of the water are really respecting mother earth. Over there, they want to build a pipeline and if they decide to put the pipeline under the missouri river, which is a very wide river, it could pollute millions and millions of gallons of water. I want to connect it with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Recently, its been over a week we get some foul smell in our Drinking Water. When you report it to the communication people, they say thats just a temporary measure. Im very serious about this. The clean Drinking Water reportedly comes hetch hetchy. The pristine water that belong to the [inaudible] the other tribes. Ive stated before here and i brought them over here so that you could see them face to face and we must not take our Drinking Water lightly. Why is this foul smell in our water . Why werent we informed about it . So i know you are hea
Gutting the environmental protections of the delta. This is another water war in california we do not need. What we need is some wise legislation that actually can solve the problem. Gutting the endangered species act, overriding the biological opinions, taking away the clean water act and simply turning the pumps on is not a solution. It is in fact the death nell of the delta. Knell of the delta. Along with governor browns tunnels, it will end the delta. Lets go the wife science with realtime monitoring of what is happening in the depellta is how we determine whether to ramp up or reduce the pumping in the delta. That is not in the bill. Take a look at the opponents. Weve got the two delta interests, mr. Mcnerney and myself, weve got the san juan queen valleys. This is not the way to hannle it. Not in an appropriation. Not in a bill that guts the environmental protections and simply turns the pumps on. I yield back. The chair the gentleman has yielded. How much time do i have left . T
Building. Katherine scott is live with new details on what went wrong. Reporter sara we just received word that operations at the courthouse are shut down for the rest of the day. What exactly happened is unknown. We hear that two elevators were involved here and the issues were connected and two people were injured. These elevators were in the employee elevator area. This is not where the general public area. I was actually in one of the public elevator when the alarm sounded and the building evacuated. There are still people outside and the word is just starting to spread that operations are shutting down here for the rest of the day. Initially they said an elevator dropped and now they are saying it was a malfunction. The issue was with two elevators here and two people were injured. This was the employee who was in one of the elevators at the criminal Justice Center at 10 20 a. M. When a loud noise was heard. We were on the 11th floor and heard a loud commotion, a loud boom. It lit