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Interrogations in an effort to ensure that confessions are voluntary and not coerced. Joining us today is jeffrey deskovic. His coerced confession to a murder cost him 16 years behind bars. That is until dna evidence cleared him. Also here is dr. Matthew johnson, or professor matthew johnson, i should say. He is a psychology professor from John Jay College who has done research on false confessions and wrongful convictions. Thank you both for being with us this afternoon. Thanks for having us. Im gonna start with you, jeffery. 16 years behind bars for something you didnt do. How did all that play out . What role did your confession play in your conviction . That was that was the only piece of evidence that they had. Basically i was interrogated for seven hours, driven out of county, threatened, and given false promises. It was not recorded. Details out of their testimony, and i was wrongfully convicted despite a negative dna tes ....
Today is my regular quarterly update. Were going to focus on the projects and Program Status and talk a little bit about the projects that are in construction as well as stakeholder and Work Force Development. So here on the graphic you see all of the projects moving forward in phase one, and these have been scoped based on the levels of service 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 h ....
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 committe ....
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 a ....
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 ma ....