their considered to be routine by the commission and acted upon as a group. is there anyone who would like to separate an item? 8e. and 8 h. with respect to 8abcfg. it s been moved. any discussion. i guess i will call for items 8abcfg. seeing none, public comment is closed. i will call for a vote, all in favor say, aye . aye. 8 e. madam secretary. approve plans and specification in work contract. mr. president, my question on that goes to why we only had one bidder. i understand we did it twice. there was only one bidder the first time and only one and the same bidder the second time. i couldn t see in reading through this anything that made this work unusual. it seems like the bread and butter stuff we do, why on earth only one? the first time we put it out to bid there were four bidders and only one of them actually had a qualified subcontractor do a lining the sewer. the other three did not. we had to rebid it and rebid it out and only the one with
also for jobs and really try to push that focus. it had a lot of great energy, a lot of the general managers who attended wanted to keep this momentum going. we are actually meeting as part of the in texas next week but we would like to get together and get the gm s together and talk about our constituents and improve our business. that ends my report. can i ask, what is the next step for that process, group? one of the concerns that we are involved with a lot of associations. what we wanted to do is just without any other associations that we belong, we just want to come together and talk about what was important to us. as part of that session, we were able to invite those organizations to come in because we wanted to make sure that we talk about the things that were important to us. i think that was great. we were not worried about sponsor ships or anything like that. we were able to really talk about an agenda. so we want to continue talking amongst each other and it
naacp to have a big summons in february at the library. i would like to talk to mr. miller or whoever is involved with that. so anyway, thank you for letting me speak now. thank you. i m going to ask that you only remember we start the meeting with general public comments so you will go there next time, but your points are well-taken. thank you. madam secretary? item 8 is a consent calendar. their considered to be routine by the commission and acted upon as a group. is there anyone who would like to separate an item? 8e. and 8 h. with respect to 8abcfg. it s been moved. any discussion. i guess i will call for items 8abcfg. seeing none, public comment is closed. i will call for a vote, all in favor say, aye . aye. 8 e. madam secretary. approve plans and specification in work contract. mr. president, my question on that goes to why we only had one bidder. i understand we did it twice. there was only one bidder the first time and only one and the sam
back to 2000, the bond issue was 2002, but it was really rocky road. everything was upside down. so giving us the data of 06, things have been rather smooth since then. thank you so much for your service and devotions to the project and the we sip program and as you know, i have decided by granddaughter is going to be an engineer to model after you. that s a great compliment. she wants to you subsidize the education. [ laughter ] . i just want to say a couple words of thanks and appreciation because i think it s remarkable what you have been able to accomplish here at the puc and the program and how your mind works with all the engineering challenges and opportunities. it s really been remarkable and i also want to echo commissioner moran s comments. i wish you well and hope you will visit. commissioner torres? julie, i wish you all the best and thank you for being part of a community of public service commitment that all of us share here in various degrees and forms.
i m on the outside working with the black community organizations as the czar. i would like to be called the community regulator. the other things is we would like to put together a black agenda, a black debate to further discuss the organizations from the naacp to have a big summons in february at the library. i would like to talk to mr. miller or whoever is involved with that. so anyway, thank you for letting me speak now. thank you. i m going to ask that you only remember we start the meeting with general public comments so you will go there next time, but your points are well-taken. thank you. madam secretary? item 8 is a consent calendar. their considered to be routine by the commission and acted upon as a group. is there anyone who would like to separate an item? 8e. and 8 h. with respect to 8abcfg. it s been moved. any discussion. i guess i will call for items 8abcfg. seeing none, public comment is closed. i will call for a vote, all in favor say,