secretary in the engineering division, switching to the claims and contract bureau, second to the harry traci water treatment. whenever we are calling it these days. these are all names for agricultural and land divisions and for the last 17 years she has worked for went out to the rank military services and is now a senior real property is officer, a fine example of how hard work and dedication to give you the reach of any goal that you set for yourself. we wish her happiness in her well-deserved retirement. [applause] please come this way. c'mon. [inaudible] >> this is absolutely a great honor to see these people coming up to get their commendations for a number of years of service. one of the best things i can do as the president of this organization is having number of employees working at this organization that care, working long and great careers. congratulations to both of you. [applause] >> other commission business? >> other commission business. >> we were hoping to get an update on what is happening with the reservoir project. we were tracking it in the newspaper last week. there we

tracy said it's important to know that every ethnic group is at risk. >> anybody can get what because ,rjn carry you are. >> speculates one reason for the harried a whoppingnities tend to live in extended families. >> the child is exposed to one person with whopping cough they may be able to fight off the they're if they're exposed to several the amount of bacteria that is hitting them will overwhelm their immunity. >> another reason could be a lack of access to health care. >> could get extremely bad extremely quickly it will look like a normal coffin cold and 4p(x= 46úkrqz3.enbeyççthekg'ske >> the doctor says the whopping cough has become an epidemic in california and vaccination is critical not only for children but also for parents. >> now in the bay area marin county is a hundred 95 cases of whooping cough that's the highest number in the state. but how that compares to other counties 55 cases in several months, 32 in contra costa, 31 in san mateo, 24 in santa clara, three and solano and 19 gcárr&ém)(r);xq vicki tells us part of the problem in marin county may have to do with the high number of patients not being vaccinated by their parents. >> nearl