mr. richie and mr. rodriguez for coming out today. this is a really important issue that we are dealing with in the state. next tuesday at the board of supervisors i will be introducing a resolution urging the state legislature to provide drought mitigation funding for the critical water supply for the san francisco bay area. they are considering leveraging $640 million for the drought and the drought area we are requesting for the san francisco water supply project and the lower cherry aqueduct restoration project and install toilet program which are important priorities which mr. richie mentioned. i hope we'll continue to work hand in hand and submit this to the board. my office will be submitting this at the board of supervisors meeting on tuesday and we want to continue to work with you to address any concerns to protect our water supply and look towards the future and make good decisions about our infrastructure in order to make sure san francisco has it's water supply intact and available for it's residents, not only in san fran

mr. richie we'll get a positive affirm active answers if question one from a public policy prospective this is the one that's has the most immediate need from my board members is the question of the emergency plan and what that entails how do we insure our community is prepared. i've am waiting that answer and will see what the answer is but from any prospective it contains two things what do you do to prepare in advance in the upstream to prepare in the event of a failure and your alternative of the water supplies and plans in place locally. none of those are things that have to be done in places but because the unique and different and new nature i think it's important to ask this question specifically. their earring anticipating the answer on that. we had a good presentation from steve about the drought situation. the agencies and boss supports the call for 10 percent reduction by the puc we're seeing actions that happened immediately a couple of things we're not quite intuitive the last drought predated some of the current regulations for the water sites and they're thinking about how t

mr. richie has continued to do is provide units on each commission >> excuse me. can i ask a question on the 12 percent reduction. >> well, we keep track of the discoveries so we have the city and county of san francisco and the customers as a group that we provide the reports on our website if you go into i think there's at sf water supply update.org you can be connected but prior to that we provide the updates in other area of the website about us and who we are. so this is the current reservoir storage as of march 9 we've covered the highlights and one thing to note we have inflow into hetch hetchy so we were able to take water out of the banks this was 4 percent. if you look at the precipitation chart we'll see the end of early march was significant. this snowpack is about 33 or 35 percent of the snowpack. we saw a 10 percent increase as a result of the storm of february. in march we've received an inch nature but the outreach is less over the week we're seeing a warm temperature this weekend that's important for water use and hope people keep their irrigation

mr. richie. supervisor tang, any questions? okay. thank you. mr. rodriguez from the environment department. >> good afternoon. i want to spend some time to talk about education activities that our department takes in support to get around conservation to city san franciscans and water users and we play a role to sf puc and do many activities. one that i wanted to focus on our if i can is our school education program and working with san francisco unified and various schools in order to do that. also i have a quick powerpoint. if we can put the that up as i walk through the items. since 2001 our school education team has been involved in water education. thanks to the support from the san francisco public utilities commission. we have designed a program called save our bay which we target to 5th grade classes merely teaching about water pollution prevention and promote water conservation. today we given over 800 presentation to 5th graders reaching about 25,000 students here in san francisco. in addition the team has developed a variety of fact shee

mr. richie, what did the chairman say, does visa, a level of security was asked about the company. i thought of a question then. does your company require any level of security for the merchants who use visa and are you changing what that level of security is? >> yes, we do require a level of security. it's the level embodied in the pci data security standards and we also require for large merchants that they provide us a validation by an independent security assess sore once each year they are in compliance. for smaller merchants we require self-assessment questionnaire administered bit merchant bank that acquires, set them up to accept payments. that is what we have in place today. the pci council administers that standard and review it periodically and promote improvements to it. >> have you given a notice of a new level of standard that you want merchants to have by sometime in 2015? >> there are two different things going on here. there are security standards how they secure the date in their environment. >> right. >> the other is devalue the data in their environment, no long