>>> that's right, president torres. thank you for allowing me to speak today. >> thank you. >>> president torres and commissioners, i'm going to say three quick things. first of all, i want to congratulate the commission and the staff for its work these past 10 or so years on the water system improvement plan. i'll leave some of the calaveras issues aside because i know there are some environmental [speaker not understood] from -- jeff miller might want to talk about. my understanding of the discovery of the previous land slide is valid and i think that's something that you need to accept. but more over, increased reliability from rebuilding all those pipes around the bay, under the bay and so forth, the water treatment, that's all important stuff and it's good that you're providing increased reliability to your customers. secondly, i want to thank mr. jensen for his earlier offer to withdraw a proposal to rejiger