. >> vice president moran: >> president maxwell: commissioner ajami . >> commissioner ajami: i've got question friend he will ask patient. some of the logic model, i was wondering seemingly have, why do we external firms to do that for us? i understand if you are doing some of the physical construction work, why do we people from outside? >> i see this really is here i'lldo for . >> with the emd, build a search shaft just upstream of the tesla facility and the idea is should there be a search event at the u ve facility that would move upstream into our pipelines so we don't do a lot of transient. we do a lot of hydraulic modeling but this would be more of a transient analysis which is why we would need a special facility. >> commissioner ajami: is that something that would happen more often or is this a one time issue that we have to do transient analysis? i was wondering how often these things would need something like this. i wonder if this is something we need to delve into in-house if we're going to experience this more or is this something that's going to happenonce in a blue moo

thank you very much chair ajami and commissioners. i'm pleased to be here today. i apologize my video is not showing, my wi-fi is not stable enough for it. i'm pleased to speak to you today about the water demand and supply projections with member agencies for the region. next slide please. the first projections supported water assistance program in 2004 and that really was a monumental shift in how the region did demand projections in which they were completely coordinated and ensured kind of parallelism along the lines if you will. with each subsequent round of projections, we have now done four, we have made improvements in each iteration. early on we realized we needed to do a better job of collecting the data that informs demand projections. we heard staff talk about data you have in san francisco. we recognized this in 2004 in fact. we have an aggressive program to collect necessary data to support demand projections. we do our projections at an individual agency level and then those are rolled up into regional projections. we have projection for total water

. >> commissioner ajami? >> on one slide, you have this call-out, this table that you have -- >> next slide. >> next slide, please. okay. perfect. normal percent of maximum storage, and i wonder if that's a right terminology for what you're trying to say there? i wonder if it needs to be, like, more historical or something like that? just to, i don't know -- >> actually, if you'll note, there is a footnote number 5 with that. >> yeah. >> for ease of presentation, i cutoff all the footnotes on these. i'll go back and dig up the actual footnote because it digs up that issue, why we chose the word normal. average, historical, are words that we tossed around. normal just gives you the sense that typically, it would be around this level. we could probably refine this more, but it was probably a carefully selected word. >> okay. >> the bottom line is normally, this time of year, we would be full, and we are not close to full. we did not fill hetch hetchy reservoir this year. we did really well, but we did not fill