commissioner ajami? >> vice president ajami: thank you so much for your presentation. i appreciate it how you tried on slice and dice the consumption data in so many different ways. i appreciated seeing especially how people have switched from category to category because that's ta demonstrates how some of the changes are having some permanent impacts, some temporary changes. i'm assuming looking at long-term change you can see that has been definitely downward and much of it has been staying. i was not definitely surprised by the maker water users. it's valuable to see they have reduced their water use from what it used to be to what it is now. definitely, regardless of the population, i do understand these are larger losses, density areas. i wanted to acknowledge that. i appreciated this presentation. it was great. >> thank you very much. >> president moran: any other comments? as always nicole, thank you. great presentation. there's been a couple of conversations about how we deal with some of the -- how you react to a drought. that's a different thought process tha

>> i'd like to nominate commissioner nisha ajami. i think she will make a great vice president. >> thank you. and commissioner ajami, do you accept that nomination? >> yes, thank you so much. i just want to state that, chair maxwell, you have a great sense of collaboration and openness and created a -- sort of, like, a platform for dialogue, which i very much appreciate in this setting, so -- and i appreciate the nomination. >> commissioner harrington? >> just have a question of process. do we have one nomination at a time and then vote on that? is that how the process works? >> yeah. the process, as it was distributed to the commission all year, says it was only the only one in the pond. so if that particular -- if that nomination fails, then we would reopen nominations and keep doing that until we reached a conclusion. >> thank you. >> and with that, madam clerk, if you would call the roll. [roll call] >> there hasn't been a second. >> oh, i'm sorry. we need a second. there's been a motion. do we have a motion and a second? >> i mo

. >> commissioner ajami. >> i have a question for you maybe more basic than that. is the solar farm that you are -- the blithe farm, is that ours or are we sharing it with other utilities? >> good question. our contract is specific to a dedicated project that was developed -- now, we don't own this project it's a long-term contract at the end of the contract, it's the developers' asset. we're purchasing the power from the project under a long-term agreement that is stand alone supplying the city. >> the power purchase agreement is the cost of battery will be added to our power purchase agreement. not as a lump sum. you are not going to own the batteries, right. >> that's correct, we're providing a lump-sum payment. i think commissioner harrington described the implications of the agreement perfectly. this is the equivalent to a 4 million-dollar per year commitment out of our power purchase budget to our power supply needs and requirements. with payments made monthly to the owner of the facility for the products it's delivering to the program. >> one last question t