ajami, aye. stacy, aye. four ayes. >> item 4, general public comment. donna, can you open- >> item 4 is general public comment. members of the public may address matters within the commission jurisdiction but not on today's agenda. i have speaker cards. first mr. ducosta. mr. rosecrans. dave warner, denise louie and if you not turned in a card you can stand on the side. >> commissioners, today i want to talk about our pipes, drinking pipes, sewer pipes, pipes leading to hiderants. so, we need a hearing on how you are going to address fixing the pipes on the west side that has now been transferred or was transferred because of insufficient money to the sfpuc. it is important that those hydrants have the pressure if there is a fire. otherwise we'll have the same type of situation we had in hawaii. the citizens of san francisco, we had agreed a long time ago when karen cubic was there that at least twice a year we would get some sort of a report on the clean drinking water pipes and the sewer pipes that had to

soldier to... due to the existing religious oriented prejudices and the stigma against them, the movie ajami can also be considered as one of the most important movies made by the israeli regime with the joint filmming of palestinians and israelis. in these movies, there's almost no trace of the presence of the israeli military hegemony, and the reference to the filmmakers is the israeli regime that is portrayed as having a good behavior with the arabs. these movies not only ask the palestinians to forget their bitter historical events such as the naakba day and their occupied homeland, but also expect the palestinians even ignore the hardships of their daily lives. the compromise. cinema asks palestinians to turn a blind eye to the constant bitterness such as the endless search to find a job, waiting at checkpoints and martial law regulations and in general. ignore all the hardships of life under occupation, a time when arafat, the hero of the not distant past in palestine, and the israeli cinema were both talking about peace. elias suleiman was the first palestinian filmmaker who mocked th

also so i guess that place marker has been put there by commissioner ajami. and i'm, you know, reiterating that that we hopefully that will be incorporated in some type of a report in the future. so let's, let's move on. next question or general manager you would like to you your your comment is noted. commissioner jamie. and we will make sure that we look at it and i will be in touch with you to see how we can at least there is a rate study. but that doesn't mean that we can't have conversations about it. and we will have that conversation during this next year. thank you. i appreciate that. next question. um okay. so now going to um, power for uh. obviously pg and e transmission cost is a big part of our rates. right. and um, and in big uncertainty because they can do whatever they want. right they can raise that rate and, and put us in a situation that no matter how we shrink our, the cost of power, they can overpower the amount like the total rate. right? so so, um, so that is, that's a big concern. um, and you know, especially in these recent months that

and finally, i will just, um, echo commissioner ajami's concern about, uh, the incredible effects that the climate change and the and the climate crisis will have on our wastewater system and that it just feels very much like we're going to be pushed more and more with with weather events and temperature changes and different issues in the bay, and that we're going to see a constant, um, elevated need for, uh, finances as creative thinking, creative solutions and i, i it's a concern for the future and for our future budget and i, i know that you and your staff and the whole department really is focusing on those issues, but it's a it's an ongoing worry. yeah. i noted i concur with that. commissioner stacy, if i might add, commissioner john boat, um, your comments about, um, climate change and our need to look at it through that lens is something that we are acutely aware of and if you go back and look at the broad overview that setting the whole lens of how we approach this budget, okay. if when we talk about a utility of the future and investing where it matters, we the top two things

commissioner ajami. thank you, mr. richard. this was great. um obviously, you know, the water enterprise is very close and dear to me, so i'm very eager to , um, always eager to learn more about what's going on under the, um, under your, um, leadership. i have a few questions. one, on slide 1212 that you were going to highlight of water. uh, water enterprise operating requests, um, on the lead in school monitoring requirements. i wonder, obviously, you're putting that effort in. i wonder, like, in five years, there might be other things that we have to be monitoring for. um, i would not be surprised. so i'm wondering if there is a way we can think about this a little bit more systematically. so if the new regulations comes down, what is it that we can do? um, to make sure, um, whatever network we create here can enable us to do other things, um, or monitor for other, um, uh, you know, chemicals that might be regulated in the future. um, so beyond what we're doing right now. so i would like to hear what your thoughts are on that. and then on th