years for us to reach given our efforts of zero waste and given the city's commitment to reducing what allly goes to landfill and our progress. this agreement that is now in your hands is actually reducing the term of the contract down to nine years and 3.4 million tons but allowing an extention and that permission would be heard by you at the time we're approaching the end of the contract so the reason we shortened the term of the contract we want to honor the competitive bid process for all of the years and meetings and process that is legally defensible. it ensures rate stability because the department has the authority to sign the contract and ensure that a contract is in place before the existing contract ends at the end of the calendar year and honors public review and allows public review because the contract is shortened and allows the board to revisit it at the time of renewal and rather than wait 15 years the board can look at it in nine years. the other change to the contract was seeking about the whole ceqa issue and the environmental issue and the discussion that came up from pe

turkey hopes the safe zone will events allly encourage some syrian refugees to return home. nearly two million syrians have fled to turkey since the country's several war began over four years ago. but air strikes near aleppo would bring u.s. operations closer than ever to the syrian regime's air defensive. turkey is a key u.s. ally but only agreed to allow the u.s.-led coalition to use its interlink airbase last week. after a spate of violent attacks including a suicide bomb that killed over 30 people. turkish officials linked it to isis. people here are bracing for more terrorist attacks now that the turkish government has launched air strikes against isis. and scott a pentagon official said today that this new plan could mean more u.s. military personnel based here in turkey. >> pelley: holly williams in istanbul for us tonight thanks. president obama has called america a big messy democracy. well, today in africa he visited the alternative what would appear to be the most orderly democracy on earth. last may ethiopia's ruling party won re-election with 100% of the vote.

years for us to reach given our efforts of zero waste and given the city's commitment to reducing what allly goes to landfill and our progress. this agreement that is now in your hands is actually reducing the term of the contract down to nine years and 3.4 million tons but allowing an extention and that permission would be heard by you at the time we're approaching the end of the contract so the reason we shortened the term of the contract we want to honor the competitive bid process for all of the years and meetings and process that is legally defensible. it ensures rate stability because the department has the authority to sign the contract and ensure that a contract is in place before the existing contract ends at the end of the calendar year and honors public review and allows public review because the contract is shortened and allows the board to revisit it at the time of renewal and rather than wait 15 years the board can look at it in nine years. the other change to the contract was seeking about the whole ceqa issue and the environmental issue and the discussion that came up from pe

years for us to reach given our efforts of zero waste and given the city's commitment to reducing what allly goes to landfill and our progress. this agreement that is now in your hands is actually reducing the term of the contract down to nine years and 3.4 million tons but allowing an extention and that permission would be heard by you at the time we're approaching the end of the contract so the reason we shortened the term of the contract we want to honor the competitive bid process for all of the years and meetings and process that is legally defensible. it ensures rate stability because the department has the authority to sign the contract and ensure that a contract is in place before the existing contract ends at the end of the calendar year and honors public review and allows public review because the contract is shortened and allows the board to revisit it at the time of renewal and rather than wait 15 years the board can look at it in nine years. the other change to the contract was seeking about the whole ceqa issue and the environmental issue and the discussion that came up from pe

years for us to reach given our efforts of zero waste and given the city's commitment to reducing what allly goes to landfill and our progress. this agreement that is now in your hands is actually reducing the term of the contract down to nine years and 3.4 million tons but allowing an extention and that permission would be heard by you at the time we're approaching the end of the contract so the reason we shortened the term of the contract we want to honor the competitive bid process for all of the years and meetings and process that is legally defensible. it ensures rate stability because the department has the authority to sign the contract and ensure that a contract is in place before the existing contract ends at the end of the calendar year and honors public review and allows public review because the contract is shortened and allows the board to revisit it at the time of renewal and rather than wait 15 years the board can look at it in nine years. the other change to the contract was seeking about the whole ceqa issue and the environmental issue and the discussion that came up from pe