san jose's mayor ricardo was also a bawsca board member and other bay area public officials and water leaders. also mr. steve ritchie. so it's a pretty impressive meeting we had an opportunity to share with them our thoughts about how things were going with it out. i message that they to him was consistent in line with what i've told this commission back in may on a long piece points. this region, the region that your service area is, as you saw with steve, has some of the lowest per capita in the state. very proud of that, but also means we know we have more to do. in fact, if you look at april 2015 numbers, residential use was 59 gallons per capita per day across 2.3 million residential customers. that's a phenomenal number when you think about it. it was the lowest that month. our agencies and bawsca are aggressively implementing water conservation insert service area to exceed the state calls. all were not us water supplier, racking like we are in hand-in-hand with her agencies on this. we have partnered with them to implement and expand programs in their service areas, step up an

>>[gavel] >> thank you chairman yee bawsca offer the floor to committee members to make comments and there'll be making a motion. motion to continue the item. >> again, thank you supervisor yee for allowing us to hold this hearing. today. it was definitely very informative. clearly, a lot of very passionate people who have been actively engaged in trying to support moving toward more alternatives. i truly appreciate working with supervisor kim on this issue. it's a really important issue to me in making sure that our smart about how we address this issue in the future. i just still have not been given anything to indicate there are just really a need to just focus on the plan that the city is bringing before us. the plan to just build a jail. as far as i'm concerned it's not sufficient. i think that i know there's been time invested. i know there's been money invested, but just because the been time and money invested, doesn't mean we have to move forward. ultimately, we have to make sure that we are thinking about the future, with thing about the actual population that we want to se

it cannot be that low except the good efforts of bawsca. kudos. the last thing i got to mention is the chart, kind of nerdy chart, that shows the table with the storage levels of the various reservoirs. that's picture-perfect. that's easy. it's not easy and it's not an accident. >> not at all. >> living water between reservoirs of having it it exactly where you want it is hard work. i just wanted to recognize that access my appreciation to staff for doing that. we spent a lot of time modeling the system and try to figure out how to make it work. that's paying off. that takes not only good planning, good execution, but also helping hand from major that to make sure you have products but worse. we should take some pride in that. >> absolutely. [inaudible] chris nelson locally. they've done a great job doing exactly what he said. >> i saw my dad the other day and back in the, what was it 87--93 drought she was doing a lot of modeling is what we should have done. she was observing that it's really nice to be able to see it work. just the way we said i

>>[gavel] >> thank you chairman yee bawsca offer the floor to committee members to make comments andthere'll be making a motion. motion to continue the item. >> again, thank you supervisor yee for allowing us to hold this hearing. today. it was definitely very informative. clearly, a lot of very passionate people who have been actively engaged in trying to support moving toward more alternatives. i truly appreciate working with supervisor kim on this issue. it's a really important issue to me in making sure that our smart about how we address this issue in the future. i just still have not been given anything to indicate there are just really a need to just focus on the plan that the city is bringing before us. the plan to just build a jail. as far as i'm concerned it's not sufficient. i think that i money invested, but just because the been time and money invested, doesn't mean we have to move forward. ultimately, we have to make sure that we are thinking about the future, with thing about the actual population that we want to serve and how we can better serve them so that we can re