so general manager dennis herrera, thank you for giving us that green light when you were a city attorney all those years ago. >> thank you. my pleasure. and city attorney's office as president stacey knows did stellar legal work with a lot of incredibly talented people. so you know, i was just one of a bunch who do great work and they continue to do great work. >> thank you. thanks. thank you both. >> call the next item please. item six bay area water supply and conservation agency report . >> good afternoon president stacey and commissioners. i wanted to use my time today to compliment your staff. >> last thursday we held the annual wholesale customer meeting at the middlebury campus for the regional water system. we had about 30 representatives from both agencies there and while this is a required meeting under the water supply agreement i thought it was an excellent example of transparent, easy collaboration and good customer service for the wholesale customers who as you know provide about two thirds of the water revenues 12 of the species staff members spoke about their areas of exp

highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herreraion of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in t