and our storage levels, again, hetch hetch y is at 97 percent and the water bank is down at 34 and a half percent and again the systems need to be continued to be managed. precipitation, i have to say that i was there last week and there is a little bump in the water line and we got two tenth of an inch while i was up there and made the ground wet and puddled a little bill and no run off from it and there was anticipation from the additional precipitation this week and still, back, again and gone is the drop these five presentations because, they are not going to change very much. and this is a slightly modified version of a slide that i showed the last meeting about what the water bank is at 200,000 acre feet which is comparable to the levels in the last drought 87 to 92 and so we are in a dry period, this is the driest three year period that we have seen in our history. the reservoir is close to full and we are starting up to storage level of 150,000 acre feet of january first. and the delivery slide, again, shows that the deliveries have it has flat lined for the last six weeks an

so for the hetch hetchy regional water system, we have a couple of drought relief projects that we're working on, primarily revolving around use of water for cherry re or. ~ [speaker not understood] cherry lake not normally used for drinking water supply. they're only there as a stand by supply. we can take water from cherry through a conveyance called the lower cherry aqueduct and bring it into our supply system. that water then has to be filtered at the sunol valley treatment plant unlike hetch hetchy which does not have to be filtered. lower cherry was built in 1914. here is a photo portion of that. it is largely an open channel and what damaged in the rim fire. so, we're engaged in a project to actually rehabilitate the lower cherry acwe edit so we can bring water of a good quality down to the system and deliver it to the bay area ~. that back up supply could become valuable a the drought continues on into the future. so, we have one contract with flat iron, west for the rehabilitation project on the lower cherry aqueduct. once we get the water to the bay area we have to do some m

just because we have hetch, hetchy water does not mean that we can waste it, we are wasting it. but we can put into gear some checklists, so that the people who work with the infrastructure are very cautious and pay respect to it. >> thank you very much. >> and so we will go ahead as discussed we will suspend public comment on item 8 until we return to it and madam secretary, next item please? >> communication? s >> five communications. >> commissioners? >> is there any public comment on communications? seeing none, public comment is close $. next item. >> item 6, other commission business? >> commissioners? >> seeing no other business commission, i will go ahead and call for public comment, if there is none i will close it. madam secretary, next item. >> 7, a staff presentation and discussion on sewer system improvement program, communications 2013 annual report. >> hello. ellis assistant general manager for the external affairs and we are really excited to have the opportunity today to discuss the puc's efforts around the out reach and engagement tied to the sewer system impro

item 2 a motion to amend the annual salary upgrading the stipend assigned to hetch hetchy to pay for the costs for the employees who their limited to plastic bag one. the motion and a second can we take that without objection? so moved. okay i'd like to ask the mayors budget director to all the budget >> good evening supervisors through the chair kate howard we'll be submitting a series of is it correct adjustments to the budget first appropriating the issues identified by the budget analyst and second making technical adjustments to balance work odors and make technical changes to salary and fringe benefits that saves the city additional money and third releasing the mayors resource for growing the budget to increase the size of children's fund set aside and fifth appropriating an additional $3.7.06 expending some of those funds on mandated cap colonel la increase and finally adjusting transfers between the two years for balancing reasons. this provides an additional $19 million plus in the first year and $13.06 million in the second year >> thank you, ms. howard so colleagues, can

first starting off with castlewood, this is the private golf course and they are under the hetch hetchy water district. so it's a mandatory 10% cutbecome. look at the lawns, look -- cutback, look at the lawns and fairway. members are conserving water. now, a mile and a half away, a stone's throw is callippe preserve golf course about 9 years old and this course is under zone 7 water district, so therefore, 25% water cutbacks. so you can see that there's a lot of browning on the golf course but brown is the new green. the members aren't complaining. the community's applauding callippe's water conservation. now we see the difference in the drought where we work and play. reporting for mobile weather, roberta gonzales, kpix 5. >>> fighting bulls gored an american and spaniard in the third running of the bulls at the week long spain san fermin festival today. three other spaniards also fell during the run. the festival of san fermin is an annual celebration most famous for the running of the bulls and san fermin is trending right now. also trending, tour de france. defender chris frome gave

and 2:00 we're going to get some rainfall potentially a half of an inch just from today right over hetchetchy reservoir. we keep that chance going every day this week with high pressure firmly in place. for us it's going to be sticky. this is the hottest day o the week. you see how they got that centered up for you. o.co coliseum. big game there tonight. temperatures mostly in the 80s. 80 degrees on thursday. not too bad but cooler through the end of the week. let's go giants and a's tonight. back to you. >> way to cover your bases there. >>> the a's pitcher selected for the all star game who will not be allowed to play, we'll tell you why coming up next. >>> a live look at o.co coliseum this morning where crews will get ready for another round of the battle of the bay. the four-game series starts tonight in oakland. and you can see it right here on nbc bay area. first pitch 7:05. but our coverage starts at 7:00 on the dot. tune in early for nbc bay area news at 6:00. >>> they both have players making it onto the all star rosters. madison bumgarner and hunter pence. this will be bumgarne

critics say water conservation is less dire there where customers rely on the hetch hetchy reservoir, versus sacramento, where there's a severe water shortage and they already cut their water use 10%, beating the governor's statewide average. the time decision rests -- the final decision rests with this board and if approved they start august 1. fines would last 270 days. then at that point, the board has an option to renew them an additional 270 days until, frank, this drought comes to an end. >> mark, these water restrictions would be for all of us? >> reporter: yes, business and residential. but how things go there are of course exceptions. in san francisco you won't be fined for power washing your streets and removing human waste off the sidewalk. that's good news. in the newsroom, mark kelly, kpix 5. >> indeed. okay, mark, thanks. people living under a berkeley overpass will be able to stay a little longer now. the city postponed today's plan to clear out the encampment under the gilman street overpass at interstate 80. the city manager's office says it will give folks there a li

and we will be forever, grateful for his role to make the necessary repairs on our hetch hetchy to secure a reliable water source and i just wanted to just maybe, bosco would like to get up and say a few words. >> nicole? >> good afternoon. and yes, we are sadden by the passing of ruscin our first board chair and also at that time he was mayor of the city. and also representing the city and area and he was instrumental in securing the support of local legislative and elected officials in your wholesale service area to really focus on the reliability and system in that, in doing so, from a human catastrophe perspective and that was really his true gift for the service area and so he did struggle with an illness for a long time and we are sorry about his passing and i appreciate the comments of general manager kelley. >> commissioner torres? >> i had a very close personal relationship with him over the years. and i admired his integrity and in the legislative process. and but also, his battle against cancer and he hurt and he managed to maintain his statue and his character and his being an

the currently, as you know, excess hydroelectric power, generated at hetch, hetchy gets sold on the wholesale market at one quarter of the price that would be charged to a retail customer. so if we give the agency the ability to have more retail customer and there will be more revenue from the power and that can be reenvested in the agency's infrastructure including street lights. we are continuing the discussion with the staff with the particular of the language in the legislation and we have an open dialogue, and we want to make sure that the legislation is passed in the right form. and i know that the staff has proposed a few amendments, some of which were open to and others were not quite there and i am sure that we will continue to talk and so with that, i am happy to answer any questions. and i appreciate the time. >> commissioners? >> yes, mr. torres? >> i just want to say thank you for your leadership and you are my supervisor, and i am your boss and so i vote for you. >> thank you. >> and you have been doing an incredible job and i think that this effort that you are trying to incorp

manager for this and our agency provides one hundred percent of green house gas gas free from the hetch hetchy bio gas and is also solar. we use that power to provide the power to the airports and muni and to city hall, to our 525 golden gate and facilities like this. we're proud to provide those resources to help those facilities obtain a hundred percent greenhouse gas free power. so one of the things this project that municipal power we partnered with public works the department of public works installed the solar panels we saw them from our building we wanted to make sure they installed them and my office was right there i offer saw the installation of the panels. they did an amazing job my hats off to the puc and the dpwic together as a team. so one of the things the puc wants to do in our water diverse our water supply and power we're looking to install important solar installations like this this is our 16 solar installation we've installed and thitsdz been amazing to see the benefits in investing in solar this wouldn't have happened without a mayor like this who talked about rene

and here is the standard slide on the reservoir storage levels and you can see that hetch, hetchy is 93 percent and the water bank is 35 percent full if you are keeping track of the numbers, that means that it is starting to come down slowly and the water bank is starting to come up as the readings from chili to refill the water banks and so that it can do the job fekt year that it has done for us this year. take a look and the precipitation slides and well the things keep happening on sunday, there was a thunderstorm in the sierra and so the water shed we got, almost a inch in a half of precipitation. and both of those took place in about an hour and a half. and for these were very severe thunderstorm s, in the room fire area near cherry, there was in effective of that and there was work that we had been doing in advance, paid off for us and so the system is working out fairly well. and it is an interesting year all the way around. >> that is the 207. >> we are at the level of the year, 2007. that is that blue line there, and that was, what was, a relatively dry year, but we have ca

that water then has to be filtered at the sunol valley treatment plant unlike hetch hetchy which does not have to be filtered. lower cherry was built in 1914. here is a photo portion of that. it is largely an open channel and what damaged in the rim fire. so, we're engaged in a project to actually rehabilitate the lower cherry acwe edit so we can bring water of a good quality down to the system and deliver it to the bay area ~. that back up supply could become valuable a the drought continues on into the future. so, we have one contract with flat iron, west for the rehabilitation project on the lower cherry aqueduct. once we get the water to the bay area we have to do some minor improvements at the san antonio pump station, chemical piping improvements. these projects were on our books going forward to do in the capital program over the next two to three years. but to make sure we can fully reliably filter the water from the lower cherry aqueduct we need to make improvement in each short order as well ~. we have a contract with monterey mechanical to perform those improvements. togeth

the first ship would be delivered, the second could be made conditional on russia's attitude toward hetchled separatists but it seems the french are pushing back saying we don't appreciate david cameron's tough line on the issue. there are other countries with interests, energy supplies from russia, particularly german. german and france, two crucial players in the talks. it seems unless they can be persuaded, nothing is going to happen in the next few hours. >> that's al jazeera in brussels at those talks. thanks very much indeed for the moment in the ukrainian city of donetsk residents have been surveying damage to their city after more fighting broke out there more on monday. five people died and 12 were wounded during clashes near the railway station. pro-russian rebels said ukrainian forces tried to take back the city t kiev insists they were with small pro-ukrainian groups. >>> al jazeera's peter sharp can bring us the reaction now from kiev, and if i understand it, peter, ukraine's parliament has voted to increase the number of troops who are battling the pro-russian separatists in

castlewood is under the hetch hetchy regional water district so they have a 10% mandatory water cut backs at the private golf course doing a great job of conserving. meanwhile just a stone's throw away, 1.5 miles away is this where i am right now, at callippe preserve golf course only nine years old but they are under 25% mandatory water cut back because even though they are in the same city, they are under zone 7 which means 25% water cut back. in addition to cutting back on water they are using recycled water for the golf course and yes, you can now see the difference. as we enter the summer months, we see brown lawns outside of homes and the brown is the new green at this golf course here in pleasanton. and i got to tell you the golf members say that they are taking it all in stride. they are trying to do their part for the community as well so not only is the drought affecting us where we live but certainly now where we play. reporting from pleasanton, roberta gonzales, kpix 5. >> time now 5:50. cops in the east bay say it will be a lot safer soon. after the break, the major upgrade

castlewood is under the hetch hetchy water district.ow, here at callippe, they are under zone 7, which means bigger cutbacks and now you can definitely see the difference as we are now into the throes of the summer months. very dry conditions. the golf members here are telling me, hey, it's okay, brown is the new green at the golf course here, doing a great job of conserving water here at callippe but also using recycled water making a difference in keeping the fairways up. they haven't lost business as a result and want everybody to come out. the members say they are a true leader in the community. you know what? it's really interesting now as we enter these summer months that we are seeing the difference at home how we live with the drought but also now where we play. reporting for mobile weather in pleasanton, callippe golf course, roberta gonzales, kpix 5. >>> and i'm dennis o'donnell. coming up, you think brazil feels humiliated? that's a word giants fans can related to right about now. and the battle of two great young pitchers in

san francisco's on the hetch hetchy water supply, right? and zone 7, everybody else is really making those efforts are in different water districts. i don't know if that makes a difference and people aren't getting the message in san francisco that you need to do your part. right? cut back. >> and then it's another thing when you talk about southern california versus northern california. they are using a lot more down there. >> don't get me on that subject! [ laughter ] >> that's a documentary. >> it certainly is. >>> we have a little bit of condensation in the form of some drizzle and sprinkles out the door this morning because of that right there, that is an enhanced marine layer that's pushed onshore. it is deeper this morning and causing delays at sfo up to nearly an hour on some arriving flights. san francisco 61 degrees. livermore low 60s. in fact everybody is pretty settled into the low 60s at this hour except santa rosa at 57 degrees. this is the monsoonal moisture. you see the rotation around that low, that drew up that monsoonal m

he became a tireless advocate with the national kidney foundation hetch founded the national kidney foundation's surfing festival which donates its provides to the national kidney failure. e passed away in 2012. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. cummings: i am pleased to join my colleagues in the consideration of h.r. 451 a bill to designate the facility of of the united states postal service located at 500 north brevard avenue in cocoa beach, florida, as the richard salick post office. richard salick was born in wisconsin in 1949 and come peed for national and world -- and competed for national and world surfing teams in the 1960's and 1970's. at the age of 23 he was diagnosed with kidney failure. after undergoing a kidney transplant, he was told his surfing career was over. less than a year after the surgery was over he, developed an innovative paddling technique that allowed him to return to his beloved sport. he was inducted into the cur of -- surfing hall of nasme dedicated his life to helping others suffering from kidney disease. 1976, two years after