and then the second half of the presentation, it's going to be provided by simone hudson and john scarpula and really it's addressing all of the work we've been doing over the last 18 months with respect to affordability and the impacts of our rates and charges on low-income customers. and i understand four years ago when you were considering rates and charges, the commission emphasized that it really wanted to understand a little bit more than this over all percentage of medicinmedian household affordabilities. when we went through the budget process two years ago, i remember commissioner vietor, you encouraged us to do a lot of work. i know this is a long presentation but the work that the staff has done to address this question, i think is tremendous. and a lot of resources were dedicated to get a better picture of the situation. so, i'm going to start with rates and charges. so just providing a little bit of background with respect to this study, the city charter requires that every five years we engage a third-party expert to conduct a cost of service study. and what is important is t

hunters point and we gotta approval for that item at the commission and with the leadership of john scarpula and juliet ellis we were at the board for the finance committee. we got through that and next week we'll get that if the through. so we're chugging along and with construction starting shortly on schedule. head works is in construction currently and it's a couple different phases of construction shown here by scope and this is what the future and right now we're doing sight work and this is sitting inside and rerouting everything that the patient will function during construction. it's delicate work. here is where we look from a pie if we're looking down at our quarterly lense that ended december of 2017 and you can see we're getting everything from phase 1 out the door. so that is pretty exciting. construction projects going on. southeast clarifier project. this is going to finish up this summer. that was mechanisms in the center and electrical work that was done. the disinfection improvements buildings 521 and 522 new electrical building and improvements to color enation. that will