mr. carlin.> clerk: sorry about that. mr. carlin. >> good afternoon, madame president, commissioners. this is an update on the bay delta and the negotiations of the voluntary for the tuolumne river. we have been in contact and sitting down with the state team. the state team costs of the deputy secretary for california environmental protection agency, the deputy secretary for the natural resources agency, the division manager for the water rights at the state water board. the director of california department fish and wildlife and the director of the department of water resources. we have been engaged in conversations with them around the volunteer agreement seeing if we can reach some milestone where we can actually submit it to the state board for their consideration. we are discussing our flow schedule proposed under the re-licensing and flow measures. we've had two meetings at this time and making another one next week. we're making some progress but also running a little bit of an issue on h