mr. housh? secretary housh: next item, to continue working on a community aggregation program and to negotiate contract with the parameters set forth in the term sheet parameters for contract negotiations, the documents included with the item. the attached resolution authorizes the general manager to continue negotiations for the power supply with terms and described in the attached, and submit the attached term sheet to the board of supervisors for their consideration. general manager harrington: good afternoon, commissioners. ed harrington. since we are towards this, we thought we should come back so that we would not be bringing a contract to you. what we wanted to do for your sake but also for the public to have not had a chance to look at this is to do a brief recap of how we got here, and then we would have mike campbell do a discussion about where we are with these negotiations, what the goals are, where we now are, and then have another come and talk about the parts of it. the first part

mr. secretary, could you call the roll? secretary housh: [reading roll] i would like to note that commissioner caen is on the way. president vietor: next item. secretary housh: the approval of the minutes of july 12, 2011. >> president vietor: approved? next item. general manager harrington: -- secretary housh: public comment for members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and that are not on today's agenda. we have no cards. president vietor: anyone? next item. secretary housh: identifies, -- i no. 5. -- item 5. general manager harrington: -- president vietor: can hold this until commissioner -- can we hold this until commissioner caen arrives? which item? yes. vice president moran? vice president moran: usually, it is a very detailed conversation about how we seek to balance these overtime. we really need to look get that and see what the implication is for rates for both water and on the power side, so i just suggest that we put this so that we can deal with the big issues be