class will paying for the green products they're getting and it might be a nice thing to segue to mr. perle. >> thank you very much. good afternoon. once the independent rate study is completed, what staff does this takes the information and compares it to information, industry trends, that kind of thing. this develops a rate proposal for this commission. there is a residential side and the commercial side that i will look at. we work on this project to make sure that the policy priorities were taken into account. what you will see on the next couple of slides provide high- quality services promoting and green sustainable city and expanding our to occasions as well as investing in our community. looking at the policy initiatives and focusing on our sustainability, resources conservation, asset management, the investments, looking at the redevelopment which is pertinent to the retail rate as well as work force development, we wanted to make sure that all of these things were on the table. on the retail side on the reach of residential side, the goalie had was wanted to make sure what we are

class will paying for the green products they're getting and it might be a nice thing to segue to mr. perle. >> thank you very much. good afternoon. once the independent rate study is completed, what staff does this takes the information and compares it to information, industry trends, that kind of thing. this develops a rate proposal for this commission. there is a residential side and the commercial side that i will look at. we work on this project to make sure that the policy priorities were taken into account. what you will see on the next couple of slides provide high- quality services promoting and green sustainable city and expanding our to occasions as well as investing in our community.

we successfully had a program run by mr. perle and his staff. the bidders love our bonds because they not only secret information like we have shared with you before, they see our quarterly budget statements. they also see our website that mr. harrington walked through. those materials show the up to date -- up-to-date water and power generation. investors like to see that level of transparency, including these two bids. but the tax exemptions, you have five bidders. citigroup was the winning bid. whenever selling bonds competitively, the bidder has to buy everything or nothing. it goes to the lower bidder and the best deal for the rate payer. jpmorgan we also visited with earlier this morning. they have been very aggressive in bidding. they bought over $1 billion of our bonds over the next -- over the last 18 months. this was the most savings for the repairs, coming in at 4.5% annual true interest rate. the calendar for the water bond -- i mentioned we have sold $2.70 billion to date. what this means just on wsip, the water system improvement pr

told his adviser around the room, he came to richard perle and richard perle, knowing exactly where to stick in the night said, mrent, it will destroy sdi. the result was president reagan said i can't make the deal. they went away unhappy, but as gorbachev realize at the end of the summit and as he said at the press conference, this was not a failure. this was a success. we have agreed to a limit whole class of nuclear weapons. and it's the beginning of something that will continue. so gorbachev brought common security to the table. president reagan brought sdi, and it was sadly not quite as much as it might have been. however, i will add this, that people are in government on our side have said to me more than once, if you think that president reagan or president gorbachev could have gone back to their capital with a deal like that and gotten anywhere with it at all, you're crazy. so there were vested interests on both sides who certainly would have thought any such agreement. would've happened? it didn't quite happen, but it certainly makes interesting speak. spent ladies and gentlemen, let's get a big round of

pulls his advisers around the room became to richard perle and richard perle knowing exactly where to stick in in the knife said mrent, it will destroy sei. and the result was president reagan said i can't make the deal. they went away unhappy but is gorbachev realized at the end of the summit and as he said at the press conference, this was not a failure. this was a success. we agreed to eliminate a whole class of nuclear weapons, medium range missiles in europe and it is the beginning of something that will continue. arbatov brought, and security to the table. president reagan brought sti and there was sadly not quite as much as there might've been. however i will add this. people who are in government on our side have said to me more than once, if you think president reagan or president gorbachev could have gone back to their capital with a deal like that and gotten anywhere with it at all you are crazy. there were vested interests on both sides which certainly would have thought any such agreement so therefore who knows what they would have accomplished? it didn't quite happen but it certainly makes a. >> ladi