mr. ritchie. >> mr. president that concludes my report. >> thank you. >> are there any public comments on the general managers report? seeing none public comment is now closed. the next item on the agenda was there will be no report under the next item on the agenda but it was too late to have it removed that's item number 8 we'll move on -- madam secretary we'll move on please. >> there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or public request. >> move to approve. >> second. >> it's been moved to approve the list of items under the consent calendar. >> is there any public comment on any items on the consent calendar? >> seeing none. >> the ayes have it the motion carries. >> item 10 approve an increase in the construction contract cost contingent for contract hh 954 r 2 in the amount of 605 thousand and up to 77 consecutive calendar days and authorize future modifications to the contract. . >> commissioners mr. ritchie. >> to increase the contract amount due to de

ized also to hear from ritchie from puc and course -- curious to see how the two work on initiatives and with respect to the puc. unless other commissioners have any questions? >> mr. rich i? >> thank you commissioners. steve ritchie. i will be brief in my comments. we work very close on the department of environment. we have pest control specialist that work in our water shed lands in alameda county as well as san francisco as far as the distribution facilities. we do a lot of work to control pest as much as possible. we do it with non-pesticide usage. for example we employee a lot of goats to cover weeds and when we get into restoration activities, habitat restoration oftentimes you do have to turn to weed control mechanisms that are focused on individual plants because you don't want to disturb the soil around your restoration area for environmental purposes. we do a lot of the things to try to minimize our use over all and frankly i will just put this out there, everybody in my staff is great. thank you chris for all your work on this. and i would be happy to answer any questions. >> colleagues, thoughts, questions, puc commissioners? commissioner steven son?