mr. wade. >> good afternoon, commissioners. dan wade, director of water capital programs. pleased to report today on the first quarter of the new fiscal year, 2019/2020 on the hetch hetchy capital improvement program. can i have the slides, please? the highlights of the reporting period are listed here. just briefly, they are now completed and the mountain tunnel improvement program mitigated negative -- received minor comment, just two comment letters on that, and i'll speak to that in a moment. the rehabilitation project actually is complete with the construction that we plan to implement at this time. we actually decided in best interests of the city to delete the installation of the breakers from the scope. and i'll speak to that in a moment as well. the aqueduct rehabilitation did achieve substantial completion. the early intake switchyard slope hazard mitigation was awarded to sierra mountain construction. i mentioned the mitigated declaration, ceqa acquisitioned public comment. we received those comments and the project was adopted by this commission on november 12.

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