public utilities commission we the puc and contractor and consultant and/or other audit partners and ms. ellis. >> i'm julia i was the resolution before you authorizes. >> a new recognize program to recognize the outstanding work by the public utilities commission and consultant and other outside partners we had the warned at the puc a recognition excellence innovations and officers milestone awards for years of service currently, the milestones are still awarded the collections program has been on hold tennis 2013-2014 the staff extended the program in order to make the changes you knew program we're proposing the item before you is still to be named a recognition program is it differs from the prior program in a few ways to begin with we know the work is complicate and no environment is the environment we're working in we need other entities it recognizes not only internal staff but other key helpers with the public agencies and other private companies and nonprofits a new program is our efforts to promote and insure the sfpuc is around services and stewardship and lastly our winners with co

but when you start having these huge numbers of cases of microcephally like ms. ellishad 50 cases last year and over 4,000 cases this year, it's something to be concerned about we 234know that our warm clit ms on the gulf coast and eastern seaboard are prime breeding ground for mosquitos, particularly this mesquiosquito we've had in the united states for a long time. we have to have huge surveillance to make sure that we are going to be protected and the really not much you can do except control mosquitos and that's something that's very difficult to do, especially down here in new orleans. >> new orleans, 4 million who is estimating potentially in this year and as we've seen with other viruses, other concerns, scars is one that's been talked about in the last couple of decades. do you feel comfortable about what we can do in the united states to prevent skzika virus from entering the continental u.s.? there's not a huge concern of it at the moment? >> yeah, i mean, we can't control people coming in and out of our borders. we've seen that many, many times in the last f