steve richy is on vacation. i am just going to report out on a meeting that steve had at the last commission meeting. he referenced a letter that was sent by the n.g.o.s on september 24th. steve richy committed to meeting with the n.g.o.s to talk about their three concerns that were enumerated in the letter. peter brought to your attention the third concern. i think michael responded to it. the other two i'll just report out on how the meeting went in regards to those. the first one was to arrange for an objective peer review of the sfpuc models used for the alternative that's been presented to the state board's proposal on fishery improvement. those models were developed by the district and i believe mr. richy addressed the commission and informed them that the districts per development those model under the requirement of firk and the relicensing of don pedro. we have asked about peer review and they'll get back to us. the second item was to work with the n.g.o. community to explore and develop alternative supp

steve richie, assistant water manager. i'm going to provide a presentation where wear now and where we will be going forward regarding this. there's obviously been a lot of recent activity going on. october 30, the board of supervisors approved a resolution regarding the bay delta water area control plan that was the subject of much discussion. on november 2, the mayor vetoed that resolution, which was a few days after that. and then, on november 6, governor brown and lieutenant governor new some sent a letter deferring action on the water quality control plan to december 12 with the purpose of hopefully providing additional guidance with the possible settlements. so in a short period of time, there was lots of discussion, but the ultimate action was the state water board elected to defer action and continue the item until december 12 in anticipation of further developments regarding negotiated settlements, and so those settlement discussions are going on now in different arenas. those are covered by nondisclosure agreemen