our first item 6a a commission update to steve ritchie. >> good afternoon, commissioners steve ritchie for water. if i can have the slides. >> again. this is going to be a different draught report it is on all the water that started to become available to us. you will see here this is the reservoir storage as of january 17th. hetch hetchy is 291,000 acre feet. out of a capacity of 360,000 upon. with plenty of snow in the sierras. so a very roikly hetch hetchy will fill. also, one thick we kept an eye on is water bank. storage. and i'm pleased say the water bank is full at the moment. that is our draught supply there. having filld that up as well is a great feeling. i pointed out before cal var us reservoir is full and spilling. but this is a role pleasure as well. so the now reservoir finally a full reservoir. >> look around the state, you will so this i pointed out shasta and orville in the northern part of the state they were riding low the last several years and they are a bit higher now. orvil is 104% of average and shasta 87% of average. so that is a greatly improved situation for

first item is drought condition update from steve ritchie. >> good upon afternoon, commissioners general manager for water. it does have a titled drought conditions update. we could change that for today to may be something else. because things have changed a lot in the last few weeks. we are seeing you know very heavy precipitation today the new year's eve storm was a large event. that we responsiblesed so if we go to the slides. these were slides produced on january third. and i will basically try to update them. as information has developed since through the february ninth report and to this morning's activities already. why for the storage, you see our reservoir storage on the tuolumne it it is 465 acre feet and expected to increase over time. so we are increasing our storage there. we are releasing from cherry to make sure there is recommend for the water from snow mountain and that water that is going in the water bank. system is working with the high flows. >> on the local system, you will note cal varace shows 80,000 acre feet. we thought that was a good number because we complet

steve ritchie general manager for water this . is a consider minor amendment to our mou with national ps service the core of establishing our rep with them. we pay them 8 opinion 3 million dollars a year over the 4-5 year life of this forwork done in the park and they do with us. it is basically amending the mou to clear up press and make sure it is clear between the amendment does in the change the upon funding nor the expiration date inlet 24 for this m oushgs u. happy to answer questions. >> thank you. any comments? >> public comment. >> members of public had wish to make remote comment on item 11 press story 3. there is one caller >> your line is open you have dwo minute 2 minutes. what i want to bring to your attention is the historical fact. about the buff low soldiers who lost the standard operating procedures of the federal land. which was continuous by initial park service. and i see that the puc should also in a way, embrace this historical history of the buffalo soldiers who [inaudible] the management of the yosemite pa