so, tom birmingham, the project manager for the new wastewater plant. i'll talk about the development going on out there, and the proposed new treatment plant. a bit of good news, so the development is a massive 10 to 15, maybe 20-year development. they are rebuilding essentially the entire island, aside from the job corps. all the utilities above and below ground are going to be replaced. that means every water pipe, wastewater pipe, power line will be replaced on the island with new infrastructure that will eventually be accepted by the p.u.c. however, it is a long, very complicated project, you know. while this is all going on, you know, we have 1800 homes on the northern part of the island we have to maintain service to through tida. >> the development is for up to 8,000 new homes, which is 18 to 20,000 people, so it is a big development. includes 300 acres of open space. a new, three new hotels going on the island and y.b.i., rooms, up to 500 rooms going on the island. work started last year on y.b.i., building the new residential units and treasur

and we are going to go through a brief presentation and myself, tom birmingham, the project manager for infrastructure, and some other folks that are involved in the process to answer any questions that you might have. so, we are going to cover what wastewater enterprises current responsibilities are out there, talk a little about the new development. go through the details of what that new facility is going to look like, and then focus primarily on the thinking that has gone into the recommendation for the delivery method itself. so the current situation out at treasure island, i don't know how much you've had exposure to the topic, i think you probably have a fair amount, the entirety of treasure island is getting ready to move into a 10 to 15-year massive redevelopment. transforming it from its sort of past probably three-quarters of a century of use as a combination of military base and other facilities. right now sfpuc and the wastewater enterprise provides service out there under a contract to tida and the reason for that, the facilities out there today were built over many years

tom simon's reports. we are in hmp birmingham... overcrowded and underfunded and increasingly unsafe.ect committee say something must be done about our prisons. there has been a string of riots behind bars. the pressure is so great, building more prisons is no longer a sustainable solution according to today's report. the number of inmates has fallen slightly in recent years but only after growing steadily for 25 years, from 44,000 in 1993 to 82,000 in 2018. because more criminals are being jailed for longer. in the last five years, budgets have been cut by 15% and the ministry ofjustice estimates that closing the funding gap would mean cutting the prison population by 20,000. it is a fifth. we are failing on all of those measures and that's basically because we don't have a strategy for managing the size of our prison population and we've got more people in the institutions than we can realistically and constructively deal with. the report says prison sentences of less than 12 months should be replaced with community service. the government is looking at scrapping six—month prison se

tom symonds. we are in hmp birmingham... overcrowded and underfunded and increasingly unsafe.e select committee say something must be done about our prisons. there has been a string of riots behind bars. the pressure is so riots behind bars. the pressure is so great, building more prisons is no longer a sustainable solution according to today's report. the number of inmates has fallen slightly in recent years but only after growing steadily for 25 years, 44,019 93 to 82,000 in 2018. because more criminals are being jailed for longer. in the last five years, budgets have been cut by 15% in the ministry ofjustice estimates that closing the funding gap would mean cutting the prison population by 20,000. it is a fifth. mps say the system is failing staff, prisoners and the public, would stubbornly high reoffending rates. they are failing on all of those measures and that's basically because we don't have a strategy for managing the size of our prison population and we've got more people in the institutions than we can realistically and constructively deal with. the report says is

tom: what does it do to manchester? one of the basic voices, what does the tomfoolery in london mean for the people of manchester, birmingham been on -- bang on. big-time bang on. get us out of this damn thing. even though they now know that it will be a lot of cost. it isn't the most important thing facing our economic future. i talked to you guys about this before. poor skills, huge and no wage growth. people for a very long time, facing enormous inequality. people.what matters to what about a general election? will they get one? >> i don't think british people want a general election. they want some kind of representation in westminster to do something that relates to their normal lives. this is just some weird world that doesn't relate to us still. the reason why theresa may hadn't talked is that she was trying to keep the conservative party together. is that fair? >> i think it is fair. theite what happened at last election, a lot of it has been driven about how to build a conservative party. it still goes on. one of the consequences might be that the conservative party splits. tom: making a sterling call at one point.

tom symonds. a riot in hmp birmingham... 0vercrowded, underfunded and increasingly unsafe.ee say something must be done about our prisons. there has been a string of riots behind bars. the pressure is so great, building more prisons is no longer a sustainable solution, according to today's report. the number of inmates has fallen slightly in recent years but only after growing steadily for 25 years, from 114,000 in 1993 to 82,000 in 2018. because more criminals are being jailed for longer. in the last five years, budgets have been cut by 15% and the ministry ofjustice estimates that closing the funding gap would mean cutting the prison population by 20,000. that's a fifth. mps say the system is failing staff, prisoners and the public, with stubbornly high reoffending rates. we are failing on all of those measures and that's basically because we don't have a strategy for managing the size of our prison population and we've got more people in the institutions than we can realistically and constructively deal with. the report says prison sentences of less than 12 months should