so it was just a great event and i think commissioner vince courtney was there and also commissioner francesca vietor was there, along with supervisor john avalos and it was a great event. police chief was there. the sheriff was there, as well. it was a great event. so that is something that we at the puc really plan to participate in a lot of youth activities this summer. the second item i would like to bring up is our sewer system improvement program. as you mentioned, that we were talking about the digesters and sort of what was the timeline of the digesters? so i wanted to bring up karen, do you want to do the intro? what is really great about this timeline is that we actually have documentation attached to each one of the events. the other thing that i want to point out, that this is a draft. we're going to work with the community, who may have some other history that we will do some research, but all the timelines we have actual hard documents with it. and we plan to put it on our web as you guys requested, the commission requested. so with that lehman. >> president torres and

yee and members of the committee, my name is vince courtney, with the alliance for sustainable growth and i have known larry for 40 years now. he is an outstanding individual. as for the relevance for this particular re-appointment, is he one of the strongest advocates for collective bargaining and works hard to work out compromises to make it happen. he has been an outstanding commissioner and i urge you to support his re-appointment. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners, joshua with brightline, speaking in strong support of the re-appointment of larry del carlo. i got to know larry, director del carlo through work in a collaborative called the emerald city collaborative with folks to help green our city. he had a project that, like you said, he wanted to have local hire and do some energy-efficiency work and he wanted to be all union and he wanted to do it all together through a project labor agreement and he said i want it to be real local hire and i want some of the folks working in san francisco to be at the table. and some folks said, well that is -- i don't