SENATE BUDGET SUB COMMITTEE
WERE TO RESOURCES RENTAL
PROTECTION ENERGY WILL COME TO
ORDER GOOD MORNING THE SENATE
CONTINUES WALKING THE PUBLIC IN
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SERVICE FOR INDIVIDUALS WISHING
FOR PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY'S
NUMBER IS EIGHT SEVEN SEVEN
TWO TWO SIX EIGHT ONE SIX THREE
AND THE ACCESS CODE IS SIX
NINE FOUR EIGHT NINE THREE ZERO
SO BEFORE WE BEGIN DISCUSSION
MAYOR VISIONS TO MAKE A FEW
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS AND
-- LOOKING FORWARD TO THE
DISCUSSION TODAY -- OF THE MAY
REVISION AND OUR -- GRAYSON
ENSURE COMMITMENT WITH THE
GOVERNOR AND THE MINISTRATION
BUT YOU ARE A COMMON GOALS --
TO OPEN WITH THAT AGAIN THIS
IS A BIT OF A SENSE OF URGENCY
THAT -- -- PETER A FEW TIMES
HERE IS THAT THE OVERALL GLOBAL
MISSIONS ACTION CREASE LAST
YEAR ONE POINT THREE PERCENT
AND IN CALIFORNIA WHERE WE'RE
REDUCING EMISSIONS AROUND ONE
PERCENT A YEAR WE NEED TO BE
REDUCE EMISSIONS OF FOUR TO
FIVE PERCENT A YEAR TO -- JUST
ACHIEVE OUR CURRENT TWENTY
THIRTY GOAL FORTY PERCENT
BELOW NINETEEN NINETIES LEVELS
-- THAT'S WHEN THE SENATE
PLAN WE PUT TOGETHER A NUMBER
OF REVENUE REVENUE RAISING
MEASURES BEYOND A -- ADDITION
TO HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE
BOND SO THAT WE CAN REALLY
CELEBRATE AND THAT WE DON'T
HAVE TO DIP INTO A SAVE FEATURE
GREENHOUSE GAS FUND REVENUES
WE CAN USE THOSE FOR OTHER
PRIORITIES WHILE CONTINUING
THE -- TO DO THE COMMITMENTS
FOR THE PREVIOUS YEARS AROUND
ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND AND --
AND SUCH SO THERE IS A SEVERAL
BILLION DOLLARS MORE SPENDING
-- IN THE SENATE PLAN AND ALSO
AREAS LIKE COASTAL RESILIENCE
-- THAT -- THAT WE THOUGHT
WERE PRIORITIES -- A.
N.
-- AS WELL AS A WHOLE VERY YOU
KNOW DETAILED DID YOUR F.
FUND PLAN -- WE DIDN'T HAVE
TO BE DIPPING INTO TO THOSE
REVENUES FOR TWO TWO BACK
FOR OTHER PRIORITY SO I DO
HOPE THAT WE WILL CONTINUE
AND -- THAT THAT DISCUSSION
AND -- HOPE WILL BE CREATIVE
BUT GOING FORWARD THE END --
HAVING SUFFICIENT REVENUES TO
TO REALLY FIT THE TASK AT HAND
SB TODAY LET'S GO FORWARD
AND AND -- HEAR FROM FOLKS
IN ADMINISTRATION ABOUT
THE MAY REVISION AND --
THE PIECES OF IT WILL
START WITH THE DEPARTMENT
OF FINANCE IF WE WANT VOTE
FOLKS UP TO COME PRESENT
GO AHEAD SIR WHEN READY
THAT'S A GOOD MORNING CHAIR
NUMBER SIR DR ARE PART OF
FINANCE MINISTER OFF WITH
PROVIDING A HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW
OF THE MAJOR VISION FRAMEWORK
THAT INCLUDING V.
-- GENERAL SOLUTIONS TO HELP
ADDRESS THE BUDGET DEFICIT
RESTORATIONS -- AND THEN ALSO
I TURN OVER TO MY COLLEAGUES TO
TALK A BIT ABOUT SOME SPECIFIC
LEVELS WITHIN DEPARTMENTS
BUDGETS AND WE ALSO HAVE --
VERY IS COLLEAGUES FROM --
THE DEPARTMENTS -- HERE WITH
US TODAY -- WHO WILL I BE
ABLE TO ALSO ANSWER QUESTIONS
AFTER WE GO THROUGH THE
OVERVIEW OF WHAT'S IN THE
MAY REVISION SO SINCE THE
RELEASE OF THE GOVERNOR'S
BUDGET THE -- MONTHLY REVENUE
SHORTFALLS HAVE CONTINUED
AND THE ADDITIONAL BUDGET
SHORTFALL AT MAYOR VISION AFTER
ACCOUNTING FOR TRANSFERS AND
ADJUSTMENTS ABOUT NINE POINT
THREE BILLION DOLLARS SO AT
GOVERNOR'S BUDGET WE HAVE
PROJECTED A TWENTY TWO POINT
FIVE BILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT
-- AND NOW WE ARE PROJECTING
A A THIRTY ONE POINT FIVE WHEN
ACCOUNTING FOR THE ADDITIONAL
-- MAYOR MAYOR VISION ELSE'S
NOW WHILE THE MARRIAGE DOES
NOT A PROJECT A RECESSION AT
THIS POINT IN TIME IT DOES
RECOGNIZE THAT THERE ARE IN
SOME INCREASED RISKS SINCE
THE GOVERNOR'S BUDGET WHICH --
THOSE RISK COULD DEFINITELY --
SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGES STATES
FISCAL TRAJECTORY AND IN THE
NEAR TERM -- AND THESE RISKS
DO UNDERSCORE THE REASON
WHY THE MAYOR VISION -- DOES
NOT REFLECT A WITHDRAWAL
FROM THE RESERVES TO CLOSE
A PROJECTED SHORTFALL -- VIA
HARVARD IF THE V.
-- THE IF THERE'S ADDITIONAL
DOWNWARD ECONOMIC AND FISCAL
CONDITIONS -- BE NO ADDITIONAL
RISK MAY BE REALIZED AND --
YOU KNOW THAT'S WHAT WE WOULD
POTENTIALLY LOOK INTO USING
THE RESERVE AND ORG LOOKING AT
SOME ADDITIONAL REDUCTIONS BUT
ULTIMATELY THE MAYOR VISION
DOESN'T COOPERATE -- WHAT WE
FEEL IS A BALANCED APPROACH TO
ADDRESS THE NINE POINT THREE
BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET SHORTFALL
THAT INCLUDES ADDITIONAL
SPENDING REDUCTIONS AND PULL
BACKS THE LATE SPENDING FUND
SHIFTS AND REVENUE BARRING
SONG AND A HIGHLIGHT -- SOME OF
THOSE -- WITHIN THE RESOURCES
DEPARTMENT OF PROTECTION AND
ENERGY AREAS IN TERMS OF --
FUND SHIPS THE MAYOR VISION
PROPOSES ABOUT ONE POINT
SEVEN FIVE BILLION DOLLARS
OF ADDITIONAL FRIENDSHIPS
-- ONE POINT ONE BILLION OUR
FRIENDSHIPS TO THE CLIMATE
BOND -- AND THERE'S VARIOUS
PROGRAMS THAT ARE INCLUDED
AMONG THAT ONE POINT ONE
BILLION -- LOOKING AT WATER
RECYCLING SALAS HE RESTORATION
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE CENTERS
TRANSFORMATIVE CLIMATE
COMMUNITIES REGIONAL RESILIENCE
PROGRAMS URBAN GREENING STATE
RIGHT PARKS FIGMA THE DAM
SAFETY AND FLOOD MANAGEMENT
AND ALSO MULTI BENEFIT LANDER
PURPOSING AND YOU KNOW THESE
PROGRAMS DO REMAIN A HIGH
PRIORITY FOR THE ADMINISTRATION
-- AND THAT IS WHY THEY THEY
WILL BE INCLUDED AS PART OF A
FUTURE CLIMATE BOND PROPOSAL
ADMINISTRATION IS COMMITTED TO
WORKING WITH THE LEGISLATURE
-- THAT -- TO PURSUE A CLIMATE
BOND OVER THE NEXT COMING
MONTHS THERE'S ALSO A SIX
HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE MILLION
IN -- SHIFT -- OF THE SEVEN
THAT INSTANCE TO -- -- CAP AND
TRADE -- CONSISTENT WITH THE
FRAMEWORK THAT WE HAD -- AT THE
GOVERNOR'S BUDGET -- SO -- OVER
THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS WE HAVE
COMPLETED A A RECONCILIATION OF
THE -- FUND BALANCE TO ACCOUNT
FOR PREVIOUS EXPENDITURES
AND ALSO UPDATED THE REVENUE
ESTIMATES TO ACCOUNT FOR THE
MOST RECENT AUCTION -- AND AS
A RESULT OF THAT THERE IS MORE
ROOM WITHIN THE GREENHOUSE
GAS REDUCTION FUND TO BE ABLE
TO SUPPORT ADDITIONAL -- --
PROGRAMS AND SO -- THERE'S A
OF THE SIX HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE
MILLION DOLLARS OF SHIFT FOR
THE EXISTING THAT PROGRAMS
THAT ARE IN ALIGNMENT WITH
-- THE PAST TO -- BUDGET
AGREEMENTS THAT WE HAD WITH
LEGISLATURE SO IF YOU LOOK AT
BUDGET YEAR AND THE OUT YEARS
FOR THE TOTALITY OF THE THAT
INVESTMENT IS ONLY NOW LIKE
THIRTY MILLION GENERAL FUND
TO THE REST OF IT IS ALL -- --
PUT TOWARDS CAP AND TRADE AND
FROM THE REDUCTIONS -- THERE'S
A TOTAL OF THREE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS
OF REDUCTIONS -- WITHIN THIS
AREA -- THERE'S A REDUCTION
OF A HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE
A ONE TIME GENERAL FUND THAT
WE HAD SET ASIDE A GOVERNOR'S
BUDGET FOR FOR DROUGHT -- AND
YET THE RESULT OF SOME OF THE
IMPROVE OF CONDITIONS AND THE
SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF FUNDING
THAT WE HAVE SUPPORTED FOR
IMMEDIATE DROUGHT PROGRAMS
OVER -- THE PAST COUPLE YEARS
INCLUDING -- OUR RELEASE OF
THE -- CURRENT YEAR CONTINGENCY
THAT WE JUST SUBMITTED LAST
WEEK TO LEGISLATURE -- YOU KNOW
THE FUNDS ARE BEING SHIFTED
TO THE FLOOD CONTINGENCY
WHICH WILL SPEAK TO -- AND A
LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL LATER
-- THERE'S ALSO A -- DECREASE
OF TWENTY FIVE MILLION FOR
THE AGRICULTURE AND DELTA
DROUGHT RESPONSE PROGRAM --
THE WHICH IS A PILOT PROGRAM
-- THAT THE DEPARTMENT HAD
ALREADY RELEASED THE FIRST
ROUND OF GRANTS AND SO DOES THE
DIFFERENCE OF THAT IT'S A BEING
REDUCED A REDUCTION OF TWENTY
FOUR POINT FIVE MILLION --
ONE TIME FOR SALINITY BARRIERS
-- AND -- NOW JUST GIVEN THE
CURRENT WATER CONDITIONS --
WE THERE'S NO NEED TO INSTALL
THE SALINITY BARRIERS AND
SO THAT FUNDING IS -- COMING
OUT AND THEN ALSO -- WERE
-- REVERTING AND ADDITIONAL
ABOUT A HUNDRED AND FIFTY
MILLION FOR THE CALIFORNIA
RIDGES PAYMENT PROGRAM --
THE SUPPORTS -- UTILI EMERGES
-- AND THIS IS A JUST A NOTE
DATED SAVINGS FIGURE -- DUE
TO THE ACTUAL APPLICATIONS
RECEIVED AND APPROVED FOR THIS
PROGRAM -- HAS THAT'S A HUNDRED
FIFTY MILLION NOW THERE IS AN
ADDITIONAL A HUNDRED MILLION
SPECIAL FUND BORROWING -- THAT
IS PART OF OUR OVERALL BUDGET
FRAMEWORK TO TO SUPPORT THE
BUDGET DEFICIT AND THAT HUNDRED
MILLION IS FROM THE BEVERAGE
CONTAINER RECYCLING FUND --
AND -- THE OTHER DIVERSE --
THAT FULL BLOWN INTO THE BAY TO
REVIEW REPEAT OVER A THREE YEAR
PERIOD HOWEVER THEIR SPECIFIC
LANGUAGE WITHIN THE THE LOAN
PROVISIONS THAT IDENTIFIES
THAT THE FUNDING COULD BE
REPAID THE LOAN TO BE REPAID
SOONER THE EXTENT THERE IS A
TRUE PROGRAMMATIC -- NEED AND
THE FUND -- SO WE KNOW TO MAKE
SURE THAT THERE ARE ANY ADVERSE
IMPACTS ON THE ACTUAL PROGRAM
ITSELF -- AND THEN THE MOVIE
ON THE RESTORATIONS THERE'S A
THREE RESTORATIONS -- OF -- --
SOLUTION THAT WE HAVE PROPOSED
AT THE GOVERNOR'S BUDGET --
-- THE CLIMB A CATALYST FUND
FOR WILDFIRE -- WE'RE VOTING
TO RESTORE TWENTY FIVE MILLION
DOLLARS THERE -- AND YOU KNOW
ONE OF THE COURT AND THAT WE
HAVE LOOKED AT BEFORE AT THE
COVERED BY DISILLUSIONED IS
MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE NOT --
ADVERSELY IMPACTING CERTAIN
PROGRAMS THAT ALREADY VERY
FAR ALONG IN THE PROCESS AND
AFTER KIND OF LOOKING AT THAT
PROGRAM -- THEY ACTUALLY WERE
FAR ALONG WITH -- YOU'VE GOT --
SOME OF THE LOANS AT THE WERE
VERY CLOSE TO FINALIZING SO
WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW
THE THE THE DEPARTMENT COULD
-- YOU KNOW -- THEY IMPLEMENT
THOSE LOANS THAT WERE VERY --
KIND OF FAR ALONG IN THE FINAL
STAGES THE RESTORING TWENTY
FIVE MILLION BUT THE PARTIAL
RESTORATION THERE'S STILL A
RISK REDUCTION THAT PROGRAM'S
FOURTH FLOOR THE COAST IT'S
ONE POINT SIX MILLION -- JUST
ACCOUNT TO ACCOUNT FOR AMOUNTS
THAT WERE ENCUMBERED THAT
WE -- DID ACCOUNT FOR AT THE
GOVERNOR'S BUDGET AND THEN
ALSO RESTORING FORTY MILLION
FOR THE SAN JOAQUIN FLOODPLAIN
RESTORATION -- WHICH IS PART
OF OUR ARE LARGER -- FLOOD
-- THIS PACKAGE PROPOSALS
-- THEY'RE NOT TURNED OVER
TO MY MY COLLEAGUE A MRS
GOOD MORNING CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
WHAT DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE I'M
SO BILLION ON THE TWO HUNDRED
AND TWO MILLION DOLLARS IT WAS
INCLUDED AT GOVERNOR'S BUDGET
-- FOR FLOOD INVESTMENTS THE
MAY REVISION INCLUDES THAT
AN ADDITIONAL TWO HUNDRED
AND NINETY MILLION DOLLARS
TO SUPPORT FLOOD RELATED
ACTIVITIES -- WHICH INCLUDES
THE FORTY MILLION DOLLAR
RESTORATION FOR THE SAN JOAQUIN
VALLEY FLOODPLAIN RESTORATION
PROJECTS OF MY COLLEAGUE I'M
JUST MENTIONED SO IN TERMS
OF THE TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY
MILLION THIS INCLUDES A HUNDRED
AND TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLAR
A FLOOD CONTINGENCY THAT
WOULD SUPPORT -- PREPAREDNESS
RESPONSE RECOVERY AND OTHER
RELATED ACTIVITIES RELATED
TO -- BOTH THE STORMS -- OVER
THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS --
SNOWMELT AND ALSO A POTENTIAL
FUTURE OF FLOOD RELATED COSTS
AS MY COLLEAGUE MENTIONED --
THIS IS ESSENTIALLY A SHIFT
-- OF THE DROUGHT CONTINGENCY
FROM THE GOVERNOR'S BUDGET SO
THIS IS A NET ZERO IN TERMS
OF OVERALL IMPACT ON THE
GENERAL FUND -- IN ADDITION
THE TWO HUNDRED NINETY MILLION
INCLUDE SEVENTY FIVE MILLION
DOLLARS FOR THE DEPARTMENT
OF WATER RESOURCES FLOOD
CONTROL SUBVENTIONS PROGRAM
TO SUPPORT LOCAL FLOOD CONTROL
A PROJECTS AND COMPUTE AND
COMMUNITIES RECENTLY IMPACTED
BY STORM SO THAT WOULD INCLUDE
FOR EXAMPLE -- THAT THE HARO
RIVER FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT
PROJECT -- IN ADDITION THERE'S
TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
FOR THE SMALL AG BUSINESS
RELIEF GRANT PROGRAM TO EXPAND
ON THE CURRENT PROGRAM TO
INCLUDE -- DIRECT ASSISTANCE
-- FOR ELIGIBLE AG RELATED
BUSINESSES THAT HAVE BEEN
AFFECTED BY RECENT STORMS AND
THEN THERE'S A TWENTY FIVE
MILLION DOLLARS SET ASIDE FOR
TRIO AT SO DISASTER RESPONSE
-- EMERGENCY OPERATIONS ACCOUNT
TO SUPPORT ADDITIONAL COSTS
THAT WE ANTICIPATE RELATED TO
YOU AGAIN THAT THE STORMS AND
SNOW MELT I'M IN ADDITION THE
MAY REVISION INCLUDES TRAILER
BILL LANGUAGE A DROUGHT AND
FLOOD STREAMLINING A TRAILER
BILL -- THIS TRAILER BILL
CODIFIES PROVISIONS FROM A
RECENT EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT
ALLOW FOR DIVERSION OF FLOOD
FLOWS FOR GROUNDWATER RECHARGE
PURPOSES -- SUBJECT TO VARIOUS
RESTRICTIONS IN ADDITION THIS
TRAILER BILL EXTENDS -- THE
EXISTING DROUGHT PROVISIONS
THAT WERE -- PART OF TRAILER
BILL FROM TWENTY TWENTY ONE
-- THAT BASICALLY ALLOW FOR
-- STATUTORY EXEMPTIONS FROM
SEEK ONE OTHER STREAMLINING
PROVISIONS PROVISIONS RELATED
TO -- DROUGHT RELATED PROJECTS
IN ORDER TO EXPEDITE ACTION
IN ADDITION RECOGNIZING THE
EXTREME DROUGHT GRIPPING
THE COLORADO RIVER IN
PARTICULAR THE LEGISLATION
ALSO EXTEND SOME OF THOSE
-- STREAMLINING EFFORTS
PARTICULARLY RELATED TO C.
CLASS -- A TO WATER
CONSERVATION IN THAT BASIC
THE MERE VISION ALSO INCLUDES
FUNDING FOR -- SUPPORTING
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER
MANAGEMENT ACT INCLUDES FOUR
POINT EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS
GENERAL FUND OVER THE NEXT TWO
YEARS AND NINETEEN POSITIONS
AT THE STATE WATER BOARD --
AS YOU KNOW THE DEPARTMENT OF
WATER RESOURCES FORMALLY --
FOUND -- SOME OF THE MANAGEMENT
EFFORTS IN ADEQUATE IN SIX OF
THE BASINS AND SO THIS PROPOSAL
WITH SUPPORT OF THE WATER
BOARD'S ROLE IN AN OVERSIGHT
-- ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THAT
BE SAID THAT I WILL TURN TO
MY COLLEAGUE THIS MORNING I
GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO
ABOUT CAL FIRE SO AS WE'VE DONE
IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WE
HAVE A PROPOSED A MAYOR VISION
-- FIRE PROTECTION AUGMENTATION
-- THE PURPOSE OF THAT IS TO
WEALTH OF THE HUNDRED EIGHTEEN
POINT EIGHT MILLION THIS YEAR
ONE TIME GENERAL FIRE ONE
TIME FUNDING MOST OF THAT
GENERAL FUND THIS INVESTMENT
WOULD COVER A FLEXIBLE POOL OF
FIREFIGHTERS IN FOUR HUNDRED
AND THIRTY TWO ADDITIONAL
SEASON FIREFIGHTERS IT WOULD
INCLUDE SIX FIREFIGHTER HAND
CREWS AS WELL AS -- SAWYER'S
OR THE THE FIREFIGHTERS THAT
-- USED CHAINSAWS AND WHATNOT
FOR MILITARY HAND CREWS --
AND THEN IT ALSO INCLUDES THE
PROPORTIONAL FUNDING THAT GOES
TO CONTRACT COUNTIES -- WILL
NOTE THAT THERE'S TWO SORT OF
SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
THIS YEAR'S PROPOSAL IN LAST
YEAR'S -- LAST YEAR PROPOSAL
DID NOT INCLUDE THE FLEXIBLE
POOL FIREFIGHTERS BECAUSE THAT
FOR THAT -- RESOURCE POOL WAS
ALREADY IN CAL FIRE'S BASED
BUDGET -- WHEN WE DID THE FULL
RELEASE STAFFING PROPOSAL LAST
YEAR THERE WAS A A PARTIAL
RELEASE STAFFING PROPOSAL FROM
A FEW YEARS BEFORE THAT WAS --
BACKED OUT AS AN OFFSET TO THE
FULL RELEASED AFTER PROPOSAL
AND SO THAT FLEXIBLE POOL WAS
PART OF THAT OLD PARTIAL REALLY
STAFFING PROPOSAL AND SO IT'S
NO LONGER IN CALPERS BASE
BUDGET SO THAT'S WHY THAT THE
MAJOR RESOURCES INCLUDED THIS
YEAR IN A ONE TIME AUGMENTATION
AND THEN THIS YEAR'S --
PROPOSAL INCLUDES A MENTION
SIX HAND CREWS FOR FOR HAND
CREWS LAST YEAR'S WAS SEVENTEEN
THE REASON NUMBER SMALLER THIS
YEAR IS THAT -- WELL THEY WERE
APPROVED ON NIGHT ONE TIME
LIMITED TERM BASIS FOR A FEW
MONTHS LAST YEAR THEY WERE
ALSO IN A SEPARATE PROPOSAL
ESTABLISHES SEVENTEEN PERMANENT
-- HAND CREWS GOING FORWARD SO
THAT SEVENTEEN IS MAINTAINED
AND THEN THERE'S A SIX HAND
CREW AUGMENTATION THIS YEAR'S
WAS THE TWO MAJOR DIFFERENCES
THIS YEAR FROM LAST YEAR I'LL
TURN THAT HOWEVER THE QUESTION
GOOD MORNING CHRISTIAN CULTURE
WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
I TO CONTINUE THERE ARE TWO
PROPOSALS FOR THE DEPARTMENT
OF TOXIC SUBSTANCE CONTROL
THAT THE MAYOR VISION INCLUDES
FIRST IS THE CLEAN UP OF THE
EXITE PARKWAYS PROPOSAL WHICH
INCLUDES SIXTY SEVEN POINT
THREE MILLION DOLLARS -- WHICH
IS FORTY POINT FOUR MILLION
IN TWENTY THREE TWENTY FOUR
AND TWENTY SIX POINT NINE
MILLION IN TWENTY FOUR TWENTY
FIVE THE PROPOSAL IS FROM
RESOURCES FROM THE LEAD ACID
BATTERY FUND TO SUPPORT CLEAN
UP ACTIVITIES SPECIFICALLY
FOR LEAD CONTAMINATED SOIL IN
PARK WE SURROUNDING THE FORMER
EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES FACILITIES
IN BURNING CALIFORNIA SECOND
IS THE PROPOSAL TO HAVE LOANS
FROM THE BCRF FOR THE BEVERAGE
CONTAINER RECYCLING FINE AND
THAT A TOXIC SUBSTANCE CONTROL
ACCOUNT A FORTY MILLION FIFTEEN
MILLION DOLLARS RESPECTIVELY
TO HELP ADDRESS A SHORTFALL
THAT IS STEMMING FROM THE
ADMINISTRATION OF THE PANELING
IN CHEN THE GENERATION A
HANDLING FEE THAT IS FAIRLY NEW
TO THE DEPARTMENT ADDITIONALLY
THE MAY REVISION INCLUDES ONE
POINT TWO MILLION DOLLARS FOR
FIVE NEW PERMANENT POSITIONS --
AND CONTRA COSTA SUPPORT AN IN
DEPTH ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT
SHORTFALL IN THE GENERATION A
HANDLING FEE REVENUES AS WELL
AS TO INCREASE VARIOUS V.
ADMINISTRATION ACTIVITIES TO
BETTER ENSURE THAT GENERATORS
ARE PAYING THE AMOUNTS OWED TO
THE STATE NEXT IS A PROPOSAL
FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PESTICIDE
REGULATION THIS IS A PROPOSAL
IS TO ACCELERATE THE TRANSITION
TO SUSTAINABLE PEST MANAGEMENT
THE PROPOSAL SPECIFICALLY
ALLOCATES ONE POINT NINE
MILLION DOLLARS FOR SEVEN
PERMANENT POSITIONS TO SUPPORT
THE REGISTRATION WORKLOAD
AND A STUDY TO ACCELERATE THE
TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLE PEST
MANAGEMENT SPECIFICALLY THIS
FUNDING WILL SUPPORT THE STATE
SHIP FROM THE USE OF HIGH RISK
PESTICIDES TO SUSTAINABLE PEST
MANAGEMENT TO MANAGING PASSED
BY ADDING RESOURCES TO IMPROVE
THE DEPARTMENTS REGISTRATION
PROCESS AND PRIVATE -- PRIOR
TO A SAFER ALTERNATIVE PRODUCTS
PRIORITIZE THE VALUATION
HIGH RISK LEGACY PESTICIDE
PRODUCTS AND LET'S AND LEISTER
CICEK AGENCY IN STAKEHOLDER
ENGAGEMENT COLLABORATION AND
THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLANS AND
PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT SYSTEM WIDE
IMPLEMENTATION OF C.
FOR SUSTAINABLE PEST MANAGEMENT
IN AGRICULTURAL AND URBAN
ENVIRONMENTS WITH THEY'LL TURN
OVER TO MY OTHER COLLEAGUE
GOOD MORNING MY THING WITH THE
DEPARTMENT FINANCE THE MAIN
REASON ALSO INCLUDES THE FISCAL
STABILITY FOR BOATING PROPOSAL
THIS PROPOSAL WOULD INCREASE
INCREASE VESSEL REGISTRATION
FEES FROM FORTY DOLLARS BY ANY
LEAD TO EIGHTY ADDITIONALLY
THIS WOULD REDUCE EXPENDITURES
ON AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES
BY FIVE POINT THREE MOST FIVE
POINT THREE MILLION ANNUALLY
AND SIX MILLION -- FROM
THE VESSEL OF THE SILICON
THE -- FEE FOR THIS -- AT
PROGRAM WAS LAST RAISED
IN TWO THOUSAND FIVE WHICH
WAS THE FIRST REYES IN OVER
FORTY YEARS -- IN ADDITION
THIS PROPOSAL WILL PROTECT
PUBLIC SAFETY GRANTS THAT
ARE FUNDED FROM THE HARVARD
WATERCRAFT FOR ALL WITHOUT
GOOD MORNING A MAN UP
ENFORCEMENT OF FINANCE --
SIMILAR TO THE GOVERNOR'S
BUDGET IN JANUARY THE MAY
REVISION RETAINS KEY FUNDING
FROM PORT INVESTMENTS IN
THE TWENTY TWENTY TO BUDGET
TO SUPPORT CLEAN RELIABLE
AND AFFORDABLE ENERGY AND
ACCELERATE THE STATE'S
TRANSITION TO NET THERE
WITH A FOCUS ON COMMUNITIES
THAT ARE MOST IMPACTED BY
AIR POLLUTION THE REVISION
PERVERTS PRESERVES NEARLY ALL
FUNDING FROM THE GOVERNOR'S
BUDGET ABOUT SIX POINT NINE
BILLION INCLUDING RETAINING
ABOUT TWO POINT EIGHT BILLION
FOR THE STATE'S NEW CLEAN
ENERGY INVESTMENTS IN PROGRAMS
AND RETAIN THREE POINT FOUR
BILLION FOR THE MINISTRATIONS
ENERGY RELIABILITY EFFORTS
INCLUDING FUNDING FOR THIS
VEHICLE LIABILITY RESERVES THE
MAY REVISION ALSO REQUEST ONE
BILLION DOLLARS TO IMPLEMENT
SB EIGHT FORTY SIX CLEAN ENERGY
RELIABILITY INVESTMENT PLAN
FOR RELIABILITY AND ENABLING
INVESTMENTS OAK SELLER AT
THE CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION
THE GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE
SOUGHT TO DEDICATE ONE BILLION
OVER THREE YEARS SB FORTY SIX
TO SUPPORT THE CLEAN ENERGY
RELIABILITY PLAN DEVELOPED
BY CDC IN CONSULTATION WITH
THE PC AND THE AIR RESOURCE
FOR THE PLAN PROPOSES FOUR
CATEGORIES OF INVESTMENTS
ENABLING INVESTMENTS WHICH WILL
PRIMARILY FOCUS ON PLANNING
AND SETTING UP INITIATIVES
TO MAKE RESOURCE SCALING
POSSIBLE SCALING DEMAND
SIDE AND SCALING SUPPLY SIDE
RESOURCES USING DIFFERENT
APPROACHES FOR DEMAND SIDE
WE SEE PRIORITIES IMPROVING
DEMAND FLEXIBILITY IN GENERAL
TO TAKE GREATER ADVANTAGE OF
TECHNOLOGY IS ALREADY BEING
DEPLOYED AND SPECIFICALLY
EXPANDING THE ABILITY OF THE
STATE TO RETURN STATE STATE
TO BENEFIT FROM VEHICLE GRID
INTEGRATION VEHICLE TO BUILDING
CAPABILITIES FOR SUPPLY SIDE
THE RESOURCES WILL SUPPORT
DIVERSIFYING UTILITY SCALE
TECHNOLOGIES AND LONG DURATION
STORAGE BOTH OF WHICH WILL
SUPPORT THE NET PEAK LASTLY
-- THE PLAN WILL SUPPORT
EXPANDING RESOURCES AVAILABLE
DURING EXTREME EVENTS IN THE
STATE BY PROVIDING ADDITIONAL
RESOURCES TO THE DEMAND SIDE
GREAT SUPPORT ACCOUNT AND
THE DISTRIBUTED ENERGY BACK
UP ASSETS PROGRAM INITIATED
LAST SUMMER AS PART OF THIS
TEACHER COLLABORATOR RESERVE
ADDITIONALLY THE MAY REVISION
CLEATS RESOURCES FOR CC AIR B.
AND THE DEPARTMENT INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS TO IMPLEMENT THE
SPECIAL SESSION BILL SB TWO
BY REQUESTING SEVEN POINT
ONE MILLION ACROSS THE THREE
DEPARTMENTS WITH THE BULK OF
WHICH FIVE POINT NINE MILLION
IS AT THE CDC AND ONGOING
FROM AUGUST TO OCTOBER TWENTY
TWO OCTOBER TWENTY TWENTY TWO
CALIFORNIANS EXPERIENCE SOME
OF THE HIGHEST GASOLINE PRICES
EVER RECORDED IN THE STATE
REACHING A RECORD SIX FORTY
TWO PER GALLON AND THIS TAKE
PLACE EVEN AT THAT PRICE THE
CREW WAS DECLINING SB TO GIVE
CC THE AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH A
MAXIMUM MARGIN FOR REFINERS SET
A PRICE GOUGING PENALTY BACKED
BY EXPERTS INFORMATION FALLING
THRESHOLD DETERMINATIONS
COLLECT INFORMATION NEEDED
TO EFFECTIVELY MONITOR INTO
TERM FOR CONDUCT OF THE FUELS
INDUSTRY AND BY REGION FOR
MISSION COLLECTED TEST PLAN
TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON
WAYS TO REDUCE OIL PRICES THE
RESOURCES WILL PROVIDE GREATER
VISIBILITY INTO THE PRICING
CONTRACTING IN MARKETING
PRACTICES OF THE TRANSPORTATION
FUELS INDUSTRY PARTICIPANTS
INCLUDING A NEW INDEPENDENT
DIVISION WITHIN THE C.
C.
TO OVERSEE THE ADEQUATE
AND AFFORDABLE RELIABLE
SUPPLY OF THIS RESOURCE THE
MAY REVISION ALSO INCLUDES
TECHNICAL CHANGES TO S.
B.
TWO INCLUDING FOR THE
TRANSPORTATION FUELS INSISTENT
REQUIRING CLARITY ON THE
WORKGROUP COMPOSITION THIS
INVOLVES MEMBERSHIP FROM BUT
NOT LIMITED TO BUY MENTAL
JUSTICE LABOR ENVIRONMENTAL
ISSUES PUBLIC HOUSE AND LAND
USE INTEREST THE STATE'S FUEL
PRODUCERS AND REFINERS AS
MOST RELEVANT STATE REGIONAL
LOCAL AGENCIES ADDITIONALLY
IT INCLUDES ENHANCE PRIVATE
DATA PROTECTION FOR DISCLOSURE
TO THE INDEPENDENT ADVISORY
COMMITTEE TO ENSURE THAT
THERE'S NOT RESULT IN
NEGATIVE IMPACT AND MARKET
COMPETITION ADDITIONALLY
THE MAY REVISION PROPOSES
TRAILER BILL LANGUAGE TO HELP
SUPPORT CALIFORNIA ENERGY
COMMISSION'S MAIN OPERATING
ACCOUNT ENERGY RESOURCES
PROGRAM ACCOUNT WHICH HAS BEEN
IN A STRUCTURAL DEFICIT RIVER
REVENUES ARE LINKED TO THE
SALE OF METERED ELECTRICITY OR
FRONT OF THE METER GENERATION
OR CONSUMPTION IS BUILDING
AN APPLIANCE STANDARDS HAVE
BECOME INCREASINGLY MORE
ENERGY EFFICIENT UTILIZATION
OF BEHIND THE METER GENERATION
PURPOSE REVENUES HAVE DECREASED
STEADILY IN TWENTY THREE TWENTY
FOUR REVENUES ARE ESTIMATED BE
ABOUT SEVENTY ONE MILLION WELL
EXPENDITURES ARE ESTIMATED TO
BE AROUND NINETY TWO MILLION
THIS IS LED TO A STRUCTURAL
IMBALANCE WITHIN THE FUND THE
PROPOSAL CONSISTS OF THREE POP
ELEMENTS RAISING THE STATUTORY
CAP ON THERE IS A PURPOSE
SURCHARGE TYING SURCHARGE THE
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX AND EXTEND
OUR PER SURCHARGE BEHIND ME
TO GENERATION ADDITIONALLY FOR
THE CDC -- THE MAY REVISION
INCLUDES TWO POSITIONS AND
THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THREE
THOUSAND DOLLARS TO IMPLEMENT
THE LOOK RECENTLY ADOPTED
LOW MANAGEMENT STANDARDS TO
HELP CALIFORNIA REACH -- --
REACH INCREASING DEMAND --
FLEXIBILITY WITHIN -- THE STATE
AT THIS IF YOU SEE THE MAY
REVISION INCLUDES ONE MILLION
DOLLARS IN TWENTY THREE TWENTY
FOUR AND TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
ON GOING FOR A NEW DIGITAL
DIVIDE GRANT PROGRAM CREATED
TO FUND PILOT PROJECTS THAT
ADDRESS DISPARITIES IN INTERNET
ACCESS ACROSS AND ACCESS TO
OTHER TECHNOLOGIES IN THE STATE
THE PROJECTS PROVIDE GRANTS
THAT BENEFIT LOW INCOME URBAN
AND RURAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS
AND LASTLY THE SEAT -- THE
MAYOR VERSION ALSO PROPOSES --
MINOR CLEAN UP TO THE CBC TO
BE UC'S USER FEE TO ELIMINATE
AMBIGUITY WITH RESPECT TO THE
OBLIGATIONS OF INTERCONNECTED
VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL
PROVIDERS THAT -- CONTRIBUTE
TO UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUNDS
TO PAY THE UNIVERSE UNIVERSAL
SIR THAT TO PAY THE USER
FEE AMENDED BY STATUTE THE
MODIFICATIONS ARE NECESSARY
BECAUSE EXISTING LAW IMPOSES
SAME UNIVERSAL SERVICING
USER FEE OBLIGATIONS ON VOICE
SERVICE PROVIDERS IS ALL OF
THE TELEPHONE CORPORATIONS
THE TRAILER BILL ELIMINATES
SECTION WHICH WOULD PROVIDE
EXISTING SAT WHICH WOULD
CLARIFY EXISTING STATUTORY
OBLIGATIONS AND ENSURE STABLE
FUNDING SOURCE FOR THE CBC USER
FEE WHICH FINE CBC'S OPERATING
BUDGET AND WILL HELP ACHIEVE
ADMINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY FOR
CARRIERS AND THE CPUC BY NAME
ON THE USE OF A SINGLE METHOD
FOR ASSESSING SURCHARGES ON
THE USER FEE I THINK WITH
THAT WE HAVE -- A LOT OF
FOLKS HERE FROM DEPARTMENTS
HELP ANSWER QUESTIONS RIGHT
I THANK YOU THAT WAS A
EXCELLENT OVERVIEW -- M.
WILL MOVE NOW TO THE -- ILIO --
TO HEAR THEIR TAKE ON THIS GOOD
MORNING RACHEL EHLERS WITH THE
LEGISLATIVE ANALYST'S OFFICE
I WILL KEEP MY COMMENTS VERY
HIGH LEVEL AND BRIEF IN THE
INTEREST OF TIME AND THEN WE
HAVE OUR GREAT PHILLY -- TEAM
HERE READY TO HOP UP WITH ANY
SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ON SPECIFIC
UP PROPOSALS -- AND AND OUR
COMMENTS ARE ALSO SUMMARIZED IN
YOUR AGENDA AS WELL SO REALLY
ARE OUR MAIN COMMENTS ARE KIND
OF STRUCTURAL AND -- AND OUR
CONCERNS ARE THAT WE THINK
THAT THE GOVERNOR'S REVENUE
ESTIMATES UPON WHICH THE MAY
REVISION AND A BUDGET FRAMEWORK
ARE BUILT ARE OVERLY OPTIMISTIC
-- OUR REVENUE ESTIMATES
SUGGEST THAT REVENUES MAY BE
ROUGHLY ELEVEN BILLION DOLLARS
BELOW THE GOVERNOR'S ESTIMATES
CERTAINLY THERE IS UNCERTAINTY
NONE OF US ARE GOING TO GET IT
RIGHT BUT BASED ON ALL OF THE
INDICATIONS WE SEE -- WE WE
DO HAVE CONCERNS THAT IF YOU
ADOPT THE GOVERNOR'S OVERALL
FREE MARKETS REALLY SETTING
YOU UP FOR SOME VERY DIFFICULT
DECISIONS POTENTIALLY IN THE
COMING YEAR -- MEANING NEXT
YEAR'S BUDGET OR EVEN IN THE
MIDDLE OF THIS YEAR'S BUDGET
POTENTIALLY HAVING TO COME BACK
AND MAKE SOME DEEPER SOLUTIONS
AND HAVING LOST SOME OF THE
OPPORTUNITIES THAT YOU HAVE
RIGHT NOW IT'S ALWAYS EASIER
TO REDUCE ONE TIME SPENDING
THEN I'M GOING SPENDING OR
REDUCE FUNDING BEFORE IT GOES
OUT THE DOOR THEN TRY AND CLAW
IT BACK -- SO I THINK OUR OVER
ARCHING MESSAGES IS PRETTY
SIMILAR THAT IT WAS IN JANUARY
WHICH IS WE THINK YOU SHOULD
IDENTIFY ADDITIONAL SOLUTIONS
AND BE MORE CAUTIOUS TO AVOID
HAVING TO MAKE SOME OF THOSE
MORE DIFFICULT DECISIONS THAT
DOESN'T MEAN IT'S GOING TO
BE EASY RIGHT NOW OF COURSE
THESE ARE -- IMPORTANT PROGRAMS
IMPORTANT EFFORTS THAT HAVE
A LOT OF SUPPORT BEHIND
THEM INCLUDING -- NOT ONLY
CONSTITUENCIES BUT YOU ALL
WHO PUT THIS BUDGET TOGETHER
LAST YEAR BUT AGAIN I'M JUST
LOOKING AT WHAT THE CHOICES
ARE BEFORE YOU WE THINK THAT
THAT WHILE NOT EASY THEY MAY BE
EASIER NOW TO MAKE THEN AS TIME
CONTINUES TO PICK S.
IF THE BUDGET CONDITION
WORSENED WORSENS -- WE DO
THINK -- AS WE PUT TOGETHER
IN OUR REPORT FOR YOU IN
FEBRUARY YOU KNOW THERE ARE
A LOT OF OPTIONS BEFORE YOU
YOU STILL CAN MAKE WE THINK
SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS ON YOUR
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS
EVEN AT MODERATELY -- REDUCED
SPENDING LEVELS AND THERE
ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO KIND OF
PRIORITIZE WE ALSO CONTINUE
TO RECOMMEND THAT AS YOU BUILD
YOUR BUDGET YOU FOCUS ON YOUR
PRIORITIES THERE ARE A LOT OF
-- OPTIONS BEFORE YOU YOU DON'T
HAVE TO TAKE THE GOVERNOR'S
PACKAGE OF SOLUTIONS EITHER
FROM FROM THIS MAY PROPOSAL OR
THE JANUARY PROPOSALS THERE ARE
OTHER WAYS TO CRAFT THIS THAT
CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON YOUR GOALS
AND PRIORITIES BUT ALSO REFLECT
THE BUDGET SITUATION THAT IS
BEFORE YOU -- AS PART OF THAT
PART OF OUR OVER ARCHING OFFICE
RECOMMENDATION OFFICE WIDE
ACROSS THE BUDGET IS REALLY TO
REJECT MOST OF THE NEW SPENDING
PROPOSALS -- IT AGAIN FROM
THIS WHICH IS EASIER WHICH IS
HARDER OF WAITING MAKING THE
PROBLEM WORSE AND SPENDING
NEW SPENDING ON NEW ACTIVITIES
LIKELY IS EASIER THAN GOING
BACK AND MAKING REDUCTIONS
TO EXISTING COMMITMENTS NOW
THERE'S THERE COULD BE SOME
EXCEPTIONS SPECIFICALLY AROUND
HEALTH AND SAFETY ARE SOME THAT
WE IDENTIFY WHERE YOU WHERE
SOME NEW SPENDING REALLY MAY
BE MERITED AND YOU HAVE SOME OF
THAT IN YOUR AREA PARTICULARLY
AROUND SOME OF THESE NEW FLOOD
PROPOSALS WE THINK SOME OF
THAT COULD BE I'M CERTAINLY
JUSTIFIED FROM HEALTH AND
SAFETY PERSPECTIVE -- REGARDING
JUST A FEW SPECIFIC COMMENTS ON
THE PROPOSAL TO SHIFT FUNDING
TO POTENTIAL BOND FUNDS CAN
OFFER A LOT OF BENEFITS THEY
CAN OFFER FUNDING UP FRONT AND
THEN SPREAD THE COSTS OVER A
LONGER PERIOD OF TIME -- THERE
ARE THE DATE AND THE MONEY'S
NOT FREE HOWEVER IT DOES
COME WITH THAT DEBT LONG TERM
COMMITMENTS AND DEBT SERVICE
-- AND I THINK ONE OF THE THE
POINTS WE LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT
FOR YOU IS JUST THEY'RE THEY'RE
NOT THIS PROPOSAL TO SHIFT TO
A BOND IS NOT A PARTICULARLY
-- WELL ALIGNED WITH YOUR
BUDGET SOLUTION GOALS EVEN IF
YOU DID SHIFT SOME PROGRAMS
TO A BOND NOT ONLY WITH THE
FUNDING NOT BE AVAILABLE
IMMEDIATELY IT ALSO IS STILL
PRETTY UNCERTAIN WHETHER THE
LEGISLATURE WILL ULTIMATELY
PUT A BOND ON THE BALLOT AND
WHETHER VOTERS WILL ULTIMATELY
APPROVE -- OF THAT SO IT'S
CERTAINLY A TOOL YOU HAVE IN
YOUR TOOLBOX BUT I THINK WE
WOULD RECOMMEND THINKING ABOUT
ANY PROGRAMS YOU SHIFT TO A
BOND TO BE REDUCTIONS FOR NOW
WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR FUNDING
TO BE RESTORED BUT CERTAINLY
NOT CERTAIN SO IF THERE ARE
PRIORITIES ARE PROGRAMS WOULD
YOU REALLY WANT TO BE SURE
FUNDED -- WE WOULD PROBABLY
SAY PRIORITIZE THOSE FOR THE
GENERAL FUND YOU'RE LEAVING AND
-- BECAUSE THAT THAT'S THE MOST
CERTAIN AT THIS POINT AGAIN
CERTAINLY A BOND IS THAT IS
A TOOL YOU HAVE AVAILABLE TO
YOU BUT THE TIMING AND -- AND
THE CERTAINTY OF THAT FUNDING
BEING AVAILABLE IS IS A LITTLE
BIT LESS EXPENSIVE THAN LEAVING
THE GENERAL FUND -- AND THEN
FINALLY AS YOU ALL KNOW BETTER
THAN ANY OF US THE MAYOR VISION
IS A VERY DIFFICULT TIME TO
MAKE BIG DECISIONS ON NEW
PROPOSALS YOU REALLY JUST DON'T
HAVE THAT MUCH TIME BEFORE
YOU HAVE YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL
DEADLINE TO PASS A BALANCED
BUDGET -- SO WE WOULD SUGGEST
THAT FOR SOME OF THE BRAND
NEW PROPOSALS THAT ARE COMING
BEFORE YOU THERE ARE THERE
ARE SEVERAL THAT HAVE SOME
PRETTY SIGNIFICANT POLICY --
IMPLICATIONS INCLUDING TRAILER
BILL AROUND -- STREAMLINING FOR
PERMITTING ALSO THERE ARE FOUR
DIFFERENT PROPOSALS DEALING
WITH STRUCTURAL SHORTFALLS
FOR FOR INDIVIDUAL FUNDS SOME
OF WHICH HAVE A PERMANENT
FEE INCREASES ASSOCIATED WITH
THEM -- THERE MAY BE MERIT
IN A LOT OF THESE BUT IT JUST
IS NOT VERY MUCH TIME FOR
YOU TO ASSESS THE TRADE OFFS
IN THE POTENTIAL LONG TERM
IMPLICATIONS SO WHILE SOME OF
THESE MAY NEED SOME IMMEDIATE
NEAR TERM ACTION PARTICULARLY
TO ADDRESS FUNDING SHORTFALLS I
THINK WE WOULD JUST CAUTION YOU
THAT WHEN YOU CAN DEFER ACTION
FOR A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME
TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE --
POLICY DELIBERATION THAT MIGHT
BE WORTH CONSIDERING RATHER
THAN TAKING ACTION NOW IF THAT
URGENT ACTION IS NEEDED AND
WITH THAT MISTER CHAIR -- HAVE
MARTINEZ HERE HAPPY TO ANSWER
ANY QUESTIONS THANK YOU M.
BUT LIST MAYBE DRIVE INTO IT
THEN AND -- WE'LL WE'LL START
WITH THE BOND PROPOSAL AND
-- YOU KNOW CERTAINLY WERE
WILLING TO I'M FOR SERVER ONE
TO CONSIDER BOND -- -- MANY
OF THESE PROGRAMS ARE INCLUDED
BOND THAT I'M OFFERING IT
ALONG WITH SOME MY COLLEAGUES
-- SHOULD LOOK FOR MY JOINT
AUTHORS TO TO LOOK AT THESE
PROPOSALS AND SEVENTIES I DO
AGREE CAN BE SHIFTED INTO A
-- INTO A BOND -- AS WE LOOK
TO BE BE CREATIVE AND AND AND
FIGURE THIS OUT -- I GUESS
MY FIRST QUESTION WOULD BE
IS MISTER SHOOTING FOR THIS
PROPOSAL ON THE BALLOT IN
MARCH OR NOVEMBER OF TWENTY
TWENTY FOUR AND -- WELL LET'S
START WITH THAT I THINK THAT
QUESTION BECAUSE THOSE ARE
THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE SO
AT THIS POINT WE DON'T HAVE
ANY DETAILS ON -- THE BOND AND
ARE LOOKING TO ENGAGE WITH THE
LEGISLATURE AND AND DEVELOPMENT
OF THAT BUT DON'T HAVE ANY
DETAILS IN TERMS OF -- THAT
TINY HUNTERS ARE HOW HOW LARGE
BOND -- YOU KNOW IS THIS MMHM
THE PROPOSAL IS CONSIDERED
PART OF A LARGER BOND AND HOW
LARGER BOND IS THE MYSTERY
SHOULD CONSIDER CONSIDERING
YEAH SO AGAIN WE DON'T HAVE AN
ACTUAL BOND PROPOSAL AND I'M
TO TO DISCUSS AT THIS POINT
IN THOSE DETAILS WILL NEED
TO BE WORKED OUT AS AS WE --
ENGAGE IN CONVERSATIONS WITH
YOU OVER THE COMING MONTHS
OKAY WELL THE NEW THE QUESTIONS
ON THE RIGHT NOT MIGHT ALSO
NOT BE FRUITFUL BUT -- AS
YEAH JUST ONE OF THOSE OTHER
THINGS ARE YOU TO OPEN THE
CONSIDERED OUT THERE I THINK
ABOUT ADDING OTHER THINGS TO
THE BOND AS WELL ABSOLUTELY
SO AND THE MAY REVISION AS MY
COLLEAGUE WENT OVER HAS SEVERAL
INVESTMENTS OF ONE POINT ONE
BILLION DOLLARS THAT WE WOULD
LIKE TO PRIORITIZE AS PART OF
THOSE PHONE CONVERSATIONS BUT
WOULD ALSO NOTE THAT THERE WERE
SEVERAL CLIMATE AND BROADER
CLIMATE INVESTMENTS THAT WERE
INCLUDED FOR EXAMPLE AT THE
GOVERNOR'S BUDGET -- THAT WERE
INCLUDED IN THE TRIGGER AND
SO WE'RE DEFINITELY OPEN TO
CONSIDERING -- THOSE ONES IN
PARTICULAR AS WELL -- AS PART
OF THE PHONE CONVERSATIONS
THROUGH ANY QUESTIONS THAT WE
ON THE BOND ITSELF AND THEN
WE'LL GET OTHER STUFF YEAH
WELL I'M I'M TRYING TO KEEP
UP WITH YOU BECAUSE MY PACKET
HAS THE BALL ON MY BACK BUT
I I PERSONALLY THAT'S FINE
I'M MORE HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT
THANK YOU SAM FIRST OFF I'D
LIKE TO ASK THE L.
A.
-- YOU KNOW AGAIN I WANT TO
JUST YOU KNOW SET THE STAGE
HERE THAT THIS THAT BASICALLY
OUR SIDE OF THE AISLE DOESN'T
GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO SIT IN
THE MEETINGS WHERE THE BUDGET
BEING DEVELOPED LET'S JUST BE
HONEST ABOUT THAT SO WE'RE KIND
OF AT A DISADVANTAGE -- BUT I
WANT TO ASK THE ALEJO'S OFFICE
I MEAN WHEN WE WHEN YOU TRY TO
ESTIMATE SO WE'RE WE'RE GOING
OFF OF WHICH IS VERY DIFFICULT
TO UNDERSTAND THAT -- ON FUTURE
REVENUES WHEN IT COMES TO TAXES
IN IN THE PAST WHAT WHEN WHEN
THE GOVERNOR PROPOSES SOMETHING
AND DOESN'T MATTER OF THIS
MINISTRATION MANY OTHER ME
WILL BASICALLY WHO WHO COMES
OUT CLOSER -- OVER HISTORY
WHERE WHERE OF ALL THE ALL OF
US ARE ALWAYS WRONG SOME DEGREE
-- BOOZE CLOSER TO RIGHT THAN
THAN IT NOW IS THAT RIGHT I
DON'T HAVE THE DATA GOING GOING
BACK FOR MANY YEARS I THINK
IN RECENT YEARS YOU KNOW WE WE
MAYBE HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT
CLOSER AND PROBABLY IF YOU GO
FURTHER BACK IT GOES UP AND
DOWN -- I THINK I THINK THAT
THE IT'S IT'S ALWAYS LOOKING
AHEAD IF THERE IS ADDITIONAL
UNCERTAINTY THIS YEAR BECAUSE
OF THE TAX FILING DEADLINE
BEING MOVED ALL THAT WE DO
HAVE TAX PERSONAL INCOME TAX
WITHHOLDING DATA TO HELP GUIDE
US -- SO I THINK THE QUESTIONS
THE THE KEY QUESTION BEFORE
YOU ALWAYS IS KIND OF HOW
CAUTIOUS DO YOU WANT TO BE IN
TERMS OF YOUR RISK TOLERANCE
-- AND I THINK PART OF WHY WE
ARE RAISING SOME ALARMS NOW
IS BECAUSE WE DO THINK THAT
DOWNSIDE RISKS SEEMS PRETTY
STRONG THANK YOU FOR THAT SO
I I'VE BEEN -- YOU KNOW HERE
ELEVEN YEARS AND I'VE BEEN
AND BEFORE THAT I WAS A COUNTY
SUPERVISOR FOR SIXTEEN YEARS
AND I WENT TO THE DOT COM BOOM
IF YOU REMEMBER THAT BACK IN
THE DAY WHEN WE WERE ALL OF
OUR OUR INVESTMENTS FOR MAKING
FORTY PERCENT AND THE CRASH AND
THEN TO THE HOUSING BOOM AND
THE CRASH AND HERE WE ARE NOW
-- WHERE WE ARE SEEING IT COME
DOWN AND IT TYPICALLY COMES
DOWN FASTER THAN IT GOES UP A
LOT FASTER GOES DOWN SO I WANT
TO SET THE STAGE I THINK WE'RE
WE'RE WE'RE SETTING OURSELVES
UP HERE -- IN THE BOND SIDE OF
IT IS ANY OF THE GOVERNOR CAME
OUT I ACTUALLY TOOK THE TIME
TO WATCH IS -- RAY REVISION BUT
FOR THE MOST PART MOST OF IT
-- LAST FRIDAY TO TO SEE WHERE
HE WAS HEADED AND NO BONDS
ARE TAX AT THE END OF THE DAY
IT STILL BORROWING MONEY FROM
THE TAXPAYERS TO DO SERVICES
THAT THEY'RE GOING TO PAY OUT
LATER AND IT COMES OFF THE
TOP OF THE GENERAL FUNDS WE
PAIR BOND AT FIRST BEFORE WE
DO ANYTHING ELSE SO THAT'S A
LIMITING AMOUNT OF MONEY LATER
SO I WANT TO JUST PREFACE THAT
WE HAVE THE LEGISLATURE IS
PUTTING FOR THE BOND AS AS THE
CHAIRMAN TALKED ABOUT -- AND
I KNOW THAT -- CENTER EGGMAN
I THINK HOUSE WAS WAS ASKING
ME TO GET ON THE BILL ACTUALLY
VOTED FOR -- YOU KNOW SOME SORT
OF A BOND FOR WATER AS I THINK
WE DO NEED TO DO SOMETHING IN
THAT AREA -- BUT TO THE BOND
ISSUE ITSELF WHAT IS THE NUMBER
WHAT IS THE NUMBER THAT WE'RE
GONNA HAVE WHAT ARE YOU GOING
TO BE A BUDGET WILL BE SIGNED
BY THE DEADLINE SO THAT EVERY
LEGISLATOR GETS THEIR PAYCHECK
BUT THERE'S TRAILER BILLS
THAT GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH
UNTIL WE LEAVE IN SEPTEMBER
AND THOSE REALLY SET THE STAGE
FOR SO IF THERE'S GONNA BE
A TRAILER BILL AS A LANGUAGE
IN IT SO WHAT IS THE NUMBER
SO THAT WE'RE WE'RE TRYING TO
BUDGET RIGHT NOW BUT WE HAVE
NO NUMBER SO I GUESS THAT'S
FOR THE ADMINISTRATION SOMEBODY
HAS TO GIVE US A NUMBER
SO WE CAN ACTUALLY PROJECT
THANK YOU I APPRECIATE THAT
QUESTION IT AGAIN WE DON'T
HAVE A SPECIFIC NUMBER THAT
WE CAN PROVIDE YOU IN TERMS OF
THE MAGNITUDE OF THE BOND AT
THIS POINT AND WE'RE LOOKING
FOR TO THOSE CONVERSATIONS
BUT ON YOUR POINT IN TERMS OF
DEBT SERVICE IT'S VERY WELL
VERY WELL TAKEN AND -- THAT'S
GENERALLY WHY THERE'S KIND OF A
HIGHER THRESHOLD FOR THE TYPES
OF PROGRAMS THAT ARE INCLUDED
IN IN THE BOND AND THESE TEND
TO BE PROGRAMS THAT HAVE A
A TEN TO FIFTEEN PLUS YEAR
LIFESPAN FOR EXAMPLE JUST GIVEN
YOUR POINT THAT YOU'RE MAKING
ABOUT THE DEBT SERVICE AND AND
THE FACT THAT THERE'S KIND OF
A LONGER AND TIME IN TERMS OF
PAIN THAT BUT AT THIS POINT
THERE'S THERE'S NO MAGNITUDE
MAGNITUDE OF OF THE BOND BUT
WE'RE CERTAINLY CONSIDERING
ALL OF THOSE FACTORS AS AS
WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THE BOND
AND AND -- AGAIN LOOK FORWARD
TO ENGAGING WITH YOU ALL -- IN
CONVERSATIONS OVER THE COMING
MONTHS I'M TO TRY TO TO TRY AND
WIN SOME OF THOSE DETAILS SO
IN MY INFORMATION I HAVE YOUR
WE HAVE TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY
MILLION FOR WATER RECYCLING
HUNDRED SIXTY NINE MILLION
SOLVENCY RESTORATION HUNDRED
SIXTY MILLION FOR COMMUNITY
RELIANCE CENTERS HUNDRED
MILLION FOR TRANSFORMATIVE
CLIMATE COMMUNITIES HER
MILLION FOR REGIONAL RESILIENCE
PROGRAMS HUNDRED MILLION FOR
URBAN GREENING EIGHTY SIX
MILLION FOR STATE PARKS PROGRAM
SIXTY MILLION FOR STABLE GROUND
WATER MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENT AND
FIFTY MILLION FOR DAM SAFETY
IN TWENTY MILLION FOR MULTIPLE
BENEFIT LAND FOR REVERSING
IS THAT'S WHAT'S PROPOSED
TO BE LOOKED AT IN THE BOND
THAT'S CORRECT IN TERMS OF
WHAT IS INCLUDED AS A SHIFT IN
IN MAY REVISION THAT DOESN'T
NECESSARILY LIMIT US TO JUST
THOSE INVESTMENTS AS AS PART
OF THE BOMB BUT THAT'S INCLUDED
AS PART OF THE MAY REVISION
AS JUST A KNOWLEDGE IN KIND
OF THE ADDITIONAL REVENUE
DECLINES THIS IS ONE OF THE
MECHANISMS THAT WE TOOK TO
REALLY TRY AND PROTECT SOME
OF THE -- ADMINISTRATION'S
PRIORITY PROGRAMS --
THAT YOU HAVE LISTED
THIRTY SIX SB SAY TO SAY THAT
THERE WOULD BE THESE PLUS
MORE ACTUALLY SO ALL THE THE
COMMUNITY OUT THERE THAT'S
WORKING ON WATER RECYCLING IS
GOING TO BE OUT TWO YEARS IF
THE IF THIS WAS THE CASE --
BECAUSE WE HAVE TO ISSUE AFTER
FIRST PASSED THE THE WE HAVE
TO PASS IT TO SET THE BONDS
AND THEN WE HAVE TO YOU KNOW
ISSUE THE BONDS -- SO YOU'RE
LOOKING AT TWO AND A HALF YEARS
INTO THAT THE MINIMUM YES SO
THE FIRST THING I'LL SAY IS
THAT SEVERAL OF THESE PROGRAMS
ALSO HAVE FUNDING THAT HUSBAND
MAINTAIN SO THIS DOESN'T
NECESSARILY I'M REDUCE ALL OF
THE -- SHIFT ALL OF THE FUNDING
THAT WAS INCLUDED -- FROM FROM
PRIOR PRIOR INVESTMENTS THE
OTHER THING I WILL MENTION IS
THAT SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS
ALSO HAVE FEDERAL FUNDING THAT
WE'RE ANTICIPATING COMING AND
SO THERE ARE OTHER -- EXISTING
FUNDING THAT WILL BE ABLE TO
SUPPORT SOME OF THAT GAP THAT
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT -- OUR
HOPE IS THAT THE FUNDING WOULD
BE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE BOND
AS EARLY AS TWENTY FIVE TWENTY
SIX IN THESE PROGRAMS WOULD BE
A PRIORITIZE FOR RECEIVING --
THE FUNDING THAT'S BEEN LISTED
HERE AS A SHIFT -- AS PART OF
THE FIRST APPROPRIATIONS ARE
MADE FROM THAT BONTA RIGHT
WELL I WOULD JUST WANT TO GO
THANK YOU FOR THOSE ANSWERS I
JUST WANNA SAY FOR THE RECORD
THAT YOU KNOW LEGISLATORS ARE
HERE FOR AN OPPORTUNITY OF
TWELVE YEARS GOVERNORS HAVE AN
ESTIMATED TIME OF EIGHT YEARS
AND YOU KNOW MANY TIMES WE SEE
YOU KNOW SHIFT TO SHIFT THE
BURDEN TO THE NEXT GENERATION
AND AND BONDS DO THAT AND WE
HAVE WE WENT FROM A HUNDRED AND
BASICALLY EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS
TO A THIRTY ONE BILLION DOLLAR
DEFICIT IN ONE YEAR THAT'S
HUGE THAT'S A HUGE SWING AND
WE NEED TO LOOK AT THIS FOR THE
LONG TERM HERE I THINK YOU I
THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE -- A
MASSIVE REDUCTION IN YOU KNOW
REVENUE AT WEEK LOOK AT THE
STOCK MARKET AND WE KNOW THAT
OUR REVENUES COME FROM CAPITAL
GAINS IS THAT FORTY PERCENT OF
OUR REVENUE COMES FROM CAPITAL
GAINS WE HAVE SOME SERIOUS --
BUDGET SHORTFALLS IT NOT ONLY
FOR THE NEAR TERM AS WE SAW
THE SWING FROM THE MASSIVE
AMOUNT OF A SURPLUS TO I MEAN
THIRTY ONE BILLION WHICH IS
PROBABLY GROWING EVERY MINUTE
SO I I THINK IT'S BE PRUDENT
TO REALLY LOOK AT SOME OF THESE
-- THIS SHORT TERM STUFF WE'RE
DOING AND HOW IT'S GONNA AFFECT
THE LONG TERM SO THANK YOU
THANK YOU I WILL MENTION FOR
-- NEXT SECTION THAT -- THE
NEXT SECTION WILL BE -- THE
ENERGIES OF PACKAGES AND BEFORE
WE GET THERE AS WELL YOU CAN
FIND YOUR PLACE HERE -- YEAH
MEDIA WERE IT THE SHIP --
FREESHIP OF THE SEVERAL THINGS
UNITED BACKLINE A CATALYST
FUND THAT WE DISCUSSED AND WITH
LOANS UNDER PRODUCT YOU KNOW
EITHER -- THE IN PROGRESS AS
YOU MENTIONED -- IS FOR THE
COSTA SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY
BUT WE HEARD A LOT OF CALLS ON
IT DURING AND PUBLIC COMMENT
IN ONE OF EARLIER HEARINGS
-- THE FLOODPLAIN RESTORATION
OF THAT YOU MENTIONED SO --
WE'RE FOR THOSE IN SOME OF
THE PROGRAMS THAT ARE IN THE
BOND MICHENER ART LIBERAL
IMPORTANT PROGRAMS BUT I MEAN
WE HEARD A LOT ABOUT AS WELL
-- OF COURSE TRANSFORMATIVE
CLIMATE COMMUNITIES ACT AND
WATER RECYCLING VERY IMPORTANT
IN OUR A OR SOMETHING OF THE
PUSHING AND PUSHING -- HARD
ON FOR US TO DO A LOT MORE
WATER RECYCLING TO CREATE
THAT -- MOVING ON TO THE
ENERGY CONSERVE PACKAGES SO
IS MENTIONED THEIR VISION
MAINTAINED EIGHT POINT NINE
BILLION OF LAST YEAR'S HISTORIC
THAT PACKAGE -- WHICH IS THE
SAME LEVEL PROPOSED IN JANUARY
-- IT DOES SHIFT HOWEVER
-- IS FROM THE DIVISIONAL
DOLLARS OVER THREE YEARS TO
THE GREENHOUSE GASES FUNDS
SO I GUESS IT IS ASKING WHAT
IS THE RATIONALE FOR USING
GREENHOUSE GAS THE REVENUE
FUNDS TO JUST BACK FILL THIS
YEAR MISSION VEHICLE PACKAGE
-- MAYBE START THERE THANK YOU
MISTER CHAIR CHRISTIAN VETERAN
WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
AND AND REALLY THE RESPONSE IS
TWO PRONGED -- YOU KNOW FIRST
AND FOREMOST YOU KNOW IT THE
TRANSPORTATION SECTOR ACCOUNTS
FOR NEARLY FIFTY PERCENT OF
ALL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN
THE STATE AND SO IT'S CRITICAL
THAT THE STATE CONTINUES
TO PROVIDE CRITICAL MARKET
INCENTIVES TO HELP CONSUMERS
TRANSITION AWAY FROM VEHICLES
THAT USE INTERNAL COMBUSTION
ENGINES -- THE SO THAT'S THE
FIRST PART AND THAT'S REALLY
THE ADMINISTRATION'S PRIORITY
THERE -- AND THEN SECOND --
THE ADMINISTRATION THE BUDGET
REALLY STRIKES A BALANCE FOR
MAINTAINING INVESTMENTS IN
BOTH ENERGY PACKAGE WHICH IS
APPROXIMATELY LIKE EIGHTY SEVEN
PERCENT AS WELL AS MAINTAINING
EIGHTY NINE PERCENT FOR THOSE
THAT PACKAGE SO WE REALLY TRY
TO STRIKE A BALANCE BETWEEN
THE TWO BY TRANSITIONING AND
SHIFTING -- THE GENERAL FUND
APPROPRIATIONS TO GIGI R.
F.
EVEN TO THE ENERGY
PACKAGE IN THE M.
MY UNDERSTANDING IS IT DIVISION
WHICH IS ABOUT SEVEN BILLION
OF LAST YEAR'S ENERGY PACKAGE
-- WHICH IS ALSO HISTORIC
A COLLABORATION BETWEEN
LEGISLATURE AND THE GOVERNOR --
EIGHT EVEN SOME OF THE
SOME OF THE CUTS THE ENERGY
PROGRAM TO THE ADMINISTRATION
CONSIDER RESTORING ANY OF THAT
THROUGH CLIMATE BOND AS WELL
A SURGERY PART OF FINANCE SO I
JUST GET IN TERMS OF THE KIND
BOND DON'T HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL
DIESEL TO SHARE OTHER THAN
THOSE SPECIFIC PROGRAMS THAT
WE IDENTIFIED AS ADDITIONAL
MAY REVISION -- -- SHIFTS TO
THE TO THE CLIENT BOND THERE
WERE NO ADDITIONAL ENERGY -- ME
A REDUCTION THAT MAYOR VISION
OTHER THAN THE -- CARE TRUE
UP OF THE READERS PROGRAM TO
ACCOUNT FOR ADDITIONAL SAVINGS
AS A WITH THE MAY REGION DOES
IT REALLY JUST REFLECT AS A
COMMITMENT TO SHIFT THOSE AND
THEY ALSO COMMITMENT TO ONGOING
DISCUSSION WITH THE LEGISLATURE
ON WHAT WILL BE THE ULTIMATE
SIZE THE ULTIMATE SCOPE GILDA
TIMING ADDING OVER THE NEXT
YOU KNOW SEVERAL MONTHS WE'RE
COMMITTED TO WORKING WITH THE
LEGISLATURE BUT NO NO SPECIFIC
ADDITIONAL DETAILS SHARE OTHER
THAN THOSE PROGRAMS THAT WE
ARE IDENTIFYING AS -- YEAH
SHIFTS IN THE MAYOR VISION
ALL RIGHT WOMAN I CAN'T GO
INTO DETAILS -- THE ZIP PACKAGE
HERE WE'VE GONE TO THOSE IN
THE PAST -- I WAS A LOT OF
CRITICAL PROGRAMS THERE THAT
-- AND VERY SUPPORTIVE OF ON
AND I THINK SINCE WE HAD A
VERY FIRST YEAR AND WE GOT
THERE'S BEEN SOME SOME REPORTS
ABOUT -- YOU KNOW REALLY HIGH
LATENCY WHAT WE ALL PROBABLY
KNOW THAT -- THE UPTAKE WAS
YOUR MISSION VEHICLES IS MUCH
LOWER IN OTHER PART IN VARIOUS
PARTS OF THE STATE PARTICULARLY
THE NEEDS OF THE HIGHER OF
THE TWO POPULATION HIGH FOR
MAKING POPULATIONS WITHOUT
A LOT OF WORK TO DO TO BOTH
GET CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE
AND AND TARGET INCENTIVES --
CERTAINLY WANT TO SUPPORT THIS
FUNDING -- YOU KNOW I JUST IN
OUR ONGOING NEGOTIATIONS ARE
LIKE TO HAVE THAT CONTINUE
THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND AND
THROUGH LOOKING AT SOME OF THE
MEASURE REVENUE MEASURE SAYING
THE SENATE PACKAGE RATHER
THAN TAKING FROM GREENHOUSE
GAS FUND MONEY WHERE WE CAN
USE THAT MONEY IN THE FUTURE
FOR OTHER -- OTHER PRIORITIES
MANY BETWEEN RATED IN OUR IN
OUR PLANS -- SIR JOHN ANYTHING
SPECIFICALLY ON ENERGY IS
THAT PACKAGES THIS HE'S NOT NO
I'M GONNA GO TO THE
FLOOD RELATED INCREASES
THE NEXT P.
AND -- SO YOU MENTIONED THAT
THE THE MAYOR VISION PROPOSES
TWO HUNDRED NINETY MILLION
-- ONE TIME GENERAL FUND FOR
STATEWIDE A FLOOD RESPONSE
-- YEAH AND -- THE HOW MUCH
THAT WAS NEW MIGHT IT WHICH
WAS NEW FOR THE MAY REVISION
VERSUS A PREVIOUS SO OF THE
THE TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY
MILLION IS ALL NEW FUNDING
ASSETS HAS THAT'S RELATED
TO FLOOD OKAY THAT WAS MY
UNDERSTANDING THAT RESTORED
THE THE FLOODPLAIN RESTORATION
WAS ONE PIECE OF THAT CORRECT
IT'S ALL NEW FUNDING AS --
AS COMPARED TO THE GOVERNOR'S
BUDGET YEAH SENATOR BAKER IF
I MAY SURE SORRY TO INTERRUPT
THIS IS SONYA PADDOCK FROM THE
LEGISLATIVE ANALYST'S OFFICE
VIA YEAH YOU MIGHT WANT TO
NOTE THAT A HUNDRED AND TWENTY
FIVE OF THAT WHAT IS IT FOR
FLOOD CONTINGENCIES THERE WAS
A HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE IN
GOVERNOR'S BUDGET FOR DROUGHT
CONTINGENCIES AND SO THERE THE
THE ADMINISTRATION'S PROPOSING
A NET ZERO SHIFTED SO TAKING
THE DROUGHT CONTINGENCY MONEY
AND I'M USING IT FOR FLOOD
CONTINGENCIES SO I DON'T KNOW
IF THAT IF IF WE WOULD CONSIDER
THAT NEW -- THAT NEW PROPOSAL
-- NEW NEW AMOUNT RATHER GUN
AT ONE TWENTY FIVE WAS SHIFTED
IN IS THAT ONE TWENTY FIVE THE
MEN TO HELP WITH RESPONSE TO
STORMS THAT WE JUST HAD OR JUST
FOR FUTURE FLOOD CONTINGENCY
YEAH SO IT'S IT'S BOTH -- SO
THE CONTROL SECTION AS WRITTEN
IS FAIRLY BROAD SO IT'S FOR
PREPAREDNESS RESPONSE RECOVERY
AND ASSOCIATED WITH THAT
TWENTY TWENTY THREE STORMS IT'S
ALSO CAN BE USED -- FOR THE
RESULTING SNOWMELT SO WE'RE
ALREADY SEEING THE IMPACTS OF
THAT BUT ALSO -- FUTURE IMPACTS
ASSOCIATED -- WITHOUT IN THAT
AREA AND ANOTHER -- A FLOOD
RISKS AND PROJECTS THAT CAN
HELP TO BETTER WITHSTAND FUTURE
FLOODS AS WELL OKAY M.
IT'S A SENSE OF WHAT REGIONS
ARE ANTICIPATED THAT NEED THE
MOST SUPPORT FROM THE FLOOD
CONTINGENCY YEAH SO THE THE
CONTROL SECTION AGAIN IS FAIRLY
BROAD SO IT DOESN'T -- IT
DOESN'T SPECIFY ANY KIND OF
SPECIFIC A REGIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
LOCATIONS FOR WHICH THE OF
THE FLOOD FUNDING COULD BE
PROVIDED SO -- I WOULDN'T WANT
TO OPINE NECESSARILY ON WHERE
THE FUNDING COULD ULTIMATELY BE
USED TO SUPPORT BUT IT'S GOING
TO BE YOU KNOW LARGELY IN THOSE
AREAS -- LIKE I SAID THAT WE'VE
WE'VE SEEN -- FLOOD IMPACTS
OR ANTICIPATE POTENTIAL FUTURE
IMPACTS AND TO PREPAREDNESS --
IS THAT -- THAT YOU KNOW TELLS
ABOUT SOME OF THE MUSIC REPAIR
NESS -- CAUSING THE RESPONSE
RECOVERY ARMS HE WILL GET THE
SET WHAT ARE SOME THINGS THAT
MAY GO TOWARDS YES SO I I
THINK MAYBE IT'S IMPORTANT TO
KIND OF MAKE THE DISTINCTION
TO HEAR BETWEEN WHAT THE
FLOOD CONTINGENCY DOESN'T KIND
OF WHAT THE TRIO OF FUNDING
DOES BECAUSE THERE IS SOME
KIND OF DISTINCTION THERE
THERE'S CERTAIN PARAMETERS
FOR EXAMPLE AROUND WHAT REAL
WHAT CAN FUNDING THAT'S REALLY
GOING TO BE AROUND SOME OF
THOSE -- EMERGENCY RESPONSE
ACTIVITIES IT'S M.
AND AND COULD POTENTIALLY BE
SOME PREPAREDNESS ALTHOUGH AND
THE TRIO EXPERT HAS COME TO THE
TABLE TO SAVE ME IF I SPEAK OUT
OF TURN HERE BUT IN TERMS OF
THE FLOOD CONTINGENCY IT SORT
OF GOES BEYOND THAT IT CAN --
COVER COSTS FOR EXAMPLE THAT
TRIO -- WOULDN'T NECESSARILY OR
ACTIVITIES IT WOULD NECESSARILY
BE ELIGIBLE FOR ANDREA WAS SO
THAT COULD INCLUDE FOR EXAMPLE
-- LEVY PROJECTS -- OR -- OTHER
ECONOMIC RELIEF ASSOCIATED
WITH FLOOD IMPACTS THAT SORT
OF THING THAT WOULD NECESSARILY
AGAIN BE ELIGIBLE FOR TRIO
AND WOULDN'T NECESSARILY
BE ELIGIBLE FOR FEMA FEMA
REIMBURSEMENT FOR EXAMPLE SO
THIS IS REALLY INTENDED FOR
THE MOST PART TO FILL A GAP
THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN
THAT IT COULDN'T -- SUPPORT
ACTIVITIES THAT COULD ALSO BE
ELIGIBLE FOR JURY -- OR FEMA
REIMBURSABLE BUT THIS IS SORT
OF INTENDED TO KIND OF FILL
FILL THAT GAP OKAY -- DO YOU
HAVE PROCONSULAR YEAH I KNOW
I THINK CRYSTAL DID A GREAT
JOB OF DISTINGUISHING I MEAN I
THINK THAT THE RELIEF AND SOME
OF THE PROMINENT -- RESTORATION
TYPE OF PROJECTS -- THINGS THAT
TYPICALLY ARE NOT REAL ELIGIBLE
RIO IS MORE FOCUSED ON SORT
OF YOUR IMMEDIATE -- RESPONSE
TYPE OF THINGS LIKE SWIFTWATER
RESCUE AND -- URGENCY PATCHES
OF LEVEES AND THOSE TYPES OF
THINGS -- TO MANAGE WITH THE
EVENT AS IT'S HAPPENING AND
THEN THIS HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE
MILLION ARE SET ASIDE TO BE
FOR THE SORT OF MORE LONG TERM
ECONOMIC IMPACTS AND THINGS
LIKE THAT SO I THINK THAT'S
A GOOD DISTINCTION OKAY A
COUPLE OF PROGRAMS JUST HAD
SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT
MAYBE I'M LESS FAMILIAR WITH
AND THEN TRAVERSE CENTER DOLLY
-- THE FIRE CULTURE BUSINESS
DROUGHT RELIEF GRANT PROGRAM
-- THAT IS MENTIONED IN HERE
WHAT WHAT TYPES OF ENTITIES
ARE CONSIDERED FOR THESE
GRANTS THIRD OF OUR FINANCE
I THINK WE ACTUALLY HAVE SOME
COLLEAGUES FROM COBIZ AND
CDFA WHO COULD BUY IT THE INTO
MORE DETAIL ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
YEAH
LEARN
LAUREN GREEN WHAT DEPUTY
DIRECTOR -- FOR LEGISLATION
AYE COBAS AYE FOR THE AS
FLOOD RELIEF GRANT COMPONENT
OF THIS MONTH A SMALL LAG AS
RELIEF AS WE ARE STILL KIND
OF DETERMINING MAKING THAT
CRITERIA AND EVALUATION WITH
OUR STAKEHOLDERS -- AS WELL
AS WILL WANT TO WORK WITH
THE LEGISLATURE SO WE DO HAVE
SOME NEXT CODES IN THERE FOR
LIKE CATTLE RANCHING AND AND
THOSE KIND OF DAIRIES BUT --
WE'RE STILL OPEN AND WILLING
TO TAKE FEEDBACK ON THAT
OKAY WHAT IS THE DEMAND FOR
THESE GRANTS WILL WILL CONTINUE
SEEN -- THAT THE PROGRAM
HASN'T LAUNCHED YET FOR THE
DROUGHT RELIEF PROGRAM THAT
WE'VE GOTTEN SIGNIFICAN OUT
REACH FROM ALL TYPES OF GROUPS
FOR THIS RELIEF SO WE EXPECT
THAT -- THERE'S THERE WILL
BE PRETTY SIGNIFICANT -- THAT
THAT DEMAND FOR THE GRANTS MMHM
BUDGET MENTIONED THERE WAS
SEVENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
LAST YEAR IN THE MERGING
SHE RELIEF FUND FOR THIS
PROGRAM -- THE NAVY HAS
NOT BEEN SPENT YET CAN YOU
COMMENT ON THAT DEFINITELY --
SOMEONE OF THE CRITERIAS FOR
LAST YEAR'S DROUGHT RELIEF
PROGRAM AND WAS THE TWENTY
TWENTY TWO TAX RETURNS AND
SO AND THAT'S WHY THE PROGRAM
WAS LAUNCHED LAST YEAR --
OUR OFFICES SMALL BUSINESS
ADVOCATE HAS COMMUNICATED WITH
STAKEHOLDERS WHEN THE LANGUAGE
WAS NEGOTIATED LAST SUMMER
THAT THIS PROGRAM WOULD MOST
LIKELY LAUNCH IN Q.
TWO OF TWENTY TWENTY THREE
TWENTY TWENTY THREE AND SINCE
TAX RETURNS AREN'T USUALLY
DO UNTIL APRIL CALLAS BUT DID
NOT WANT TO LAUNCH THE PROGRAM
BEFORE THESE RETURNS WERE DUE
OF NOTE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
EXTENDED THE TAX DEADLINE FOR
FIFTY SIX COUNTIES TO OCTOBER
WHILE MORE SOPHISTICATED FOR
SPECIFICS EDUCATED FARMERS
MAY HAVE THEIR TAX RETURNS ON
STAND BY CALLASPO'S MINDFUL
THAT SMALLER FARMERS MAY NOT
HAVE THE ACCOUNTING RESOURCES
AS OTHERS AND IS CONCERNED
ABOUT EQUITY IN ACCESS IF THE
PROGRAM WAS PUSHED OUT BEFORE
THE INITIAL APRIL TAX DEADLINE
BY LAUNCHING IN Q.
TWO OR JULY AS CALLASPO'S
ANTICIPATING NOW THE PROGRAM
IS STILL LUNCH THREE MONTHS
BEFORE THE TWENTY TWENTY
TWO TAX RETURNS ARE DUE
GOD I THINK IT WAS A QUESTION
WE HAD AS WELL ABOUT THE THE
THE CALIFORNIA UNDERSERVED AND
SMALL PRODUCERS PROGRAMS U.
S.
P.
-- WHICH COULD ALSO HELP SMALL
FARMERS OF FLOOD ISSUES IS A
WINNER SANDERS GOT HALF THE
MONEY WAS APPROPRIATED OUT TO
A FARMER SO I GUESS WHY SO MUCH
MORE MONEY CAN ADDITIONAL MONEY
GOING TO THE STROUT RELIEF
GRANT PROGRAM INSTEAD OF SAY
SOME OF THE GOING TO THE C.
U.
S.
P.
PROGRAM SO IF I CAN MAYBE
CLARIFY FOR SO THE COST PER
GRAM IT'S IS THE CFA PROGRAM
THAT IS FOCUSED ON ECONOMIC
RELIEF I'M SPECIFICALLY FOR
DROUGHT SO AS MY COLLEAGUE
MENTIONED LAST WEEK WE
ALLOCATED SOME OF THE CURRENT
YEAR DROUGHT CONTINGENCY
THE SEVENTY ONE MILLION OF
THAT FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
WAS ACTUALLY PROVIDED TO THE
CUSTOMER -- GRAHAM ON THE DRY
OUTSIDE SO I I JUST WANT TO
CLARIFY THOUGH THAT THE COST
PER GRAM IS REALLY FOCUSED
ON DROUGHT -- AS SORT OF IT
WAS STATUTORILY -- ESTABLISH
AND SO IT ACTUALLY REQUIRES
STATUTORY CHANGE IN ORDER
FOR THAT PROGRAM TO SUPPORT
-- FLOOD RELATED -- ECONOMIC
RELIEF MEASURES COULD ELABORATE
A LITTLE BIT AND WE WERE
THINKING ABOUT YOU KNOW HOW TO
PROVIDE A SIMILAR SUPPORTER ON
THE THE FLOOD SIDE -- CALVING
OLOGY THAT THAT THERE ARE THESE
TWO PROGRAMS -- -- YOU KNOW
THE -- GOBIZ SMALL AG DROUGHT
RELIEF PROGRAM HASN'T FULLY
LAUNCHED YET BUT THERE'S BEEN
SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF WORK
THAT HAS BEEN DONE TO GET IT TO
WHERE IT IS TODAY AND KIND OF
LOOKING AT IT KIND OF WHERE THE
BEST PLACE TO THE PLACE THIS
-- YOU KNOW TAG RELIEF PROGRAM
FOR FLOOD -- MINIMIZATION FELL
IT WAS -- BETTER TO PLACE IT --
UNDER SIMILAR STRUCTURE AS WE
GO THROUGH THE -- BIS PROGRAM
GIVEN SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF
WORK THAT HAS BEEN DOWN THERE
AND HOW IT WOULD HAVE A LOT OF
SIMILARITIES TO THAT PROGRAM
-- AND SO THAT'S WHY WE FELT
YOU KNOW ADDING THAT TWENTY
FIVE MILLION THE THAT PROGRAM
-- WAS A A BETTER APPROACH
THAN USING THE BECAUSE PROGRAMS
BUT AGAIN YOU KNOW THEY'RE
THEY HAVE YOU KNOW SIMILAR
TYPES OF PURPOSES IN TERMS OF
DROUGHT I NOW JUST EXPANDING
IT TO A FLOOD AND IF THERE'S
ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS -- MY
COLLEAGUES COLLABORATE OKAY
YOU LOOK AT THAT WHEN WE SORRY
TO INTERRUPT AGAIN SENATOR
BECKER -- SONYA PETTICOAT THE
OHIO -- JUST A COUPLE THINGS
WE WOULD -- MAYBE RAISE A
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION WE'RE
STILL LOOKING INTO THE THIS
PROPOSAL AS WELL SO WE HAVEN'T
-- FINALIZED ANALYSIS ON IT
BUT -- BOTH THE THE THE THE
SET THOSE SEVENTY FIVE THAT WAS
-- ALLOCATED LAST YEAR FOR --
DROUGHT RELIEF GRANTS BECAUSE
IT HASN'T GONE OUT THE DOOR
WE COULD THINK ABOUT THAT IN A
MORE FLEXIBLE WAY IN TERMS OF
USING IT FOR DROUGHT OR FLOOD
AND THESE ARE BOTH DISASTERS
THAT -- SMALL AGRICULTURAL
BUSINESSES ARE HAVING TO
RESPOND TO -- SO YOU KNOW WHAT
YOU KNOW ONE POSSIBLE OPTION
IS THINKING ABOUT THESE FUNDS
MORE FLEXIBLY -- AS DISASTER
RESPONSE AS OPPOSED TO MAKING
IT SPECIFIC TO DROUGHT OR FLOOD
AND THEN I GUESS JUST ONE OTHER
POINT WOULD NOTICE THE -- THE
PROPOSAL FOR THE -- THE TWENTY
FIVE FOR FLOOD RELIEF GRANTS
WILL ALSO REQUIRE A STATUTORY
CHANGE SO -- WE GET ON THURSDAY
IF THE BECAUSE PROGRAM REQUIRES
A STATUTORY CHANGE THAT SEEMS
LIKE THAT WOULDN'T NECESSARILY
BE OUT OF THE QUESTION EITHER
OKAY I'M GOOD WITH YOUR VIEW
AS WELL THE TURNOVER CENTER
DOLLY FOR ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT
FIRST I WANT TO SAY -- I'M
HAPPY THAT THE GOVERNORS
AND ADMINISTRATION IS MAKING
THE SWITCH FROM THE DROUGHT
TODAY IS GREAT I THINK IT'S
AN APPROPRIATE THAT WE DO IT
THAT WAY SO I DON'T HAVE ANY
QUESTIONS ON THAT I KNOW AND
I JUST HAVE A COMMENT ON THE
ON THE AGRICULTURAL TWENTY
FIVE MILLION AND AS A FARMER
-- I DON'T KNOW ANYBODY USE
THESE PROGRAMS AND WE'LL IN
CALIFORNIA I'M CONSIDERED A
SMALL FARM MIKE BURKE WE'VE WE
HAVE LIKE THIRTY FIVE HUNDRED
ACRES WHICH IN CALIFORNIA IS
VERY SMALL FOR AND SO I THINK
THAT THE ISSUE IS IT IT IS
VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE SMALL
PRODUCERS TO ACTUALLY GET
THROUGH THE PROCESS TO ACTUALLY
ACCESS THE RESOURCES AND SO WE
NEED TO LOOK AT A WAY TO MAKE
IT EASIER FOR THEM TO ACTUALLY
ACCESS THEM THEY'RE DEALING
WITH THE ISSUES THAT ARE OUT
THERE FLOOD OR DROUGHT -- BUT
THEY JUST DON'T HAVE THE --
YOU KNOW AN HR DEPARTMENT OR
SOMEPLACE DESCRIBING THE GRANT
FOR THEM OR HELPING THEM FIGURE
IT OUT AND SO THEY CAN'T ACCESS
IT BECAUSE THEY JUST DON'T
AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH THAT NOW
THE BIGGER CORPORATIONS THAT DO
-- YOU KNOW SET ASIDES AND DO
BIGGER OPERATIONS AB ACTUALLY
OF PEOPLE ON BOARD TO DO THAT
SO WE'RE TRYING TO TARGET THOSE
SMALL PRODUCERS WE HAVE TO MAKE
IT EASY FOR THEM TO BE ABLE
TO ACCESS THE RESOURCES AND I
THINK THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T SEE
THE TAKE UP IN A ANY COMMENT
FROM GOBIZ ON ON THAT ON THE
OUT REGION'S RESPONSE SURE
AND WITHIN THE DROUGHT RELIEF
PROGRAM THERE IS A THREE WEEK
-- REQUIREMENT TO DO AT REACH
WAS STAKEHOLDERS AND PARTNERS
SO CERTAINLY THAT'S SOMETHING
WE CARRY OVER TO THE FLOOD
RELIEF AND OF COURSE AS WE'VE
BEEN WORKING WITH LEGISLATIVE
OFFICES TO GET PROPER CARE MAKE
SURE THAT WE'RE CONTACTING THE
RIGHT PEOPLE AS WELL AS OUR
NETWORK I'M WITH THE OFFICE OF
SMALL BUSINESS ADVOCATES THAT
WOULD HAPPY TO CONTINUE WORKING
WITH ALL OF YOU TO MAKE SURE
THIS GETS THIS INFORMATION
GETS TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE
YEAH ZERO INSTANCE GREATEST
MONIES GEARED TOWARDS SMALL
FARMERS WITH THOSE RIGHT
PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING DAY
AND NIGHT YOU KNOW IN DAN
-- BUT DON'T HAVE THE TIME
RESEARCH AND SO IS TO APPLY SO
THAT OUT REACHES IS CRITICAL
-- RIGHT WILL I WHAT WHAT IS
IT WHAT IS THE CRITERIA WHAT
WHAT SIZE OF IT HOW DO YOU
DETERMINE WHAT THE SIZES THAT
ARE OR WHAT YOU CONSIDER SMALL
PRODUCERS I HAVEN'T WE HAVEN'T
-- WE HAVEN'T PUT THAT IT'S
BASED ON REVENUE LEVELS AND
SO THAT'S AN EXISTING WITH
THE DROUGHT RELIEF PROGRAM
AND SO WE HAVEN'T OUTLINED
-- BUT SPECIFIC REVENUES AT
LEVELS WILL BE REQUIRED FOR
THE FLOOD RELIEF BUSINESSES
AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING
WE'RE STILL WORKING ON OKAY
GREAT LOSING TOUCH ON THAT --
THANK YOU BUT WHEN WE WERE TO
THE WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION HERE
BEYOND -- I JUST WANT TO START
OUT BY BY SAYING I THINK I'M
TO HAVE ALL THOSE INNOCENT
REQUIRE -- SHARES IS A SPOKE
TO HER ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY
AND AND -- -- THAT -- WOULD YOU
NEED TO ADD PEOPLE YOU KNOW WE
HEAR ALL THE TIME AND I I GET
TO PERSONALLY FOR THAT HERE
A LOT OF STORIES ABOUT THE --
REALLY JUST A MENTAL HEALTH
IMPLICATIONS ON OUR -- ON OUR
FIREFIGHTERS OF THE YOU KNOW
PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING
SAY YOU KNOW SIX WEEKS AT A
TIME AND AND -- -- YOU KNOW
BEING AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILIES
-- STRAIN BECAUSE ON FAMILIES
AND JUST THE HOURS THAT YOU
HAD TO WORK AND THE RESULTING
-- STRESSES ON THEIR LIVES --
AND -- AN MENTAL HEALTH SO --
APPRECIATIVE OF THE EFFORT TO
COME FORWARD AND PUT MORE --
MORE DOLLARS IN HERE -- YEAH
AND JUST WANTED TO ASK A COUPLE
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WHAT WHAT
IS THE IT LOOK FROM CAL FIRE
ON THE UPCOMING FIRE SEASON
THE END DO THEY THINK IT'S YOU
KNOW WE GOT OFF PRETTY WELL
LAST YEAR LOCALLY WHERE DOES
THIS LEAVE IT WITH HIGHER FIRE
RISK COMPARED TO PAST YEARS
OR HOW THE WEATHER CONDITIONS
PLAYING OUT SO IT STUDENTS
WITH DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE --
I I DON'T SPEAK ON BEHALF OF
THE PART WE DO HAVE THE THE
DIRECTOR HERE AND WE CAN ASK
OFFERED TO COME UP IN AND SHARE
THEIR PERSPECTIVE I WOULD SAY
IN MY CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM
-- PART OF THE OUTLOOK IS THAT
WE HAD A VERY WET SEASON AND
SO THERE'S GOING TO BE ANY IS
THAT YOU CAN KIND OF DRIVE AND
SEE THERE IS -- I TALL THICK
DENSE GRASS CROP THAT HAS GROWN
IN -- THAT WILL PROBABLY DRY
OUT WITHIN FOUR TO SIX WEEKS
AND THEN YOU GET THE WINDS AND
THINGS LIKE THAT BUT WE A LOT
OF FIRE RISK RELATED TO THOSE
AND THEN WE STILL HAVE FORCE
THAT HAVE A LOT OF DIED DEAD
AND DOWNED TREES THAT -- YOU
KNOW IS IS READY DENSE THICK
FUEL AS WELL AND SO THEY'RE
THEY'RE STILL RISK THERE BUT
I'M GOING TO DEFER TO THE
EXPERTS TO TALK ABOUT IT NOW
THAT I'VE BOTTOM SOMETIME
THANK YOU SIR GOOD MORNING SURE
BACKER -- CENTER DALIAN AND
STAFF OF THE COMMITTEE MY NAME
IS JOE TYLER I AM THE DIRECTOR
FIRE CHIEF THAT CALIFORNIA
WHEN WE LOOK AT TWO THOUSAND
TWENTY TWO -- AND WE THINK
ABOUT HOW ABOUT YOUR STARTED
OFF WE STARTED OFF WITH SEVEN
HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT ACRES THAT
BURNED ON THE BIG SUR COASTLINE
AND MODERATE BY MARCH WE --
WE RECOGNIZED -- THAT WE HAD
THE COASTAL FIRE IN LAGUNA
BURNED MULTIPLE HOMES DURING
THAT TIME FRAME -- AND THEN
WE SET UP WITH AN EXPECTATION
OF A SIGNIFICANT FIRE SEASON
IN TWO THOUSAND TWENTY TWO
WHAT WE WERE FORTUNATE FOR AND
WITH WAS MANY OF THE EFFORTS
OF STE LOCAL STATE FEDERAL
NONPROFIT FIRE SAFE COUNCILS
THEY WERE DOING A LOT OF GREAT
WORK OUT THERE THERE WERE SOME
LARGE AND POTENTIALLY LARGE
FIRES IN TWO THOUSAND TWENTY
TWO WHETHER BE THE FAIRVIEW
THE ELECTRA -- THE -- YUBA
-- THE MOSQUITO FIRE ALL VERY
LARGE -- POTENTIAL FIRES AND
FORTUNATELY THE MOSQUITO FIRE
WAS THE LARGEST OF ALL OF
THOSE FIRES IN TWO THOUSAND
TWENTY TWO NOT MOTHER NATURE
-- SET US UP FOR SOME SUCCESS
IN SEPTEMBER OF TWO THOUSAND
TWENTY TWO AND PROVIDED SOME
PRECIPITATION AND THAT'S IS
WHERE EVERYBODY TURNED TO THEIR
ATTENTION AND WERE ABLE TO --
REALLY CONDUCT PRESCRIBED FIRE
-- SOME FUELS REDUCTION FOR THE
NEXT FORTY FIVE DAYS THEN THE
SEASON BEGAN TO TAPER OFF WE
CONTINUE TO DO THE PREVENTION
EFFORTS AND WE CAME OUT OF
THE PEAK OF FIRE SEASON AS WE
GO INTO TWO THOUSAND TWENTY
THREE WE RECOGNIZE THAT --
WE HAD SOME HISTORICAL RAIN
IN SOME HISTORIC SNOW PACK --
THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT
AND AS YOU'VE HEARD FROM --
SPEAKERS HERE -- BEFORE -- IT
WAS AGAIN HISTORIC IN NATURE
AND IS CAUSING OTHER CONCERNS
ACROSS THE STATE BUT I WANT TO
MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL RECOGNIZE
THE GOING INTO TWO THOUSAND
TWENTY THREE WE ARE NOT OUT OF
THE WOODS -- THE RAIN AND THE
SNOW CONDITIONS HAVE CREATED
SIGNIFICANT GRASS CROPS WHICH
IS A FINE WHAT WE CALL A
FINE FUEL THAT WILL BE VERY
RECEPTIVE TO IGNITIONS JUST
TWO WEEKS AGO I TRAVELED ACROSS
THE STATE OF FOR WILDFIRE
PREPAREDNESS WEEK AND I
RECOGNIZE THAT THE GREEN GRASS
IS BEGINNING TO CURE A RANDY
THOSE IGNITIONS WILL HIT THE
GREEN GRASS -- THAT WILL MOVE
INTO THE BRUSH AND LATER IN THE
MONTHS -- WE WILL -- RUN INTO
TIMBER RELATED FIRES WE WILL
BE DELAYED SLIGHTLY AND THAT
IS PARTLY WITH THIS PROPOSAL IS
GOING INTO THE FALL MONTHS WE
RECOGNIZE THAT THE FUEL LOADS
-- WILL BE SIGNIFICANT IN TWO
THOUSAND -- TWENTY THREE A
STARK REMINDER THAT WAS THREE
WEEKS AGO IN THE SAN BERNARDINO
MOUNTAINS WERE HISTORIC SNOW
PACK -- ONCE SAT THERE WAS A
HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE ACRE TIMBER
FIRE CALLED THE KNOB FIRE IT
SHOWS THAT THOUGH WE HAVE A
PRECIPITATION WE HAVE SNOW THE
FUELS ARE COMPLETELY RECOVERING
-- THERE'S BEEN EIGHT HUNDRED
FIRES IN THIS YEAR ALONE
ALREADY WE DON'T HEAR ABOUT HIM
BECAUSE THEY GET CONTAINED BY
-- THE INDIVIDUALS TO RESPOND
HERS NINETY SEVEN IN THE
LAST WEEK HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE
THE WEEK BEFORE -- THERE IS
SIGNIFICANT FUELS TO BE BURNED
WE RECOGNIZE THE TWO THOUSAND
TWENTY THREE IF WE LISTEN TO
OUR PREDICTIVE SERVICES WE
LISTEN TO OUR METEOROLOGIST WE
ARE FIRE SCIENTISTS -- THERE
IS AN ARGUMENT TO BE SAID THAT
THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY THREE
EL NINO PATTERNS THAT COULD
BE SETTING UP CLOSELY ALIGNED
TO TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN
TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN WAS
A SIGNIFICANT FIRE YEAR --
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ACRES
BURNED OVER TEN THOUSAND EIGHT
EIGHT TEN THOUSAND STRUCTURES
DESTROYED IN OVER FORTY LIVES
WERE LOST IN TWO THOUSAND
SEVENTEEN IN TWO THOUSAND
SEVENTEEN SETTING UP IN A
SIMILAR PATTERN WE HAD SOME OF
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT LIGHTNING
ACTIVITY ACROSS THE STATE IN
TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN IN TWO
THOUSAND EIGHTEEN I HADN'T
SEEN PERSONALLY LIGHTNING
ACTIVITY LIKE THAT SINCE THE
LATE EIGHTIES EARLY NINETIES
SO WHEN WE LOOK AT -- TWO
THOUSAND TWENTY THREE AND THE
FUEL LOADING THAT'S AVAILABLE
AS WELL AS THE DEADEN DOWN
MATERIAL -- THAT IS SITTING IN
OUR FOOTHILLS RELATED TO THAT
SNOW PACK I TRULY BELIEVE THAT
WE ARE SETTING OURSELVES UP FOR
ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT FIRE SEASON
GOING THANK YOU FOR THAT --
MISTER TERRIFYING MADE PROVIDE
A COUPLE OF COMMENTS ON THE
PERSON AT THE LEGISLATIVE
ANALYST'S OFFICE THANK YOU
SO MUCH I'M SO WE'RE STILL IN
THE PROCESS OF REVIEWING THIS
AND THE OTHER MAYOR VISION
PROPOSALS I'M JUST POINTING
OUT A COUPLE THINGS -- SO
I THINK ONE KEY QUESTION I
THINK TO TO THINK ABOUT IS
HOW UNUSUAL IS THIS BECAUSE
THIS IS A SPOT SUPPOSED TO
BE A ONE TIME AUGMENTATION SO
REALLY HOW HOW HOW CONVINCED
THAT THE LEGISLATURE ON THAT
THIS IS GOING TO BE KIND OF IT
ABNORMALLY SEVERE YEAR AND ALSO
A GOOD AND A KEY POINT IS THAT
-- REALLY THE STATE IS BETTER
POSITIONED TO ADDRESS WILD
FIRES THIS YEAR ARGUABLY THAN
IT HAS BEEN PERHAPS EVER IN
THE PAST BUT LEGISLATORS MADE
REALLY SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS
IN CALIFORNIA -- AND AND
AUGMENTATIONS TO HELLFIRE
OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS
INCLUDING THE ADDITION AS WAS
MENTIONED BEFORE OF SEVENTEEN
ADDITIONAL -- CRUISE LAST
YEAR AS WELL AS THE RELEASE
STAFFING PROPOSAL WHICH ADDED
SIGNIFICANT AUGMENTATION
SOME OF WHICH HAVE BEEN FULLY
RAMPED UP TO ADDRESS JUST THE
ISSUE THAT YOU ADDRESS A VERY
SERIOUS ISSUE OF FIREFIGHTER
HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH I
THINK I'M THINKING ABOUT HOW
THIS PARTICULAR PROPOSAL HOW
THAT LAYERS ON TOP OF RELIEF
ALREADY THE AUGMENTATIONS IS
THIS BECAUSE LAST YEAR FOR
EXAMPLE WE THAT COVER WAS VERY
SUCCESSFUL AND IN ADDRESSING
WILD FIRES AND SO -- WITH
THOSE RESOURCES IT HAS EVEN
MORE RESOURCES THIS YEAR THE
THINKING ABOUT HOW DOES IT
NEED THESE ADDITIONAL ONE TIME
RESOURCES -- ANOTHER THING
I I THINK I JUST COUPLE OF
QUICK THINGS I WANT TO FLAG
-- THIS PROPOSAL WHILE IT IS
JUST ONE TIME FINDING IT DOES
REQUIRE IT DOES REQUEST ONGOING
POSITION AT THE WORRY AND SOME
NEW VEHICLES AND OTHER THINGS
THAT ARE SORT OF MORE LONG
TERM IN NATURE SO THINKING
I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO
THINK ABOUT HOW WHAT IS THIS
HUMPS THE EXTENT TO WHICH
THIS IS SORT OF REQUESTING
RESOURCES THAT THAT HAVE SORT
OF A LONGER LIFE -- AND THEN
I ALSO JUST WANT TO FLAG THAT
MANY OF THESE RESOURCES WERE
BROUGHT ON BOARD ACTUALLY
STARTING IN MAY IN MARCH
EXCUSE ME STARTING IN MARCH
-- THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT'S
USE OF THE EMERGENCY FOR AND
AND THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT WE
WROTE ABOUT LAST MONTH -- FOR
PROBABLY BEFORE THIS PROPOSAL
CAME FORWARD -- BUT I THINK
ONE OF THE LARGER ISSUES TO
FOR THE LEGISLATURE TO THINK
ABOUT -- IS IT'S COMFORT WITH
THE ADMINISTRATION AUGMENTING
THESE TYPES OF RESOURCES --
THROUGH THE EMERGENCY FUND
PROCESS WHICH DOESN'T REQUIRE
NOTIFICATION TO THE LEGISLATURE
BEFORE THOSE ADDITIONAL
RESEARCH RESOURCES ARE BROUGHT
ON BOARD -- BECAUSE THERE'S
A BASE LEVEL OF THE FIND
AND WE CAN GO INTO THAT MORE
DEATH IF YOU'RE INTERESTED
BUT BUT ESSENTIALLY THAT THE
ADMINISTRATION IS WAS ABLE TO
BRING THESE RESOURCES ON BOARD
-- AND AND SORT OF WE JUST ARE
FINDING OUT ABOUT IT NOW AND
MAY EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE --
IN MANY CASES I'M ACTUALLY SORT
OF ACTUALLY INITIATED IN MARCH
-- SO I THINK THAT'S ANOTHER
KIND OF KEY QUESTION IT'S
RELATED TO THIS PROPOSAL --
BECAUSE THEY'RE -- MANY THESE
RESOURCES ARE THE ONES THAT
WERE ALREADY KIND OF BROUGHT ON
BOARD SO ANYWAY HAPPY TO ANSWER
QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE ANY THANK
YOU -- BUT THEY DO HAVE A FEW
MORE -- LATER THIS SENATORS
HER DOLLY -- USING THESE THIS
IS AN EFFORT TO GET US TO THE
HOURLY TARGET RATE THEM IN THE
WEEKLY WORK TARGET -- -- WHICH
WAS EXTREMELY HIGH AND CAN
YOU COMMENT ON THAT DIRECTOR
TYLER SAID I WANT TO GO BACK
IN AND ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE
CONCERNS AS WELL AND -- THERE
WAS -- I'M EVER SO GRATEFUL OF
THE SUPPORT OF THE LEGISLATURE
IN THE ADMINISTRATION IN SOME
OF THE INVESTMENTS THAT CAME
IN THE LAST FISCAL YEAR LAST
FISCAL YEAR AT SIXTEEN HUNDRED
THIRTY FOUR POSITIONS MANY OF
THEM IN A MULTI YEAR FUNDING
PLAN AS WAS NOTED THAT HAVEN'T
FULLY COME ON BOARD OF THE
RELEASE STAFFING PROPOSAL --
TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY OF THOSE
POSITIONS -- WERE HIRED IN THE
CURRENT FISCAL YEAR -- INDIRECT
MISSION SUPPORT -- MANY OF
THOSE POSITIONS THAT ARE
SUPPORTING ALL THE EFFORTS OF
PREVENTION RESILIENCE RESPONSE
WERE ALL HIRED IN THIS FISCAL
YEAR -- BUT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER
AND AND I SO APPRECIATE YOUR
OPENING COMMENTS WHAT THE
PURPOSE OF A RELIEF STAFFING
WAS THE PURPOSE OF RELIEF
STAFFING IN GETTING THERE WAS
AN OPPORTUNITY TO TRY TO REDUCE
THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT OUR
FIREFIGHTERS AND OUR PERSONNEL
WERE ON THE FRONT LINES BEING
ABLE TO AT LEAST GET A COUPLE
OF DAYS OFF OUR GOAL IS FOUR
DAYS OFF EVERY TWENTY ONE DAYS
-- TO BE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF
THE PERSONAL EFFECTS THAT WAS
THE PURPOSE OF REALLY STAFFING
NOT TO INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY
THE AUGMENTATION THE OTHER
THING THAT WAS MENTIONED
EARLIER WAS -- THAT IS A REALLY
STAFFING PROPOSAL CAME FORWARD
IT ELIMINATED THE THE FLEXIBLE
FIREFIGHTER POOLER THE SEARCH
FIREFIGHTERS THAT WERE ONCE
IN -- RELIEF FROM TWO THOUSAND
TWENTY IN TWO THOUSAND TWENTY
HUNDRED SEVENTY TWO POSITIONS
WERE AUTHORIZED AS PART OF
RELIEF -- THIRTY OF THOSE WENT
TO OUR TRAINING CENTER AT TO BE
ABLE TO RAMP UP THAT TRAINING
ABILITY BUT -- BUT THAT WAS THE
START OF THOSE EFFORTS IN TWO
THOUSAND -- TWENTY AS WE MOVE
FORWARD WE LOOK AT THE FIVE
HUNDRED THREE POSITIONS THAT
ARE IN THIS PROPOSAL TODAY IT
IS AN AUGMENTATION ENTIRELY
OF TEMPORARY HELP POSITIONS
ENTIRELY OF TEMPORARY HELP
-- THE POSITIONS WILL ADD SIX
ADDITIONAL HAND CREWS -- ON
TOP OF THE SEVENTEEN THAT WERE
FIRMLY FUNDED LAST YEAR AS
WELL AS PROVIDE SUPPORT AS WAS
SAID EARLIER BY MISTER BENSON
RELATED TO BE ABLE TO SEARCH
THE POTENTIAL OF -- MILITARY
HAND CREWS ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY
AND CREWS NOT TO BE CONFUSED
WITH TASK FORCE RATTLESNAKE
WITH OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH
THE NATIONAL GUARD -- IS WELL
AS SOME OF THOSE AND OTHER
EFFORTS THERE IS A SUPPORT
STAFF COMPONENT TO THAT AS
WELL THOSE SUPPORT STAFF
COMPONENTS -- ALSO -- TEMPORARY
HELP LIMITED TERM THERE IS NO
FUNDING BEYOND WHAT IS BEING
REQUESTED TO JUNE THIRTIETH
OF -- WELL TO DECEMBER THIRTY
FIRST OF TWO THOUSAND TWENTY
THREE BUT THERE IS A REQUEST TO
EXPAND THE AUTHORITY OF -- OF
POSITION OF AUTHORITY TO COVER
THE ENTIRE FISCAL YEAR SO AS
OF JUNE THIRTIETH TWO THOUSAND
TWENTY FOUR NONE OF THESE
POSITIONS ARE BEING REQUESTED
FUNDING PAST THAT POINT
BERMAN GOT JUST UNDERSTAND SO
THESE THESE WILL BE POSITIONS
UNTIL THAT ARE THESE PEOPLE BE
THESE ARE PERMANENT POSITIONS
ON GOING SO IF I COULD JUST
CLARIFY SO -- THAT DIRECTOR
SPOT ON THE A LARGE NUMBER
OF THOSE ARE THAT SEASONAL
FIREFIGHTER WANTS TO THE JOB
WAS ALWAYS THAT IS TEMPORARY
BUT THERE ARE SOME POSITIONS
FOR FIRE CAPTAINS MATTEL IN
CHIEFS AND THINGS LIKE THAT
THAT ARE IN THE PROPOSAL AS
PERMANENT ONGOING POSITIONS
-- AND THE REASON WHY THEY'RE
BEING REQUESTED THAT WAY AS
WE MENTIONED EARLIER THERE ARE
A NUMBER OF -- PROPOSALS THAT
WERE PHASED IN LAST YEAR AND
SO AS WE BRING IF WE BRING THEM
IN USING THE TEMPORARY FUNDING
INTO PERMANENT POSITIONS IT'S
EASIER TO THAN PHASE THEM
INTO OTHER POSITIONS THAT WERE
AUTHORIZED TO THE POSITION OF
AUTHORITY WILL GO AWAY -- WILL
THE BILL BE ABOLISHED AS I
MINISTER TO PROCESS TO ABOLISH
THOSE POSITIONS THEY'LL GO
AWAY BUT BY HIRING THEM IN WHEN
WE BRING THEM ON AS PERMANENT
ONGOING POSITIONS IT MAKES IT
EASIER TO TRANSITION THEM INTO
OTHER PERMIT ONGOING POSITIONS
THAT WE NEED TO FILL AS WE
FACE AND A NUMBER OF OTHER
PROPOSALS SO REALLY IT'S A
IT'S A EFFICIENCY TOOL I GUESS
IF YOU WILL FOR BEING ABLE TO
SORT OF FILL OUT -- THE OTHER
FULL PROMOTE PROPOSALS THAT
YOU KNOW THAT THEY WERE DONE
LAST YEAR TO THAT'S SORT OF
THAT'S THE THINKING THERE BUT
THE LARGE NUMBER OF MORE THAT
ARE THE SEASONAL TEMPERATURES
SUCH AS WELL YEAH BERMAN WHO
LOST LOVE THAT RIGHT WITHIN THE
CRUISE IT YEAH CERTAINLY SO I
MEAN A LOT OF WHAT YOU'RE WITH
LAST YEAR THERE WAS A SEVENTEEN
-- PERMANENT FIRE HAND CREWS
I GUESS BECAUSE I GO BACK AND
FORTH AND FIRE CREWS INCREASE
BY GUESS HANGERS -- AND THEN
THE YEAR BEFORE WE ALSO DID I
WANT TO SIXTEEN HAND CREWS BUT
A LOT OF THAT IS GEARED TOWARDS
HISTORICALLY WE'VE HAD -- WELL
HUNDRED NINETY TWO THAT WENT
DOWN TO A HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO
WHEN WE CONSOLIDATED SOME CAMPS
-- BUT WE'VE BEEN OPERATOR CAL
FIGHTERS WITH OPERATING -- AT
AROUND FORTY EIGHT TO FIFTY THE
LAST COUPLE OF YEARS IN TERMS
OF IN MAY CRUISES BECAUSE THE
NUMBER OF AVAILABLE AND MATES
AND SO WE'VE BEEN DOING THOSE
ADDITIONAL CREWS AS A WAY TO
-- YOU BACKFILL SOME OF THAT --
THERE'S ALSO BEEN INVESTMENTS
IN CONSERVATION CORPS HAND
CREWS WELLS MILITARY DEPARTMENT
AND CREWS -- IN THE LAST FEW
YEARS WE HAVE A BACKFIELD YOU
KNOW HOW ALL OF THEM -- IS
THERE SOME DIFFERENT LEVELS OF
PERFORMANCE EFFICIENCIES YOU
GET WITH THE DIFFERENT TYPES
OF DENTURES TO SELL THAT'S
AN ONGOING -- I HAVE WORKED
THAT WERE ENGAGED IN PRETTY
MUCH CONSTANTLY WITH CAL FIRE
IS THIS FOR THE LONG TERM
PERMANENT OUTLOOK FOR -- THAT
SITUATION OKAY THANK YOU --
THANK YOU REVIEWS ARE IMPORTANT
-- JUST TO JUST TO TOUCH ON
FORTUNATE BACK OVER ON OUR --
OUR PREVENTION EFFORTS AS WELL
TO THREE OF OUR PREVENTION
EFFORTS ARE SUFFICIENTLY
FUNDED AND WHAT -- WITH
MAJOR DEEPER DIVE INTO THAT
-- AS WELL BUT -- ADDITIONAL
RESOURCES BEEN REQUESTED
AROUND THE PREVENTION SIDE
THANK YOU MY APOLOGIES THE
MICROPHONE I COULD NOT GET ITS
TURN ON SO HERE IS AN IMPORTANT
ASPECT -- THAT -- THAT I AM
CONTINUING TO TRY TO DRIVE
HOME AS -- AS THE DIRECTOR
CAUGHT FIRE -- OF THE OF THE
SIXTEEN HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR
POSITIONS ON ISSUES THAT AS
AN EXAMPLE LAST FISCAL YEAR
IF YOU ASK ME WHERE THEY FOR
PREVENTION WERE THEY FOR RIGHT
MINISTRATION I'M GONNA TELL YOU
THAT THERE FOR EVERYTHING WE
ARE A TOTAL FORCE ORGANIZATION
I HAVE AN EXPECTATION THAT
REGARDLESS OF THEIR CIVIL
SERVICE CLASSIFICATION RELATED
TO WHETHER YOU ARE -- FORESTRY
EIGHT FORESTRY TECHNICIAN A
FIREFIGHTER A FIRE CAPTAIN
OR FORSTER WHEN YOU WERE
NOT ASSIGNED TO EMERGENCY
ACTIVITIES YOU WERE DOING
WILDFIRE RESILIENCE FIRE
PREVENTION EFFORTS DEFENSIBLE
SPACE -- IT IS A MULTI FACETED
APPROACH AND THIS IS STAFF
TOGETHER IN THE LAST THREE
FISCAL YEARS HAVE EXCEEDED
A MINIMUM OF ONE HUNDRED
THOUSAND ACRES OF TREATMENT
ACROSS -- THE LANDSCAPE OVER
TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND
DEFENSIBLE SPACE INSPECTIONS
OUR COMMUNITY WELFARE
PREPAREDNESS AND MITIGATION
DIVISION IN OUR COMMUNICATIONS
-- PROGRAMS RELATE AND
EDUCATE ON DEFENSIBLE SPACE
AMBER RESISTANCE ZONES HOME
HARDENING -- RESILIENCE --
GRANT OPPORTUNITIES SO THE LONG
AND SHORT ANSWER TO YOU IS I
BELIEVE THAT THIS INVESTMENT
OF THE FIVE HUNDRED THREE
POSITIONS THE SEVENTEEN HAND
CREWS LAST YEAR THE SIX BEEN
REQUESTED NOW WILL ALL GO
TOWARDS MEDIANET AND EXCEEDING
OUR PREVENTION EFFORTS YEAH
EXCELLENCE IN THE NEXT QUESTION
YOU KNOW WHAT THESE PEOPLE
THAN ALSO DOING -- PREVENTION
YOU ANSWER THAT WE'RE GOING
TO ADD IF I COULD JUST ADD
ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER THING
THAT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE
THAT WE DON'T LOSE IN THIS
CONVERSATION ABOUT PREVENTION
IS THAT AS WE'VE LOOKED AT
THE CRIME INVESTMENTS OVER THE
LAST SEVERAL YEARS -- TWO POINT
EIGHT BILLION WAS IN WILDFIRE
PREVENTION AND THE MAYOR VISION
-- PROTECTS NINETY PERCENT OF
THAT SO WE'RE STILL SITTING AT
TWO POINT SEVEN SO ONE OF THE
WAYS THAT WE'RE HOPING IT'S
COMMUNICATED THE IMPORTANCE OF
THIS PARTICULAR AREA IS THAT
WHILE WE HAVE IDENTIFIED SOME
PLACES TO MAKE REDUCTIONS IN
SHIFTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT
IN SOME AREAS WHERE I FEEL
LIKE WE CAN IN THE WILDFIRE
PREVENTION SPACE WE DON'T FEEL
LIKE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT
THE STATE CAN DO AND SO WE'VE
PROTECTED VIRTUALLY ALL OF
IT -- AND THAT THE INTEGRITY
GIVE THAT LEVEL OF IMPORTANCE
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MATURE
WELL FIRST I'D LIKE TO JUST
MAKE SOME AS HAVE COMMENTS
BASICALLY ON HOW MANY QUESTIONS
BUT THE COMMENTS I HAD IS THAT
YOU KNOW IN THE LAST TEN YEARS
WE'VE ACTUALLY REALLY DONE A
LOT IN THE SPACE WE'VE WE'VE
BROUGHT A NEW HELICOPTERS WHICH
IS WAS DESPERATELY NEEDED --
WE DID RECOGNIZE AND AND AT THE
SAME TIME WE HAD TO INCREASE
REVENUES WHICH MADE IT EVEN
BETTER TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS
SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT WE HAD
AND WE SEEN WILD BY LIKE WE'VE
NEVER SEEN IN THE STATE AT
THE SAME TIME SO BUT WE'RE A
DIFFERENT SPOT I KNOW THAT THE
THE CHIEF CAN DO A REALLY GOOD
JOB OF OF TALKING ABOUT THE
NUMBERS OF FIRES AND BUT BUT MY
QUESTION I DO HAVE A QUESTION I
MEAN IT WOULD ON AVERAGE EVERY
YEAR WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE IT
YOU KNOW YOU YOU HAVE THOUSANDS
OF OF STRIKES LIGHTNING STRIKE
CAN YOU RESPOND TO THOUSANDS
OF FIRES ACROSS THE STATE BUT
IT ONLY TAKES THAT ONE FIRE
THAT TURNS INTO A DIXIE OR A
-- MISKITO OR WHATEVER FIRE
-- BUT DID IT SAY HOW PREPARED
ARE WE FOR IT WE'RE GOING
TO HAVE THOUSANDS OF FIRES
IN CALIFORNIA AND CALIFORNIA
IS VERY DIVERSE I MEAN WHAT
HAPPENS IN EMAIL SANTEE SAMBAR
DINO IS A WAY DIFFERENT THAN
HAPPENS IN MODOC AND IN BETWEEN
THERE IS SEVERAL DIFFERENT
DIFFERENT TOPOGRAPHIES IT MAY
REQUIRE DIFFERENT CUT TYPES OF
FIREFIGHTING SO -- ANYWAY IN
THIS SPACE THAT WAS ONCE SAY
THAT TO YOU KNOW THE NUMBERS
ARE GOING TO BE THE NUMBERS
WHATEVER THEY ARE AND THEY'RE
HIGH BUT AT THE END OF THE
DAY WE'VE DONE QUITE A BIT IN
THIS AREA AND I THINK THAT --
I GET WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO
HERE I THINK THE FOUR HUNDRED
THIRTY TWO IS GOING TO GIVE
YOU AN OPTION TO FIND THOSE
FOLKS THAT MAYBE CAN STAY ON
BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S HARD TO
FILL POSITIONS AND WE TALKED
ABOUT THAT WHEN YOU CAME TO
MY OFFICE -- AND THIS IS THE
THIS IS UNIQUE THIS ISN'T JOB
WHERE YOU'RE SITTING IN FRONT
OF A COMPUTER OR YOUR IS THE
JOB ARE YOU ACTUALLY DOING
PHYSICAL HARD WORK AND WE NEED
THOSE TYPE OF PEOPLE THAT WANT
TO DO THAT ARE ABLE TO SUSTAIN
THAT KIND OF WORK SCHEDULE AND
I'M HOPEFUL THAT YOU'LL FIND
THOSE -- THIS NEXT YEAR THAT
WILL FILL THOSE POSITIONS THAT
WE NEED FOR THE LONG HAUL SO
I I THINK I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
TRYING TO GET TO AND SO I'M
SUPPORTIVE OF THAT -- AND I'M
ALSO WE JUST WANT TO SHARE
THAT WE PUT A LOT OF MONEY
AND WE'VE WE'VE THE INITIAL
ATTACK IS WHERE WE CAN REALLY
YOU KNOW SO STOP MAJOR FIRE
FROM HAPPENING WHEN A SMALL ONE
IS LESS THAN ACRE SO COMMENTS
YOU TOO BYE WILSHIRE SO MY
ONE OKAY -- GOOD THANK YOU FOR
THAT AND I THINK FOR THE LAST
-- -- SESSION OF QUESTIONS IT
-- AROUND -- HOW FAR SO IT WAS
WHO TO THE EXTRAS THE SESSION
IMPLEMENTATION YEAH AND --
CREDITORS CC OR CAR BEFORE
WOULD LIKE TO ANSWER BUT --
WOULD LOVE AN UPDATE ON WHAT
THE MINISTRATIONS CURRENTLY
DONE TO PLAN AND PREPARE FOR
THE PETITION OF OF THE S.
B.
TWO
HI MY NAME IS ALICIA GUTIERREZ
AND I AM THE DIRECTOR FOR
THE ENERGY ASSESSMENTS AT THE
CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION
AND -- TO DATE THERE'S BEEN
A LOT OF WORK IN THE PLANNING
FOR SB TWO -- TODAY AS WE SPEAK
-- THERE IS AN IMPLEMENTATION
WORKSHOP GOING ON AT THE
ENERGY COMMISSION -- AT OUR OLD
BUILDING -- IF THAT'S FOCUSED
ON THE REQUIREMENTS OF SB TWO
-- WE'RE DOING A LITTLE BIT
OF A DEEPER DIVE ON THE SORRY
CAN'T TOUCH THE FLOOR HERE --
WE'RE DOING A LITTLE BIT OF A
DEEPER DIVE ON THE DATA REQUEST
-- WHICH WILL GO INTO EFFECT AT
THE END OF JUNE AND -- AND THE
ASSESSMENT THAT IS TO AT THE
END OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR SO --
YEAH THE WORKSHOP IS HAPPENING
TODAY -- WE'VE DEVELOPED AN
INTERNAL WORK SCHEDULE WITH ALL
OF THE LEGISLATIVE REQUIREMENTS
AND ARE PLANNING FOR A ROBUST
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PROCESS
WITH WORKING GROUPS AND --
WORKSHOPS TO VET SOME OF THE
THINKING THAT WE HAVE IN OUR
APPROACHES TO THE ASSESSMENT
-- DEAR IS -- OF FORMS AND
INSTRUCTIONS PACKAGE THAT IS
CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW WITHIN
CDC AND A DATA PORTAL THAT'S
BEING PREPARED -- TO ACCEPT
THE DATA SUBMISSIONS -- WE'RE
PLANNING TO START COLLECTING
THAT NEW DATA AT THE END OF
JUNE AS I MENTIONED ON THE
REQUIREMENTS TAKE FULL EFFECT
AND -- WE ARE IN CONVERSATIONS
WITH -- CARB AND CD TFA -- --
FOR THE -- JOINT PRODUCTS THAT
WILL BE DEVELOPING WITH THEM
I'M WITH CARB WE'RE LOOKING AT
THE SCENARIOS TO BE EXPLORED
IN THE FEELS ASSESSMENT THAT'S
-- DUE JANUARY FIRST AND --
DISCUSSING THE TOOLS -- THAT
WE HAVE TO -- MITIGATE PRICE
SPIKES -- WE'VE HOLD INITIAL
MEETINGS WITH CD TFA TO DISCUSS
THE ANNUAL REPORT SCOPE DATA
NEEDS TO SUPPORT ANALYSIS ON
TAX REVENUE IMPACTS AND DATA
SHARING AGREEMENTS -- WITH OUR
AGENCIES AND -- AND LOOKING
AT FINALIZING THE SCOPE OF
A TECHNICAL SUPPORT CONTRACT
-- TO TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF
ENERGY COMMISSION STAFF TO
THE TEN POSITIONS ARE THE BE
DIRECTED FROM OTHER PLACES
IN WITH THAT AFFECTS HE SEES
WORK ON THE OTHER EXISTING
PROGRAMS SO -- UPON APPROVAL
OF THE REQUEST CC IS REVIEWING
ITS ROSTER AND POSITIONS AND
I'M PLANNING TO SHIFT EXIST
IS EXISTING VACANT POSITIONS
TO SUPPORT THE NEW DIVISION
AND WILL MANAGE OUR POSITION
AND EXPENDITURE AUTHORITY
TO MINIMIZE IMPACTS TO OUR
EXISTING PROGRAMS OKAY I'M
WELL LET ME SEE AN ATTORNEY
SENATOR ALL IN THIS ONE AND
THEN -- WHOSE MOTHER QUESTIONS
ON ENERGY AS A WHOLE SO FIRST I
HAVE NO -- MY BASE MY QUESTIONS
ARE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION
AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU
THE LEGISLATURE PASSED THIS
IS A SPECIAL SESSIONS GOAL
WHICH WAS TO PENALIZE REFINERS
IF THEY'RE IF THEY'RE PRICE
GOUGING CALIFORNIANS OKAY THE
LEGISLATURE DID THAT I OPPOSE
IT AND I DON'T THINK IT WAS
NECESSARY BUT NOW THIS PROPOSAL
IS SIX MILLION DOLLARS TO HELP
FUND THE POSITIONS AT THE C.
C.
AND IS COMING FROM THE ENERGY
RESOURCE PROGRAMS ACCOUNT WHICH
MEANS YOU'RE GOING TO CHARGE
MY BILL MY ELECTRIC BILL TO
PAY FOR THE SIX MILLION DOLLARS
TO GO ACTUALLY FIGURE OUT IF
THE OIL COMPANIES ARE TAKING
ADVANTAGE OF CALIFORNIANS
SO AYE AYE MY DESCRIPTIONS
HERE IS WHY ARE WE PAYING
ELECTRICITY RATES TO GO AFTER
OIL PRODUCERS OR TO FUND THE
POSITIONS WHEN IT SHOULD COME
OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND IT
IN TODAY WHY RATEPAYERS ON
THE HOOK THAT'S MY QUESTION
SO A MINNOW IN DEPARTMENT OF
FINANCE AND ENERGY RESOURCES
PROGRAM ACCOUNT SEC'S PRIMARY
OPERATING COUNTY FUNDS ALL OF
THEIR MAIN ACTIVITIES AND --
JUST TO BE CLEAR WE ARE NOT
RAISING -- FEES ON ELECTRICITY
CONSUMERS WITH THIS PROPOSAL
-- SO IT'S IT IS THE MONEY
COME FROM THAT WELL THE MONEY
COMES FROM THE AVAILABLE FUND
BALANCE OF ENERGY RESOURCES
PROGRAM WHICH WHERE DOES THAT
MONEY COME FROM WHICH COMES
FROM AT CONSUMPTION CHARGE
ON ELECTRICITY WHICH IS RATE
PAYERS YES THANK YOU FOR
ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS THE
RATE PAYERS ARE PAYING FOR
THIS THESE POSITIONS TO FIGURE
OUT IF PEOPLE ARE IF THE IF
REFINERIES ARE CHARGING TOO
MUCH MONEY WHY WHY DO WE TAKE
IT ON THE GENERAL FUND THAT'S
THE QUESTION I'M ASKING BECAUSE
THE RATEPAYER SHOULD NOT BE
ON THE HOOK FOR THIS SPECIAL
SESSION FOR LEGISLATION IT
SHOULD COME OUT THE GENERAL
FUND IF WE IF WE WANT TO
FIGURE OUT IF REFINERS ARE
GOUGING CALIFORNIANS WHY IS
THE RATE PAYER PAYING THAT'S
THE QUESTION I'M TRYING WHAT
WAS THE JUSTIFICATION THAT AS
WE'VE HEARD MANY TIMES IN THIS
COMMITTEE OVER THE LAST TWO
MONTHS LOW INCOME DISADVANTAGED
FOLKS ARE PAYING THOSE BILLS
CAN ANYBODY ANSWER WHY
THE REPAIRS ON THE FOR
THE REFINERY'S DECISION
APPARENTLY NOT THANK YOU
THERE IS -- WHERE WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT THE -- SB TWO IMITATION
ANY QUESTIONS MATTER YOU'RE
YOU'RE GOOD ON THAT -- PART
WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO THE
-- SUMMER TWENTY TWENTY THREE
IMPORTED ENERGY REIMBURSEMENT
PROGRAM IN JUST WORKING MORE
CLEAR IN TWENTY TWENTY TWO DO
YOU HAVE YOURS BURKE I KNOW
THAT JUNE RECAP LIABILITY
RESERVES SO I'M CLEAR WAS
AUTHORIZED TO REIMBURSE
ELECTRICAL CORPORATIONS THE
BUT MARKET COSTS OF IMPORTED
ENERGY AN IMPORTANT CAPACITY
PRODUCTS TO CURATE FROM JULY TO
SEPTEMBER TWENTY TWO TO SUPPORT
SUMMER ELECTRICITY SERVICE
RELIABILITY AND THE LIABILITIES
BEEN A KEY FOCUS OF MINE MMHM
AND THEN TO DO WE ARE REQUEST
THE SAME AUTHORITY FOR SUMMER
TWENTY TWENTY THREE IS CRITICAL
RELIABILITY MEASURE FOR EXTREME
EVENTS AND THERE'S A HUNDRED
MILLION A TRANSFER PROPOSED
FROM THE BACK AMASSES PROGRAM
TO DO FOR THIS ACTIVITY SO
I QUESTIONS FOR D.
W.
R.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE
-- WHERE CITIES AT FORTY
SEVEN PERCENT OF THE TOTAL
GENERATION FROM CONTRACTS
SUPPORTED BY THIS RESERVE
PROGRAM WERE FROM ZERO OR VERY
LOW EMITTING RESOURCES THE
REMAINING FIFTY THREE PERCENT
OF GENERATION FROM UNSPECIFIED
OF RESOURCES COULD YOU PROVIDE
ANY MORE INFORMATION ABOUT
THESE UNSPECIFIED RESOURCES
THANK YOU SIR BAKER GOOD
MORNING MY NAME IS DELFINO FROM
DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES
UNFORTUNATELY THE AS THE
NAME SUGGESTS THE UNSPECIFIED
RESOURCES -- WE DON'T HAVE
ANY INFORMATION ON WHAT THE
EXACT GENERATOR IS HOWEVER
THE CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES
BOARD THEY'VE ASSUMED A FAIRLY
CONSERVATIVE EMISSIONS PROFILE
-- TO -- -- ASSOCIATE WITH
THAT GENERATION AND THAT WOULD
BE THE EMISSIONS PROFILE OF
NATURAL GAS FIRED GENERATOR
SO WE'VE ADOPTED THAT METRIC
WHICH THE AIR RESOURCES
BOARD HAS DEVELOPED -- AND
IN CONSULTATION WITH THEM USE
THAT IN OUR CALCULATION --
BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER
INFORMATION ON THE SPECIFIC
ASSETS THAT WERE GENERATING
OKAY WITH WITH A QUESTION
RICHARD GET THE STRESS OUT
THE RATIONALE FOR USING FUNDS
FROM THIS DEEPER PROGRAM WHICH
IS DISTRIBUTED ELECTRICITY
BACK OF ASSETS PROGRAMS TO
REIMBURSE IMPORTED ENERGY COSTS
YEAH I I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER
THAT CHAIR SO IT DEPARTMENT
OF WATER RESOURCES DOESN'T
HAVE AVAILABLE FUNDING WITH
-- IT WITHIN ITS ELECTRICITY
STRATEGIC SUPPLY RELIABILITY
RESERVE TO SUPPORT THE SECOND
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY WITH ITS
CURRENT BUDGET SO GIVEN THE
PHYSICAL CONDITION OF THE STATE
AND THAT THE DISTRIBUTOR LOOK
AT THE BACK OF ASSETS PROGRAM
IS CONSIDERED PART OF THE
OVERALL STRATEGIC RELIABILITY
RESERVED AND HAS AVAILABLE
FUNDING WE LOOK DAY SUITABLE
IN EXISTING FUNDING SOURCES
FOR THIS CRITICAL SUMMER NEED
OKAY WELL AS MENTIONED --
-- LIABILITY HAS BEEN A KEY
CONCERN BUT -- ALONG THOSE
LINES WITH THIS PROGRAM --
STILL CONCERN WE'RE PAYING TOO
MUCH RESOURCES THAT ARE TOO
DIRTY FROM A GREENHOUSE GAS
EMISSIONS PROGRAM M.
PROFILE AND POLLUTION PROFILE
-- INTRICATE THIS FOR SHOULD
BE THE PRIMARY TARGET OF BOTH
OF OUR INVESTMENT AND SHOULD
YOUR LONG TERM GOALS SO -- I AM
EXCITED TO SENSE OF PROCUREMENT
PROPOSAL THIS YEAR I THINK WE
NEED TO PRIORITIZE YOU KNOW
TURN A POLICY APPROACHES --
IN THIS AREA SUCH AS BUILDING
OUT EMERGENCY CORD INTEGRATED
DEMAND RESPONSE WE TALKED ABOUT
THE PAST HERE IS TO MAKE SURE
YOUR GRID INTEGRATED PROGRAMS
EVER USING EXISTING RESOURCES
SO AS THOSE ARE USING THIS
TEACHER FOR LIABILITY RESERVE
LIKE TO SEE MORE GUARDRAILS AND
TIME LIMITS ON THESE RESOURCES
-- I KNOW WE HAVE TALKED THE
PAST BY SUPPLY CHAIN BARRIERS
BUT -- YOU KNOW WE CAN'T BLAME
THAT IN OVER THE NEXT EXT
YEARS AS A PRETEXT YOU KNOW
-- NOT MOVING TO MORE CLEAN
ENERGY SO -- IF SUPPLY CHAIN
CONTINUED KERRIER WE WE NEED
TO HEAR ABOUT IT WE NEED TO
WORK ON IT LEAVING THAT AND
-- -- YEAH AND -- YOU'RE NOT
USING AS AN EXCUSE I THINK TO
TO -- -- TO NOT TRANSFER YOU
BE USING MORE ZERO LOW VERY
LOW EMITTING RESOURCES --
MISSION RESOURCES SO -- ONCE
AGAIN I THINK THIS IS THIS IS
A KEY THING TO FOCUS ON AND --
WE KNOW WILL BE CONTINUING TO
KEEP AN EYE ON A T.
W.
R.
AND OF THESE RESOURCES EARLY
OF ANYTHING TETHER YOU -- THANK
YOU SIR CREDIT WITH THE L.
A.
-- WE'RE WE'RE STILL LOOKING
INTO THIS PROPOSAL AND I
THINK IT'S IT'S WORTH NOTING
THAT THAT THE DEEPER PROGRAM
THE DISTRIBUTED ELECTRICITY
BACK UP ASSETS PROGRAM WHICH
IS PROPOSED TO HAVE -- THAT
THE ONE HUNDRED MILLION COME
FROM THAT PROGRAM HASN'T
REALLY GOTTEN OFF THE GROUND
YET -- BUT AGAIN WE'RE WE'RE
WE'RE STILL LOOKING INTO TO
-- TO THE PROPOSAL AND TO
BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE
REIMBURSEMENTS WOULD WOULD GO
TOWARDS OKAY -- BUT WITHOUT
SUFFICIENT QUESTIONS HERE'S
ONE COUPLE ISSUES IN TERMS OF
MY MY COLLEAGUES HERE -- DID
YOU HAVE A CANYON LOAN MAJOR
VERSION POSES TAKES INITIAL
FORTUNE MONEY TOWARDS EXTENSION
OF DEDUCTIBLE CAN OPERATIONS
-- ANY SINCE THE SCOPE OF OF --
-- REPAIR IMPACTS FOR THIS LOAN
THIS WILL BE FOR THE PC
PROBABLY I WAS GOING TO SAY
-- PER THE LOAN AGREEMENT THE
ENTIRE AMOUNT IS SUBJECT TO
REPAYMENT -- AND THAT IS PER
SB FORTY SIX ALL LOAN REPAYMENT
AMOUNTS WOULD EITHER COME FROM
THE DOE GRANT FUNDS ARE ANY
EXCESS FUNDS REMAINING IN A
BALANCING COUNT OF THERE ARE
MARKET REVENUES THAT EXCEED
COSTS AND EXPENSES BY THE END
OF THE LAST YEAR OF EXTEND
OPERATIONS AND AS YOU MENTIONED
I THINK BEYOND THAT WHEN IT
GOES DOWN -- TO ACTUAL RATES
AND RATE PAYERS AYE I WOULD
DEFER TO THE CPUC TO -- OPINE
UNDER THEIR JURISDICTION YUP
WHEN YOU RACHEL A LETTER DAILY
-- JUST SO JUST TO CONFIRM THAT
COLD WITH THE LOAN WAS REALLY
THAT THE FEDERAL FUNDS WOULD
HELP REPAY SO THERE MAY BE I
MEAN OBVIOUSLY -- OPERATING
DIABLO ON AN ONGOING BASIS FOR
THE NEXT FEW YEARS WE SHOULD BE
EXTENDED WOULD HAVE ULTIMATELY
REPAIR COSTS ASSOCIATED BUT
FOR THIS LOAN THE GOAL WAS
THAT THE FEDERAL FUNDS WOULD
REPAY EVENTUALLY OKAY THERE
WAS CONCERN ALSO WITH THE
-- ALLOWING FOR COSTS EXCEED
APPROVED FOR CASSIDY FIFTEEN
PERCENT WITHOUT ADDITIONAL
REVIEW OF EXCESS SPENDING --
YEAH AND WE'RE CERTAINLY I'M
CONCERNED ABOUT THAT YOU WOULD
MAKE SURE NOT READY P.
G.
BLANK CHECK FOR -- AND THAT WE
ARE ENSURING COST REVIEW -- OF
THOSE FIFTEEN PERCENT IS THAT
IS THAT STILL THE PROPOSAL
AT THIS RATHER THAN FIFTEEN
PERCENT WITHOUT ADDITIONAL
REVIEW -- IT APPRECIATE THE THE
QUESTION TURN UNFORTUNATELY I
WAS A PART OF THE DISCUSSION
THAT PAINTED OUT THE FIFTEEN
PERCENT BUT REGARDLESS OF --
WHAT THE PERCENTAGES A WE ARE
GOING THROUGH A VERY DETAILED
REVIEW OF ANY COSTS THAT PG&AMP;E
WOULD OCCUR PURSUANT TO THE
LOAN AGREEMENT IN ADDITION TO
THAT DID OF YOUR HAS ENGAGE
WITH NUCLEAR EXPERTS ON THAT
FOLKS THAT HAVE A DIRECT
EXPERIENCE AND BACKGROUND WITH
LICENSE RENEWAL AND ALL THE
ACTIVITIES IT WOULD TAKE TO
SUPPORT THE APPLICATION AND
CONTINUED SAFE AND RELIABLE
OPERATIONS OF THE NUCLEAR
POWER PLANT -- AND SO I THINK
BETWEEN OUR ENGAGEMENT OF WITH
OUR STAFF BETWEEN THE NUCLEAR
EXPERTS AS WELL AS CONSULTATION
WITH THE CPUC TO ENSURE THAT
NONE OF THE COSTS THAT ARE --
RECOVERABLE IN THE LOAN ARE
NOT DOUBLE COUNTED IN RATES I
THINK BETWEEN -- THESE THREE
WERE ABLE TO GET TO A FAIRLY
DETAILED REVIEW OF ALL OF THE
-- COSTS -- UNDER THE LOAN OKAY
WHAT WE SHOULD THAT MAY BE A
FEW SUITORS NO COMMENT WOULD
BE GOOD TO HEAR -- JIM UNDER
LAST ISSUE UNDER THIS TOPIC
AND THEN THE TURNOVER WHICH IS
I THINK A BIG ONE WHICH IS THE
THE PURPOSE ENERGY RESOURCES
PROGRAM ACCOUNT SURCHARGE --
SO MY QUESTION RELIEF HERE
WOULD BE FOR THE CC OR PART
OF FINANCE -- ON THIS WHICH IS
YOUR HOW MUCH WILL THE AVERAGE
HOUSEHOLD PAY FOR THE SURCHARGE
AS A RESULT OF THE RATE
INCREASE AND -- WHO ARE THE
BEHIND THE METER ELECTRICITY
RATEPAYERS THERE'RE GOING TO
BE ADDED TO THIS SURCHARGE
-- GOOD MORNING ROB COOK
EGGMAN DIRECTOR FOR THE ENERGY
COMMISSION -- GOOD QUESTIONS
THERE IS -- JUST TO JUST TO
PUT THINGS INTO CONTEXT THE
ENERGY RESEARCH PROGRAMS
ACCOUNT IS FED BY A VERY VERY
SMALL SURCHARGE ON BOND --
ELECTRICITY RETAIL ELECTRICITY
BILLS -- YOU HAVE BEEN ON
YOURS YOU HAVE IT ON YOURS
-- THE AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD PAYS
CURRENTLY ABOUT TWO DOLLARS
A YEAR IT FOR FIVE OR ABOUT
SEVEN SIXTEEN SEVENTEEN CENTS
A MONTH -- THE FOLKS THAT WILL
BE COMING ADDED TO THIS WERE
UNDER THE PROPOSAL THE PROPOSAL
IS THREE THREE PRONGS INCREASE
THE RATE CAPS EARLY AT THE CAP
CAP WAS ORIGINALLY SAID AT A
TENTH OF A MAIL BACK IN THE
SEVENTIES AND IT'S BEEN RAISED
A COUPLE OF TIMES OVER THE
DECADES BUT IT IS NEVER KEPT
PACE WITH INFLATION N.
AS IS -- AYMAN WAITED OUT THE
VOLUME OF OF APPROPRIATIONS
AGAINST THE REVENUE SOURCE
JUST DON'T MATCH UP THAT'S WHY
WE'RE IN A STRUCTURAL DEFICIT
THE WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING TO
DO THREE THINGS INCREASE THE
CAP AT THE RATE THAT THE CAB
TO WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HAD
IT BEEN TIED TO INFLATION
SINCE ITS INCEPTION WE'RE THEN
PROPOSING TO TIE IT TO AN FOR
THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX GOING
FORWARD AND THEN TO APPLY THE
RATE TO BEHIND THE METER --
TO THE BEHIND THE METER --
CUSTOMERS -- THOSE CUSTOMERS
ABOUT ONE POINT THREE MILLION
RESIDENTIAL CONSUMERS THAT
HAVE SOLAR ON THEIR HOMES ONE
OF THE THINGS THAT THE ENERGY
CAN DO THE COMMISSION IS DONE
TO PROMOTE SOLAR AS WE'VE IT
ONE OF OUR BUILDING EFFICIENCY
STANDARDS PLACE TO MANDATE THE
NEW HOMES HAVE SOLAR ON THE A
AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THAT AND
OTHER POLICIES IN THE STATE
THERE IS A LOT OF HOUSEHOLDS
REMOVED SOLAR WE'RE NO LONGER
PAYING INTO THE EUROPA CAL THIS
HELPS BRING THAT SO THAT THE
REPAIR BASE DOESN'T CONTINUE
TO SHRINK OVERTIME WHAT SHOULD
WE NEED TO SHORE UP THE --
BUT IT WILL ON AVERAGE FOR
THOSE BEHIND THE METER RATE
ELECTRICITY REPAIRS HOW MUCH
ARE THE ONLY PAYING OF IT
THEY'RE GOING TO BE PAYING
A LIKE AMOUNT WITH OTHER
RESIDENTIAL RATEPAYERS WHICH IS
ABOUT SEVENTEEN CENTS A MONTH
GOT IT -- YOU KNOW THE PERHAPS
BECAUSE THE CASE DEFICIT LAST
YEAR'S ORGANS WIDE BY NOW UNDER
THE MAY REVISION TO REDRESS IT
AND ALSO THE SURCHARGE JURORS
ARE SEVENTY MILLION THE TOTAL
APPROPRIATION IS EIGHTY SIX
MILLION FOR THIS RATING CREASE
FULLY TRUST STRUCTURAL DEFICIT
IN IN YOUR AREA THE TO THE
THE THREE PRONGED APPROACH
THAT WE'RE PROPOSING GIVES THE
ENERGY COMMISSION THE TOOLS IT
NEEDS IN ORDER TO RESOLVE THE
DEFICIT THERE IS NO PROPOSAL
THE ENERGY COMMISSION HAS THE
AUTHORITY TO ADJUST THE THE
RATE IN NOVEMBER OF EACH YEAR
WE'RE CURRENTLY UP AGAINST
THE CAP NOW SO THE ENERGY
COMMISSION CAN'T DO ANYTHING
ABOUT IT MUZZLING -- THIS WOULD
GIVE THE ENERGY COMMISSION THE
TOOLS TO MONITOR THE FUND AND
AS NEEDED -- INCREASE THAT RATE
CONSIDER ADJUSTMENTS THE RATE
IN NOVEMBER OF EACH YEAR --
CURRENTLY WE DON'T HAVE THAT
OPTION -- IF IF IF I MAY SIR
CREDIT WITH THE L.
A.
O.
-- I THINK WANT ONE OTHER
THING TO NOTE HERE IS THAT --
-- PRESIDENT ACCORDING TO THE
FUND BALANCE IS NOT PROJECTED
TO GO INSOLVENT THIS YEAR --
BUT AND IN TWENTY TWENTY FOUR
TWENTY FIVE SO THAT THAT'S
SOMETHING THAT THE LEGISLATURE
COULD KEEP IN MIND IF IF IT
FEELS THIS THIS TIME LINE IS A
BIT TOO RUSHED TO TO CONSIDER
THIS CHANGE THANK YOU THE JEWS
IF THE CHANGE IS MADE IN YOUR
MIND THAT WOULD ELIMINATE THE
DEFICIT IS THAT READERS IF WE
IF WE TAKE THIS THREE PRONGED
APPROACH WE WILL BE ABLE TO
RESOLVE OUR ISSUE MMHM -- OKAY
-- IN YOUR OPINION I'M FROM
ZERO THE BEHIND ME TO RESOURCE
ESPECIALLY ROOFTOP SOLAR --
MAN HAS TAKEN A HIT WITH THAT
ENERGY METERING CHANGE -- SO
YOU KNOW HOW COULD HISTORY
NOT DISCOURAGE DEPLOYMENT OF
RESOURCES OUT THERE TO ISSUES
THERE SIR -- ONE THE THE
BUILDING EFFICIENCY STANDARD
THAT WE PUT IN PLACE TO MANDATE
SNOOZE ALARM RESIDENTIAL
IT'S A NON ISSUE FOR THOSE
INSTALLATION NEW ONES YET
YOUNGER NEW ONES FOR EXISTING
HOMES THEY'RE OF EVALUATING
A TEN OR FIFTEEN OR TWENTY
THOUSAND DOLLAR INSTALLATION
OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM AGAINST
A TWO DOLLAR ANNUAL COST IT'S
A MATERIAL IN THAT IN THAT
DECISION MAKING -- FOR IT
WOULD BE THE PERSPECTIVE I I
DO KNOW THAT WE DO NEED TO --
TO CATCH UP THE THAT WE CAN
PASS A WHOLE NUMBER FOR SURE
-- EARLIER SAID YOU KNOW IF
TO FIGURE OUT IF YOU'RE MAYBE
NOW'S THE TIME TO DO IT UNDER
THIS TIME FRAME OR THE IN THE
FUTURE BUT -- -- -- AGAIN I
MEAN THOSE SOLUTIONS IT WAS
A RELATIVELY SMALL AMOUNT BUT
-- BRUCE OF STORE HAS BEEN HIT
FOR NUMBER WRANGLES NOW SO IT
DOES APPEAR TO BE AN ADDITIONAL
SOLAR TAX YOU KNOW EVEN IF NOT
A LARGE ONE SO -- THAT'S THAT'S
CONCERNED -- BUT YOU PREVIEW
THE EFFORTS TO TO PATRICK
PERFECT BECAUSE WE DO HAVE TO
DO IT -- RECEIVE MY COLLEAGUES
OF ANYTHING ON IF ANYTHING ELSE
ON YEAH YEAH SO -- I WANTED
THE CHAIRMAN ACTUALLY FUNDED
OF YOURS -- PURCHASE -- WHAT
WHAT'S THE CRITERIA FOR MAKING
SURE THAT TIME WE'RE MEETING
OUR OUR CLEAN GOALS LET ME SO
AT THE AT THE TIME THEY THEY
CAN JUST GO OUT AND PURCHASE
-- GAS FIRED ENERGY OR COAL
OR WHAT IN IN THOSE SITUATIONS
WHAT IS WHAT IS THE GUARD
GUARD RAILS AND I THINK THE
CHAIRMAN CON ASKED BUT IT DID
REALLY GET ANSWERED I WANTED
TO KIND OF GET A FOLLOW UP ON
FOR THE RESERVE AND SIR CAN
I CLARIFY IF YOU'RE ASKING
SPECIFICALLY ABOUT IMPORTS OR
ALL EITHER YEAH WHEN WE COME
WE'RE HAVING TO THE ENERGY
SHORTAGE WITH AND THERE'S BEEN
A LOT OF LEGISLATION THAT WAS
TO SHUT DOWN ALL THESE PLANTS
IN THE COMMISSION THEM BUT
DURING THE TIME LIKE LAST YEAR
IN THE GOVERNOR DID EXECUTIVE
TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD POWER
WE TURN THEM ON AND WE DIDN'T
HAVE A ROLLING BLACKOUT SO SO
WHAT IS THE CRITERIA FOR DVR
WHEN THEY PURCHASE POWER IS
IS THERE A CRITERIA THAT THEY
CAN GET ANY KIND OF POWER THEY
WANT OR WHATEVER'S AVAILABLE
OR IS IT THE CLEAN POWER
READ SHE THE QUESTION I DO
WANT TO DIFFERENTIATE I KNOW
WE'RE IN A FAIRLY DIFFICULT
POSITION BECAUSE WE DO WANT
OUR LOAD SERVING ENTITIES
IN THE STATE TO DO WHAT THEY
HAVE BEEN DOING WHICH IS
PURSUE THAT CLEAN POWER TO THE
EXTENT POSSIBLE -- D.
W.
R.
WANTS TO BE IN THE SAME
SITUATION BUT WE ALSO A WANT
TO BE MINDFUL THAT WE ARE NOT
COMPETING AGAINST THOSE SAME
CLOTHES SERVING ENTITIES THAT
ARE TRYING THEIR BEST TO MEET
THEIR -- TRADITIONAL RESOURCE
ADEQUACY REQUIREMENTS AND AT
THE SAME TIME WE KNOW THAT
THERE ARE ASSETS THAT ARE NOT
BEING PICKED UP BECAUSE OF
THEIR -- LESS CLEAN PROFILE
SO THE RESERVE AS IT STANDS
WE WANT TO HAVE A FOCUS ON
RELIABILITY WITH THE BALANCE
SO SEVERAL THINGS THAT
WE'VE BEEN DOING SO AS WE'VE
DISCUSSED HERE BEFORE THE
FIRST OF PORTFOLIO OF ASSETS
DO INCLUDE NOT NATURAL GAS
HEAVY RESOURCES AND IN TWENTY
TWENTY TWO EVEN HAD DIESEL
ASSETS WE HAVE VOLUNTARILY
DECIDED TO NO LONGER PURSUE
DIESEL FOR SUMMER TWENTY TWENTY
THREE EVEN THOUGH WE CAN UP
UNTIL JULY THIRTY FIRST TWENTY
THREE PER THE WATER CODE SO
THAT'S A DECISION THAT DUE TO
BE OUR HAS MADE CONSCIOUSLY
TO TRY TO REDUCE THE EMISSIONS
IMPACT SECONDARILY IN THE GAS
PORTFOLIO THAT WE HAVE PURSUED
WE'VE ALSO TRIED TO PUSH
THE BOUNDARIES OF RESOURCES
THAT ARE LOWER EMISSIONS
AND CLEANER SO WE DO HAVE A
TRYING TO RESOURCES THAT ARE
COMING ONLINE THIS SUMMER
THAT ARE AT THE LEVEL OF A
SIMILAR MODEL THAT HAS BEEN
CERTIFIED BY THE CALIFORNIA AIR
RESOURCES BOARD AS BEING FAIRLY
LOW EMISSIONS DISTRIBUTED
GENERATION AND HAVING THAT
CERTIFICATION ON THAT SIMILAR
MODEL -- ALLOWS IT TO -- GET
ACCEPTANCE FROM LOCAL AIR
DISTRICTS AND WE'VE SEEN THAT
BORN OUT WITH PARTNERS THAT WE
ARE WORKING WITH IN ORDER TO
SITE THESE NEW ASSETS AND SO
WE'RE ENCOURAGED BY THAT BUT
WE HAVEN'T STOPPED THERE WE'VE
ALSO RELEASED TWO ADDITIONAL
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR
A DIVISIONAL INFORMATION ON
TWO TYPES OF RESOURCES ONE
OUR STORAGE BASED RESOURCES
AND AND WE'RE LOS TO COMPETE
AGAINST LOW SERVING ENTITIES
FOR THE MAYBE MORE TRADITIONAL
WITH HIM I ON BUT IF THERE
ARE OTHER STORAGE RESOURCES
OUT THERE THAT MAYBE HAVE
LESS COMPETITION THAT WE CAN
PURSUE THAT SOMETHING AND AND
YOU KNOW CLEAN -- GENERATION
ARM SORRY CLEAN STORAGE THAT'S
SOMETHING THE TEA OF D.
W.
R.
IS DEFINITELY INTERESTED IN
PURSUING AND THE OTHER ARE A
FIVE THAT WE'VE ISSUED IS FOR
GENERATING RESOURCES THAT DO
NOT USE -- THE FOSSIL FUELS
AND AGAIN WE'RE WAITING TO
HEAR BACK WHILE WITH THOSE
TECHNOLOGIES CAN BE A WHAT THE
SCOPE -- CAN BE FORWARDED OF
YOUR TO HAVE THOSE ASSETS IN
THE RESERVE -- BUT WHILE THOSE
ARE A FIZER OUT THERE IN THERE
AND WE DON'T GET RESPONSES
BACK UNTIL UNTIL AUGUST BECAUSE
WE'VE GIVEN FOLKS -- SO ON
THE SURFACE SEVERAL MONTHS
TO BE ABLE TO ASK QUESTIONS
AND GO BACK AND FORTH -- IN
THE MEANTIME WE ARE STILL IN
THE MODE OF PURSUING ASSETS
FOR RELIABILITY WHICH AT THIS
STAGE IS MUCH MORE FOCUSED
ON THE NATURAL GAS SIDE AND
CERTAINLY THE NEXT TRYING TO
RESOURCES ARE RESOURCES THAT
ARE POTENTIALLY SLATED FOR
OR HAVE ANNOUNCED RETIREMENTS
AND TO BRING THOSE ASSETS INTO
THE RESERVE NOW THE BALANCE
OF THAT THOUGH IS THAT THESE
ASSETS WHEN THEY COME INTO THE
RESERVE ESPECIALLY THE FOSSIL
FUEL EMITTING RESOURCES AS OUR
FOSSIL FUEL FIRED RESOURCES
WITH MISSIONS THEY ARE ONLY
LIMITED TO RUN DURING EXTREME
EVENTS SO THERE IS A BALANCE
THERE IS A BALANCE AND HAVING
THESE ASSETS IN OUR PORTFOLIO
FOR STATE RELIABILITY BUT ONLY
TO USE THEM WHEN THE STATE
REALLY REALLY NEEDS THEM ON
CRITICAL DAYS SO I UNDERSTAND
THAT THE PORTFOLIO IS NOT
RENEWABLES AND AND CLEAN
GENERATION -- THAT WE ALSO HOPE
TO SEE BUT WE ALSO HOPE THAT
REDUCING THE USAGE TO EXTREME
EVENTS REALLY BALANCES THE
NEED BETWEEN RELIABILITY AND
EMISSIONS FROM ON THE IMPORT
SIDE AGAIN WE HAVE -- TO BE A
FAIRLY BALANCED AS WELL HOME
WE ARE IN A SITUATION WHERE WE
ARE OUT THERE BUYING IMPORTS
WE DO HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT THE
MARKET HAS TO OFFER SO WE YES
WE COULD HAVE A OF PREFERENCE
THERE TO LOOK AT THE CLEAN
RESOURCES BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO
BE COGNIZANT THAT THOSE ARE NOT
ALWAYS PLENTIFUL OR AVAILABLE
OR AVAILABLE IN THE TIME FRAMES
OR IN THE -- MEGAWATTS ETCETERA
AND THAT IS NEEDED FOR THE THE
CALIFORNIA SYSTEM SO THERE IS
A BALANCE THERE AS WELL AND AS
I SAID APPROXIMATELY HALF HAS
BEEN CLEAN FOR TWENTY TWENTY
TWO WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT
CONTINUE OR INCREASE BUT AT
THE SAME TIME WE HAVE TO LOOK
AT WHAT THE SELLER'S MARKET
HAS TO OFFER AS EXPORTS FROM
OTHER SYSTEMS INTO CALIFORNIA
IN ORDER TO DETERMINE WHAT IS
AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE THANK
YOU SO -- IN MANAGING THE
THE I GUESS TIME USES REALLY
THE BIGGEST ISSUE RIGHT WE WE
OVER PRODUCE WHEN THERE'S SUN
AND WIND AND HYDRO AND WE THE
DEMAND IS THE CURVE DOCKER
WE ALL TALKED ABOUT TRYING TO
FLATTEN OUT BASICALLY YES SIR
BUT I GUESS MY QUESTION IS IS
THAT DOES THAT INCLUDE LIKE
PUMP STORAGE ARE THESE ARE
THESE REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS
ARE THEY ALL TYPES OF CLEANINGS
YOU ARE THEY JUST FOCUSED ON
BATTERY AND SOLAR AND WIND OR
THE IS IT -- IS IT BECAUSE WE
DON'T CAO HYDRO ABOVE THIRTY
MEGAWATTS IS GREEN WHICH I IS
BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION BUT
THAT'S THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT
CORRECT AT THE ABOUT AND THEN
THE OTHER THE OTHER THING IS IS
THAT YOU KNOW LAST YEAR I THINK
WAS THE PERFECT STORM WE SAW
THE WHOLE WEST COAST AND ALSO
YOU KNOW THE WESTERN STATES
IN A HEATWAVE WHERE WE WORSE
THE WHOLE RESOURCE IN THE WEST
WAS REALLY STRANGE AND I THINK
THAT THAT'S A RARE OCCURRENCE
WE ARE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO
SEE THAT AS MUCH -- AND WE
WERE A MAJOR DROUGHT HERE WE
WERE WE HAD PLACES LIKE ORVILLE
THAT WORK WORK TWO SIX HUNDRED
MEGAWATT SHORT WHICH IS A LOT
AT THAT CRITICAL TIME I GUESS
MY GUESS MY MY QUESTION IS IS I
MEAN WE WHAT WE WANT TO GET WE
WANT TO RID OURSELVES OF DIRTY
BUT IN THOSE SCENARIOS ARE WE
LOOKING AT ALL RENEWABLES ARE
ACROSS THE BOARD YES SERVICE
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS YES SIR
WE ARE AND I DO WANT TO GO BACK
HOME TO THE DARKER BECAUSE I
DO FIND THAT TO BE -- A VERY
INTERESTING POINT OF POINT AND
THE NEW ONES THERE IS THAT YES
CALIFORNIA IS PRODUCING A LOT
OF OF CLEAN ENERGY -- DURING
THE DAYLIGHT HOURS FOR SOLAR
BUT THAT ENERGY ACTUALLY IS
ACTIVELY BEING USED BY DEMAND
IN THE SUMMER MONTHS SO THE
ACCESS IS MORE OF A SPRING
AND FALL PHENOMENON SO WHEN
WE GET TO SUMMER ALL OF OUR
CLEAN ENERGY IS IS LARGELY
BEING USED WITHIN THE STATE
AND SO FOR OUR FIGHT WE DO
WANT TO LOOK AT -- WE DID OF
STRUCTURE THE RFI TO BE FAIRLY
BROAD SO WE DO WANT TO BE OPEN
TO DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES --
MAYBE SOMETHING THAT WE HAVEN'T
BEEN FAMILIAR WITH -- THAT WAS
STILL -- COMMERCIAL IN THAT
WE COULD PURSUE WITHIN THE
RESERVE SO WE DID WANT TO MAKE
THAT AS EXPENSIVE AS POSSIBLE
SO THAT WE'RE NOT LIMITING
OURSELVES TO ONE LAST QUESTION
BECAUSE I DID HAVE THIS COME
UP FOR A SO YOU KNOW THE FOLKS
THAT ARE -- BASELOAD USING --
SO -- CONSTRUCTION -- OR OR
MANUFACTURING THAT IS DEFERRED
THEY THEY THEY GET SHUT WOULD
I DON'T WAS CALLED DEMAND
RESPONSE TODAY ANYWAY THEY GET
SHUT DOWN WHEN WE HAVE A HEATER
VENT AND -- SO THEY I HAD THOSE
ALL THOSE FOLKS COME BY MY
OFFICE -- BECAUSE ON THEIR G.
COMMITTEE AND YOU KNOW AND
THEY'VE BEEN IN THE PROGRAM
FOR TWENTY YEARS AND THEY
GET A BREAK ON THEIR ON THEIR
ENERGY BECAUSE THEY WILL SHUT
DOWN WHEN WE NEED POWER FOR
RESIDENTIAL AND FOR WHEN YOU
TURN AIR CONDITIONERS ON --
BUT IT'S USED TO BE LIKE ONCE
EVERY TWO OR THREE YEARS THEY
GOT SHUT DOWN AND IN THE IN
THE LAST FOUR FIVE YEARS IT'S
BEEN YOU KNOW TWENTY DAYS IN
A ROW AND THERE AND THESE ARE
PEOPLE THAT HAVE REFRIGERATION
UNITS FOR -- FOOD AND YOU CAN'T
NOT TURN YOUR REFRIGERATOR
OFFER TWENTY DAYS IT DOESN'T
WORK AND SO THEY'RE THE FOLKS
THAT ARE BRINGING IN DIESEL
GENERATORS TO RUN THEIR COLD
STORAGES TO KEEP THEIR FOOD
GOAL -- SO HAS THERE BEEN
ANY LIKE THOUGHT PROCESS AND
YOU KNOW ADDRESSING THOSE
ISSUES THAT ARE ARE IMPACT AS
WELL -- TO THOSE FOLKS THAT
ARE GETTING DEFERRED BECAUSE
THEY'RE REALLY LOOKING INTO
OTHER PLACES TO LOCATE -- THEIR
FACILITIES BECAUSE THEY HAVE
TO HAVE POWER AND THAT AND IN
THE THE PARTIES THE RESULT THE
SAME TIME JUST JUST A QUESTION
THANK YOU SIR UNFORGETTABLY
ARE WE'VE BEEN MOSTLY FOCUSED
ON SUPPLY SIDE AND SO I THINK
FOR THE SPECIFIC SCENARIO THAT
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WHICH
SEEMS LIKE A COMBINATION OF
DEMAND RESPONSE AND BEHIND THE
METER USAGE I WOULD DEFER TO MY
COLLEAGUES AT THE C.
P.
C.
IF IT THAT IS PART OF A
SI PC PROGRAM OR OTHERWISE
THE THE CC FOR -- SIMILAR
PROGRAMS ON THE DISTRIBUTION
SIDE OR DEMAND RESPONSE
OKAY YES NO COMMENTS -- I'M
NOT SURE THAT I AM AN OUTGOING
PERMANENT DAMAGE OR WE HAVE THE
RIGHT PEOPLE TO SPEAK OKAY ALL
RIGHT NO PROBLEM I JUST I THINK
IT'S A CONCERN THAT WE SHOULD
BE YOU KNOW FALLING I HAVE I
HAVE ONE FOLLOW UP QUESTION
ON -- THE CHAIRMAN JUST WENT
THROUGH THE LIST OF THINGS
THAT HE WILL AND WE'D STOP EACH
ONE BECAUSE I HAVE TO GO BACK
OR SO I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT
THE FOUR HUNDRED MILLION FOR
DIABLO CANYON AND IF I RECALL
-- SB EIGHT FORTY SIX REQUIRES
A WRITTEN EXPENDITURE PLAN
BEFORE THE LOAN IS EXECUTED
WE HAVE THAT -- WRITTEN PLAN
-- SECRETARY BEFORE THE LOAN
IS EXECUTED UNDER THERE I
THINK IN A SB EIGHT FORTY SIX
EXPANSION PLAN -- THEY NEED TO
BE AN EXPANSION PLAN FOR THE
FOR THE RESOURCES -- BEFORE WE
GIVE THE LOAN IS THAT CORRECT
I'D HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU
ON THE SPECIFIC EXPENDITURE
PLAN MY UNDERSTANDING IS
THAT IN ORDER TO REQUEST
ADDITIONAL FUNDS -- D.
W.
R.
WOULD BE PROVIDING REPORT TO
THE -- JOINT LEGISLATIVE BUDGET
BUDGET COMMITTEE -- IN ORDER
TO GO BEYOND THE THREE HUNDRED
FIFTY MILLION SO THAT HAS NOT
YET TO YET TO OCCUR -- BUT WE
ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR SEMI
ANNUAL TRUE UP -- PER SB FORTY
SIX AND WHEN WE'VE COMPLETED
THAT ASSESSMENT WE WILL BE
-- SUBMITTING THAT REPORT AND
THEN THAT HAS TO BE APPROVED BY
THE BY THE THE J.
BLADE'S DLC TELL THE JOINT
LETTER IS GOING IT IS --
BUDGET BUT LEGISLATIVE BUDGET
KOK COMMITTEE COMMITTEE
SORRY COMMITTEE ACRONYMS
YEAH THE SAME NUMBER AND I I
THINK WE HAVE TO DOUBLE CHECK
THE WORD AND I BELIEVE IT'S
A NOTIFICATION TO THE JAIL BC
WELL I MEAN SHOULDN'T SERVE
WHO'S OVERSEEING I'M AT WEEK
I HAVE NO -- CONFIDENCE THAT
PG&AMP;E IS GONNA DO I DON'T
KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO I
SHOULD SAY BUT I WANNA MAKE
SURE THAT WE FOR GOING TO THE
EXPENDITURE OF THESE FUNDS IS
SOMEBODY'S APPROVING THAT --
AND IT'S AND IF THEY HAVE TO
WRITE A GIVE A PLAN AND TAKE
THE RESOURCES THAT IS JUST AS
GENERAL FUND GENERAL FUND MONEY
WHO WHO'S GONNA SAY WE LIKE TO
PLAN AN EGG AND BROKE A WITH
THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION
AND THAT WAS MY RESPONSE
BEFORE FURTIVE CHERRY BAKER
WHICH IS -- DUE TO BE OUR WITH
OUR CONSULTANTS AND THE CPC
WE ARE -- EVALUATING ALL OF
THE COSTS THAT ON P.
JEANNIE WILL BE INCURRING
PURSUANT TO THE LOAN AND
MAKING SURE THAT THOSE --
EXPENDITURES ARE ALLOWABLE
COSTS PER PURSUANT TO SB FORTY
SIX AS A THAT WOULD BE PART
OF THE REPORT -- THAT WE WOULD
BE PROVIDING -- TO ACTUALLY
BOTH DEPARTMENT FINANCE AND
JAIL BC AND WHO WHO IS THIS
CASE TO PROVE THE PLAN THAT'S
RIGHT I GUESS BECAUSE THEY'RE
THEY'RE GONNA THEY'RE GONNA
IF YOU JUST GIVE US A REPORT
WHO SAYS THIS THIS THIS THIS
IS JUSTIFIABLE AND AND HOW
THEY CAN SPEND THE MONEY OR
USE THE RESOURCES THERE'S
A FINAL SAY IS IT THE CPUC
THE DATA WE ARE WE WOULD
BE WORKING WITH OUR SI
PC COLLEAGUES PURSUANT
TO THE REQUIREMENTS
OF SB EIGHT FORTY SIX
OKAY BUT THERE'S NO NO NO
LEGISLATIVE BODY THERE'S NO
THESE ARE BASICALLY APPOINTED
POSITIONS THAT ARE GONNA PROVE
HOW THESE REAP TO FOUR HUNDRED
MILLION DOLLARS A LOT OF MONEY
NOW THE GENERAL FUND IS GONNA
BE DONE BY I'M TRYING TO PIN
YOU DOWN HERE BECAUSE I DON'T
TRUST HOW THIS IS GOING TO
WORK SO IT'S CRITICAL I WANTED
BECAUSE I'M GONNA BE FOLLOWING
THIS BIG TIME BECAUSE I'M TRUST
THESE PEOPLE SO FOR ME DOLLARS
IS GONNA BE IT THEY'RE GONNA
THEY'RE GONNA SUBMIT A PLAN
AND THAT PLAN IS GOING TO GO
TO THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE BUDGET
COMMITTEE AND THE P.
C.
AND THE W.
ARE AND THEN THEY'RE GOING
TO SPEND THE MONEY WHO SAYS
YES I LIKE YOUR PLAN -- LET
ME RESTATE SO -- CURRENTLY
WE HAVE A SEMI ANNUAL
TRUE UP IN WHICH P.
JEANNIE WILL BE PROVIDING UNDER
EXPENDITURES TO D.
W.
R.
D.
W.
OUR WITH OUR CONSULTANTS AND
CPC WILL BE GOING THROUGH
EACH OF THOSE ITEMS -- AND
MATCHING THOSE ITEMS TO
ENSURE THAT THOSE ARE ACTUAL
ALLOWABLE COSTS PURSUANT TO SB
FORTY SIX AT THE END OF THAT
PHONE WE WILL HAVE A REPORT
THAT IS FILE DB ARE WILL BE
PROVIDING THE REPORT TO JAIL
BC AND DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
SO DO YOU HAVE YOUR ALONG WITH
OUR CONSULTANTS AND CPC WERE
WORKING COLLABORATIVELY TO
ASSESS WHETHER THE COSTS ARE
ALLOWABLE UNDER EIGHT FORTY SIX
OKAY SO REALLY THERE IS
NO GUARD RAIL ON IF IT'S
ALLOWABLE COST YOU JUST
GOING TO PAY THE BILL
IF THERE'S NO THERE'S NO WE
WE TOOK A LEGISLATIVE ACTION
AND WE HAD TO TAKE THAT
LEGISLATIVE ACTION TO EXTEND
THE LIFE EXTEND BASICALLY
THE SHUT DOWN OF THE DIABLO
CANYON AND I I WAS OPPOSED TO
SHUTTING DOWN START WITH BUT
THEN YOU KNOW I WAS OPPOSED
ALSO JUST BAILING OUT AND I
THAT SO I LAID OFF OF THIS BILL
I DIDN'T I DIDN'T VOTE FOR OUR
MONEY VOTE AGAINST EIGHT SB
EIGHT FOUR SIX I GOT A LOT OF
CRITICISM BECAUSE WE WERE AT
IT BUT I DON'T TRUST NOW GOING
FORWARD SO WE'RE GONNA WE'RE
GONNA TRY TO FEDERAL FUNDS FOR
THIS AS WELL CORRECT THAT'S
CORRECT THE LOAN -- THE LOAN IS
PURSUANT TO REPAYMENT -- FROM
DOE FINANCING FOR DOE FUNDS
BUT IT BUT THEY'RE NOT ON
THE HOOK FOR THE GENERAL
FUND THERE THIS IS BASICALLY
ALLOCATED RESOURCES THEY DON'T
HAVE TO PAY IT BACK THE FOUR
HUNDRED MILLION THAT CORRECT
YESTERDAY LEVINE FINANCIAL
MAYES I COULD JUST CLARIFY
SO THE THE GENERAL FUND IS
IS LOANING FUNDING FOR THIS
PURPOSE THAT THEY WILL BE
REPAID BACK BY THE FEDERAL
DOLLARS SO -- THE INTENT IS
FORTY DOLLARS TO BE REPAID
BACK IT'S A LOAN FROM THE
GENERAL FUND -- BUT THEY THEY
WOULD BE REPAID BACK BY THE
DOE FEDERAL FUNDING THAT WILL
BE COMING IN -- A LITTLE BIT
LATER ON DOWN THE ROAD THAT IS
THE INTENT TO GET FULLY REPAID
-- FROM THE FEDERAL DOLLARS
THIS INTENT BUT IS THERE
ANYTHING THAT GUARANTEES
WERE GONNA GET PAID BACK
SO THERE WAS A DEAL WE AWARD
ANNOUNCEMENT THAT CAME IN
EARLIER THIS YEAR WHICH
IDENTIFIES -- HI BELIEVES THAT
ONE POINT ONE BILLION DOLLARS
-- THAT WAS -- AWARDED -- FOR
THIS PURPOSE AND THE INTENT
IS THAT WOULD BE A PART OF
WHAT WOULD BE PAYING BACK
THE TOTALITY OF WHAT'S LOAN
AND THEN WHO PAYS FOR THAT
THE RATE PAYERS WILL THEY BE
ABLE TO GO TO THE P.
YOU SEE AND THEN DO OF APPROACH
ASPIRATE TRACE GREAT RATE
INCREASED TO THE P.
YOU SEE TO PAY THAT BACK NO
SO THAT'S WHY WE ARE WORKING
CLOSELY WITH THE CPUC AND
LOOKING AT THE ALLOWABLE COSTS
UNDER THE LOAN TO ENSURE THAT
THERE IS NO DOUBLE COUNTING
BETWEEN WHAT THE CPC HAS
AUTHORIZED THROUGH RATES AND
WHAT IS RECOVERABLE OR AS
ALLOWABLE COSTS UNDER THE LOAN
AGREEMENT SO THAT'S WHY WE WE
HAVE THAT COORDINATION WITH THE
CPUC OKAY I'LL BE WATCHING THIS
AND I DON'T WANT THE RATE PAYER
STEP TO TAKE ON EXTRA BURDEN
-- THAT'S WHY THAT'S MY CONCERN
WITH THIS THANK YOU THANK YOU
YEAH LOOK AT WHAT RAISE MY
CONCERNS TO AROUND MAKE SURE
NOT RAMBLING CHECK THEIR
STRATEGIC THAT -- WE'RE GONNA
MOVE ON -- THE TO DO THERE
IS -- THE MAY REVISION AT A
-- THE THE THE REGISTRATION
TAX ON RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
-- THE VOTING PROGRAMS -- WAS
RAISED -- MATURES OVER THE
SENATE REQUIREMENT MAY HAVE
A COMMENT ON THIS RUSSIAN
THREE OF FOLKS IN PARKS
THANK YOU SO MUCH MISTER NAY
THANK YOU GOOD AFTERNOON SO
JUST A COUPLE QUESTIONS ON
THIS IN OBVIOUSLY THIS WAS
AN ISSUE THAT WAS ADVANCED
THINKING AND TWENTY TWENTY
ONE -- SO RICH IN THE BUDGET
APPROPRIATE ABOUT NINE POINT
THREE MILLION APPROXIMATELY AT
TO SUPPORT THE FIND UNDERSTAND
THAT CHALLENGES THAT WERE
SEEN BURGER KING IS ALWAYS
GOOD TO SEE YOU THANK YOU --
SO THE BUDGET BILL REQUIRED
THAT HARKS PRESENT POLE'S
GOAL BACK TO THE LEGISLATURE
NO LATER THAN JANUARY TENTH
OF TWENTY TWENTY THREE SO
JUST WONDER WHERE WE'RE AT ON
THE FULL REPORT SINCE WE'RE
NOW MOVING FORWARD WITH AN
INCREASE IN FEES WITH NO REPORT
THAT WAS -- MANDATED TO COME
BACK IN SO WANTED TO BE A TO
GET A CHECK IN ON THAT ISSUE
YES GOOD MORNING MY BIGGEST
PERMANENT THE PROPOSAL THAT
WAS SUBMITTED IN THE MAYOR
VISION IS THE RESPONSE TO THE
-- INCREASE WAS STAKEHOLDERS
THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS
RECREATION HELD THROUGH THE
COMMISSION ABOUT IN WATERWAYS
REALLY I MEAN THAT'S REALLY THE
ANSWER WHAT WHERE BUT THERE'S
SUPPOSED TO BE A REPORT SO
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE REPORT
WHAT WHAT HAPPENED THE REPORT
SO SENATOR LIZ MCGURK WITH
-- CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS
ARE PROPOSALS -- OUR REPORT
WAS IS THIS PROPOSAL THAT'S
BEFORE THROUGH THE MAY REVISION
PROPOSAL THAT IS OUR PROPOSAL
THAT CAME FROM THAT STAKEHOLDER
ENGAGEMENT PROCESS THE WIRE
ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS OPPOSE I
THINK THE SO THE PROPOSAL IS
INFORMED BY THE STAKEHOLDER
ENGAGEMENT PROCESS AND WE DID
ENGAGE IN A YEAR LONG PROCESS
THAT INCLUDED THE BOATING AND
WATERWAYS COMMISSION AND WE
YOU KNOW THERE WAS A LOT OF
INPUT PROVIDED FOR SHORT TERM
LONG TERM SOLUTIONS I THINK
THIS PROPOSAL IS REFLECTIVE OF
THAT IT IS NOT EVERYTHING AND I
THINK -- THERE WAS A KNOWLEDGE
MEANT THAT A FEE INCREASE WOULD
BE NEEDED I THINK -- SOME FOLKS
WOULD LIKE TO SEE A DIFFERENT
SIZE OF THE INCREASE BUT THIS
PROPOSAL DOES REFLECT THAT YOUR
LONG ENGAGEMENT PROCESS AND IS
THE DIVISION OF DEPARTMENTS --
WAY OF BALANCING THE DIFFERENT
NEEDS WHILE BEING REFLECTIVE
OF THOSE CONCERNS AND AGAIN
I ADORE MISTER KIRK -- IT SO
I THINK SHE DOES AMAZING WORK
IS I'M NOT TRYING TO BE TOO
POINTED BUT I I THINK THAT THE
REPORT THIS IS SIMPLY FOCUS
ON A FEE INCREASE I THINK WE
ALL KNOW THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO
BE OTHER PIECES OF THAT REPORT
COMING BACK TO THE LEGISLATURE
SO NOW WHAT I'M HEARING IS
THAT YOU'VE MADE A SOME TYPE
OF EXECUTIVE DECISION RAIL YOU
RIGHT DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
IN PARTICULAR -- IN STATE PARK
SAYING NOW IT'S NOW GOING TO
BE MORE STE TARGETED REPORT
NOT WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE
COMING BACK TO US WE ALL KNOW
THAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE
MORE THAN JUST ON THE FEES
THOROUGH THIS PROPOSAL DOES
HAVE OTHER -- SOLUTIONS
THERE IS A FEE INCREASE IN
ADDITION WE ARE COMMITTED TO
SOME LONG TERM STUDIES WHICH
ARE REQUESTED THROUGH THAT
ENGAGEMENT PROCESS LIKE AN
ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY FOR
VOTING IN CALIFORNIA -- WE ARE
LOOKING AT REDUCING AQUATIC
INVASIVE SPECIES PROGRAM
EXPENDITURES TO BE MORE
REFLECTIVE OF THOSE THAT --
TARGETING AREAS THAT WILL BE
OF MOST BENEFIT TO RECREATIONAL
BOATERS AND THEN WORKING WITH
OTHER ENTITIES TO SUPPORT THE
PROGRAM AND AND OTHER NEEDS
-- AND THEN WE ARE LOOKING AT
GOING BACK TO THE HISTORICALLY
THAT BOAT LAUNCH FACILITY
GRANTS WERE FUNDED WHICH WAS
ON A PROJECT BASIS THROUGH THE
ANNUAL BUDGET PROCESS VERSUS
BASELINE FUNDING SO THOSE
ARE SOME OF THE COMPONENTS
INCLUDED IN HERE WE WOULD ALSO
LIKE TO HAVE A MORE REGULAR
REVIEW OF THE FUN AND AS WE'RE
LOOKING AT THESE LONGER TERM
SOLUTIONS LIKE REVIEWING OUR
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MARINE
A LOAN PROGRAMS ECONOMIC
IMPACT STUDIES WE'D BE ABLE
TO MAKE FURTHER ADJUSTMENTS
AS NEEDED COMING BACK TO THE
LEGISLATURE TO DISCUSS THOSE
LOOK AT AGAIN MY E.
M.
MY COMMENTS ARE NOT POINTED AT
STRICTLY AT AT THE PROJECTOR
BIGGER BECAUSE AGAIN SHE GOES
ABOVE AND BEYOND ON SO MANY
ISSUES IN DEALS WITH SOME
REALLY CHALLENGING -- DETAILS
ON A DAILY BASIS AND I JUST
WANTED TO LET YOU MISTER KIRK
IS -- YOU ARE ALWAYS MAKING
YOURSELF AVAILABLE IN WORK
SO INCREDIBLY HARD I THINK
WHERE MY FRUSTRATION IS TODAY
IS THAT NUMBER ONE -- RATHER
THAN SAYING WE KNOW THAT THIS
IS INCOMPLETE WE KNOW THAT
THERE WAS PREVIOUS STAKEHOLDER
FEEDBACK THAT ISN'T IN BEEN
TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN WHAT
WERE SEEN THAT COMING BACK TO
THE LEGISLATURE HERE TODAY --
AND NOW WE'RE ACTING LIKE THIS
IS COMPLETE WHEN WE ALL KNOW
IT'S NOT COMPLETE AND THERE
HAS NOT BEEN ANY REFLECTION
IN WHAT IS COMING BACK TO THE
LEGISLATURE IN REGARD TO WHAT
STAKEHOLDERS HAD PROMISED
BACK -- WHAT WE POLICY BECAUSE
BACK IN TWENTY TWENTY ONE
OF A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH
SO -- WE WILL DEFINITELY
BE FOLLOWING UP WITH PARKS
AGAIN ALSO I KNOW THAT THERE
ARE CHALLENGES IN DEPARTMENT
FINEST FOLKS ARE THAT THE
SHARING MY FRUSTRATION HERE
TODAY BECAUSE WE'RE ACTED LIKE
THIS IS COMPLETE WHEN WE KNOW
THAT THERE IS MUCH MORE THAT
WAS PROMISED IN THE PAST IN
GAME -- GRATEFUL FOR YOUR WORK
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FUTURE
THANK YOU ANY AND ALL SO I TO
NOT PERSONAL OBVIOUSLY I LOVE
MOST THE CENTER MCGUIRE CAN
LEAD ON THIS WE WORKED ON -- IT
WASN'T IT WASN'T RECREATIONAL
BOATS BUT WE WORKED ON FOR
FISHING FLEETS A FEW YEARS
AGO AND AT THE CENTER I WORK
CLOSE ON THAT THERE'S A THREE
HUNDRED PERCENT INCREASE IN
IN FEES AND I ACTUALLY WE WE
ONE OF THIS LAST NIGHT AND I
WANTED TO GET SOME COMMENTS
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
ABOUT THE JUSTICE WHAT WERE
WE GETTING FOR THIS I MEAN
I KNOW THAT WHEN WHEN WE FOR
OFF HIGHWAY VEHICLES WE HAVE
A GREEN STICKER AND WE GET THE
SNOWMOBILE TRAIL GROOMED IN A
WARMING HUT AND WHATEVER THEY
DO OUT AND IN THOSE AREAS AND
MAINTAIN BUT WHAT ARE WE NEED
MORE DOCS ARE WE GONNA GET
MORE RESIST SALARY INCREASES
WHERE WHERE'S THIS RESOURCE
GOING TO GO SO THE HARBORS
WATERCRAFT REVOLVING FUND HAS
BEEN OPERATING AT A STRUCTURAL
DEFICIT FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD
OF TIME AND SO THESE ADDITIONAL
REVENUES WILL SERVE TO PROTECT
MANY OF THESE EXISTING PROGRAMS
WHICH SHOULD COME FROM THE
FUND -- OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE
SOME PRODUCTIONS INCLUDED HERE
BUT THE -- PRODUCTIONS ARE ARE
LIMITED TO TWO PROGRAMS ONE OF
WHICH HAS LITTLE TO NO BENEFIT
TO RECREATIONAL BOATERS AND
SO WE ARE PROTECTING THE --
RECREATIONAL BOATING ELEMENT
OF THE AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES
FUNDING WE'RE PROTECTING
THAT THE -- GRANTS FOR PUBLIC
SAFETY AND A NUMBER OF OTHER
PROGRAMS WHICH HAVE BEEN
EFFECTIVELY LIVING OUTSIDE
OF THEIR MEANS FOR THE PAST
DECADE OR SO AS A RESULT OF
THE -- DIMINISHING REVENUES
THAT THE FUND HAS BEEN SEEING
IS THAT BECAUSE LESS PEOPLE
WRECKED RATING AND THERE'S
NOT AS IS MANY PEOPLE WRECKED
RATING LIKE THEIR WE'VE LOST
-- THOSE FOLKS OR IS IT BECAUSE
INFLATION HAS GONE UP IN THE
COSTS FOR STAFF AND AND DIESEL
AND GAS OR WHATEVER THEY USED
TO GET WHEREVER THEY'RE GOING
IS ALL ONE UP SO THERE'S AN
ELEMENT OF BOTH THEIR -- THE
NUMBER OF REGISTERED VESSELS
THAT RECREATIONAL VESSELS
SPECIFICALLY HAS DECREASED
SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THE LAST
DECADE IN THEM ABOUT TEN YEARS
AGO SO ONCE THEY'RE ON EIGHT
HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND
REGISTERED VESSELS NOW IT'S
DOWN IN THE MID TO LOW SIX
HUNDRED THOUSAND RANGE SO
THAT THAT HAS A SIGNIFICANT
IMPACT ON THE REVENUES BECAUSE
THE THE TWO PRIMARY REVENUE
SOURCES TO THIS FUND ARE THE
VESSEL REGISTRATION FEES AND
THEN THE GAS TAX IN THE AMOUNT
OF GAS TAX THAT GOES TO THE
HARBORS WATERCRAFT FOLDING
FUND IS BASED ON THE TOTAL
NUMBER OF REGISTERED VESSELS
AND SO ANYTIME THERE IS AN
INCREASE OR DECREASE IN THAT
NUMBER IT RESULTS IN BASICALLY
IT DOUBLE UP IMPACT ON THE
REVENUE TO THE FUND OKAY
GOT WELL THANK YOU THIS
INCLUDES CONCLUDES MIGHT
QUESTIONS ON THE REST OF THE
TOPICS AS ANYTHING ELSE MY
COLLEAGUES WHEN INTERESTS HERE
BEFORE MOVED TO PUBLIC COMMENT
CERTAINLY NO OKAY BOB WANT
TO THANK YOU ALL WE'RE GOING
TO MOVE TO A PUBLIC COMMENT
AT THIS TIME THE END -- WILL
START WITH A PUBLIC COMMENT THE
FIRST HERE IN THE ROOM AND THEN
WILL MOVE TO A COMMENT VIA THE
TELEPHONE THE TELECONFERENCE
LINE AND REMINDER THAT THE
NUMBERS EIGHT SEVEN SEVEN TWO
TWO SIX EIGHT ONE SIX THREE FAX
CODE SIX NINE FOUR EIGHT NINE
THREE ZERO -- WE HAVE CAUCUS
IT NOON SO WE HAVE SOME TIME
HERE OF IT TOO WILL ASK PEOPLE
TO THE IN THE IN THE ROOM KEEP
THEIR COMMENTS TO ONE TO TWO
MINUTES AND THEN ON THE PHONE
TO WORK TWO TO ONE MINUTE
AND -- GO AHEAD WHEN READY
THIS SHERMAN MEMBERS -- WHAT'S
YOUR GONZALEZ ON BEHALF OF THE
SALTON SEA AUTHORITY WE ARE
RETURNING POWERS IT ALREADY
CONSISTING OF THE COACHELLA
VALLEY WATER DISTRICT THE
IMPAIR YOUR VACATION DISTRICT
THE COUNTIES OF RIVERSIDE
AND IMPERIAL AND THE TOWARDS
MARTINEZ DESERT CAHUILLA
INDIANS HOW WE ARE CONCERNED
THAT THE GOVERNOR'S PROPOSAL
TO SHIFT THE HUNDRED AND
SIXTY NINE MILLION DOLLARS OF
SALTON SEA RESTORATION FUNDING
SIMPLY DOES NOT CAPTURE THE
CONDITIONS ON THE GROUND AND
THE CONTINUING DETERIORATION
OF THE SOLVENCY IN TWENTY
SEVENTEEN THE STATE WATER
BOARD ISSUED AN ORDER THAT
REQUIRED THE STATE TO MEET
ANNUAL ACREAGE MILESTONES OF
COMPLETED PROJECTS ON EXPOSED
PLAYA CUTS OF LAST YEAR THE
STATE SHOULD HAVE COMPLETED
ABOUT EIGHT THOUSAND SEVEN
HUNDRED AND FIFTY ACRES FOR
BY ITS OWN ADMISSION THE
TWENTY COMPLETED TWENTY SIX
HUNDRED THE STATE CLAIMS THAT
THEY WILL BE ABLE TO CATCH
UP BY TWENTY TWENTY FIVE WITH
FOURTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED
ACRES BUT THERE SIMPLY ISN'T
ENOUGH MONEY IN THE BUDGET
RIGHT NOW TO GET THAT DONE ON
TOP OF THAT IN NOVEMBER THE
STATE FACILITATED AN AGREEMENT
WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO
REDUCE THE OVERALL WATER USAGE
OF THE STATE FROM THE COLORADO
RIVER THAT AGREEMENT IS GOING
TO RESULT IN REDUCTIONS OF
THE SALTON SEA THAT ARE LARGER
THAN THE ENTIRETY OF THE QSC
AND IN SECURING THAT AGREEMENT
UNFORTUNATELY THE STATE OR
THE FEDS BOTHERED TO ASSESS
THE FORESEEABLE IMPACTS THAT
THOSE REDUCTIONS WILL HAVE ON
THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES
HISTORY TELLS US THAT THE
IMPACT IS LIKELY TO BE DRAMATIC
YES AT THE STATE -- OR THAT
YOU HER TOP NAME WHICH THAT
INSURERS AT THE STATE MEET
OBLIGATIONS OF THE SOLVENCY BY
KEEPING THE HUNDRED SIXTY NINE
MILLION IN THE CURRENT BUDGET
THANK YOU THANK YOU VERY MUCH
NEXON MORNING MISTER CHAIR AND
MEMBERS RECALL MASTRODONATO
WITH THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC
LAND -- I WANT TO START BY
-- FINDING THE COMMENT YOU
MADE EARLIER CHAIRMAN OF OUR
MISSIONS GLOBALLY ARE GOING
OFF THE WORLD IS GETTING HOTTER
AND THERE'S NOTHING THAT WE
CAN DO ABOUT IT AND THE TRUST
FOR PUBLIC LAND IS REALLY
CONCERNED ABOUT THE SHIFTS OF A
LOT OF THE EXTREME SHE PROGRAMS
TO THE BOND WHICH MEANS THAT
WERE BASICALLY SAYING TO
DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES THAT
DO NOT HAVE TREE CANOPY DO
NOT HAVE OPEN SPACE OR PARKS
THAT THE COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
CENTERS THE TCC PROGRAM THE
URBAN GREENING URBAN FORESTRY
WAS ZEROED OUT IN JANUARY --
THE STATEWIDE PARKS PROGRAM
WHICH IS OVERSUBSCRIBED BY
SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS --
ARE NOT BIRTH FUNDING AND
PROTECTING THE LIVES OF THE
PEOPLE THAT CANNOT PROTECT
THEMSELVES HE IS GOING TO HARM
PEOPLE IT KILLS PEOPLE MORE
THAN ANY OTHER WET WEATHER
RELATED EVENT WHAT WE'RE SAYING
IS WE CAN BATES THREE YEARS TO
MAKE ANY ADDITIONAL FUNDING AND
I DON'T THINK THAT THAT MEETS
THE -- YOU KNOW THE PUBLIC
SAFETY AND AND WITH REGARD
TO THE BOND AMOUNTS THAT ARE
IN HERE FOR A STATEWIDE PARK
PROGRAM FOR EXAMPLE EIGHTY
SIX POINT NINE MILLION DOLLARS
THAT NIGHT DO TWENTY PARKS
THAT AT BEST AND IT DOESN'T
REFLECT THE SEVEN BILLION
DOLLAR OVER SUBSCRIPTION
WHICH YOU KNOW ADDRESSES THE
SCOPE OF OPPORTUNITY AND THE
NEED YOU KNOW THERE AREN'T
GREAT PROJECTS READY TO GO
AND THERE'S NO MONEY THERE IS
NO MONEY IN THE PROGRAM RIGHT
NOW SO I'M WERE REALLY EXT --
CONCERNED ABOUT EXTREME HEAT
IT WOULD LOOK LIKE THE SENATE
AND YOUR COMMITTEE TO TO THINK
ABOUT CAN WE WAIT TO PROTECT
COMMUNITIES WE KNOW THAT ARE
GOING TO BE HARMED PROBABLY
THIS YEAR THEY CERTAINLY HAVE
A YOU KNOW DEFINITELY SO THANK
YOU VERY MUCH APPRECIATE BEING
BACK YES THANK YOU VERY MUCH
BUT SHARON SENATORS GREG COOK
CRIBS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
POWER AGENCY THE COUPLE THE
USUALLY FOLLOW UP ON A COUPLE
OF ISSUES THAT YOU'VE BEEN
DISCUSSING NUMBER ONE THE
POTENTIAL DOUBLING OF THE --
PUT A SURCHARGE IS AN IMMEDIATE
AND ONGOING -- INCREASED
ELECTRICITY RATES -- AND ADDING
THE -- IN THE ADDITIONAL SET OF
CPI ESCALATOR EACH YEAR REALLY
IS GOING TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT
IMPACT ON ELECTRICITY
RATEPAYERS IN THE STATE THE
SECOND ISSUE THAT I WANT TO
RAISE IS THE UTILIZATION OF
THOSE FUNDS FOR THE IMITATION
OF SP TWO IN THE GUIDELINE
PRODUCED BY THE FACT THAT THE
TAX AND FEE ADMINISTRATION
SAYS SPECIFICALLY THAT THOSE
-- FUNDS ARE SUPPOSED TO
BE USED FOR ENERGY RELATED
SERVICES IT SEEMS TO ME
THAT USING THOSE FUNDS NOW
THE ESCALATION POTENTIAL
ESCALATION TO PAY FOR SB TWO
IMPLEMENTATION IS INAPPROPRIATE
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR
CONSIDERATION THANK YOU
GOOD AFTERNOON TURN MEMBERS
ARE EAGER ON BEHALF OF THE
BUILDING DECARBONIZATION
COALITION IN STRONG SUPPORT
THE SENATE'S COMPREHENSIVE
PROPOSED PLAN TO MAINTAIN
FUNDING FOR EQUITABLE BUILDING
DECARBONIZATION -- AS WELL AS
USE FUTURE UP TO SUPPLEMENT
CLEAN ENERGY PROGRAMS INCLUDING
FOR THE EQUITABLE BUILDING
DECARBONIZATION PROGRAM LOW
INCOME HOME WEATHERIZATION
PROGRAM TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
FOR FEDERAL TAX CREDITS AND
BUILDING ENERGY BENCHMARKING
PROGRAM WE ALSO URGE THE SENATE
TO PROTECT THE FOUR HUNDRED
SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS FOR
THE CHURCH STRATEGIC GROWTH
COUNCIL'S COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
CENTERS PROGRAM ALL THESE
APPLICATIONS WILL BE CRITICAL
TO PROVIDE CLEAN ENERGY
UPGRADES ENERGY BILL COST
SAVINGS EXTREME HEAT SOLUTIONS
TO LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES
THAT WOULDN'T OTHERWISE BE
ABLE TO AFFORD THEM THANKS
SO MUCH THANK YOU VERY MUCH
HELLO TURN MEMBERS MAKAYLA
ELDER ON BEHALF OF CAL START IN
THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING
ASSOCIATION -- WHILE WE
APPRECIATE THE GOVERNOR'S MAY
REVISION NOT PROPOSE NO FURTHER
CUTS DESERVE FUNDING WE WANT TO
TAKE TO TAKE THE TIME TO THINK
THE SENATE -- EXPRESSED SUPPORT
FOR YOUR PROPOSED BUDGET PLAN
WHICH KEEPS THE PER PREVIOUS OF
POCKET COMMITMENTS HOLE THANK
YOU THANK YOU VERY MUCH WE DO
APPRECIATE THAT THANK YOU THANK
YOU CHAIRED MEMBERS MY NAME IS
NO AT LEAST SPEAKING ON BEHALF
OF THE VALLEY CLEAN AIR NOW WE
APPRECIATE THE GOVERNOR'S MAY
REVISE DOES NOT MAKE ADDITIONAL
REDUCTIONS OF THAT FUNDING
WE DISTALLY WANT TO THANK
THE SENATE FOR THE PROPOSED
BUDGET PLAN WHICH KEEPS HAVE
INVESTMENTS HOLE IT IS OUR
UNDERSTANDING THAT THE SENATE
BUDGET PLAN INCLUDES ADDITIONAL
FUNDING FOR THE CLEAN CARS FOR
ALL PROGRAM GIVEN THE STATE'S
SUBSTANTIAL BUDGET PROBLEM WE
LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH
THE LEGISLATURE TO ENSURE THAT
CLEAN CARS FOR ALL INVESTMENTS
CONTINUE TO PRIORITIZE
CALIFORNIANS LIVING AIR BASINS
BUT THE MOST AIR POLLUTANTS
IT WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE
ABLE TO ACHIEVE THAT THANK
YOU THANK YOU VERY MUCH
HELLO GOOD MORNING SURE MEMBERS
AND GAME EVEN USE ON BEHALF
OF THE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH
FAMILY FARMERS -- WE REPRESENT
AROUND EIGHT THOUSAND SMALL
AND UNDERSERVED FARMERS ACROSS
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA --
THANK YOU FOR YOU KNOW PAYING
ATTENTION AND AND BRINGING
ATTENTION TO THE FLOOD IMPACTS
IN THAT AND THE DROUGHT IMPACTS
TO OUR FARMS OBVIOUSLY THESE
TWO EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS
HAVE HAD DRASTIC IMPACTS ON
OUR FAMILY FARMERS DESTROYING
HOMES FARMS EQUIPMENT AND AND
MORE -- I WANT TO SPECIFICALLY
HIGHLIGHT AND THE COMMENTS
THAT WERE MADE EARLIER ON THE
CUSP PROGRAM THE GO BIS PROGRAM
WELL WE OF COURSE APPRECIATE
THOSE ADDITIONAL DOLLARS
ALLOCATED TO GO BIS PROGRAM
-- THE CUSP GRAHAM HAS HAD A
PRECEDENT OF MOVING DOLLARS
VERY QUICKLY IN THE FORM
OF RELIEF IT WAS ORIGINALLY
CREATED DURING THE PANDEMIC
SO IT'S ALLOCATED FUNDS DURING
COULD PANDEMIC AS WELL AS
DROUGHT AND WE THINK THAT
IT CAN ADAPT AND COULD MOVE
FROM FUNDS MUCH QUICKER AND
CONSIDERING THE GLOBUS PROGRAM
IS JUST GETTING STRAIGHT UP
-- SO JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT
THAT DIFFERENCE -- AND REALLY
APPRECIATE THOSE ADDITIONAL
DOLLARS I'M I ALSO WANTED TO
THANK YOU ALL FOR INCLUDING
THE -- THE THE REJECTIONS TO
THE GOVERNOR'S PROPOSED CUTS
TO THE FOOD HUBS PROGRAM AS
WELL AS THE URBAN AGRICULTURE
PROGRAM ON THESE FOR THESE
THREE FUNDS ARE EX ESSENTIAL
IN TERMS OF INFRASTRUCTURE
FOR SMALL SCALE FARMERS AND
REALLY HOPING TO SEE THOSE
DOLLARS PUT BACK INTO THOSE
PROGRAMS SO REALLY APPRECIATE
THE TIME AND -- THANKS VERY
MUCH THANK YOU VERY MUCH
REBECCA MARKETS ON BEHALF
OF THE UNION OF CONCERNED
SCIENTISTS WERE GLAD TO SEE
THAT DESPITE THE ADDITIONAL
BUDGET SHORTFALL THE CLIMATE
BUDGET REMAINS LARGELY INTACT
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO
WORKING WITH THE LEGISLATURE
AND GOVERNOR ON THE CLIMATE
BOND TO INVEST IN RESILIENT
FUTURE BUT WE ENCOURAGE YOU
TO LOOK FOR MORE WAYS TO BACK
FILL CLIMATE FUNDING SUCH
AS ENDING SUBSIDIES AND TAX
CREDITS FOR POLLUTERS AND
USE THE SAVINGS FOR CLIMATE
PRIORITIES INVESTMENTS IN
SYNC MY IMPLEMENTATION WATER
RECYCLING AND THE MULTI
BENEFIT LATER PURPOSING ARE TOO
IMPORTANT TO BE LEFT TO CHANCE
WE ARE GLAD TO SEE THAT BUDGET
HAS REMAINED INTACT SINCE
JANUARY WHICH IS PARTICULARLY
IMPORTANT TO ENSURE THAT THE
RECENTLY ADOPTED ADVANCE CLEAN
FLEETS RULE CAN BE SUCCESSFULLY
IMPLEMENTED IT IS ALSO CRITICAL
THAT AB EIGHT FINDS A RE
AUTHORIZED AND THAT THESE FUNDS
ARE ARE NOT DIVERTED BY CARVE
OUTS FOR HYDRATION WE SUPPORT
THE FUNDING FOR THE CREATION
OF THE TRANSPORTATION FUELS
TRANSITION PLAN BUT ENCOURAGE
THE LEGISLATURE TO ENSURE THIS
PLAN IS DEVELOPED IN A WAY THAT
IS CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WAS
PROMISED TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL
JUSTICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND
THE SCOPING PLAN ALSO ON BEHALF
OF AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST
THE CARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE
AND THE CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED
ORGANIC FARMERS I FIRST LIKE
TO ECHO THE COMMENTS MADE
BY MY COLLEAGUE JAMIE SMITH
THE NEW MOST WITH -- CALF WE
ALSO REQUEST WHEN CRAFTING
THE CLIMATE BONDS THAT THE
LEGISLATURE ADMINISTRATION
KEEP IN MIND OUR FOOD AND
FARMING SYSTEM AB FOR A WAVE
BY ASSEMBLY MEMBER WILSON
CONTAINS MANY INVESTMENTS
WHICH WILL HELP OUR FARMERS
RANCHERS AND FARMWORKERS
SUCCESSFULLY CONTINUE TO FEED
OUR STATE AND OUR CHANGING
CLIMATE AS WELL AS BEING AN
INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF THE
SOLUTION THANK YOU THANK YOU
HI MISTER CHAIR MEMBERS MOBILE
OR ON BEHALF OF THE MARINE
RECREATION ASSOCIATION -- IN
REGARDS TO LET'S SEE WHAT ITEM
ARE WE HERE LET'S A DEEP LOVE
PROPOSAL BUDGET ITEM THIRTY
SEVEN NINETY -- FIRST THANKS
TO BOTH SENATOR MCGUIRE CENTER
DOLLARS FOR YOUR COMMENTS
OF CONCERN RELATING TO THE
PROPOSAL I'D LIKE TO SEE --
ON A MAY BE A POSITIVE NOTE
WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME OVER
THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF WITH
THE DIVISION WORKING THROUGH
SUBCOMMITTEES IDENTIFYING
SOME OF THE ITEMS -- SUCH AS
AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES --
BEACH EROSION AND OTHER ISSUES
WHICH I THINK WE HAVE IN THE
MIDDLE AND WE'RE MAKING SOME
PROGRESS ON THAT AND ALSO IN
ADDITION TO THAT I THINK THE
DEPARTMENT IS AGREED THAT
HAVING A PROPER ECONOMIC STUDY
DONE IT IS A GOOD IDEA HOWEVER
THIS A FEE INCREASE THAT
SHOWED UP YESTERDAY DAY BEFORE
RECENTLY LET'S JUST CALL IT
THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT CONCERN
-- WE SIGNED ONTO A LETTER
WITH THE -- BOC AND THE NMMA
IN OPPOSITION TO THAT I THINK
YOU HEAR ON THE PHONE FROM
JERRY HAS BEEN AND MARK SMITH
ABOUT THOSE SPECIFIC CONCERNS
I'M SURE THEY WILL DIG INTO THE
BUDGET ITEM SPECIFICALLY WILL
DEEPER BUT FOR THOSE LIKE TO
REGISTER MRA IS CONCERNED WITH
THAT ITEM THANK YOU THANK YOU
GOOD MORNING MR CHAIRMAN
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
ABRAHAM AND DOESN'T THE
COMMUNITY WATER CENTER AND
WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS OUR
CONCERN WITH THE DROUGHT AND
FLOOD STREAMLINING TRAILER BILL
LANGUAGE THIS LANGUAGE PROPOSES
TO CODIFY THE GOVERNOR'S
EXECUTIVE ORDER ON GROUNDWATER
RECHARGE WHICH WOULD CREATE
A PERMANENT PROGRAM WITHOUT
CONDUCTING MORE PROACTIVE
PLANNING ON WHERE WE SHOULD
AND SHOULDN'T BE DIVERTING THE
FLOODWATERS THIS COULD CREATE
LONG TERM IMPACTS ON WATER
QUALITY FOR COMMUNITIES THAT
ARE RELYING ON THIS GROUND
WATER AS THEIR PRIMARY SOURCE
OF DRINKING WATER AND -- WE
DON'T REALLY NEED TO CODIFY
THIS AT THIS POINT IN TIME
WITHOUT BUILDING OUT ADDITIONAL
PROTECTIONS AND THANK YOU
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO
WORKING THE LEGISLATURE
OFFICE MOVING FORWARD
THANK YOU WE WILL NOW MOVE
TO OF FOLKS ON THE CHINA --
BERMAN TOLD GIVEN SOME OTHER
DIGITAL CONSTRAINTS HERE THAT
-- WE NEED TO KEEP REMARKS TO
THE THIRTY SECONDS OR LESS SO
PLEASE -- KEEP REMARKS BRIEF
AND -- GIVES MANY AS WE CAN
MODERATOR THE GERMAN IF YOU
WISH TO MAKE A PUBLIC COMMENT
YOU MAY PRESS ONE AND ZERO
AT THIS TIME IF YOU WISH TO
MAKE A PUBLIC COMMITMENT PRESS
ONE ZERO FIRST OF THE TWO
NINE ELEVEN PLEASE GO AHEAD
PETER DRUCKER MEMBERS OF THE
COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT
DEFENSE FUND CALIFORNIA VINYL
VOTERS TO MAKE WEALTH OF
HEALTH ENTERPRISE GAUGE QUITE
RIVERLAND TRUST THE TRONG
OPPOSITION TO MOVING THE TWENTY
MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE MOST
ABOUT THE PLAN RECRUITING
PROGRAM THE DEPARTMENT
CONSERVATION BUDGET CRIED
GETTING DOUBLE APPLICATION FOR
THE BUDGET PROVIDED THERE'S
CLEARLY HIGH DEMANDING GIVEN
THE DEMAND IN THE AMOUNT OF
LAND WE NEED TO TRANSITION
ALL STATEMENTS CRITICAL TO
PROVIDE ONGOING FUNDING FOR
THIS PROGRAM TO HELP OUR RURAL
COMMUNITIES SPOKEN TIME THE
FLOODING AND DROUGHT AT THE L.
A.
POINTED OUT BOND IS NOT
GUARANTEED ANY OF THAT HAPPENS
THAT MONEY WILL BE ON HAND
FOR TWO TO THREE MORE YEARS
WE STRONGLY URGE YOU TO REJECT
THE CAT THANK YOUNG THANK
YOU NEXT TIME MEXICO TO LINE
FOURTEEN PLEASE GO AHEAD YES
GOOD MORNING MY NAME IS CHRIS
SHOPPERS ON BEHALF OF COALITION
FOR CLEAN AIR AS WELL AS THE
CHARGE HEADED INVEST IN CLEAN
AIR CAMPAIGNS -- WE APPRECIATE
THAT THE MEET ME REBEKAH
STOTT CUT CLEAN TRANSPORTATION
FURTHER HOWEVER WE STILL NEED
TO INVEST MORE IN CLEAN AIR
OUR STATE IS HOME TO THE DIRTY
STARE IN THE NATION -- IT
NEARLY EVERY CALIFORNIA BREES
ERROR THAT FAILS -- NATIONAL
STATE AIR QUALITY STANDARDS PUT
IN THERE BUT I CAN HELP HELP
THE MINDS OF RISK WE SUPPORT
THE SENATE PROPOSAL AND RELEASE
CLEAN TRANSPORTATION URGE THE
GOVERNOR IN THE ASSEMBLY NOT
TO DISREGARD THE GOLD OF THE
SENATE MAJORITY PROPOSAL WOULD
REDUCE STATE FUNDING FOR CLEAN
TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS --
COULD TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS
WE ALSO SUPPORT REAUTHORIZATION
AB ONE EIGHTEEN SPECIFICALLY
EIGHTY TWO FORTY ONE S.
B.
EIGHTY FOUR -- ON THE POLICY
SIDE THANK YOU VERY MUCH THANK
YOU I SAW NEXT TO THE LINE
AND TWENTY TWO PLEASE GO AHEAD
GOOD MORNING SENATORS MY
NAME IS STEPHEN KING AND THE
CLEAN ENERGY ADVOCATE WITH
ENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA WHILE
WE ARE RELIEVED THAT THE
GOVERNOR'S MAY BUDGET REVISION
DOES NOT INCLUDE ADDITIONAL
CUTS BEYOND WHAT WAS PROPOSED
IN JANUARY WE REMAIN CONCERNED
ABOUT SIGNIFICANT CUTS TO
CLEAN TRANSPORTATION AND CLEAN
ENERGY FUNDING IN THE BUDGET
CALIFORNIA STILL NEED TO
INVEST IN CLEAN AIR BY FUNDING
IMPORTANT PROGRAMS THAT PROMOTE
CLEAN TRANSPORTATION AND CLEAN
ENERGY WE NEED A BUDGET BACK
TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE
SUPPORT ZERO EMISSION VEHICLES
PRIORITIZING INVESTMENT IN
CLEAN MOBILITY IN TRANSIT
CUTS PROGRAMS THAT SUBSIDIZE
THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY AND
HARM COMMUNITIES AND CREATE
STABLE FUNDING FOR CLEAN
TRANSPORTATION IN THE FUTURE
GET THE GOVERNOR SUGGESTION OF
A CLIMATE BOND AND LOOK FORWARD
TO ENGAGING IN THAT PROCESS
THANK YOU THANK YOU VERY MUCH
SHE'S IS NICHOLAS LINE EIGHTEEN
PLEASE GO AHEAD THANK YOU
ZERO DESJARDINS FOR CALIFORNIA
WATER RESEARCH AND CALIFORNIA
SPORTFISHING PROTECTION
ALLIANCE -- I SPEAK IN STRONG
OPPOSITION TO THE DROUGHT AND
FLOOD STREAMLINING BAYLOR BILL
LANGUAGE OF THE PROPOSED NEW
SECTION THE WATER CODE WOULD
RETURN STATE WATER RIGHT THE
THREE NINETEEN FOURTEEN YOU'RE
A IT WOULD HAND DECISIONS
ABOUT WHAT CONSTITUTES WHAT
CLOTHES TO A LOCAL OR REGIONAL
FOURTEEN DISTRICTS AND WOULD
MOVE CONFLICTS BETWEEN UPSTREAM
AND DOWNSTREAM WATER RIGHT
TO THE COURT IT WOULD ALSO BE
UNLIKELY TO BE AFFECTED THANK
YOU THANK YOU NEXT COURT THANKS
FOR THE TO LINE TWENTY ONE
PLEASE GO AHEAD HELLO MY NAME
IS JOHN DORMAN REPRESENTING
FRIENDS OF THE RIVER HE ALSO
STRONGLY OPPOSED THE FUNDED
TRAILER BILL LANGUAGE -- VERY
IMPORTANT ISSUES OF GROUNDWATER
RECHARGE AND SQUADRON SHOULD
BE ADDRESSED IN THE POLICY
COMMITTEE THE PROPOSED LANGUAGE
HAS MANY UNFORESEEN CONFLICTS
ON THE -- BECAME EXISTING WATER
POLICY -- AND WE WOULD LIKE
TO SEE THE DRAFT AND MORE I AM
AND FINALLY TO PUMP THANK YOU
THIS CALL PLEASE NINE THIRTY
THANKS FOR THE DEADLINE
THIRTEEN PLEASE GO AHEAD
GOOD AFTERNOON MEMBERS KILLER
OCEAN ON BEHALF OF WHAT YOUR
HEALTH ASSOCIATION AND VARIOUS
OTHER AGRICULTURAL DIVISION
WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THIS
DONE TO THE EIGHTY P.
-- FOR THE DEPARTMENT AFFECT
REGULATION WHICH WOULD PROVIDE
SEVEN ADDITIONAL PERMANENT
POSITIONS AT THE DEPARTMENT
AN ONGOING BUDGET LIABILITY
GREENWOOD THE ALLEY OF THE
GOVERNMENT TO RECONSIDER
DISCRETIONARY PROPOSED BUDGET
MANY FARMERS ARE PAYING THE
BILL ADDITIONALLY WOULD LIKE
TO REMIND THE COMMITTEE THAT IN
JANUARY TWENTY FOURTH INCOMING
JANUARY THE LEGISLATURE
IN SICKLE THERE YOU SHOULD
EXPECT A BUDGET PROPOSAL
FROM THE ADMINISTRATION
VOCAL FOR WHOLESALE CHANGES
TO THE MALEFACTORS WHICH
FUNDS NINETY PERCENT OF THE
DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET WE BELIEVE
THAT THAT CONVERSATION SHOULD
BE COMPREHENSIVE RATHER THAN
KEEP FILLING ACTION THAT
HERE AND THEN TAKING LARGER
ACTUALLY LOOK HERE THANK YOU
THANK EXTRA HEADLINE TWENTY
EIGHT PLEASE GO AHEAD THANK
YOU FOR THE INSIDE MAN WITH
READERSHIP COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
IN ACCOUNTABILITY IT WE TRY
WE URGE THAT THE HUNDRED
AND SIXTY MILLION FOR
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE HUNDRED
AND A HUNDRED MILLION FOR
TRANSFORMATIVE CLIMATE
COMMUNITIES THAT THEY MAY
REVISED IT TO TO A KIND OF FIND
MAINTAINING THE BUDGET WITH
FUNDING FROM THE GENERAL FUND
WITH THE KIND OF -- PROVIDING
ADDITIONAL FUNDING THAT
AUGMENTS RATHER THAN REPLACES
GENERAL FUND ALLOCATION WE
ALSO ARE YOU GOING TO SHIFT A
HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE MILLION
AND PUBLICLY FUNDING TO BOND
AND AND -- AT THE TOP OF ALL
THAT SOME PEOPLE MAY GO TO MY
PAY BENEFIT COMMUNITY PROJECT
THAT PROVIDE THE ENVIRONMENT
AND BUILD COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
I'D BE THERE CRITICAL PROGRAMS
THAT PROVIDE VULNERABLE
COMMUNITIES WITH THE RESOURCES
NEEDED TO BUILD BOTH SHORT
AND LONG TERM RESILIENCE
AND MUST BE PRIORITIZED FOR
FUNDING IN BOTH THE BUDGET
AND THE BOND THANK YOU
THANK YOU THIRTY ONE I'M
THIRTY ONE PLEASE GO AHEAD
THE MORNING CARE NUMBERED
AND TENDER NAKAZAWA POLICY
DIRECTOR AT THE CALIFORNIA
CRIME AND AGRICULTURE NETWORK
ALSO KNOWN AS CAL CAN WANTED
TO SEE THAT THE GOVERNOR'S
MAY REVISE CONTINUES OUR
PROPOSED METHOD CAN CUT TO THE
STATE I'M A SMART AGRICULTURE
PROGRAM AND THE ORDER I
DID IN LAST YEAR'S BUDGET
INCLUDING A FIFTEEN MILLION
DOLLAR CUT TO THE HEALTHY
CELLS PROGRAM A FORTY MILLION
DOLLAR CUT TWEET IN EIGHT
TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS AT
THE SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL
AND CONSERVATION PROGRAM HOW
DID THE PROGRAM JUST ONE HAS
ANY FUNDING PROPOSED FOR THE
UPCOMING TWENTY TWENTY THREE
TWENTY TWENTY FOUR FISCAL YEAR
THE HEALTH PROGRAM WHICH IS
SUPPOSED TO GET TEN MILLION
DOLLARS ENCOURAGED TO HEAR
THE GOVERNOR'S INTEREST IN
THE CLIMATE RESILIENCE BOND
INCREDULITY LATER TO INCREASE
ITS INVESTMENTS INCLUDE
INFORMATIONAL IN MICHIGAN
KEEP UP THE BUDGET AND
BOND ROUT WITH INTENSIFYING
CLIMATE IMPACTING EXPERIENCE
THAT FARMERS AND RANCHERS
THROUGHOUT THE STATE IT IS
NEVER BEEN MARKET TEN THAT
SANTA WILL CREDIT BILLION FEET
THANK YOU THANK U.
S.
CAR THANKS TO THE TIMELINE
THIRTY TWO PLEASE GO AHEAD
REMEMBER BRENNAN DAWSON ON THE
OFFICE HERE IN CALIFORNIA JUST
CALLING TO EXPRESS SUPPORT OF
FOR THE SENATE PROJECTION OF
THE LITTLE GOOD INTOXICATION
CUT THE ORIGINAL VERSION AND
-- IN JANUARY PROPOSAL ALSO
WANT TO EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT
THE SHIPS ARE KIND OF BODILY
TO SOLVE THE RESTORATION ON THE
COMMUNITY BETWEEN THE RESULT
OF THAT OUR MONEY SHOULD BE
UNDER GENERAL FUND UP TO TWO
CAN'T WAIT THANK YOU THANK YOU
VERY MUCH NEXT COURT NEXT LINE
THIRTY FIVE PLEASE GO AHEAD
MEMBERS SMACK CLUB AND
PHOENICOPTERIFORMESFAMILY
HAVE A COUPLE OF CLIENTS --
FIRST ON THE ON THE BIOENERGY
ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA WE
WANT TO SUPPORT A FEW OF THE
GOVERNOR'S ISLAND IN THE NAY
REVISED -- MOST NOTABLY AS
THE ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO THE
CHRONIC HEALTH PROBLEMS AS
WELL AS MEETING COMING IN THE
CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURAL
PROGRAM AND THAT OF THE --
MONEY FOR THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
PROGRAMS OR AND FRIENDS PART OF
ALL OF THOSE ITEMS IN A REVISED
ADDITIONALLY ON BEHALF OF
SMILED AND RESPECTABLE ENERGY
-- AND BIOENERGY ASSOCIATION
CALIFORNIA WANT TO REITERATE
SUPPORT FOR THE GOVERNOR'S RE
AUTHORIZATION PROPOSAL FOR THE
AB ONE EIGHTEEN PIECE -- AND
THEY'RE ALSO OBVIOUSLY PARALLEL
BILLS IN THE LEGISLATURE
-- WE REALLY STRONG SUPPORT
ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE
ALEJO'S -- YOU KNOW VERY
CAUTIONARY ANALYSIS OF WHAT
THAT THE SCHOOL MIGHT LOOK LIKE
-- IDENTIFYING AND SECURING A
LONG TERM STABLE -- SOURCE OF
FUNDING FOR OUR TRANSITIONAL
EDUCATION EDUCATION EFFORTS
THANK YOU VERY MUCH THANK YOU
UNTIL THERE'S A LOT ACCUSED WHO
ARE THE KEY TO THIRTY SECONDS
GOING FOR PLEASE NEXT CAR
BACK TO LIFE THIRTY BUT
GOOD MORNING CENTERS WBG
ON BEHALF THE NATURAL
RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
AND DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE
-- URGE THE LEGISLATURE TO
REJECTED THE TRAILER BILL ON
FLOOD THERE'S STREAMLINING I
AGREE WITH THE L.
A.
-- THAT THESE ARE MAJOR
POLICY CHANGES THAT WOULD
SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERMINE
EXISTING LAW INCLUDING
SICKLY EXEMPTIONS AS WELL
AS -- HARMING DOWNSTREAM
COMMUNITIES AND THE
ENVIRONMENT THANK YOU THANK YOU
NEXT WITH NINE TWENTY
NINE PLEASE GO AHEAD
HELLO MY NAME IS BARRY NELSON
WITH THE GOLDEN STATE SALMON
ASSOCIATION OF GOD COMMENTING
IN STRONG OPPOSITION TO THE
DROUGHT AND FLOOD TRAILER
BILL POLICY BILL NOT A BUDGET
BILL WE HAVE SALMON SPECIES
ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION
MIGHT FISHING INDUSTRY IS SHUT
DOWN BECAUSE OF LOW NUMBERS
OF SALMON THOUSAND WORK IN THE
COLLEGES IN ADEQUATE FLOWS THIS
BILL WOULD NEARLY DE REGULATE
ADDITIONAL DIVERSIONS -- AND
MAKES NO EFFORT TO PROTECT
FLOWS NEEDED BY SALMON WITH
A LONG RANGE OF ADDITIONAL
CONCERNS THAT I WOULD SHARE
NOW WE URGE YOU NOT TO APPROVE
THE BILL BUT RATHER DESCENDED
TO THE NATURIST OR HIS OF
WATER THANK YOU THANK YOU NEXT
ON THANKS WITH LINE THIRTY
THREE PLEASE GO AHEAD MR
CHAIRMAN MEMBERS MARK MURRAY
WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP
CALIFORNIANS AGAINST WASTE
WE'RE OPPOSED TO THE GOVERNOR'S
PROPOSAL TO LOAN A HUNDRED AND
FORTY MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE
BEVERAGE CONTAINER RECYCLING
FUND THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN UNDER
FUNDED WITH THE IN PAYMENT FOR
THE RECYCLING INFRASTRUCTURE WE
THINK THAT HAS TO HAPPEN FIRST
THANK YOU
THANKS FOR THE CLIMB
THIRTY FOUR PLEASE GOING TO
GOOD AFTERNOON MY NAME IS
ARE YOU THE ONE CAN I AM
REPRESENTING REFLECT OUTSIDE
I WANT TO STRONGLY AND TEND
TO SPORT WITH EACH BLIGHTED
PROVISIONS THAT WERE GIVEN
TO THE ADMINISTRATION IN THE
NAME BILL I WANT TO ENCOURAGE
THE LEGISLATOR AND THE
CHAIR YOU I'M SPENT QUITE AS
WELL AS WHAT CAME AFTER HIM
PROJECT THAT PREVENT THAT ARE
CENTRAL TO KEEP AN EYE MENTAL
JUST NEED LIKE STOCKTON AND
NEIGHBORING CITIES AND SAFE
FROM FLOODING AND ESPECIALLY
IN THIS EVER CHANGING CLIMATE
IN WHICH WE WILL EVENTUALLY
AN EXPERIENCE FOR THE --
FLOODING IN THE AREA THANK YOU
THANK YOU NEXT WE ARE AT THE
HEART STOP AT AT -- ELEVEN
FIFTY MS WE DON'T GET TO YOU
PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR COMMON
WRITING NEXT CALLER THIRTY
NINE TWELVE PLEASE GO AHEAD
CANBERRA CALIFORNIA TROUT YOU
WANT TO GO ON RECORD AND SAY
THAT WE CAN DEFINITELY NATURI
IN WATER MANAGEMENT -- DIRECT
EMERALD BUDGET WORKING DURING
THE VERY ALSO -- BUT THEY COULD
FLY THAT WE SHOULD BE YOUR YOUR
BETWEEN GOTTEN QUITE FUNDING
DEPENDING ON THE WATER HERE
BUT -- IMPORTANT -- BY ANTIBODY
FROM TROPIC LIGHTNING OR AN
ORGANIZED MANNER TEAM OF THE
YEAR WE ALSO WANT TO NOTE THAT
WE ARE REVIEWING THE GROUND
WATER DROP BILL -- AND WE LIKE
TO SAY THAT YEAH HE AGREED THAT
THE WATER PARKS OR WATER POLICY
CHANGES SHOULD BE DONE WITHIN
THE QUIRKY -- COMMITTEE DURING
HER LEGISLATIVE RECORD OTHER
THAN A PUBLIC COMMENT AND NOT
FROM WATER HRT PORTENT -- AND
THAT THE DIALOGUE SHOULD BE
DELIGHTED MUCH EARLIER IN THE
PROCESS THANK YOU THANK YOU
THANKS FOR THE TO LINE
THIRTY SEVEN PLEASE GO AHEAD
I'M THIRTY SEVEN LINES OPEN
GOOD MORNING SURE MEMBERS
OPERATED MEDINA CALLING ON
BEHALF OF THE INTERROGATION
DISTRICT TO ECHO THE
CONCERNS THAT WERE RELAYED
BY OUR COLLEAGUES AT THE
FALCONS THE AUTHORITY AND
TO ACCEPT THE SENATE VERSION
OR TYPE THE HUNDRED SIXTY
NINE MILLION DOLLARS FOR
THE SALTON SEA RESTORATION
FUND THANK YOU THANK YOU
EXPRESS LINE FORTY PLEASE GO
AHEAD GOOD MORNING NATALIE
WITH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL WE ARE
REVIEWING THE CODE LED THRILLER
BILL LANGUAGE WE ARE CLOSER
TO FINDING RICCIARDO'S THE
BENEFICIAL USE WITHOUT HANDLING
PATIENT WE HAVE SERIOUS
CONCERNS REGARDING THE SPECIAL
COLLECTION OF CONTAMINATION
FROM LOCAL SOURCES OF DRINKING
WATER AS A RESULT OF A MONITOR
AND AND OR IN INADEQUATE
PLANS RECHARGE WILL PROVIDE
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ISSUES
DIFFERENTLY WE'RE GRATEFUL
THAT THE BILL HUNDRED TWENTY
FIVE MILLION -- BUT CONTINUED
YEAH WE STRUGGLE YEAR TWENTY
POINT THREE MILLION FROM THAT
APPROPRIATIONS CANNELLA COURT
LIKE HE DID TO PLAN THAT
I'M NOT REALLY HAS NOT BEEN
IN THE COUNTRY FOR EVERYONE
AFFECTED HAS BEEN INADEQUATE
YOU CAN WORK FOR THE FLAG
THAT TWENTY TWENTY MILLION
INCLUDED CONCERN LOOMING GAP
HOMOSEXUALS IN PAIRS THE REBELS
OF BLOCKING HOLDING COMMUNITY
INFRASTRUCTURE THANK YOU
THANK YOU THAT WAS LINE THIRTY
NINE PLEASE GO AHEAD WHILE
JOHNNY CARLSON WATER POLICY
COORDINATOR BUT PLANNING AND
CONSERVATION LEAGUE AND THAT
WE ARE SPEAKING IN OPPOSITION
TO THE DRAFT BUT STREAMLINING
TRAILER BILL THE DEPARTMENT
WHICH FOR FOUR MONTHS REALLY
SHOULD BE VETTED BY STAFF BUT
FOR THE FACT THAT ALL FORTY
EIGHT BUT IT AS A KIND OF A
WORKING DEFINITION I CAN HARM
WILDLIFE DOWNSTREAM WATER USERS
ANTIKYTHERA MAKING TO DO GROUND
WATER RECHARGE OUR CELL WEEK
URGED YOU TO A IN THIS BILL
BACK TO COMMITTEE PROF THANK
YOU THANK YOU NEXT ON NEXT TO
THAT LINE FORTY ONE PLEASE GO
AHEAD GOOD MORNING MR KAREN
MEMBER STAFF A LOT SO ON THE
HOUSE WATER BE USED CALIFORNIA
-- WE ARE DISAPPOINTED TO SEE
THE -- GENERAL FUND FUNDING
FOR WATER RECYCLING BE MOVED
TO A PROPOSED CLIMATE BOND
AS YOU KNOW -- WE CAN GET
THAT MONEY OUT VERY QUICKLY
AND ANY DELAY IN THOSE FUNDS
-- WE ARE CONCERNED OR WILL
DELAY ANY DROUGHT RESILIENT
PEPPERED SEVEN COULD BE
MAKING BY CLEAN WATER SUPPLY
WE URGE YOU TO KEEP THOSE IN
THE GENERAL FUND THANK YOU
VERY MUCH THANK YOU BASED ON
BY FORTY TO PLEASE GO AHEAD
THANK YOU MISTER CHAIR
THE DEPARTMENT TO MAKE ON
BEHALF OF THE CINEMA COUNTY
WATER AGENCY AND THE CLEAN
IT'S VALLEY THAT FAITH AND
GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY
AGENCY WE'RE DISAPPOINTED TO
SEE THE SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS
FOR SEGMENTATION FUNDING
PROPOSED TO BE SHIFTED TO
THE BOND WE WOULD ASK THAT
YOU RESTORED THAT FUNDING
TO THE GENERAL FUND THE IDEA
OF YOURS RECENT SOLICITATION
HAS RESULTED IN OVER SEVEN
HUNDRED EIGHTY MILLION DOLLARS
WORTH OF APPLICATIONS OF
THE NEED IS THERE WE WOULD
ALSO ASK THAT THIS FINAL
ROUND BE AVAILABLE FOR
SMALL GSA YOU HAVE FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE FROM THE STATE
DID MANAGE THEIR PROCESSES
THANK YOU VERY MUCH THANK YOU
Y.
NUMBER NINE PLEASE GO AHEAD
JERRY MEMBERS JERRY DOES MAN
WITH RECREATIONAL BOATERS
OF CALIFORNIA IN OPPOSITION
TO THE THREE HUNDRED PERCENT
BOTH REGISTRATION FEE INCREASE
THE GREEN WITH THE STATEMENTS
EARLIER THAT THE LEGISLATURE
SHOULD RECEIVE THE REPORT
HAVE A CHANCE TO EVALUATE THE
STAKEHOLDER INPUT OTHERWISE
A WILL NOT BE AWARE OF THE
ALTERNATIVES THAT ARE NOT
BEING CONSIDERED SUCH AS
RECAPTURING FUEL TAX DOLLARS
IN SPENDING THOSE FOR VOTERS
WHO PAID THE TAXES WE'RE ALSO
WORRIED THAT THE OF THE HIT
OF THE INCREASE OF TOGETHER
WITH FUEL PRICE INCREASES
ON PROPERTY TAX INCREASES
ON BOATS WILL DRIP BETTER
MENTALLY HURT THE LOW INCOME
AND DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES
AND THOSE WITH FIXED INCOMES
THANK YOU THANKS VERY MUCH
ONE FORTY THREE PLEASE GO
AHEAD WHAT IS IT THAT YOU'RE
MEMBERS MY NAME'S CHRIS
READ WITH A CALIFORNIA FARM
BUREAU -- WE ARE OPPOSED
TO THE DEPARTMENT THAT SAID
REGULATION BCP BECAUSE THAT
WE BELIEVE IT'S PREMATURE
LENGTHY DISCUSSION NEXT YEAR
ON POTENTIAL MIL SEVEN INCREASE
WHICH DRESSES MADE THE SAME
ISSUES -- THAT WILL COME UP
-- -- RELATED TO THE ISSUES
IN THE SPECIES SO -- THANK
YOU THANK YOU VERY MUCH THE
CORPORATE RESPOND NEXT ON IN
LINE FORTY SIX PLEASE GO AHEAD
CAN YOU REMEMBER IT SENATE
VETO ON BEHALF OF THE
NATIONAL MARINE MANUFACTURERS
ASSOCIATION -- WE ARE
DISAPPOINTED THAT AND NEARLY
TO YOUR BOATING COMMUNITY
STAKEHOLDER PROCESS RESULTED
IN THE MAIN REVISED PROPOSAL
TO INCREASE THE FEDERAL RATE
REGISTRATION FEES BY THREE
HUNDRED PERCENT WITHOUT ANY --
RETURNING ANYMORE VALUE VOTERS
-- AND COMPLETELY IGNORING
THAT CANCEL HUNDRED AND SEVEN
MILLION DOLLARS FOR YOUR
CONTRIBUTION -- BUT -- IT'S
ALREADY PAID THE STATE FIELD
HOCKEY WE URGE YOU TO REJECT
THESE VIEWS ABOUT THE INCREASE
THANK YOUNG THANK YOU VERY MUCH
THE MEASURE WE HAVE NO ONE ELSE
IN QUEUE AT THIS TIME RIGHT
WELL THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR A
SPEEDING UP THOSE COMMENTS WE
GET EVERYBODY IN THANK STATE
WINNERS PARTICIPATED TODAY'S
HEARING -- BEYOND -- AGAIN IF
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-- AND -- OR IN WRITING TO THE
BUDGET FISCAL REVIEW COMMITTEE
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TO US AND WE WILL INCLUDE YOUR
TESTIMONY OFFICIAL HEARING
RECORDS THANK YOU WE APPRECIATE
PRECIPITATION THANKS TO THE
MANY PANELISTS TODAY -- THE
END -- FOR EVERYONE WHO CALLED
IN WITH INCLUDED THE JENNIFER
DAY'S HEARING SENATE BUDGET SUB
COMMITTEE NUMBER TWO IS A JERK