. >> good afternoon, steve ritchie again. this is to approve and authorize and execution of the agreement between the bay area water supply and conservation agency and the san francisco p.u.c. and the agreement with the city of hayward, east bay municipal district, regarding a one-time use of the hayward for the pilot water transfer. this has been something that nicole i'm sure will make some comments on, because this has been in the works for six years to try to figure out what it would take to actually get a water transfer, it happens in this case to be through the hayward inner tide. taking water from east bay mud system and then passing it through the inner tide into our system, which really goes to the city of hayward. so they have been looking for a long time at, you know, what does it take to do it. and this has been long effort trying to actually put in line all of the institutional rates. that's the big issue of water transfers, more than plumbing and more than availability of waters. really can you get governmental