their considerable influence around town convincing the people around san francisco that their plastic neighborhood parks were safe. clare and her teammates didn't think something sounded quite right and decided to investigate whether playing in ground-up tires with the chemicals and heavy metals was a wise idea. over eight months, she tested more than 100 water samples from both synthetic turf and grass fields in san francisco with the help of local universities. clare's results reinforced what environmental scientists have known for years, information that bob fisher, city fields and the turf industry have long been trying to sprezz. san francisco synthetic field runoff water contained dangerous levels of heavy metals and other toxics which were in excess of state and federal guidelines. clare's experiment has brought her accolades including a 2011 international eco hero award, national science foundation award and even a speaking

engagement at a convention, one of the largest gatherings of scientists around the world. her efforts only scraped the surface of the many risks associated with the plastic fields. we can't expect the children of san francisco to fend for themselves when it comes to protecting their long term health and future. clare's efforts beg the question, why aren't the adults truly pro technicaling them? we put that critical question to you. to facility tate searches, i insert the keywords children's health hazzard, mission playground, l.e.d. poisoning, mercury poisoning, fisher construction, carbon black. thank you. president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> peter alexander. things are getting more and more exciting all the time.

i really enjoyed listening to the senior vets talking about the dancing. it reminded me about a friend of mine that passed three years ago. francis lambert, he was in the air force. he used to tell me about when he was a much younger man, he used to do a lot of smooth dancing in san francisco. i had never heard that term before. we have three veterans in our prison system that are political prisonerers. the general strike sets them free. regarding the homeless people that are on the street, i invite you to open up the phone books and see how many so-called churches are in these phone books. why don't we just ask them to absorb 10 homeless persons per church. that would be a nice thing to do. it would take care of the problem immediately if not sooner. and there was a lot of talk about 9/11. and the media still to this

moment has lied about virtually everything. i'm going to read this to you here. false flag operations behind every war, d.c.'s corporate store, 343 firefighters were murdered that day and law enforcement quite angered yet silenced to say. the sheriff and jeff have a tremendous following and many a vet. they were serve and protect as we like as the d.c., as we put d.c. to its knees during this general strike. by the great california general strike of 40 days and 40 nights, we will free them. now, there was no plane in pennsylvania. there was no plane at the pentagon and the planes that hit the buildings were empty and what happened to the people? they were terminated at the culpepper crematorium where the planes have been renumbered and are back in service.

president chiu: next speaker. >> doug millar. thank you that the system seems to be working today that that man who tried to provoke a race riot here was thrown out by the deputy sheriffs. i am doug millar, veteran, i joined when i was 16 in the alaska national guard. spent eight years in peacetime, thank god. i have been a resident of santa rosa in 1982 when i first moved there i was a real estate developer, high-tech developer and co-founder of three high-tech companies. i voted for the republicans three times and i'm sickened by what's going on here, but i want to mention also that i was a member of the santa rosa chamber of commerce, member of the board of directors every years on the legislative committee. so i understand what it takes to make a profit. i also joined the naacp in three states, las vegas, denver, and los angeles and so

i'm here because i want to give your clerk here a letter that i sent to attorney general eric holder in care of michelle obama and one of the exhibits i gave him, there is a dozen here, more than a dozen listed is called, something that happened in santa rosa proper, the first time they tortured this little girl, she was only 6, they called it parade the nigger day. we still have racism going on in our country and as a resident of your city right here, the lieutenant who has been torturing and murdering children. so this is a copy here for each of you. please make a copy for everybody on the board. the bottom line is, folks, we have a big problem. we have more people dying of suicide of veterans than we have dying in all three wars over there in the middle east right now.

that's why i encourage you all to take a look at this report i have for you. it's called operation get free. my son created this website how to save veterans for 50 cents per day. president chiu: thank you. thank you very much. next speaker. >> supervisors, first and foremost, i would like to thank all you guys who allowed me to go before you because i have another very important meeting, but i'm here to state to you very clearly that in these dire economic times, you just learned that in the last couple of months, over a quarter million of people have joined the working poor. we have a population in this nation of 311 million and 14 million people do not have jobs. now, you saw some people come here and speak.

normally, they don't come to speak. we only come to speak when we get shafted again and again and again and so then what happens is when some people speak in a passionate matter, you see the racism. you see the biasness on the face of a few representatives. but what was said today was that in the southeast sector and there are some advocates here, some of you know about it, there is too much discrimination. there are people that haven't worked for four or five years and those people that are supposed to represent are doing diddly. so it is right that whatever needs to be done as malcolm x said, by whatever means necessary, not that we want to

track in somebody, but we will come to you representatives and tell you nicely first in public, then maybe hold your hands and plead a little bit, but then action needs to be taken. and there are brothers here who are going to speak to it. i have worked with them before on a project and put 67% of the communities back to work. they're going to express themselves. please listen to them. thank you very much. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i'm from bayview hunters point. most of the people that came here today came because of the fact that they were working or want to work in the hunter view project. let me say this. our community has been shafted and shafted well and it started to be with the redevelopment agency that said they're going to help the people in the project areas. it was a group called urban

strategy that was supposed to make sure that the residents in public housing would receive those jobs. it never happened. we was going back and forth to the redevelopment agency every time they meet saying urban strategy is not doing what they're supposed to do. nothing has been done. now, what we have here, one of the young ladies that is a part of this group, she had to leave. she is a member of my church. what i have asked instead of espinoza going before the board of supervisors, city planning, p.u.c., come yourself. let them see you. because evidently they may think i am just talking. no one is dealing with a local hiring. they're finding loopholes sweetheart to get through them. they're hiring truckers for three months and laying them off and bringing other truckers from other areas in to our community. work is not being done like it should be and, number one, and i stated this to a lot, there

is not one agency, city department in that that you all represent have a certified compliance officer that is certified by the state that could go on these job sites and talk to the employees and see if they are being treated fairly. and guess what, you got the positions, but they're not certified and can't go, why isn't that this city is going without someone, and we do have in my community, a certified compliance officer on third street and we go on different jobs when we get a contract. this needs to be done on all of these city departments. president chiu: thank you very much. thank you very much. >> i want to say this. when the supervisors are making $35,000 a year -- president chiu: thank you. >> give me back my three

minutes. i want my three minutes back. president chiu: thank you, miss jackson. next speaker. if we can get the mic going on today. >> yeah, put it back on. hello, board of supervisors. i'm here to express, my name is gregory hall. i was in an incident last year, probably have been three years ago when i directed the supervisors about a situation up in hunters point. it seems like nothing ever changes because the same situation is happening till today. i'm wondering, you know, you guys got all your big jobs back here and i figure that you guys are smart enough to know that it's not settled out there in bayview hunters point. now that we got a new district supervisor, i feel that maybe she needs to look into it a little more thoroughly nothing like the last supervisor. i was over there at the double rock where he was emotionally

about how much you got the money to be able to do the work there, maybe you need to be emotionally about finding out how these people in the bayview community are not having jobs, are out on the street every day. me, when i took on the job after the bad contractor was up there, i hired everybody in the community. i'm not to supervisor. i'm not to person that can stand up, but i'm a person that is going to stand up for people to help him to try to make it a better life for them. i hear people talking about it. i hear supervisors talking about it, but do you do it? they saw talk the talk or walk the talk, you ain't doing nothing of that. can it be done? we hear about it. i need it to be done. god, we vote for you guys to stand up for our rights and some of you supervisors, some of them just walk around and act like ain't nothing really happening out here. we come up here all the time just to talk about what? you're going to take care of

us. can you show us that. really give us some facts and showing that you're going to help people in the bayview community. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> you know, ladies and gentlemen, i'm really appalled, but these people that came here, this has been going on for years, y'all. ms. jackson is right. we have been coming up here for years, for decades. a lot of y'all -- and i have heard some supervisors, me and my colleagues see you come up there and you talk and we close our ears when you start talking. one thing is for sure. you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool them all the time. you have to realize, what they do in these foreign countries with the young people got the technology and not a dictatorship, what do you think when these young african americans finally get the word of what is really going down here at city hall, because it's silly down here at city hall.

that's a good example here at silly hall what goes down. i have been the victim, been victimized. i came before you all asking for an audit or an audit or report in the press room, nobody has done it yet. anytime i come in and talk to you all, the next day they take my stuff down stairs like a punishment. shut up, you ain't supposed to talk. i was up here when the press room was up here, but no one wants to look into that. the same thing dtis, with television. they took my shows off because of city hall here. all of this falls under city hall. city hall is corrupt, y'all. i'm telling y'all because i'm going to tell you what i saw. what i saw may be against the law. now let me tell you one thing. people have been underestimating it for 20 years thinking you got a camera, a video. ain't got no film. you ain't fooling nobody. let me tell you y'all something.

when i come up with this report, i'm sure that oprah winfrey going to come and get me and tell the history that is going on here in san francisco, because if you look around, blacks are leaving town. what's going down, it's going down. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> afternoon, board of supervisors and president chiu. diane at the casino gave me this. it's santa rosa singers. i'm showing you this because you don't have anything like this here, free registration and come sing with us. you don't seem to have a group like this in the city. it would be great, good to have it in san francisco. and here is the other side. i just wanted to say -- ♪ ♪ oh, miss jackson wants her three minutes back ♪ ♪ to do public comment and you

made $30,000 a year ♪ ♪ oh, you were blind to let it go ♪ ♪ won't you give it, she wants it, three minutes back ♪ ♪ just do it yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ na-na-na ♪ won't you give her three minutes back. then she can do public comment ♪ ♪ oh, yeah you were blind to let three minutes go ♪ ♪ we want it back president chiu: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, president chiu, members of the board. my name is f. joseph butler. i'm an architect in the city, a member of the american institute of architects and a long-time land use professional. in the time that i have done land use in san francisco, we have gone from no environmental

review or very little environmental review of residential projects to the state we are in today where finally we have processes in place. we have a historic preserveation commission. we have a group of professionals who are trained in the field to advise the planning department on how to do environmental review properly. unfortunately, they don't have any staff other than a small cadre of preserveation planners. they have no authority whatsoever. i think that's an error. you might look at them in charge of m.e.a. and leave the planning commission the quad rant planners. today i'm here because at the last meeting, i was here to represent a neighbor in a case known as 70 gold mine drive. after the motion was tabled on that issue because the conditional use was withdrawn and thus the categorical extension application was

withdrawn, there was a comment from the dais that i felt deserved some response. i sent an email to you all last week. i would like you to read that. there is not the time to do that now, but i would like to say that now that we're following the california environmental quality act and actually doing environmental review as it's supposed to be done, when we find cases like 70 gold mine drive where the documents say that the house there was built in 1985 instead of 1895, you know that something is wrong. the planners can't do their job if they get bad information in and they can't do their job when members of the board of supervisors want their jobs to go away. we need to enforce state law or he is seed from -- secede from california. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> hi, i was here last week. i addressed some issues to your supervisors, mainly discussing

the u.n. charter of the united nations and this wednesday, actually, today, the 66th congress of the united nations began meeting in new york city auspiciously or inauspiciously after september 11. today i want to talk about three things -- law, a house, and the ark. i went to hastings and took the california bar exam july last year. since then, i have been enjoying myself at city college learning how to make brass weights and other interesting things. i have been here on a number of occasions to talk to the immigrants rights commission mainly because they meet here, but also to talk to you and i wanted to talk about a particular house that is located here in san francisco.

of which i and a few friends of mine were interested in purchasing. the house was located in the castro area. i talked to supervisor wiener about it and the address is 893 elizabeth. this house i became interested in actually as a result of some relationship with a doctor of mine who i have mentioned in the past, mentioned about male circumcision and brought up some other issues like lost property, things getting lost in his property and then a window getting broken at this property and actually leading now to the issue of the ark. the ark is this creation that i came up with in order to assist african millennium development goals. i wrote a letter and i sent to the united nations mainly

because -- president chiu: thank you very much. >> thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hi, supervisors. this is great. it's like seeing the best dressed of the dccc. i'm representing peer 38 and the tenants, there are 40 businesses that occupy that area. there are 20 new businesss that come out of that area and i want to just say that it's important not just because of the businesss that are currently there, but because of the businesses that are created because of the collaborative environment available because of the resources that appear. i had had my own business for 12 years on union square. it wasn't until i came over to peer 38 that i decided to start a new company that will be employing close to eight people in the next year and a half.

so if i could ask all of you to please apply pressure to port and fire and hopefully they can have us stay there, that would be greatly appreciated. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, supervisors, my name is bill burton. i am working on the historic ship at peer 38. the charter of what the port is supposed to do is 2/3 maritime use of the waterfront there at one point they asked us to leave. they gave us 72 hours to leave. under federal rules, we can't do such a thing with large ships and but it shows that there is an effort afoot to change that maritime use or to not act in good confidence with their charter. there has been a lot of good businesses that happen at pier 38. you'll hear from a whole bunch more of us. you might notice that there is

a real community there. there is a lot of interaction that is very positive for the city and i so i hope you will all work and help us in keeping that facility open rather than what they have said they're going to do is to close it and do minor maintenance for years which it's a derelict facility compared to what is happening there now. thank you. >> hi, my name is curt lynn. i'm a tenant at pier 38 and involved with the ship that we were just talking about. as you know, pier 38 have tenants that collectively are the single job business incubator in california. in this community, there is a lot of cross-pollination between the companies that promote jobs and business. we are part of the customer base for businesses in our area. several of the tenants serve the local maritime community in important ways. we expanded these maritime

services and increased public access to our bay. there have been some public, towards this end, we also find it important to address the public safety issues that the pier, that the port of san francisco has raised and we are willing to repair all of the items on the list in a timely manner without removing the tenants. we will hire a state licensed engineer to address any of the structural items. we will continue to create jobs in business. we propose to create facilities to dock larger vessels in san francisco. we would be willing to pay back the loan to the california department of boating and waterways using the pro seeds that are generated by the pier. we would complement the new park and we would also give the port of san francisco a significant increase in revenue.

so i would like to you think about pressuring maybe the port to allow us to stay there. we're willing to take care of all of the concerns of the port, thank you very much. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i have been conducting marine-related business in pier 38 for well over a decade. also, i live in the neighborhood, so i'm pretty much around this area all the time. the pier 38 has been functioning very well and i happen to notice that a lot of people that are speaking here today used a lot of words like revenue and jobs. and when we are going to close a perfectly well functioning pier for repairs that need to be made, and turn it into pier 36. i'm not sure who is familiar

with. there is no doubt in my mind that they're going to create number pir 36 which is fenced off, rundown building attracting drug users and so on. it's my neighborhood and also i'm one of the tenants. i am being evicted. i'm not the biggest revenue generator in the pier 38. however, it's mind boggling that we can get a man on the moon and we can bring back "apollo 13" and save lives when we need to, but we cannot fix a pier that generates perfectly good revenue and provides a shelter for a lot of people and jobs. thank you. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> hi, i'm bob christopher. i'm a tenant at pier 38 here to support the cause. a little bit of background. pier 38 is a recognized piece of landscape in the investor

world. there is parts of mountain view and parts of pier 38 in san francisco. i ran an event there once a month called start-up b and b. we bring in investors and entrepreneurs and executives to coalesce around different emerging tech companies and other opportunities. we're bringing in some top pier one b.c.'s and also entrepreneurs. everyone knows this location. they know the pier. people like dave and ron who are very famous investors know this place very well. what this creates is a culture in the community that you can't replace. you can go down the street and open another pier, put us there instead. i hate to see that happen, but you're not going to have the same kind of atmosphere that you would have here. it's like taking sand hill road and putting it in berkeley. it's a difference of culture and atmosphere with the surroundings. i both invest and mentor and

advice companies, so i see a lot of companies from spain, italy and south america coming here, some wonderful talent and they love the culture and the support network they have at pier 38. short story is this event has to take place. it would be a shame to close it. a lot of people here will be adversely affected if it did close. i would hate to see that happen as well. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i work in an italian company. we moved to there in january because we wanted to expand our business. we have been lucky to find a place like pier 38 thanks to the great people we met at the pier, they enabled us to start doing business in the u.s. and to -- and gave us a lot of business opportunities. all of these could be lost.

thanks very much. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i came here from france to start my business here. among many places i chose pier 38 because i believe it's the spark of innovation. hundreds of companies are created at pier 38 for the past few years. some of them saw wonderful exits ranging to up to millions of dollars. this is a unique place that a lot of international people are coming to start their business. i have been to london, paris, madrid, amsterdam and tel aviv and any of those international cities would die to help us if they could