. >> commissioners, my name is francisco decosta. i come from time to time to address issues not only of the community but issues that have all of san francisco. espinola jackson, you know her very well. she has been not only a fighter, but a mother of the bayview hunters point. what i am saying is very simple, pretty well, including your attorneys. i know where you come from. we have to have focused meetings. as much as i think i know about sfpuc, when in doubt, i call my friends who work for puc. is this true? can you enlighten me on this subject? so i am educated on issues. even though i know a lot about puc for the last 40 years. so we have some dealership here. we need to contact the right people who gather the right information so that what ever is going to happen has the blessings of the elders. in all indigenous communities, you have to get their blessings of the elders. that is just how is done. if the city and county of san francisco and some politicians want to do it some other way, then you know what? you're going to chall

. >> commissioners, my name is francisco decosta. i come from time to time to address issues not only of the community but issues that have all of san francisco. espinola jackson, you know her very well. she has been not only a fighter, but a mother of the bayview hunters point. what i am saying is very simple, pretty well, including your attorneys. i know where you come from. we have to have focused meetings. as much as i think i know about sfpuc, when in doubt, i call my friends who work

i have a card from francisco decosta, but if there is anyone that wants to speak, please come forward. two minutes. >> good afternoon, supervisors. after 20 years at the hospital, i became a whistleblower and i was abruptly recalled laid-off. the report asks you to decide whether whistleblowers are an asset or a threat. in our experience, they are a threat when the report a high level city officials. we reported the laguna honda ceo. such complaints about -- the patient fund, we wanted an audit. instead, we were driven out of the hospital. when we reported retaliation to the ethics commission, and we were told to get a lawyer. the set our complaints were a red herring. supervisor elsbernd said there was no money for an audit. the pr director was belligerent. we were denounced as detractors. when the controller conducted an audit, $350,000 of misappropriated funds were restored to the patients. the civil grand jury report gives you a road map to salvage the whistleblower program and to protect employees the report wrongdoing. but first, you have to decide whether whistle-blowers are an