tonight, we will start out with a profile story about brenda to his use mark and michael urista decosta who's keeping a family front and center in her future plans. >> brenda to jesus decosta is working her dream job. the very same school that she attended as a child. two unbelievable, i didn't think that i would be able to come back and actually teach at the school that i went to school and pick reps get the california native's dedication to education showed early on. first, as a clm sroo ntluis about dreamers and integration. >> reporter: community concerns inspire brenda's teaching but it is her family who has her heart. >> my parents went up to third grade in mexico and then stopped going to school either to go to work or to help at home. >> reporter: brenda's parents came to america to give their children the educational opportunities that they never had. but, it was tough. both lost their jobs, then came some devastating news. brenda's mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. >> diabetes and, it was medical condition after medical condition. >> reporter: her father to anywhere he cou

tonight, we will start out with a profile story about brenda to his use mark and michael urista decosta who's keeping a family front and center in her future plans. >> brenda to jesus decosta is working her dream job. the very same school that she attended as

ilene boken and fran this sew -- francisco decosta. anyone else who wants to speak on this item, come on up now. >> ilene, coalition for san francisco neighborhoods, here on my own behalf. last year the sfp

decosta. >> commissioners, today i want to give you my subjective opinion on some very important matters linked to the river. so any way you look at it, you have to go back years, thousands of years, to the tribes that preserved and protected and performed their sacred rituals. very important when we talk about cultural competency. we talk about cultural competency, equity and resiliency but we don't know the meaning of those words. if we did, we would be more serious. so at times, there are some individuals, and i'm one of those, i like to talk about those issues in a general way, because the tribes are always asking me about the process. served under three generals. i understand process. i did my best to bring the tribes to discuss issues that were linked to the army. and i even took some steps to bring them over here in this room and some of you all were witness to it. i'm asking you or i'm requesting you that we find common ground just to have a meaningful discussion with the first people, the native american tribes on the river. just to have a meaningful discussion and find common g

. >> my name is francisco decosta. i'm the director of environmental justice advocacy. we have a very, very serious problem with the issue that's being discussed today. and you supervisors should think outside the box. we need a documentary where in all of the places there are first responders, they should be educated really on what happens when somebody is about to die. this is not a joke. now today i came, i was in the muni. we had two people fall down in the muni because of a drug overdose, opioids. then you walk by the bill graham, you see that. and children when they see that, it's not good. this is the city of st. francis of assisi. empathy and compassion. and all you supervisors have to have your heart in the right place. it's not about money, this is about human dignity. this san francisco was where the united nations was formed. san francisco can lead, so like when somebody says, oh, we cannot do this in the '80s when we had the aids pandemic. we did it. we had like dr. silverman. i may have gotten his name wrong. i remember him. he was my friend. guys like tha

ilene boken and fran this sew -- francisco decosta. anyone else who wants to speak on this item, come on up now. >> ilene, coalition for san francisco neighborhoods, here on my own behalf. last year the sfpuc assistant general manager for water gave a presentation of the bay area think tank. the title of the presentation was bay delta and the future of regional water supplies, a copy of the powerpoint has been presented or submitted to the commission. on the overhead is the slide of that presentation. the presentation began with the statement that the regional water issues are not a supply issue but a, quote, unquote, plumbing issue. and the plumbing issue could be resolved through a number of agreements between regional water districts and with infrastructure projects. on the overhead is a summary of the capital projects which would revolve the plumbing issue. however, it was stated the sfpuc, 20 percent of these projects came to fruition would be fortunate. it was stated the projects that came to fruition will take ten to 30 years to