thank you. >> i am alley buttner and i am incredibly proud to be here today. i wear several different hats. one is as a producer for a local public radio station in san francisco and we value everything that is going on locally that is community based and community oriented and the other part is i work indoors almost all the time and at computers and i go almost every day that i can after work to little city garden and it provides an incredible haifsh for -- an incredible haven for me and so many people in san francisco who work indoor jobs to have access to volunteer and get their local food and just be in a place with plants and trees and people outside is enormously valuable. i am a medical herbalist and value having land open in the city for growing herbs for teas and various things and the third hat is that brooke is my sister and her partner, and i have watched with amazing passion and thoroughness and dedication work towards this goal. it's just amazing to see where it is now. >> good afternoon, commissioners. eam here to speak in support of the proposa

. >> i am brooke buttner and operating 3/4 acre farm in the mission terrace neighborhood. little city guard season a small business and an experiment in the economic viability and we grow salad greens, cooking greens and culinary herbs that we can't wait to sell to san francisco residents and restaurants. we started a year ago because we recognized something that san francisco lacked. at the time there were no commercial urban farms operating in the city. we felt strongly that if we were going to see an increase in efficient food production in san francisco, we also needed to see a viable business model for an urban farm, so we set out to design a model that could work for us. and we imagined there would be unforeseen obstacles to running a business in the city but also meaningful work. and we were right on both accounts. and the first was that the current zoning code prevents us from selling the produce we grow because we are in a residential neighborhood. i am happy to be here today to encourage you to pass the code which will allow us to sell the produce. and to give yo

she did it on tuesday down in buttner, north carolina.he's had a relationship with him, obviously. she knew him before the ponzi scheme was revealed in december 08. she had been covering the brokerage market and knew him from the positions he had there. she had a long standing relationship with him. she saw in the article there were some e-mails that came out. she had some correspondence with mad you. >> charlie: before the interview. >> before the interview. and that was part of the interview and the comments he made in the e-mails. on tuesday she's down there and delivered today's story in the newspaper. >> charlie: what did he say about banks and hedge funds in terms of might have been complicit and certainly should have known what he was doing. >> right. he didn't name any names specifically and he said there was willful blind no, sir. they should have known more importantly he said his family didn't know. he mentioned specific investors like willpon on the papers. but he said the banks knew. look, diana enriquzi he's sayig the banks