charlie walker stated, he has left. what the rest of the city did not want, they put it into this community and we have to accept it. and we did accept it. i received a call that said -- mr. jackson, because that was set out to talk about digesters, why is it they did not put digesters someplace else? why at have to be in bayview? i use common sense. there ain't nowhere for it to go. there ain't such place for the bill then, when it done, will go beautifully. we believe that you can do an excellent job with us working together with my commission. thank you very much. [applause] >> [unintelligible] osiris' coalition. we are here in force now. basically i want to recap what i said earlier. i am going to summarize. we understand about the programs that you have in place. many of the people that were here earlier may not have been aware that there is also an as needed list. by state law you have to have a wastewater certificate. there is loopholes on the as needed list between the airplane and the the power plant. licensing

>> my name is charlie walker. some of you may know me. i'm having a problem here in san francisco as being the president of the truckers and contractors association, and we sign ourselves -- find ourselves back in the stone age . san francisco is spending probably about $100 billion building tunnels and doing construction work in san francisco, and there's not three black contractors in a contractor relationship with the city and county of san francisco. i was out on a job the other day and one of the contractors bidded a job with bart. the job was about $20 million and they have some 10% or 12% minorities. what has happened over the last 10 or 15 years is that everyone is taking the place as a minority, but minorities don't include black people no more. because all white contractors now say i got all the minorities you need. got asians, latinos, so forth and so on. but it don't include black people. and what -- the information i need from you, your agency, is how many african people in the city -- african-american people in the city and