decosta, please come forward. >> so i'm here. there are many astute people in the audience. i watch them on the tv, and i'm here to talk about our watershed here in san francisco, and i'm here to talk about another topic, which is known to you all, tech no logical term of dewatering. so as much as we talk about our technical term ms. gener-- ter general, and california law, we should be paying more attention to our watershed. our watershed plays an important role. as human beings, we have many different types of human being, but you know, i represent the first type of people of this area, the ohlone, who respect mother earth. and when it comes to water, the way indigenous people look at water, water is life. that is why we went all the way to north dakota to represent the people of san francisco, all san franciscans and the bay area, to state categorically that we respect water. water is important. we know about it, but we don't pay attention to it. i haven't said that -- you all do your research on how we take care of our watershed in san francisco. i worked at the presidio

can we start with francisco decosta, please? >> commissioners, first and foremost, i'd like to thank commissioner kwon for doing a good job. i look forward to working with commissioner courtney. congratulations. and congratulations caen. last time i was here, i spoke about water. water is critical it our survival. the native-americans when they look at water, they liken it to blood. because water is life. that's how they say it. so i was looking at this documenta documentary and looking at water all over the world. and in certain places like south africa, it is drought after drought after drought. and similarly in the sudan and those areas in africa. here in california, we're blessed. one of the ways i'd like to ponder about the hetch hetchy is to read the act, read it slowly and see how it evolved into this, that and the other. this is 2018. from the 1920s until now, we've had a good spell of having water. commissioners, i think we have to delve very deep into the quality of our water. and guests come here from all over the wor

. >> my name is francisco decosta. i'm the director of environmental justice advocacy.i've been hearing the trials and the tribulations of the drivers. some of your kind of understand the suffering because of mistakes that you have made. you don't want to own it. and this is happening all over. i was at a board of supervisors, see that. greed. i was at a sunshine task force at a committee meeting over there, greed. you have to analyze about operation 8. some of you have your heart in the right place. others are sleepy, drowsy, your heart is not in the right please. and if your heart is not in the right please, don't be there. why, because you cannot represent. check your head. change the agenda. public comments, which was at the beginning, put it at the end. disrespect the constituents of san francisco. disrespect the citizens of san francisco. disrespect the taxi drivers of san francisco. i used to come to the meetings when there was a taxi commission. none of you are on a taxi commission. none of you were on the taxi commission when i used to come there. i'll telling

it is renata decosta. good afternoon. >> today i want to focus on water. i know that you have a long agenda and you are going to be speaking on various aspects of water. what i want to speak about is how many miles of sewer pipes we have. how many miles of clean drinking water we have. and if we can monitor to see how much of that water is leaking. so, if in our slogans we say that water is precious and we care for our water, we have brought this to our attention before. in real terms, when we see what is happening with your infrastructure, nothing much is done. you are very fortunate to have on the commission a few people who have a good history about the water departments and the san francisco public utilities commission, which was formed in 1996. not long ago. having formed in 1996, only a few of the commissioners and only a few of our department heads can go to the times when the water department was there to make a comparison when it comes to standards. what i'm seeing now, from my contacts at the various departments is that the institutional experien

decosta. >> commissioners, i have been listening to this very intently. you know what is at the bottom of all this is spirituality. i will explain to you. nowhere in this deliberation have you involved the first people who preserved and protected. when they came and created the supply and demand act. who the hell gave somebody the permission to bring all the n.g.o.s in and bawsca and other entities and make agreements with them where in the first place the hetch hetchy was created to fulfill our needs in san francisco. i never heard this discussion. you are all over the place and all we're concerned about are the legalities and disagreements that we brought upon ourselves. if you need one wife and you decide to have 20 wives, that's on you. that we're concerned about other al he'd -- alameda. the first duty was to take the resources and we haven't had any meaningful discussion, to hell with n.g.o.s. and see because we're making the money, so we kept quiet. so we have the agreement with all the customers. we're afraid of the customers because we have fewer

decosta, i understand the point you are making. it's my understanding that the board, the president, will continue this hearing for two weeks after public comment is complete today. and at the subsequent hearing on october 16 there will be an additional opportunity to make public comment on that issue. >> for us to make comment at that thing, we need all the documents. >> president cohen: no, sir, you can't. because you are out of line. you are welcome to get in line and speak in public comment. you can voice your comment then. >> i'm jill fox. i've lived on innes avenue for 26 years and raised a family there. i'm here as chair of india basin neighborhood association. our organization led the effort to landmark the ship rights cottage and acquire 900 innes. in that process, we researched the history of india basin. we know that much of the land generally known as 700 innes is landfill, placed there in the 1960s to the 1990s. it has nothing to do with hunter's point shipyard. working with the developer for four years, we shared our