this resolution was introduced by mayor newsom and south korea duffy and with the issuance of a special tax bond for city impact fees and also approve the form of joint community facilities agreement and grant authority to city officials to implement that. so. i go through the department's analysis and recommendations, i would like to introduce michael ya yarney who will describe the intention behind the resolution and more of the specifics and technicalitieses about how the two districts would work. >> thank you.

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this resolution was introduced by mayor newsom and south korea duffy and with the issuance of a special tax bond for city impact fees and also approve the form of joint community facilities agreement and grant authority to city officials to implement that. so. i go through the department's analysis and recommendations, i would like to introduce michael ya yarney who will describe the intention behind the resolution and more of the specifics and technicalitieses about how the two districts would work. >> thank you. michael yarney, happy to be here this afternoon. and as anmarie mentioned, there are two separate resolutions and i would address the area plan infrastructure commission first and then address the citywide c.f.d. resolution second. i do want to elaborate a little bit on the reasons we're having the resolution forming this committee. the area plan infrastructure finance committee or the apif. there was a previous committee you may remember the eastern neighborhoods structure finance group which was created to specifically come up with recommendations for ideas to finance the si

duffy. mr. dickerson? >> thank you, mr. chairman. on behalf of diamond offshore, we would like to express our and share with others the shock that such a terrible environmental disaster could occur from within our industry. additionally, we especially grieve for the lost lives of our fellow drilling contractor employees. as i said, my name is larry dickers dickerson, president and chief executive officer of diamond offshore, america's largest driller and the second largest operator of the deep water fleet in the world. we have 46 rigs currently at work in 12 countries. as of the date of the disaster, we had ten rigs active in the gulf of mexico. i've led this organization as president for 12 years, and i've been employed here for 30. in 2001 and 2003, i served on the u.s. commission on ocean policy. so i've been on your side of the little curtain that's in front of there. i know you've got a lot of hard work. i wish you very good luck and wisdom in implementing what needs to happen. but rather than talk about me, let me focus on the

duffy. mr. dickerson? >> thank you, mr. chairman. on behalf of diamond offshore, we would like to express our and share with others the shock that such a terrible environmental disaster could occur from within our industry. additionally, we especially grieve for the lost lives of our fellow drilling contractor employees. as i said, my name is larry dickers dickerson, president and chief executive officer of diamond offshore, america's largest driller and the second largest operator of the deep water fleet in the world. we have 46 rigs currently at work in 12 countries. as of the date of the disaster, we had ten rigs active in the gulf of mexico. i've led this organization as president for 12 years, and i've been employed here for 30. in 2001 and 2003, i served on the u.s. commission on ocean policy. so i've been on your side of the little curtain that's in front of there. i know you've got a lot of hard work. i wish you very good luck and wisdom in implementing what needs to happen. but rather than talk about me, let me focus on the

duffy, difficulty disposing of some of this dredge material and waste. is oil classified as hass douse under louisiana law? i believe oil is hazardous and that is is a big issue and in this case i believe what we're doing is moving oil that's come from the gulf back to the gulf. after the same collision they represented a minute ago with the oil spill that was just out the window here, we did have hopper dredges that got fouled over. 100 and 110 miles down river from here and what happened those hoppers had to be dumped in a special site and cleaned and that basically reduced them down to one hopper load of material per day, whereas normally they use ten. so if we get to that situation, we will need more dredges and many of them are working off-shore only nine and three government dredges. one of them is here. the wheeler and the other two ones on the east coast and ones on the west coast. we have real issues with a number of dredges available and hoping that those assigned to the berm plan can stay with the berm plan, but there is a big concern that if

. >> thank you, justice duffy. now sharmane yost, president and ceo of americans united for life. dr. yost began her career in the white house during the reagan administration. she's also worked at the project director of the family gender and tenure project at the university of virginia and as vice president at the family research council. she received her ba from wheaten college and her ma from the university of west virginia. you may provide. >> thank you very much for the opportunity to testify today on behalf of americans united for life, the nation's oldest pro-life public interest law and policy organization. our vision at aul is a nation where everyone is welcomed in life and protected in law. we've been committed to defending human life through vigorous judicial, legislative and educational efforts since 1971 and have been involved in every abortion-related case before the supreme court including roe v wade. in fact, 30 years ago this week, aul successfully defended the constitutionality of the hyde amendment before the supreme court, a landmark case in defense of unborn