as you know felicia marcus is the chairman of the state water resources control board and she is reaching out to san francisco and i think you folks in particular, to step up and help us to protect our rivers and i protecting those rivers, to protect the best to eric and debate that is so important to all of us here in the bay area. now i understand that staff has been working against the state water board on this and spreading the idea that it would be better to negotiate some kind of a settlement that would involve other kinds of habitat restoration but not involve actually keeping more water in the rivers. i want to make it very clear that nobody is opposed and nobody denies that there is other kinds of habitat restoration which is necessary. but it is very clear that if we don't have water in the rivers all of those other efforts are for not. to deny that is to join the kind of denial of science that we unfortunately now are going to have in our white house and in both houses of our congress. if we don't support our california institutions to protect our environment like to state that

as you know felicia marcus is the chairman of the state water resources control board and she is reaching out to san francisco and i think you folks in particular, to step up and help us to protect our rivers and i protecting those rivers, to protect the best to eric and debate that is so important to all of us here in the bay area. now i understand that staff has been working against the state water board on this and spreading the idea that it would be better to negotiate some kind of a settlement that would involve other kinds of habitat restoration but not involve actually keeping more water in the rivers. i want to make it very clear that nobody is opposed and nobody denies that there is other kinds of habitat restoration which is necessary. but it is very clear that if we don't have water in the rivers all of those other efforts are for not. to deny that is to join the kind of denial of science that we unfortunately now are going to have in our white house and in both houses of our congress. if we don't support our california institutions to protect our environment like to state that