francisco decosta. >> supervisors, my name is francisco decosta. we need to put this in perspective. we're facing difficulties one comes to our economy. new supervisors -- i was watching him before i came here. you were reviewing the fire department from the year 2006 until now. you do not need to be a rocket scientist to see why the cost in certain areas has gone so high. i am here to state one thing. our budget is $6.6 billion. you all know what is happening with the pensions. but this is what has to happen. department by department, those who work for our city have to comprehend and ask themselves, do they really want to work for our city and have a good job with a good day, -- good pay, or do we want to see our city down like vallejo? you supervisors have to bear in mind, are you doing right when you give our monies to the big developers like lennar -- [chime] supervisor campos: thank you. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. >> [unintelligible] i have worked and in the department of public health for 20 years. i feel the issues that wer

francisco decosta. >> supervisors, my name is francisco decosta. we need to put this in perspective. we're facing difficulties one comes to our economy. new supervisors -- i was watching him before i came here. you were reviewing the fire department from the year 2006 until now. you do not need to be a rocket scientist to see why the cost in certain areas has gone so high. i am here to state one thing. our budget is $6.6 billion. you all know what is happening with the pensions. but this is what has to happen. department by department, those who work for our city have to comprehend and ask themselves, do they really want to work for our city

>> i am francisco decosta. i have been coming here since 2001. what we have here is a very general report. i would suggest putting the name of the company, and how much money was paid. having said this, we have a group of people with the documentation and the freedom of information act, the privacy act, and the other means given to us. what we have seen over the years, this cost the city millions of dollars. we had 100,000 -- going into the watershed. we have millions of dollars, nothing was mentioned. millions of dollars, wasted by the san francisco redevelopment agency, and we know all of the corruption. this is on treasure island development -- nothing is given in detail. the san francisco general hospital, which is over their budget, much of this is not set. you have other types of -- what happened in wall street and on the national level. you have the algorithms, so far and so forth. we are very astute people. we have the board of supervisors -- we cannot afford to push under the rug certain things that the constituents of said francisco hav

>> i'm francisco decosta. at land use, and they spoke about the improvements and there are a couple of things i want to point out. the first thing is that when we do the tree planting, somehow, planning should take the initiative to see the maintenance. we have some beautiful parks. we have had it in visitation valley. paces, next to areas where e have millions of vehicles that e fly, we have to have the empirical data. we just can't have an open spaces next to places where millions fly with a dangerous particulates in the air. they are half of the constituents. on the radio waves,, many years ago, we requested that we have a city expert on this issue. maybe we have, maybe we don't. one thing that came out of the hearing was that it was possible for those that provide the service, if they could create a fund or if they could create some money where the city could create their own testing, that is what we want. as we move forward, we will be using a lot of sell funds and will be using a lot of technology. we ha

francisco decosta. >> from time to time i come to the land use subcommittee meetings. so that i can give some input. my experience comes from working on the procedure of san francisco where there were a number of landscape architects working with me on project. what you see here is the management plan. these are conceptual plans. conceptual plans are just that. conceptual. one of the ways to address conceptual plans is to have the people from the communities these stakeholders. when the gentleman was explaining to you where there was going to be this road that has very heavy traffic, it is for the public. one of the things you have to think very deeply is about the particulars. if millions of cars are passing on the road, even though it is green over there, whether they will be breathing. you mentioned a few things like hot we need a green spaces. we need our young planners to be innovative. we need to create hope and green spaces. but the most important foehn is maintaining in. not just palm trees and a few flowers. nobody is maintaining that. if you go to bay shore, y

. >> my name is francisco decosta. first and foremost, let me inform commissioner crowley that i was at the san francisco public utilities commission meeting and they send their regards. we miss you over there. having said that, i used to come regularly to this meeting but there is so much happening at city hall, that you cannot be everywhere. i am here to state categorically that the 7.5 miles that you commissioner's control of his public trust land. you heard a lot in the director's report about the salmon, cruise lines coming here, america's cup, and that is all fine. public trust land means all californians have a stake in what happens. so, if you read the law, you clearly know that apart from the bay area and san francisco, meaningful outreach has to be done. one of the ways we can do that is by providing access to the dvd of this take deliberation. when i go into the neighborhoods, people do not know much and some do not know anything about what is happening over here. the good thing is, there are some of you who