can i call francisco decosta. thank you. >> commissioners, my name is francisco decosta. i want to speak about the people of this area. i read the agenda and subjectively speaking, this agenda is about bringing two bodies together to decide about something. and i want to watch how you are deliberating this something. what i want to speak about is that 350 years ago, all that you see here was pristine. it belonged to the first people what we have done without contamination is on us. and what we want to do using fancy words like carbon foot print and addressing that is on us. do we really have the empirical data on the carbon foot print that we are going to be addressing? i doubt so. having said that, i would encourage the san francisco puc to bring full on hetch hetchy and bring to san francisco here our home. don't sell it to somebody else and you have those permits and when those permits come before you, don't renew them. bring that hydro electric city right here to our city. let's see if you can do that. regarding the department of environment which was created not long

>> francisco, decosta please. >> thank you, sir let me state a few things. just like the san francisco public utilities commission is an enterprise department and you know you don't get the moneys from the general fund the department of the environment was created initially when the pg and e sold the power plant and with those moneys -- it was created the department of the environment and now your commission also knows in the past your moneys moneys from the sfpuc had been used to fund the -- this is not clear in the public and we need to bring it out in the public. the department of the environment, when it had one of its directors jared broom field now the director of the epa regional 9 i believe if i'm not mistaken, he was instrumental in writing an ordinance called a precautionary principal which is not followed by this city so what is a precautionary principal state? generally it states that if our agencies or our engineers or our experts find that there's something that will adversely impact any human life any life, we must stop and investigate and we w

opportunity to talk about the things we do do for the environment and we already heard from francisco, decosta and friends of camp mather so i'd like to open that to possible reports at the joint meeting commissioner vietor? >> i would also like to take advantage of this opportunity to congratulate the new director of the department of the environment that has been appointed debbie rafael and we could do that also when we have the joint meeting and i'd be happy to work on the agenda in advance with you and contribute some thoughts on that and debbie was someone that when i was the director from the department of the environment i recruited from santa monica and she was many years later recruited by the govern er and coming back to san francisco to head up the department and i think it's a wonderful appointment and i'm glad that she will be in place to help and i'd encourage us to as we put together the agenda to ask about her thoughts and ideas what would make for a productive and fruitful meeting. >> thank you commissioner vietor my interest is along those lines but in addition to that to pro

francisco decosta who i do not see in the room. is there any public comment on item number three? seeing none public comment is closed. [gavel] . colleagues thank you for allowing us to take the time today. i think this was a helpful hearing and with that i entertain a motion to continue item three to the call of the chair. >> so moved. >> okay. we will take that without objection. madam clerk can you call item four? >> item four is a resolution for "rescue row" for alabama street and 15th and 16th streets. >> supervisor campos is the author of item four. he is not here. i don't know if his aide will be here. i will just speak for this. i think this is -- actually i will add my name as a cosponsor. i think this is terrific. we in san francisco it's just really unbelievable how many amazing organizations we have, both governmental and nonprofit, just absolutely dedicated to animal welfare. and it's just shows the passion of this and compassion of this city, so i think this is a terrific proposal. i am fully supportive and hopefully supervisor campos can be happy with my opening rem

anything that you want to do discuss about doing anything in san francisco concern the olone tribe give me a call or you can also call mr. decosta who he also represent and i told her you would be meeting today maybe your staff don't know who's who i wear many hats and have been for many years and i don't just represent bay view hunter's point i represent the whole city and county of san francisco as well as the east bay. now, i want to thank you because when i come before you i give you respect and i'm going to demand respect from your staff. thank you so very much and you all have a blessed day. >> thank you doctor for being here the next speaker card i have is from francis co, decost a. >> good afternoon i spent 2 weeks in new york lived in long island and man oh man i love san francisco. [laughter] let me talk a little bit about water commissioner as you know, that plans are made to build over -- i would say 40,000 units in the next 15 years and it's very easy to say they are going to build this high-rise buildings do this and do that, but then you all were watching the tv screens and there was a huge huge humongo u.s. fire