call one i'm francisco decosta i have been monitoring transportation regional wide the last 40 years. i would commends the 2 presenters first one from bart. very logical with good solutions. number 2, caltrain. short and to the point. as for muni, than i have the habit of making things convoluted. muni should understand that had you spent 2 billion dollars on the central subway, it starred with 600 million and you spent 2 billion dollars, this tells you, lot. presentation was clouded. upon with so much negativity and no solutions. so. mr. tumlin and julie you should step down and fid in oblivion if you cannot upon find solutions. san franciscans are very educated. and they can find solutions. as one supervisor e louded to. thank you very much. >> thank you. caller. next caller. your 2 minutes begin now. >> yes, good morning. the caltrain presentation pails to acknowledge that there is a corporate commuter buses that plague our city here providing free trmgz transportation i recommend caltrain approach the facebook apple, google and facebook to get a bulk pass system where they would t

i'm francisco decosta i represent the first people of san francisco. and i endorse this candidate. she is with you foiled for the job. we must remember this we need somebody on the historic preservation commission to look deep into the indigenous people. we must remember that the board of supervisors and the stele and county of san francisco, does in the have an inventory of land mark buildings in san francisco. so the audacity of somebody to challenge a candidate is fully qualityified. the thing to know what they are doing and [inaudible]. under historic preservation commission. i work for the department of interior, and i understand the various landmark and other historic issues. and i endorse victoria gray. >> thank you. just checking that was our last commenter on this matter. why thank you, mr. clerk. like to recognize supervisor safai. >> thank you. i want to take a moment of -- public ment is now closed. >> supervisor safai >> thank you, mr. chair i want to take a moment to say hello to the st. vincent du paul school in the recommend. can they stand up and be recognized. sta

i'm francisco decosta i represent the first people of san francisco. and i endorse this candidate. she is with you foiled for the job. we must remember this we need somebody on the historic preservation commission to look deep into the indigenous people. we must remember that the board of supervisors and the stele and county of san francisco, does in the have an inventory of land mark buildings in san francisco. so the audacity of somebody to challenge a candidate is fully qualityified. the thing to know what they are doing and [inaudible]. under historic preservation commission. i work for the department of interior, and i understand the various landmark and other historic issues. and i endorse victoria gray. >> thank you. just checking that was our last commenter on this matter. why thank you, mr. clerk. like to recognize supervisor safai. >> thank you. i want to take a moment of -- public ment is now closed. >> supervisor safai >> thank you, mr. chair i want to take a moment to say hello to the st. vincent du paul school in the recommend. can they stand up and be recognized. sta

>> yes, my name is francisco decosta, and i have been monitoring the various city departments for the last 40 years. my experience about the whistleblowing program comes from working with the federal government. i strongly feel that the city and county of san francisco needs drastically to improve the whistleblower program. you can provide the empirical data to the controller's office and they have a tendency to give it to the city attorney, and in many instances all is no adjudication. i would like you to reflect why is it the former city attorney now is the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission when the san francisco public utilities commission is one of the worst departments within the city and county of san francisco. for example, the sewer system improvement project started at $6 billion, is now heading towards $12 billion and still is progresss and range $20 billion in a couple of years. whatever system is this? where are the checks and balances? who has the ability within the controller's office and within the city attorney's office to understand vert

>> yes, my name is francisco decosta, and i have been monitoring the various city departments for the last 40 years. my experience about the whistleblowing program comes from working with the federal government. i strongly feel that the city and county of san francisco needs drastically to improve the whistleblower program. you can provide the empirical data to the controller's office and they have a tendency to give it to the city attorney, and in many instances all is no adjudication. i would like you to reflect why is it the former city attorney now is the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission when the san francisco public utilities commission is one of the worst departments within the city and county of san francisco. for example, the sewer system improvement project started at $6 billion, is now heading towards $12 billion and still is progresss and range $20 billion in a couple of years. whatever system is this? where are the checks and balances? who has the ability within the controller's office and within the city attorney's office to understand vert

commissioners i'm francisco decosta. i would like us to have, the citizens to have some sense as to the canopy that we have for our city. in relation to other cities. also, we have places like mc clarin park and some other places too many trees have fallen. because of the storms. do we have a policy when one tree falls down how many trees do we plant 2, 5, 6? so we have to be proactive in this. trees are very helpful. we know that. but we have seen very old trees fall on some landmark buildings, fall on other properties. which you know it is is a liability. and in many case then you can park and rec don't have the money. but aged tree caused the budgetary damage. not that we have the trees but are we doing a need's assessment. sometimes we have some experts talk in yes or no about some 3s we have on potrero hill and all that should be removed. on san bruno they plant the trees but don't water. thank god we got the rains this time. we need to have among our performance measures certain things like i stated. what trees are

call one i'm francisco decosta i have been monitoring transportation regional wide the last 40 years. i would commends the 2 presenters first one from bart. very logical with good solutions. number 2, caltrain. short and to the point. as for muni, than i have the habit of making things convoluted. muni should understand that had you spent 2 billion dollars on the central subway, it starred with 600 million and you spent 2 billion dollars, this tells you, lot. presentation was clouded. upon with so much negativity and no solutions. so. mr. tumlin and julie you should step down and fid in oblivion if you cannot upon find solutions. san franciscans are very educated. and they can find solutions. as one supervisor e louded to. thank you very much. >> thank you. caller. next caller. your 2 minutes begin now. >> yes, good morning. the caltrain presentation pails to acknowledge that there is a corporate commuter buses that plague our city here providing free trmgz transportation i recommend caltrain approach the facebook apple, google and facebook to get a bulk pass system where they would t

>> so, this is francisco decosta, and the people who go downtown and see what we see, and then hear that it cost $80 thousand a year for a tent, $32 thousand for a bed, all (indiscernible) but the presenters come, they are very non-we have over a hundred million dollar s that is set aside for this that and the other thing. why don't you all think about working with the private sector? somebody builds a 14 story building or a 9 story building, or 10 or 15 story building to acquire units for our seniors. to acquire units for those who are physically challenged. to acquire units for the community. recently there was a building (indiscernible) no mention about that. these agencies that come and give the presentation who ever they are, they are not interesting in the real situation of what is happening in san francisco cnn is calling out the worst in the entire nation. because of our homelessness, moving to the tents, moving to the fentanyl-pay attention to given presentations that are realistic. action. >> thank you for your comment. any additional comments? no additional comments for this i

supervisors, i'm francisco decosta. we cannot address the homelessness issues unless we do a need's assessment. if you look at public housing all over san francisco, department of defense. who thes going on in our neighborhoods and public housing. is the attorneys over to -- bridge developers. and there are supervisors who are hand approximate glove with mercy housing. pretending to help the homelessness but [inaudible]. previous speaker may have used some foul language but actually he is being a homeless person he realliness how y'all treat them. look at this. i'm addressing the board of supervisors and 2 supervisors are having a talk among themselves. this tells you about our supervisors. our supervisors talk the talk and do not walk the walk. so -- we will not be able to solve the homelessness problem unless we have people who really want to help u even those the people wanted something to happen with prospect c we had the mayor herself got other way. and we have some supervisors right now there sitting down who are h

call one i'm francisco decosta i have been monitoring transportation regional wide the last 40 years. the 2 presenters first one from bart. very logical with good solutions. number 2, caltrain. short and to the point. as for muni, than i have the habit of making things convoluted. muni should understand that had you spent 2 billion dollars on the central subway, it starred with 600 million and you spent 2 billion dollars, this tells you, lot. presentation was clouded. upon with so much negativity and no solutions. so. mr. tumlin and julie you should step down and fid in oblivion if you cannot upon find solutions. san franciscans are very educated. and they can find solutions. as one supervisor e louded to. thank you very much. >> thank you. caller. next caller. your 2 minutes begin now. >> yes, good morning. the caltrain presentation pails to acknowledge that there is a corporate commuter buses that plague our city here providing free trmgz transportation i recommend caltrain approach the facebook apple, google and facebook to get a bulk pass system where they would the companies and

. >> commissioners i'm francisco decosta. and -- in 2002 our 4 for 6 years after that. i would attend all the citizens advisory council meetings. next speaker. thank you, can you hear mow? >> yes, thank you. edworried mason. several years ago i made a recommendation to the citizen's advisory committee. regarding what i saw on [inaudible]. they had an interior display placard of all the citizens advisory members for san trans and the caption said, if you see us come talk you to. and of course it would in the go here with mta but this is something with the new board you may want to consider. is macking yourself as board members and the cac members visible. display on muni buss and vehicles. so people can approach you and you can get some interaction. so -- i'm one for steeling ideas from other places where i seen it. and -- that seemed to be a good idea we nooet need now. thank you. thank you we welcome new idea and i want to check with mr. chen with his photograph on the bus. >> and anyone else on the phone is this >> that is all. >> that will close comment on 8 and move

francisco. all i want to say is -- the ramaytush ohlone tribe the first people of this area, request you board of supervisors to dot right thing. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you mr. decosta for your comments. >> we have 6 callers left there are 26 listen figure you have in the spoken and part of the 26 press star 3 otherwise we may take this last group to the very end. next speaker. good afternoon i'm edwards gift the college program funded by dream keeper. i'm in my third year of college. i study criminal justice to become an attorney this program has been beneficial to students. reparations helped [inaudible] my event of racism i experienced at a [inaudible] where i received bomb threats due to the color of our skin this is a gruesome experience i'm sure and you your children would not want to walk in the shoes i walk in especially [inaudible] i'm grateful [inaudible]. not forget [inaudible] blks make up 2% of attorneys. have the commune this supports me [inaudible]. >> thank you. good oop board of supervisors i'm malcolm i'm a student at morgan state university november maryland. i'm a residents of san francisco and raised in bayview. i'm a member of the college prep

francisco. all i want to say is -- the ramaytush ohlone tribe the first people of this area, request you board of supervisors to dot right thing. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you mr. decosta for your comments. >> we have 6 callers left there are 26 listen figure you have in the spoken and part of the 26 press star 3 otherwise we may take this last group to the very end. next speaker. good afternoon i'm edwards gift the college program funded by dream keeper. i'm in my third year of college. i study criminal justice to become an attorney this program has been beneficial to students. reparations helped [inaudible] my event of racism i experienced at a [inaudible] where i received bomb threats due to the color of our skin this is a gruesome experience i'm sure and you your children would not want to walk in the shoes i walk in especially [inaudible] i'm grateful [inaudible]. not forget [inaudible] blks make up 2% of attorneys. have the commune this supports me [inaudible]. >> thank you. good oop board of supervisors i'm malcolm i'm a student at morgan state university november maryland. i'm a residents of san francisco and raised in bayview. i'm a member of the college prep