president chiu: goodell afternoon. welcome to the board of supervisors meeting for august 3. madam clerk, could you read the roll? clerk calvillo: [reading roll] mr. president, all members are present. president chiu thank you. could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? colleagues, you should have copies of the june 29, 2010, board minutes. we have a motion to approve these? emotion from supervisor mar, seconded by supervisor campos. that is approved. madam clerk, did you have any correspondence? clerk calvillo: i have no correspondence. president chiu: could you please read item number one? clerk calvillo: [reading] president chiu: either in the that what to sever any of these items? supervisor mirkarimi: yes. president chiu: could you please read the roll? clerk calvillo: [reading roll] there are 11 ayes. president chiu: those items are adopted. could you please read these next items? clerk calvillo: i did not approve the sublease of property located on the southeast corner of of tv boulevard -- octavia boulevard, with a monthly base rent of 5000 others per month

journalist jeff goodell is book big coal the dirty secret behind america's energy future explores the history and use of coal in america and throughout the world like many americans i didn't even realize that we still burn coal you know i thought coal is something that went out with top hats and corsets i thought that electricity was just something that flowed down from a golden bowl in the sky i never gave any thought to where it came from the idea that coal produces fifty percent of electricity in america it never occurred to me so i went down to west virginia and i didn't know what to expect their memory i first knew i was driving outside of charleston and i saw the boom on one of the big drag lines swinging above the hills and i pulled off the road and i hiked up through the woods to the top of this hill and i got this the view down into this strip mine and it was just like hell had opened up before me. the money and the coal mining has always gone to the top and been siphoned out by the owners essentially whether their corporations are called barons like don blankenship it's a co

turner had a goodell like the pictures. when we saw this case, we wondered what happened. they never had seen anything like this. we started batting it around. the team approach, what happened? we had never seen anything like this. one of our prosecutors said to go back to the scene and get whatever you can for evidence. they found the bucket of water that the mother took her child out of the microwave and porter and a bucket of water to cool off. they still found tissue in the water that was there and that is what led us to ask what happens to this child paren. we have to work together to reach a common goal to protect our children. that may start off in a rock the way but there is no reason you cannot turn the ship around and get that on the right course. keep your eye on. bald the ball. there are persons that make things happen, there are persons that watch things happen, and there are other persons out there that simply wonder what happened. you are people who make things happen. we see it every day. we see people on the sidelines, on the stands, how many times do we g

and had had very strong economic growth, the boom of the late 90's, our debt was down to about 1/3 goodell, which was pretty good -- g.d.p., which was pretty good for us. now it's certainly not the place you want to be when you're getting close to when the baby boomers are going to start retiring in mobs. but the gdp is based on a lot of work but -- if you have certain asutchingses you can have a range of asufpkses about the tax cuts which have been in the news, all the tax cuts from the previous administration whether they are extended or not whether the a.m.t. sticks, are extended or not. you could have a wide variance and maybe a very bad story about debt-to-g.d.p. ratios going to uncharted territories for this country. so all this is on the secretary's mind and he has made no secret this is impairtive of why we need to look at our budget in the ways we're doing now. that being said, the secretary believes that the defense budget must increase modestly in real terms to sustain an army or military at war, which is what we have now because we're still at war in afghanistan and likely to b