[applause] >> my name is jeff cooper. i'm a resident of the richmond and as of last week, proud landlord of a new wireless facility right outside my house. last week, we had a crew come out and install a wireless thing on top of our light pole, which sits right outside my bedroom window. i was able to finally find a copy of the permit that was pulled, and it is actually at my address. i was pretty shocked to find out that you can hold a permit of somebody's address without notifying the residents that a permit has been told of their address. i have three primary grievances. i strongly support the legislation, but the first is just notification. we need to notify residents, especially when it is right in front of their house. second is the overall quality. these claims of public safety and in the aftermath of a hurricane or earthquake. if you come outside in front of my house and look what they have put up there, there is no way that thing is going to survive a hurricane or earthquake. it is going to fall over and start a

jeff is the general manager for the metropolitan water district of southern california as we refer to it's a, the met. it's the states largest provider of drinking water and cooperative of 16 cities and 18 million people in 6 counties. prior to his appointment is general manager, just a pointed. he was general council to the water district and prior to that, he represented metropolitan issues including colorado river issues and a number of issues regarding water storage programs. jeff, it's our honor here in san francisco to have you here with us and i'm sure everybody here is honored with your presence. so i appreciate you'll do double duty, that's not only moderating today, but tomorrow with our action plan. with that, jeff, take it away. >> thank you very much, susan. it's a pleasure to be here and we like to think of ourselves as metropolitan and people in san francisco we like to say they see us, as the good guys. just a few minutes before i introduce the panels a couple of things i thought i would touch on briefly from this mornings presentation, and that's utility reaction verses global warming and we're fairly pragmatic, we look upon them as challenges and th

charles go ahead jeff again i want to address myself to the viewers of this program who like to read books. take a look at not only my work the work of robert we stretch martin cooper's of but. of esther webmin of meyer lit that of boston t.v. there is paul berman there was a burst of scholarship and intellectual engagement in recent years that is important you can agree with it or you can disagree with it but please do not dismiss it look at the evidence look at the evidence. can we talk about that scholarship now cuter of art that yes i well norman i'm sorry charles go ahead because the scholarship was mentioned here although there's a lot of competing scholarship out there norman go ahead ok so jeff her mentions robert wish to choose a book and a fraction of her role there were raising blurb for the book the book is called lethal obsession now happens i purchased a copy of the book it's about twelve hundred pages and i looked and i know this my name probably i'm the exhibit number one of the new anti semitism there are more entries for me in the book than there are for david duke there are more entries for me than there are for them and there are more entries for