jim cook, elizabeth cook, bill blackle weapon, and hirkuda. that is the remainder of the cards i have. >> good afternoon, honorable supervisors. i am speaking as an arc at the time and the father of two children here in france -- san francisco. i support park merced. this is an opportunity to confront head on the crushing responsibilities we will be facing as a city, state and region for the next 100 yards. horrible housing, environmental sustainability and rent control make this is a response inproject in a local sense. but adding 5,700 units to the city's housing stock will be a huge benefit over time. an earlier speaker spoke about the history of this place as a plan from the garden city. if this is approved, it will become historic as a moment in time when the city of san francisco and the bay region got serious about living in a sustainable manner. thank you. >> what was your name again? >> owen kinnerly. supervisor mar: thank you >> my name is mike smith. i am an eight-year resident of park merced. i have enough brain cells to know thing

my name is jim cook, and i am a 14-year resident of park merced, district seven, and supervisor elsbernd is my supervisor. park merced recently has been going door to door, as mentioned by elizabeth and others, to speak to every resident in the garden units to answer their questions and concerns, and to walk them through the tenant relocation process and tenant protection. park merced will comply with the current housing ordinances, which will provide 800 units in addition to the other units. there will be 25,000 jobs created and 1,600 permanent on-site jobs and 550 sbrenth permanent jobs. this brings significance improvements, including safety for pedestrians along the 19th avenue corridor, much needed transportation improvements, and this opens the door for tier five improvements. i have watched owners sell off parcels of the property. i am concerned that if the vision doesn't go through as presented, that will happen again. you can look at what is happening over at the university with their changes in the area. the cost of future renovations without this vision will be passed on to th

. >> reporter: jim cook came to check on his 97-year-old step mother who survived the tornado. >> a gentlemanver and pulled her out. she's got scrapes and bruises and she's sore. but she's a trouper. >> reporter: while she survived, his boyhood home like so many others didn't. the debris a path is six miles long and a half mile wide. everything in the tornado's path for mile after mile is reduced to ruins. this was an apartment complex. across the street, that building was a center for children with autism. the building over there was a dentist office, then a pharmacy. and the pile of rubble you see now -- that used to be a nursing home. emergency crews are going to the rubble looking for more bodies. many of the dead were found in the wreckage of their cars. tereasa hatten will never forget the damage she's seen nor the cries from the people trap in the rubble she's heard. >> help! help me. >> reporter: amidst the devastation and hurting, there are small moments of gratefulness, like sara finding her daughter's stuffed dog. or the countless volunteers who step in to help their neighbors, eve

jim? >> on friday the 8 commissioners and mayor wilsey cook eved a copy of this order from joseph harris the state appointed emergency manage never charge. with governor rick snider's support, effective immediately, their power and authority was stripped. commissioners would only be able to call meetings to order, approve minutes and adjourn meetings. >> stephen: this takes all power away from the local elected officials. but harris is still willing to listen to all the voices in city government because they are all now his voice. >> so the fact of the matter is city managers now gone, i am city manager. i will take-- i'm the finance director the city manager, the mayor and the commission. and i-- . >> stephen: or as his press secretary later clarified -- >> i am the law! harris had to strip the elected representatives of their power or they might have opposed his ideas to save money like merging the fire and police departments. because everybody knows that cheapest way to get a cat out of a tree is you just shoot it down. for some reason, the local officials didn't enjoy this electoral cast