i am the general manager for recology in marysville, california. the rail plan has support in many places, including at the yuba centre of economic cooperation. there are improvements that will be provided. specifically, the rail process will be in it -- bring jobs and other things. we believe this is an opportunity for us to have a win-win situation for the citizens of san francisco and the county. one of the things that i would like to address is host fees. while they have been discussing those items, they have not been fully vetted. with that, i want to thank you for your time, and i appreciate the opportunity. chair chu: thank you. i will call some more names. [reading names] >> hi, my name is doug, and i live in san francisco, and i do support recology for all of the work they have done with the department and with reducing the waste stream and with the department of public works for keeping this clean. i moved here in 1988, and the only place i could recycle was at the haight-ashbury community recycling center on frederick street, because not

this time of year, there's only one thing on marysville farmer sam nevis' mind--getting his fruit off the tree. just like any other farmer, getting his harvest in and on time is crucial, even though you won't be seeing these plums in the produce section of the market. that's because you'll be seeing them as dried plums, otherwise known as prunes. and there's no better place for finding some of thbest dried plums than this area. did you know the state's greatest dried plum production actually happens here in the sacramento and san joaquin valleys? farmers here produce more dried plums than the rest of the world combined. >> right now, we're looking at french prunes about to be harvested. and what i look for to see if they're ripe or not is color. we test for sugar. we look at overall fruit development. and this tree is ready to be harvested. >> here they are harvesting 96 tons of fruit a day. so, to be efficient, almost all the harvesting is done by machines now. a mechanical shaker grabs a tree's main limb and, in a matter of seconds, shakes the fruit onto a fabric catching frame spre

marysville, washington, linelican loss caller caller: what would it take to open up the u.s.-canadian border totally upside-down have a pain in the but when i come back into the u.s.? it seems like it is worse than when i go to canada. it seems like canada wants people to come there and we don't. host: give an example caller: i recently retired from the military but when i was active duty, went to canada for one day. others up there for 145 minutes and crossed back across the border and the border agent grilling me because my license plate says ohio. i was in the country for an hour and 45 minutes and she told me that i drove from ohio to go in for one hour and 45 minutes. i had my lessons -- they had my license plate on the camera already. i had a d.o.d. sticker on my car. clearly, they can understand the sticker. she stopped questioning made. e. who is trying to get in and out of canada on both sides of the border illegally? does anybody try to get into mexico illegally and are they returned to the u.s.? guest: there is no excuse for lack of professionalism on the part of a