. >> thank you, mr. bong. -- wong. >> joan wood, lance carnes, and mark bruno. those are the last three people who have turned in speaker cards. >> good afternoon, ms. woods. >>> yes, good afternoon. my name is joan wood i have i willedv continuously in north beach since 1962. * i have many objections. i formerly worked for the city 32 years. one of the conditions of employment there was that you acknowledge the public trust. all of you and director reiskin and manager funge, you're all subject to that. i don't know why it seems to have been ignored in the interest of the central subway. i draw your attention to the e-i-r which was whipped out in a very short period of time. it says the construction will take 15 months for this project if it goes forward, the pagoda palace. there has been no consideration whatever of the historic buildings surrounding it and it's only going to put two restaurants out of business instead of probably a whole lot more in the previous plan. north beach residents and businesses got excited about the new plan because they realized tha

mr. lew a $940,000 bongs as he was leaving -- bonus as he was leaving to join the state department. it is not just because citigroup received a total of $2.5 trillion in virtually zero-interest loans from the fed or that the treasury department provided citigroup with a bailout of more than $45 billion during mr. lew's tenure at citigroup. i am opposed to mr. lew's nomination because of the views he now holds about wall street and the financial bailout. on september 22, 2010, when i asked mr. lew at a budget committee hearing if he believed that deregulation of wall street significantly caused the financial crisis, something that i almost -- almost all economists agree with here is what he said. "i don't believe that deregulation was the proximate cause. i would defer to others who are more expert about the industry to parse it better than that." end of quote and at his confirmation hearing earlier this month, mr. lew called the glass-steagall act, "anachronistic" and said that the dodd-frank act had "effectively dealt with the issue of too big to fail." and i couldn't disagree more