mr. decosta. >> commissioners, some years ago, when we had as our chair, ambassador richard s c-l aw, a man of great wisdom who understood really what needs to be done in our city and county of san francisco, so i took upon myself at that time to invite the first people into these chambers to talk to some of you all. maybe one of y'all will remember that occasion. after [inaudible] and he was very happy to meet them. about a little over 250 years ago when jefferson sent lewis and clark here to west coast, we have records for those who can read and for those who have access to the records as to how pristine california was , with this recent drought and with empirical data as to the particulates and the increase in the depletion of our ozone level, we need to represent the people, and we need to conserve our resources, so we know and i hope we know that for thousands of years, the regional people who lived here who called this place total island preserved the resources. and then in the last 250 years, we created this concrete jungle and we have to live with it. and this commission, the san fr

mr. decosta. >> commissioners, some years ago, when we had as our chair, ambassador richard s c-l aw, a man of great wisdom who understood really what needs to be done in our city and county of san francisco, so i took upon myself at that time to invite the first people into these chambers to talk to some of you all. maybe one of y'all will remember that occasion. after [inaudible] and he was very happy to meet them. about a little over 250 years ago when jefferson sent lewis and clark here to west coast, we have records for those who can read and for those who have access to the records as to how pristine california was , with this recent drought and with empirical data as to the particulates and the increase in the depletion of our ozone level, we need to represent the people, and we need to conserve our resources, so we know and i hope we know that for thousands of years, the regional people who lived here who called this place total island preserved the resources. and then in the last 250 years, we created this concrete jungle and we have to live with it. and this commission, the san fr

mr. decosta. >> commissioner, way back in 200 1, some [inaudible] would go to sacramento to see what it was all about, so morris campbell, michael boyd, lynn brown, paul sand, [inaudible] bloom field, these are a few people who initially gave a lot of input into what you are discussing today. now, it's very easy to talk about a business plan, but the real business plan has to be vetted at all levels. so, you have to ask your staff if that is done. the last time around, we had some outrage and we had a joint meeting between you, the commission and the department of environment. we found out how some of your staff did the outreach with some buyers. you cannot mess with pg&e, as you know, every time when you go into your closed session and you're dealing with lawsuits brought by pg&e, you can tally how many of the lawsuits are won by pg&e and how many of the lawsuits are won by sfpuc. i have that empirical data, so i know where that bafoonary stands, so what i'm saying is when we are dealing with whatever we are dealing and we have a business plan, let us not be foolish to leave the community