mr. garcia as well. so with that we are bringing mr. garcia's application to you with recommendation to appoint him to the environmental seat. if i can answer additional questions you may have. >> thank you, bob. i think being that the applicant is here maybe he can say a few words. i want to appreciate the additional outreach for the seat. i know we had expressed, you know, we wanted to see someone with a deeper set of work experience in environmentalism, so we really appreciate the additional outreach. i want to invite mr. garcia to say a few words to the board of directors. >> good morning. my name is mark garcia f i'm here from the greenlining institute in berkeley. * i want to take the time to appreciate you for inviting me in today. i have worked in los angeles and las vegas on environmental outreaches, saving the canyons in red rock to heal the bay in santa monica and areas like that. i saw this an opportunity to be part of my new place. i moved to the bay area in december so i have just started becoming acclimated but wanted to s

mr. garcia. >> it sounds like i watch a lot of tv. there is a guy that appears on channel 26 when they do the board of supervisors and he has a wrap about silly hall. this is one of those silly things that we're doing. i think if you were to do cost benefit curves it probably cost the city money and when you ticket people so much for parking meters and have them inappropriate times and past 6:00 p.m. and on sundays and hurts businesses and therefore the net revenue to the city is less than it would otherwise and as far as variable rate parking i think that is a good idea. in some areas it's harder to find a meter and when you do you should pay more for it and i love the fact you can have an app on the phone and in danger of going over the time you can feed the meter from your phone. good idea. >> thank you sir. >> well, there is something i would like to add that is not part of the question so there are three things i would look into. i am absolutely against on sundays. i think it's just ridiculous and i think you should be able to wa

mr. garcia. >> my god, what an easy question. of course we're not going to solve it. the best we can do is try to minimize it and i think we are on the right track and we have a new homeless czar in pl dusty and i like the deal he's dealing with it and a way of dealing with chronic alcoholics and the protections that we have for homeless people are to protect society and not from the homeless people but to deal with that. it's 51-50 and i am sure some people know what that is and the police has the power to hold someone who is a threat to themselves or someone else for 72 hours. we need to enact laura's law and mr. dufty is working on that and finding housing for these individuals but not to keep going back to the economy but one solution is improve the economy so we can improve these people's lives. thank you. >> thank you. >> l the homeless problem it's very, very interesting because you know some cities don't -- i think one of the reasons we do have a problem is because of the wonderful social services that we have here in this city and unfortunately as someone who

mr. garcia and have the diseepest experience of anyone. i have many years and seven years as an educators and taught there and president of board of ethics and board of appeals and 25 years of experience in doing service to the neighborhood. i am supported by the incumbent and scott wiener and others and i want very bad to be your supervisor and i am asking for your support and there's give me your vote on november 6. thank you. >> hi. i am joel io and i am running for supervisor and they have a way of looking at the happy meals but can't fill pot holes. where is the common sense? and many paid twice to fill the pot holes and where is the accountability of our money? so if you're tired of your house being the city's atm, if you're tired of the same politics and same choices i offer you an independent choice. i promise to be your advocate and work for you and not for the special interests and the super pacs that pass the other candidates and it's iportant in the junk mail and look at the fine print and see who is really spending on who and

mr. garcia. >> there was a comedian on johnny carson and she said the people go to school and said watch the lights and it's the cars. the lights didn't kill anybody and i watch horrified and the kids are texting and otherwise not paying attention and they walk into the street because they have the right-of-way. we have to educate them. it's difficult and when you go left or right and the time is up and your time to turn is up so we have that problem. on slope it's terrible watching the kids trying to cross the street and it's a dangerous street and narrowed it and we need to do more and the lighted cross walks and someone is in the cross walk and if you're in the right lane you see them stop and not sure why. >> all right. next question. on the subject of transportation. two part question. how would improve muni's on time performance and support students. >> yeah. i am one of the few muni riders regularly and muni's on time performance is atrocious and i believe it only meets the city's goals maybe 60, 70% of the time so to improve the performance you basically have to hold management a

mr. garcia. >> i somewhat agree with him and the issue that is largest faces us in san francisco are the economy and there are two parts to that and creating jobs and trying to get an economy going that is sustainable and can take care of the unfunded liabilities that we have that are so large. we have $323 million in unfunded liabilities for our health care, and i agree with him again on the pension issue. we absolutely have to do something about it. what i would imagine what we have to do is examine whether or not we need to find benefits or contributions, maybe we need people to retire at a later age, whether people continue to retire and have the pay at $300,000 rather than 150. >> thank you sir. ms. gavin. >> for me the issue in regards to policy that i think many of us know is malfeasance and corruption at city hall. i think that the back room deals that city hall is doing adversely impacts every person in this room. i don't know if you are aware we have not had a sunshine committee in the past four months, and sunshine gives all the right to redress government and it's our open go

issued the arrest warrant for forward chilean dictator augusto pinochet but this other song hello mr garcia well this had hello north of you said that everything that's happening to us is extreme and just as why is that. it isn't justice because the u.s. is conducting a criminal investigation into we killings and that's according to a few but nevertheless very reliable reports in which this case targets mostly julian assange but other founders of the organization are also involved in this respect it is absolutely clear to us that such investigation and prosecution i would join a list who is in essence just doing his job violates freedom of speech in the us the country which prides itself in always defending freedom of speech feel of value firmly stipulated ensconced. that this is a big concern and largely these was the reason why jewel in a sense decided to seek refuge from sweden in the ecuadorian embassy because he knew that he could have been extradited to the u.s. for that's what it was all about and ecuador took this responsibility and granted diplomatic and political asylum to julian

mr. garcia is here with us. approximate >> thank you, board members. * we brought to you in may several applicants for the board of tgpa citizen's advisory committee. the board accepted recommendations on seven. for the

mr. garcia is here with us. approximate >> thank you, board members. * we brought to you in may several applicants for the board of tgpa citizen's advisory committee. the board accepted recommendations on seven. for the seat of environmentalists, the desire was expressed to see what we could do with additional outreach to identify a deeper background for environmental issues and environmentalism. we re-advertised the position not only to our normal -- through our normal outlets but also doing specific outreach to environmental organizations including the cr club and san francisco department of environment. that outreach garnered

mr. rivera in the past. that was this guy, joe garcia.there was another candidate in the primary, kind of out of the blue, and that was this guy. who reported almost no fund raising and who personally had only a little over 100 bucks in the bank. but he still somehow managed to put out really professionally done, professionally microtargeted, high-end, well-researched campaign mailers. lots of different ones to the tune of thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars in campaign spending. thousands and thousands of dollars in cash, it turns out. in crisp hundred dollar bills. stuffed into envelopes. where was all that money coming from? here's how the miami herald puts it, during one call congressman david rivera directed an employee to walk outside, check the office mailbox for an envelope containing payment for one mailer. the envelope was stuffed with cash. $7800. the owner of the company doing the mailers then told the herald, i never saw so much cash. the story that's now reportedly being fotold to the fbi is that congressman dav