the boys through publs at her at first. later on a couple of teachers didn't want to teach her because she was female. in high school some of the boys stole her notebooks because they didn't want her to graduate. but she did. there's no medicine or clinic or hospital here. before she started working in 2000 in this valley, five to 20 women died in childbirth every year so. she went to two years of training and cost us about $800 and her pay is just over a dollar a day and not one women has died since she's come back and is working there. and now i'll jump forward a bit. when we get hundreds of letters in our office and e-mails and some of the most powerful e-mails are those from our armed forces serving in afghanistan and sometimes iraq. recently i got an e-mail from a colonel. his first name is kris. he's the commander of the saber forces called,fob. ford operating base in north star province in eastern afghanistan. one of the most difficult and dangerous areas to serve. he wrote to me first as a commander but also as a fa

we'll move on to item no. 6, which is publ comment? >> i have not received any indication that a member of the public wants to address you under this item. >> if you want to address the board, please come up to the mic and you will have two minutes. >> hi, thank you i'm jim patrick with patrick and company in san francisco and i have watched this board go on and analyze this agreement with heines behind closed doors for the last year and a half and finally reading the minutes which are about to be approved this deal has concluded apparently. i would like to know from the board, why is this a good deal for us? no. 1. and no. 2 could i get a copy of this deal to evaluate it? thank you. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, we will close public comment. and we'll move on to our regular calendar, which brings us to item no. 7. >> item no. 17 authorizing the executive director to negotiate a contract with the san francisco public utilities commission. >> and directors bob beck will report on this item. >> thank you,

. >> you look at big, publ companies whose stocks have been doing very well this new year.nearly as worried as you are. where is the disconnect? >> the not looking at the average perso the person that's out there, the worker, the person doing all the little things, the cleane the food-service worker, the bakery people. e backbone of the economy and they're taking away from these people the government inaction. taking away from the salaries. looking for raises. neil: someone who has seen and met the president cannot talk to these issues directly to the president. if you could get his here now, what would you say to him, what would you recommend to do? >> you know what, if i could get a restraining order lifted what i would do is sit down and talk to him about bring in small business owners. the problem is, no one in this the administration has ever signed the front of a paycheck. they don't understand what it takes to grow jobs. and so you need to talk about, you need to free up capital. tell me what will happen so i can plan. by continuing to have me, i can't hire. neil: th