an organization within pullman advocates. i think students having to make some much money to get to school is ridiculous. students cannot pay to get on the bus to get to school. the excuse of not having money to get to school should not be there. every student should go to school no matter what. that money should not be excuse, especially when you go to a public school for free education. san francisco has one of the best muni systems in the country. everyone praises our bus system, but it comes at the price of our citizens. we struggle to pay to get on these buses, whether it be not having 75 cents or not having $20. i have people from my organization here. we believe that since this is a youth issue, it is not for the adults to come out and say what they feel. we need the user's voice to tell you how this is affecting them. adults just back up. thank you. [applause] supervisor campos: before you speak, and when to call a few more cards. the ellington, judy hwang, calvin trang, ernest stortz from power, cheryl chan, jesus pe

my name is tom pullman. i am a contractors association member and financial officer. i will probably be able to answer some of the questions that have come up recently with in this hearing about some of the reasons why it is difficult for the electrician trade to meet the threshold requirements. a little introduction about the association. we have been around since 1909. we are an association of electrical contractors, sometimes referred to as an electrical sub contractors. 35 of local members -- i also represent contractors from the greater bay area when they worked in san francisco. these contractors in good years, such as 2006 and 2007, provide upward of $550 million of electrical installations. in a bad two years, roughly $260 million. we have a large stake in local construction and will be directly impacted by this ordinance. i have previously submitted letters to city officials, have met with many employees from the mayor's office of economic and work-force development. they have been generous with their time. we have problems with for see in our industry, speci

nobody 11, 2009, 1:30 a.m., a moonless night over the wheat fields outside pullman, washington. as bob katy dove home from the bar he owns, albian road was pitch black and dead quiet. >> as i came off the road, initially what i thought i saw in the road was somebody's mcdonald's bag and their drink that they had thrown out the window. >> just trash in the road. >> i thought it was trash in the road. i wasn't going to pull across the side of the road to see garbage. i was just going to drive over it. >> but as he got closer he noticed it wasn't garbage at all. >> as i got 20 yards away, i realized it was actually somebody laying in the road. >> a young woman. she couldn't have been more than 20 or 25 years old. bleeding, barefoot, and unconscious. bob katy parked his truck sideways in the road to shield the woman from oncoming cars. then he ran down the hill a few hundred yards until he could get a cell phone signal. >> there's a lady laying in the middle of the street. i can hear her breathing. >> is she awake? >> no. you've got to get a car out here quick. i had a pretty strong