advocacy and now at this time i like to introduce from the building and construction trades, rudey gonzalez. [applause] >> thank you madam mayor. thank you for your leadership and introduction. good morning. i want to second the mayor's energy, because this is a moment of celebration. while many will lean towards the bureaucratic and technical tendency and look at schematics and slide deck jz i see my good friend bruce from community advisory committee and everyone is talking what's tomorrow, what's tomorrow. let's take a moment and celebrate today. let's be in awe of this beautiful struck ture and recognition we find in the local economy. not withstanding the backdrop what is happening federally. let's be clear, secretary pete will not call you if they make a mistake this november. mire job representing blue collar workers is tell it like it is. if we do not vote in november we will have the billions and will not center the jobs and critical infrastructure 250 keep our country moving. we are enjoying a renaissance in infrastructure. saying good-bye a time infrastructure was a bad word. whe

my colleague, rudey gonzalez is now the secretary treasurer of the san francisco building construction trades council representing many of the construction unions in town. we used to be the executive director of the san francisco labor council, all 150 unions which he succeeded me on so pleasure seeing you address us today and showing up so welcome. >> thank you president paulson and honorable members of the commission. good to see you. as i told general manager herrera it is rare appearance before there body. usually we are urging the planning commission to entertain responsible development proposals. but i rise before you today representing 27 construction and related unions to voice our strong support. this is somewhat procedural motion before you to authorize your distinguished general manager to merely consent, but there are very important negotiations happening. i don't think you started my time. to start negotiation or continue development negotiations soethere is a lot of different city partners involved oewd. we are thrilled the 27 unions are excited to be on the future projec

meeting so everyone you see could attend the funeral of our fallen brother steve and my friend rudey gonzalez reported on a moment of silence you observed at the meeting in memory of steve. i where want to let you know how much that means to us and thank you so much for doing that. >> our condolences to the department. >> thank you board president. back to the item at hand, we have known some time the firefighters have a elevated risk for cancer. as board president peskin mentioned t is had leading cause of occupational death for firefighters. last year the international association for research on cancer firefighter is [indiscernible] we assumed the primary source of exposure to carcinogens is on the fire ground. every time we go in a burning buildings or wild fire, but we learned some of the most toxic chemicals are carried into the fire by us in the gear designed to protect us and these are it the per pfas chemicals known as forever chemicals that permeate the materials that make up the protective gear and in the course of the wear and tear of a fire migrate from the materials to the body