the vote against a vital plan to restore flows to the san jaoquin river, and the san francisco board of supervisors, passed a resolution to support this plan, however, this was vetoed recently by the mayor. after this vote, the board will work to restore the delta and bay inflows from the sacramento river and what happens today will impact the processes and related processes in rivers such as the he'll river. all of these rivers are critical to native people's diet and culture. there's need for san francisco to honor tribes and respect the wishes of its people by supporting the plan insteading continuing to impose it. san francisco should stop pressuring the federal to make anti environmental laws. taking these steps will benefit all californians. our fight for the salmon impacts all californians. and river flows and will also help dilute the population. a clean water supply is essential to both salmon and our people. salmon are a part of all san francisco's heritage and not just its native community. it's no mistake the city's tourist hub is fisherman's warf. of the 95% improving th

that is from the san jaoquin river. i'd like to have my comments spoken while i try to portray this image right here. this is going to be hard. this doesn't go to my time. long story short, i'm going to pull this up. as a visual story telling educator for eight years i've been doing organizing around protecting the watershed that you folks will have decisions to make today. i represented the san jaoquin river at the u.n. climate negotiations in germany, ma rocco and during the paris agreement and i implore you, to first of all acknowledge the excess ability of these meetings. as a person of color, someone who grew up in one of the poorest cities and one of the most illiterate cities in the country, it's really, really important that these, the intellectual conversations that are happening include people that are directly effected by this process. myself being one of those people. i also would like to bring up some thoughts that, you folks, as the commission, and being contextualized in the state of california, have a re

i am here in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of the san jaoquin and bay. i am just here to tell you, kind of my story of living on a river that has experienced the genocide of the salmon and having to handle the struggles of the aftermath of that. i grew up fighting for our salmon since i was very young. me and my friends all were fighting for the salmon when we were very young and we still continue to. recently, up in our area, we had one of the highest suicide rates in indigenous territories ever recorded. it's been scientifically proven that that is a cause of the genocide of the salmon on our rivers. i was there for eight of my best friends suicides who were all effected by the destruction of our lands and our salmon. they were all there when we were fighting for salmon since we were very young. it is something that effects me everyday. it's not just the salmon, as says been said. it's everything. it's our daily lives and these rivers are our lifeline. they're life lines to human beings in general. this is going to affect us all. and so, i ask of you a