followed by sara greenwald. >> i will make it brief. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. i encourage you to speak and to act accordingly because water is life and to divest. and i'm hoping that other speakers that are here today can decline to speak because we need to have the vote to have happen. i'm making it brief. please vote yes. thank you. >> thank you. up next, we have mihan from local 21, followed by sara greenwald. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm staff at local 21. i have a letter that our retirement committee has drafted that i wanted to read to you guys. >> do you have a copy for us? >> i do. i only have two copies. >> we want to be sure that the board has one so it reflects in the record. >> local 21 represents a great many active employees and retirees of the city and county of san francisco that have a sincere interest in the responsible management of the pension fund. local 21 pension advisory committee is made up of active city employees and staff that are tasked with providing oversight on behalf of the workers. we've reviewed the staff recommendati

sara greenwald, are you present? seeing she's not here. i will set her speaker card aside. phil casky, followed by margaret pierce. >> phil casky, retired from the water department. i think -- i want to say briefly the water department is an incredibly wonderful system. it's one of the most protected systems in the world. and we didn't get that way by being unprotective of the environment. so burning fossil fuels is not protective of the environment. and i would like to keep the water system the way it is and i think that san francisco can be a leader in many, many ways and by divesting is one way to do it. thank you. >> thank you. up next, margaret pierce. >> thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. everyone wearing a purple sticker is in favor of divestment. this is the moral imperative. but i'm afraid what we're going to do is have so many people talk that you will have it leave and we won't be able to vote. i would like to know how many of those of us wearing purple stickers that would like to see you vote now rather than listen to more talk? >> president, can