. >> good evening, tom mccarthy. i am a member of the carpenters union here in the city. i also lived in the north beach area of the city for many years. this is a project that we need for the jobs that will provide but more personal for the housing that it will provide in the long run. the cost of housing there is just the fact that there is not enough housing in the city. every neighborhood once a working people's neighborhood is threatened to becoming a neighborhood where only people of wealth can live. you have seen how many people there are that are committed and dedicated to the work now going on out there. they are not going to give up this project. it will be guided by this type of dedication. >> thank you. >> thank you supervisors. i represent -- >> please pull the microphone closer to your mouth. >> we have been performing landscaping services on treasure island using a disadvantaged workforce since 1992. so we have actually been there with the knave and he then with the city of san francisco. we source 100% of our employees through the tidi program and helped o

tom mccarthy. i'm a member of the carpenter's union. i have lived in the northeastern part of the city for 50 years. i have seen what has happened to that part of the city. it has been lost to low-income people. we have now the chance to build a new community which will embrace low-income people and i look forward to being able to see that from the part of the city that i live in now. there is no better time for the city to commit itself to a project such as this. the needs of the people of this city are -- you all know, are very great. and if we can proceed on this, you have seen from so many different groups, agencies, well-being of the cities as a whole, it is unmanageable to me that we cannot see to it that we continue to bring our interest to bear as this project unfolds including environmental concerns. there will be environmental concerns from here on out. we have the people here in the city that are more than capable of bringing the political and policy pressures to bear to make good on those concerns. i strongly encourage you t

i this what's interesting like, someone like tom mccarthy who wrote and directed the visitor, he traveled to lebanon twice to screen his first feature film, the station agent, which was a fantastic movie, and he fell in love. i mean, that's the thing. he's american, he grew up here, you know, he's the whitest guy, but he has this amazing openness about him. that's what shows about many americans. there's that beautiful quality about them, and they... you know, and he went there and he was so moved and that's what inspired him to start writing the visitor. and so it's that idea. if people can be more open, like going in and watching the visitor. just be open and let the story take you there. connect with the people without trying to hit them... hit you over the head with a message, because that's not what the movie is about. and i think that's what's important, is when movies like that are being told, it's important that not to go to the extreme sides and the black and white of it, but rather go and just human connection. strip away all of that stuff, our differences, and then let's connec

the agents liked tim mccarthy, you know? they liked tom and all these people. for them, this was a real moment. jim brady is dead. dick allen says, well, we should have a moment of silence, prayer, and reflectionment the room is dead quiet. the silence lasts for seven seconds. then they are back to work. there's too much to do. jim got seven seconds, but turns out he didn't die. in fact, there's a great moment. i have to be careful because there's profanity, but there's a surgeon working on jim brady, and he saves his life, and he may have been the most technically, on this day, he had the most -- the biggest technical challenges. the bullet was here, exploded. shrapnel was on both sides of the brain, swelling like crazy, had a 50/50 chance of surviving. they listen to the radios and there's news reports, and they report jim brady is dead. it made it to the halls of congress where someone released it and everybody thought he died. they hear it, and he says what do you think we're operating on, a corpse? [laughter] as an author, there's moments, whether you get