william riley i spoke to at length.was -- let's put it this way, there's a much stronger possibility than there has been ever since. i think that is important story that needs to be told. and you go yet by 1989, these corporations coming together forming the coalition. >> in 1988, hits and testifies. head, and thethe number two of the whole company, bill o'keefe, and they told a -- they don't equivocate about what happened in the 1990's and there are proud of it. but they said after hansen's hearing, people started to perk up him and started to be concern. there were 32 bills filed in congress about, policy. they started to hold meetings, inormational meetings at api similar work was being done at exxon to try to formulate a strategy. that was the beginning of a hard turn. it progressed. originally it was, let's make sure to highlight uncertainty. let's make sure to be a participant in any conversation about regulation. and let's make sure not to endorse any policy that hurts the bottom line. you see the formation of it

bush administration between chief of staff john sununu and the head of bush's epa william riley who isment. modeled after the montreal protocol for the ozone layer. s sununu wins that fight. and he thwarts the effort and we're sort of locked in ever since then. i think the story also as related to me by people involved raises other issues about our a built as individuals, as democracies and really in the global order of tackling vast problems, existential problems that face us, especially when the worst ramifications aren't going to set in for decades or generations. >> i want to ask you about the format and what you want people to take away from this. this is hauntingly and beautifully ill traded by the photographs of how things are around the world today. you have focused on a period in time. now many decades ago. what do you want folks to read this article to think? i know there's been some criticism that perhaps you're letting the oil and gas companies off the hook. you're giving people an absence of hope. what do you want the take away to be? >> yes, i think -- i certainly don't l

. >> william ortiz-cartagena is not here. iran riley. >> mr. president, you have a quorum. >> next item. >> item 2, general public comments. public comment for items that are not on today's agenda. discussion item. >> do we have any members of the public who would like to make a comment on items not on today's agenda? seeing none. public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item 3, presentation. update on the cannabis equity program and possible recommendations to the planning commission to include the cannabis equity program in the community, business priority processing program. discussion and action item. the presenter is nicole elliott director opposite cannabis. >> one moment. commissioner dooley. >> i'm going to need to recuse myself from this item. i am involved with the cannabis industry. >> do we have a motion to recuse commissioner dooley. >> >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> you are recused. >> motion passes 5-0. >> ok. so it was 5-0. >> 5-0. ok. >> and we're including commissioner dooley. >> she can vote in that? >> ok. >>