Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE Commission On The Environment 201

SFGTV LIVE Commission On The Environment May 25, 2016

Thank you chair, and all. My name is christopher and live commenting on more bad news. Within the last two weeks climate scientists have presented more alarming reports. These are on our southern Antarctic Ice cap and the reports describe once again how the warming climate and oceans are accelerating the ever Faster Movement of ice mass the size of california, averaging over a kilometer in thickness. Into the worlds oceans resulting in multimeter sealevel rise by the end of the century. Once again scientists are lowballing the numbers and once again their predictions will lag reality. My prediction is still 50 by 55, that is 2055. My prediction is that by that time Climate Change will disrupt food production, that Climate Change will bring famine, that Climate Change will provoke war among the nations over vanishing resources. My solution is still using freely Available Energy to desalinate freshwater to irrigate new trees. What can you do to help . And i would move the absence of a quorum except i have no standing. Well, if you cant think of anything to help, than please just get out of the way. Thank you, next speaker, please. David told solomon know thou the god god of thy father and serve him with a perfect heart and willing mind for the lord searches all hearts and understands all of the imagination of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be fond of thy and forsake him and he will cast you out forever. Nobody know whats you are thinking. God knows what you are thinking. He knows what you are thinking. And the bible is a super natural book and there was a great king from babylon who destroyed the jewish temple. He had this dream and didnt know what it meant, and so he said to his wisemen he was going to kill all of them unless they told him what the dream was and the interpretation of his dream. So daniel prayed and god revealed to daniel what the dream was and what it meant. He was so impressed with that, he gave him a promotion. God made him famous so everybody would read his book and jesus called him the prophet daniel, was given the most incredible revelation in the entire Old Testament because he was given the precise amount of time there would be before the messiah would come and be baptized and then die on the cross for our sins. And he said there would be 70 weeks, each one of these weeks were actually 7years long, dead ending in a sabbath year and what christ died in the 70th 7year cycle he was the 80th 7year cycle if you back up to the destruction of the temple. The jews kept precisely where they are in chronology and ezekiel, they knew in 56 years they would go back because jeremiah said thus sayth the lord and in 70 years, exactly 70 years and these were thank you, next speaker, please. Good evening my name is karen flescherman and came to talk to you about saving San Francisco lives and much remains to be done and it must be done swiftly to keep the momentum going in the right direction. Today britton had an editorial in the guardian about the impact of not guilty verdict of edward nero, one of the officers involved in freddie grays killing by Baltimore Police department. President obama spoke about him in his commencement speech at howard, who joined with police and other experts to produce president obamas task force on 21st century policing. If you want our trust, stop killing us. If you want a relationship, stop getting away with it. June 2nd, 2016 will be six months since sfpd executed mario woods in broad daylight in front of a buses full of School Children and its also the national day against gun violence. The children at my Daughters School want to know why sfpds shoots so many people so many times . You have an obligation to make sure this doesnt happen again. Removing chief suhr is just the first stop to making that happen. Sfpd must be made accountable and this is what you need to do by june 2nd, a National Search for the communities most impacted selecting the criteria for the new chief . We need an end to the cops we need the u. S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and need George Gascon to indict the killers of gomez and woods and need the police to discipline and terminate all officers involved in officerinvolved shootings. This is urgent and i ask you to please take it very seriously. Thank you, next speaker, please. Madam president and supervisors. My name is abraham. Im an engineer and work for one of the top general contractors in the bay area. I had the Great Fortune to attend a fundraiser to honor the legacy of rudy bridges the first black child to be integrated into the allwhite school. I couldnt help but feel saddened because here in San Francisco, only in San Francisco, practitioners are excluded from participating in the annual japantown in Chinatown Community parades. Why and how can this only happen in our great city of San Francisco, none known for tolerance . Since the illegal persecution, the communist party has used this here in San Francisco extends the persecution through the chinese consulate, which directly targets Community Leaders in San Francisco and persuades through them propaganda that its a Political Movement to not allow and exclude citizens who practice this fallen doffa have no policy aspirations and the Chinese Communist party fears it the communities include them into their events these communities will see through their lives and realize that the practitioners are good people that have been wronged. I believe that san franciscans do not support discrimination. And influence from a Foreign Government interfering with the souvenir nation. I look forward to the day one of you will walk alongside us to openly attend the chinatown and japantown Community Parades just as the federal agents walked along ruby bridges every day in 1960. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Translator greetings supervisor, wonder what type of performance would put on . If they were allowed to join the janantown and chinese new years parade and allow me to show it so you can see it . This time is set for the individual at the first microphone there, if she wants to say what you are saying, that is fine. Okay. Sorry. I apologize. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is vicky. And im 13 years old and i live in sunset district. I came to the states last august to learn classical at school. And im extremely excited to be living here in the usa, because this country has more human than Mainland China. I have practiced together with my mom and grand mom since i was born and see their practice as helping me focus on being truthful and being kind to other people and thinking of others before thinking of myself. However, we are not able to talk about falun da la in Mainland China because of the current persecution. Im very happy that the practice is legal in the United States. And i cant even participate in falun parade and marching bands. It would be impossible to do this in china, a country that is under the rule of the communist party. April 27th, 2016, it was my first time to perform in the parade with the marching band. I was full of joy and honor. However, a half hour before the parade was to begin, we were notified that our band was forbidden to join. But we got the permit to perform way beforehand. How could this happen . America is famous for its support of human rights around the world. I wish justice could be done here. Seems like a peaceful marching band. Please speak closer to the microphone, thank you. What happens in the United States, i hope the truth that we can Work Together that it never happens again. Thank you for your time and concern. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is tom borden and im here to speak about something that i have observed, i have seen two supervisors speak on proposition b in the last week. And there have been some shortcome ings i would like to talk about. Sir, im pausing your time, sir. There is no election airing in the chamber. If you want to talk generally about issues, but not about campaign issues, please. I will run your time now. You are at saying i cant talk about anything that is on the ballot . That is correct. Let me ponder that for my next minute and 30 seconds and see if there is any way i can get across my point . We can move to the next speaker and give you time to come back with your remarks. Thank you. Thank you next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is dewith the San Francisco forest alliance. I would like to address in a general way the issue of set asides, and most of you were not in your seats in 2008, but in 2008 the board of supervisors im sorry, the ballot passed proposition s, which was a local measure that said there would not be set asides unless there was a new source of funding. And that it would be city policy that voters cannot approve a new set aside with a cost of living adjustment or other annual increase of more than 2 . And that the setasides could not be for more than ten years. This measure was voted on, and 56 compared to 44 of San Francisco residents voted in favor of that. There has been a lot of setasides that have happened since then. One was discussed today. One is currently on the ballot. And i think the context of understanding how people feel about setasides is very important. As an example on our current ballot, the amount of money that is going to go into a setaside was never discussed, and i dont think that you are aware of how much money was involved in this proposition, which is 4. 5 billion over 30 years. I believe that i have a paper i will give you to go on record about this, and a spreadsheet. But i would like you to understand before you endorse something, that the figures of what ever that you are endorsing that you fully understand what those figures are before you endorse and to understand how the citizens of San Francisco feel about setasides. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Im back. I would like to speak on board of supervisors resolution 65302. In which you forebade the recreation and Parks Department from implementing the significant natural areas Resource Management plan until such time as the board of supervisors approved their plan. That plan is still awaiting eir certification. And yet, rec and park is pursuing activities that are part of it such as closing trails, erecting accesscontrol fencings and putting up signs that prohibit walking off designated trails or riding your bicycle in the park or even walking your bike in the park. And the resolution by this body was quite explicit. It said that they shall not impose access restrictions, cut recreation, kill feral cats, cut any healthy trees and yet, this body has done nothing to stop recreation and park from doing these things, and even the Planning Commission hasnt done anything about the violation of ceqa. So im concerned about this. I have talked to several supervisors on this issue, and nothing has happened. And i really think that the recreation and park needs more supervision more teeth in any kind of measure that might that they are involved with. To be sure that the public is protected and their voice and what happens with recreation and park with our parks. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors, catherine howard. We have just learned that rec and park is now charging people to sit on the grass in dolores park. Rec and park states that this is a Pilot Program. But as everyone knows that is rec and park departments speak for this is what were going to do, tough. This is the direction that rec and park has taken our parks, continued privatization and monetization and loss of park use for those unable to pay to pay. Heaven forbid that a family decides to sit on the grass in a spurofthemoment. After the dolores park story broke at least two supervisors according to the press spoke up. All of a sudden rec and park has decided to suspend the program. Could it be because that is because the board at this point and for a few more weeks only has budget power over rec and park . You should immediately recognize that this is a rogue department out of control, mistakes were made in the chamber and i think could be rectified and should place a ballot measure that institutes controls for the department of recreation and park. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors, and thank you very much for this opportunity to speak. I hadnt planned to come speak. I looked inside the door and thought the line isnt so long. I may as well give it a thought. My name is elizabeth delong, im a proud member of local 2, united here Restaurant Workers Union and im also a neighbor. I am a mother. I am a widow and happen to live across the street from dolores park and i have to tell you, overnight more than 15,000 signatures were put on a change. Org petition to stop selling our parks. Now dolores park is very particular, because you know we have all of these poor unfortunate intimate Technology Kids crammed into apartments, sometimes six or seven at a time and not to mention the families in the neighborhoods an long time residents. This is one place you can go and stretch your legs and get a little bit of fresh air. We dont have to pay for that privilege. Our parks are our parks. No more paytoplay. San francisco is not for sale. We love our parks. We fought to keep them nice and we fought and tried to have investments put into the parks to make sure they were beautified and now its beautiful, you want to take it away from us . No, no, no, no. San francisco is not for sale. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, citizens of San Francisco, and supervisors. My name is mel mel varand i live in the tenderloin district and im a volunteer chess teacher. Supervisor kim probably remembers me from 5160 farrell, the incident last year, where the dead body was left undiscovered for eight weeks and maybe supervisor farrell remembers me from rumor. But anyway, i have an addendum to my Police Case Number that i reported 48 hours ago regarding a certain david, a resident Maintenance Manager of 376 ellis. Who operates a highend prostitution ring using this building and are populated by squatters, who call themselves homesteaders. I tend to agree that most of these homesteaders were illegally evicted by the slum lord using thugs and they are claiming that they are just reoccupying their old units. Most of them are heroinaddicted and when passed out, their belongings are carted away. Now there are foreigners who i witnessed getting escorted inside the room, and there are two foreigners that i saw actually you know, engage in prostitution in davids room. One of those tricksters name is maxie and this makes it a federal Human Trafficking case. I have presented prima facie evidence in order to charge and arrest david, but 48 hours from my initial report to officer bautista, the only thing that happened was this thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Hello supervisors. Thank you very much. My name is lee strayhand, investigator reporter and filmmaker and im here to speak out in favor of the rule of law, commonsense and simple civility. That is because we have reached a point people are trying to shut down opinions that they dont agree with. On some issues currently before the board, for instance, supervisors on this very board have resorted to calling critics racists. Everyone who takes logic knows its simply an insult and has no actual content. Calling everyone who disagree with us a racist has another goal, intimidation. The goal is to shut people up, to make them not want to talk, make them not want to speak out. Even though some of the people who are in the other side of some of the issues before this simply want the rule of law followed and believe that you pass a law, that law should be enforced. You may disagree, but you can hold that view and not be racist and to call people racist and overuse that term that is, in fact, offensive and wrong because racism, lets be clear is wrong and to overuse that term is simply awful. I would ask the board of supervisors to strongly consider the precedent they are setting by not addressesing the issues, but simply tossing out insults. Our democracy depends on open and free debate and intimidation and insults should not play any part in that process. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I want to further highlight and touch base on a conflict of interest, and true and correct way to take care of this Immigration Reform, illegal immigration, and also, sanctuary law. This type of legislation that you proposed due process for people involved in illegal immigration to litigation and legislation that you should be practicing on is to join mexico and make it part of the United States. You need to bring up their Living Conditions in mexico, so they wont have to be crossing across the border, cross ing across the deserts because of the povertylevel and Living Conditions in mexico. The poverty [hrao efrl ] inlevel in mexico is severallevels lower than the United States. You know that and they know that and as a result they

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