president chiu: excuse her excuse me, excuse me sir. they re not going to speak. president chiu: excuse me. rei think at this time we re going to take a five-minute recess. thank you very much. we re going to have one speaker at a time. if we have another interruption, we will call for another recess until we have order. this is how we operate in this board chamber. let s hear from the next speaker, thank you. if could you play what s on the computer. i have been doing corporate for 20 years. this year in san francisco president chiu: this gentleman s mic is not working. i have been doing corporate eco a dits for 20 years. this year in san francisco, a 10-year-old elementary school soccer player commamed clare is standing up to bob fisher and his brothers and corporate representatives from the synthetic turf industry. from day one, they have exerted their considerable influence around town convincing the people around san francisco that their plastic neighborhood pa
hello, board of supervisors. i m here to express, my name is gregory hall. i was in an incident last year, probably have been three years ago when i directed the supervisors about a situation up in hunters point. it seems like nothing ever changes because the same situation is happening till today. i m wondering, you know, you guys got all your big jobs back here and i figure that you guys are smart enough to know that it s not settled out there in bayview hunters point. now that we got a new district supervisor, i feel that maybe she needs to look into it a little more thoroughly nothing like the last supervisor. i was over there at the double rock where he was emotionally about how much you got the money to be able to do the work there, maybe you need to be emotionally about finding out how these people in the bayview community are not having jobs, are out on the street every day. me, when i took on the job after the bad contractor was up there, i hired everybody in the com
they made west coast the official state dance of california. it s time that we celebrate it, isn t it? this is a great thing. we are going to have a contest that s going to last for a year. i was in a contest that lasted for a year and i got eliminated the first week. but the 12th week i entered, the 12th month i entered the contest and i won, ok. you can see me dancing in 1988 and i looked a hell of a lot better than i do right now. what we re trying to do, we re trying to create jobs, we re trying to create happiness and friendship among people to bring people together. this is the one thing that this country does not have and i think that we need to bring people together. when you dance together, how can you shoot each other? you just can t do that. my plan is, i m going to make it as brief as i can, when the students and we re going to make it available for people to learn how to do the west coast swing. we re going to ask the teachers that are teachers of dance to come d
engagement at a convention, one of the largest gatherings of scientists around the world. her efforts only scraped the surface of the many risks associated with the plastic fields. we can t expect the children of san francisco to fend for themselves when it comes to protecting their long term health and future. clare s efforts beg the question, why aren t the adults truly pro technicaling them? we put that critical question to you. to facility tate searches, i insert the keywords children s health hazzard, mission playground, l.e.d. poisoning, mercury poisoning, fisher construction, carbon black. thank you. president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. peter alexander. things are getting more and more exciting all the time. i really enjoyed listening to the senior vets talking about the dancing. it reminded me about a friend of mine that passed three years ago. francis lambert, he was in the air force. he used to tell me about when he was a much younger man, he used to
think something sounded quite right and decided to investigate whether playing in ground-up tires with the chemicals and heavy metals was a wise idea. over eight months, she tested more than 100 water samples from both synthetic turf and grass fields in san francisco with the help of local universities. clare s results reinforced what environmental scientists have known for years, information that bob fisher, city fields and the turf industry have long been trying to sprezz. san francisco synthetic field runoff water contained dangerous levels of heavy metals and other toxics which were in excess of state and federal guidelines. clare s experiment has brought her accolades including a 2011 international eco hero award, national science foundation award and even a speaking engagement at a convention, one of the largest gatherings of scientists around the world. her efforts only scraped the surface of the many risks associated with the plastic fields. we can t expect the childr