Supervisor stefani, not present. President walton. Present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. We are in a unseated home land of the original hab stands of the San Francisco peninsula we recognize we tpweupbt from little and working on their era digs al home land. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledge. pledge of allegiance on be half of the board of supervisors i would like to act ol the staff at sfgovtv. We have ms. Mendoza recording the meetings and making the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, the 2 00 oclock special order. The honorable mayor, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. We have her online. Thank you, madam clerk. Welcome to the meeting, madam, mayor. Thank you, president walton. Good afternoon, supervisors. Its election day. I know there is a lot of work to be done. I will be brief. I want to thank the director for running our elections department. So often in the city we talk about the problems we have. This is a opportunity to recognize t
Mentioned in that statement. It would be good for San Francisco to take the lead in the bay area and other cities will likely follow. This would make a strong statement to the governor and companies stands who make profit and call a moratorium in fracking until the environmental study is done. Thank you very much. My name is hilary. I work for the biological diversity. We have many activist in california and around the country. I want to thank president chiu and the board of supervisors for the opportunity of speaking today in support of president chius resolution to end fracking in california. Fracking poisons the water we drink. State agencies in four different states confirmed that oil and Gas Development in areas used for fracking for water contamination. At a time when california faces a historic drought we could not afford to precious Water Resources to these dangerous fracking techniques. Fracking and the disposals have been linked to earthquakes in the United States. This will
Fracking techniques. Fracking and the disposals have been linked to earthquakes in the United States. This will cut greenhouse emissions. I want to thank you for this resolution and for prioritizing the city and States Health and environment and climate, above the profits of oil companies. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is john brone. I was here last year. These are short comments to you to my family to you supervisor to give you an occasion indication, i will make my covenant between you and me. Then abraham fell on his face. You shall be the attitude of multitude of nations. I made you ancestor of the multitude of the nation. I will make nation of you. And i will establish my covenants to be god to you and to your offspring after you. And i will give you and to your offspring after you the land where you are an alien. All the land of can an for perpetual holding. When i first arrived to the United States i was married to a kenyan woman who still lives in c
Oil and Gas Development in areas used for fracking for water contamination. At a time when california faces a historic drought we could not afford to precious Water Resources to these dangerous fracking techniques. Fracking and the disposals have been linked to earthquakes in the United States. This will cut greenhouse emissions. I want to thank you for this resolution and for prioritizing the city and States Health and environment and climate, above the profits of oil companies. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is john brone. I was here last year. These are short comments to you to my family to you supervisor to give you an occasion indication, i will make my covenant between you and me. Then abraham fell on his face. You shall be the attitude of multitude of nations. I made you ancestor of the multitude of the nation. I will make nation of you. And i will establish my covenants to be god to you and to your offspring after you. And i will give you and to your
Man representing 33 San Francisco. A local advocacy group. A long time resident and in favor of item 20. The resolution calling for a halt on high ydraulic fracturing in california. And we greatly support those changes. As ross just pointed out, there are a number of reasons why we simply cant afford to take this action as a state. In front of me i have an article from a few days ago called dry weather in 2013 shocks meteorologist. Fresno area meteorologist Steve Frances said last year from a scale of 110 last year was a 14. However this year many old records fell by 30 percent from the previous all time low. He had 77 percent below its previous all time low. This is basically unheard of in the history of science. So fracking is a practice which essentially takes 15 million gallons of water per well. Each well can be frakt 15 tiechlts this is an extremely water in practice per state. For that reason alone it should be halted. Perhaps should bare mentioned that the oil that we are fract