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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2015.


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CITY OF OAKLAND.
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SPECIAL CONCURRENT MEETING OF
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THE OAKLAND REDEVELOPMENT
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SUCCESSOR AGENCY/CITY COUNCIL.
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>> SO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
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WE WILL BEGIN SHORTLY.
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WE UNDERSTAND THAT ONE OF THE
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PROPONENTS IS MAKING HIS WAY
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INTO THE BUILDING, HE'S
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GOTTEN CAUGHT UP IN THE LINE
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OUTSIDE, SO WE'LL BE HAVING

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FOLKS COME INTO THE BUILDING.
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WE ASK THAT IF YOU'RE IN THIS
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ROOM AND GIVE TESTIMONY, THAT
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YOU ORGANIZE YOURSELVES, HAVE
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YOUR SPEAKER CARDS, THOSE WHO
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ARE SEEDING TIME HANDLED
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RIGHT AWAY, WE HAVE TWO ITEMS
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THAT WILL GO BEFORE ITEM 4,
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WHICH IS COAL, WHICH WE
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EXPECT TO DISPENSE WITH VERY
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QUICKLY SO WE CAN GET TO THE
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MATTER AT HAND.

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AGAIN, WE HAVE 500 PEOPLE WHO
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HAVE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, IT
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IS OUR GOAL TO HEAR FROM ALL
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THOSE WOULD WISH TO SPEAK
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THAT ARE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.
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YOUR COOPERATION AND DOING
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THAT EXPEDITIOUSLY IS GREATLY
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APPRECIATED.
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FOR THE SAFETY OF EVERYONE IN
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THE BUILDING, WE ASK THERE'S
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NO STANDING ALONG THE WALLS,
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BLOCKING THE WALLS OR THE

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ACCESS TOWARDS IN AND OUT OF
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THE ROOM OR THE AISLES.
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>> GOOD AFTERNOON, IF THE
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MEMBERS WOULD TAKE THEIR
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SEATS, SEEING THAT WE NOW
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HAVE A FULL QUORUM OF THE
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CITY COUNCIL, WELCOME
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EVERYONE TO THE CITY HALL, AS
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I HAVE ANNOUNCED EARLIER
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TODAY, IT IS OUR GOAL TO HEAR
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FROM EVERY SPEAKER WHO HAS
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SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, YOUR

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COOPERATION IS GREATLY
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APPRECIATED.
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WHEN THE SPEAKERS ARE AT THE
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PODIUM, WE ASK THERE IS NO
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BOOING, HISSING, CHEERING OR ANY
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AUDIBLE SUPPORT OR DETRACTION
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FROM THE SPEAKER, IT MAKES
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IT DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE HERE
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AND AT HOME TO HEAR, IF YOU
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WANT TO SHOW YOUR
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APPRECIATION, SHOW IT AFTER
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THE COMMENTS HAVE CONCLUDED,

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THAT WILL SHOW EQUAL RESPECT
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TO EACH PERSON AT THE PODIUM.
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WE'VE TALKED TO SOME OF THE
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PRINCIPLE ORGANIZERS FOR THE
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SPEAKERS TODAY, WE WILL HAVE
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A BY [INAUDIBLE] DISCUSSION,
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WE WILL CALL PEOPLE WHO ARE
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SPEAKERS WITH CONCERNS ABOUT
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COAL, THEY WILL HAVE TWO
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SPEAKERS SPEAK, AND LIKEWISE,
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THOSE WHO HAVE NO CONCERNS
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ABOUT THE SHIPMENT OF COAL,

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THEY WILL HAVE TWO SPEAKERS
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SPEAK AND WE WILL GO BACK AND
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FORTH LIKE THAT UNTIL WE
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HEARD FROM ALL OF THE
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SPEAKERS.
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IT IS OUR HOPE THAT WE WILL
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NOT HAVE A LOT OF TIME
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BETWEEN SPEAKERS SO THAT
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THERE'S NOT A LOT OF MOVING
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AND ORGANIZING SO WE ASK THAT
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YOU COME TO THE MIC., THAT
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YOU SPEAK DIRECTLY INTO THE

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MIC., IF YOU HAVE SOMEONE
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SEEDING TIME TO YOU, THEY
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NEED TO APPEAR WITH YOU AT
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THE MICROPHONE SO, PLEASE USE
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YOUR CELL PHONES AND TEXT
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MESSAGES, MAKE SURE THOSE
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FOLKS ARE GETTING THEIR
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MESSAGES TO THEIR AMBASSADORS
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TO ENSURE PEOPLE ARE COMING
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UP WHEN IT IS YOUR TIME TO
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SPEAK.
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WITH THAT, I THINK WE'RE

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READY TO BEGIN, MADAM CLERK.
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>> COULD YOU PLEASE STAND AND
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JOIN US IN THE PLEDGE OF
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ALLEGIANCE.
(PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE).
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>> I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE
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FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF
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AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC
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FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE
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NATION UNDER GOD,
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INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND
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JUSTICE FOR ALL.
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>> GOOD AFTERNOON AND WELCOME


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TO THE SPECIAL CONCURRENT
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MEETING OF THE OAKLAND
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REDEVELOPMENT SUCCESSOR
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AGENCY AND CITY COUNCIL
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MEETING FOR MONDAY SEPTEMBER
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21, 2015.
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IF THERE ARE MEMBERS IN
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ATTENDANCE WHO WOULD LIKE
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TO SPEAK ON AN AGENDA MATTER,
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PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER'S
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CARD AND GET THAT TO A CLERK
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REPRESENTATIVE BEFORE THE


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ITEM IS CALLED FOR DISCUSSION.
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MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS, THE
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ROLL CALL, COUNCILMEMBER
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BROOKS, CAMPBELL WASHINGTON,
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GALLO, GUILLEN, I SEE KALB IN
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CHAMBERS BUT I IMAGINE HE'LL
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BE SITTING DOWN IN A MOMENT,
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KAPLAN, I NOTE REID IS OUT OF
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HIS CHAIR BUT IS PRESENT, AND
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COUNCIL PRESIDENT GIBSON
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MCELHANEY WILL BE CHAIRING
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THE MEETING.
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MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS, JUST
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IN THE OPEN FORUM PORTION
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WHICH IS THE FIRST 15
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MINUTES, I AM SHOWING OF
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COURSE A TOTAL OF 15 SPEAKER
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CARDS FOR THAT THERE, THERE
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ARE OF COURSE HUNDREDS OF
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CARDS FOR THE BALANCE OF THE
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EVENING, THIS IS EXCLUSIVELY
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FOR OPEN FORUM.
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>> MADAM CLERK, WE'LL HAVE
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OPEN FORUM AT THE CONCLUSION


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OF THE MEETING TODAY AND
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WE'LL ALLOW FOR THE MAIN ITEMS
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TO GO FORWARD.
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>> SO NOTED.
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AND MADAM CHAIR, IT PROBABLY
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DESERVES TO BE NOTED THAT IT
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IS THE INTENT OF THE BODY TO
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TAKE ITEMS OUT OF ORDER.
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>> AS WE DISCUSSED, WE'LL
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TAKE ITEMS 5 AND 6 AND THEN
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WE'LL COME BACK TO ITEM 4.
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>> SO, WE MAY QUICKLY


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DISPENSE WITH THOSE ITEMS, WE
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MOVE QUICKLY TO ITEM 6, IT IS
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THE CONSTITUTED CONSENT
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CALENDAR, I WOULD LIKE TO
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INDICATE THAT OUT OF THE
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HUNDREDS OF CARDS, I DO NOT
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SEE ANY SPEAKERS ON ITEM 6.
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ARE THERE ANY IN CHAMBERS,
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JUST TO BE VERY CLEAR.
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>> [INAUDIBLE].
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>> ON ITEM 6, OKAY.
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>> [INAUDIBLE].
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>> IF YOU COULD STEP TO THE
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MICROPHONE, I'M UNABLE TO
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HEAR YOU CLEARLY, MR. HAZARD.
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>> FOR THE RECORD, GENE
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HAZARD, ISN'T ITEM NUMBER 6
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REGARDING THE RESOLUTION
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REGARDING THE SETTLEMENT
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AGREEMENT?
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>> THERE ARE SETTLEMENTS ON
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ITEM 6.
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,

BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT

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ISSUE YOU'RE SPEAKING ON.


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>> I'M SPEAKING WITH FORMER
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MAYOR JEAN QUAN AND THE
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ACCIDENT AND ALSO THE ITEM
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RELATED TO THE SETTLEMENT
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WITH THE UNION.
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>> YES, OSIER MR. HAZARD, ONE
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MINUTE, PLEASE.
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GO AHEAD.
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>> WHAT DO YOU MEAN ONE
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MINUTE?
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>> FOR HOW MANY OF THE ISSUES?
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>> I HAVE TWO.


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>> OKAY, TWO MINUTES, PLEASE.
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>> AND I ALSO HAVE MS.
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TANGERI HAD SEEDED HER TIME
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TO ME ON THOSE TWO ITEMS SO
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THAT'S FOUR MINUTES.
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>> IS MS. TANGERI IN THE
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CHAMBERS?
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>> RIGHT THERE.
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>> I CAN'T SEE HER.
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>> OKAY, FOR THE RECORD, CAN
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YOU READ WHAT THE ITEM SO THE
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AUDIENCE WILL KNOW WHAT WE'RE


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TALKING ABOUT.
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>> THANK YOU, THE ITEMS ON
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CALENDAR IN TERMS OF ITEM 6,
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I BELIEVE MR. HAZARD, YOU
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SPOKE TO 6.3 WHICH IS THE
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RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND
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DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY
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TO COMPROMISE AND SETTLEMENT
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THE CASE OF STATE FARM
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AUTOMOBILE VERSUS JEAN QUAN
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AND THE CITY OF OAKLAND AND
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AS TO NUMBER -- I'M SORRY,


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6.3 AND 6.4, OKAY, AND THE
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SECOND SETTLEMENT WOULD BE A
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RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND
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DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY
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TO COMPROMISE AND SETTLE THE
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CASE OF LAKISHA RENEE LOVELY
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VERSUS JEAN QUAN ET AL.
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VERSUS THE CITY OF OAKLAND,
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THOSE TWO ITEMS APPEAR HERE
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AS 6.3 AND 6.4, WERE THOSE
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THE ITEMS IN QUESTION?
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>> YES, THAT WAS THE


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INSURANCE COMPANY, RIGHT?
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>> YES, SIR.
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>> I DIDN'T HEAR THE AMOUNT.
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>> OKAY, SO THE FIRST
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SETTLEMENT IS 10 THOUSAND
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$500 AND THE SECOND
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SETTLEMENT IS 15 THOUSAND
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DOLLARS.
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>> THANK YOU MADAM CITY
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CLERK, FOR THE RECORD, GENE
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HAZARD.
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THIS SETTLEMENT RELATES TO


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WHEN MAYOR QUAN WAS DRIVING
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AND TEXT MESSAGING AND
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ENTERED INTO AN ACCIDENT.
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MY QUESTION THROUGH THE CHAIR
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TO THE CITY ATTORNEY BECAUSE
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THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE
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EVER HEARD THAT THE CITY HAS
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SETTLED NOT ONLY WITH THE
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INDIVIDUALS WHICH SAYS THAT
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JEAN QUAN WAS WRONG AND
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PAYING 15 THOUSAND DOLLARS
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FOR THE SETTLEMENT, I WOULD


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LIKE TO ASK THE CITY
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ATTORNEY, ISN'T THIS UNUSUAL
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THAT YOU'RE SETTLING WITH THE
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INSURANCE COMPANY?
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I'VE NEVER HEARD THAT BEFORE
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IN ALL THE SETTLEMENTS THAT
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THE CITY HAS DONE WITH THE
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PLAINTIFF.
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IS THIS A FIRST TIME THING
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THAT THEY SETTLE WITH THE
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INSURANCE COMPANY?
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>> MADAM ATTORNEY?


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>> PRESIDENT MCELHANEY AND
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MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, WE
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HAVE ROUTINELY HAVE INSURANCE
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SEGREGATION CLAIM SETTLEMENTS
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ON THE AGENDA WHEN THERE ARE
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VEHICLE COLLISIONS AND THE
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CITY SETTLES IN THOSE MATTERS
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AND THEY ARE PUBLISHED ON
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YOUR AGENDA AND THE INSURANCE
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COMPANIES ARE NAMED.
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>> I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT
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SHE SAID.
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>> SHE SAID THIS IS ROUTINE.
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>> ROUTINE ONLY WHEN IT COMES
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TO ACCIDENT CASES?
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>> WHERE THERE -- SHE SAID
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WHERE THERE'S AUTO INSURERS
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INVOLVED, IT IS ROUTINE.
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>> I'VE SEEN A LOT OF
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SETTLEMENTS RELATED TO PUBLIC
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WORKS VEHICLE HAVING HIT
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SOMEONE AND I'VE NEVER SEEN
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WHERE THERE IS A SETTLEMENT
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WITH THE INSURANCE COMPANY.


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IT'S ONLY WITH THE PLAINTIFF
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IN THE MATTER, SO WHAT THE
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CITY ATTORNEY IS OPINING IS
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NOT CORRECT BECAUSE HAS THAT
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EVER OCCURRED WITH PUBLIC
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WORKS WHEN THEY ENTERED INTO
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SOME ACCIDENTS?
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>> MADAM ATTORNEY?
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>> PRESIDENT MCELHANEY, I
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REFER YOU TO THE CITY
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ATTORNEY'S WEB PAGE WHERE WE
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POST FINAL DECISION OF THE


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COUNCIL AND YOU WILL SEE YOU
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GO TO THAT WEB PAGE, YOU WILL
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SEE REPORTS OUT ON MULTIPLE
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-- ON MANY DIFFERENT CLAIMS
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THAT HAVE BEEN MADE WITH
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INSURANCE COMPANIES ON BEHALF
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OF PLAINTIFFS.
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>> BUT THEY'VE NEVER COME
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BEFORE THIS BODY, THANK YOU.
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>> EVERY SINGLE ONE HAS COME
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BEFORE THIS BODY.
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>> THAT IS MY RECOLLECTION,


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THANK YOU, MR. HAZARD.
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MADAM CLERK?
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>> WE'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION
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ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR.
>> SO MOVED.
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>> IT'S MOVED BY
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COUNCILMEMBER GALLO.
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IS THERE A SECOND?
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SECONDED BY MR. GUILLEN,
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WITHOUT OBJECTION OR -19:18:48
NOTING MR. REID ABSENT, THAT
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IS BY CONSENSUS OF 7.

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NEXT ITEM.
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>> WE NOW MOVE TO ITEM 5, IT
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IS A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING
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THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR OR HER
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DESIGNEE TO ENTER INTO LETTER
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AGREEMENT WIDTHS THE ALAMEDA
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COUNTY FIRE CHIEF'S
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ASSOCIATION, THE ALAMEDA
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COUNTY CITY MANAGERS SEW
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ASSOCIATION AND THE MAYOR'S
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CONFERENCE UNDER WHICH EACH
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ASSOCIATION WILL DEDICATE ONE

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OF THEIR VOTING SEATS ON THE
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BOARD OF EAST BAY REGIONAL
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COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
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AUTHORITY, JOINT POWER
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AUTHORITY TO THE CITY OF
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OAKLAND, AND VERY QUICKLY, I
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AM NOT SEEING ANY SPEAKERS ON
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ITEM 5.
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>> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK,
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WE'LL HEAR FROM STAFF
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>>
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>> CATANO CASANI, CITY

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TREASURER, ALSO INTERIM CEO,
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THIS ITEM IS AN AUTHORITY
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WE'RE SEEKING FOR YOU TO
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BLESS THE THREE LETTERS THAT
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WE ALREADY RECEIVED FROM
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EBRCSA AND THE COUNTY AND SO
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WE CAN HAVE THE CITY
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REPRESENTATIVES ATTEND THE
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NEXT MEETING WHICH IS COMING UP
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ON SEPTEMBER 25TH.
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>> THANK YOU, MS. CASANI,
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TURNING IN THE QUEUE TO MR.

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GALLO.
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>> I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A
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MOTION TO APPROVE STAFF'S
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RECOMMENDATION.
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>> SECOND.
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>> THERE IS A MOTION AND A
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SECOND, MS. BROOKS, YOU ARE
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IN THE QUEUE.
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>> YEAH, I WANT TO ADD A
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LITTLE BIT TO THE STAFF
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REPORT THAT WAS GIVEN BECAUSE
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THIS HAS BEEN A PROCESS LONG

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IN THE MAKING.
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THIS IS ABOUT A PUBLIC SAFETY
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ISSUE THAT HAS BEEN ABOUT
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MAKING SURE THAT OUR POLICE
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OFFICERS CAN COMMUNICATE AND
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I WANT TO SAY TO BARRY DON
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LAN, BOB MCCANNON WHO IS NO
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LONGER HERE WHO DID A
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TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK WHO
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HELPED US GET HERE, IN HIS
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MEMORY, I WOULD ASK THAT DAN
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MOVE THIS ITEM OR NOEL MOVE

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IT AND DAN SECOND IT, HAD IT
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NOT BEEN FOR ALL THE WORK HE
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PUT IN THIS, WE WOULD NOT BE
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TO THIS POINT, SO I WANT TO
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MAKE SURE WE RECOGNIZE HIM AS
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WE MOVE THIS ITEM TODAY, BUT
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THANKFULLY FOR THE POLICE,
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FOR THE PUBLIC, THIS IS A
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PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE AND I'M
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GLAD WE'RE FINALLY FINISHING
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IT.
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>> THANK YOU, I TOTALLY AGREE.

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>> THANK YOU, AND WE
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APPRECIATE YOU, MS. CASANI,
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GETTING TO THE LAST BIT OF
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THE BOTTLE NECK, SO ON A
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MOTION BY MR. GALLO AND A
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SECOND BY MR. CAL, ALL IN
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FAVOR?
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>> AYE.
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>> ANY ABSTENTIONS OR
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OBJECTIONS, THAT IS A
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UNANIMOUS DECISION, MADAM
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CLERK.

>> SO NOTED.
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WE NOW MOVE TO ITEM 4.
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MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE
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BODY, ITEM 4 OF COURSE IS THE
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PUBLIC HEARING TO RECEIVE
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INFORMATION TESTIMONY AND
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OTHER EVIDENCE, ORAL OR IN
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WRITING REGARDING THE TYPES
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OF COAL PRODUCTS THAT ARE
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TRANSPORTED, THE PUBLIC
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HEALTH AND/OR SAFETY IMPACTS
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AND OVER IMPETUSES OF THE
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TRANSPORTATION TRANSLOADING,
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HANDLING AND/OR EXPORT OF
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THOSE PUGS IN THROUGH THE
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CITY OF OAKLAND AND ADEQUACY
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OF EXISTING REGULATIONS AND
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THE CITY'S ABILITY TO
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REGULATE THE TRANSPORTATION
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AND HANDLING OF SUCH PRODUCTS
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IN PART AS A FOLLOW-UP TO
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RESOLUTION NUMBER 85054,
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OPPOSING THE TRANSPORTATION
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OF HAZARDOUS FOSSIL FUEL
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MATERIALS INCLUDING CRUDE


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OIL, COAL AND PETROLEUM COKE
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THROUGH THE CITY OF OAKLAND
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ADOPTED ON JUNE 17, 2014.
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MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS, AS I
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LOOK AT THE ELECTRONIC
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SPEAKER CARD SYSTEM, I SHOW
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490 ELECTRONIC SPEAKER CARDS
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AND IF YOU'LL ALLOW ME TO
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COUNT WHAT I HAVE HERE, I
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BELIEVE I HAVE APPROXIMATELY
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ANOTHER -- MAYBE ABOUT 93 IN
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MY HAND, TAKING YOU TO NEARLY


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ABOUT 600 SPEAKER CARDS FOR
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THE EVENING.
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>> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
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SO, AGAIN, THANK YOU, LADIES
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AND GENTLEMEN, FOR SHOWING
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YOUR SINCERE INTEREST IN THIS
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ITEM, WE WILL HEAR A BRIEF
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PRESENTATION FROM THE STAFF,
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FROM THE ASSISTANT CITY
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ADMINISTRATOR, CLAUDIO CAPIO,
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AFTER WHICH TIME WE WILL
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HEAR FOR SPEAKERS TO COME,


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THOUGH WE ARE EXPLORING WHAT
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THIS COULD MEAN, AND JUST
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ABOUT EQUAL NUMBERS I THINK
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HERE TODAY FOR YOU EXPRESSING
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CONCERNS ABOUT THE TRANSPORT
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OF COAL AND THOSE WHO ARE
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NOT, SO WITH THOSE WHO ARE
19:22:56
EXPRESSING WOULD HAVE TWO
19:22:57
SPEAKERS COME, YOU HAVE EACH
19:22:59
GROUP THAT IS GROUPED
19:23:01
THEMSELVES TOGETHER WOULD
19:23:01

HAVE A TOTAL OF FIVE MINUTES


19:23:03
SO THAT'S A SPEAKER PLUS FOUR
19:23:05
THAT WOULD SEED, WE ASK ALL
19:23:07
FIVE PERSONS APPEAR AT THE
19:23:10
PODIUM, STATE YOUR, THOSE
19:23:11
SEEDING DO NOT HAVE TO SPEAK,
19:23:15
AND THAT'S A WAY WE DON'T
19:23:16
HAVE TO CALL ALL 600 NAMES
19:23:19
AND RANDOMIZING THOSE, WE
19:23:21
WILL [INAUDIBLE] AND THEN WE
19:23:23
WOULD ASK AFTER YOU'VE SPOKEN
19:23:25
IF YOU CAN, GO AHEAD AND
19:23:26

RELEASE YOUR SEAT SO THE CITY


19:23:28
ADMINISTRATOR AND OUR
19:23:31
AMBASSADORS CAN LET PEOPLE
19:23:32
INTO THE CHAMBERS SO THEY
19:23:34
HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.
19:23:36
WE KNOW PEOPLE HAVE INTENDED
19:23:37
TO COME AND GIVE THEIR
19:23:39
TESTIMONY AND WILL NOT REMAIN
19:23:40
FOR THE BALANCE OF THE
19:23:43
MEETING, SO WE HOPE THIS WILL
19:23:46
ALLOW FOR THE TIMELY MEETING.
19:23:50
WE ASK THAT YOU HOLD YOUR
19:23:53

JEERS OR YOUR CHEERS UNTIL


19:23:56
THE PEOPLE HAVE HAD THEIR
19:23:57
TESTIMONY, AT THIS TIME,
19:23:58
WE'LL ASK FOR THE ASSISTANT
19:24:02
CITY ADMINISTRATOR CLAUDIA
19:24:03
CAPIO TO COME TO THE
19:24:04
MICROPHONE.
19:24:06
THANK YOU.
19:24:08
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, THIS AS
19:24:09
WAS STATED BY THE CITY CLERK,
19:24:11
THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING TO
19:24:15
RECEIVE INFORMATION ON THE
19:24:17

HEALTH AND SAFETY IMPACTS OF


19:24:18
COAL BEING TRANSPORTED
19:24:19
THROUGH THE CITY OF OAKLAND.
19:24:22
IT IS IN PART A MATTER OF THE
19:24:25
RESOLUTION THAT WAS ADOPTED
19:24:25
BY THE CITY COUNCIL IN JUNE
19:24:28
OF 14 AND BECAUSE OF SOME
19:24:31
RECENT INTEREST AND CONCERN
19:24:32
REGARDING A PORTION OF THE
19:24:34
OAKLAND ARMY BASE WHERE THERE
19:24:37
IS A PROPOSED BREAK BULK
19:24:40
TERMINAL WHERE WRONG THE
19:24:41

MATERIALS THAT MAY BE HANDLED


19:24:44
AND TRANSPORTED INCLUDE
19:24:47
COAL.
THE MOST USEFUL TESTIMONY
19:24:52
THIS AFTERNOON WOULD BE TO
19:24:55
FOCUS ON TOPICS AND ISSUES TO
19:24:59
PROVIDE THE COUNCIL GUIDANCE
19:25:01
IN NO WAY YOU'RE LIMITED BUT
19:25:03
WE HAVE OUTLINED SOME
19:25:04
GUIDANCE IN TERMS OF THE
19:25:06
HEALTH AND SAFETY IMPACTS OF
19:25:07
IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORS AND
19:25:08
OCCUPANTS OF THE ARMY BASE

19:25:10
AND THE SURROUNDING
19:25:12
NEIGHBORHOOD, THE FEDERAL
19:25:14
PREEMPTION THAT EXISTS RIGHT
19:25:14
NOW WITHIN THE PORT OF
19:25:16
OAKLAND CONCERNING THE
19:25:18
TRANSPORTATION OF COAL, THE
19:25:19
TYPES OF COAL AND THE
19:25:22
POTENTIAL SPECIFIC HAZARDS
19:25:23
PERTAINING TO THE TYPES OF
19:25:25
COAL, HEALTH AND SAFETY
19:25:27
IMPACTS TO EXISTING FUTURE
19:25:29
WORKERS, NEIGHBORS OR

19:25:30
OCCUPANTS OF THE SITE IN
19:25:32
TERMS OF RAIL TRANSPORTATION,
19:25:35
MAYOR TIME TRANSPORT,
19:25:37
TRANSPORTATION AND HANDLING,
19:25:37
USE OF HEALTH AND SAFETY
19:25:39
RANKINGS THAT ARE USED TO
19:25:43
DETERMINE POTENTIAL IMPACT,
19:25:44
THE EXTENT TO WHICH EXISTING
19:25:46
FEDERAL STATE, REGIONAL OR
19:25:48
LOCAL REGULATIONS ADEQUATELY
19:25:49
PROTECT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY
19:25:51
AND THE EXTENT OF POTENTIAL

19:25:55
PROTECTIVE MEASURES AND
19:25:56
ENFORCEABILITY OF THOSE
19:25:57
MEASURES AT THE ARMY BASE.
19:25:59
THE COUNCIL AFTER RECEIVING
19:26:01
PUBLIC TESTIMONY MAY CHOOSE
19:26:04
TO GATHER MORE TESTIMONY AND
19:26:06
EVIDENCE OR MAY ASK FOR
19:26:08
EXAMPLE FOR STAFF TO LOOK AT
19:26:11
EXPERT TESTIMONY WHICH WOULD
19:26:13
REVIEW THE TESTIMONY GIVEN
19:26:15
HERE TODAY AND PROVIDE THEM
19:26:17
ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE.

19:26:18
I WOULD ALSO BE VERY GLAD TO
19:26:21
ANSWER OR ADDRESS ANY
19:26:21
QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS.
19:26:25
>> THANK YOU, MS. CAPIO,
19:26:29
SEEING NO QUESTIONS FROM
19:26:30
COUNCILMEMBER, WE WILL TURN
19:26:33
TO THE TESTIMONY, PUBLIC
19:26:34
TESTIMONY, WE WOULD ASK FOR
19:26:36
TWO GROUPS FROM THE COALITION
19:26:39
EXPRESSING CONCERNS TO LINE
19:26:40
UP HERE IN THE MIC. AND THE
19:26:42
FIRST SPEAKER TO APPROACH THE

19:26:46
MIC..
19:27:11
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL.
MY NAME IS IRENE GUTIERREZ
19:27:11
AND I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF
19:27:11
EARTH JUSTICE, WE'RE
19:27:11
REPRESENTING
19:27:14
WEST ENVIRONMENTAL -19:27:15
>> ARE YOU SPEAKING WITH
19:27:16
SEEDED TIME?
19:27:18
>> I'M SPEAKING WITH A MINUTE.
19:27:20
>> ONE MINUTE, OKAY, THANK
19:27:21
YOU.
19:27:21

>> WE ALSO STAND IN


19:27:23
SOLIDARITY WITH GROUPS LIKE
19:27:26
THE FOSSIL FUEL RESISTANCE
19:27:27
GROUP.
19:27:27
YOU'VE SEEN FROM THE VARIOUS
19:27:29
LETTERS THAT GROUPS HAVE
19:27:31
ALREADY SUBMITTED THE THAT
19:27:31
THERE ARE A LOT OF SERIOUS
19:27:33
CONCERNS ABOUT HAVING A COAL
19:27:34
TERMINAL COME INTO OAKLAND.
19:27:36
THERE ARE SERIOUS AIR
19:27:38
QUALITY, HEALTH, WATER,
19:27:39

CLIMATE CONCERNS WITH THIS


19:27:40
COAL TERMINAL AND YOU'LL HEAR
19:27:41
MORE EVIDENCE ON THESE ISSUES
19:27:43
TODAY ABOUT EXPERTS WHO CAN
19:27:44
SPEAK TO ALL THESE TOPICS AS
19:27:47
WELL AS THE TOPICS THAT YOU
19:27:48
HAVE ENUMERATED TO I WOULD
19:27:50
LIKE TO SUMMARIZE A COUPLE OF
19:27:51
KEY THINGS AS YOU'LL SEE FRA
19:27:53
THE TESTIMONY THAT'S BEFORE
19:27:54
THE COUNCIL, THERE'S
19:27:57
SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE THAT
19:27:57

COAL IS BAD FOR THE


19:27:58
ENVIRONMENT AND BAD FOR THE
19:27:59
COMMUNITY.
19:28:00
THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANY
19:28:01
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW ABOUT
19:28:02
THE EFFECTS OF BRINGING A
19:28:03
COAL TERMINAL INTO WEST
19:28:05
OAKLAND, IT'S NEVER BEEN STUD
19:28:06
DID AS PART OF THE 2002 OR
19:28:08
2012 ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS
19:28:10
THAT HAVE OCCURRED AND
19:28:11
FINALLY THE CITY HAS THE
19:28:12

POWER TO DO THE RIGHT THING,


19:28:13
IT HAS THE POWER UNDER THE
19:28:15
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, IT HAS
19:28:17
THE POWER UNDER CALIFORNIA
19:28:18
AUTHORITY ALLOWING CITIES TO
19:28:20
REGULATE IN INSTANCES LIKE
19:28:21
THIS, AND THE PREEMPTION
19:28:22
CONCERNS THAT HAVE BEEN
19:28:23
RAISED DON'T APPLY.
19:28:24
I HAVE FURTHER COMMENTS ON
19:28:25
THIS ISSUE WHICH I CAN SUBMIT
19:28:28
TOO.
19:28:28

>> WE WILL TAKE YOUR WRITTEN


19:28:30
TESTIMONY, THANK YOU.
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
19:28:39
>> I'M SHEILA TARBET AND I
19:28:40
SEED MY TIME.
19:28:41
>> WOULD THE SPEAKER -- THE
19:28:43
ONLY PERSON THAT NEEDS TO SAY
19:28:49
-- YOU STAND WITH HER FOR
19:28:50
JUST A MOMENT.
19:28:53
>> OKAY, THEIR NAMES ARE DAN
19:28:59
LEE, MARY HOLBERT, AND SHEILA
19:29:02
TARBERT.
19:29:03
>> AND YOUR NAME.

>> DEBBIE MEYER.


>> THANK YOU.
19:29:07
>> YOU'LL BE RECOGNIZED FOR
19:29:08
FIVE MINUTES.
19:29:09
>> MY NAME IS DEBBIE KNEE
19:29:12
MEYER, I HAVE A PHD AND I'M A
19:29:15
PROFESSOR IN CIVIL AND
19:29:18
ENVIRONMENTAL AT UC DAVIS, I
19:29:19
WAS ASKED TO REVIEW THE
19:29:21
PROPOSED PROJECT WITH RESPECT
19:29:22
TO ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND
19:29:23
AIR QUALITY, FOR THE PAST 20
19:29:25
YEAR, MY RESEARCH HAS FOCUSED

19:29:28
ON TRANSPORTATION RELATED
19:29:28
EMISSIONS, I HAVE WRITTEN
19:29:30
MORE THAN 160 PEER REVIEWED
19:29:32
PAPERS ON ENVIRONMENTAL
19:29:34
HEALTH DISPARITIES,
19:29:35
TRANSPORTATION AND AIR
19:29:36
POLLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE
19:29:38
EFFECTS.
19:29:40
I HAVE PREPARED DETAILED
19:29:41
REPORT THAT IS AVAILABLE AND
19:29:42
IT ALSO INCLUDES MY FULL CV.
19:29:45
FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS

19:29:46
PRESENTATION, I WILL PROVIDE
19:29:47
A SUMMARY OF THE KEY FINDINGS
19:29:49
THAT ARE CONTAINED IN MY
19:29:51
REPORT.
19:29:52
FOR THE HIGH ESTIMATE OF COAL
19:29:53
TO BE SHIPPED EACH YEAR, AS
19:29:56
MUCH AS APPROXIMATELY 646
19:29:58
TONS PER YEAR OF FUGITIVE
19:30:00
COAL DUST CAN BE GENERATED BY
19:30:01
THE MOVEMENT OF COAL THROUGH
19:30:03
THE PORT FACILITY.
19:30:05
THIS IS EQUIVALENT TO MORE

19:30:06
THAN 1 MILLION POUNDS OF COAL
19:30:08
DUST A YEAR.
19:30:10
IF THE COAL THROUGH PORT IS
19:30:12
CONCEALED TO THE LEVEL
19:30:14
INVESTMENT BY THE UTAH
19:30:16
PARTNERS, AS MUCH AS 263 TONS
19:30:20
OF COAL OF FUGITIVE COAL DUST
19:30:22
MAY BE GENERATED, THIS IS
19:30:24
EQUIVALENT TO 500 THOUSAND
19:30:25
POUNDS OF COAL DUST A YEAR
19:30:28
ENTERING THE IMMEDIATE
19:30:29
ENVIRONMENT, TOPPING AGENTS

19:30:30
ARE USED TO MITIGATE DUST
19:30:31
WHEN THE COAL IS LOADED AT
19:30:33
THE MINE, THERE IS NO
19:30:36
EVIDENCE THAT TOPPING AGENTS
19:30:39
RETAIN EFFECTIVENESS AS
19:30:40
RETAINING COAL DUST OVER LONG
19:30:42
TRIPS, OF THE THREE
19:30:45
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS WE WERE
19:30:45
ABLE TO FIND ON THE EFFECTIVE
19:30:48
OF TOPPING AGENCIES, NONE OF
19:30:49
IT CONCLUDED THAT A TOPPING
19:30:51
AGENT WOULD RETAIN ITS

19:30:52
EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COURSE
19:30:54
OF AN EXTENDED TRIP, RAIL CAR
19:30:58
COVERS ARE ANOTHER FREQUENTLY
19:30:59
MENTIONED STRATEGY FOR DUST
19:31:01
MITIGATION, WE WERE UNABLE TO
19:31:02
FIND ANY EVIDENCE OF RAIL CAR
19:31:04
COVERS IN PRODUCTION NOR ANY
19:31:06
EVIDENCE THAT ANY RAIL CAR
19:31:08
COVERS HAVE BEEN FIELD TESTED
19:31:09
FOR THEIR ABILITY AND
19:31:12
EFFECTIVENESS IN REDUCING
19:31:13
FUGITIVE COAL DUST ON

19:31:14
EXTENDED TRAIN TRIPS.
19:31:16
WEST OAKLAND IS A
19:31:17
NEIGHBORHOOD ADJACENT TO THE
19:31:19
TERMINAL, IT IS CONCERNED A
19:31:22
VULNERABLE COMMUNITY,
19:31:22
VULNERABLE COMMUNITY HAVES A
19:31:25
HIGHER RISK OF DIFFERENTIAL
19:31:29
EXPOSURE, SUSCEPTIBILITY,
19:31:29
DIFFERENTIAL PREPAREDNESS AND
19:31:31
A DIFFERENTIAL ABILITY TO
19:31:32
RECOVER AS A RESULT OF
19:31:34
CUMULATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL

19:31:35
STRESS.
19:31:36
THE FUGITIVE DUST PRODUCED BY
19:31:37
THE EXPORT OF COAL THROUGH
19:31:38
THE TERMINAL WILL HAVE A
19:31:41
DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT ON
19:31:42
WEST OAKLAND.
19:31:43
NAS THE NEIGHBORHOOD WILL
19:31:43
BEAR THE MAJORITY OF THE
19:31:45
HEALTH EFFECTS ASSOCIATED
19:31:46
WITH THE COAL DUST.
19:31:48
THERE IS STRONG EVIDENCE TO
19:31:49
SUBJECTING THAT MUCH OF THIS

19:31:50
COAL WILL BE SHIPPED TO AND
19:31:53
CONSUMED WITHIN ASIA, CHINA
19:31:55
IN PARTICULAR IS EXPECTED TO
19:31:57
GENERATE THE HIGHEST DEMAND
19:31:58
FOR COAL.
19:31:59
SCIENCE HAS CLEARLY
19:32:00
ESTABLISHED THAT SPRING DUST
19:32:03
STORMS ORIGINATING IN AFRICA
19:32:06
OR ASIA TRANSPORT LARGE
19:32:08
QUANTITIES OF DUST ACROSS THE
19:32:09
PACIFIC TO THE U.S., THE
19:32:11
TRANSPORTED DUST INCLUDES A

19:32:15
TOXIC MIXTURE OF INDUSTRIAL
19:32:18
SOOT, POLICY CYCLIC
19:32:21
HYDROCARBONS ALONG WITH
19:32:21
MERCURY WHICH IS RELATED TO
19:32:24
COMBUSTION PROCESSES, MERCURY
19:32:25
IN PARTICULAR IS A SERIOUS
19:32:27
PROBLEM, WHILE EUROPE AND
19:32:29
NORTH AMERICA WERE MAJOR
19:32:31
CONTRIBUTORS HISTORICALLY,
19:32:32
PROJECTIONS NOW INDICATE THAT
19:32:34
FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS IN ASIA
19:32:36
WILL DRIVE THE GROWTH IN

19:32:39
GLOBAL MERCURY DEPOSITION,
19:32:42
ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY CAN
19:32:43
TRAVEL LONG DISTANCES, IT
19:32:45
CAUSES BOTH LOCAL AND GLOBAL
19:32:47
CONTAMINATION IN AUK WATT I
19:32:51
CAN SYSTEMS, MERCURY IS INTO
19:32:55
ETHYL MERCURY BY WHICH FISH
19:33:00
ACCUMULATES, IT IS DANGEROUS
19:33:01
TO WOMEN OF CHILD BEARING AGE
19:33:03
AND TO CHILDREN, METHYL
19:33:07
MERCURY EXPOSES IMPAIRED
19:33:07
NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AS

19:33:08
WELL AS A HOST OF OTHER
19:33:11
ISSUES.
19:33:11
FINALLY, THE PROPOSED EXPORT
19:33:13
OF COAL FROM THE TERMINAL
19:33:16
WILL GENERATE ADDITIONAL
19:33:17
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
19:33:19
DURING COMBUSTION THAT WILL
19:33:20
RELEAD DIRECTLY TO THE
19:33:22
NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE
19:33:23
CHANGE.
19:33:24
CLIMATE CHANGE IS RESPONSIBLE
19:33:25
FOR SEA LEVEL RISE AND

19:33:27
EXACERBATING THE DROUGHT, THE
19:33:29
CALIFORNIA DROUGHT.
19:33:30
BOTH OF WHICH ARE DIRECT
19:33:32
EFFECTS TO OAKLAND AND
19:33:34
CALIFORNIA.
19:33:34
EVERY PROJECT THAT RESULTS IN
19:33:36
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
19:33:38
CONTRIBUTES TO CLIMATE CHANGE.
19:33:40
THE PROPOSED 10 AND A HALF
19:33:42
MILLION OF TONS OF COAL
19:33:44
SHIPPED ANNUALLY THROUGH THE
19:33:46
TERMINAL WILL CONTRIBUTE

19:33:47
APPROXIMATELY 30 MILLION TONS
19:33:49
OF CO2 TO CLIMATE CHANGE.
19:33:51
THIS IS APPROXIMATELY
19:33:52
EQUIVALENT TO THE SIZE OF 7
19:33:55
AVERAGE POWER PLANTS.
19:33:57
IN SUMMARY, THE PROPOSED
19:33:59
PROJECT WHICH INVOLVES
19:34:00
TRANSPORT OF UPWARDS OF 10.5
19:34:02
MILLION TONS OF COAL FROM
19:34:04
UTAH TO CALIFORNIA TO BE SOLD
19:34:07
OVERSEAS THAT A DIRECT AND
19:34:10
PROXIMATE IMPACT ON OAKLAND.

19:34:11
THE PROJECT WILL CREATE
19:34:13
ADDITIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS DUE
19:34:15
TO FUGITIVE COAL DUST, THERE
19:34:17
ARE NO SCIENTIFICALLY
19:34:19
VALIDATED METHODS FOR
19:34:19
MITIGATING COAL DUST, THE
19:34:21
INCREASE POTENTIAL FOR
19:34:22
SIGNIFICANT HEALTH EFFECTS
19:34:24
WILL BE BORN PRIMARILY BY THE
19:34:26
ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOOD.
19:34:26
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
>> THANK YOU.
19:34:28

>> WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.


[APPLAUSE].
19:34:33
>> WE'LL NOW ASK FOR THOSE
19:34:35
WHO ARE EXPRESSING AN
19:34:39
ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF COAL, IF
19:34:41
TWO SPEAKERS WOULD COME
19:34:43
FORWARD TO THE PODIUM.
19:34:55
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL
19:34:55
PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE
19:35:01
COUNCIL, GREGORY MCCONNELL,
19:35:03
MY TIME HAS BEEN SEEDED BY
19:35:07
KEVIN BOMB, JOSE RA
19:35:11
RAMIRO.

--

19:35:12
>> WOULD THE SPEAKERS SEEDING
19:35:14
TIME JOIN MR. MCCONNELL AT
19:35:16
THE PODIUM, PLEASE.
19:35:21
>> KEVIN, JOSE RAMIRO, TERRY
19:35:24
WONG AND JACQUELINE AMARA I
19:35:34
BELIEVE.
19:35:35
>> MR. MCCONNELL, IF YOU CAN
19:35:37
RESTATE THOSE NAMES IN THE
19:35:39
MIC., THE CLERK IS TRYING
19:35:41
FEVERISHLY TO GET THEM ALL.
>> YOU HAVE TO GET A NEW
19:35:48
MICROPHONE.
19:35:51

>> WE'RE ACCEPTING DONATIONS.


19:35:53
>> ( REPEAT OF NAMES ).
19:35:55
>> YOU HAVE THEM?
19:35:57
>> YES, I DO.
19:36:00
>> FIVE MINUTES, SIR.
19:36:03
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, GREGORY
19:36:04
MCCONNELL, I'VE BEEN RETAINED
19:36:06
BY THE CALIFORNIA COMMERCIAL
19:36:08
INVESTMENT GROUP TO ASSIST IN
19:36:09
THE PROCESSING OF THIS
19:36:11
HEARING FROM THEIR SIDE'S
19:36:14
PERSPECTIVE.
19:36:14

WE THANK MS. CAPIO FOR BEING


19:36:16
CLEAR ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF
19:36:18
THIS SPECIAL HEARING, THIS IS
19:36:19
NOT AN ACTION ITEM TO BE
19:36:23
TAKEN TONIGHT.
19:36:24
OUR SPEAKERS WILL ADDRESS THE
19:36:26
KINDS OF COAL, TRANSPORTATION
19:36:28
AND THE HEALTH AND SAFETY IN
19:36:31
HANDLING IN COMPLIANCE WITH
19:36:33
CALIFORNIA LAWS, FEDERAL LAWS
19:36:35
AND LOCAL LAWS.
19:36:37
COAL IS JUST ONE OF MANY
19:36:42

COMMODITIES THAT ARE


19:36:44
CONSIDERED FOR THIS TERMINAL,
19:36:44
IT HAS NOT BEEN INCLUDED
19:36:46
SPECIFICALLY AND HAS NOT BEEN
19:36:49
EXCLUDED SPECIFICALLY, BUT I
19:36:50
THINK WE SHOULD BE REAL CLEAR
19:36:52
ABOUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING
19:36:53
ABOUT.
19:36:54
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CREATING
19:36:57
A BULK COMMODITIES TERMINAL
19:36:59
WILL BE CAPABLE OF
19:37:00
MAKING OAKLAND'S DEEP WATER
19:37:03

PORT COMPETITIVE THROUGHOUT


19:37:04
THE WESTERN UNITED STATES AND
19:37:07
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
19:37:11
ONCE FULLY BUILT OUT, IT WILL
19:37:13
CREATE 11 THOUSAND 970 JOBS
19:37:15
AS WELL AS 300 MILLION
19:37:17
DOLLARS IN ANNUAL REGIONAL
19:37:19
INCOME, AND THAT IS BASED
19:37:21
UPON A REPORT THAT YOU
19:37:25
RECEIVED IN DECEMBER, 2012,
19:37:31
FROM KEEZER MARCASON, WITH
19:37:34
UNION AND COMMUNITY LEADERS
19:37:36

WITH AN UNPRECEDENTED
19:37:37
COMMUNITY BENEFITS PACKAGE
19:37:38
WHICH REQUIRES LESS THAN THE
19:37:40
CONSTRUCTION HOURS IN THE
19:37:40
PORT AND HIRES FOR ONGOING
19:37:42
OPERATIONS TO BE ALLOCATED TO
19:37:46
OAKLAND RESIDENTS.
19:37:47
ACCORDING TO THE UNIONS, 50%
19:37:51
OF THE WORK AND 30 NEW HIRES
19:37:55
OF OAKLAND PREMISES HAS
19:37:56
ALREADY BEEN DONE, SO THEY'VE
19:37:59
ALREADY EXCEEDED THE LEVELS
19:37:59

THAT THEY HAVE PROMISED


19:38:01
THAT THEY WOULD PROVIDE.
19:38:08
INTERESTINGLY THOUGH, I SAW
19:38:09
AN ARTICLE THE PAPER THAT
19:38:12
PROVIDING COMMUNITY BENEFITS
19:38:13
WAS AN ATTEMPT TO BUY THE
19:38:14
VOTES OF THE COUNCIL AND BUY
19:38:16
THE VOTES OF SUPPORTERS.
19:38:17
I FIND THAT INTERESTING
19:38:18
BECAUSE YOU GUYS KNOW I HAD
19:38:20
DONE A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT
19:38:22
PROJECTS IN THIS CITY AND I
19:38:23

COULD NOT THINK OF A SINGLE


19:38:26
ONE WHERE COMMUNITY BENEFITS
19:38:29
WERE NOT PUT AT ISSUE AND
19:38:30
WHERE THE COUNCIL DID NOT
19:38:33
INSIST THAT THEY BE INCLUDED.
19:38:35
THE MOST RECENT WAS THE 12TH
19:38:39
STREET BROUHAHA, SO I FIND
19:38:41
IT INTERESTING THAT PEOPLE
19:38:42
WOULD CRITICIZE THE FACT THAT
19:38:45
THERE ARE COMMUNITY BENEFITS
19:38:46
WHEN THOSE COMMUNITY BENEFITS
19:38:48
ARE HIRING OAKLAND RESIDENTS
19:38:49

AND PUTTING MONEY IN THE


19:38:50
PROGRAMS THAT MAKE THIS CITY
19:38:55
BETTER.
19:38:55
[APPLAUSE].
19:38:56
>> BARGAINING WE WILL ASK
19:38:57
THAT YOU HOLD YOUR CHEERS OR
19:38:59
JEERS UNTIL AFTER THE SPEAKER
19:39:01
HAS SPOKEN TO PRESERVE THEIR
19:39:02
TIME, THANK YOU.
19:39:04
>> CCIG IS IN FULL COMPLIANCE
19:39:05
WITH ALL OF ITS OBLIGATIONS,
19:39:08
YOU WILL HEAR THAT IT HAS
19:39:12

GONE THROUGH TWO CEQA STUDIES


19:39:14
BY THE CITY, THE PORT AND THE
19:39:16
STATE EACH, YOU WILL HEAR
19:39:18
THAT IT HAS SHOWN THAT
19:39:19
EVERYTHING THAT IT IS GOING
19:39:20
TO DO IS GOING TO BE IN
19:39:23
COMPLIANCE WITH AIR QUALITY
19:39:25
MANDATES, AND YOU WILL
19:39:27
REMEMBER THAT JUST RECENTLY,
19:39:29
THE CITY ASKED THE DEVELOPER
19:39:32
TO EXPEDITE THE DEVELOPMENT
19:39:34
OF THE WEST GATEWAY PROJECT
19:39:36

AND ASSUME MILLIONS OF


19:39:38
DOLLARS OF POTENTIAL
19:39:40
FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.
19:39:41
THIS IS A PROJECT THAT HAS
19:39:44
BEEN VETTED, IT IS A PROJECT
19:39:47
WHERE RIGHTS HAVE BEEN
19:39:49
VESTED, IT IS A PROJECT WHERE
19:39:53
OAKLAND HAS BEEN WORKING ON
19:39:55
IT FOR 8 YEARS OR MORE TO GET
19:39:58
THE ARMY BASE FULLY BUILT OUT
19:39:59
AND BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE ARE
19:40:03
CONCERNED ABOUT GLOBAL
19:40:06

CLIMATE ISSUES, WORLDWIDE


19:40:06
CONDITIONS, THEY WANT TO STOP
19:40:08
THIS PROJECT AT THIS POINT IN
19:40:13
TIME.
THE QUESTION IS WHETHER OR
19:40:17
NOT -19:40:17
>> MR. MCCONNELL, JUST ONE
19:40:21
MOMENT, AGAIN, AS I STATED
19:40:24
NUMEROUS TIMES AT THE
19:40:26
BEGINNING, WE WILL NOT
19:40:27
INTERRUPT THE SPEAKER, YOU
19:40:27
CAN CHEER OR JEER AFTER THE
19:40:30
SPEAKER HAS SPOKEN TO

19:40:31
PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF
19:40:34
THIS MEETING, OUTBURSTS, WE
19:40:35
WILL ASK YOU TO BE EXCUSED,
19:40:38
WE HAVE TO WEIGH THE FACTS, I
19:40:40
DID PAUSE YOUR TIME MR.
19:40:42
MCCONNELL SO I WILL HAVE YOU
19:40:44
COMPLETE YOUR TIME.
19:40:44
>> THANK YOU, WE BELIEVE THE
19:40:48
QUESTION BEFORE THIS BODY IS
19:40:50
WHETHER OR NOT THE HANDLING
19:40:53
AND TRANSPORTATION OF THE
19:40:55
POTENTIAL HANDLING

19:40:57
AND TRANSPORTATION OF COAL
19:41:00
POSES A HEALTH RISK TO THE
19:41:03
COMMUNITY, DIRECTLY TO THIS
19:41:04
COMMUNITY OR A SAFETY RISK TO
19:41:06
THE WORKERS WHO WILL BE AT
19:41:08
THE PORT.
19:41:08
YOU WILL HEAR FROM NUMEROUS
19:41:10
SPEAKERS IN FOLLOW-UP THAT
19:41:12
SAY THAT THE ANSWER TO BOTH
19:41:13
OF THOSE QUESTIONS IS NO.
19:41:15
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
>> THANK YOU.
[APPLAUSE].

19:41:23
NEXT SPEAK EXTERN, PLEASE,
19:41:27
AND IF THE NEXT SPEAKERS TO
19:41:30
FOLLOW COULD BE IMMEDIATELY
19:41:30
AT THE PODIUM, WE WANT TO BE
19:41:32
EFFICIENT WITH THIS
19:41:34
AFTERNOON'S HEARING, SO
19:41:38
SPEAKER AND ALL THOSE SEEDING
19:41:39
TIME, IF YOU CAN APPROACH THE
19:41:42
PODIUM.
19:41:43
THE REST OF YOU, BE READY TO
19:41:46
TAKE THE PODIUM AFTER THOSE
19:41:48
COMMENTS.

19:41:49
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR
19:41:52
COOPERATION.
19:42:02
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, MY NAME'S
19:42:05
KEVIN JONES AND MY TIME'S
19:42:06
GOING TO BE SEEDED BY THE
19:42:09
FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS.
19:42:16
>> ( STATING SPEAKERS NAME
19:42:19
SEEDING TIME ).
19:42:22
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, AND THANK
19:42:23
YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK.
19:42:25
ONCE AGAIN, MY NAME'S KEVIN
19:42:26
JONES AND I'M THE PRESIDENT

19:42:29
OF RIVERSIDE TERMINAL
19:42:30
CONCEPT, I HAVE OVER 30 YEARS
19:42:33
EXPERIENCE IN MARINE BULK
19:42:35
TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY
19:42:36
INCLUDING RAIL CAR HANDLING,
19:42:38
SHIP LOADING OPERATIONS WITH
19:42:40
A VARIETY OF MATERIALS LIKE
19:42:43
WHEAT, POTASH, SOOT ASH,
19:42:48
MINERAL CONCENTRATES,
19:42:48
PETROLEUM AND COAL, ALL OF
19:42:50
THOSE WE HEAR ARE ON THE WEST
19:42:55
COAST, BULK TERMINAL

19:42:56
OPERATIONS FOR COAL, CAN THEY
19:42:59
BE SAFELY HANDLED BY THE PORT
19:43:00
OF OAKLAND AND I'M HERE TO
19:43:03
ASSURE YOU THAT IT CAN, SOME
19:43:06
PEOPLE QUESTION THAT UNIT
19:43:08
TRAINS TRANSIT THE CITY
19:43:09
SAFELY TODAY AND WE HAVE
19:43:11
EVIDENCE THAT TRAINS DO
19:43:12
TRANSIT THE CITY, WE HAVE
19:43:14
SOME VISUAL AIDS BUT I'M NOT
19:43:15
SURE THEY ARE READY.
19:43:23
WE HAVE EXAMPLES OF EXISTING

19:43:27
FACILITIES, MINERAL BULK
19:43:28
FACILITIES HERE IN THE BAY
19:43:29
AREA, HERE'S A PICTURE OF THE
19:43:38
TERMINAL IN RICHARD,
19:43:40
YOU CAN SEE FROM THIS
19:43:42
FACILITY THE PRODUCT IS
19:43:43
RECEIVED BY RAIL CARS AND
19:43:45
STORED OUTSIDE AND THEN
19:43:46
TRANSFERRED LATER TO SHIPS.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
19:43:51
AT THE PORT OF STOCKTON, THIS
19:43:54
PORT ALSO HANDLES COAL AND
19:43:56

SULFUR IN A SIMILAR FASHION


19:43:58
WHERE IT'S RECEIVED BY UNIT
19:44:00
TRAIN, IT'S DISCHARGED TO
19:44:01
OPEN STORAGE PILES AND
19:44:03
TRANSFERRED TO VESSELS.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
19:44:07
AN EXAMPLE OF A SIMILAR
19:44:09
FACILITY ON THE WEST COAST IS
19:44:13
PIER G AT THE PORT OF LONG
19:44:14
BEACH, I THINK THE COMMISSION
19:44:16
DID SEE A VIDEO OF THIS
19:44:18
OPERATION WHEN THE MASTER
19:44:19
PLAN WAS SUBMITTED BACK IN

19:44:21
2012, YOU'LL NOTE THIS
19:44:22
FACILITY HAS COVERED STORAGE
19:44:23
FOR ALL OF ITS BULK PRODUCTS
19:44:26
AND USES MODERN CONVEYING
19:44:27
SYSTEMS THAT ARE ENCLOSED IN
19:44:30
A MODERN BULK SHIP LOADER TO
19:44:31
MOVE THE SPROUTS WHICH
19:44:33
INCLUDE PET COKE AND COAL.
19:44:38
WHILE ALL THESE FACILITIES
19:44:39
ARE COMPLIANT AND MEET ALL
19:44:41
ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH
19:44:43
SAFETY STANDARDS, THE TLS

19:44:45
OAKLAND TERMINAL
19:44:46
SIGNIFICANTLY RAISES THE BAR
19:44:48
FOR TERMINAL OPERATORS BY
19:44:49
GOING WELL ABOVE THE BEST
19:44:50
CURRENT PRACTICES IN PLACE
19:44:55
TODAY.
19:44:55
ONE MORE SLIDE, PLEASE.
19:44:59
THIS IS AN ARTIST'S REND
19:45:01
DISHING OF THE TLS TERMINAL,
19:45:02
YOU'LL NOTE FROM THE LARGE
19:45:05
PICTURE, STORAGE DOMES
19:45:06
DESIGNED TO HANDLE THE

19:45:07
VARIOUS COMMODITIES PLANNED
19:45:09
FOR THE FACILITY, A RAILYARD
19:45:11
THAT ALLOWS TO BRING IN
19:45:12
COVERED RAIL YARDS AND
19:45:14
TRANSFER THE COMMODITIES WELL
19:45:15
UNDER COVER INTO THOSE
19:45:17
STORAGE FACILITIES IN A STATE
19:45:18
OF THE ART MATERIAL HANDLING
19:45:20
SYSTEM WHICH IS COFFERED
19:45:23
CONTAINS DUST CONTROL SYSTEMS
19:45:25
AND CONVEYERS WHICH ARE FULLY
19:45:27
ENCLOSED, THIS FACILITY WILL

19:45:29
BE BEST IN CLASS FOR FA SITS
19:45:32
OF ITS TYPE ANYWHERE IN THE
19:45:36
WORLD.
19:45:37
THIS TERMINAL HAS BEEN
19:45:38
THROUGH ONE OF THE MOST
19:45:40
RIGOROUS REGULATORY PROCESSES
19:45:42
I HAVE EVER WITNESSED,
19:45:44
IT'S REQUIRED OVER
19:45:44
128 PERMITS FOR THE REQUIRED
19:45:48
INFRASTRUCTURE, 76 PERMITS
19:45:49
FOR THE MARINE SYSTEMS AND
19:45:52
MARINE INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE

19:45:55
PROJECT REQUIRES OVER 660
19:45:57
MITIGATION MANDATES.
19:45:57
THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST
19:46:01
RIGOROUS PERMITTING REGIMEN
19:46:04
THAT I'VE SEEN FAR PROJECT
19:46:06
LIKE THIS ANYWHERE ON THE
19:46:08
WEST COAST.
19:46:09
IT'S MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION
19:46:09
BASED ON THE TIME THAT I'VE
19:46:11
SPENT ON THIS PROJECT WHICH
19:46:13
HAS BEEN ALMOST 4 YEARS WITH
19:46:15
CCIG THAT THIS FACILITY WILL

19:46:17
BE ABLE TO HANDLE ALL THE
19:46:20
PRODUCTS THAT CUSTOMERS WANT
19:46:20
TO SHIP THROUGH THE FACILITY,
19:46:23
WHETHER IT BE SODA A COAL OR
19:46:24
OTHER PRODUCTS AND WILL DO SO
19:46:27
IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY
19:46:28
COMPLIANT MANNER, WILL EXCEED
19:46:30
ALL OF THE COMMUNITIES'
19:46:31
EXPECTATIONS AND IT WILL BE A
19:46:33
SAFE FACILITY FOR THE
19:46:34
EMPLOYEES THAT WORK THERE AND
19:46:35
THE COMMUNITY AROUND IT.

19:46:37
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
19:46:40
[APPLAUSE].
>> THANK YOU.
19:46:47
NEXT SPEAKERS, PLEASE.
19:46:50
IF WE CAN HAVE YOUR SPEAKERS
19:46:51
READY TO GO.
19:47:07
>> TRAVIS RICHIE,
19:47:08
SEEDING MY TIME.
19:47:10
>> TRAVIS, SAY YOUR LAST NAME
19:47:13
AGAIN.
19:47:15
>> RITCHIE.
19:47:17
>> OKAY.
19:47:19

>> MARCY BERMAN SEEDING MY


19:47:23
TIME.
19:47:24
>> KELLY BRANARD SEEDING MY
19:47:26
TIME.
19:47:30
>> LAURA MACHETI SEEDING
19:47:33
MY TIME.
19:47:33
>> AND WHO'S THE SPEAKER?
19:47:39
>> BEFORE WITH YOU BEGIN, WHO
19:47:43
IS THE NEXT SPEAKER, WHO'S
19:47:44
NEXT, YOU HAVE TWO, IF WE CAN
19:47:46
GO AHEAD AND HAVE THAT, IS
19:47:49
SHE SPEAKING WITH SEEDED
19:47:53

TIME?
ALRIGHT.
19:47:57
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
19:47:58
YOU'RE READY TO GO AND WHO'S
19:48:00
SEEDING TIME TO YOU?
19:48:05
ONE MORE COMING?
19:48:09
OKAY.
19:48:09
LET'S BEGIN, FIVE MINUTES.
19:48:13
>> HI THERE.
19:48:15
I'M ELLIS FOX, I'LL A
19:48:18
CONSULTING ENGINEER WITH A
19:48:20
PHD FROM UC BERKELEY AND
19:48:23
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL

19:48:24
ENGINEERING.
19:48:24
I'VE BEEN WORKING ON COAL AND
19:48:27
OTHER ENERGY RESOURCES SINCE
19:48:30
1971, STARTING WITH DESIGNING
19:48:34
COAL PLANTS AT BECHTEL, SO I'M
19:48:36
QUITE FAMILIAR WITH COAL IN
19:48:37
THIS INDUSTRY.
19:48:37
I WAS ASKED TO REVIEW THE
19:48:40
CONCEPTUAL DRAWINGS AND BASIS
19:48:41
OF DESIGN REPORT FOR THIS
19:48:44
PROJECT.
19:48:44
I'VE WRITTEN A DETAILED

19:48:46
REPORT WHICH YOU SHOULD HAVE
19:48:48
BEFORE YOU.
19:48:48
I'M JUST GOING TO BRIEFLY
19:48:51
SUMMARIZE MY CONCLUSIONS.
19:48:52
FIRST, AT THE TERMINAL
19:48:54
ITSELF, HANDLING OF COAL
19:48:55
GENERATES A LOT OF DUST.
19:48:58
TO CONTROL THAT DUST, YOU
19:48:59
NEED TO USE WATER, AND A LOT
19:49:02
OF WATER, MY ESTIMATE IS IT
19:49:05
WILL TAKE ABOUT 79 MILLION
19:49:07
GALLONS OF WATER A YEAR TO

19:49:09
CONTROL THE DUST IN THOSE
19:49:11
STRUCTURES THAT YOU SAW IN
19:49:12
THE LAST SLIDE UP THERE.
19:49:15
THAT'S ENOUGH WATER TO SUPPLY
19:49:20
3 THOUSAND [INAUDIBLE]
19:49:21
OAKLAND RESIDENTS IN A YEAR
19:49:23
IN AN EPIC DROUGHT THAT WE'RE
19:49:25
IN RIGHT NOW, THE CONTROL OF
19:49:26
DUST FROM THE HANDLING OF
19:49:27
COAL AT THE TERMINAL IS NOT A
19:49:30
REASONABLE BENEFICIAL USE.
19:49:33
SECOND, THESE UNIT TRAINS,

19:49:35
104 CARS PER TRAIN THAT WILL
19:49:36
IMPORT COAL TO THE TERMINAL
19:49:39
WILL COME IN THROUGH ONE OF
19:49:42
TWO MOUNTAIN PASSES ON THE
19:49:44
CALIFORNIA NEVADA BORDER AND
19:49:45
WILL PASS THROUGH SOME OF THE
19:49:49
MOST DANGEROUS POOR CONDITION
19:49:51
RAIL TRACKS IN STATE, ALL OF
19:49:55
WHICH PARALLEL THE MAJOR
19:49:56
WATER SOURCES FOR THE STATE
19:49:58
OF CALIFORNIA, THEY RUN
19:50:01
ACROSS THE YUBA RIVER, THE

19:50:04
AMERICAN RIVER, ACROSS THE
19:50:07
SACRAMENTO RIVER, THE RAIL
19:50:08
TRACKS ARE CLOSE TO THESE
19:50:10
WATER COURSES AND BECAUSE OF
19:50:11
THE POOR CONDITION OF THE
19:50:12
TRACKS, THE BRIDGES AND THE
19:50:16
DANGEROUS PASSES, THE
19:50:19
PROBABILITY OF ACCESS GIVEN
19:50:20
THE FACT THAT THESE RAILROAD
19:50:24
TRACKS WILL HANDLE CRUDE
19:50:26
TRAINS, IF THERE WERE
19:50:30
[INAUDIBLE] COAL CARRYING

19:50:30
TRAINS, IT WILL RESULT IN AN
19:50:33
ADVERSE IMPACT ON THE ENTIRE
19:50:36
WATER SUPPLY, NO ONE THOUGHT
19:50:37
ABOUT THAT, THE WHOLE WATER
19:50:39
SUPPLY OF THE WHOLE STATE OF
19:50:41
CALIFORNIA IS AT RISK FROM
19:50:45
THESE LARGE UNIT TRAINS, THEN
19:50:46
COAL TRUST WOULD NOT JUST BE
19:50:50
EMITTING AT THE TERMINAL, AT
19:50:51
THE RAIL LINE ALL THE WAY
19:50:53
FROM UTAH ALL THE WAY INTO
19:50:56
OAKLAND AND ROUGHLY 20% OF

19:50:58
THE DISTANCE IS WITHIN
19:51:01
CALIFORNIA AND MY ESTIMATES
19:51:03
INDICATE THAT 18 THOUSAND 200
19:51:05
TONS OF COAL DUST WILL BE
19:51:07
EMITTED FROM THE COAL TRAINS
19:51:09
AS THEY MOVE FROM THE
19:51:12
CALIFORNIA BORDER INTO
19:51:13
OAKLAND.
19:51:13
THAT COAL DUST WILL SETTLE
19:51:14
OUT ALONG THE SIDES OF THE
19:51:18
RAIL TRACKS, BE BLOWN INTO
19:51:19
COMMUNITIES ALL AROUND THE

19:51:21
RAIL LINES AND THAT WHICH
19:51:22
SETTLES ON THE GROUND WILL BE
19:51:24
WASHED INTO THE STREAMS AND
19:51:26
THE ESTUARIES, ANOTHER
19:51:28
PROBLEM THAT NOBODY HAS
19:51:29
THOUGHT ABOUT.
19:51:30
THE COAL DUST THAT IS EMITTED
19:51:32
FROM THE OPEN CAR TRAINS
19:51:34
WILL ALSO DESTABILIZE THE
19:51:37
TRACK BALLIS,
19:51:39
INCREASING THE PROBABILITY OF
19:51:41
ACCIDENTS AND ALSO ALONG THE

19:51:42
RAIL LINES INCREASING THE
19:51:44
PROBABILITY OF ACCIDENTS.
19:51:47
AND FINALLY, TRAFFIC, THESE
19:51:48
RAIL CARS ARE A MILE PLUS IN
19:51:53
LENGTH AND THERE'S 55 AT
19:51:54
GRADE CROSSINGS IN THE BAY
19:51:56
AREA THAT THESE TRAINS WILL
19:51:58
GO THROUGH, EACH TIME THEY GO
19:52:00
THROUGH, TRAFFIC WILL BACK
19:52:01
UP, EMERGENCY VEHICLES WON'T
19:52:02
BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH AND
19:52:04
THERE'S ALL KINDS OF

19:52:08
POTENTIAL FOR PROBLEMS, IN
19:52:09
SUM, THESE PROBLEMS THAT I'VE
19:52:12
TALKED ABOUT, COAL DUST,
19:52:16
ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC PROBLEMS,
19:52:16
NOISE, WHICH I DIDN'T
19:52:20
MENTION, WERE NOT ADDRESSED
19:52:21
IN ANY OF THE CEQA REVIEW FOR
19:52:23
THIS PROJECT AND THE HUNDREDS
19:52:26
AND HUNDREDS OF MITIGATION
19:52:28
MEASURES THAT ARE LAID OUT IN
19:52:30
THE CEQA DOCUMENT DON'T
19:52:31
ADDRESS ANY OF THESE IMPACTS,

19:52:34
COAL SIMPLY WAS NOT
19:52:36
ANTICIPATED IN ANY OF THE
19:52:38
CEQA DOCUMENTS AND THE UNIQUE
19:52:40
IMPACTS OF COAL DUST WERE NOT
19:52:43
CONSIDERED AND I MIGHT
19:52:44
MENTION THAT UTAH COAL HAS
19:52:46
HIGH LEVELS OF SILICA WHICH
19:52:48
IS A POTENT CARCINOGEN KNOWN
19:52:52
TO CAUSE LUNG CANCER AND
19:53:00
SILICOSIS, THANK YOU.
19:53:03
THIS IS MY REPORT.
19:53:04
>> IF YOU WILL BRING IT TO

19:53:05
ONE OF THE CLERK AIDS OVER
19:53:07
HERE, THEY'LL MAKE SURE THEY
19:53:08
DISTRIBUTE IT TO US.
19:53:11
NEXT SPEAKER, AND THOSE
19:53:11
SEEDING TIME TO YOU.
19:53:12
>> THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE ARE
19:53:13
GOING TO SEED THEIR TIME FOR
19:53:18
ME.
>> DO YOU WANT TO READ THEIR
19:53:24
NAMES.
19:53:24
>> JAN SESEL, NANCY FINE
19:53:28
STEIN AND PATRICK DOYLE.
19:53:29

>> DO YOU HAVE ALL NAMES?


19:53:33
>> GOOD AFTERNOON ->> ONE MOMENT.
19:53:37
>> THE SECOND NAME THAT YOU
19:53:39
READ.
19:53:40
>> NANCY FINE STEIN.
>> THANK YOU.
YOU MAY BEGIN.
19:53:44
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, MY NAME IS
19:53:45
LAURA WIZ LAND AND I'M A
19:53:48
SENIOR ENERGY ANALYST WITH
19:53:51
A SCIENCE BASED ORGANIZATION
19:53:52
WORKING ON POLICIES TO BUILD
19:53:53
A HEALTHIER PLANET AND A

19:53:55
SAFER WORLD, OUR WEST COAST
19:53:57
OFFICE IS LOCATED IN
19:53:58
DOWNTOWN OAKLAND AND I'M HERE
19:54:00
AS AN OAKLAND RESIDENT, UCS
19:54:03
BELIEVES THAT BUILD AGO NEW
19:54:05
TERMINAL TO SHIP COAL STANDS
19:54:10
IN CONTRAST TO WHAT THE CITY
19:54:11
AND STATE HAS MADE TO CREATE
19:54:13
AIR POLLUTANTS THAT CAUSE
19:54:16
SERIOUS PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACTS
19:54:19
AND CLIMATE GLOBAL CHANGE,
19:54:21
THIS NOT ONLY CONTRADICTS

19:54:22
WHERE THE CITY AND THE STATE
19:54:25
ARE HEADED IN CLIMATE CHANGE,
19:54:27
BUT WILL HAVE TANGIBLE
19:54:27
IMPACTS IN THE CITY OF
19:54:29
OAKLAND AND ITS RESIDENTS,
19:54:31
CARBON EMISSIONS FROM BURNING
19:54:31
COAL IS ONE OF THE LEADING
19:54:35
CAUSES OF GLOBAL WARMING,
19:54:38
RECOGNIZING THIS,
19:54:39
CALIFORNIA'S LEADERSHIP TO
19:54:40
PHASE OUT COAL STARTED AS FAR
19:54:42
BACK AT 2006 WITH THE PASSAGE

19:54:45
OF SB SENATE BILL 1368, A LAW
19:54:48
THAT PROHIBITS CALIFORNIA
19:54:49
UTILITIES FROM MAKING LONG
19:54:50
TERM COMMITMENTS TO BUY COAL
19:54:52
FIRE ELECTRICITY, AS A RESULT
19:54:54
OF SB1368, CAL FOREIGN
19:54:59
FOREIGN YA'S CONSUMPTION THAT
19:55:03
DROPPED FROM [INAUDIBLE] IN
19:55:04
ADDITION, THERE'S ALMOST NO
19:55:05
COAL BURNED IN CALIFORNIA
19:55:09
ANYMORE, THE 5% WE RECEIVE
19:55:12
COME FROM UTILITIES WE'VE HAD

19:55:13
SINCE THE PASSAGE OF 1368,
19:55:17
WHEN THESE CONTRACTS EXPIRE,
19:55:18
CALIFORNIA WILL BE USING A
19:55:20
NEGLIGIBLE AMOUNT OF COAL TO
19:55:22
MEET ITS ELECTRICITY NEEDS.
19:55:24
THE CITY OF OAKLAND ITSELF
19:55:25
HAS MADE IMPORTANT COMMITMENTS
19:55:27
TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE,
19:55:28
THE RESOLUTION THE CITY
19:55:30
COUNCIL ADOPTED IN 2009 TO
19:55:32
APPROVE PRELIMINARY PLANNING
19:55:32
TARGETS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT

19:55:34
OF AN ENERGY AND CLIMATE
19:55:36
ACTION PLAN SAY TREMENDOUS
19:55:37
COLLECTIVE ACTION WILL BE
19:55:38
NECESSARY IN THE NEAR TERM ON
19:55:40
A GLOBAL SCALE TO REDUCE
19:55:43
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TO
19:55:44
REDUCED SCALES AND A VARIETY
19:55:47
OF OPPORTUNITIES ARE HERE IN
19:55:48
OAKLAND, THIS ENERGY AND
19:55:50
ACTION PLAN WHICH WAS ADOPTED
19:55:50
BY THE COUNCIL IN 2012
19:55:52
COMMITS THE CITY TO REDUCING

19:55:55
GHG EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH
19:55:58
OAKLAND 36% BELOW FIVE LEVELS
19:55:59
BY 2020, ON PAGE 4, THE PLAN
19:56:01
STATES WE WILL TAKE ACTION
19:56:03
JOINING CITIES AROUND THE
19:56:04
GLOBE TO PROVIDE THE
19:56:05
LEADERSHIP NEEDED TO ADDRESS
19:56:07
THIS CHALLENGE.
19:56:08
CLEARLY THE CITY RECOGNIZES
19:56:09
THE VALUE OF REDUCING
19:56:12
EMISSIONS IN ITS BACKYARD AND
19:56:15
PROVIDING LEADERSHIP TO OTHER

19:56:17
CITIES TO THE SAME THING, BUT
19:56:19
WHAT MESSAGE WOULD IT SEND TO
19:56:21
REDUCE ITS EMISSIONS AT HOME
19:56:22
BUT ON THE OTHER MAKES IT
19:56:25
POSSIBLE FOR COUNTRIES ACROSS
19:56:27
THE PACIFIC TO HAVE ONE OF
19:56:28
THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE
19:56:30
LEADING CAUSES OF AIR
19:56:31
POLLUTION, SUPPORTERS OF THIS
19:56:32
PROJECT HAVE ATTEMPTED TO
19:56:33
DOWN PLAY WHO WOULD BE
19:56:36
OAKLAND'S ROLE BY POINTING

19:56:37
OUT THAT THE COAL OAKLAND
19:56:38
WOULD SHIP FROM ITS FACILITY
19:56:39
IS LOW IN SULFUR AND
19:56:42
THEREFORE RELATIVELY CLEAN,
19:56:43
CLEAN COAL IS A MYTH, IT IS
19:56:45
TRUE THAT SOME COAL LIKE THE
19:56:47
COAL LIKELY TO BE SHIPPED
19:56:48
FROM OAKLAND HAS A LOWER
19:56:52
SULFUR COMMENT, ALL COAL
19:56:54
MAKES GHG EMISSIONS AND OTHER
19:56:58
TOXIC EMISSIONS, OTHER
19:57:02
CONTAMINANTS SUCH AS MERCURY,

19:57:03
IT WILL NOT SHIELD
19:57:05
COMMUNITIES BY EMISSIONS THAT
19:57:09
CONTAIN THESE TOXIC
19:57:11
COMPOUNDS, IT WILL NOT REDUCE
19:57:13
ITS CONTRIBUTION TO CLIMATE
19:57:16
CHANGE, BURNING LOW SULFUR
19:57:18
CONTROL RELEASES LESS CARBON
19:57:20
BUT BECAUSE IT HAS A LOWER
19:57:23
BTU COMMENT THAN OTHER SOURCE
19:57:23
OF COAL, YOU HAVE TO BURN THE
19:57:26
SAME OF IT WHICH COULD RESULT
19:57:28
IN HIGHER OVERALL EMISSIONS.

19:57:30
THEY'VE MADE THE ARGUMENT
19:57:34
THAT IF OAKLAND FACILITATES
19:57:36
[INAUDIBLE] POLLUTION OF
19:57:37
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY
19:57:39
SUR PLANTING DIRTIER SOURCES
19:57:40
OF ELECTRICITY, THIS ASSUMES
19:57:42
OTHER COUNTRIES WHICH ARE
19:57:44
DEALING WITH HEALTH IMPACTS
19:57:45
OF BURNING COAL ARE NOT GOING
19:57:46
TO TAKE GREATER MEASURES TO
19:57:51
IMPROVE GREATER QUALITY AND
19:57:52
HAVE MORE CLEANER SOURCES OF

19:57:55
ELECTRICITY, THESE COUNTRIES
19:57:56
HAVE CLEANER ACCESS TO
19:57:59
RENEWABLE ENERGY WHICH ARE
19:58:01
COST COMPETITIVE WITH COAL
19:58:04
FIRED ELECTRICITY, THE
19:58:05
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WILL
19:58:05
FAIL TO REACH A GLOBAL
19:58:08
COMMITMENT TO REDUCE GHG
19:58:11
EMISSIONS WHICH WILL MAKE IT
19:58:13
MORE COSTLY FOR COUNTRIES IN
19:58:17
THE FUTURE, SETTING ASIDE
19:58:18
WHAT IT WOULD BE FOR THE

19:58:19
STATE TO REDUCE CLIMATE
19:58:21
POLLUTION WHILE OAKLAND TAKE
19:58:22
AS STEP IN THE OPPOSITE
19:58:24
DIRECTION, LET'S LOOK AT WHAT
19:58:26
BURNING COAL MEANS FOR THE
19:58:29
SAFETY OF OAKLAND SEVERAL
19:58:32
STUDIES PUBLISHED IN PEER
19:58:34
REVIEWED JOURNAL, THEY CAN BE
19:58:36
PLACE TRACED BACK TO EAST
19:58:38
ASIA, WE HAVE ONE OF THE
19:58:41
HIGHEST OZONE IN THE COUNTRY,
19:58:44
IT EXACERBATES ASTHMA AND IS

19:58:47
LED TO CARDIOVASCULAR HARM,
19:58:48
THERE'S DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE
19:58:49
THAT MERCURY RELEASED IN ASIA
19:58:51
IS FOUND IN THE WEST COAST.
19:58:53
OAKLAND MUST CONSIDER THE
19:58:55
IMPACTS OF BURNING THIS COAL
19:58:57
ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND
19:58:59
HOW IT MALTS THE OAKLAND
19:59:00
RESIDENTS, THERE IS AN
19:59:03
INCREASED RISK OF HEAT
19:59:05
EVENTS, THEY ARE EXPECTED TO
19:59:08
RISE BETWEEN 5.3 AND 5.6

19:59:09
DEGREES IN THE NEXT HALF
19:59:11
CENTURY, THE NUMBER OF
19:59:13
EXTREME HEAT DAYS ARE EXPECTED
19:59:14
TO RISE FROM 4 TO BETWEEN
19:59:17
21 AND 24, THOSE MOST
19:59:20
SUSCEPTIBLE TO PUBLIC RISKS
19:59:21
RELATED TO EXTREME HEAT ARE
19:59:22
THOSE WHO ARE ALREADY ILL,
19:59:24
POOR, ELDERLY AND THOSE
19:59:25
WITHOUT ACCESS TO AIR
19:59:27
CONDITIONING, WITH LARGE
19:59:29
POPULATIONS OF LOW-INCOME

19:59:30
RESIDENTS, OAKLAND WILL BE
19:59:31
PARTICULARLY AT RISK TO THESE
19:59:33
EVENTS.
19:59:34
THERE ARE ALSO SAFETY
19:59:36
CONCERNS ASSOCIATED WITH SEA
19:59:37
LEVEL RISE, THE PACIFIC
19:59:39
INSTITUTE ESTIMATES BETWEEN 3
19:59:41
AND 5 THOUSAND OAKLAND
19:59:41
RESIDENTS LIVE IN AN AREA
19:59:43
THAT IS AT DIRECT RISK OF 100
19:59:46
YEAR FLOOD WITH PROJECTED SEA
19:59:47
LEVEL RISE, THE IMPACTS TO

19:59:49
PROPERTY VALUE COULD BE
19:59:55
SIGNIFICANT, MAJOR
19:59:56
INFRASTRUCTURE, AIRPORT,
19:59:57
WASTE WATER TREATMENT
20:00:00
FACILITIES, POWER AND
20:00:02
UTILITIES ARE IN FLOOD PRONE
20:00:03
AREAS AND WILL REQUIRE
20:00:05
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN
20:00:06
PROTECTION, THERE ARE MAJOR
20:00:07
CONCERNS THAT THE ENCROACHING
20:00:08
SEA WATER CAUSED BY SEA LEVEL
20:00:10
RISE IN THE BAY AREA COULD

20:00:13
THREATEN SOURCE OF GROUND
20:00:16
WATER THAT RESIDENTS DEPEND
20:00:20
UPON FOR DRINKING.
20:00:23
>> THANK YOU, YOU CAN
20:00:27
DISTRIBUTE THAT TO THE
20:00:31
COUNCIL.
20:00:31
THE NEXT SPEAKERS ON MY LEFT,
20:00:35
PLEASE RISE.
20:00:57
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM
20:01:00
CHAIR, COUNCILMEMBERS, MY
20:01:01
NAME IS -20:01:02
>> ARE YOU SPEAKING WITH SEED

20:01:03
TIME, SIR.
20:01:04
>>?
20:01:07
NO, I HAVE MY CARD SOMEWHERE
20:01:08
IN THERE
20:01:09
>>
>> ONE MINUTE.
20:01:11
I'M THE BUSINESS MANAGER OF
20:01:12
THE BUSINESS UNION IN ALAMEDA
20:01:15
COUNTY, I REPRESENT OVER 3
20:01:18
THOUSAND 600 CONSTRUCTION
20:01:19
LABORERS WITH MANY OF THEM
20:01:20
CALLING OAKLAND THEIR HOME.
20:01:22

WE UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF


20:01:24
ANY DECISION ON THE
20:01:26
COMMUNITY, SINCE WE STARTED
20:01:28
TRACKING THE DISPATCHERS TO
20:01:28
THIS PROJECT AND I'M ONLY
20:01:30
TALKING ABOUT THE LABORER, WE
20:01:34
HAVE DISPATCHED OVER 19
20:01:39
LABORERS TO THIS PROJECT, OUT OF
20:01:41
THE 190 INDIVIDUALS, WE
20:01:43
DISPATCHED 130 OAKLAND
20:01:45
RESIDENTS.
20:01:46
WE WENT OUT TO CYPRESS
20:01:48

MANDELA AND SOME OF THE FAITH


20:01:50
GROUPS TO RECRUIT THE NEW
20:01:51
INDIVIDUALS, SOME OF THOSE
20:01:52
INDIVIDUALS DIDN'T KNOW WHAT
20:01:53
O DO AND THEY FOUND HOPE ON
20:01:55
THE SYSTEM ONCE THEY STARTED
20:01:56
WORKING OUT THERE.
20:01:58
ALL WE ASK THAT WHATEVER
20:02:00
DECISION YOU MIGHT MAKE,
20:02:01
DON'T PULL THE RUG FROM UNDER
20:02:04
THEIR FEET AND THINK ABOUT
20:02:05
THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE
20:02:08

ACTUALLY HAVE A SECOND


20:02:08
OPPORTUNITY TO WORK OUT OF
20:02:09
THAT PROJECT.
20:02:11
THANK YOU.
20:02:12
[APPLAUSE].
20:02:12
>> THANK YOU, SIR.
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
20:02:23
WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO MAKE IT
20:02:25
BEFORE MIDNIGHT IF WE CAN GET
20:02:29
FOLKS HERE.
20:02:32
THANK YOU.
20:02:32
MR. BRIDGES, YOU HAVE SOME
20:02:34
OF YOUR FOLKS SEEDING TIME TO

20:02:35
YOU?
20:02:36
>> I DO.
20:02:42
FRANK ROBERTSON.
>> THANK YOU.
20:02:45
>> MY NAME IS ARELIO PENIA.
20:02:49
>> TIMES, WHAT WAS THE FIRST
20:02:52
NAME, MR. PENIA.
>> ARELIO PENIA.
20:03:01
>> SHE GOT IT, WE'RE JUST
20:03:02
LOOKING FOR YOU ON THE LIST.
20:03:05
THANK YOU.
20:03:08
>> JOHN BARTON.
20:03:13
>> THANK YOU, MR. BARTON.

20:03:18
>> MY NAME IS PETE FOOT.
20:03:21
>> ALRIGHT, THANK YOU, MR.
20:03:22
FOOT.
20:03:23
FIVE MINUTES, MR. BRIDGES.
20:03:24
THANK YOU.
20:03:26
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, I'M JERRY
20:03:28
BRIDGES, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF
20:03:34
TLS, TERMINAL LOGISTIC
20:03:35
SOLUTION, I HAVE 35 PLUS
20:03:38
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN
20:03:41
MARITIME TRANSPORTATION AND
20:03:42
I'VE SERVED AS DIRECTOR OF

20:03:44
THE PORTS ON BOTH THE EAST
20:03:45
AND THE WEST COAST HERE IN
20:03:47
THE PORT OF OAKLAND AND ALSO
20:03:49
THE PORTS OF VIRGINIA.
20:03:51
I AM HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE
20:03:53
PROJECT THAT I'M SO PROUD TO
20:03:56
BE RESPONSIBLE FOR.
20:03:58
WE HAVE ENTERED INTO AN
20:04:00
OPTION AGREEMENT WITH CCIG
20:04:04
AND WE HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE
20:04:06
RIGHT TO DEVELOP THE TERMINAL
20:04:08
THAT WE'VE ALL BEEN TALKING

20:04:09
ABOUT HERE THIS AFTERNOON AND
20:04:10
WE HAVE A VERY SPECIFIC
20:04:13
TIMEFRAME FOR THAT OPTION.
20:04:15
TLS IS CURRENTLY EVALUATING A
20:04:17
POTENTIAL OPERATIONS AT THE
20:04:19
TERMINAL INCLUDING POTENTIAL
20:04:22
CARGOES AND CLIENTS WISHING
20:04:25
TO SHIP BULK COMMODITIES, TLS
20:04:28
IS SOLICITING INTEREST FROM A
20:04:30
FULL RANGE OF LEGAL MATERIALS
20:04:34
THAT THE BULK SUPPLIERS
20:04:35
EXPECT THE FACILITY TO HANDLE.

20:04:39
TLS HAS NOT COMMITTED TO
20:04:42
INCLUDE OR EXCLUDE ANY
20:04:43
COMMODITY THAT MAY BE SHIPPED
20:04:46
LEGALLY.
20:04:47
IT IS ASSESSING CURRENT
20:04:49
MARKETS' NEEDS TO ENSURE THE
20:04:51
CONTEMPLATED TERMINAL IS
20:04:53
COMMERCIALLY VIABLE TODAY AND
20:04:54
INTO THE FUTURE.
20:04:55
WE MUST BE ABLE TO HANDLE ANY
20:04:58
OF THE MULTITUDE OF LEGAL
20:05:01
MATERIALS THE BULK MARKET

20:05:02
DEMANDS, AND THAT IS
20:05:04
PRECISELY WHAT IS BEING
20:05:07
DEVELOPED AND DESIGNED IN
20:05:08
EXACTLY THE PROJECT FOR WHICH
20:05:10
THE CITY GRANTED THE PROJECT
20:05:12
ENTITLEMENT IN 2012 AND 2013.
20:05:16
WE ARE CURRENTLY COMPLYING
20:05:17
WITH ALL THE RULES AND ALL OF
20:05:21
THE REGULATIONS.
20:05:21
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO STAND
20:05:23
HERE TODAY AND KNOW EXACTLY
20:05:26
WHICH AND HOW MUCH OF ANY

20:05:29
COMMODITY MAY ULTIMATELY BE
20:05:34
SHIPPED THROUGH THE LIFE OF
20:05:35
THE FACILITY.
20:05:35
AS YOU ALL KNOW, COMMODITY
20:05:41
MARKET FLUCTUATES, SO ONE
20:05:42
YEAR IT MAY BE SODA ASH AND
20:05:45
IRON ORR, THE NEXT YEAR IT
20:05:48
COULD BE COAL AND SULFUR
20:05:50
SULFATE, BUT REGARDLESS OF
20:05:51
THE COMMODITY THAT'S BEING
20:05:53
SHIPPED, IT IS OUR COMMITMENT
20:05:54
THAT THE SAFETY AND THE

20:05:56
HEALTH OF OUR WORKERS AND THE
20:05:58
RESIDENTS OF OAKLAND IS A TOP
20:06:00
PRIORITY, AND WE WILL OPERATE
20:06:02
IN A MANNER THAT NOT ONLY
20:06:05
MEETS BUT EXCEEDS ALL
20:06:08
INDUSTRY STANDARDS, SAFETY
20:06:09
APPLIES TO EVERY COMMODITY
20:06:11
THAT WILL BE SHIPPED THROUGH
20:06:14
THIS FACILITY.
20:06:15
YOU HAVE RESUBMITTED A WHITE
20:06:18
PAPER, THE HDR WHITE PAPER
20:06:20
WAS SUBMITTED DURING A

20:06:21
SUPPLEMENTAL STAFF REPORT AND
20:06:23
IT OUTLINES OUR OPERATIONS
20:06:24
AND THE STANDARDS NECESSARY
20:06:26
TO MITIGATE COAL DUST
20:06:29
EMISSIONS.
20:06:30
WHEN WE FINALIZE OUR
20:06:30
AGREEMENT, IF COAL IS ONE OF
20:06:33
THE COMMODITIES WE INCLUDE,
20:06:35
WE WILL SET NEW BEST
20:06:38
PRACTICES FOR HANDLING COAL
20:06:42
AND INCORPORATE
20:06:42
RECOMMENDATIONS OUTLINED IN

20:06:43
THAT WHITE PAPER.
20:06:44
IT IS IMPORTANT TO REALIZE
20:06:45
THAT THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY
20:06:47
FOR OAKLAND TO SET THE
20:06:50
EXAMPLE FOR THE WORLD FOR THE
20:06:52
TRANSPORTATION OF A COMMODITY
20:06:53
THAT IS NEEDED AROUND THE
20:06:55
WORLD.
20:06:56
WE ARE DOING OUR BEST TO
20:06:58
RAISE THE BAR HERE IN OAKLAND
20:07:01
TO DEMONSTRATE TO ALL OF THE
20:07:03
WORLD THAT THIS COMMODITY CAN

20:07:05
BE SHIPPED SAFELY, THAT THIS
20:07:07
COMMODITY IS NEEDED AROUND
20:07:09
THE WORLD, THE COMMODITY THAT
20:07:10
WE WILL HAVE COME THROUGH OUR
20:07:12
TERMINAL WILL BE THE HIGHEST
20:07:14
QUALITY COAL AVAILABLE IN THE
20:07:16
WORLD.
20:07:17
THIS IS NOT THE TYPE OF -20:07:19
THIS IS NOT A COMMODITY THAT
20:07:23
WILL FURTHER ENDANGER THE
20:07:25
ENVIRONMENT, IN FACT, WE
20:07:30
BELIEVE THAT BY USING WEST

20:07:34
[INAUDIBLE] COAL WHICH
20:07:35
ACTUALLY ELEVATE THE
20:07:37
ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILE AS IT
20:07:37
IS MUCH BETTER TO BURN THIS
20:07:43
THAN TO BURN ANIMAL AND WOOD
20:07:45
AND THOSE PRODUCTS THAT
20:07:49
[INAUDIBLE] HAS PUT MATTER IN
20:07:51
THE ATMOSPHERE, IT IS OUR
20:07:53
STRONG DESIRE AND OUR
20:07:54
COMMITMENT TO DO HERE GOOD IN
20:07:55
OAKLAND NOT ONLY AS WE
20:07:57
OPERATE THIS TERMINAL BUT

20:07:59
ALSO AS WE PROMOTE THE STRONG
20:08:01
CONNECTION TO THE COMMUNITY
20:08:03
AND DO THINGS WITHIN OUR
20:08:05
COMMUNITY TO MAKE IT BETTER
20:08:06
FOR EACH AND EVERY CITIZEN IN
20:08:08
THE CITY OF OAKLAND.
20:08:09
I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR
20:08:11
YOUR TIME.
20:08:13
[APPLAUSE].
>> THANK YOU.
20:08:20
>> THE NEXT SPEAKERS, PLEASE
20:08:22
APPROACH THE PODIUM.
20:08:25

GOOD AFTERNOON, SIR, ARE YOU


20:08:27
SPEAKING FOR ONE MINUTE OR
20:08:28
ARE YOU HAVING SEEDED TIME?
20:08:29
>> NEW YORK CITY I'M GOING TO
20:08:31
HAVE SEEDED TIME.
20:08:35
>> OKAY.
20:08:46
>> [INAUDIBLE] AUBREY.
20:08:47
>> MY NAME IS HEATHER MCLEOD,
20:08:52
I SEED MY TIME.
20:08:54
>> I'M ERIC WILSON AND
20:08:56
SEEDING MY TIME.
20:09:00
>> KATHY PETRICCA, I SEED MY
20:09:02

TIME.
>> THANK YOU.
20:09:07
>> GOOD AFTERNOON,
20:09:08
COUNCILMEMBER, MY NAME IS
20:09:13
NEIL MASLISH, WE'RE AN
20:09:16
OAKLAND NON-PROFIT ADVOCACY
20:09:17
ORGANIZATION WHOSE JOB IS TO
20:09:20
PROMOTE STRATEGIES THAT
20:09:21
REDUCE LONG TERM CLIMATE
20:09:24
CHANGE, PROMOTE CLIMATE
20:09:25
RESILIENT COMMUNITIES,
20:09:25
PROTECT ALL PEOPLE FROM THE
20:09:27
HEALTH IMPACTS OF CLIMATE

20:09:28
CHANGE AND OPTIMIZE HEALTH
20:09:30
AND HEALTH EQUITY OUTCOMES,
20:09:31
OUR OFFICE WAS ARE JUST UP
20:09:33
THE BLOCK ON 12TH STREET.
20:09:36
I HOLD A DOCTORATE IN
20:09:39
EPIDEMIOLOGY, I HAVE 30 YEARS
20:09:41
EXPERIENCE AS A PROFESSIONAL
20:09:44
EPIDEMIOLOGIST IN
20:09:45
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND
20:09:46
CLINICAL QUALITY AND
20:09:47
COMMUNITY HEALTH.
20:09:47
I HAVE WORKED WITH UNIONS, I

20:09:49
HAVE WORKED IN AK DEEM YA, I
20:09:52
HAVE 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
20:09:53
IN WORKING IN LOCAL AND
20:09:55
HEALTH STATE DEPARTMENTS
20:09:55
INCLUDING THE CITY OF
20:09:57
BERKELEY WHO WE HAVE LOTS OF
20:10:00
CONNECTIONS WITH THE ALAMEDA
20:10:01
COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT AS
20:10:02
WELL.
20:10:02
UP UNTIL MAY OF THIS YEAR,
20:10:05
FOR THE PRECEDING FIVE YEARS,
20:10:06
I WAS THE CO-LEAD OF THE

20:10:08
CLIMATE AND HEALTH TEAM IN
20:10:11
THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF
20:10:12
PUBLIC HEALTH, MY JOB THERE
20:10:13
WAS TO ASSIST OTHER STATE
20:10:15
AGENCIES UNDERSTAND THE
20:10:16
HEALTH DIMENSIONS OF CLIMATE
20:10:18
CHANGE, ADVISE OTHER STATE
20:10:20
AGENCIES ON THE POTENTIAL
20:10:21
BENEFITS AND HARMS OF
20:10:23
DIFFERENT MITIGATION AND
20:10:25
ADAPTATION STRATEGIES.
20:10:26
I ALSO ASSISTED LOCAL HEALTH

20:10:29
DEPARTMENTS BUILD RESILIENCE
20:10:30
AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE AS
20:10:31
PART OF A FEDERAL CENTERS FOR
20:10:35
DISEASE CONTROL PROGRAM ON
20:10:37
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION.
20:10:39
I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT
20:10:41
FIRST OF ALL THAT BURNING
20:10:44
FOSSIL FUELS ANYWHERE IS
20:10:46
GOING TO INCREASE GREENHOUSE
20:10:48
GASES, THAT CONTRIBUTES TO
20:10:50
GLOBAL WARMING, THAT DRIVES
20:10:53
CLIMATE CHANGE.

20:10:54
CARBON DIOXIDE ITSELF WHICH
20:10:56
IS THE CHIEF CONSTITUENTS OF
20:11:00
GREENHOUSE GASES FROM BURNING
20:11:01
COAL AND OTHER FOSSIL FUELS
20:11:05
REMAINS IN OUR ATMOSPHERE FOR
20:11:07
HUNDREDS OF YEARS, SO
20:11:09
REDUCING THIS EMISSION TO 0
20:11:10
IS THE ONLY ASSURED WAY TO
20:11:12
LIMIT THE ADVERSE HEALTH
20:11:15
IMPLANTING THAT ACCOMPANY
20:11:16
GLOBAL WARMING, WHILE
20:11:17
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS PLAY

20:11:19
OUT ON A GLOBAL SCALE, THE
20:11:21
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
20:11:23
WILL BE FELT LOCALLY, RIGHT
20:11:25
HERE IN OAKLAND IN TERMS OF
20:11:27
INCREASED SEA LEVEL RISE,
20:11:30
EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS
20:11:31
INCLUDING COASTAL STORMS AND
20:11:33
DROUGHT, SO WHAT ARE THESE
20:11:35
HEALTH IMPACTS THAT WE CAN
20:11:38
REASONABLY EXPECT FROM
20:11:40
BURNING FOSSIL FUELS, WE
20:11:41
START WITH EXTREME HEAT.

20:11:42
I LOOKED AT ONE OF THE
20:11:45
STATE'S TOOLS FOR ESTIMATING
20:11:46
THE NUMBER OF EXTREME HEAT
20:11:48
DAYS FOR OAKLAND AND BY THE
20:11:49
YEAR 2050 WHICH IS JUST A FEW
20:11:52
DECADES, THE NUMBER WILL GO
20:11:54
UP TO 52 DAYS AND THE
20:11:57
THRESHOLD IS 99 DEGREES BY
20:11:58
THE END OF THE CENTURY THAT
20:12:00
WILL BE ABOUT 92 DAYS OF
20:12:03
EXTREME HEAT, AND THAT'S JUST
20:12:06
BETWEEN MAY AND OCTOBER, SO

20:12:07
BASICALLY EVERY OTHER DAY, SO
20:12:09
IF YOU FELT THE HEAT THIS
20:12:10
WEEK, IT WILL BE LIKE THAT
20:12:14
ALMOST EVERY OTHER DAY.
20:12:16
IN ADDITION TO THAT, PEOPLE
20:12:18
WHO -- OTHER SPEAKERS WHO ARE
20:12:22
VULNERABLE TO THE CLIMATE
20:12:23
EFFECTS HAVE EXISTING HEALTH
20:12:27
CONDITIONS, WHEN COASTAL
20:12:30
STORMS IMPACT INJURIES,
20:12:32
PEOPLE WILL DROWN AND HOMES
20:12:33
WILL BE DESTROYED AND PEOPLE

20:12:36
WILL HAVE SEVERE MENTAL
20:12:37
HEALTH IMPACTS FROM THAT,
20:12:38
THERE WILL BE AIR POLLUTION
20:12:40
IN MUCH MORE DETAIL BUT WE
20:12:42
HAVE IMPAIRED POPULATIONS IN
20:12:43
THE OAKLAND CORRIDORS AROUND
20:12:45
880 THAT HAVE SOME OF THE
20:12:46
HIGHEST ASTHMA RATES IN THE
20:12:48
STATE.
20:12:49
WE KNOW THAT TEMPERATURE AND
20:12:53
PRECIPITATION EFFECTS VECTORS
20:12:54
FOR VARIOUS KINDS OF DISEASES

20:13:00
LIKE DENGUE, WE HAVE WEST
20:13:01
NILE VIRUS ESTABLISHED IN
20:13:04
CALIFORNIA, THESE ARE AMONG
20:13:05
SOME OF THE HEALTH EFFECTS
20:13:06
THAT WILL BE EXPERIENCED WITH
20:13:08
CLIMATE CHANGE.
20:13:09
I WON'T GO INTO ALL THE OTHER
20:13:11
ONES, OTHER SPEAKERS WILL
20:13:11
DEAL WITH THAT.
20:13:13
WHO WILL BE IMPACTED?
20:13:15
WELL, AS OTHER SPEAKERS HAVE
20:13:17
MENTIONED, THOSE WHO ARE THE

20:13:20
MOST VULNERABLE AMONG US WILL
20:13:22
BE DISPROPORTIONATELY
20:13:23
IMPACTED.
20:13:23
WE HAVE AN EXISTING HEALTH
20:13:26
BURDEN, GLARING HEALTH
20:13:27
DISPARITIES IN OAKLAND AND
20:13:28
DR. DAVIS WILL PROBABLY REFER
20:13:30
TO THAT.
20:13:30
WE HAVE SOME CENSUS TRACTS
20:13:32
THAT ARE ONLY SEPARATED BY
20:13:33
A MILE OR TWO THAT HAVE A 15
20:13:36
YEAR DIFFERENCE IN LIFE

20:13:37
EXPECTANCY, SO THOSE
20:13:39
POPULATIONS WILL BE ADVERSELY
20:13:42
AFFECTED.
20:13:42
WHY WOULD WE WANT TO BURN
20:13:45
COAL WHEN IT UNDERMINES OUR
20:13:46
OWN HEALTH AND COMMUNITY
20:13:48
RESILIENCY.
20:13:50
ACCORDING TO CAL ADAP AND
20:13:52
OTHER STATE TOOLS THAT LOOKS
20:13:54
AT WHAT IMPACTS OF SEA LEVEL
20:13:57
RISE WILL BE, THEY WILL BE AN
20:14:03
INUNDATION FORM OF STORMS,

20:14:04
WHY WOULD WE CONTRIBUTE TO
20:14:07
THIS EXISTING THREAT BY
20:14:09
FACILITATING THE BURNING OF
20:14:10
MORE FOSSIL FUEL?
20:14:12
IN CLOSING, I WOULD JUST SAY
20:14:14
THAT IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH
20:14:16
COMMUNITY, WE ROUTINELY DEAL
20:14:18
WITH CHANGING SOCIAL NORMS,
20:14:21
WE'VE BEEN HUGELY SUCCESSFUL
20:14:24
WITH TOBACCO, MAKING TOBACCO
20:14:28
AN UNACCEPTABLE SOCIAL
20:14:29
BEHAVIOR, YOU CAN DO THE SAME

20:14:31
THING WITH COAL, BURNING COAL
20:14:33
IS AN UNACCEPTABLE SOCIAL
20:14:34
BEHAVIOR THAT WILL HAVE BIG
20:14:35
IMPACTS.
20:14:36
>> THANK YOU, IF YOU WANT TO
20:14:39
SUBMIT YOUR WRITTEN COMMENTS
20:14:40
TO THE CLERK, SHE WILL MAKE
20:14:42
SURE SHE DISTRIBUTES IT TO US.
20:14:44
THANK YOU.
20:14:44
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
20:14:47
>> [APPLAUSE].
20:14:48
>> I'M BILL [INAUDIBLE], I'LL

20:14:49
SEED MY TIME TO THE NEXT
20:14:53
SPEAKER.
>>
20:14:57
>> I'M CHERYL WALTON AND
20:14:59
SEEDING MY TIME TO DR. MON
20:15:01
TON DAVIS.
20:15:03
>> I'M BRIANNA FAIRBANKS AND
20:15:05
SEED MY TIME.
20:15:07
>> ANNA LEE, I'M SEEDING MY
20:15:09
TIME TO DR. DAVIS.
20:15:11
>> WELCOME, DR. DEVISER, YOU
20:15:12
HAVE FIVE MINUTES.
20:15:13

>> GOOD EVENING,


20:15:14
COUNCILMEMBERS AND TO
20:15:15
EVERYONE WHO'S IN THE
20:15:16
AUDIENCE AND IN THE OVERFLOW
20:15:17
ROOMS, THANK YOU FOR COMING
20:15:18
OUT AND HEARING ABOUT THIS.
20:15:19
I WANT TO COME AND TALK TO
20:15:21
YOU ABOUT THIS PROJECT AND
20:15:22
FROM THE STANDPOINT OF HEALTH
20:15:24
AND SAFETY CONCERNS, WITH WE
20:15:25
LOOK AT THIS PROJECT, WE ARE
20:15:27
HAPPY TO SEE SOME NEW
20:15:29

DEVELOPMENT COMING INTO


20:15:30
OAKLAND THAT HAS THE
20:15:31
POTENTIAL TO PROVIDE SOME
20:15:34
DAILY GOODS AND SERVICES FOR
20:15:36
THE RESIDENTS OF OAKLAND AND
20:15:38
SURROUNDING AREAS, THE BULK
20:15:39
TERMINAL PROJECT IS A FINE
20:15:40
PROJECT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF
20:15:42
THE IDEA OF EXPORTING COAL,
20:15:44
SO WE'RE SUPPORTIVE OF THE
20:15:45
PROJECT MOVING FORWARD BUT
20:15:48
AGAIN PROHIBITING COAL,
20:15:49

EXPORT FROM THAT PROJECT,


20:15:50
THAT PROPOSAL IS SOMETHING
20:15:51
THAT WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT.
20:15:54
WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THIS,
20:15:55
THERE ARE LOTS OF DENSELY
20:15:57
POPULATED AREAS AROUND THE
20:15:59
COAL LINES, WITH WE LOOK AT
20:16:01
THE HEALTH OUTCOMES IN THOSE
20:16:02
AREAS, THEY HAVE SOME OF THE
20:16:05
WORSE HEALTH OUTCOMES IN OUR
20:16:06
COUNTY AND THAT IS FROM
20:16:08
CONTRIBUTION OF WHAT'S
20:16:10

HAPPENING WITH AIR POLLUTION.


20:16:11
IF YOU REMEMBER, EAST AND
20:16:13
WEST OAKLAND WERE IDENTIFIED
20:16:15
BY THE BARRIER AT AIR QUALITY
20:16:17
MANAGEMENT DISTRICT AS A CARE
20:16:19
COMMUNITIES A COMMUNITY THAT
20:16:20
HAD LOTS OF SOURCES OF
20:16:22
POLLUTION AND HAD HIGH
20:16:23
NUMBERS OF THE POPULATION
20:16:24
SUCH AS CHILDREN AND SENIORS,
20:16:26
IN 2014, THEY UPDATED THAT
20:16:28
AND IT NOW INCLUDES ALL OF
20:16:30

WESTERN ALAMEDA COUNTY


20:16:31
INCLUDING THE CITY OF
20:16:33
ALAMEDA, WE'LL HAVE AN IMPACT
20:16:35
OF A LARGER AREA THAN JUST
20:16:37
OAKLAND, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT
20:16:39
THE HOSPITALIZATION RATES IN
20:16:41
TERMS OF ASTHMA, IT'S TWO
20:16:42
TIMES HIGHER THAN THE COUNTY
20:16:43
RATE.
20:16:43
WITH WE THINK ABOUT THE ED
20:16:46
VISITS FOR THOSE IN WEST
20:16:48
OAKLAND, IT'S TWO TIMES
20:16:49

HIGHER THAN THE COUNTY RATE.


20:16:52
IN THIS, IN GENERAL, CHILDREN
20:16:56
ARE HOSPITALIZED AT A HIGHER
20:16:58
RATE THAN IN THE STATE AND IN
20:17:01
THE COUNTRY, 2-5 ARE OUR MOST
20:17:04
SENSITIVE POPULATIONS, MAZ IS
20:17:05
A DISEASE OF THE LUNGS THAT
20:17:06
CAN BE CONTROLLED, THEY ARE
20:17:09
TRIGGERED BY ENVIRONMENTAL
20:17:09
TRIGGERS WHICH COULD BE TOXIC
20:17:11
EMISSIONS FROM FUEL OR COULD
20:17:12
BE COAL DUST.
20:17:14

IN THINKING ABOUT THIS


20:17:15
PROJECT, IT'S REALLY A
20:17:17
QUESTION OF, YES, YOU GUYS
20:17:18
WILL FOLLOW ALL OF THE SAFETY
20:17:21
PROTOCOLS THAT ARE THERE,
20:17:23
BUT DOES THIS POPULATION
20:17:24
DESERVE TO BE AT RISK GIVEN
20:17:26
THE HEALTH OUTCOMES AND THE
20:17:28
AIR QUALITY THAT ALREADY
20:17:29
EXIST HERE.
20:17:29
IF WE THINK ABOUT IT, THERE
20:17:32
ARE ALWAYS THE CHANCE, BP
20:17:34

FOLLOWED ALL OF THEIR


20:17:35
PROTOCOLS AND WE ENDED UP
20:17:38
WITH ALL ELSE FAILS, IF THAT
20:17:39
HAPPENS IN THIS AREA GIVEN
20:17:40
WHAT WE KNOW, GIVEN WHAT WE
20:17:42
SEE IN TERMS OF AIR QUALITY
20:17:44
AND HEALTH OUTCOMES, IT WILL
20:17:46
BE MORE DEVASTATING THAN IN
20:17:47
ANY OTHER PLACE, GIVEN THAT
20:17:50
THERE ARE ALREADY POOR HEALTH
20:17:51
OUTCOME, WE HAVE ISSUE WIDTHS
20:17:53
AIR QUALITY, IT'S BEEN
20:17:54

IDENTIFIED AS AN AREA OF
20:17:56
CONCERN IN TERMS OF AIR
20:17:57
POLLUTION.
20:17:58
WE'RE SUPPORTIVE OF THE IDEA
20:17:59
COMING HERE AND IT MAY BRING
20:18:01
IN JOBS BUT I'M CONCERNED
20:18:02
ABOUT MY WORKERS WHO WILL BE
20:18:04
THERE IN TERMS OF THEIR
20:18:06
SAFETY, PROTOCOLS WILL BE
20:18:07
FOLLOWED BUT THERE ARE ALWAYS
20:18:08
RISKS AND COAL DUST IN TERMS
20:18:11
OF WORKING WITH COAL,
20:18:13

TRANSPORTING COAL, THERE ARE


20:18:14
RISKS AROUND THAT, COAL
20:18:16
ALWAYS COMES OUT AND THAT
20:18:18
DUST WILL SIT THERE, IT'S NOT
20:18:20
LIKE IT WILL BLOW AWAY, IT
20:18:23
WILL BLOW SOMEWHERE CLOSE AND
20:18:24
THAT IS A CONCERN IN TERMS OF
20:18:26
THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
20:18:27
IMPACTS FROM THAT.
20:18:29
SO, AGAIN, THERE'S A LOT
20:18:30
THAT'S HAPPENED IN TERMS OF
20:18:32
THE CITY OF OAKLAND, WHAT
20:18:33

HAPPENED WITH THE EAST


20:18:35
OAKLAND TRUCK ROUTES, THAT'S
20:18:36
A GREAT PUBLIC HEALTH GAIN,
20:18:38
ADDING THAT IN HERE TAKES
20:18:40
AWAY FROM THAT GAIN AND WE
20:18:41
HOPE THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN, SO
20:18:43
AS WE THINK ABOUT THIS, THERE
20:18:45
ARE CONCERNS, THERE ARE RISKS
20:18:47
AND THOSE RISKS SHOULD BE
20:18:48
WEIGHED HEAVILY GIVEN THE
20:18:51
HEALTH CONCERNS GIVEN THE -20:18:56
OF THE COMMUNITY ALREADY.
20:18:58

>> CAN YOU REMIND US OF OUR -20:19:01


>> DR. DAVIS, COULD YOU
20:19:02
REMIND ALL OF US OF YOUR
20:19:04
AFFILIATION SO EVERYBODY
20:19:05
KNOWS WHO YOU ARE.
20:19:08
>> I ALWAYS FORGET THAT, SO
20:19:10
I'M THE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH
20:19:12
DIRECTOR FOR ALAMEDA
20:19:14
COUNTY AND ALSO THE HEALTH
20:19:15
OFFICER FOR THE COUNTY.
>> THANK YOU.
20:19:24
[APPLAUSE].
20:19:24
>> OKAY, SO THE NEXT TWO

20:19:26
SPEAKERS ON MY LEFT, IF YOU
20:19:30
WOULD PREPARE.
20:19:49
>> [INAUDIBLE].
>> VICTOR PEREZ.
20:19:57
>> REUBEN SAL VA TOR.
20:19:59
>> WILLIE COX.
20:20:02
>> MY NAME IS ED LEAP, I'M
20:20:05
EMPLOYED BY HDR, I'M
20:20:08
ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE AND
20:20:09
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING
20:20:10
COMPANY.
20:20:11
I'VE BEEN AN AIR QUALITY
20:20:13

SPECIALIST, SCIENTIST FOR


20:20:14
NEARLY 35 YEARS FOR A VARIETY
20:20:17
OF GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE
20:20:18
EMPLOYER, MY EXPERTISE IS IN
20:20:20
ALL AREAS OF AIR PERMITS OF
20:20:23
EMISSION SOURCES INCLUDING
20:20:24
MODELING OF AIR QUALITY
20:20:25
IMPACTS, MONITORING OF AIR
20:20:27
QUALITY IMPACTS AND
20:20:28
APPLICATION OF EMISSION
20:20:30
CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES.
20:20:30
>> MR. LEECH, IF YOU WILL
20:20:32

RAISE THE MICROPHONE JUST A


20:20:33
LITTLE BIT TO MAKE SURE WE
20:20:35
HEAR YOU CLEARLY, THANK YOU.
20:20:38
>> I'M PRESENTING A BRIEF
20:20:39
SUMMARY OF A WHITE PAPER THAT
20:20:41
WAS PREPARED BY ME AND A
20:20:45
BUSINESS ASSOCIATE FROM HDR,
20:20:47
MIKE WHO'S ABLE TO ASSIST WITH
20:20:50
ANY QUESTIONS, THE MAIN FOCUS
20:20:51
OF OUR WHITE PAPER IS A
20:20:53
POTENTIAL FOR COAL DUST
20:20:54
EMISSIONS DUE TO COAL
20:20:56

TRANSPORT AND COAL HANDLING


20:20:57
IN A PORT FACILITY AND HOW TO
20:20:59
CONTROL ROADS EMISSIONS SO
20:21:01
THEY DO NOT IMPACT AIR
20:21:05
QUALITY, OUR REPORT USES
20:21:07
TECHNOLOGY AND BEST
20:21:10
MANAGEMENT PRACTICES TO
20:21:12
PROTECT THE PUBLIC, IF THEY
20:21:14
ARE APPLIED TO BOTH THE PORT
20:21:16
AND TRAIN FACILITY, THERE
20:21:18
WILL BE NO MEASURABLE IMPACT
20:21:19
ON AIR QUALITY.
20:21:21

IN ADDITION, AS DETAILED IN A
20:21:22
MEMO BY MR. PETE EVERSENEZ
20:21:30
OF JENSEN HUGHES ALONG WITH
20:21:32
THE CONTROLS FOR PROTECTING
20:21:33
THE PUBLIC, THE FACILITY WILL
20:21:34
HAVE INTERNAL CONTROLS TO
20:21:36
CONTROL DUST SO THAT WORKERS
20:21:38
ARE SAFE.
20:21:39
THAT WILL BESIDES THE
20:21:40
EMISSION CONTROL, THERE WILL
20:21:43
BE MONITORING OF ANY DUST OR
20:21:45
ANY HOT SPOTS TO ENSURE WE
20:21:47

DON'T HAVE ANY EXPOSURE TO


20:21:50
FIRES AND TO HELP MITIGATE
20:21:51
ANY COMBUSTION RISK IN THE
20:21:54
COAL.
20:21:54
WE SHOULD ALSO KEEP IN MIND
20:21:56
IN CONSIDERING THE EFFECTS OF
20:21:58
COAL OR NICOLE DUST THAT
20:22:01
MIGHT ESCAPE THAT THESE
20:22:03
MATERIALS ARE NOT REGULATED
20:22:05
OR DEFINED AS HAZARDOUS
20:22:09
MATERIALS BY USCPA AND
20:22:10
THEY'RE NOT INCLUDED ON THE
20:22:12

STATE OF CALIFORNIA'S PROP 65


20:22:14
LIST OF CHEMICALS KNOWN TO
20:22:17
CAUSE CANCER OR REPRODUCTIVE
20:22:21
TOXICITY.
20:22:21
OUR PAPER ALSO COMPARED THE
20:22:23
TRACE METAL CONTENT OF THE
20:22:25
UTAH COALS WHICH WOULD BE
20:22:27
BROUGHT HERE, WE COMPARED
20:22:30
THOSE METAL, TRACE METAL
20:22:31
LEVELS AS SOME OF THE
20:22:34
HAZARDOUS METALS IN THAT COAL
20:22:35
TO NATURAL METALS IN
20:22:37

CALIFORNIA SOIL AS WELL AS


20:22:39
EPA'S SOIL CLEANUP LEVELS AND
20:22:42
ALL THOSE METALS WERE EXCEPT
20:22:44
FOR ONE WERE WITHIN THE RANGE
20:22:46
OF NATURAL CALIFORNIA SOILS
20:22:48
IN TERMS OF METAL CONTENT OF
20:22:52
THE COAL, SELENIUM WAS ONE
20:22:57
EXCEPTION BUT IT WAS BELOW
20:22:59
THE LEVEL.
20:23:00
OUR WHITE PAPER PROVIDE ADD
20:23:02
CRITIQUE OF A COUPLE OF STUDIES
20:23:04
THAT WERE PROVIDED IN
20:23:05

OPPOSITION OF THIS PROJECT,


20:23:07
ONE OF THOSE STUDIES WAS DONE
20:23:09
BY THE UP AND THE BNSF DID
20:23:12
RESEARCH ON THE COAL DUST
20:23:14
EMISSIONS THAT COME OFF OF
20:23:15
RAIL CARS, NORMALLY MOST OF
20:23:17
THAT COMES OFF RIGHT NEAR THE
20:23:19
POINT OF THE TRAIN DEPARTURE
20:23:21
AS THE TRAIN ACCELERATES, THE
20:23:23
DUST BLOWS OFF SO, THEY COME
20:23:25
UP WITH SOME BEST MANAGEMENT
20:23:28
PRACTICES TO CONTROL THAT,
20:23:30

85% BELOW WHAT WAS THE PRIOR


20:23:32
INDUSTRY PRACTICE, BUT IN
20:23:33
ADDITION TO THAT, THIS LETTER
20:23:36
THAT CRITIQUED THIS POTENTIAL
20:23:38
PROJECT DIDN'T MENTION THE
20:23:38
FACT THAT IN THIS CASE THE
20:23:40
COAL CARS WILL BE COVERED, SO
20:23:42
THOSE POTENTIAL EMISSION THAT
20:23:44
IS THE RAILROAD STUDIED ARE A
20:23:47
MUTE POINT.
20:23:48
ANOTHER STUDY THAT THE
20:23:50
OPPOSITION CITED WAS A
20:23:52

MODELING STUDY DONE FOR THE


20:23:54
PORT IN OREGON AND IN THAT
20:23:57
STUDY, THE SIERRA CLUB HIRED
20:23:59
A MODELING CONSULTANT WHO
20:24:00
MODELED THE IMPACTS OF THAT
20:24:02
FACILITY, THEIR RESULTS WERE
20:24:04
ALARMING, THEY WERE LIKE 10
20:24:06
TIMES OVER THE ACTUAL AMBIENT
20:24:10
AIR QUALITY STANDARDS, SO I
20:24:11
LOOKED AT WHAT THEY DID AND
20:24:14
TALKED WITH OTHERS ABOUT
20:24:15
THEIR STUDY AND WHAT THEY DID
20:24:18

WAS CONCENTRATE THE EMISSIONS


20:24:19
FROM EMISSIONS THAT WOULD BE
20:24:21
EMITTED OVER A WIDE AREA FROM
20:24:23
THINGS LIKE TUG BOATS AND
20:24:27
RAILROAD LOCOMOTIVES, THEY
20:24:27
CONCENTRATED THOSE EMISSIONS
20:24:29
AT A CERTAIN POINT AND THEY
20:24:31
PUT THE CALCULATION RIGHT
20:24:31
NEXT TO THAT POINT AT
20:24:33
LOCATION WHERE IT COULD NOT
20:24:34
EXIST LIKE INSIDE A BUILDING
20:24:35
THAT WAS PART OF A FACILITY
20:24:38

OR WITHIN THE OPERATION ROAD


20:24:39
OF THE TUG BOATS, THATS
20:24:45
SOMETHING YOU DON'T DO AS A
20:24:49
MODELER, THAT WOULDN'T BE
20:24:51
APPROVED BY EPA, IN FACT THE
20:24:53
OREGON DEPARTMENT OF
20:24:53
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ISSUED
20:24:54
A PERMIT FOR THAT FACILITY
20:24:57
THUS DISCOUNTING THAT
20:24:59
MODELING STUDY, FURTHERMORE
20:24:59
IN THIS CASE, THE BAY AREA
20:25:02
AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT
20:25:02

DISTRICT WILL ENSURE THAT


20:25:04
THIS FACILITY COMPLIES WITH
20:25:05
NOT ONLY NATIONAL BUT
20:25:07
CALIFORNIA AIR QUALITY
20:25:08
STANDARDS.
20:25:10
THANK YOU.
20:25:12
[APPLAUSE].
20:25:12
>> THANK YOU, MR. LEECH.
20:25:19
>> IS THERE ANOTHER SPEAKER?
LET'S GO QUICKLY.
20:25:45
>> DANIEL CHOI.
>> MAGGIE ZO.
>> [INAUDIBLE] MONANO.
>> [INAUDIBLE] ORTEGA.
20:25:59

>> YES, SIR?


20:26:01
>> MY NAME IS PANG

LEON,

20:26:07
I'VE BEEN WORKING IN THE
20:26:08
ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD FOR OVER
20:26:09
25 YEARS AND I'M HERE TO
20:26:10
TALK ABOUT THE COLLECTION OF
20:26:12
ASH SAMPLES IN THE OAKLAND
20:26:14
ARMY BASE.
20:26:15
THERE ARE CURRENTLY FOUR AIR
20:26:17
MONITORING STATIONS, THREE OF
20:26:18
WHICH ARE LOCATED ON THE
20:26:20
OAKLAND ARMY BASE AND ONE IN
20:26:23

WEST OAKLAND, AND ALL FOUR


20:26:25
STATIONS HAVE BEEN COLLECTING
20:26:30
DATA SINCE OCTOBER, 2013.
20:26:32
THE AIR MONITORING DATA IS
20:26:35
AUDITED BY THE BAY AREA AIR
20:26:39
QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT.
20:26:40
IT'S REPORTED DAILY ON THE
20:26:42
OAKLAND GLOBAL WEBSITE AND IS
20:26:44
AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW.
20:26:48
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
20:26:50
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE NEED
20:26:52
TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE

20:26:54
NOT STANDING IN THE HALLWAYS
20:26:55
BLOCKING ACCESS TO THE DOORS,
20:26:57
OUR AMBASSADORS NEED SUPPORT
20:26:58
AND HELP.
20:26:59
THOSE OF YOU, THANK YOU SO
20:27:01
MUCH FOR YOUR COOPERATION
20:27:03
INSIDE THE CHAMBERS,
20:27:05
RELEASING SEATS IS VERY
20:27:07
HELPFUL.
20:27:08
MR. BURNS, ARE YOU SPEAKING
20:27:09
-- DR. BURNS, ARE YOU
20:27:11
SPEAKING WITH SEEDED TIME OR

20:27:13
JUST SPEAKING?
20:27:14
IS SOMEONE SEEDING TIME TO
20:27:15
YOU, SIR, OR ARE YOU MAKING
20:27:18
YOUR ONE MINUTE SPEECH?
20:27:20
ONE MINUTE?
20:27:21
>> YEAH.
20:27:22
>> ALRIGHT, GOOD TO SEE YOU,
20:27:25
GOOD EVENING.
20:27:26
>> PRESIDENT MCELHANEY AND
20:27:29
CITY COUNCIL, I'M DR.
20:27:33
WASHINGTON BURNS, THE
20:27:33
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE

20:27:35
PRESCOTT CHILDREN CENTER IN
20:27:38
WEST OAKLAND, THE PRESCOTT
20:27:40
CHILDREN CENTER HAS BEEN
20:27:42
SERVING THE UNDERSERVED
20:27:43
PEOPLE FOR 20 YEAR, I'VE BEEN
20:27:45
THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR 19
20:27:47
YEARS, I ALSO AM THE CHAIRMAN
20:27:51
OF THE ALAMEDA COUNTY ASTHMA
20:27:54
COALITION AND I'M ON A
20:27:57
COMMITTEE OF THERE IS NO
20:28:03
ASTHMA AND PREVENTION PROGRAM.
20:28:04
I WAS ON A MARITIME AIR

20:28:08
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE
20:28:10
OF THE PORT SEVERAL YEARS AGO
20:28:13
AND I'M A CLEAN AIR ADVOCATE.
20:28:19
I BROUGHT THE BREATH MOBILE,
20:28:22
A MOBILE ASTHMA CLINIC TO
20:28:25
OAKLAND SEVERAL YEARS AGO,
20:28:26
THE CENTER HAS BEEN AN ASTHMA
20:28:36
EDUCATION SINCE 2001, WHEN I
20:28:39
WAS ON A PORT IMPROVEMENT -20:28:43
AIR IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE, WE
20:28:46
DID NOT STOP DIESEL TRUCKS
20:28:47
FROM COMING INTO THE PORT OF

20:28:51
OAKLAND, INSTEAD, WE WORKED
20:28:53
TO MITIGATE THE AIR POLLUTION
20:28:57
FROM DIESEL TRUCKS, THIS
20:28:59
SOURCE, BY OTHER MEANS AND
20:29:01
HAD A VERY SUCCESSFUL
20:29:05
REDUCTION OF AIR POLLUTION.
20:29:07
I HAVE A VERY SIMPLE MESSAGE
20:29:10
FOR THE COUNCIL, IN MY
20:29:13
OPINION, -20:29:13
>> MR. BURNS, I THINK THERE'S
20:29:15
SOME FOLKS HERE TO SEED YOU
20:29:17
TIME.

20:29:18
>> PARDON?
20:29:19
>> THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE
20:29:20
GAINING TO GIVE YOU TIME,
20:29:23
YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED, IF YOU
20:29:25
CAN SAY YOUR TIME.
20:29:27
>> I GIVE MY TIME, MARIO.
20:29:30
>> YOUR NAME, SIR?
20:29:31
>> MARIO [INAUDIBLE].
>> THANK YOU.
20:29:37
>> [INAUDIBLE].
20:29:38
>> SAY YOUR LAST NAME AGAIN.
20:29:42
>> QUEVAS, THE LAST NAME,
20:29:44

THANK YOU.
20:29:46
>> SORRY.
20:29:47
>> YOU MAY CONTINUE.
20:29:48
>> IN MY OPINION, IF TLC DOES
20:29:53
WHAT IT SAID IT'S GOING TO
20:29:57
DO, TRANSPORT COAL AND
20:29:59
COVERED CARS, UNLOAD IT AND
20:30:06
INTO A CLOSED STORAGE AREA AND
20:30:11
TRANSFER IT TO SHIP WHERE IT
20:30:14
WILL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF
20:30:18
DAY, I FEEL THAT THERE'S NO
20:30:20
DAMNING TORE THE RESIDENTS OF
20:30:22

OAKLAND AND CERTAINLY TO THE


20:30:24
RESIDENTS OF WEST OAKLAND.
20:30:26
I THINK THAT FROM A PUBLIC
20:30:27
HEALTH POINT OF VIEW, THIS IS
20:30:29
WHAT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING TO
20:30:32
DO, TO IMPROVE THE HANDLING
20:30:36
AND TRANSPORTING OF COAL.
20:30:39
IF WE DO THIS, I FEEL THAT
20:30:41
OAKLAND COULD BECOME A MODEL.
20:30:45
LASTLY, THIS PROJECT I THINK
20:30:49
WOULD ECONOMICALLY HELP THE
20:30:50
CITY OF OAKLAND AND IT
20:30:52

CERTAINLY WOULD HELP THE WEST


20:30:55
OAKLAND RESIDENTS BECAUSE OF
20:30:56
THE JOBS THAT WILL BE
20:30:59
GENERATED.
20:31:01
I ALSO THINK THAT IT WILL
20:31:06
IMPROVE HEALTH AND EDUCATION
20:31:08
PROGRAMS IN WEST OAKLAND
20:31:10
WHICH IS VERY BADLY NEEDED.
20:31:12
THANK YOU.
20:31:13
[APPLAUSE].
20:31:13
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH, SIR.
20:31:18
THE AMBASSADORS ARE ASKING,
20:31:19

IF YOU WILL LEAVE THE ROOM,


20:31:20
IF YOU WILL NOT CONGREGATE IN
20:31:22
THE AISLES, IF YOU WILL MAKE
20:31:24
SURE YOU'RE KEEPING THE
20:31:26
AISLES CLEAR, HEARING ROOMS 1
20:31:27
AND 2 ARE OPEN WITH BROADCAST
20:31:29
SO AS YOU RELEASE YOUR SEATS
20:31:32
IN THE CHAMBERS, PLEASE MAKE
20:31:33
YOUR WAY TO THE HEARING ROOMS
20:31:35
IF YOU WISH TO WATCH THE
20:31:37
PROCEEDINGS IN REALTIME, WE
20:31:38
DO APPRECIATE YOUR
20:31:39

COOPERATION IN RESPECTING
20:31:40
EACH OF THE SPEAKERS.
20:31:44
THANK YOU.
20:31:45
>> NAN PARKS MCCARTHY, I SEED
20:31:48
MY TIME.
20:31:49
>> KRISTIN LUMUS, I SEED MY
20:31:54
TIME.
20:31:55
>> SHAWN MUNDING, I SEED MY
20:31:56
TIME.
20:31:57
>> MY NAME IS JASMINE ANTA
20:31:59
AND I HAVE A PHD IN ECONOMICS
20:32:02
AND I'M AN ECONOMICS
20:32:05

PROFESSOR AT MILLS COLLEGE IN


20:32:07
OAKLAND.
20:32:07
AS AN ECONOMIST, I WOULD LIKE
20:32:10
TO ADDRESS A FUNDAMENTAL
20:32:10
QUESTION OF IS THERE AN
20:32:13
ECONOMIC CASE FOR INVESTING
20:32:14
IN THIS PROJECT.
20:32:16
THE COAL INDUSTRY IS IN
20:32:19
ECONOMIC DECLINE SHOWING A
20:32:22
SHRINK MARKET, U.S. DEMAND
20:32:24
FOR COAL HAS DECREASED
20:32:26
SHARPLY DUE THE CHEAPER
20:32:28

ALTERNATIVE, OIL AND GAS, THE


20:32:31
INCREASING VIABILITY OF
20:32:36
RENEWABLES, NUMEROUS
20:32:36
SUCCESSFUL ENERGY [INAUDIBLE]
20:32:37
AND TOUGHER REGULATIONS.
20:32:39
THE COAL INDUSTRY IN RESPONSE
20:32:41
HAS TURNED TO EXPORT MARKETS
20:32:42
TO RECOVER BOTH REVENUE AND
20:32:44
IS PROFITS, YET EVEN THESE
20:32:47
MARKETS ARE SHRINKING DUE TO A
20:32:51
GLUT OF GLOBAL SUPPLIES,
20:32:52
[INAUDIBLE] AND THE RECENT
20:32:54

EMERGENCE OF A MUCH MORE


20:32:58
COMPETITIVE LIQUEFIED NATURAL
20:32:59
GAS BUYER'S MARKET.
20:33:01
L AND G PRICES HAVE MORE THAN
20:33:04
[INAUDIBLE] RECENTLY AND
20:33:05
SINCE THEY'RE LINKED TO OIL
20:33:07
PRICES, THEY ARE LIKELY TO
20:33:09
CONTINUE TO PLUMMET AS OIL
20:33:12
PRICES CONTINUE TO FALL.
20:33:14
IN ADDITION, THERE ARE
20:33:16
PLANNED INCREASES IN GLOBAL
20:33:22
AND GPA ABILITY, AND THAT
20:33:24

WILL LEAD TO CONSISTENT


20:33:27
PERSISTENT LOW PRICES FOR
20:33:29
LNG, ANOTHER NAIL IN THE
20:33:31
COFFINED IN THE APPRECIATION
20:33:33
OF THE U.S. DOLLAR WHICH HAS
20:33:36
HURT THE COMPETITIVENESS OF
20:33:37
U.S. COAL EXPORTS.
20:33:38
IN FACT, OVER THE LAST FEW
20:33:41
YEARS, OVER THREE DOZEN COAL
20:33:43
OPERATORS HAVE BEEN FORCED
20:33:44
INTO BANKRUPTCY AND IF YOU
20:33:46
LOOK AT YOUR COAL COMPANY
20:33:50

MARKET CAPITALIZATION, THEY


20:33:51
HAVE LOST OVER 80% OF THEIR
20:33:55
MARKET VALUE SINCE 2011.
20:33:59
THESE FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMIC
20:34:00
REALITIES DEMONSTRATE THE
20:34:01
DOWN SIDE RISKS AND
20:34:03
LIABILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH
20:34:04
INVESTING IN COAL AND I THINK
20:34:06
THE REAL ECONOMIC QUESTION
20:34:07
FOR THE CITY COUNCIL IS THIS,
20:34:09
DOES INVESTING IN A SHORT
20:34:11
TERM OF DEDICATED TO
20:34:13

EXPORTING COAL MAKE GOOD


20:34:14
FINANCIAL USE OF PUBLIC LAND
20:34:18
AND RESOURCES?
20:34:19
THE INVESTMENT OF MILLIONS OF
20:34:22
DOLLARS IN HAVING A PORT
20:34:23
TERMINAL WITH A SPECIFIC AND
20:34:27
SOLE CAPABILITY TO EXPORT
20:34:27
MILLIONS OF TONS OF COAL IS A
20:34:30
POOR INVESTMENT CHOICE.
20:34:31
IT WOULD TIE UP INVESTMENT
20:34:33
FUNDS IN A PROJECT SPECIFIC
20:34:35
VENTURE THAT IS HIGHLY LIKELY
20:34:37

TO BECOME STRANDED.
20:34:39
IT IS UNLIKELY TO SUCCEED AND
20:34:41
MAY WELL END UP AS A
20:34:46
FINANCIAL ALBATROSS, I THINK
20:34:47
IT'S EXPECTED TO LEARN LESSON
20:34:48
FROM THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES
20:34:50
WHICH BUILT A WORLD CLASS
20:34:52
COAL EXPORT FACILITY IN THE
20:34:55
EARLY 90'S, THE FACILITY
20:34:57
CLOSED JUST SIX YEARS AFTER
20:34:59
OPENING DUE TO UNFAVORABLE
20:35:00
MARKET CONDITIONS.
20:35:01

THE CITY OF L.A. HAD TO WRITE


20:35:04
OFF 19 MILLION DOLLARS OF
20:35:06
CAPITAL INVESTMENT AND
20:35:08
FORFEIT 94 MILLION IN
20:35:10
EXPECTED REVENUES, IN
20:35:11
ADDITION, DURING THE SHORT
20:35:13
OPERATIONAL PERIOD, THE
20:35:15
TERMINAL EXPERIENCED FIRES
20:35:17
WITH COAL DUST ACCUMULATING
20:35:19
UNLOADED EQUIPMENT.
20:35:19
DESPITE PROMISES TO THE
20:35:21
CONTRARY, THIS INVESTMENT
20:35:22

WOULD CREATE FEW JOBS, IF YOU


20:35:24
LOOK AT THE ACTUAL ECONOMIC
20:35:26
DATA LIKE A RECENT ECONOMIC
20:35:28
STUDY, WHAT I FOUND IF YOU
20:35:30
TOOK COMPARABLE CARGO OF COMB
20:35:34
VERSUS CONTAINED CARGO VERSUS
20:35:36
BREAK BULK CARGO SUCH AS
20:35:41
MACHINES OR [INAUDIBLE], COAL
20:35:45
HAD [INAUDIBLE] FOR CONTAINER
20:35:46
CARGO AND 420 JOBS FOR THE
20:35:49
BREAK BULK CARGO, SO I WOULD
20:35:50
SAY IN CONCLUSION THAT THE
20:35:52

ECONOMIC PROSPECTS FOR COAL


20:35:55
ARE DISMAL, CHEAPER SUPPLY OF
20:35:57
ALTERNATIVE OF EXPANDING AND
20:36:00
THIS COMBINES WITH POLLUTION
20:36:02
CONSULTS ARE IN AN EVER
20:36:06
SHRINKING MARKET, [INAUDIBLE]
20:36:08
A GREASED NEEDING ONE ARTICLE
20:36:10
TO SUGGEST INVESTORS SHOULD
20:36:11
BE RUNNING AS FAST AS THEY
20:36:13
CAN FROM EVERY COAL STOP IN
20:36:18
EVERY GLOBAL MARKET,
20:36:21
[INAUDIBLE] FUTURE
20:36:22

PROFITABILITY HAVE DROPPED


20:36:23
OVER 80% IN THE LAST FEW
20:36:25
YEARS.
>> THANK YOU.
20:36:27
>> THIS PROJECT WOULD EXPEND
20:36:29
FUNDS FROM SPECIALIZED
20:36:29
EQUIPMENT AND TUNNELS THAT
20:36:31
COULD BE USED PRODUCTIVELY
20:36:32
FOR ALTERNATIVE USES AND LAND
20:36:34
IN WATER POLLUTION IS
20:36:36
INEVITABLE AND COSTLY TO
20:36:36
CLEAN UP AND THE COST OF THE
20:36:38
POLLUTION WOULD BE BORN BY

20:36:41
POOR POLLUTION BANNED
20:36:42
COMMUNITIES.
20:36:42
>> THANK YOU, DOCTOR.
20:36:43
>> FINALLY, WITH THE
20:36:46
FACILITIES FARROW, THE
20:36:48
FINANCIAL REPERCUSSIONS WOULD
20:36:50
CON STAIN FUTURE ECONOMIC
20:36:50
OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FUTURE.
20:36:51
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND
20:36:53
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUBMIT
20:36:55
YOUR WRITTEN COMMENTS, WE
20:36:56
WOULD BE HAPPY TO TAKE THEM.

20:37:03
>> GOOD EVENING, I'M STEVE
20:37:05
[INAUDIBLE] AND I'M SEEDING
20:37:06
MY TIME.
20:37:06
>> THANK YOU.
20:37:09
>> JANET JOHNSON, I'M SEEDING
20:37:15
MY TIME.
20:37:16
>> SESHAWNA REXLER, I'M
20:37:17
SEEDING MY TIME.
20:37:21
>> AND KATHY DERVIN, SEEDING
20:37:22
MY TIME.
>> THANK YOU.
20:37:23
>> AND I'M RICHARD GROW WITH
20:37:25

THE UNITED STATES


20:37:26
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
20:37:27
AGENCY, THE REGIONAL OFFICE
20:37:28
IN SAN FRANCISCO COVERING THE
20:37:31
WESTERN UNITED STATES AND
20:37:34
PACIFIC ISLANDS -- SORE
20:37:38
RISING I'VE BEEN AN AIR
20:37:42
POLLUTION POSTAL FOR 39
20:37:49
YEARS, [INAUDIBLE] I WAS
20:37:50
GOING TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF
20:37:51
THE IMPACTS WE FEEL ARE OF
20:37:53
CONCERN BUT I THINK YOU'RE
20:37:55

HEARING THAT FROM A NUMBER OF


20:37:58
DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, THE
20:37:59
KIND OF BIMETAL ISSUES YOU'RE
20:38:00
HEARING ABOUT HERE HAVE NOT
20:38:02
BEEN SUBJECT TO FEDERAL
20:38:03
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FOR THE
20:38:04
PAST 15 YEAR, FOR THE LAST
20:38:06
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
20:38:08
REGARDING THE OAKLAND ARMY
20:38:09
BASE AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL WAS
20:38:10
CARRIED OUT FROM 1999
20:38:17
TO 2001, THERE WOULD BE AIR
20:38:19

QUALITY CONCERNS LEFT OVER,


20:38:19
IT DID NOT LOOK AT THE KIND
20:38:21
OF ISSUES THAT ARRIVE WITH
20:38:23
THE TRANSPORT AND HANDLING OF
20:38:24
COAL.
20:38:25
WHAT FOLLOWED THE APPROVAL OF
20:38:27
THAT FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL
20:38:28
REVIEW WAS THE STATE CEQA AND
20:38:30
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT
20:38:32
PROCESS WHICH WE FOLLOWED
20:38:33
QUITE CLOSELY, I THINK YOU'RE
20:38:34
AWARE AS THE CITY COUNCIL
20:38:36

APPROVED THE DOCUMENTS IN


20:38:38
2002 AND AGAIN IN 2012, THAT
20:38:42
THOSE DOCUMENTS ALSO DID NOT
20:38:43
GO INTO THESE KIND OF
20:38:45
IMPACTS, THEY WERE NOT THAT
20:38:47
WELL UNDERSTOOD IN 2002 AND
20:38:49
THEY WERE NOT EVEN DISCUSSED
20:38:50
BY THOSE KIND OF IMPACTS,
20:38:52
I'M TALKING ABOUT COAL
20:38:54
RELATED IMPACTS AND ALSO WHAT
20:38:55
I'M HEARING TONIGHT IS MAYBE
20:38:57
A LITTLE BIT OF MUDDLING OF
20:38:59

ISSUE OF THE OAKLAND


20:39:03
REDEVELOPMENT OVERALL, THE
20:39:03
ENVIRONMENTAL FOLKS WE'VE
20:39:04
BEEN WORKING WITH, I HAVE NOT
20:39:06
HEARD OPPOSED TO THAT
20:39:08
DEVELOPMENT.
20:39:09
THE CONCERNS I'M HEARING
20:39:09
RAISED IS ABOUT COAL HANDLING
20:39:11
AND OTHER TOXIC RELATED
20:39:13
ISSUES POTENTIALLY.
20:39:14
WHAT I WOULD WANT TO TOUCH ON
20:39:16
THOUGH, AS THE EIR PROCESS
20:39:18

CONCLUDED IN 2012 WITH AN


20:39:21
ADDENDUM WHICH WAS A
20:39:22
ESSENTIAL SORT OF
20:39:23
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT PROCESS,
20:39:24
ONE THAT WAS NOT SUBJECT TO
20:39:26
PUBLIC REVIEW, UNDER STATE
20:39:27
LOU, THERE WERE STILL SOME
20:39:29
LEFT OVER AIR ISSUES, THE
20:39:33
CONCLUSION OF THAT DOCUMENT
20:39:34
WAS IF THERE WERE AVOIDABLE
20:39:39
AIR QUALITY ISSUES LEFT
20:39:40
OVER, OUR AGENCY AND A NUMBER
20:39:42

OF OTHER HEALTH AND AIR


20:39:45
AGENCIES WERE NOT SATISFIED
20:39:46
OF THAT CONCLUSION THAT THOSE
20:39:49
IMPACTS WERE UNAVOIDABLE, WE
20:39:50
DID NOT AGREE WITH THAT WHICH
20:39:51
LED TO FURTHER DISCUSSIONS
20:39:53
WHICH THIS CITY COUNCIL HAS
20:39:56
HELPED SUPPORT, THEY'VE BEEN
20:39:59
GOING ON FOR NUMEROUS YEAR
20:40:00
WIDTHS THE DEVELOPER, THE CITY
20:40:01
AND OTHER AGENCIES AND THE
20:40:02
COMMUNITY, AND WE'VE
20:40:04

CONTINUED TO DISCUSS AND


20:40:05
TRYING TO RESOLVE THE ISSUES
20:40:08
THAT WERE LEFT OVER IN 2012.
20:40:11
EVEN WITH THOSE LEFT OVER
20:40:13
ISSUES RELATED TO TRUCKS AND
20:40:15
DIESEL AND VARIOUS RELOCATION
20:40:16
OF FACILITIES FROM THE
20:40:18
OAKLAND ARMY BASE, NEVER WAS
20:40:20
COAL HANDLING ON THE TABLE
20:40:21
NOR THE KINDS OF IMPACTS
20:40:23
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE
20:40:23
WHICH IS TO SAY IN OUR VIEW,
20:40:26

THOSE KIND OF IMPACTS HAVE


20:40:27
NOT BEEN SUBJECT TO FEDERAL
20:40:29
OR STATE ENVIRONMENTAL
20:40:30
REVIEW, AT LEAST NOT UNDER
20:40:32
NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
20:40:32
ACT OR THE CALIFORNIA
20:40:34
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT.
20:40:35
I'VE HEARD -- WE ERR HEARING
20:40:37
REFERENCES THERE'S CONTROLS
20:40:38
BEING TALKED ABOUT FROM THE
20:40:41
DEVELOPER'S SIDE.
20:40:41
THAT'S GOOD TO HEAR.
20:40:42

I THINK IF YOU'RE GOING TO


20:40:45
BELIEVE IN CERTAIN CONTROLS,
20:40:45
IT'S IMPORTANT THE KEEP IN
20:40:47
MIND THAT ANY CONTROL HAS TO
20:40:49
BE UNDERSTOOD AND ANALYZED IN
20:40:51
TERMS OF NOT ONLY ITS
20:40:53
EFFECTIVENESS AND ITS SAFETY
20:40:54
BUT IT GOES TO
20:40:55
ENFORCEABILITY, WHO'S GOING
20:40:57
TO ENFORCE THOSE CONTROLS,
20:40:58
IT'S NICE TO HEAR ABOUT THE
20:41:00
CONTROLS BUT WHO'S GOING TO
20:41:01

DO IT, THAT'S WHY WE SAW


20:41:04
FEDERAL PREEMPTION ON THE
20:41:05
TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED
20:41:06
TONIGHT, SOMETHING I CANNOT
20:41:07
RESOLVE BUT I CAN TELL YOU
20:41:09
WE'VE BEEN TALKING TO OUR
20:41:10
SISTER AGENCY AT THE
20:41:12
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,
20:41:13
HOMELAND SECURITY TO TRY TO
20:41:14
GET YOU SOME ANSWERS ON THOSE
20:41:17
ISSUES.
20:41:17
FINALLY I GUESS WHAT I WOULD
20:41:18

LIKE TO OBSERVE, I'VE BEEN


20:41:20
WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE
20:41:21
COMMUNITY OF WEST OAKLAND FOR
20:41:22
THE LAST 13 OR 14 YEARS, THAT
20:41:24
WAS OUR ASSIGNMENT TO DEVELOP
20:41:26
A WORKING PARTNERSHIP WITH
20:41:27
THEM AND WE HAVE.
20:41:29
AND TWO OBSERVATIONS I WOULD
20:41:30
LIKE TO JUST CONCLUDE WITH
20:41:33
IS, ONE, I WANT TO
20:41:35
ACKNOWLEDGE OUR APPRECIATION
20:41:36
FOR THE COMMUNITY OF WEST
20:41:38

OAKLAND ESPECIALLY THE WEST


20:41:43
OAKLAND ENVIRONMENTAL
20:41:43
INDICATOR PROJECT FOR THE
20:41:44
PERIOD OF TIME OF
20:41:46
COLLABORATION AND DISCUSSION
20:41:46
THAT WE'VE SEEN GOING ON FOR
20:41:48
NOT ONLY THE LAST 13 YEARS
20:41:50
BUT THE LAST THREE YEARS TO
20:41:51
DEAL WITH THESE UNRESOLVED
20:41:55
ISSUES, THE RELEVANCE OF THAT
20:41:56
IS YOU HAVE NOT SEEN UP TO
20:41:58
THIS POINT LITIGATION AND
20:41:59

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS TO TIE


20:42:00
THIS UP.
20:42:01
ON THE OTHER HAND, I HAVE TO
20:42:03
SAY IT'S BEEN UNSETTLING TO
20:42:06
FIND MYSELF SURPRISED OR
20:42:07
DISAPPOINTED IN FINDING THAT
20:42:08
SOME OF THE PARTIES WE'VE
20:42:10
BEEN SITTING AROUND WITH TO
20:42:12
RESOLVE THESE ISSUES OVER THE
20:42:14
LAST THREE YEARS, THE LEFT
20:42:15
OVER ISSUES SOME OF THOSE
20:42:18
SAME PEOPLE AT THE TABLE HAVE
20:42:19

BEEN OFF TO UTAH AND OTHER


20:42:21
PARTS TO HAVE COUNTRY TRYING
20:42:23
TO ESTABLISH COAL DEALS AND
20:42:25
COAL CONTRACT, NONE OF THOSE
20:42:26
ISSUES WERE BROUGHT TO THE
20:42:28
TABLE ON OUR DISCUSSIONS, WE
20:42:29
FIND THAT UNSETTLING AND IT'S
20:42:30
NOT ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE GOOD
20:42:31
FAITH OF THE DISCUSSIONS WE
20:42:33
TRIED TO ENGAGE WITH.
20:42:35
USCPA WERE INTERESTED TO PLAY
20:42:37
WHATEVER ROLE IN HELPING
20:42:38

RESOLVE THE KINDS OF ISSUES,


20:42:42
OFFER TECHNICAL EXPERTISE AND
20:42:43
BRING CLARITY TO THEM.
20:42:44
I LEAVE IT THERE.
20:42:45
>> I BELIEVE THERE'S QUESTION
20:42:45
FOR YOU IN THE QUEUE, MS.
20:42:48
BROOKS?
20:42:49
>> I'M SORRY, DOCTOR, DID THE
20:42:53
-- COME BACK.
20:42:55
COME BACK.
20:42:56
>> YOU WILL STAY AT THE
20:42:58
PODIUM, THERE'S A QUESTION
20:42:59

FOR YOU.
20:43:00
>> DID THE EPA ISSUE A LETTER
20:43:02
ON THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT?
20:43:04
>> ON THIS PARTICULAR
20:43:05
PROJECT, WHICH IN FACT IS NOT
20:43:07
ALL THAT CLEAR TO US, WE HAVE
20:43:08
AT THIS POINT SEEN NO DIRECT
20:43:11
REGULATORY -20:43:11
>> MY QUESTION WAS VERY
20:43:15
SPECIFIC, DID THE EPA ISSUE
20:43:16
AN OFFICIAL LETTER ON THIS
20:43:18
PARTICULAR PROJECT?
20:43:19

>> NO, WE HAVEN'T.


20:43:19
>> AND ARE YOU SPEAKING ON AN
20:43:22
OFFICIAL CAPACITY.
20:43:23
>> IM HERE ON BEHALF OF
20:43:25
THE U.S. [INAUDIBLE].
20:43:27
>> ARE YOU HEAR IN AN
20:43:28
OFFICIAL CAPACITY?
20:43:29
>> YES, I AM.
20:43:29
>> AND THERE WAS NO LETTER
20:43:31
ISSUED?
20:43:32
>> THERE'S BEEN DISCUSSION
20:43:32
BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND OUR
20:43:34

MANAGEMENT ON THAT,
20:43:36
MARGARET'S PURSUED THAT, WHAT
20:43:37
YOU GET IS ME.
>> THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
20:43:44
[APPLAUSE].
20:43:47
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, MY NAME IS
20:43:50
BETH WEINBERGER, I REPRESENT
20:43:52
T A, HILA COMMUNITY
20:43:54
SYNAGOGUE, A CONGREGATION OF
20:43:56
MORE THAN 350 HOUSEHOLDS IN
20:43:59
ALAMEDA COUNTY, MANY OF WHOM
20:44:02
LIVE IN OAKLAND, AND WE ARE
20:44:04

HOPING THAT YOU WILL BE


20:44:07
PERSUADED AS WE
20:44:09
ARE BY THE SCIENTIFIC
20:44:10
TESTIMONY THAT HAS BEEN
20:44:13
OFFERED TO YOU ABOUT THE
20:44:16
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS AND THE
20:44:18
HEALTH HAZARDS THAT COAL IS
20:44:22
KNOWN TO CAUSE AND WE ARE
20:44:25
ALSO LEARNING AS WE SEE THE
20:44:29
DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLES AND
20:44:33
CLEANER FUELS THAT A COAL
20:44:34
FACILITY IS REALLY NOT EVEN
20:44:41

ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE
20:44:41
ANYMORE, AND THE ECONOMIC
20:44:43
BENEFITS THAT ARE BEING
20:44:45
[INAUDIBLE] BY OUR OPPONENT,
20:44:47
SO WE ARE HOPING THAT YOU
20:44:50
WILL HEAR OUR CONCERNS ABOUT
20:44:52
THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE
20:44:55
IN OAKLAND, CERTAINLY THE
20:44:57
YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE SEVERELY
20:45:00
IMPACTED BY POLLUTANTS IN OUR
20:45:04
ENVIRONMENT, AND MOVE
20:45:05
ACCORDINGLY.
20:45:05

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.


20:45:07
[APPLAUSE].
>> THANK YOU.
20:45:14
THE NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
20:45:24
>> HI, MY NAME IS KEVIN HOPE
20:45:26
AND I'M REPRESENTING THE AXEL
20:45:28
GOSPEL CHURCH IN THE FAITH
20:45:31
COMMUNITY.
20:45:33
>> ALEJANDRO [INAUDIBLE].
>> JOSE [INAUDIBLE].
>> VICTOR RAMOS.
20:45:42
>> [INAUDIBLE].
>> THANK YOU.
20:45:44
YOU HAVE FIVE MINUTES, SIR.
20:45:45

>> THANK YOU.


20:45:46
FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LIKE TO
20:45:48
THANK EVERYBODY FOR ALL OF
20:45:50
THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS ON TODAY,
20:45:51
WE APPRECIATE ALL OF THE
20:45:53
OPINIONS AND ALL OF THE
20:45:55
RESEARCH THAT'S BEEN GOING
20:45:56
BACK AND FORTH, AMEN.
20:45:59
I JUST REPRESENTING THE FAITH
20:46:01
COMMUNITY WANT TO BRING TO
20:46:05
LIGHT THE TREMENDOUS,
20:46:05
TREMENDOUS CONCERN WE HAVE
20:46:07

WITH THE OPPORTUNITY THAT'S


20:46:09
AVAILABLE FOR US THROUGH
20:46:10
TERMINAL LOGISTIC SOLUTIONS
20:46:12
AND THEIR PROPOSAL TO BRING
20:46:13
THE TERMINAL TO THE OAKLAND
20:46:16
CITY.
20:46:16
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE
20:46:17
NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF WHAT THIS
20:46:19
WOULD DO TO THE WEST OAKLAND
20:46:21
COMMUNITY BUT WE ALSO WANT TO
20:46:22
TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE
20:46:24
POSITIVE AND SOME OF THE
20:46:25

BENEFITS THAT WOULD COME AS


20:46:27
A CONSEQUENCE OF HAVING
20:46:28
SOMETHING LIKE THIS IN OUR
20:46:29
COMMUNITY, I MYSELF REPRESENT
20:46:30
MANY OF THOSE THAT WOULD BE
20:46:32
BENEFITED BY THE MORE THAN
20:46:33
2400 JOBS THAT WOULD BE
20:46:34
BROUGHT TO THE COMMUNITY.
20:46:36
PERSONALLY HAVING WORKED WITH
20:46:37
AT RISK YOUTH IN MANY OF THE
20:46:39
YOUNG MEN IN OUR COMMUNITY, I
20:46:41
REALIZE WHAT A TREMENDOUS,
20:46:43

TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY THIS


20:46:44
WOULD BE TO IMPACT MANY OF
20:46:46
THE PEOPLE OF OUR CITY.
20:46:48
I THINK THE TERMINAL
20:46:50
LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS, WHAT
20:46:51
THEY HAVE BROUGHT TO THE
20:46:53
TABLE, THEY'VE DONE MORE THAN
20:46:54
THEIR DUE DILIGENCE TO
20:46:56
MINIMIZE THE LIABILITIES THAT
20:46:58
COME WITH TRANSPORTING COAL
20:46:59
AND WE DON'T NEGATE THE FACT
20:47:01
THAT THERE ARE RISK FACTORS
20:47:02

AND THERE ARE THINGS TO BE


20:47:04
STRONGLY CONSIDERED, WE THANK
20:47:05
THE SIERRA CLUB AND EVERYBODY
20:47:07
FOR THEIR CONCERNS FOR THE
20:47:09
ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY BUT I
20:47:10
WANT TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THE
20:47:12
BENS OF WHAT HAVING A
20:47:14
TERMINAL LIKE THIS WOULD MEAN
20:47:14
O TO THE CITY OF OAKLAND,
20:47:16
WITH THE JOBS, MANY OF THE
20:47:18
ENTRY LEVEL JOBS THAT WOULD
20:47:19
BE AVAILABLE, THE TRAINING,
20:47:21

THE RECRUITMENT, ALL OF THOSE


20:47:22
THINGS, I WANT THAT TO BE
20:47:25
CONSIDERED IN THIS EQUATION
20:47:26
TONIGHT BECAUSE THERE ARE
20:47:27
MANY, MANY PEOPLE THAT SHARE
20:47:28
THE SAME SENTIMENT AND THERE
20:47:29
ARE MANY HERE TODAY HERE TO
20:47:32
SUPPORT THE TERMINAL LOGISTIC
20:47:35
SOLUTIONS PROJECT FOR THOSE
20:47:37
JOBS.
20:47:37
I REALLY WANT TO EMPHASIZE
20:47:39
AND DRIVE THAT POINT HOME
20:47:41

THAT WE WOULD REALLY


20:47:42
LIKE TO SEE THIS IN OUR
20:47:43
COMMUNITY.
20:47:43
I THINK IT WOULD HAVE A
20:47:45
TREMENDOUS IMPACT AND WOULD
20:47:47
HELP NEWS MANY AREAS, I THINK
20:47:50
THE TERMINAL LOGISTIC
20:47:51
SOLUTIONS PROPOSE SALT, I
20:47:53
THINK THEY'VE DONE MORE THAN
20:47:54
THEIR DUE IT IS A STATE OF
20:47:56
THE ART PROPOSAL THEY'RE
20:47:57
PRESENTING TO US.
20:47:58

I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF


20:47:59
BENEFITS THAT ARE BEING
20:48:01
OVERLOOKED AS IT RELATES TO
20:48:02
THE WELL BEING OF THIS CITY,
20:48:03
SO ON BEHALF OF THE AXEL
20:48:06
GOSPEL CHURCH, MANY OF NEWS
20:48:08
THE FAITH COMMUNITY, AMEN, I
20:48:09
WANT TO THANK YOU GUYS FOR
20:48:11
HEARING US ON TODAY.
20:48:12
>> THANK YOU, SIR.
20:48:13
CAN YOU RESTATE YOUR NAME,
20:48:15
PLEASE.
EXCUSE ME, SIR.

20:48:19
CAN YOU PLEASE RESTATE YOUR
20:48:22
NAME.
20:48:23
>> YES, MY NAME IS KEVIN HOPE.
20:48:26
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR.
20:48:28
HOPE.
>> THANK YOU.
20:48:30
>> WE THANK YOU FOR HOLDING
20:48:32
YOUR JEERS IN BETWEEN THE
20:48:34
SPEAKERS AS REQUESTED, I DO
20:48:37
APPRECIATE THAT.
20:48:38
>> THANK YOU, I'M PASTOR
20:48:40
KEVIN BARNES OF THE
20:48:42

[INAUDIBLE] BAPTIST CHURCH


20:48:42
THIS THE CITY OF OAKLAND.
20:48:47
>> GREGORY [INAUDIBLE]
20:48:49
WELLINGTON SEEDING.
20:48:50
>> ANTHONY ANDERSON SEEDING.
20:48:51
>> I DIDN'T CATCH YOUR NAME.
20:48:55
>> ANTHONY ANDERSON.
20:48:57
>> OKAY, THANK YOU.
>> MARK [INAUDIBLE].
>> BRIANNA MAGICAL.
20:49:05
>> THANK YOU, AGAIN, I'M
20:49:07
PASTOR BARNES OF THE BAPTIST
20:49:09
CHURCH, GOOD AFTERNOON TO ALL
20:49:10

OF YOU.
20:49:11
I STAND HERE RIGHT NOW
20:49:14
REPRESENTING OUR CHURCH AND
20:49:16
ALSO REPRESENTING THE WORD
20:49:18
ASSEMBLY CHURCH, BISHOP KEITH
20:49:20
CLARK, BUT I'M STANDING HERE
20:49:21
IN SUPPORT OF THIS PROJECT
20:49:23
AND THE REASON IS THAT FOR
20:49:25
16 YEARS, WE FED OVER 66
20:49:28
THOUSAND MEALS AT OUR CHURCH,
20:49:31
66 THOUSAND.
20:49:31
I'VE GOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO
20:49:32

SPEAK TO A LOT OF THOSE YOUNG


20:49:35
MEN THAT WERE HUNGRY THAT
20:49:36
DIDN'T HAVE A PLACE TO GO,
20:49:39
DIDN'T HAVE ANYWHERE, NOTHING
20:49:40
TO DO, DIDN'T HAVE A PLACE TO
20:49:41
STAY.
20:49:41
I WAS SPEAKING TO A YOUNG MAN
20:49:42
THE OTHER DAY AND HE'S BEEN
20:49:44
LIVING IN THE PARK FOR FIVE
20:49:46
YEARS, FOR FIVE YEARS AND MY
20:49:48
QUESTION IS, DON'T SOMEBODY
20:49:52
CARE?
20:49:53

I'M NOT AN ENVIRONMENTALIST,


20:49:54
I DON'T KNOW VERY MUCH ABOUT
20:49:56
NONE OF THAT STUFF, OKAY, BUT
20:49:58
I SUPPORT THIS PROJECT
20:49:59
BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT SOME
20:50:01
JOBS COULD COME IN, AND SEE
20:50:05
SOME OF THESE YOUNG MEN THAT
20:50:08
DON'T HAVE ANYTHING, HAVE YOU
20:50:09
HAD TO FEED PEOPLE BEFORE IN
20:50:12
YOUR LIFE?
20:50:13
THE PAIN THAT THEY'RE GOING
20:50:15
THROUGH AND THE HURT THAT
20:50:17

THEY'RE GOING THROUGH, ALL


20:50:18
THEY'RE ASKING FOR IS A
20:50:20
CHANCE.
20:50:20
NRA'S ALL THEY'RE ASKING FOR,
20:50:22
SOMEBODY TO BELIEVE IN ME,
20:50:24
SOME OF THEM HAVE RECORDS,
20:50:25
SOME OF THEM HAVE PRISON
20:50:27
RECORDS THAT NOBODY WANT TO
20:50:28
TAKE A CHANCE TO HIRE THEM.
20:50:31
MY QUESTION IS, ARE SOME OF
20:50:32
YOU GOING TO HIRE THEM, AND I
20:50:33
BELIEVE NONE OF YOU ARE GOING
20:50:34

TO HIRE THEM AND THESE GUYS


20:50:36
ARE LOOKING FOR AN
20:50:37
OPPORTUNITY, THEY WANT A
20:50:38
CHANCE, THEY JUST WANT A
20:50:39
CHANCE, WORK WITH THEM AND
20:50:41
SEE WHAT'S GOING ON, OKAY,
20:50:43
AND I WANT TO SHOUT OUT WITH
20:50:45
YOU, ALL OF THE THINGS THAT
20:50:46
ARE HAPPENING IN OAKLAND, ALL
20:50:48
OF THE YOUNG MEN THAT ARE
20:50:50
BEING KILLED IN OAKLAND, ALL
20:50:51
OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT ARE
20:50:53

BEING DISPLACED, ALL OF THE


20:50:55
YOUNG PARENTS THAT ARE
20:50:56
LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO GIVE
20:50:57
THEM SOME HOPE AND HERE WE
20:51:01
ARE TO GIVE THEM HOPE, CITY,
20:51:05
WE NEED YOUR HELP.
20:51:06
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO HELP US
20:51:10
AND OFTENTIMES, AND I'M GOING
20:51:11
TO STOP RIGHT HERE BECAUSE I
20:51:13
AM A PREACHER, NOT AN
20:51:15
ENVIRONMENTALIST, I'M A
20:51:16
PREACHER AND THAT'S WHAT I
20:51:17

DO, BUT IN THE SAME TOKEN,


20:51:19
I'M GOING TO LEAVE YOU WITH
20:51:20
THIS, YOU MEAN TO TELL ME
20:51:23
WITH ALL OF THIS COCAINE
20:51:25
THAT'S AROUND HERE THAT'S
20:51:27
KILLING OUR YOUNG MEN, YOU'RE
20:51:29
WORRIED ABOUT COAL THAT
20:51:30
PROBABLY WON'T HURT THEM AT
20:51:31
ALL.
20:51:31
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
20:51:41
[APPLAUSE].
20:51:41
>> NEXT FEW SPEAKERS, PLEASE.
20:51:50

>> GOOD EVENING, LADIES AND


20:51:52
GENTLEMEN, OF THE COUNCIL, AL
20:51:54
MARTIAL, CITY OF OAKLAND
20:51:55
CHAPTER PRESIDENT, AS A LABOR
20:51:57
LEADER, I BELIEVE THE DECENT UNION
20:52:00
JOBS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR THE
20:52:01
HEALTH OF OUR COMMUNITY, BUT
20:52:02
BRINGING COAL TRAINS THROUGH
20:52:04
OAKLAND ENDANGERS THE HEALTH
20:52:05
OF OUR WORKERS AND OUR FAMILIES
20:52:07
AND WE DO NOT NEED COAL TO
20:52:09
MAKE THE NEW ARMY DEVELOPMENT
20:52:12

A SUCCESS.
20:52:12
>> JUST A MOMENT, WE PAUSED
20:52:14
YOUR TIME.
20:52:15
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TO
20:52:17
PRESERVE THE SPEAKER'S TIME
20:52:18
AND OUR ABILITY TO HEAR HIM,
20:52:21
PLEASE HOLD YOUR JEERS OR
20:52:23
YOUR CHEERS UNTIL AFTER THE
20:52:24
SPEAKER HAS SPOKEN, IT IS
20:52:26
DISRUPTIVE FOR US BEING ABLE
20:52:29
TO HEAR AND DISRESPECTFUL, WE
20:52:31
WANT EQUAL RESPECT FOR EVERY
20:52:32

SPEAKER.
>> THANK YOU.
20:52:34
I HAVE A 7 YEAR-OLD SON AT
20:52:36
HOME WHO SUFFERS FROM ASTHMA,
20:52:38
DEPENDING ON WHAT DAY THE
20:52:39
WIND BLOWS, I HAVE TO HOOK
20:52:41
HIM UP TO A MACHINE NIGHTLY
20:52:43
TO TRY AND CONTROL IT, SO
20:52:44
THEY SAY AS WE GET OLDER,
20:52:47
SOMETIMES ASTHMA COMES DOWN
20:52:49
AS WE GET OLDER IN LIFE SO,
20:52:50
TODAY WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT
20:52:52
OUR FUTURE.

20:52:52
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
20:52:57
[APPLAUSE].
20:53:07
>> REFINISHER WOOD, I SEED MY
20:53:09
TIME.
>> THANK YOU.
20:53:11
>> SHARON ROSE, I'LL SEED MY
20:53:12
TIME.
>> THANK YOU.
20:53:16
>> SHIA HAMILTON, I'LL SEED
20:53:17
MY TIME.
>> THANK YOU.
20:53:21
>> HELLO THERE, I AM DR. BART
20:53:25
ASTRO, THE FORMER CHIEF OF
20:53:27

THE EPIDEMIOLOGY SECTION FOR


20:53:29
THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL
20:53:30
PROTECTION AGENCY, I WAS THE
20:53:31
HEAD OF THAT OFFICE FOR 25
20:53:35
YEAR, I'M NOW RETIRED FROM
20:53:36
THAT OFFICE AND I HAVE A
20:53:38
POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
20:53:40
UC DAVIS, I WAS RESPONSIBLE
20:53:42
FOR DEVELOPING AIR QUALITY
20:53:43
STANDARDS FOR CALIFORNIA AND
20:53:46
I'VE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
20:53:48
EPA AND THE WORLD HEALTH
20:53:50

ORGANIZATION, I PUBLISHED
20:53:51
OVER 100 PEER REVIEWED
20:53:53
STUDIES ON HEALTH EFFECTS OF
20:53:54
AIR POLLUTION.
20:53:55
I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT
20:53:56
ABOUT THE EXPOSURE AND HEALTH
20:53:58
EFFECTS RELATED TO COAL DUST.
20:54:00
NOW, THE PROPONENTS OF THE
20:54:01
COAL TRAIN ARE STATING
20:54:02
THERE'S GOING TO BE NO PUBLIC
20:54:05
HEALTH IMPACTS TO OAKLAND AND
20:54:07
SPECIFICALLY WEST OAKLAND.
20:54:09

THEY'RE ASKING US TO TRUST


20:54:11
THEM BASED ON PROJECTIONS,
20:54:15
PROTOTYPES AND WIND TUNNEL
20:54:16
EXPERIMENTS BUT THERE'S SOME
20:54:18
STUDIES OUT THERE, NOT VERY
20:54:20
MANY, THERE'S TWO STUDY THAT
20:54:22
IS HAVE NOW BEEN PUBLISHED IN
20:54:24
WASHINGTON BY UNIVERSITY OF
20:54:28
WASHINGTON REGARDING ACTUAL
20:54:30
FREIGHT TRAINS AND
20:54:31
COAL TRAINS COMING INTO THE
20:54:35
COLUMBIA GORGE, THOSE
20:54:37

PUBLISHED STUDIES SAY


20:54:39
CONCENTRATION OF FINE
20:54:40
PARTICLES THAT GET INHALED
20:54:41
INTO THE DEEP LUNG AND ARE
20:54:43
RESPONSIBLE FOR HEART DISEASE
20:54:46
AND RESPIRATORY DISEASE,
20:54:47
THOSE FINE PARTICLES FROM
20:54:53
COAL TRAINS, CONCENTRATIONS
20:54:53
ARE TWICE AS HIGH AS THOSE
20:54:57
FROM FREIGHT TRAINS AND
20:54:58
SPECIFICALLY THEY'RE GOING TO
20:55:01
CONTRIBUTE 21 MICROGRAMS PER
20:55:03

CUBING I CAN METER VERSUS 11


20:55:06
MICRO GRANULES PER CUBIC
20:55:09
METERS, SO TWICE THE AMOUNT,
20:55:11
GIVEN THE TONS OF COAL DUST
20:55:12
THAT WILL BE DEPOSITOR,
20:55:13
HUNDREDS OF TONS IN THE
20:55:14
COMMUNITY, THIS IS A REAL
20:55:16
CONCERN.
20:55:17
NOW, TO PUT THOSE NUMBERS
20:55:20
INTO PERSPECTIVE, 21
20:55:21
MICROGRAMS, THE CURRENT U.S.
20:55:23
AND CALIFORNIA STANDARDS FOR
20:55:25

AN ANNUAL AVERAGE THAT'S


20:55:29
ACCEPTABLE IS 12, THE 24 HOUR
20:55:32
AVERAGE IS 35, SO THE STUDIES
20:55:35
IN WASHINGTON NOT ONLY SHOW
20:55:36
THERE'S AN INCREASE OF 21
20:55:40
MICROGRAMS, THIS IS REAL
20:55:41
STUDY, NOT PROJECTIONS BUT
20:55:43
THERE'S BEEN OCCASIONS WHERE
20:55:46
CONCENTRATIONS WERE ABOVE 75
20:55:48
AND SOME CASES WHERE THEY'RE
20:55:50
AS HIGH AS 200.
20:55:51
THAT WOULD MEAN THAT WOULD
20:55:54

PUT US OUT OF ATTAINMENT FOR


20:55:56
MEETING THE STATE AND FEDERAL
20:55:58
STANDARDS FOR MEETING FINE
20:56:00
PARTICLES.
20:56:01
WHY ARE WE CONCERNED ABOUT
20:56:05
FINE PARTICLES, THE WORLD
20:56:07
ORGANIZATION HAS DETERMINED
20:56:08
THERE'S OVER 3 MILLION DEATHS
20:56:10
PER YEAR WORLDWIDE FROM THESE
20:56:13
FINE PARTICLES AND STUDIES IN
20:56:15
CALIFORNIA SUGGEST ABOUT 15
20:56:16
THOUSAND TO 30 THOUSAND
20:56:17

DEATHS PER YEAR IN CALIFORNIA.


20:56:20
WE'VE CONDUCTED SOME OF THOSE
20:56:23
STUDIES OURSELVES.
20:56:24
BESIDES THESE FINE PARTICLES,
20:56:26
THE COAL DUST WILL INCLUDE
20:56:29
TOXIC HEAVY METALS SUCH AS
20:56:32
ARSENIC, LEAD AND MERCURY AS
20:56:33
YOU HEARD, NOW WHAT ARE THE
20:56:35
HEALTH EFFECTS OF THESE
20:56:37
PARTICLES THAT I'M TALKING
20:56:39
ABOUT, THESE FINE PARTICLES,
20:56:39
STUDIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
20:56:43

HAVE SHOWN THAT EXPOSURES


20:56:46
RELATE TO RELATIVELY MINOR
20:56:48
THINGS LIKE RESPIRATORY
20:56:49
SYMPTOMS BUT THE RANGE OF
20:56:51
HEALTH EFFECTS GO FROM ASTHMA
20:56:56
EXACERBATION, EMERGENCY ROOM
20:56:58
VISITS, HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS,
20:57:00
BIRTH DEFECTS, THINGS LIKE
20:57:02
BIRTH ADVERSE BIRTH OUTCOMES,
20:57:05
THINGS LIKE LOW BIRTHRATE,
20:57:09
PREMATURELY, SPONTANEOUS
20:57:10
ABORTIONS OCCUR AFTER
20:57:12

EXPOSURE AND FINALLY THE


20:57:14
REALLY SERIOUS THINGS,
20:57:15
PREMATURE DEATH FROM THESE
20:57:17
FINE PARTICLES, THESE STUDIES
20:57:18
HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE
20:57:20
MAJOR JOURNALS, THE NEW
20:57:22
ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE,
20:57:23
THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND
20:57:25
THE TOP ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
20:57:26
JOURNALS IN THE WORLD HAVE
20:57:28
PUBLISHED THESE STUDIES AND
20:57:30
MY UNIT IN CALIFORNIA HAS
20:57:33

PUBLISHED THESE STUDIES IN THE


20:57:34
STATE AS WELL, SO THESE
20:57:35
THINGS ARE NOT JUST SOMETHING
20:57:36
THAT'S HAPPENING IN CHINA OR
20:57:38
INDIA BUT THEY'RE HAPPENING
20:57:39
HERE IN CALIFORNIA.
20:57:40
>> THANK YOU, DR., IF YOU
20:57:42
WILL STAY FOR A MOMENT,
20:57:43
THERE'S A QUESTION FOR YOU,
20:57:44
MS. BROOKS?
20:57:44
>> DR. , CAN YOU TELL ME
20:57:46
WHAT'S THE YEAR OF THE
20:57:48

WASHINGTON STATE STUDY?


20:57:49
>> ONE OF THEM IS -- I HAVE
20:57:51
THE PRINTOUT THAT I HAVE
20:57:52
HANDED OUT, I HAVE MORE
20:57:55
COPIES, ONE OF THEM IS 2014,
20:57:57
THAT'S ALREADY PUBLISHED.
20:57:58
>> DO YOU KNOWER THE NAME OF
20:58:00
IT.
20:58:00
>> THE AUTHOR IS JAFFE, AND
20:58:04
IT'S IN THE ATMOSPHERIC
20:58:07
POLLUTION RESEARCH, HE'S A
20:58:08
PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY
20:58:09

OF WASHINGTON, I HAVE HARD


20:58:11
COPIES.
20:58:11
>> IF YOU COULD, THAT WOULD
20:58:12
BE GREAT.
20:58:12
THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO
20:58:14
KNOW, WERE THEY LOOKING AT
20:58:16
RAIL TRANSPORT OF COAL?
20:58:18
>> SPECIFICALLY, THEY WERE AT
20:58:20
THE SITE WHERE THE COAL WAS
20:58:22
GOING TO BE DEPOSITED AT THE
20:58:24
ACTUAL -20:58:26
>> MY QUESTION IS, WAS IT
20:58:27

RAIL TRANSPORT?
20:58:28
>> RAIL TRANSPORT.
>> NOT COVERED?
20:58:31
>> RIGHT, COMPARING FREIGHT
20:58:32
TRAINS TO COAL TRAINS.
20:58:34
>> AND THE WORLD HEALTH
20:58:37
ORGANIZATION STUDY YOU TALKED
20:58:38
ABOUT ON DEATH, WHEN WAS THAT
20:58:40
THAT
20:58:41
>> THAT WAS PUBLISHED TWO
20:58:42
YEARS AGO.
20:58:43
THE LEAD AUTHOR ON THAT IS
20:58:47
LIM, AND IT'S IN LANCET WHICH

20:58:55
IS CONSIDERED THE TOP JOURNAL
20:58:56
IN THE WORLD, IT'S A BRITISH
20:58:58
JOURNAL.
20:58:59
>> ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE
20:59:01
OREGON STUDY?
20:59:02
>> NOT THE OREGON STUDY, JUST
20:59:05
THE WASHINGTON STUDIES.
20:59:07
>> I WAS GIVEN BY THE
20:59:11
ADVOCATE TODAY AN OREGON
20:59:12
STUDY?
20:59:13
>> NO.
20:59:13
I KNOW THERE'S A --

20:59:15
>> MY QUESTION IS WHETHER OR
20:59:15
NOT YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH
20:59:18
THIS?
20:59:19
>> NO.
20:59:19
>> ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.
20:59:20
>> THANK YOU, DOCTOR, IF YOU
20:59:22
WANT TO VENDER THE REST OF
20:59:23
YOUR REMARKS, I KNOW YOUR
20:59:25
TIME LAPSED, WAS THERE JUST A
20:59:27
FEW MORE SENTENCES OR DO YOU
20:59:28
WANT TO GIVE THAT TO THE
20:59:30
CLERK?

20:59:30
>> I'LL FINISH WITH A COUPLE
20:59:31
OF SENTENCES WHICH IS,
20:59:33
THERE'S SOME UNCERTAINTY
20:59:34
ABOUT THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF
20:59:35
COAL DUST THAT WILL BE
20:59:37
DEPOSITED BUT WE'RE SURE THAT
20:59:40
WITHOUT ABSOLUTE CONTROLS
20:59:41
WHICH ARE IMPOSSIBLE, THAT
20:59:43
THERE WILL BE SIGNIFICANT
20:59:44
INCREASES IN COAL DUST AS
20:59:46
I'VE INDICATED PROBABLY ABOVE
20:59:47
THE STANDARDS BUT IT'S ALSO

20:59:49
IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT IN OUR
20:59:51
STUDIES IN WORLD HEALTH
20:59:53
ORGANIZATION STUDIES, EVEN IF
20:59:55
YOU'RE BELOW THAT STANDARD,
20:59:57
THEY'RE INDICATING THERE'S NO
21:00:00
CLEAR THRESHOLD, THE FIRST
21:00:02
COUPLE OF MICROGRAMS WILL
21:00:03
CAUSE HEALTH EFFECTS SO THIS
21:00:05
IS AN ISSUE OF CONCERN, IT'S
21:00:06
GOING TO AFFECT THE PEOPLE OF
21:00:07
OAKLAND.
21:00:08
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH, SIR,

21:00:10
THANK YOU.
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
21:00:17
>> [INAUDIBLE] MOW HAM HAD,
21:00:21
RESIDENT OF WEST OAKLAND, I
21:00:21
HAVE TIME SEEDED TO ME, I
21:00:23
DON'T KNOW WHERE -- THEY JUST
21:00:25
PUSHED THEM OUT, BUT I'LL
21:00:27
KEEP GOING UNTIL THEY GO AND
21:00:33
GET THEM.
21:00:34
PASTOR AGING.
21:00:34
>> IF YOU CAN COME QUICKLY TO
21:00:37
THOSE WHO ARE SEEDING TIME,
21:00:40

PLEASE.
21:00:47
>> JUDY MAGARA.
21:00:50
>> IT'S REALLY HARD TO HEAR
21:00:52
TONIGHT.
>> [INAUDIBLE] WESTBROOK.
>> THANK YOU.
>> CAREY ROACH.
21:00:59
>> LARAN MOHAMMAD.
21:01:03
>> I'M A RESIDENT OF WEST
21:01:05
OAKLAND, I'M BORN, RAISED, WE
21:01:08
OWN PROPERTY THERE, I LIVE
21:01:11
THERE AND I'VE NEVER BEEN
21:01:12
ANYWHERE ELSE EXCEPT FOR
21:01:13
GOING TO SCHOOL, SO IN TERMS

21:01:15
OF ALL OF THE PROBLEMATIC
21:01:19
SITUATIONS THAT WILL GO ON
21:01:23
ABOUT THIS PROJECT AND SOME
21:01:25
OF THE OTHER THINGS WITH ALL
21:01:27
OF THE ASTHMA THAT CAME INTO
21:01:28
WEST OAKLAND, I THINK I'M
21:01:31
REALLY MORE QUALIFIED THAN
21:01:32
THOSE EXPERTS THAT YOU HAD
21:01:34
COME UP HERE BECAUSE I'M AN
21:01:37
ACTUAL BORN AND RAISED NATIVE
21:01:39
TO OAKLAND.
21:01:39
THIS PROJECT I THINK HAS BEEN

21:01:42
GREATLY MISREPRESENTED, NOT
21:01:44
FROM THE STANDPOINT OF TRYING
21:01:46
TO ADVOCATE FOR COAL BECAUSE
21:01:48
THAT'S NOT WHAT IT WAS
21:01:49
BROUGHT TO ME, IT WASN'T
21:01:50
ABOUT COAL, WE WERE TALKING
21:01:52
ABOUT THE TRANSPORTATION OF
21:01:54
COAL BECAUSE FROM MY
21:01:55
UNDERSTANDING, COAL IS NOT
21:01:56
GOING TO BE BURNT THERE,
21:01:58
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE
21:01:59
DIGGING COAL IN WEST OAKLAND

21:02:01
OR NONE OF THAT, OTHERWISE I
21:02:03
WOULD BE AGAINST IT BECAUSE
21:02:05
I'M A WEST OAKLANDER AND I
21:02:06
DON'T PLAN ON GOING ANYWHERE
21:02:10
EVEN THOUGH THE
21:02:11
GENTRIFICATION IS MOVING US
21:02:12
OUT AND THAT'S ANOTHER STORY
21:02:13
AND THAT HAS SOMETHING TO DO
21:02:15
WITH THIS.
21:02:16
THE ADVOCACY THAT COMES UP
21:02:17
HERE, I WOULD HOPE THAT THIS
21:02:19
CITY COUNCIL BECAUSE THAT'S

21:02:22
WHAT IT'S ABOUT, IT'S NOT
21:02:24
ABOUT CHINA, IT'S NOT ABOUT
21:02:26
ALAMEDA COUNTY, IT'S NOT
21:02:28
ABOUT NOBODY ELSE BUT ABOUT
21:02:36
OAKLAND, SO YOU HOPE IT WOULD
21:02:38
OPEN UP TO THE CITY OF
21:02:40
OAKLAND SPECIFICALLY WEST
21:02:40
OAKLAND, SO IN THAT, I'M
21:02:42
GOING TO START SPEAKING.
21:02:46
THE TRANSPORTATION OF THE
21:02:48
COAL BEING COVERED IS VERY
21:02:50
INNOVATIVE.

21:02:50
WHEN I HEAR THE WORD
21:02:53
INNOVATIVE, THAT DON'T MEAN
21:02:54
THE COMMON THINGS THAT HAVE
21:02:56
COME AGENT, THAT'S
21:02:57
PROGRESSIVE AND INNOVATIVE
21:02:57
THAT YOU HAVEN'T SEEN, SO
21:02:58
WHEN I HEAR THE OPPOSITION
21:03:02
TALK ABOUT THE PROJECTED
21:03:05
PLAN, I'M SAYING HOW CAN YOU
21:03:11
HAVE ANYTHING INTELLIGENT TO
21:03:11
SAY ABOUT IT IF IT HASN'T
21:03:14
HAPPENED YET, YOU'RE TALK

21:03:14
YOUNG ABOUT COVERING THE
21:03:16
TRAINS WHICH WOULD LOWER THE
21:03:20
EMISSIONS, RIGHT NOW WE CAN'T
21:03:21
GO OFF OF WIND AND SOLAR
21:03:24
RIGHT NOW, IT IS LIT UP BY
21:03:26
COAL WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR
21:03:28
NOT, THAT'S JUST THE TRUTH OF
21:03:29
THE MATTER SO WHAT WE'RE
21:03:30
TALKING ABOUT IS THE
21:03:32
TRANSPORTATION OF COAL.
21:03:33
IF WE CAN GET RID OF COAL, I
21:03:36
DON'T THINK THEY WESTBOUND

21:03:38
DOING IT BECAUSE THEY'RE
21:03:40
DOING BUSINESS BECAUSE IT
21:03:42
MAKES MONEY, BUT BECAUSE COAL
21:03:43
IS NOT EXEMPT YET, MAYBE SOME
21:03:46
YEARS DOWN THE LOAD, WE HONE
21:03:47
WE CAN WORK THAT WAY TO GET
21:03:49
GREEN BUT RENEWABLES ARE NOT
21:03:50
THE WAY TO GO, IT'S NOT
21:03:52
COMMON USAGE RIGHT NOW, SO
21:03:54
I'M HOPING THAT THIS CITY
21:03:57
COUNCIL WHICH REPRESENTS US,
21:04:02
US, US, RESIDENTS, WOULD

21:04:05
THINK ABOUT US, THE JOB
21:04:07
PUSHING ASPECT OF IT, THE
21:04:08
AVERAGE HOME IN WEST OAKLAND
21:04:10
RIGHT NOW NO MATTER WHAT IT'S
21:04:12
LISTED FOR IS GOING 500
21:04:14
THOUSAND DOLLARS.
21:04:15
WE ARE BEING HAILED, SHIPPED,
21:04:16
BENT OUT OF OAKLAND,
21:04:18
SPECIFICALLY WEST OAKLAND AND
21:04:19
IT'S GOING TOWARDS THE EAST,
21:04:21
BUT WEST OAKLAND, 500
21:04:22
THOUSAND DOLLARS AND UP, SO

21:04:23
PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE
21:04:25
HERE, AND IF THERE'S JOBS
21:04:27
THAT GIVE OUT A LIVABLE WAGE
21:04:29
AND WHAT IS A LIVABLE AGE?
21:04:31
A LIVABLE WAGE IS WHERE
21:04:32
YOU'RE ABLE TO LIVE THERE SO
21:04:36
IT'S NOT $12.25, SO I LOVE MY
21:04:39
BROTHERS FROM ILWU BUT THEY
21:04:41
STAND TO WORK THERE, WHETHER
21:04:42
THEY LIKE IT OR NOT, THEY'RE
21:04:43
GOING TO WORK THERE AND KEEP
21:04:45
MAKING THAT 100 THOUSAND

21:04:46
DOLLARS A YEAR, BUT THE
21:04:48
TEACHERS HERE CAN'T WORK
21:04:49
HERE, MEN WHO HAVE BEEN DOING
21:04:52
SOCIAL WORK PROBABLY
21:04:52
[INAUDIBLE] MORE THAN ANYBODY
21:04:53
IN HERE.
21:04:54
I CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE HERE
21:04:56
EXCEPT THAT I ALREADY GOT MY
21:04:57
STAKE IN THE GROUND, SO I'M
21:05:00
WORRIED ABOUT MY PEOPLE, SO I
21:05:01
WOULD HOPE YOU WOULD PUT THE
21:05:03
OAKLANDERS FIRST INSIDE OF

21:05:04
THIS OAKLAND ISSUE.
21:05:06
THANK YOU.
21:05:08
[APPLAUSE].
21:05:09
>> THANK YOU, SIR.
21:05:13
IF YOU'LL HAVE THE SPEAKERS
21:05:14
TO BEGIN TO STAND IN THE
21:05:16
CENTER AISLE AS YOU PREPARE
21:05:17
TO SPEAK WITH THOSE WHO ARE
21:05:18
SEEDING TIME WITH YOU.
21:05:27
>> GOOD EVENING.
21:05:33
>> [INAUDIBLE] I'M SEEDING MY
21:05:36
TIME.

21:05:37
>> TOMPKINS?
21:05:38
>> [INAUDIBLE].
21:05:39
>> THANK YOU, SIR.
21:05:44
>> HELLO, LAURA NASKIN.
21:05:46
>> MY NAME IS GERALD AGGIE,
21:05:50
I'M THE PASTOR OF [INAUDIBLE]
21:05:52
THE PASTORS OF OAKLAND, I
21:05:55
HAVE DR. RUSSELL DULY HERE
21:05:57
WHO IS THE FIRST
21:05:59
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE PASTORS
21:06:01
OF OAKLAND, THE PASTORS OF
21:06:03
OAKLAND IS IN COMPLETE

21:06:06
SOLIDARITY IN SUPPORT OF THIS
21:06:09
PROJECT.
21:06:09
WERE NOT AGAINST ANY ONE,
21:06:12
WE HAVE FRIENDS ON BOTH SIDES
21:06:15
TO HAVE ISSUE SO WE'RE NOT
21:06:16
AGAINST ANYBODY BUT WE ARE IN
21:06:18
SUPPORT OF THIS PROJECT.
21:06:19
ONE OF OUR MAIN CONCERNS WAS
21:06:25
THE SAFETY OF TRANSPORTING
21:06:27
COAL THROUGH OAKLAND AND
21:06:31
AFTER EXTENSIVE CONVERSATIONS
21:06:32
WITH JERRY BRIDGES AND SOME

21:06:34
OF THE STAFF, WE WERE
21:06:36
CONVINCED THAT THEY HAVE DID
21:06:38
EVERYTHING THAT THEY POSSIBLY
21:06:41
COULD TO MITIGATE MOST OF THE
21:06:44
RISKS OF TRANSPORTING COAL IF
21:06:46
THAT WAS THE CASE THROUGH THE
21:06:48
CITY OF OAKLAND AND SO MY
21:06:52
QUESTION WAS, OKAY, WELL, IF
21:06:55
WE CAN MITIGATE EVERY CONCERN
21:06:58
THAT WE WOULD HAVE, COULD THE
21:07:00
CITY ATTORNEY DRAFT UP A
21:07:02
CONTRACT THAT IS ENFORCEABLE

21:07:07
WITH THE COMPANY SO THAT IN
21:07:09
THE EVENT THAT WHAT WAS
21:07:11
PROMISED IS NOT DONE, THEN
21:07:13
THERE WOULD BE SOME KIND OF
21:07:16
MITIGATING REPERCUSSIONS OR
21:07:17
SOME WAY THAT YOU COULD
21:07:18
SOLVER IT THROUGH THE LEGAL
21:07:20
PROCESS AND IF THE CITY
21:07:22
ATTORNEY COULD DO THAT, THAT
21:07:24
WOULD ANSWER ALL OF OUR
21:07:26
CONCERNS WHETHER IT IS SAFE
21:07:29
TO TRANSPORT COAL THROUGH THE

21:07:31
CITY OF OAKLAND, IT BEING
21:07:33
COVERED IN THE -- THE CAR'S
21:07:36
BEING COVER, THE DEPOSIT
21:07:37
WHERE THEY ARE DEPOSITING IT
21:07:39
BEING COVERED AND THEN
21:07:43
TRANSFERRING IT FROM THE
21:07:49
DEPOSITORS INTO THE SHIPS
21:07:51
BEING COVERED, THAT WOULD
21:07:52
ANSWER ALL OF OUR CONCERNS.
21:07:53
THAT WAS THE FIRST THING.
21:07:54
THE SECOND THING IS WE
21:07:56
UNDERSTOOD THERE WAS CLIMATE,

21:07:58
YOU KNOW, ISSUES AND GLOBAL
21:08:02
WARMING AND WE'RE CONCERNED
21:08:03
ABOUT THAT ALSO AND WE WOULD
21:08:05
LOVE TO SEE AT SOME POINT US
21:08:10
GO GREEN AND CLEAN ENERGY
21:08:12
USE, BUT RIGHT NOW, FROM ALL
21:08:15
OF THE EXPERTS WE TALKED TO,
21:08:17
IT WILL TAKE ABOUT 50, 60
21:08:20
YEARS BEFORE WE ACTUALLY NO
21:08:26
LONGER USING COAL OR
21:08:27
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCE, SO
21:08:28
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE MEANTIME,

21:08:30
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
21:08:32
IS THE SECOND BIGGEST USER OF
21:08:34
COAL, SO WHAT HAPPENS IF WE
21:08:36
JUST STOPPED USING COAL, SO
21:08:38
IT'S GOING TO BE USED UNTIL
21:08:40
WE COME UP WITH ALTERNATIVE
21:08:42
RESOURCES OR SOURCES FOR
21:08:44
OTHER ENERGY, AND SO THAT WAS
21:08:46
A CONCERN, SO OUR LAST
21:08:50
CONCERN WAS, OKAY, WE ARE
21:08:52
CONCERNED ABOUT GLOBAL
21:08:55
WARMING AND GREENHOUSE GASES,

21:08:56
WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT,
21:08:58
AND AT SOME POINT IF WE DON'T
21:09:00
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, THEN
21:09:01
IT WILL BE DAMAGING TO THE
21:09:04
ENTIRE PLANET.
21:09:05
WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT,
21:09:06
BUT WE ALSO HAVE A RIGHT NOW
21:09:09
ISSUE WITH FOLK THAT COME TO
21:09:11
OUR CHURCHES THAT CAN'T STAY
21:09:12
IN OAKLAND BECAUSE THEY CAN'T
21:09:14
AFFORD HOUSING AND THIS IS AN
21:09:16
ANSWER TO SOME OF THOSE

21:09:18
ISSUES IN CREATING JOBS THAT
21:09:21
MAKE LIVABLE WAGES AND
21:09:22
STAYING IN OAKLAND POSSIBLE,
21:09:23
SO WE HAVE A RIGHT NOW
21:09:25
CONCERN AND THAT'S OUR FOLK
21:09:27
THAT'S COMING TO OUR CHURCHES
21:09:29
AND MANY OF THEM ARE TELLING
21:09:33
US TERRIBLE STORIES OF BEING
21:09:35
PUSHED OUT OF THEIR PLACES OF
21:09:37
STAYING BECAUSE THEY CAN GET
21:09:39
MORE -- THE LANDLORDS CAN GET
21:09:42
MORE MONEY FOR RENT, SO

21:09:44
THAT'S A PROBLEM, THAT'S
21:09:45
A RIGHT NOW PROBLEM, THAT'S A
21:09:46
PROBLEM WE LOOK AT AND WE
21:09:48
DEAL WITH ALL THE TIME,
21:09:50
PEOPLE WITH KIDS CRYING AND
21:09:53
AFRAID, BEING TERRORIZED BY
21:09:56
GREED, BY GREED, SO I
21:10:01
STRONGLY ENCOURAGE THIS
21:10:03
COUNCIL TO CONSIDER WHAT'S
21:10:05
HAPPENING IN THIS CITY FOR
21:10:09
THE PEOPLE.
21:10:09
WE'RE SUPPORTING IT AND WE'RE

21:10:11
ASKING YOU TO ALSO SUPPORT
21:10:12
THE PROJECT.
21:10:13
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
AMBASSADORS -- [APPLAUSE].
21:10:21
>> AMBASSADORS, WE ARE
21:10:25
BEGINNING TO SEAT IN BOTH THE
21:10:27
GALLERIES, SO THOSE OF YOU
21:10:28
WHO ARE IN THE HEARING ROOMS
21:10:32
COULD MAKE YOUR WAY INTO THE
21:10:37
ROOM, I APPRECIATE YOU
21:10:38
RELEASING THE SEATS IN THE
21:10:40
CHAMBERS TO ALLOW THOSE

21:10:41
PEOPLE IN THE HEARING ROOMS
21:10:43
CAN BEGIN TO ENTER INTO THE
21:10:46
CHAMBERS TO HAVE THEIR TURN
21:10:47
ON THE MICROPHONE, THANK YOU
21:10:49
FOR HOLDING YOUR CHEERS AND
21:10:52
YOUR JEERS AND RESPECTING
21:10:54
CONSIDERATION TO THE SPEAKERS.
21:10:55
>> I HAVE ONE PERSON SEEDING
21:10:57
TIME, HEATHER HARRIS.
21:10:59
>> THANK YOU, GOOD EVENING,
21:11:02
I'M DEREK MOHAMMAD, WEST
21:11:04
OAKLAND RESIDENT, I REPRESENT

21:11:06
THE WEST SHOREMEN AND WE ARE
21:11:11
OPPOSED TO COAL COMING TO
21:11:12
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.
21:11:13
I WANT TO MAKE A DISTINCTION,
21:11:16
SOME VOLES ARE TRYING TO
21:11:18
CONVOLUTE THIS, WE WELCOME
21:11:20
THE TERMINAL, WE'RE OPPOSED
21:11:22
TO THE COAL.
21:11:23
I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT WE
21:11:25
CAN'T SELL OUR SOUL FOR A JOB.
21:11:29
ALL MONEY AIN'T GOOD MONEY.
21:11:32
NOW, WE KNOW DOPE DEALING

21:11:34
REPRESENTS EMPLOYMENT FOR
21:11:35
SOME PEOPLE AND I'M USING
21:11:37
THIS AS AN EXAMPLE,
21:11:39
PROSTITUTION REPRESENTS
21:11:40
EMPLOYMENT FOR SOME PEOPLE,
21:11:41
BUT WE KNOW THAT THESE FORMS
21:11:44
OF EMPLOYMENT ARE DETRIMENTAL
21:11:46
TO THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF
21:11:48
THE ENVIRONMENT, TO THE
21:11:49
HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE
21:11:52
PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY, AND
21:11:53
SO IT IS WITH COAL AND THE

21:11:55
HANDLING OF IT, IT'S
21:11:56
DETRIMENT TO THE HEALTH AND
21:11:57
SAFETY OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE
21:12:00
IN THAT COMMUNITY AND ANY
21:12:02
BENEFIT IS FAR OUT WEIGHED BY
21:12:05
ITS DETRIMENT.
21:12:06
I'M ALSO CAUTIOUS, I
21:12:07
WANT TO CAUTION
21:12:08
THE BOARD IF I MAY BECAUSE
21:12:10
ALL WE'VE HEARD IS
21:12:13
SELF-REPORTING, AND BY
21:12:13
SELF-REPORTING, WHAT I MEAN

21:12:14
IS AN INDIVIDUAL OR A GROUP
21:12:17
OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE AN
21:12:19
INTEREST IN A PRODUCT.
21:12:21
THEY COME TO YOU TELLING YOU
21:12:22
HOW GOOD THAT PRODUCT IS
21:12:25
WITHOUT ANY VERIFICATION,
21:12:27
WITHOUT ANY DOCUMENTATION OR
21:12:30
CONFIRMATION.
21:12:30
SHOULD WE BELIEVE THEM
21:12:32
WITHOUT THE ISSUE BEING
21:12:34
DOCUMENTED?
21:12:34
HOW CAN WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE

21:12:36
TELLING THE TRUTH?
21:12:39
MITIGATION ONLY MEANS TO
21:12:40
LESSEN THE IMPACT OF A THING,
21:12:43
IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU
21:12:45
ABSOLUTELY ALLEVIATE, SO THE
21:12:47
QUESTION IS, BY WHAT DEGREE
21:12:50
ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT THEIR
21:12:51
PROCESS WOULD MITIGATE THE
21:12:53
IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT?
21:12:55
BECAUSE IF YOU SAY, WELL, YOU
21:12:57
KNOW, USUALLY 90% OF THE
21:12:59
PEOPLE WILL COME DOWN WITH

21:13:02
CANCER, BUT THROUGH OUR
21:13:04
PROCESS, MAYBE ONLY 85% OF
21:13:05
THE PEOPLE WILL COME DOWN
21:13:06
WITH CANCER.
21:13:07
IS THAT INTELLIGENT, SHOULD
21:13:09
WE FOLLOW THAT LINE OF
21:13:11
THINKING?
21:13:11
NO.
21:13:11
VERY QUICKLY, I WANT TO READ
21:13:13
SOME OF THE IMPACTS OF COAL
21:13:15
IN THE COMMUNITY AND WHAT IT
21:13:19
CONTAINS.

21:13:20
HEAVY METALS INCLUDING
21:13:24
ARSENIC, LEAD, MERCURY,
21:13:27
CHROMIUM, SELENIUM, BARIUM,
21:13:30
COBALT, NICKEL, ZINC.
21:13:33
>> MR. MOHAMMAD, DO YOU HAVE
21:13:35
ANOTHER PERSON SEEDING YOU
21:13:36
TIME?
21:13:37
>> CAN I GET ANOTHER MINUTE.
21:13:43
>> AESHA CLOTY.
21:13:44
>> AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER
21:13:46
THINGS THAT I CAN'T EVEN
21:13:48
PRONOUNCE, SOME OF US.

21:13:50
IF EATEN, DRANK OR INHALED,
21:13:53
THESE TOXICANTS CAN CAUSE
21:13:55
CANCER AND NERVOUS SYSTEM
21:13:57
IMPACTS SUCH AS COG ANY CANT
21:14:01
DEFICIT, DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS
21:14:02
AND BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS, THEY
21:14:04
CAN ALSO CAUSE HEART DAMAGE,
21:14:07
LUNG DISEASE, RESPIRATORY
21:14:09
DISTRESS, KIDNEY DISEASE,
21:14:10
REPRODUCTIVE PROBLEMS, GAS
21:14:13
ROW INTESTINAL ILLNESS, BIRTH
21:14:15
DEFECTORS AND IMPAIRED BONE

21:14:16
GROWTH IN CHILDREN.
21:14:18
JUST ADJACENT TO THE PORT OF
21:14:21
OAKLAND IS A BLACK COMMUNITY,
21:14:22
A BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD THAT
21:14:24
ALREADY SUFFERS FROM THE
21:14:26
HIGHEST LEVEL OF ASTHMA IN
21:14:28
ALL OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
21:14:30
I THINK THEY HAVE HAD ENOUGH,
21:14:33
SO NO TO COAL.
21:14:38
THANK YOU.
21:14:40
>> THANK YOU.
[APPLAUSE].
21:14:45

>> SIR, ARE YOU SPEAKING FOR


21:14:47
OR AGAINST THE PROPOSITION OF
21:14:49
COAL?
21:14:50
YES, YOU?
21:14:51
>> AGAINST.
21:14:51
>> OKAY, THANK YOU FOR TRYING
21:14:52
TO MAKE SURE WE STAY EVEN
21:14:55
HERE.
21:14:56
AND DO YOU HAVE PEOPLE
21:14:57
SEEDING TIME TO YOU.
21:14:58
>> YEAH, I HAVE ONE PERSON.
21:14:59
>> IF THAT PERSON WILL COME
21:15:01

FORWARD, THANK YOU.


21:15:06
>> GOOD AFTERNOON F, CITY
21:15:09
COUNCIL, MY NAME IS
21:15:10
CHRISTOPHER [INAUDIBLE], I'M
21:15:13
A FOURTH GENERATION
21:15:18
[INAUDIBLE] IN THE ILW FAMILY
21:15:25
HAVE HAN LED CARGO MANY THE
21:15:27
PORT OF OAKLAND IN SAN
21:15:28
FRANCISCO SINCE 1934, I
21:15:30
APPRECIATE YOU HEARING MY
21:15:31
TESTIMONY TODAY AND WE HAVE
21:15:32
BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THE
21:15:34

OPPORTUNITY TO HANDLE CARGO


21:15:35
ON THE SIDE OF THE OAKLAND
21:15:38
ARMY BASE OAKLAND GLOBAL.
21:15:40
WE FULLY SUPPORT THE BUILDING
21:15:43
OF A BULK EXPORT FACILITY SO
21:15:45
LONG AS IT IS USED FOR CARGOS
21:15:48
THAT ARE SAFE AND
21:15:49
FINANCIALLY VIABLE IN THE
21:15:51
LONG TERM.
21:15:52
COAL IS WRONG FOR OUR
21:15:54
COMMUNITY AND OUR DOCKS.
21:15:57
OUR NEIGHBORS IN OAKLAND
21:15:58

ALREADY DEAL WITH HIGH


21:16:00
EMISSIONS, ASTHMA, AS WELL AS
21:16:03
MANY OTHER CONCERNS.
21:16:05
THE COMMUNITY DOES NOT WANT
21:16:07
OR NEED 9 MILLION TONS OF
21:16:09
COAL ADDED TO THEIR LIST OF
21:16:12
WORRIES AND HEALTH CONCERNS.
21:16:14
I URGE THE CITY AND THE
21:16:16
DEVELOPERS TO COMMIT TO A NO
21:16:19
COAL PLEDGE, WE CAN'T GO
21:16:20
WRONG WITH SAYING NO TO COAL.
21:16:24
THINK ABOUT IT, THERE ARE
21:16:29

MANY MORE AVAILABLE DOCK


21:16:29
SPACE IN THE UNITED STATES
21:16:34
WITH A WHOLE CONTINENT'S
21:16:35
WORTH OF PRODUCT TO EXPORT
21:16:37
AND THE WHOLE WORLD WANTING
21:16:39
TO BUY THOSE PRODUCTS.
21:16:42
THIS MAKES OUR LIMITED PORT
21:16:47
SPACE INCREDIBLY VALUABLE, WE
21:16:48
NEED COAL TO PASS THROUGH THE
21:16:51
DOCKS, JUST DOESN'T PASS WITH
21:16:52
A STRAIGHT FACE.
21:16:55
IF THE DEVELOPERS KEEP
21:16:56

LOOKING FOR BETTER CARGOES TO


21:16:58
EXPORT, THEY WILL FIND THEM,
21:17:00
BETTER AND SAFER CARGO THAT
21:17:03
IS WE HAVE HANDLED ARE GRAIN,
21:17:09
SALT, STEEL, GRAVEL, POTASH
21:17:10
AS WELL AS MANY OTHER BULK
21:17:17
COMMODITY, THEY ARE MORE
21:17:19
FINANCIALLY STABLE THAN COAL
21:17:21
ALSO, THIS COMMUNITY NEEDS
21:17:22
GOOD JOBS BUT WE DON'T NEED
21:17:24
COAL TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
21:17:28
AS THE ILW SAYS, AN INJURY TO
21:17:31

ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL, SO


21:17:33
SAY NO TO COAL AND THAT'S THE
21:17:34
WAY IT IS.
21:17:35
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
21:17:37
>> MR. PECKER, IF WE WILL GO
21:17:40
AND HEAR FROM THE -21:17:41
>> WE DIDN'T -- MADAM
21:17:43
PRESIDENT, WE DIDN'T SEED
21:17:44
TIME TO EACH OTHER, WE JUST
21:17:46
HAVE FIVE MINUTES, BETWEEN
21:17:47
THREE OF US, WE HAVE FIVE
21:17:49
MINUTES.
21:17:49

>> OKAY, I SEE WHAT YOU'RE


21:17:51
SAYING, NOT QUITE THE WAY
21:17:52
WE'VE BEEN DOING IT, WE'VE
21:17:54
BEEN DOING WIT THE SEEDED
21:17:55
TIME AND THE FIVE MINUTES AND
21:17:57
TRYING TO KEEP THE TALLY WITH
21:17:58
A EACH OF THE THREE SPEAKERS.
21:18:00
>> SO I'M TAKING ONE MINUTE.
21:18:03
>>BACKER
21:18:03
>> ONE MINUTE TO YOU.
21:18:04
>> THANK YOU, GO AHEAD.
21:18:06
>> SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE
21:18:08

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DISTRICT


21:18:10
COUNCIL OF THE ILW.
21:18:11
>> I'M NOT HEARING YOU IN THE
21:18:13
MICROPHONE.
21:18:13
>> FRED PECKER SPEAKING ON
21:18:15
BEHALF OF THE NORTHERN
21:18:16
CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF THE ILW
21:18:20
REPRESENTING THE LOCALS OF
21:18:21
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, SOME WHO
21:18:23
HANDLE COAL, THE MEMBERSHIP
21:18:24
IN THE BAY AREA HAS MADE A
21:18:26
STRONG STATEMENT THEY DO NOT
21:18:27

WANT TO HANDLE COAL IN THE BAY


21:18:30
AREA, WE STOOD FOR YEARS FOR
21:18:32
BETTER, CLEANER AIR QUALITY
21:18:33
IN WEST OAKLAND, WITH THE
21:18:34
COMMUNITY, MYSELF AND MY
21:18:37
LOCAL, LOCAL 6, HAVE SAT IN
21:18:40
THE LONG PROCESS OF
21:18:41
DEVELOPING THE WEST OAKLAND
21:18:42
ARMY BASE AND HAVING IT GO
21:18:44
FORWARD IN A GOOD MANNER.
21:18:47
DURING THAT LONG PROCESS, WE
21:18:49
FOUGHT FOR GOOD JOBS COMING
21:18:50

INTO THE PORT, THERE WAS


21:18:51
NEVER A QUESTION ABOUT A BULK
21:18:55
TERMINAL PROVIDING GOOD JOBS
21:18:56
TO THE COMMUNITY AND IT WILL
21:18:58
PROVIDE GOOD JOBS TO THE
21:18:59
COMMUNITY BUT WE WERE
21:19:00
PROMISED AT THE ONSET OF THIS
21:19:02
BY THE DEVELOPERS THAT THERE
21:19:03
WAS PLENTY OF PRODUCTS THAT
21:19:05
COULD COME THROUGH THAT PORT
21:19:07
WITHOUT USING COAL, AND WE
21:19:08
KNOW THAT THAT IS STILL TRUE
21:19:10

AND THE JOBS THAT WE HAVE WE


21:19:12
SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY AND
21:19:14
THIS IS OUR TROJAN HORSE, SO
21:19:19
PLEASE, NO COAL.
[APPLAUSE].
21:19:24
>> GOOD EVENING, I WANT
21:19:27
[INAUDIBLE] GREG [INAUDIBLE],
21:19:28
I'M GOING TO GIVE MY SEED TO
21:19:31
MY REVEREND RIGHT HERE.
21:19:36
>> [INAUDIBLE].
21:19:37
>> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL,
21:19:43
I'M PASTOR ROBERT RAINS, I
21:19:44
HAVE TO AGREE WITH ONE OF THE

21:19:46
GENTLEMAN, HE SAID ALL MONEY
21:19:47
IS NOT GOOD MONEY, HE'S RIGHT
21:19:49
BUT WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU
21:19:50
HAVE NO MONEY, WE'RE DEALING
21:19:52
WITH PEOPLE COMING TO US WITH
21:19:54
NO JOBS, SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE
21:19:56
WE'RE FACING AND DEALING WITH
21:19:57
EVERY DAY WOULD ARE IN
21:19:59
EXTREMELY DI. SITUATIONS
21:20:00
THERE IN EAST OAKLAND.
21:20:01
I WAS BLESSED TO BE BORN AND
21:20:03
RAISED IN OAKLAND BY TWO

21:20:05
BEAUTIFUL PARENTS, MY FATHER
21:20:06
WAS A SCHOOL TEACHER FOR
21:20:08
FRUITVALE ELEMENTARY AND
21:20:09
OTHER SCHOOL, DURING THE
21:20:10
SUMMERTIME, WE WORKED IN THE
21:20:12
CANNERY AND HE ALSO WAS A
21:20:18
MATRE D AT THE CLAREMONT
21:20:22
HOTEL, MANY PEOPLE ARE
21:20:24
HOMELESS AND HUNGRY, EVEN AT
21:20:24
THE CHURCH, WE HAVE A FOOD
21:20:27
FEEDING MINISTRY FEEDING
21:20:28
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE EACH WEEK,

21:20:29
WE DO A HEALTH AND JOB FAIR
21:20:32
BECAUSE I'M CONCERNED ABOUT
21:20:33
HEALTH AND EVERYTHING I'VE
21:20:34
STUDIED ABOUT THIS PROJECT,
21:20:35
THIS IS A CUTTING EDGE
21:20:39
PROJECT, EVERY ENVIRONMENTAL
21:20:41
ISSUE HAS BEEN ADDRESSED,
21:20:42
MORE PERMITS HAVE BEEN TAKEN
21:20:44
OUT FOR THIS THAN
21:20:45
ANY OTHER PROJECT, MORE MONEY
21:20:48
IS BEING SPENT TO BUILD THIS
21:20:49
PROJECT TO MAKE IT SO THAT

21:20:51
IT'S ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE IN
21:20:52
OUR COMMUNITY.
21:20:53
WHAT I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU
21:20:55
IS THAT IT'S DIFFICULT TO
21:20:58
FACE PEOPLE DAY-TO-DAY AFTER
21:20:59
PROMISES HAVE BEEN MADE THAT
21:21:03
WE'RE COMING TO EAST OAKLAND,
21:21:04
WE'RE GOING TO HELP YOU OUT,
21:21:05
WE'RE GOING TO HELP THE
21:21:07
PEOPLE.
21:21:07
WELL, THE PEOPLE ARE IN WORSE
21:21:10
CONDITION THAN IT'S EVER BEEN,

21:21:11
WE HAVE YOUNG PEOPLE
21:21:12
LIVING IN THE STREETS,
21:21:14
PEOPLE LIVING IN ALL
21:21:16
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLACES
21:21:17
WHERE YOU HAVE -- IT'S NOT A
21:21:19
HOLE, THE BOTTOM LINE IS
21:21:20
THEY'RE LIVING IN VERY, VERY
21:21:23
DIFFICULT CONDITIONS.
21:21:24
WE NEED AN ECONOMIC BOOST IN
21:21:26
OAKLAND, THE CITY NEEDS A
21:21:30
BOOST, THIS PROJECT I BELIEVE
21:21:32
WILL NOT ONLY HELP ALL OF

21:21:36
OAKLAND BUT MANY JOBS WITH
21:21:37
ROLL OFF THIS PROJECT.
21:21:39
THE ISSUE THAT WE'RE FACING
21:21:41
TODAY AND I APPRECIATE OUR
21:21:43
COUNCIL, I APPRECIATE GOOD
21:21:45
LEADERSHIP, BUT WHAT WE'RE
21:21:46
FACING IS A LOT OF PEOPLE
21:21:48
ARE STRUGGLING, THIS IS NOT
21:21:49
OAKLAND AS IT USED TO BE, MY
21:21:51
FATHER WAS BLESSED, HE WAS
21:21:53
ABLE TO GET THREE JOBS, MY
21:21:55
MOTHER WORKED HARD TO DO ALL

21:21:58
THAT SHE DID, BUT THE ISSUE
21:21:59
NOW IS PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING,
21:22:01
CHILDREN ARE HUNGRY, WE'RE DEALING
21:22:03
WITH THE PEOPLE EVERY DAY
21:22:04
THAT COME TO US, YOUNG MEN
21:22:06
DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL
21:22:07
BECAUSE THEY FEEL LIKE THEY
21:22:08
HAVE NO HOPE.
21:22:09
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU DON'T
21:22:12
HAVE A JOB, WHEN YOU CAN'T
21:22:14
MAKE A LIVING, YOU CAN'T FEED
21:22:16
YOUR CHILDREN, IT'S DIFFICULT

21:22:16
FOR YOU, WHAT DO YOU DO, WHAT
21:22:18
DO YOU TURN TO?
21:22:20
WHAT OTHER ALTERNATIVES DO
21:22:22
YOU HAVE?
21:22:22
SO, WE SEE THE CRIME, WE SEE
21:22:24
THE VIOLENCE, IT BOTHERS ME
21:22:25
TO SEE SO MANY ECONOMICALLY
21:22:30
IN GRAVE CONDITIONS HERE
21:22:31
FIGHTING THE ISSUE, I
21:22:32
WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME OF
21:22:34
THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS, WHAT I
21:22:35
WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE IS

21:22:36
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE
21:22:37
STRUGGLING AND WE HAVE TO
21:22:39
DEAL WITH IT EVERY DAY.
21:22:40
IT BREAKS MY HEART TO HAVE TO
21:22:42
GO TO A FAMILY AND TAKE MONEY
21:22:44
OUT OF MY POCKET SO THAT THE
21:22:45
CHILDREN CAN BE BLESSED.
21:22:46
WE DO ALL THE PROJECTS IN THE
21:22:48
MINISTRY TO BLESS FAMILIES
21:22:50
WHO CAN'T PAY FOR THEMSELVES,
21:22:52
YES, I'VE HEARD SOME OF THE
21:22:54
SPEAKERS TALK ABOUT THE

21:22:54
DROUGHT.
21:22:55
YES, WE DO HAVE A DROUGHT,
21:22:57
BUT THE REAL DROUGHT IN
21:22:59
OAKLAND IS JOBS.
[APPLAUSE].
21:23:16
>> [INAUDIBLE].
21:23:19
>> JUAN ORTIZ.
21:23:20
>> SIR, CAN YOU REPEAT THOSE
21:23:21
NAMES FOR ME.
21:23:23
THEY DIDN'T SPEAK -21:23:26
>> SESIL AND JUAN ORTIZ.
>> AND MY NAME IS SERINIUS
21:23:39
FOUR.

21:23:40
I REPRESENT NEW BERT CHURCH
21:23:41
TODAY, AS ONE OF THE LOCAL
21:23:44
PASTORS.
21:23:44
I'M ALSO A CONSULTANT WITH
21:23:46
THE FOUR GROUP, I DO BUSINESS
21:23:47
HERE IN OAKLAND AS WELL.
21:23:51
TODAY I COME AS ONE WHO IS
21:23:55
GOING TO SUPPORT THE TLS
21:23:58
PROJECT FOR THE SIMPLE FACT
21:24:00
THAT AS WE COME INTO OAKLAND,
21:24:02
WE'VE BEEN IN OAKLAND, MY
21:24:03
CHURCH HAS BEEN IN OAKLAND

21:24:05
NOW FOR FIVE YEARS, AND
21:24:07
WITHIN THOSE FIVE YEARS, I'VE
21:24:09
SEEN WITH MY OWN EYES SOME OF
21:24:11
THE STRUGGLES THAT THE URBAN
21:24:13
POVERTY AREAS ARE DEALING
21:24:14
WITH ON A DAY BY DAY BASIS,
21:24:16
SO WHAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO
21:24:17
IS TO COME UP WITH DIFFERENT
21:24:19
PROJECTS AND PLANS ON HOW TO
21:24:21
EDUCATE OUR KIDS, EDUCATE OUR
21:24:23
MILL LEN YAWLS AND PREPARE
21:24:25
THEM FOR A BETTER FUTURE,

21:24:27
I'M NOT HERE TODAY TO REALLY
21:24:29
GET DEAL INTO THE COAL
21:24:31
EXPERIENCE, I'M FROM WEST
21:24:33
AFRICA ORIGINALLY AND COAL
21:24:34
WAS ALL AROUND ME.
21:24:35
IF YOU LOOK AT ME, I SURVIVED
21:24:39
THAT.
21:24:39
IT DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO MY
21:24:42
LUNGS AND THE MINE WAS ABOUT
21:24:44
12 BLOCKS FROM MY HOUSE BUT
21:24:47
IT TOOK FOREIGN ENTITIES TO
21:24:50
COME INTO MY ENTITY AND DIG

21:24:53
INTO THOSE MINES, LIBERIA IS
21:24:56
NOTICED FOR THE PURE RUBBER
21:24:58
THAT YOU DRIVE TODAY, THEY
21:24:59
HAVE A PLAN TO MY COUNTRY,
21:25:01
NOT ONLY DO THEY HAVE THAT,
21:25:03
BUT THE SWEDISH ORGANIZATION
21:25:09
IN COLLABORATION WITH MATTEL
21:25:10
STEEL ARE DIGGING IN THE COAL
21:25:12
MINES RIGHT THERE AND THEY
21:25:15
HAVE CREATED AN ECONOMIC
21:25:16
SOCIETY THAT HAS MADE IT
21:25:17
POSSIBLE FOR SOME OF US TO

21:25:20
GET AN EDUCATION, TO SLEEP ON
21:25:22
MATTRESSES, THE OWN OUR OWN
21:25:24
HOMES, THE REASON I'M HERE
21:25:25
TODAY GUYS IS SIMPLE, AMERICA
21:25:27
AFFORDED ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO
21:25:28
COME AND WITH EVERY GREAT
21:25:30
ENDEAVOR IN THIS COUNTRY THAT
21:25:31
I'VE COME TO UNDERSTAND,
21:25:32
THERE'S ALWAYS A FIRST AND AS
21:25:34
LONG AS WE CONTINUE TO DEAL
21:25:35
WITH FIRST, WE HAVE SUCCEEDED
21:25:38
IN SUCCEEDING

21:25:39
GREAT FIRSTS, THIS COUNTRY
21:25:40
HAS SEEN MANY GREAT FIRSTS,
21:25:42
THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT IS
21:25:43
THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN
21:25:46
OAKLAND, IN JANUARY, MADAM
21:25:47
PRESIDENT, I HEARD THE MAYOR
21:25:49
SAY THAT WE ARE GOING TO DO
21:25:51
THREE THINGS, WE'RE GOING TO
21:25:54
FIGHT IGNORANCE WHICH IS THE
21:25:57
FIGHT AGAINST EDUCATION OR
21:25:59
THE LACK THEREOF, WE'RE GOING
21:26:00
THE DEAL WITH POVERTY, WHICH

21:26:02
IS SOMETHING THAT OAKLAND HAS
21:26:03
BEEN SUFFERING FOR THE LAST
21:26:06
FIVE TO -- 7 TO 5 YEARS WITH
21:26:08
WE LOOK AT THE RECORD FROM
21:26:10
17% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, WE GOT
21:26:12
IT DOWN TO LIKE 6.2 BUT THE
21:26:14
AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY
21:26:16
SUFFERS THE HIGHEST LEVEL,
21:26:17
WEST AND EAST OAKLAND, NOT
21:26:19
ONLY THAT, SHE ALSO SAID,
21:26:20
MADAM PRESIDENT, THAT SHE WAS
21:26:21
GOING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT

21:26:23
BRINGING SAFETY AND GOOD
21:26:24
HEALTH TO OUR COMMUNITIES.
21:26:25
WELL, TODAY I'M HERE TO
21:26:27
SIMPLY SAY IF THAT'S THE CASE,
21:26:31
THEN WE WANT TO HEAR
21:26:33
EVERYBODY ACCOUNTABLE.
21:26:34
I KEEP HEARING EVERYBODY
21:26:35
SAYING IT'S IN OUR BACKYARD,
21:26:38
THE COMMUNITY OF OAKLAND
21:26:39
DOESN'T HAVE A BACKYARD, THE
21:26:41
WAY WE SOUND IS THE SAME
21:26:43
GANGSTERS WE'RE TRYING TO

21:26:45
FIGHT AND TAKING OWNERSHIP OF
21:26:47
PROPERTIES ACROSS OUR STREET,
21:26:48
WE'RE OWN NOTHING, SO I
21:26:50
SUPPORT THE PROJECT, THANK
21:26:53
YOU.
21:26:54
>> THANK YOU.
[APPLAUSE].
21:27:06
>> GAIL TREVOR, THANK YOU.
>> JANICE [INAUDIBLE].
>> THANK YOU.
21:27:13
>> HELLO, KATRINA BOOKER.
21:27:14
>> ILW -21:27:15
>> IF YOU WILL BRING THE MIC.
21:27:17

DOWN SO EVERYBODY CAN HEAR


21:27:19
YOU, THANK YOU
21:27:20
>> I'VE BEEN A LONG SHOREMAN
21:27:22
GOING ON 11 YEARS AND I KNOW
21:27:25
EVERYBODY HAS SPOKEN, THE
21:27:29
ENGINEERS, DOCTORS, PASTORS,
21:27:29
BUT I HAVE TO SAY THAT I'M
21:27:31
AGAINST THE COAL COMING IN TO
21:27:34
OAKLAND.
21:27:34
AND MY REASON IS BEFORE I
21:27:36
BECAME A LONG SHORE MAN, I
21:27:38
WAS A NURSE IN AN EMERGENCY
21:27:40

ROOM FOR 17 YEARS I HAD THE


21:27:42
OPPORTUNITY TO DEAL WITH ALL
21:27:45
THE ASTHMA, THE BRONCHITIS,
21:27:47
THE LUNG CANCERS, ALL THE
21:27:48
THINGS THE COAL IS GOING TO
21:27:50
END UP CAUSING IN OAKLAND,
21:27:51
RIGHT NOW WEST OAKLAND HAS
21:27:53
ONE OF THE HIGHEST RATES OF
21:27:57
BREATHING DISORDERS
21:27:58
ESPECIALLY AMONG YOUNG
21:27:58
CHILDREN BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE
21:28:01
INTER STEEL THAT'S DOWN THERE
21:28:02

AT THE PORT OF OAKLAND WHERE


21:28:04
THEY CRUSH UP ALL THE CAR AND
21:28:06
IS BUSES, AND THERE'S
21:28:08
PARTICLES OF METAL AND IF AT
21:28:10
NIGHT YOU LOOK, THERE'S A
21:28:12
HAZE OVER THERE, AND WHEN THE
21:28:14
WIND BLOWS, WHERE DO YOU
21:28:15
THINK IT BLOWS?
21:28:19
RIGHT OVER TO WEST OAKLAND
21:28:20
AND YOU HAVE THOSE TRUCK
21:28:21
DRIVERS THAT ARE IDLE AND
21:28:23
WAITING THERE AND YOU SEE THE
21:28:26

[INAUDIBLE] FROM THE SHIPS,


21:28:27
YOU HAVE ALL THE EQUIPMENT TO
21:28:28
OPERATE DOWN THERE AT THE
21:28:30
PORT OF OAKLAND, SO ALL OF
21:28:32
THAT IS CARBON MONOXIDE, YOU
21:28:35
HAVE ALL THESE FUMES FILLING
21:28:37
UP, SO THESE FOLKS ALREADY
21:28:38
HAVE A HARD TIME DEALING
21:28:40
WITH THE ISSUE, NOW
21:28:41
YOU'RE BRINGING IN COAL THAT
21:28:43
CAUSES CANCER, NOT ALREADY ON
21:28:44
TOP OF WE'RE GIVING THEM A
21:28:46

HARD TIME TO BREATHE, NOW YOU


21:28:48
WANT TO INTRODUCE ANOTHER
21:28:50
TOXIN ON TOP OF THAT, SO
21:28:52
WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE
21:28:53
SUPPOSED TO GO?
21:28:55
THEY SAID THERE'S NO JOBS BUT
21:28:57
HUMAN LIVES MATTER, NOT JUST
21:28:59
JOBS, SO AGAIN, I HAVE THE
21:29:00
OPPORTUNITY TO WORK OUT OF
21:29:02
THE STOCKTON PORT WHICH WE
21:29:04
ACTUALLY UNLOAD THE COAL
21:29:05
FROM THE SHIPS AND THIS IS
21:29:07

WHAT NO ONE HAS SPOKEN ABOUT,


21:29:09
SO WHEN THE COAL COMES OFF THE
21:29:12
SHIPS ON TO THE CONVEYER
21:29:15
BELTS, YOU HAVE THE MOST DUST
21:29:17
THERE, AND THERE ARE HOLES IN
21:29:20
THE CONVEYER BELT BECAUSE
21:29:21
THEY COME AND RATTLE AND
21:29:24
SHAPE ALL THE WAY UP TO WHERE
21:29:26
THEY'RE GOING, US WORKERS, WE
21:29:27
CLEAN UP THE SPILLS ON THE
21:29:30
SIDE OF THE CONVEYER BELT ALL
21:29:32
A I LONG THE WAY AND I HAVE
21:29:33

HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO


21:29:34
THAT, SO WHEN I WORK, I HAVE
21:29:37
TO WEAR MY MASK, WHICH THAT
21:29:39
DOESN'T KEEP THE COAL OUT, SO
21:29:40
AT THE END OF THE DAY, MY
21:29:43
EYES ARE BURNING IN RED, I
21:29:46
GET NOSEBLEEDS WHEN I GO
21:29:48
HOME, I GET HEADACHES, IT'S
21:29:50
HARD FOR ME TO BREATHE
21:29:53
BECAUSE I'VE ALREADY ENTAILED
21:29:54
THAT IN MY LUNGS SO MY CHEST
21:29:57
FEELS HEAVY, SO I CHOOSE NOT
21:29:59

TO WORK THE COAL WHEN I WORK


21:30:00
IN STOCKTON, THAT IS ONE JOB
21:30:02
THAT I WILL NOT DO AND IT'S
21:30:04
NOT ABOUT THE MONEY, IT'S
21:30:05
ABOUT I'M A MOTHER OF
21:30:07
CHILDREN, IF I'M NOT HEALTHY,
21:30:08
WHO'S GOING TO TAKE CARE
21:30:09
OF MY KIDS BUT WE HAVE TO
21:30:11
THINK ABOUT PEOPLE'S HEALTH
21:30:13
AND SAFETY, IT'S NOT ALWAYS
21:30:15
ABOUT THE MONEY, LIVES DO
21:30:17
MATTER AND A HEALTHY LIFE AT
21:30:19

THAT, SO IF OAKLAND'S GOING


21:30:20
TO BE RESPONSIBLE WHEN YOU
21:30:21
HAVE THE LIST OF PEOPLE THAT
21:30:22
ARE GOING TO BE SIGNING UP TO
21:30:25
BE PUT ON FOR HEALTH BENEFITS
21:30:27
BECAUSE OF ALL THE DISEASES
21:30:28
THEY HAVE GOTTEN AND HEALTH
21:30:30
CONDITIONS, WHO'S GOING TO
21:30:30
TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR
21:30:31
THAT?
21:30:31
>> THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
21:30:38
[APPLAUSE].

21:30:46
>> I'M KATE LEDGER, I SEED MY
21:30:49
TIME.
21:30:49
>> SAY YOUR NAME ONE MORE
21:30:51
TIME.
21:30:52
>> I'M KATE LEDGER, I SEED MY
21:30:56
TIME.
21:30:57
>> KATE?
21:30:59
>> CATHERINE LEDGER.
21:31:00
>> I DON'T KNOW WHY IT'S SO
21:31:02
DIFFICULT TO HEAR PEOPLE
21:31:03
TONIGHT.
21:31:04
THANK YOU.

21:31:05
>> MY NAME IS QAMAY AND I'M A
21:31:10
FATHER, I'M A GRANDFATHER AND
21:31:13
I'M AN OAKLAND RESIDENT AND
21:31:15
I'M HERE BECAUSE I'M A
21:31:17
CONCERNED CITIZEN AS WELL,
21:31:18
AND WHAT I WANT TO DO FIRST
21:31:19
OF ALL IS TO SAY THAT I DON'T
21:31:22
SEE THE LOSS OF JOBS IN NOT
21:31:26
TRANSPORTING COAL, I DON'T
21:31:27
THINK THOSE ISSUES ARE ON THE
21:31:29
SAME TABLE.
21:31:29
NOBODY SAID WE DON'T WANT

21:31:31
JOBS, NO ONE IS SAYING WE
21:31:33
DON'T SUPPORT THE PORT
21:31:35
PROJECT.
21:31:35
THE ONLY ISSUE IS WE DON'T
21:31:37
THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO
21:31:39
TRANSPORT COAL AND I'LL TELL
21:31:40
YOU WHY, BECAUSE I REMEMBER
21:31:41
WHEN THE WATER IN SAN
21:31:44
FRANCISCO BAY WAS BLUE.
21:31:45
I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS BLUE
21:31:47
AND I REMEMBER WHEN THEY HAD
21:31:49
THEIR FIRST MAJOR OIL SPILL

21:31:50
IN THE BAY, I WAS ABOUT 8
21:31:53
YEARS OLD AND HUNDREDS OF
21:31:54
THOUSANDS OF CRUDE OIL GOT
21:31:55
SPILLED IN THE BAY, AT THAT
21:31:57
TIME, ALL OF THE PERCUSSIONS
21:32:00
WERE IN PLACE WHEN THAT TANK
21:32:02
LEAKED THAT OIL AND ABOUT 7,
21:32:04
8 YEARS LATER, THERE WAS
21:32:06
ANOTHER BIG OIL SPILL AND NOW
21:32:09
THE WATER IS TOTALLY
21:32:10
DIFFERENT AND MY CHILDREN AND
21:32:13
MY GRANDCHILDREN DON'T KNOW

21:32:14
BLUE WATER IN THE DAY, THEY
21:32:16
DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAD
21:32:18
PRIOR TO THOSE INCIDENTS AND
21:32:20
ANYBODY WHO'S TALKED ABOUT
21:32:22
HEALTH AND SAFETY AND WE HAVE
21:32:23
ALL THESE HEALTH AND SAFETY
21:32:25
CONCERNS, CAN ANYONE COME UP
21:32:26
HERE AND SAY THAT TEN YEARS
21:32:28
DOWN THE ROAD, WE'RE GAINING
21:32:29
TO HAVE AN INCIDENT OF
21:32:30
SOMETHING LIKE THAT, OR A
21:32:32
MAJOR INCIDENT WILL HAPPEN

21:32:33
AND THAT THERE WOULD BE SOME
21:32:35
KIND OF PROBLEM ASSOCIATED
21:32:37
WITH THE TRANSPORTATION OF
21:32:38
COAL, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY
21:32:39
CAN SAY THAT AND WHO'S
21:32:41
GOING TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
21:32:42
FOR IT?
21:32:43
I AM BECAUSE I'M GOING TO
21:32:44
COME HERE TONIGHT AND SAY AS
21:32:47
LOUD AS I CAN, WE DON'T
21:32:49
WANT THAT.
21:32:49
I CAN'T TAKE THE CHANCE ON

21:32:50
THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF MY
21:32:53
CHILDREN AND MY GRANDCHILDREN.
21:32:54
THE RISK IS NOT WORTH IT TO
21:32:56
ME.
21:32:56
I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO
21:32:57
HAPPEN DOWN THE ROAD WITH A
21:32:59
PROJECT LIKE THIS WITH THE
21:33:02
TRANSPORTATION OF COAL AND IT
21:33:04
WILL NOT KEEP DEVELOPING JOBS
21:33:05
IN OAKLAND.
21:33:06
THE PROJECT CAN MOVE FORWARD,
21:33:07
WE CAN DEVELOP JUST AS MANY

21:33:09
JOBS IN THIS PROJECT WITHOUT
21:33:11
THIS COMMODITY, SO LET'S STOP
21:33:14
PRETENDING IT'S ABOUT COAL
21:33:15
VERSUS JOBS, IT'S NOT COAL
21:33:17
VERSUS JOBS, IT'S NOT THAT,
21:33:19
SO LET'S BE CLEAR, IF WE'RE
21:33:20
GOING TO SAY THE HEALTH AND
21:33:23
SAFETY IS A PRIORITY, DON'T
21:33:24
DO IT.
>> THANK YOU.
21:33:31
>> IF WE'RE GOING TO SAY
21:33:32
WORK AND SAFETY IS A
21:33:34

PRIORITY, DON'T DO IT.


21:33:34
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH, SIR.
21:33:37
>> NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
[APPLAUSE].
21:33:43
>> I HAVE TWO PEOPLE SEEDING
21:33:45
TIME.
21:33:46
>> ERICA EDLSON, I SEED MY
21:33:50
TIME.
21:33:51
>> NATALIE BURNS, SEEDING MY
21:33:52
TIME.
21:33:52
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, MY NAME IS
21:33:55
PAUL ENGLISH, PUBLIC HEALTH
21:33:57
RESEARCHER WITH OVER 25 YEARS

21:33:59
OF EXPERIENCE IN ASSESSING
21:34:01
THE IMPACTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
21:34:03
EXPOSURES INCLUDING AIR
21:34:04
POLLUTION.
21:34:05
WE'VE BEEN HEARING A LOT
21:34:08
ABOUT JOBS AND PEOPLE HAVE
21:34:10
BEEN SPEAKING ELOQUENTLY
21:34:11
ABOUT THAT.
21:34:12
THE ISSUE IS, OKAY, WHAT IS
21:34:15
THE COST OF HAVING THESE
21:34:17
TYPES OF JOBS, AND I'M GOING
21:34:19
TO SAY THERE'S AN ECONOMIC

21:34:22
ARGUMENT THAT GOES AGAINST
21:34:24
DOING THIS PROJECT.
21:34:25
WE'RE GOING TO BE SEEING
21:34:28
INCREASED -- WHAT I'VE BEEN
21:34:29
SEEING IS THIS IS ONE OF THE
21:34:33
HIGHEST AREAS THAT HAS
21:34:34
EMERGENCY ROOM VISITORS, WHAT
21:34:37
WE'VE BEEN HEARING FOR ASTHMA
21:34:39
AND FOR HOSPITALIZATIONS, WHO
21:34:41
PAYS FOR THESE, THESE ARE
21:34:42
UNINSURED CHILDREN, WE ALL
21:34:44
PAY THE COSTS OF CHILDREN

21:34:46
GOING TO THE E.R. AND GOING
21:34:49
TO THE HOSPITAL, WE AS A
21:34:51
SOCIETY PAY THAT COST, SO
21:34:52
IT'S NOT JUST THAT YOU'RE
21:34:53
GOING TO BE GETTING JOBS,
21:34:55
THERE'S GOING TO BE AN
21:34:57
ECONOMIC COST, SO I'M GOING
21:34:59
TO TALK ABOUT OTHER ECONOMIC
21:35:00
COSTS.
21:35:01
NOW, THIS IS ESSENTIALLY AN
21:35:03
ISSUE OF FAIRNESS AND
21:35:05
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.

21:35:07
COAL DUST EXPOSURES IS GOING
21:35:08
TO BE ADDING POLLUTION TO AN
21:35:11
AREA THAT'S ALREADY
21:35:13
DISPROPORTIONATELY BURDENED
21:35:15
AND THEY'VE ALREADY SUFFERED
21:35:16
LONG STANDING HEALTH RISKS.
21:35:18
THIS HAS -- THIS AREA IN WEST
21:35:20
OAKLAND HAS SOME OF THE
21:35:22
HIGHEST POLLUTION BURDEN IN
21:35:23
THE STATE, SOME WORK THAT I
21:35:25
DID AND MY COLLEAGUES SHOWED
21:35:27
WEST OAKLAND HAD THE MOST

21:35:29
VISITS FOR ASTHMA TO
21:35:31
CHILDREN AND ACCOMPANYING
21:35:33
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS SHOWED THE
21:35:36
HIGHEST COSTS IN THE COUNTY
21:35:38
OCCURRED IN THIS REGION,
21:35:41
ADDING COAL DUCT EXPOSURE
21:35:43
WILL ADD TO PEOPLE ALREADY
21:35:47
[INAUDIBLE] HEALTH CARE
21:35:48
COSTS, THESE CHILDREN WILL
21:35:49
SUFFER FROM A FURTHER LOSS OF
21:35:51
LUNG FUNCTION FOR INHALING
21:35:53
LOW LEVELS OF COAL DUST.

21:35:55
OKAY, THE CALIFORNIA EPA HAS
21:35:59
ALREADY READ PATER OF WEST
21:36:02
OAKLAND AS BURDENED BY
21:36:04
POLLUTION, CENSUS TRACT IS AT
21:36:06
THE 78TH PERCENTILE FOR
21:36:07
OVERALL POLLUTION BURDEN.
21:36:09
TWO MORE POINTS, THERE WAS
21:36:11
THE ISSUE ABOUT WATER, I'M
21:36:12
GOING TO BRING UP WATER AGAIN.
21:36:14
THE POTENTIAL FOR FIRE
21:36:15
EXPLOSION DURING A TERMINAL
21:36:17
PROCESS AND STORAGE STAGE IS

21:36:19
REAL AND THESE CAN OCCUR WHEN
21:36:21
THE CONCENTRATIONS ARE HIGH
21:36:22
ENOUGH AND THERE'S AN
21:36:24
IGNITION SOURCE AND OXYGEN,
21:36:25
THEY MUST SHOW HOW THE
21:36:29
SUSPENSION HAS TO BE BELOW
21:36:31
25%, WHAT DO YOU DO WITH
21:36:34
WATER MISSING, IN VANCOUVER
21:36:36
BRITISH COLUMBIA WHICH IS THE
21:36:37
LARGEST COAL TERMINAL IN THE
21:36:40
MIDWEST, THE WATER COSTS ARE 1.5
21:36:43
MILLION PER YEAR AND THIS

21:36:45
DOESN'T SEEM A GOOD
21:36:46
INVESTMENT AT THE TIME OF
21:36:48
DROUGHT.
21:36:48
AND I WOULD ECHO THE PREVIOUS
21:36:49
SPEAKERS THAT ARE TALKING
21:36:51
ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE THAT'S
21:36:52
BEEN CALLED THE BIGGEST
21:36:55
GLOBAL THREAT IN THE 21ST
21:37:02
CENTURY, HEALTH EFFECTS
21:37:05
WILL BE HAPPENING WITH THE
21:37:06
CONTINUATION OF THE BURNING
21:37:07
OF FOSSIL FUELS AND THIS

21:37:09
GOES AGAINST THE COUNCIL'S
21:37:13
OWN RESOLUTION EXPORTING THE
21:37:14
FOSSIL FUELS -21:37:15
>> IF YOU CAN STATE YOUR NAME
21:37:19
AGAIN.
>> PAUL ENGLISH.
21:37:21
>> AS A RESEARCHER, HAVE YOU
21:37:23
LOOKED AT THE AIR IMPACT
21:37:24
QUALITIES AROUND THESE OTHER
21:37:26
PORTS WHERE COAL IS CURRENTLY
21:37:27
BEING SHIPPED AND WHETHER OR
21:37:29
NOT IT'S HAVING AN IMPACT ON
21:37:31

THE -21:37:32
>> I THINK MY COLLEAGUE, DR.
21:37:35
BART [INAUDIBLE] PREVIOUSLY
21:37:36
ADDRESSED THAT.
21:37:39
>> SO, IN STOCKTON IN RICHMOND.
21:37:40
>> I THINK THE WASHINGTON
21:37:42
STUDY IS MY RECOLLECTION.
21:37:43
>> THANK YOU, AND DO YOU
21:37:44
KNOW WHETHER OR NOT THE
21:37:46
TECHNOLOGY THAT IS BEING
21:37:47
PROPOSED TO USE BY TLS IS
21:37:49
CURRENTLY IN USE AND HAS
21:37:50

THERE BEEN ANY STUDIES WITH


21:37:52
RESPECT TO THE COVERING?
21:37:53
>> THERE'S BEEN STUDIES -21:37:55
COAL COVERING IS NOT BEING
21:37:57
USED ANYWHERE IN THE U.S., SO
21:38:00
THERE'S NO DATA AND THE DR.
21:38:03
CALLED THE COMPANIES WHO DID
21:38:04
THE COAL COVERS AND THEY
21:38:05
COULD PROVIDE THEM WITH NO
21:38:07
DATA ABOUT HOW MUCH DUST IS
21:38:09
ESCAPING FROM THOSE CARS.
21:38:10
>> THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE IT.
21:38:13

THAT'S THREE SPEAKERS


21:38:13
AGAINST, IF WE CAN HAVE -21:38:15
>> I'M SORRY, COULD YOU HAVE
21:38:17
THE SPEAKER COME BACK, PLEASE.
>> MR. ENGLISH?
21:38:20
>> DO YOU KNOW THEN WHAT
21:38:22
THEY'RE REFERRING TO THE OREGON
21:38:24
REPORT ON PAGE 8 WITH RESPECT
21:38:25
TO THE COMPANY STATES THE
21:38:27
PROPER APPLICATION OF TOPPER
21:38:29
GRANT AGENTS REDUCES THE DUST
21:38:31
LEVELS BY 85%
21:38:34
>> ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

21:38:39
SURFACTANTS THAT ARE APPLIED?
21:38:40
>> THIS IS WHAT THE REPORT
21:38:43
SAYS.
21:38:43
>> NO, I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH
21:38:44
THAT REPORT.
>> THANK YOU.
21:38:46
>> MR. GALLO?
21:38:47
>> MR. ENGLISH, IF YOU WOULD
21:38:50
STAY?
21:38:51
>> SINCE YOU'RE ONE OF THE
21:38:53
EXPERTS, THERE'S BEEN REFERENCE
21:38:54
MADE THAT THE LEVEL OF
21:38:56

QUALITY OF COAL THAT IS GOING


21:38:59
TO PERHAPS BE TRANSPORTED TO
21:39:02
OAKLAND IS AT THE HIGHEST
21:39:03
QUALITY LEVEL.
21:39:04
CAN YOU SPEAK TO HOW MANY
21:39:06
QUALITIES OF COAL ARE THERE?
21:39:08
>> I CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT.
21:39:10
I MEAN, COAL DUST IS
21:39:11
CONSIDERED AS A HEALTH
21:39:14
HAZARD, SO IN MY OPINION, IT
21:39:15
DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE
21:39:16
QUALITY OF THE COAL IS.
21:39:19

>> THANK YOU, MR.


21:39:20
GALLO.
21:39:21
THAT WAS THE THIRD SPEAKER
21:39:24
AGAINST THE TRANSPORT OF
21:39:25
COAL, IF WE CAN HAVE THE NEXT
21:39:27
THREE SPEAKERS COMING FROM
21:39:31
THE PRO SIDE.
21:39:34
>> [INAUDIBLE] SANDERS, I
21:39:34
SEED.
>> THANK YOU.
21:39:37
>> [INAUDIBLE] CUSHION,
21:39:39
SEEDING.
>> JENNIFER LANG.
21:39:44

>> DORIAO, [INAUDIBLE].


>> THANK YOU.
21:39:48
>> AND YOUR NAME?
21:39:50
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, I'M
21:39:54
CATHERINE FLOYD, I'M WITH THE
21:39:56
LAW FIRM IN WASHINGTON DC,
21:40:01
MADAM CHAIRWOMAN AND
21:40:02
COUNCILMEMBER, I APPRECIATE
21:40:02
THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH
21:40:03
YOU TODAY AND I WANTED TO
21:40:05
FIRST DESCRIBE A BIT ABOUT MY
21:40:07
BRAQUE GROUND.
21:40:08
I'M A TRANSPORTATION LAWYER,

21:40:11
I'VE PANTED IN THE AREA FOR
21:40:12
OVER 20 YEARS AND I'M HERE
21:40:15
TODAY TO SPEAK WITH YOU ABOUT
21:40:17
THE CONCEPT OF FEDERAL
21:40:18
PREEMPTION, IT WAS MENTIONED
21:40:20
IN EARLIER STATEMENTS AND I
21:40:21
WANTED TO DELVE INTO IT IN
21:40:23
SOME DETAIL FOR YOU.
21:40:25
TO PUT MY DISCUSSION TODAY IN
21:40:28
CONTEXT, I WANTED TO ADDRESS
21:40:31
FOUR TOPICS THAT I IMAGINE
21:40:32
YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING ABOUT.

21:40:35
THE FIRST IS WHAT FEDERAL
21:40:39
STATUTE AND AGENCY HAS
21:40:41
EXCLUSIVE AUTHORITY OVER RAIL
21:40:44
OPERATIONS IN INTERSTATE
21:40:46
COMMERCE.
21:40:46
THE SECOND TOPIC IS WHAT IS
21:40:49
THE SCOPE OF FEDERAL
21:40:51
PREEMPTION OF LOCAL REGULATION
21:40:53
OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE BY
21:40:56
RAIL.
21:40:57
THE THIRD, WHEN A LOCAL
21:41:00
PERMITTING AND PRECLEARANCE

21:41:02
REQUIREMENTS FOR RAIL
21:41:04
OPERATION PREEMPTED EVEN IF
21:41:06
THEY RESULT IN A SITUATION
21:41:08
WHERE YOU'RE REGULATING A
21:41:12
THIRD PARTY.
21:41:13
FOURTH, TO WHAT EXTENT CAN A
21:41:16
CITY LIMIT THE INTERSTATE
21:41:18
TRANSPORTATION BY RAIL OF
21:41:20
COAL OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF
21:41:24
COMMODITY, SO LET ME TAKE A
21:41:25
FEW MINUTES TO ADDRESS THESE
21:41:31
QUESTIONS.

21:41:31
THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE STATE
21:41:34
TERMINATION ACT KNOWN AS IPDA
21:41:37
FOR SHORT PREEMPTS LOCAL
21:41:39
REGULATION OF INTERSTATE
21:41:40
COMMERCE BY RAIL.
21:41:42
ONE OF THE VERY FIRST COURT
21:41:46
OF APPEAL DECISIONS
21:41:47
INTERPRETING IPDA POINTED OUT
21:41:49
THAT CONGRESS AND THE COURTS
21:41:53
HAVE LONG RECOGNIZED A NEED
21:41:55
TO REGULATE RAILROAD
21:41:56
OPERATIONS AT THIS FEDERAL

21:42:00
LEVEL.
21:42:01
BEFORE IPDA, SUCH FEDERAL
21:42:03
REGULATION CURD UNDER THE
21:42:05
AUSPICES OF THE INTERSTATE
21:42:07
COMMERCE CONDITION OR ICR AND
21:42:08
THAT WAS CREATED BY CONGRESS
21:42:11
DATING BACK TO 1887.
21:42:15
WHAT CONGRESS PASSED IPDA IN
21:42:17
1995, IT DID AWAY WITH THE I
21:42:19
CC AND TRANSFERRED THE POWERS
21:42:21
TO A NEW REGULATORY BODY
21:42:24
CALLED THE SURFACE

21:42:26
TRANSPORTATION BOARD.
21:42:27
IPDA ALSO GAVE THE BOARD AND
21:42:30
I'M QUOTING, COMPLETE
21:42:30
JURISDICTION TO THE EXCLUSION
21:42:34
OF STATES OVER REGULATION OF
21:42:38
RAILROAD OPERATIONS.
21:42:42
THIS GRANT OF EXCLUSIVE
21:42:44
EXPORTATION WAS ACCOMPANIED
21:42:45
BY A SWEEPING STATEMENT IN
21:42:48
THE STATUTE, THAT IPDA'S AND
21:42:50
I'M QUOTING AGAIN, REMEDIES
21:42:51
WITH REGARDS TO REGULATION OF

21:42:55
RAIL TRANSPORTATION ARE
21:42:57
EXCLUSIVE AND PREEMPTS THE
21:42:59
REMEDIES PROVIDED UNDER
21:42:59
FEDERAL OR STATE LAW.
21:43:04
NOTABLY, IPDA DEFINES THE
21:43:06
TERM TRANSPORTATION AND IT
21:43:10
ENCOMPASSES ANY PROPERTIES,
21:43:12
FACILITY, STRUCTURE OR
21:43:12
EQUIPMENT RELATED TO THE
21:43:13
MOVEMENT OF PASSENGERS OR
21:43:17
PROPERTY REGARDLESS OF
21:43:18
OWNERSHIP OR AN AGREEMENT

21:43:21
CONCERNING USE.
21:43:21
THERE'S ANOTHER IMPORTANT
21:43:22
TERM THAT IS DEFINED AND THAT IS
21:43:25
THE TERM RAILROAD.
21:43:28
IT TOO IS BROADLY DEFINED AS
21:43:34
INCLUDING A SWITCH, SPUR,
21:43:39
TRACK, TERMINAL, TERMINAL
21:43:41
FACILITY, FREIGHT DEPOT, YARD
21:43:43
AND GROUND NEEDED OR USED FOR
21:43:47
TRANSPORTATION.
21:43:47
SO, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE SCOPE
21:43:51
OF IPDA PRE-CEMENTING IS

21:43:54
INTENTIONALLY EXPANSIVE AND
21:43:55
PLENARY, THERE'S NO DEBATE AS
21:43:59
ONE'S FEDERAL APPELLATE COURT
21:44:01
PUT IT THAT CONGRESS INTENDED
21:44:03
TO PRE-EMPT A WIDE RANGE OF
21:44:05
STATE AND LOCAL REGULATIONS
21:44:06
OF RAIL ACTIVITY.
21:44:08
INCLUDING ALL STATE LAWS THAT
21:44:10
MAY BE REASONABLY BE SAID TO
21:44:13
HAVE THE EFFECT OF MANAGING
21:44:15
OR GOVERNING RAIL
21:44:18
TRANSPORTATION.

21:44:19
AND AS ANOTHER APPELLATE
21:44:21
COURT EXPLAINED, ANY FORM OF
21:44:23
STATE OR LOCAL PERMITTING OR
21:44:27
PRECLEARANCE THAT BY ITS
21:44:28
NATURE COULD BE USED TO DENY
21:44:30
A RAILROAD THE ABILITY TO
21:44:32
CONDUCT SOME PART OF ITS
21:44:36
OPERATIONS IS CATEGORICALLY
21:44:38
PRESCREENED BY IPDA.
21:44:43
IPDA'S SWEEP GOES
21:44:44
BEYOND JUST PERMITTING AND
21:44:48
PREFERENCES, IT ALSO

21:44:50
ENCOMPASSES BUILDING PERMITS,
21:44:53
ZONING ORDINANCES AND
21:44:54
ENVIRONMENTAL AND LAND USE
21:44:58
PERMITTING REQUIREMENTS.
21:45:00
NOR IS IPDA'S PREEMPTIVE
21:45:02
SCOPE LIMITED TO THE
21:45:04
LIMITATIONS BY RAIL CARRIERS
21:45:06
THEMSELVES, IF A PROHIBITED
21:45:09
EFFECT OF LOCAL
21:45:12
TRANSPORTATION, RAIL
21:45:12
TRANSPORTATION OCCURS, IT IS
21:45:15
NOT POSSIBLE TO ARTIFICIALLY

21:45:16
LIMIT THE SCOPE OF
21:45:17
PREEMPTION BY ARGUING THAT
21:45:19
THE STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT
21:45:22
NOMINALLY IS REGULATING A
21:45:24
THIRD PARTY.
>> THANK YOU.
21:45:28
YOU'RE 30 SECONDS OVER YOUR
21:45:29
TIME.
21:45:29
>> I'M SORRY.
21:45:30
>> I HAD A QUESTION.
21:45:32
>> MR. GUILLEN, YOU'RE IN THE
21:45:36
QUEUE.
21:45:36

>> MS. BOYD, YOU DIDN'T


21:45:39
REPRESENT WHO YOU WERE RETAINED
21:45:41
BY, ARE YOU RETAINED BY THE
21:45:42
RAILROAD INDUSTRY, ARE YOU
21:45:44
RETAINED BY TLS, WHAT ENTITY
21:45:47
BRINGS YOU HERE TODAY FROM
21:45:49
WASHINGTON DC.
21:45:51
>> I'M HERE TODAY ON BEHALF
21:45:53
OF CCIG.
21:45:54
>> THANK YOU.
21:45:55
>> THANK YOU, MS. BROOKS?
21:45:58
>> THROUGH THE CHAIR
21:46:04

TO THE

CITY ATTORNEY, HAS OUR CITY


21:46:06
ATTORNEY SEEN A COPY OF YOUR
21:46:07
LETTER?
21:46:08
>> I BELIEVE THAT MY
21:46:10
MEMORANDUM FROM WHICH I'M
21:46:11
DRIVING MY TESTIMONY TODAY
21:46:13
WAS INCLUDED IN THE
21:46:14
MATERIALS THAT WERE SUBMITTED
21:46:15
IN ADVANCE OF TODAY'S
21:46:17
INFORMATION.
21:46:17
>> DO YOU HAVE AN EXTRA COPY
21:46:19
SO THAT IT CAN BE INCLUDED IN
21:46:21

THE RECORD TONIGHT.


21:46:22
>> ABSOLUTELY, I CAN GET THAT
21:46:24
TO YOU.
21:46:25
>> SO, THE ISSUES THAT WERE
21:46:27
RAISED WITH RESPECT TO
21:46:32
PREEMPTION, AND SAY THE NAME -21:46:35
>> THE SHORT HAND REFERENCE
21:46:38
IS CALLED IPDA FOR THE
21:46:39
STATUTE.
21:46:39
>> THANK YOU, I KNOW THAT
21:46:41
THOSE MATERIALS CAME IN AFTER
21:46:42
THE PUBLICATION DATE, THEY
21:46:43

MAY NOT HAVE BEEN


21:46:44
DISTRIBUTED.
21:46:44
>> I WANT TO MAKE
21:46:46
SURE IT BECOMES PART OF THE
21:46:47
RECORD AND I WOULD LIKE TO
21:46:49
KNOW THAT WE'RE GETTING A
21:46:50
REPORT FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY
21:46:53
THAT ADDRESSES THOSE ISSUES.
21:46:54
>> YES, WE WILL REVIEW ANY OF
21:46:56
THE ISSUES RAISED, ANY OF THE
21:46:58
LEGAL ISSUES RAISED.
21:47:00
>> I DON'T HAVE A COPY IN
21:47:02

FRONT OF ME, BUT WE WILL


21:47:03
CERTAINLY GET ONE.
>> MADAM PRESIDENT?
21:47:10
>> MS. [INAUDIBLE] YOU'RE
21:47:12
ACKNOWLEDGING YOU RECEIVED
21:47:13
THE MEMORANDUM?
21:47:16
>> OKAY, MR. GUILLEN?
21:47:17
>> ONE TO HAVE ISSUES I AM
21:47:19
TRYING TO UNDERSTAND AROUND
21:47:20
PREEMPTION IS
21:47:25
I KNOW OTHER ENTITIES
21:47:29
REGULATE TRANSPORTATION OF
21:47:31
NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES, OTHER

21:47:31
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ARE FOUND
21:47:32
TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEALTH
21:47:34
IMPACT AND SO I'M TRYING TO
21:47:36
FIGURE OUT HOW OTHER ENTITIES
21:47:38
OR CITY MUNICIPALITIES ARE
21:47:39
ABLE TO REGULATE THAT GIVEN
21:47:41
THIS TESTIMONY THAT WE HEARD
21:47:43
HERE TODAY, SO I WOULD LIKE
21:47:45
TO ASK STAFF TO LOOK AT THAT
21:47:47
QUESTION.
21:47:48
>> AND YOU'RE DIRECTING THAT I
21:47:49
THINK TO THE CITY ATTORNEY'S

21:47:52
OFFICE FOR INCLUSION IN THEIR
21:47:53
LEGAL BRIEF?
21:47:56
>> YES.
21:47:57
>> OKAY, THANK YOU, MS. BOYD,
21:47:59
AM I TO UNDERSTAND WHAT
21:48:00
YOU'RE SAYING WITH RESPECT TO
21:48:02
PREEMPTION THAT IF TLS SAYS
21:48:04
TODAY THEY'RE GOING TO COVER
21:48:05
THESE MATERIALS AND USE
21:48:06
STATE OF THE ART FACILITIES
21:48:08
BUT AT SOME POINT IN THE
21:48:10
FUTURE FIVE YEARS FROM NOW

21:48:12
DECIDES IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE TO
21:48:13
DO SO, WE WOULD HAVE NO RIGHT
21:48:16
REGARDLESS, THIS NOTION OF
21:48:19
PREEMPTION WOULD SUPERSEDE
21:48:20
THE AGREEMENT THAT TLS WOULD
21:48:22
ENTER INTO WITH THE CITY?
21:48:23
>> I THINK I WOULD COME AT
21:48:25
YOUR QUESTION A LITTLE
21:48:26
DIFFERENTLY THAN THE WAY YOU
21:48:28
PHRASED IT BUT I THINK I CAN
21:48:29
ANSWER IT FOR YOU, THE
21:48:30
PRINCIPLES I'M TALKING ABOUT

21:48:33
OR PREEMPTION AS IT RELATES
21:48:35
TO TRANSPORTATION BY RAIL, SO
21:48:38
AS A COMMON AIRIER THE
21:48:41
RAILROAD TENDERED WHATEVER
21:48:42
BULK COMMODITY IT IS, THEY
21:48:43
HAVE TO CARRY IT, UNDER THE
21:48:47
THEORIES OF PREEMPTION, THE
21:48:48
COMMODITY WOULD COME TO THE
21:48:50
PORT, IT MAY SHIFT OVER TIME,
21:48:52
THE MARKET IS DRIVEN BY
21:48:55
FACTORS BOTH DOMESTICALLY,
21:48:56
GLOBALLY AS TO WHAT

21:48:58
PARTICULAR COMMODITIES MIGHT
21:49:00
BE IN DEMAND, SO I'M NOT SURE
21:49:02
IF THAT ANSWERED YOUR
21:49:03
QUESTION, BUT THE CONCEPT
21:49:05
THAT I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT
21:49:06
AND THE LEGAL PRINCIPLES THAT
21:49:07
ARE OUTLINED IN THE
21:49:09
MEMORANDUM AND THE CASE NAS
21:49:10
ARE CITED IN THERE REVOLVE
21:49:12
AROUND THE CONCEPT OF
21:49:13
INTERSTATE COMMERCE AND
21:49:14
TRANSPORTATION BY RAIL.

21:49:18
>> I DO UNDERSTAND THAT, THE
21:49:19
QUESTION I'M ASKING YOU
21:49:20
SPECIFICALLY IS THAT IF
21:49:22
THERE'S A SIDE AGREEMENT,
21:49:23
EARLIER ONE OF THE SPEAKERS
21:49:24
ASKED US WHETHER OR NOT THE
21:49:27
CITY ATTORNEY COULD OPINE ON
21:49:28
A SIDE AGREEMENT OR AN
21:49:29
AGREEMENT WITH TLS THAT WOULD
21:49:31
ALLOW WITH LOCAL JURISDICTION
21:49:32
AND ENFORCEMENT OF THESE
21:49:34
ADDED PROTECTION METHODS SO

21:49:34
WHETHER OR NOT THE
21:49:37
METHODOLOGIES ARE PROVENDER
21:49:38
TO MITIGATE THE HARMS TO THE
21:49:40
COMMUNITY OR NOT, IS IT YOUR
21:49:42
ASSERTION AND YOUR TESTIMONY
21:49:44
TODAY THAT THE PREEMPTION
21:49:45
RULES WOULD PROHIBIT THE CITY
21:49:47
OF OAKLAND FROM BEING ABLE TO
21:49:49
REGULATE OR ENFORCE ANY
21:49:50
HEALTH CONCERNS?
21:49:52
>> WELL, AGAIN, THE ISSUE AS
21:49:55
I WOULD CHARACTERIZE IT IS

21:49:56
THAT THE QUESTION OF WHETHER
21:49:57
OR NOT THE CITY COULD LIMIT
21:50:00
FOR EXAMPLE ANY PARTICULAR
21:50:02
BULK COMMODITY, WHETHER IT'S
21:50:02
COAL OR ANYTHING ELSE IS WHAT
21:50:04
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, THOSE
21:50:06
COMMODITIES THAT ARE PUT
21:50:09
INTO INTERSTATE COMMERCE?
21:50:09
>> THANK YOU.
21:50:11
>> I WANTED TO FOLLOW ALONG
21:50:13
THOSE LINES, YOU MADE
21:50:14
REFERENCE TO THE U.S.

21:50:15
CONGRESS TAKING ACTION WITH
21:50:16
RESPECT TO THE SURFACE
21:50:18
TRANSPORTATION OF COMMODITIES
21:50:19
ON OUR RAILROADS, SO JUST TO
21:50:20
BE CLEAR FOR THE PUBLIC'S
21:50:23
SAKE IN TERMS OF COULD YOU
21:50:25
RESTATE IN TERMS -- FROM
21:50:28
WHERE YOUR LEGAL EXPERIENCE,
21:50:29
WHAT THAT IS AND ALSO WHAT
21:50:30
THE ROLE OF THE CITY WOULD BE
21:50:32
IN THIS CASE IF WE WERE TO
21:50:33
CHANGE THAT?

21:50:35
>> I WOULD BE HAPPY TO
21:50:37
ADDRESS THAT, WHAT I SAID IN
21:50:38
MY TESTIMONY IS THAT
21:50:40
BASICALLY THE FIELD OF
21:50:41
INTERSTATE COMMERCE UNDER THE
21:50:42
U.S. CONSTITUTION IS
21:50:44
SOMETHING THAT CONGRESS HAS A
21:50:46
ROLE IN AND THROUGH THE
21:50:50
FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE PROCESS,
21:50:51
THEY ENACTED THE STATUTE,
21:50:53
CALLED IT IPDA SET FORTH THE
21:50:56
FACT THAT CONGRESS HAS DEEMED

21:50:57
IT TO BE THE CASE THAT
21:51:00
INTERSTATE COMMERCE BY RAIL
21:51:02
IS THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION
21:51:04
FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO
21:51:05
REGULATE AND HAS EMPOWERED
21:51:07
THE AGENCY, IT'S AN
21:51:09
INDEPENDENT AGENCY THAT'S
21:51:10
HOUSED UNDER THE DEPARTMENT
21:51:11
OF TRANSPORTATION, THE
21:51:14
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD
21:51:16
WITH PLENARY AUTHORITY OVER
21:51:19
RAILROAD MAT ETCHER, SO AS

21:51:20
YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE OVERALL
21:51:23
CONTEXT IN WHICH A STATE OR
21:51:25
LOCALITY CAN ACT, I READ YOU
21:51:26
SOME PROVISIONS UNDER THE
21:51:28
IPDA STATUTE WHICH I RECOMMEND
21:51:34
YOU TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT,
21:51:38
SINCE THE STATUTE [INAUDIBLE]
21:51:39
THE STATUTE OF TRANSPORTATION
21:51:40
BOARD, THE STATE ROLE OR
21:51:42
LOCALITY ROLE IN MATTERS
21:51:44
CONCERNING INTERSTATE
21:51:44
COMMERCE IS VERY LIMITED AND

21:51:49
ANY OPPORTUNITY THAT A STATE
21:51:51
OR LOCALITY CAN TAKE TO
21:51:53
INTERFERE WITH INTERSTATE
21:51:54
COMMERCE OR TO SET THE TERM
21:51:55
FOR AS I SAID SELECTING ONE
21:51:58
COMMODITY OVER ANOTHER WOULD
21:51:59
BE PREEMPTED.
>> THANK YOU.
21:52:02
JUST ONE SPECIFIC AND I WOULD
21:52:03
LIKE TO FOLLOW UP WITH YOU ON
21:52:06
THIS ITEM, YOU HAVE THE CITY
21:52:08
OF LOS ANGELES TAKING
21:52:10

ACTION.
>> I'M SORRY.
21:52:11
>> I HAVE A LETTER IN FRONT
21:52:13
OF ME WHERE THE CITY OF LOS
21:52:15
ANGELES HAS TAKEN ACTION IN
21:52:17
TERMS OF COAL.
21:52:19
>> IN TERMS OF COAL?
21:52:20
>> RIGHT, OKAY, I'M NOT
21:52:21
FAMILIAR WITH IT.
21:52:22
>> AND I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH
21:52:23
YOU.
21:52:24
>> WE WILL TURN NOW IN THE
21:52:27
QUEUE TO VICE-MAYOR KAPLAN.

>> THANK YOU.


21:52:29
MA'AM, IF I MAY, I'M GOING TO
21:52:31
TRY ONE MORE TIME WHICH I
21:52:32
THINK MY COLLEAGUES WERE
21:52:35
ASKING, WHICH IS, IF THE
21:52:37
PROJECT SPONSOR IS PROPOSING
21:52:39
TO USE COVERED RAIL CARS AND
21:52:41
HAS OFFERED TESTIMONY TONIGHT
21:52:42
THAT THE COVERING OF THE RAIL
21:52:44
CARS IS PART OF WHY YOUR
21:52:48
CLIENT BELIEVES THE PROJECT
21:52:50
IS LESS HARMFUL THAN FOLKS
21:52:53

MIGHT WORRY, ARE YOU SAYING


21:52:54
THAT WE AS A CITY WOULD HAVE
21:52:57
NO ABILITY TO ENFORCE THE USE
21:52:59
OF FOR EXAMPLE COVERED CARS?
21:53:01
>> THANK YOU FOR REPHRASING
21:53:03
THAT AND I APOLOGIZE IF I
21:53:04
HAVEN'T HIT IT ON ALL FOUR
21:53:07
CYLINDERS IN ANSWERING IT, SO
21:53:08
I THINK TO ANSWER YOUR
21:53:10
QUESTION THE WAY I WOULD LIKE
21:53:11
TO APPROACH IT IS THAT IT IS
21:53:14
OFTEN THE CASE THAT FOLKS
21:53:19

TAKE SUCH AS CCIG WOULD OFFER


21:53:21
WHAT I'M GOING TO CALL
21:53:23
VOLUNTARY MITIGATION MEASURES
21:53:24
AND IF THEY WANT TO GO
21:53:26
FORWARD AND ENTER INTO SOME
21:53:28
KIND OF WRITTEN SITUATION
21:53:30
WHERE THEY WOULD BE MAKING
21:53:31
PROMISES TO THE CITY WITH
21:53:34
REGARD TO THESE TYPES OF
21:53:38
MITIGATION THEY WOULD
21:53:39
IMPLEMENT, I THINK THEY'RE
21:53:39
FREE TO DO THAT.
21:53:45

>> LET ME -- IT'S OKAY, SHE'S


21:53:46
THE ATTORNEY FOR THE
21:53:47
APPLICANT, I THINK THE
21:53:49
FOLLOW-UP IS JUST TO MAKE
21:53:50
CLEAR TO OUR CITY ATTORNEY
21:53:51
THAT WE IN OUR OWN FOLLOW-UP
21:53:53
ARE GOING TO WANT CLARITY AS
21:53:55
TO THE POTENTIAL OF OUR
21:53:58
ABILITY TO ENFORCE MITIGATION
21:54:01
MEASURES AND JUST MAKE SURE
21:54:01
THAT WE HAVE OUR OWN LEGAL
21:54:04
OPINIONS COVERING THOSE IS
21:54:06

USE FOR FUTURE FOLLOW-UP.


21:54:07
>> THANK YOU, VICE-MAYOR,
21:54:12
RETURNING IN THE QUEUE TO
21:54:12
COUNCILMEMBER BROOKS?
21:54:14
>> ARE YOU SAYING BECAUSE
21:54:15
YOU'RE CLASSIFYING THE USE AS
21:54:17
A TRANSPORTATION USE THROUGH
21:54:18
THE RAILWAY THAT UNDER THE
21:54:21
RAILWAY PROVISIONS, IT WOULD
21:54:27
BE PREEMPTED?
21:54:28
>> WHAT WOULD BE PREEMPTED?
21:54:30
>> THERE HAS BEEN A
21:54:32

PREEMPTION OF THE FIELD THAT


21:54:33
WE CANNOT COME UP WITH A
21:54:35
LOCAL ORDINANCE?
21:54:36
>> WELL, I THINK THE ANSWER
21:54:39
TO YOUR QUESTION IS GENERALLY
21:54:41
YES, BUT WHAT I'VE BEEN
21:54:42
HEARING FROM THE PRIOR
21:54:43
RESOLUTION AND SO FORTH IS
21:54:45
THIS CONCEPT AND MOST OF THE
21:54:48
SPEAKERS TODAY WERE
21:54:50
SUGGESTING THAT COAL WOULD BE
21:54:54
THE SOLE COMMODITY PERHAPS
21:54:55

THAT YOU MIGHT CONSIDER BEING


21:54:59
PROBLEMATIC, SO THEORETICALLY
21:55:00
TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, IF
21:55:03
THIS CITY OR OTHER
21:55:06
JURISDICTIONS WERE TO TAKE
21:55:08
THE POSITION THAT COAL COULD
21:55:09
NOT BE TRANSPORTED IN
21:55:12
INTERSTATE COMMERCE, YES,
21:55:12
THAT WOULD BE A PROBLEM AND
21:55:14
WOULD BE PREEMPTED.
>> THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
21:55:18
THE NEXT SPEAKER ON THE PRO
21:55:22

SIDE, PLEASE.
21:55:27
>> GOOD EVENING, I'M JOHN
21:55:29
BARN WITH [INAUDIBLE] AND
21:55:29
ASSOCIATES AND I'LL ONLY TAKE
21:55:31
A MINUTE.
21:55:32
I AM PRESENTLY A
21:55:34
TRANSPORTATION FUNDING
21:55:35
CONSULTANT FOR OAKLAND
21:55:36
GLOBAL, I'M HERE IN MY FORMER
21:55:38
CAPACITY AS EXECUTIVE
21:55:39
DIRECTOR OF THE
21:55:42
TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION
21:55:43

WHEN OAKLAND WAS INCLUDED IN


21:55:46
THE STATE'S [INAUDIBLE] IN
21:55:48
2009, MY INTENT WAS TO FUND
21:55:51
IMPROVEMENTS THAT LEVERAGE
21:55:52
PUBLIC SECTOR INVESTMENT WITH
21:55:54
PRIVATE SECTOR RESOURCE, THE
21:55:55
ABILITY OF THE CITY AND PORT
21:55:58
TO SECURE 242 MILLION TCIF
21:56:00
COMMITMENT WAS PREDICATED ON
21:56:03
THE SIZE OF THE [INAUDIBLE]
21:56:05
OBA WAS ALWAYS PART OF THE
21:56:07
PACKAGE, THE STATE FUNDED.
21:56:09

FW THE TERMINAL OPERATOR


21:56:12
CANNOT REALIZE THE
21:56:15
[INAUDIBLE] POTENTIALLY PUTTING
21:56:16
THE CITY AND THE PORT AT
21:56:17
RISK OF HAVING THE GRANT
21:56:19
WITHDRAWN, SHOULD THAT OCCUR
21:56:20
T CITY AND THE PORT MAY HAVE
21:56:23
FINANCIAL EXPOSURE FOR ITS
21:56:23
PORTIONS OF THE GRANT.
21:56:26
THE CCIG GRANT IS BUILT ON
21:56:27
AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE CITY
21:56:28
CAN THE MASTER AGREEMENTS OF
21:56:30

OAKLAND GLOBAL, SIGNIFICANT


21:56:32
CHANGES TO THOSE AGREEMENTS
21:56:35
COULD IMPACT THE TCIG GRANT
21:56:36
AND THE COMMITMENT IT HAS
21:56:37
MADE TO THE CITY OF
21:56:41
CALIFORNIA.
21:56:42
>> DID YOU SAY YOU WERE PART
21:56:44
OF THE CTC AT THE TIME OF THE
21:56:46
APPROVAL?
21:56:46
>> YES.
21:56:47
>> AND YOU'RE NOW WORKING
21:56:50
WITH CCIG.
21:56:51

>> YES.
21:56:52
>> SO NOW YOU'RE WORKING
21:56:54
WITH CCIG.
21:56:55
>> THERE WERE OTHER
21:56:57
ITERATIONS OF MY CAREER IN
21:56:58
BETWEEN THEM.
21:56:58
>> I WANT TO CLARIFY THE ROLE
21:57:00
THAT THIS GENTLEMAN WAS PART
21:57:02
-- WHEN YOU SAY YOU WERE PART
21:57:04
OF THE TCIG, WERE YOU A
21:57:07
COMMISSIONER?
21:57:07
>> I WAS THE EXECUTIVE
21:57:09

DIRECTOR RESPONSIBLE FOR


21:57:10
MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE
21:57:11
COMMISSION.
>> THANK YOU.
21:57:12
>> THANK YOU, MR. GUILLEN,
21:57:14
MR. GALLO?
21:57:15
>> MADAM CHAIR, JUST FOR THE
21:57:17
PUBLIC, THE CC TB AND THE CC
21:57:19
TG, COULD YOU EXPLAIN WHAT
21:57:20
THAT MEANS?
21:57:24
>> WHAT TCIF MEANS?
21:57:25
IT WAS PART OF PROPOSITION 1B.
21:57:31
>> WHAT DID CTB MEAN?

21:57:32
>> I BELIEVE YOU MEAN CTC,
21:57:35
HIS FORMER -21:57:36
>> THE CALIFORNIA
21:57:39
TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION,
21:57:41
THE TRADE CORRIDOR
21:57:41
IMPROVEMENT FUND WHICH WAS A
21:57:44
3 BILLION DOLLAR MOVEMENT
21:57:46
FUND, IT WAS PART OF
21:57:47
PROPOSITION 1B.
21:57:48
>> THANK YOU, SIR.
21:57:49
>> THANK YOU, NEXT SPEAKER ON
21:57:51
THE PRO SIDE, PLEASE.

21:58:08
>> PHILIPPE ARIA.
>> [INAUDIBLE] SAMINA.
>> [INAUDIBLE] ORTADO.
21:58:17
>> [INAUDIBLE].
>> THANK YOU.
21:58:21
>> AND YOU, SIR.
>> MY NAME IS DAVID SMITH,
21:58:27
I'M A SIZE BLOCK COUNCIL TO
21:58:30
CCIG AND OBOT, WE SUBMITTED A
21:58:33
SIGNIFICANT COMMENT LETTER
21:58:34
AND YOU HAVE THAT IN THE
21:58:35
RECORD BEFORE YOU, ALLOW ME
21:58:36
TO FOCUS ON A FEW POINTS HERE
21:58:38
IF I MAY.

21:58:39
FIRST I WOULD LIKE THE
21:58:41
CORRECT SOME MISINFORMATION
21:58:41
ABOUT THE PROJECT AND THE
21:58:43
CONTEXT IN THE TESTIMONY THUS
21:58:46
FAR.
21:58:46
THE EXISTING AIR QUALITY AND
21:58:47
RELATED HEALTH CONCERNS IN
21:58:48
THE REGION ARE WELL KNOWN.
21:58:50
THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF THOSE
21:58:52
ISSUES IS ALSO WELL KNOWN,
21:58:55
DIESEL PARTICULATE EMISSIONS
21:58:56
FROM THE PORT AND RELATED

21:58:58
OPERATIONS, IT WAS THIS VERY
21:59:00
CONDITION THAT PRESSED FOR
21:59:01
THE CONDITION OF THE OAKLAND
21:59:04
ARMY BASE IN THE FIRST PLACE,
21:59:06
A STATE OF THE ART
21:59:10
[INAUDIBLE].
21:59:41
THERE IS NOT ONE SHRED OF
21:59:43
EVIDENCE LET ALONE
21:59:44
SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE OF THIS
21:59:46
FACILITY PRESENTING A
21:59:48
CONDITION SUBSTANTIALLY
21:59:48
DANGEROUS TO THE HEALTH AND

21:59:49
SAFETY OF THE WORKERS OF THE
21:59:52
TERMINAL OR THE SURROUNDING
21:59:53
RESIDENTS, QUITE TO THE
21:59:55
CONTRARY TO HAVE AFFIRMATIVE
21:59:56
EVIDENCE SPECIFICALLY TIED TO
21:59:58
THIS TERMINAL AND PROPOSED
21:59:59
OPERATIONS THAT THERE ARE NO
22:00:01
HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES
22:00:02
RELATED TO THE PARTICULATE
22:00:05
DEPOSITION AND COMBUSTION
22:00:07
ISSUES ARE MITIGATED AT THE
22:00:10
FACILITY.

22:00:10
PERHAPS THE BIGGEST INDICATOR
22:00:11
IS THE LACK OF CREDIBILITY ON
22:00:12
THE OTHER SIDE IS THE
22:00:15
OPPOSITION ARE NOT ARGUING
22:00:16
FACTS BUT SPECULATION AND
22:00:17
INSTEAD OF WAGE THE CAMPAIGN
22:00:20
OF FEAR AND UNFORTUNATELY
22:00:23
PERSONAL CHARACTER
22:00:24
ASSASSINATION, INSTEAD OF
22:00:25
PRESENTING AND ANALYZING THE
22:00:26
HUNDREDS OF CONDITIONS OF
22:00:28
APPROVAL THAT THIS COUNCIL

22:00:29
ALREADY IMPOSED ON THE
22:00:30
PROJECT TO WHICH THE PROJECT
22:00:32
IS SUBJECT AND HOW THEY WILL
22:00:36
EFFECTIVELY MITIGATE THE
22:00:37
CONDITIONS, THE TESTIMONY HAS
22:00:40
BEEN ANECDOTAL HORROR STORIES
22:00:41
THAT HAVE NO CONTEXT OR
22:00:44
DIRECT CONNECTION TO THIS
22:00:44
PROJECT.
22:00:45
THE TRUTH IS THAT NOTHING HAS
22:00:47
CHANGED.
22:00:48
THE TERMINAL IS PRECISELY

22:00:49
WHAT THE CITY APPROVED IN
22:00:52
2012 AND CONSIDERING THE
22:00:54
PROJECT THE CITY COMMISSIONED
22:00:54
A STUDY TO EXAMINE THE
22:00:56
VIABILITY OF THE PROPOSED
22:00:58
FACILITY, HOW SUCH FACILITIES
22:01:00
OPERATE AND THE COMMODITIES
22:01:02
THEY SHARE.
22:01:02
AS REMAINS THE CASE TODAY, NO
22:01:07
PARTICULAR COMMODITY WAS
22:01:08
INCLUDED OR EXCLUDED WHEN
22:01:10
THIS PROJECT WAS APPROVED.

22:01:11
THE ISSUE WAS AND REMAINS A
22:01:14
FULL SERVICE STATE OF THE ART
22:01:18
FACILITY.
22:01:18
AGAIN, WHAT HAS CHANGED SINCE
22:01:21
2012?
22:01:21
NOTHING.
22:01:22
MUCH HAS BEEN MADE ABOUT
22:01:25
BROKEN PROMISES, NOT SO.
22:01:27
THERE WERE REFERENCES TO A
22:01:29
2013 NEWS LETTER, YES, A 2013
22:01:33
NEWSLETTER AFTER THE PROJECT
22:01:35
WAS APPROVED AND INVESTIGATED

22:01:35
BY THE CITY IN 2012.
22:01:38
THE STATEMENT IN THAT
22:01:41
NEWSLETTER WAS ACCURATE, AN
22:01:43
ACCURATE CHARACTERIZATION OF
22:01:45
THE DEAL UNDER CONSIDERATION
22:01:45
AT THAT TIME, THAT DEAL DID
22:01:47
NOT WORK OUT.
22:01:50
AT ALL TIMES, THE INTENT HAS
22:01:51
BEEN TO BRING TO MARKET A
22:01:52
FULL SERVICE STATE OF THE ART
22:01:55
FACILITY.
22:01:56
THE ONLY POTENTIALLY

22:01:58
PERTINENT EXAMINATION OF
22:01:58
BROKEN PROMISES IS WITH SOME
22:02:01
ARE ASKING THE CITY TO DO
22:02:02
WHICH IS TO RENEGE ON ITS
22:02:05
PROMISES OR COMMITMENTS IN
22:02:07
THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT,
22:02:08
THE COOPERATION AGREEMENT AND
22:02:10
THE NUMEROUS OTHER DOCUMENTS
22:02:12
UNDERLYING THIS TRANSACTION.
22:02:14
HONORABLE MEMBERS OF THE CITY
22:02:16
COUNCIL, THIS IS NOT ABOUT A
22:02:19
SINGLE COMMODITY, THE

22:02:20
VIABILITY OF THIS FACILITY
22:02:21
DOES NOT EASILY RISE OR FALL,
22:02:22
THE TRUTH IS THAT WE HAVE NO
22:02:25
IDEA WHAT COMMODITIES WILL
22:02:27
NOT OR WILL PASS OVER THIS
22:02:29
FACILITY OVER ITS
22:02:30
GENERATIONAL LIFE.
22:02:31
WHAT DOES DIRECTLY IMPACT THE
22:02:32
VIABILITY OF THIS FACILITY
22:02:33
HOWEVER IS THE CLOUD OF
22:02:35
UNCERTAINTY FOR INVESTORS AND
22:02:38
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

22:02:39
IMPOSED SHOULD THIS BODY
22:02:41
ALLOW ITSELF WITH AUTHORITY
22:02:43
TO UNILATERALLY AND LEGALLY
22:02:46
CURTAIL VESTED RIGHTS BASED
22:02:48
ON THE POLITICAL WHIMS OF THE
22:02:49
DAY, TONIGHT'S MARKING IS
22:02:51
ABOUT COAL, WHAT WILL BE THE
22:02:54
DISFAVORED COMMODITY TEN
22:02:54
YEARS FROM NOW?
22:02:55
AGAIN, YOU HAVE NO CREDIBLE
22:02:57
EVIDENCE OF HEALTH AND SAFETY
22:02:59
ISSUE TIED TO THIS SPECIFIC

22:03:01
TERMINAL AS DESIGNED TO
22:03:03
OPERATE.
22:03:04
YOU DO HAVE SUBSTANTIAL
22:03:04
EVIDENCE THAT THE FACILITY
22:03:05
CAN AND WILL BE OPERATED
22:03:09
SAFELY.
22:03:09
YOU HAVE TESTIMONY, LEGAL
22:03:11
TESTIMONY ON THE CONCERNS OF
22:03:12
FEDERAL LAW ON THE PREEMPTION
22:03:16
ISSUE, ANY ACTIONS OF VESTED
22:03:18
RIGHTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
22:03:20
THE PROJECT EXPOSES THE CITY

22:03:20
FOR BREACH OF THE DEVELOPMENT
22:03:23
AGREEMENT AND THREATENING THE
22:03:24
VIABILITY OF THE PROJECT
22:03:26
EXPOSES THE FUND TO THE STATE
22:03:29
DOLLARS ALREADY ACCEPTED AND
22:03:29
SPENT BY THE CITY.
22:03:34
WE [INAUDIBLE] WITH THE CITY
22:03:35
A VISION AND WE WANT TO SEE
22:03:36
THAT VISION THROUGH.
22:03:37
>> THANK YOU, MR. SMITH.
22:03:39
IF YOU WILL STAY AT THE
22:03:42
PODIUM, PLEASE.

22:03:44
WE'LL TURN TO VICE-MAYOR
22:03:47
KAPLAN.
22:03:49
VICE-MAYOR?
22:03:49
>> YES, THANK YOU FOR YOUR
22:03:52
TESTIMONY.
22:03:53
ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU
22:03:55
BELIEVE THAT THE PROJECT AS
22:03:58
PROPOSED TO BE MITIGATED IS
22:03:59
WITHOUT HARM, SO IN OTHER
22:04:01
WORDS, WERE YOUR COMMENTS
22:04:02
WITH REGARD TO IF IT IS DONE
22:04:04
WITH COVERED CARS AND THE

22:04:06
OTHER MITIGATION MEASURES?
22:04:07
>> I THINK THE HDR REPORT
22:04:09
SHOWS ON ITS OWN INDEPENDENT
22:04:10
OF THE COVERED CARS THAT THE
22:04:15
CONCERN OF DEPOSITION, HEALTH
22:04:18
IMPACTS AND COMBUSTIBILITY
22:04:19
ARE ALL DONE SAFELY BY
22:04:21
STANDARDS OPERATED TODAY,
22:04:22
THAT COVERING WOULD BE AN
22:04:22
ADDITION TO THAT.
22:04:24
>> AND SO IS IT YOUR POSITION
22:04:27
THAT REQUIRING COVERED CARS

22:04:28
OR REQUIRING THE OTHER
22:04:29
MITIGATIONS THAT ARE
22:04:30
DESCRIBED IN YOUR FIRM'S
22:04:33
DOCUMENTS WOULD BE LEGALLY
22:04:34
ALLOWABLE ACTION BY THIS
22:04:35
COUNCIL?
22:04:36
>> I KNOW THE PREEMPTION ISSUE
22:04:39
IS COMPLICATED, I KNOW THAT
22:04:42
THE PROJECT TLS, I REPRESENT,
22:04:44
I WANT TO REPRESENT CCIG AND
22:04:48
OBOT, TLS IS SEPARATE, THEY
22:04:50
COMMITTED VOLUNTARILY THEY

22:04:51
WILL DO THAT, I BELIEVE THERE
22:04:52
IS A MECHANISM I NEED TO LOOK
22:04:54
AT IT, BUT SEPARATE AND
22:04:57
APART, A CONTRACTUAL
22:04:58
ARRANGEMENT NOT UNLIKE THE
22:04:59
D.A. WHEREBY THE CITY WOULD
22:05:03
HAVE REMEDIES AGAINST THE
22:05:06
OPERATOR OF OBOT SHOULD THEY
22:05:08
FAIL TO DELIVER ON THOSE
22:05:09
PROMISES, I BELIEVE THERE'S A
22:05:10
WAY TO STRUCTURE THAT.
>> THANK YOU.
22:05:13

>> IF I CAN ADD A FEW


22:05:15
QUESTIONS TO YOU, YOUR
22:05:16
TESTIMONY SAID THERE WERE NO
22:05:19
KNOWN HEALTH RISKS,, IS THAT
22:05:21
WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER IN YOUR
22:05:22
STATEMENT OR DID YOU SAY
22:05:24
HEALTH RISKS COULD BE
22:05:25
MITIGATED?
22:05:29
>> THE ONLY ANALYSIS WAS THE
22:05:31
PAPER REPORT, I KNOW WHAT A
22:05:33
LOT OF FOLKS HAVE BROUGHT
22:05:35
FORWARD TO WHAT HAPPENED
22:05:37

ELSEWHERE, TO IMPOSE THINGS


22:05:38
THAT HAVE HAPPENED ELSEWHERE
22:05:41
ON OBOT AS CONCLUSION IS NOT
22:05:43
SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE ON
22:05:45
THIS COUNCIL, IT'S
22:05:48
SPECULATIVE.
22:05:48
>> SO, TLS CURRENTLY DOES NOT
22:05:50
EXIST, SO IT HAS NO SAFETY
22:05:51
RECORD, IS THAT TRUE?
22:05:53
THE PROPOSED USER, I MEAN,
22:05:57
THE PROPOSED LANDLORD, CCIG
22:05:58
COULD CHOOSE IN A VARIETY OF
22:06:01

PEOPLE TO LEASE THIS


22:06:02
TERMINAL, THOSE THAT HAVE
22:06:03
MANY YEARS OF OPERATIONS THAT
22:06:05
WOULD ALSO HAVE A SAFETY
22:06:07
RECORD, SO THE PROPOSED USER
22:06:08
IN THIS CASE IS SOMEONE WHO
22:06:10
HAS NO SAFETY RECORD BECAUSE
22:06:11
THEY DO NOT EXIST AND THEY'RE
22:06:13
TALKING ABOUT USING A
22:06:15
TECHNOLOGY THAT IS CURRENTLY
22:06:16
NOT IN USE, CORRECT?
22:06:17
>> THEY DO EXIST, THEY'RE A
22:06:20

CORPORATE ENTITY AND EXIST,


22:06:21
THEIR TRACK RECORD, I CAN'T
22:06:23
SPEAK TO.
22:06:23
>> WOULD IT BE FAIR TO SAY
22:06:25
THEY HAVE NOT OPERATED A BULK
22:06:27
TERMINAL?
22:06:28
>> I'M NOT AWARE THEY HAVE
22:06:29
BUT I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR
22:06:32
THEM.
22:06:32
>> WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER IN
22:06:34
FACT THEY'RE PERFORMING THE
22:06:36
DUTIES THEY'RE WILLING TO
22:06:36

PERFORM AT THE TERMINAL AND


22:06:37
WHAT I'M ASKING YOU BECAUSE
22:06:40
YOU REPRESENT CCIG, THE
22:06:42
LANDLORD AND THE VENTING OF
22:06:43
THIS CLIENT WHICH IS A NEW
22:06:45
ENTITY THAT HAS NO SAFETY
22:06:48
RECORD, USING A TECHNOLOGY
22:06:49
THAT IS NOWHERE IN USE IN THE
22:06:51
UNITED STATES, HOW CAN YOU
22:06:52
ATTEST TO WHETHER OR NOT
22:06:55
THERE WOULD BE SAFETY
22:06:57
CONCERNS?
22:06:59

>> BECAUSE OUR CONSULTANTS


22:07:00
AGAIN, THE ONLY SCIENTIFIC
22:07:02
EVIDENCE YOU HAVE SPEAKING
22:07:02
DIRECTLY TO THIS, THEY LOOKED
22:07:04
AT THE PROPOSAL FOR THE
22:07:07
TERMINAL, THE DYNAMICS OF
22:07:08
COAL ARE WELL KNOWN TO THEM
22:07:09
AND THEY SAID ALL THE
22:07:12
VENTILATION, THE COVERING
22:07:13
FROM -22:07:14
>> SHOULD THE TECHNOLOGY
22:07:15
SHOULD NOT FAIL, IS THAT WHAT
22:07:17

YOU'RE SAYING?
22:07:18
>> THEY LOOKED AT AND THEY
22:07:20
HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THEIR
22:07:21
CONCLUSIONS IN THE WHITE
22:07:22
PAPER BEFORE YOU WHICH IS
22:07:24
AGAIN THE ONLY EVIDENCE
22:07:24
SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO THE
22:07:27
QUESTION BEFORE THAT YOU ARE
22:07:31
EXAMINING.
22:07:31
>> OKAY, THANK YOU, MS.
22:07:32
BROOKS?
22:07:32
>> WITH RESPECT TO THE WHITE
22:07:34

PAPER, WHAT DOES IT ANALYZE?


22:07:37
>> IT ANALYZED THREE -- IT
22:07:38
WAS A TEAM OF SCIENTISTS AS
22:07:42
PRESENTED BY MR. LEECH THAT
22:07:48
ADDRESSES THREE AREAS,
22:07:50
REPRESENTATION, DYNAMICS OF
22:07:51
COAL, IS THERE DUST, WHERE
22:07:52
DOES IT COME FROM, WHERE DOES
22:07:53
IT LAND, CAN IT BE CONTAINED,
22:07:56
THE HEALTH ISSUES ASSOCIATED
22:07:57
WITH ANY DUST THAT MAY COME
22:07:58
OUT OR NOT AND THIRD, A
22:08:01

TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM THAT WAS


22:08:02
ATTACHED TO IT AS AN EXHIBIT
22:08:04
REGARDING THE COMBUSTIBILITY
22:08:06
ISSUE AND MITIGATING AGAINST
22:08:08
THAT.
22:08:09
>> AND DID THAT BASE ON -- IN
22:08:11
LOOKING AT EXISTING ISSUES ON
22:08:12
HOW COAL IS HANDLED AND THE
22:08:14
PROPOSED METHOD?
22:08:16
>> THEIR PRESENTATION OF IT
22:08:18
WAS TO EXAMINE THE PROPOSED
22:08:22
OPERATION, LOOK AT THE -22:08:23

WHICH THEY ALONE AGAIN WERE


22:08:25
THE SOLE ONES YOU HEARD FROM
22:08:26
TONIGHT THAT DID LOOK AT
22:08:28
WHAT'S BEEN IMPOSE ON THE
22:08:29
PROJECT ALREADY IN TERMS OF
22:08:31
THE MITIGATION MEASURES THAT
22:08:32
WERE IMPOSED BACK IN 2012 AND
22:08:35
THEN IDENTIFIED, THEY DIDN'T
22:08:35
SAY IT WAS GOING TO BE FINE,
22:08:38
THEY ANALYZED THEIR DYNAMICS
22:08:39
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN AND THEY
22:08:40
SAID THESE ARE THE MEASURES
22:08:42

THAT NEED TO BE IMPLEMENTED


22:08:44
TO ENSURE A CORRECT OUTCOME,
22:08:45
THE MEASURES THEY IMPLEMENTED
22:08:47
ARE NOT NEW OR NOT NOVEL,
22:08:49
THEY'RE INDUSTRY PRACTICES
22:08:50
NOW, THE WAY THE COAL IS
22:08:52
STACKED, WHAT'S APPLIED ON
22:08:53
TOP TO ENSURE THE DUST DOES
22:08:55
NOT GET OFF IN THE FIRST
22:08:58
PLACE, THE COMBUSTIBILITY
22:09:00
ISSUE WIDTHS THE HVAC INSIDE
22:09:07
THERE, IT WAS NOT A
22:09:08

CONCLUSION OF HOW THE SAFE


22:09:10
OPERATIONS COULD BE DONE, IT
22:09:13
WAS NOTED TLS AGREED TO THAT
22:09:15
BUT THAT WAS NOT A FACTOR IN
22:09:17
THE UNDERLYING CONCLUSION.
22:09:18
>> THANK YOU, MR. SMITH.
22:09:19
WE'LL HEAR FROM THE NEXT
22:09:23
SPEAKER ON THE CONCERNED SIDE.
22:09:28
>> [INAUDIBLE] FORMER MAYOR
22:09:30
AND VICE-MAYOR OF

BERKELEY.

22:09:34
DOES THE CAMERA WORK TONIGHT?
22:09:38
CAN I PUT IT UP?
22:09:41

NAOMI SCHIFF, NOT PAID TO BE


22:09:44
HERE, SEEDING TIME TO JEAN
22:09:46
QUAN.
22:09:48
>> I ALSO HAVE VALERIE WINE
22:09:54
MILLER, [INAUDIBLE].
22:10:01
>> JUSTIN LEE.
22:10:04
>> WE GOT NAOMI, SO MADAM
22:10:07
MAYOR, ARE YOU SHARING TIME
22:10:08
WITH YOUR COLLEAGUE FROM
22:10:10
BERKELEY?
22:10:10
>> I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU
22:10:12
FOR INVITING ME TO COME UP
22:10:14

AND I'LL HANG OUT HERE FOR MY


22:10:16
MINUTE, MAYBE 12.
22:10:17
>> KTOP, WE'RE ASKING CAN THE
22:10:24
PROJECTOR SHOW THE OVERHEAD
22:10:25
-- NO THERE'S NO OVERHEAD.
22:10:31
>> NO OVERHEAD TONIGHT.
22:10:33
WHAT SHE IS SAYING IS SHE'S
22:10:35
BROUGHT COPIES FOR THE
22:10:36
COUNCIL AND SHE'LL HAVE THOSE
22:10:37
DISTRIBUTED TO THE CLERK.
22:10:42
>> I'M SORRY, WOW, WHAT TO
22:10:48
SAY, LET ME JUST START, I
22:10:50

HAVE A LETTER, PLEASE


22:10:51
READ IT, IT HAS A LOT OF
22:10:55
LITTLE TIES TO BACK UP SOME
22:10:56
OF THE THINGS I'M GOING TO
22:10:58
SAY I DON'T HAVE TIME TO GET
22:11:02
INTO, BUT LET'S BE VERY
22:11:04
CLEAR, TAKE A CLEAN ONE HERE.
22:11:06
WITH WE STARTED THIS PROJECT,
22:11:07
AND I THINK WHAT MANY OF THE
22:11:10
PEOPLE SAID AND ANNE CAMPBELL
22:11:11
WASHINGTON WAS MY CHIEF OF
22:11:13
STAFF WITH WE NEGOTIATED THIS.
22:11:15

THIS HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT


22:11:16
WHETHER WE'RE GOING TO DO THE
22:11:19
BULK IMPORT STATION OR NOT.
22:11:21
IT IS THOUGH ABOUT WHAT WAS
22:11:23
PROMISED TO THE COMMUNITY AND
22:11:27
QUITE FRANKLY, THE APPROVAL
22:11:28
PROCESS WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY,
22:11:30
VERY DIFFERENT IF PHIL TAGAMI
22:11:32
HAD SAID WE'RE GOING TO DO
22:11:34
COAL, NOT ONLY DID HE NOT
22:11:37
MENTION -- HE ACTUALLY SAID,
22:11:38
NOT JUST IN THAT NEWSLETTER,
22:11:41

BUT IN THE COMMUNITY GROUP


22:11:42
WITH APEN WHEN WE WERE
22:11:46
NEGOTIATING THE FINAL
22:11:47
AGREEMENTS TO THE CONDITION,
22:11:48
TO MYSELF WHEN I WAS FIGHTING
22:11:50
TO GET -- IT'S NOT JUST THE
22:11:52
53 MILLION DOLLARS THAT WE'RE
22:11:53
RIPPING OFF OF UTAH AND
22:11:55
THEY'RE GOING TO APPARENTLY
22:11:56
FIGHT TO KEEP IT, BUT THERE'S
22:12:02
400 OR MAYBE 500 MILLION
22:12:03
DOLLARS OF STATE AND MEASURE
22:12:05

BB AND OTHER TRANSPORTATION


22:12:07
DOLLARS.
22:12:08
DO YOU THINK WHEN WE WENT TO
22:12:09
THE VOTERS AND SAID, HEY,
22:12:11
GIVE US 100 THOUSAND DOLLARS
22:12:12
OF BB SO WE COULD BUILD A
22:12:15
COAL TERMINAL, I DON'T THINK
22:12:19
SO.
22:12:19
CLEARLY THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN
22:12:25
A DIFFERENT EIR, A
22:12:27
DIFFERENT PROCESS, MARGARET
22:12:28
WOULD HAVE BEEN ON OUR BACKS
22:12:31

AND NANCY NADEL WOULD HAVE


22:12:33
DEMANDED A MORE STRINGENT
22:12:35
EIR, SO THIS IS SORT OF
22:12:37
REALLY ON HAVING THE PERSON
22:12:38
FROM WASHINGTON SAYING WE
22:12:40
CAN'T INTERFERE WITH
22:12:41
INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION,
22:12:42
THAT MAY BE TRUE BUT
22:12:44
WASHINGTON HAS JUST TURNED
22:12:46
DOWN TWO COAL IMPORT
22:12:47
FACILITIES IN THEIR STATE
22:12:49
BASED ON THEIR STATE AND
22:12:51

LOCAL REGULATIONS SO TO SORT


22:12:53
OF BULLYING US IN NOT DOING
22:12:56
ANYTHING TO PROTECT OUR
22:12:57
CITIZENS IS RIDICULOUS, I'M
22:12:58
NOT A LAWYER BUT YOU HAVE TO
22:12:59
READ SOME OF THE RECENT CASES
22:13:01
WHERE COMMUNITIES HAVE SAID
22:13:05
NO TO COAL FACILITIES.
22:13:10
SECONDLY, THE LAWYER UP HERE
22:13:13
SAID, DON'T CREATE A
22:13:14
[INAUDIBLE] OF CERTAINTY, I
22:13:16
QUITE FRANKLY THINK YOU'RE
22:13:17

SETTING UP THE CITY TO CREATE


22:13:18
A BIG CLOUD OF UNCERTAINTY,
22:13:20
NOT ONLY YOU HAVE PEOPLE IN
22:13:22
UTAH QUESTIONING WHERE THEIR
22:13:23
MONEY IS GOING, YOU HAVE
22:13:26
QUESTIONS I THINK AROUND THE
22:13:28
EIR AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL
22:13:29
IMPACT OF WHETHER WE HAD A
22:13:32
GOOD AND LEGAL VESTING, I
22:13:35
THINK YOU ALSO QUITE FRANKLY
22:13:36
HAVE A COMMUNITY THAT'S VERY
22:13:38
PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS AND
22:13:39

THIS IS NOT LIKE LONG BEACH,


22:13:40
SO I WAS TALKING TO THE PORT
22:13:45
-- LONG BEACH'S LOCAL
22:13:47
FACILITY, NOBODY LIVES NEAR
22:13:48
THERE, NOBODY GET THERE IS,
22:13:49
THE COAL DOESN'T GO BY
22:13:51
ANYBODY'S HOUSES, THAT IS NOT
22:13:54
OAKLAND.
22:13:55
OAKLAND IS THIS PICTURE OF
22:13:57
ALAMEDA COUNTY WHERE WE HAVE
22:13:59
6 OF THE 10 WORST OZONE AND
22:14:01
ASTHMA AREAS IN THE STATE OF
22:14:04

CALIFORNIA, OR BECAUSE THE


22:14:05
COMBINATION TO HAVE OZONE AND
22:14:07
THE WIND, WE HAVE HORRIBLE
22:14:10
CONDITIONS FOR ASTHMA AND
22:14:12
PARTICULATES FOR OUR KIDS,
22:14:13
AND I KNOW PEOPLE WON'T
22:14:15
THINK, THESE GUYS, THEY'RE
22:14:16
JUST GREEN AND THEY'RE CRAZY
22:14:18
AND WHO CARES ABOUT GLOBAL
22:14:21
WARMING, WE SHOULD CARE, A
22:14:22
STUDY THAT WAS JUST RELEASED
22:14:23
A MONTH AGO BY UC BERKELEY
22:14:27

SAYS THAT 29% OF THE


22:14:30
POLLUTION IN OUR AREA COMES
22:14:32
FROM CHINA, SO WE THINK
22:14:36
SMART, SOME PEOPLE THINK
22:14:37
THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE MONEY
22:14:39
ON A FIELD ACCORDING TO
22:14:41
BLOOMBERG WHO'S GOT ALL THE
22:14:44
CITATIONS THAT'S UNSTABLE AND
22:14:45
DECLINING.
22:14:45
THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT MONTH,
22:14:48
LAST WEEK, THE MAYORS OF THE
22:14:50
BIGGEST CITIES IN CHINA WENT
22:14:52

TO L.A. AND THE SECOND OF THE


22:14:54
MEETING, I WAS TAT FIRST
22:14:56
MEETING, AND THEY MAID A
22:14:58
COMMITMENT TO GO BEYOND THEIR
22:15:00
GOVERNMENT'S COMMITMENT WHICH
22:15:01
IS THE BIGGEST COMMITMENT
22:15:02
THEY EVER MADE, THEY SAY
22:15:04
THEY'RE GOING TO REDUCE
22:15:06
GREENHOUSE GASES BY 80% BY
22:15:08
2050, AND PART THE WAY
22:15:10
THEY'RE GOING DO THAT IS STOP
22:15:13
USING COAL AND CHINA HAS ITS
22:15:15

OWN SUPPLY, SO THAT'S NOT A


22:15:16
STABLE MARKET FOR US.
22:15:17
WHAT IS A STABLE MARKET FOR
22:15:19
AND YOU SAY WHY I SPENT SO
22:15:21
MUCH TIME IN CHINA TRYING TO
22:15:25
GET IMPORTS -- EXPORTS TO
22:15:27
CHINA AND WE ARE THE LARGEST
22:15:30
FOOD EXPORTER OF ANY PORT IN
22:15:33
THE UNITED STATES, THAT
22:15:35
PROVIDES LOCAL GREEN JOBS OF
22:15:37
AGRICULTURE FROM OUR OWN
22:15:39
STATE, FROM OUR OWN REGION
22:15:40

AND IT'S GOING TO BE STABLE


22:15:42
AND YOU KNOW WHY IT'S GOING
22:15:44
TO BE STABLE, BECAUSE THE
22:15:48
CARBON POLLUTION IN CHINA,
22:15:50
THE REVOLUTION IS GOING TO BE
22:15:52
OVER POLLUTION, THE CARBON
22:15:55
POLLUTION IN CHINA HAS NOW
22:15:57
POISONED 50% OF THE GROUND
22:15:58
WATER AND THEY'RE GOING TO
22:16:01
WANT FOR OUR FOOD FOR A LONG
22:16:02
TIME TO GO, THAT'S A STABLE
22:16:05
CROP AND THAT CREATES LOCAL
22:16:07

AND REGIONAL JOBS, THAT'S A


22:16:09
GREEN PROJECT AND SOMETHING
22:16:10
TO BELIEVE IN, WE USED TO
22:16:12
HAVE ONE PORT, ONE PLAN, MY
22:16:14
SLOGAN IS ONE CLIMATE, ONE
22:16:17
WORLD, ONE FUTURE, WE SEND
22:16:19
THIS COAL TO CHINA, IT WILL
22:16:22
COME BACK IN WIDER WAYS, WE
22:16:24
CAN BARELY EAT THE
22:16:26
FISH BECAUSE OF THE MERCURY,
22:16:28
IF YOU LOOK AT THE STREAMS OF
22:16:29
MERCURY THAT COME ON TO THE
22:16:31

WEST COAST, IF YOU LOOK AT


22:16:33
THE AIR POLLUTION AND I'LL
22:16:35
JUST END WITH THIS, LOOK AT
22:16:36
THE CHARTS OF THE GREAT
22:16:37
LAKES, THAT'S NOT EVEN THE
22:16:40
WEST COAST, 14% OF THE
22:16:42
MERCURY IN THE GREAT LAKES
22:16:45
COMES FROM THE COAL BURNING
22:16:49
FROM CHINA, SO WHAT GOES
22:16:51
AROUND COMES AROUND.
22:16:52
WE'RE EITHER GOING TO SAVE
22:16:54
THE PLANET TOGETHER OR WE'RE
22:16:55

GOING TO LOSE THE PLANET


22:16:57
TOGETHER AND OUR KIDS CAN'T
22:16:59
-- THEY CAN'T REALLY STAND
22:17:02
EVEN -- I'M SORRY, I FORGOT
22:17:03
THE CHART, I HAVE TO DO THIS
22:17:05
CHART, PLEASE, FORGIVE ME,
22:17:07
SEE THIS CHART, THIS IS ONE
22:17:11
COAL CART THAT'S UNCOVERED
22:17:13
RIGHT NOW, YOU SEE THAT
22:17:15
LITTLE PERSON, SO 645 POUND
22:17:17
OF COAL DUST IS LOST IN A 400
22:17:21
MILE TRIP AND UTAH'S MUCH
22:17:23

FARTHER THAN 400 MILES.


22:17:24
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
22:17:26
>> THIS LITTLE COAL PILE,
22:17:28
THIS IS 15%, SO EVEN IF YOU
22:17:31
CAN SAVE 85%, HAVE 15%, LOOK
22:17:34
HOW BIG THAT IS, ASK THEM HOW
22:17:37
MUCH, IF IT'S 5%, THAT'S 1500
22:17:39
POUNDS.
22:17:39
>> IT WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO
22:17:42
EVERYONE, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
>> THANK YOU.
22:17:48
[APPLAUSE].
22:17:48
>> IF WE CAN HAVE THE NEXT

22:17:51
SPEAKER FROM THE CONCERNED
22:17:52
SIDE, PLEASE.
22:17:53
>> MADAM PRESIDENT, THANK YOU
22:17:55
FOR TAKING MY COMMENTS, I'M
22:17:56
THE VICE MAYOR OF THE CITY
22:17:59
OF BERKELEY BUT I ALSO
22:18:01
REPRESENT WEST BERKELEY AND
22:18:03
IT'S EXACTLY BR THE RAIL
22:18:05
LINES ARE FLOWING AND IT'S
22:18:07
EXACTLY WHERE WE HAVE PEOPLE
22:18:09
LIVING, OUR LOWEST INCOME
22:18:10
RESIDENTS ARE THERE, IT'S

22:18:11
EXACTLY WHERE WE HAVE
22:18:13
DAYCARE, SCHOOLS, BUILDINGS
22:18:14
AND I'VE BEEN TRACKING
22:18:16
CLOSELY THE SHIPMENTS OF
22:18:18
HAZARDOUS CRUDE OIL AND I'VE
22:18:19
BEEN TRACKING ALL OF THE
22:18:20
ACCIDENTS THAT HAVE BEEN
22:18:21
HAPPENING SO WHAT WE DON'T
22:18:23
NEED IS ANOTHER SET OF FOSSIL
22:18:26
FUELS COMING DOWN OUR RAIL
22:18:28
LINES WITH MEGA LOCOMOTIVES
22:18:32
TRANSPORTS THIS STUFF WHICH

22:18:34
HAVE PARTICULATE OUTPUTS, IF
22:18:35
YOU LOOK AT THE ASTHMA STUDY,
22:18:40
THEY'VE PRETTY MUCH RISEN,
22:18:42
THE I80 CORRIDOR, IT'S
22:18:45
RICHMOND, BERKELEY, IT'S ALL
22:18:46
THE CITIES THAT ARE ALONG
22:18:48
THE 880 CORRIDOR, YOU HAVE
22:18:51
HAD TONIGHT POWERFUL VIRTUAL
22:18:52
AND ECONOMIC TESTIMONY FROM
22:18:53
PEOPLE WHO ARE PROFESSIONALS
22:18:54
AND HAVE GIVEN YOU STUDIES
22:18:58
THAT HAVE BEEN VETTED IN

22:18:59
RESPECTED JOURNALS, THOSE ARE
22:19:00
THE KINDS OF TESTIMONIES THAT
22:19:01
YOU NEED TO BASE YOUR
22:19:03
DECISION ON, BUT PLEASE LET
22:19:04
ME BE CLEAR, IT'S NOT JUST
22:19:07
ABOUT OAKLAND.
22:19:07
WE WANT JOBS, WE ALL DO AND I
22:19:10
THINK OAKLAND'S MADE A
22:19:13
PARTICULARLY VERY COGENT CASE
22:19:14
FOR THOSE JOBS BUT LET'S HAVE
22:19:16
JOBS THAT WE CAN BE PROUD OF
22:19:19
AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE HEALTH

22:19:19
OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND OUR
22:19:21
FAMILIES BUT NOT JUST SEND US
22:19:25
DOWN THIS COAL ROAD, THANK
22:19:28
YOU.
22:19:29
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
22:19:31
IS THERE STILL PEOPLE IN THE
22:19:33
HEARING ROOMS, YOU CAN MAKE
22:19:34
YOUR WAY TO THE CHAMBERS IN
22:19:35
HEARING ROOMS 1 AND 2, WE
22:19:37
HAVE ROOM IN THE CHAMBERS AND
22:19:39
GALLERIES TO MAKE YOUR WAY
22:19:41
UPSTAIRS, WE'LL HAVE THE NEXT

22:19:42
SPEAKER FROM THE CONCERNED
22:19:45
SIDE.
22:19:47
>> BONNIE LOCK HEART, I SEED
22:19:51
MY TIME.
22:19:52
>> MICHAEL REUBEN, I'M
22:19:52
SEEDING MY TIME.
>> THANK YOU.
22:19:57
>> GOOD EVENING TO THE
22:19:59
COUNCIL, MY NAME IS KIMBERLY
22:20:03
MOSES AND I REPRESENT SEIU
22:20:08
1021, AND AS A PORT
22:20:10
EMPLOYEES, I WOULD LIKE TO
22:20:12

SAY I AM PROUD OF OUR PORT


22:20:15
COMMISSIONERS FOR STANDING ON
22:20:17
PRINCIPLE AND REJECTING THE
22:20:21
SAME TIRED PROPOSAL FROM
22:20:23
BULLY RESOURCES WHEN THEY
22:20:24
PROPOSED TO EXPORT COAL OUT
22:20:25
OF THE HOWARD TERMINAL.
22:20:27
AS A DELEGATE TO THE ALAMEDA
22:20:30
COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL, I WOULD
22:20:31
LIKE TO READ TO YOU THE
22:20:34
RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE
22:20:35
EXPORT OF COAL THROUGH THE
22:20:38

NEW OAKLAND GLOBAL TRADE AND


22:20:40
LOGISTICS CENTER, THIS WAS
22:20:44
PASSED BY THE AFFILIATE
22:20:45
MEMBERS OF THE LABOR COUNCIL
22:20:47
AND STATES LABOR'S POSITION
22:20:48
ON THIS PROJECT.
22:20:50
WHEREAS WE SUPPORT THE
22:20:52
DEVELOPMENT OF BOTH SHIPPING
22:20:53
FACILITY AND THE FORMER
22:20:55
OAKLAND ARMY BASE TO CREATE
22:20:58
GOOD UNION JOBS WITH STRONG
22:21:00
LOCAL HIRE REQUIREMENTS AND
22:21:02

COMMUNITY BENEFITS FOR THE


22:21:03
RESIDENTS OF OAKLAND, AND WE
22:21:05
SUPPORT THE SHIPPING OF BULK
22:21:07
COMMODITIES SUCH AS STEEL,
22:21:09
WOOL, GRAIN, GRAVEL AND OTHER
22:21:12
NON-HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AND
22:21:13
WHEREAS WE ACKNOWLEDGE AND
22:21:15
COMMEND THE GROWING
22:21:17
COMMITMENT OF LABOR TO
22:21:19
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ISSUES
22:21:20
THAT AFFECT WORKERS,
22:21:22
COMMUNITIES AND FUTURE
22:21:23

GENERATIONS INCLUDING AND NOT


22:21:24
LIMITED TO THE COLLABORATION
22:21:25
OF LABOR WITH THE COMMUNITY
22:21:28
GROUPS THAT SECURE STRICTER
22:21:30
ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS ON
22:21:32
THE PROJECT AND [INAUDIBLE]
22:21:33
THAT NOT ONLY PROTECT WORKERS
22:21:36
BUT DIMINISH ENVIRONMENTAL
22:21:38
HAZARDS AND POLLUTION IN
22:21:39
PASSING PUBLIC HEALTH AND
22:21:40
CLIMATE, AND WHEREAS WE ALSO
22:21:42
ACKNOWLEDGE THE HARD WORK OF
22:21:44

THIS COUNCIL AND ITS MEMBER


22:21:46
AFFILIATES WHO OVER A PERIOD
22:21:48
OF YEARS ATTENDED HUNDREDS OF
22:21:51
MEETINGS TO EMPLOY AND
22:21:52
NEGOTIATE THE PLAN TO DEVELOP
22:21:54
THE FORMER OAKLAND ARMY BASE
22:21:55
TO ENSURE IT WOULD PROVIDE
22:21:57
GOOD JOBS TO AREA RESIDENTS
22:21:59
VIA A PROJECT LABOR
22:22:01
AGREEMENT AND COMMUNITY
22:22:02
BENEFITS LABOR AGREEMENT WITH
22:22:04
LOCAL HIRE REQUIREMENTS AND
22:22:06

UNION RECOGNITION PROVISIONS


22:22:07
AND WHEREAS IT HAS BRIEFLY
22:22:09
COME TO LIGHT THAT THE
22:22:12
CALIFORNIA CAPITAL AND
22:22:13
INVESTMENT GROUP CCIG
22:22:17
AND INTERNAL LOGISTICS
22:22:19
SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN
22:22:23
SOLICITING WITH UTAH
22:22:25
[INAUDIBLE] TO ALLOW THEM TO
22:22:27
EXPORT MILLIONS OF TONS OF
22:22:29
UTAH COAL EACH YEAR FOR MINES
22:22:32
OWNED BY BOEING RESOURCES
22:22:33

THROUGH THE OAKLAND BULK AND


22:22:36
OVERSIZED TERMINALS AT THE
22:22:39
OAKLAND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
22:22:40
AND WHEREAS TERMINALS THAT
22:22:42
SHIP COAL PROVIDE FEWER JOBS
22:22:43
THAN TERMINALS THAT SHIP
22:22:46
CONTAINERS OR GENERAL CARGO.
22:22:47
JOBS INVOLVING COAL ARE
22:22:49
UNHEALTHY AND UNSAFE DUE TO
22:22:52
DUST EMISSIONS, COAL IS
22:22:55
INCREASINGLY AN ANTIUNION
22:22:57
INDUSTRY AND WITH THE CLOSING
22:23:01

OF THE DEER CREEK MINE, THERE


22:23:03
WOULD BE NO UNION MINES
22:23:05
OPERATING IN THAT SPACE AND
22:23:07
WHEREAS COAL DUST ->> THANK YOU.
22:23:10
>> THE CALIFORNIA NURSING
22:23:13
ASSOCIATION SEEDS HER TIME.
22:23:14
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH,
22:23:17
>> WHEREAS COAL DUST PROVIDES
22:23:22
HAZARDS TO WORKERS, THEY
22:23:24
CONTAIN SUBSTANCES KNOWN TO
22:23:26
IMPACT HUMANS INCLUDING
22:23:29
ARSENIC, LEAD, CHROMIUM, AND

22:23:31
OTHER TOXIC HEAVY METALS AND
22:23:35
WHERE IT LEADS TO MORE THAN
22:23:37
13 THOUSAND PREMATURE DEATHS,
22:23:39
100 BILLION IN ANNUAL HEALTH
22:23:40
COSTS AND WHEREAS WEST
22:23:43
OAKLAND RESIDENTS ARE ALREADY
22:23:45
TWICE AS LUCKY TO VISITOR THE
22:23:48
EMERGENCY ROOM WITH ASTHMA AS
22:23:50
THE ALAMEDA COUNTY RESIDENT
22:23:51
AND TO DIE OF CANCER, LUNG
22:23:55
CANCER AND HEALTH DISEASE AND
22:23:59
DECREASES HUNG CAPACITY,

22:24:00
INCREASING BRONCHITIS,
22:24:02
EMPHYSEMA AND HEART DISEASE,
22:24:03
IT IS WIDELY BELIEVED BY THE
22:24:06
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE THAT
22:24:09
830% OF THE WORLD'S COAL
22:24:11
RESERVED MUST STAY IN THE
22:24:14
GROUND UNDER THE PLANET
22:24:16
[INAUDIBLE] BY 2050.
22:24:20
>> [INAUDIBLE] AND I SEED MY
22:24:21
TIME.
22:24:22
>> THANK YOU, SIR, THAT WOULD
22:24:24
BE YOUR FINAL MINUTE.

22:24:25
>> THANK YOU, WHEREAS THE
22:24:28
PORT COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY
22:24:30
VOTED IN 2014 TO REJECT
22:24:31
PROPOSALS TO BUILD A NEW COAL
22:24:34
AND PETROLEUM COKE EXPORT
22:24:37
FACILITY AT THE HOWARD
22:24:40
TERMINAL IN OAKLAND, THERE
22:24:43
WAS PUBLIC OPPOSITION TO THE
22:24:45
PROJECT, THEREFORE BE IT
22:24:47
RESOLVED THAT THE ALAMEDA
22:24:49
LABOR COUNCIL EXPRESS
22:24:50
OPPOSITION TO THE TRANSPORT OF

22:24:52
COAL THROUGH OAKLAND AND
22:24:54
SPECIFICALLY THE OAKLAND
22:24:55
GLOBAL TRADE AND LOGISTICS
22:24:56
CENTER TAT FORMER OAKLAND
22:24:58
ARMY BASE AND BE IT FINALLY
22:25:00
RESOLVED THAT THE ALAMEDA
22:25:03
LABOR COUNCIL SEND A LET TORE
22:25:04
THE MAYOR OF THE OAKLAND
22:25:06
COUNCIL ASKING THEM TO REJECT
22:25:07
THE EXPORT OF COAL THROUGH
22:25:09
THE OAKLAND GLOBAL PROJECT
22:25:10
AND NOT TO TAKE FUNDS FROM

22:25:12
UTAH TO SECURE USE OF THE
22:25:14
TERMINALS FOR USE OF COAL AND
22:25:15
TO EXECUTE A BINDING
22:25:16
AGREEMENT TO ADOPT AN
22:25:17
ORDINANCE THAT WILL BAR
22:25:18
EXPORT FROM COAL FROM THIS
22:25:20
PUBLIC LAND.
22:25:22
THANK YOU.
22:25:24
[APPLAUSE].
22:25:27
>> MS. MOSES, IF YOU WILL
22:25:29
STAY AT THE PODIUM, I BELIEVE
22:25:30
WE HAVE A QUESTION FROM

22:25:33
COUNCILMEMBER BROOKS.
22:25:36
>> HAS THE PORTLAND BOARD OF
22:25:38
COMMISSIONS TAKEN A POSITION
22:25:39
WITH RESPECT TO THIS PROJECT
22:25:41
AT ITS CURRENT LOCATION, NOT
22:25:42
THE HOWARD TERMINAL?
22:25:43
>> WELL, THEY DID REJECT THE
22:25:45
PROPOSAL WHEN IT CAME TO THEM
22:25:47
IN 2014.
22:25:49
>> NO, I SAID -- YOU INDICATED
22:25:51
THAT WAS AT THE HOWARD
22:25:53
TERMINAL.

22:25:53
MY QUESTION IS WHETHER
22:25:54
THEY'VE TAKEN A POSITION WITH
22:25:56
RESPECT TO THIS PROJECT AT
22:25:57
ITS CURRENT LOCATION
22:26:00
>> I'M NOT SURE IF THEY HAVE
22:26:04
TAKEN A FORMAL POSITION.
22:26:08
>> BECAUSE I HAD SOMEONE FROM
22:26:11
THE PORT COMMISSION IN
22:26:16
SUPPORT OF THE POSITION.
22:26:18
>> THOSE IN SUPPORT OF THE
22:26:22
PROJECT AS PROPOSED, IF WE
22:26:24
CAN HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER

22:26:25
THAT IS IN SUPPORT OF TLS AND
22:26:27
THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE ENTERED
22:26:30
CHAMBERS, YOU DON'T HAVE
22:26:31
TO STAND IN LINE, WE WILL
22:26:33
CONTINUE TO GO THROUGH
22:26:34
QUICKLY, YOU CAN TAKE A SEAT,
22:26:36
WE'VE BEEN GOING PRETTY
22:26:37
QUICKLY, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE
22:26:39
A SEAT IN THE CHAMBERS, THAT'S
22:26:41
FINE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO REST
22:26:43
ON YOUR FEET.
22:26:45
IF THE NEXT THREE SPEAKERS IN

22:26:47
SUPPORT OF THE PROJECT WILL
22:26:48
COME FORWARD NOW AND WE CAN
22:26:50
SPEAK VERY QUICKLY.
22:26:51
YES.
22:26:53
>> MARY LARSEN, EMPLOYED BY
22:26:54
THE PORT OF OAKLAND.
22:26:59
>> SEEDING YOUR TIME THAT IS,
22:27:01
YES?
22:27:02
>> [INAUDIBLE].
22:27:02
>> THANK YOU.
22:27:09
ABRAHAM RAYAS, I'LL SEED MY
22:27:12
TIME.

22:27:12
>> OKAY, THANK YOU.
22:27:15
MR. GALLO, DID YOU HAVE A
22:27:16
QUESTION?
22:27:17
>> MADAM CHAIR, JUST ON
22:27:20
FOLLOWING UP ON COUNCILMEMBER
22:27:21
BROOKS' LAST POINT, SO THE
22:27:23
PORT COMMISSION, THE OAKLAND
22:27:24
PORT COMMISSION HAS NOT TAKEN
22:27:26
A STAND ON THIS ISSUE?
22:27:30
>> I THINK -- IF I MAY, I
22:27:32
THINK THE POINT BEING MADE IS
22:27:33
THE PORT COMMISSION HAD A

22:27:36
VOTE ON -22:27:40
>> NO, HE ASKED A SPECIFIC -22:27:41
>> I DON'T BELIEVE IT'S COME
22:27:43
TO A VOTE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER
22:27:44
ON THIS PROJECT.
22:27:46
>> THE QUESTION WAS TO HAVE A
22:27:47
COAL PRESENCE ON THEIR SITE
22:27:49
TO WHICH THEY VOTED NO, BUT
22:27:52
IT WASN'T THIS SPECIFIC
22:27:53
PROJECT, THAT WAS A COAL PROJECT ON
22:27:54
PORT OWNED PROPERTY THAT THEY
22:27:56
VOTED AGAINST.

>> THANK YOU.


22:27:57
>> THANK YOU FOR THE
22:28:00
CLARIFICATION.
AND, SIR, -22:28:01
>> I BELIEVE THAT GIVES YOU
22:28:03
FOUR MINUTES, IF I COUNTED
22:28:05
THAT CORRECTLY.
22:28:06
>> GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS
22:28:09
HAROLD JONES, AND
22:28:11
COUNCILMEMBERS AS WELL, I
22:28:12
LIVE IN OAKLAND, AND I THINK
22:28:13
THAT'S AN IMPORTANT POINT AS
22:28:15
YOU LISTEN TO THE INDIVIDUALS

22:28:17
TESTIFYING TODAY, I HAPPEN TO
22:28:18
LIVE IN DISTRICT 3 AND MY
22:28:20
RESIDENCE IS LESS THAN 75
22:28:22
YARDS FROM THE RAILYARD THAT
22:28:24
RUNS ALONG THE BAY AND JACK
22:28:26
LONDON SQUARE.
22:28:27
PRIOR TO MY RETIREMENT, I
22:28:28
WORKED FOR THE PORT OF
22:28:30
OAKLAND FOR ALMOST 15 YEAR, I
22:28:33
HAD PRIMARY RESPONSIBLE FOR
22:28:36
THE PORT'S EXTERNAL AFFAIRS,
22:28:38
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, SOCIAL

22:28:39
RESPONSIBILITY AND THE
22:28:40
ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM, I'M
22:28:41
FAMILIAR WITH WEST OAKLAND
22:28:42
AND THE COMMUNITY ISSUES
22:28:43
THERE LIVING NEXT TO A
22:28:45
WORKING PORT AND A MARITIME
22:28:48
OPERATION.
22:28:49
OAKLAND'S GREATEST ASSET A OF
22:28:51
COURSE ITS PEOPLE, BUT IT CAN
22:28:52
BE STRONGLY ARGUED THAT
22:28:54
OAKLAND'S SECOND GREATEST
22:28:55
ASSET IS THE FACT THAT IT HAS

22:28:57
A MAJOR WORKING WATERFRONT
22:28:59
WITH VIRTUALLY NO MAJOR
22:29:01
RETAIL IN OAKLAND, NO
22:29:04
REVENUES COMING, OAKLAND'S
22:29:05
NEIGHBORING CITIES HAVE
22:29:06
SURROUNDED OAKLAND WITH ALL
22:29:07
OF THE RETAIL REVENUES BUT
22:29:09
OAKLAND HAS A UNIQUE
22:29:10
DISTINCTION AND AN ASSET OF
22:29:13
AN INTERNATIONALLY AVAILABLE
22:29:15
WATERFRONT AND TRANSPORTATION
22:29:16
HUB WITH AMAZING REVENUE

22:29:17
POTENTIAL IF YOU TAKE
22:29:18
ADVANTAGE OF IT.
22:29:20
I'M NOT STICKING MY HEAD IN
22:29:21
THE STAND OR ON THE ISSUE OF
22:29:23
CLIMATE CLANG OR IGNORING THE
22:29:26
CONCERN ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING,
22:29:26
WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO ME IS
22:29:27
THE DIRECT IMPACT THAT THE
22:29:29
EXPORT OF COAL HAS ON MY
22:29:31
COMMUNITY AND ITS HEALTH AND
22:29:33
SAFETY.
22:29:33
I HAVE NOT READ OR HEARD ANY

22:29:36
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE NOT
22:29:37
SUPPORTING THE COMMODITY OF
22:29:39
COAL TO BE EXPORTED PROVIDED
22:29:42
IT'S DONE IN A SAFE AND
22:29:44
RESPONSIBLE MANNER.
22:29:44
I'M VERY CONFIDENT THAT THE
22:29:46
DEVELOPERS AND THE OPERATORS
22:29:48
OF THE PROPOSED MULTIPLE
22:29:49
COMMODITIES TERMINAL HAVE THE
22:29:51
ABILITY AND THE WHERE WITH
22:29:52
ALL IF HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO DO
22:29:54
SOME AMAZING THINGS IN THE

22:29:55
DESIGN AND OPERATION OF THIS
22:30:00
TERMINAL.
22:30:00
IF NOT, A CALL TERMINAL BUT A
22:30:04
MULTIBULK COMMODITY TERMINAL,
22:30:05
COVERED RAIL CARS,
22:30:08
UNDERGROUND CONVEYANCE, DOME
22:30:08
STORAGE, TRANSFER TO SHIFT,
22:30:10
THESE ARE ALL MITIGATION THAT
22:30:11
IS GO ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT
22:30:14
ANYONE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD
22:30:16
IS DOING.
22:30:17
AS I FOLLOWED THIS ISSUE,

22:30:19
I'VE HEARD SO MANY SAY, IT'S
22:30:22
NEVER BEEN DONE LIKE THAT
22:30:23
BEFORE, HOW DO WE KNOW THAT
22:30:25
THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL WORK,
22:30:26
AND SOMEONE RECENTLY REMINDED
22:30:28
ME, WE NEVER WENT TO THE
22:30:33
MOVIE FOR IT WHEN WE
22:30:34
WENT TO THE MOON, CARGO NEVER
22:30:37
KNEW THROUGH THE PORT OF
22:30:39
OAKLAND IN ANY MEANS OTHER
22:30:42
THAN THROUGH BULK FASHION,
22:30:43
OAKLAND WAS THE FIRST PORT IN

22:30:45
THE NATION TO TRY THIS
22:30:48
INNOVATIVE APPROACH OF MOVING
22:30:49
CARGO AND NOW IT'S THE ONLY
22:30:50
WAY THAT CARGO IS MOVED.
22:30:52
OAKLAND IS ON THE HISTORY
22:30:56
BOOKS AS BEING THE FIRST
22:30:58
UNITED STATES PORT TO BE A
22:31:00
CARGO CONTAINER PORT, WHEN IT
22:31:01
CAME TO PORT TRUCK, WE DIDN'T
22:31:03
STOP THE TRUCKS MOVING FROM
22:31:04
OAKLAND THROUGH THE PORT,
22:31:07
WE FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE IT

22:31:09
WORK AND NOW TODAY THE PORT
22:31:11
OF OAKLAND HAS SOME OF THE
22:31:13
LEANEST TRUCKS IN THE NATION,
22:31:15
SO HERE NOW NEARLY 50 YEARS
22:31:17
LATER, OAKLAND AGAIN HAS AN
22:31:18
OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING
22:31:20
NEW, INNOVATIVE AND CUTTING
22:31:23
EDGE.
22:31:23
THE TECHNOLOGY THEY'VE BEEN
22:31:24
TALKING ABOUT IS NOT NEW, IT
22:31:26
ISN'T ANYTHING THAT YOU OR I
22:31:28
HAVEN'T SEEN ELSEWHERE, WHAT

22:31:29
IS DIFFERENT IS THE FACT THAT
22:31:31
THEY'VE TAKEN THIS TECHNOLOGY
22:31:32
AND USED IT IN AN INNOVATIVE
22:31:34
WAY TO SOLVE A PROBLEM THAT
22:31:36
WOULD ALLOW OAKLAND TO MOVE
22:31:39
FORWARD WITH AN ISSUE, I
22:31:40
LISTENED TO THE EXPERTS ON
22:31:41
BOTH SIDES AND I'M DRAWN TO
22:31:44
THE FACT NOT BY ANY EMOTIONAL
22:31:45
SENTIMENT THAT I HAVE ABOUT
22:31:47
COAL PERSONALLY, I DO THIS
22:31:48
BECAUSE WHEN IT COMES TO

22:31:50
CREATING JOBS AND OPPORTUNITY
22:31:51
FOR A CITY THAT SORROW NEEDS
22:31:54
SOLUTIONS, THESE ARE THE
22:31:56
FACTS THAT WAY AND RESONATE
22:31:57
WITH ME, SO I WOULD URGE THE
22:31:59
COUNCIL TO WEIGH THE FACTS
22:32:00
AND THE IMMEDIATE AND DIRECT
22:32:02
NEEDS ON OUR COMMUNITY AND
22:32:04
CITY, CONSIDER THE MITIGATION
22:32:06
THAT THE TERMINAL OPERATOR
22:32:07
HAS COMMITTED TO, HOLD THEM
22:32:09
TO THOSE COMMITMENTS TO

22:32:10
ENSURE OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY
22:32:12
AND USE THE SPIRIT OF
22:32:16
COLLABORATION, MITIGATION AND
22:32:16
INNOVATION TO MAKE OAKLAND A
22:32:19
MODEL FOR THE NATION OF HOW
22:32:21
TO CREATE A SOLUTION FOR A
22:32:23
WIN, WIN SITUATION FOR
22:32:24
EVERYONE.
22:32:24
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, WILL
22:32:26
THE NEXT SPEAKER COME.
22:32:27
>> GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU
22:32:28
SO MUCH, I AM MARK EVERTON

22:32:32
AND I'M ON BEHALF OF THE
22:32:36
METROPOLITAN

CHAMBER OF

22:32:39
COMMERCE, I THOUGHT A LITTLE
22:32:41
REFLECTION AND A LITTLE RECAP
22:32:42
MAY BE VALUE B.
22:32:44
THE CITY WORKED DILIGENTLY
22:32:46
WITH DEVELOPERS TO DEVELOP A
22:32:47
PROJECT THAT WOULD BENEFIT
22:32:49
EVERYONE.
22:32:49
THE PROJECT HAS GONE THROUGH
22:32:51
COMMUNITY OUTREACH, HUNDREDS
22:32:54
OF ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION

22:32:54
MANDATES AND A LENGTHY
22:32:56
NEGOTIATION PROCESS, WE HEARD
22:32:58
IN ENACTING A MORATORIUM THAT
22:33:01
ENACTS INTERSTATE COMMERCE
22:33:02
WOULD PROLONG LAWSUITS.
22:33:06
GIVEN THAT, OUR CONCERN IS
22:33:07
THAT THE ACTIONS THAT
22:33:08
POSSIBLY COULD BE TAKEN WOULD
22:33:10
DISCOURAGE DEVELOPMENT AND
22:33:11
INVESTMENT IN OAKLAND DURING
22:33:12
A TIME OF GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
22:33:15
WE'RE ASKING AND HOPING THAT

22:33:18
YOU'LL REALIZES THAT CITY
22:33:19
LEADERS SHOULD NOT MOVE THE
22:33:20
GOAL POST AT THE LAST MINUTE,
22:33:23
THE GROUND IS BROKEN, THEY'RE
22:33:24
STARTING THE MAYOR PORTION OF
22:33:25
CONSTRUCTION, LET'S NOT
22:33:26
CHANGE THE GROUND RULES, WE
22:33:28
ENCOURAGE YOU TO WEIGH ALL
22:33:29
THE FACTORS IN DETERMINING
22:33:30
THE NEXT STEPS FOR THE CITY,
22:33:31
ON BEHALF OF THE CHAMBER,
22:33:33
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR

22:33:35
TIME TONIGHT.
22:33:35
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
22:33:38
WELL, I HAVE ONE ADDITIONAL
22:33:41
SPEAKER ON THE PRO SIDE,
22:33:45
PLEASE.
22:33:45
>> HI, I'M SCOTT IRWIN,

I'M

22:33:50
SEEDING MY TIME:
22:33:53
>> [INAUDIBLE], I'M SEEDING
22:33:55
MY TIME.
22:33:55
>> I'M WITH THE FLAT IRON
22:33:58
JOINT VENTURE, WE'RE
22:34:00
CURRENTLY THE DESIGN BUILD --

22:34:01
>> SORRY, IT'S A DIRECTIONAL
22:34:03
MIC.,, IF YOU CAN PULL IT
22:34:05
STRAIGHT RIGHT ABOUT THERE
22:34:06
AND START OVER.
22:34:07
>> MY NAME IS CLIFF, I'M THE
22:34:10
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER WITH
22:34:13
THE TURNER IRON -- WE'RE THE
22:34:16
DESIGN BUILD CONTRACTOR
22:34:17
WORKING ON THE HORIZONTAL
22:34:18
PHASE, I'M NOT HERE TO TALK
22:34:20
ABOUT COAL BUT I'M HERE TO
22:34:22
TALK ABOUT JOB, QUALITY UNION

22:34:24
CONSTRUCTION JOBS, WHAT WE
22:34:25
COMPLETED TO DATE, WHAT WE
22:34:27
THINK WE CAN DO MOVING
22:34:28
FORWARD, WE'RE ABOUT 66%
22:34:32
THROUGH THE PROJECT, WE
22:34:34
WORKED ABOUT 300 THOUSAND
22:34:36
HOURS OF QUALITY CRAFT LABOR
22:34:37
ON-SITE, HALF OF THAT OR
22:34:42
POSSIBLY 150 THOUSAND HOURS
22:34:43
HAS BEEN COMPLETED BY OAKLAND
22:34:45
RESIDENTS, WE HAVE CREATED
22:34:48
ALMOST 500 NEW JOBS, ALMOST

22:34:50
475 OF THOSE JOBS WENT TO
22:34:53
OAKLAND RESIDENTS, AND WHAT
22:34:54
THAT TRANSLATES TO IS OVER 5
22:34:57
MILLION DOLLARS IN WAGES PAID
22:35:00
TO OAKLAND RESIDENTS WORKING
22:35:01
ON THE PROJECT TO DATE.
22:35:03
NOW, MOVING FORWARD, WHAT
22:35:04
DOES THAT MEAN?
22:35:05
THE COMPLETION OF THE
22:35:08
HORIZONTAL PROJECT IN
22:35:09
COMBINATION WITH THE TLS
22:35:10
PROJECT MOVING FORWARD, THOSE

22:35:12
NUMBERS CAN TRIPLE OR
22:35:13
POSSIBLY QUADRUPLE, SO THIS
22:35:15
IS A LARGE, LARGE EFFORT THAT
22:35:17
WE HAVE GOING RIGHT NOW TO
22:35:19
BRING JOBS TO OAKLAND
22:35:21
CONSTRUCTION JOBS RIGHT NOW
22:35:22
TODAY, TOMORROW AND IN THE
22:35:26
FOLLOWING YEAR OR SO, SO I
22:35:27
JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT.
22:35:28
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
22:35:31
WE'LL TURN NOW TO THOSE WHO
22:35:33
ARE RESPECTING CONCERNS ABOUT

22:35:36
COAL TRANSPORT.
22:35:36
THE NEXT THREE SPEAKERS, IF
22:35:37
YOU WILL PREPARE YOURSELVES
22:35:38
AND COME WITH FOLKS WHO ARE
22:35:39
GOING TO BE SEEDING.
22:35:42
THANK YOU.
22:35:43
>> HI, I'M JUST GOING TO
22:35:44
SPEAK FOR MYSELF, SO JUST ONE
22:35:46
MINUTE.
22:35:47
MY NAME IS ALVENA
22:35:48
WONG, I'M FROM THE
22:35:50
ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL

22:35:51
NETWORK AND HERE REPRESENTING
22:35:54
OVER 150 MONOLINGUAL CHINESE
22:35:56
FAMILY, SENIORS, TENANTS AND
22:35:58
WORKERS IN CHINATOWN, EAST
22:36:00
LAKE SAN ANTONIO AREA AND
22:36:02
WEST OAKLAND AND WE NEED TO
22:36:04
ENSURE THAT YOU KEEP COAL
22:36:09
THESE OTHER POLLUTING FOSSIL
22:36:12
FUELS OF OAKLAND, THEY'RE
22:36:12
SCHEMING OF WAYS TO HAVE MORE
22:36:15
CLEAN ENERGY PROJECTS AND
22:36:17
LIVING AGE COMING INTO

22:36:18
OAKLAND AND OUR IMMIGRANT
22:36:19
COMMUNITIES.
22:36:20
WITH WE TALKED ABOUT HOW THIS
22:36:21
POTENTIAL COAL PROJECT IS
22:36:23
COMING TO THE [INAUDIBLE],
22:36:24
THEY HAD A SIMPLE QUESTION,
22:36:26
WHY?
22:36:27
WHY WOULD WE ALLOW THIS COAL
22:36:29
TO COME THROUGH OUR
22:36:30
NEIGHBORHOODS, WHY WOULD WE
22:36:32
BE AN ACCESSORY IN THIS
22:36:35
PROCESS OF SUSTAINED TORTURE,

22:36:36
CHOKING AND BURNING OF OUR
22:36:38
PLANET, WHY WOULD WE LEAVE
22:36:41
FILL TAGAMI BREAK HIS PROMISE
22:36:44
TO ALLOW COAL TO COME THROUGH
22:36:46
THESE PORTS SO WE DON'T
22:36:48
SUPPORT THIS PROJECT AND HELP
22:36:49
KEEP COAL OUT OF OAKLAND.
22:36:51
THANKS.
>> THANK YOU.
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
22:37:00
>> HELLO, MY NAME IS STEVE
22:37:04
SANTOS, I'M FROM THE OAKLAND
22:37:06
MILITARY INSTITUTE AND I'M

22:37:07
PART OF THE WEST OAKLAND
22:37:10
[INAUDIBLE] COMMITTEE, I'M
22:37:11
HERE TO TALK ABOUT NOT
22:37:12
LETTING COAL THROUGH OAKLAND
22:37:13
AND I BELIEVE I AM ONE OF THE
22:37:16
VERY FEW MINORITY OF YOUTH IN
22:37:18
THIS COUNCIL AND I FEEL THAT
22:37:22
WE ARE UNDERREPRESENTED JUST
22:37:23
BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF
22:37:24
PEOPLE I'VE SEEN TALKED TODAY
22:37:26
WERE STANDING IN THIS LINE
22:37:29
THREE HOURS HAVE BEEN ELDERLY

22:37:31
MEN OR THEY'VE BEEN TALKING
22:37:32
ABOUT OUR FUTURE, TALKING
22:37:35
ABOUT OUR ENVIRONMENTAL
22:37:36
HAZARDS, I'M SICK AND TIRED
22:37:38
OF OUR VOICE NOT BEING HEARD
22:37:40
AND BEING REPRESENTED IN
22:37:43
THESE DISCUSSIONS.
22:37:44
IF THERE'S ENVIRONMENTAL
22:37:45
POLLUTION OR IF THERE IS SOME
22:37:47
SORT OF SAFETY CONCERNS, THAT
22:37:48
IS GOING TO AFFECT OUR
22:37:51
GENERATION AND NOT THE PEOPLE

22:37:55
UPSTAIRS, OURS, AND I WANT
22:37:56
OUR VOICES TO BE HEARD.
22:37:57
WE DO NOT WANT TO CREATE ANY
22:38:01
PROBLEMS THAT MAY RESULT FROM
22:38:02
A DECISION MADE HERE TODAY.
22:38:06
THANK YOU.
22:38:07
>> THANK YOU.
22:38:09
NEXT SPEAK

-- SPEAKER,

22:38:15
PLEASE.
>> GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS
22:38:21
[INAUDIBLE] I'M 16 YEARS OLD
22:38:22
AND I'M FROM THE [INAUDIBLE]
22:38:24

COMMITTEE AND I'M AGAINST


22:38:26
COAL BECAUSE IT CAN CAUSE
22:38:29
ASTHMA ATTACK, CHRONIC
22:38:30
BRONCHITIS, JOHN FESTIVE
22:38:32
HEART FAILURE AND AIR
22:38:32
POLLUTION, I HAVE A FOUR
22:38:34
YEAR-OLD SISTER WHO HAS
22:38:35
ASTHMA AND SHE WILL BE AT
22:38:38
HIGH RISK.
22:38:39
I'VE SEEN MY SISTER HAVE AN
22:38:40
ASTHMA ATTACK AND SHE WAS NOT
22:38:43
BEREAVE BREATHING SO I DO NOT
22:38:45

WANT COAL, SO ON BEHALF OF


22:38:48
THOSE WHO HAVE HEALTH
22:38:51
PROBLEMS, NO COAL EQUALS A
22:38:53
HEALTHIER WEST OAKLAND.
22:38:56
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
22:39:02
IF THOSE WHO ARE SPEAKING IN
22:39:04
FAVOR OF THE PROJECT, WE WILL
22:39:07
NEED THOSE NEXT VOICES.
22:39:12
SEEING NONE, ANY ADDITIONAL
22:39:15
ONES, MS. CATANO, I STILL SEE
22:39:17
YOU IN THE CHAMBERS, ARE
22:39:19
THERE ANY ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS?

22:39:26
>> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL
22:39:28
PRESIDENT, COUNCILMEMBERS, MY
22:39:29
NAME IS MARK STIES, COUNCIL
22:39:31
FOR CCIG, I JUST WANTED TO
22:39:32
TAKE A MINUTE TO CLEAR UP -22:39:37
MAKE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THE
22:39:38
QUESTION THAT WAS ASKED A
22:39:41
COUPLE OF TIME, WHETHER OR
22:39:44
NOT FEDERAL PREEMPTION WOULD
22:39:45
ENFORCE THE [INAUDIBLE]
22:39:46
BETWEEN THE CONTRACT OF THE
22:39:47
CITY AND THE OPERATOR WHEN

22:39:49
THE CITY'S ACTING IN ITS
22:39:52
PROPRIETARY CAPACITY WHETHER
22:39:54
ITS REGULATORY CAPACITY AND
22:39:54
THE ANSWER TO THAT IS NEW
22:39:56
YORK CITY THERE'S NO ISSUE
22:40:00
WITH THE ENFORCEABILITY -22:40:02
THE CURRENTLY IMPOSED
22:40:02
MITIGATION MEASURES AND
22:40:03
SHOULD THERE BE A VOLUNTARY
22:40:05
CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY
22:40:09
ACTING IN ITS PROPRIETARY
22:40:11
CAPACITY OR ITS MITIGATION

22:40:13
MEASURES IS NOT IN ANY WAY
22:40:16
IMPACTED BY FEDERAL
22:40:21
MITIGATION.
22:40:21
>> IF THERE WAS A SUBSEQUENT
22:40:24
CONTRACT THAT WAS ENTERED
22:40:25
BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE
22:40:26
OPERATOR AND THAT WOULD NOT
22:40:28
BE AFFECTED BY FEDERAL
22:40:29
PREEMPTION.
22:40:30
>> MY QUESTION, YOU USED
22:40:32
VOLUNTARY IN YOUR
22:40:35
EARLIER EXPLANATION,

22:40:35
VOLUNTARY HAS A WHOLE
22:40:37
DIFFERENT EXPLANATION THAN A
22:40:38
MANDATORY REQUIREMENT.
22:40:40
>> APOLOGIES FOR THE
22:40:40
CONFUSION, IF THERE WAS A
22:40:42
BINDING CONTRACT BETWEEN THE
22:40:44
CITY AND THE OPERATOR
22:40:46
REGARDING THE USE OF THE
22:40:48
IMPOSITION OF ADDITIONAL
22:40:49
MITIGATION MEASURE HARBINGER
22:40:50
WOULD NOT BE AFFECTED BY
22:40:52
ISSUES OF FEDERAL PREEMPTION,

22:40:55
THAT SOLELY AFFECTS THE
22:40:57
CITY'S ABILITY TO ACT AS A
22:40:59
REGULATORY CAPACITY, NOT IN
22:41:01
ITS CONTRACTUAL CAPACITY.
22:41:01
>> BUT IT WOULD BE A
22:41:05
CONTRACTUAL NATURE, THAT'S A
22:41:06
[INAUDIBLE], CORRECT?
22:41:08
>> CORRECT.
>> MR. GALLO?
22:41:10
>> THE QUESTION WAS ANSWERED,
22:41:11
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
22:41:14
ARE THERE OTHER SPEAKING IN

22:41:16
SUPPORT OF THE PROJECT?
22:41:22
NO?
22:41:27
>> WE THANK YOU FOR OUR
22:41:35
PRESENTATION, SO THANK YOU.
22:41:36
>> THANK YOU, WE WILL TAKE
22:41:38
THE NEXT SPEAKER IN TURN,
22:41:40
JUST TO HELP EXPEDITE, IF YOU
22:41:42
HAVE SOMEONE SEEDING TIME TO
22:41:43
YOU, HAVE THEM COME WITH YOU
22:41:45
SO WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS
22:41:49
TIMELY, PLEASE COME TO THE
22:41:50
PODIUM AND STATE YOUR NAME.

22:41:52
>> HI, MY NAME IS JESSICA
22:41:56
TORAN AND I'M SEEDING MY TIME
22:41:58
TO THIS YOUNG PERSON.
22:42:00
>> GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS
22:42:02
PAULINA GARCIA, I AM 17 YEARS
22:42:05
OLD, I AM A SENIOR AT SKYLINE
22:42:08
HIGH SCHOOL WITH THE ROSE
22:42:10
FOUNDATION, I'M HERE TO SAY
22:42:12
I'M AGAINST COAL EXPORTS IN
22:42:14
OAKLAND, THE COAL YOU PLAN TO
22:42:16
EXPORT IS THE EMPIRE OF
22:42:19
HEALTH RISKS FOR THE OAKLAND

22:42:20
RESIDENTS, IT WILL BE A
22:42:25
TRANSPORT IN OPEN RAILROAD
22:42:27
CARS WHICH MEANS POLLUTING
22:42:29
AIR.
22:42:29
THE COAL YOU WILL EXPORT HAS
22:42:32
HUNDREDS OF TOXINS THAT ARE
22:42:35
HAZARDOUS TO OUR HEALTH,
22:42:38
CAUSING ASTHMA, LUNG
22:42:40
COMPLICATIONS, FATAL HEART
22:42:41
CONDITIONS AND EVEN CANCER.
22:42:42
WE THE PEOPLE OF OAKLAND,
22:42:44
WE DO NOT PLAN TO EXPORT COAL

22:42:46
IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
22:42:47
WE THE PEOPLE OF OAKLAND PLAN
22:42:49
FOR YOU, OUR CITY COUNCIL, TO
22:42:52
BRING A BETTER, HEALTHIER
22:42:55
OAKLAND AND TO BRING BETTER,
22:42:58
HEALTHIER JOBS FOR THE PEOPLE
22:42:58
AND THIS IS WHY I'M AGAINST
22:43:01
COAL EXPERTS, THANK YOU FOR
22:43:02
YOUR TIME.
22:43:03
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
22:43:06
[APPLAUSE].
22:43:07
THE NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.

22:43:19
>> GOOD EVENING,
22:43:20
COUNCILMEMBERS, MY FLAME IS
22:43:21
PACK AND I'M 15, I GO TO
22:43:25
SCHOOL AT [INAUDIBLE]
22:43:26
ACADEMY, AND I'M PART OF AN
22:43:29
ORGANIZE NOMINATION CALL BAY
22:43:32
LOCALIZED, I'M OPPOSED TO
22:43:34
THIS COAL EXPORT BECAUSE IT
22:43:35
WILL GET MY COMMUNITY SICK AND
22:43:40
THIS COAL EXPORT WILL BE IN
22:43:43
MY COMMUNITY, IT WILL SUP SET
22:43:46
MY COMMUNITY IN WEST OAKLAND

22:43:51
-22:43:51
>> YOU'RE DOING VERY WELL,
22:43:53
TAKE YOUR BREATH, TAKE YOUR
22:43:55
TIME.
22:43:55
>> I DO SUPPORT JOBS BUT I
22:43:57
DON'T SUPPORT THE JOBS THAT
22:43:58
MAKE US SICK LIKE THIS COAL
22:44:05
EXPORT.
[APPLAUSE].
22:44:08
>> AND LIKE CLEAN ENERGY, A
22:44:11
COMMUNITY ENERGY AND THIS
22:44:13
WILL BE GOOD FOR THE
22:44:14

COMMUNITY INSTEAD OF MAKING


22:44:15
US SICK, YOU KNOW.
22:44:17
THIS IS MY GENERATION AND I
22:44:18
WANT TO HAVE A HEALTHY LIFE.
22:44:22
[APPLAUSE].
>> THANK YOU.
22:44:24
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
22:44:36
>> GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS
22:44:38
JOSHUA WILLIS AND I'M OPPOSED
22:44:43
TO THIS PROJECT BECAUSE MY
22:44:45
MOTHER LIVED IN WEST OAKLAND
22:44:46
AND SHE HAS PROBLEMS WITH
22:44:48

RESPIRATION AND IT'S NOT


22:44:49
GETTING ANY WORSE BUT IT'S
22:44:52
NOT GETTING ANY BETTER, AND
22:44:58
YOU HAVE THE INFORMATION, YOU
22:45:00
HEARD THE STATISTICS AND YOU
22:45:03
CAN WEIGH THESE OPTIONS, I'M
22:45:12
TRYING TO GIVE YOU MY
22:45:15
PERSPECTIVE, MY OPINION AND
22:45:18
MY OPINION IS I -- NO, WE
22:45:22
OPPOSE THIS PROJECT BECAUSE
22:45:26
IT'S EVIL, WE DON'T WANT TO
22:45:28
CHOKE TO DEATH QUITE FRANKLY
22:45:32

AND FIVE SECONDS?


22:45:34
>> I WOULD LIKE TO SEED MY
22:45:37
TIME, COLLIN MILLER, GO
22:45:40
AHEAD, JOSH.
22:45:42
>> THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
22:45:47
AND I'M TRYING TO SEE WHAT
22:45:53
I'M GOING TO SAY HERE.
22:45:54
I DON'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN IS
22:45:57
THAT THIS HAZARDOUS MATERIAL
22:45:59
IS HAZARDOUS AND I'M JUST
22:46:01
TRYING TO -- I'M TALKING IN
22:46:05
CIRCLES HERE.
22:46:07

WEST OAKLAND'S AIR QUALITY IS


22:46:09
BAD ENOUGH AND I'VE WORKED
22:46:12
WITH WEST OAKLAND
22:46:14
ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS ON
22:46:15
THAT, I'VE DONE AIR DATA
22:46:19
MONITORING AND I'VE SEEN
22:46:20
BASICALLY FIRST HAND HOW BAD
22:46:22
IT IS, I'VE SEEN IT ON THE
22:46:24
MONITORS AND I'VE FELT IT
22:46:25
BECAUSE I BREATHE IT, I LIVE
22:46:27
IN WEST OAKLAND.
22:46:31
AND IT'S EVIL, IT'S NOT GOOD
22:46:35

FOR ANYBODY.
22:46:36
WE WANT JOBS BUT WE WANT
22:46:38
CLEAN ENERGY JOBS.
[APPLAUSE].
22:46:45
>> THANK YOU, SIR.
22:46:49
THE NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
22:46:52
>> GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS
22:46:55
MARIE WELL CHUCK, I'M
22:46:57
REPRESENTING THE CALIFORNIA
22:47:01
NURSES ASSOCIATION WHO HAVE
22:47:02
-- WE'RE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT
22:47:03
THE COAL ASPECT OF THIS
22:47:05
PROJECT BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW,

22:47:07
COAL POLLUTANTS AFFECT ALL
22:47:09
MAJOR BODY ORGAN SYSTEMS AND
22:47:10
CONTRIBUTE TO THE FOUR OF THE
22:47:12
FIVE LEADING CAUSES OF
22:47:16
MORTALITY IN THE U.S., WE'RE
22:47:20
BEING SOLD A FALSE CHOICE
22:47:22
HERE, JOBS VERSUS OUR HEALTH
22:47:22
AND OUR ENVIRONMENT AND THIS
22:47:23
DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THE CASE
22:47:26
IF WE STAND UNITED.
22:47:28
LAST WEEK, THE ALAMEDA LABOR
22:47:31
COUNCIL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

22:47:34
PASSED A RESOLUTION OPPOSING
22:47:35
THE COAL IN THE ARMY BASE
22:47:37
AFFIRMING OUR HOUSE IS NOT
22:47:43
FOR SALE, [INAUDIBLE] AND I
22:47:46
READ THE CCIG LETTER FROM
22:47:49
DECEMBER, 2013, ONE MATERIAL
22:47:51
OBOT DOES NOT PLAN TO EXPORT
22:47:53
OR IMPORT ITS COAL, WE'RE NOT
22:47:55
GOING TO BE HELD HOSTAGE IN
22:47:57
ORDER FOR THEM TO MAKE A
22:47:59
QUICKER BUCK.
22:48:00
CAN I HAVE ANOTHER MINUTE.

22:48:01
>> I WOULD LIKE TO SEED MY
22:48:03
TIME.
22:48:04
>> WAS THAT BROOK ANDERSON?
22:48:05
THANK YOU.
22:48:06
>> ON THE BACKS OF ALL OF US,
22:48:08
ON THE BACKS ON MINORS IN
22:48:11
UTAH WHO ARE WORKING FOR
22:48:13
ANTIUNION EMPLOYER WHO LEAVES
22:48:16
THE U.S. AND ASSOCIATED
22:48:17
HEALTH PROBLEMS, ON THE BACKS
22:48:20
OF RAIL LINE WORKERS, PORT
22:48:22
WORKERS AND WEST OAKLAND

22:48:23
RESIDENTS WHO WOULD BE EXPOSED
22:48:26
TO TOXIC COAL DUST AND ON
22:48:27
THE BACKS OF OUR CHILDREN AND
22:48:29
GRANDCHILDREN WHO ARE
22:48:30
SUFFERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF
22:48:32
THIS HUMAN CREATED CLIMATE
22:48:34
CRISIS.
22:48:34
DID NOT LET THIS DEVELOPER
22:48:36
HOLD OUR JOBS AND
22:48:39
LIVELIHOOD HOSTAGE AT THE
22:48:40
COST OF OUR HEALTH FOR PROFIT
22:48:41
AND GAIN, THIS PROJECT CAN

22:48:44
MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT COAL AND
22:48:46
WE DEMAND THAT IT DOES AND WE
22:48:47
HOPE YOU ALL STAND WITH US IN
22:48:48
THAT MESSAGE.
22:48:51
THANK YOU.
22:48:54
>> EXCUSE ME, MARIE?
22:48:56
IF YOU MEAN STAY AT THE
22:48:59
PODIUM, COUNCILMEMBER BROOKS,
22:49:00
WERE YOU IN THE QUEUE?
22:49:01
>> CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION,
22:49:03
CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT'S THE
22:49:05
STUDY THAT HAS LINKED COAL

22:49:06
DUST TO CANCER?
22:49:08
>> I WAS READING FROM THE
22:49:09
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION.
22:49:11
>> I'M READING FROM THE STUDY
22:49:14
OF THE PORTLAND STUDY THAT
22:49:16
WAS DONE IN 2013, HOWEVER THE
22:49:18
EXPERT PANEL CONVENED BY THE
22:49:21
WORLD [INAUDIBLE].
22:49:26
>> I WAS READING DIRECTLY
22:49:27
FROM THEIR WEBSITE ABOUT
22:49:29
COAL AND COAL DUST.
>> THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.

22:49:33
JUST A QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT, IF
22:49:35
SOMEONE HAS LOST A HANDBAG,
22:49:38
IT HAS BEEN TURNED IN TO LOST
22:49:40
AND FOUND.
22:49:40
>> IS IT RED AND BLACK?
22:49:44
>> THAT'S MY BACKPACK, I
22:49:45
DIDN'T LOSE IT, I LEFT IT
22:49:48
HERE.
22:49:48
>> WE'LL HAVE STAFF BRING IT
22:49:50
RIGHT UP TO YOU.
22:49:51
ALRIGHT.
22:49:52
>> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL,

22:49:53
WELCOME BACK FROM YOUR BREAK
22:49:55
AND ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH
22:49:57
CALENDAR, HAPPY NEW YEAR, MY
22:49:59
NAME IS SHARON MONTGOMERY AND
22:50:00
I AM A NATIVE OF OAKLAND AND
22:50:02
I AM A CONCERNED CITIZEN.
AND I [INAUDIBLE]
22:50:10
WATER USE GAVE US
22:50:13
THE MANTRA IN NUMBERS, WE
22:50:17
LOST FOCUS OF THE BIG
22:50:18
PICTURE, WE CAN'T BUILD AND
22:50:19
FIGHT AT THE SAME TIME, I
22:50:20

PROPOSE THAT WE PRAY AND WE


22:50:22
USE THOSE DEGREES THAT GOD
22:50:24
BLESSED YOU TO ACHIEVE TO
22:50:28
WORK IN COLLABORATION TO WHAT
22:50:30
YOU WERE OBLIGED TO HAVE OUR
22:50:32
LEGACY TO RESTORE HOPE, TO
22:50:34
REUNITE FAMILIES AND TO
22:50:36
REVIVE THE ARMY BASE, TO
22:50:38
REDESIGN THE CORE INDUSTRY,
22:50:40
TO REINVEST IN OAKLAND, TO
22:50:42
RESOLVE GENTRIFICATION AND I
22:50:45
AM A WARRIOR AND FUTURE
22:50:48

COUNCILMEMBER, THANK YOU FOR


22:50:49
YOUR TIME.
>> THANK YOU.
22:50:53
THE GENTLEMAN IN THE RED
22:50:56
SHIRT HAS YOUR BAG, THE NEXT
22:50:58
SPEAKER, PLEASE.
22:50:59
>> I APPRECIATE THAT, THANKS.
22:51:10
>> [INAUDIBLE] AUSTIN,
22:51:10
SEEDING TIME.
22:51:14
>> GOOD EVENING, HENRY
22:51:15
HILKIN, I'M THE DIRECTOR OF
22:51:17
PLANNING AT THE AIR QUALITY
22:51:18
MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, I'M IN

22:51:20
THIS LINE, I DID NOT TAKE A
22:51:23
SUPPORT OR OPPOSED POSITION,
22:51:24
I PUT A NEUTRAL POSITION, YOU
22:51:26
GUYS ARE MAKING THE DECISION
22:51:26
FOR THE CITY OF OAKLAND, I'M
22:51:28
HERE TO ASK YOU AS STRONGLY
22:51:30
AS I CAN AS YOU DELIBERATE ON
22:51:32
THIS, YOU DO CONSIDER THE AIR
22:51:34
QUALITY IMPACTS AND THE
22:51:36
MAXIMUM IMPACT MITIGATION NAS
22:51:38
ARE FEASIBLE.
22:51:38
THE AIR DISTRICT FOR MANY

22:51:39
YEARS, WE'VE WORKED ON
22:51:41
IMPROVING AIR QUALITY IN WEST
22:51:43
OAKLAND, WE WORKED CLOSELY
22:51:44
WITH THE CITY AND WORKED
22:51:46
CLOSELY WITH THE PORT, WE'VE
22:51:47
SEEN GREAT PROGRESS, AIR
22:51:48
POLLUTION IS LOWER IN WEST
22:51:50
OAKLAND THAN THE HEALTH OF
22:51:52
YOUR RESIDENTS HAVE BENEFITTED
22:51:53
FROM THAT BUT OUR WORK IS
22:51:56
NOT DONE, AS DIRECTOR DAVIS
22:51:58
EARLIER COMMENTED, THE AIR

22:52:00
DISTRICT HAS IDENTIFIED WEST
22:52:02
OAKLAND AS ONE OF OUR IMPACT
22:52:05
COMMUNITIES, THAT'S BASED ON
22:52:08
POLLUTION IMPACTS, THERE'S
22:52:09
WORK TO CONTINUE THE REDUCE
22:52:10
THE EMISSIONS IN PUBLIC
22:52:13
HEALTH EXPOSURE OF THE
22:52:15
POLLUTION IN WEST OAKLAND, AS
22:52:16
YOU DELIBERATE, WE WANT TO
22:52:19
ENCOURAGE YOU TO IMPLEMENT
22:52:21
ALL FEASIBLE MITIGATION, MANY
22:52:21
OF THE MEASURES THAT WERE

22:52:23
INDICATED IN THE TLS LETTER IN
22:52:26
YOUR PACKET, WE STRONGLY URGE
22:52:28
YOU TO USE WHATEVER MECHANISMS
22:52:30
YOU CAN TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN,
22:52:32
COVER THE CONVEYERS, COVER
22:52:34
THE STORAGE, COVER FROM
22:52:36
EVERYTHING FROM CRADLE TO
22:52:37
GRAVE ALL THE WAY THROUGH,
22:52:38
THAT'S ON THE DUST ISSUE, THE
22:52:40
FINE PRESIDENT KLS WITH
22:52:42
MEASURES ON THEM THAT
22:52:43
RECEIVED A LOT OF DISCUSSION,

22:52:44
ANOTHER ISSUE ARE THE ENGINE
22:52:50
EMISSIONS, ALL THE DIESEL,
22:52:53
CARGO HANDLING EQUIPMENT,
22:52:54
SHIPS, TIER 3 CLEAN
22:52:57
LOCOMOTIVES, ELECTRIC POWER
22:52:59
IS THE CLEANEST POWER,
22:53:00
ELECTRIC STORE POWER FOR THE
22:53:02
SHIPS AND THE AIR DISTRICT IS
22:53:03
READY TO CONTINUE TO WORK
22:53:04
WITH YOU ON THESE EFFORTS.
22:53:05
THANK YOU.
22:53:07
>> THANK YOU, SIR, IF YOU

22:53:08
WILL REMAIN AT THE PODIUM FOR
22:53:10
A MINUTE AND TURN TO
22:53:13
COUNCILMEMBER GUILLEN.
22:53:13
>> I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND
22:53:15
AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR
22:53:17
WORK AND WORKING WITH
22:53:18
THE CITY OF OAKLAND TO REDUCE
22:53:22
AIR POLLUTION, YOU SAY AIR
22:53:24
POLLUTION HAVE BEEN REDUCED
22:53:25
BUT YOU DIDN'T GIVE
22:53:27
INFORMATION ON WHAT THE
22:53:28
MEASUREMENT IS, WHAT THE

22:53:32
TIMEFRAME IS AND WHAT
22:53:33
STANDARDS YOU'RE USING TO
22:53:34
MEASURE THAT AND IF YOU HAVE
22:53:35
ANY SENSE OF WHAT THE
22:53:37
TRANSPORTATION OF COAL WOULD
22:53:40
HAVE TO THOSE MEASUREMENTS.
22:53:42
>> WELL, A SHORT ANSWER IS
22:53:44
ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO IN 2005,
22:53:46
WE COLLABORATED WITH THE
22:53:48
CALIFORNIA RESOURCES BOARD ON
22:53:51
A RISK ASSESSMENT FOR THE
22:53:55
OAKLAND COMMUNITIES WHICH

22:53:56
CANCER RISK WAS THREE TIMES
22:53:57
HIGHER IN WEST OAKLAND, THAT'S
22:54:00
MOSTLY FROM MOBILE SOURCES,
22:54:02
THE FREEWAYS THAT GO THROUGH
22:54:03
WEST OAKLAND AND PORT RELATED
22:54:06
ACTIVITIES INCLUDING THE
22:54:07
RAILYARD, ALL THE DIFFERENT
22:54:08
ACTIVITY THAT'S ASSOCIATED
22:54:10
WITH PORT ACTIVITY.
22:54:12
SO, THAT WAS IN 2005, SINCE
22:54:16
THEN IN RESPONSE TO
22:54:17
AGGRESSIVE REGULATIONS BY THE

22:54:19
AIR RESOURCES BOARD,
22:54:21
INCENTIVE PROGRAMS THE AIR
22:54:22
DISTRICT HAS IMPLEMENTED TO
22:54:23
TURN OVER THAT FLEET OF
22:54:24
VEHICLES, THE TRUCKS ARE MUCH
22:54:26
CLEANER NOW, WE WORKED WITH
22:54:28
UC BERKELEY TO DO SOME STUDIES
22:54:30
THAT THE OVERPASS THAT HAD
22:54:34
A DECREASE, SO THAT'S ONE
22:54:36
CONCRETE EXAMPLE OF SOME
22:54:38
CONCRETE EXAMPLES WE'VE SEEN
22:54:39
IN THE PAST FIVE TO TEN YEARS

22:54:40
IN WEST OAKLAND.
22:54:41
>> SO, DO YOU HAVE ANY -22:54:45
OBVIOUSLY IT'S ONE COMMUNITY,
22:54:46
ONE CITY, WHAT HAPPENS IN
22:54:52
WEST OAKLAND AFFECTS
22:54:58
NEIGHBORING NEIGHBORHOODS, DO
22:55:00
YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION?
22:55:01
>> I CAN GET THAT TO STAFF,
22:55:04
WE HAVE IDENTIFIED THE CARE
22:55:06
COMMUNITIES, THERE ARE 7 OR 8
22:55:07
OF THEM THROUGHOUT THE BAY
22:55:09
AREA AND FOR -- I BELIEVE WE

22:55:12
IDENTIFIED WESTERN AND
22:55:14
ALAMEDA COUNTY, FROM BERKLEY,
22:55:16
ALAMEDA COUNTY FROM WEST
22:55:18
OAKLAND DOWN TO EAST OAKLAND.
22:55:21
THE IMPACTS VARY THROUGH
22:55:23
THAT, THAT WESTERN PORTION OF
22:55:25
ALAMEDA COUNTY.
22:55:26
>> IF YOU'RE WITH THE BAY
22:55:29
AREA AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT
22:55:30
DISTRICT, DO YOU HAVE ANY
22:55:33
DATA ON RICHMOND TERMINAL,
22:55:35
THE HEALTH IMPACTS ON THE

22:55:38
COMMUNITIES SURROUNDED BY
22:55:40
RICHMOND AND ANY SORT OF DATA
22:55:42
THAT YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO
22:55:43
SHARE IN TERMS OF WHAT MIGHT
22:55:46
BE EXPECTED AND IT'S A
22:55:48
DIFFERENT PROJECT AND IT'S
22:55:49
OPEN AIR TERMINAL, IT'S AN
22:55:51
OPEN AIR COAL THAT'S BEING
22:55:54
TRANSPORTED, THAT'S NOT THE
22:55:55
CASE HERE, BUT I WOULD BE
22:55:56
INTERESTED IN DATA THAT THE
22:55:59
BAY AREA AIR QUALITY

22:56:00
MANAGEMENT DISTRICT WOULD BE
22:56:01
AROUND THE PUBLIC HEALTH
22:56:04
IMPACTS OR AIR QUALITY FROM
22:56:07
THE RICHMOND PROJECT.
22:56:08
>> RICHMOND IS ONE OF OUR
22:56:11
CARE IMPACTED COMMUNITIES,
22:56:11
THAT'S FROM A VARIETY OF
22:56:14
RESOURCES, THE REFINERY, THE
22:56:16
PORT OF RICHMOND, I DON'T
22:56:17
HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON MY
22:56:20
FINGERTIPS ON THAT PARTICULAR
22:56:21
PROJECT, [INAUDIBLE] TO FOLLOW UP.

22:56:23
>> IF YOU CAN SUBMIT THAT TO
22:56:25
THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR FOR
22:56:27
DISTRIBUTION, WILL YOU PLEASE
22:56:29
REMAIN AT THE PODIUM, MR.
22:56:30
KALB?
22:56:31
>> THANK YOU, MADAM
22:56:32
PRESIDENT, THANK YOU FOR
22:56:33
BEING HERE, I THANK EVERYBODY
22:56:34
FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT.
22:56:36
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD SOMEONE -22:56:39
A COUPLE OF PEOPLE TESTIFY
22:56:40
EARLY ON IN THE AFTERNOON

22:56:44
ABOUT THE MOVEMENT OF OZONE
22:56:46
POLLUTION AND TOXIC AIR
22:56:47
CONTAMINANTS FROM KIND THAT AND
22:56:50
OTHER ASIAN COMPANIES BACK
22:56:51
FROM THE PACIFIC TO HERE,
22:56:53
IT'S BEEN IN THE PRESS A
22:56:56
NUMBER OF YEARS, MY QUESTION
22:56:58
IS REGARDLESS WHETHER SOME
22:56:59
CARS COVERED HERE, IF
22:57:01
SOMETHING'S GOING TO BE
22:57:01
BURNED THERE, DO YOU HAVE
22:57:03
SOME CONCERNS ABOUT RESIDENTS

22:57:05
IN THE BAY AREA THAT
22:57:07
INCLUDES EAST BAY AND OAKLAND.
22:57:09
>> CERTAINLY AIR POLLUTION
22:57:10
DOES IMPACT CALIFORNIA AND
22:57:14
NORTH AMERICA, NO QUESTION,
22:57:16
IT'S TRUE WITH FINE PARTICLES
22:57:18
AND CERTAINLY GREENHOUSE
22:57:19
GASES THAT AFFECT ALL OF US,
22:57:21
COAL BURNED OVER THERE WILL
22:57:23
AFFECT NORTH AMERICA
22:57:23
CERTAINLY, YES.
>> THANK YOU.
22:57:25

>> THANK YOU, ARE THERE


22:57:27
OTHERS?
22:57:28
THANK YOU, SIR, FOR YOUR
22:57:29
TESTIMONY TONIGHT.
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
22:57:32
>> [APPLAUSE].
22:57:33
>> GOOD EVENING, MY NAME'S
22:57:35
WILLIAM TURN KNOW AND I'M
22:57:37
HERE REPRESENTING ACCE, THE
22:57:39
ALLIANCE WITH CALIFORNIANS
22:57:40
FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT,
22:57:41
I'M ALSO A 25 YEAR RESIDENT
22:57:44
OF WEST OAKLAND AND DURING 23

22:57:47
OF THOSE YEARS, I'VE BEEN
22:57:49
ACTIVELY INVOLVED FOR JOBS
22:57:50
AND EMPLOYMENT, MANY OF YOU
22:57:51
HAVE SEEN ME ON THOSE ISSUES
22:57:54
HERE BEFORE.
22:57:55
ACCE WAS VERY ACTIVE IN
22:57:59
SUPPORTING THE TERMINAL THAT
22:58:02
IS NOW BEING TALKED ABOUT
22:58:05
BEING BUILT AND WE HAVE ALSO
22:58:08
VOTED UNANIMOUSLY AT OUR LAST
22:58:10
LEADERSHIP MEETING TO OPPOSE
22:58:11
NICOLE BEING SENT THROUGH

22:58:13
THAT TERMINAL.
22:58:13
WE FOUGHT FOR THAT COMMUNITY
22:58:15
BENEFITS AGREEMENT THAT MR.
22:58:17
MCCONNELL SPOKE ABOUT EARLIER.
22:58:19
IT DID NOT INCLUDE COAL DUST.
22:58:21
A LOT OF THE TESTIMONY I HEAR
22:58:27
TONIGHT, REPEAT EXPERTS ON
22:58:28
THE ONE SIDE AND FOLKS THAT
22:58:31
ARE NOT BEING PAID ON THE
22:58:34
OTHER SIDE REMINDED ME OF A
22:58:36
TOBACCO HEARING WE HAD A FEW
22:58:40
YEARS AGO, THE LOCAL

22:58:42
DEVELOPER MA NO CONTROL OVER
22:58:43
THE COAL CARS, THE COAL CARS
22:58:45
IS GOING TO COME FROM THE
22:58:47
RAILROAD OR THE COAL COMPANY
22:58:49
AND NEITHER OF THEM ARE HERE
22:58:53
TONIGHT TELLING US THOSE CARS
22:58:54
WILL BE COVERED.
>> THANK YOU.
22:58:59
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
22:59:01
>> HI, MY NAME IS GWEN
22:59:06
TURNER, FOR OVER 25 YEARS,
22:59:07
I'VE HAD A SMALL RETAIL
22:59:09

BUSINESS IN THE TEMESCAL


22:59:14
NEIGHBORHOOD AND OUR
22:59:15
CUSTOMERS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT
22:59:17
COAL, WE HAVE POSTERS ABOUT
22:59:18
COAL IN THE WINDOWS AND THEY
22:59:20
NOTICE THEM AND WHEN THEY
22:59:21
COME IN, THEY DISCUSS THEIR
22:59:24
CONCERNS AND WE'RE CONCERNED
22:59:26
AND THEY ARE CONCERNED.
22:59:27
I THINK JOBS ARE VERY
22:59:30
IMPORTANT NATURALLY AS RETAIL
22:59:31
SHOP, I'M ALWAYS ON THE EDGE
22:59:34

OF VIABILITY AND IF OUR


22:59:36
CUSTOMERS DONE HAVE JOBS,
22:59:38
THAT'S NO GOOD, BUT THE THING
22:59:40
IS THE 500 JOBS OR EVEN THE
22:59:43
THOUSAND JOBS MAY NOT REALLY
22:59:46
COUNTERBALANCE THE HEALTH
22:59:48
PROBLEMS THESE PEOPLE MIGHT
22:59:49
HAVE, SO IF THEY'RE SPENDING
22:59:50
ALL THEIR MONEY ON HEALTH
22:59:53
RELATED PROBLEMS, THEN HAVING
22:59:55
EXTRA JOBS AREN'T REALLY
22:59:56
GOING TO HELP PEOPLE LIKE ME
22:59:59

WHERE WE COULD NEED THE MONEY


23:00:02
INSTEAD OF FOR MEDICAL BILLS
23:00:03
TO BUY THINGS THEY WANT.
23:00:06
THANK YOU.
[APPLAUSE].
>> ANDREW ULBRIDGE AND I'M
23:00:16
SEEDING TIME TO THIS
23:00:17
GENTLEMAN.
23:00:18
>> HELLO, MY NAME'S DANNY
23:00:21
KENNEDY, I'M A RESIDENT OF
23:00:23
OAKLAND, IM ALSO THE
23:00:25
FOUNDER OF SUNGEVITY AND
23:00:28
ANOTHER BUSINESS UPTOWN IN
23:00:29

OAKLAND, THE POWER HOUSE


23:00:32
INCUBATOR FOR SOLAR
23:00:32
COMPANIES, I THINK IN THE
23:00:33
LAST 8 YEARS, THOSE TWO
23:00:37
BUSINESSES HAVE BOUGHT ABOUT
23:00:38
700 PLUS JOBS INTO THE CITY,
23:00:42
AND I'M NOW THE MANAGING
23:00:43
DIRECTOR OF THE CALIFORNIA
23:00:45
AND CLEAN ENERGY FUND AND
23:00:46
I'LL BE HONEST, I HAVE NOT
23:00:51
ACTUALLY TAKEN THIS ISSUE
23:00:52
SERIOUSLY UNTIL NOW AND I
23:00:54

KNOW PROPONENTS AND I'M A BIG


23:00:57
SUPPORTER OF THE BULK GOODS
23:01:00
TERMINAL AT WEST OAKLAND
23:01:01
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, I CAN'T
23:01:02
BELIEVE THE CITY WOULD FALL
23:01:04
FOR IT.
23:01:04
AS SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN IN THE
23:01:06
ENERGY BUSINESS FOR DECADES
23:01:09
AND HAVE BUILT BIG BUSINESSES
23:01:11
IN THE ENERGY BUSINESS THAT
23:01:12
EMPLOY A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE
23:01:15
IN OAKLAND, YOU'RE
23:01:16

[INAUDIBLE] IF YOU TAKE IT ON.


23:01:18
THE COAL INDUSTRY IS AS ONE
23:01:20
OF THE ECONOMISTS WOULD
23:01:22
TESTIFIED EARLIER FROM MILLS
23:01:24
COLLEGE IS NORMAL DECLINE, A
23:01:26
STRUCTURAL DOWNTURN THAT IS
23:01:28
AFFECTING COAL BUSINESSES
23:01:29
AROUND THE WORLD, THEIR
23:01:30
MARKET CAPS IN THE UNITED
23:01:33
STATES HAVE DECLINED 98%
23:01:34
SINCE THE YEAR 2000, THE BIG
23:01:36
NAMES IF YOU CAN THINK OF IN
23:01:38

THE COAL MINING INDUSTRY, PEE


23:01:43
BODY, ARTHUR, ALPHA COAL
23:01:47
RESOURCES, ONCE WORTH 100
23:01:49
BILLION DOLLARS TEN YEARS AGO
23:01:51
IS WORTH LESS THAN THE SOLAR
23:01:54
COMPANIES BY MARKET CAP, TRUE
23:01:57
STATEMENT.
23:01:59
17% DECLINE YEAR ON YEAR
23:02:01
SINCE 2011 IN THE EXPORT OF
23:02:03
COAL FROM THIS COUNTRY, THE
23:02:04
UNITED STATES TERMINAL COAL
23:02:06
EXPORT BUSINESS IS DYING.
23:02:08

IT CANNOT COMPETE, THE


23:02:11
AUSTRALIAN COAL EXPERT
23:02:12
BUSINESS, I'M FROM AUSTRALIA,
23:02:14
I STUDIED TAT UNIVERSITY, I
23:02:16
KNOW ABOUT DIGGING HOLES IN
23:02:18
THE DRUG, THAT'S WHAT I WAS
23:02:19
TRAINED TO DO, IT'S CLOSING
23:02:21
DOWN, CHINA SAID IT WILL PEAK
23:02:23
COAL IN ITS FIVE YEAR
23:02:25
ECONOMIC PLAN AND SCALE
23:02:27
SOLAR, THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD
23:02:29
BE EXPORTING, THE BIDETS THAT
23:02:31

I HAVE HELPED ATTRACT THAT


23:02:33
I'VE WORKED WITH CITY
23:02:34
OFFICIALS TO COME TO OAKLAND
23:02:36
AS A SHINY BEACON OF CLEAN
23:02:39
ENERGY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
23:02:39
AND CREATE NEW JOB BS AS WE
23:02:42
HAVE DONE SUCCESSFULLY ARE
23:02:43
NOT GOING TO STICK AROUND IN
23:02:44
A TOWN THAT GOES BACK TO THE
23:02:49
PAST.
23:02:49
AND, YOU KNOW, JUST TO MAKE
23:02:50
SURE THAT I WAS SPEAKING
23:02:52

CLEARLY, I ASKED ONE OF THE


23:02:55
CEO'S OF ONE OF THE COMPANIES
23:02:57
THAT I HELPED BRING HERE,
23:03:01
THEY SAID THEY WOULD THINK
23:03:04
TWICE ABOUT STICKING AROUND
23:03:04
IF THIS IS THE TOWN THAT
23:03:06
DECIDES TO OPEN A COAL EXPORT
23:03:10
PORT IN 2016.
23:03:13
THIS IS ASBESTOS, THIS IS
23:03:15
TOBACCO, THIS TOWN OF OAKLAND
23:03:19
DOES NOT [INAUDIBLE] THAT
23:03:29
ALBATROSS AROUND ITS NECK,
23:03:30

YOU SHOULD LOOK AT WHAT


23:03:32
YOU'RE GETTING INTO IF THESE
23:03:33
GUYS ARE TELLING YOU YOU
23:03:34
SHOULD DO IT.
23:03:35
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
23:03:49
>> HI, THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH
23:03:50
FOR YOUR TIME AND PATIENCE
23:03:54
THIS EVENING I'M JESSICA AND
23:03:55
I'M HERE WITH BAY KEEPER AND
23:03:56
I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SOME
23:03:57
INFORMATION ABOUT THE WATER
23:03:59
QUALITY IMPACT WHICH TO MY

23:04:00
KNOWLEDGE HAS YET TO BE
23:04:02
DISCUSSED.
23:04:02
I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT
23:04:04
THAT BEYOND OAKLAND -23:04:06
>> WHAT'S YOUR LAST NAME?
23:04:09
>> WAN.
23:04:09
BEYOND OAKLAND, A LOT OF US
23:04:11
LIVE HERE BECAUSE WE LOVE THE
23:04:13
SAN FRANCISCO BAY, WE LOVE
23:04:14
THE BEAUTY AND WE LOVE THE
23:04:16
WATER, AND SO THE BAY ALREADY
23:04:19
HAS A LOT OF POLLUTANTS AND

23:04:22
TOXINS AND NAMELY AROUND THE
23:04:24
SHORE LINE, WE'RE TALKING
23:04:24
ABOUT ALREADY A LOT OF HIGH
23:04:29
CONCENTRATIONS OF
23:04:30
POLYAROMATIC HYDRO CARBON,
23:04:32
HEAVY METALS AND PCB'S AND
23:04:34
COAL HAS A LOT OF MERCURY,
23:04:36
LEAD AND ARSENIC AND THE
23:04:37
PRESENCE OF WHICH WOULD
23:04:39
EXACERBATE THE WATER QUALITY
23:04:40
IMPACTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO
23:04:42
BAY AND IN AND AROUND THE

23:04:44
SHORE LINE AND A AROUND THE
23:04:46
ARMY BASE TERMINAL, IF YOU
23:04:47
WOULD LIKE TO LOOK MORE OF
23:04:48
THE STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN
23:04:50
SHOWN IN THE PAST, I HAVE
23:04:52
SOME DOCUMENTS HERE, SO GIVEN
23:04:55
THOSE REASONS, THANK YOU.
23:04:58
SO, GIVEN THOSE REASONS, COAL
23:04:59
SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED IN THE
23:05:05
PORT FACILITIES, STUDIES IN
23:05:06
THE PAST HAVE SHOWN THAT
23:05:08
UNBURNED COAL, SO PURE COAL

23:05:11
IN MARINE ENVIRONMENTS
23:05:13
NEGATIVELY INTERVENE WITH
23:05:15
THE [INAUDIBLE] OF STEEL HEAD
23:05:19
TRUCKS, [INAUDIBLE] BOTH OF
23:05:21
WHICH ARE ENDANGERED SPECIE
23:05:22
IFS THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY,
23:05:24
THE STUDY OF ACCUMULATION OF
23:05:25
COAL ON THE SEA FLOOR CAN
23:05:27
HARM THE FLOOR AND FAUNA THAT
23:05:30
LIVE ON THE SEA FLOOR AND
23:05:32
REDUCE THE SPECIES IN THE
23:05:37
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM,

I HEARD A

23:05:40
LOT OF THE AIR QUALITY BUT
23:05:42
NOT THE WATER QUALITY TO
23:05:43
PREVENT THAT AND TO MITIGATE
23:05:45
THE EFFECTS OF WHICH WE MAY
23:05:46
SEE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY.
23:05:48
THANK YOU.
23:05:49
>> THANK YOU, IF YOU WOULD
23:05:50
LIKE TO GIVE -- IF YOU WOULD
23:05:51
LIKE TO SUBMIT THAT WRITTEN
23:05:53
REPORT, THE CLERK WILL TAKE
23:05:54
IT AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'LL
23:05:56
DISTRIBUTE IT TO THE MEMBERS.

23:06:00
THANK YOU.
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
23:06:04
>> MY NAME IS ANDREW KARIAGA,
23:06:09
I'M WITH THE POSTAL UNION, WE
23:06:11
REPRESENT A THOUSAND MEMBERS
23:06:12
IN OAKLAND THAT WORK MAINLY
23:06:14
AT THE MAIN POST OFFICE ON
23:06:15
7TH STREET ABOUT A MILE AWAY
23:06:18
FROM WHERE THEY'RE PLANNING
23:06:22
ON TRANSPORTING THIS COAL,
23:06:23
OUR FAMILIES LIVE IN OAKLAND
23:06:26
AS WELL, WE OPPOSE THE
23:06:31

TRANSPORT OF COAL IMPACT AND


23:06:33
IS WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THE
23:06:35
IMPACTS THE COAL DUST WILL
23:06:37
HAVE ON OUR COMMUNITY, MANY
23:06:39
OF OUR MEMBERS SUFFER FROM
23:06:40
ASTHMA AND OTHER RESPIRATORY
23:06:42
PROBLEMS BECAUSE WE'RE NOT
23:06:43
IMMUNE TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL
23:06:45
FACTORS THAT WE PUT UP WITH
23:06:47
WORKING AND LIVING IN WEST
23:06:50
OAKLAND, WE WANT TO SUPPORT
23:06:52
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE
23:06:53

TERMINAL BUT IN ORDER FOR THE


23:06:56
TERMINAL TO BE OPERATIONAL
23:06:56
FOR THE COMMUNITY TO HAVE
23:06:58
THESE JOBS, WE MUST ACCEPT
23:07:00
THE TRANSPORTATION OF COAL
23:07:01
THROUGHOUT THE TERMINAL,
23:07:02
THERE ARE OTHER MATERIALS THAT
23:07:05
CAN BE TRANSPORTED
23:07:08
AND WILL PROVIDE MORE JOBS
23:07:09
THAN COAL AND WILL BE
23:07:11
SUSTAINABLE IN THE COMMUNITY.
23:07:11
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.

23:07:20
>> MY NAME IS TORY, I'M
23:07:25
HERE REPRESENTING TEACHERS,
23:07:26
WE TOOK A UNANIMOUS VOTE TO
23:07:31
OPPOSE COAL TRAINS IN
23:07:33
OAKLAND, THE RESPONSIBILITY
23:07:34
TO VOICE OUR PRIMARY CONCERN
23:07:35
IS OUR STUDENTS AND ONE WHO
23:07:39
CARES DEEPLY FOR OUR KIDS IS
23:07:40
A NO-BRAINER, WE APPRECIATE
23:07:43
THE CONFLICTED ISSUES WITH
23:07:44
IMPACTS THAT ARE BEYOND THE
23:07:47
CONCERN OF THE HEALTH AND

23:07:49
SAFETY OF OUR KIDS IN THIS
23:07:54
COMMUNITY, [INAUDIBLE] ONE
23:07:58
NEED NOT FIXES THE OTHER, ON
23:08:00
BEHALF OF OUR KIDS, I'M
23:08:01
ASKING YOU TO SPEAK BACK AND
23:08:02
PONDER THE LEGACY YOU WILL
23:08:03
LEAVE WITH YOUR VOTE AS
23:08:04
OAKLAND AND THE BAY AREA'S
23:08:09
CHILDREN FEAR'S INCREASE AS
23:08:10
THEY SEE BROUGHT AND SEA
23:08:13
LEVEL RISE IN THEIR FUTURE,
23:08:16
HAVE YOU TAKEN A STAND OF

23:08:20
REAL CONSEQUENCE, YOU VOTE -23:08:21
IT WILL BE A VOTE FOR OR
23:08:24
AGAINST THE FUTURE OF OUR
23:08:26
CHILDREN.
23:08:26
THANKS.
>> THANK YOU.
23:08:31
>> DAVID [INAUDIBLE], I'M THE
23:08:34
CO-CHAIR OF THE SIERRA CLUB
23:08:36
BAY CHAPTER ENERGY COMMITTEE
23:08:37
AND WE'RE AGAINST THE
23:08:39
TRANSPORT OF COAL THROUGH
23:08:41
OAKLAND, NOT AGAINST THE BULK
23:08:44

TERMINAL THAT HANDLES SAFE


23:08:46
COMMODITIES.
23:08:46
THE WEST OAKLAND COMMUNITY
23:08:50
ALREADY SUFFERS
23:08:51
DISPROPORTIONATELY FROM AIR
23:08:52
POLLUTION, FROM
23:08:54
TRUCKS, SHIPS, FREEWAYS AND
23:08:57
INDUSTRY, ASTHMA RATES HERE
23:08:59
ARE TRAGIC, WE CAN'T ASSUME
23:09:01
THAT NO COAL DUST WILL ESCAPE
23:09:05
FROM COVERED COAL
23:09:06
CARS IF THAT'S WHAT COMES,
23:09:08

AND NO MATTER HOW THE


23:09:11
TERMINAL IS DESIGNED, COAL
23:09:13
WILL INEVITABLY DRIFT INTO
23:09:15
THE COMMUNITY.
23:09:15
THIS COAL WOULD BE SHIPPED TO
23:09:19
ASIA FOR BURNING, EMISSIONS
23:09:21
FROM THIS COAL WOULD BLOW
23:09:24
RIGHT BACK TO US, AS
23:09:27
PROFESSOR NEED MEYER
23:09:28
DESCRIBED AT THE BEGINNING OF
23:09:30
THE MEETING.
23:09:31
OAKLAND IS NOT OBLIGATED TO
23:09:32

ENSURE THE BOTTOM LINES OF


23:09:35
COAL COMPANIES IN UTAH.
23:09:37
>> THANK YOU, SIR.
[APPLAUSE].
23:09:42
NEXT SPEAKER, THANK YOU.
23:09:44
>> I'M PAUL SAM, I LEAVE AT
23:09:47
18TH AND BRUSH, I HAVEN'T
23:09:48
BEEN PAID TO BE HERE, I KNOW
23:09:50
THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT WERE
23:09:52
HERE AND THEY'VE ALREADY
23:09:52
LEFT, WE'RE STILL HERE TO
23:09:55
TALK, I GOT TO TELL YOU, I
23:09:58
GOT INVOLVED WITH THIS FROM

23:09:59
THE FIRST BECAUSE I THOUGHT
23:10:01
THE IDEA OF SHIPPING COAL TO
23:10:02
ASIA TO BURN IT WAS JUST A
23:10:04
BAD IDEA, IT'S BAD FOR THE
23:10:05
HEALTH OF THE PLANET AND WE
23:10:07
ALL KNOW THAT GLOBAL WARMING
23:10:09
IS CLIMATE CLANG IS AFFECTING
23:10:11
ALL OF OUR LIVES AND THAT
23:10:14
DROUGHT IS ABOUT BURNING COAL
23:10:16
IN CHINA AND LET GET THE
23:10:18
BIGGER PICTURE, WE HAVE THE
23:10:19
CHANCE HERE IN OAKLAND TO

23:10:20
STAND UP FOR A GREEN PLANET,
23:10:23
TO FIND A REASON TO STOP THE
23:10:25
COAL FROM GOING THROUGH HERE,
23:10:27
AND IF ALL WE CARE ABOUT IS
23:10:30
THE CLOAK WALL ISSUE OF THE
23:10:33
HEALTH OF A SPECIFIC NUMBER
23:10:34
OF A HAVE YOU FEW PEOPLE,
23:10:36
WE'RE OFF THE MARK AND I
23:10:39
BITTERLY RESENT HAVING THIS
23:10:41
TURN INTO THAT I'M AGAINST
23:10:42
JOBS BECAUSE I'M AGAINST
23:10:44
COAL, THAT THIS IS A HEARING

23:10:47
ON HELP, NOT

-- HEALTH, NOT

23:10:52
ON THE TERMINAL AND JOBS.
23:10:53
>> THANK YOU, SIR.
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
23:10:57
>> GOOD EVENING, I HAVE THREE
23:10:59
PEOPLE SEEDING TIME TO ME,
23:11:02
MARIA LOVE LIFE, [INAUDIBLE]
23:11:04
AND JENNIFER [INAUDIBLE].
23:11:07
>> MY NAME -23:11:08
>> I'M SORRY, MS. NADEL, IF
23:11:10
YOU CAN REPEAT THE LAST TWO.
23:11:14
>> DENNIS FAGALY, AND
23:11:17

JENNIFER MARLER.
>> THANK YOU.
23:11:21
>> MY NAME IS NANCY NADEL,
23:11:23
I'M A RETIRED CITY
23:11:25
COUNCILMEMBER, A 35 YEAR WEST
23:11:29
OAKLAND RESIDENT AND A
23:11:31
BUSINESS WHO'S SUFFERING
23:11:32
FROM GLOBAL WARMING, I WOULD
23:11:34
HOPE MY STAFF REPORT WOULD
23:11:36
INCLUDE MY WARNINGS, HEALTH
23:11:37
AND SAFETY DATA, THE ONLY
23:11:38
REFERENCE IN THEIR REPORT IS
23:11:40
THE LETTER FROM THE

23:11:41
DEVELOPER, YOU AND WE DESERVE
23:11:44
BETTER FROM YOUR HIGH PAID
23:11:45
STAFF.
23:11:45
WITH RESPECT TO HEALTH, THE
23:11:47
PEOPLE AT GREATEST RISK FROM
23:11:49
COAL DUST ARE CHILDREN,
23:11:51
ASTHMATICS AND OLDER
23:11:53
INDIVIDUALS WITH PREEXISTING
23:11:56
CARDIOVASCULAR OR RESPIRATORY
23:11:59
DISEASE, THE COAL LETTER
23:12:01
[INAUDIBLE] HIGHER NUMBER OF
23:12:02
EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS

23:12:04
CURRENTLY OF WEST OAKLAND
23:12:06
RESIDENTS IN THE STATE, IN
23:12:07
WEST OAKLAND, ONE IN FIVE
23:12:09
CHILDREN ARE DIAGNOSED WITH
23:12:12
ASTHMA, STAFF COMPLETELY
23:12:14
IGNORED IN THE HDR PEOPLE
23:12:16
PURPORTING TO BE THE ONLY
23:12:18
STUDY RELEVANT TO OAKLAND,
23:12:20
THE RISK ASSESSMENT DOES NOT
23:12:22
TALK ABOUT THE ALREADY HEALTH
23:12:24
IMPACTED COMMUNITY RIGHT HERE
23:12:24
IN WEST OAKLAND.

23:12:27
IN MY 94608 ZIP CODE, 72.3
23:12:32
CHILDREN HOSPITAL VISITS PER
23:12:33
10 THOUSAND TO 10.3
23:12:36
[INAUDIBLE] THIS MEANS THAT
23:12:38
THEY ARE IN THE HOSPITAL WITH
23:12:40
A LIFE THREATENING CONDITION,
23:12:41
NOT IN SCHOOL, THESE ARE OUR
23:12:43
CHILDREN IN WEST OAKLAND.
23:12:45
THE CALIFORNIA EPA AND THE
23:12:47
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION HAS
23:12:50
SPECIFIED THERE'S NO CLEAR
23:12:51
CUT SAFE LEVEL FOR EXPOSURE

23:12:55
TO PM2.5, THE HDR REPORT
23:12:57
DOESN'T SAY NO NEW STUFF WILL
23:12:58
BE COMING OFF THESE CARS, IT
23:13:02
SAYS NEGLIGIBLE ENOUGH, BUT
23:13:05
DR. SOCRO SAID EVERY EXPOSURE
23:13:07
ADDS TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF AN
23:13:09
ASTHMA OUTCOME, IF THE CITY
23:13:13
COUNCIL ALLOWS COAL EXPORTS,
23:13:15
THE EXPOSURE TO 2.5 WILL
23:13:16
BE DOUBLE THAT OF FREIGHT
23:13:18
TRAIN, WEST OAKLAND RESIDENTS
23:13:20
LIKE MYSELF CAN ATTEST TO THE

23:13:22
ALARMING LEVELS OF BLACK DUST
23:13:25
THAT CURRENTLY ACCUMULATES
23:13:26
DAILY ON OUR WINDOW SILLS.
23:13:29
WHILE THE PROJECT PROPONENTS
23:13:30
AS THE TRAIN CARS ALREADY
23:13:31
COVERED AND NOTHING, ALREADY
23:13:35
NO EXISTING COAL CARS
23:13:39
ANYWHERE SO NO [INAUDIBLE]
23:13:41
AND DESIGNED AND
23:13:42
MANUFACTURED FOR A DYING
23:13:43
INDUSTRY AND YOU AS A CITY,
23:13:45
YOU HEARD TONIGHT, YOU CANNOT

23:13:47
REQUIRE IT.
23:13:48
WE RESPECT THE SEA LEVEL RISE
23:13:51
AND SAFETY, SEA LEVEL RISE
23:13:52
WILL CONTINUE AS LONG AS
23:13:54
FOSSIL FUELS LIKE COAL ARE
23:13:55
BURNED AROUND THE WORLD.
23:13:57
THE BAY CONSERVATION
23:13:57
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION STATES
23:13:59
THAT SEA LEVEL RISK
23:14:01
ASSESSMENTS ARE REQUIRED WHEN
23:14:06
DESIGNING SEA LEVEL RISE
23:14:08
SUBJECTS, THEY ARE 10 TO 17

23:14:10
INCHES BY MID CENTURY, 31 TO
23:14:12
69 INCHES BY END OF CENTURY,
23:14:14
THOSE OF US IN THE FLAT LANDS
23:14:16
NEAR THE ESTUARY ARE
23:14:18
CONCERNED ABOUT FLOODING
23:14:19
WHICH IS A MAJOR SAFETY
23:14:20
CONCERN.
23:14:20
IF YOU LOOK AT THE WEBSITES
23:14:22
THAT HAVE THE MAPS THAT
23:14:25
SHOW INUNDATION DUE TO SEA
23:14:27
LEVEL RISE, YOU PUT IN TWO
23:14:28
FEET TO GET A CONSERVATIVE

23:14:31
ESTIMATE BETWEEN MID AND END
23:14:34
CENTURY, THE MOST INUNDATED
23:14:36
AREA IS THE PROPOSED BREAK
23:14:39
BULK TERMINAL, IT WILL BE
23:14:42
DEEP UNDERGROUND TRANSFER
23:14:44
COMPONENTS WHICH WOULD MOST
23:14:47
LIKELY BE UNDER WATER,
23:14:49
IMAGINE DIRTY WATER DRAINING
23:14:50
INTO OUR BAY AND ECOSYSTEM,
23:14:53
PLEASE READ THE LETTER, IT
23:14:55
INCLUDES MUCH MORE THAN THE
23:14:57
TWO AREAS I'M COVERED, RETURN

23:15:00
WITH AN ORDINANCE
23:15:01
INCORPORATING ALL OF THE
23:15:02
HEALTH AND SAFETY FACTS WE
23:15:04
PROVIDED TO YOU, DON'T SPEND
23:15:07
TIME CONTEMPLATING
23:15:08
DEGRADATION OF RISK OR
23:15:09
CONTEMPLATION OF COAL, THERE
23:15:11
IS NO ACCEPTABLE RISK TO OUR
23:15:13
RESIDENTS, USE THE POWER, THE
23:15:16
EXISTING DEVELOPMENT
23:15:16
AGREEMENT DISALLOWING THE
23:15:18
PRESENCE AND STORAGE OF

23:15:24
NICOLE IN PET COKE, DON'T USE
23:15:26
THE FRANCE PORT, IT CAN'T GET
23:15:29
THERE, DON'T BE THERE, SO
23:15:30
PLEASE DO IT AS SOON AS
23:15:31
POSSIBLE AND THANK YOU SO
23:15:33
MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
23:15:36
[APPLAUSE].
23:15:37
>> THANK YOU, MS. NADEL, NEXT
23:15:40
SPEAKER, PLEASE.
23:15:41
>> WEST OAKLAND RESIDENT,
23:15:43
KAREN CONNECT, SEEDING MY
23:15:46
TIME.

23:15:46
>> [INAUDIBLE] SEEDING MY
23:15:48
TIME.
23:15:48
>> THAT WAS CARRY CONNECT,
23:15:50
AND SAY YOUR NAME AGAIN.
>> REBECCA FRANKIE.
23:15:55
>> OKAY, THANK YOU.
23:15:57
>> GOOD EVENING, MADAM
23:15:58
PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE
23:15:59
CITY COUNCIL, THANK YOU FOR
23:16:00
ALLOWING ME TO ADDRESS YOU
23:16:02
TODAY ON THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE.
23:16:03
MY NAME IS BRANDON AND I'M
23:16:07

HERE ON BEHALF OF ASSEMBLY


23:16:09
MEMBER TONY THERMAN WHO
23:16:12
REPRESENTS THE 15TH ASSEMBLY
23:16:13
DISTRICT AND IS OPPOSED TO
23:16:16
COAL BEING BROUGHT THROUGH
23:16:17
OAKLAND, I'M HERE IN
23:16:19
OPPOSITION FO THE PROPOSAL TO
23:16:20
BRING MILLIONS OF TONS OF
23:16:22
UTAH COAL PER YEAR IN AND OUT
23:16:23
OF THIS CITY.
23:16:24
AS WE KNOW, COAL IS THE MOST
23:16:27
CARBON INTENSIVE FUEL ON
23:16:29

EARTH, ACCORDING THE UNION OF


23:16:31
CONCERNED SCIENTISTS AND
23:16:33
OAKLAND COAL TERMINAL OF THIS
23:16:36
MAGNITUDE, IT WILL RESULT IN
23:16:39
26 MILLION TONS, AS A
23:16:42
NATIONAL RAILWAY ESTIMATE THAT
23:16:44
A RAIL CAR COULD LOSE UP TO
23:16:46
ONE TON OF COAL DUST BETWEEN
23:16:47
THE MINE AND THE PORT
23:16:51
TRANSPORTING INTO 2600 POUNDS
23:16:55
OF TOXIC FINE TOXIC MATERIAL,
23:16:59
ENTERING OUR WATERWAYS,
23:17:00

POLLUTING OUR ENVIRONMENT.


23:17:03
COMMUNITIES SUCH AS WEST
23:17:05
OAKLAND AND SOUTH BERKELEY
23:17:07
AND NORTH RICHMOND ARE
23:17:09
IMPACTED BY THE URBAN
23:17:11
POLLUTION, WE WILL BE GREATER
23:17:13
AT RISK FOR ASTHMA, HEART
23:17:13
DISEASE AND CANCER AND IT'S
23:17:15
JUST NOT WORTH IT.
23:17:17
THE LOCAL LEADERS ARE TAKING
23:17:18
A STAND AGAINST COAL, WE
23:17:20
APPLAUD THIS CITY COUNCIL FOR
23:17:22

PASSING A RESOLUTION OPPOSING


23:17:24
THE TRANSPORT OF FOSSIL FUELS
23:17:25
BY RAIL THROUGH THE CITY.
23:17:26
OAKLAND DOES NOT STAND ALONE
23:17:28
ON THIS ISSUE, THE CITIES OF
23:17:31
BERKELEY, RICHMOND,
23:17:32
EMERYVILLE AND ALBANY WHO ALL
23:17:33
REST IN THE 15TH ASSEMBLY
23:17:36
DISTRICT ALSO PASSED
23:17:37
RESOLUTIONS OPPOSING COAL,
23:17:38
PETROLEUM COKE AND OIL BEING
23:17:40
BROUGHT THROUGH THEIR CITIES
23:17:41

AND INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.


23:17:44
IN THE ASSEMBLY, ASSEMBLY
23:17:45
MEMBER THURMAN HAS
23:17:51
CO-AUTHORED SENATE BILLS, THE
23:17:54
STRONGEST GREENHOUSE
23:17:54
LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE AND WE
23:17:55
WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT THE
23:17:58
WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS
23:18:00
POLLUTANTS, CARBON POLLUTANT
23:18:01
KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES,
23:18:02
TRANSPORTING COAL THROUGH OUR
23:18:04
COMMUNITIES, THROUGH OUR
23:18:05

PORTS, IT MEANS
23:18:06
TURNING OUR BACKS ON OUR
23:18:08
CITIZENS AND BAY AREA VALUES
23:18:11
AND RISKING CALIFORNIA'S
23:18:13
STRONG REPUTATION AS A LEADER,
23:18:16
WE STRONGLY OPPOSE THIS
23:18:18
PROJECT, LET US MAKE SURE
23:18:19
THAT OUR FUTURE IS CLEAN,
23:18:22
SAFE, PROSPEROUS AND REJECT
23:18:23
THE COAL'S INDUSTRY OF LATEST
23:18:24
GAME.
23:18:28
THANK YOU.
23:18:30

>> MR. BERANKO, IF YOU CAN


23:18:31
HANG AT THE PODIUM FOR A
23:18:33
MOMENT, MR. KALB?
23:18:34
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR
23:18:36
BEING HERE AND THANK YOU,
23:18:39
PLEASE THANK YOUR BOSS, MR.
23:18:41
THURMAN FOR SHARING HIS
23:18:44
THOUGHTS, MY UNDERSTANDING IS
23:18:45
I THOUGHT I READ SOMETHING
23:18:48
FROM YOUR BOSS, BONTA AND
23:18:50
HANCOCK SAYING THE SAME THING
23:18:52
YOU JUST SAID, IS THAT
23:18:54

CORRECT?
23:18:54
>> ABSOLUTELY.
23:18:55
>> IF WE CAN HAVE COPIES OF
23:18:58
THAT
23:18:58
>> I CAN PUT NIT -- IT IN THE
23:19:03
RECORD, THANK YOU.
23:19:06
>> JOHN SERARDI, OAKLAND
23:19:08
RESIDENT, BLACKSMITH WHO
23:19:09
STOPPED USING COAL, I WOULD
23:19:10
LIKE TO SEED MY TIME TO
23:19:11
JOHN.
>> THANK YOU.
23:19:13
MY NAME IS JOHN BARESIN, I'M

23:19:16
A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 3 AND
23:19:21
A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER, I'M
23:19:23
HERE BECAUSE MY FIRST
23:19:24
DAUGHTER WAS BORN FIVE DAYS
23:19:26
AGO, THAT'S WHY I'M HERE, SHE
23:19:29
DOESN'T KNOW IT BUT I'M HERE
23:19:30
AND I'M PROUD TO BE IN WEST
23:19:33
OAKLAND BUT I'M CONCERNED
23:19:34
SHE'S GOING TO END UP LIKE
23:19:36
MANY OTHER CHILDREN IN WEST
23:19:38
OAKLAND, WITH ASTHMA, OAKLAND
23:19:40
RESIDENTS CURRENTLY SUFFER

23:19:41
THREE TIMES OF THEIR
23:19:42
EMERGENCY ROOM VISITORS FROM
23:19:45
RESPIRATORY EMERGENCIES
23:19:46
STATEN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE,
23:19:47
YET TODAY WE ARE TALKING
23:19:49
ABOUT SENDING COAL TRAINS
23:19:51
THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD,
23:19:54
ARCHAIC TECHNOLOGY, THE IDEA
23:19:55
OF COVERED COAL CARS
23:19:56
PRESENTED BY THE DEVELOPERS,
23:19:58
ONLY THAT, IT IS AN IDEA,
23:20:00
COVERED COAL CARS DO NOT

23:20:01
EXIST, NOR CAN THE CITY OR
23:20:04
THE APPLICANT REQUIRE CLASS 1
23:20:06
INTERSTATE RAIL TO USE
23:20:07
ANYTHING OTHER THAN WHAT THE
23:20:10
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPECIFIED,
23:20:10
SO THAT MEANS THAT EVERY MILE
23:20:14
THESE COAL CARS OR PETROLEUM
23:20:16
COKE TRAINS MOVE THROUGH
23:20:18
OAKLAND, THEY WILL RELEASE
23:20:19
DUST INTO THE AIR AND INTO
23:20:22
OUR LUNGS, THE CITY WOULDN'T
23:20:24
MAKE ONE CENT OF EXPORT TAX

23:20:27
ON ANY OF THESE, SO WHAT DOES
23:20:28
THE CITY MAKE OUT OF THIS?
23:20:31
WHERE'S THE MONEY, IT'S NOT
23:20:32
GOING INTO THE GENERAL FUND,
23:20:35
IS IT?
23:20:36
I SUPPORT JOB GROWTH IN
23:20:38
OAKLAND BUT MODERN AUTOMATED
23:20:41
TERMINALS WOULD BRING FEW
23:20:42
JOBS AND JUST A HANDFUL OF
23:20:45
OPERATORS, IT WOULD REDUCE
23:20:46
THE NUMBER OF JOBS THAT THE
23:20:48
NEWPORT FACILITY COULD OFFER

23:20:50
WITHOUT THE COAL TERMINAL AND
23:20:52
VERY FEW JOBS IT WOULD OFFER
23:20:54
WOULD BE DANGEROUS AND DIRTY.
23:20:56
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL,
23:20:59
I IMPLORE YOU, BAN UNHEALTHY
23:21:06
AND DANGEROUS COAL TERMINAL
23:21:06
IN OAKLAND, DON'T GO BACK
23:21:08
WITH DIRTY ENERGY FOR CHINA,
23:21:12
DON'T DAMAGE THE [INAUDIBLE]
23:21:13
THE APPLICANT AND SOME
23:21:15
SPECULATORS IN UTAH CAN LINE
23:21:16
THEIR POCKETS, SAY NO TO

23:21:19
DANGEROUS COAL AND OIL IN
23:21:21
OAKLAND.
>> THANK YOU.
23:21:22
>> WE'RE COUNTING ON YOU TO
23:21:24
PROTECT US.
23:21:24
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
23:21:26
>> AND CONGRATULATIONS ON THE
23:21:30
BABY.
23:21:31
NEW DISTRICT 3 RESIDENT.
23:21:34
>> MY NAME IS ELIZABETH OR
23:21:37
LIZ PALOATO, I SEED MY MINUTE.
23:21:39
>> THANK YOU, MS. PALOATO.
23:21:42

>> I MY NAME IS JASMINE VAR


23:21:45
GAS, I'M WITH THE COMMUNITIES
23:21:46
FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT AND
23:21:48
I'M HAVING THE GREAT
23:21:49
PRIVILEGE TO SPEAK IN FRONT
23:21:50
OF YOU FOR THE FIRST TIME
23:21:52
TODAY.
23:21:53
I AM HERE TO SUPPORT ALL MY
23:21:58
FELLOW COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND
23:22:00
THEIR CALL TO STOP ALL COAL
23:22:03
EXPORTS INTO OAKLAND AND WE
23:22:05
HAVE IN COMMUNITIES FOR A
23:22:07

BETTER ENVIRONMENT MEMBERSHIP


23:22:08
FROM ACROSS THE EAST OAKLAND
23:22:10
AND BAY AREAS ALL THE WAY UP
23:22:12
TO RICHMOND AND WE HAVE A
23:22:15
SENSE THAT WE SUPPORTED A
23:22:18
RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE
23:22:20
FOSSIL FUEL MATERIALS THAT YOU
23:22:22
ALL PASSED IN JUNE, 2014.
23:22:24
ON THAT THREAD, I WANTED TO
23:22:26
SUBMIT TO THE RECORD AND I'M
23:22:28
HAPPY TO GIVE THIS TO THE
23:22:29
CLERK AT THE END OF MY TIME,
23:22:31

A REPORT THAT AN INDEPENDENT


23:22:33
REPORT THAT COMMUNITIES FOR A
23:22:37
BETTER ENVIRONMENT RELEASED
23:22:38
CALLED CURRENT JUSTICE ON THE
23:22:39
RAILS, RACE AND A DESPERATE
23:22:41
RISK FROM OIL TRAINS IN
23:22:43
CALIFORNIA AND THIS IS ABOUT
23:22:45
OIL TRAINS AND CRUDE OIL
23:22:47
TRAINS SPECIFICALLY AND THE
23:22:50
DANGERS OF THE COMMUNITIES A
23:22:53
MILE FROM THE TRAIN ROUTES,
23:22:55
OTHERWISE KNOWN BY US AS THE
23:22:57

BLACK ZONES OR THE AREAS OF


23:23:00
EVACUATION NECESSARY IN CASE
23:23:01
OF AN OIL TRAIN DERAILMENT.
23:23:05
WELL, THE STUDY AND ONE
23:23:06
FINDING I HAD TO SHARE WITH
23:23:07
YOU ALL WHICH I THINK IS VERY
23:23:10
PERTINENT IS A GRAPHIC HERE
23:23:11
OF OAKLAND AND AS YOU CAN
23:23:13
SOYA, WE WERE ABLE TO OVERLAY
23:23:17
ON THE RAIL TRACKS THE SCREEN
23:23:23
2.0 METRICS THAT THE BAY AREA
23:23:27
QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
23:23:29

USES AND IT SHOWS HERE THAT


23:23:35
WHERE MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL
23:23:36
JUSTICE COMMUNITIES AS WE
23:23:38
HEARD ALREADY IN THIS -- IN
23:23:40
OAKLAND, BUT IF YOU SEE THE
23:23:43
OVERLAY OVER THE RAILS -23:23:47
>> I SEED MY TIME.
23:23:49
>> THANK YOU, JESS, THE
23:23:50
OVERLAY SHOWS THERE'S
23:23:52
ACTUALLY A HIGHER CONCENTRATION
23:23:53
OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND
23:23:55
LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES IN THE
23:23:57

ONE MILE OF THE TRAIN TRACKS


23:23:59
THAN OUTSIDE OF THE TRAIN
23:24:01
TRACKS AND WE STUDIED OVER
23:24:03
TEN CITIES AROUND THE STATE
23:24:06
AND OAKLAND, YOU ACTUALLY HAD
23:24:09
A CONCENTRATION OF 1% VERSUS
23:24:12
AN 86% OUTSIDE THE RAIL, SO
23:24:15
THIS ACTUALLY PROVES IN THE
23:24:17
DECISION BEING MADE HERE
23:24:18
TODAY, YOU ARE PERPETUATING
23:24:21
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM ON THE
23:24:22
COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN
23:24:23

AFFECTED THE MOST FOR DECADES


23:24:25
FROM ALL THIS POLLUTION,
23:24:26
WE NEED TO LOOK AT THINKING
23:24:29
ABOUT MITT AILING THIS AND
23:24:31
START CHALLENGING THE ROOT
23:24:32
PROBLEMS HERE WHICH IS THE
23:24:34
COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN DUMPING
23:24:36
GROUNDS AND OVERBURDENED BY
23:24:38
FOSSIL FUELS AND OTHER
23:24:40
INDUSTRIES THAT KEEP
23:24:41
EXTERNALIZING THE COST OF THE
23:24:42
HEALTH IMPACTS IN OUR
23:24:45

COMMUNITIES AND WE HERE NEED


23:24:48
TO MAKE THE DECISION, ARE YOU
23:24:50
GOING TO KEEP LINING THE
23:24:53
POCKETS OF THE DEAD INDUSTRY?
23:24:55
>> THANK YOU.
[APPLAUSE].
23:25:02
>> NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
23:25:06
>> MY NAME IS -- I'VE COME
23:25:09
HERE FROM CLEAR LIVING
23:25:11
HEALTH, MY NAME IS DR. ELLIOT
23:25:16
CATS, I'M A VETERINARIAN,
23:25:19
[INAUDIBLE].
23:25:19
>> SORRY, DOCTOR, DID YOU SAY

23:25:23
CATS.
OKAY, THANK YOU.
>> AS I SAY, I WAS UP IN THE
23:25:34
BALCONIES LISTENING AND
23:25:35
EVERYTHING I WAS GOING TO SAY
23:25:36
HAS BEEN SAID OTHER AND OVER
23:25:40
AGAIN, IT IS INCONCEIVABLE
23:25:40
THAT YOU ARE HEARING WHAT YOU
23:25:42
ARE HEARING TONIGHT, THE
23:25:44
PASSION, THE CARING, LOOKING
23:25:46
OUT FOR THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE
23:25:50
THAT YOU NEED TO NEED TO
23:25:54
CONSIDER THE SHIPPING OF COAL

23:25:57
FROM OAKLAND AND THROUGH
23:25:59
OAKLAND, JUST TURNING TO
23:26:04
BEING

COMPLAISANT AND HAVING

23:26:08
THE CHINESE PEOPLE OR
23:26:09
THEY'RE GOING TO EXPOSED TO
23:26:12
IT OVER THERE SUFFER AS
23:26:13
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SUFFER
23:26:16
OVER HERE, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE
23:26:17
OF LOW-INCOME ARE ALWAYS
23:26:19
ENDING UP LIVING WHERE
23:26:21
THERE'S POLLUTION AND SO
23:26:24
FORTH, SO IF YOU HAVE TO

23:26:26
JUDGE THIS BASED ON YOUR
23:26:28
HEART, YOUR SOUL AND YOUR
23:26:30
CARING, NOT ON THE ECONOMICS
23:26:33
OF CORPORATE AMERICA IS
23:26:35
ALWAYS GOING TO PUT ITS BEST
23:26:38
FOOT FORWARD, THAT SHOULDN'T
23:26:40
BE A DECISION OF THIS CITY
23:26:46
AND OF YOUR PEOPLE.
23:26:47
DO I HAVE MORE TIME HERE?
23:26:51
>> YOU'RE CURRENTLY OVER TIME.
23:26:53
>> OKAY.
23:26:53
>> I'M SORRY, IT DIDN'T BEEP.

23:26:55
>> THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME
23:26:56
TO BE OVER TIME.
23:26:59
>> WE'VE BEEN A LITTLE
23:27:05
GRACIOUS TO MOST PEOPLE
23:27:06
TONIGHT.
23:27:06
>> MY NAME IS WILL SCOTT, IM
23:27:10
PART OF THE CALIFORNIA
23:27:11
INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT,
23:27:12
WE'RE A NETWORK OF 650
23:27:14
CONGREGATIONS ACROSS THE
23:27:15
STATE WITH 40 RIGHT HERE IN
23:27:18
OAKLAND.

23:27:19
THE SUMMER, I SPENT THE BULK
23:27:22
OF MY TIME WITH MEMBERS OF
23:27:26
OUR CONGREGATIONS READING THE
23:27:27
POPES IN CYCLICAL, WE MET AT
23:27:30
TEMPLE SIGH NIGH, WE MET AT
23:27:32
LAKESHORE, CHURCH BY THE SIDE
23:27:33
OF THE ROAD ALL IN ALAMEDA
23:27:36
COUNTY, ONE OF THE THINGS THE
23:27:38
POPE SAYS, WE KNOW THE
23:27:40
TECHNOLOGY USED ON HIGH
23:27:41
POLLUTING FOSSIL FUELS,
23:27:43
ESPECIALLY COAL NEEDS TO BE

23:27:45
PROGRESSIVELY REPLACED
23:27:46
WITHOUT DELAY.
23:27:47
THE LEADER OF ONE BILLION
23:27:51
CATHOLICS IS [INAUDIBLE]
23:27:53
JEWISH COMMUNITIES ALWAYS SAY
23:27:53
WE HAVE A MORAL
23:27:55
RESPONSIBILITY TO PHASE OUT
23:27:57
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AS
23:27:58
SOON AS POSSIBLE.
23:27:58
FOR THE HEALTH OF OUR
23:28:00
COMMUNITIES AND THE PLANET,
23:28:00
WE URGE YOU TO DIRECT YOUR

23:28:02
STAFF TO RESEARCH ALL
23:28:04
POSSIBLE POLICY AND LEGAL
23:28:07
OPTIONS FOR BARRING PET COKE
23:28:09
AND COAL FROM COMING THROUGH
23:28:11
OUR CITY TO BE BURNED ABROAD.
23:28:15
THANK YOU FOR SAYING NO TO
23:28:16
COAL AND SAYING YES TO OUR
23:28:18
ONE SHARED SKY.
>> THANK YOU.
23:28:25
GOOD EVENING, I'M HELLENE
23:28:27
MAXWELL AND SEEDING MY TIME.
23:28:31
>> THANK YOU, MS. MAXWELL.
23:28:38

>> I'M A LONG TIME OAKLAND


23:28:40
RESIDENT AND COMMUNITY
23:28:41
COLLEGE CHILDREN, THE PERALTA
23:28:43
FEDERATION OF CHILDREN
23:28:44
SUPPORTS NO COAL IN OAKLAND
23:28:47
AS DO NUMEROUS OTHER UNION
23:28:49
LOCALS AND THE ALAMEDA
23:28:54
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL COMMITTEE,
23:28:54
I AM INTERESTED IN HOW AND
23:28:56
WHAT PEOPLE LEARN.
23:28:58
OVER THE LAST SEVERAL
23:29:00
DECADES, PEOPLE AROUND
23:29:01

THE WORLD HAVE LEARNED ABOUT


23:29:02
THE DANGERS OF POLLUTION AND
23:29:05
CLIMATE CHANGE, IN RECENT
23:29:06
YEARS, MORE AND MORE PEOPLE
23:29:07
HAVE COME TO LEARN ABOUT THE
23:29:09
URGENT PROBLEMS OF CLEAN

--

23:29:14
GREENHOUSE GASES IN THE
23:29:16
ATMOSPHERE, MELTING ICE CAPS
23:29:18
AND SEA LEVEL RISE.
23:29:21
TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING, WE
23:29:24
MUST LEARN HOW TO COUNTER THE
23:29:27
FALSE CONFLICT BETWEEN JOBS
23:29:28

AND CLIMATE PROTECTION.


23:29:29
ALONG WITH PEOPLE IN MANY
23:29:32
OTHER COMMUNITIES, WE MUST
23:29:33
LEARN HOW TO DO ECONOMIC
23:29:35
DEVELOPMENT THAT DOES NOT
23:29:36
THREATEN THE SHORT TERM
23:29:38
HEALTH AND SAFETY OF WORKERS
23:29:40
AND NEARBY RESIDENTS OR THE
23:29:42
LONG TERM SURVIVAL AT THE
23:29:45
PLANET.
23:29:45
THOUSANDS OF COMMODITIES
23:29:51
OTHER THAN COAL CAN BE
23:29:52

SHIPPED FROM OAKLAND.


23:29:53
WE HAVE LEARNED THIS PROJECT
23:29:54
IS ON PUBLIC LAND AND IS
23:29:55
FINANCED BY LOTS AND LOTS OF
23:29:58
PUBLIC MONEY.
23:30:00
IT'S NOT RESPONSIBLE PUBLIC
23:30:01
POLICY TO CREATE JOBS FOR
23:30:03
SHIPPING COAL WHICH WILL RUIN
23:30:06
OUR AIR AND WATER, MAKE US
23:30:09
SICK, INCREASE GLOBAL WARMING.
23:30:11
ALLOWING COAL BECAUSE OAKLAND
23:30:13
NEEDS JOBS IS SHORTSIGHTED.
23:30:15

IT'S TIME FOR ALL OF US TO


23:30:17
THINK LONG TERM AND REJECT
23:30:20
COAL.
23:30:21
OTHERWISE, OUR CHILDREN AND
23:30:23
GRANDCHILDREN HERE AND
23:30:25
ELSEWHERE WILL LEARN SADLY
23:30:26
THAT THERE ARE NO JOBS ON A
23:30:31
DEAD PLANET.
23:30:35
>> [INAUDIBLE].
>> THANK YOU.
23:30:38
>> [INAUDIBLE] SEEDING MY
23:30:38
TIME.
>> THANK YOU.
23:30:41

>> ANNE BAILEY, I'M A WEST


23:30:43
OAKLAND RESIDENT, I'M THE
23:30:44
GRANDMOTHER OF TWO CHILDREN
23:30:45
GROWING UP IN WEST OAKLAND
23:30:47
AND MY FOCUS HERE IS ON THE
23:30:49
MEMO PUT OUT BY JEFF HOLT,
23:30:53
THE MONTREAL INVESTMENT
23:30:54
BANKER WOULD IS ALSO
23:30:55
CONVENIENTLY THE CHAIRMAN OF
23:30:57
UTAH'S TRANSPORTATION
23:30:59
COMMISSION, I DON'T KNOW IF
23:31:02
THE COUNCIL HAS SEEN THE
23:31:03

INTERNAL MEMO, IT'S BEEN


23:31:05
QUOTED IN THE EAST BAY
23:31:07
EXPRESS, THIS MEMO WAS
23:31:08
SENT TO ALERT COMMISSION
23:31:10
MEMBERS THAT THEIR SECRET
23:31:11
PLAN TO SHIP COAL INTO
23:31:13
OAKLAND HAD BEEN LEAKED INTO
23:31:16
A LOCAL UTAH PAPER, THE
23:31:19
INVESTMENT BANKER FROM
23:31:21
MONTREAL STANDS TO GAIN
23:31:24
MILLIONS IF THEY'RE ALLOWED
23:31:28
TO COME INTO OAKLAND 7 DAYS A
23:31:30

WEEK, WHILE HE RESOURCES THE


23:31:32
MINOR CONSORTIUM OUT OF
23:31:34
KENTUCKY NOW IN UTAH WHERE
23:31:36
THE ECONOMIC AND
23:31:37
ENVIRONMENTAL DEVASTATION
23:31:38
LEFT BEHIND BY COAL MINING IS
23:31:40
WELL KNOWN WOULD EARN
23:31:42
BILLIONS MORE SHIPPING UTAH
23:31:43
COAL TO OAKLAND.
23:31:45
THE DETAILED OF THESE PLANS
23:31:46
TO ESTABLISH OAKLAND AS A
23:31:48
MASSIVE COAL HUB WERE KEPT
23:31:51

COMPLETELY UNDER WRAPS


23:31:52
INCLUDING THE ROLE PLAYED BY
23:31:54
MR. TAGAMI.
23:31:55
IN THIS MEMO THE ARTICLE WAS
23:32:02
DESCRIBED AS AN UNFORTUNATE
23:32:03
ARTICLE, YES, IT WAS
23:32:06
UNFORTUNATE THAT THE TRUTH
23:32:07
WAS ABLE TO LEAK OUT TO THE
23:32:09
CITY CITIZENS OF OAKLAND, HOW
23:32:12
UNFORTUNATE FOR THESE GREEDY
23:32:13
EMPLOYERS OUT OF KENTUCKY,
23:32:15
MONTREAL AND UTAH THAT
23:32:18

THOUSANDS OF HUMAN BEINGS


23:32:19
LIVING THOUSANDS OF MILES
23:32:20
AWAY EVEN HAD TO BE
23:32:22
CONSIDERED FOR THE OBSCENE
23:32:24
PROFITS THEY WERE SCHEMING
23:32:26
FOR.
23:32:27
IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT THE
23:32:29
COMMUNITY OF WEST OAKLAND HAS
23:32:31
FOR MANY YEARS HAD TO FIGHT
23:32:33
THE GOOD FIGHT AGAINST POOR
23:32:34
AIR QUALITY, CRIME AND BLIGHT.
23:32:36
NOW THAT WEST OAKLAND HAS
23:32:40

MADE SO MUCH PROGRESS THANKS


23:32:41
TO NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS AND
23:32:43
THE POLICE FORCE, THIS IS
23:32:44
DUMPED ON THEM.
23:32:46
WHAT IS TRULY HORRIFYING IS
23:32:48
JUST HOW EASILY THE LIVES OF
23:32:51
THIS DENSELY POPULATED
23:32:51
NEIGHBORHOOD WITH A RICH AND
23:32:54
DIVERSE HISTORY ARE
23:32:55
DISCOUNTED BY THE ACTORS IN
23:32:55
THIS PLOT.
23:32:56
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH, IF YOU
23:32:58

WANT TO GO AHEAD, MY STAFF -23:33:00


>> THANK YOU.
>> MARK MCCAROL.
OKAY.
23:33:05
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
23:33:09
HOW THESE LIVES ARE
23:33:10
DISCOUNTED BY THE ACTORS IN
23:33:12
THIS PLOT AND I REFER TO THEM
23:33:14
AS PLOT BECAUSE THEY HAD A
23:33:17
SCRIPT.
23:33:18
THE SCRIPT IN MR. HOLTZS
23:33:20
WORDS WAS TO DOWN PLAY COAL,
23:33:22
DOWN PLAY COAL AND AGAIN FROM

23:33:25
THIS MEMO, I'M QUOTING, IT
23:33:27
LOOKED FOR A FEW DAYS IT
23:33:29
WOULD ROLL INTO PRODUCTION
23:33:31
WITH NO SERIOUS DISCUSSION,
23:33:33
APPARENTLY WE IN WEST OAKLAND
23:33:36
ARE AN ANNOYING BUMP TO THEIR
23:33:38
GOLDEN GOOSE, WHY ARE THEY
23:33:40
AFRAID OF SERIOUS DISCUSSION,
23:33:42
MAYBE WITH DAY LIGHT SHED ON
23:33:45
THEIR DREAMS OF OAKLAND
23:33:47
EXPLOITING THEIR [INAUDIBLE]
23:33:48
REACH THE POOR CONCLUSION

23:33:50
THAT WASHINGTON AND OREGON
23:33:51
CAME TO, THAT THIS IS WRONG,
23:33:54
WRONG FOR THE HUMAN BEINGS
23:33:56
LIVING NEARBY.
23:33:57
AGAIN, FOR A SERIOUS
23:33:58
DISCUSSION, WHY SHOULD A
23:34:00
SMALL GROUP OF INVESTORS WHO
23:34:02
CONSPIRE TO KEEP OAKLAND
23:34:04
RESIDENTS COMPLETELY IN THE
23:34:06
DARK BE DEPRIVED OF THEIR
23:34:08
PROFIT, THE ANSWER IS SO
23:34:11
THE OAKLAND RESIDENTS BREATHE

23:34:13
CLEAN AIR, OUR WATERS ARE
23:34:15
CLEAN AND WE CAN HAVE A
23:34:18
BETTER FUTURE FOR THE
23:34:19
CITIZENS OF OAKLAND.
23:34:20
>> THANK YOU, IF YOU WANT
23:34:23
TOED TO GO AHEAD AND SUBMIT
23:34:25
THOSE PAPERS, THE CLERK WILL
23:34:26
MAKE SURE MY STAFF OR CASEY
23:34:29
WILL TAKE THAT FROM YOU, MAKE
23:34:31
SURE THAT'S DISTRIBUTED TO
23:34:32
EACH OF THE COUNCILMEMBERS,
23:34:33
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TESTIMONY,

23:34:34
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
23:34:37
>> GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS
23:34:38
AARON, I'M A 30 YEAR RESIDENT
23:34:40
OF OAKLAND AND A MEMBER OF
23:34:41
350 BAY AREA, I WANT TO MAKE
23:34:44
A HEALTH AND SAFETY SCIENCE
23:34:46
POINT THAT I THINK HAS NOT
23:34:49
BEEN STRESSED ENOUGH TODAY,
23:34:50
AND THAT IS THAT EVEN IF
23:34:53
EVERY SINGLE MITIGATION
23:34:54
MEASURE WAS TAKEN AND NOT A
23:34:56
SINGLE PARTICLE OF COAL DUST

23:34:58
WAS RELEASED IN THE EXPORT OF
23:35:02
COAL THROUGH OAKLAND, THE
23:35:03
CLIMATE CHANGE CONSEQUENCES
23:35:05
HAVE A LOCAL HEALTH IMPACT,
23:35:06
AND I WANT TO QUOTE SEVERAL
23:35:11
CITIZEN FROM THE RENOWNED
23:35:14
BIOLOGIST, SHE WRITES HIGHER
23:35:15
GLOBAL TEMPERATURE ACCELERATE
23:35:18
THE TEMPERATURE OF TOXIC LUNG
23:35:21
POLLUTANTS SUCH AS OZONE,
23:35:24
NITROGEN DIOXIDE AND
23:35:26
CARCINOGENS, THE EVAPORATION

23:35:28
OF LIQUID POLLUTANTS LIKE
23:35:29
GASOLINE.
23:35:30
BY RAISING THE HEAT, YOU
23:35:31
RAISE THE AIR'S TOXICITY.
23:35:35
HIGHER TEMPERATURES ALSO
23:35:36
INCREASE LEVELS OF POLLEN,
23:35:45
DUST MITES AND [INAUDIBLE],
23:35:47
THEY ARE ALL

POLLUTANTS.

23:35:52
>> NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
23:36:03
>> FOR THE RECORD, GENE
23:36:04
HAZARD, AND YOU CAN GO TO
23:36:08
CLEANOAKLAND.COM AND LOOK AT

23:36:09
GENE'S BLOG AND YOU WILL SEE
23:36:10
-- I HAVE MY TIME SEEDED
23:36:16
TANGERI, BARBARA TANGERI.
23:36:18
>> IS MS. TANGERI STILL HERE?
23:36:21
>> [INAUDIBLE].
23:36:21
>> YOU'RE HIDDEN BY GENE'S
23:36:23
BODY, THANK YOU.
23:36:25
AND WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD
23:36:29
A COPY OF THE END OF COAL,
23:36:31
THE END OF COAL, MR. KENNEDY
23:36:33
SPOKE BEFORE YOU EARLIER.
23:36:34
I WOULD LIKE TO READ SOME OF

23:36:36
THESE THINGS AND YOU CAN GET
23:36:38
THE FULL TEXT IF YOU GO TO
23:36:40
CLEANOAKLAND.COM AND LOOK
23:36:42
AT GENE'S BLOG, KEEP AN EYE
23:36:44
ON OAKLAND.
23:36:45
WE BACKED BOO THIS TRAIN
23:36:48
WRECK BECAUSE YOU, COUNCIL,
23:36:50
FAILED AND YOU WERE
23:36:51
INDIFFERENT WHEN I FILED A
23:36:55
LAWSUIT AGAINST TAGAMI
23:36:57
BECAUSE HE DID NOT HAVE A
23:36:59
BUSINESS LICENSE IN THE CITY

23:37:00
OF OAKLAND WHEN YOU
23:37:01
AUTHORIZED THE LDDA SO WE ARE
23:37:03
NOW BACK INTO A TRAIN WRECK.
23:37:07
IT'S TYPICAL OF TAGAMI TO
23:37:09
BAIT AND SWITCH AND THAT'S
23:37:11
WHAT WE'RE GETTING HERE.
23:37:13
THERE WAS NOTHING SAID ABOUT
23:37:17
COAL ANYWHERE, BUT YOU WERE
23:37:19
INDIFFERENT WHEN I RAISED THE
23:37:20
ISSUE, AND LOOK WHAT WE'RE
23:37:23
HAVING RIGHT NOW, A CRITICAL
23:37:25
ISSUE AFFECTING THE LIVES AND

23:37:27
THE HEALTH OF THIS COMMUNITY.
23:37:29
LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU,
23:37:33
END OF COAL, HISTORY WILL
23:37:36
REMEMBER COAL AS MUCH FOR
23:37:40
UNDERMINING CIVILIZATION AS
23:37:41
FOR BUILDING IT.
IN CHINA, ALONE, COAL
23:37:49
EMISSIONS ARE ESTIMATED TO
23:37:52
KILL 1.6 MILLION PEOPLE
23:37:57
ANNUALLY, 1.6 PEOPLE
23:37:59
ANNUALLY, AND WE HAVE -- AND
23:38:01
YOU HAVE THIS TOO, AT THE
23:38:04

COAL MINE AT THE VENICE FILM


23:38:08
FESTIVAL THIS YEAR, AUGUST,
23:38:10
WHERE [INAUDIBLE],
23:38:18
IT'S THE RECORD OF THIS FILM
23:38:23
ON COAL IN CHINA, AND THE
23:38:28
FILM IS [INAUDIBLE], MY BIG
23:38:32
HOPE SO THE CONVEY THE
23:38:34
MESSAGE NO MATTER WHERE YOU
23:38:34
ARE AND WHAT YOUR LIVING
23:38:36
CONDITIONS ARE AND WHEN AND
23:38:38
WHERE YOU ACTUALLY LIVE,
23:38:39
PEOPLE SHOULD BE MORE AWARE
23:38:41

OF THESE ISSUES AND MAYBE


23:38:44
LOWER THE EXPECTATIONS AND
23:38:46
THEIR DESIRES TOWARD LIGHT
23:38:47
AND NOT WASTE THAT MANY
23:38:50
RESOURCES AND DECIDE TO LIVE
23:38:52
MORE SIMPLER, I HOPE YOU GET
23:38:55
-- I HOPE PEOPLE GET TO
23:38:57
REFLECT ABOUT THEIR LIVE AND
23:38:59
IS HOW OUR LIFESTYLES AFFECT
23:39:01
EVERYTHING AROUND US
23:39:01
INCLUDING THE ENVIRONMENT.
23:39:02
>> THANK YOU, SIR.
23:39:05

>> SO, PLEASE, THIS IS THE


23:39:09
HEALTH OPEN FORUM, THIS IS
23:39:10
WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT,
23:39:11
WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT JOBS,
23:39:12
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A
23:39:14
TERMINAL WITHOUT COAL.
23:39:15
THANK YOU.
23:39:16
>> THANK YOU, SIR.
23:39:21
[APPLAUSE].
23:39:26
>> GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS
23:39:28
RICHARD, I'M A 15 YEAR OLD
23:39:31
OAKLAND RESIDENT, BUSINESS
23:39:33

OWNER AND A 32 YEAR EXPERT IN


23:39:35
THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL
23:39:36
QUALITY ACT, THAT'S ALL I'VE
23:39:37
DONE FOR 32 YEARS IS CEQA,
23:39:39
WITH RESPECT TO CEQA, I READ
23:39:43
THE 2002 EIR AND READ THE
23:39:47
SUBSEQUENT ADDENDUM, NEITHER
23:39:48
OF THOSE ENVISION THE COAL
23:39:51
TRANSPORT -- THE ISSUES, THE
23:39:54
IMPACTS YOU HEARD TODAY WERE
23:39:55
NOT ASSESSED IN THOSE
23:39:56
DOCUMENTS, THIS IS A MAJOR
23:39:58

CHANGE TO THE PROJECT, IT


23:40:00
REQUIRES YOU TO REOPEN THE
23:40:02
CEQA PROCESS BECAUSE YOU'RE
23:40:03
CHANGING THE LAND USE.
23:40:04
I HAVE A SUGGESTION FOR YOU
23:40:06
ON HOW TO DO THAT.
23:40:09
PIER ENACT AN EMERGENCY
23:40:11
MORATORIUM ON COAL TERMINALS
23:40:12
IN THE CITY OF OAKLAND,
23:40:15
DURING THAT PORT WHILE THAT'S
23:40:17
ENACTED, GO AHEAD AND WORK ON
23:40:20
A PERMITTING ACCESS FOR COAL
23:40:22

IN THE TERMINALS IN THE CITY


23:40:24
OF OAKLAND, AT THAT POINT,
23:40:25
YOU WILL DO A CEQA ANALYSIS
23:40:27
OF THE IMPACTS OF THOSE SORTS
23:40:30
OF TERMINALS, IT HASN'T BEEN
23:40:32
DONE, YOU'RE GOING AHEAD WITH
23:40:32
A PROJECT THAT HASN'T BEEN
23:40:36
ANALYZED.
23:40:36
[APPLAUSE].
23:40:36
>> THANK YOU, SIR.
23:40:41
>> GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS
23:40:43
BARBARA HIGH WATT AND I'M
23:40:45

SPEAKING TONIGHT AS AN
23:40:46
OAKLAND RESIDENT AGAINST THE
23:40:47
TERMINAL, SO COAL IS NOT JUST
23:40:51
ANY BUSINESS, IT ACCOUNTS FOR
23:40:53
8% OF GLOBAL CO2

EMISSIONS,

23:41:00
DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO REDUCE
23:41:04
SO MUCH EMISSIONS IN
23:41:11
CALIFORNIA AND TO FACILITATE
23:41:12
COAL TO BE BURNED ELSEWHERE,
23:41:15
STRESS OUR INFRASTRUCTURE,
23:41:16
CAUSE ASTHMA, ETC., AND THE
23:41:17
ONLY WAY I CAN UNDERSTAND
23:41:19

SOME OF THE DECISIONS


23:41:21
WE'RE MAKING IN MANY PLACES
23:41:23
TODAY IS THAT WE SIMPLY CAN'T
23:41:28
FATHOM THE RISKS INVOLVED SO
23:41:30
I ASK YOU NOT TO ALLOW THE
23:41:32
COAL TERMINAL.
23:41:33
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
23:41:36
MS. WYATT.
23:41:45
>> CAN YOU SHARE WITH US ANY
23:41:47
CREDENTIALS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
23:41:49
>> I HAVE A PHD IN CLIMATE
23:41:53
CHANGE POLICY FROM UC
23:41:59

BERKELEY.
23:41:59
>> THANK YOU, MS. HYATT, NEXT
23:42:03
SPEAKER.
23:42:04
>> MY NAME IS JEREMY DUNG AND
23:42:06
I SEED MY TIME TO ANDY CAP.
23:42:11
>> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL
23:42:12
PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE
23:42:14
CITY COUNCIL, I'M ANDY CATS,
23:42:15
I REPRESENT A PORTION OF
23:42:17
OAKLAND AND SURROUNDING
23:42:18
CITIES ON THE EAST BAY
23:42:21
MUNICIPAL DISTRICT BOARD OF
23:42:22

UTILITIES, WHERE WE'RE


23:42:24
STRUGGLING WITH DROUGHT AND
23:42:25
FIRES IN OUR WATERSHED.
23:42:27
IT WAS ALSO A DISTINCTION
23:42:29
HONOR TO SERVE ALONG WITH A
23:42:35
BROAD AND DIVERSE
23:42:36
STAKEHOLDERS WHERE WE HAD AN
23:42:39
UNPRECEDENTED COLLABORATION
23:42:40
WITH LABOR AND WITH THE PORT
23:42:41
EXECUTIVES TO BE ABLE TO
23:42:43
DEVELOP AN AIR QUALITY
23:42:44
IMPROVEMENT PLAN THAT WOULD
23:42:46

RELY ON CONTINUED GROWTH,


23:42:48
ADDITIONAL EXPORTS AND
23:42:51
IMPORTS TO HAVE A GOOD
23:42:53
ECONOMY, BUT THIS PROJECT
23:42:53
STANDS IN THE FACE OF THAT,
23:42:55
THIS PROJECT IS A COMPLETELY
23:42:57
INCONSISTENT AND WOULD NEVER
23:42:58
HAVE BEEN EMBRACED BY THAT
23:43:00
COMMITTEE, AND THAT'S WHY I'M
23:43:02
HERE TODAY TO URGE YOU TO
23:43:05
REJECT COAL EXPORTS IN
23:43:07
OAKLAND, TO USE THE CITY'S
23:43:08

POLICE POWERS TO PROTECT THE


23:43:10
HEALTH AND SAFETY OF YOUR
23:43:13
RESIDENTS, NOT JUST FOR THEIR
23:43:15
IMMEDIATE HEALTH AND SAFETY
23:43:16
WHICH YOU HAVE THE POLICE
23:43:18
POWERS TO DO BUT AS WELL TO
23:43:19
MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE DOING
23:43:21
YOUR PART AS A GLOBAL CITY TO
23:43:23
PROTECT THE CLIMATE.
23:43:26
IT'S AN HONOR TO READ THE
23:43:29
LETTER THAT THE CITY ATTORNEY
23:43:32
OF LOS ANGELES HAS WRITTEN TO
23:43:34

YOU, AND I'VE ASKED THAT


23:43:36
LETTER TO BE DISTRIBUTED, I
23:43:37
WILL READ A SECTION OF IT, HE
23:43:40
STARTS BY DESCRIBING HOW COAL
23:43:41
IS A BAD INVESTMENT FOR LOS
23:43:42
ANGELES AND A WORSE
23:43:44
INVESTMENT NOW, PROVIDING A
23:43:45
MARKET FOR THE COAL THAT THE
23:43:46
CITY OF LOS ANGELES IS
23:43:48
WELSHING ITSELF FROM IS
23:43:51
DANGEROUS TO OAKLAND RESIDENTS
23:43:51
IN A NUMBER OF WAYS, THE
23:43:53

HEALTH OF NEIGHBORS FROM COAL


23:43:56
DUST, THE NEGATIVE CLIMATE
23:43:58
FEEDBACK IT CREATES FOR THE
23:44:01
WATER SYSTEM, THE DROUGHT,
23:44:04
THE OAKLAND HILL FIRES COMES
23:44:06
TO MIND, TO ALL OF OUR CITIES
23:44:11
FOR RAPIDLY INCREASING STORM
23:44:14
EVENTS AND SEA LEVEL RISE, IF
23:44:17
WE DO NOT DECREASE OUR
23:44:20
EMISSIONS, WE WILL BE ONE
23:44:24
DEGREE AWAY FROM CLIMATE
23:44:26
RISE, I URGE YOU TO STRONGLY
23:44:28

REJECT THIS OR ANY FUTURE


23:44:30
PROPOSALS TO EXPORT OUR USE
23:44:31
COAL.
23:44:31
>> IF YOU WILL REMAIN AT THE
23:44:34
PODIUM ONE MOMENT, MR.
23:44:37
GUILLEN?
23:44:38
>> SO, THIS GOES WITHOUT
23:44:40
SAYING BUT COAL IS A
23:44:45
COMBUSTIBLE AND SO I'M
23:44:47
WONDERING IF IN TERMS OF
23:44:49
EVALUATING PUBLIC HEALTH AND
23:44:51
SAFETY IN THE TERMINAL, IF WE
23:44:53

HAVE ACTUALLY ASKED OUR FIRE


23:44:55
DEPARTMENT TO LOOK INTO THE
23:44:58
IMPACTS OF POTENTIAL FIRES
23:45:00
THAT COULD BE CAUSED FROM
23:45:02
THIS COMBUSTIBLE AND I THINK
23:45:03
THAT'S A PUBLIC SAFETY
23:45:04
CONCERN THAT I WOULD LIKE
23:45:06
STAFF TO LOOK AT AND RESEARCH.
23:45:10
THANK YOU FOR READING THAT
23:45:11
LETTER, THAT BRINGS THAT
23:45:12
ISSUE TO MIND.
>> SO NOTED.
23:45:19
>> THIS LETTER COMES FROM A

23:45:20
CITY ATTORNEY OF THE CITY
23:45:23
THAT REJECTED COAL EXPORT, SO
23:45:24
DON'T BE BULLIED BY ANY
23:45:27
OUTSIDE COUNCIL REPRESENTING
23:45:29
INTERESTED PARTIES, NOT EVEN
23:45:30
THE CITY ATTORNEY.
23:45:31
>> THANK YOU, MR. CAT, THANK
23:45:33
YOU.
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
23:45:36
>> HI THERE, THANK YOU FOR
23:45:39
YOUR PATIENCE AND LISTENING
23:45:40
TO ALL THE COMMENTS.
23:45:41

MY NAME IS SAN DEEP, ANITA


23:45:46
LOCK AND RICHARD FRAY MAN ARE
23:45:48
SEEDING TIME FOR ME, THE 2002
23:45:51
FINAL EIR FOR THE ARMY BASE
23:45:54
REDEVELOPMENT OAKLAND AREA
23:45:55
PLAN ESTABLISHES THAT THE
23:45:56
AREA PLAN FOR THE WEST
23:45:58
OAKLAND COMMUNITY WOULD BE
23:46:00
AFFECTED DURING TO MARINE,
23:46:01
RAIL AND TRUCKING OPERATION
23:46:03
FROM THE LOGISTICS CENTER, IN
23:46:04
THE INITIAL STAGES OF THIS
23:46:06

PROJECT, THESE IMPACTS WERE


23:46:07
ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE
23:46:08
SIGNIFICANT.
23:46:09
HOW MUCH MORE DETRIMENTAL
23:46:11
WILL THEY BE NOW SINCE THE
23:46:14
DEVELOPER MADE ARRANGEMENTS
23:46:15
TO HAVE RAIL SHIPMENTS OF COAL
23:46:16
TO BE PROCESSED THROUGH THIS
23:46:19
CENTER.
23:46:19
THE DEVELOPMENT SAID THERE'S
23:46:20
NO SAY IN THE MATTER SINCE IT
23:46:24
APPROVED PERMITTING, IT'S
23:46:27

HARD NOT TO SUSPECT SOME KIND


23:46:32
OF [INAUDIBLE] THE CITY AND
23:46:34
PORT OF OAKLAND HAVE NO
23:46:36
JURISDICTION WHAT IS BROUGHT
23:46:37
IN ON THE RAIL CARS, IF
23:46:39
ITS CEQA THAT CALLS FOR AN
23:46:41
ANALYSIS OF PRIMARY AND
23:46:44
SECONDARY IMPACT OF ANY PROJECT,
23:46:45
IT'S TRUE THERE ARE
23:46:47
OPPORTUNITIES FOR RECOURSE
23:46:49
HERE.
23:46:49
THE SECONDARY EFFECTS OF
23:46:54

TRANSPORTING COAL ARE HUGE,


23:46:55
THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ANALYZED IN
23:46:57
ANY MEASURE IN THE TWO ROUNDS
23:46:59
OF ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW THAT
23:47:00
TOOK PLACE FOR THIS PROJECT.
23:47:02
IF THE CITY COUNCIL ALLOWS
23:47:04
THE DEVELOPER TO MOVE
23:47:05
FORWARD, YOU HEARD FROM THE
23:47:07
SUPPORTS OF THE DEVELOPER,
23:47:08
YOU GUYS SHOULDN'T CHANGE THE
23:47:10
GROUND RULES, THEY'RE
23:47:11
CHANGING THE GROUND RULES AND
23:47:13

THEY DID IT LAST MINUTE AND


23:47:14
IT'S ALL CLEVER, SO THE CITY
23:47:16
COUNCIL ALLOWS THE DEVELOPER
23:47:17
TO MOVE FORWARD WITH ITS
23:47:19
CONTRACT WITH THE UTAH
23:47:20
COMPANY AND MOVE COAL THROUGH
23:47:22
OAKLAND, THE COUNCIL IS
23:47:23
MAKING A CLEAR STATEMENT THAT
23:47:25
THE COMMUNITY AT WEST OAKLAND
23:47:28
IS EXPENDABLE, THEIR LIVES
23:47:28
DON'T MAT AND HER THE CITY OF
23:47:30
OAKLAND IS NOT INTERESTED IN
23:47:32

TAKING ANY REAL ACTION ON THE


23:47:34
SERIOUS PROBLEM OF CLIMATE
23:47:35
CHANGE.
23:47:36
THE PROJECT ON ITS OWN IS
23:47:37
OBVIOUSLY NOT A DANGER TO THE
23:47:39
COMMUNITY BUT THIS LATEST
23:47:41
ITERATION OF USING THE COURT
23:47:43
TO EXPORT COAL WOULD CAUSE
23:47:45
IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE, INCREASE
23:47:46
THE LIKELIHOOD OF SERIOUS
23:47:47
ACCIDENTS AND MAKES THE
23:47:49
COMMUNITY OF WEST OAKLAND A
23:47:51

THEATRE TO ALL SORTS OF


23:47:53
POTENTIAL CONSTRUCTION FOR
23:47:55
PRESENT AND FUTURE
23:47:57
GENERATIONS, THE COUNCIL FOR
23:47:58
THE DEVELOPER IS GOING TO
23:48:00
TELL YOU FEDERAL PREEMPTION
23:48:02
OVERRIDES ANYTHING YOU CAN
23:48:03
DO, YOU CAN'T PASS ANY
23:48:05
ORDINANCE, THAT'S NOT TRUE.
23:48:08
TRADITIONAL POLICE POWERS
23:48:08
OVER DEVELOPMENT OF RAILROAD
23:48:10
PROPERTY TO THE EXTENT THEY
23:48:12

REGULATE AND PROTECT PUBLIC


23:48:14
HEALTH AND SAFETY ARE
23:48:15
PERMISSIBLE, SOMEONE MADE THE
23:48:16
POINT ABOUT A FIRE HAZARD,
23:48:19
IT'S PERMISSIBLE WHEN YOU'RE
23:48:20
DEALING WITH PUBLIC SAFETY
23:48:22
TO MAKE THESE ORDINANCES, THE
23:48:25
GREEN MOUNTAIN RAILROAD
23:48:26
COMPANY VERSUS THE STATE OF
23:48:29
VERMONT, THE DISTRICT
23:48:29
OBSERVED THAT NOT ALL STATE
23:48:31
AND LOCAL REGULATIONS ARE
23:48:33

PREEMPTED BY THIS FEDERAL


23:48:36
PREEMPTION, LOCAL BODIES RETAIN
23:48:39
CERTAIN POWERS THAT RETAIN
23:48:40
SAFETY AND HEALTH, I URGE THE
23:48:43
CITY COUNCIL THAT WOULD
23:48:45
PROHIBIT THE TRANSPORT OF
23:48:45
COAL THROUGH OAKLAND AND THIS
23:48:47
PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
23:48:47
OAKLAND TO BE A REAL
23:48:50
VAN-GARDE AGAINST CLIMATE
23:48:51
CHANGE.
23:48:52
THE ACTION, THE FIGHT IS
23:48:53

TAKING PLACE ON A LOCAL


23:48:55
LEVEL, IT'S NOT TAKING PLACE
23:48:56
ON A STATE OR FEDERAL LEVEL.
23:48:57
THANK YOU.
23:48:58
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
[APPLAUSE].
23:49:04
>> NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
23:49:07
>> HELLO, MY NAME IS ANITA
23:49:09
LOCK, I WANT TO ASK YOU, WHAT
23:49:12
DO WE DO -- WHAT DO WE USE
23:49:14
WHEN WE BARBECUE?
23:49:16
DO WE USE COAL, IS THAT WHAT
23:49:18
COAL -- IS IT THE SAME COAL

23:49:21
THAT WE USE TO BARBECUE.
23:49:23
ANYWAY, I HAVE ONLY A FEW
23:49:25
WORDS TO SPEAK ON COAL, COAL
23:49:26
IS BASICALLY A NEED OVERSEAS
23:49:29
WHICH MAKES ME ASK ABOUT THE
23:49:31
POSSIBLE REVENUE THROUGHOUT
23:49:32
THE YEARS.
23:49:34
ASK, ARE THOSE COUNTRIES
23:49:35
WILLING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE
23:49:37
HAZARD OF ECOLOGY AND ECONOMY
23:49:41
OF OUR COUNTRY PAYING DOUBLE,
23:49:42
ARE THEY WILLING TO DID THAT.

23:49:46
COAL CONTAINS MERCURY,
23:49:50
ARSENIC, WATERWAYS, CAUSES
23:49:52
EMPHYSEMA AND CANCER, IT IS
23:49:56
THROUGH A SUPER CONTINENTALLY
23:49:58
OVER THREE BILLION YEARS,
23:50:00
ARSENIC CAN CAUSE CANCER,
23:50:04
COMBINED WITH [INAUDIBLE] IS
23:50:06
OXYGEN, CHLORINE AND SULFUR
23:50:09
ELEMENTS, IS THIS THE REASON
23:50:11
WHY MANY [INAUDIBLE] SUFFER
23:50:13
FROM ASTHMA AND EMPHYSEMA
23:50:15
TODAY, MANY YEARS AGO BEFORE

23:50:16
SOME OF US WERE BORN, OUR
23:50:18
PARENTS WORKED IN COAL MINES,
23:50:19
IT WAS THE ONLY SOURCE OF
23:50:21
EMERGENCY AND ELECTRICITY
23:50:22
THAT WE HAVE.
23:50:25
NOW IF THE COAL WASN'T
23:50:27
EXPORTED, THEN WHAT WOULD
23:50:31
HAPPEN, EXPORTED WOULD HAVE
23:50:32
TO COME OUT OF THE GROUND,
23:50:34
RIGHT?
23:50:35
LISTEN.
23:50:35
>> THANK YOU, AND IF YOU HAVE

23:50:36
WRITTEN REMARKS THAT YOU WANT
23:50:38
TO SUBMIT, THE CLERK WOULD BE
23:50:40
HAPPY TO DISTRIBUTE THEM.
23:50:43
>> GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS
23:50:44
ELAINE BROWN AND I'M COMING
23:50:45
TO YOU AS THE CEO OF OAKLAND
23:50:49
WORLD ENTERPRISES WHICH
23:50:50
MAINTAINS AN URBAN FARM AT
23:50:53
7TH AND CAMPBELL STREETS ON
23:50:54
WEST OAKLAND, I'M ON THE
23:50:58
STAFF OF SUPERVISOR KEITH
23:51:00
CARSON, IT SHOULD BE NOTED

23:51:01
MR. CARSON HAS SIGNED A
23:51:03
LETTER OPPOSING NICOLE IN
23:51:05
OAKLAND, AS A FORMER MEMBER
23:51:06
OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, I
23:51:08
WANT TO ADDRESS THE QUESTION
23:51:10
OF RACISM THAT IS NOT BEING
23:51:11
DISCUSSED PER SE, I KNOW A
23:51:13
LOT OF PEOPLE SPECIFICALLY
23:51:14
SOME PEOPLE ON THIS COUNCIL
23:51:16
WOULD LIKE TO SAY THIS IS A
23:51:18
WHITE ISSUE, THIS IS A RACIST
23:51:20
ISSUE, THE COAL COMING

23:51:22
THROUGH WEST OAKLAND WHAT IT
23:51:27
REPRESENTS IS A FINAL
23:51:29
DECISION FOR BLACK PEOPLE FOR
23:51:31
WEST OAKLAND, WE HAVE THE
23:51:33
HIGHEST RATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL
23:51:34
DISEASES AND NOW YOU WANT TO
23:51:36
BRING COAL AND ITS POLLUTION
23:51:38
TO THE MISLEADING OF THE
23:51:40
COMMUNITY TO FINISH US OFF,
23:51:41
NOT YOU BUT YOUR CONTRACTOR,
23:51:43
PHIL TAGAMI, OAKLAND AND THE
23:51:45
WORLD MAINTAINS A THREE

23:51:47
QUARTER ACRE URBAN FARM ON
23:51:49
THE CORNER OF 7TH AND
23:51:50
CAMPBELL ACROSS THE STREET
23:51:51
FROM THE POST OFFICE, YOU
23:51:52
HEARD FROM THE POSTAL WORKERS,
23:51:55
I CANNOT IMAGINE HOW THIS
23:51:56
COAL DUST IS GOING TO SETTLE
23:51:57
ON THIS FOOD WHICH IS
23:51:59
EXISTING ON A FOOD DESERT
23:52:01
WHERE WE ARE EMPLOYING
23:52:04
FORMERLY INCARCERATED PEOPLE
23:52:05
AND YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY WANT

23:52:07
TO TAKE SERIOUSLY BRINGING
23:52:08
SOME COAL DUST THROUGH THE
23:52:10
MISLEADING OF WEST OAKLAND
23:52:11
AND YOU DON'T WANT TO SAY
23:52:14
EXACTLY WHAT'S MOVING
23:52:16
THROUGH, IT WILL SETTLE ON
23:52:18
7TH STREET, AND TO AVOID,
23:52:20
THEY WILL RAIN DOWN ON OUR
23:52:24
COLLARD GREENS, OUR TOMATOES
23:52:25
AND OUR PEOPLE, THERE'S NO
23:52:28
SCIENCE, THERE'S NO
23:52:28
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE THAT YOU

23:52:29
HAVE THE ABILITY OR ANYONE
23:52:30
HAS THE ABILITY TO COMPLETELY
23:52:32
ELIMINATE THE COAL DUST THAT
23:52:33
WILL COME AND CERTAINLY NOT
23:52:36
BY THROWING SOME HOME DEPOT
23:52:40
TARP ON TOP OF A RAIL CAR,
23:52:42
THE DUST WILL RAIN DOWN ON
23:52:44
THE PEOPLE AND NO ONE WILL
23:52:47
PROTECT US FROM THE POLLUTION
23:52:48
AND A JOB WILL NOT PROTECT
23:52:49
US, THIS IS A MORAL DECISION
23:52:50
FOR ALL OF YOU AND IT

23:52:52
SHOULDN'T BE DIFFICULT.
23:52:53
THE QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE
23:52:55
BENEFIT THAT WOULD OUT WEIGH
23:52:56
THIS LEVEL OF EFFECT THAT IT
23:52:57
WOULD HAVE ON THE PEOPLE OF
23:52:58
OAKLAND SO I JUST COME TO YOU
23:53:00
TO SAY THERE ARE NO JOBS,
23:53:02
THERE'S NOTHING THAT YOU
23:53:03
COULD POSSIBLY DO TO AVOID
23:53:04
SAYING THAT YOU HAVE SOME
23:53:06
BALANCE POINTS ON THIS ISSUE
23:53:07
AND THE ONLY THING YOU CAN DO

23:53:09
THAT IS RIGHT, MORAL AND
23:53:14
SHOULD GET YOU RE-ELECTED IS
23:53:15
TO BAN THE COAL IN OAKLAND.
23:53:18
THANK YOU.
23:53:19
[APPLAUSE].
23:53:20
>> THANK YOU, MS. BROWN.
23:53:27
>> YES, NEXT SPEAKER.
23:53:28
>> THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT
23:53:30
AND COUNCILMEMBERS, MY NAME
23:53:31
IS SAJ, I'M THE DIRECTOR OF
23:53:33
POLICY FOR THE CENTER OF
23:53:35
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, WE HAVE

23:53:36
AN OFFICE ON 17TH STREET, WE
23:53:38
WORK TO TRANSITION OUR
23:53:40
ECONOMY TO A CLEAN
23:53:42
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY BASED ON
23:53:44
RENEWABLE FUELS, WE WORKED TO
23:53:46
COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE EVERY
23:53:48
DAY AND I CAN CORROBORATE A
23:53:50
LOT OF THE FACTS THAT YOU
23:53:51
HEARD TODAY, YOU HAVE THE
23:53:53
FACTS IN FRONT OF YOU TO
23:53:54
CONSIDER, THIS IS ESSENTIALLY
23:53:55
BEING POSED AS A QUESTION, AS

23:53:59
A TRADE-OFF BETWEEN JOBS AND
23:54:00
THE HEALTH OF OUR ECONOMIC
23:54:01
COMMUNITY AND THE HEALTH OF
23:54:03
OUR ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY
23:54:04
AND THAT IS SIMPLY
23:54:08
A TRADEOFF, THERE ARE
23:54:10
PLENTY OF JOBS AND INNOVATION
23:54:13
THAT DON'T INVOLVE COAL, THE
23:54:14
FACT IS IF YOU WANT OAKLAND
23:54:16
TO STAY ABOVE WATER, YOU HAVE
23:54:17
TO KEEP THAT CARBON IN THE
23:54:19
GROWN, YOU CAN INVEST IN MUCH

23:54:23
MORE INNOVATIVE JOBS, CLEAN
23:54:24
ENERGY JOB THAT CAN WORK ON
23:54:26
THE INDOOR AIR QUALITY IN OUR
23:54:28
HOMES, WE CAN BRING THEM UP
23:54:30
TO CODE AND TRAIN THE FUTURE
23:54:34
IN WEST OAKLAND AND EAST
23:54:35
OAKLAND AND I HOPE YOU OPPOSE
23:54:37
COAL HERE.
23:54:38
>> THANK YOU, NEXT SPEAKER,
23:54:41
PLEASE.
23:54:43
>> GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS
23:54:46
RICHARD ENGLE, I'M A SMALL

23:54:47
BUSINESS OWNER IN WEST
23:54:48
OAKLAND.
23:54:49
FOR 25 YEARS, WE HAD OUR
23:54:50
BUSINESS IN A BUILDING THAT
23:54:52
WAS FORMERLY PART OF THE DELL
23:54:59
MONTE EMPIRE, BUT NOW IN
23:55:01
ORDER TO CONTINUE OUR
23:55:02
BUSINESS, WE'VE HAD TO DEAL
23:55:03
WITH A LOT OF PARTICULATE
23:55:06
CONTAMINATION ALREADY THAT
23:55:07
COMES INTO OUR BUSINESS FROM
23:55:10
THIS STEEL PLANT JUST UP WIND

23:55:12
FROM US THAT FOR 25 YEARS,
23:55:15
SOMEONE ELSE MENTIONED THE
23:55:16
DIRTY WINDOW SILLS, WE DEAL
23:55:18
WITH EQUIPMENT THAT'S VERY
23:55:21
EXPENSIVE, FAIRLY HIGH-TECH X
23:55:23
THE SOOT FROM THIS INDUSTRY IS
23:55:27
PRECIPITATED DOWN CONSTANTLY
23:55:28
FOR 25 YEARS AND I DON'T
23:55:30
THINK THERE'S ANY SIGN THAT
23:55:32
THIS COAL TERMINAL WOULD
23:55:33
AVOID SOME OF THAT, EVERYBODY
23:55:35
WHO'S DONE A REMODEL KNOWS

23:55:37
YOU CAN'T KEEP PLASTER DUST
23:55:38
OUT OF ANY PART OF YOUR DUST
23:55:39
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TRY TO
23:55:41
SEAL IT AND I THINK WE'RE ALL
23:55:43
AT RISK TO THIS.
23:55:45
WE HAD METAL AND OTHER THINGS
23:55:47
FALLING OUT OF THE SKY.
23:55:48
I JUST WANTED TO SAY I FEEL
23:55:50
LIKE WE'RE ALL DOWNWIND.
23:55:53
I MEAN, WE HAPPEN TO BE IN
23:55:55
OUR BUSINESS, WE'RE ALL
23:55:56
DOWNWIND OF WHATEVER.

>> THANK YOU.


23:56:04
>> HI, MY NAME IS KATIE
23:56:09
PALONI AND IVE LIVED IN
23:56:11
OAKLAND FOR 16 YEAR, I'M AN
23:56:14
ASSET MEMBER WITH THE WEST
23:56:17
OAKLAND RESIDENCE GROUP
23:56:18
AND I'M SPEAKING AS A
23:56:21
SUNFLOWER ANALYSIS, I WOULD
23:56:22
LIKE TO THANK PHIL TAGAMI,
23:56:24
OUR COMMUNITY HAS BEEN SO
23:56:26
ALARMED AND APPALLED BY THE
23:56:28
DECEITFUL WAY IT'S BEEN
23:56:30

PUSHED ON US THAT PHIL TAGAMI


23:56:33
SINGLE HANDEDLY HAS JUMP
23:56:35
STARTED A GROWING CLIMATE
23:56:39
JUSTICE MOVEMENT HERE.
23:56:41
HE HAS BROUGHT TOGETHER IN
23:56:45
UNITY LABOR, FAITH,
23:56:46
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND
23:56:47
LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST
23:56:49
OUR NEIGHBORS WHO LIVE HERE.
23:56:51
SO, THANK YOU, PHIL TAGAMI,
23:56:54
FIR

-- FOR WAKING A SLEEPING

23:56:58
GIANT.
23:56:59

IF THE CITY COUNCIL ALLOWS


23:57:01
THE COAL TO PROCEED, WHICH
23:57:03
I'M HOPING IT WON'T, I'M
23:57:06
GUARANTEEING THIS FIGHT HAS
23:57:08
JUST BEGUN.
23:57:09
WE MIGHT JUST HAVE TIME TO
23:57:12
SAVE WHAT WE MOST CHERISH AND
23:57:13
THAT'S LIFE ON THIS EARTH AND
23:57:15
I DON'T SAY THIS LIGHTLY.
23:57:16
WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF THE
23:57:20
SIXTH EXTINCTION BROUGHT ON
23:57:21
BY PEOPLE.
23:57:22

>> THANK YOU, MS. PALONI,


23:57:24
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
23:57:29
[APPLAUSE].
23:57:29
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
23:57:32
STAYING WITH US TONIGHT, THIS
23:57:33
IS A REALLY IMPORTANT TOPIC,
23:57:36
I'M JOHN [INAUDIBLE] SPEAKING
23:57:37
ON THE JOHN GEORGE DEMOCRATIC
23:57:39
CLUB, THOSE OF YOU WHO KNEW
23:57:42
JOHN GEORGE APPRECIATED HE
23:57:44
WAS A TIRELESS WORKER FOR
23:57:46
PUBLIC HEALTH AND I FEEL
23:57:47

CERTAIN HE WOULD BE HERE


23:57:49
TONIGHT SPEAKING TO YOU TO
23:57:50
OPPOSE THIS COAL PROJECT.
23:57:51
THE OTHER THING ABOUT JOHN IS
23:57:53
HE HAD A SLOGAN, THINK
23:57:56
GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY, AND
23:57:57
THINKING GLOBALLY RIGHT NOW,
23:57:59
THE UNITED NATIONS IS GETTING
23:58:01
READY TO HOLD A CONFERENCE IN
23:58:02
PARIS AND THE U.S. IS TAKING
23:58:04
TO THAT UNDER PRESIDENT
23:58:06
OBAMA'S PROPOSAL IS TO
23:58:08

ELIMINATE COAL FIRED POWER


23:58:09
PLANTS, THAT IS THE U.S.
23:58:10
PROPOSAL AND IT'S ONLY THE
23:58:13
MOST EXTREME CLIMATE DENYING
23:58:15
REPUBLICANS THAT ARE OPPOSING
23:58:18
THAT, IT'S BASIC COMMON
23:58:22
SENSE, THE STATE VOTED TO
23:58:25
DIVEST ALL OF ITS COAL
23:58:27
HOLDINGS FOR ITS RETIREMENT
23:58:28
SYSTEM, THIS IS SOMETHING
23:58:29
THAT'S ON ITS WAY OUT, THINK TO
23:58:31
THE FUTURE, PLEASE OPPOSE
23:58:32

THIS PROJECT.
>> THANK YOU.
23:58:39
>> MY NAME IS MARIAH
23:58:42
COCHRANE, I'M WITH THE LONG
23:58:45
FELLOW COMMUNITY WHICH ABUTS
23:58:46
THE WEST OAKLAND COMMUNITY.
23:58:49
>> MARIAH, I DIDN'T CATCH
23:58:50
YOUR LAST NAME, IF YOU COULD
23:58:52
RAISE THE MIC. A LITTLE BIT
23:58:53
SO IT CAN CATCH THE DIRECTION
23:58:55
OF YOUR VOICE.
23:58:57
>> I JUST LEARNED FROM THIS
23:58:59
FROM MY SON ON THE LONG

23:59:02
FELLOW ASSOCIATION, I'M A
23:59:03
MOTHER OF A SINGER, HE SUNG
23:59:07
WITH THE ACADEMY SINCE FIFTH
23:59:09
GRADE AND HE FEELS THAT IN
23:59:10
HIS VOICE, YOU HEARD FROM
23:59:13
EXPERTS WHAT THE NATION'S
23:59:14
DOING, WHAT OUR STATE'S
23:59:15
DOING, I BELIEVE ALL OF YOU
23:59:17
DON'T WANT THIS AND I THINK
23:59:19
THE GENTLEMAN WHO SPOKE ABOUT
23:59:21
THE MORATORIUM GIVES YOU GUYS
23:59:23
LEGAL GROUND, I KNOW YOU KNOW

23:59:25
IT, EVERYONE IS INTELLIGENT,
23:59:26
NOBODY IS GOING TO LOOK AT
23:59:28
HIS CHILD AND WILL BE IN
23:59:30
SUPPORT OF THIS IN OAKLAND,
23:59:33
EVEN THE PERSON WHO SPOKE OF
23:59:35
THE ECONOMIC SIDE OF THIS, I
23:59:36
DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU NEED BUT
23:59:39
PLEASE USE IT, I STILL
23:59:42
REMEMBER AT 17 WORKING, I WAS
23:59:45
A MATH GENIUS AS A KID AND I
23:59:48
WORKED BUILDING PARTICLE
23:59:53
DETECTORS, THE NUCLEAR

23:59:53
ENGINEER USED TO LEAVE HIS
23:59:55
SOURCES OUT ALL THE TIME FOR
23:59:56
US AND WE JOKED WE WOULD
00:00:03
NEVER SUPPORT NUCLEAR POWER
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[INAUDIBLE] GOT HIS PHD,
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THERE'S NO WAY YOU'RE GOING
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TO FIND ANYTHING THAT COVERS
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A COAL CAR, IT'S NOT
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ENGINEERED, NOT DESIGNED AND
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IF YOU DON'T THINK THE PEOPLE
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THAT DESIGNED IT AND BUILT IT
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IS GOING TO WANT A PROFIT ON

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THAT, IT'S GOING TO LEAK
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EVERYWHERE, I JUST DON'T
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BELIEVE IT.
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THE MITIGATION ARE NOT GOING
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TO BE ADEQUATE AND YOU KNOW
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WHERE WE'RE ALL TRYING TO GO
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WITH FOSSIL FUELS, IF IT'S
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BURNED IN CHINA AS HE SAID,
00:00:36
JUST -- IF NOTHING LEAKED
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OUT, JUST THE IMPACT OF
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HAVING THAT COAL BURNING WILL
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AFFECT ALL OF OUR MAJOR

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HEALTH RISKS TO USE WHAT YOU
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CAN, THEY CHANGED THE USE AND
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YOU HAVE A MORATORIUM ON
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CITING WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
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WHICH IS TO RE-EVALUATE, SO
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IF THE CITY ATTORNEY CAN'T DO
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IT, FIND ANYONE.
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>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
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>> [APPLAUSE].
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>> THE NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
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>> GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS
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MORGAN WHY YANKS I WITH THE

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DEFENSE COUNCIL'S ENERGY FEE,
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I WANT TO SAY HOW BEAUTIFUL
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WILL EVENING HAS BEEN, I CAME
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UP FROM L.A. EARLIER TODAY
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AND I'M BLOWN BY THE
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT, YOU GUYS
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TOTALLY ROCK AND YOU GUYS
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SHOULD BE PROUD, I'M HERE TO
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URGE YOU TO ADOPT MEASURES TO
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ADOPT TO CITY OF OAKLAND FROM
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THE HARMFUL SAFETY IMPACTS
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THAT WOULD BE CAUSED BY

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EXPORTING COAL OUT OF THE
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TERMINAL, OAKLAND DESERVES
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BETTER THAN A COAL TERMINAL,
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ONCE THIS STARTS, YOU WILL BE
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BLOCKED IN, ONCE COAL EXPORTS
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BEGIN, IT IS EXTREMELY HARD
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TO STOP IT.
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WHEN THE PET COKE EXPORT
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TERMINAL AT LONG BEACH WAS
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BEING REMOUNTED, -00:01:57
RENEGOTIATED, THEY SAID IT
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WAS A PERFECT TIME TO STOP IT

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AND RENEGOTIATE IT, WE LOST
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THAT BATTLE AND THE DIRTY
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COAL TRAINS CONTINUE TO GO
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THROUGH THE CITY OF LONG
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BEACH AS WE SPEAK, I'M HERE
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TO URGE YOU TO STOP THIS
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BEFORE IT STARTS.
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THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
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IF YOU WOULD HAND IT TO THE
00:02:20
CITY CLERK, SHE'LL DISTRIBUTE
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THOSE FOR US.

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>> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBERS
00:02:24
FOR YOUR PATIENCE, MY NAME IS
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CHARLIE RIJILL, IM A 30
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YEAR RESIDENT OF THE EAST
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BAY, ABOUT HALF OF THAT IN
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OAKLAND AND RECENTLY MOVED IN
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OAKLAND SO I'M IN THE
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EPICENTER OF THIS AS YOU ARE,
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THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT
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OAKLAND, THIS IS EVERYTHING
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BETWEEN UTAH AND OAKLAND AND
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CHINA, IT'S ABSOLUTELY

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GLOBAL AND I WOULD ARGUE
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THAT USING COAL FOR ENERGY IS
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LIKE USING HEROIN FOR
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HEADACHES.
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I'M SERIOUS, IT DOESN'T WORK,
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AND BY THE WAY, THE HEROIN
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TRADE ALSO PROVIDES JOBS, BUT
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THOSE ARE NOT THE KIND OF
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JOBS THAT WE WANT AND EVERY
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JOB THAT IS PROVIDED BY THIS
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PROJECT IS NOT WORTH IT.
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THERE'S OTHER THINGS WE COULD

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BE DOING TO PROVIDE JOBS FOR
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PEOPLE.
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I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ALL THE
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LEGALITIES BUT I THINK AT THE
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END OF THE DAY, THIS IS A
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LIFE AND DEATH MATTER, NOT
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JUST FOR US HERE IN WEST
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OAKLAND BUT EVERYTHING
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BETWEEN UTAH AND HERE AND
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BETWEEN MERE AND CHINA.
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IF IT TAKES THE PEOPLE LYING
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DOWN ON THE TRACKS, THAT'S

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WHAT WE SHOULD DO.
>> THANK YOU.
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
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>> MY NAME IS NANCY KELLY,
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I'M WITH THE UNITARIAN CHURCH
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OF BERKELEY AND AN OAKLAND
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RESIDENT AND I URGE YOU TO
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VOTE AGAINST THIS PROPOSAL,
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IT IS A MATTER OF RACIAL
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JUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL
00:03:49
JUSTICE AND MORAL JUSTICE.
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THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY
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BUILDS THESE KINDS OF THINGS

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AND POOR AND WORKING CLASS
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COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.
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IN OAKLAND, IT'S COAL, IN
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RICHMOND, IT'S CRUDE OIL IN
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THE CENTRAL VALLEY, IT'S
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FRACKING IN FARM WORKER
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COMMUNITIES, IT'S HAZARDOUS
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WASTE IN [INAUDIBLE] CITY,
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IT'S A MORAL ISSUE AND YOU
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NEED TO OPPOSE IT.
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[APPLAUSE].
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>> THANK YOU, NEXT SPEAKER,

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PLEASE.
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>> HI, GOOD EVENING, MY
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NAME'S PHILLIP PIECE AND I'M
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HERE AS A PARENT, I HAVE TWO
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KIDS IN OAKLAND PUBLIC
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SCHOOLS, 4 AND 9, KAISER
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ELEMENTARY, THE BLACK DUST IS
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AT MY HOUSE, I LOOK AT YOU,
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TELL ME YOU DON'T LOOK UP
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WHEN YOU'RE SPEAKING, WE
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STOOD HER ALL NIGHT.
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THE REASON THIS IS ON THE

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AGENDA IS A LOT OF PEOPLE
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HAVE SAID, ALL THOSE YELLOW
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SHIRTS, THEY'RE ALL GONE,
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THOSE PEOPLE ARE ALL PAID,
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THIS IS RIDICULOUS, IT'S A
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CHARADE, IT'S LIKE THE
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LAWYERS OVER HERE AND IT
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MAKES ME SICK, MY WIFE
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DOESN'T WORK FOR THE CITY OF
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OAKLAND, SHE WORKS FOR THE
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CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO BECAUSE
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THIS CITY IS CORRUPT, IT

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REALLY SUCKS, SHE'S AN
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ACCOUNTANT FOR THE CITY AND
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SHE SAYS NO WAY I'M GOING TO
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WORK FOR OAKLAND, THIS CITY
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IS SOLD OUT AND THIS IS PROOF
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POSITIVE.
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IF YOU GUYS APPROVE THIS,
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YOU'RE BEING TOTALLY
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RIDICULOUS AND I KNOW I
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REPRESENT AT LEAST 90% OF THE
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PEOPLE ON MY STREET, THEY
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EXPECT YOU PEOPLE TO DID THE

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RIGHT THING, ALL OF YOU, IF
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YOU DO THIS, YOU'RE NOT DOING
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THE RIGHT THING, I APPRECIATE
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THAT YOU'VE WATCHED EVERYONE
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ON ALL NIGHT, I DO, YOU
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CROSS-EXAMINED EVERYONE ALL
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NIGHT, MS. BROOKS BECAUSE I
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FEEL YOU'RE PART OF THIS COAL
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THING, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE
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REST OF YOU ARE, I TELL YOU
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NOW, IF WE APPROVE THIS,
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I'M GOING TO BRING ALL MY

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NEIGHBORS BACK BECAUSE NOBODY
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KNOWS THIS IS HAPPENING,
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THAT'S IT AND YOU GET AWAY
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WITH MURDER WHEN YOU LET
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PEOPLE KNOW, MONDAY AFTERNOON
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AT 3:00, I MAD TO DROP MY
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KIDS OFF AT GRANDMA AND
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GRANDPA'S TO GET OVER HERE.
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>> WE APPRECIATE IT, THANK
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YOU.
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
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>> GOOD EVENING, THANK YOU
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FOR STAYING WITH US, IM


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ALSO AS A PARENT AS AN OUSD
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TEACHER TO SAY NO TO COAL.
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>> WHAT'S YOUR NAME.
>> CAROLINE NOOR.
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>> OKAY, THANK YOU.
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>> AS A PARENT, CLIMATE
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CHANGE IS PERSONAL AND IT'S
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REAL TO ME, IT'S IF MY KIDS
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ARE GOING TO HAVE A WORLD TO
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LIVE ON WHEN THEY'RE GOING TO
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BE GRANDPARENTS, I KNOW HOW
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IMPORTANT GOOD JOBS IN

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OAKLAND ARE, THEY NEED
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HEALTHY JOBS AND JOBS THAT
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ARE SUSTAINABLE THAT CAN LAST
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THEM, THEY DON'T NEED A JOB
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THAT IS GOING TO BE DRIVING
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THEM INTO MORE ILLNESS, I HAD
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TOO MANY INHALERS ON MY FIELD
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TRIPS, WE NEED JOBS THAT
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ARE GOING TO SUSTAIN US, IT'S
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BIG BUSINESS VERSUS LITTLE
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KIDS, THERE IS NOT JOBS
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VERSUS ENVIRONMENT, THEY TOLD

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ME THEY'RE BEING PAID TO BE
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HERE AND THEY WOULD BE FIRED
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IF THEY DIDN'T SEED THEIR
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JOBS TO OTHER PEOPLE.
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IT'S TIME TO LISTEN TO THE
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PEOPLE, I KNOW IT'S MAYBE
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LEGAL CHALLENGING BUT SOME
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WAY TO KEEP OUR WORLD HEALTHY.
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>> GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS
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RAY KID, I'M WITH THE A CITY
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OH KATE BODY TO ADVISE ON THE
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PORT DEVELOPMENT, [INAUDIBLE]

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WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING TOWARDS
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THE ARMY BASE DEVELOPMENT TO
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BRING BENEFITS TO THE WEST
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OAKLAND COMMUNITY.
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MANY OF US CAME TO THESE
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COUNCIL CHAMBERS TO SPEAK IN
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SUPPORT OF THE CURRENT
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DEVELOPMENT PLAN OF PORT
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DEVELOPMENT LOGISTICS AND
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PORT USE, NO ONE IMAGINED
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THAT ONE OF THE USES WOULD
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BE EXPORT OF COAL, THAT THIS

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IS NOW ON THE TABLE BRINGS A
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STRONG SENSE OF BETRAYAL FOR
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THOSE OF US WHO SUPPORT
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THIRSTED DEVELOPER,
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[INAUDIBLE] AT ALL THREE
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MEETINGS WITH NOT A SINGLE
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VOICE RAISES IN ITS FAVOR.
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I TALKED TO HUNDREDS OF
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PEOPLE ABOUT THIS PLAN AND
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IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR SOMEBODY
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WHO SUPPORTS IT WHO'S NOT ON
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SOMEBODY'S PAYROLL, THIS

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DEGREE OF UNANIMITY IS
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[INAUDIBLE] YOU WILL HAVE THE
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OVERWHELMING SUPPORT OF OUR
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CON

-- CONSTITUENTS.

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>> I'M A RESIDENT OF WEST
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OAKLAND, 3115 WEST STREET.
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I AM AN ILW LONG SHORE SINCE
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2001, I STAND NEUTRAL BECAUSE
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MY UNION ALREADY SPOKE AND
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SAID WE'RE AGAINST THIS, BUT
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THIS IS A COMMODITY, OKAY, IN
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SECTION 15-1 OF OUR CONTRACT,

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IT TALKS ABOUT THE EMPLOYER
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WHEN THEY INTRODUCE NEW
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TECHNOLOGY, THAT THEY SIT
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DOWN WITH US, PRESIDENT
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BARACK

OBAMA TALKED ABOUT

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CLEAN ENERGY, WE HAVE LITTLE
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INFORMATION, I'M ALSO ON THE
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES ON MY LOCAL
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AND ON THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF
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MY LOCAL, LOCAL 10, I WOULD
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LIKE TO INVITE ALL THOSE
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INVOLVED, THE DEVELOPER, THIS

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TECHNOLOGY PERSON WHO
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DESIGNED AND THE COMMUNITY OF
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WEST OAKLAND BECAUSE I DON'T
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THINK [INAUDIBLE] WEST
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OAKLAND LOOKS LIKE TODAY IN
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TERMS OF RACE.
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15 YEARS AGO, IT WAS A
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DIFFERENT COLOR TODAY, THAN
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IT IS TODAY.
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>> THANK YOU, SIR.
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NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
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>> MY NAME IS MARLA

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[INAUDIBLE] AND I'M SEEDING
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[INAUDIBLE].
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>> MY NAME IS LAURA JOFU, I'M
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WITH THE [INAUDIBLE] OAKLAND
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COALITION, I SUPPORT THE
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DEVELOPMENT OF OBOT AND THE
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JOBS IT WOULD CREATE FOR
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OAKLAND BUT I'M OPPOSED TO
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THE TERMINAL'S EXPORT COAL,
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IT CAN BE PROFITABLE WITHOUT
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COAL, EXAMINING OTHER PORTS
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IN THE WEST COAST, WE FIND

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THAT COAL IS A SMALL
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PROPORTION OF THE COMMODITIES
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THEY SHIP.
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COAL ACCOUNTS FOR ONLY 0.15%
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OF LOS ANGELES'S AND 0.8% OF
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SAN FRANCISCO'S TOTAL VALUE
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OF EXPORTS.
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THE PORTS IN SEATTLE AND SAN
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DIEGO DO NOT EXPORT COAL AT
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ALL, LIKE THESE PORTS, OBOT
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CAN BE VIABLE WITHOUT COAL.
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THERE ARE 15 THOUSAND

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COMMODITIES THAT CAN BE
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SHIPPED FROM OBOT, OAKLAND'S
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10 TOP CONTAINER EXPORT
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COMMODITIES ARE FRUIT, NUTS,
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MEAT, AND OBOT WILL BE ABLE
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TO EXPORT EVEN GREATER
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VOLUMES OF THESE COMMODITIES
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AND IT CAN HANDLE OVERSIZED
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ITEMS SUCH AS TRACTORS,
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BULLDOZERS, MACHINERY, PIPES
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AND PUMPS WHICH CREATE MORE
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JOBS THAN EXPORTS, THE JOB

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DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY,
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RESERVICING HALF OF OBTO FOR
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COAL IS A BAD STRATEGY,
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FURTHERMORE, THE CONSTRUCTION
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OF A TERMINAL FOR COAL AND
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MULTI-PURPOSE FACILITY FOR
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OTHER DRY BULK OR OVERSIZED
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GOODS THAT REQUIRES THE SAME
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NUMBER OF CONSTRUCTION JOBS,
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THAT'S BECAUSE THERE'S ONLY
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MINOR DESIGN DIFFERENCES
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BETWEEN A DESIGN -- COAL

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TERMINAL AND A [INAUDIBLE]
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OBOT IS VIABLE WITHOUT COAL
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AND WE ASK THAT YOU BAN COAL
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FROM OAKLAND.
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THANK YOU.
[APPLAUSE].
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>> THANK YOU, NEXT SPEAKER,
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PLEASE.
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>> MY NAME IS ALIZA, I'M
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PROCEED OAKLAND RESIDENT, IM
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THE DIRECTOR OF CLIMATE
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CAMPAIGN, I'M HERE ON BEHALF
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OF THE 6522 PEOPLE ACROSS THE


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BAY AREA INCLUDING MORE THAN
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1286 OAKLAND RESIDENTS WHO
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SIGNED A PETITION TO MAYOR
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SCHAAF AND CITY COUNCIL
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OPPOSING THIS PLAN, THE
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PETITION READS, PHIL AFGHANIS
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UNDERHANDED PLAN WILL
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ENDANGER EAST BAY RESIDENT'S
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HEALTH AND YOU MUST NOT LET
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THIS PLAN MOVE FORWARD.
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THESE CONSTITUENTS ARE
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GRATEFUL TO LEADERS ON
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COUNCIL WHO RECOGNIZED THE
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DANGER OF FOSSIL FUELS TO OUR
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COMMUNITY AND AGAINST THIS
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LEADERSHIP, WHAT IS SHOCKING
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ABOUT THIS PROPOSAL IS WE'RE
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CONSIDERING IT IN THE FIRST
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PLACE.
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IN 2015, ARE WE SERIOUSLY
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CONSIDERING TYING ANY PART OF
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OAKLAND'S FUTURE TO COAL, A DIRTY
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COMMODITY REPRESENTING
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YESTERDAY'S MISGUIDED
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THINKING, SHAME ON YOU, MR.
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TAGAMI, WE CAN DO BETTER, WE'RE
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BARGAINED ON YOU, CITY
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COUNCIL TO MOVE THIS PROPOSAL
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FORWARD IN A BETTER WAY.
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THANK YOU.
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>> NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
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>> GOOD EVENING, I'M THE
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CO-DIRECTOR OF THE WEST
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OAKLAND ENVIRONMENTAL
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INDICATORS PROJECT.
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MY NAME IS BRYAN BEVERAGE.


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I THINK IF YOUR PRIMARY
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AUTHORITY HERE IS PUBLIC
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HEALTH AND SAFETY, AND
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OAKLAND IS STILL PART OF THE
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GLOBE, THEN YOU PROBABLY HAVE
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THE AUTHORITY TO ACT ON THIS
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BECAUSE IT'S GLOBAL PROBLEM.
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I WANT TO OFFER ONE THING,
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YOU HEARD PEOPLE FROM THE
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OPPOSITION SIDE HERE SPEAK
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ABOUT CEQA.
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IT'S NOT JUST US AND OUR


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EXPERTS TALKING ABOUT IT, TWO
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WEEKS AGO, MY CO-DIRECTOR
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MARGARET GORDON MET WITH
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MEMBERS OF THE ATTORNEY
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GENERAL'S OFFICE OF
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CALIFORNIA AND FOR THE MOST
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PART UNSOLICITED OFFERED THE
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OPINION THAT THE LANGUAGE
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AROUND THE PURPOSE OF THIS
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TERMINAL, AROUND WHETHER COAL
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WAS INVOLVED OR NOT IN THE
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FIRST PLACE, IN THE 2002 EIR


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AND IN THE 2012 ADDENDUM,
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IT'S SO WEAK AND VAGUE THAT
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THEY DID NOT HAVE AN
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OPPORTUNITY TO ASSESS THIS
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USE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND
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SAFETY, SO I THINK IT IS
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CLEAR THAT IF IT MOVES
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FORWARD, THERE WILL PROBABLY
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BE A SUIT UNDER CEQA TO MAKE
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THAT HAPPEN.
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>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
[APPLAUSE].

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>> NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
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>> I'M SEEDING MY TIME,
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MARGARET ROSOF.
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>> I'M ALSO SEEDING MY TIME,
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VIRGINIA.
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>> KEVIN MALEEN, I'M SEEDING
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MY TIME AS WELL.
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>> THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE
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IT, MY NAME IS JESSICA, I'M
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THE STAFF ATTORNEY FOR THE
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SIERRA CLUB STAFF ATTORNEY, I
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REALLY APPRECIATE YOU STAYING

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AND LISTENING TO ALL OF THIS
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STUFF, THE COAL IS NOT
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ASSESSED -- THAT HAS BEEN
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CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THIS
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PROJECT, THERE ARE NO
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MITIGATION MEASURES THAT
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ARE SPECIFIC TO COAL IN ANY
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DOCUMENT.
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THE NORTHWEST COAL EXPERTS
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ARE GOING UNDER A RIGOROUS
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REVIEW PROCESS RIGHT NOW.
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THIS REVIEW IS SPECIFIC TO

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COAL, IT IS DIFFERENT THAN
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WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS PROJECT.
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NO ONE ON THE OTHER SIDE HAS
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MENTIONED ANYTHING ABOUT A
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CONDITION THAT APPLIES
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SPECIFICALLY TO THE COAL
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CONCERNS THAT WERE RAISED.
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IT SHOULD BE A RED FLAG FOR
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THIS BODY THAT THERE ARE SO
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MANY AGENCIES STANDING UP
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WITH GREAT CONCERNS, BAY AREA
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QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT

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AND OTHERS, I WANT TO ADD A
00:16:04
FEW DOCUMENTS TO THE RECORD
00:16:06
THAT I'LL SUBMIT, THERE'S A
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REPORT FROM THOMPSON WHO HAS
00:16:10
A BACKGROUND IN FINANCE, COAL
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IS ABOUT GLOBAL -- HAS
00:16:16
TERRIBLE GLOBAL MARKET THAT
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ARE MAINSTREAM INVESTMENT
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STANDARDS THAT ARE
00:16:23
LOOKING TO INVEST IN COAL.
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THERE WAS A STUDY BY PROVES
00:16:29
SORE JAFFE, THIS IS

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FORTHCOMING IN PUBLICATION,
00:16:34
IT EMITS MORE PARTICULATE
00:16:36
MATTER, THAT'S FROM COAL DUST
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AND PARTICULATE MATTER THAT
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COMES FROM THOSE TRAINS,
00:16:41
THERE'S A SIERRA CLUB OF
00:16:43
PRESENTATION SHOWING YOU THE
00:16:44
DESTRUCTION PULL FRAMED THE
00:16:45
MINING TO THE RAIL TRANSPORT
00:16:47
AND COAL DUST ALL THE WAY TO
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ITS BURNING AND TRANSPORT TO
00:16:54
COKE LAND, THOSE DOCUMENTS

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ARE HERE FOR THE RECORD.
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INVESTING IN COAL IS AKIN TO
00:17:00
INVESTING IN A ROTARY FORM
00:17:01
WHEN EVERYBODY IN THE BAY
00:17:03
AREA

IS TALKING ABOUT AN

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IPHONE, IT'S NOT WHERE
00:17:11
INVESTORS ARE PUTTING THEIR
00:17:13
DOLLARS THESE DAYS, IT'S NOT
00:17:14
WHERE THERE IS A NEW FUTURE,
00:17:18
IT IS NEW TECHNOLOGY, NOT IN
00:17:21
COAL.
00:17:21
THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT

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THE CITY OF OAKLAND CAN DO
00:17:25
BECAUSE OF THE REVELATION OF
00:17:26
COAL AS PART OF THIS PROJECT
00:17:28
ISN'T EVER PART OF THE
00:17:30
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW, IT HAS
00:17:33
CLEARED SAFE AND HEALTH
00:17:34
POWERS TO BAN COAL AS A
00:17:36
COMMODITY AT THE TERMINAL ON
00:17:37
ITS PUBLIC LAND.
00:17:40
THE ISSUES ABOUT RAILS DO GET
00:17:43
COMPLICATED, THERE ARE SOME
00:17:45
LIMITED HEALTH AND SAFETY

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POWERS THE BODY WOULD HAVE
00:17:47
OVER RAIL, IF YOU WERE TO
00:17:50
ZONE OR UNDERTAKE SOME SORT
00:17:51
OF ACTION AT THE TERMINAL
00:17:53
SITE TO ELIMINATE COAL, THERE
00:17:54
WOULD BE NO REASON TO SHIP
00:17:56
COAL ON THE RAIL LINES THAT
00:17:58
WOULD PASS THROUGH OAKLAND,
00:17:59
THERE'S AN EASY WAY TO DEAL
00:18:01
WITH THOSE ISSUES.
00:18:02
THIS PROJECT YOU TALK ABOUT
00:18:04
CONDITIONS LIKE SOMETHING

00:18:06
LIKE COVERING RAIL CARS,
00:18:07
THAT'S AN EMPTY PROMISE, CCIG
00:18:10
AND TLS'S OWN EXPERT REPORTS
00:18:12
DO NOT DISCUSS COVERS ON RAIL
00:18:14
CARS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT
00:18:15
EXIST, THERE ARE NO STUDIES
00:18:16
THAT TALK ABOUT THEM.
00:18:19
THEY TALK ABOUT TOPPING
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AGENTS IN SOME OF THEIR
00:18:27
[INAUDIBLE], THE CONTRACTUAL
00:18:28
ISSUE, IF THE CITY WERE TO
00:18:29
ENFORCE SOME KIND OF

00:18:31
CONDITION ON RAIL CARS, IT
00:18:32
WILL BE OPEN TO A CHALLENGE
00:18:33
BY ONE OF THE ATTORNEYS LIKE
00:18:36
MS. FLOYD THAT THEY BROUGHT
00:18:37
HERE THIS EVENING, I THINK
00:18:39
THAT WOULD BE A RISKY
00:18:40
PROPOSITION FOR THIS BODY TO
00:18:43
UNDERTAKE RATHER THAN
00:18:43
SUSPENDING COAL FROM THE
00:18:45
FACILITY ITSELF AND THAT
00:18:47
WOULD FACILITATE THE RAIL
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PROBLEM.

00:18:49
IN ADDITION, I GUESS I WAS A
00:18:51
LITTLE BIT CONFUSED WHY
00:18:55
CCIG'S COUNSEL KEPT HARPING
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ON THE FACT THAT THERE WAS A
00:18:59
PREEMPTION FACTOR, THE EASIEST
00:19:00
WAY TO DOLE WITH THIS IS THE
00:19:01
TERMINAL ITSELF, I WOULD LIKE
00:19:02
TO URGE THE OAKLAND CITY
00:19:05
COUNCIL BODY TO UTILIZE ITS
00:19:06
POWERS TO BAN COAL FROM THE
00:19:08
CITY AND PUBLIC LAND, THAT
00:19:10
WOULD ELIMINATE SOMETHING

00:19:10
LIKE THREE TO FOUR NEW COAL
00:19:13
TRAINING COMING THROUGH
00:19:14
OAKLAND EACH AND EVERY DAY
00:19:17
AND EMITTING ITS TOXIC COAL
00:19:19
DUST AND A MYRIAD OF OTHER
00:19:22
SAFE AND HEALTH ISSUES.
00:19:23
THANK YOU.
00:19:24
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
00:19:29
[APPLAUSE].
00:19:30
>> THANK YOU, IF YOU CAN STEP
00:19:32
TO YOUR RIGHT, THE CITY CLERK
00:19:34
WILL BE HAPPY TO TAKE THOSE

00:19:37
DOCUMENTS.
00:19:37
>> GOOD EVENING, I'M JANE
00:19:39
KRAMER AND SEEDING MY TIME TO
00:19:42
MICHAEL KAUFFMAN.
>> THANK YOU.
00:19:43
>> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL,
00:19:46
I'VE LOST A SECOND SEEDER SO
00:19:47
I'M GOING TO HAVE TO CHOP MY
00:19:50
SPEECH IN HALF BUT I'LL TRY
00:19:53
TO MAKE IT GOES, MY NAME IS
00:19:56
MICHAEL KAUFFMAN, I'M
00:19:58
SPEAKING FOR COMMUNITIES FOR
00:20:00

A BETTER ENVIRONMENT, WE
00:20:03
ORGANIZE IN -- I RISE IN
00:20:04
SUPPORT OF MY WEST OAKLAND
00:20:06
NEIGHBORS AND FOR THE 50
00:20:08
THOUSAND OAKLANDERS WHO HAVE
00:20:10
MOBILIZED AGAINST COAL IN
00:20:13
THEIR ORGANIZATIONS, THEIR
00:20:15
LABOR UNIONS, MEETINGS,
00:20:17
PUBLIC FORUM, RALLIES, THEIR
00:20:18
PETITION, LETTERS, PHONE
00:20:19
CALLS AND E-MAILS TO YOU, THE
00:20:23
CITY COUNCIL, WE SUPPORT THE
00:20:25

DEVELOPMENT OF THE OBOT AND


00:20:26
THE JOBS IT WILL CREATE FOR
00:20:29
OAKLAND BUT WE OPPOSE ITS USE
00:20:31
TO EXPORT COAL.
00:20:34
COAL AND FOSSIL FUELS ARE
00:20:35
KILLING OUR PLANET.
00:20:37
COAL EXPORTS FROM OAKLAND
00:20:39
WILL RESULT IN SUBSTANTIAL
00:20:41
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CLIMATE
00:20:42
CLANG AND ENDANGER THE HEALTH
00:20:44
AND SAFETY OF OUR RESIDENTS.
00:20:47
SHIPPING 10 MILLION TONS OF
00:20:49

COAL EVERY YEAR FOR THE NEXT


00:20:52
66 YEARS WILL RESULT IN
00:20:55
BURNING TWO-THIRDS OF A
00:20:57
BILLION TONS OF COAL, ENOUGH
00:20:59
TO PRODUCE WELL OVER ONE AND
00:21:00
A HALF BILLION TONS OF CO2,
00:21:04
THIS IS A STAGGERING AMOUNT.
00:21:07
BY BUILDING A COAL TERMINAL,
00:21:09
OAKLAND WILL DIRECTLY
00:21:10
CONTRIBUTE TO THE
00:21:11
ACCELERATION OF CLIMATE
00:21:13
DISRUPTION AND ENDANGER THE
00:21:14

HEALTH AND SAFETY OF WEST


00:21:16
OAKLAND RESIDENTS AND ALL THE
00:21:18
RESIDENTS IN THE EAST BAY AND
00:21:21
BAY AREA.
00:21:22
THIS IS WHY WE MUST KEEP
00:21:25
FOSSIL FUEL IN THE GROUND.
00:21:29
OBVIOUSLY THE FOSSIL FUEL
00:21:31
CORPORATIONS DON'T WANT THEIR
00:21:33
ASSETS STRANDED LOSING THEIR
00:21:35
TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS SO WE
00:21:38
HAVE A POLITICAL FIGHT MERE
00:21:39
IN OAKLAND BETWEEN COAL
00:21:41

DEVELOPERS AND THE PEOPLE,


00:21:42
THE GOVERNOR, THE LEGISLATURE
00:21:46
AND YOU HAVE TAKEN A STANCE -00:21:48
>> [INAUDIBLE].
00:21:48
>> THANK YOU, TOM.
>> TOM FARATA.
00:21:52
>> THANK YOU.
00:21:54
>> THE GOVERNOR, THE
00:21:56
LEGISLATURE AND YOU HAVE
00:21:57
TAKEN STANDS IN THE PAST TO
00:22:00
STOP CLIMATE CHANGE.
00:22:00
WHERE DO YOU STAND NOW
00:22:03
IN THIS POLITICAL FIGHT WITH

00:22:05
THE COAL INDUSTRY OR WITH THE
00:22:07
EARTH AND THE PEOPLE OF
00:22:08
OAKLAND, I URGE YOU TODAY TO
00:22:11
DIRECT YOUR STAFF TO WRITE AN
00:22:15
ORDINANCE BARRING COAL AND
00:22:16
ALL FOSSIL FUELS FROM BEING
00:22:18
SHIPPED FROM THE OBOT.
00:22:19
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:22:21
>> THANK YOU, MR. KAUFFMAN.
NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
00:22:27
>> HELLO, MY NAME IS JOE
00:22:28
[INAUDIBLE] AND I WORK AT THE
00:22:31

OAKLAND ARMY BASE AND I'M


00:22:32
HERE IN RESPONSE -00:22:33
>> SIR, IF YOU CAN LIFT THE
00:22:35
MICROPHONE A LITTLE BIT,
00:22:36
WE'LL HEAR YOU BETTER.
00:22:39
EVER
00:22:39
>> I'M HERE WITH RESPECT TO
00:22:45
THE DISRESPECT THAT MY FRIEND
00:22:50
WAS FACED WITH FROM THESE
00:22:52
PEOPLE, SO YOU CAN COME AND
00:22:54
SHAKE THE HANDS OF THE MEN
00:22:56
THAT MAKE YOU SICK.
00:23:00

>> NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.


00:23:06
>> MADAM PRESIDENT, CAN I ASK
00:23:08
A QUESTION, HOW MANY MORE
00:23:08
SPEAKERS ARE THERE?
00:23:10
>> I THINK WE'RE AT THE END
00:23:11
OF THE SPEAKERS NOW.
00:23:13
IF THERE ARE NO MORE SPEAKERS
00:23:14
IN ANY OF THE OVERFLOW ROOMS.
00:23:17
>> WE'RE SAVING THE BEST FOR
00:23:23
LAST, MS. MARGARET GORDON.
00:23:26
MARGARET GORDON, A PROUD
00:23:29
MEMBER OF NOEL COAL
00:23:30

CAMPAIGNING, IM A FOUNDER AND


00:23:32
CO-DIRECTOR OF WEST
00:23:33
ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS
00:23:34
PROJECT AND A 20 YEAR VETERAN
00:23:36
IN DEALING WITH THE ARMY
00:23:39
BASE AND I SPENT THE LAST
00:23:43
THREE YEARS BEING ENGAGED IN
00:23:45
THE PROCESS OF GETTING THE
00:23:48
ARMY BASE SHOVEL READY FOR
00:23:50
THE JOB CENTER, FOR THE
00:23:54
COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT AND
00:23:56
ALSO THE OVERSIGHT -- JOB
00:23:58

OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.
OAKLAND HAS BEEN A GREEN
00:24:03
CITY, A SUSTAINABLE CITY AND
00:24:05
HAVE GOTTEN THE ROCKEFELLER
00:24:09
MONEY FOR HAVING THIS
00:24:11
INITIATIVE.
00:24:11
IF COAL IS COMING HERE,
00:24:13
YOU'RE NOT THAT ANYMORE,
00:24:15
THAT'S A CONTRADICTION WITHIN
00:24:17
ITSELF, THERE THERE'S NO MORE
00:24:20
RESILIENCY, THERE'S NOT
00:24:20
SUSTAINABILITY, NONE OF THAT
00:24:23
IS HAPPENING ANYMORE AND WITH

00:24:24
THE SENSE OF WEATHER HAS
00:24:25
CHANGED TO MUCH AND THERE IS
00:24:28
COAL IN THE AIR, I MAD TO
00:24:29
WALK AROUND MY HOUSE WITH ONE
00:24:31
OF THESE MASKS AND I FEEL
00:24:32
THAT IS NOT WHAT I WORKED
00:24:34
FOR, FOR 20 YEARS OF CLEANING
00:24:36
UP THE AIR POLLUTION IN WEST
00:24:39
OAKLAND AND OAKLAND WHERE I
00:24:39
HAVE TO DO THAT.
>> THANK YOU.
00:24:47
[APPLAUSE].
00:24:47

>> MR. RAYAS, DID YOU SIGN UP


00:24:48
TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM?
00:24:53
>> WE'RE NOT AT OPEN FORUM
00:24:55
JUST YET, THANK YOU, SIR.
00:24:56
ALRIGHT, I WANT TO TURN NOW
00:24:58
IN THE QUEUE, I BELIEVE, IS
00:25:00
THERE ANYBODY LEFT IN
00:25:01
CHAMBERS WHO DID NOT SPEAK
00:25:02
WHO SIGNED UP TO SPEAK?
00:25:06
ALRIGHT, SEEING NONE, WE'LL
00:25:07
TURN NOW TO VICE-MAYOR KAPLAN
00:25:10
IN THE QUEUE AND HOPE TO HEAR
00:25:12

FROM THOSE WHO CALLED FOR THE


00:25:14
CONVENING OF THE MEETING AND
00:25:17
I SEE THAT KAPLAN -- VICE
00:25:20
MAYOR.
00:25:20
>> THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO
00:25:23
CAME AND PARTICIPATED
00:25:23
INCLUDING THOSE OF YOU WHO
00:25:25
SENT MATERIALS AND THOSE OF
00:25:26
YOU WHO SPOKE TONIGHT, THANK
00:25:27
YOU FOR BEING PART OF THIS
00:25:30
IMPORTANT CONVERSATION.
00:25:30
I APOLOGIZE IF I WAS
00:25:32

OCCASIONALLY LOOKING AWAY


00:25:33
DURING SOME SPEAKERS, I
00:25:35
WAS READING THE SUBMITTED
00:25:36
MATERIALS SO I WANTED FOLKS
00:25:38
TO KNOW THAT THAT'S WHAT'S UP
00:25:39
AND I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU
00:25:41
VERY, VERY MUCH.
00:25:43
IN TERMS OF HOW WE GO
00:25:46
FORWARD, IT SEEMS OBVIOUS TO
00:25:47
ME THERE ARE STILL SOME
00:25:51
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS AND I'M
00:25:52
WONDERING IF MY COLLEAGUE
00:25:53

WANTS US TO HAVE THE TIMER ON


00:25:55
FOR THE COUNCILMEMBERS JUST
00:25:57
IN CASE YOU'RE WORRIED WE MAY
00:25:58
GO ON TOO LONG.
00:26:00
IN ANY CASE, HAPPY TO HAVE
00:26:02
THAT IF YOU LIKE, MADAM
00:26:05
PRESIDENT.
00:26:05
IT SEEMS TO ME THERE'S SOME
00:26:08
PRETTY SERIOUS UNANSWERED
00:26:09
QUESTIONS.
00:26:10
I'VE BEEN READING THE
00:26:11
DOCUMENT THAT WAS SUBMITTED
00:26:12

BY THE PROJECT SPONSOR THAT


00:26:13
THEY DESCRIBE AS THE ONE REAL
00:26:16
LOOK AT THE DATA, AND EVEN
00:26:18
THOUGH THEY TOLD THE PUBLIC
00:26:19
AND THEY TOLD PEOPLE WHO CAME
00:26:21
HERE TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF
00:26:23
THEM THAT THEY WOULD COVER
00:26:25
THE RAIL CARS, IT DIDNT SAY
00:26:26
THEY WOULD COVER THE RAIL
00:26:29
CARS, IT SAID THEY WOULD
00:26:31
SPRAY THE LIQUID ON TOP TO
00:26:33
REDUCE THE DUST, SO THE PLAN
00:26:35

TO WHICH THEY ARE RELYING


00:26:37
DOES NOT SAY IT WILL COVER
00:26:41
THE CARS, EVEN THOUGH THEY
00:26:42
SAY THE COVERED CARS WOULD BE
00:26:43
SAVER, SO ONE OF THE THINGS I
00:26:45
WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST IN
00:26:47
FOLLOW UP FROM OUR STAFF AND
00:26:48
MAYBE WE NEED TO REQUEST IT
00:26:50
FROM THE PROJECT SPONSOR IS
00:26:51
FOR THEM TO MAKE CLEAR IN
00:26:53
WRITING WHAT IT IS THEY ARE
00:26:55
SPECIFICALLY PROPOSING, THAT
00:26:57

SOME OF THEIR PICTURES OF


00:26:58
FANCY NEW TECHNOLOGIES ARE
00:26:59
NOT AK HULL IN THE BODY OF
00:27:01
THEIR ACTUAL PROPOSALS SO
00:27:03
IF WE CAN CLEARLY DISTINGUISH
00:27:05
WHAT IT IS THEY'RE PROPOSING
00:27:07
TO DO VERSUS WHAT'S JUST SORT
00:27:10
OF PR IDEAS, I THINK THAT
00:27:12
WOULD BE HELPFUL.
00:27:17
IN ADDITION, THEIR PROPOSAL
00:27:18
INVOLVES SPRAYING WATER ON
00:27:20
THE COAL AT EVERY POINT IN
00:27:23

THE COAL'S TRANSITION, SO


00:27:23
THEY SAY YOU HAVE TO SPRAY
00:27:25
WATER ON THE RAIL CARS, THEY
00:27:27
SAY YOU HAVE TO SPRAY WATER
00:27:29
ON THE CONVEYER BELTS, THEY
00:27:32
SAY YOU HAVE TO SPRAY WATER
00:27:35
ON THE [INAUDIBLE] I THINK WE
00:27:37
NEED TO MAKE CLEAR WHERE IS
00:27:39
THIS WATER COMING FROM, WHERE
00:27:41
DOES IT GO TO, ONCE IT'S FULL
00:27:44
OF COAL DUST, WHERE DOES IT
00:27:45
END UP, WHERE ARE THEY TAKING
00:27:47

IT FROM AND WE HAVE A


00:27:49
DROUGHT, I'M NOT SURE HOW
00:27:50
MUCH WATER WE CAN AFFORD TO
00:27:52
USE FOR THIS.
00:27:54
ALSO RECENTLY AN ONGOING
00:27:56
LAWSUIT INVOLVES THEM TAKING
00:27:57
WATER FROM A NATIVE AMERICAN
00:28:01
TRIBE DRINKING WATER FROM
00:28:04
THEIR TRIBE FROM A SPRING, SO
00:28:06
I DO THINK GIVEN THEY'RE IN
00:28:08
HIGHER SAFETY PLAN TO PREVENT
00:28:10
THE COAL DUST IS BASICALLY
00:28:12

SPRAYING IT WITH WATER AT


00:28:14
EVERY POINT IN ITS
00:28:15
TRANSACTION, I THINK WE NEED
00:28:16
TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON WITH
00:28:18
THAT.
00:28:18
ALSO I WOULD BE INTERESTED
00:28:20
FROM OUR LEGAL COUNSEL ON HOW
00:28:23
WE -- AND TO WHAT EXTENT WE
00:28:25
CAN REQUIRE THE VARIOUS
00:28:27
OPTIONS THAT WERE TALKED
00:28:28
ABOUT TONIGHT, I UNDERSTAND
00:28:30
THERE MAY NEED TO BE A CLOSED
00:28:31

SESSION SEPARATE FROM THE


00:28:34
OPEN SESSION DISCUSSION, SO I
00:28:35
WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET THAT
00:28:36
THERE ARE CLAIMS WHILE WE CAN
00:28:38
PROMISE TO MAKE MITIGATION
00:28:40
BUT CAN WE ENFORCE THEM AND
00:28:42
PARTICULARLY CAN WE ENFORCE
00:28:42
THINGS THAT HAPPEN OUTSIDE
00:28:45
THE BOUNDS OF OUR LEASED
00:28:49
PROPERTY.
00:28:49
IN ADDITION, I THINK IT WOULD
00:28:51
BE USEFUL FOR US TO HAVE OUR
00:28:53

OWN LOOK AT THE DATA


00:28:57
SUBMITTED INCLUDING
00:28:57
SPECIFICALLY THE QUESTION OF
00:29:00
THE POTENTIAL BLOW-BACK OF
00:29:02
POLLUTANTS FROM CHINA THAT'S
00:29:04
BURNED THAT COMES BACK TO US
00:29:05
AND SPECIFICALLY THE HEALTH
00:29:07
IMPACTS ON COMMUNITIES THAT
00:29:09
ARE ALREADY SUFFERING HEALTH
00:29:11
IMPACTS.
00:29:12
WHAT HAPPENS IF COAL DUST
00:29:13
GOES TO CHILDREN WHO HAVE
00:29:15

ASTHMA, GOES TO SENIORS, GOES


00:29:17
ON PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY
00:29:20
STRUGGLING, SO NOT JUST WHAT
00:29:21
IS THE AVERAGE HEALTH IMPACT
00:29:22
OF THE POTENTIAL COAL DUST
00:29:24
BUT WHAT ARE THE HEALTH
00:29:27
IMPACTS ON COMMUNITIES SUCH
00:29:28
AS THOSE IN THE SURROUNDING
00:29:29
AREA WHERE FOLKS MAY ALREADY
00:29:32
BE STRUGGLING WITH OTHER
00:29:35
HEALTH IMPACTS, SO I THINK
00:29:36
THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO
00:29:38

INCLUDE AND ALSO A TOPIC THAT


00:29:40
WAS ONLY BRIEFLY MENTIONED
00:29:41
BUT THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER
00:29:42
GUILLEN WHO IS RESPONSIBLE
00:29:44
FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE?
00:29:45
IF THERE WERE TO BE A FIRE,
00:29:47
IF THERE WERE TO BE AN
00:29:49
EXPLOSION AND BY THE WAY,
00:29:51
WHEN YOU ENCLOSE THIS STUFF,
00:29:52
IT'S MORE LIKELY TO EXPLODE,
00:29:54
WHAT'S RESPONSIBLE FOR
00:29:55
SHOWING UP IN AN EMERGENCY,
00:29:57

WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING


00:29:58
FOR THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE,
00:30:00
WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
00:30:02
LIABILITY COSTS TO ANY HARM
00:30:03
THAT MAY BE DONE TO ADJACENT
00:30:06
PEOPLE OR ADJACENT STRUCTURES.
00:30:08
THANK YOU.
00:30:10
>> THANK YOU, VICE-MAYOR,
00:30:13
WE'LL TURN NOW IN THE QUEUE
00:30:14
TO COUNCILMEMBER KALB.
00:30:16
>> THANK YOU, MADAM
00:30:18
PRESIDENT, I APPRECIATE ALL
00:30:19

THOSE WHO CAME OUT TONIGHT.


00:30:20
I KNOW SOME PEOPLE HAD TO
00:30:22
LEAVE, BUT THIS HAS BEEN A
00:30:24
VERY THOROUGH AND I THINK AT
00:30:26
THE MOST PART, VERY
00:30:29
RESPECTFUL HEARING AND I
00:30:31
APPRECIATE OUR FORTING FROM
00:30:33
OUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT WHO
00:30:35
MANAGES THESE HEARINGS.
00:30:36
WE COULD EACH TAKE AN HOUR TO
00:30:38
TALK ABOUT THE ISSUE THAT
00:30:39
RELATE TO THIS AND WE'RE
00:30:40

CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO DO


00:30:44
THAT, LET ME BRING UP TWO
00:30:45
POINTS AND I'M SURE WE'LL
00:30:47
HAVE ADDITIONAL DISCUSSIONS
00:30:49
AFTER THIS.
00:30:49
FIRST OF ALL, IT IS WELL
00:30:53
DOCUMENTED THAT OZONE WHICH
00:30:55
CAUSES SMOG AND TOXIC
00:30:57
EMISSIONS, TOXIC CONTAMINANT
00:30:59
EMISSIONS DO TRAVEL ACROSS
00:31:00
THE PACIFIC BACK AND FORTH
00:31:04
CHINA, THAT IS WELL
00:31:05

DOCUMENTED, IT HAS BEEN FOR


00:31:07
SEVERAL YEARS AND IF WE'RE
00:31:10
ALLOWING THIS VOLUME OF COAL
00:31:11
TO BE FAYE SILL TATE BEING
00:31:14
BURNED IN THOSE COUNTRIES,
00:31:16
THAT GIVES US EMISSION
00:31:18
INCLUDING THOSE WHO LIVE IN
00:31:19
OAKLAND.
00:31:20
I WANT TO READ A QUOTE, LET
00:31:22
ME JUST READ THIS QUOTE FROM
00:31:26
JULY , 2013, QUOTE, WITH OVER
00:31:29
400 PARTS PER MILLION OF
00:31:30

CARBON IN THE AREA, WE KNOW


00:31:32
THAT AS PEOPLE, NOT ONLY
00:31:33
PEOPLE HERE IN CALIFORNIA, WE
00:31:36
HAVE ABOUT FIVE YEARS TO
00:31:38
SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE OUR
00:31:39
IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AS
00:31:41
A CREATURE AS A HUMAN RACE,
00:31:43
OTHERWISE WE'RE GOING TO DO
00:31:45
IRREPARABLE HARM TO THE
00:31:47
ENVIRONMENT WHICH LEFT
00:31:48
UNCHECKED WITHIN THE NEXT 25
00:31:49
YEARS COULD LEAD TO SURFACE
00:31:53

TEMPERATURES INCREASING BY 7
00:31:54
TO 8 DEGREES WHICH WILL NOT
00:31:58
ONLY DECREASE BIODIVERSITY
00:32:00
BUT CAUSE IRREPARABLE HARM TO
00:32:02
THE EARTH, WE WANT TO DO THE
00:32:03
RIGHT THING, THAT WAS PHIL
00:32:06
TAGAMI SPEAKING AT THIS
00:32:07
MICROPHONE A LITTLE OVER TWO
00:32:09
YEARS AGO.
00:32:10
SO, I THINK WE'VE ALREADY
00:32:13
HEARD, THERE'S PLENTY ON THE
00:32:16
RECORD, OUR OWN PORT
00:32:17

COMMISSION REJECTED A SIMILAR


00:32:18
PROPOSAL ABOUT A YEAR AND A
00:32:19
HALF AGO.
00:32:20
I WANT TO ALSO CORRECT THE
00:32:23
RECORD THAT SOMEONE'S
00:32:23
MENTIONED EARLIER JUST TO
00:32:24
MAKE IT CLEAR, I THINK ONE OF
00:32:26
THE PEOPLE WHO WERE IN FAVOR
00:32:29
OF THIS MISSTATED SOMETHING,
00:32:30
I ASSUME THEY DID IT
00:32:33
INADVERTENTLY, OVER 25% OF
00:32:35
OUR STATE ELECTRICITY TODAY
00:32:37

COMES FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES,


00:32:39
THAT NUMBER IS GOING TO GO UP
00:32:40
TO 33% AND TO 50% IN THE NEXT
00:32:45
15 YEARS.
00:32:46
6% OF OUR ELECTRICITY IN
00:32:47
CALIFORNIA COMES FROM COAL
00:32:49
AND AS WE HEARD, THAT
00:32:50
NUMBER'S GOING TO GO DOWN,
00:32:52
WAY DOWN TO LESS THAN 1% IN
00:32:54
THE NEXT TEN YEARS, SO THE
00:32:58
MISINFORMATION ABOUT COAL IS
00:32:59
WIDELY USED IN CALIFORNIA IS
00:33:01

JUST THAT, MISINFORMATION.


00:33:04
I HAVE TO SAY I'M SADDENED
00:33:06
THAT PEOPLE -- THAT GOOD
00:33:09
PEOPLE, VERY GOOD PEOPLE
00:33:12
WOULD BRING UP THE -- LET'S
00:33:15
SAY IMPLY THE LONG
00:33:17
DISCREDITED ASSERTIONS THAT
00:33:18
WE HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN
00:33:19
JOBS AND PROTECTING THE
00:33:21
PUBLIC'S HEALTH.
00:33:22
THAT HAS BEEN DISCREDITED
00:33:23
OVER AND OVER AGAIN, THERE
00:33:24

ARE BOOKS WRITTEN ABOUT THAT


00:33:26
AND I JUST HOPE THAT WE DON'T
00:33:28
LET OURSELVES HERE ON THE
00:33:30
COUNCIL FALL INTO THAT
00:33:32
RIDICULOUS TRAP.
00:33:32
NOBODY HERE WANTS TO REDUCE
00:33:34
JOBS OR THE POTENTIAL FOR
00:33:36
JOBS AND EVERYBODY HERE WANTS
00:33:38
THE ARMY BASE PROJECT AS A
00:33:40
PROJECT TO CONTINUE MOVING
00:33:42
FORWARD.
00:33:42
WE'VE ALSO HEARD THAT THE
00:33:46

ECONOMICS OF RELYING
00:33:47
PRIMARILY MAYBE EVEN ALMOST
00:33:48
EXCLUSIVELY ON COAL FOR
00:33:50
EXPORTS IN ANY ONE TERMINAL
00:33:53
IS RISKY, VERY RISKY, IN
00:33:54
FACT, THE COAL INDUSTRY IS
00:33:56
MOVING DOWNHILL, WE HEARD A
00:33:57
NUMBER OF PEOPLE TESTIFY
00:33:58
ABOUT THAT, THAT IS ALSO WELL
00:34:00
DOCUMENTED.
00:34:01
I THINK WE SHOULD WORRY ABOUT
00:34:02
THAT FROM A FINANCIAL POINT
00:34:04

OF VIEW.
00:34:05
I ALSO WANT TO APPRECIATE
00:34:08
DANNY KENNEDY'S TESTIMONY,
00:34:08
HE'S ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF
00:34:12
SUNGEVITY, HE WAS -- WITH THE
00:34:18
AUSTRALIAN ACCENT EARLIER,
00:34:19
TELLS US WHAT MESSAGE WE SEND
00:34:22
TO THE CLEAN TECH SECTOR,
00:34:24
PEOPLE WHO MAY WANT TO MOVE
00:34:26
HERE, IT SENDS THE WRONG
00:34:27
MESSAGE AGAIN FOR A NUMBER OF
00:34:29
REASONS FM WE HAVE AN ENERGY
00:34:31

AND CLIMATE ACTION PLAN AND


00:34:32
THE IDEA THAT WE MIGHT
00:34:35
SERIOUSLY ENTERTAIN ALLOWING
00:34:37
THIS HUGE VOLUME OF COAL TO
00:34:39
-- FOR SEVERAL YEARS TO LEAVE
00:34:42
OUR PORT AND BE SHIPPED
00:34:45
OVERSEAS FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO
00:34:46
BURN IS SOMETHING WE WILL
00:34:49
REGRET AND BE EMBARRASSED
00:34:50
ABOUT FOR MANY YEARS TO COME,
00:34:52
IT IS SHOCKING WE ARE
00:34:53
SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING THAT
00:34:53

AND, YES, THIS IS ABOUT


00:34:56
CONTRARY TO WHAT SOMEBODY
00:34:56
ELSE SAID, THIS IS ABOUT A
00:34:59
PARTICULAR COMMODITY, IT IS
00:35:00
ABOUT COAL, IT'S NOT ABOUT
00:35:02
ALL THE COMMODITIES THAT CAN
00:35:03
BE SHIPPED, IT'S ABOUT COAL
00:35:04
OR IN OUR TITLE OF THIS
00:35:08
HEARING, COAL AND PET COKE, I
00:35:10
KNOW IN OUR DEVELOPMENT
00:35:11
AGREEMENT, WE HAVE AN OPTION,
00:35:12
THAT'S WHY WE'RE HAVING THIS
00:35:14

HEARING TODAY, THAT WE CAN


00:35:16
ENACT REGULATIONS PROTECTING
00:35:18
THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY,
00:35:19
I'M GOING TO HAVE A LOT MORE
00:35:22
TO BUT I'M NOT GOING TO SAY
00:35:24
IT RIGHT NOW, I WANT TO NOTE
00:35:26
THERE WAS A PROFESSOR WHO WAS
00:35:30
HERE THAT COULDN'T STAY PAST
00:35:34
7:30, THE PROFESSOR FROM UC
00:35:37
BERKELEY, I'LL MAKE SURE WE
00:35:38
GET WRITTEN TESTIMONY FROM
00:35:40
HIM BEFORE THE DEADLINE,
00:35:43

AFTER COUNCILMEMBERS TALK, I


00:35:43
WILL HAVE A MOTION TO OFFER.
00:35:46
>> WE'LL TURN NOW TO
00:35:48
COUNCILMEMBER BROOKS.
00:35:49
>> I FIRST WANT TO THANK
00:35:51
EVERYBODY FOR COMING OUT,
00:35:52
IT'S THE DISCOURSE THAT GETS
00:35:53
US TO THE BEST POSITION.
00:35:55
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO NOTICED
00:35:57
MY LOOKING DOWN, I WAS
00:36:00
GOGGLING THE REPORTS THAT YOU
00:36:01
TALKED ABOUT AND READING THEM
00:36:02

AND READING THE INFORMATION


00:36:03
THAT WAS PROVIDED TO ME
00:36:05
EARLIER TODAY BECAUSE I
00:36:06
PROMISED THAT I WOULD AND I'M
00:36:08
LISTENING TO ALL THE SPEAKERS
00:36:10
AS WELL, SO I JUST WANT TO
00:36:13
MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MAKING
00:36:15
DECISIONS BASED UPON REAL
00:36:18
FACTS.
00:36:18
I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S JUST A
00:36:21
BOOK ARTICLE OR THAT THERE'S
00:36:23
A FALSE DICHOTOMY ABOUT JOBS
00:36:27

AND COAL, I DON'T KNOW THAT


00:36:28
WE HAVE A BASIS OF
00:36:30
INFORMATION IN WHICH TO MAKE
00:36:32
INFORMED DECISIONS BECAUSE I
00:36:33
READ THE INFORMATION THAT WAS
00:36:35
PROVIDED TO ME ABOUT THE
00:36:36
GROUP THAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO
00:36:37
MEET WITH YOU, MARGARET AND
00:36:40
THE SIERRA CLUB ATTORNEY,
00:36:41
THAT REPORT I KEPT REFERRING
00:36:43
TO FROM OREGON, YOU GUYED
00:36:49
PROVIDED ME, AND IT DIDN'T
00:36:50

SAY ALL OF THE THINGS YOU


00:36:51
THOUGHT IT DID AND I READ
00:36:54
SOME OF THE DOCUMENTATION AND
00:36:55
IT DIDN'T SAY THE INFORMATION
00:36:56
IN THE WAY THAT WAS
00:36:59
PORTRAYED TONIGHT SO WE HAVE
00:37:01
AN OBLIGATION TO MAKE
00:37:03
INFORMED DECISIONS, NOT
00:37:03
DECISIONS SILLY BASED UPON
00:37:04
EMOTIONS.
00:37:05
THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF
00:37:07
TESTIMONY THIS EVENING ABOUT
00:37:08

ALL OF THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS


00:37:10
THAT ARE ALREADY TAKING PLACE.
00:37:13
, ALREADY TAKING PLACE, AND I
00:37:15
LIKE THAT SPEAKER THAT WAS
00:37:16
JUST A LITTLE BIT BEFORE THE
00:37:17
END WHO SAID WE DON'T KNOW
00:37:18
AND THAT'S THE QUESTION THAT
00:37:21
I KEEP RAISING, WE DON'T FOE
00:37:22
IF THIS IS THE NEXT ITERATION
00:37:28
OF THE ENVIRONMENTALLY
00:37:29
CORRECT THING TO DO, AT THE
00:37:30
OUTSET, WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE
00:37:32

INFORMATION SO THERE'S
00:37:33
QUESTIONS WE NEED TO ASK
00:37:34
BEFORE WE MAKE A FINAL
00:37:36
DECISION, SO I'VE BEEN
00:37:37
SITTING HERE READING THE
00:37:38
INFORMATION AND WRITING SOME
00:37:39
OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I THINK
00:37:40
THAT WE NEED TO DO BECAUSE
00:37:42
THEY'RE IMPORTANT AND THE
00:37:44
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT
00:37:46
DIDN'T PULL OUT AN OLD STUDY,
00:37:49
IT PULLED OUT A SPECIFIC
00:37:51

STUDY ABOUT LOOKING AT RAIL


00:37:52
AND MOST OF WHAT HAS BEEN
00:37:53
TALKED ABOUT TONIGHT HAS BEEN
00:37:56
TALKED ABOUT MAYBE HOW
00:37:57
EXISTING RAIL GOES THROUGH,
00:37:59
IT DOESN'T TALK ABOUT WHAT
00:38:01
THE FUTURE MAY ENTAIL, AND SO
00:38:03
WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT LEVELS
00:38:06
OF EMISSION OF COAL DUST,
00:38:08
PARTICULATE MATTER FROM COAL
00:38:12
IS TRANSMITTED BY RAIL
00:38:13
CURRENTLY AND UNDER THE
00:38:14

PROPOSED METHOD, WHAT IS


00:38:14
THERE, WE FLEXED TO KNOW THE
00:38:17
EXPOSURE OF COAL AND HOW LONG
00:38:19
WILL IT LEAD TO THE HEALTH
00:38:20
CONSEQUENCES WE'RE TALKING
00:38:22
ABOUT, IN 1997, THE WORLD
00:38:25
HEALTH ORGANIZATION FOUND NO
00:38:27
CONCLUSION LINK TO COAL DUST
00:38:29
AND CANCER.
00:38:30
WE OUGHT TO -- AND IF THEY
00:38:32
CHANGED THEIR POSITION, WE
00:38:33
NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
00:38:37

WE NEED TO KNOW IS IT TRUTH


00:38:39
THAT THERE IS LITTLE EVIDENCE
00:38:41
BETWEEN HEAVY METALS AND COAL
00:38:43
DUST IT MAY HAVE PEOPLE ON
00:38:45
PEOPLE EXPOSED TO COAL DUST
00:38:46
AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
00:38:46
IS IT TRUE THAT WHAT IS KNOWN
00:38:48
ABOUT THE HEALTH IMPACTS
00:38:50
ABOUT COAL DUST ON PEOPLE IS
00:38:53
EXPOSED TO HIGH LEVELS OF
00:38:55
EXPOSURE, LITTLE IS KNOWN
00:38:57
ABOUT EXPOSURE TO LOW LEVELS
00:38:59

SUCH AS PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN


00:39:00
COMMUNITY, THAT'S PART OF THE
00:39:02
FEBRUARY, 2013 STUDY THAT YOU
00:39:04
GUYS PROVIDED ME.
00:39:05
WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS
00:39:07
THE EFFECT OF OTHER FACTORS
00:39:10
SUCH AS POVERTY, SUCH AS
00:39:14
POVERTY ON HEALTH IMPACTS AND
00:39:16
DOES IT OUT WEIGH COAL.
00:39:17
WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT
00:39:18
THE TOXINS ARE IN THE AIR
00:39:20
CURRENTLY BECAUSE WE NEED TO
00:39:22

UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BASELINE


00:39:24
IS.
00:39:24
AND SO ALL OF THE INFORMATION
00:39:25
THAT WE WOULD TRULY NEED TO
00:39:27
MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION, WE
00:39:29
WANT TO GLOSS OVER AND WE
00:39:31
WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE WORLD
00:39:33
AND I CANNOT TELL PEOPLE WHO
00:39:35
CANNOT FEED THEIR CHILDREN
00:39:37
THAT THEY OUGHT TO WAIT FOR
00:39:38
THAT NEXT JOB OPPORTUNITY AND
00:39:43
THAT THERE'S SOMEHOW A FALSE
00:39:46

DICHOTOMY BETWEEN A JOB AND


00:39:47
IF COAL IS GOING TO GO
00:39:50
THROUGH HERE, WE TALKED ABOUT
00:39:52
COMBUSTION AND THE FIRES COME
00:39:54
ABOUT WHEN COAL IS STORED
00:39:57
WITHOUT MOVEMENT FOR A LONG
00:39:57
TIME AND WE NEED TO
00:39:59
UNDERSTAND THAT IF COMPACTING
00:40:01
AND THE WAY YOU MOVE IT MAKES
00:40:03
A DIFFERENCE.
00:40:03
THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION
00:40:04
THAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND
00:40:06

BASED ON THE INFORMATION


00:40:08
THAT'S REALLY OUT THERE AND
00:40:10
THERE'S REAL INFORMATION THAT
00:40:12
WE CAN LOOK AT, AND YET
00:40:15
SOMEHOW WE'RE IRRESPONSIBLE
00:40:16
IF WE WANT TO LOOK AT THE
00:40:17
INFORMATION AND MAKE AN
00:40:18
INFORMED DECISION AND I DON'T
00:40:20
UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE
00:40:20
THAT'S OUR ROLE.
00:40:23
AND NO, WE'RE NOT ALWAYS JUST
00:40:26
SUPPOSED TO OVERLOOK THAT
00:40:31

THERE ARE REAL FACTS THAT WE


00:40:33
MUST CONSIDER.
00:40:34
THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF
00:40:36
TESTIMONY ABOUT WHAT'S
00:40:37
CURRENTLY HAPPENING AND
00:40:40
NOBODY'S TALKED ABOUT THE
00:40:41
TRUE IMPACTS OF COAL.
00:40:42
I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH COAL IS
00:40:45
CURRENTLY IN THE AIR AND
00:40:46
WHETHER OR NOT THERE ARE
00:40:48
TRULY TRAINS THAT ARE GOING
00:40:52
THROUGH.
00:40:52

IT'S DISHEARTENING WE'VE


00:40:53
RECEIVED THE INFORMATION THAT
00:40:56
ISN'T IN ITS ACCURATE FORMAT.
00:40:57
I WAS PROVIDED A MAP THAT WAS
00:41:00
SUPPOSEDLY PULL FRAMED THE
00:41:02
RAILROAD COMPANY, DP YET THE
00:41:03
MAP THAT I WENT ONLINE TO
00:41:05
LOOK AT, SAME MAP, BUT THEY
00:41:07
TOOK OFF THE INFORMATION THAT
00:41:09
WAS ON THE RAILROAD COMPANY'S
00:41:11
WEBSITE AND PROVIDED THEIR
00:41:13
OWN INFORMATION.
THAT'S NOT RIGHT.

00:41:14
WE NEED REAL INFORMATION TO
00:41:16
MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS AND
00:41:16
I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO
00:41:18
THAT AND I HAVE TO WEIGH
00:41:20
THOSE FACTS WITH THE FACT
00:41:21
THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF
00:41:23
PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY
00:41:24
WOULD CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO
00:41:26
LIVE IN THIS COMMUNITY AND WE
00:41:27
KEEP TELLING THEM TO WAIT FOR
00:41:30
THE NEXT BEST JOB THAT
00:41:34
DOESN'T COME, SO YOU TELL ME

00:41:35
WHAT THE JOB IS THAT THEY'RE
00:41:36
GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET
00:41:39
BECAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS THAT
00:41:41
NEXT ONE, BUT IT DOESN'T
00:41:43
COME, SO I'M GOING TO MAKE AN
00:41:45
INFORMED DECISION WHEN WE GET
00:41:47
OFF ALL THE INFORMATION BACK
00:41:50
AND IT MAY NOT BE POPULAR BUT
00:41:53
IT WILL BE BASED ON
00:41:54
INFORMATION.
00:41:54
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
00:41:58

THANK YOU.
00:42:01
MR. GUILLEN?
00:42:03
>> SO, I TRIED TO INTERJECT
00:42:06
MY QUESTIONS AND MY CONCERNS
00:42:08
AROUND PUBLIC HEALTH AS THEY
00:42:09
CAME UP TONIGHT.
00:42:10
I TALKED ABOUT THE AIR
00:42:16
QUALITY ISSUES, PARTICULARLY
00:42:16
AT RICHMOND AND WHAT THE
00:42:18
MEASUREMENTS ARE AROUND THAT
00:42:20
FACILITY, WHAT THE IMPACTS
00:42:22
ARE TO THAT ADJACENT
00:42:23

NEIGHBORHOOD IN RICHMOND AND


00:42:25
IF WE CAN EXTRAPOLATE WHAT
00:42:27
THE HEALTH IMPACTS WOULD BE
00:42:29
IN WEST OAKLAND, AS I
00:42:31
UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE
00:42:34
PROTOCOLS IN PLACE TO SPRAY
00:42:37
CHEMICALS ON COAL TO TRY TO
00:42:41
TRAP FUGITIVE COAL DUST AND
00:42:42
NONETHELESS MY UNDERSTANDING
00:42:44
IS THAT COAL DUST STILL
00:42:49
ESCAPES, SO EVEN IF WE WERE
00:42:50
TO SPRAY THE COAL WITH THIS
00:42:53

CHEMICAL AND IF IT'S TO BE


00:42:56
COVERED, THERE'S STILL A
00:42:57
HEALTH IMPACT, BUT I WOULD
00:42:59
LIKE TO KNOW FROM STAFF WHAT
00:43:01
THAT HEALTH IMPACT IS GOING
00:43:02
TO BE TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF
00:43:04
THE RESIDENTS IN WEST OAKLAND
00:43:06
IN THE ADJACENT
00:43:07
NEIGHBORHOODS, WE HEARD FOLK
00:43:08
FROM THE BAY AREA AIR QUALITY
00:43:12
MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY TALK
00:43:13
ABOUT THOSE IMPACTS BUT I
00:43:15

THINK WE NEED TO ACTUALLY GET


00:43:17
THE DATA AND I WOULD LIKE TO
00:43:22
SEE THOSE QUESTIONS ANSWERED,
00:43:23
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US
00:43:25
AS A CITY TO ASK OUR FIRE
00:43:27
CHIEF AND OUR FIRE
00:43:28
DEPARTMENT, DO WE HAVE THE
00:43:31
ABILITY TO RESPOND TO
00:43:33
EXPLOSIONS, TO FIRES, DO WE
00:43:35
HAVE THE ABILITY TO PROTECT
00:43:38
THE LIFE, HEALTH AND SAFETY,
00:43:41
GOD FORBID, THAT THERE WERE
00:43:42

TO BE A DERAILMENT OR AN
00:43:45
EXPLOSION, WHAT'S OUR ABILITY
00:43:47
TO RESPOND TO THAT AND HAVE
00:43:49
WE STUDIED THOSE IMPACTS TO
00:43:50
PROTECT THE WORKERS OF THE
00:43:52
PORT AND ALSO TO PROTECT THE
00:43:54
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY OF
00:43:57
THE NEIGHBORS.
00:43:58
I THINK THERE WAS SOMEBODY
00:44:01
FROM COMMUNITIES FOR BETTER
00:44:02
ENVIRONMENTS THAT CITED A
00:44:04
REPORT OVERLAYING SOME OF THE
00:44:08

IMPACTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
00:44:09
JUSTICE CONCERNS TO PEOPLE'S
00:44:10
PUBLIC HEALTH, SO I HAVEN'T
00:44:12
REVIEWED THAT AND THAT'S
00:44:13
CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT I
00:44:15
WOULD LIKE TO REVIEW IN MORE
00:44:18
DETAIL, AND ASK STAFF TO COME
00:44:22
BACK WITH SOME
00:44:24
RECOMMENDATIONS, EVALUATIONS
00:44:24
BASED ON THE TESTIMONY THAT
00:44:25
WE HEARD HERE TONIGHT.
00:44:29
>> THANK YOU, MR. GUILLEN.
MS. CAMPBELL WASHINGTON?

00:44:33
>> THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
00:44:36
I ALSO WANTED TO THANK
00:44:37
EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT THIS
00:44:39
EVENING ON BOTH SIDES TO
00:44:41
PRESENT TESTIMONY, TO PROVIDE
00:44:42
US DATA AND STATISTICS, I
00:44:45
GREATLY APPRECIATE EVERYONE
00:44:47
STAYING TO THE END AS WELL.
00:44:49
I HAVE GREAT CONCERNS AFTER
00:44:50
HEARING ALL THE TESTIMONY, SO
00:44:51
I WANT TO ALSO APPRECIATE MY
00:44:55
THREE COLLEAGUES WHO

00:44:57
SCHEDULE THIS PUBLIC HEARING
00:44:57
TONIGHT.
00:44:58
I THINK IT WAS INCREDIBLY
00:44:59
IMPORTANT FOR US TO HAVE AN
00:45:02
OPPORTUNITY TO AIR ALL OF
00:45:03
THE DATA AND TO ALLOW THIS
00:45:07
CONVERSATION, THIS DEBATE.
00:45:09
IT'S OBVIOUSLY AN INCREDIBLY
00:45:10
IMPORTANT TOPIC TO OUR
00:45:12
COMMUNITY, SO I WANT TO SAY
00:45:14
THANK YOU TO YOU AS WELL.
00:45:19
I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH THE

00:45:21
OAKLAND ARMY BASE PROJECT FAR
00:45:23
VERY LONG TIME BECAUSE I HAD
00:45:24
AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH
00:45:27
MAYOR JEAN QUAN WHEN IT WAS
00:45:28
GETTING OFF THE GROUND AND I
00:45:30
AGREE WITH THE STATEMENTS
00:45:31
THAT WERE MADE TONIGHT BY THE
00:45:33
COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND BY
00:45:34
OTHERS THAT WERE INVOLVED IN
00:45:36
THE PROJECT EARLY ON THAT
00:45:38
COAL WAS NOT CONTEMPLATED SO
00:45:39
I DO THINK THAT WE HAVE A

00:45:43
DUTY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE
00:45:46
WEIGHING THIS PROJECT AND
00:45:48
UNDERSTANDING HOW THIS
00:45:49
PROJECT IS MOVING FORWARD,
00:45:50
THE FACT THAT COAL COULD BE
00:45:52
CONTEMPLATED WITHOUT THE CITY
00:45:54
COUNCIL AND CITY
00:45:56
ADMINISTRATION REALLY BEING
00:45:57
AWARE IS INCREDIBLY
00:45:58
CONCERNING TO ME AND I THINK
00:46:00
THAT WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT
00:46:02
HOW WE'RE GOING TO REGULATE

00:46:04
THIS PROJECT MOVING FORWARD
00:46:07
AND THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO
00:46:10
ME.
00:46:13
I BELIEVE THERE ARE HEALTH
00:46:16
IMPACTS.
00:46:16
I THINK WE HEARD THAT CLEARLY
00:46:17
THIS EVENING BUT I DON'T FEEL
00:46:19
LIKE WE REALLY UNDERSTAND THE
00:46:21
LEVEL OF THE HEALTH IMPACTS.
00:46:22
I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF
00:46:24
QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED,
00:46:26
COUNCILMEMBER BROOKS WENT

00:46:26
THROUGH A LIST OF QUESTIONS
00:46:27
THAT WE NEED TO HAVE ANSWERED
00:46:29
BUT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE
00:46:32
FACT THAT TLS IS PUTTING
00:46:37
FORWARD A PROJECT WITH THE
00:46:40
DESIGN OF COVERED RAIL CARS
00:46:41
AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY
00:46:43
INFORMATION ON WHAT THAT IS
00:46:45
GOING TO MEAN FOR OUR
00:46:46
COMMUNITY, SO I THINK WE NEED
00:46:48
TO BETTER UNDERSTAND FROM
00:46:49
STAFF HOW WE EVALUATE A

00:46:53
PROJECT THAT DOESN'T EXIST
00:46:56
AND WHERE WE CANNOT COMPARE,
00:46:57
SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I
00:46:58
WANT TO GET CLARITY ON HOW WE
00:47:01
MOVE FORWARD, HOW WE MEASURE
00:47:03
THE HEALTH IMPACT CLEARLY
00:47:04
WITH WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TO
00:47:05
COMPARE IT TO.
00:47:12
I THINK -- AND THEN FINALLY,
00:47:20
I'M INTERESTED TO HEAR
00:47:21
COUNCILMEMBER KALB, WHAT YOUR
00:47:23
MOTION WILL BE AS WE MOVE

00:47:26
FORWARD, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO
00:47:29
CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE POWERS
00:47:30
AND AUTHORITY THAT WE HAVE AS
00:47:32
A CITY COUNCIL, WHAT OUR
00:47:34
OPTIONS ARE AND WHAT FURTHER
00:47:35
INFORMATION WE NEED TO MAKE A
00:47:37
CLEAR DECISION AND IF WE NEED
00:47:39
TO HIRE OUTSIDE EXPERTS TO
00:47:41
GET THE DATA, THE REAL DATA
00:47:42
WE NEED TO MAKE A DECISION,
00:47:43
THEN I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER
00:47:45
THAT AS WELL TONIGHT, BUT I

00:47:46
WANT TO DEFER TO
00:47:48
COUNCILMEMBER KALB IF WE HE
00:47:49
WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THE MOTION
00:47:50
OF HOW TO MOVE FORWARD
00:47:52
TONIGHT.
00:47:53
THANK YOU.
00:47:54
>> THANK YOU, I'LL RESERVE MY
00:47:56
REMARKS UNTIL I HEAR FROM
00:47:58
VICE-MAYOR, ARE YOU BACK IN
00:47:59
THE QUEUE?
00:48:00
>> THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE IT.
00:48:02
JUST A COUPLE OF SPECIFICS AS

00:48:05
WE TALK ABOUT WHAT
00:48:06
INFORMATION WE NEED FOR
00:48:07
FOLLOW-UP.
00:48:08
I AGREE WITH COUNCILMEMBER
00:48:09
CAMPBELL WASHINGTON THAT
00:48:11
BASED ON WHAT WE HEARD
00:48:13
TONIGHT, IT DOES SEEM THERE
00:48:14
ARE IMPACTS BUT TO BE ABLE TO
00:48:16
BE MORE SPECIFIC ABOUT THAT,
00:48:18
I THINK IT BEHOOVES US TO ASK
00:48:22
FOR THE FURTHER REVIEW AND I
00:48:24
WOULD BE INTERESTED

00:48:25
SPECIFICALLY IN LOOKING AT
00:48:26
IMPACTS ON WORKERS WHO MAY
00:48:28
HAVE A HIGHER LEVEL OF
00:48:31
EXPOSURE TO OTHER PEOPLE, SO
00:48:32
THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS ON THE
00:48:36
WORKERS, IMPACTS ON THE
00:48:38
SURROUNDING [INAUDIBLE] IMPACTS
00:48:40
ON THE MOST VULNERABLE MEMBERS
00:48:43
SUCH AS CHILDREN WITH ASTHMA
00:48:45
IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, I WOULD
00:48:46
LIKE TO GET THOSE PIECES OF
00:48:49
SPECIFIC DATA, I'M ALSO

00:48:52
INTERESTED TO KNOW THE
00:48:53
SPECIFICS ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE
00:48:55
REALLY PROPOSING, ARE THEY
00:48:56
PROPOSING COVERAGE, ARE THEY
00:48:58
NOT PROPOSING COVERAGE, WHAT
00:48:59
IS IT, ARE THERE PICTURES OR
00:49:01
STUDIES OF IT, AND THE LENGTH
00:49:04
OF THE TRAINS AND HOW MUCH
00:49:05
TIME THE TRAINS WILL BE
00:49:07
SPENDING IN PROXIMITY TO
00:49:10
HOMES IN OAKLAND, I MEAN,
00:49:14
OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, WE

00:49:16
SAW COVERAGE OF OIL TRAIN
00:49:19
EXPLOSIONS THAT BY GRACE TOOK
00:49:21
PLACE NOT NEAR HOMES BUT WE
00:49:22
HAVE TRAIN TRACKS THAT GO
00:49:24
RIGHT THROUGH RESIDENTIAL
00:49:24
AREAS SO I WANT US TO LOOK AT
00:49:25
THAT AS WELL.
00:49:27
I THINK JOBS AND ECONOMIC
00:49:29
JUSTICE ARE INCREDIBLY
00:49:30
IMPORTANT, WE SHOULD CONTINUE
00:49:31
TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO
00:49:33
EXPAND JOBS BUT THERE'S NO

00:49:35
REASON TO THINK IF WE'RE
00:49:37
SHIPPING WHEAT OR SOMETHING
00:49:38
ELSE THAT THERE WOULD BE ANY
00:49:39
LESS JOBS THAN COAL AND IN
00:49:41
FACT THERE ARE MANY PRODUCTS
00:49:42
THAT WOULD GENERATE MORE
00:49:43
JOBS SO I THINK IT'S
00:49:45
IMPORTANT WE MAKE CLEAR, WE
00:49:47
ARE FOR JOBS GENERATING
00:49:49
PROJECTS AND THAT HAVING COAL
00:49:51
IN NO WAY INCREASES THE
00:49:52
NUMBER OF JOBS THAT COULD BE

00:49:54
GENERATED WITH THIS PROJECT,
00:49:55
SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE
00:49:57
HAVE THAT GOING FORWARD.
00:49:58
SOMEBODY COMMENTED THAT THE
00:50:00
STATE GOVERNMENT MIGHT BE MAD
00:50:02
AT ALL IF WE DO SOMETHING IN
00:50:05
TERMS OF REGULATING OR
00:50:07
CONTROLLING OR RESTRICTING
00:50:08
COAL AND I WOULD JUST NOTE
00:50:09
THAT THE GOVERNOR OF THE
00:50:12
STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAS SAID
00:50:14
PUBLICLY THAT 90% OF THE

00:50:15
REMAINING COAL ON EARTH MUST
00:50:18
STAY IN THE GROUND, THAT WAS
00:50:19
A PUBLIC STATEMENT BY THE
00:50:21
GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, IT
00:50:23
WAS MADE IN THE PRESENCE OF
00:50:25
THE POPE, SO I HOPE WE CAN
00:50:27
REACH OUT TO THE STATE
00:50:28
OFFICIALS AND CLEAR UP THIS
00:50:30
QUESTION OF A GOVERN NAR THAT
00:50:32
SAYS 90% OF THE COAL MUST
00:50:34
STAY IN THE GROUND MUST
00:50:36
PUNISH OAKLAND IF WE WERE TO

00:50:39
PROTECT THE SAFE AND HEALTH
00:50:40
OF OUR COMMUNITY WITH THE
00:50:41
SIDE EFFECTS OF COAL AND
00:50:44
LASTLY WHAT WORRIED ABOUT US
00:50:45
CHANGING THE RULES ON
00:50:46
BUSINESSES, I THINK IT'S
00:50:49
CLEAR THIS PROJECT PUBLICLY
00:50:49
STATED IT WOULD NOT INVOLVE
00:50:51
COAL, SO THIS IS NOT ABOUT
00:50:52
CHANGING OUR MINDS AFTER THE
00:50:54
FACT, THIS WAS PUBLICLY
00:50:56
STATED DURING THE EARLY STAGE

00:50:57
OF THIS PROJECT THAT THERE
00:50:58
WOULD NOT BE COAL.
00:51:01
THANK YOU.
00:51:03
>> THANK YOU, VICE-MAYOR, MR.
00:51:06
KALB, I SEE YOU IN THE QUEUE,
00:51:08
I WANTED TO APPRECIATE ALL
00:51:09
THE EFFORT THAT CAME INTO
00:51:11
TONIGHT TO BRING FORWARD
00:51:12
INFORMATION, IT IS CRITICAL.
00:51:14
AS A WEST OAKLAND RESIDENT,
00:51:18
FIRST AND FOREMOST, A MOTHER
00:51:20
AS AN ASTHMATIC CHILD, I LIVE

00:51:22
THESE CHALLENGES EVERY DAY,
00:51:23
BOTH MY SON AND MY NIECE WHO
00:51:25
LIVED IN MY HOUSE FOR MOST OF
00:51:28
HER YOUNG YEARS HAVE ASTHMA,
00:51:32
MY ELDEST GODSON NOW AS AN
00:51:35
ADULT HAS ADULT ONSET ASTHMA
00:51:36
AND HAS TO SLEEP WITH A
00:51:39
RESPIRATOR AT NIGHT, SO THE
00:51:40
AIR QUALITY, THE RECENT
00:51:42
HEALTH REPORTS IN WEST
00:51:45
OAKLAND INDICATED WE'VE SEEN
00:51:46
AFTER MANY YEARS OF

00:51:49
IMPROVEMENT, THE TIDE TURN IN
00:51:51
THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, OF
00:51:52
ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT'S
00:51:54
BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD TONIGHT,
00:51:55
IT IS CLEAR THAT THIS COUNCIL
00:51:57
NEEDS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
00:51:59
AND I APPRECIATE EACH OF
00:52:02
MY COLLEAGUES RAISING
00:52:03
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS AND I'M
00:52:04
SURE WE WILL HAVE OTHERS
00:52:06
BEFORE THE ADMINISTRATION
00:52:06
COMES BACK SO I WOULD URGE US

00:52:09
TO SUBMIT THAT IN WRITING SO
00:52:11
THE ADMINISTRATION CAN BEGIN
00:52:12
TO DO THE RESEARCH TO MAKE
00:52:14
SURE WE ARE TAKING INTO
00:52:16
CONSIDERATION NOT ONLY THE
00:52:17
PUBLIC TESTIMONY BUT ANY
00:52:18
QUESTIONS THAT ARISE OUT OF
00:52:20
OUR OWN RESEARCH.
00:52:21
IT IS TRUE AS MANY OF THE
00:52:24
SPEAKERS HAVE TALKED ABOUT,
00:52:25
TONIGHT'S HEARING WAS NOT
00:52:26
ABOUT JOBS AND THE EFFICACY

00:52:28
ABOUT JOBS, TONIGHT IS REALLY
00:52:30
ABOUT THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND
00:52:31
SAFETY IMPACTS AND THE
00:52:33
PROPOSED USE AND LAND THAT
00:52:35
WILL BE LEASED TO A PUBLIC
00:52:36
ENTITY FOR A LENGTH OF TIME
00:52:38
AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE ITS
00:52:40
USE IS CONSISTENT WITH THE
00:52:43
OVERALL [INAUDIBLE] OF THIS
00:52:44
COMMUNITY AND THAT FURTHERS
00:52:45
OUR ECONOMIC HEALTH AND
00:52:47
VITALITY BUT PROTECTS THE

00:52:48
HEALTH AND WELL-BEING AND THE
00:52:50
SAFETY CONCERNS.
00:52:51
I AM DEEPLY CONCERNED BY THE
00:52:54
TESTIMONY OF THOSE WHO
00:52:58
HANDLED, THE ILWU IN
00:53:00
PARTICULAR AND THE ONE ILW
00:53:02
WORKER WHO CAME FROM
00:53:03
STOCKTON, AS A PERSON WHO HAS
00:53:05
WORKED FOR MANY YEARS IN THE
00:53:08
CITY OF RICHMOND, THOSE
00:53:09
COMMUNITIES THAT ARE TO THE
00:53:11
PORT THERE HAVE SIGNIFICANT

00:53:14
CANCER, INCREASED CANCERS,
00:53:15
MANY, MANY OF MY CLIENTS IN
00:53:17
RICHMOND AND SOUTH RICHMOND
00:53:19
IN PARTICULAR WOULD SEE
00:53:20
CANCERS DURING MY 20 YEAR
00:53:23
HISTORY THERE, SOME WITH
00:53:25
REPEAT CANCERS THAT ARE
00:53:26
SOMETIMES NOT DIRECTLY
00:53:27
EXPLAINED BUT ARE TIED TO
00:53:29
THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
00:53:30
IN RICHMOND, THE SAME IS TRUE
00:53:33
FOR ASTHMA, ASTHMA RATES ARE

00:53:34
6 TIMES AND 8 TIMES DEPENDING
00:53:36
ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THE
00:53:38
CONCENTRATION THAT WE SEE
00:53:40
STATEWIDE, SO THERE'S CONCERN
00:53:43
I THINK THAT HAS BEEN RISEN
00:53:44
FOR US TO TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT
00:53:46
THOSE TERMINALS ARE DOING TO
00:53:49
MAKE THE ENVIRONMENTAL
00:53:50
CONDITIONS NEAR THOSE
00:53:52
COMMUNITIES EVEN SAFER.
00:53:55
MY COMMENT TONIGHT WOULD BE
00:53:57
THAT WE REALLY DO -- MR.

00:53:59
KALB, I'M INTERESTED TO WHAT
00:54:01
YOUR MOTION WOULD BE, MIKE
00:54:03
COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL
00:54:04
WASHINGTON, I AM DEFINITELY
00:54:07
CONCERNED THAT WE MITIGATE
00:54:09
ANY POTENTIAL HARMS, MAYBE
00:54:11
THERE'S AN INTERIM SET THAT
00:54:12
WE WOULD PROPOSE, THERE COULD
00:54:13
BE NO INTERIM MUSINGS FOR
00:54:15
COAL WHILE WE INVESTIGATE THE
00:54:17
CLAIMS THAT HAVE BEEN LAID ON
00:54:18
BOTH SIDES AND WE FIGURE OUT

00:54:19
WHAT IS TRUE AND WHAT IMPACTS
00:54:22
COULD BE -- THAT OUR
00:54:24
COMMUNITIES WOULD FIELD, BUT
00:54:25
AS A WEST OAKLAND
00:54:27
REPRESENTATIVE, I WILL TELL
00:54:27
YOU THE INFORMATION THAT I
00:54:28
RECEIVED IN THE PAST TWO
00:54:30
YEARS IN PARTICULAR,
00:54:31
INFORMATION THAT I DID NOT
00:54:32
KNOW AS A RESIDENT HERE WITH
00:54:35
RESPECT TO OUR RESILIENCY,
00:54:37
HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS

00:54:39
IMPACTING SEA LEVEL RISE, WHAT
00:54:40
THAT'S GOING TO MEAN FOR WEST
00:54:43
OAKLAND COMMUNITIES NOT IN
00:54:44
50, 60 YEARS BUT IN 20, 25
00:54:47
YEARS IN OUR LIFETIME IS
00:54:48
CRITICALLY IMPORTANT AND I
00:54:49
THINK ALL OF THAT NEEDS TO BE
00:54:52
TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION AS
00:54:54
WE WEIGH THIS DECISION.
00:54:58
>> THANK YOU, MADAM
00:55:00
PRESIDENT, MY STAFF IS
00:55:01
PASSING OUT A COPY OF THE

00:55:03
MOTION ON THE DIAS AND SHE'LL
00:55:05
HAVE A FEW COPIES TO PUT DOWN
00:55:08
BEFORE, FOR THOSE OF YOU IN
00:55:09
THE PUBLIC, THIS WAS A
00:55:12
REQUIRED INFORMATIONAL OR
00:55:12
PRELIMINARY OR WHATEVER YOU
00:55:13
WANT TO CALL IT HEARING THAT
00:55:17
HADN'T HAS TO HAPPEN BEFORE
00:55:19
ANY ACTION CAN TAKE PLACE, IT
00:55:21
WAS NOT INTENDED FOR THE
00:55:22
FINAL ACTION, WHATEVER THAT
00:55:23
MAY BE TO HAPPEN TONIGHT,

00:55:25
THAT WOULD NOT BE LIKELY,
00:55:26
THERE'S NO TIME TO MAKE THAT
00:55:28
HAPPEN AND THAT WAS NOT ON
00:55:30
THE TABLE TONIGHT, HOWEVER I
00:55:31
FEEL STRONGLY THAT WE KEEP
00:55:34
THIS MOVING FORWARD SO WE
00:55:35
COULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO
00:55:36
TAKE ACTION, SO MY MOTION IS
00:55:38
AS FOLLOWS AND THIS HAS BEEN
00:55:39
DISCUSSED AND WORKED ON, THE
00:55:41
WORDING HAS BEEN WORKED ON
00:55:42
WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY AND I

00:55:44
RUN IT BY THE CITY
00:55:47
ADMINISTRATOR AS WELL, ONE,
00:55:48
KEEP THE PUBLIC HEARING OPEN,
00:55:51
TWO, DIRECT THE CITY
00:55:55
ADMINISTRATOR TO -- A REQUEST
00:55:57
FOR ADDITIONAL RELEVANT
00:56:03
INFORMATION FROM COMMENTS
00:56:06
WITH RESPONSE TO
00:56:08
POSSIBLE [INAUDIBLE] AND NO
00:56:09
LATER THAN OCTOBER 5TH, WE'RE
00:56:11
ALLOWING THE RECORD TO STAY
00:56:12
OPEN FOR TWO MORE WEEKS SO

00:56:14
PEOPLE WHETHER THEY'RE HERE
00:56:15
OR NOT CAN CONTINUE TO SUBMIT
00:56:18
RELEVANT INFORMATION ON THIS
00:56:21
TOPIC, SO THAT'S A.
00:56:24
B, EVALUATE THE -- THIS IS
00:56:26
AGAIN TO THE CITY
00:56:28
ADMINISTRATOR, EVALUATE THE
00:56:28
EVIDENCE SUBMITTED THROUGH
00:56:31
OCTOBER 5TH, THAT DOESN'T
00:56:32
HELP TO HAVE IT UNLESS YOU'RE
00:56:33
GOING TO EVALUATE IT.
00:56:35
C, AFTER REVIEWING THE

00:56:37
EVIDENCE, PRESENT OPTIONS TO
00:56:39
THE CITY COUNCIL FOR
00:56:41
CONSIDERATION RELATING TO
00:56:43
ADDRESSING PUBLIC HEALTH
00:56:43
AND/OR SAFETY AT THE FORMER
00:56:46
OAKLAND ARMY BASE AT A FUTURE
00:56:48
COUNCIL MEETING TO BE HELD AS
00:56:50
SOON AS FEASIBLE AND
00:56:52
PRACTICAL BUT NO LATER THAN
00:56:54
DECEMBER 8, 2015.
00:56:56
OF COURSE, AND I'LL CONTINUE
00:56:58
READING ON, THE IDEA BEHIND

00:57:00
THAT IS DO THE EVALUATION,
00:57:04
THOROUGHLY AS YOU CAN TO THE
00:57:06
STATE ADMINISTRATOR AND THEN
00:57:07
COME BACK TO US BASED ON THE
00:57:10
EVALUATION OF THE EVIDENCE, A
00:57:11
RANGE OF OPTIONS FOR US TO
00:57:14
CONSIDER, I MEAN THE CITY
00:57:16
COUNCIL, SUCH OPTIONS SHALL
00:57:18
BE CONSISTENT WITH THE
00:57:21
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT SECTION
00:57:23
3.4.2, THAT IS -- RELATED TO
00:57:25
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY

00:57:26
WHICH IS RELATED TO THIS
00:57:27
HEARING, AND SHALL INCLUDE
00:57:30
BECAUSE THESE ARE OPTIONS,
00:57:31
SHALL INCLUDE WITHOUT
00:57:33
LIMITATION, MEANING BUT NOT
00:57:34
LIMITED TO, ONE, AN ORDINANCE
00:57:38
PROHIBITING COAL, TWO, A
00:57:43
TEMPORARY EMERGENCY ORDINANCE
00:57:44
OR INTERIM CONTROLS STRICTLY
00:57:47
AND COMPREHENSIVELY
00:57:48
REGULATING COAL, THREE, A
00:57:51
TEMPORARY MORATORIUM

00:57:52
PROHIBITING COAL AND, FOUR,
00:57:53
OTHER BINDING MEASURES TO
00:57:55
PROTECT HEALTH AND/OR
00:57:58
SAFETY THROUGH CONTRACT OR
00:58:00
ENFORCEABLE REGULATION OR
00:58:01
ANYTHING ELSE THAT THE CITY
00:58:02
ADMINISTRATOR MAY WANT TO
00:58:03
PRESENT TO US WHICH IS THAT
00:58:06
INCLUDES, AND THEN D TO THE
00:58:07
CITY ADMINISTRATOR AGAIN,
00:58:08
PROVIDE A STATUS REPORT ON
00:58:09
THIS ISSUE AT THE OCTOBER

00:58:12
20TH CITY COUNCIL MEETING AND
00:58:13
OF COURSE ANY SUBSEQUENT
00:58:16
MEETING THAT YOU HAVE NEW
00:58:16
INFORMATION TO PROVIDE.
00:58:18
THE REASON I HAVE SOME DATES
00:58:20
ON HERE IS WE CAN'T LET THIS
00:58:22
GO ON AND ON AND ON.
00:58:23
IF I THOUGHT WE COULD ANALYZE
00:58:25
ALL THE INFORMATION WITHIN A
00:58:26
COUPLE OF WEEKS, THEN I WOULD
00:58:29
ASK FOR THIS INFORMATION
00:58:30
RIGHT AWAY, THAT'S NOT

00:58:31
PRACTICAL GIVEN THE VOLUMES
00:58:32
OF INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE,
00:58:34
SO I'M ASKING THEM TO ANALYZE
00:58:37
THIS INFORMATION, COME BACK
00:58:38
TO US AS SOON AS THEY CAN,
00:58:41
HOPEFULLY NO LATER THAN
00:58:42
DECEMBER 8TH AND GIVE US
00:58:44
OPTIONS THAT ALLOW US TO MAKE
00:58:46
A DECISION AND OF COURSE I
00:58:48
NEED A SECOND FOR THAT.
00:58:50
>> SECOND, AND -00:58:52
>> AND I NOTE THE SOUTHBOUND,

00:58:55
THERE ARE SEVERAL PEOPLE IN
00:58:55
THE QUEUE.
00:58:56
>> JUST TO CLARIFY THAT
00:58:59
COUNCILMEMBER WASHINGTON
00:59:00
SPECIFIED SOMETHING SHE
00:59:01
WANTED TO SEE IN WHICH I WAS
00:59:02
FINE WITH, I DON'T KNOW IF WE
00:59:04
NEED TO CLARIFY THEM IN THE
00:59:05
MOTION OR NOT.
00:59:06
I'LL SECOND IT AND LET PEOPLE
00:59:08
-00:59:08
>> THANK YOU, AS I SAID, LET

00:59:10
ME ADDRESS THE QUEUE,
00:59:13
COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL
00:59:13
WASHINGTON.
00:59:14
>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, I
00:59:15
THINK I COULD SUBMIT MY
00:59:17
QUESTIONS TO THE CITY
00:59:18
ADMINISTRATOR AS PART OF WHAT
00:59:19
NEEDS TO BE SUBMITTED BY
00:59:21
OCTOBER 5TH BUT I HAD A
00:59:23
QUESTION ON YOUR LETTER C,
00:59:25
COUNCILMEMBER KALB, WHERE IT
00:59:26
SAYS RELATING TO ADDRESSING

00:59:28
PUBLIC HEALTH AT THE FORMER
00:59:29
OAKLAND ARMY BASE.
00:59:30
IT SEEMS TO ME WE'RE
00:59:32
CONSIDERING THE PUBLIC HEALTH
00:59:34
IMPACTS OF THE SURROUNDING
00:59:38
AREA AT LEAST, CHILDREN OF
00:59:39
WEST OAKLAND.
>> THANK YOU.
00:59:42
>> SO, I'M JUST WONDERING IF
00:59:44
WE SHOULD CHANGE THE LOCATION.
00:59:46
>> I WOULD BE HAPPY TO TAKE A
00:59:50
FRIENDLY AMENDMENT SAYING
00:59:51

THAT AND IN THE VICINITY OF


00:59:53
OAKLAND ARMY BASE AND WEST
00:59:56
OAKLAND.
00:59:56
>> AND SURROUNDING AREA.
00:59:57
>> HAPPY TO ADD THAT IN.
00:59:59
>> YES, PLEASE, THANK YOU FOR
01:00:01
CATCHING THAT.
01:00:02
>> AND MS. CAMPBELL
01:00:04
WASHINGTON, I WOULD ALSO ADD
01:00:05
TO THAT, NOT ONLY THE
01:00:06
RESIDENTS BUT THE WORKERS,
01:00:08
THERE'S A SPECIFIC INDICATION
01:00:10

FOR WORKERS.
01:00:10
>> THE PEOPLE, I JUST SAID
01:00:12
THE AREA, ADDRESSING PUBLIC
01:00:14
HEALTH WITHOUT EVEN SAYING
01:00:15
WHICH PEOPLE I THINK IS ALL
01:00:18
THE PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS OF
01:00:19
THE SURROUNDING AREA.
01:00:20
>> IT WOULD INCLUDE THE
01:00:21
WORKERS AND RESIDENTS, YEAH.
>> THANK YOU.
01:00:26
MS. BROOKS?
01:00:30
>> I GUESS MY ISSUE IS WITH
01:00:33
THE WAY THAT SECTION C IS

01:00:35
DRAFTED, IT PRESUPPOSES THE
01:00:37
OUTCOME, IF IN FACT WE'RE
01:00:38
SUPPOSED TO LOOK AT THE DATA
01:00:41
THAT'S BEEN PROVIDED AND
01:00:42
THERE'S SUPPOSED TO BE AN
01:00:45
EVALUATION, WHAT IF IT SHOWS
01:00:48
NO IMPACT OR NO APPRECIABLE
01:00:50
IMPACT TO THE LOCAL AREA,
01:00:52
THERE'S NO OPTION HERE THAT
01:00:54
ADDRESSES THAT, SO IT
01:00:55
PRESUPPOSES THAT SOMETHING'S
01:00:57
GOING TO BE DONE NOT EVEN

01:00:59
HAVING CONSIDERED THE
01:01:01
EVIDENCE, SO WHAT IF THE
01:01:02
PURPOSE OF THE HEARING AND
01:01:03
THE REVIEW OF THE
01:01:05
DOCUMENTATION IF WE AREN'T
01:01:06
GOING TO CONSIDER IT.
01:01:08
THROUGH THE CHAIR TO THE
01:01:09
MAKER OF THE MOTION.
>> THANK YOU.
01:01:12
>> COUNCILMEMBER KALB?
01:01:15
>> COUNCILMEMBER BROOKS,
01:01:16
BASED ON MY DISCUSSION WITH
01:01:19

THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR AND


01:01:20
THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR AND THEY
01:01:23
WOULD REVIEW ALL THE EVIDENCE,
01:01:24
IF THE EVIDENCE IN THEIR
01:01:25
OPINION SHOWS WE CAN'T DO
01:01:26
THIS OR THIS IS NOT
01:01:28
SUPPORTED, THAT'S THE
01:01:30
ANALYSIS THAT THEY'LL COME
01:01:31
BACK TO US WITH.
01:01:32
>> THAT'S NOT AN OPTION IN YOUR
01:01:35
-01:01:35
>> IT'S AN OPTION FOR ALL
01:01:36

FOUR OF THESE.
01:01:38
>> THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU'VE
01:01:42
WRITTEN.
01:01:42
>> THEY WOULD COME BACK TO US
01:01:46
ASSUMING THE SCENARIO YOU
01:01:48
ARTICULATE IF THAT WERE TO BE
01:01:50
THE SCENARIO OF THE ANALYSIS,
01:01:52
THEY WOULD COME BACK AND SAY
01:01:53
WE HAVE NOTHING TO SUPPORT
01:01:55
DOING AN ORDINANCE
01:01:56
PROHIBITING WHATEVER OR DO A
01:01:58
MORATORIUM AND THAT WOULD BE
01:01:59

THEIR ANALYSIS AND THEY WOULD


01:02:00
TELL US THAT.
01:02:02
>> THAT'S NOT MY POINT.
01:02:03
MY POINT IS YOU PRESUPPOSE
01:02:06
THE OUTCOME OF THE
01:02:08
INFORMATION THEY'RE
01:02:08
SUPPOSEDLY SUPPOSED TO
01:02:09
CONSIDER, THAT MAY WELL BE AN
01:02:11
OPTION BUT WE WON'T KNOW
01:02:13
UNTIL THEY'VE EVALUATED THE
01:02:14
DOCUMENTATION, SO THERE'S NO
01:02:16
OPTIONS HERE TO DO NOTHING IF
01:02:19

THERE ISN'T AN IMPACT BASED


01:02:20
ON THE EVIDENCE THAT'S
01:02:21
PROVIDED SO I'M JUST TRYING
01:02:23
TO UNDERSTAND.
01:02:23
>> I WILL ALLOW MY SECRETARY
01:02:25
TO -01:02:25
>> SURE.
01:02:26
>> JUST TO CLARIFY SO THAT
01:02:28
IT'S CLEAR, WHEN THE CITY
01:02:30
COUNCIL NEEDS TO TAKE ACTION
01:02:31
AND WE HAVE A VARIETY OF
01:02:32
ACTIONS THAT WE COULD TAKE
01:02:35

INCLUDING NO ACTION, OUR


01:02:37
AGONIZING PROCESS REQUIRES WE
01:02:38
SPECIFICALLY NAME AND NOTICE
01:02:39
ANY ACTIONS WE MAY TAKE AND
01:02:41
IT WAS NOT MY INTENTION AS
01:02:42
THE SECONDER OF THE MOTION OR
01:02:45
IN HELPING WITH THIS THAT
01:02:47
THIS PRECLUDES US FROM
01:02:50
REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE AND
01:02:51
TAKE NO ACTION, WE HAVE TO
01:02:52
LIST THE POSSIBLE ACTIONS WE
01:02:54
COULD TAKE THAT ARE ACTION
01:02:56

BUT THAT IT WOULD ABSOLUTELY


01:02:57
BE BEFORE THE COUNCIL AT THAT
01:02:58
TIME IF THAT IS THE SUPPORTED
01:03:00
CONCLUSION TO CHOOSE TO TAKE
01:03:02
NO ACTION.
01:03:03
>> I'M WELL AWARE OF THE
01:03:05
PROCEDURES BY WHICH -01:03:05
>> SO, I DID NOT INTEND ON
01:03:10
SUPPORTING THIS TO SUBJECTING
01:03:11
THE ITEMS TAKE NO ACTION.
01:03:13
>> I'M WL AWARE OF THE RULES
01:03:16
OF SCHEDULING THE ITEMS TO
01:03:17

RULES, THIS IS A MOTION, IT


01:03:19
IS NOT SCHEDULING THE ITEM,
01:03:20
SO THERE WOULD BE AN
01:03:21
OPPORTUNITY TO COME TO RULES
01:03:25
WITH THE SPECIFIC ACTIONS
01:03:26
THAT ARE BEING RECOMMENDED OR
01:03:28
PROPOSED, THIS IS THE MOTION
01:03:29
THAT IS DIRECTING STAFF TO DO
01:03:30
A PARTICULAR THING AND AS IT
01:03:32
IS CURRENTLY DRAFTED, THERE
01:03:36
IS NO OPTION TO ADEQUATELY
01:03:38
REVIEW THE INFORMATION AND
01:03:40

NOT PRESUPPOSE THE OUTCOME.


01:03:42
RIGHT NOW, IT ASSUMES THAT
01:03:43
THE DATA IS GOING TO SHOW
01:03:47
THAT THERE ARE HEALTH IMPACTS
01:03:49
AND I DON'T KNOW THAT, SO I'M
01:03:52
SIMPLY TRYING TO SAY THAT -01:03:57
THE FIRST SENTENCE IS FINE,
01:03:58
IT'S WHEN -- IT SAYS AFTER
01:04:00
REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE,
01:04:01
PRESENT OPTIONS TO THE
01:04:03
COUNCIL, THAT SHOULD BE THE
01:04:05
PERIOD AND EVERYTHING AFTER
01:04:07

THAT SHOULD GO AWAY SO THAT


01:04:11
STAFF CAN EFFECTIVELY REVIEW
01:04:13
THE INFORMATION AND MAKE A
01:04:16
DECISION BASED UPON THE
01:04:17
DOCUMENTATION THAT'S PROVIDED.
01:04:20
>> THANK YOU -01:04:21
>> I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR -01:04:23
>> CHAIRPERSON BROOKS, AS YOU
01:04:25
SEE IN THE LAST TWO WORDS OF
01:04:28
THE SENTENCE, C, BEFORE THE
01:04:30
RUE MAN NUMERALS -01:04:31
>> I'M SORRY, WHERE?
01:04:32

>> IN C, THE LAST WHERE IT


01:04:35
SAYS WITHOUT LIMIT TRAIPSES,
01:04:36
SUCH OPTIONS SHALL BE
01:04:37
CONSISTENT WITH THE
01:04:38
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND
01:04:40
SHOULD INCLUDE WITHOUT
01:04:41
LIMITATIONS, SHALL INCLUDE
01:04:42
MEANS THESE AREN'T THE ONLY
01:04:44
FOUR OPTIONS THAT STAFF CAN
01:04:45
PRESENT.
01:04:46
>> I'M NOT READING THAT, ITS
01:04:49
THE LAST SENTENCE IN C.
01:04:52

>> SUCH OPTIONS SHALL -01:04:57


>> [INAUDIBLE].
01:04:58
>> IT SAYS SUCH OPTIONS SHALL
01:05:00
BE CONSISTENT WITH
01:05:02
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
01:05:02
SECTIONS [INAUDIBLE] AND
01:05:05
SHALL INCLUDE WITHOUT
01:05:06
LIMITATION THE FOLLOWING
01:05:07
FOUR, AND YOU READ THE FOUR,
01:05:09
THAT MEANS ACCORDING TO THE
01:05:11
CITY ATTORNEY WHO HELPED
01:05:12
DRAFT THIS THAT THE STAFF CAN
01:05:13

PROVIDE US WITH 20 MORE


01:05:15
OPTIONS INCLUDING THE OPTION
01:05:16
TO DO NOTHING.
01:05:18
I JUST LISTED FOUR THAT I
01:05:19
WANT INCLUDED.
01:05:19
THIS IS NOT THE ONLY FOUR
01:05:21
THAT CAN BE INCLUDED.
01:05:22
ANYTHING ELSE CAN BE INCLUDED.
01:05:24
>> SO, YOU DON'T MIND IF WE
01:05:27
ADD -- OR NO ACTION?
01:05:30
>> I AM NOT COMFORTABLE WITH
01:05:32
THAT.
01:05:32

I THINK THE FACT THAT IT SAYS


01:05:34
WITHOUT LIMITATION IS
01:05:35
ADEQUATE AND I'M PUTTING THIS
01:05:36
FORWARD AND I'M GOING TO -01:05:39
WITH THE ADDITIONAL AMENDMENTS
01:05:39
THAT WERE ADDED BY OUR
01:05:43
COLLEAGUE, ADOPTED
01:05:44
SURROUNDING AREAS, THAT'S THE
01:05:45
MOTION ON THE TABLE.
01:05:46
>> AND, AGAIN, I WOULD SIMPLY
01:05:48
STATE THAT THEN WE SHOULD
01:05:52
STRIKE THE LANGUAGE THAT SAYS
01:05:55

AFTER REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE


01:05:56
BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY
01:05:57
PRESUMED WHAT THE OUTCOME IS
01:05:58
GOING TO BE IN TERMS OF THE
01:06:00
ACTIONS THAT THE CITY
01:06:01
ATTORNEY IS GOING TO BRING -01:06:03
OR THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR,
01:06:05
AND SO IF WE ARE GOING TO
01:06:08
REVIEW THE DOCUMENTATION, I
01:06:08
WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE
01:06:12
DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED
01:06:15
THAT YOU REVIEW OR YOU GET
01:06:19

BACK FROM THE CITY ENTITIES


01:06:21
IN TERMS OF THE QUESTIONS
01:06:22
THAT WERE ASKED AND I
01:06:24
SUBMITTED MY QUESTIONS
01:06:24
ALREADY TO THE CLERK AND TO
01:06:26
THE CITY ATTORNEY OR THE CITY
01:06:28
ADMINISTRATOR.
01:06:29
>> THANKS, MS. BROOKS.
01:06:30
MR. GUILLEN?
01:06:32
>> SO, THE WAY I READ THIS,
01:06:34
IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT THIS
01:06:37
ISN'T PRESCRIPTIVE BUT
01:06:38

INCLUDES MULTIPLE OPTIONS FOR


01:06:39
THE ADMINISTRATION TO COME
01:06:40
BACK WITH THESE FOUR OR OTHER
01:06:44
OPTIONS INCLUDING NOT DOING
01:06:46
ANYTHING, SO YOU KNOW, I
01:06:48
THINK IT'S PRETTY CLEAR, IT
01:06:51
INCLUDES LANGUAGE HERE
01:06:52
WITHOUT LIMITATIONS, THERE
01:06:53
COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE, IT
01:06:54
DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ITEMS 1-4,
01:06:56
THERE MIGHT BE ITEM 5, 6 OR 7
01:06:59
THAT'S MAYBE SOMETHING
01:07:01

THAT WE HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF


01:07:01
YET THAT I WANT TO MAKE SURE
01:07:03
WE'RE OPEN TO AS A BODY TO
01:07:05
CONSIDER, SO I WOULD LIKE A
01:07:07
THOROUGH LIST OF ALL THOSE
01:07:09
ALTERNATIVES FOR US TO WEIGH
01:07:13
AGAINST AND TO REALLY
01:07:14
CONSIDER AT OUR OCTOBER 5TH
01:07:16
MEETING, SO A COUPLE OF
01:07:19
QUESTIONS FOR THE MAKER OF
01:07:20
THE MOTION, ARE YOU
01:07:23
SUGGESTING HERE THAT YOU
01:07:24

STATE THAT THE PUBLIC HEARING


01:07:26
WILL REMAIN OPEN, IS THE
01:07:28
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
01:07:30
EVENTUALLY AFTER OCTOBER 5TH,
01:07:31
AFTER THAT DATE WHEN THE
01:07:34
INFORMATION IS SUBMITTED, OR
01:07:54
[INAUDIBLE].
01:07:55
AS PART OF THIS, THE MAKE
01:07:57
SURE THAT THOSE QUESTIONS ARE
01:08:01
ANSWERED.
>> MR. KALB?
01:08:05
>> THANK YOU, MADAM
01:08:07
PRESIDENT, TO COUNCILMEMBER

01:08:09
GUILLEN AND COLLEAGUES, THE
01:08:10
IDEA OF KEEPING THE PUBLIC
01:08:12
HEARING OPEN WAS TO MAKE SURE
01:08:16
THAT IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS,
01:08:18
IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT PEOPLE
01:08:21
CAN SUBMIT TESTIMONY,
01:08:21
RELEVANT EVIDENCE IF YOU WILL
01:08:22
FOR THE RECORD WITHIN THE
01:08:24
NEXT TWO WEEKS, TO YOUR
01:08:25
QUESTION ABOUT HOW DO WE
01:08:28
FORMALLY CLOSE IT, THAT'S A
01:08:29
GOOD QUESTION.

01:08:29
I WOULD ASK THE CITY ATTORNEY
01:08:31
OR CITY ADMINISTRATION HOW
01:08:34
AND WHEN WE FORMALLY CLOSE IT
01:08:35
OR IF THE MOTION WE'RE MAKING
01:08:37
TONIGHT WHICH SETS THE DATE
01:08:40
AUTOMATICALLY CLOSES IT IN
01:08:44
TWO WEEKS.
01:08:44
>> MARK?
01:08:45
>> FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY'S
01:08:46
OFFICE, I THINK THE IDEA OF
01:08:50
THE OCTOBER 5TH DATE WAS TO
01:08:53
FIND OUT INFORMATION AS SOON

01:08:54
AS POSSIBLE, BUT THE HEARING
01:08:56
WILL REMAIN OPEN BEYOND THAT
01:08:58
UNTIL THE COUNCIL TAKES
01:08:59
ACTION, IF STAFF COMES BACK
01:09:02
WITH A RECOMMENDATION, THERE
01:09:02
WOULD BE A PUBLIC HEARING SO
01:09:04
WE MAY AS WELL KEEP IT OPEN
01:09:06
AND SEE IF THE COUNCIL GIVES
01:09:08
DIRECTION TO COME BACK WITH
01:09:09
LEGISLATION, IT WILL HAVE TO
01:09:10
BE NOTICED AGAIN AS PUBLIC
01:09:13
HEARING IF YOU'RE ADOPTING

01:09:15
INTERIM CONTROLS OR EMERGENCY
01:09:16
ORDINANCE OR A REGULAR HOARD
01:09:17
NANS, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A
01:09:18
PUBLIC HEARING AT THAT TIME
01:09:21
SO THERE'S NO PREJUDICE OF
01:09:24
LEAVING IT OPEN BUT A
01:09:29
VOLUNTARY REQUEST SO STAFF
01:09:31
CAN EVALUATE IT AND WE CAN
01:09:32
GET BACK TO THE CITY
01:09:34
COUNCIL.
>> THANK YOU.
01:09:36
>> I DON'T LIKE OPEN ENDED
01:09:38

THINGS, I THINK WE NEED TO


01:09:40
SET A DATE, MR. KALB, IF
01:09:42
YOU'RE OKAY WITH IT, CLOSE
01:09:43
THE HEARING AFTER OCTOBER
01:09:45
5TH, ONCE WE MAKE A
01:09:46
RECOMMENDATION AND THERE'S A
01:09:48
RECOMMENDATION THAT COMES
01:09:48
FORWARD, WE CAN FIND NEW
01:09:49
INFORMATION THAT COMES IN
01:09:51
AFTER OCTOBER 5TH AND BECAUSE
01:09:56
WE STILL HAVE THE HEARING
01:09:57
OPEN, THAT MAY CHANGE OUR
01:09:59

DECISION.
01:10:00
>> THANK YOU, TO
01:10:01
COUNCILMEMBER GUILLEN THROUGH
01:10:02
THE CHAIR TO THE PRESIDENT, I
01:10:05
WOULD ON THAT QUESTION, I
01:10:06
WOULD DEFER TO THE CITY
01:10:08
ADMINISTRATION AS TO WHAT
01:10:13
THEY PREFER, IF WE LEAVE IT
01:10:15
OPEN FOR VARIOUS REASONS OR
01:10:16
THEY PREFER WE CLOSE IT.
01:10:18
>> I WOULD ASK FOR A FRIENDLY
01:10:20
AMENDMENT THAT WE CLOSE THE
01:10:23

PUBLIC HEARING ON OCTOBER 5TH


01:10:25
AS A DATE CERTAIN.
01:10:27
>> SO, MR. GUILLEN, ARE YOU
01:10:32
SUGGESTING THAT 5:00 P.M.,
01:10:34
CLOSE THE BUSINESS ON OCTOBER
01:10:37
5TH?
01:10:37
>> I'M ASKING THAT AS A
01:10:39
FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.
01:10:40
>> I WANTED TO DEFER TO THE
01:10:43
CITY ADMINISTRATOR ON THAT
01:10:45
QUESTION.
01:10:45
>> CITY ADMINISTRATOR AND THE
01:10:47

CLERK ARE CONFERRING.


01:10:51
>> MADAM PRESIDENT, IF I MAY
01:10:53
INTERJECT, CERTAINLY THE
01:10:54
COUNCIL CAN CLOSE THE HEARING
01:10:55
ON OCTOBER 5TH, HOWEVER, AS I
01:10:58
SAID, IF LEGISLATION IS
01:11:00
EVENTUALLY GOING TO BE
01:11:01
ENTERTAINED, THEN IT WILL
01:11:03
HAVE TO BE REOPENED AT THAT
01:11:04
TIME, SO -01:11:06
>> WOULDN'T THAT BE TRUE, MR.
01:11:13
WALSH.
01:11:13

>> IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU


01:11:17
CLOSE IT ON THE 5TH, IT WILL
01:11:19
HAVE TO BE REOPENED WHEN THE
01:11:20
ITEM COMES BACK TO YOU.
01:11:21
>> AND IS THERE A
01:11:26
DISTINCTION BETWEEN RECEIVING
01:11:27
PUBLIC COMMENT WHICH WE
01:11:29
RECEIVED BOTH DURING PUBLIC
01:11:31
HEARING AND AFTER THE -01:11:33
RECEIVING PUBLIC COMMENT AND
01:11:33
INFORMATION THAT WOULD BE
01:11:35
INCLUDED IN THE PUBLIC RECORD.
01:11:38

>> NO, IN MANY INSTANCES, THE


01:11:39
COUNCIL AND THE PLANNING
01:11:41
COMMISSION ARE FAMILIAR WITH
01:11:44
LEASEHOLD AFTER THE PUBLIC
01:11:45
HEARING HAPPENS AND THAT
01:11:46
WOULD BE CONSIDERED EQUALLY
01:11:47
IF THE COMMENTS -01:11:48
>> AND INCLUDED IN THE
01:11:49
OFFICIAL RECORD.
01:11:50
>> AND INCLUDED IN THE
01:11:52
RECORD, YES.
01:11:52
>> THANK YOU, MR. KALB, I'M
01:11:56

LOOKING AT ITEM C-2 IN


01:11:58
DETERMINE OF A TEMPORARY
01:12:00
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE, WOULD
01:12:01
YOU BE OPEN TO HAVING THAT
01:12:03
COME BACK SOONER TO US THAN
01:12:05
THE DECEMBER 8TH DATE?
01:12:07
I'M CURIOUS ABOUT BEING ABLE
01:12:08
TO -01:12:10
>> I'M OPEN TO THAT IF THE
01:12:12
ADMINISTRATION FEELS THEY
01:12:13
WOULD HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO DO
01:12:17
THAT.
01:12:18

>> THE MOTION HAS WRITTEN -01:12:21


>> IT ALLOWS FOR THAT TO
01:12:23
HAPPEN AS LATE AS DECEMBER
01:12:25
8TH AND WHAT I WOULD BE
01:12:27
CURIOUS ABOUT IS IF THERE IS
01:12:29
INDEED A TIMELINE IN WHICH
01:12:32
CCIG, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT
01:12:33
FOR THEM TO HAVE CERTAINTY
01:12:34
WITH RESPECT TO OUR DECISIONS
01:12:36
HERE AND I MEAN, THERE WERE
01:12:39
ENOUGH CONCERNS RAISED
01:12:40
TONIGHT, IT'S OFFICIAL TO ME
01:12:41

THAT I WOULD WANT TO SEE


01:12:43
SOMETHING IN THE INTERIM
01:12:44
ORDERS THAT WOULD MOVE TO
01:12:46
PROTECT PUBLIC SAFETY BASED
01:12:48
ON THE TESTIMONY WE'VE HEARD
01:12:51
TO HAVE THOSE CONCERNS
01:12:55
MITIGATED BY FURTHER CAM
01:12:56
FACING AND WHETHER OR NOT
01:12:58
THEY WOULD BE TRUE, SUCH THAT
01:13:00
THEY BE TRUE, I THINK IT
01:13:04
PRODUCES CONCERN AND ALARM
01:13:05
FOR THE RESIDENTS OF WEST
01:13:07

OAKLAND WITH RESPECT TO AIR


01:13:08
QUALITY, SO I WOULD WANT TO
01:13:10
SEE AN INTERIM STAFF COME
01:13:13
BACK WITH AN INTERIM ORDER.
01:13:17
MADAM ADMINISTRATOR?
01:13:18
>> SO, IF I COULD ASK FOR
01:13:21
SOME CLARIFICATION, SO YOU
01:13:22
ARE ASKING IF WE COULD -- I
01:13:25
HEARD TWO QUESTIONS, ONE, IF
01:13:26
WE COULD BRING SOMETHING
01:13:28
SOONER THAN DECEMBER 8TH, AND
01:13:30
THEN WHAT WERE YOU ASKING
01:13:31

ABOUT OCTOBER 6TH?


01:13:33
>> IF THE EMERGENCY OR
01:13:35
INTERIM CONTROL COULD BE IN
01:13:36
PLACE WHICH I THINK WOULD
01:13:38
PERMIT FOR LIKE THE 45 DAY
01:13:46
REVIEW.
01:13:46
>> THAT WOULD HAVE TO GO THE
01:13:48
PRINT THIS WEEK AND I WOULD
01:13:48
HAVE TO DEFER TO THE CITY
01:13:50
ATTORNEY ABOUT WHAT WOULD BE
01:13:51
REQUIRED TO BE INCLUDED
01:13:52
IN THE PACKET FOR A 45 DAY,
01:13:55

WHETHER OR NOT WE WOULD EVEN


01:13:56
BE ABLE TO PUT THAT TOGETHER
01:13:59
WITH SOME FINDINGS IN ORDER
01:14:03
FOR US TO ACTUALLY -- I'LL
01:14:05
DEFER TO THE CITY ATTORNEY TO
01:14:06
SPEAK TO THE IMMEDIATE THREAT
01:14:09
TO PUBLIC SAFETY, WHAT THOSE
01:14:11
WOULD BE REQUIRED?
01:14:15
>> I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THE
01:14:16
DATA AND ANY INFORMATION TO
01:14:18
PUT TOGETHER FOR THE
01:14:19
EMERGENCY LEGISLATION, YOU
01:14:21

WOULD NEED THE LEGISLATION


01:14:22
FINDINGS FOR THE COUNCIL TO
01:14:24
ADOPT EMERGENCY LEGISLATION.
01:14:26
YOU WOULD NEED -- SO, THE
01:14:28
COUNCIL -- WE WOULD NEED IN
01:14:29
THE PACKET, COUNCIL WOULD
01:14:31
NEED TO VOTE EMERGENCY
01:14:33
FINDINGS AND THE LEGISLATION
01:14:35
TO TAKE ACTION, SO YOU NEED A
01:14:38
PACKAGE OF THE ACTION.
01:14:41
>> SO, THE SOONEST WOULD BE
01:14:42
OCTOBER 20TH FOR THE MEETING
01:14:44

OF OCTOBER 20TH?
01:14:46
>> WE NEED TO LOOK AT ACTUAL
01:14:51
EXPERT TESTIMONY AND WHAT WE
01:14:52
ALREADY HAVE HERE IN THE
01:14:55
DATA, WE ARE NOT THE EXPERTS
01:14:57
IN THIS, SO JUST TO BE
01:14:58
REALISTIC ABOUT BEING ABLE TO
01:15:01
BRING SOMETHING IMPARTIAL
01:15:04
FROM PROFESSIONALS, THAT WOULD
01:15:05
BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR US
01:15:06
>> THANK YOU FOR THE
01:15:09
CLARIFICATION.
01:15:09

MS. BROOKS?
01:15:11
>> I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE
01:15:14
WE'RE STATING CORRECTLY FOR
01:15:14
THE RECORD BECAUSE THERE'S
01:15:16
BEEN SOME COMMENTS MADE BY US
01:15:17
AND BY THE PUBLIC THAT
01:15:19
WEREN'T TOTALLY ACCURATE WITH
01:15:20
RESPECT TO OUTSIDE AGENCIES.
01:15:22
THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE
01:15:24
BAY AREA AIR QUALITY CONTROL
01:15:26
BOARD INDICATED THE BOARD
01:15:28
TOOK A NEUTRAL POSITION WITH
01:15:29

RESPECT TO THE PROJECT AND


01:15:34
URGED USING GETTING AS MANY
01:15:36
MITIGATION AS POSSIBLE, THERE
01:15:37
WAS NO OFFICIAL LETTER FROM THE
01:15:38
EPA AND IT WAS NOT CLEAR
01:15:40
BASED ON THE TESTIMONY THAT
01:15:43
SINCE USUALLY ISN'T THE WAY
01:15:45
THAT IT'S DONE, THAT SOMEBODY
01:15:46
COMES AND SHARES THEIR
01:15:48
PERSONAL OPINION WITHOUT SOME
01:15:50
SORT OF DOCUMENTATION, SO WE
01:15:51
HAVE NO LETTERS FROM THE EPA
01:15:53

FROM THE FILE, WE KEEP


01:15:56
REFERRING TO THE
01:15:57
DOCUMENTATION THAT'S BEEN
01:15:58
PROVIDED BY OUTSIDE AGENCIES
01:15:59
AND WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING
01:16:02
FROM THE EPA AND, AGAIN, THE
01:16:04
BAY AREA AIR QUALITY
01:16:06
MANAGEMENT BOARD TOOK A
01:16:10
NEUTRAL POSITION THAT WAS
01:16:11
VERIFIED BY THE
01:16:17
REPRESENTATIVE.
01:16:17
>> I HAVE COUNCILMEMBER
01:16:19

CAMPBELL WASHINGTON AND THE


01:16:21
VICE-MAYOR IN THE QUEUE, SO
01:16:22
DO YOU WANT TO MOVE TO
01:16:25
COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL
01:16:27
WASHINGTON.
01:16:28
>> THANK YOU, EARLIER, WHEN I
01:16:29
WAS TALKING ABOUT THE MOTION,
01:16:30
I MENTIONED I WANTED TO
01:16:32
AUTHORIZE THE HIRING OF AN
01:16:35
EXPERT TO REVIEW THE DATA AND
01:16:37
TESTIMONY AND SO I JUST
01:16:40
WANTED TO ASK ABOUT THAT
01:16:41

FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO INCLUDE


01:16:43
THAT BECAUSE IF OUR STAFF
01:16:45
NEEDS AN EXPERT TO HIRE, I
01:16:47
WANTED TO GO AHEAD AND
01:16:49
AUTHORIZE THAT.
01:16:50
>> IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT
01:16:51
WE DON'T NEED TO DO THAT,
01:16:53
THEY ALREADY HAVE THAT
01:16:55
AUTHORIZATION IF THEY FEEL
01:16:57
THEY NEED TO, THEY'RE NOT
01:16:59
GOING TO SPEND MORE THAN 100
01:17:01
THOUSAND DOLLARS, RIGHT NOW I
01:17:02

DON'T WANT TO THROW THAT IN A


01:17:04
MOTION, I THINK THEY CAN MAKE
01:17:06
THAT DECISION, I RESPECT THE
01:17:08
CITY ADMINISTRATOR, IT'S
01:17:08
WITHIN THEIR JURISDICTION TO
01:17:10
DO THAT, AND IF THEY NEED TO
01:17:12
COME BACK TO US, THEY CAN, SO
01:17:14
THEY'RE NOT -01:17:15
>> AND THEN I HAD ONE OTHER
01:17:17
QUESTION WHICH IS EITHER TO
01:17:18
THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR OR THE
01:17:21
CITY ATTORNEY WHICH IS AT
01:17:22

THIS POINT, CAN WE ONLY


01:17:24
ADDRESS PUBLIC HEALTH AND
01:17:26
SAFETY IN THE SURROUNDING
01:17:27
AREAS OF THE PROJECT OR IS
01:17:32
THE LARGER QUESTION OF
01:17:34
CLIMATE BEING -- IS THAT
01:17:37
CONTEMPLATED AND ADDRESSED AS
01:17:37
FAR AS THE TESTIMONY THAT'S
01:17:39
GOING TO BE REVIEWED?
01:17:43
>> IT'S THE DATA THAT WILL BE
01:17:47
REVIEWED -- MARK'S GOING TO
01:17:47
SPEAK TO THAT.
01:17:49

>> MADAM PRESIDENT, I THINK


01:17:50
THAT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE TO
01:17:51
TAKE BACK AND CONSIDER AND
01:17:52
GET BACK TO YOU AT A LATER
01:17:55
TIME.
01:17:56
>> IF I MAY THROUGH THE
01:17:59
CHAIR, -01:18:01
>> DID YOU UNDERSTAND MS.
01:18:03
CAMPBELL WASHINGTON -01:18:05
>> I THINK THAT WAS A NO.
01:18:10
HE WAS ASKING IF YOU
01:18:12
UNDERSTAND WHAT I THINK YOU
01:18:14

SAID AND YOU DON'T KNOW YET.


01:18:17
>> IT'S I WILL GET BACK TO
01:18:18
YOU AND IT'S ONE OF THE
01:18:20
THINGS THAT WE WILL
01:18:22
CONSIDER WITH MANY THING THAT
01:18:24
IS WERE RAISED TONIGHT.
01:18:25
>> I WAS JUST SAYING
01:18:27
OBVIOUSLY THAT I DIDN'T FULLY
01:18:29
AGREE WITH WHAT THE CITY
01:18:31
ATTORNEY'S REPRESENTATIVE
01:18:32
JUST SAID, A LOT OF THE
01:18:34
PRESENTATIONS I HEARD TONIGHT
01:18:36

WERE HOW CLIMATE CHANGE


01:18:38
AFFECTS PUBLIC HEALTH
01:18:39
INCLUDING THE PUBLIC HEALTH
01:18:41
IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES HERE
01:18:43
IN THE BAY AREA, THEY'RE NOT
01:18:48
ACCEPT RAT ISSUE, THEY'RE
01:18:49
OVERLAPPING ISSUES.
01:18:50
>> SO, I GUESS I RAISED THAT
01:18:53
TO SAY ARE WE BEING CLEAR
01:18:54
HERE IN WHAT WE'RE SAYING.
01:18:58
>> I THINK THEY WILL BE
01:19:00
REVIEWING EVERYTHING THAT
01:19:01

THEY DETERMINED THEY CAN


01:19:02
REVIEW.
01:19:02
>> THAT'S THE ONLY POINT I WAS
01:19:04
MAKING, THANK YOU.
01:19:05
>> YES.
01:19:06
>> ALRIGHT.
01:19:06
>> THERE'S A MOTION ON THE
01:19:09
FLOOR AS PRESENTED TON DIAS
01:19:11
BY MR. KALB AS AMENDED WITH
01:19:14
FRIENDLY ORDINANCES TO KEEP
01:19:16
THE PUBLIC HEARING OPEN UNTIL
01:19:20
CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON MONDAY
01:19:22

OCTOBER 5TH, IS THAT CORRECT,


01:19:24
TO CLOSE THE BUSINESS AT 5:00
01:19:26
P.M. TO EVALUATE THE EVIDENCE
01:19:29
SUBMITTED AFTER REVIEWING THE
01:19:29
EVIDENCE TO PRESENT OPTIONS
01:19:30
TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR
01:19:35
CONSIDERATION, RETURNING NO
01:19:36
LATER THAN DECEMBER 8TH -01:19:37
>> WITH THE AMENDMENT OF THE
01:19:39
SURROUNDING AREAS.
01:19:40
>> AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS
01:19:42
WITH OPTIONS TO BE CONSISTENT
01:19:44

WITH THE DEVELOPMENT


01:19:47
AGREEMENT SECTION 3.042 AS
01:19:49
ENUMERATE AND TO PRESENT A
01:19:52
STATUS REPORT ON THIS ISSUE
01:19:55
ON THE MEETING.
01:19:56
IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED,
01:19:57
ALL IN FAVOR?
01:19:58
>> AYE.
01:19:59
>> ANY OPPOSED, ANY
01:20:02
ABSTENTIONS, HEARING NO
01:20:03
OPPOSITION OR ABSTENTIONS,
01:20:05
THAT IS UNANIMOUS.
01:20:07

THANK YOU, FOLKS, MR. GALLO,


01:20:09
WE HAVE OPEN FORUM AND THEN
01:20:11
WE'LL ADJOURN, WE HAVE ONE
01:20:13
SPEAKER IN OPEN FORUM, I
01:20:17
BELIEVE.
01:20:22
>> MY NAME IS JAVIER RAYAS,
01:20:27
I'M MORE QUALIFIED THAN
01:20:28
EVERYBODY HERE, I'M A
01:20:30
MATERIAL SAFETY DATA
01:20:31
SPECIALIST FOR THE PACIFIC
01:20:33
FLEET, NOT ONLY DO I KNOW HOW
01:20:35
TO MOVE THAT STUFF AROUND, I
01:20:36

CAN BAG THAT AROUND, I CAN


01:20:38
PUT IT ON AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER
01:20:40
AND PUT IT ON A TRUCK, BUT
01:20:43
THAT'S NOT THE POINT, THAT'S
01:20:45
THE POINT, BECAUSE I'M NOT
01:20:48
WORKING BECAUSE I WAS TREATED
01:20:50
LIKE A HUMAN TORCH AND
01:20:53
COULDN'T GET ANY EMPLOYMENT,
01:20:55
SO ALL THAT STUFF YOU GUYS
01:20:56
ARE TALKING ABOUT, I'M THE
01:20:57
GOVERNMENT EXPERT, I DID THE
01:20:59
DAMN JOBS SO I'M TELLING YOU,
01:21:01

THE ONLY GUY I HEARD OUT HERE


01:21:03
TODAY WAS THE PERSON THAT
01:21:05
TALKED ABOUT THE EYES, THE
01:21:11
NOSE, THE EARS AND THROAT,
01:21:12
WATER, YOU GET THAT STUFF ON
01:21:14
YOUR SKIN, IT'S LIKE RUBBING
01:21:17
CHEMICALS LIKE ASBESTOS OUT
01:21:19
THERE, I WANT TO TELL YOU,
01:21:21
I'M THE REAL DEAL, FROM THE
01:21:23
PACIFIC FLEET, I HAVE PAPER
01:21:25
WORK TO SHOW THAT I'M MORE OF
01:21:27
AN EXPERT THAN ALL THESE
01:21:29

GUYS, OCEA IS A JOKE.


01:21:41
>> THE NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
01:21:42
>> DO WE HAVE 15 MINUTES.
01:21:44
>> NO, ONE MINUTE, SIR.
01:21:46
>> WHY ONE MINUTE, 15 MINUTES
01:21:48
IS SUPPOSED TO BE RESERVED
01:21:50
FOR OPEN FORUM AND YOU CHOSE
01:21:52
OPEN FORUM TO BE AT THE END
01:21:53
RATHER THAN THE BEGINNING SO
01:21:55
I'M ASKING ->> TWO MINUTES.
01:21:58
>> FOR THE RECORD, GENE
01:22:01
HAZARD, AGAIN, YOU CAN GO TO

01:22:04
CLEANOAKLAND.COM AND LOOK AT
01:22:08
GENE'S BLOG.
01:22:12
NOW, PHIL TAGAMI ASSIGNED HIS
01:22:14
RIGHTS TO TLS, SO THAT MEANS
01:22:16
THERE WAS A CHANGE IN THE
01:22:19
INITIAL CONTRACT.
01:22:20
DID THEY COME BACK BEFORE
01:22:24
YOU, THIS BODY, TO DETERMINE
01:22:25
WHETHER OR NOT THAT WAS GOING
01:22:28
TO BE ASSIGNED?
01:22:30
DID THEY?
01:22:31
SO, YOU NEED TO TAKE THAT

01:22:33
BECAUSE IF YOU DIDN'T, THEN
01:22:37
EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN
01:22:37
HAPPENING SHOULD BE NULL AND
01:22:39
VOID BECAUSE IT'S NOT PHIL
01:22:42
TAGAMI, WE HEARD CCIG, BUT
01:22:45
IT'S TLS WHO IS THE
01:22:50
PRESUMPTIVE TENANTS.
01:22:50
YOU DIDN'T MAKE AN AGREEMENT
01:22:53
WITH HIM, THEM, JERRY BRIDGES
01:22:56
OR [INAUDIBLE], SO LEGALLY,
01:22:59
YOU COULD NULLIFY THAT.
01:23:01
LEGALLY, THAT WAS ONLY ONE

01:23:03
MINUTE, AND LEGALLY, YOU
01:23:04
SHOULD BE ABLE TO NOT APPLY
01:23:07
FOR THE -- BECAUSE THE
01:23:09
PRIVATE DEVELOPER CANNOT GO
01:23:12
TO THE COUNTY AND APPLY FOR
01:23:14
THOSE FUNDS.
01:23:14
YOU HAVE TO DO THAT, SO MY
01:23:20
QUESTION TO YOU, AGAIN, PHIL
01:23:21
TAGAMI IS USING THE BAIT AND
01:23:23
SWITCH AND NONE OF YOU, NOT
01:23:26
ONLY WERE YOU NOT
01:23:29
INDIFFERENT, YOU REMAINED

01:23:30
SILENT WHEN I CAME BEFORE
01:23:31
THIS BODY AND SAID HE DIDN'T
01:23:33
HAVE A BUSINESS CONTRACT, YOU
01:23:35
AUTHORIZED AN LDDA AND YOU
01:23:36
DIDN'T HAVE -- AND THAT WAS
01:23:43
FOR PROLOGIS CCIG, THIS WOULD
01:23:44
NEVER HAVE OCCURRED BUT YOU
01:23:46
SAT THERE KEEPING QUIET WHEN
01:23:47
I BROUGHT YOU THE FACTS.
01:23:50
YOU HAD THE FACTS, BUT YOU
01:23:54
REFUSED TO ASK CONTRACT
01:23:55
COMPLIANCE, DID HE HAVE A

01:23:57
BUSINESS LICENSE, WHEN I
01:24:02
ASSUMED IT TOOK THAT INTO
01:24:05
ACCOUNT, I KNEW WHAT I WAS UP
01:24:07
AGAINST, JERRY BROWN WAS THE
01:24:10
APPOINTEE AND JERRY CAN TALK
01:24:11
OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF HIS
01:24:14
MOUTH AS WELL, ASK HIS
01:24:17
PROTG, TALK OUT OF BOTH
01:24:20
SIDES OF THEIR MOUTH, THEY
01:24:21
WOULD SAY ONE THING OR
01:24:23
ANYTHING AT ALL AND YOU GUYS
01:24:24
GO FOR IT, YOU GO FOR IT

01:24:26
EVERY SINGLE TIME, WHEN
01:24:28
YOU'RE GOING TO OPEN YOUR
01:24:29
MOUTH.
01:24:29
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR.
01:24:33
HAZARD.
01:24:33
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR.
01:24:35
RAYAS, NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
01:24:40
>> THANK YOU, MR. RAYAS, YOU
01:24:43
HAD YOUR TIME, IT'S MS.
01:24:46
TANGERI'S TIME AT THE MIC.,
01:24:48
THANK YOU.
01:24:49
>> BARBARA TANGERI, PRESIDENT

01:24:52
MCELHANEY, PROCEDURE RULES
01:24:53
STATE, ONE, THE PUBLIC HAD 15
01:24:55
MINUTES TO SPEAK DURING OPEN
01:24:58
FORUM AND THAT'S ESPECIALLY
01:24:59
AT THE BEGINNING, AND TWO, NO
01:25:02
SEEDING TIME DURING OPEN
01:25:05
FORUM, SEVERAL MONTHS AGO,
01:25:07
THREE PEOPLE SIGNED UP FOR
01:25:09
OPEN FORUM, GENE HAZARD,
01:25:10
MYSELF AND ANOTHER PERSON,
01:25:11
YOU ELECTED TO GIVE EACH OF
01:25:13
US ONE MINUTE, THE 12 MINUTES

01:25:16
REMAINING WERE ADDED TO OTHER
01:25:18
ISSUES ON THE AGENDA, ABOUT
01:25:20
TWO WEEKS AGO, YOU
01:25:23
SELECTIVELY ALLOWED OPEN
01:25:24
FORUM SPEAKERS TO SEED TIME
01:25:26
TO OTHERS GOING BEYOND THE
01:25:28
PROCEDURE RULES OF 15 MINUTES
01:25:30
ALLOWED.
01:25:30
THE SELECTIVE PROCEDURE TO
01:25:33
ALLOW SOME PUBLIC SPEAKERS
01:25:35
AND NOT OTHERS TO STATE THEIR
01:25:37
ISSUE IS DEFINED IN MY

01:25:39
OPINION AS DISCRIMINATION.
01:25:41
YET YOU RECOGNIZE PEOPLE HALF
01:25:43
HOUR OR MORE, THE TIME YOU
01:25:45
USE GOING -- SHOULD GO TO
01:25:48
OPEN FORUM GIVING THE PUBLIC
01:25:50
AN OPPORTUNITY TO VOICE THEIR
01:25:51
OPINION, SINCE THIS CURRENT
01:25:53
ADMINISTRATION CAME ON BOARD
01:25:55
IN JANUARY, THE GOVERNING OF
01:25:58
THIS CITY IS WEAK.
01:26:00
THANK YOU.
01:26:01
>> THANK YOU, MS. TANGERI.

NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.


01:26:06
>> BRUCE NIGH, I JUST WANTED
01:26:09
TO MENTION IF YOU WANT TO
01:26:11
EVALUATE THE POLLUTION LEVELS
01:26:12
IN WEST OAKLAND, THERE ARE
01:26:14
CURRENTLY A LOT OF PROGRAMS
01:26:16
SUCH AS SENSES THROUGH MIT,
01:26:19
MICROSOFT HAS CITY NEXT
01:26:20
PROGRAM, THEY PUT UP A BUNCH
01:26:23
OF ENVIRONMENTAL SENSORS ALL
01:26:24
THROUGH THE AREA AND IT CAN
01:26:26
CREATE AN ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL
01:26:27

WHICH IS ESSENTIAL FOR CULPABILITY,


01:26:30
WHEN THE MONARCH
01:26:33
BUTTERFLIES GOT WIPED OUT
01:26:34
FROM POLLEN, WE KNOW IT
01:26:36
HAPPENS BECAUSE OF THEIR
01:26:37
POLLEN BUT WE COULDN'T MODEL
01:26:39
IT, THAT IS ESSENTIAL, TO
01:26:42
CREATE A MODEL, THERE ARE
01:26:44
THESE PROGRAMS, CITY NEXT
01:26:45
FROM MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY.
>> THANK YOU.
01:26:49
ARE THERE NO MORE SPEAKERS?
01:26:50
THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.

01:26:53
GOOD NIGHT.
01:26:54
( MEETING IS ADJOURNED ).

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