mr. young: mr. chairman, thank you very much. this amendment is very, very similar to one that the house rejected earlier today. the project that would be funded by this amendment, by the shifting of this money, is not an authorized program to begin with. but even if it were, the army's o&m account in the portion of the bill is funded at over $39.1 billion. and should this project remain in the final authorization bill, the department concurs that if the department -- if the department concurs it is a high enough priority then there are ample funds to cover it with the $39.1 billion and so i see no reason for this amendment and i oppose the amendment an yield back. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new york. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. mr. nadler: mr. speaker. the chair: pursuant to clause -- mr. nadler: i ask for a recorded vote on that. the chair: yes, the gentleman

mr. young: it's been a long-standing policy that this funding is provided at the discretion of the department. historically this subcommittee has provided increased funding for t.b.i. research but refrained from directing how that money should be spent allowing the department to prioritize how best to use that funding for authorized purposes. the chair: reclaiming my time, i would yield back to the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pascrell: that should be what the authorizeation bill pass with this provision on post-acute demrines that the department then has the needed amount of $1 million to really accomplish this objective which we have. mr. chairman, i would ask and request, as usual, your deepest cooperation and no one has done more for our troops than you. >> would the yell yield? mr. pascrell: i would. mr. wrung: i say to the gentleman, he is correct. should the provision be carried on the final authorization bill, then the department would have sufficient resources to fund the provisions

mr. young: mr. chairman, members of the body, in all due respect, this is about the state's -- states' right. this does not preclude the state of alaska, the coast guard or anything of enforcement on the yukon river. it does not allow them to enforce inspections for boats on the river that are private. not in a business but private. and i have to tell you a little story about this. this is the really i am very adamant about this. the park service is for the people. it's not for the park service. and the park service of alaska has become very frankly like i would say an occupied army of a free territory. i'll give you an example. this man arrested was 70 years old with his wife who happened to be from germany. i'm going to bring that up a little later. and a couple. 70 years old, 70 years old, 69 years old and 68 years old on a cruise on the yukon river and a very sea weather worthy boat, coast guard inspected, and there was another boat on the river and there was a distressed signal given by the par

mr. young: mr. chairman, i rise in opposition to the amendment. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. young: mr. chairman, this would -- this amendment would offer $10 million to a cut that the kp had already made. in the defensewide accounts. actually, the defense department offered up this -- when we were looking for savings to achieve the $10 billion $the -- the $9 billion, this is one area where the defense department indicated the cut. you will hear me throughout the day and throughout the evening as long as we're dealing with this bill. we had to come up with $9 billion in reductions from the president's request. this is part of where we got the $9 billion, and since the department did not have any objection to this, in fact, offered this up as a possible way of helping with the savings, i must oppose this amendment and ask that the members do so. i yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from vi

mr. young: mr. chairman, i'm having a hard time believing what i'm hearing in this chamber when it comes to national defense. you don't get a book keeper or an accountant to make some slight of hand number to come up with a defense number. it's not how you do it. the way you do it is decide what is the threat. what is the threat in america? what is threatening our allies overseas? what is our threatening our troops or businesses around the world? besides what that threat is and then decide how we're going to meet that threat and that's how you come up with a defense number. i'm not go to go yield. you have had plenty of time. just imagine, we are going back to the good old days of this slashing defense, getting the victory fund and hangar queens are airplanes that can't fly because they don't have engines or don't have parts. in order to make one airplane fly, they had to take apart two or three others and get the parts to make one airplane fly. if you need three or four airplanes in the air but onl

mr. young, do we have any other items? >> [inaudible] supervisor chu: thank you, we are adjourned. >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren't su

mr. young: i reserve a point of order on the gentleman's amendment. the chair: the point of order is reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized for five minutes. mr. tonko: thank you, madam chair. the highest individual government salary funded is that of the president of the united states at a total of $400,000 or so i thought. the president is certainly the highest paid public servant. but it turns out that the leader of the free world isn't actually the highest paid executive on the taxpayers' payroll. in fact, the highest federal government salaries by far can be earned by private sector executives who are paid up to $700,000 per year directly in taxpayer dollars. i do not mean executives who earn their multimillion dollar nngs by selling often overpriced and underperforming equipment to our men and women in uniform. though the customer is the federal government, those salaries are paid through trands actions in the private sector. no, i am talking about the federal government sala

mr. young: mr. chairman, i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. young: mr. chairman, i would first admit that if this gentleman introducing this amendment is nothing it's that he's persistent. after two lengthy days, 10 and 11 hours each day with amendment after amendment being presented we have just seen this amendment in the last five minutes. we'd like to -- we would have liked to have a little time to analyze it. but a quick analysis of this amendment tells me that it's very much like all of the other libyan amendments that we have defeated in the last two days. for example, i believe -- i'm satisfied that this amendment would preclude any search and rescue mission on the part of americans to save americans. i'm satisfied it would prevent us from providing any intelligence, surveillance or reconnaissance. i'm satisfied that it would not permit us to do any aerial refueling of our coalition partners and our nato partners. i'm satisfied that th

mr. young, do we have any other items? >> [inaudible] supervisor chu: thank you, we are adjourned. >> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting. supervisor avalos: present. supervisor campos: present. president chiu: present. supervisor chu: present. supervisor cohen: present. supervisor elsbernd: present. supervisor kim: here. supervisor mar: present. supervisor mirkarimi: present. supervisor weiner: present. >> all members are present. president chiu: thank you. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. colleagues, we have copies of the june 21 meeting minutes. motion to approve by a supervisor mirkarimi seconded by campos. those are approved. >> i have no communications. president chiu: could you read the consent agenda? >> these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote unless a member requests discussion of a matter, which will be considered separately. president chiu: would anyone like to sever any of these items? >> on items one through six -- supervisor chu: aye. supervis

mr. young, the 1:00 schedule and agenda, items 1-5. >> item number one, consolidating budget and annual appropriations. fiscal year ending june 30, 2012 and 2013. item # two, the annual budget. [unintelligible] >> and would you call from the 1:05 scheduled meeting. >> item #one fiscal year ending june 30, 2012 and 2013. item #2, fiscal year ending june 30, 2012, fiscal year ending in june 30, 2013. item #3 no, -- >> mr. clerk, we have to the bill agendas. 1:00 and 1:05. can i take a formal motion to combine the two? >> motion. >> ok, we can do that without objection. thank you, colleagues. this is the culmination of a of a very long budget process. before we take comments from individuals and give our thanks to those who worked very hard on this, i wanted to make a motion to accept a package that you see before you. what you see before you is a summary of the budget balancing plan. it represents roughly $17.3 million worth of changes and adjustments to the budget at this time. this represents r

about it should our cameras take you to the action we now take you to a briefing recently opened by mr young mr hello ladies and gentleman this morning just after midnight u.s. president barack obama called to inform me that his government no longer intends to build a radar base in the czech republic for the anti-missile defense system. and i doubt it but iraq at. them i immediately informed the president of the republic. called me out of the conversation go which in english of course it took place twenty one minutes after midnight. on the way to ladies and gentlemen thank you for participating in this special briefing until next time thank you. that's goodbye and have a pleasant day. changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed. the head that's the only missile we like not us not for here's to us cheers and i'd like to thank all the citizens those seventy percent and all the mayors and civic initiatives. athletes and i got drunk and i'm driving. property you know i could be going to be with a hunting resistance but i believe our sur

mr. young, do we have any announcements? >> please turn off all cellphone. please submit your speaker cards to myself if you wish to speak. if you submit items to the committee, please provide them for the file. supervisor chu: thank you very much. please call item no. 1. >> item #one. ordinance amending the san francisco administrative code sections 12r.5, 12r.7, 12r.16, 12r.17, 12r.18, and 12r.25 to -- enhance the office of labor standards enforcement's enforcement of the city's minimum wage ordinance by clarifying agency access to places of employment -- require a policy to resolve complaints or initiate enforcement actions within one year -- raise the penalty for employer retaliation -- impose a penalty for failure to post minimum wage rates -- provide for posting notice to employees upon commencement of an investigation and public posting of employer non-compliance, and impose penalties for violation of these posting requirements -- impose a penalty for failure to provide employer's name, address, and telephone number to employees -- allow for back wage

mr. young is a gentle man that got us in touch with the board of appeals. youhe is from the board, but i o not know his title. >> i have two comments. one talked about this toward vacating. if we grant you jurisdiction, the best we can do is reduce isn't. that is an interesting choice of a teacher at tonight. -- t-shirt tonight. >> i forgot. >> thank you. we will hear from the department now. >> i am available for any questions if you have got anything you would like to ask me. >> so the department have an opinion about whether this board should grant jurisdiction and? >> i would say there is no objection, because it is going to come before you again. good a contract would do a lot of business with the city. i find it strange there were 15 days. >> that is not too did the original work? >> the violation was given in 2010, and in august, richard issued a first notice of violation, and there was no action, so we sent its to code enforcement, and he is a building inspector. typically, we would refer to the back of the notice of violation. it is pretty clear it

mr. young, do we have any other items? >> [inaudible] supervisor chu: thank you, we are adjourned. >> we do not have a quorum right now. we will start with non-action items and hopefully we will have a quorum when we have action items we have to address. please call the roll. >> commissioner diazjoseph. >> commissioner joseph: here. >> commissioner roja: >> here. >> members may address the commission for up to three minutes at such a time the item is called. does anyone want to address the commission on an item not on tonight's jeagenda? >> i want to say that folks in the north beach corridor are anxiously anticipating the passage of the limited live entertainment area. there are businesses entering in, very excited about the opportunity with this legislation to pass. it is an accessory use so it will help some of the businesses adjust their models. it will be a warm and inviting area. we cannot wait. thank you. >> thank you. we will go to the police department and introduce rich corea who we omitted from the agenda but we

mr. young, do we have any announcements today? >> please turn off all cell phones. if you wish to submit comments, please provide your card to myself. supervisor chu: thank you for might -- thank you very much. please call item no. 1. >> item #one. ordinance amending the san francisco business and tax regulations code by adding article 16-a to provide funds for public safety programs and services to children and senior citizens in the city and county of san francisco by imposing a transactions -- sales -- and use tax at the rate of one-half of one percent -- 0.50% -- for a period of ten years, to be administered by the state board of equalization in accordance with parts 1.6 and 1.7 of division 2 of the california revenue and taxation code -- adopting an expenditure plan -- amending the administrative code by adding section 10.100.321 establishing a special revenue fund -- and directing submission of the tax for voter approval at the november 8, 2011, municipal election. supervisor chu: thank you very much. this item came before us at the last meeting on wednesday.

supervisor chu: before we call item no. 4, i meant to think of -- thank mr. young. your work yesterday on the budget, you were very important in making sure that everything was in place. i wanted to thank you in front of the committee. thank you. [applause] >> item four. item 4. resolution approving the first amendment to contract no. cs - 159 between the san francisco municipal transportation agency and the transbay joint powers authority for transbay transit center program services pursuant to charter section 9.118 in an amount not to exceed $3,280,677. supervisor chu: thank you. for this item, we have joy hoolihan from the mta. >> good afternoon, president, supervisors. for this amendment, basically, we are asking for an additional $997,000 for services over the course of the next five years. extending the contract for an additional 11.5 months over the regional contract amount. basically, it is for traffic calming, bus services, to keep the buses on schedule and on time, and we have already provided the services for the beginning of august of last year. we antic

supervisor chu: before we call item no. 4, i meant to think of -- thank mr. young. your work yesterday on the budget, you were very important ak

mr. young: thank you, madam speaker. we need to cut spending now. we need to control spending in the future. but the american people understand that our foremost constitutional duty here in congress is to make sure that america is safe. former secretary gates said that further cuts to our milita will mean there are certain things our military won't be able to do and places they won't be able to go. this proposal, the reid-obama plan, proposes to cut spending by $859 billion or 10 years compared to the president's fiscal year 2011 budget. yet, the president and senator reid has told us which places won't be going and which missions we won'ting doing. it's irresponsible. i can't support this proposal. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, at this time i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from texas, a member of the committee of the ways and means, mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempe: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. dogge