director kim: thank you. item four. >> board of directors new or old business. director kim: seeing none, item five. >> item 5 is the executive director's report. >> [inaudible] on the design side, we are on schedule with our construction documents. i will ask now for steve to give the presentation on the bulk of the work we're working on now which is construction. thank you. >> good morning, directors. providing construction management oversight. we had a great amount of progress out in the field, really starting to transition into the excavation process. this again is the time line on the main work that is going on right now, which is the buttress, shoring, and excavation package. as we sit here in february 2012, the pre-trenching a running entire course is complete. it has been for a while. the shoring all work is essentially complete with the street crossings -- the shoring wall work. the next major change in the site will be the continuing excavation and implementation of the traffic bridges at first street, and then fremont and beale street to follow later

director brinkman: ok, thank you. that is good. questions from the directors? director heinicke: can we put you back on the spot? not that i have been doing this as long as some have, but there's always complains about the ceqa process. there's always calls to reform it at the state level. those go not very far, so i commend you on what seems to be a sort of creative way to restructure here at the more local level to meet our goals and still satisfy the state act. the first question i had, and it may be from the timing that director reiskin just give us, but what implementation of the plan possibly affect the tep and expedite it? not the plan in our view, but maybe some of the revenue would be available? >> yes, the revenues were very much constrained in how we could use revenues to meet the mitigation fee at an environmental requirements. those constraints dovetail very well with the tep. it will let benefit in terms of its environmental review which is basically the whole environment system, as everything will be for another year so, but the revenues generate

. >> director? director: moving forward, in order to provide supervisor chiu in order to move forward, we may have to weigh in before the final vote on a piece of legislation. i just want to make sure that you are also taking into consideration that there could be a contract where there is an lbe that is not a benefit corporation bidding on an item, and right now, they could both be lbe's, or the benefit corporation could not being an lbe. to make sure that our preference is that the lbe gets that, keeping in mind why we have that preference for them. i just wanted to throw that in in terms that it will not always be benefit corporations versus non benefit corporations potentially bidding on a contract. commissioner: so it would benefit -- is that right? director: in your discussions if you will be talking about percentages, there might be a time when there is a non l;be -- lbe bidding and one bidding. >> commissioner dwight? commissioner dwight: i am struggling that there would be a benefit prefere

i want to get back to the director. with us coming up with percentages right now that might not be fully informed, what that really means, and that we could be given a figure that really understanding the impact of it. do you think we should wait until we hear more about work in 1% or 2%, how that plays out? >> -- director: no, that is not what i wanted you to think about. if you wanted to make a recommendation on the different percentages, i just wanted to make sure we had that discussion, and a motion is made if you want to go in that direction. i think, you know, and perhaps commissioner dwight could clarify -- right now, we have for our lbe and our sba lbe's, which are slightly larger small businesses, we have a discount for them. president o'brien: for being local. director: and we say local because one of the state propositions, we cannot classify our businesses as a woman, minority, or small business, so whenever a local, an lbe designation, which is intended to encompass all of those, so the question comes up, a

and one of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. and moving in there, this was the first mission where in apollo now, where lonnie, charlesworth and myself, who had been flight directors on gemini were actually coming back together again. so you had probably the three most experienced people at the console. and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. and lonnie had been to the moon a couple times. charlesworth had launched saturns, and i had the lunar module experience. so you had no particular driver that says this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. and i was division chief at that time and craft had been really on top of us to nail down who is going to do what. until finally, after the apollo 9 mission, we all managed to get together, and charlesworth as lead had to make the calls. and i called him and i said cliff, we've got to make a decision on which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. and this is probably the most anti-climactic meeti

obviously they needed a flight director on shift here. myself and pete frank carried the time frame while they were off getting their awards. and flight directors came back from the awards, took a look at what we had done from a standpoint of flight planning, threw it all out and started from scratch. the other thing that was neat -- really something -- chuck lewis had been suffering from stomach problems all through the final mission and until finally he required emergency surgery. so two weeks prior to the end of the mission i was recalled back to my flight director duties and sat his shift from the time he had the surgery until the mission was over. so basically i had covered the gemini, the apollo and the sky lab missions as a flight director. so it was probably the longest span in history of any of the flight directors that were doing the business. >> couldn't keep the old war horse off the -- >> no. no. once you get into the -- into this business, i was a fighter pilot. when you left the cockpit, you really realized that you had los

director kim: thank you. could we please call item 6, public comment? >> yes, public comment is an opportunity for members of the public to address the authority on matters that are not on today's calendar. we do have a speaker card. director kim: thank you. if there are other members of the public that want to speak, please line up. >> good morning, board. my name is gilbert. i work for the carpenters' union. but a carpenter for 33 years. i also went to john o'connell. you're sort a graduate -- i am a graduate of john o'connell. i want to let you know we're working very closely with john o'connell as far as keeping them in the loop in training their students to possibly come to the carpenters' union or some of the other unions that exists here in san francisco. we have been also working with dust. maria mentioned that we donated books to the class for the future, all donated by local 22, so we are very happy we are working together with john o'connell, because as you know, it is a trade school. when they got

jerry griffin was flight director.ohn aaron was just a few second of reflection calls up jerry griffin and says, flight have the crew take sce to ox. this was a recommendation no flight director had ever heard, no crew had ever heard, no cap com had ever heard. jerry said sce to ox? and cap com says sce to ox? all with question marks behind them. we voice this up to the crew. pete conrad in the voice tapes that we got after the mission onboard, he's talking to his crew members. he says, sce to ox? what the hell is that? we repeat this statement one more. well al bean -- each one of the crew members in the spacecraft had a portion of the command module that they were responsible for. and down in the fourth switch in on the lower edge of the main display panel is a switch which is signal conditioning equipment power normal auxillary. so he flips this thing down to auxiliary. all of a sudden the data is restored properly in mission control. now the controllers can get back to work. well, what we had is we had a two-minute

is what the directors have chosen to do. actually one case when june o'neill was cbo director appointed just after the republicans went back to congress in 1994, the assumption was she was going to clean the place out. the house republicans, the leadership in the house very much wanted her to do that. they assumed because cbo staff had been there for a long, democratic rule that must mean they were giving comfort to the democrats. the senate republicans, particularly pete they medici --domenici did not want that to happen much to the surprise of health republicans. >> how big is the congressional budget office? >> it is about two hundred fifty people. its budget is somewhere in the neighborhood of $25 million or $30 million. but it is not a big agency. in fact it has an awful lot more influence than you would think an agency of 250 people would have. >> host: why was alice rivlin so important in the early days? >> guest: she was important because she had a clear vision for what she wanted the agency to do. and she set out to

director gathering. [laughter] having spent four years doing right of way infrastructure work in san francisco, it is not sexy, it is critically important to the economy and quality of life for those of us in san francisco. this bond will make it easier and safer for people to get around san francisco on foot by improving sidewalks, intersections, better striping, countdown signals it will make it easier and safer for people to get around on bicycles by improving and adding more bicycle lanes, making them safer, separating them from traffic wherever we can. it will make it easier and more efficient to get around on transit because we will be improving our traffic signal controllers so the traffic signals talk to the others so that the buses move faster. this will be helping -- happening on the smoother pavement that these dollars will bring to san francisco. it is an important investment in infrastructure. you put those things together making it easier and more attractive to walk, bike, and take transit.

deputy director sweeney, deputy city attorney. my name is joseph butler, an architect in private practice in san francisco 24 years now. a member of the american institute of architects for the past 22 years. today, i am requesting that the building inspection commission convene a hearing next month on the failure of director day to make a determination about whether or not a permit application 2011 02250973 for 550 jersey street was issued in error. we believe it must be revoked, because the san francisco building code has not been upheld. the city charter grants commissions the power to hold hearings. this commission has a specific responsibility for the enforcement and administration, and interpretation of the city's building mechanical, electrical and plumbing bills. the charter appendix describes the bic's powers and duties. shall inspect and recommend additions, alterations, and repairs covered by the san francisco code. the commission may reverse, a firm, or modify determinations made by the department of building inspectio

but will come and reiskin, director of the sfmta. -- let's welcome ed reiskin, director of the sfmta. >> we are charged with implementing the city's transit first policy. in order for transit first to work in san francisco, we need excellent taxi service. as much as we would like to see you hot on muni, your bike, or what we need to go, sometimes you need a car. from a transportation perspective, the most efficient way for us to meet that need, one of them is through taxicabs. i think presidents chiu's experience this morning manifest that. with better service, his girlfriend can get rid of her car. to the extent we can meet that need in san francisco with cleaner vehicles, then we are achieving environmental goals as well. paul's reminder to us, with those sobering statistics, it is really important. it is not just his use of oxidation reduction reaction, which is a phrase that you do not often hear in a press conference. those numbers are why a lot of us are doing the work we are doing. this is extremely important, not just to san francisco, but to our planet. i want to thank paul a

director? just to get this over? director: there is a high-level complication in terms of having the controllers office dealing with setting some calculations, and i think in terms of oca and hrc, we have gone to the straight percentage. now, if the comptroller saba's is to help provide some information to make those determinations, but i would think, and catherine, you can speak to this, but i am hesitant to say that the controller, that would be a whole new piece of legislation that we would have to draft. commissioner dwight: as supervisor chiu has said, if that has to be a second issue, he is happy to promote that. that was contemplated in the establishment of an apprenticeship get for being an lbe. most rapidly, to get out of the argument about whether it should be different for an inside company versus an outside company, so our recommendation was that it should be no more than 6%, no less than 2%, and that it should be applied equally to a local or a non local company. that would be enough guidance to allow th

we're glad to have the director of national intelligence, james clamper and dia director general ron burgess as our witnesses. we thank you both for your long and continued service to our nation on behalf of our troops to whom we all owe so much. this committee has a special responsibility to the men and women of our armed forces, to be vigilant, decisions to use our military force and the planning for operations depends so heavily on intelligence. last year there are clear signs of progress in afghanistan, afghan security forces are in the lead in providing security in kabul, including during the gathering of over 2,000 afghan lead leaders. the afghan army and police are in charge of former taliban strong holds in southern afghanist afghanistan. in addition planners have developed a plan for the military's combined team operation. the afghan army is widely respected and even the afghan police, traditionally lagging far behind in that virtue are gaining increasing respect among the afghan people. nevertheless, security remains fragile. the key to progress on security in afghanistan i

please call item four. >> executive director's report. this is an information item. >> good morning, executive director. i have still to present to you meet annual report -- the annual report. i will keep my comments in line with that. i just wanted to clarify for you come as a corollary to the statement the chair just made about the funding arrangements for resolving the funding issues for the second phase of the doral drive -- doyle drive. we are planning a short meeting next tuesday to take care of that. you will receive a notice on that soon. and i will keep my other comments for the annual report. commissioner campos: one of the things i tried to avoid is having the special meetings. please say why there is a need for a special meeting -- meeting, and the timing for this is such, unless action is not taken by a specific time, we may lose some funding. >> absolutely. this has been a very complex process getting a solution on the issue. it required i attend the transportation commission last week and it required several other contacts

she started way back and worked her way up to be the director of enforcement. she took over the residential parking permit office in 1994, and then the 1999 management of the school crossing guard program. she has increased the number of crossing guard positions to 150. she is providing twice yearly safety trading as well as -- training as well as increasing visibility and safety. it is sometimes a very difficult job, one that is important for our children to get to school safely. the other thing i learned about martha is that she recently announced plans to retire after 34 years. there will be some big shoes to fill. in the evening that i am leaving the office, it seems that she is in there at her desk, working away. we will certainly miss her when she chooses to actually retire. we are happy to be a knowledge in her for her grade service today. does mr. yee want to say a few words? >> good afternoon . movements like this are always vigorously. her colleagues from the program, we are very pleased to be recognizing her for a long career and her years of service

>> i would agree with what director clapper said. i would agree with the clarification because of the movement of the 3 1/2 to 20% enrichment, this is a leap and not that much of a bigger leap to the bigger 90% that they would need to go to. >> great. thank you. do you both agree that -- is it your assessment that p if iran makes a decision to build a nuclear weapons capability in effect axhooefs it, that it is likely to set off a nuclear arms race within the region? in other words, that other countries -- saudi arabia, for instance -- will want to have a nuclear weapons capacity? >> it's certainly a possibility, sir. absolutely. >> and is it also fair to say -- we've talked about the iranian sponsorship of terrorism -- if they had nuclear weapons capability, it might embolden nem in their use of terrorism against regional opponents and even the united states? >> yes, sir, it would serve as a -- as a deterrent. even to a certain extent the ambiguity exists now as a deterrent and serves to help embolden them. >> i'll go to cyber secur

i would like to introduce the executive director to say a few words. [applause] >> you know we will tell you what we think. we will keep on that. i want to thank the political leadership behind me and the amazing leadership of the family around me. we're so proud to be part of the bond passing. i bike regularly on 17th street. this is a very welcome news of the bond funds to repay the 17th street. it is a great example of how far our money can go. these planes were strike less than a year ago. we have seen noticeable increases in the number of people biking on the street. this has happened throughout the city. every time we have dedicated space to biking, we see increases in the number of people biking. we will see the same kind of improvements and changes in safety when our roads are paved and smooth. it could not matter more to someone on a bicycle. the numbers of people boking in san francisco -- the numbers of people biking in san francisco are skyrocketing. that is good for our environment, public health, and quality of life. it is also good for o

directors, questions or comments? director heinicke: thank you for the update on where we are with the taxi report in the quarterly reporting. as i understand it, we are planning to hear, at some point, a proposal first half on how to proceed with medallion sales and what the next step is following that pilot program. is that correct? >> that is correct. i don't know if it is the next meeting, but one of the march meetings to hear from the taxi advisory commission that have contemplated something like 19 different proposals as well as a recommendation from the staff that will capture many of the elements of their proposals. >> i saw the presentation that you and the deputy director put together for the board of supervisors. i appreciate that. on the parking proposal in these five neighborhoods, we have heard an awful lot about -- i just have one question. as you look at this again, what i be correct in understanding that one of the options you may consider would be the expansion of the rpp program or mixture of rpp an

director. peaceful revolution in the arab world have happened if repress sieve governments in the -- repressive governments in the region had been successful in sensoring twitter, facebook, internet search engines and electronic communications? >> well in some cases they tried to do that. i am not sure the success of these upheavals if you will were completely dependent on social media. i think the basic problems, in this region, particularly economic, repression of political freedoms and all that, would have bubbled up anyway. i think the social media simply helped foment and amplify that resentment when people understood it was a large collective. so, i think the social media certainly facilitated it but i don't think, without it, it would not have happened. of course some of the governments reacted to that by, their attempts to suppress such communications. >> i won't continue this. i want to ask something of mr. goldberg but i don't know how the word would have gotten out. i mean if you loo

president o'brien: director? are you finished? commissioner clyde: well, now i'll make my comments now that i have had some clarity on issues, and i am very supportive of this. i am happy that it has come out of the mayor's office. we have had problems with things happening a little too quickly for information as expressed by all of the other commissioners. in principle, i can support the concept of this going forward in knowing that the mayor's office will work with the business community to make sure that it is as good a charter amendment as it can be. i think for consideration, i hope the board sees it that way. we have had too many instances in my four years on the board that things were just kind of puzzled through and moved through, and someone had to call a halt either on the president or someone at the committee level in order for legislation to be thoroughly and properly vented. i don't think there is any reason to fear a full, thorough, open vetting of any legislation that impact people's likelihoods. i would like to tha

lepore, director of defense capabilities and management, u.s. government accountability office, and fourth and finally, we would have ms. kathryn condon who is the executive director of the army's national cemeteries program. and so general, thank you for beginning. >> chairman wilson, ranking member davis, chairman whitman, ranking member cooper and distinguished members of the subcommittees, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today and for your oversight and support over the past 18 months. it has made a difference at arlington national cemetery. since assuming the duties of the army inspector general in november, i have reviewed our previous inspections, met with the executive director and here team and other stakeholders involved in directing deficiencies found at arlington. to fully appreciate the progress one only has to review the 2010 i.g. report identifying 61 deficiencies. among them, deplorable organizational climate, archaic recordkeeping and automation system, uncontrolled contracting and budgets processes, significant pr

>> i was a lead flight director. it was basically my responsibility to not only pull together my team for the mission events that we had. i would launch the saturn with the crew. i also had many of the maneuvers associated with rendezvous, so it was basically to make sure that my team was up to speed but also to oversee all of the other mission control teams that would be working. one of the real surprises that came out of apollo 9 that really wasn't -- it wasn't picked up immediately, was the workload associated with following two spacecrafts. each with crew members. and that the time that we separated for the rendezvous process, i really had difficulty tracking the spacecraft that was the lunar module, which was the performing the majority of the rendezvous maneuvers and the command module which was basically acquiescent, but it still required a looksy. and i came after the mission debriefing and i talked to the flight directors and i said, you know, once we get into the lunar phase of the program, we go up to the

thank you. >> let me start and then ask director mueller and director petraeus to add in. i think share your concern, not only as leaders in the intelligence community but as american citizens, about the threats and issues that confront us in this hemisphere, and obviously we've been focused on other things, with two wars and all that sort of thing, and we've had problems right here in our own backyard. i think your mentioning of colombia and director petraeus was just there, is a marked success story certainly from an intelligence perspective and the partnership that we forge with the colombian government. we are extrapolating lessons learned from that in other places, notably mexico. i think it also shows that this is a long, hard slog, and once a country is willing to partner with you, which some of them are, then the work begins. what concerns me is the network and that exists in central america as a highway, if you will, for the drugs flowing northward, and we even as we draw down are trying to bring more resources to bear which we can talk to perhaps in a closed sess

some have a board, some have a board and a director, some have a director. examples of each and they all can work well. i do think that in our situation, the law that we are carrying out provides for a single director. that means there's one person, in this case myself, who sits here. and is responsible to you to answer your questions. and if i can't give you a satisfactory answer, i'm responsible to go back and get that answer and bring it back to you. there's no passing the buck. i'd like to say this, but others might say something else and diffuse responsibility. so there is something to be said for that. the accountability i said before lies from our into row to congress. you pass the laws that give us the only authority we have to do anything. we are responsible to you. for how we carry out those laws. you can bring us here to testify any time. you can have us come to meetings and brief your staff, as many of you have done, and we'll listen closely to you and try to make sure you know exactly what you need to know about the work we're doing and have inp

we will be going on site to look at the books and with the director now in place, we have ability to make sure it's true across all financial products and services. the consumer bureau will make clear that violating the law has consequences. we plan to use all the tools available to us to ensure that everyone respects and follows the rules of the road. where we can cooperate with financial institutions to do that, we will. when necessary, we will not hesitate to use enforcement actions to right a wrong. as we move forward with our work, we need to hear directly from the consumers that we protect and the businesses who serve them. we do that on our website, consumerfinance.gov where consumers and businesses are all able to tell us their stories and we make a point to get out of washington and hear from are people first hand. we have held town hall meetings in philadelphia and a field hearing in birmingham. we are hearing from thousands of americans what works and what doesn't. we are listen closely and we hope that you will join us at these events. accomplishing our mission will take

as a plank holder in the director of national intelligence, as i look back, i agree with their way director mueller has put it and director clapper. we have made great strides in many areas. having said that, we still have work to do and we still have challenges remain. >> consistent with the other comments, the bottom line is that al qaeda is weaker now than it has been in the past 10 years. that said, we face a more diffuse and to centralize threat from al qaeda's affiliates in yemen and somalia and threats from loan actors in the united states. as director clapper said, from an organizational perspective, and our ability to handle the threat, we are better positioned and the operative word is it is a team of brothers. we are better positioned to share information, as the vice- chairman commented at the beginning of this hearing, we do a better job of integrating information and analyzing it. we're getting better at providing situational awareness and overall, it is a team effort among all the agencies represented here. >> in terms of something this up, i'm hearing significant progress, s