i appreciate your points on that. i appreciate that your mother of three and during public school parents. that is important. we have two women serving on the police commission and i am glad the mayor did appoint a woman on the sea. i do have to concur with supervisor campos. i think we do disagree on this one issue around the task force. the police commission is a civilian oversight body first and we certainly when it comes to managing and supporting sfpd on a lot of its views, that is the role of the chief. i would hope that in terms of responding to our community concerns around beginning positions on how our city sits on important issues like civil liberties that that is something we can continue to engage in discussion about. i appreciate your work and i think that also coming from working with young people is an important perspective to bring. one of the preventative measures we can take to make our city safer is a course on health and wellness. of all the members of our city but in particular, our young people

we appreciate it. and i also want to thank my colleague, senator baucus, who has been a rock, helping stick up for our part of the country. i really deeply appreciate senator baucus, how you've provided leadership over and over on issues critical to our part of the country, and to senator ohio valleyen as well. a new member of the committee, colleague of mine from my home state. i deeply appreciate the new energy that he's brought to this committee, as well, and sticking um for our state. >> thank you very much. i should just clarify that we actually will have to offer the energy amendment, but we're set with it, but we will have to offer that today. so let me turn now to senator chambliss, who also has been someone who's obviose obvious ts leadership over the years in and in agriculture. i know we still have work to do and i'm looking forward to that, and i very much appreciate your championing the interests of georgia and of the south, and we're looking forward to continue to work with you on it. >>

i appreciate you using some of those ideas and what more can i say in appreciation to you and to the ranking member? you've both done a great job. i will offer an insight that writing the farm bill from this table is a lot different from writing the farm bill in the office of the usda. but the great thing about this committee is there's such deep experience. you know, you look at this committee, you virtually everybody here has great ag background. they've either chaired this committee or been ranking members. so it's been very, very helpful in flushing out my ideas, as i thought about this package. i've been to camp saying let's move forward. i'm going to support your efforts today, because i do believe it's a great first step, and we need to move this process along. a couple of thoughts i would offer. the ag economy has experienced a remarkable few years here. it is really stronger than it's ever been in some aspects. it's historically strong. in recent years, many producers have seen the opportunity to feed people or provide clothing or fuel in parts of the world that they probabl

i appreciate that.ervisor chiu: colleagues, i very much appreciate your support in this process. the legislation that we are looking at today looks very different from the legislation last year. i want to take a moment in thank the budget analyst. mr. rose, your office made a lot of suggestions that we inc., including having them be responsible for many of the regulatory issues around this. certainly the chairman's suggestion around the most efficient way being open to possibilities in the future of doing this even better. one issue that we came up with, i know that this was whether we were conferring specific benefits in san francisco and not one that we would be able to leave with. that being said, i think that stating that a non-san francisco benefit corporation or non- regional verses a regional company, that would be reasonable proxy to consider the impact of local businesses here in the bay area. i certainly, with reviews of this legislation every six months, but hopefully over the next few years

component parts -- >> i appreciate that. >> it's what i do. >> i appreciate that. it's an incredibly important industry, one of our largest export industries in america. he may be supportive of it, but the things he says when he speaks and his notion that we should increase user fees and he wants to increase taxes on general aviation users are inconsistent with your statement that he is supportive of that. so anything you can do to help make sure that folks want to use these as business tools, they're very efficient, they're a great product, and we make them here in the united states of america. i want to turn to a second topic. you said you go out to a lot of manufacturers. i actually was a manufacturer for a few years before i came here. when you ask them the things that restrict their ability to create and grow jobs and they list the top three or four, do any of them talk about receiving federal grants as important to their desire to grow jobs. do they say, mr. secretary, the most important thing you could do for me would be to provide a federal grant to my busi

>> let me appreciate the people that came out to speak today.n him for a while, as a father, for sure, but also as someone who has done the a ton of hard work, and from everyone i have spoken with, one of the most well-respected people in city government. we're lucky to have someone of his caliber to be involved. we may not agree on all issues, but the discourse and dialogue is what is most important in my mind. i think to be well served to have him back. i will fully support him and fully support his efforts in going forward as well. i don't know if there are any other comments, but i am happy to make a recommendation to the full board. >> we have a motion to confirm the reappointment to the municipal transportation authority board of directors. let me thank you for your service and afford to supporting you on tuesday. can you please call items #five and six together? >> motion confirming the mayor is reappointment to the police commission, and to the term ending april 30 to the police commission. >> i decided to call these items together, who

and i have always appreciated that. come away from those meetings absolutely convinced that you and your team have the best interest of vets in your heart and you're trying to do everything you can to deal with all of the problems that we are going to mention today. but one of the things that we have found in working with vets in my senate office and it is the reality of the veterans administration is every veteran has an individual problem. that's not easily solved with one sweeping policy approach or whatever. we have found that we really have to sit down with each vet and talk to them and help them work through that problem. even in my senate office we have found that we have to staff up to do that. i have more people in my senate offices working on the veterans case load than any other case load that we work on. so it is just part of what we have to do. i think you have great perspective on what the veterans need and you're always willing to bring that to the floor. i have been in your position before and the comple

i appreciate your comments on being a straight shooter.d said to you at the outset was if there is a way we can provide service for our children free of charge, reduced charge without making serious economic tradeoffs to our overall budget and without having severe service impact, i will favor it. we got a report back from staff sank the modified proposal would have less significant trade-offs economically. would not impact director at -- reiskin's decision and we have not heard about what the service impact will be. it was the economic trade-off and the lack of information on the service impact that made me reluctant to support the full program. we are committed to exploring at to see if it makes sense. because we're in difficult financial times and we need that money to go after deferred maintenance. if we do not, the system will not only feel for our school children, they will fail for our parents as well. secondly, we need to be careful about service impact. if the bus is on time and it is too full for a child and his or her parents to

i also appreciated having doug parrish here today. your work around green jobs was very interesting. again, we had a number of qualified candidates, and those were some of my initial thoughts. supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: thanks. let me just echo your comments. everyone who came out and applied, i really appreciate it. once in awhile, we get these committees where we have one more qualified applicants than we had seats, and it is an unfortunate position, but everyone who spoke today really had something amazing to say, so thank you for all you guys do in our community. we depend on you to keep our city going. in terms of where i go, a few things -- one, to be consistent, it was talked about a little bit before. the notion of residency waiver requirements. that, to me, is something i have been consistent with from the get go. you have an amazing story, and obviously, what you do in our community is amazing, but i do have that fundamental issue. it is absolutely nothing personal. i have had to tell people i know that i have h

but i appreciate your kind thoughts. i want to also associate myself with all the very glowing and truthful comments about working with you. i've never known in a committee structure a chairperson who reaches out as you have in this effort. and it's why we are where we are. obviously, there isn't such a thing as a perfect bill. but if it could achieve perfection, i know you would have that as your target. and to say thank you for being tireless in this effort. i know about all the telephone calls we've had and the meetings and the staff meetings, and i want to thank you and the staff. and it's unfortunate the ranking member is not here because i know he's from the state of kansas, but i just wanted to remind him that before kansas became a state, nebraska became a state, kansas was part of the nebraska territory. i'm sure he'll -- >> you can repeat that again when he comes back. >> of course. well, the hard work has really been, you know, important. and as you put the title of the bill together, agriculture reform, food,

i appreciate those areas. i've been traveling across north state since i've been in the senate over the last three years, and i've lived intently to my farmers. i've listened intently to all those in ag industries and all those who are so committed to making sure our children get the food they need to be healthy, and i know that this farm bill is much more than a set of esoteric numbers. it's very much about the decisions we are making towards economic growth, towards our agriculture industries and the moral obligation we have to our families that are at risk. so as we move forward in this debate, two issues i want to highlight because i feel strongly about them and have significant concerns. first of all, under this current draft, families in new york will lose about $45 a month in their food stamps, which means the third week of the month, many families' children will go to school hungry. that's a high concern for me as a mother. not every state has the population that new york state has. we have 20 million

everyone who came out and applied, i really appreciate it. once in awhile, we get these committees where we have one more qualified applicants than we had seats, and it is an unfortunate position, but everyone who spoke today really had something amazing to say, so thank you for all you guys do in our community. we depend on you to keep our city going. in terms of where i go, a few things -- one, to be consistent, it was talked about a little bit before. the notion of residency waiver requirements. that, to me, is something i have been consistent with from the get go. you have an amazing story, and obviously, what you do in our community is amazing, but i do have that fundamental issue. it is absolutely nothing personal. i have had to tell people i know that i have had to be consistent with that, but that is something where i go. the people i was totally impressed with -- i know of your work personally as well, ms. davis, from some of the school's image and and really appreciate what you do. i know when an impact you have had, and i think mai

we appreciate that. but unfortunately, israel was not a number of the weog in geneva, and therefore is effectively banned from many if not most u.n. organizations and agencies. my question is what is the u.s. doing to ensure that israel is granted full membership rights throughout the u.n. system? and then if there's time if you can give us a briefing on hezbollah rearming and what's going on in that part of the region. >> i'm sorry. i didn't hear -- >> what can be done with hezbollah and what the u.n. and the u.s. is doing to help prevent the flow of arms going that direction because it seems as though there's been a blind eye, so to speak, with the flow of arms toward hezbollah. and if you could clarify that, i'd appreciate that very much. >> okay. thank you. let me begin by coming back to unesco. >> yes. >> we need to ensure that the legislative and policy tools that we have and use meet the desired effect and hit their intended target. the intended target is in this instance not unesco the programs.

i appreciate this being open public comment. i have been a resident of the panhandle for five years. we spend time here, the children's playground, the community garden, it is a pointed interest. i feel that i am a renter, i take public transportation, all of that i feel like i have my values with district 5 and then the district we will be merged with. the suggestion will be to have the district be part of the district won the if that needs to be done and leave district 5 as is. >> my name is mary, and i am a resident of the street between -- the place that is now supposed to be going to district 1. i have to say that all of our interests in the community belong to the panhandle area. we have had a lot of relationships with the neighborhood group to the east of us. we patrolled the streets to try to fight drugs. we have fought for a farmer's market. we have worked with the police and we have worked to clean up the panhandle on a monthly basis. we are a community of interest with the district 5, so please do not split us. >> i l

and we ought to appreciate them for what they pay just as we appreciate billionaires for what they pay. i think anybody that pays taxes ought to be appreciated. somehow we tend to believe that poor people who pay a tax on all of their income somehow they're not paying as much of what they make in taxes. when in fact, on a percentage basis they're paying more. because they can pay the 1.45% and owl of their income, others will, too, but when it comes to social security, if they make say $30,000, they're going to pay that 4.2% on everything that they make. whereas a person who makes $110,001 will pay it only on the first $110,000. if you make a billion dollars you pay it on the first $110,000. >> it's even worse than that as any businessman will tell you, the employer's side of the payroll tax comes out of the wages they pay their workers so the tax to the individual to cover social security and medicare is not just the 6.5% after the temporary holiday, it's another 6.5% on the employer's side which comes at of their wages. it is true to say that the vast majority of americans pay taxes

. >> i appreciate that. i appreciate the work you do. i really do. i appreciate all the work you do over there. it's a tough job. >> these are great questions because we need to be accountable for delivering results. appreciate it. >> chairman, i yield back. >> commissioner schulman, welcome. does the irs have available resources with the current budget to tackle new enforcement responsibilities? new enforcement responsibilities? do you have the resources available to take on new enforcement responsibilities? >> earlier i was saying we try to do the best we can with the budget that congress gives us. obviously we have a big job to do and we try to balance across the board all of the things that we do. we've requested in the 2013 budget some new resources for some of the new legislation that's come through. we or quite hopeful we'll get that in. >> in reviewing the president's 2013 budget proposal, this proposes sadding the irs with additional enforcement spomtds by shifting alcohol, tobacco tax and trade bureau duties of enforcing tax enforcement dut

we really do appreciate it. ♪ thanks for all you do it. mayor thinks you, too. ♪ we thank you for all you do, sue. [applause] president chiu: unless there is any more public comment on this item, public comment is closed. >> [roll call] 10 are ayes. president chiu: congratulations, susan. [applause] now it's your turn. >> this is so sweet and part of what makes it so hard to leave this city. but just as no man is an island, know what is an office. i may have been the face of the mayor's office on disability, but i would like to introduce you to the rest of the body, the arms, legs, the heart. she is our office manager and supports all of us each month. thank you. you don't see him so much because he is in his office poring over piles of drawings to ensure every piece of housing we build with city money is complying with all federal, state, and local requirements. ken stein, who has worked in the disability rights movement for 40 years. what he doesn't know about disability rights is not worth knowing and who he doesn't know must not have d

out and we appreciate muni. we want everybody to be safe, safe as you move across the city. and we want you to keep your belongings and stay connected. >> just to reinforce that, i encourage anyone to look around and see how many people have their heads down and they're looking at their device, seeing how inattentive they are. you can walk by and accidentally bump people, they are not paying attention. it is easy to get absorbed with the great media we have at our fingertips and block out surroundings. it is dangerous and not worth losing your device or jeopardize in your safety over it. the awareness is very important. the main way that we keep the system safe is through our engagement which and the san francisco police department. -- engagement with the san francisco police department. we are lucky that we have one of the best of the command staff working with us right now. she manages the enforcement arm of the mta including the san francisco police officers that work and ride the buses. they are largely resp

so i really appreciate each of you for that. and again, to kay and -- who was everywhere all the time which was just incredible and we appreciate that, to the city attorney's office, just incredible support, always available and always supporting us nudging us when we were getting too close to boundries in any respect. and our consultants have provided both technical assistance and advice and often led us when we weren't sure where we were going. so i really appreciate that. so to that end, kind of my own. one of the things that we subscribe to at united way where i serve by day which i now get to return to my day job as chief operating officer of united way, is we talk about living united. that that's what we try to instill and catalyze in our communities. everyone owning and being trustees of community and i feel like this task force and all that have supported have done the same. so to that end i have for the q 2 team united t-shirts. i have for the city attorneys team live united t-shirt. and for each of the task force membe

i appreciate the thoughtfulness. it has been a very engaging process so it is valuable for me to come here. my name is eric mar, i represent the richmond district and i am proud to be working with a coalition of small business and neighborhood advocates to present this ordinance before you. i wanted to say that our ordinance is a product of coal -- a coalition. some of us worked on the campaign in 2006 and it was my assumption that banks and financial institutions should be part of formula retail and in many ways, this is bringing that about now, six years after the fact in some ways. thank you for this opportunity. this ordinance amends section 7.3 -- 70 3.3, including financial service within the categories of uses which are subject to the formula retail controls and require a conditional use permit. i feel that it is a straightforward but important ordinance. it brings financial services under the same requirements that voters in 2006 passed, proposition g. as you are aware, banks and formula retail or banks and o

and so all of this makes for a very exciting scene. >> does it also lead to an appreciation, a new appreciation among different groups for music? >> absolutely. and it also brings civic excitement. it brings people to the cents of these cities. it makes them very interested in supporting the arts organizations. so from our perspective it's a very important contribution. and also the renovation of old halls and the sort of restoration of old halls can also be very exciting. adding modern elements to an old hall can make people suddenly want to go to the op ra, the ballet, 9 symphony. so we love it. >> how do you see it, you in the business of running kennedy center. >> i think the new halls can generate tremendous excitement. the challenge has been to maintain that excitement after the hall is open. and that i think is something that many people don't think enough about as they create new halls. >> when you think about architect, architect force awhile there and for a long while, first it was churches. then it became museums in terms of public spaces. now concert halls which bring what kind of c

i appreciate your decades of service as well. you stated a fact that many of vus stated in other areas as well. you can't just education, for instance. years and years of just throw more money at it and that will fix the problem. because there are issues. but continuing to throw money at it doesn't necessarily give you better outcomes. it takes some reforms of the systems and structures. i hear you are both saying the same thing with defense. there need to be some things that occur and that may not necessarily mean throwing more money at it. it may mean reforming systems and structures. so when i ask you about a couple of those. where are we as far as the total number of uniform when you mentioned force reduction. what are we talking about between all brnchs and force reduction? >> we're talking about 120,000 that will be reduced over these next five years, between now and 2017. >> are those all uniformed or some civilian? >> what i gave you was all uniform. >> where are we on civilian reductions. we had about 700,000 civilians t

but i do appreciate the work that's gone through this and of course to mr. buhl which is here as well and it's tough work which you're going to do but we appreciate it and the event is important to the city and will be supporting this resolution moving forward. supervisor campos: on the motion to amend item 4, we can take that without objection, motion passes. colleagues, unless there is an objection, we can take items 4 and 5 together and madam clerk, if we can have a roll call. >> on item 4 as amended and item 5, supervisor kim? supervisor kim: aye. >> supervisor mar? >>i. >> supervisor olague? >> aye. >> supervisor wiener? >> aye. >> supervisor avalos? >> aye. >> avalos, aye. >> supervisor campos? >> aye. >> president chiu? >> aye. >> supervisor chu? >> aye. >> supervisor cohen? >> aye. >> supervisor elsbernd? >> aye. >> supervisor farrell? >> aye. >> 11 ayes. president chiu: the resolution is adopted. congratulations. [applause] president chiu: with that, colleagues, why don't we go to our 3:30 special order. i know we have a couple of individuals here t

so i really appreciate your assistance in this endeavor. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> i do not see valley. moving on. >> good morning. i am peter strauss from the lower haight and district 5 and district 8. it looks like i will be staying in district 8. we have reached the bottom of the night. i am. -- i am sure it feels more like the bottom of the 54th. baseball analogies aside, there are a bunch of us here to make one last pitch. in 55 laguna into district 5. we have talked about community and compromise. we have gusty to recognize haight is the spine of the community and should not be treated as a border. we appreciate what you have done in the commercial destroyed by moving the boundary down. the closest to a win win would be able to split the property. i understand that is beyond your purview because it involves changing precinct boundaries. it may be that is the direction we need to go. most of us would be willing to work with supervisor wiener to achieve the closest to a win- win, but we may not be in to do that at this

i appreciate it. supervisor olague: they do not know where to go to get information, and sometimes they cannot afford it, so they rely on these agencies. supervisor mar: thank you. so, supervisor avalos, would you like to continue? supervisor avalos: i think the next up with supervisor campos. supervisor mar: supervisor campos? supervisor campos: i want to thank you for the work that has been done, and she stood her ground, when they were pressuring the states to agree to the terms upon of the settlement, so i want to thank our attorney general for that, and i want to thank you for the presentation. one question that comes to mind, how do we make sure that these banks and institutions do not engage in this kind of activity going forward. what assurances do we have that they are not going to do this going forward to someone else? >> i think that is the entire question. i think that is the entire issue, you are right. i think there are a couple of things that you would do if you are a rational policy ma

and i greatly appreciate our partnership. i'd now like to recognize senator roberts. >> it is a privilege to be with you here today as we mark up the agriculture reform underscore reform food and jobs act of 2012. i thank you pore for your comments, and i return the compliment. this legislation representeds the final product of numerous hearings, many hearings and months of discussions as we've worked to write a new farm bill during the most difficult budget climate in our nation's history. i am proud to say that we have put together a bipartisan bill that strengthens and preserves the safety net for our farmers and ranchers. and truly, it was an effort in a bipartisan way. still, i want to underscore what the chairwoman has said. we are still providing $24.7 billion in deficit reduction under this mark has drafted. i don't know of any other committee that has done this. we did this previously with the super committee. and now we're doing it again. and so in terms of deficit reduction, i think we're standing up to our respons

. >> i appreciate that. i appreciate that, congressman. and i think that i alluded to what i do think is one of the issues that i would certainly welcome attention to, and that is to be sure there is leadership in place in these organizations and they aren't left in interim status too long. it's a very large, complicated organization, takes time for a person coming in to learn the organization. i was lucky, i already knew a fair amount about it. but i can the leadership aspect is a pretty important part of this story. secondly, i think that with any large organization, you do need good management oversight. i had acted as an executive would, and i tasked to various people with oversight. and there was a clear breakdown in the organization around that. where i trusted, i needed to confront the fact that i had trusted, and yielded this. and i resigned as a result. >> mr. mill e did you have a comment on this? >> well, yeah, i've discussed some of these issues with administrator tangherlini, and i know he's going to address you in a few minut

we appreciate your service. >> as a city officer, i am happy to serve. >> thank you. the next item on the agenda is presentation of the public finance report. as noted here, after each election cycle involving publicly financed races, the staff assists us in reporting on execution of the program and answers many of the questions that we have about patterns and trends that may be taking place and provides some very helpful information. i want to thank ms. shaikh and the staff at all levels for bringing us another helpful and comprehensive report on the limited public financing program. is there anything you want to add initially, i will then ask the commissioner fist they have any questions or comments. >> it was a very interesting election. we had many complicated questions. we didn't have an idle moment. it was the first time we administered the public financing program in a mayoral race and it was a lot more work than we expected. >> i think those words are apparent to all of us and we watched during the season and i for one simply want to note that you all -- and i