it's a big program. a complex program. and i think it's not unusual to encounter some challenges along the way. >> secretary beers, there's the administration has asked for an extension. it's not permanent. about as permanent as you can get in the executive branch. a multiyear extension. one of the things that i have supported because i do believe in this program, but what would you say to the critics who suggest that the revelations that are contained in this memo

this is not a blanket program. it is dependent on each team's determination that the gap in services in the summer represents a significant shortfall in their learning. each team receives guidance from the special education department to ask a number of questions based on student performance data, outcomes, and anticipated learning over the summer to determine whether the student should be extended an esy offer. we are processing our acceptances and will look at the students represented in the slide. esy, last year, we made significant efforts to expand the professional development for teachers serving in esy. the recipients of a day of training on a specialized literacy intervention. that same intervention is used during the school year, what we call a tear to reading intervention. it deepens teacher expertise in how to deepen reading experience across the spectrum. it enable teachers in esy to meet students' needs as they found them. not only are we talking about keeping kids at a steady level, but pushing them f

programs. we have a school, the early morning studies academy. we provide services to young people in detention and in communities. we serve 150 young people engaged in the juvenile justice system, a foster care system, and have been marginalized from the education system. we graduate 80% of all of our constituents. 100% of our young people are enrolled in a community college upon graduation. the new directions employment program serves about 200 young people a year. we place young people in the advanced training, subsidized employment, a private-sector employment. a candidate for the administration of dpws. we play 65% of our young people. all of those are engaged in the juvenile justice system. we also have a scholarship program with emphasis on state universities and running number of after school programs. some of the alternative schools. i said that because we are very familiar with how to work. i have a very talented staff that is multi-cultural and small darling will. we are familiar wit

status update on clean power sf program. status update on proceeding at the california public utilities commission. status update on the state legislation. supervisor campos: great, thank you very much. we have three items under item three. i like to turn it over to robert, the assistant general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission. good afternoon. >> thank you, commissioner. i just wanted to give a brief update on, first of all, the program itself as we have conceived it. what is going on at the california public utilities commission. and i really do not have anything to add today on state legislation. with respect, first of all, to our activities, we are anticipating consideration of our proposed contract and supplemental appropriations request that the board some time in may. that is our expectation. meanwhile, we have been busy determining, with the help of our market research -- our polling firm, the phasing and notification process approach we would like to take. you know, we have had many questions

one of the fundamental programs is the fact that programs are so fragmented. it's also the idea of more responsibility to states or localities. there's a lot of people who are very worried about that because they don't trust states and government to do the right thing. they think of the federal ssi days. that's something that's been proposed by rich berk houser. we think it's important to consider other options devolving to the states. it seems incredibly important since local people are going to be delivering service to people with disability ises that you give them some flexibility and responsibility to administer benefits. but also have a strong oversight capacity. but one thing we can all agree on is all the structural changes proposed are not ready to go. we can't roll them out the way they are now. it would be irresponsible to do that. they could cost more than our current programs. they could really harm people with disabilities because we don't know enough about what we're doing. what we think we need is a long-term program at least ten years to start

programming. we're looking at how best to invest in the community-based programming as well as the comprehensive school-based programming. in each area, we will invest in supporting our service providers, to provide technical assistance and capacity building services. with the end goal of making sure they are reaching high quality time. next is y-lead, a youth leadership. this reaches high school youth to transitional age youth, 15 to 24 facing significant barriers. what we have learned is that young people do not really want to go to out of school time programming, after school programming. summer to learn skills in a project-based learning environment. culminating projects showcasing success. and also in career exploration and. so we are shifting our resources into youth and workforce development. items one and two are specialized team at programming, allowing young people to do project-based learning. at the same time, item 3 is where we further develop our youth and workforce development for b

so, the use works program, the -- youth works program, the program at city college, those programs are available to all students. as far as the academy programs, we try to make sure our students have accessibility. we recruit from all i schools as well. and you see the program beginning in the second semester of the ninth grade. students have the ability to get from 5 credits to seven credits before they graduate from high school. make sure students have direct entry to the building trades, construction, also, welding or automotive programs as well. i talked about work-based opportunities. that is really where tjpa and the school district's connect. by supporting the curriculum, we have seen this in our carpentry class. we have worked very closely with burton high school, and i know we have worked very closely with the city program and our academy of engineering programs that washington and offered to develop their camp curriculum -- their curriculum. really the cherry for the students here is internship. we have 40 students that have expressed interest between all our programs. we are

assistance program, the emergency food assistance program. that's not just important in vermont. it is in every part of the -- of the country. and i'll continue to work with the both of you to include ways to make purchasing local food a reality in nutrition assistance program. and i want to applaud

these programs certainly seem to be good programs. in every case, as the wind blows, those spots will stop targets. targets are exactly like you would expect. they are mobile, responsive. if we do not have a layer of security system that has a sufficient force to rallies to be like a ship, one in which we know there will be a few leaks, but for the most part, it is watertight. our security system today is not watertight. the accidental catching of the bad guys belabors two points. the many people who find themselves going through security and sometimes they have us pull something out, and sometimes they do not. sometimes they do is secondary, sometimes they do not. we opened up this hearing to facebook. i am giving you anecdotal once. i will supply all of them and i will place them in the record. so you can respond to the individuals. for example, joe is a u.s. marine. he was flying in his dress blues uniform. he was forced to remove his trousers in full view of passengers. it did not matter that he explained what it was. it did not m

i wanted to speak on behalf of safe haven program and keep our program open. [applause] >> how are >> i have been a resident of hunters point all of my life. i want to put this on your mind as far as the hunters point shipyard. i have five nieces and nephews. they all have asthma. that is coming from there. i just want to put this on your minds. the cleanup they're doing, that will not work. like a lot of people have said, they need to do more than that. that will not work. when it is done with, they will not be able to plant flowers, it will be replicas. replicas of flowers. that is not giving us no oxygen. that is what your focus should be. they are killing us for real. >> usually, when you sign a card, we call by the way these cards were presented to me. >> we apologize for being so abrupt. >> next time you come to a meeting like this, you follow the procedure. >> we are still learning. >> i appreciate that you are learning. >> good afternoon. i would like to say that i really appreciate you all being here. i am hoping that you follow the mandate that was p

each program, and even programs in the mayor's office of housing, they change over time. programs are created for specific purposes. our staff is pretty capable of identifying those programs and getting them to the right people in the right manner. it will not be a difficult for us to handle these programs. they will be treated the same, regardless of the source of funding and regardless of the particular program. commissioner sugaya: with -- commissioner moore: with you being in charge, i believe that. but it is a stretch. redevelopment tax in the public interest, and this looks more like a private deal -- redevelopment acts in the public interest, and this looks more like a private deal. commissioner antonini: thank you. i thought the response for the two questions was very important about the buying power that is increased by this program. and, of course, we have always been concerned during my 10 years on the planning commission of that group of people who cannot afford housing, that middle income group that is leaving san francisco. anyway, what was really interestin

it would also create a new program, the rural energy savings program. and i know that several members and senators noted a majority support these programs, but i have very strong reservations about providing mandatory funding in this title, and the creation of a new program. throughout the process we have tried to be, or we have made every effort to be focus and finding a path to reduce federal spending, streamline programs and address areas of duplication. i respectfully suggest that this proposed amendment misses that mark. y will vote against the amendment and urge my colleagues to do the same. >> senator chambliss? >> thanks, madam chair, and i had a second-degree amendment that i need to make sure whether i need introduce it or not. let me ask a question to senator conrad. as i understand itting -- it, your amendment calls for $800 million of mandatory spending to go to the energy title, to fund your amendment. now, we've got, gee, i don't know, what was it? about $2 billion differential from the $23 billion and cbo scored us at about $25 billion.

sober programs, programs that were for domestic violence and so forth. shelters in general that offered case management, it was often related to availability or assistance around housing. new york city uses an interesting model where everybody entering the shelter system is assessed, and an individual living plan is developed, and that plan helps guide services, and seems to be also one of the requirements for being in shelter is pursuing your plan. they have quite an extensive shelter system, so they use this also as the access or referral and to the program. we also saw that cities like columbus, ohio, have focused their case management primarily on housing placement, but it is partly because of the availability in the housing stock for very low rental, even without a subsidy housing placement, especially family programs. they had a high degree of very quick placement, but there are rental units available that are affordable on very low income. the bay area counties -- many of the shelters are actually run by local nonprofits with some or no funding fr

of the ffdo program? >> in speaking with the fams, they realize the men and women that are federal air marshals they do a fantastic job. they're on the road constantly. they have a very -- they have a tough life. and i respect highly what the fams do. please don't take away from this that i would want to cut the fam budget or disagree with the -- degrade what they do. i don't. they work in tandem. i do agree with your analysis. that the ffdo program was not embraced, shall we say by the tsa. that's why there is some discussion that i would like to see possibly in working within congress and taking the ftdo program out of the tsa and possibly putting it in the d.o.j. i think it might be the competing interest there might be alleviated. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very having me. [ applause ] >> i'm very excited to introduce our panel. one thing that all these gentlemen have in common, unlike a lot of folks in washington, these guys have done this for a living. let me start, i'll just

watch the program, read your book, discuss the program and... rebecca: ♪ that would be enough, enough for me ♪ ♪ everybody needs a dream catcher ♪ ♪ catch me! let's hope these cards and letters will persuade mr. wang to let vincent come back. i've talked to him several times on the telephone. he's very polite. he's just not ready to change his mind. he knows vincent loved the program. maybe the cards will convince him that the program's good for vincent. well, let's keep our fingers crossed. ah... hello, mrs. washington. and hello, ms. casey. hello, mr. wang. the children from the after-school program made these cards for vincent. we all want to say how sorry we are about what happened. i see. we also held a prejudice- awareness workshop. a policewoman came in to help the children understand what happened and why it was wrong. we're sorry about what happened. we miss vincent very much. and we hope you'll let him come back. thank you. vincent will be very happy to see these. i want to apologize again. i feel partly responsible for what happened t

program to ask the engineering program to become an apprentice. what you see before you is this year's class. i would like to have them stand up and be recognized.

but it includes graduating seniors, but a preparation program, a grade 6 stepped up program they have not step -- they have not touched on -- this is new to our district. this is taking advantage of grant funding to offer an across-the-board one-week experience for students transitioning from elementary school to middle school. this is to assist in the transition, more than academic, so that are entering middle school more familiar with the names, faces, and expectations, and are able to touch base in fall, aware of their surroundings. we talked already about the eighth grade transition program, the credit recovery. gear up is another operation. we have excel operating in our high schools. this is a grant-related programming, and very much at the discretion of each school community as to how to deploy these resources. you see a broad range of programming across our high schools making use of these funds. supervisor campos: before you continue, commissioner? commissioner maufas: i want to just ask a quick question, based on something commissioner mendoza said earlier around schools hav

the first program i'd like to discuss today is tsa's behavior detection program, also called s.p.o.t. it consists of over 3,000 behavior detection officers that are deployed to over 160 u.s. airports. this program is a key part of ta it is a's efforts to focus more attention on dangerous people versus dangerous items, which i support. the bottom line on the program is, while tsa has taken some steps to validate the science behind the program, much more work remains to fully validate it, establish sound performance metrics, and assess costs and benefits. and as we noted on a prior time, all these additional steps could take several more years to complete. and as we noted in our report on the program, tsa deployed s.p.o.t. nationwide before determining whether it had a valid scientific basis. the good news is dhs did complete an initial validation study in april 2011, which concluded that the program was more effective than random screening. however, as the study itself noted, it was not designed to fully answer the very important question of whether you can use behavior detection princ

that coincides with a two-year- old program we run, the construction administrative program. that is a little different than people getting trained for pre- apprenticeship. it gets them trained on the professional service side, which gives us more opportunities for young folks to get into the industry. in addition, half of all the apprenticeship positions on this project will be filled from graduates from our city build pre-apprenticeship program. the other 50% will work in partnership to maximize to the best of our abilities to fill those positions with the san francisco residence. in addition, we are working in partnership to create a retention program to ensure that the apprentice we bring on this project is able to journey out into the trades, which in the field of construction is really sort of the golden goose, if you will, of the trade, that folks actually complete and journey out and in essence get their four-year degree, if you will, or five-year degree in that industry. in addition, we have worked with them to create a -- we are working with them in partnership to c

projects like supporting senior lunch programs, workforce development programs for youth. we of unsuccessful in getting more people engaged in community work. in the excelsior district, we put money to do some neighborhood planning around workforce development. the groups involved have been the filipino community center. there are people organized to demand economic rights. there are advocates for children and youth. out of the work, they have put together a report, putting the pieces together. in district 11, we have a very different type of work force development problem. we do not have any real work force development programs in our district. we have a working-class community, lots of labor households, but no real engines to get people from the neighborhoods into the jobs that exist elsewhere in san francisco. we also have a lot of immigrants who live in the district. we have to find work force and employment models that can serve immigrants, many of whom -- many of whom are undocumented. this report provides a lot of food for thought and recommendations for the city. i

program, the emergency food assistance program. i think that's not just important in vermont, it is every part of the country, and i'll continue to work with the both of you to include ways to make purchasing local food a reality in the nutrition assistance program. i want to applaud the work by both the chair and the ranking member to improve the national quality of food aid. and on and on. the rest of that in the record, but this is the committee on agriculture and nutrition and forestry. the both of you have recognized all three of that, and i applaud you for it. it is not an easy job, as i know. >> well, thank you very much. and senator leahy, we appreciate your leadership on dairy over the years as the champion of helping us get this right as well as organics and nutrition and other areas as well. and now someone else who has been terrific leader, senator lugar, we would love to hear from you. >> well, thank you very much, madam chairwoman and ranking member roberts. before i begin, i want to thank the staff, the senate legisl

we would support your program. specifically for the students in your program as well. i am excited to be here. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. the ambassadors program, the executive director. >> good evening. thank you for letting us speak tonight. we're here to give a brief overview of the community ambassadors program. many of you have seen our ambassadors in the street. there referred to in many ways. the yellow jackets as the chief likes to refer to them. they're there for the community. we operate the ambassadors program on a full-time basis now. our office is a policy of direct services office, we work with underserved, low income, vulnerable populations, also immigrants, illegal, and limited english-speaking communities. under the umbrella of specific engagement, we focus on ensuring that the city's programs and policies are inclusive and fair. we are about an equal and just and save society, not just for some, but for everybody. for everyone who lives and works in san francisco. we have many partners in district 10 on this [unintelligible] ycd, ou

it's the only program that i've learned so much compared to the hearing program. that they use sign language, they show body language, and i really recommend those who are out there that really need help to come here. and it's hard at the beginning, but once you go through it, it becomes easier. and i think that now it becomes really easy for me, and i'm still learning every day. recovery is an ongoing process; it's a continuous process through your whole lifespan, so it's important to continue working on recovery. what i do to help people that are still in the program- i support the newcomers and show how i've become sober, then explain what i've gone through. i'm always inspired and proud to see when that happens. you know, comparing them to when they first came in, ill, they come in thin, and now, you know, they leave strong and full of hope. and their life is full of color. it works. it really works, but it's not because just the staff or the place, it works because the person comes here and really tries hard, you know, to make it through. and when that happen

they are super ready for this program. area, united way on a national level was an integral part of the summer jobs plus of obama's plan and united way of this area, they are the same and really supportive of local summer jobs plus in san francisco. and also the san francisco youth employment coalition which is a group of lots of youth employment programs is also supper ready to -- super ready to start this program right now. >> so the quick legislative history that got us here, supervisor olague, and jason elliott spoke to this, the youth commission was on this early. president obama announced this january 5 of this year. we adopted a resolution january 9 of 2012 calling on the board to commend president obama's summer jobs plus plan. supervisor supervisor elsbernd enter diesed a resolution in kind which was adopted on january 21. after the youth employment coalition as was mentioned, 28 youth employment providers, many of who you will hear from in public comment, they are here today asked us to craft, to set these target

that is the deferral program set to sunset on july 1, 2013, unless the board asks to extend the program beyond that date. with that, i will pass the podium to pamela lebron -- levin. >> pamela levin, director the -- deputy director of building of the suspect in -- building of this inspection. basically, i am the unit, along with one other person. we are tasked to receive and organize information from various city agencies, economic development fees that are owed or development impacts. we receive all the information, accumulating debt, working with project sponsors and other agencies resolving disputes and questions often raised by the project sponsor when they get their first report. we published an updated, city- wide development fee register located on the website. we are responsible to ensure that the first construction document that either the full impact fee is paid or the project sponsor decides to defer the impact fee. we will talk a little bit more about that as i talk about the deferral program. any outstanding impact fee requirements are satisfied prior to issuance of certifi

energy resources program. and doug was first attracted to geology when his parents hauled him around collecting rocks on field trips. and after getting geology degrees from the university of georgia and penn state, doug worked cleaning up nuclear waste in washington state. also spent time looking for oil and gas as a geophysicist for exxon and managing environmental research and monitoring at the nevada test site before coming to the u.s. gs. and doug will address us tonight on the increasing role that unconventional oil and gas resources play in the nation's petroleum. >> thanks, dave. okay. welcome, everybody. thanks for coming out tonight. i'm going to talk about unconventional oil and gas assessments in the united states. and i want to talk about this for several reasons. one is to set the stage for the following two talks. but also just to give you an idea of what role directional drilling play in enabling the production of these un -- so-called unconventional resources. and i'll start out by saying that

fund their nuclear program and icbm program. it would require some energy. it would require some creativity, some focus and i would say that that's been disturbingly absent to date, in terms of how we address this problem. but for those of us that would want to see a long term solution to it, i think cut off the flow of elicit activities? look at what we did with the mccaw bank in terms of reinforcing that type of discipline, cut off the funding and begin the process of the right kind of broadcast into north korea to begin the process of change internally. >> thank you so much, mr. royce. mr. ackerman is recognized. >> i thank the chair. i think you kids got it covered. >> thank you. mr. mazzulla is recognized. >> thank you, madam chair for calling this important hearing for north korea and the north korean peninsula. north korea with kim jong il will remain just as stable in its leadership. kim's successors, his son, jim jong-un would pick a brighter path for its people faded with last week's failed missile launch. denuclearization of the north korean penin

we also are well-aware of all the different programs, from green buildings to the climate program to everything else, so we are as honored as can be to say congratulations, and please join me at the podium, mayor ed lee. congratulations on this award. >> thank you. thank you very much, everyone coming out. it is my pleasure and enthusiastic banks -- thanks to this wonderful organization that has now been here for 10 years, helping us think through and plan and inc. lot more partners. i want to also recognize ford, there sustainability program that mike is here to talk through. i just sat in one of your cars be as enthusiastic. i have already told your cells per cent to talk to our fleet manager to make sure we get a few of those -- i tell your sales person to talk to our fleet manager to maturity of those on our fleet. i think it is up for me to come back and visit the whole group, because every three months they are extending in our great city. i would like to see the next product that they have up there. but autodesk and ford are great partners today on this clean tech innovation w

once again, we have program officers and did a manager that would look at the data and do program site visits. community members can also come to our monthly community citizen advisory council and voice concerns or share thoughts and opinions. >> thank you. commissioner harrison? >> it is nice to hear about the appropriations and all of this intermission about the goals of your funding. when i would like to hear at some point are your successes. it was mentioned a little bit about the gardens and other such things, but i want to hear more about successes. what successes have you had? the program has been index since 1951. there must be somewhere out there in the world that there are children with families who have succeeded through this program. i would like to hear about that. >> we have lots of successes. maybe one day and general manager ginsburg and i can tag team on all of the wonderful young people that have gone through the work creation program that rec and parks runs. i am sure you have hired a whole bunch of them as programs and staff. we have done some innovative programming

this, we believe, is a balanced and equitable program. parks are an important part of the civic fabric here in san francisco, and maintaining them and investing in them is a smart strategy for the future. i guess i would just add that we want to make sure there is equity around the city in terms of the project that will be funded by this bond. that is important. parks are an important part of this civic fabric downtown and to the east, west, north, and south. thank you for having this hearing and discussion. we look forward to continuing to work with recreation and parks on this. thank you. >> [inaudible] >> good morning. i live in diamond heights. i appreciate the opportunity to share my concerns with you today. i absolutely love our parks that i walk everyday in glen canyon. i tried to picnic as much as possible in golden gate park. one thing about san francisco is the areas that come under sort of the natural areas program. the ecosystem has evolved over hundreds of years, and i love having the skunks, hawks, coyotes, howls, woodpecker

(music) for a copy of this program or other programs in the road to recovery series, call samhsa at 1-800-662-help or order online at recoverymonth.gov, and click multimedia. (music) >> thank you for joining us for this press event to announce the first annual local hire report. my name is naomi kelly. i'm the city administrator for the city and county of san francisco. this last year i have had the honor of working with board of supervisor john avalos. mayor ed lee, all of the city departments who are responsible for delivering capital products and co-chairing a local policy hiring working group. last year we were able to put our heads together, work collectively to implement this landmark policy to bring to wherever -- whenever we are implementing our capital projects to make sure that our monies also go to providing local jobs to this communities that are impacted by our capital projects. we work together with a different department head to maximize existing resources and to minimize costs and we have successfully done that. i want to thank all of our department heads here today, d

program to ask the engineering program to become an apprentice. what you see before you is this year's class. i would like to have them stand up and be recognized. our program this year, there were 1200 applicants and we hired about 700 of those. -- we hired about seven of those. you like to have some of you come up here. [applause] you are only 8 seeing four of them. one of them did this in velasco and he did high enough so that we hired him as an apprentice. we are hoping that this happens for these people. they are very excited about this program. this has been very successful. we have had people retire from this program. i want to give you a taste of what they go through. this is a two-year training program. we employ them and give them enough time. what you are looking at is the opposite see to have them go through this program. you have the opportunity to come in and become a super intended. we promoted our very first superintendent in 2011. it is all possible. we are very excited. i would like them to come up and say a few words about what

to move toward summer programming. hopefully next year we will be able to share some of fat. -- some of that. this is national awareness day for the importance of summer learning. it is in the middle of learning theory. it is similar to what we do after school. we will provide upwards of 3000 meals per day. we are using a wonderful vendor, and they are happy with results we have provided, and we are have been -- happy this year. i know supervisor campos asked about bringing in city college. through the foundation ground in partnership with the school district as well as city college, we have and initiatives we want to double post secondary graduation rates, and city college has been joined to try to develop better policies and better programming. >> we have a question. >> this does not include all the summer programming? >> that is correct. good >> it looks like we have a lot of options. i have two more slides, and i am done. approximately three years ago we created a program where we partner with 15 local attractions