testing testing >> garv, everyone, and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, june 5th, 2013. my name is supervisor mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee. and i am joined by supervisor john avalos, supervisor london breed will be joining momentarily supervisor scott wiener and we are going to be missing supervisor eric mar who we will be excusing. i'd like to thank the members of sfgtv mark bunch and jeff as well as victor young. do you have any announcements? >> yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic deviceses. copies submitted to the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on today will be on the board of supervisors june lease termination agreement - downtown parking corporation - 833 mission street unless otherwise stated. >> okay, colleagues, before we call item number 1, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor mar who is absent for family reasons? motion by supervisor avalos, we can do so without opposition. [gavel] >> mr. clerk, can you please call items number 1 and 2 together, pleat? se

. >>> garv, my name is melinda pierson and i am currently a mental health rehabilitation specialist at a woman's place. i have had the pleasure of doing some glamorous things to raise money for hiv prevention and care. i promise you that there is nothing glamorous about a woman coming to you a she qualifies for your program, but you have to turn her away because it's full due to lack of funding. where i work today, there are women who really, really, really need and deserve these services, but we don't have the money to give it to them. and i really, really want you guys to understand that this is a beautiful city. i'm a native san franciscan. and if we can allocate funds for fountains and other things and beautify this place, we definitely need to allocate some funds to take care of our people. and my supervisor is going to talk to you now. she's going to talk to you about budgets, but i want to talk to you about people. i just want you to understand that people need help here in this city. it's not all about the sky rise buildings and making this place a tourist attraction. we've got

has worked sentencively on a number of national security issues since she began her career at the garvings -- g.a.o. in 1981. welcome all of you. it is a custom to swear in witnesses who appear before this committee so if you don't mind i'd like you to all stand and repeat after me. raise your right hand. do you swear that the testimony you will give before this subcommittee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? let the record reflect they all answered in the affirmative. now, each one of you are going to have five minutes for your oral statements. i would just tell you that your entire written testimony will be a part of the record an you can add more to that testimony up until july 8. we will start with you, mr. mcfarland. if you can feep -- keep it to five we would sure appreciate it. others men, distinguished ranking members of the sub committees. i am the inspect -- inspector general at the office of personnel management. thank you for inviting me here today to speak about our oversight work related to the o.p.m. program office. in 1978 the un