>> yes send it appear there's a lot of flood fighting that can be done to mitigate this. i think the mayor from cedar rapids made a good point. all lights are just as critical. all property is just as important. wherever you are living. what if you large facility or small facility, a large river or small stream, we are just as committed to park and to make sure we can mitigate those damages that are out the if that's not done through structure of a good discussions, a lot of those other components. how do you get to training, how do we make sure with some of the greener aspects to do it whether it's zoning and other things? have a vertical team are represented here can share some of those lessons learned to make sure communities have that capability i think that's an important tool spirit thank you. i think that's good and i'm sure the city of cedar rapids have that rapid rise as well and it was very costly. i want to shift to dams. we live in the amount of state. we have hundreds, i think 700, or 614 dams. most of them have been studied. although several of them high haz

there is a lot of the flood fighting that can be done to mitigate it. the mayor from cedar rapids made a very good point, all lives are critical and all property is just as important wherever you are living in the united states, and whether it is a large or a small facility and large river or small stream, we are just as committed to partner to mitigate the damages that are out there, and if that is not done through structural and we have good structures here, it is a loft the other components, and how do you do it through training and have some of the greener aspects to do it, whether it is zoning or some of the other thing, and how the vertical team all represented here can share some of the lessons learned to be able to make sure that the communities have the capability is an important tool. >> well, thank you. that is good. i'm sure that the city of cedar rapids had that the ra rapid rise as well, and it was very costly. i want to shift to dams. we live in a mountainous state, and we have hundreds and i think 614 dams, and most of them have been stu

however, new technology can mitigate the threat of flooding, including ice jams. i include language in title one resourceser development act this committee enacted last congress creating program tops pilot develop innovative and cost saving technology to address the jams. of ice the program needs to be implemented. i also like to note that in the thistwo water bills, committee provided additional femarity to the corps and to help states, local address levees and dams. to hear what this committee and the army corps can infrastructure, address red tape and provide life saving materials to prevent flooding. to turn to ranking member carpa for his statement. >> thanks mr. chairman, thanks very much for bringing us together. all of you, and are glad you are here. you could be a lot of different places but it's important that you be here. we look forward to testimonies and to the opportunity to ask goodions, have a conversation. the chairman and i talk a lot about mike enzi's 80-20 rule. mike enzi is a senator from wyoming and he talks about the 80-20 rule is something

we have 50 people working to make sure what we can do to mitigate the current risk. how can reuse the lessons learned in federal area to go back learn the same thing. how do we wrap those back in to learn how to operate our federal system better. it's a shared understand to make sure we're all working side by side. >> i was going to ask a question about shared responsibility. how can states particularly when smaller state, delaware, coordinate and/or pool resources to help core complete bigger flood control projects. >> some study, if there are things out there, we have an unbelievable relationship through the team, if there are things that we things we can lien on to be able to help get justification or have better understanding of the return on investment, i don't know if i have an exact answer, wherever we can team with the federal team to make it more resilient, that's what we're trying to do. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to ask general seminight a question preferencing it about reminding those who are watching, you may recall west virgi

mitigation is one of six factors considered in any project. congestion mitigation must predominate in urbanized areas and the facts are weighted by region. smartogram is now called scale. accessibility, environmental quality, economic development and land use coordination. since all parts of the state are problems, theheir state has been divided up into four different regions. in category a, which includes three metropolitan areas in the one ofhampton roads, virginia passes suburbs and fredericksburg, part of northern virginia at this point, congestion mitigation counts for 45 percent for a particular project. projection must dominate. other factors are relatively minor in comparison. cities, get to smaller other factors take over. when you get to categories see nd, congestion counts for virtually nothing. they do not have a congestion problem. the reason for this is to hold all regions harmless in terms of the money they get from the state. we start talking about congestion mitigation to rural officials, wed will ship all the money to more ev

you mitigate the big pieces and then the you start mitigating the smaller risks and, at the end of thelutely, one small wrong piece of code that made it through could kill the entire mission. there is a word here in india that i think describes team indus‘s low—cost, make do approach. jugaad. i've come to the centre of mumbai, to dharavi. asia's second largest slum. here, in its tiny alleyways, jugaad is all around, as a desperately poor population reuses as much as is physically possible. built by workers who flocked to the city over hundreds of years, some of the houses here date back to the 1840s. up ahead, there is a pile of shredded denim which they use for fuel. they burn it to fuel the kilns, just like they burn a lot of stuff for fuel here. and there is smoke everywhere here. you can really tell the air quality is very poor. you just have to take a few lung fulls and it starts to burn the back of your throat, it makes your eyes sting. the smoke is a necessary evil for the people of dharavi. like most of the developing world, pollution has been the price india is paying for a bo

i think that will help mitigate the fear that there is an incremental leg down for espn subscribers a core of all the new offerings. >> now you're looking for $128 bucks as a price target. that's about 15% from here. >> that's right. yep. that's our 12-month price target. that's correct. >> how much of your positive view of this or where does succession of bob iger factor into this? >> bob is a very unique leader.

in the case of russia, it's in the former category which is i wanted to make sure we mitigated the risk of miscalculation, open lines of communication. the only other area where i think we have some discussions is to say where are there areas of mutual interest where our actions can address those mutual interests but i wouldn't use the word cooperation. that was not something we discussed last week nor is it something i have been directed to do. i would in the context of syria as an example talk about deconflicti deconfliction. we have mil to mil engagement with russia in areas where we are enforcing treaties. on the ground in syria we have communications with the russians and the primary purpose is to protect our airmen and folks on the ground and make sure we have a safety channel open to deconflict in an increasingly complex, crowded area in syria where operations are ongoing, one of the areas we look at is making sure that the current safety channel that we have with the russians, the current communications link that we have between our air operations center and the russian operatio

so i think that our general schedule mitigation strategy is bearing good fruit. added the risk of systems installation and commissioning, where we are engaging or initiating that effort. i will describe it as a premitigation strategy. there is nothing over arching as a problem. but with all complex projects, low voltage and the like, always come in and bite you at the end. so, trying to stay ahead of that curve, and stay engaged or in formed of what chatter is out there as we advance shot drawings, and in particular, with fire alarms and with the fire department. they get rather persnikidy about the performance of the fire alarms and so i am just trying to make sure that everything is engaged and addressed in a timely fashion. some specifics are as i mentioned the roof part pile ones and some inner relationship with the fire alarm as it relates to the mass notification system which will be bringing to you soon. that is probably the largest last procurement we have. we did receive proposals discussions and scope have not gotten to a point that i am comfortable of

and so, it is important for us to implement mitigation measures in order to get the clearances that are required for hel and this safety of the public. and so this rfp that in place. and the board to help to us implement the designs that are required and this is a ten year contract. and it represents about 30 percent of the total budget for this portion of the work. and we you know we, would like to move forward, to enter the agreement with the black & veatch not-to-exceed, 12 million dollars over ten years, would i be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, i appreciate your presentation, i am going to pivot to the budget and legislative analyst. >> if they have any comments. >> this will be a two year contract, to 2027, subjected to a competitive process, and the contract is not to seek, 12 million dollars of which 8 million will be allocated towards the design services for the transmission line clearance, the high voltage clearance, and another four million to be used for deet sign services for ongoing right-of-way. issues. >> we do have a schedule of extended here on page, 22,

sound we do this internally not our goal to upset the neighbors and have them upset our goal to mitigate those issues i also like to say that some of the complaint we received a mentions on the block i've had two-time we've not been opened and complaint they most of complaint from my tech are before 2:00 a.m. not an after hours it is a a.m. issue and during that time i'm not the only person operating lovingly street i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> sorry for the detranscribe. >> no, it is helpful to know your perspective we have a question i'll start with commissioner thomas. >> how many nights a week or nights a month have you using the extended hours permit. >> so generally friday and saturday friday we close at the 4:00 a.m. and saturday it is depending on when did denying want to come we don't kick them off they'll play as as long as from 4, 6, 8 afghanistan we go to evening on a sunday. >> only the we understand and that's correct only one sunday night and one wednesday before authorizing we're opened the sunset 234i9 two president and thanksgiving and opened o

in the case of virginia, it was congestion mitigation was the most important part because congestion is a very serious problem in two -- two major metropolitan areas of the country. but maryland, for example, which also has congestion but has a different political philosophy than we have just came up with their set of proposals and, in fact, not only are they proposals for guide lines but they are enacted into legislation. it's the legislation that says which means that the government can't change anything because if he does he violates the law. but these law. as you can imagine, with a liberal legislature in maryland, that the scale factors are largely proenvironment, protransit, probicycle, prowalking. as the governor pointed it, it is hard to approve high way projects. it's a problem because it's enacted into law and he threatened to veto it. he sent it back and it came back with a veto safe majority. so, it is now the law. so, this is the case where setting up performance goals, if you are not careful could backfire on you. with that, let me conclude and look forward to questions

and so, it is important for us to implement mitigation measures in order to get the clearances that are required for hel and this safety of the public. and so this rfp that in place. and the board to help to us implement the designs that are required and this is a ten year contract. and it represents about 30 percent of the total budget for this portion of the work. and we you know we, would like to move forward, to enter the agreement with the black & veatch not-to-exceed, 12 million dollars over ten years, would i be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, i appreciate your presentation, i am going to pivot to the budget and legislative analyst. >> if they have any comments. >> this will be a two year contract, to 2027, subjected to a competitive process, and the contract is not to seek, 12 million dollars of which 8 million will be allocated towards the design services for the transmission line clearance, the high voltage clearance, and another four million to be used for deet sign services for ongoing right-of-way. issues. >> we do have a schedule of extended here on page, 22,

in 2014 but it covers the entire state, a congestion mitigation is one of six factors considered. all measures are quantitative and mitigation must predominate in major areas and the factors by region. the program is now called smart scale and the six measures are safety, congestion andnd public visibility visibility, environmental quality, economic development and land use coordination. and since all parts of the states are different is divided into foreword different regions. in category a which includes only 38 metropolitan areas in the state, hampton roads roads, washington d.c. and fredericksburg that is part of the agenda at this point and congestion mitigation accounts for 45% of the score for particular projects. so that must predominate then the other factors take over the end of it congestion counts for nothing because there have of problem.ea but the reason is to hold all regions harmless in terms of the money they get from the stay because what happens is if you talk about congestion mitigation to the world legislators and officials they say you ship the money to north

and i think that we mitigated for not having the single payer or the public option by putting the benefits. and your constituents would not have the benefit of no discrimination on the basis of preexisting medical condition, no lifting of the lifetime caps, eliminating the lifetime caps, no kids through 26 years old on the program. so for the people in your state even though they may or may not be on medicaid or whatever it is, but by having their insurance through their employer their benefits increase. some of their premiums may have increased but their benefits increased dratsically. and that's what i fear about your bill. while you say we're going to keep all this but the cost will be so high to the company that hires these people, to the policy holder, and to the insurance companies to provide that benefit unless you have a roader healthier pool. so the reason why certain things were in the bill. but in terms of the violence against women act -- without -- you were a very important force in that and i thank you for that so the reason why certain things because you understood h importa

for those particularly utilities like the uppers we can mitigate and have a win-win situation i thinkhat is a small price to pay for the city of san francisco granting this is in most cases an excellent project the ability to build 97 green projects, if you will, sharing the lightwell to a larger lightwell on the third story. >> in my time is benefits the future residents of the upper market flat and this couple can have to egress. >> anyone in support of dr requester and against the 0 project seeing none, project sponsor 5 minutes. >> hello and thank you this is my husband david mark farrell we bought the house in 2009 about the intentions of remodeling it is a smaller house on the block we've lived in the immediate neighborhood for many years and including me living on the block next door in the house next door this is our family home it fits our growing family needs a baby on the way this summer. >> plan to have a second he work from home full-time a home office my husband worked from home part time and have elderly parents will come and stay with us and potentially live with us yo

coloring pipeline ponlz probation officer move forward without significant community benefits and mitigation see for the potential impact it didn't mean that the projects are not accountable to help me in advance that map 2020 to create such as affordable housing and prevent displacement of businesses and residents the the devil is in the details in implementation of the strategies we will stay engaged to make sure that implementation is informed by a includes community input thank you and please direct - please if you have any further questions we'll be happy to answer them. >> thank you. >> thank you diana just for reference we priority working definition of of the gentrification last time to explain the loss of low to modot incomes is not natural but a systemic pushing those out of the neighborhood i'm providing them for reference for the new commissioners and the benefit of public related to that i want hocking to highlight a planned resolution given some of the public comment we received on the plan a few of the people that submitted comments building we're fairn one ethic group ero ano

chapter three 1 including the adoption of mitigation and reporting programs to raise the funding forhe ceqa findings - sewer system improvement program, southeast water pollution plant new headworks facility. >> okay thank you very much i know the puc is here to speak on this item so let's get going. >> i believe we have a fingertip presentation as well. >> yeah. and john will be preparing good afternoon chair farrell i'm karen the wastewater entries director at the san francisco public works and before i move into the details i want to give you a little bit of background about the improvement programs and the ahead works facility the map in front is to orient you have the wastewater and be stormwater treatment use within the 49 square miles of the city we operate during dry and wet wleefrn and up and down showing in orange we have two drainage spaces and john, i want to highlight the treatment plant to the west the young i did point oceanside up to the northeast the wet weather the north plant and lastly the facilities where the work will be occurring southeast the bayview hunters p

sound we do this internally not our goal to upset the neighbors and have them upset our goal to mitigate those issues i also like to say that some of the complaint we received a mentions on the block i've had two-time we've not been opened and complaint they most of complaint from my tech are before 2:00 a.m. not an after hours it is a a.m. issue and during that time i'm not the only person operating lovingly street i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> sorry for the detranscribe. >> no, it is helpful to know your perspective we have a question i'll start with commissioner thomas. >> how many nights a week or nights a month have you using the extended hours permit. >> so generally friday and saturday friday we close at the 4:00 a.m. and saturday it is depending on when did denying want to come we don't kick them off they'll play as as long as from 4, 6, 8 afghanistan we go to evening on a sunday. >> only the we understand and that's correct only one sunday night and one wednesday before authorizing we're opened the sunset 234i9 two president and thanksgiving and opened o

doing to understand the threat in a great way the department of romance security is for a threat mitigation helping people with hardened targets to avoid being victimized and helping people get back on their feet and for helping to make sure we all have the intelligence we need to mitigate responsibly that should not matter food recall one thing we have gotten better -- better late does not matter who you report the terrorism threat if you have a tip to a police officer or fbi agent does not matter because the information will get to the joint terrorism task force almost instantly. we have to get to the same place with cyber. exactly he was doing what? we have to get to a place and we are pretty darn close that gets to the people who need that to act on it. that should be our responsibility we will make the world smaller maurer intelligence analyst even though we did say digital pratt moving at the speed of light if we are wise upon human relationships to strengthen the world we try to impose cost. i'll be added to this earlier, we want to make sure that when a bad actor sits at a keyboard

but what are the lessons about markets and about ourselves that could mitigate the economic pain?o many lessons, but what have we actually learned? warren: the fall of 2008 was something different thanr seen. ♪ warren: it was even more extreme -- what was going on immediately -- than what was going on in 1929 or the subsequent depression in a big way. the train came close to a stop and now it is again regaining speed. so that period was a big lesson to people who operated on leverage and demonstrated the interconnectedness of our system. and it demonstrated the destructive aspect of certain kinds of incentives and that sort of thing. thomas: we came to a period where situationally i could, if i were a bank, give a mortgage to somebody that wanted to buy an $850,000 home and showing no income statement. people who should've never taken out mortgages, took out mortgages. people who never should have given mortgages, were given mortgages. people who should have not bundled them into bonds and selling them all over the world, bundled them into bonds and were selling them all over the

and looking at to expand that into the in land flood areas we're looking at leveraging federal mitigation system funding working closely with the zoning administrator's office how the mitigation funds are available on a statewide basis and how to leverage those with the structures of the projects and then also investigating select voluntary property acquisitions and i think harlan kelly want to talk about those options we are starting to evaluate beyond what we can do with engineering drawings and pouring concrete. >> so the one thing looking at coming to try to decide on a level of service whatever level of service meets you know land on the 5 or 10 i recognize that certain community will be impacted with the low lying and so the first one i wanted to do is make sure that people recognize they are living in low lying areas and if the storm event is larger than the sewer the water will go to low lying areas and make sure those areas are defined and work with the city with the management ordinance that gets to our point we're starting requiring things to be done and people are aware of tha

>> yes. >> the relocation of us are mitigated by the housing authority.ch resident will have an option whether they want a self allowance and that is a fixed allowance fee that's determined by the federal hwy., association. and if you would like i can give you those amounts. so for one bedroom apartment it's considered three rooms furnished that would be $1165. for a two-bedroom apartment which is for rooms finished would be 1375. 83 bedroom again two additional rooms furnished is $1665. a four bedroom apartment is $1925. a five bedroom apartment is $2215 and then it goes up to eight rooms furnished and that's 2505 and each additional room furnished is considered to an 65. now with the alice griffith site there are no units that are over five bedroom that would be the cap. again five-point covers those costs and then they also have the option of a commercial mover in the commercial mover is provided by the housing authority the housing authority pays the commercial moving company directly. so there is no cap. >> you had another question, sorry? >> commiss

and fredericksburg and congestion mitigation is 45% of the score for projects and the other factors are relatively minor in comparison be other factors takeover because they don't have the congestion problem. so the reason to hold harmless that they get from the state talking bout congestion mitigation and then to ship all to northern krajina to with the particular needs in the community so each of those factors we will have some factors with the most critical part of access for the disadvantaged and air quality and energy and mitigation. how the process works is all the projects put forth a substantial revitalized projects covering the next six years and that includes transit. and to submit the projects to measure the benefits per dollar according to the scale. so then they submit them to the commonwealth transportation board that is essentially a political board to go through these recommendations to make as appropriate. may have done this 2016 and 2017 and of the $8.5 billion for the projects to be submitted only 2.$7 billion more approved and they have been announced so far and obvi

everything is going to get a formal review, the risk mitigation, the vehicle that showed up, the workone by the metropolitan police, and the secret service was phenomenal. that was what we prepared for. >> do you think the secret service should be particularly heightened because you're talking about three incidents in just a week's time. >> the secret service is always at a heightened sense of preparedness. this is what they're prepared for. these incidents happened and they're prepared for it. >> but the incident last week, that a person could be on the grounds for 16 minutes before bumping into a secret service agent, was the reporting, bumped into that suspect. so there's always going to be assessment, as you said, after something happens, but will they be looking at this as something particularly unusual that you would have three incidents, all of them very different, but all around the same vicinity, the white house? >> one thing that is not shared a lot is that there are individuals who show up almost on a daily basis who believe they have a document or a need to speak with the

homeland security is responsible for mitigation. being great at helping people get back on their feet. national intelligence is responsible for making sure we all have the intelligence we need to understand the threat and mitigated responsibility. but here is the deal, it should not matter who you call. one of the things we have gotten better at since september 11 is it does not matter to whom you report a terrorism threat. if you have a tip in to walk up to a sheriff's officer or an fbi agent, it does not matter. the information will get to the joint terrorism task force almost instantly. we have to get to the same place with cyber. i think we have clarity, but you don't need to remember that. we have to get to a place and we are pretty close, that where no matter who you offer information to come a gets to the people who can act on it. that needs to be our responsibility, not yours. and we won't make the world smaller by forward deploying our people. more cyber attaches, special agents embedded in industries around the world and i

the effects in the strong afternoon wind we developed a concept off set block pattern that will mitigate those winds and be fine-grained to allow for the pedestrian movement through the neighborhoods also by responding to that geotechnical layer we're able to place the building in such a way for an urban edge that allows for the urban fabric to interlock and body camera one another rather than a hard separating edge when it comes to the movement systems we believe it is violating important that the inner basin is into the fabric we connect the bike and the vehicular fabric through a series of r0u89s that are linking everything from we have the transverse route through the existing stairwells out to the water and it also creates a series of route north and southeast and phase three out like a probated cord at the intersections of those two systems we're going to create a series of spaces from large wholesale to small-scale for a diverse arrangement people can gather at the heart of all that neighborhood a new public market a place where community events celebrations, weekend market and ot

the so-called ecosystem services, this business of how much energy is saved, how much storm water mitigated i should say, they were very disappointed in what happened in chicago which was the issued their report. they were able to really quantify a lot of the benefits and put them into dollars, and nothing happened. for whatever reason, john daly and is very powerful kind of pr machine and government just did not go anywhere with it. but they just kept on working, and i was amazed to find this out very late in the game that part of what was into in this was literally counting the leaves on a lot of trees. so let's see, they were doing all standard street tree data for 16 american reference cities, and he had a scientific partner, ecologist paula when she was a key and answering the significant question which was the leaf area index on urban trees. so over two years she and various helpers stripped the leaves off the canopies of almost 100 mature specimens of 14 common species of urban trees, one of which is the often maligned bradford pear. so this is the answer. there were almost 90,000 tr

fourkt, the plan sprays more toxic herbicide but the eir doesn't acnaunl or mitigate this. december 15 it was explained this had to be approved because the plan was 20 years old and so much work had already gaup into it. 20 years ago nobody cared about climate change accept maybe al gore. climate change is a serious threat and cannot afford to kill 18,000 large trees and replace them with bushes using a eir that is inadequate. please vote yes on the eir appeal to repair the-- >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm mike burton ety, a cranky older person from merea loma park. i don't claim to any special expertise in environmental law or climate change but where still have a good gripe on common sense and hope you have it on yours. if you have something beautiful and pressure you should hang on to it and conserve and it not want wantingly destroy it. the spectacle of the city hacking down trees right and left is certainly going annoy people far beyond the small neighborhood in which i live and is going to bring reaction at a b

fourkt, the plan sprays more toxic herbicide but the eir doesn't acnaunl or mitigate this. december 15 it was explained this had to be approved because the plan was 20 years old and so much work had already gaup into it. 20 years ago nobody cared about climate change accept maybe al gore. climate change is a serious threat and cannot afford to kill 18,000 large trees and replace them with bushes using a eir that is inadequate. please vote yes on the eir appeal to repair the-- >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm mike burton ety, a cranky older person from merea loma park. i don't claim to any special expertise in environmental law or climate change but where still have a good gripe on common sense and hope you have it on yours. if you have something beautiful and pressure you should hang on to it and conserve and it not want wantingly destroy it. the spectacle of the city hacking down trees right and left is certainly going annoy people far beyond the small neighborhood in which i live and is going to bring reaction at a b

department of homeland security is responsible for threat mitigation. we are especially helping people harden the targets to avoid being victimized and once they are victimized being great at helping people get back on the feet. the director of national intelligence is responsible for making sure we all have intelligence we need to understand the threat and to mitigate it responsibly. here's the deal. it shouldn't matter who you ca call. one of the things we've gotten better at as a country since september 11th is it doesn't matter to the report that terrorism threat. if you can't find you walk up to a sheriff or to a police officer or to an fbi agent, it doesn't matter. the information will get to the joint terrorism task force almost instantly. we have to get to the same place when it comes to cyber. it's not your job in the private sector to figure out exactly who is doing what. i think we have clarity what you don't need to remember that. we have to get to the place and we're getting close the matter whoever you offer information to tickets to the p

it still isn't mitigated. it only put the secret service in a bad position once again where they have to use other means to stop threats other than the primary, you know, asset, which is the fence line zbl. >> ryan, back to you, if you could explain this 16-acre white house property there and that south side of the white house and the access of the general public. but at the same time, the kind of security in place. can you kind of participate a picture, give us a lay of the land of potentially the route this suspect may have taken. >> yeah. i should point out it's 18 acres. i said 16 before. i left two acres out. yes, it is 18 acres. essentially if you take a look at the white house, if you've ever been to washington, this is obviously one of the top tourist destinations, i'm standing on the north side of the white house. this is what you'd see if you were on pennsylvania avenue. of course, to great fan fair, they have just reopened tours to the public at the white house. they were initial le closed down whil

chapter three 1 including the adoption of mitigation and reporting programs to raise the funding forhe ceqa findings - sewer system improvement program, southeast water pollution plant new headworks facility. >> okay thank you very much i know the puc is here to speak on this item so let's get going. >> i believe we have a fingertip presentation as well. >> yeah. and john will be preparing good afternoon chair farrell i'm karen the wastewater entries director at the san francisco public works and before i move into the details i want to give you a little bit of background about the improvement programs and the ahead works facility the map in front is to orient you have the wastewater and be stormwater treatment use within the 49 square miles of the city we operate during dry and wet wleefrn and up and down showing in orange we have two drainage spaces and john, i want to highlight the treatment plant to the west the young i did point oceanside up to the northeast the wet weather the north plant and lastly the facilities where the work will be occurring southeast the bayview hunters p

program that is been an extremely impactful program for the motion passes that is the predisaster mitigation grant and security fund we every year put in lots of lighting and other security measures to keep our waterfront safe we will be watching careful to see how those reductions impact us we see a 31 percent reduction in the environmental protection agency and the green locomotive you approved through that program it was passed through the bay area air quality district to besides how it impacts the important grant program the ports rely on and the united states corps of engineers is slated to see a 16 percent decrease and the blueprint didn't describe the changes in the budget we're eager to see the details because as you may know we have been looking executive director's report other united states corps of engineers to help us prepare and protect against flooding and with the seawall our finance community a working closely with the mayor's office and the controller's office to monitor this executive director's report i wanted to bring to your attention at this point, we're going to move

when you see the mitigating factors, mitigating against what?comes entirely different, because the person subject to the assault or robbery is drunk or has been drinking and therefore, what you would expect to be the outcome of that case is very different. it can be very different, but you have to understand there are countervailing impacts of alcohol. 0n the one hand, because it has the impact that it does on your memory, new recall, on how you've behaved, a new sense of vulnerability, then that militates against the account of the complainant. 0n the other hand, a jury complainant. 0n the other hand, a jury will understand that the complainant is much more vulnerable when she is drunk. finally, briefly, the concern from victims' groups is that even these discussions will be enough to prevent women from reporting crimes against them. you would say that isn't the case. i would say that isn't the case. i would say that isn't the case. i would say that's not the case, not least because i do think it's fair to keep victims in a position of ignoranc

retention of pilots is key of mitigating seven years of con strength training. overall army retention, is healthy, we have seen an increase of army aviation attrition from 7% to 9% annually. given growing commercial demand. we expect this trend to continue unless address. >> in anticipation, we are formalizing targets -- that encourages pilots to continue and retaining those who achieve advance qualifications. additionally, we are correcting the accumulated deficits by fully resources our flight school. fully resourcing our flight school is not a quick fix, it must be phased in for several years. it will require consistent funding and increase levels to be successful. we are increasing our aviation officers in sessions in increase foot of pilot training. we are addressing our pilot manning challenges while simultaneously meetings are in requirements. however, sustained predictable and on time funding and relief from the budget control act are vital to any solutions that we attempt to apply. mr. chairman and ranking members and distinguish members of the committe

will be disruption we've been doing a lot of outreach with the community to best manage and might mitigate one of the unique aspects of this project as you heard most of us feel like van ness is a san francisco city street that is our street and while that themselves that way technically this is the state highway so the street didn't belong to us this street belongs to the state of california so we're very grateful to have as we do with the federal government a great partner in the state government maneuvered in the leadership of the district 4 director of caltrans who with his staff we work closely at the levels of detail to make sure that design will work for the state highway so i want to thank him and his staff for the great work and please join me in welcoming for caltra caltrans. >> thank you, ed good morning mayor and supervisors and distinguished guests and agencies and staff and members of the public it is a pleasure to be here today to join all of you as

the mitigating factors, for example, bridget kelly speaks about quite frankly aren't there either. the mitigate g factors she calls on i have a mom, i have children, that would jug suggest that people who are parents and have children are otherwise good people, ought to be sentenced in a different way than someone who has breached the public trust the way she has. >> so you feel it is irrelevant in the case. what do you make of her comment. i will not allow myself to be scapegoats. >> those comments suggest that her appeal is more than just asking the judge for a non-custodian sentence, because that could be one basis for appeal. those comments i will not be the scapegoat suggest there are other people that bridget kelly feels -- >> bigger than her? >> equally or more culpable, and even the way her ten or and energy when she delivered those comments at the microphone seem to suggest that someone else was involved. >> but even, so let's dot scenario, say in her appeal maybe names other people, provides evidence, then that could affect her sentence or pretty much a don some evidee. b

on the basis whether it aggravated or mitigated the growing and yawning gap between rich and poor because that is the seems like a very significant threat to the health of the country. it's that economics, it's an equitable, and it leads to a lot of social disruption that will be dangerous for the country. ultimately, i concluded that and it may be along the lines of your question while the trade agreement may increase overall gdp, it increased the gdp mainly by peoples personal gdp was doing quite well. the fact that onnet was that it increased gdp wasn't enough to overcome that i had to conclude that it would aggravate, not mitigate the disparity in income. i do think, and and i made this.without any success at all, that if the administration wanted to be strategic about it they should couple it with a major infrastructure bill that had something for working people so that it didn't seem just about helping large multinational corporations. i think the political capitalist let us know that we can muffle this through. we have a democratic president, we have republicans will before it and

to identify, detected only hold cyber criminals accountable under the law while preventing and mitigating harm is contingent upon our ability to work closely and cooperatively with companies and individuals who are targeted and victimized as in this case. as mary noted yesterday to arrest of co-conspirator karim baratov in canada which was executed by the toronto police services fugitive squad demonstrates our total and unyielding commitment to finding and bring to justice cyber crinals, no matter where they operate or reside. the criminal hackers in this case use a variety of techniques to access information they sought, including e-mail spear phishing, downloading malicious files and code onto yahoos networks, leasing servers in the u.s. and around the world to carry out their schemes and avoid detection and registry e-mail accounts using pulse subscriber information. as this indictment demonstrates, regardless of what methods are employed or where the criminal actors live, if you illegally target u.s. citizens or american companies, you will be identified, pursued, and held to account

parts of the world, so we will be discussing with china what we believe they should be doing to help mitigate this threat as well. as to their and punitive actions against south korea, because of the agreement to install the we believe these actions are unnecessary and troubling. we also believe it is not the way for a regional power to help resolve what is a various threat to everyone. to everyone.reat we would hope china would alter its position on punishing south korea for the system. as i said, we have emphasized many times it is purely defensive in nature, and we hope they would help us engage with north korea to eliminate be reason that this system is even required. : i wouldinister yun let you take one more question from the u.s. press. mr. secretary, is there truly a new or different approach that does not include a military option? militaryoint does the option include retaliations against 20 million people in a metropolitan area? also they have suggested dropping the joint military drills. thatat a viable option could be discussed on this trip, turnn term in beijing -- in beijing, wi

and so, it is important for us to implement mitigation measures in order to get the clearances that are required for hel and this safety of the public. and so this rfp that in place. and the board to help to us implement the designs that are required and this is a ten year contract. and it represents about 30 percent of the total budget for this portion of the work. and we you know we, would like to move forward, to enter the agreement with the black & veatch not-to-exceed, 12 million dollars over ten years, would i be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, i appreciate your presentation, i am going to pivot to the budget and legislative analyst. >> if they have any comments. >> this will be a two year contract, to 2027, subjected to a competitive process, and the contract is not to seek, 12 million dollars of which 8 million will be allocated towards the design services for the transmission line clearance, the high voltage clearance, and another four million to be used for deet sign services for ongoing right-of-way. issues. >> we do have a schedule of extended here on page, 22,

is there a way to mitigate that? guest: i think so. data -- ahope of big lot of the conversation was focused on this hope we could achieve more objective metrics for basing decisions. could we eliminate some of these sticky biases that have plagued our society since forever? the we have found is that data we generate reflects the world we live in. in this world, we have vastly different experiences based on our backgrounds and demographic features. if we do not take that into consideration, what run the risk of doing is replicating the existing biases we see in the world today. the tech center is a great example of this. the tech sector over the last few years has taken a lot of heat for not being very diverse. it is a largely white, largely male industry especially on the engineering side of things. as a result, if you were to develop a recommendation system looking for key attributes and characteristics that might indicate who would be a good cto , those characteristics are likely to be more skewed to those people already in those po