and two san francisco housing authority staff members. additional procurement activity was performed that included but was not in was not limited to validated given that the offerors proposals were correctly represented referenced were checked, references were checked. debarment was checked. conference her confirmatory conversations etc.. upon completion of the review the firm was ranked and vetted and further vetted through our procurement process. >> any questions on the timeline or any other information? >> commissioners any questions ? >> yes. so the start date is february 3rd. that is correct. and does that mean services will begin on february 3rd? >> and commissioners, your my microphone should be a commissioner commissioners linda mason general counsel services are not passing the services contracts are through the mayor's office of housing and community development and they are continuing without any pause. they've been informed of this transition and all residents have also received a notice of this transition this week. and just

and that's the chicago housing authority. what proportion of your would you say have, been transformed into the kind of livable conditions that we see in the alice taylor homes in boston? how progress is being made? well, i'll tell you, jim, we haven't made that much progress terms of what i've saw here with alice taylor. but we have taken about 21 of our high rise buildings and. we have about 125 troubled high rise buildings in. and we've taken 25 of those buildings and made them livable. and how do you do that? we do it through something called emergency housing inspections. otherwise known in chicago as operation clean sweep, where we will go a gang infested drug dealing, high rise environment and together with chicago police department, utilizing their staff and our staff about a total of a of almost 100 people create lobbies because there are no lobbies in our high rises and issue photo id cards to residents go through every apartment identified by unauthorized occupants the apartments get them off the property and then

did you tell me, does the united states have any authority or recourse with the panama canal authority under our current agreement with panama to rebid those terminal concession contracts and perhaps mr. kontorovich, that is more your purview. mr. sola: both of those ports were redone for 25 years until 2047. they have to pay $7 million is what the rate is for the port of houston and the port of miami sized concessions. sen. fisher: can it can't be rebid until after that date? mr. sola: i believe that is what the comptroller's office is auditing, both of those ports and that contract and that was done under the previous panamanian administration. a new administration came in and called for an audit for that immediately. sen. fisher: but you are talking about how to incentivize companies from the united states to participate in a bid process that does not seem to be reasonable and do you think the panamanians would welcome viable alternatives? are we in that position? mr. maffei: this is outside this though before the federal does. having looked at this issue carefully it is very import

operating structure to give anybody else the authority. the problem with government is that the people inside it have been disempowered by all this process and all these procedures. they're also not accountable, by the way. so the american public is. - musk has a bad theory. the theory is that there's waste everywhere, there's abuse, there's fraud. he calls aid, our foreign aid agency, a criminal organization. now i have my criticisms of aid, they could be reformed, should be, but they're basically doing good humanitarian work around most of the world, they're not a criminal organization. but why does this freelance billionaire get to come and superimpose his judgements on what's working and what's not? there's no theory of change here. there's no good analysis of where we're failing. it's just he's bringing the entrepreneur's methodology, which is i'm gonna cut everything by 60%, wipe the slate clean, and we're gonna start over, and that'll yield efficiencies. it's not the way it works in the public sector. - right, and what's, where's th

authority of revenues of 20 million per year. >> section 2143 also delegates authority to the general manager to execute power purchase agreements for certain power products types with binding arbitration and provisions since an adoption. section 2143 has has been extremely valuable to the power enterprise efforts to acquire the power resources it needs to supply affordable and compliant clean energies to our customers unless it is extended by the board of supervisors and mayor. section 2143 will sunset at the end of this fiscal year to preserve its this important authorization and to help us compete and power markets at commercial pace. we are seeking to extend the delegated authority under 2143 until june 30th, 2030. >> we are also proposing to increase the expenditure limits for purchase contracts executed under this delegated authority from 200 million to 300 million per year. since 2143 was adopted, electricity prices have increased driving up our power procurement cost. these price increases are due to new procurement orders by state regulated ers and delays to new energy facili

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is the palestinian authority. is it in communication? is it in contact with the trumpet administration? i mean, have you been able don't to voice your views? i think i would, the views are made very clear a everywhere in the world. all are of the partners the old out are, but it's not many countries have viewed it very, very voice does very clearly and definitely 3 change in the years of the united staples for, i mean we know that egypt and jordan, they've been very firm that they will not accept re settlement of citizens from gaza and trunk has replied to that, and i'm quoting here, i say they will. i mean i know you're in amman. jordan, how much pressure do you think? jordan and egypt are under given that they are among the top recipients of american military 8. i'm showing the u. s. administration where you will use whatever pressure they get put on a related to countries. but the response of both egypt and jordan was also very clear, and it was very quick as they made it very clear that they are not for any displace month off of the

today on january 23rd this is the san francisco housing authority commission meeting i am the president what quinn torres we please call the meeting to order and take roll president walking to us president commissioner leroy lindo commissioner we want to present commissioner marion pike susan. item three is the acknowledgment of the raw material colony community. >> yes the housing authority of the city and county of san francisco acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the rahmatullah colony who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions the raw to colony have never ceded lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory as guests we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives the raw material known to communities and by affirming their sovereign rights as first

authority through the tie to titus annual budget. but unlike most items in our budget appropriations to the to the arts program are considered continuing appropriations and the authority does not expire at the end of the fiscal year. so our aggregate authority that we've established is $4.3 million in excess of of the actually accrued fees. and the reason that it was it reached that level was there were a couple of sites that we expected to pull building permits that ultimately did not. and the delays to those projects created the situation where we've established more authority for expenditure than we have accrued funds. >> so at this point to to engage in additional work we need a source of funds but not additional budgetary authority . our with the completion of the canopy of sky project we will exhaust our existing accrued funding any costs in excess of the accrued fundings we believe will be able to absorb as an authority cost utilizing leasing revenues to pay for any any cost in excess of the the currently accrued fees. but com

we need to re- authorize fcc rec spectrum auction authority immediately. lewis also continue to look for ways for unlicensed spectrum available unlicensed spectrum unlocks the internet of things in smart device economy and which americans rely providing tremendous economic growth. on the first trump administration where the 1200 megahertz of unlicensed spectrum is made available in the 60 gigahertz band. leading to massive opportunities for innovation for farmers, industrialists and communities. these successes are just a start however as we progress our adversaries are constantly trying to undermine our leadership in international standard-setting bodies through ip theft and through cyber attacks. that u.s. must remain resolute in defending our leadership to safeguard democratic values this happens by trusting in our private sector partners to address some of our nation's most pressing challenges we've recently learned about salt typhoon which they beat the largest chinese back telecommunication hack in our nations history we deploy advanced networks and

cbp, customs and border protection does have this authority and this authority over the border region population wise, almost two thirds of the united states population lives within the 100 mile zone that is within hundred miles of a us land coastal border. so not just the us-mexico border, the us canada border, also areas in california, areas along coastal coastal states. in terms of critics and what are their criticisms, this law or this extension of authority, is that just to percent of the cbp's total arrests, deportable noncitizens happened at checkpoints? what that means then. 98% of the people that they're interacting are u.s. citizens. so critics will say that this law or these authorities and powers often actually are targeting or being used against u.s. citizens rather than their goals of targeting deportable non-citizens. and so their authority in these areas is very deep. anyone here familiar with 100 miles on. any any context about it, just what you're talking about here? yeah, i grew up in florida, so. there you go. yeah. anybody familiar with 100 miles on. okay. so i wa

30 years ago before everybody was here when he just had the housing authority. but i got some problems right now because i really don't know what's happening and i'm sure the residents don't know all talk about oh, we're going to give this to a resident but i don't know if the residents know want to know about the association. >> so i'm requesting again something in writing to give me an update of the rad program as it relates to trail. he'll deal in all over the san francisco bay area. so anyway that's it. my name is lisa monaco. so we had in this time i could talk. thank you mr. washington any other public comments and specifically item five then we can close with a comment and ask for a motion for approval. >> i move to approve and then second back in. thank you. roll call vote commissioner bikes yes. commissioner tim yes. commissioner lindo yes. and president torres i thank you so moved our next and final action item item five b this is the resolution approving and authorizing the chief executive officer of the housing authority the city and county of san fr

until subsequent legislation authorizes it. that, of course, it will not be funded until a third bill passes to appropriate the money. those are the fiscal gymnastics necessary to comply with republican spending protocols. yes, even the 9/11 memorial gets only lip service and window dressing. to be crystal clear this bill doesn't do anything at all. and of course even if congress someday passes a bill to authorize the grant envisioned here, and then passes a third bill to appropriate the money for this grant, we have seen in recent days that some republicans believe the congressional appropriations are completely optional. republicans in the white house are illegally stopping vital funding congress ordered to be spent and their friends in congress are defending them they have chairman of the house appropriations committee said last week that all the bills in his jurisdiction that congress passes are actually, quote, not laws. so if we ever do create this grant, i hope no one in new york makes any enemies in this administration

from authors who are prominent on tick tock and the categories in which these authors are following are also some of the fastest growing categories that we're watching. and so certainly book talk and tick tock has had a big impact on book sales for the last few years. and and again, some of those subject areas that are growing are. yep. so it's it's largely adult fiction. and this includes fantasy and romance as well as thrillers and some science fiction brenna conner and other large segment of books are children's books. how are they doing? how many children's books are sold? a year? so the children's market has been underperforming again since that peak. that was post-pandemic when there was a big boost in kids sales because of a greater need for materials at home to both help educate children. while schools were closed, but also to help entertain kids and things like activity books and flashcards did well. so since that peak kids sales have been underperforming. i mean, but i expect to see a return to growth for the kids market in 2025 because throughout 2024, i watched improvement o

by allowing the president to overstep congressional authority think? mean, and do you think we're in a constitutional crisis? ms. plaskett: well, i know that people have talked about a constitutional crisis. and the crisises when the constitution is not followed. we are the first branch, the first article of government and one of those things within that constitution is that we have the power of federal funding, to appropriate and decide where that funding is going. the president has tried to remove congress' authority to do that by freezing funds, by taking them over, by allowing doge to freeze funds, to claw back, to discussing of dismantling agencies that congress has put in place. so if that you think is a constitutional crisis, then yes. we are in one. reporter: what do you think specifically about the role of, say, leader thune and speaker johnson? ms. plaskett: i can't say what is going on in their mind. but i know that they can see exactly what we all see. and if they're not doing anything about it, then i would say that they've abdicated their

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gillen when the sec has authority has the authority to price find spectrum without further direction from, i would know to leave the impression that you have to open spectrum to authorize, they mentoring that for the better part of the century. i think that it's i think that is important but i also think if you entertain the idea of finding specific spectrum bands then you have to rest with the conflict we spent all morning talking about. you've got to figure out how how you are going to resolve the complexity of the -- the defense systems. that need to be done by experts. >> it needs to be an undersecretary in government titles matter. it makes a huge difference if you are in ministry have to brief the deputy secretary to talk to an agency about an issue they know nothing about. mr. lewis: i would agree with that. with offshore authority out of it the former chairman you do not have to be prescriptive because there's not a lot of new spectrum bands out there. let them do the studies that point in the right direction is important in preserving the balance of license balance of licens

second, fcc has with congressional authority congressional authority experimented with new regulatory models to create competitive opportunities in the market and foster innovation. there is no greater example of regulatory innovation the success of wi-fi. wi-fi technology was invented in the 1980s when fcc opened unlicensed spectrum from experimentation by engineers and inventors. these unlicensed spectrum bands like anyone to use any device for any purpose under rules authorized by the fcc to fort interference with licensed services. wi-fi carries 53% of all internet traffic almost 90% of wireless internet traffic. without supporting wi-fi unlicensed spectrum innovation would not have mobile communications which we now enjoy. in this century knew what new ry models for spectrum access sharing models are increasing access for small community institutions, rural and tribal communities other private industry outside of the big wireless carriers. the third and finally congress is carefully divided between federal and nonfederal users acquiring cooperation between agencies between federa

>> without legal authority -- >> pardon in? >> is it being offered to air traffic controllers? >> all federal employees. my understanding went out to 2 million this offer, opm does not have that authority to start with, that's who it came from, it is -- i can tell you lots of federal employees. we got chaos on steroids going on. we had heard from trump's supporters, the omb director he wanted to traumatize federal workers. that is happening. these are the folks that inspect our fruit, our milk, our eggs, you know, what happens if they all quit? >> i want to ask you -- and i know many of those people live in the state of virginia, they are your constituents -- i want to ask you about your former partner on the intelligence committee, marco rubio, now secretary of state. he told a podcaster this week the president made the decision to cancel security protection for secretary of state mike pompeo who served during the first term because he looked through a threat versus a cost risk assessment. i know you're briefed on intelligence. did the threat from iran to assassinate former u.

, removal authority extended to the entire executive branch. and if that were to happen, that would indeed be big news. separately from that, there is the whole question of presidential authority over the civil service, which are lower-level employees which are protected. you see, it's not just about removal. it is about influence and control. and president trump, pretty clearly, wants to control in a very direct sense, the entire executive branch of government. irrespective of laws passed by congress. that's the issue i would like to highlight. there arethere are other imports like birthright citizenship. i do not want to ignore those but this issue that i've talked about as we've seen got less attention. host: you probably get this question a lot specifically what the constitution says about executive power and why you think it has grown so much since then? guest: well. i will start with what i learned and where many books start which is article two of the constitution does not give a lot of detail about presidential power and it certainly do

what are the requirements the appointing authority? >> exactly. exactly so that we can coordinate appropriately. yes, i get those felt. yes. >> good. so so on so online on the website are the vacancies listed there? >> i think they generally are. >> they should be, yes. i thought i was looking it up at one point with the requirements. yeah yes they are available online and i can circulate that to would be too much to ask if you could put it up right now i know when i've looked at the board of supervisors website for commissions and vacancies it shows but sometimes i've gone to that and it's been out of date. there's a new 2025 manatee report but there's a new one. okay, thanks. now that would be do you know where it is? technically six of nine seats are vacant like my seat vacant. technically. >> so are those two. >> yeah. we don't have to be here. yeah, i know. okay. we have to find it. okay. yeah, because i think i've seen it once. but again yes, going back to having to find it again. >> yeah. yeah. so we will get that updated i think also send

the palestinian authority is not seen as an authority. who is speaking for them?is goes to the heart of the question. today they have no choices. hamas is a terror organization, seen this way not only by the u.s., but the arab world. the palestinian authority is discredited. the only way is to rehabilitate the palestinian authority through reform, enforcements. the israeli government is playing on this to ensure there is no progress. sumi: a question on the state of the cease-fire agreement we just discussed with tom. do you see the prospect it could fall apart? guest: absolutely. it is a risky situation. i believe one hamas said they were -- they might not release hostages were trying to increase leverage, but did not realize trump would escalate, and hamas has to climb off this ladder, but so does israel. what netanyahu said compared to trump, trump said all the hostages saturday. netanyahu did not say that. for netanyahu, he has his own complications. if the cease-fire collapses, the right wing part of his government might be happy, but more than 70% of the isr

and thank you to housing authority for the amazing donation of socks. thank you. we have still been able to keep that there and been able to make sure that all the residents have socks and everybody is taking care of also housing items. so being able to provide different things like dish soap or a few laundry pods or even some toilet paper or paper towel just for them to be able to stop by and be able to pick that up in need of any cleaning supplies or anything like that . >> so we were also able to provide technology literacy and assistance for three residents. this would be just understanding documents being able to access their email. sometimes you get locked out of those things and it has to factor identification. so just teaching them through that so that they're understanding how to access it and being able to access it on their own as well. >> we were also able to provide to residents with some planning assistance just making sure that they're on a payment plan and that they are registered and in the right areas for the reach program and overall within dece

to spend and then our debt authorization is the authority the maximum authority for debt that we're allowed to issue. so the first item that will discuss here is just an overview of our capital budget. what's important here is there's no changes that we're asking for in this fiscal year and in fact we're really proud of that coming into fiscal year 2526. this is the first time in five years that we are not making a mid-cycle adjustment to our in the mid-cycle of our capital budget in front of you. before the meeting we handed out the gfr magazine which is the government finance review magazine. we recently received an award and the award was published on page 31 about magazine for our capital planning improvement initiative and we believe that a lot of the work that we've undertaken in this initiative has allowed us to come to you before you today and not request any mid-cycle changes to our capital budget where we feel really strongly about the work that that's going on there . i also just want to note that two year budgets are relatively common for government entities that have st

and the authority has less gaza. in fact, during the war, many of the staff in health, water, electricity, were paid by palestinian authority. so they have continued to work, it would be difficult, i mean, it would be challenging to mobilize everybody and be on their feet tomorrow but it's doable. it's doable because once you have people already working, already in the system, it would be easier to mobilize them with some logistic support. and this is what we would be working diligently. the plan has three stages. yes. >> are you optimistic we can get there. >> it is not a choice or option. we can't resort top hopelessness or helpless necessary. the deal has to be and we would like to move by the articles to ensure that first and foremost we cater to the needs of our people. we need all the help we can provide. and we will not shy away from pressing and ensuring that we can provide them that whatever is possible. >> are there convoys going in as we speak and from which direction so we can imagine what is taking place

revenues versus authority expenses. so we now need to make sure that we're managing those those costs they identified as authority costs within available leasing revenues in in accordingly we restructured the budget into three categories based on the available funding sources the authority costs budget the city costs budget and the subsidy budget and again the authority costs budget needs to be supported by our leasing revenues so we need to make sure that we're monitoring both our revenue opportunities and these expenses to make sure that we're coming in on target where as the city costs and subsidy budgets function more as pass through expenses whatever expenses we end up occurring on the city cost side as long as we have a stablished expenditure authority the developer is obligated to reimburse those expenses. similarly the subsidy budgets are available are can be funded by external funding sources and as long as there are sufficient authority or accrued balances in those accounts then we can we can fund those operat