i encourage the board to get up to speed on this and stay with your agency. thank you. >> albert wong, followed by howard wong. >> i like to follow up - my name is albert wong, value fire, i work with stanley. i like to follow-up with other points of view brought up. not only by moving up the project said a dangerous precedent for the city agency to ignore the lbe ordinance, in disregarding the benefits to the local economy that can be generated. but also many of us, the contracting communities, have dreamt and aspired to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime 840 million project. now we are about to have this dream taken away not by others but by our own agency. this project will be built and mainta

i was trying to think of what part of our agency it talk about. i want to talk about the most vulnerable seniors we know. mr. boston said what i needed to say about housing. that's pretty much the deal. our agency sees seniors like him all the time. constantly, consistently looking for housing and can't find it. we need more support services to help people and to help people a app apply. a lot of people don't know where to find housing or where to start. we are trying to focus on that with seniors. and i want to talk about senior exit center, that looks out for ex-offenders. those are the people coming back, relatives and sons and daughters and uncles and aunts that are out of jail and prison and need a place to stay. and we can't find them a place to stay. we can get them transitional housing for three month and then nothing. and lastly i want to talk about the adult center, that serves a lot of vulnerable people. i want to thank the mayor who helped out last year, and we still need that program. and i want to have a staff member tell why she work

i director of housing for the city of atlanta empowerment agency. i been around. i been around. so i do not like what i see when i drive down third street. it don't make me feel good. if any of y'all drive third street and feel good? i say this is not the place for you. thank you. >> i want to thank you mayor. you know this is my community. espinola jackson, dr. espinola jackson's community. and when i raise my hand for them to pick up if one wants to have something to say. i had my hand in the air first, i don't know how i got behind. i ran behind for the speakers, they don't know the services we have in this building here in this community college. we have second language here, and no one should be ignored. everything was talked about except aids prevalent here in bayview hunter's point. we want to see a change in that and also in education, transportation. we have turk out in this community. our young people cannot go to school unless they are jumped upon. this needs to be stopped. and only you can stop this, and help our young people get an education each across town. someon

there ways that agencies can swap facilities when that would be an economic improvement for both agencies? i know that there is an initiative that has been undertaken to basically have pay go in an agency that says you cannot expand if you have not actually look at whether there are places where you need to consolidate. i think that that is an effective forcing mechanism as well. you put together these pieces, you look at what other pieces are out there, it will be those types of pieces together that will get us to a more efficient outcome, a more efficient management of the federal footprint. so, i think it is a real opportunity and i think it is one that, if confirmed, i would want to work with you and your staff. to make sure that i fully understand exactly what types of tools will be the most effective. i agree completely that we need more tools in the toolkit to go at this problem and there is a real opportunity there. >> maybe one last question, usually i do this at a hearing with a number of witnesses where i am trying to develop consensus on a particular issue. we did that last week

for your ongoing effort to do this. [ applause ] >> and the work incredibly well with the other agencies. i know that because this is pier 39 and one of the most iconic travel destinations, i understand that is why, john martin was here, because while he flies airplanes he is part of an incree transportation center and we all know that and we all share in that wonderful experience with being clearly, the best nation for so many, millions of people, every day. and as we do this, we reinvent and reinvest and find other reasons for people to enjoy themselves here. and those projects like the exporatorium and like the bay lights and renewed effort to create more water-base theds transportation to compliment the bridges that we build. we will create more bridges on the international level for our city. so, all of that in the context of a great anniversary, 150 years, there is going to be throughout this year, more stories to be told about what this 150 years means to our city, because, there is a lot of generations of people who came to this city, many, many years, built communities, built their

>> she knows the agency well. i think she certainly will continue to do certain things, particularly on the auctions, that need to be done to me that timetable. there are other things that she think shet, such as may decide to be more aggressive on moving forward. i don't anticipate it will be that terribly long of a period. there is no pressing need to start proceedings. there are some i think she could start that tom would be perfectly happy to have her start. she doesn't want to do anything that boxes him in. there is already a full agenda. any inkling on who the president may nominate to replace commissioner mcdowell, justin lilley? >> that's a pretty good parlor game in town. dating back to the clinton-dole years, the leader of the opposition in the senate gets to make a quote, unquote recommendation as to who the white house should nominate from the opposing party. my guess is that senator mcconnell and his staff are playing that pretty close to the vest. they will get a name probably in the next month or so.

>> guest: i think she knows the agency very well, she's very familiar with the issues. i think she certainly will continue to do certain things, particularly on the auctions that need to be done in order to kind of meet that time table. there are some oh things that i think she cares about such as prison phone rates that she may decide to be a little more aggressive in moving forward. but i don't want anticipate it'll be that terribly long a period. certainly, there's no kind of pressing need to start proceedings, though there are some that i think she could start that tom would be perfectly happy of to have her start. so she doesn't want to do anything that boxes him in, but i don't think she would do that. but there's already a full agenda. >> host: justin lilley, any inkling on who the president may nominate to replace commissioner mcdowell? >> guest: you know, that's, that's a pretty good parlor game right now in town. i think by tradition dating back to the clinton-dole years as i think you may know, the leader of the opposition in the senate gets to make a, quote-u

think that big government and how unwieldy it is contributed to this. >> i have been for streamline agencies, i and partf the fdic could go together, i like dodd-frank at 85 pages, but i still think we need to be regulated. i would like to find a better balance. neil: do you worry about the backlash this is yielding we're talk will to miller in alaska it prompted a backlash against government. >> i am concerned i am a proponent of national infrastructure bank. so, you know, on the flip side, i think fema has done a good job. neil: you have got to be kidding? >> wait, whether they came in during that severe storm, it was very needed. where the money has gone to date, you can't -- >> i love you darrelly but you are out on dearly but you are out to lunch to that one. >> all right. neil: i kid you, robert, you are a good egg, and a good guy, but you should talk to the president about some of these basic issues, give him my best. >> i will everyone from fox. neil: robert, founder and ceo a good guy. facebook might be clients up its act, i want you to meet on-line type that is doubling down on dirty,

i'm the director of security and enforcement for the san francisco municipal transportation agency. i also am in charge and oversee the planning and execution for all major events on behalf of the mta. you may recall our armageddon of events last october where we had a very successful plan and executed that plan very well around fleet week, america's cup and the myriad of other things that were occurring all throughout san francisco. like captain cleary said, we have been meeting with the america's cup event authority and other city agencies and regional partners since 2010 for the america's cup. we have been meeting with live nation, members of the community, really for the last six months or so since this project was announced. we have met internally as an organization, as an agency, and i'm very, very confident in the plan that we have put together to address the traffic issues and transportation issues as it pertains to the concert series. we have added augments service on behalf of our transit side of the agency, and i will be adding many enforcement officers to mitigate any traf

we go into special event planning we work with all agencies. i was at the meeting for the america cup and it was a very productive meeting. what if scenarios due to the boston thing what happens if this or that. we have plans in a place to deal with that. your question earlier is the city save? yes, we're very safe and we're ready. we go down the list of things that we really highlight on we have direct communication at all times. that communication plan give us every radio channel we can talk to that person immediately so we have direct line communications. that's a definite plus. we use that in day-by-day emergencies. usually we have your battalion folks there as well. another thing we do is emts is a huge part of our event. i've made copies for you guys to look at it and see how we use the process. >> good afternoon supervisors. assistant deputy for the fire department. special event and medical services is an ongoing process of refinement and execution. as many of the speakers h have said we have a long process. the key issue for the fingerti

and i certainly have not signaled the government agency. and let alone their i was in november of 1990s davin as acting commissioner. it was not normal time for the iron ask him if there ever is a normal time for the irs. people who are really angry at that point, shortly after, there was a columnist who wrote about things. he found me a great subject for his column. right after i got there, he wrote this column in which he reported in a rather deadpan fashion that my body had been found under four times that were labeled your irs taxpayer rights and that was about what it was for at that point in time. it was true that in the '90s, people were really mad at the irs. but the trouble really didn't start until 90s. if you go back to a longer timeframe, you find that in the 70s and early '80s, things were out of process. they respect how the government was doing their job. starting in the 80s, things started to go downhill. by the middle 90s, there were so many taxpayer complaints going into congress that by the time i made my courtesy visit fo

we are familiar with many agencies in san francisco. i want to share with you my very unpleasant and outrageous experience with mta in my experience. to summarize our company was poised to become a second-tier subcontractor to a first-tier subcontractor. upon learning that our first tier got the job, two hours later they called us back to say tutor found a way to satisfy the sbe requirements him or somewhere else so they don't need us more. six months of work went down the drain; years of contact with the prime contractor went down the drain. this project is huge, 840 million dollars. i urge not to move forward for the following reasons. it sets a dangerous precedent to ignore chapter 14 lbe ordinance which many supervisors have supported. all other supervisors support it. two, it ignores the impact of the local economy that could be generated from participation in this. can i submit this? >> of course. we would be happy to see it. next speaker. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon oren feldstrom -- the coalition is an umbrella group comp

we are familiar with many agencies in san francisco. i want to share with you my very unpleasant and outrageous experience with mta in my experience. to summarize our company was poised to become a second-tier subcontractor to a first-tier subcontractor. upon learning that our first tier got the job, two hours later they called us back to say tutor found a way to satisfy the sbe requireme

is an independent enforcement agency. i believe as i understand it contains only two political appointees within it. the individual who was running the i.r.s. at the time was an appointee from the previous administration. separate from that, there is no question if this activity took place it is inappropriate and en.ion needs to be take the president expects action to be taken. > on benghazi and the comments by susan rice. we heard that the administration pushed back on the talking points and how some of the information would be used politically in congress. the white house made a stylistic change that these were not stylistic changes. so, again, what role did the white house play, not just in making but directing changes? >> for that question, the way to look at this is the start of -- start from that week and in the wake of the attacks in benghazi an effort was under way to find out what happened, who was responsible. in response to the request from the house permanent select committee on intelligence, the c.i.a. began a

san francisco state does have their own agency. i don't know if we assisted them but i certainly can follow up on that. >> and then the other incident or what we heard about this evening in terms of the homeless and their shelter? >> the gentleman said it was a church. i have no idea about an incident at a church. >> okay. >> but again i will follow up on that. >> okay thank you. >> thank you. commissioner loftus. >> yes chief do you by chance, and i know that putting you on the spot a little bit but we have the homicide numbers. do you have them compared to last year by this point in the year. >> we're at 13 now and i'm sorry i don't know what it was last year. >> okay. >> 27. it was at 27. thank you mr. henderson. >> okay thank you and i will just say i happen to be one of the fortunate san franciscans had that had one of the 20 house parties on my block and my kids were out riding their bikes when we watched up the breaking up of a house party which was more complicated than i imagined it could be. i would say there was a signific

mean they the regulatory agencies i think take their jobs very seriously. soon after g.m. so i was introduced to the u.k. soil or just sky rocketed by fifty percent my skin break study showed that so many people could react to jim soy but. there are many reasons why the g.o.p. soy you know digit i told you that. there's more herbicide residues of the soy. there's a no knowledge of soil which is as much as seven times higher in the genome compared to the nerves there's a completely new allergen in the soil that wasn't supposed to be there part of that massive collateral damage when they created the gene the insert where they were doing a legend is there it's suppressed digestive enzymes it maurice that might give us allergies to a wide variety now we're eating at about six in the mean in the milk in the in all the organs or fed genetically engineered crops it's potential but we're also getting those antibiotics to process through. the terms of this sentence policy claiming the difference was a lie documents made public from a lawsuit about forty four thousa

for your ongoing effort to do this. [ applause ] >> and the work incredibly well with the other agencies. ithat because this is pier 39 and one of the most iconic travel destinations, i understand that is why, john martin was here, because while he flies airplanes he is part of an incredible transportation center and we all know that and

i think that we are still going through the growing pains and really coming into our own as an agency. but i think that the direction is a good one for the city to enable us to comprehensively evaluate the transportation and manage transportation for the city. and the sfmta board of directors last year, approved a strategic plan for the next six years for the agency and i wanted to briefly outline the goals of that plan. and the first goal was safety, above,. but the second goal was implementing the mandate that the board of supervisors code in 1973 when they created the transit first policy and i will talk a little bit more about that briefly and the third goal is a recognition of our role and responsibility and improving the environment and the economy of san francisco and that is why it is a close nexus of the interest of the small business commission, we absolutely see our role in supporting and helping the economy of san francisco. and then the fourth goal is basically that we need to be stronger as an agency in order to deliver all of those other goals and i thank out rich and c