i came to work at the redevelopment agency six years ago because i was inspired by the agency's amazing commitment to improving the quality of lifes for residents throughout the city. the list of redevelopment achievement is really long and we have generated tens of thousands of jobs and created affordable housing opportunities and worked on the affordable housing unit for the hunters bay shipyard. our work is now solely focused on completing the transbay and shipyard and we had to abandon our other work. our workforce was reduced to less than 50. this was not easy, but we got through it. mainly thanks to our great work of our executive management team led my stephany bowey. i continue to be proud of the work of the agency, but i have to say it's strange to be working on projects that are so important to the city and at the same time not be a city employee. right now, when redevelopment projects end, our careers end, and it would be really detrimental for the city of san francisco to lose the individuals who work on those projects. the institutional knowledge and experience would be a g

i came to work at the redevelopment agency six years ago because i was inspired by the agency's amazing commitment to improving the quality of lifes for residents throughout the city. the list of redevelopment achievement is really long and we have generated tens of thousands of jobs and created affordable housing opportunities and worked on the affordable housing unit for the hunters bay shipyard. our work is now solely focused on completing the transbay and shipyard and we had to abandon our other work. our workforce was reduced to less than 50. this was not easy, but we got through it. mainly thanks to our great r

the olrc has taken a different approach than most enforcement agencies which distinguishes the agency and some of its success. when a claimant files a complaint at the olrc in san francisco, the agency investigates all of the workers in the business. the agency does not make out one individual claimant, come to a conference with the employer a would happen if a complaint is filed at the state. that encourages workers to come forward who might otherwise be fearful and we maintain the confidentiality of the claimant's identity to the extent that we can through the process. another thing that distinguishes our enforcement strategy is that we work closely with the collaborative of community-based organizations and that collaborative is under contrived to the tune of about $460,000 a year. it's a collaborative now of six community-based agencies who you'll hear from later in this testimony. but their work is critical because they are culturally competent and they have relationships in the community and sometimes workers feel more comfortable approaching a community agency than bringing a c

or the successor agency. >> so supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. yes, colleagues, so thank you again for allowing me an opportunity to come to this committee. and present to you a hearing item today. this is a proposed charter amendment, a narrowly crafted resolution to transition approximately 38 employees who were formerly employed by the redevelopment agency. and as many of you know in 2012, there were in 2012 we were all reeling from the governor's decision to abolish the redevelopment agencies across the state and to say the least this is one issue i'm working with and i was just in another committee dealing with another issue with the dissolution of redevelopment agency has put us in a state of tizzy. over the past three years we focused on moving forward projects that have benefited from tax increment and finding out tax increment dollars and finding alternative sources of funding for infrastructure, and affordable housing and project areas. well, however similar to those projects, there are employees of the agency who have spent a number of

we've worked hard with city agencies, want to acknowledge the city attorney's office, mickey callahan as well as health service system to make sure that we are not allowing any of these employees to double dip and that we are targeting the employees that truly felt the impacts of the state's dissolution. we've excluded employees who have left the agency prior to the dissolution voluntarily, two, those that are collecting pemca or other retiree benefits, three, those that have vested from previous years of service, and four, established a precise date by which any employee who qualifies must be employed by the city of march 2015 so this is not an open ended opg. ed option. we've made several amendments at the rules committee, two specifically, to address several questions and requests that were made by the department. the charter amendment that is before you today has the support of a human resource director, as well as two unions also bringing forth this measure that represent employees that were impacted by the re-- by the dissolutionments of the redevelopment agency. that's local 21

if we hear about the incident before the agency has reported it, we'll notify the agency and request similar information. the goal of this process is to ensure that the circumstances that may have led to the loss of federal records are corrected and not repeated. we learned of the unauthorized disposal of the irs records through a letter dated june 13th, 2013, from the irs to senators widen and hatch. in this letter the irs reported the loss of e-mail records of lois lerner, the former head of irs and exempt organization division dating from 2009 to 2011 as the result of a failure of hard drive. we asked the irs to investigate the alleged disposal of records and whether it was broader than was reported in the june 13th, 2014 letter. we asked for a response within 30 days. on a daily basis, professionals worked to ensure records management policies and practices protect the rights of the government and citizens and identify the permanently valuable records that document the national experience. in november of 2011, the president issued a memorandum on managing government records, whic

lastly, what liability should the agency or agencies in charge of space traffic management assume if its direction to a satellite operator to move a spacecraft results in a collision? these are just a few of the questions that this subcommittee will need to address if we aim to lay the grouped work for ensuring the safety of future space flight from orbital debris and other spacecraft. mr. chairman, these are complex issues and i hope today's hearing will start to shed light not only on the important issue of orbital debris but the issues congress might consider for space traffic management and regulatory regime. with that i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you, miss edwards. i now recognize the ranking member of the full committee from texas, miss johnson, for a statement. >> thank you very much and good morning. i want to welcome our witnesses to this morning's hearing and i look forward to your 278. i'll be brief in my remarks so that we'll have enough time to hear from our experts. orbital debris or space junk as it is sometimes called is not science fiction. it is a r

senior agency official who takes responsibilities for records management within that agency, raises the profile of records management in the agency. at the same time, we're working with the office of personnel management to create for the first time in our government the job family records manager. there's no such thing right now in the records management environment. so we have a variety of credentials that are in operation across the federal government. >> thank you. my time's up. i yield back. >> thank the gentle lady from illinois. dr. desjarlais. >> thank you, mr. chairman. miss o'connor, i just wanted to ask you a few questions. what was the reason you were hired in may of 2013 to join the irs? >> so mr. werfel called me the day after he started and said that he had undertaken this significant challenge and was trying to add a few extra people to help him a chief of staff, a risk officer and a counselor. and our project was to help him as needed in various ways to run the irs, which at that point was facing new leadership and had the problems that i know your committee knows about

the only other agency that is more desperate is the u.s. epa. so in other words, we really feel from the west that this scientific committee has no expertise in our water jurisdiction, concerns, quantities, quality, and we as i said at the beginning of the remarks, there's just no rule that terrifies us more. thank you mr. chairman. i yield back. >> thank you. hopefully staff got that list and you will be able to respond. >> it looks like we'll be able to get it somehow. i tried to write them all down. thank you. >> all right. thank you. now it's finally my turn. i have two letters i wish to put into the record without objection, if there's an objection i will be really worried. from my ayingation electrical districts associations of arizona and national stone and sand and graph evel association. it's opinion fascinating to listen to this. six weeks ago right down the hall we did one of those things we try to do with big legislation where you invite in a hand full of lawyers. this was an interesting group. one had actually been staff over at the

who were unexpectedly impacted by the dissolution of this agency. if they come to the city. i've circulated to you right now an updated draft to the [inaudible] amendment and a summary of the proposed changes. i'm going to read into the record the changes. do you have the amendment in front of you? >> yes. >> our human resource director raised an herb show for other [inaudible] prior to the dissolution and should not receive the benefit of this charter amendment. we've received information that there were three employees who fit this category and are proposing to amend the definition of hire on or before january 9 to exclude former agency employees who left the a general say for other city positions prior to february 1, 2012, which is the date of dissolutionment of the redevelopment agency. these individuals left on their own volition for other opportunities and unlike other employees we have been discussing, they did not -- they didn't suffer the impacts of the dissolution. the second amendment is based on consultation agreed that the cut off date

commend the people in the room who are the people in the commission who took on this winding down agency that's not doing much is completely not true my family and people behind me helped me to have those years that's been critical to be able to do that specifically director boo he for acting as a mentor and it's an incredible once upon a time, opportunity one of the things when the agency start over at city hall and the - we were throwing out all the records from the 50s and 60s and 70s the work is awesome when you have an opportunity to look at the legions of the shipyard managers and the all the people who have worked here the work is awesome it's incredible the type of impact and only for the hoults of the people this is a major lifetime opportunity and very, very hard to leave i have to tell you but i appreciate everyone for supporting me. >> thank you. >> thank you (clapping.) know i didn't ask this before can we poufrn them back let's take public comment. we have 3 speaker cards please could. the podium in this order (calling names) >> members of the commission i really hate to ra

projects warrant the agency stepping in, as the power provider. and i know that particularly, some of the larger development projects, could easily fall, into that category, or it would make a lot of sense. the currently, as you know, excess hydroelectric power, generated at hetch, hetchy gets sold on the wholesale market at one quarter of the price that would be charged to a retail customer. so if we give the agency the ability to have more retail customer and there will be more revenue from the power and that can be reenvested in the agency's infrastructure including street lights. we are continuing the discussion with the staff with the particular of the language in the legislation and we have an open dialogue, and we want to make sure that the legislation is passed in the right form. and i know that the staff has proposed a few amendments, some of which were open to and others were not quite there and i am sure that we will continue to talk and so with that, i am happy to answer any questions. and i appreciate the time. >> commissioners? >> ye

every visitor to the agency comes through this entrance. every new agency officer takes their oath of office here in this lobby. 107 of our fallen officers, commemorated on the wall of honor. they have walked across the to takeeal that morning their place in the lobby, and the father of central intelligence is watching over their shoulders. close to ading sculpture of wild bill donovan, the father of central intelligence. donovan was tasked by president roosevelt in 1942 to head the office of strategic services. that organization had grown out of an earlier one called coordinator of information, our first non-departmental intelligence agency, established by president roosevelt to coordinate information the warence, with growing overseas. the single star behind us commemorates the loss of 116 who served during world war ii. the cia seal is a piece that everyone sees as a first come into the lobby. some people do not like to walk across it. some people walk around it. but you have seen movies filmed here in the lobby of people crossing the se

agency. i thank all the witnesses testifying, and now recognize the ranking member. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. last month i visited the cdc laboratories -- the cdc laboratories in atlanta made a series of mistakes. they transferred anthrax to two other labs, potentially exposing dozens of individuals to anthrax. luckily, no one has yet fallen ill. i am deeply troubled by what we learned about this incident. how did it happen? cdc conducted its own internal investigation that identified numerous failures. there was no standard operating procedure for the analysis conducted by the cdc scientist. there was no study plan. the scientists used a pathogenic strain of anthrax when a non-pathogenic strain could have been used. the scientists used unapproved sterilization techniques for pathogenic anthrax and then transported the material without confirming it was inactive. this was obviously an alarming series of failures, but there were other problems at cdc that made this incident worse.

it is our job to collect the agencies tangible heritage and -- the agency's tangible heritage and to preserve and document that tangible heritage, which is now over 18,000 objects, and to put those objects in educational exhibits to help give our visitors, and by extension the american people, through our traveling exhibit, our loans to other institutions, our website, a better understanding of the role intelligence plays in our country. we are in our legacy gallery. this gallery is dedicated to the derring-do of the 14,000 men and women who served the cia's predecessor, the office of strategic services. that organization was our country's first non-departmental intelligence agency. it would not have existed but for two men, president roosevelt and general "wild bill" donovan. it is 1940, and the war winds are blowing, and resident -- president roosevelt asks that agencies that collect foreign intelligence coordinate it better. that would have been diplomats posted abroad, defense attaches posted abroad. in 1940, the fbi receives a brief to collect foreign intelligence in the western

title 5, independent agencies. administrative conference of the united states, salaries and expenses, $3 million to remain available until september 30, 2016. bureau of consumer financial protection administrative provisions, section 501, section 1017-a-2-c of public law 111-203 is repealed. section 502 -- the chair: for what purpose does the gentlelady from wisconsin seek recognition? ms. moore: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by ms. moore of wisconsin. page 59, beginning on line 20, strike section 501. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 661, the gentlelady from wisconsin and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlelady from wisconsin for five minutes. ms. moore: thank you so much, mr. chair. i tell you, mr. chair, if obamacare, affordable care act, so the called obamacare, is the ultimate tempest for the tea party pot, then i guess the consumer financial protection bureau, the cfpb, is a very

in 2010, the planning alliance received and won hard battles for the sf planning agency. i'm sure you're aware of a couple years ago we lost the tax increment financing that's nov necessary for the schlage lock development we've been if the forefront of advocating for affordable housing almost all neighborhoods don't want - i'm almost done >> quickly thank you. >> okay. i'll cut to the chase give us the money for prop k for pedestrian pathways thank you. >> thank you very clear. is there any public comment? please come forward and seeing none, public comment is closed. and roll call vote >> sxhooelz. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor malia cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor yee. i. that item passes >> thank you. congratulations. great. next item >> item 10 adapt the balboa park circulation study this is an action item. >> okay. this is an item i've been looked for a number of years i'm very, very happy that the circulation study has buena been done now the

and turn them into a brand new mega agency. got nearly a quarter million employees, the only agencies bigger are the aforementioned coast guard and va. customs service used to be part of treasury, now it's part of homeland security. fema, homeland security, customs and border protection, border security. the tsa? homeland security border patrol, homeland security. all of these things are all homeland security with one guy in charge. is that a good idea? we're finding out. homeland security secretary jay johnson back with us. i don't know if that's supposed to make you feel good or bad. i want to ask you about border patrol. it is the most opaque law enforcement agency that operates domestically that i know of. we know from outside sources there have been dozens much incidents of border patrols shooting and killing people, there's never been any official information released about even one of those shootings. there's never been one single complaint process for people to deal with about concerns or over use of force? are you conc

agency. this led to the discovery of timothy webster. timothy webster is the subject of the new book "a spy for the union: the life and execution of timothy webster." without further ado, i will welcome corey recko. [applause] >> enqueue everyone. i would like to thank everyone here at the museum for setting this up. and allowing me to speak here. "a spy for the union: the life and execution of ."mothy webster i would like to read the introduction to you which gives you an overview of his life. man,new york city police 1853, he was assigned to work the crystal palace exhibition. it became known as the first world's fair. ,e was introduced to pinkerton a scottish immigrant who had started his own detective agency. in the 1850's, the detective agency laid the foundation for what would become the most important detective agency ever. it focused on criminal matters and was often employed by government agencies. i'm putting together what -- in putting together what proved to be a team of detective

nationals including the abductees will be started by the north korean defense commission and other agencies will which can make decisions at a national level. this sort of organization structure has -- will be mobilized and this is an unprecedented arrangement. that is what we judged. therefore based on the principle of action to action, japan will lift some of the sanctions it has been imposing on it own. but this is just a beginning. we will brace ourselves and do our utmost to reach a comprehensive solution of this issue. >> abe spoke after meeting with members of the national security council. he said north korean leaders will give a special committee the power to launch an effective investigation into the nation. his government will lift sanctions that include restrictions on travel port calls by ships and tight regulations on money transfers. officials from japan and north korea met in may in stockholm to form the framework of an agreement. >>> north korean leaders have been weighed down by international sanctions for years as punishment for their nuclear missile tests but the imposit

agencies. does the epa know how other agencies will interpret this rule or require more resources to understand how this rule effects their ability to administer their programs. have you reviewed that from other agencies. >> we took it into account when we did the proposal. for instance, the work we did to try to identify the conservation practices that would be clearly exempt from having to have a clean water permit was something we worked on directly with the department of agriculture. >> what did the army corp of engineers say? >> they were coauthors of the rule. >> so they provided you input? >> they helped write it. >> okay. if small businesses have never obtained a permit under the clean water act before, how do they know if they will need to get a permit under this new rule? >> well it depends on what their action is. are they discharging pollution. >> how will they know whether their action requires it. >> if you discharge pollution, you have to get a permit. i mean it's the current law

agency ever. it focused on criminal matters and was often employed by government agencies. in putting together what proved to be a team of detectives, he employed policeman. timothy webster was one of these men. although he did not join immediately, he decided to accept the job offer after continued harassment. timothy webster moved to illinois and became one of the agency's best detectives. though quiet and reserved personally, when on a case, he used an outgoing personality to get information and gain friends. he tracked a jewel forger. then everything changed. abraham lincoln was elected the president of the united states. there were threats to assassinate the president elect before he took office. luckily for the u.s., timothy webster and other pinkerton operatives foiled the plot. his service to the country did not stop there. the southern states seceded. timothy webster did not hesitate to defend his country, but he was not an enemy on a bloody battlefield. he put his skill set to use as a s

the agency was under investigation by congress and morale was pretty low here at the time. he is the first member of congress to serve as director, sent over by the president to elp repair those relationships between cia and congress. the oversight committees come out of this investigation as well. the senate select committee on intelligence and the house permanent select committee on intelligence. he was with us just 10 days shy of the year. heed like to have stayed on. a couple things to note on his watch. he established a practice that we still use today which is called competitive analysis, here the agency would generate analysis on a given subject and then set up another team to attack that theory. so we think osama bin laden is n that compound at abbottabad. if he's not, what explains it. another thing that took urgency on his watch was cia briefings to the presidential candidates. it was truman who started it. truman didn't want his successor, president eisenhower, to be as uninformed as he felt e was. remember truman didn't even know about the manhattan project. so

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the single agency. we have discussed the issue with the office of science and technology policy at the white house, but they, while they have some overarching responsibilities, they do not have staff and management officials that would permit actually doing it that way, so we don't really have a good answer to that question, but we think it is worth just keeping the issue on the table, particularly in tight budget times. >> you mentioned in your opening statement that you have heightened concerns because of budget cuts. talk little bit about that. is there a particular area we should be focused on? >> well, it is as i said in my statement. the management and the building and management and these kinds of laboratories is relatively expensive, compared to building just ordinary buildings, and if we are going to have x number of laboratories, i would like to see the strategy that will allow us, even in tight budget times, to continue to fund them and upgrade them when necessary and to manage the biosafety

we are a production agency. our first priority is accuracy, quality, to make sure that the decision is policy compliant and legally defensible. we know it's a high volume business when we train aljs, we mention that to them. we have as in any other organization some who meet that, and some who go above it, and some who don't meet it. it is not a quota. >> thank you for that. it seems, talking to them, that it feels to them, to many of them it feels like a quota. i just hope you will sit down and find a way to open up communications with them. and again, reinforce what you said to this committee right now that it's not a quota, that it's a recommendation and there's no discipline. i think they just need to hear that, as much of those conversations directly with you. let me shift briefly to the labor and management relations. even with the presidential executive order calling for labor management partnerships throughout the federal government, it seems from our reports that it's only gotten worse, to the point som

single agency. we have discussed the issue with the office of science and technology policy at the white house. but they, while they have some overarching responsibilities, they don't have staff and management officials that would permit actually doing it that way. so we don't really have a good answer to that question, but we think it's worth just keeping the issue on the table, particularly in tight budget times. >> and you mentioned in your opening statement that you have heightened concerns because of budget cuts. talk a little bit about that. is there a particular area we should be focused on? >> well, it's just that as i said in my statement, the management and the building and management and upgrade of these kinds of laboratories is relatively expensive compared to just building ordinary buildings. and so if we're going to have x number of laboratories, i would like to see the strategy that was going to permit us even in tight budget times to continue to fund them, to continue to upgrade them

we do partner with though agencies for those purposes. we have -- we do an annual mailing with notices to every registered business. we are featured in the new business portal that's being developed by the office of small business. and we're certainly open to any other suggestions about how to do that in our community. >> well, i assume that whatever you send out to the businesses would be done bilingually or tri lingually? >> six languages. >> supervisor mar. >> why you yes, i just wanted to thank you for the presentation and the task force for the hard work over the year. at some point i'd like information about the culture of compliance and what industries comply and what the barriers to break that noncompliance culture. and also i know the multi-lingual capabilities of the six community based organizations and that is our model being a key part of what we do to prevent wage theft. but i'm just wondering if you could talk about the demographics of workers that face the most prevalent wage theft and how -- we have language abilities and

every visitor to the agency comes through this entrance. every new agency officer takes their oath of office here in this lobby, in front of 107 of our fallen officers. they walked across the agency field to take their place in the lobby. and the father of central intelligence is watching over their shoulders as they begin a career for our central intelligence agency in our nation. we are standing close to a sculpture of the father of central intelligence. donovan was tapped by president roosevelt in 1942 to head the office of strategic services. that organization had grown out of an earlier one hold the -- called the coordinator of information, our country's first non-departmental intelligence agency, established by president roosevelt to coordinate intelligence with the war growing overseas. the single star behind us commemorates the loss of 116 oss'ers who served during world war ii.

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agency. we have discussed the issue with the office of science and technology policy at the white they, while they have some overarching responsibilities, they do not have staff and management officials that would permit actually doing it that way, so we don't really have a good answer to that question, but we think it is worth just keeping the issue on the table, particularly in tight budget times. >> you mentioned in your opening that you have heightened concerns because of budget cuts. about that.bit is there a particular area we should be focused on? >> well, it is as i said in my statement. the management and the building kindsnagement and these of laboratories is relatively expensive, compared to building just ordinary buildings, and if numbergoing to have x of laboratories, i would like to see the strategy that will allow us, even in tight budget times, to continue to fund them and upgrade them when necessary and to manage the biosafety and programs to keep them safe, so that total pic