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

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 callahanwell 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 and

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 often turned to 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 detective's. 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. he also did more mundane work. then everything changed. abraham lincoln was elected the president of the united states. southern states seriously considered secession. 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 plots. his service to the country did not stop there. the southern states seceded. timothy webster did not hesitate to defend his coun

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

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

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 your arching 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. >> right. 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, 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 t

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

in 1961, the intelligence defense agency stood up and various other intelligence agencies followed. a point to make about these intel agencies, there were divisions and frictions between them, very strong frictions. it's not clear whether this was good or bad, historians come down on different sides of this. what is clear, a pattern of abuse emerged, pointing to the primary drivers, first the existential threat, the national security became a trump card with the existential threat. there was rapid bureaucratic growth. all the different agencies were trying to use the technologies. there was an industrial engine behind this, secrecy, a rivalry and lack of oversight that went on. i mentioned m.k.ultra. >> the military orchestrated data exchanges between 350 military posts on domestic soil. the n.s.a. had a number of operations underway. operation shamrock had the largest surveillance program. >> the program was particularly concerning because it put the telecommunication companies in the position of breaking the law itself. the administration placed individuals or organizations involv

is to recognize the best safety performance, throughout the agency. but the big award that you see up front there, is an award that is earned by the division of the agency that has the best safety performance each quarter and so i am happy to bring up one of our safety leaders, to present this award to our enforcement division. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. and members of the board i am honored to be here and to explain why enforcement division, has been the recipient of our safety work this caught quarter is because consistently without any break, there have been participating in our division of safety committee and the safety, supervisors have been offering safety topics relevant safety topics following on every single work related injury. and reporting them on timely manner to manage, and have been doing this for years and succeeded to reduce the number of frequency of injuries by 20 percent, from 2013 to date, and is continuing it is a good bench mark to follow and i would like to take a moment to introduce the manager of enforcement divis

the former national security agency contractor who released thousands of classified documents about government surveillance in one of the most significant leaks in u.s. history. he's been charged with espionage and has been living in russia under temporary asylum. the american journalist at the center of the story lives in brazil. >> we've had to come to rio to speak to glenn greenwald. he hasn't returned to the united states since he broke the story about the nsa surveillance programs for fear of being prosecuted. >> the nsa's goal really is the elimination of privacy globally. it is literally a system designed to monitor all forms of human behavior inside the united states, which is the ultimate surveillance state. >> last december, glenn greenwald received an email from a person who didn't identify himself. >> we still didn't know who he was, where he worked, but he was saying he had access to large amounts of very sensitive surveillance information that show the united states government was violating the law and abusing it's power. >> suddenly in my lap had dropped some of the most potent

and turn them into a brand new mega agency.arly 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 concerned a

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

the long waits came when the agency, your agency, shifted attention and resources to a program president obama started in 2012 to give deportation deferrals to young, undocumented immigrants according to administration officials. not me. they go on and talk about u.s. citizens petitions for green cards for immediate relatives are at a high, if not the highest, priority in the way congress sets up the immigration system. but there's nightmare story after nightmare story of a man coming back from czechoslovakia, his wife a citizen having to wait eight months and still not hearing. a family in australia, he's american, she's australian. they have children. he's been back for six months. they're still there. i don't think it was intended. in fact, the congress also passed a resolution here just july the 8th saying there are now 900 children in tcongo waiting with their adopted parents in the united states because immigration quit processing these applications and assigned it to the state department. the state department has slowed down on it. i don't know why you did that. but there's a reso

the collaboration of the public sector we'll do better i'm proud to announce a new refreshed enter agency commitment to end homelessness and with that let me introduce a partner at the board of supervisors who i have become more and more close to because his ideas attack when they. supervisor mark farrell our leadership on laura's law is going to be so hope e helpful to to the city your outreach teams and you being who you are i want to thank you and bringing the boarding and the mayor's office and all the agencies that are working hard to end homelessness. supervisor mark farrell (clapping) >> thank you mayor ed lee. it's an honor to be here today and with the city department heads as mayor ed lee mentioned if he wanted to be serious about reducing our homeless population in san francisco it takes a village it takes community leaders address staff and i see so many people that placed an integral roll in san francisco. as we reflect upon what we've done to address homelessness and look at the future more importantly it takes us to work together to make that happen. you know, back in febru

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