apd continues to work towards improving our practices and service. we've accomplished much but are not done yet. last month, we applied for another grant for domestic violence. this will help us reduce our overall caseload. that will improve the supervision. my goal is to get more probation officers out into the field for field supervision. we are currently revising our field protocols. we are updating the batterer intervention audit protocol and tools. we will be moving from a case risk needs estimate to incorporate a secondary risk needs tool. that is the domestic violence severity in depth. that will prove our assessment of the probationers and the risk associated with them. we continue to work closely with the council and collaborate with the other justice partners. adult probation is adding relationships to the justice program. we are part of the technical hearings committee. we are also moving from our case risk and it needs to look to encompass tool. we anticipate that it will be 12 to 13 months to live with that. that is contingent on the mas

the principle is waiting to hear from apd as to the funding of the total cost and the original contract had to be revised and updated. what did the original contract have? this one is from january. i am a little curious how it was revised and updated. i am having a really hard time approving funds, allowing you guys to have contracts out in the services being performed at sites when there is no budget allocation that has been identified in time. it now? a month behind, maybe. the january? we had them in the schools doing this without any identification of where the money is going to be coming from? i normally don't approve these, but this, to me, is unacceptable. this is exactly the kind of retroactive resolution that is unacceptable, and so, as usual, i will not be approving this. you guys, please. if it is not a budget allocation, the service cannot come into the school. commissioner kim: roll call, please. [roll call vote] >> 4 ayes. commissioner kim: the next item is k-13. can we hear 13 and 14 together? commissioner wynns: yes. these are risk-management contracts. i would like to h

>> i know what an apd is. >> an apm, when you're doing a work over modifier completion. within that apm, you norm my submit what we call a procedure and there's a thing called a negative test that was in the procedure. the board, i've seen probably four different negative tests through an operations e-mail sent by mr. morell, i've seen some testimony from individual on the rig that did something totally different than what was in that ops manual and've seen one that was referenced in an m.i. swaco procedure and there was another one that i'v seen. i don't know which one they did to be honest with you. do you think there w any control over theerformance of a neglect testify test on the deepwater horizon, there's four ocedures being sent out to the rig. >> i don't know how i can comment on that. >> okay. >> you touched on the drilling superintendent earlier, an we were going to ask you about that, because we asked a bp employee who was a current well site leader if he knew what that was and he responded no but i think you cleared up, it is now a well site leader. >> wells

>> i know what an apd is. >> an apm, when you're doing a work over modifier completion.within that apm, you norm my submit what we call a procedure and there's a thing called a negative test that was in the procedure. the board, i've seen probably four different negative tests through an operations e-mail sent by mr. morell, i've seen some testimony from individual on the rig that did something totally different than what was in that ops manual and i've seen one that was referenced in an m.i. swaco procedure and there was another one that i've seen. i don't know which one they did to be honest with you. do you think there was any control over the performance of a neglect testify test on the deepwater horizon, there's four procedures being sent out to the rig. >> i don't know how i can comment on that. >> okay. >> you touched on the drilling superintendent earlier, an we were going to ask you about that, because we asked a bp employee who was a current well site leader if he knew what that was and he responded no but i think you cleared up, it is now a well site leader. >

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i do not remember ever accepting an apd, as is.elt discrepancies corrected. >> be no particular discrepancies were found in this well, and what requests were made from the drilling engineer to bp? >> i do not know specifically. i was not the drilling engineer. it was not in my district. typically, it would be fed back to them for various questions. >> is there a record made of that? >> there should be. >> can we be provided access to that? >> yes, there is an electronic record every time it is returned. >> last question -- what oversight is provided to the process? in other words, how is the individual drilling engineer assessed? >> the district manager is responsible to evaluate the drilling engineer. they evaluate every year. they have five different categories. you get feedback from people outside of the district. you get feedback from the civil penalties. >> are there any attempts to use some fraction of the adjudications that are done by a given drilling? >> ultimately, the permanent approval which it the responsibility lies w

doesn't it suggests that the democrats apds effort to turn this into a choice between the democrats and republicans, not a referendum on president obama, and might succeed in holding down losses? >> well, i think they should try to turn it into a choice. the danger is, it depends on what the choice is. if the choice is do you want taxes to go up next year, i think you'll find they lose the debate. if the choice is 9.5% unemployment is a sign democrats have been job killers. remember, pelosi and reid have been in charge of the congress since january '07, so they're defending a four-year record in which the economy collapsed. all of it under their watch. the deficits have gone up under their watch. you have to ask people about that $3.8 trillion, to quote the number on governor palin's hand. do they want that kind of deficit increased? the answer is no. so i think that i'll be happy for the democrats to make this a choice election. i don't think they can do that. i think in the end they have to attack the republicans relentlessly, and, frankly, in 2006 republican senators found out that t