you have to be assessed for that. i think that is a very green thing to do because you do not have to add building. do you have anything to say about general improvement? >> it is a big additional we are talking about attic space. when you are retrofitting for earthquakes two stories up in an edwardian, the expense involved, i think, would be hard to justify in most neighborhoods. >> it is hard to get enough windows with dormers, etc. >> how about converting the attic into storage? >> you said you recently did that, alice. >> that is fairly simple. i would get a permit. and you are allowed a certain amount of space. you have to have ventilation. i do not remember all the rules. >> will the property tax increase? >> i do not think so. >> to convert an existing empty attic into a storage attic? that does not sound like you are converting it into the living area. the a sensible addition would be converting it into a living area. >> it is usually by a letter that pulls down. a staircase would have to be deliverable area w

we are talking about assessment districts where by property owners agree to assess themselves for cityervices. this is above and beyond police and other services to enhance it and make a nicer neighborhood. there are about a thousand business improvement districts across the country. this one is very unique. each district is unique. it is primarily city buildings here at the civic center. also the performing arts have a huge presence here in the commercial secretary tal represented. there are about 654 parcels. the first-year budget is $735,000. we have their just services. we have just complete our petition drive. 30% of the petitionles were received -- of the petitions were received. and many of them were received from a diverse constituency of property owners. the steering committee, who met for 18 months, had half private sector and half public sector coming together. we have the former tripple a building, fox plaza and many of the performing arts, the conserve tore of music, the ballet, as well as many city departments such as the department of real estate, the war memorial and se

>> i think that question goes back to the accuracy of self assessment or the accuracy of assessments. we know that self assessment of driving competency is pretty inaccurate and not risk populations. we know that most older people overestimate their driving competency. everybody's better than average. research that we've looked at in terms of family members, caregivers making assessments of driving competency and these assessments are compared to actual on road driving assessments where the individual was determined to be safer on the road test is that family members are not free accurate either. caregivers, spousal caregivers tend to be less accurate than sons and daughters who live nearby. and i think that there's some good reasons for that. if you have an older couple, if it's the gentleman who's driving, competencies' been questioned, she doesn't drive, the wife doesn't drive. she is going to be less reluctant to admit or to disclose that his driving has declined to an unsafe level because if his driving privileges are revoked their with obliged. that may change with the baby boom

all speakers that wish to support the assessment district, please line up in the center aisle. first speaker please. >> thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. i'm the project manager at the oarc. i wanted to talk a little bit about the community outreach process. we have published information in the quarterly newsletter since 2007. we invited merchants and property owners to informational meetings as well as attending community right meetings to learn more and gather input regarding the benefit district. surveys were conducted in 2007 and 2009 asking merchants and property owners what types of improvements they would like to see on ocean avenue as well as their interest, and in the past two years, we gain enough support to support and interest to it -- support and interest to move further. it was not until recently when we sent out a petition that many of the property owners and merchants that were hard to reach at the very beginning of 2007 came to us and we met with a lot of them through group meetings and one-on-one meetings, getting further input from them as well as askin

they clarify and the assessment methodology someone determined after they received assessment of bills. they made changes to the plan and to the assessment roll. they are proposing to expand their board of directors from 11 to 23 members. >> thank you very much for hearing us today. in order for us to get on with an election, it is very helpful that you are hearing us today. we have been given an overview of our and the report, the audit, and this year's budget. she did indicate that the district was expanded and a map is before you here. our organization is a membership organization what is unique about that is that when there is a matter that requires a vote of the members, we have to send 10 ballots out to those nearly 3000 members. many of them are timeshare owners in the district. every month, we collect data on the services that are provided. the service provider provides a daily activity report. for the first six months of this fiscal year, we steam cleaned nearly 92 miles of sidewalks, but we removed nearly 1000 graffiti tax, we dropped off more than 500 trash receptacles. we d

we look at physical assessments. looking at concerns about their arthritis how that might affect their driving. looking getting in and out of vehicle, loading equipment with visual perception. we look at cognition. we also add for a comprehensive driving evaluation, the performance base behind the wheel. assessments so we can see how these impairments play out in the context on the road. in many models you need to qualify to go on the road. sometimes you don't need that part if there's enough impairment or lack of impairment to not need that specific on-road piece but it's part of the package. there are several possible interventions because, in occupational therapy, occupational therapy if we do an evaluation it's followed by treatment. when we try to figure out what a person problem is our mission is then figure out what we can do about it. so our goal is to remediate. i think it is important that a lot of times when we think about driving evaluations and older drivers and the high-profile media cases might be repr

i want an independent assessment there. i want to conduct our own internal assessment and i want to ask our program manager to assist with that. i am thinking that i will be able to complete that in early december, and i owe a response. i want to formally respond to their letter and the request of the commission. i envision that i could probably come before you with a report and a presentation either at the one meeting in december for the first meeting in january. president vietor: thank you very much. >> a lot going on. the second item is the quarterly budget report. >> i am the assistant general manager and cfo. i have some brief slide to walk you through. we also looked at october actuals as well as all of the recent information including water delivery to include those of to the very last minute of publishing. in particular, we have done a heck of a drop of water conservation. -- job of water conservation. total usage was 224 mgd, roug hly 15% under the 265. in the most recent year, our water usage system was down nearl

the assessment is a complex assessment that will capture the complexity of teaching. actually over the span of several weeks. >> reporter: the evaluation process will have student teachers not only closely watched by professionals, they will also have to turn in a tape to demonstrate how they perform in front of a class. this video is a tool to help candidates get there. >> if we're ever going to get to that place where we all feel confident that a preparation program produces a highly competent initial player, and that that competency can be translated into student performance. >> reporter: ryan has been teaching for nearly a decade and says this new assessment could help education on several fronts. >> having high teaching standards for our teachers is only going to improve the education for all of our kids. we need to really look at how we are training our teachers, especially looking at trying to fix the achievement gap we have in minnesota. >> reporter: he has two years left to prepare for the assessment and knows he has a long way to go. >> there's just a lot of

sigar didn't have a plan or doing risk assessment. they had not put the right investigative team in place. their audits for focused on quality than quantity, and their management and leadership failed to create an effective organization. today's hearing is how sigar under the leadership of arnold fields who i hold in high regards as one of our nation's heros has fallen short of the mark. they found sigar's investigation division failed to meet minimum standards and revealed its findings to the attorney general to revoke sigar's law enforcement authority. they found the audit division had no less than five major disht sigars. we'll have general fields how to happened on his watch. he awashed $96,000 sole contract to joseph schmidt who resigned in 2005 and had allegations made against him. general fields hired him to act as an independent monitor of sigar's compliance and to report progress to the department of justice. we have learned that sigar understood by awarding the contract to mr. schmidt, they would act as an advocate for them

and a capital improvement assessment? have you done an assessment?thisñ=q is something that bringn revenue to the city, so it cannot just be a wish list.úh it has to be means you need that will in france and improve the abilityñ" of the city to make revenue and to give this service togd its citizens, so it is not just about a wish list. so do you have that? ícÑwith a lot of the things youe talking about, i want to have timeline, a frame. when are you thinking about having these things done so that we have'/ something to work on? what is your goal? and when you work with other departments9? in a way that wen >> certainly, supervisor. no, we have noty1 done a formal engagement with someone from dtw to do that facilityei needs assessment. we have used our own knowledge from running othersóy facilitie, from managing other facilities to put together things lic3 the bathrooms being in horrible condition. we beautification, like putting murals in there. j2we just replaced the cited in front. signage in. we have8@y not commissioned a formal facilities

that's where the damage assessment was. strongest wind gust we could find on the storm center weathernet was 57-mile-per-hour winds in laurel. we will show you that in a moment. i want to highlight one other thing. one other feature, what some of us look for in the severe weather storms a comma shape a hook. now it doesn't look like it's one distinct line bowing out which leads more to something like straight line winds. but this little circulation here we call a messo low a line of severe thunderstorms can take on a little bit of rotation and that can lead to the extra energy with the potential storms. so what will they look at here. when the national weather service goes in to investigate, and, of course, not only for scientific documentation but for insurance companies. trees down and building damage, was it a tornado? that would be twisting damage. how about straight-line winds. that would be like a microburst a pocket of cold air pushed down to the ground and blows out in one general direction. that will be everything

be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts, or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations. i want to make clear that our official foreign-policy is n set through these messages, but here in washington. >> for more, we asked our washington correspondent what more u.s. officials can do about the leaked information. >> the information is out there, and it is not going to go away. what the white house and the state department are trying to do at the moment is downplayed the information, saying that policy made in washington was not based on information in these diplomatic cables. at the same time, hillary clinton said it was common practice to phrase diplomatic cables the way i phrased. she talked about talking to a diplomat overseas. he said not to worry about it. we write more difficult stuff in our tables about you. she laughed, trying to put a little humor in all of that. other than all of that, there is nothing more they can do. what they have to do now is take a big and good look at their information system they have, because it is accessible to more tha

on briefly, but the issue is the self assessment. the clinician, office staff, or licensing agency, and there are pros and cons of each of those. the last segment is what to do with that information. ultimately, the goal is gathering that information to convince the clinician of the need for change and ultimately convince the patient or driver and the family that change is necessary and what that change should be. also to identify interventions or adapte strategies and help ameliorate some of these problems and help people continue driving for a longer time more safely. and the issue of reporting to licensing agencies and how that process goes on. there have been two major areas of development over the course of the last 10 or 15 years, and one that has been touched on by a number of speakers, and that is the appreciation of a more holistic approach to this, rather than dealing specifically with the issue driving or not driving, but really looking at the broader perspective of a person's mobility and how they get to where they need t

the health impact assessment of the h.i.a. can predict adverse health and environmental impacts and offer proposals to improve health outcomes for residents, especially seniors and children. so in conclusion, based on that, i would please afford the project. commissioner maxwell: is there anyone wholes would like to speak on this project, please come forward. thank you. >> i'm not a lawyer or an architect, but i do live south of market and i must say, to be here all afternoon, i'm so envious of the people in your speech who had so much input and the community that had so much input into the wastewater projects and i realize this is private and it's very different and i do realize what a difficult job you have on the board. making these decisions. but i hope before you decide you will walk around our neighborhood, see that people live there now, it's our neighborhood. and we love living there. notice that there are lots of empty office buildings all around us, for one thing. and all i would ask is that you ask the developers to

there was a notice of violation, liens were being put in place, fees are being assessed. we felt the only option was to get work done that the city was requiring. there was no conversation about the work. >> if that was the case, why did you not do it earlier on in 2007? >> there was some work done, granted it was not permitted work. that was done on while ago. it was apparently the wrong work. i was not involved in that, i cannot speak to it. at the end of the day, whether it was done in 2007 or now, it still does not solve the problem. >> what exactly was done? did they replace a section of pipe that was damaged? you found there was no damage there when you dug it up? you still say the problem is the street side of the trap, is that what i am hearing? >> i replaced the two-way cleanout -- >> i am asking if you replaced the trap. >> there was no house dress >>. i installed one. there was nothing defective when i did the work. basically, i could not get my snake passed 8 feet. the house trap is right on the curb. it goes in about a foot and a half and then toward the stre

>> i think that question goes back to the accuracy of self assessment or the accuracy of assessments. we know that self assessment of driving competency is pretty inaccurate and not risk populations. we know that most older people overestimate their driving competency. everybody's better than average. research that we've looked at in terms of family members, caregivers making assessments of driving competency and these assessments are compared to actual on road driving assessments where the individual was determined to be safer on the road test is that family members are not free accurate either. caregivers, spousal caregivers tend to be less accurate than sons and daughters who live nearby. and i think that there's some good reasons for that. if you have an older couple, if it's the gentleman who's driving, competencies' been questioned, she doesn't drive, the wife doesn't drive. she is going to be less reluctant to admit or to disclose that his driving has declined to an unsafe level because if his driving privileges are revoked their with obliged. that may change with the baby boom

>> i think that question goes back to the accuracy of self assessment or the accuracy of assessments.e know that self assessment of driving competency is pretty inaccurate and not risk populations. we know that most older people overestimate their driving competency. everybody's better than average. research that we've looked at in terms of family members, caregivers making assessments of driving competency and these assessments are compared to actual on road driving assessments where the individual was determined to be safer on the road test is that family members are not free accurate either. caregivers, spousal caregivers tend to be less accurate than sons and daughters who live nearby. and i think that there's some good reasons for that. if you have an older couple, if it's the gentleman who's driving, competencies' been questioned, she doesn't drive, the wife doesn't drive. she is going to be less reluctant to admit or to disclose that his driving has declined to an unsafe level because if his driving privileges are revoked their with obliged. that may change with the baby boomer

we have not yet done in california a systematic assessment of reservoirs. there have been some studies on specific reservoirs or river basins and how flexible or inflexible they might be under existing rules and there are a couple of studies that look at different kinds of reservoir rules but not systematically and i don't think there's been any system reoperation. corner me later and tell me i'm wrong but i would argue that on the demand for water. it has been mentioned a couple of times here. seattle may have done that and port land may have integrated it into management. temperature is going up, demand for water is going up. how many of our water agencies include in their demand forecast for the year 3020, 3050, climate effects on demand. the last california water plant did a much better job of acknowledging the issue of climate change but not yet adequately took action. we're beginning to work now on the next one and the intention i believe, is there will be a more deeper analysis and i look forward to that. next slide. this is a graph, and i want to sa

that's what we used in this california assessment. for the scenarios they were all down scaled to twelve kilometers covering california and nevada. it's not totally adequate and i'm not saying this is a solved problem. the premium grape growers want to know what's going on in napa, valley but for a lot of water related problems i think we're okay. [inaudible] >> what's the long-term climate - >> hopefully, we get on to that green emissions trajectory which would have co2 levels leveling off and declining. there's a lot of inertia in the system. we all have cars and you can't change power plants overnight and et cetera, et cetera. but in fact the earth response to climate is not going to make too much difference until about the middle part of the century between all those scenarios. through 2050 a climate model is sort of a climate model no whatter what you do with it. in fact if you stop all , co2 emissions today. fossil fuel is the reason it's increasing because fossil means it's stored in the ground and now we're putting it in the a

we need reimbursement for driving assessments, so that the cost of driving assessment does not fall on the user. we need to work really hard over the next four years to get as scientifically based an integrated system in place to address this issue. >> fantastic -- and then we need >> thank you very much, and thank you to everyone on the panel. you did a great job of setting the table for us. we know that what you have built is the foundation for the next few panels. thank you for your participation. before we break, i want to remind everyone that noone is showtime. we got special agreement to eat and drink and the board room. and of the staff is about to fall on the floor. bring your lunch back. please come back to watch

of be economic downturn how justifiable is it to be a multi-billion dollar project such as the i assess. well research and development has always been the basis for economic growth the best way for us to see economic growth in the future of all the partner nations is to be investing in that research and the space station provides an incredible platform because of the new breakthroughs that can allow in biology chemistry and physics in the future and i will talk we're talking about future breakthroughs but how soon can taxpayers get their value for money. well we've already begun writing agreements with universities with private companies and we're looking at developing new vaccines new drugs. across the range of spectra there are research already in motion that we believe will be yielding results within the next several years ok will be i assess the first ever international outpost in orbit now how has this helped to further exploration. by having a platform in space allows us to test out the next generation technologies many of the systems on the space station like the systems that pro

and also, when you were talking about trying to assess questions to assess the effectiveness, it haso be linked to transportation. i want to know how many people applied the schools to which we provide transportation that are not the attendance area schools and how many people apply where we don't provide transportation. that wasn't mentioned. and i have a question, a follow- up on commissioner yee's question. one of the things that has not been mentioned lately is this a priority for people in the district child development program within the area. so i really want to know -- i think we have asked before and have not gotten the information about how many people are in that situation, which i think is much smaller than most people think it is because the part they don't hear when we talk about that is only the child development program that is in the attendance area in which you live. that is not very many people. we will be a lot of information to make sure that we monitor that if it is effective, useful, and we will also need that for the redesign of the after-school program. last

have breakthroughs if not the whole thing was a waste but others believe that the value of the i assess is not a scientific discoveries its lifespan has already been extended to twenty twenty and possibly beyond that if we're looking at projects of using that i assess as a docking port for missions to the moon and even mars. and if mankind does venture further afield i search will serve both as a blueprint and an instruction manual of space should do and don'ts whatever its limitations and budget over and then i assess as. important at the torah word no longer seemed like everything was possible in space and there were no longer the cold war budgets to fund that all the i's says still proves that space research can be right at the edge of human endeavor either of nerve artsy moscow where the first european astronaut to command an i assess mission has told r.t. that the ambitious isis project was made possible by global corporation. the international space station is there of course because we had the soyuz vehicles in the time that is spatial was not flying now again our so use vehicles

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the point was made before, screening does not equal assessment. when you implement a screen, it doesn't lead to a licensing action, but an assistance of that diagram earlier, additional opportunities for observation and assessment and tracking. second, i would say that, you know, the perfect is the enemy of the good. that's applying to a lot of things. there is no perfect screening tool. i didn't mean to suggest we are there yet, but i think we are pretty far along the path of getting to something that is scientificically defensible and practical for an agency to implement, and timely, i would say the prime research opportunity is now to develop and validate and calibrate such a tool. we have not been able to link vision acuity at least to crash experience because we've had vision screening criteria in place for so long, we have removed people with the worst vision from the population and range makes it impossible to have a significant relationship. right now, we don't do functional screening. if we want a program not just by 2025, but in five to

and also, when you were talking about trying to assess questions to assess the effectiveness, it has to be linked to transportation. i want to know how many people applied the schools to which we provide transportation that are not the attendance area schools and how many people apply where we don't provide transportation

when refer sent out the notice of violation, there were no find that we assessed to the property. the fees that had been associated are all investigation fees that had been assessed to code enforcement and our department. that is all we are trying to recuperate. >> the only comment i would not to make is when those notices of violation were posted, mr. jacobson tried to solve the problem. he believed, based on his experience with the property, that that was not the problem for the back up. it was not until this year at the hearing happened. it just seems to me, at the end of the day, the goal is to solve a problem. by the way, i want to point out, the statement made earlier that there was no house trap. the notice said that there was a defective house trap. it was replaced without a permit with a two way cleanout. that is not appropriate. at the time the notice of was put out, whatever house trap had been in there was there. mr. jacobson had not done any work on the property. i just want to make sure that there is no misconception of that statement. >> thank you. commissioners? >>