first we have bruce andrews who is deputy secretary at the department of commerce and brian is next and he is the fire chief of the oklahoma city department. and mark goldstein who serves at the government account lit office. susan swinson who serves as the chair woman of the first responder network authority also known as first net. and mr. todd zinser who is inspector general to the department of commerce. we will start on my left and your right with mr. andrews. if you can keep the comments con confined to five minutes. >> good morning chairman ranking member nelson and member of the committee. thank you for having me testify. i worked on the staff of this committee when senator rock feller and hutchinson conceived of safe net and this mission erose in the wake of the 9/11 attacks when the work of the first responder was impaired by the problem with communication. we are proud of ow role helping to stand up and support this program. this is a difficult mission but we are confidant first net is making strong progress toward meeting its goals. a nationwide first responder network will

>> i think we are working with deputy secretary bruce andrews and his staff on improving the process within the department. there is just a lot of people touching a lot of things, and we need to streamline that. i think it is important that we take -- we have the ability to control our destiny and the ability to have people who are dedicated. this is no pejorative comment. the secondary item for them. a full-time day job. we probably don't get the urgency we feel about things we will obviously follow the rules and regulations but we have an opportunity to move more quickly. i would like to see what we can do about improving that and taking responsibility from commerce. we went through that process with finance organizations initially providing support. i think we have demonstrated that we can bring in the right resources with the right talent and training put processes and controls in place. >> let me interrupt you. i would love to hear some of the things we could be doing, but i want to end by one comment, one question. the people that have the 1st responders backs should be elevate

bruce andrews. he serves as deputy secretary at the department of commerce. he'll be followed by mr. keith bryant. mr. bryant serves as the fire chief for the oklahoma city fire department and as the president and chairman of the board of the international association of fire chiefs. mr. mark goldstein mr. goldstein serves as the director of physical infrastructure issues at the government accountability office, referenced earlier. miss susan swenson, miss swenson serves as the chairmanwoman of the first responder network authority, also known as firstnet and finally mr. todd zinser. mr. zinser serves as inspector general to the department of commerce. so we will start on my left and your right with mr. andrews and proceed, and if you can, keep your comments confined as closely to five minutes as possible. and then we'll proceed with questions. mr. andrews. welcome. >> good morning, chairman thune ranking member nelson, and members of the committee. thank you for inviting me here today to testify. i feel a special affinity for firstnet because i actually work

first we have bruce andrews who is deputy secretary at the department of commerce and brian is next and he is the fire chief of the oklahoma city department. and mark goldstein who serves at the government account lit office. susan swinson who serves as the chair woman of the first responder network authority also known as first net. and mr. todd zinser who is inspector general to the department of commerce. we will start on my left and your right with mr. andrews. if you can keep the comments con confined to five minutes. >> good morning chairman ranking member nelson and member of the committee. thank you for having me testify. i worked on the staff of this committee when senator rock feller and hutchinson conceived of safe net and this mission erose in the wake of the 9/11 attacks when the work of the first responder was impaired by the problem with communication. we are proud of ow role helping to stand up and support this program. this is a difficult mission but we are confidant first net is making strong progress toward meeting its goals. a nationwide first responder network will

. >> sure, i think the way i'd like to characterize it is we're working with deputy secretary bruce andrews and his staff on improving the processes within the department with first net. set aside the federal regulations for a moment. there's just a lot of people touching a lot of things today and we need to streamline that. we're really committed to working on that improvement. i also think it's important that we take -- we have the ability to control our destiny. and we have the ability to have people who are dedicated and first net is their first priority. because this is no pra jorty of comment about people that we work with, but first net is a secondary item for them. they have a full-time day job and we pile on top of that. we probably don't get the urgency that we feel about things. so to the degree we can take accountability and responsibility for those functions we'll obviously follow all the rules and regulations but we would have an opportunity to move more quickly. i'd like to see what we can do about improving that and also taking responsibility from commerce and obviously e we

think the thing -- the way i'd like to characterize it is we're working with deputy secretary bruce andrews and his staff on improving the processes within the department, within ntia and with firstnet. so, set aside the federal regulations for a moment there's just lot of people touching a lot of things today, and we need to streamline that, and we're committed to working on that improvement. i also think it's important that we take -- we have the ability to control our debt -- destiny and we have the ability to have people who are dedicated and where firstnet is their first priority. this is no pejorative comment about people we work with but firstnet is a secondary item for them. they have full-time day job and then we pile on firstnet and we probably don't get the urgency we feel about things. so to the degree we can take accountability and responsibility for those functions, we'll obviously follow all the rules and regulations but i think we would have an opportunity to move more quickly. so i'd like to see what we can do about improving that, and also taking responsibility from commer

notre dame f he didn't feel enter it is your mill i beg to differ but andrew worked as a wildlife biologist studying bird. >> the case bruce before you is a request for kwuvengs to convert a rail space on the

notre dame f he didn't feel enter it is your mill i beg to differ but andrew worked as a wildlife biologist studying bird. >> the case bruce before you is a request for kwuvengs to convert a rail space on the ground floor of the western portion of the western street the portion zoned m t w one and it is permitted only until 11:00 p.m. this results in a subsequent improvement and compliment the streetscape and it will include the improvements and facade alternates this project on the whole is necessary and desirable the purpose the neighborhood despite the offer the offer contamination it will increase the commandments from 48 to 63 percent because of the corner location on the block but the result of a limited amount of storefront in the district this is a small mc district with small businesses this property generated a number of in the police department the proposed project is an beginning opposed and consist with the cities plan the owner of the proposed restaurant own and operate the rip tied a bar open the adjacent property he and have a good relationship with the neighborhood that is why 68 three letters of support a

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