to in the next couple of months and the proposed change to the process. finally, with regard to the successor agencies and the development commission, there is not a lot to report except at the first meeting of the oversight board, it is scheduled for the first tuesdayç in marc, which is i think -- whatever that tuesday is. i apologize. i guess the sixth. one of the orders of business that i'm hoping we will address is the name of this entity. we are currently called the oversight board of the successor agency of the former redevelopmentxd committee, which is a real mouthful. there is not a good acronym. i'm hoping we will come up with some more pitchy name for the organization at that point as well. that is it for me, unless there are any questions. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm here to give you your weekly report about the board of supervisors and land use activities. at the land use committee, i wanted to run down a little about that hearing on middle- income housing. it was at the request of supervisors weiner and chu. although she is not a m

the rate change that was projected.u can see that this one is interesting. it shows a stacked amount of water sales. we are projecting flat sales over the 10-year financial plan. the important thing that i wanted to point out with this slide is that we are 25% below what the water supply agreement is before the enhancement surcharge kicks in. we are well below the level look penalty for the contract with our wholesale customers. you will see that -- first of all, let me reiterate -- the rates that have been improved our through fiscal 2014 for our customers. the area of focus you took with our presentation was beyond that beginning of fiscal 2015. you see in that area where looking at a 15% rate change in the year. how did we get there? we had -- first of all, as i mentioned, some improving water sales changes that have occurred over the past few weeks. that allowed us to increase our projected deliveries and sales of water by 2% to 3% for both retail and wholesale customers. that's all about half of the issue. the othe

>> this is a change to the california building code also. this is the change to the state laws. this has to go before the cac also. commissioner hechanova: commissioners, additional questions, comments? public comment? >> is there any public comment on item 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. our next regular meeting is scheduled for february 15, 2012, at 9:00 as usual. >> i will not be here. just letting you know. >> ok. it is essential that we try to have a full quorum. it will need five people to pass the budget. i can talk to you guys about this in the next week. basically, i will have to contact everybody to make sure that all of you can attend, otherwise, we may have to change the meeting date again to another special meeting. commissioner hechanova: could i add some clarification that might be needed on item 3? where director day had asked for support, not having a motion -- >> not an action item. commissioner hechanova: yes, just for discussion. commissioner murphy: do we need to have a full commission to vote on a next time around? >> you need five people to pass

we have changed those things. the up country is supporting water and power. >> in terms of semantics, if we get confused, from a public perspective we could make it easier to understand what we are talking about. there is an issue that comes up. >> yes. and if someone has a good suggestion? [laughter] >> we wanted to cover the budget briefly on the hetch hetchy side. i do not know if you want to deal with that presentation. >> what if we deal with the questions now? commissioners? ok. let's move forward. >> ok. >> the sales presentation is after the tab marked hetch toweo hetch hetchy water. >> that is to have numbered? >> 5. >> tab 1 is in the section entitled [unintelligible] power -- entitled hetch hetchy power. >> pulled up to the slide on the computer -- >> recognize that you are in the right spot, then. >> [inaudible] >> thank you, commission. barbara hale, assistant to our -- assistant power generation. we have a pretty flat budget without much change from last year. very happy to answer any questions as we

changes even the possibility of change is very unsettling. should sheez changes become a reality we would make every effort to accommodate employees and provide physicians where we can. over the past 12 years the size of the workforce has been reduced by 250 thourk positions, mostly through attrition. which largely involves retirements. we've never had to lay off employees. it's our culture to be responsible. a responsible employer and that won't change. now that i've shared a little bit about the general information on area mail processing let's talk majority about this study. again let me make it clear that we have great employees in white river junction. this slide shows the distance of our locations is approximately 82 miles apart. just to give you a little geographic information here. and the next slide shows approximately 91 miles between the white river plant and the burlington, vermont, plant processing center. if the consolidation of operations at these facilities is approved there's an expected annual savings of $8 million. the busi

there is no rate change. one thing i needed to share and that is historically, hhs has charged a composite rate or the same rate for members whether employees choose e or eplus one or eplus 2 coverage. this is effective starting july 1, 2012 in order to be compliant with imputed income requirements. hhs will discontinue charging their rental -- the dental rate and charge the tier rate which was asked to calculate for the coverage local elected by the employees are members. that is a change i wanted to make sure -- [inaudible] correctly about that. i would like to go through some ativan numbers -- aggregate numbers. this summarizes the six month plan year. this is only an increase of a $11.6 million. when we started this exercise we were looking at $33 million. $22 million has been taken out of the till, said espy. this is a true 0.4% increase including dental and as was said earlier, that is below the national average of 7%. lastly on page 25 of your packet, it goes into the split between the $351 million in

to put on to be with god, yeah ♪ ♪ oh, a change, a change, a change, a change has come ♪ ♪ it's beenng time coming, oh, ♪ ♪ whitney, a change has come >> the whitney i knew, despite her success and worldwide fame, still wondered, am i good enough? am i pretty enough? will they like me? it was the burden that made her great and the part that caused her to stumble in the end. whitney, if you could hear me now, i would tell you, you weren't just good enough. you were great. you sang the whole damn song without a band. you made the picture what it was. a lot of leading men could have played my part, a lot of guys. a lot of guys could have filled that role. but you, whitney, i truly believe that you were the only one who could have played rachael marrin at that time. you weren't just pretty, you were as beautiful as a woman could be. and people didn't just like you, whitney, they loved you. i was your pretend bodyguard once, not so long ago. and now you're gone, too soon, leaving us with memories, memories of a little girl who stepped bravely in front of this church, in front of the ones

could you ever see that changing? >> it should change. one thing we could change quickly as we don't work through congress to get it done. a policy we need to deal with. it is one of those policies we need to address very quickly because it has to go the congressional route. i see it changing and it is unfortunate -- the other services the great middle counterparts overseas but something we can attack in the near future. >> let me ask one more question. are any of you for military families? the reason i asking is you have gotten to know more gay and lesbian people. you want them to get asked the question of why you joined and how do you explain that? .. >> but honestly, i think the difference between a gay-friendly community and, you know, a not so gay-friendly community, that didn't become apparent to me until i got to yale. so i, i'm from ohio. so i was just joining the military because that's what i wanted to do. you know, there were no qualms about it. i didn't even have a sort of consciousness about gay-friendly communities and them

need to change it. no one wants to talk about what it was like beforehand and kids all survived and no one turned into a mass murderer that we know of. okay? the idea is, how we treat young people as opposed to how we treat adults. censorship is for you as well as kids. we're not changing it just for kids. that's what we say initially. that's what we always say. we don't want to learn about sex? yeah, well turn off the cable. you won't have to worry about sex ever again. okay? but the idea is that i want you to have appreciation kids are not just a specialized argument. that's for you. this is taken out for adults, as well. did you have a question or a point? if everyone's worried about the kids like reading it and they do end up changing the word and what are they going to do, like make everybody throw out their old books or make them lock it up so their kids aren't going to get it? you put it on a book shelf and the kids could easily read it. >> or go onto the, you know, onto the net and read it. reme

there are changes in policy, changes in modern practice. we developed the realistic guidelines to respond to the four audits in the department that had current impacts and are still not finished. we took the 1999 manual, extracted policy, and left out the operations. my staff and i are now drafting an operations manual that is not finished, because i wanted to have disapproved before we finish the operations manual. these guidelines will give the general manager limited authority to sign permits for five years or less. this is consistent with the general managers existing authority to sign leases for a term of five years or less, or sign contracts. anything that is below market value goes to a public agency or nonprofit commission approval requirement. guidelines change a few of the fees, as i have found since we have been here that there is increasing pressure along the right-of-way for developers to use on land. the leases and permits that we issue required an increase in compensation for that. we left alone, in the 1999 manual, the encro

everyone agrees it needs to be changed but it doesn't go to somebody else or i don't care of to change what i am doing and we do have to change the entire system. the other thing i want to make reference to is the first lady is leading a very aggressive initiative on poverty to develop a poverty policy. we have a lot of disparate programs that address poverty but poverty is an underlying contributing factor to all the other ills in this nation. part of the social-service issue and part is the housing issue and part is the job dishes so as the economy begins to recover we have to be very intentional about community work force agreements and trying to create opportunities and halfway opportunities for people living in poverty to get back to the work force. [applause] >> thank you so much. i suspect this group could chat with you all afternoon but we have run out of time for further questions and we have to stop fo

change or global warming are absolute myths and then there are those who believe that global warming and climate change do exist but occur at such slow rates that we only need to be concerned about the effects they'll have on future generations not on ourselves but if you really think that climate change always occurs at it in infinitesimally slow rate then everything you know is wrong joining me now to discuss the latest research on earth's climate change history and ongoing climate change is dr jeffrey masters director of meteorology with the weather underground dr masters welcome great to have you with us thanks tom thanks for joining us what has ocean sediment data and the ice core drilling in greenland and other places told us about how climate change happens in the united states. well you know. like you said that climate change happened slowly over a period of hundreds or thousands of years but looking at the ice core data from greenland we've seen some really remarkable things preserved in that ice core you see year by year and layers of what has happened and in some cases in

politics, changed american policy, and changed the presidency? start anywhere. >> [ inaudible ]. >> very good point. for the first time, really, franklin roosevelt changed people's expectations of government. yes, people before thought, you know, we'll have this overestimation of presidents, that they could effectively manage the economy. but franklin roosevelt really for the first time cemented in the idea that the president and his administration were responsible for producing a prosperous, growing, and full employment economy. in other words, people now evermore expected their government to be the final guarantor of responsibility for the economy and for jobs and would blame the government when that didn't happen. very important shift in the nature of the relationship between the government and the economy and the expectations of people of their government. but there was a paradox that lay at the core of these new expectations and continues to haunt american politics to this day. so the american people expect all these things of their governme

so i have seen all of that change. it is an attitude change. and as my sister called it, a cosmetic change. they say, dixie had a cosmetic change. they have the same mental attitude haas racists, but they cannot call you girl and gal anymore. to me, they are over-polite. in my experience in the hotel -- ms. colvin, how can i help you? it is a little over-polite, and i get tired of it sometimes. [laughter] now, you remember i live in new york, the big apple. help me to stay the word -- say the word -- i do not want to sound like sarah palin -- [laughter] what is the word for many races? multi-cultural, yes. they could not care one less if you were white or black. let mayor bloomberg tell you what their value is, the money. in new york, every night, racism raises its ugly head and you have these killings, racial profiling, like we had sean bell. anyway, we see racial profiling. one of my neighbors said, yes, they are always going to find a psychological reason why the white child is bad, but an african-american or child of color is just a badass.

>> yeah, i think mitt could change his mind. he's changed his mind in the past. if he hears from our young people and voters and we continue this, yeah, he's going to change his mind if there's a political benefit to it. so i think they all will change their mind because they don't approach this with firm convictions, and if they do have a firm conviction, most of the time it's embedded. you know, to a flawed economic policy and a flawed economic system, a flawed monetary policy, so, yes, they're open to it but they're only going to be open to it and only will change their mind when the emphasis come from the people and people's attitudes change. government is a reflection of the people. so both i want to change the government and i want to change it through the electoral process but i also want to change the hearts and minds of people. that is where it really starts and that is where we're making the progress. >> and you have been consistent in that, congressman paul, thank you very much for your time this morning. >>> we turn now to this can's big news on the e

we are glad to see the changes to the rate restrictions.to see those are being separated out and will be further that it with the mta and parking lot operatoregarding thd operation of the parking lots, i have to reiterate priority parking and a parking association objects to the elimination of the longstanding provision under the code that allows for the continued operation of these parking lots. that was part of the grandfathering back in the 1980's. just a reminder these parking lots have been in legal operation for over 20 years. we think the changes proposed are positive, but we think it is a mistake to require ceasing operations -- the conditional use operation process can be quite cumbersome. president miguel: is there additional public comment? >> i just want to know the eastern neighborhood cac was not commented on even though this will allow one of the projects would afford. i want to talk about procedural issues. one is the difference between exception in conditional uses. they have very different consequences. conditional uses, e

so many are dealing with change.established companies that never changed in 80 or 90 years are having to change whether it's because of the economy or because of technology or the demands of customers. employees have to be tuned into that. it can be your career advantage if you're able to be resilient. if not, you're going to be at a big disadvantage when it comes to promotions. it means over and over again, you're able to bounce back. things don't always go the way you want them to be. when there is change, you're able to be flexible. you're able to adapt, able to learn new things. you're willing to learn. i think that is a key message. people don't want to learn anything new. they are resistant to change. >> here are guide points. get a reality check. embrace change. >> get in the reality check is about the fact, maybe the company was that way for 20 years, but it's not any more. you've got to get onboard with reality and make sure you're not hanging on to the past but embracing what is now. >> being a bridge build

i am not against change. i am excited that they want to improve their place but it should be wise change. there is no reason to break the current streetscape. this is the same picture that you saw before. we can expand at a lower height but with more of a setback. besides changing the streetscape, this proposal will drastically change our upper deck. since our rear yard as to the north, it does not get much sun. the upper deck is our major up your space -- outdoor space. this is spoken of as a small addition but as you can see here, this is number 66, our house. this is their addition. please help retain an area and makes san francisco special and require that this conform to the neighborhoods housing and height and setback. it is unfortunate that we had to come for you -- come to you for help but we were told that they have already made changes and they were not interested in hearing our concerns and making any more changes. thank you. >> additional speakers. >> hai have lived here with 30 years. with cars p

we have to change the law. we have a tax structure that makes it very difficult for people to do this. there are small things and big things that have to happen. i would argue this is really why we went forward with this television series. maybe at the bottom we have to change our mind set, and we have to begin to realize, "i would be happy to be in a place where i did not have to hang on to a steering wheel 60 miles a day and could spend that time with my children, my church, or my friends." many people in los angeles, the most stressful part of the day is their commute to work. it is not their jobs. we have become so married to our cars we have forgotten what makes us happy. tavis: if what you say makes sense, and it does, and you cannot be the first person saying this, what are the barriers? what do they say are the barriers to elected officials changing these laws, changing the codes, doing the things that need to be done? what do they suggest is the reason they cannot or have not? >> a big obstacle in a st

city government was changing. the constituents in the city and county are very savvy, savvy computer users. san francisco is a gateway to silicon valley. for the constituents within the city and kept -- so the constituents demand more change, more availability, more accessibility. so while the public sector is renowned for being slow and moving slow, slow to adopt the change and slow to implement change, the constituents of the city and county of san francisco demanded more. we had to be able to deliver services in a speedier manner and more cost effective manner, while still embracing many of the legacy systems and staff and processes throughout the city. san francisco is a very unique city in terms of we embrace history. we embrace legacy. we embrace our cable cars. we embrace our wonderful victorians that we have here, our history is very important to us, that legacy. but we also do a complete 180. we have awareness of technology. so many technological advantages started here. we have to embrace that as a city.

other changes or the revenue path while making other changes and the set of changes that will be made will depend on you and your colleagues. that combination cannot be sustained over the next quarter century. >> so when we look at the extended baseline,my experience is that whenever we seek to control costs by cutting reimbursement rates to providers, what we learn is that the cuts are either not sustained, meaning they're given back, or they cause higher utilization rates that actually erode the anticipating savings. the president's health care law cut medicare payments to providers be i $500 billion over ten years to pay for the new entitlement. it also created the ipab. and under this proposed, it will hold the medicare rate to gdp by cutting reimbursements to providers. now last year you testified that cbo has a tool kift when it comes to analyzing the behavior of physicians and beneficiaries' abilities to access care. do you still have that on both the provider and the beneficiary side? i e-mail afraid we do, mr. chairman. it's gap we're trying to fill. we have projects under wa

never change. and that is that as much credit as we give to these founding fathers, and mothers, that we also keep with us always the sense that as americans, we are born of fierce sense of independence. and if that ever changes, we're in a lot of trouble. thank you very much. >> i left a lot of time because i really would like to hear from you. this is a new subject for me and for many of you it's a new subject. i really would like to hear what you have to say. yes? >> i'm sorry. okay. first i'd like to thank you that your first reading demonstrated that you see the significance not instead of but in addition to you see events that are significant in addition to troop movements and military strategy that there are other types of things that are very important. but my question is, i was intrigued by your reference to abigail adams perhaps being the first feminist. i asked another historian at another conference in get y gettysburg, if you want to move in early ir, she said i wouldn't go to abigail

the way we gather news has changed, too. what kroused to take a film cre with large equipment can now be done by an iphone. as we look at the gentlemen in the back filming this activity, our head of news was in cairo when arab spring broke and basically broadcast from his iphone digital quality video that people put on air. so the need to have a camera crew with lots of satellite hookup equipment and various other things has changed quite dramatically. citizen journalism, as we all know, the consumer is now basically in control. the expansion and choice in number of media ott outlets available led to consumer spending, more time consuming media. they choose when and where to get content, how to share it. some even report it themselves, as we know. they choose -- they can get content on demand when they are ready to consume or realtime through desktop, tablet, phone or tv. in text, video, still images, audio or infinite application. data has become customizable, readers can set parameters as they wish based on their particula

can you change the historiography until the chang the politics? or can it work the other way around? you're talking today -- i think what we're here trying to say is that by doing things to shift the narrative, you can have an impact onpolitics. so i'm trying to raise a question that comes to the heart of why we're here today. can youo this? or is history only an expression of the political realities? >> could i take the first shot at th any more complicated, i probably won't be able to do it. let me just say this in the i say this i think i told you this, i've been at this all my life. i started as a college student at moorehouse college and i've been involved in this whole effort of civil rights and human ri i just would like to say two things. first of all, in the african-american community, this someone swha responds to what david black said earlier about reconstruction, we -- african-americans because of the way we were brought to this country have both a memory of america as a place where we were enslaved but also a memory of the same memory

make that change and send it out through sonya. you could agree to this with that caveat, or we could consider it at the next meeting. i just want to make sure that -- or just reiterate that having any changes happen on the 15th will make it very difficult to get it into all the information forms, so it is not just passing it on to them, but we have done it before and would be glad to again. >> i actually think that this is the second reading. we have gotten some clarifications, and it seems like we could make these amendments to help define the justification. i think that we should just vote on it. i think that all of it has been explained, and this is why we have a special meeting. commissioner mar: i am also kind of concern -- i want to make the budget document as clear as possible, but i am also concerned that we do not get into employee classifications, description of their work or work assignments because, to me, that is not part of the budget process, either. it is a fine line we should not get into because i'm sure all that

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in may everything changes i think the corporate culture changes you know all the key players are going to be multi-millionaires do they show up to work at the same time do they work as hard nobody knows you know and they're also going to use a lot of this money that they raise to bring in more people you bring in fresh blood you know that can be good but it's also going to change the corporate culture of what they were working for him up to this point is going to change and we'll see how that plays going forward but i'm not very optimistic gary what do you think about that i mean if you become a you know a multimillionaire overnight what kind of initiative is it going to be for you to go to work every day or maybe go out on your own and start your own company your own ideas i mean how much of is this a threat to the core corporate culture of facebook after the i.p.o. . well there's no doubt that the incentives for employees will have reduced one of the great attractions to the startup culture is the possibility in the person perspective of one day going i.p.o. and cashing out this poin

they are making changes. it is obvious to the police are offering help, so my things is who is a booking these eminent -- who is looking these -- booking these bands? >> we have a head booker. >> is it whoever walks in the door? >> the format has been changing. we always learn from our experiences and change it. >> have you thought about changing the format to fit what the neighborhood is salmo? i am just saying, this thing has gone so bad you are on an island, but they gave you plenty of opportunity. right now the item is do we trust you as a responsible owner? >> how has the format changed? >> before we would give the booking agent full responsibility. all of them together can work as a team, and i think the bears really going to help -- i think that is really going to help your gu > when it comes to researching dembands and who they are goingo attract, it is hard for one person. they are going to do this together. >> have you read these permits? >> i have not gotten a copy. >> i do not see how we can i ask

the changes are reflected in salary and expenditure line items.salaries and attrition savings based on normal staff turnover projections and projections of averages of other city agencies of just norm

don't also make changes on the revenue side. and i for one, i'm ready to deal with entitlements. i think it's entirely clear to me that what we have been doing so far is trying to solve this on a discretionary side of the equation, senator quite appropriately mentioned what's happening there. that spending is actually going down and going down quite markedly. but we have not been able to deal with the entitlement side. so senator stabenow? >> thank you as always for your thoughtful perspective and mr. el elmendorf we thank you and your team for your work. i think what you're saying is we needed the supercommittee to work, we need a long-term plan that both deals with the short term in terms of what is happening with jobs. we know we'll never get out of debt with 13 million people out of work, but we have to focus on the long term. i want to thank you for that. just to reiterate, thank you for your work on the budget control act and in fact it may have been a little different process, but we did pass a budget last year. just for

it's changed. >> and add on top of that the political culture that's changed so fundamentally that these people are not friends across party lines, not staying in washington on the week ends to play poker and drink together as they used to their wives and spouses are not with them and it allows those tribal politics where you see what you want to see about the other side. i think that's as deep a problem for us in this generation as anything else. that that whole political culture has not become a social culture in the way that it once was. >> and the gerrymandered districts in the house and the imbalance in the senate, all these things. >> plus the way that money has taken on this awful role in american politics >> the fear of... to be primaryed is my favorite new verb. i'm getting primaryed. >> rose: somebody's going to run against me my own party. >> it's this rush limbaugh astroturf all around the country. where every district has their talk show host and if you're an incumbent member of congress and you reach out and you don't stick to the orthodoxy you're going to get killed every

the proposed change yours --with established the hpc. all references to the landmarks advisory board have been removed. subsequent changes are proposed for a number of specific processes, designation and review of applications, applicability, and economic hardship and fee waivers for certificates of appropriateness. the local interpretation of the secretary of interior standards and the guidelines for historic property. at yesterday's hearing, the hpc past two resolutions in response to the amendments passed by supervisor weiner. those resolutions represent months of work by the hpc. at the hearing, expressed regret that no commissioners were available to come to today's hearing to provide a more nuanced explanation of their proposed on petitions to the amendments. they also noted that they will follow these resolutions with a more detailed letter that i will distribute both to you and to the board of supervisors at a later date. i will begin with resolution 672, which addresses article 10. i believe he should have copies of the draft or

one of them specifically was a change to the general order. i would like to personally thank sandra mirren from occ that helps me find information because it was originally presented to you in february. it was tabled and brought back with minor provisions. -- revisions. one of the complaints from the human rights commission was that the general order 5.17 would be changed to include all categories listed in the federal, california state, city and county of san francisco non- discrimination laws. there were two small changes we're looking to make to the general order policy. those changes that would fall into current laws are to add actual and perceived wordings when it comes to race. biased policing, because of race or a perceived race is prohibited. we are adding the word religion. if there is question of biased policing based on religion, that is prohibited as well. you have before you the old and a general order as well as the proposed new general order. with that, i am here to answer questions you might have. president mazzucco: we will he

not just changing the number -- >> just changing the number. item two, authorizing the general manager to execute and limit the architectural engineering design service agreement to the new san francisco public utilities project located at 525 golden gate avenue. supervisor chu: we have representatives from dpw as well as puc. >> good afternoon, i'm with the project manager from dpw on behalf of the public utilities commission. the item before you, this is an exciting building that embodies the city posed a great initiative and the commitment to those goals. it would be one of the greatest government buildings and will set an example for others to follow. we're already seeing immense interest by both public and private sectors as we are approaching the completion of the project. i am happy to report the building is expected to be completed in june, ahead of schedule. with the recommendation for approval, i will be glad answer any questions you have regarding this item. the joint-venture contract will be funded in the project's contingency funds

the public financing program must change. the one difference in terms of the filing deadline will impact this year's candidates. i've spoken to candidates who are running this year and they had questions about what would change for them. i do understand your concerns, but for me personally, it was a timeliness issue. supervisor farrell: there was reference made to a budget and analyst report about no cost. supervisor kim: there was a budget and legislative analyst's report. i don't know if we have copies on file, but i will ask for copies of that report. it did state there was no fiscal impact. >>supervisor farrell: this sayse don't know -- >> we just wanted to note that the budgeting is based on the $2.75 per head that the city is required to appropriate. the expenditure for any one election could go up or down but the budget requirement does not. that is about 1.8 million. >> your letter refers to the budget appropriation we currently have as opposed to by increasing the cap, that we expect to see more or less spent in futu

other than that, there were no changes to the program.ity wide planning division, this division -- their anticipated decrease from 31.37 to 30.66 and decrease from 31 with 37 to 27.96 in fiscal 2013 compared to what was presented here on january 12. again, the only changes here were some adjustments to attrition savings. moving on to the environmental planning division, the division are expected to -- fte's are expected to decrease, compared to what represented here on january 12, again, due to some minor adjustments to department's salary and fringe expenditures from attrition. moving on to zoning administration and compliance division, division's fte's are anticipated to increase in this book well -- fiscal 2012-2013, due to the change in digital earlier of the point by fte of a vacant planner one position being reassigned to code enforcement. finally, the administration division accounts are anticipated to increase from 30.86 to 32.45 an increase from 30.86 to 82.84 compared to what i presented here on january 12. aside from the attrit

because you i want you want regime change you're asking for really demanding regime change without understanding what the unintended consequences could be that's interesting yes we are because many thousands of innocent lives are at stake that's the key and anyone who insists on maintaining the regime is condemning thousands more innocent people in syria to death and that's why what matters is not what the foreign policy of the new syrian government would be but the removal of this vicious dictatorship as soon as part of a well ok i want to think that russia's own interests can be preserved in that situation if it is willing to negotiate seriously with syria and i'm pretty sure we all agree that they're talking to them and my well what do you think about that the the law of unintended consequences here is again i can bring up libya when i mean obviously mass and it's getting worse. right but i mean without even comparing i would say the choice of foreign policy would be in the hands of the syrian people and any democratically elected government which will. represent the majority of the syrian po