i think that it was referred to as a classification creep. i am curious about what we will find in the record. if possible, would you mind going over the attachments? if you could explain it a little bit better for us? certainly so that the public can get their arms around it. it is easy to see in front of me, but i would like your take on it. >> i will turn to the fifth attachment, e as part of the packet. we put on hear what the cumulative impact was for substitutions. we show that by every enterprise. we also have on the screened for the public what it means in the context for the total budget. what would be before you is that 34 position substitutions by way of comparison of the 2400 authorized positions that we have my in the sf puc. it is a small percentage of the budget. and even smaller percentage of the financial budget. there are two choices of staff, as we but at operations. sometimes there is a need to change the position classification to make sure it is what it needs to be for job descriptions. this budget does not come to you a

this is clearly a case where they challenged the classification as one based upon sexual orientation as well as one based on gender. the loving case would have been on all fours, and would have come out, excuse me, the baker case would have been on all fours with loving, if it were a fact that same-sex sexual relations produced children the same as opposite sex sexual relations do. then mr. olson would have a lay down case. there would be no basis on which to law a distinction to identify a distinguishing characteristic with respect to any interest that the state has the authority to implement. it would be no difference, and so the question is, does the state, does society have no interest in that distinct characteristic? we submit to you -- >> there's a case that suggest that or is that good argument? do you have a case to suggest that's the distinguishing characteristic or is that good argument? >> i think -- i think it's both, your honor. >> i guess i'd like the case. >> the case i am referring to is the garrett case, which sets forward the standard that i just quoted, and it in t

i think that the most important thing is that we have job openings under very clear classifications, and that is what we want to hire at. those are the things that get approved by human-resources, and those are the things that are regulated by full-service under which job can do what, and those are the things that i think the mayor's office will approve or not approve. the work assignments and stock -- that is day-to-day. commissioner murphy: commissioner mar is completely right. we should not get into that. which is another reason why we should have the director and staff take another look at this and see where we can -- i used the word before -- tweak it. and bring it to the next meeting and we will approve it then. there's not much point in voting on it today. that is it for me. commissioner walker: i move to approve the budget. >> is there any public comment on item two, the budget? there is a motion by commissioner walker. is there a second? >> i will second. >> roll call vote on a motion to approve the budget. commissioner hechanova: no. commissioner mar: aye. no. commissioner

and sometimes you can get more done with a different classification and the department is certainly better off for that but i would be curious to know in other city departments, what that figure really is. i think perception is reality and i am glad we shed some light on this with respect to the public utilities commission and i appreciate that you brought it up. >> it is a larger discussion and i am happy to let that the financial manager at a smaller city departments as opposed a larger one and say why is there a manager -- that seems an equitable and you can start to look at the number of human- resources people and if we have 2400 authorized positions -- what is our percentage being able to deal with that -- maybe we have the right amount of health and safety folks and development folks and may be others don't -- you can look at the ratios and span of control, the senior station engineers -- there are a lot of different issues when you start to analyze positions across the larger populations. i'm happy to talk about that at another time. >> thank you. are we many -- are we ready

this staffing effort began through the creation of the plan or technician classification series and other support staff additions over the past two years. the department has run civil service examinations for existing planner classifications and has been filling them over the past few years as well. to continue this implementation of the department's staffing savage -- strategy, there are needs in the payroll, technical support function and for a website and permanent tracking system support. moving on to the non personal services item, these include things such as professional service contracts, advertising and postage. this is increasing mainly due to increased contract authority for the completion of the environmental impact report among various other grant-funded contracts. capital outlay projects are slated to increase in fiscal 12-13 mainly due to increasing storage area equipment which is in line with the department's technology upgrade schedule. also, the department is planning to replace one of its two cars in order to comply with the city's health the air and clean transportatio

frankly the the other problem is that the fourteenth amendment was designed to prevent racial classifications right so the bands and the supreme court struck down well in plessy versus ferguson but the supreme court struck down interracial marriage bans because they say the fourteenth amendment is designed to prevent racial classifications it clearly protects race i'm sorry it took one hundred fifty years to do it. yet and i hope it won't take one hundred fifty years to overturn roe v wade well ok some time over the war is wrong there's no question about that one of the things i find i've read a fair amount of your work and one of the things that i find most troubling about it is that. there are there are people in this country who know that by the time they were six or seven years old their attraction was toward the same gender and the opposite they there's no doubt their mind that they're gay and they're not going to change and i'm assuming you acknowledge that i certainly know there are people who believe that and i don't i'm not contesting and i don't have any firsthand basis to contest t

and they have to pull all of the tools out of the toolbox f we can back off from all of the classification issues, we can get along way down the road. in canada and a few other countries where the isps are required to work with the government to block malware as they see it running across the networks. so they reluced a lot of significant issues in these ways. one of the other things we've seen is that from a standpoint of a government, we have never been able to adopt an industrial policy in this country. when we had the year of the spy, the response of the government was to create an assistant attorney general for national security. we created a national security division. and then we created national security courts so that we have a situation where we didn't have some the district court making a negative case law. so why don't we have an economic security system? and that same mechanism for economic security where we start using economic sanctions back against the chinas and the russias even though they owned a lot of our debt, it doesn't matter. if they're going to be attacking us, le

the police has nothing to do with my classification. and we have had battles with the police and the district attorney, and we always come out on the palace of truth. you've got to keep that in the back of your mind-- palace of truth. the point is, the truth is what we peddle. the truth is what we peddle, and we don't care who wins and who loses. >> bergman: but we have found new cases that reveal cracks in coroner minyard's palace of truth, like the case of cayne miceli. on the morning of january 4, 2009, here at tulane medical center, 43-year-old cayne miceli came into the emergency room suffering from a severe asthma attack. when the staff tried to discharge her, even though she was still having trouble breathing, cayne, who had a history of psychiatric problems, resisted, and the hospital called the authorities. they took her here, to the psychiatric ward of the house of detention, run by the sheriff. despite her asthma attack, prison staff put her in five-point restraints, a series of straps that bound her flat on her back on the b

positions, but it made sense that those people who have worked on it and have the knowledge and classifications already have, it paid better sense to move those over and the type of positions i'm asking for when you look at it is more administrative. we are requiring everyone to put information and construction management information system. we're having engineers spend a lot of time putting information into systems and so we want to supply them with adequate resources so that they can be more efficient and effective performing their core duties. >> that makes absolute sense. when i saw those transfer positions coming in, i discounted them. my own arithmetic -- i did not count those because they are not really new hires. the other side of the coin is as they disappear, they shouldn't be coming to me. if there is the opportunity to recognize there is a shift in the workload and a decrease in one and increase in the other, if we could do that through substitution, it seems like it would be more appropriate. >> it's a challenge because on one hand, engineers, you can move into construction managem

during that initial classification. we also would like to caution the committee on the additional reporting requirements that we fear may be attached to our parental involvement, and in the successful safe and healthy student initiatives. we worry that potentially a large portion of funding allocations to these reforms will go simply into reporting mandates. we don't need that type of additional bureaucracy. we just don't. finally, one of the things that concerns us in houston, and it concerns a lot of our colleagues, my colleagues, and a lot of the large school district is this issue around comparability. there is some real problems with that in the current legislation. we would love to work with you later to perhaps work through some of this. but the way that you would come in and determine the formula around comparability is very problematic. >> which is in the bill? >> which is in the current bill. it needs major attention. >> what is in the current bill that we have, not the current law. >> the current law we have.

our classification is about the geometry. >> right, and we've made this link now. we started off saying we're going to forget about geometry, and now we've actually said, "well, in some way, we couldn't get away from it." >> and that was an important lesson for mathematics to learn. >> thanks for helping us see like a topologist. >> it was my pleasure, dan. >> all right, terrific. so let's go see if this asteroids guy can make any progress. >> yes. >> so if we go back to our game of asteroids and we turn our flat euclidean space back into a torus, we've taken a single right-angle square and created a torus to build my game on. so what we're seeing on our flat screen when we play the game is one of those squares. the geometry is there, and it's euclidean. so with asteroids, globally we've got the topology of a torus, and locally the geometry is that of a plane. we've gone from taking geometry out of the problem to creating an abstraction like a torus that's all about space and shape to give us a way to classify information and then put geometry back into the problem

we have some issues related to the classification officer that was assigned to this unit. this particular individual made threats in the recent past so, we need to move him to an alternative housing area. he is pretty short, so he will be getting out soon. it's in the best interest of the classification officer and level six to get him transferred out of here. he does not know nothing at this point. at this point he is just under the assumption that he is going to be escorted to medical at which time i'll speak to him and advise him what is going to occur. >> because it appears to be an isolated incident staff move conrad to a different part of the prison to diffuse the situation. >> see that officer right there. i stabbed him in the head when he was like 18 years old here. >> he was 18. >> he was 18. i started working here. he opened my cell and i stabbed him in his head. no? >> i had been working here for about six months. conrad complained like he always did. i went to give him the phone. the officer opened the door, came out with a shank. lucky i have a hard head and j

. >> announcer: due to his classification as a gang member with a violent past, albert is locked in a single cell 22 hours a day. >> here we have albert ber krerks enio who is down here on appeal for his honoring 50 years with the eight counts of robbery. >> he's the one trying to get some of the gang enhancements dropped so he can get some time shredded off. >> my guess is the gang enhancements is an escape. >> has a lot of tattoos. >> yeah, he got those up at delano because he didn't have them back in 2001 when he was with us. >> he didn't have the horns, he didn't have the star, he didn't have any of his neck work done. he almost looks like a different guy in those two. >> yeah, you take a look at the two pictures, it's definitely a difference. but then, again, when you get accustomed to that lifestyle, it's only a natural aggression. both his mom and dad are no longer alive. and his son is in juvey right now. >> we're looking at potentially a third generation. >> it's very close. >> i was busted when jesse was born. >> announcer: though his 15-year-old son is only a short distance

of the first so get a quiet classification official it says lloyd dismissed fourteen fifty as m of three hundred thirty three. the stuff makes no secret of the fact that the russian radar transmitter sees european air space in great detail. the station's unique radar tracks even submarine launched missiles in the barrens and white sees the sea of a whole sky and around the north pole. our system is being expanded in response to the expansion of the european missile defense shield. the aim is to match the measures being taken in europe that the new stations are being commissioned here to respond to nato as activities. for them . we will buy new means limited or alter our plans for the deployment of missile defense components in europe. russia has not closed the deal it will continue dialogue with the united states and nato on the missile defense system it is ready for practical cooperation in the sphere. and mission free play accreditation free transport chargers free range month free trips free.

we can back off from all the classification issues, we can get a long way down the road. they fix this problem significantly in canada and other countries where theisp's are required to blockmalware so they have reduced the significant issues. one of the other things we have seen is that from my standpoint of the government, we have never been able to adopt an industrial policy in this country. when we had the year of the spy, the response of the government was to create an attorney general and in national security, we created a national security division visiand then court -- and then we created courts. have an economic security assistant attorney general and that some mechanism for cyber security where we start using economic sanctions against china and russia even though they are a lot of our debt. they are going to be attacking us, let's use the sanctions against them. i would like to see if thought process of how we get beyond some of those barriers and change the mentality so that we can focus on these things and get the structure in a place where we need to address

. >> a high level of classification is still implied -- applied to everything, and it makes it hard for leaders to have a reasonable conversation with us about terrorism. what have they done since 9/11? they have done ala. >> -- a lot. >> better now under obama than bullish, bigger, or what? >> because of budget cuts coming, in some places there will be decreases, but we need to see how they will do these cuts. if they are across the board, that is an inefficient, and not a professional way to do things. there are many things as bad do not add anything, and they should be evaluated the -- things that do not add anything, and they should be evaluated. >> his third government oversight? >> there is a government oversight, but those that have the authority are woefully under-staffed and overwhelmed by the size of what they should be doing. >> "top secret america -- the rise of the new american security state," dana priest and bill arkin. one of our underwriters is the national education association and they have read across america as one of their ongoing projects. as a professional journa