. >> does the committee advisory board, all of these folks have been invited already. >> they would like to come. >> terrific. >> thank you for that update. >> is there any relationship on that side? >> this could be as easy as the person trying to be conscientious who was going to do the suicide or the firearm, he wanted it right by police station. we don't know. >> thank you. >> are there any academy classes in the budget for next year. if there is none this year or next year? >> the supervisor is it the exigency of the circumstances. they were finding some way to do and backs. they are very genuine and they appreciate the reality of the circumstance. >> -- if they don't find any academy classes. i'm glad they are sincere and i hope that they act on that. there putting the city in potential risk of losing officers. how many recruits have we sent in and how many do we get out of a class, something like 30. >> laterals, we have a better graduation rate. there are a lot of police officers right now because the cities have not renegotiated. they are out there to be had. >> you talked about

the advisory boards were set up to make sure that before any land would be transferred from the shipyard, that it could be approved by the board. because there were two other committees that had been set up, dealing with the shipyard, the citizens advisory committee, you had the redevelopment agency that came later, the board spoke to whether or not that land would be transferred. in 2000, the year 2000, the voters voted and it was 87% of the voters who said, if any of the land is to be transferred from the shipyard to the city -- [tone] supervisor campos: thank you very much, ms. jackson. let me call more names. [reading names] >> good afternoon, supervisors. linda richardson. i have over 25 years of environmental justice. i am a land use expert. i want to bring to your attention something the new members of the board need to know once and for all. the most comprehensive health assessment of any resident of san francisco was conducted in thebayview. -- the bayview. they got together with the department of public health. three people conducted the most comprehensive study. indicators had not been identified before. you should ask the department of public health. they

committee members. my name is connie ford, and i serve one of the folks on the advisory board, and i am here to strongly say that through the process that our committee has worked on for the last couple of years, we are very excited about the results of this. the 333 harrison project, as you probably know, added more funding to our stabilization fund. it was a new pot of money that had not been requested or had not been thought about until the building happen. then, we went through with the developer and with our committee to negotiate the benefits that were put into the fund and wanted to ensure two things -- one is the citizens of soma were able to participate in the exciting 49 units mental that will be less than 30%. that is the income that will allow those units to be filled. we are very excited about that. that is the $250,000 pot of money we put in there to help develop the readiness of folks who live there. in terms of the and funding, we are also excited about that because we have been talking about the building trade, citybuild in terms of getting folks quickly in order to become apprentices'

a will be asking our civic leaders, members of our command staff, the police advisory board, members of the committee to come forward and share that day with us. at this time, that includes the presentation for ingleside station. the e-mail address is up there for anyone who has any questions, anything i can do for them. our website is up there, and i can entertain any questions from the commission. president mazzucco: thank you, capt. and tony. that was a great presentation, especially with the examples of things you are seeing. certainly, the commissioners can ask questions or we can defer until the community speaks. what would you prefer? >> let's defer. president mazzucco: we will start with the community. thank you, capt.. please come forward for public comment. how were you? >> i am it fined. i am president of the albert mission resident association. a just want to say, chief suhr, i have seen more in the last six weeks than in the last six months. we have been at almost every event together. over the weekend, i had the privilege, and i've had the privilege, to be invited to special events incl

advisory committee. the authority is an 11-member citizen advisory committee. authority staff nor cac make recommendations as to appointments to that body. that is done to the plans and programs committee and ultimately the authority board. two requirements for cac members is that they beat san francisco residents and that they appear before this committee to talk to bet their interest and qualifications to serve on the committee. the two vacancies we have right now are both from term expectations. first from rosie west and another, jackie sacks. miss saxby is here to speak to her reappointment. i understand ms. west is also interested in being reappointed. she was planning to be here today, but i do not see her. commissioner campos: thank you. why don't we hear from this sex -miss sacks. good morning. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is jackie sacks. i have been involved with the transportation authority since the passage of prop. b in 1989. i was once of 56 individuals tht brought it. i was appointed to the cac in 1997. i am up for my eight reappointment. i have gone this far and i want to continue serving. i feel, with the background that i have, with what has been going on in the city, being disabled, i can d

board. >> can you please call item number 1. >> hearing to appoint members to the citizens advisory committee for central market street and tenderloin. there are seven seats and 12 applicants. >> i will be calling you in the order that you are listed in your agenda. could you please talk about your experience and background and what you can bring to the committee. the first and then that i have is gregory jarasitis. >> good afternoon. >> thank you for a having me here. i work for -- and we are a community-based program. we provide clinical -- for people with chronic and persistent mental illness. most are strongly with substance-abuse issues. our goal is for people to be independent in the community while managing their mental health and staying out of jail and the hospital. i have been working at citywide. i have been working at this company for 11 years. for the past four years, i helped create and oversee our employment program. we are employment specialists and our goal is to find mentally ill offenders. this population is really the only compound -- these are individuals that have no or little work history or a huge time gaps.

last year, under resolution 381- 10, the full board approved an agreement between the mayor's office of housing, the community advisory committee, and the developers of 333 harrison to deliver a particular community benefits, including the construction of 49 on-site affordable rental units for households earning more than 30% of median income and supporting local hire for construction and non-construction jobs. now, the community advisory committee is recommending to commit funds to support housing and work for services to prepare low-income soma residents and workers for the housing and employment opportunities that this would generate. a copy of the recommendations have been filed with the clerk, and there are basically two. the first is a recommendation to expend $250,000 for a grant that will go to the veterans equity center to provide case management services to prepare residents and workers for the housing opportunities that will arise out of this project as well as other affordable housing opportunities throughout the city. the second recommendation is for $75,000 to go to -- actually, the asian neighborhood design throu

the board of supervisors, six other city boards, and the two community advisory groups with jurisdiction over the site, and the citizen committee, the same old, and become a dead rhetoric is what we have been hearing all this time. [tone] supervisor campos: if there is any other member of the public would like to speak, please come forward. good afternoon. >> mr. campos, supervisors, real briefly, the health department may have employee issues. i don't know. i am not in the health department. but certainly, we should absolutely not allow that to be a backdoor way of undoing what the citizens of this city overwhelmingly supported in the shipyards and the board of supervisors support it, also. someone has said, let the chips fall where they may. the chips have fallen. this project was overwhelmingly support it. it needs to go forward. the thing that disturbs me the most, on this issue and a lot of other things, i have -- i am representing the san francisco naacp and our church -- the thing that kind of really gets me is that we love to talk about the environment, but somehow, those who seem so concerned by the environment never a

board is getting out there. i also want to thank the many applicants that have applied. we need to get the advisory committee. and within 60 days of this passing and that is part of the rush and putting this at this month, at this time and we passed this legislation in april. are there any comments? >> just a question for the colors, are there any that came in late that could not give notice for this agenda? >> there are other applications that will be received. >> i would like to move forward with the seats. we can do that without opposition. thank you to the members for applying and coming together so quickly. we really appreciate it and we look forward to working with you, also to great really strong partnerships with businesses coming into our district. thank you very much. >> item number5, hearing to consider the quarterly report for the shelter monetary committee. >> thank you. we have members of the shelter monitoring committee here today. the chair has just move forward recommendations for the mid market legislation. >> i have paperwork for you, the third quarterly report. i think a need some assistan

advisory committee, the city of merced's planning commission and several city of merced ad hoc committees. she also served on the san joaquin valley partnership telecommunications committee and the california state advisory board for transportation, planning and environmental justice. linda lopez was also an alumni of the great valley center's ideal inaugural class, hispanics organized for political equality and leadership merced. not surprising, giving her devotion to her -- given her devotion to her community, linda was named the 8--9-hispanic woman of the year by the hispanic -- 1998-1998 hispanic woman of the year by the hispanic chamber of congress. she served as a constituent services representative acting as my eyes and ears in the community. she worked on thousands of cases and helped thousands of people. she never let go of a case she believed needed work and was meritorious. linda prided herself on giving 100% to everyone who walked in the office regardless of their political party, the color of their skin, what they believed or didn't believe. she believed everybody deserved to be treated well. it was not unusual at all for linda to work late nights and on weekends to make home visits to elled leer

don't think ipad is something new, it's the independent payment advisory board and kathleen sebelius is in front of the house budget committeeay to explain what this 15-member panel will do to keep the costs down and she insists and i talked to her the other day about this it's not about rationing care, it is about finding the best cost and alternatives moving forward. some democrats pushing back against this. we'll see how her testimony goes against today. >> you made a congressional thing into an ipad, independent payment advisory whatever you said. >>> the third straight day for congressional leaders and the president. what's going to happen? >> this is the octomob, the eight leaders speaking with the president once again this afternoon, they don't seem to find a way beyond the entitlements that democrats don't want to touch and the taxes that republicans don't want to add and the president says he won't sign a 30, 60 or 9 o-day extension of the debt ceiling, however he did say yesterday we all have to eat our peas and get this done so maybe that's something that's on the menu this afternoon in the meeting. >> did you coi

the medicare payment advisory board, created by the health care law, which makes recommendations on how to bring down medicare costs. live coverage from the house budget committee at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. also live on c-span3, transportation industry officials testifying about federal spending for the transportation security administration for 2012. that gets underway at 2:00 p.m. eastern. >> the c-span networks -- providing coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books, and american history. it is all available to you on television, radio, online, and on social media networking sites. find our content anytime through the c-span video library. we take c-span on the road with our digital content bus. bringing our resources to your community. it is washington your way. the c-span networks -- now available in more than 100 million homes, created by cable, provided as a public service. >> "washington journal" is next. we will take your calls and look at the day's news. the house is back for more work on energy and water development spending for 2012. live house coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. coming up this hour, we will continue ou

at this house budget committee hearing today health secretary kathleen sebelius defended a provision in the 2010 health care law that gives more power to the independent advisory board. a panel that makes recommendations aimed at holding down medicare costs. under the law, those recommendations could become law unless congress overrules them. this is three hours. >> the committee will come to order. we will begin our hearing. madam secretary i know how excited you are to be here today. thank you for coming. we will begin with brief opening remarks and then i will turn it over to mr. van hollen. thank you madam secretary and her other panel of witnesses for coming to today's hearing on the future of medicare. for years, politicians in both parties have not been honest with the american people about medicare. the facts are clear. health care costs are skyrocketing and growing 8% a year. medicare spending is on pace to double over the next decade exhausting its remaining funds. 10,000 baby boomers are retiring every day is funeral workers are left paying into the program. life expectancy was at 70 when medicare was created and today it is 79. nonpartisan experts includ

advisory board. a decent amount of power there to this new committee. guest: a lot of power.ow did initially come about, the idea for this panel? guest: a lot of people made recommendations, democrats made recommendations. tom daschle, before he was thought about as secretary of health and human services, wrote a book as majority leader in the senate. i sat around any number of budget reconciliation bills where you get a group lawmakers, members of the house and senate, citing health care minutia that decisions about how doctors and hospitals and nurses should be paid, that should they pay in 15-minute increments? you get the feeling that these are members of congress making rather medical decisions about how people should be paid. they are making these decisions behind closed doors, but are coming out and telling us reporters that we should not be making these kinds of decisions, people who are more expert than we should be making these kinds of decisions. their lobbyists, and they are trying to get them to do one thing or another, and they are uncomfortable with making thes

witnesses included former social security advisory board chairman and a member of the social security medicare board of trustees. the said committee was chaired by texas republican, sam johnson. >> republicans and democrats agree of this much -- current benefits should not change for those in or near retirement. all of our lives, they work hard and play by the rules. they deserve the peace of mind knowing social security will be there for them. young people deserve peace of mind as well. at our last hearing, the subcommittee looked at our options to address these challenges and heard that these options do not reward hard work or fix the social security shortfall. with unemployment, shortfalls, and so many people unable to how -- unable to find work, nothing should make it harder for young people to find jobs. we will hear more about changes to benefits and their impact on future beneficiaries, workers, finances, and economic growth. since the beginning of the program, benefits and work -- based on lifetime earnings. the formula that determines benefits is designed it to -- social security first paid monthly benefits in 1942 a lady

advisory committee. it's made up of 14 community banks from around the country. our board meets with those bankers three times a year to hear directly from them what they and their colleagues are encountering in the field. we are endeavoring to stay close to this issue i know we're less than perfect. but i did commit to you this is something that will be a matter of continuing attention for us. >> thank you. thank you, there. >> mr. gruenberg and mr. currie, it seems to me that when producing a cost benefit analysis of each individual rule your agency writes, you must also take into account the cost of the financial crisis and the harm infected on consumers, investors, and the overall academy. how will you ensure that your agencies are taking into account the cost of this crisis when weighing the costs and the benefits of the new rules? >> thank you, chairman johnson. i think it's critically important that all the agencies, the fdic and the o.c.c. particular, identify in an appropriate way all the costs as well as the benefits for any proposed rule making. as you identifie

advisory board. a decent amount of power there to this new committee. guest: a lot of power. host: how did initially come about, the idea for this panel? guest: a lot of people made recommendations, democrats made recommendations. tom daschle, before he was thought about as secretary of health and human services, wrote a book as majority leader in the senate. i sat around any number of budget reconciliation bills where you get a group lawmakers, members of the house and senate, citing health care minutia that decisions about how doctors and hospitals and nurses should be paid, that should they pay in 15-minute increments? you get the feeling that these are members of congress making rather medical decisions about how people should be paid. they are making these decisions behind closed doors, but are coming out and telling us reporters that we should not be making these kinds of decisions, people who are more expert than we should be making these kinds of decisions. their lobbyists, and they are trying to get them to do one thing or another, and they are uncomfortable with mak

advisory board. the commission would make recommendations on how to bring down medicare costs. live coverage from the house budget committee at 10:00 a.m. eastern. [applause] >> the u.s. chamber of commerce held a summit on the u.s. economy and jobs. >> welcome to the chamber. i would like to extend my appreciation to stand and the campaign for free enterprise for organizing this event today and to all of the chamber staff members who have been working on it for such a long time. to inform our discussion today, the chamber has been holding these listening sessions across the country with small business entrepreneurs and local chambers and we have also commissioned a study with harris interactive. we did did this to find out what job creators were thinking, and what is going to take to expand businesses and hire more people. these main street businesses are telling us play and simple to start hiring -- they need faster economic growth, and we need a change in cost in washington. that is my message today as well. three years ago, we suffer the worst financial crisis and deepest recession since the great depression. now we ar

advisory board. this commission is mandated by the health reform law and would make recommendations on how to bring down medicare costs. live coverage from the house budget committee at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> welcome to the chamber. i would like to extend my appreciation to stand and the campaign for free enterprise for organizing this event today and to all of the chamber staff members who have been working on it for such a long time. to inform our discussion today, the chamber has been holding these listening sessions across the country with small business entrepreneurs and local chambers and we have also commissioned a study with harris interactive. we did did this to find out what job creators were thinking, and what is going to take to expand businesses and hire more people. these main street businesses are telling us play and simple to start hiring -- they need faster economic growth, and we need a change in cost in washington. that is my message today as well. three years ago, we suffer the worst financial crisis and deepest recession since the great depression. now we are caught in the slowest and weakest recovery since the depression. in other recoveries,