the medical executive committee is the voice of the st. luke's hospital medical staff and has been vocal throughout this process. this communication is to reconfirm our support as the e.d.p. moves forward." with a copy to mayor ed lee. i just wanted to say we desperately need a new building and new facilities at st. luke's. the building is aging. the boiler broke. we have many, many problems, and if we don't get something passed soon, i'm afraid that our patients will suffer both from safety issues. i also think our patients throughout the city should be -- should have the availability of a state-of-the-art earthquake-proof building and i hope that you will consider that. president olague: thank you. dee falk, followed by madeleine yee. lisa penta, and susan blashick. and if you're in the other room, you can start making your way over here. if i've called your name, feel free to come up to the mic. a reminder that there are seats available if you're still in the overflow room. >> thank you, commissioners, for allowing me to speak to you to

up to the peak of presidential elections while it was the longest serving member of feet as executive committee after joining the board back in one thousand eighty three he has also stepped down as congress passed president. and in the meantime europe's hottest coach and gravy lash boss has chris's trainer of course he's champions porto and speculation here saying take over as manager of chelsea he has a twenty one million dollars buyout clause in his contract and reports suggest the thirty three year old could pay cash and self however russian and chelsea are reportedly also prepared to pay the sum to nearly in demand coach the last bastion

i am chairing the executive committee responsible for the criminal justice realignment plan but will be submitted to the board for approval of partners include the district attorney, the public defender, the police, the human services agency. nylon this executive committee most prepare the plan -- by a lot of the board must approve the -- by law, the board must approve the plan. in terms of overall strategies we are working on, in terms of language ordinance compliance, they do have a language translation . we basically have bilingual staff to the speaks spanish, cantonese, and mandarin. we also use interpreters as necessary for court proceedings. now our i.t. programs are critical, especially in anticipation of realignment. we have to know who we half and where we have it, and they are consistent with justice. they have been approved. they really focus on the population that is going to come and lea associated costs. staff training will be critical to your your -- critical. in terms of revenue, we do have some of our funding in federal and state grant funds. we anticipate the depend

>> as a part of the executive committee cooper shadegg is actually the chair of that committee and is of the lead for helping us put together the meetings. the trustee council what chollet has as i said routine meetings that are scheduled and in the early restoration at the last meeting we had been scheduled additional once a week ago for work and work on the restoration project proposal and process to get them approved >> if you don't report on time it's their fault? >> as i said the trustee has to work together. >> i hear good things about the openness with which the ordering process but i did know he previously stated the noted process will have moved from the planning stage to the implementation stage by year's end that may be more likely by the end of 2012 is a system so we share the interest of senator vitter and the chairman we don't want this to take too long somebody needs to make sure the process moves forward. would you comment on that? >> yes, and i think the trustee council that's come in with cooper's leadership has been a shot in the arm to get the trustees organized an

today, they finally acknowledged that a woman needs to appear on the executive committee. nd he can make a great gesture by appointing a woman to the highest executive position. >> he is very popular amongst the club, as it were? >> he is. it is a very closed club. but because you voted today do not represent the fans of the world very much. that is sending to keep in mind. if world fans had been allowed to vote on the feed the president frogs -- on the feed the president's -- >> it would have a venue. -- have been you. give me some practical examples. >> for anyone who goes to qatar in 2022, that was a situation where one of the men involved with that bid is under investigation for serious crimes. >> you think the venue is important? >> i think so. you're looking at a summer world cup that is going to be 120 degrees fahrenheit. that is not good for fans. >> thank you. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come -- brazil wages war. in spain, the government has taken legal action against the city of hamburg or wrongly blaming the city for an outbreak of the spa

to look good in the future the organization of the world cup will be decided by congress the executive committee will provide assurances and make no recommendations only a list and the congress will decide on the venue who command that she will. turn to somebody else a lot of the remains of course to live the only grandslam title that's alluded had to date the russian into the semifinals that's longer also to the emanating out coverage from start to finish. could not have asked for a better start or shine through the opening set taking it by six games to love german convictions if they're a little better in the second but not really enough to challenge the red trouble on both players held line match winning streaks was bad creatures run of victories was put ten and six twelve six three the final score in this one. there are a few games in the beginning that were introduced and heard in a night out and. even the first so we played it for quite a bit of time because of those long games in there just did really well. it was important points in the first even knows the difference and in the beginnin

voting on the hosting of future world cups to all 208 members - rather than just the 24-man executive committee - has at least been a step in the right direction. >>britton: sports fans love their sport and... they are willing to ignore an awful lot of stuff going on around the side. >>that's it for this week's world business. thanks for watching. we'll see you again at the same time next week. >>next week

the run up to the three presidential elections warner was the longest serving member thief is executive committee after all back in one thousand nine hundred three is also a step down as called president. meantime chelsea say they will reveal their new manager in the next few days and porto's talismanic coach boasts the strong favorite there is a twenty one million dollars buyout clause in the portuguese his current contract and there's growing speculation chelsea are about to pay big cash to release the thirty three year old however called at least say they have not yet received an offer from chelsea because boas won the treble last year taking the mystically title cup and europa league from russia coach because hiddink has also been linked to the chelsea job it has been vacant since the sacking of current your lofty last month. i'll swear a new manager has been officially presented another top flight english club but alex mcleish is unlikely to be totally relaxed in the role at least at the beginning of his reign that aston villa after arriving from arch rivals city has a rage runs from both si

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the executive committees and the committees themselves will work together to make sure that each trusteeis represented in an equal and balanced manner to ensure the premiere goals are achieved. the resources and process and early restoration project selection present many challenges given the magnitude of this disaster, its widespread impact and the number of parties involved. each state was impacted differently and ought of unique priorities for the needed restoration as me each federal agency. even within a state or agency there will be different approaches and ideas about how to meet these needs and achieve these goals. after all, restoration on this scale has never been done before. all of the different perspectives and ideas have the potential to lead to many disagreements over how best to assess the damages sustained and to spend the funds to restore the natural resources. .. in fairness for the common good about what we will be challenged to eliminate disputes based on boundaries and maintain focus on the ultimate goal of restoring the gulf of mexico's natural resources and hope t

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have i worked with sally for many years on the executive committee of s.f. dog. and i have attended many animal control and welfare commission meetings, both pre-sally and with sally both as a member and now as chair. you have a letter from me in your packet talking about sally's intelligence, her thoughtfulness and her excellence as a mediator and moderator in a commission where as a number of people have pointed out, proponents and opponents, tend to be passionate about their positions and sally has been exemplary of presenting items for discussion and action and making sure that all sides are heard and decisions are not taken into there has been full and informed discussions of the issues. under sally's leadership, also the commission has become more responsive and more time sensitive in a broader context. so, for example, the cat declawing, which was has been mentioned by several people, this ordinance was ultimately supported by the board of supervisors and became law in san francisco just before a state bill would have precluded the city protecting cats in

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executive park has had. i am pleased to say that we even had a 30-year barbecue to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the community advisory committee for the executive park. i am pleased to say that we have had just a tremendous amount of community support throughout the entire community, and we have leveraged, frankly, our community support to be used to support the continued opening of the candlestick point state park. we have kind of combined our efforts, and i think people in the neighborhood can testify that we have utilize our resources to make sure that candlestick point state park is developed and develop properly and is maintained. supervisor cohen: thank you. i think that is a perfect point to segue into public comment. supervisor mar: i think we have already opened it up, so thank you. >> [reading names] >> good afternoon. i am glad you raised the question because i was not supposed to be talking about it because the three items on the agenda, i was just supposed to come here and say, "please pass this on to the full board, but since you brought it up -- [laughter] 1, executive park, before it was named executive park, i

committees. we have the executive /organization committee that provides oversight of all staff and contracts. they provide basic overview. -- a basic overview of the organization. the public rights of way committee provides oversight of our service contract with san francisco clean city. they provide all of the cleaning services for the district. this committee also works on the safety and training projects. -- and greening projects. and we work on promoting the identity of the neighborhood and the organization. the way our budget is structured, we received assessments from 605 properties. it is actually more property than that now, but the fiscal years we are reporting on, this is the number of properties that were assessed. our annual budget is around $1 million. we received that revenue in two installments. the property owners are build with their property tax bills -- are billed with their property tax bills. the funds we receive are applied to that fiscal year. we received another installment of assessments in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year. that installment is applied to the next

future world cup hosts will be decided by all members of the fifa congress and not just the executive committeehe also says fifa had gone through troubled waters and he wanted to take the organization forward. >>> the international criminal tribunal says he will appear in the court in the haig for the first time this friday. the former bosnian serb commander spent his first night behind bars in the netherlands. he stands accused of genocide and war crimes committed during the bosnian war including the massacre of 8,000 muslim men and boys in 1995. >>> the space shuttle "endeavour" has touched down on earth for the very last time. it landed in the middle of the night there at florida's kennedy space center just over a couple hours ago. it was the shuttle's 25th mission. six crew were onboard. they've been on a 16-day round trip to the international space station. they're carrying out maintenance work and other experiments in space. >>> a united nations report has declared japan underestimated the risk of tsunamis and the danger they create for nuclear plants. the international atomic energy agen

this executive committee is cochaired by the u.s. fish and wildlife service and fish and wildlife agencies. the united states geological survey is the science branch of the bureau -- a branch of the department of interior. it conducts and partners to conduct much of the research supporting our response to the white-nose syndrome. the park educates the visitors about white-nose syndrome and his dissolved management recommendations for the units and affected or potential affected areas. the bureau of land management is an active partner. the department works very closely with the recreational research communities to improve the contamination particles and access recommendations to limit the spread through human activities we have closed the caves to prevent the spread and we understand and share concerns about the loss of recreational opportunities and tourism supports the economies. many of our land serve as stakeholders and we find new ways to minimize such impacts. white-nose syndrome is the greatest challenge to the bat conservatio

wilcox is president and ceo of grand rapids state again also director and member of the executive committee of the independent community bankers of america. mr. lussier is the chairman of the board of the national association of federal credit unions and has over 25 years of banking and credit experience. mr. stephen wilson is chairman and ceo of -- national bank. he is also the recently elected chairman of the american bankers association. i thank all of you again for being here today and i look forward to your testimony. i will ask the witnesses to limit your remarks to five minutes. your written statements will be submitted for the record. mr. cheney, would you like to begin? >> yes. mr. chairman, ranking member shelby, members of the committee thank you very much for calling today's hearing on credit union business lending. although it is whether the crisis well. is everyone agrees more needs to be done to help america's small businesses create jobs. credit unions can help if congress enacts s. 509. senator mark udall's small business lending enhancement act. this much-needed commonsens

committee. he is currently the executive vice president near my home town in louisiana. this may make him -- he may be able to understand the problems. mr. kottler has capitalized on finance expertise and devoted much of his career working on what makes small business work. in his current role he is responsible for the retail segment including retail operations, credit card sales, retail training and small business. before joining iberiabank he was vice president of small business banking and capital one covering texas, virginia, new york and connecticut. i don't know how you connect texas and louisiana to the east coast. he worked in tandem with capital one's small-business credit-card team and headed the real estate division in texas in the texas area and served as iberiabank's cheese support officer in the merger. he started his involvement with the consumer makers association in 1995 as a member of the small business committee. he has been extremely active in the last 16 years in his role as chair of the membership committee and the board of directors for ten years.

when the community established the executive park citizens advisory committee, they invited folks and then money is meant to to is that -- execute the executive park. understandably the members of the new and they sell very low%. and that it should be spent in bayview hunters point. back in 2005 we were optimistic that we could get through the approval process and we felt it was important to do so as quickly as we could. once the fee arrangement was negotiated, but we have concluded that we can live with and i think that the community, with that understanding at that time, was willing to let things proceed. i think that you will hear from others today. that is how it came about. itit was a negotiated fee. the supervisor had a list of improvements she wanted it to go to. that is how that that became into place -- that fee came into place. i guess late last year, there was a question about raising it and changing its, and we worked very hard with the supervisor's staff, supervisor maxwell's staff, and at the end of the day, we came up with amendments that we as project developers felt w

when the community established the executive park citizens advisory committee, they invited folks and then money is meant to to is that -- execute the executive park. understandably the members of the new and they sell very low%. and that it should be spent in bayview hunters point. back in 2005 we were optimistic that we could get through the approval process and we felt it was important to do so as quickly as we could. once the fee arrangement was negotiated, but we have concluded that we can live with and i think that the community,

i had been on the executive committee for ten years. i worked with others that were senior positions in the industry. i was by far not the only one. we worked together, and we presented to the house senator feinstein said i actually worked with others to try to find a path to preserve the coal. what we needed was time, and with time, we felt we could work a low-cost potential transition and went into things like clean coal and into things like natural gas with a greater utilization in the industry. lots of things we thought we could achieve. but we needed some predictability and it was chaos at that time. now quite a large number of other businesses across the u.s. as i think you know, likewise made that choice at that time so dow chemical, dupont, shell oil and many others, we all recognized to my knowledge no one is raising the that now. i certainly would not raise that as the secretary of commerce. >> do you think the corporate tax rate in america being the second highest on the globe is too high, and are you going to advocate for lo

served on the board of directors and for many of those years i've served i have served on their executive committee and is chair of the technical issues committee. nagl members are responsible for approximately 80% of the annual seven a volume as well as the lender portions of the sba 504 loans. thank you very biting me to testify and for holding this hearing on the important issue of small businesses, availability to access capital. in the interest of time, i will submit my full written testimony for the record and provide just a brief summary. i want to begin by publicly thanking the international franchise association, ifa, for taking a leading role driving the discussion on the direct correlation between access to credit, job creation and economic development. because of the exemplary effort of nagl and i say assayed today, we have a seven a loan program that is much better able to make the meet the capital needs of america's small-business. and it is important to note that the isc work on this issue did not and with the passage of the small-business jobs at. approximately a year ago, while we

i've also served on their executive committee and is chair of the technical issues committee. lender members are responsible for 80% of the 7(a) volume as well as the most of the lender portions of the 504 loans. thank you for inviting for me to testify and holding this hearing on the availability to access capital. in the interest of time, i'll submit my full written testimony for the record. i will provide a brief summary. i want to begin by publicly thanking the international franchise association, ifa, for taking a leading role in driving the discussion on a direct correlation between access to credit, job creation, and economic development. because of the exemplary effort naggl effort and ifa today, we have a 7(a) loan program that is much better able to meet the capital needs of america's small business. and it is important to note that the ifa work on this issue did not end with the passage of the small business job act. while working on credit access issues on different tracks, naggl and ifa began a dialogue that we continue free for those encounters, we came to realiz

for the past 23 years and served on the reason for many of those years i served under executive committee and as chair of the technical issues committee. nicholas lender members are responsible for approximately 80% of the annual sna volume as well as most of the lender portions of the sba 504 alone. thank you for inviting me to testify and for holding this hearing on the port mysia small businesses, availability to access capital. in the interest of time, i will submit my full testimony for the record and provide just a brief summary. i want to begin by publicly bank for taking job creation and economic development. because of the exemplary efforts, both nato and isv today have a 70 loan program that is much better able to meet the capital needs of america's small business. it is important to note that the isc work on this issue did not end with the passage of the small-business jobs act. approximately one year ago, while we were working on credit access issue on different tracks, nickel and isc began a dialogue that we have continued. through those encounters, we came to realize there i

committee. what's even more interesting, however, and more of note and relevant here is the response that they got from the executive branch which also included many framers and founders who had been present at the constitutional convention including president washington and then secretary of the treasury alexander hamilton. according to notes from thomas jefferson, after the committee was formed and sent its inquestionty to secretary of war henry knox asking for papers related to sinclair's expedition, the cabinet met in president washington's study and agreed that the house had a legitimate right and interest in both conducting the inquiry and in requesting papers and documents. they also agreed the information should be given over to the congress unless there would be injury to the public. and absent a showing of that injury to the public, the documents were to be disclosed. and, in fact, several days later mr. knox made the documents available to the committee. i think what's most relevant and important about this early example is that not only the participation of those who helped draft the founding documents t

[applause] >> i would also like to acknowledge some of our executive committee members who are here withday, first, i would like to introduce ray from arizona, pat from maryland, jesse from louisiana and kathy from california. we believe working together with our partners is essential to have a victory in 2012. i'd like to mention a few of our state presidents who are here, june, kathy from missouri, rita from mississippi, rebecca from texas and leona from arizona. [applause] >> now i would like you all to rise and join with me in prayer. heavenly father, ruler of heaven and earth, bless and glide those who govern our communities, states and nation. enlighten and enable them to rule according to your holy commands, give them wisdom, honesty, integrity, courage, strength and good judgment, that we may enjoy peace and prosperity at home and protection from our enemies within and abroad. make us strong to do your work, not to advance our own purpose, but to serve you. hear us for the sake of our lord, jesus christ, amen. thank you and god bless america. [applause] >> please remain standing