they rely on bigger facilities. to they have all of the authorities and tools that they need to respond? do you have what is necessary to ensure that they respond accordingly? >> we do in our smaller cities. respond, this is a federal event. were able to provide that authority and say -- listen, you are now acting on behalf of the federal government, that would inarly give them some relief their willingness to help us. >> there have been concerns about fps staffing levels for , having required a minimum staffing level. you only have 1300 employees, but we understand that up to 40 may have been reassigned to functions outside fps. is that correct? of those employees have been assigned outside that and why? left the fighte and came in, we lacked the infrastructure for things like human resources. that is what we had contributed to. that is how we created our infrastructure, if you will. >> given the outstanding number of work items at yes, can fps assign its employees or other parts of the department? >> we have not l

fps is charged with delivering and integrating law enforcement facilities in more than 9000 facilities owned or leased by the administration. in performing this mission, fps employs more than 11,000 sworn law enforcement officers, participates in joint tactical exercises with various auto, state, local, and tribal law enforcement personnel and conducts the ability security securityt of fps facilities nationwide. utilizing the modified tool, orcture survey ms., our inspectors evaluate a ourlity -- or mist, inspectors evaluating facility, and provide recommendations to committees regarding appropriate countermeasures to mitigate the risk. we are waiting for the system to begin in 2015. we oversee staff including protective security officers. 's are responsible for detecting and preventing criminal acts and responding to emergency situations. inshore items such as explosives, knives, and drugs do not enter federal facilities. they must undergo background determine they are fit to serve the government and are rigorously trained. but it is important to note that they are not sworn law enfor

those were demolished and these new facilities were constructed. the previous lease expired december 23rd, 2013, it had been for 9 years with a 6-year option to extend. rather than only extend for 6 years because these facilities are so critical to our operators and other field staff, we decided to negotiate a 10 year lease with a 10 year option to renew. so that is what is before you today. we weigh the advantages and came up with the 20 year lease. the first year rent is $7,920, increasing 3 percent per year with a proposed 10 year extension through december 31, 2033. and the rent payments are a total of $212,813 over 20 years under the proposed lease, which is, if you look at the net present value which the budget analyst office did, there is a savings of $13,835 over the 20 years. so i would be happy to answer any questions. >> okay, colleagues, any questions? okay, mr. rose, can we go to your report, please? >> mr. chairman and members of the committee, let me start off by saying that our recommendation to approve was a close call in our offic

keep in mind, though, even if we had not heard reports out of this phoenix facility or other facilities, we all know that it often takes too long for veterans to get the care that they need. that's not a new development. it's been a problem for decades. and it's been compounded by more than a decade of war. that's why when i came into office i said we would systematically work to fix these problems and we have been working really hard to address them. my attitude is, for folks who have been fighting on the battlefield, they should not have to fight a bureaucracy at home to get the care that they have earned. so the presumption has always been we've got to do better. rob's review will be a comprehensive look at the veterans' health administration's approach currently to access to care. i want to know what's working, i want to know what is not working, and i want specific recommendations on how v.a. can up their game. i expect that full report from rob next month. number four, i said that i expect everyone involved to work with congress, which has an born oversight role to play. i welcome

keep in mind, though, even if we had not heard reports out of this phoenix facility or other facilities, we all know that it often takes too long for veterans to get the care that they need. that's not a new development. it's been a problem for decades, and it's been compounded by more than a decade of war. that's why when i came into office i said we would systemically work to fix the problem and have worked hard to address them. my attitude is for folks fighting on the battlefield, they should not have to fight a bureaucracy at home to get the care that they've earned. so the presumption has always been we have to do better, and rob's review will be a comprehensive look at the veterans health administration's approach currently to access to care. i want to know what's working. i want to know what is not working, and i want specific recommendations on how va can up their game. i expect that full report from rob next month. number four. i said that i expect everyone involved to work with congress, which has an important oversight role to play. i welcome congress as a partner in our effo

and these customer municipal, solar facilitis that i am talking about are largely on the city, owned roofs. and our newest, here at symphony hall and the two that we energized and dedicated and we have over the years a list of projects that i am showing total of 2.5 mega watts of the roofs with the solar on them provided by sfpuc. and looking forward, we are our ten-year capitol plan has us dedicated about $12 million dollars of the net operating revenues to the additional facilities and you will see that in this particular fiscal year, are targeted towards the city hall solar and, downtown high school. and some other high school facilities that we expect to be installing solar on over the summer break. and we also have some renewable purposes, cal mentioned the sunset solar project that is photographed here and that is not a doctored photo and it really shows up and glows out on the sunset and we have five, mega watts of solar and that is the purchase agreement and so we purchase the output and the performance risk for the facility are held by the facility own and her we purchase th

. >> you indicated other facilities. >> right now va is collecting or has asked each of our facilities to lead in the five patients who are currently on their rig list or waiting for care. we're going to assess. >> i appreciate the response. i would just express my concern for the record. is this. the very same medical doctors, physicians, medical staff that have already determined these patients don't need to go outside of the system that we are now asking to reconsider. without a dramatic shift in the administrative judgment that you can expect every one of your medical providers to exercise in this new 48 hour time frame i have great concern that it is not going to solve it but very much appreciate the measures being taken and hope they are successful. i yield back. >> thank you very much. everybody obviously continues to have a heightened interest in talking with our witnesses. we have had numerous requests for a second round. the chair will give a second round of questions, but with that i ask unanimous consent that we have a five minute recess and reconvene. [inaudible conversati

. >> ksp is kentucky's only maximum security facility.roup of stone masons from italy teamed with inmates from various prisons to construct the castle which opened in 1889. >> when they first built it, they had a sign up over the front door that said, "abandon hope all ye that enter here." they wanted this place to look pretty menacing and it still looks menacing even today. >> i think the penitentiary is unique in many respects, just because of the foreboding appearance that it has. it's a serious place where serious things happen. this is a prison. >> the castle sits on 90 acres and has seven cell houses for its 900 inmates. nearly 40 inmates are secluded on death row. fewer than a dozen of them live in a minimum-custody facility. more than 200, those considered the most dangerous, are locked in solitary confinement in the segregation unit. >> basically, there are very few inmates that come directly to the kentucky state penitentiary. for the most part, inmates come to the penitentiary via other facilities that those inmates have either

there are postal facilities. in fact, banks have pulled out of many neighborhoods because they do much more digital than the postal service says. i don't see what's wrong with nonbanking service. this is what i meant when i open my last question thing a little bit private is like a little bit pregnant. you just can't do it in a market economy. so that means i mr. cochrane and mr. williams to elaborate on some non-postal service says that you think the postal service could enter and dry them truly compete with the private sector. >> actually, with regard to the financial services, you are correct, ma'am, that the postal service is in the banking business for a large number of years. worldwide, and anywhere they provide financial services and provide about 14.5% of their income, which helps them continue to provide universal access and reduces the overhead. we provide financial services with money orders and other kinds of informal services in remote areas for the customers. this idea was to update the money order

facilities. and if i understood dr. lynch, every facility has a near tracking report. is that correct? >> every facility receives a near report. which is an enroll yes request. >> and every v.a. facility has a schedule and appointment consult as well? >> that may be unique to facilities. that is probably not universal across v.a. that is a tool which can be used. >> and the o.i.g. also referenced at the phoenix v.a. screen shot paper printouts which are not reports, but there are 400 veterans hiding in that system. nd again, the cloirk to oig is these folks hidden in these secret waiting list that is could be at any clinic were and are continued to be at risk of being lost or forgotten. as a result these veterans may never obtain the appointment. so if i understood correctly from the report and your testimony is these secret waiting lists could be at every v.a. facility in the country. is that correct? >> i don't think they were secret. i think they were -- >> how did you not find them? you were there. >> i did find them. >> how many were on the list? you told me you d

and then we have numerous solar facilities that are roof-top solar facilities. for example, on moscone, on the chinatown public health center. all of those facilitis that on davies symphony hall, all of those facilitis with solar on the roof we have registered through the system and we're able to account for the renewable attributes of the electricity generated from those systems. we register them and we utilize those renewable energy credits to cover the system purchases that we make when our hetchy generation is not available to us. so that allows us to -- if you will, green-up purchases that are not otherwise specified as renewable. we also have made some purchases of renewable energy credits in the market to make sure that we have sufficient renewable energy credits available to us to cover any system purchases that we might need to make. we purchased biomass and wind from various facilities in california and in the west. and at the time of this reporting we totaled between 2011 and 2012 a balance of renewable energy credits of 53,544 megawatt hours. we util

it's a domino effect everything hinges on the facility next february. that will be an exciting time for the shipyard since 1984 the cookery have been, if you will, the facilities that what about rent by the hour or month. i'll ask one of the folks to explain his business much better than i can >> thank you. i'm scott madison one of the owners of the ecliptic cookery i have the material for the commissioners and staff. good afternoon chairperson johnson and commissioners and special hello to commissioner singh who's history with the shipyard is a history as my own. acting attorney. it's a pleasure to be here for our business that's also a milestone for shipyard redevelopment i'm hoping you will advance from the design stage in building one 10. i'd like to acknowledge the positions of folks. ecliptic cookery is owned by four partners i'll ask our ceo ms. susan heller who doesn't work in the business but is a silent partner and mr. bill robert and myself operates the business on a daily business we've been friends and partners since 2010. we've been led by

the facility is the one in temple, texas. are you aware of similar issues that occurred in phoenix as having occurred in temple? >> i am not aware. >> i would suggest reading the article because they post e-mail pictures of the chain of e-mails. i yield back. thank you. >> ms. titus. >> thank you for holding his late to accomidate us who have to fly to the west coast. i want to get to the bottom of my problem and many of the questions have been answered. the ig isn't going to release the names of the other facilities being investigated primary to protect the whistle blowers so i asked that nevada be put on the waiting list. i will ask a different line of question because i think it goes to the point of priorities and i think that is the problem we are facing as we look at the waiting list issue. dr. lynch you mention you went to phoenix to check into the talks that 40, that was the number at the time, of people died from the secret waiting list. you spent the easter weekend there with your wife and then you were joined by two

the complaints continue to focus mostly on staff, facilities and access. one of the areas that we're trying to work on when we do site inspections, and there's a signage issue, as i mentioned in the priest report, that when we come back to the office. >> >> we're making sure to send out the signage for the site so they have it right away. whether there are issues of danger or clients are making strong allegations of violence we're contacting the human service agency and making them aware of the complaints and through the meetings that the committee and hsa and others have been having we're trying to make the communication quicker so the way the complaint process is now a client can file a complaint of the site has seven days to respond. after that response the client has up to 45 days to tell us if they're satisfied or not. after that we have 10 days to do a complaint, so if you start measuring it out when an initial complaint happens it maybe more than three months before there is a final finding so things around danger or allegations, threats were immedi

it's a large facility. we're on over 500 acres of property. the perimeter is approximately a mile and a half around the facility. we have maximum security, medium security and minimum security offenders. what probably sets us apart is the different segregation units. >> offenders who assault staff or other inmates are moved to the secure housing unit, a prison within the prison, known as the shu. >> there have been discipline problems, they've been assaulted and they've had issues at other facilities. so they send them here. >> designed to look and function like pelican bay, a maximum security prison in california, the shu is composed of windowless, concrete cells measuring 7 by 12 feet. of the 288 inmates housed here, 179 have been diagnosed by psychiatric staff as mentally ill. >> i heard the horror stories of this place back when it first opened up. >> sergeant dan haskins is a veteran of the secure housing unit. >> out of sight, out of mind. the outside world, out of sight, out of mind. they don't -- probably don't want to know what goes o

operators their facilities to investment trusts. they then can use the money from the sale to develop new facilities. the trusts collect rent from the operators, and pay dividends to investors. >> the average household has 1,600 trillion yen in financial assets and we need to channel these assets to the government area. >> reporter: japanese financial institutions are now setting up their own health care reits. they plan to be enlisting them on the tokyo stock exchange within the year. >> translator: we'll put money from the markets where there is a lot of capital into the health care sector that suffers from a lack of capital. >> reporter: a nursing facility operator is also positioning itself in collaboration with a financial group. ogawa is in charge of development and operations at this firm. he says facility operators have a long-term responsibility for senior residents. reits usually come with a precondition that they are held for a minimum of ten years. >> translator: proper care cannot be achieved by the operator alone. we w

the need of that facility to be the advance and do pass, consent sites in the surrounding neighborhood and the other at&t mobile at octavia and lombardy streets other concerns were health insurance related to the emissions as well. as i recall on october 17th the planning commission took 0 a vote to disprove the antennas on mission street. this is an alternative site and the applicant intends to withdraw the site if this facility is constructed. staff is working with the applicant to look at alternative sites and we're in support of the application and recommend approval of the motion. thank you >> thank you project sponsor. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm teddy i'm the director of external affairs for at&t california i'm here with east son who conducted the radio frequent analysis and the third party review that's part of our packets i'm here with the site acquisition manager at&t is seeking our approval on the unity street antenna. it will place up to 6 panel machines on the subject property thaip they'll decommission the other locations the associated equipment will be located

this legislation first time will establish binding procedures around is surface mount facilities i he utility cabins for robust outreach for neighborhoods and allowing for meaningful and real community input and having the murals on their boxes and requiring planning of greening and maintaining that greening on around the illuminate boxes. is legislation for the first time will require meaningful efforts to place on the private prosperity o properties for the annual feasibility on the playing of boxess on the ground. colleagues as i recall in january we held a hearing in the sfaukz on the at illuminated utility boxes we heard two hours of public genuine criticism and sometimes anger over the process the process at times pits neighbor against neighbor and it's nebulous and confusing to many people. a process in which confusion unfortunately is the normal. and one thing that almost everyone agreed on including the utility providers the process needs improvements. we've heard from neighborhood organizations from russian hill to the castro to the richmond and sunset with a common; right r

it's a hard core, hard lock facility. ♪ >> the segregation unit is a controlled unit.eople in here have assaulted staff in the past or they -- you know, you have overt sexual behavior. you have stealing, you have theft. there are some murderers that we have here. they are violent. you have chaos going on constantly. >> this inmate's rage in general population brought him time in segregation. >> i got in a fight. he had 15 stitches in his eye. i have got an anger problem. i don't really think before i act. and that was the main problem. >> every anarchy of prison that you can think of with adults, we have the same subsystems here. >> with as many as 48 violent teens kept in a confined area of the facility, the segregation unit has a society all its own. ♪ where cell phones and ipods are replaced by a fast-paced secretive practice known as cadillacing. >> sometimes it takes a while. you have to mash your mat up and put a string around it. get some toilet paper wet, get some cotton or paper around it, making it square, wrap a string around it and slide it out your door. s

in the underground uranium enrichment facility and plutonium produce a new reactor. these are not the piece will technologies the united states had provided the floor of the facilities taylor paid for making material for nuclear weapons. at this point the iranian nuclear crisis began and we have been dealing with it ever since. so after talking about the history of the program with the president's election of a tawny then i talk about how close is iran to having nuclear weapons? does it want to nuclear weapons? what i teach my undergraduates for them to happen there is a supply-side a and they have to build the nuclear weapon and also have the will to the supply and demand. but first it has to acquire with the core of the nuclear device with enriched plutonium but has to form that's to have the way to deliver that with aircraft ballistic missiles are the platforms used. some people look at that time line we have years to solve this problem but it is misleading because all that matters is the first stage. the reason is right now the united states coming international

public right-of-way, however, the city can dedicate time and manner for the displacement of the facilities that's why we permit those and with a preprilt permit before we issue american people evaluation permit. one of the things that the public members pointed out was a tree identified at this location. i did evaluate the pamper that was submitted there were several pictures of the location one showed a vehicle in front of the proposed site and another the proposed at&t box on the sidewalk. by what was sprooipz it didn't show a existing base because i went back there and checked with google map there's an empty tree well, i don't know whether it was an accident that at&t places the facility and masked it i can't speak to that but the bottom line is the city a established stormwater management and the city is correct in regulating the enforcement as it relates >> out of the one hundred and 60 previous installations of as far as mount facilities are they on public land. >> one thing i'll point out if there's a private agreement with the at&t and the prove or disprove to place those faciliti

the facility they are talking about here is a facility in temple, texas. are you aware of any similar issues that occurred in phoenix as having occurred in temple? >> i'm not aware at this time. >> ok. i would urge you to read this particular offer. they post pictures of the email chains that make it look like there was a cover-up. one doctor would cancel appointments and they would have to be rescheduled. thank you. i yield back. >> ms. titus. you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you for holding this meeting late to accommodate us who had to fly back from the west coast. we appreciate that. like my colleagues, i too want to get to the bottom of this waiting list problem in phoenix and across the country and many of my questions have been answered. the i.g. is not going to release, as i understand it, the names of the other facilities that are being investigated primarily to protect the whistle blowers. i've asked that nevada be added to that list because i want to be sure that the veterans there are getting the kind of services they deserve and th

keep in mind, though, even if we had not heard reports out of this phoenix facility or other facilities, we all know that it often takes too long for veterans to get the care that they need. that's not a new development. it's been a problem for decades, and it's been compounded by mor and than a decade of war. that's why when i came into office, i said we would systematically work to fix these problems, and we have been working really hard to address them. my attitude is for folks who've been fighting on the battlefield, they should not have to fight a bureaucracy at home to get the care that they've earned. so the presumption has always been we've got to do better. and rob's review will be a comprehensive look at the veterans health administration's approach currently to access to care. i want to know what's working, i want to know what is not working, and i want specific recommendations on how va can up their game. and i expect that full report from rob next month. number four, i said that i expect everyone involved to work with congress, which has an important oversight role to play.

keep in mind even if we had not heard reports out of this phoenix facility or other facilities, we all know that it often takes too long for veterans to get the care that they need. that's not a new development. it's been a problem for decades. and it's been compounded by more than a decade of war. that's why when i came into office, i said we would systemically work to fix these problems, and we have been working really hard to address them. my attitude is for folks who have been fighting on the battlefield, they should not have to fight a bureaucracy at home to get the care that they earned. the presumption has always been we have to do better and rob's review will be a comprehensive look at the approach to access to care. i want to know what's working. i want to know what is not working and i want specific recommendations on how va can up their game. i expect that full report from rob next month. number four, i said i expect everyone involved to work with congress, which has an important oversight role to play. i welcome congress as a partner in our efforts. not just to address the

we've reached a major milestone in the planning design of rebuilding our southeast treatment facility. also we're doing an excellent job of rover and restoring our facilities after the rim fire but not out of the woods yet we continue to permanently restore that area per we're responding and managing our water supply during the worst flood in california history also overseeing the alleging infrastructure is both is a challenge for me and as you the city leaders and policymakers. as i talk about as i talk about in april 30th meeting the biggest challenge the puc is facing is a fiscal sole vinsz of the hetch hetchy power you've heard me talk about the wastewater improvement needs but now a you're increasing hearing the country at our house/senate water and supply and water and power facilities those facilities have served the city well by they're not 60 to 80 years old and in need of significant investments we've worked with the mayor's office to balance our situation in this two year budget and over the long term. they're a lot of hard choices to make but working on multiple front i'm

we haven't identified specific projects but mta as part of their adjacent facility, helped us in the emergency removal of the copa crane. >> thank you, david, i really appreciate that but i'm speaking specifically at what's in the staff report where it says around the area, what are they going to do to beautify the area and there are other things like use of machines in premises, low emission diesel equipment, clean air, program, i'm talking about more of those things. it's a great list of things that can be done but i'm asking specifically what are, are there any plans in place? >> okay, here's kirsten and ted to help fill in those spaces. >> good afternoon, i'm kirsten mcgary, senior manager for sfmta thank you for taking time to hear about this proposed extension of the mou. we at the mta produced a real estate and mta vision for the 21st century. we are bringing our fa sits, three of which are more than 100 years old, into the 21st century. to do this we need to do what's called the shuffle, bring things out of the facility, rebuild them and prepare for a bigger fleet. we're gett

having a few facilities don't help you. so in short, i believe iran's leaders want the nuclear weapons and they are close to having them so we have the problem. what are the various options we have for addressing the problem? in the book, i can through all of the options and i see three as the most viable. diplomacy, deterring and containing a nuclear iran or third taking nuclear action. i think these are the three options. i have a chapter on the non-starters the options that people sometimes put forward but won't work. some people look at the three real options and say diplomacy may not work but the other ones seem bad so the has to be others: what are the other ways? some way conduct cyber attacks and sabotage facilities and there have been assa assassinati assassinations of iranian scientist so maybe we can do that and maybe that will stop iran. what i so in the book is these -- show -- accidents have been happening to iran's nuclear for years but every three months iran's capabilities continue to increase. so despite t

miami-dade corrections is made up of five separate facilities located throughout the city. housing nearly 7,000 inmates. every year, approximately 100,000 men and women are processed into miami-dade. many of them arrive here at the main jail, also known as the pretrial detention center. >> the main jail is considered the hub because it's right next to the court building. and all of the inmates that go to court are staged at the pretrial detention center where we have a bridge that connects with the courthouse. >> listen, up listen up. >> built in 1959, the detention center is the oldest of the miami-dade facilities and also the busiest. in fact, for the officers' own safety, the jail has asked that we only reveal their last names. >> the biggest challenge in intake is we don't know what we're facing until they come through that door. we don't know if the person is very combative, if they are high on drugs, if they are going to come through and fight a bunch of people. >> we had superman come in one day, a guy dressed in a superman suit. he was upset, visibly upset because t

keep in mind though, even if we had not heard reports out of this phoenix facility or other facilities, we all know that it often takes too long for veterans to get the care that they need. that's not a new development. it has been a problem for decades and it's been compounded by more than a decade of war. that's why when i came into office i said we would systematically work to fix these problems and we have been working really hard to address them. my attitude is, for folks who have been fighting on the battlefield, they should not have to fight a bureaucracy at home to get the care that they have earned. so the presumption has always been we've got to do better and rob's review will be a comprehensive look at the veterans health administration's approach currently to access to care. i want to know what's working, i want to know what is not working and i want specific recommendations on how va can up their game and i expect that full report from rob next month. number four, i said that expect everyone involved to work with congress which has an important oversight role to play and i

additionally 62% of the facility is completed. additionally something very important to the people that i represent is that if we don't process the this fuel we have weapons-grade plutonium that is in the community i represent but it's also in south carolina but adjacent to the state of georgia. i also want to point out that it provides for a breaking of an agreement, a treaty that we have with the russian federation on nonproliferation that would require we renegotiate and as we can certainly see this is not a good time to be renegotiating with the russian federation. finally i agree with the congressman that there has been questions about cost alternatives. that is why we have a warning in the legislation that would provide for a nonpartisan federally funded research development study of alternatives to the reprocessing of the weapons-grade plutonium. finally this is bipartisan and i'm grateful in the last two weeks that virtually every member of the delegation in georgia including congressman jim clyburn of south carolina john

an audit says many automated facilities had questionable scheduling practices. so it wasn't just phoenix or a few other places. there's a systematic problem or a systemic problem all over the problem right now and that in the end shinseki realized himself he couldn't go on. >> i think the problem is that -- i mean, these are issues that veterans groups and some reporters have been covering for literally years discussing the long wait times and excessive wait times and resulting in damaged health for veterans if not worse for some. if there have been audits and inspector general investigations and government accountability office reports on this. the problem is that it finally got the attention of the national media and the public. that's what changed. there's nothing particularly new about this interim report that came out earlier this week from the inspector general or the audit with ron nabors. we're paying attention to it and public is paying attention to it and that's what changed. i hope that the policy makers and the lawmakers in the public now embracing t

keep in mind, though, even if we had not heard reports out of this phoenix facility or other facilities, we all know that it often takes too long for veterans to get the care that they need. that's not a new development. it's been a problem for decades and it's been compounded by more than a decade of war. that's why when he came into office i said we would systematically work to fix these problems, and we have been working really hard to address them. my attitude is for folks who've been fighting on the battlefield, they should not have a fight a bureaucracy at home to get the care that they've earned. so the presumption has always been we've got to do better, and rob's review will be a comprehensive look at the veterans health administration's approach currently to access to care. i want to know what's working. i want to know what is not working. and i want specific recommendations on how v.a. can up their game. and i expect that full report from rob next month. number four, i said that i expect everyone involved to work with congress, which has an important oversight role to play. an

that's pretty common weaponry that we find out here on these facilities.ble, they can bust it in half and sharpen it. >> officer love discovered a needle which was concealed with that bic roller pen, it's got a point to it. kind of crude, either manufactured, that looks like from a deodorant stick. >> that is the stick off the deodorant. >> could have residue in it, something they use on the job site to load up to get high. >> you have to keep in your mind they are actually functioning gang members. in a general population setting, so this is what they do. the nature of the beast. we'll give them a couple of days, there will be another one back here. >> obviously, this is the place to hide your stuff. >> just got to have us beat them. one time. good. >> the risk of smuggling drugs and weapons into corcoran has cost some inmates not only their jobs, but the small taste of freedom that came with them. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons into a world of chaos

and so our vision is expose the facility as much as possible. frequent events where we have open houses with all these companies coming in and really understand the capability of the place, work with harmon very aggressively and also work with the remainder of the city in the promoting of the place. the early indicators we have received are extremely encouraging. there is a lot of interest in large companies to smaller. the only limit will be that we are trying to bring cruise ships so the two elements are mutually exclusive, of course, so the more cruise ships we will bring in, probably the lesser events we will do. but we also know that in non-peak times of the year for cruise traditionally late fall near christmas and also early winter, there are great opportunities for special events. so we believe we can maximize the facility. >> i would like to encourage just because i think some of us who have i guess age-eligible children trying to find wedding venues is very difficult. usually when you ask them, well, when are you going to get married,

-- facility guantÁnamo.we been told that the presence of the facility under actions there have fueled terrorist sentiments that a been used to recruit terrorists seek to do us harm. can you tell the committee if you believe that keeping guantÁnamo open is a threat to our national security? isn't fomenting recruitment of terrorists abroad and so forth? >> thank you for bringing me back to my last job. yes, i believe that the existence of guantÁnamo as a detention facility represents an issue of national security. it has been a recruiting tool by al-qaeda but i also believe that the guard force there is remarkablremarkabl y professional. it's a very well-run facility, but it's also hugely expensive, and there's going to come a point where we may already be at that point, where it is no longer making sense from a taxpayer point of view to maintain, maintain such a hugely expensive multimillion dollar facility for what are today up with something like less than 160 detainees. and so i know the president is commi

i should state for the record i'm an architect and served as chair during the facilities period. the action before you is a content to a lease amendment we've negotiated a rate the successor agency has been a participant since approximately 2009 in those discussions and it's taken a good long time to bring this action here today. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them but i can tell you on behalf of our board this is an important part of the future for the facilities need and we very much appreciate your favorable consideration today if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> thank you rick smith. >> councilwoman and commissioners and executive director i'm rick smith a member of c h s i'm speaking not in a captain but as a person that is in the yerba buena district i'm a founding member of the julie next to c h s and have seen their caring and contributions beyond their obligations to the neighborhood and public. i support the lease amendment to bring out the public benefit 0 into through the support certificate amazing c h s like the history of

tell me what you know about the level one facility. >> it's a work facility, work camp. it's more freedom. and it's just able to walk outside and breathe the air whenever you want to do it. >> right. which is a privilege. >> right. it's a privilege that i feel i've earned. >> okay. >> in the long run. because county -- i've been in prison for a year and a half, but can the with county it's been almost 2 1/2 years. >> ever received a misconduct report in any of that time? >> no, ma'am. >> never have any problems with anybody? hmm-mm. >> are you anxious? scared a little bit? >> scared and anxious, both. a little bit of both. >> okay. well, from all outward appearances and reviewing your file and talking with you, mr. morgan, i'll make my recommendation to the committee. and i think you are a very good candidate for level one. so the committee will give you the final decision. the recommendation will be made to central office to the classification bureau, and my recommendation will be that we send you to level one. >> all right. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> i appreciate

and -- prison's facilities. opening the thompson prison will add critical high security beds that will help alleviate overcrowding and make our prisons safer for guards, for staff and inmates. in addition to increasing safety, opening the thompson correction alpha silt would also save taxpayers hard earned money. the cost of constructing a new facility comparable to thompson would exceed $400 million and take three to four years to complete. . that is more than double the funding needed to open the existing thompson

are you going to do now >> since 1996 we intended for the foreseeable future stay at our current facility we rent a lot of spaces we have off site fine art storage in oakdale and entered into extensive collection agreements with los angeles and the university of the southern california we'd rather have the materials on site at our facility we've had to rent appropriate space off site so our needs are still large. >> that's part the separate long-range planning that didn't workout haven't gotten there yet. >> yes. and this tradition will help. >> thank you, very much my question is how this came boo about together that's a in time are challenged for space in the city despite the lay out issues i understand in the space they've gotten but 10 thousand square feet is pretty good for office space and reading space for good times so my question is did we consider letting c h s not be the main nonprofit for the space son the side did we consider other options rather than, you know, paying us back for the price discount in the beginning. >> yes. tracey again, the problem is again with our restric

i know facilities have not -- not to my knowledge or understanding with facilities -- we will be briefing on facilities as we go. >> i only make the request because i read about it in the media. and so i would find it very disingenuous if united states senator has already been briefed on a facility in his state, members of this have just been asking for the same thing. i yield back the rest of my time. >> i will be calling office later about not receiving this briefing. >> his ptsd led to numerous health care problems and he was suffering from skin care palmistry when he moved to phoenix he needed cancer screenings and was told the weightless to see a doctor was six to nine months long and is there any way possible that in phoenix or any other system that someone would be told by her doctor that would be six to nine month wait? >> horseman, i would hope not, but i don't know the specifics of the case. >> we have been hearing about time and hoping and trying and hoping, and that's not solving the problem. >> is there anyone here on a separate area that would be denied service because they

health care facilities. i know that he cares about it deeply, and he has been a great public servant, and a great warrior on behalf of the united states of america, and we will work with him to solve the problem, but i want to make sure that there is accountability throughout the system after i get the full report. steve holland. >> thank you, sir. has secretary shinseki offered to resign, and if he is not to blame, who is? and were you caught by surprise by these allegations? >> ric shinseki serves the country, because he cares deeply about veterans and cares deeply about the mission. i know that ric's attitude is that if he does not think that he can do a good job on this, and if he believes he has let the veterans down, then i am sure that he is not going to be interested in continuing to serve at this stage, ric is committed to so slving the problem, and working with us to do it, and i will do everything in any power, using the resources of the white house to help that process of getting to the bottom, a

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