, the legal functions, and the authorization functions i think are happening pretty smoothly. >> relating to that question, director, just one note about how is this information about this change being disseminated to the businesses and the different folks in the private sector and other sectors that would be impacted by this change? >> so far, we have not done a lot of outreach. we wanted to make sure you get some dates and times established. i addressed the local business enterprise subcommittee advisory committee, the hrc, last night and gave them as many details as we know and assured them that they would have some role in the city administrator's office, as was assured to me by the city administrator. at some point, there may need to be a more broad scale analysis, probably pretty soon because it was processes -- we have appeals pending that will shift to the city administrator, so we have a lot of things we need to make sure people understand. and, of course, being right across the street, it is not like they are moving across town. supervisor campos: if i may, i would like to ask t

the next key concept is that recovery support function.o communities afterward? looking at the community planning and capacity building. this is all-encompassing for a community. of the 6 recovery support functions, they all have numbers. our recovery support functions do not have numbers. looking at that. you will see that fema only has le for one of thead -- only has lead for one of these. mattñr will be leading the breakout sessions on commuting building -- community building and capacity building. i have worked with mat for the last three years. from the emergency support function number 14, long-term disaster recovery, matt has been with that for many years. he has been making that and looking at that. as we transformed into the national framework, the things we need to look at, the assessment tools, how you go forward in doing the planning. for the economic side of it, josh barnes is here with the department of commerce. looking at those things that are important. you will not have citizens if you do not have the economics and busine

-- administrative functions will be transferred out of hrc. can you talk a little bit about that? anyone. again, the question is -- to the extent that the responsibility in terms of determining compliance, as i understand it, remains with hrc, but the administrative function is being transferred -- how is that going to work? >> under the charter, the human rights commission has charter authority over discrimination programs. the final determination about whether or not an entity is ebo compliant is considered to be a discrimination determination. the plan is that all of the same people that have been doing this work really since the ebo began, will be working under the direction of the city administrator. they will be evaluating files, making recommendations, but ultimately, the director of the human rights commission has the authority under chapter 12b of equal benefits ordinance to determine if someone is or is not compliant. the ultimate decision has to be made by the director. interestingly, it is the director and not the commission. there

come we don't have that function yet. second, dhs should do much more to reduce auto classification of intelligence. your committee worked for a year to help pass the reducing bury litehhaedoionct of2010, emit d insoe high priority. and, finally, the secretary must continue to be the face of homeland security. janet napolitano happens to be an old friend of mine, nd before she took office i suggested that she be te trd smg crusader.rgs and, frankly, this reminds me of a kind of silly thing. once there was a color-coded system for homeland security warnings. i remember the deparent saying th wwereig rle lloa e him and i commented that the homeland secretary shouldn't be an interior designer, that prompted a hilarious call from tm ridge, but the point of this is the are se melandunctns tt ou n fth bnr the respected voice to one the rest of us of the threats we face and to prepares. in conclusion, as you said, mr. chairman, no major attack on u.s. sl has occurred since 9/11. dhs desvomalcredit, buso ds mi th ran of what i wo

id is actually changing its functionality. is actually specializing. answer that specialization, your account for the development of the skill or ability in play. we know this occurs throughout life. in fact commit to the end of life, because we know we can improve our ability and we can acquire a new skill to the end of life. here we have an older woman who has acquired a skill in later life, basket weaving. we know that because she has developed a special ability at this point in life, she has remodeled her brain, and that accounts for her developing of this expertise. this is in play in our lives and throughout our lives because our lives are so richly varied from early childhood onward, we create, through billions of moments of brain change, an incredible individuation of ourselves so that through these changes, we have a special ability is shared by no one else in this room in exact form. we have special knowledge and understanding, things that have driven changes in our brain that are unlike anyone else in this room, in fact, anyone else in the w

we did not bring support functions. now you think we would have made more progress than we should have. there are a variety of issues, but the department is not where it should be. we support its real mission. this has been a problem since 2003. in 2011, lahood there has been progress. -- since 2011 there has been progress. there is a significant accomplishment. it is also unfortunate because we are not investing with the next of for work. the department decided to change its strategy for financial management, rather than implement a solution. if we know we are going to try it twice and failed. now i think we have a very wise approach to modernization of the component level. you will see that these initiatives have been curtailed. it is not clear whether they will implement the strategy or whether they can generate who useful information that can be used to make informed decisions with limited resources. with regard sioux who modernizations, they are struck willingham -- struggling with infrastructure. if the does 12 mo

it is about a $1.8 million transfer function. there's the 311 call center, which their budget is pretty stable. but there are increases due to health care costs. justice, there is an increase in that budget of $338,000 due to the purchase of a da case management system migrating to the justice hardware. there is an earthquake safety and the mentation program, which has evolved out of the community action plan and began in fiscal year 2011-12 for a program to implement education for earthquake management prepared in this next fiscal year -- for earthquake management. in its next fiscal year, we propose to hire a manager for this program. that is an increase of four hundred $40,000 -- $440,000, for wages as well as support staff. there's the community-this program, which we are trying to memorializing the budget with an increase of $100,000. they're in charge of the senses, immigrant affairs. we have added positions to deal with community organizations, civic and institutional leaders for the native american, asian, hawaiian and pa

most of the function will be transferred to the city administrator's office. if you look on slide #9, pager #9, you can see uses of funds from 2011-2012. 186,000 -- 886,000 are on service of other departments. 33.5 funded fte's for last year and 4 rudder 67,000 in general fund support. -- $467,000 in general fund support. this year, we have 1250 -- 12 ftes' and a small reduction in services from other departments. again, going through positions, authorized positions from 41 to 12 at the hrc. 70% reduction. funded positions from 33.5 through 12 positions in 12-13. up here -- you can see -- and you can read this but a graphic -- the green is the positions that are staying at hrc. current projects now that we have remaining staff. this is the african-american initiatives which is the african-american leadership council which is headed up by commissioner davis and the african-american empowerment initiative which is done within hrc staff and some other committees. some other initiatives will be going forward with that are underway now is the lgbt initiatives and f

the first one being the departments function. the key function is making sure it is being recognized by the department and by staff. it is a key function for planners and the rest of our team. this is being noted and performance appraisals -- and performance appraisals. staff training. we need to set these folks up for success. we need to give them the confidence to execute effective communication. some topics they were thinking about or mediation, cultural awareness, customer service, and also public speaking. resources. giving them tools to put on their tool belt. the guidelines claudia was talking about, we will have >>, online resources, and meeting materials. -- we will have books, online resources. access to information. strategy to make the information distributed accessible and understandable. when you look at the material on the website, it is clear, it easy to understand, easy to navigate. do we understand what it says? our newspaper notices as well, did they make sense? educational programs. planning 101. this speaks t

what is that about, how is that going to function? well, it's going to have a number of functions. obviously, one of the major functions is an enrollment function, so the ability to be able to provide information to people about how to enroll insurance, provide information to people about what are the qualified health plans, to identify, recruit, screen the qualified health plans that will be offering the benefit. and again, making sure that as the qualified health plans get up and running, that they actually do what they are supposed to do. am i going to call a phone number, am i going to go online? how am i going to access the exchanges? one of the things that often happens is the patients show up in our programs and the programs help people figure out what funding stream works or whether it's a charity case. there's a lot goes on at the front door of the program, but i think i need to alert you, we do have some issues here. i spend a lot of time reading benefit books. benefit books rarely reflect, to date, rarely reflect the parity act and this is going to be a problem. we reall

physically, functionally, and chemically improved. this is an asset we should use. but how can we use it? before describe that, i want to say -- you know, how do you turn an old brain that appears to be deteriorating into a physically and functioning younger one? the answer is, you train it. you have to train inappropriately. there are certain strategies that have to be applied, obviously. another question is, why does the brain deteriorate to start with? why is it is degrading? the simple answer is, you reach a peak and about the third decade in life, and then slowly, slowly noise ines begins to creep into the process of the brain. you can think of it as growing chatter in the brain. we know that because we can add noise in the brain in various ways, and in science we would not do this in a human, but we could do this in a rat. and over two or three or four weeksa four rat in the prime of life -- four weeks, the brain of the rat looks like the brain at the end of life. we see an interesting thing when we look at the detail. we open up the characteristics of the bra

cardoza of california which addresses a critical need relative to the trade function at usda. every member on this committee knows the agricultural sector has been and continues to be a major contributor to the nation's overall level of export and is one of only a few sectors of the economy that traditionally has had a positive net trade balance. u.s. agricultural exports make an important contribution toward supporting farm income and have stabilized -- have a stabilizing influence on the entire agricultural sector. however, past successes for the growth of agricultural exports can not be taken for granted and are no guarantee for the future. to on the the expand the exports, u.s. share will require high level of leadership, focus and commitment on the part of the usda and federal government. there are many challenges in the international agricultural trade arena affecting both exports as well as imports. to deal with these challenges will require high level of effective and qualified leadership as well as an enduring long-term commitment to the goal of expanding trade and br

so we don't have that function yet. second, dh should do much more to reduce er classification of llce pa ec e oel classification acof 20 but very little has happened to implement it and i think it should be a high pretty. finally, the secretary must continue to be the face of homeland ecurity. ggd se the average coo with threat wants just as he was the nation's most trusted antismoking crusader and frankly this reminds me of a kind of silly thi oneth thmeuy inrm the department saying but we were moving from perriello to dark yellow, and i commented that the homeland secretary shouldn't be anne desnendta pt isme thin hisre are some homeland functions that only the secretary can carry out and one of them is being the voice to warn the rest of us of the threats we face and to prepare us. in conclusion as y 9/.isu an dhs deserves a real credit but so does this commiee. as you said soon you will join the ranks of what i would call policy wonks and grandparents we hithpentis re tan mber call went break call roentgens record?

type functions alone. i mean they're not serious about doing sage. they're serious about satisfying their tea party and the ridiculous messages they're trying to send. so -- and i would also say one of the problems problems we have we have to fight to get to anything, any legislation. we have to fight to get that done. as you know, we've wasted -- i said weeks earlier. months. trying to get legislation on the floor. so appropriation bills, i wanted to get these done, i'm an appropriator but it's been with the actions of the house unrealistic. mr. mcconnell: what we just heard, madam president, it's not the senate's house, it's the house's fault that the senate won't schedule appropriation bills that have been marked up in the senate appropriation committee. my concern here is that nobody's taking responsibility for the senate itself. we're not responsible for what the house is doing. typically these differences in what we call 302-b's, that is what each subcommittee is going to spend, are worked out in conference. we can't have a conference on any of

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but we are adding to this a self-regulatory function. it's in our statute the way the congress has laid out we rely on them and then we are supposed to oversee that. so you raise an excellent question. i think that all of us have to do better and we are going to review the self-regulatory responsibilities. >> one last question you mentioned the end users and i think you've for your work on that issue. many of the end users in my state and you mentioned in your testimony that the cftc has been working with the federal reserve and the other u.s. banking regulators and international regulators and policy makers to align the requirements for the undeclared swaps. as i know you are aware, the rule proposed by a credential regulators have caused a great deal of concern among the end users as they would explicitly require the swap dealers and major swap participants to collect initial margins for the non-financial and users under certain circumstances. could you talk about your efforts to align these requirements both here and abroad and where

the intel function has never fully developed.of the reason is that president bush stood off the terrorist threat integration center which is now the national counter-terrorism center, outside of the department of homeland security. a significant portion of the jurisdiction moved out. intelligence reports are meant to be consumed by state and local law enforcement but many into this -- many entities consider dhs information as spam. the new strategic plan for fiscal years 12-16 said that intelligence is an area needing enhancement. we can discuss that if you want. >> if you want to take a few extra minutes, you should go ahead and do that. >> thank you. >> one of the enhancements necessary in my view is writing reports that are actually useful local law enforcement. that was the point of establishing the interagency threat assessment and coordinating group. in which i understand may suffer some funding problems and i want to thank you, mr. chairman for fighting to restore the funds that may be taken away. the homeland mission is s

contracting has always been a decentralized function in the city between departments. sometimes getting everyone to come to room -- a room and agree can be a logistical challenge. >> i am wondering if you can follow us on an estimate of what we think we have helped the city to save with these efforts. i am not sure what we have been able to save in terms of eliminating the land lines. as we get rid of those landlines we are exponentially increasing our salary -- cellular plan. we have our old previous fines and now we have data plans on the phones so the growth and expense in our technology and how much we are spending seems to be going up. i would love some -- like some backup information and if we are going down acellular path, what can we do to reduce expenses? i wonder how we plan to rule that out over time. we had put in the budget this past year money to invest in pursuing those contract projects. i do not have any sense of where those are and where the big ones that are left to be negotiated. can you provide that information for us? >> we will do that. we do

in his creative life, he can't function with his family, he can't function in day-to-day, or and that he drinks even though he knows it's badly hurting him in a whole variety of ways. i don't know the answer to that. only the people who are treating him know that. exactly arnks abusers as well as alcoholics need treatment, they need help. >> we can't move that definition into a little bit more precision perhaps because there had been thought that to be an alcoholic it goes beyond problem drinking. to be an alcoholic you have descriptions in your life, major disruptions. either you can't hold a job or you have serious material relationship problems or you have financial problems or you can't get through the day without alcohol or you're a morning drinker. we are also joined in this georn university medical school and he is also the medical director and founder of kolmac clinic. which is an intensive outpatient addiction treatment program and the united states and i believe it was the first. dr. kolodner, on this better of alcohol itch, do you think that the behavior of mel gibson is th

we feel the legislative function is undertaking an exponential increase. it apart and it's also in disagreement on the cuts with the planner of's position and the commission office. as you know, we staff two commissions. the planning commission is only one of two that meets every week. the commission secretary supports essentially six meetings a month. that is an unusually high workload compared to other commission secretaries. our current secretary, who has been with the city over 30 years, will soon be retiring. the committees have decided to select one person rather than two to fill that function. they each have the right to select their own as charter commission's. we are proposing a high-level support position for that secretary position. what we want to do in the second year of this budget is maintain the three positions for the commission support, but for the coming fiscal year, we are proposing an additional position to give a high level of support to provide that high-level transition, but in the following year, we would reduce it to 3 fte, in a r

or both and leaves other functions to the federal government. there are federally facilitated exchanges but even in these states take on certain functions. states must notify h h s by november 16th of this year eight business days after the election which of these options they prefer to pursue. but the exchange rules recognize even further flexibility. states exchanges can be conditionally approved in 2013 if they are likely but not certain to be operational by 2014. a state that begins with federally facilitated exchange can transition to a full state exchange over a 12 month period or vice versa. exchange establishment funding will be available to the end of 2014 for lagging states and spent to three years thereafter. 2014 is the target date for the reforms many -- the exchanges must be under way before that date. they must go before enrollment in october of 2013. they must have certified qualified health plans but for that in turn insurers must design and price fair exchange plans and file forms and rates with state regulators before q h p ce

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they do not have the patrol function. but they still have the function of being the lead investigator. >> when you say lead investigator, investigator into what? >> they are the ones that the county of san francisco looked at as one of the people who is the one that sets policy, said standards of acceptable behavior for law enforcement. when you talk about law enforcement in san francisco, you are talking about law enforcement in san diego. it is the chief executive they're talking about. >> it is your opinion that these officers have to be held to a higher standard than other public services? >> yes, sir. the executive officers must be held to an even higher standard. >> you also believe that peace -- police officers are convicted of crimes, if they have not passed their probationary periods, they ought not to be hired. if they have, they ought to be fired. >> i know of no personal situations that i have been involved with the disapprobation area officers who've gotten into criminal charges that it not been terminated fr

but you are functionally democrat or republican anyway, most of them. but they disenfranchise themselves -- >> it's the label. >> mothey don't participate in choosing the standard bearer for the party they're really a part of. >> i think it's a label thing but not so much of a judgment of the party's policies as the system and the political system itself. >> right. >> who wants to affiliate and say i'm a democrat or a republican when the whole thing is so messed up? >> well, luckily we have an expert on hand we can ask all of these awesome questions. in addition to steve who knows everything about everything. linda is at the wilson center also author of "the swing vote." linda, you point out that -- this is really interesting, voters in the middle have picked our president every election year since world war ii. but they straddle this weird line. they're obviously influential, but they exist often outside of the political process. only half of the states actually let these people primary, right? so -- where do these people live? and are they really winn

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product, competition and the role of the merchant or speculor o is inetn, buanl f a ita economic function and helps the consumers and the producers to get better prices. so that seems right to me. af au wena here but what you think it explains given what you you've described you have described is an essential function for lubricating capitalist markets? would you think explains the centurieold hostilities towards thosepe? thacs petind ilewe condemned in england and going back as far as the 13th and 14th century the market insiders were people who couldn'te rted. thadei miv and information. they weren't producing things that were economic a valuable. i use the pretty woman scenio iny clses. th e ty women, richard gere's character, the prostitute with a heart of gold convinces them that he should build things. wh do you thinkexpainshat nts- role of speculators and middlemen? >> i thi partially because the field is arcane. everybody in the audience here knows who's -- who henry ford s. hea household name. the product lives. it's tangible, it's real. i think somebody a lot more important and

we serve that function for the seventh fiscal police department. we are staffed by a diverse group of civilians who have never been san francisco police officers. there is a 35 member staff. the majority of the staff is investigators. the balance consists of attorneys and other support staff. when we conducted investigation, we do so to find out what happened. we follow the evidence by interviewing the person who brought the complaint, the involved police officers, and civilian witnesses. we have subpoena power to compel testimony and obtain evidence. we obtain additional information from the police department, in the form of police reports and other documentation. we also visit the site of the alleged occurrence. we may take photographs and videos of places or persons. we have a goal to complete our investigations within nine months, and with limited exceptions, we must complete those within one year. when we complete an investigation, we make a finding of whether the complaint of conduct violated police department rules or local, state, or federa

it might be helpful if we actually just sort of cut to the chase and recognized we don't have a functioning democratic republic in the united states because they small ruling elite have hijacked our country from us and what angers me as a lawyer not only have they stolen our country they use our legal system to legitimize that that we have moved to and then say enough already it's time for us to assert our constitutional sacred rights to self-government that's why i'm encouraging your listeners to go to the website move to amend enjoin us we need your help yeah absolutely there are a number of members of congress who have proposed a variety of amendments some of which are as as well formed as some of the ones on your website others that are just sort of partially there i'm curious your thoughts it seems to me like these are all good things because they're starting a conversation i completely agree with you tom they're all good things because they start the conversation but we can't let the conversation end with let's just overturn citizens united i mean does anybody believe we really had a

in soma, we see the form following function of the automotive buildings.a lot o fthem in that area. a number of other things with some kind of clues to what they were used for. now, we have the way to build anything how we want it to be. soma is a difficult spot. there is not a pattern here. there is no pattern and it blocks to -- varies from block to block. but to find contextual clues, and build off of those. working on corners. you pointed out south park and the enclaves as places with the urban fabric. it is a fabric welcoming as opposed to the broad streets with a lot of disadvantages. if there is any way to add a denser form in areas, to add trees and more pedestrian enhancements, i think all those things may tend to have soma fit in with the rest of the city and still be functional. there is still going to be auto traffic with the freeways and the bridge. that won't go away. perhaps, we can change the pattern or at least in the busier streets. trees would be nice, to cut the wind a bit. thsose are just thoughts about what i would look to as we make