and i didn't want to aggravate the attorney general needlessly. >> janet ashcroft, the attorney general's wife, is very alarmed. she calls up ashcroft's chief of staff and says, "oh my god, they're coming over." ashcroft's chief of staff calls comey, the deputy. comey is in a car on his way home. he has the driver make an actual u-turn. they slapped the flasher and the siren on, and he heads over to that hospital as fast as he can go. >> it was the evening, about 8:00, and i got a call from the justice department command center. so i rushed to the hospital, double parked, ran up the stairs. >> narrator: goldsmith and comey waited in ashcroft's room. >> he had tubes going in and out of him. he looked ashen, and i actually thought he looked near death. i thought he looked just terrible. in walked alberto gonzales, the white house counsel, and andrew card, the president's chief of staff. >> we get to the hospital and general ashcroft is laying in bed. and as soon as we got there, i said nothing other than, "sorry you're feeling bad." and judge gonzales said, "we have brought the document. he

a question for you, general dempsey, and perhaps to general odierno, and general amos. one of the biggest factors in suicide, the cause of suicide, is financial stress. and the rates of suicide, i know, have been of great concern to every member of this panel. do you anticipate that any of these cuts or changes in compensation will impose greater stress and obviously that's an emotional term. it may not be objectively a cut in a standard of living. but the idea of stress comes with reductions in compensation and the threat of additional reductions in compensation so, you know, i ask this question very cognizant of the fact that many of our best and brightest who are fortunately serving now go in to the military without the idea that compensation is going to be the key to their future, and as the father of two who have served, who are serving i'm well aware that the training and the challenge and the mission are the primary motivations or any young man or woman who goes in to the military. but in terms of retention and continued service aren't we creating additional fina

. >> general manager thank you so much my name is leamon abrams and i wanted to provide and introduce a new working group as the general manager mentioned -- the sfpuc southeast working group that's been formed and that working group is really to coordinate the large investments that sfpuc is making in the southeast and as you know we're making investments in projects and in addition to services like the contractor's assistance center and project milestones as well as to achieve the level of service goals and policies that have been approved. and to make sure we continue our responsibility to inform and involve stakeholders in a meaningful way. they will follow up to the work that the southeast task force that was formed in 2009 completed as and you probably know dr. jackson was a member of that task force and she's also a member of the southeast working group and to make sure we levelled and harnessed that group so that we leveraged the existing work and make sure that we coordinate all the outreach and activities so we want to thank the task force to continue to move us forward and

general, thank you. thank you for all you do for our nation, for our troops and their families, and we will now move to our second panel. thank you. >> okay. >> what time do we have? >> a little short of members. it's 12:05. >> welcome. our so-called outside witnesses. strange word for folks who have been inside just about every important military operation or thinking that we've done in the last two decades. retired army general john jr. chairman of the board of the military officers association of america. retired army general gordon sullivan, president and chief executive officer of the association of the united states army. retired vice admiral john, association of the united states navy. retired air force general craig mckinley, president of the air force association. gentlemen, we thank you for your past svrs. we thank you for your current service to our service members that are retired and their families. i believe that the order that we are calling on you is to first call on general tellelli. tha

the generation that beat the great depression became a decidedly civic generation. churches schools and had higher living standards and expanded social security even began with racial discrimination not to mention in the historic segregation in public schools end when they were seriously challenged to live up to the promise that so many had struggled to articulate the power of results for freedoms and george those who marched for civil rights organize public employee unions push to enact health care for the elderly in court and demanded equal rights for women to reform the immigration law pressed for greater regulation to protect the environment and even protested the vietnam war did not readily recite those freedoms but many did. moreover battle the inspired and informed of the president and people who fought for those freedoms but also called to act by men and women of that generation. chavez in civil rights activist such as baker, former yvette martin luther king, jr. that heard about the four freedoms fromíl&5 some of the ideals that we fought for express 1941 b

he was a general in the army. disabled veteran himself, having lost part of his foot in vietnam. is there, you know, some sympathy frankly for the general and situation which he find himself? >> absolutely. i think that is why some members of congress have not called for him to resign. shinseki is a four-star general. but at the same time the fact these veterans group, not all, but a couple of them, big veteran groups called for him to step aside with him being a four-star general may being that oh so much more powerful because of that fact. this is something that democrats have been kind of shaking their head how the white house has dealt with this. this could be a change with this white house and president obama in a surprise trip to afghanistan. i think democrats were heartened by that but we'll see where it goes from here. there will be investigations, congressional investigations. there will also be oversight. one of the things that has been lost here, where has congress been on this? the white house didn't k

from the attorney general? the president? >> in my experience, it would typically come from the va ig. it could come from prosecutors at the department of justice, asking us to help. if we are asked, we will do everything we can to assist. >> we don't want to get snarled up in the red tape and bureaucracy. the point is, if you are asked by the appropriate authority, you will respond. >> of course. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, senator. director, thank you for your testimony. welcome to your first oversight committee. upon your review of fbi operations after taking the helm, i would be interested in your findings regarding the partnership between the fbi and state and local law enforcement. i have focused some of the conversation efforts on the vital and valuable partnership between the fbi and federal law enforcement. both in prepared testimony and your work. these have highlighted the valuable areas. i want to know what you would think of the most critical resources and programs that advance that partnership. what yo

i wondered about the general pricing of say an aircraft or ship compared to the jen -- general inflation -- do you think the prices are at inflation or are the profits too great? how to look into this and not ruffle too many feathers? >> i think there was a period when we went to war in iraq and afghanistan where we were really building up the defense budget. but it was more of a gradual build up. what we are seeing now is the most drastic short-term cutback that we have had since world war ii. so i think we can get into a debate on should we have a certainly percentage of the gdp -- without regard to inflation, should we have that much spending on defense. what i would rather see us do is have a real qdr that looks out 20 years and says what are the threats. and then say what do we need to meet those threats instead of coming up with we have this much money and this is how we will spend it and hopefully we can defend against potential problems. i think it is a backwards way of coming to the problem. i don't know if that answers your question at all. yes? >> mr. chairman, austin wright f

what that meant with the reprogramming of those funds that the general rates didn't center to go up to that's one of the difficult tradeoffs now, it's not paying it's natural gas bill that's an improvement as well as moving closer to cost of service obviously, the budget is $15 million lower with an than what the city would be paying or the unified school district or the city college would be paying to pg&e if we didn't have the house/senate system. so even with the rate increases proposed a one penny over the next two years it's $45 million cheaper next year and $40 million cheaper in budget two. this is important as a city family to keep house/senate healthy in particular and how we moved open cca. the power revenue boundz bonds are needed the first time and the capital cuts because the rate increases were not as much ever with the programming of cca and another millions plus was cut the general manager and i shadow here last year we're still cutting a large number of critical capital we go through every project and they score antonio's across four regulatory and financial and the im

>> any public comment on the general manager's report. >> go ahead. >> we're on general public comment) i'm going if i'm pronouncing that right sorry that - >> hi i'm a native san franciscan i want to ask for the fillmore park at the fillmore and turkish we would like to do things to help improve the park and work with you. i presently have a television production training program going on in the ocean building and i get leave people we want to do things in the park we want to partnership with the park you may have things we can use we want to improve the park and look forward to work i don't know how to go about, you know, forming a partnership but we want to do that >> thank you very much. darryl >> hello, everyone i'm deterring repel hunter i first of all, want to note i was proud of what i saw with all the activities with the rec and park and what's going on with the youth i want to incorporate something in which i had going on there before i jumped in having a multi culture festival people they represent and respect and entertainment and bring it under one umbrella as we have all

the moccasin generator rewind only doing one of the units as opposed to both of them that we had planned to do those are examples where we're deferring them at some point they don't last more than 40 or 45 years and will be passed their useful life but life. so there was a trade-off there. >> so one thing i wanted to point out on on the 10-year capital plan is that we look at all our assets and then we identify when would be a timing to actually address their deficiencies. the one thing that makes me comfortable is that every year we look at at the 10-year capital plan so if we identify something that we did not see like mountain tunnel, we then bring it forward and have to shuffle the deck and so we, you know, we're trying to make smart decisions, but the comfort level is that if something were to happen we have the ability to bring it back up closer in in the 10-year capital plan. >> in many cases there's money remaining the far right hand column shows you where it's not cut to zero where there's money remaining and in some cases it's cut to zero in the case of the hatch ery because it

inspector generals are independent. but it is important that the people see that the government does care. there are lots of old who care about wasting money. they do not approach me as a partisan. it is they are trying to fix it. my job is to help them fix it. this is something we really need to focus on because i think too many people think no one in the government cares. i am sort of the spokesman for those who do. it is the generals who call me up. it will be the people who see c-span. my investigators say when you call on c-span in my uptick of complaints goes up. so it actually helps us. that is why we work with the press because success breeds success. but there are people in the government, not just the aig's trying to do a good job. we just have to listen to them. >> here you are in january of this year. >> and chairman, why should we be concerned about the situation, even though this hit american shores, we all know the narcotics crisis in afghanistan is a national security concern, because it distorts the afg

>> generation to generation, formed in the late 70s. and it was incorporated as a nonprofit in 1981. its mission was to offer psychological support to the issues surrounding being a child of holocaust survivors. >> wonderful. and morgan, your director of education at the holocaust center of northern california. you serve the entirety of the bay area and beyond. >> we do. we serve schools and communities throughout northern california. we work in partnership with the museum of tolerance and the los angeles museum of the holocaust. >> so it is kind of a big question. but as director of education, on this particular experience of history, what does that mean? what is the work that you do? >> it is a good question. it changes every day. the work that we do supports students both within the four walls of the classroom. we have an active speakers bureau of 40 holocaust survivors who volunteer their time to speak to the schools. we have school groups come to us. and survivors will share their stories. we work one-on-one with teachers to try to

general manager? >> i just wanted to highlight the fact any program especially after the 2 years of go solar or any other program like that, we pretty much maximized out so any additional capital un foreseen capital issues that will come up we would turn to the general fund rate to try to compensate or look for for new, customers and i think the mayor's office recognized that. >> we might want to talk to the department of the environment about that hetch hetchy money isn't free basically the equivalent of general fund money and how do we do what we feel we need to do? >> so in light of those comments i did send a communication to the general manager and cc's commissioner vietor and the go solar conversation is absolutely appropriate. >> okay thank you and the next item is also the presentation in your packet under item 15 in the capital plan the slide there is a repeat from what the covered in the general manager reports and those updates to balance the capital program as well as the mayor's proposed

but in fact there have been reports by the inspector general, by the general accounting office on numerousccasions. about problems have to do with scheduling and with waiting lists. >> but he insisted that as a under workerrer vietnam veteran today, he would not stand for gaming if it's true. i want to know how you are going to get your medical directors to tell you whether it's through this survey or in the future, when they have a problem, and will work with you to address it, rather than pursuing these secret lists and playing games. >> senator, if there's anything that gets me angrier than just hearing allegations is to hear you tell me that we have folks that can't be truthful because they think the system doesn't allow it. trust is an important aspect of everything we do here, and has been in my previous life as well. and in order to do that, we have to be transparent, and we have to hold people accountable. >> he also said only president barack obama could convince him to give up his host, helping all wounded veterans. >> i intend to continue this mission until i have satisfied eith

illegal. >> they go to the attorney general, john ashcroft. they say, "we don't think this is legal. we think we need to get this changed. we need to stop what's going on because we don't have a solid foundation to go on." >> narrator: ashcroft was supposed to sign a reauthorization of the entire program every 45 days, and for two and a half years, he had. but now he balked. >> ashcroft gives comey his verbal assurance that he is not going to go along with this program and that he is going to demand changes or he won't sign. >> narrator: then just hours later, attorney general ashcroft collapsed, suffering from severe pancreatitis. james comey was now the acting attorney general. >> comey notifies the white

secretary general i am truly humbled by your kindness, and the extremely generous words that you have on this occasion, which is not very pleasant for me. it's very sad that i leave this position and leave syria behind in search of a bad state. but as you said as secretary general, i have absolutely no doubt that you will continue as you have to do everything that is humanly possible to work with the security council, with the neighbors of syria, and indeed with the syrian parties themselves to end this crisis. i'm sure that the crisis will -- will end. the question is only -- and this -- everybody who has a responsibility and an influence in the situation have to remember that the question is how many more dead? how much more destruction that is going to be before syria becomes again the syria we have known. the new syria that will be different from the syria of the past, but it will be the syria we have loved and admired for many, many years. and i'm extremely grateful to you secretary general, and especially that -- i know you are traveling in a few minutes, but you have taken time

general, special kudos to you. i wanted to talk a little bit about the dod timeline of benghazi-related events. it said it was not until 6:05 that a unit was prepared to evacuate americans wounded in the attack. the timeline says it was not until 2:15 that the plane took off from germany to libya. can you explain why that took so long? >> no, sir, i cannot. >> general, are you familiar with the term the golden hour? >> yes, sir, i am. >> can you tell us what that means. >> the golden hour is the time between the time you are wounded and receive medical treatment. the golden hour, the ability for you or your buddy to survive is during that period of time. >> and the survival rate if they do not die on the battlefield, the chance of survival is about 95% if they are reached within that golden hour? >> yes, sir. >> in this case it looks like they were functioning under a golden day by this timeline? >> you could characterize it that way, sir. >> ok. were there indeed assets in the region that could have been deployed

i am here to present the proposed san francisco police department department general order, 7.04. the children of arrested parents, and we request that this commission adopt this order. and some background, into this, and in 2006, where the juvenile division, worked with the child protective services, office of citizen's complaints and san francisco children of incarcerated parents partnership, project what? and community stake holders to develop the policy intended to protect the children and in cases where they were present, with the parent that was arrested. without a policy for the officers to follow, the focus was only on the arrested party. and did not make the safety and well-being of the child a priority. and some of those instances the children were left at school or waiting for someone to pick them up or with a neighborhood or in the cases left alone with a responsible party en route, with the community partners we wanted to insure that the members had the specific protocols to follow and to assist the children in the well-being and the safety, at that time, the departme

what is the advice you generally give them?>> well, if they like the location they probably should stay. there is a cost of selling a house. so you could put that money back in your house. you can get what you want. in my market if you want to sell a house and spend a half million more you might not get a better house but you can make your own house better. if you buy another house you'll have to remodel that one. >> and folks who decide to go the remodel route what is the best way for them to save money along the way? >> well, keep it small if you don't want to spend very much. try to use existing space. the most cost effective and fastest jobs are in existing buildings, use spaces that aren't used before, and it's faster because we don't have to go through the planning department to get permits for those jobs. >> i've asked you about the customers. what about your colleagues, what has business been like? are you adding more people to your workforce? >> we just hired two people. everybody seems to be pretty business, and the a

i wanted to speak briefly to the benefits that the university is going to be general generating as a result of mission bay and this site. we are acquiring this property blocks 33 and 34 in order to consolidate existing operations at least and remote sites here in san francisco. we expect that we will be vacating in the next two years over a little less than 200,000 square feet of leased space elsewhere in san francisco that is currently not generating property tax revenue for the city. as a result of our vacating those properties, we're estimating that there will be a net present value of $12.7 million of new property tax revenue flowing to the city that would not otherwise be going to specifically to mission bay, but be going to the general fund i just wanted to speak to some of the ben efits. sgh thank >> thank you very much. anybody else want to keep talking on this project. any comments right now or should we go to many mr. rose's report. >> i think the department has clearly brought out the question that we have raised in our report. on page 9 in our table we show that the estim

and i didn't want to aggravate the attorney general needlessly. >> janet ashcroft, the attorney general's wife, is very alarmed. she calls up ashcroft's chief of staff and says, "oh my god, they're coming over." ashcroft's chief of staff calls comey, the deputy. comey is in a car

that prts >> any public comments on the general manager. francisco >> commissioners, i have two brief comments one of the commissioners today asked about the amount of consumption from the big companies that use a lot of hetch hetchy water at a very fair rate. and in my humble opinion they should be noticed they should reduce it by whatever percentage 5 or 10 right off the bat and the same for swimming pools and so forth. they have to revisit the regular act and see what it mission was and that tactic was right now we're accommodating to some very large companies that are you're going huge amazes even if drinking water for a cheap rate that's my substantive opinion and number 2 on our website we need a chosen local way to address solar and community choice vocation so one of the commissioners said in the newspapers they said this and that and we can point out to the newspapers to the editorial board go to the website and see what we've done this didn't exist and that's the mistake of our assistant general manager's or manager who thinks tha

any other public comments on the general manager's report >> my dr. >> good afternoon. >> i wasn't going to speak but when this young man spoke i'd like for you to make sure that all of the citizens of san francisco know but make sure that it is in the languages they understand such as know i've been coming here for the last 20 years talking about the latinos and the asians the filipinos, the asian pacific islanders and they don't understand english so, please put it in the languages that we understand because we all you homeowners we all get water billions it could be in the languages they know we're not going to have good drinking water we shouldn't drink the water. >> thank you. any other comments seeing none. >> this is the bosco update. >> good afternoon commissioner courtney and commissioners. pleased to be here there's 3 things i want to address as part of my report two are related to items on your agenda and one on what the ygd was talking about the bay area relinquishment partnership i'm pleased to support our action this represents a great sftv for the bay area water agencies t

kelly our general manager has said. the number of our slides addresses the specific questions on the april 30th hearing from our department. we for the public and the television viewing audience we care about the infrastructure the water, the sewer, and the electricity largely inevitable because most of the facilities are underneath the street. what it means i'll briefing walk you through the key contribute of our budget on slide 2 our operating budget our capital budget and what it means for san franciscans for the power and sewer needs as well as the select programs and so commissioner dooley's. excuse me. todd i need before you start i need to express great concerns i have about the puc budget and thank you for coming to my office the other day and talking about the policies we could have around our reserve and avoid a train wreck i communicated with the mayor of this city trying to avoid a train wreck i'm not ready to approve the puc budget we don't have conversation back from the mayor's office about providing stat

inspector generals? >> i'm happy that the president appointed aggressive inspector generals. if you have an acting i.g., the agency you got to have a permanent one. an actually i. -- acting i.g. is always looking over his shoulder . he never has the authority of the full blown inspector general. you need an i.g. to approach this as important issue. we need to get to the bottom of it. that's what i'm hoping to energize. >> here's some video . what's this? >> this is another example of just sheer waste. the decision was made based upon concerns from iraq that we were using burnt pits and we were hurting the g.i.'s. we were hurting our troops from smelling and breathing all of those horrible fumes. so congress enacted law said you're going to use sophisticated incinerators in afghanistan. we built them and we don't use them. this thing was built and it was poorly constructed. looks nice. if you look at it and look closely, it can't be used. we're finding these incinerators all over afghanistan. not used, un

but to general offices -- general officers took me aside separately and said you have to look at that. because that is indicative of the problem of military construction. it starts and never stops. and i trusted these two generals. they have been around. they know what is going on. i went back and later talk to other people who work for him when i worked for the senator, and i said what do we have here? he said you have something that has to be looked at, so we're looking at it. trying to find out. i do not know what the end result will be, but we will find out. that is one of the problem that clearly comes out from the work we have done. no one is being held accountable . -- innd accountability the accountability business. i have been doing that since i left on force and in 1977. the 1978 inspector general act was created when i got out of law school. which we are part of. you have to hold people accountable. if you don't, this keeps being repeated. going to find are out who did it and why. when was your office created? >> it was created in 2008. >> who was behind the creation of it?

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it's one hundred-year-old facility that we have the stewardship responsibility that includes the general reserve to curb on the facilities like the rim fire we're actually recovering from the third largest wide fire no california and doing the lower cherry aqueduct and thank you for looking at those recovery projects. the budget is going up because of capital regulatory electrical costs in particular the subsection agreement and pg&e has proposed to do very significant rate increases for transition distribution as well as the street lights of all san francisco. personnel covets and other costs are largely increasing the majority of our budget is in capital related. the next couple of charts summarize the important things like 90 percent plus gets paid for by service charges and property rentals as well. the use society is capital costs about half of our budget is through debt service e.r. capital that continues to be the course over the next several years. on the water department on slide 9 you'll see the changes are largely capital on the wastewater department slide 10 the changes are c

general, and this applies to all of you, but i will concentrate on the general for a moment.general, when i was on active duty i did joint exercises, had the opportunity to serve with a lot of other services, and they used terms like jaamfu and jaafu, but they stood for joint army air force foulup, not always that way. in your case, this is not about the joint command that is known as africom. this is about interagency. on 9/11, leading up to with the normalization policy, but on 9/11, with the assets available in and out of libya, you had a state department to a certain extent under mr. shapiro, under someone who had special authority for one country with africa, and the near east was run by other people. you had one country libya that was being run by different group of people. you mentioned this earlier. they determined that there are not you got to go. is that correct? >> when you say got to go, you're talking about -- but if the assistant secretary shapiro - if he had called the deputy combatant commander and said we need you to put all assets on the target, would you ha

general motors has to basically report in.most like it's on parole with the transportation department. and this is the kind of information that car companies, they don't like giving over information to the government. they would rather be able to run their operations without having to justify what they do. so it's an unprecedented level of oversight for a detroit company. and it will be very interesting to see how this relationship works out. >> and it doesn't seem that gm is finished with all of this. i mean, there's still investigations ongoing. are they still possibly liable for criminal malfeasance? >> there's a couple of milestones that will probably still happen here. first of all, general motors is conducting its own internal investigation and it hired kenneth fineberg, who adjudicated the 9/11 victims' cases. he was the person who looked into compensation in the bp oil spill and he's expected to make a recommendation as to whether gm should pay the families of the victims. possibly there will be a justice department se

secretary petÉn -- "secretary panetta, in consultation with general ham, general dempsey, and others,verbally authorized three specific actions. first, two murray and fast the tunes were ordered to prepare and deploy. second, a special operations unit known as commanders -- cif, was ordered to move to a nato air station in italy and wave instructions. these orders were issued approximately 2-4 hours after the initial attack there it is it your contention we should have done this sooner or more of it? or do you deny it happened? >> my belief is i put in my statement, it has to do with, we should have continued to move forward with whatever forces we were going to move forward with. the timeline was in the operation of the channels. what i am looking at is how we choose to respond in the future really needs to be along the lines of the military feeling empowered to take action under the authorities it has. so that it can move forward and do that -- >> i want to read to you the conclusion of the chairman of the committee, the republican chairman. he conducted formal briefings and under s

from the attorney general? the president?>> in my experience, it would typically come from the va ig. it could come from prosecutors at the department of justice, asking us to help. if we are asked, we will do everything we can to assist. >> we don't want to get snarled up in the red tape and bureaucracy. the point is, if you are asked by the appropriate authority, you will respond. >> of course. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, senator. director, thank you for your testimony. welcome to your first oversight committee. upon your review of fbi operations after taking the helm, i would be interested in your findings regarding the partnership between the fbi and state and local law enforcement. i have focused some of the conversation efforts on the vital and valuable partnership between the fbi and federal law enforcement. both in prepared testimony and your work. these have highlighted the valuable areas. i want to know what you would think of the most critical resources and programs that advance that partnership. what you

and of the criminal ail generals -- aliens they encountered, they released 68,000 criminal ail generals, that was 35% of the criminal ail general -- aliens they encountered. 68,000 released. that's with no charges, madam chair. some will say that's under the daca provisions. i wail say the president has no constitutional authority to create groups of people exempt from the law. daca, standing for deferred action for criminal aliens in this case, madam chair. it's not prosecutorial discretion. t of 780,000 aliens on the streets, they're on the docket for removal but they're on the streets. convicted of crimes, the variety of crimes from murder, kidnap, arson, sexual assault, extortion, burglary, assault and many others. we know this, that for a long period of time, about 15 years, on average, 76% of these criminals released are -- do not show up for their final removal hearing. that means 27,000 of the 36,000 will abscond. the administration will say, we had to release these criminals, these murderers and sexual assaulters and kidnappers, we had to release them because of a supreme court

general fund over the next few years. ucsf anticipates that development of blocks 33 and 34 will allow for the consolidation of its operations and relocation from other sites in the city. if taxable entities were to take over these spaces, then the return of these properties to the city tax rolls could generate new general fund revenues to the city and tax revenues to the other taxing agencies. the net present value of these revenues is an estimated 16.2 million which was vetted by ocii's consultant oha [speaker not understood] and reviewed by the budget analyst. of the 16.2 million, approximately 9.1 would go to the city and of this 9.1 approximately 6.6 would go to the general fund. while these revenues are not guaranteed, uc stated purpose for purchasing the site is consolidation of its operationses to mission bay south. it is currently paying below market rent on several lease he he he set to expire in 2018 and 2022. upon expiration they plan to move operations to mission bay. even if for some reason uc didn't give up

really had an impact on my generation because my generation, supposedly we didn't pay attention.nk god for barbara walters because she showed it could get done for my generation. >> all right. i believe, she's the first woman to get a barbara tattoo. i'll betcha she is. she said getting inked with barbara's face is a symbol of empowerment. >> and i think we should also mention she has a dragon, a lizard and a piranha. >> yes. >> joining barbara walters. >> that's for real. she has those tattoos. >> those are tattoos, by the way, not actual animals she has at home. >> correct. >>> the solange knowles/jay z family feud that exploded very publicly on monday is now over. or so they say. >>> speculation has been running rampant since the release of that now-infamous elevator video showing a dust-up. a dust-up? >> let's call it that. >> a dust-up, between solange and jay z. they issued a statement saying families have problems. and we're no different. >>> a new youtube video capturing the joy of a swing at the playground. i love this one. a dad in denmark capturing the reactions of his

in terms of the general plan, it remains the same. >> commissioner johnck? >> i want to comment and ask the question. i appreciate your presentation and seeing the nesting of all these elements. i guess, i think we've been very sensitized during the discussion of the park and the discussion of the national heritage which is part of the natural hetero -- heritage. i will be commenting on how that is reflected. >> okay. thank you. >> any public comment on this item? >> i'm desiree smith with san francisco heritage. first we are very excited that this is for the element moving forward and look forward to working with the hpc and with planning department staff through its adoption. with that said our board most specifically our issues policy committee has reviewed the draft and they do have significant reservations and concerns about the current status and direction of the draft as currently written on many of the same concerns raised by the planning department were raised by our issues policy committee. but we are encouraged that the planning department recogni

we had to increase the general fund customer's rate by half a penny each year for four years. we also did some severe cuts and deferral capital projects. we were able to cut $224 million, about 30 percent of our capital plan to a chieve a balanced budget. these are two things we were able to continue to provide $50 million of savings to the general departments and others. this is a slide that talks about what the cuts were and here, $224 million in cuts and deferrals looks like . so you can see we had to cut energy efficiency and also city renewables as well to achieve a balanced budget. we figured out how to balance it two years ago, but the structural challenge remains and so we have some additional challenges these next two years, in the next two year budget. we have new capital and operation needs that have been identified. the one i talked about is mount tunnel rehab, which is $519 million increase of what we had in our prior capital plan. we also have an additional pge transmission and distribution and street lights. we have additional costs associated to regulatory comp

this is my first two year budget and i am posing as a general manager so supervisor farrell asked for me to give a brief high level presentation today and then on may 21 we will go a deeper presentation on our two year budget proposal. today's presentation is organized in the following ing manner. first i'd like to give a p bird's eye view of our bud jed and a year ago at this committee and also give you updates on our capital programs, rate sending process, the ring fire and the draught response. finally i will close with the big picture of key updates and challenges that are in our bud get. so the p and c is guided by three core principles and priorities. one, to provide high quality services of water power and sewer, maybe tan critical enfra structure to ensure our assets are in a state of good repair. we are constantly working to balance these priorities. so how are we moving forward on these core priorities. as far as water enterprise, we are over 80 percent complete with our water system rebuild and we're on track to replace 15 miles of water mane every year. with the power ente

the changes are largely capital on the wastewater department slide 10 the changes are capital and general reserves and those will be used to curb on the impact over the years. the house/senate water and power which is the part of the discussion on april 30th shows you here that with large increases of electrical power costs and also the impact of the drought i should mention the cost of the drought meant there was another shortfall of $13 million because of lower power generation and sales that again on top of the rover of the rim fire has created a significant burden on house/senate. the house/senate balanced options were discussed on april 30th but again for the viewing audience that was a combination of very difficult choices and that included higher rules of evidence revenues from the general funds our need to issue bonds and one of the last times what the cherry damn improvements and the capital cuts deferrals and we hear the supervisors concerns on the funds program. what that meant with the reprogramming of those funds that the general rates didn't center to go up to that's one of

of general hospital and in the field. thank you for your service and your amazing dedication to your work, especially working with the lack of resources and conditions where the staffing levels aren't where they need to be. i really think that it's something that is not alwaysed or ever acknowledged by the city and the general public. so, your work doesn't go unnoticed. it is so valuable what you do saving live. i really -- you know, appreciate your presentation from the department of public health and from the general hospital. in terms of moving through our dhr problem, i want to make sure that we're tracking how that's happening. i would like this hearing to be continued to the call of the chair so we can actually, you know, call again and hear an update, status update about that. i believe the issues are critical, especially as we are trying to meet our goals from the public health department, to have high-quality care, to have access to care, to be able to practice the kind of innovation that we can, and to be ready