it is just because of the nature of how grants go. some of the new things we have been doing is meeting with each of our different departments. we are starting to do a biannual grant review to let them know what projects have been awarded and how they are doing on spending. with different staffing changes, we want to make sure there is consistency among all the departments so they know what is being spent. something else we are doing -- in fact, we just concluded this -- is representatives from all the different departments have come to help us develop a scoring methodology we can use with new projects or proposals come forth. that way, we can use a consistent method of exploring all the different ones that are available and make sure we as a grant team have guidance on how to match them up. if we turn to the second side of that page, it shows you in a graphical format where we stand. you will see we have almost $18 million over three different grant years and over a couple different grant streams that we currently have in the pipelin

we're asking for a conditional grant. we would be willing to stipulate that we will come back before the commission once there are conditions proposed by the police, which we can then discuss. the conditional grant is, we will not be open any time in the next six months we have lots of time to talk about conditions. we're under a time crunch with the planning commission. president newlin: 6 months, is this all going to be completed before you open, the construction? >> no. we have some time. are we going to open the existent place while we are getting going? this has to go through a conditional use and planning, it has to go through a lot of hoops. just to get a demolition permit on something like this, it is the lowest level. >president newlin: this is long- range, something in the future. right now you want a conditional permit for place of entertainment on the old location. nothing to do with this. >> are showing you where we're going with it. we need to get that sort of in place before the time runs out with planning.

on september 19, mta submitted to the fta the request for full funding grant agreement. this was a very important milestone to the project. the full funding agreement is basically the document by which the federal element commits funding to the project, a total funding of $942 million, of which $849 million remains. that agreement is expected in january of this coming year. we all have been hearing the uncertainties that are happening in congress about funding and issues. and even though, as we all know, nothing in life is far short except that and taxes, we're very confident that the project will receive funding from the fta. it is well to note that it is the highest rated project in the program that is waiting for full funding grant agreements. and one of the criteria, one of the most important criteria used in the project is the use of benefit criteria. how much will the public get from the project? right now, the project is at a critical junction. it is basically under final design. and at the same time, it is undergoing the early construction phase. they are overlap

these areas with their staff grant writers, grant managers and experts are competing for grants against rural communities without the same level of staffing or experience. absent the state's help in applying for and implementing these grants small communities either don't apply or become overburdened trying to manage them. for rural states expertise needed to implement the brownfield program does reside at the state level. state programs are effectively losing federal funding as more participants apply for the same source of funding. statistics show that rural states and communities are left out of the competitive grant award process when you consider of all competitive grants awarded each year, approximately 50% of those awards are made in epa regions 1 and 5 alone. predominantly in metropolitan areas. epa region 10 on average receives 4% of the competitive epa grant awards despite comprising over 25% of the land mass. rural communities need brownfield funds. they just can't compete for them under the current system. instead they turn to our state program for assistance. our program is

all right welcome back to capital count we are back with jim grant editor and founder of grant's interest rate observer now before the break we're talking about the federal reserve i want to follow the little bit because i want to get his take on quantitative easing before we get to some other topics so mr grant just following up on one thing with the money market funds you mentioned that this fund managers are reading the same papers that we are and that they're pulling money back from europe which is something that has been reported as well which may reduce risk but at the same time does that threaten then to destabilize the european banks and actually add fuel to the fire of the european zone debt crisis. so the european banks do need dollar funding and i expect they'll get some place perhaps the markets and the federal reserve system itself through cultural trends and actions with its its counterpart in europe. so our. kids tell you where the european good things are for themselves and dollars i have a feeling that the powers that be will make dollars available to them and speaking of

completely pulling out of that one area in the block grant proposal. we do not support this at all. giving something back in return, pulling out of the block grant program, with support street projects doing the same work at the same time. leslie, we have the modifications that we would suggest -- leslie -- a lastly, we have the modifications that we would suggest for anti-displacement policies. we would recommend at least a good faith effort. if the region moves towards significantly lowering that threshold, rather than looking at science, a regional competition for those who can meet the threshold should be held. with that, i will hand this back to liz. to give you a teaser, we are looking forward to coming back to you with which funds might be once i can be targeted by san francisco project. supervisor wiener: this presentation talks about pda's. you also talked p aboutda lite. -- about pda lite. i in there? >> i should have said it the pda's and the growth opportunity areas. i do not know my terminology here. >> the growth opportunity area has another acronym that abag invented.

these areas with their staff grant writers, grant managers and experts are competing for grants against rural communities without the same level of staffing or experience. absent the state's help in applying for and implementing these grants small communities either don't apply or become overburdened trying to manage them. for rural states expertise needed to implement the brownfield program does reside at the state level. state programs are effectively losing federal funding as more participants apply for the same source of funding. statistics show that rural states and communities are left out of the competitive grant award process when you consider of all competitive grants awarded each year, approximately 50% of those awards are made in epa regions 1 and 5 alone. predominantly in metropolitan areas. epa region 10 on average receives 4% of the competitive epa grant awards despite comprising over 25% of the land mass. rural communities need brownfield funds. they just can't compete for them under the current system. instead they turn to our state program for assistance. our program is

we'll talk about grant as well. when you get the early polls that arthur schlesinger sent out to historians, harding's always at the bottom. watergate's good for them because nixon comes along, and the others sort of go up. but i went back, and i looked at mr. harding's record on race, an extraordinary record on race. he was very much in fair of an anti-lynching law, he actually put it in several state of the union messages. he got it through the house. he could not get it past a senate if filibuster. he then went down to alabama, and he gave a startling address to a segregated audience where you have african-american listeners sort of chained away on one side and then you have all the, you know, dazzling southern gentlemen and ladies coming out to hear the president of the united states. and he gives a startling address about race relations, and he says the south is never going to catch up with the rest of the world as long as you carry this problem around. factories don't want them to come in here, bad press will

recommend approval of san francisco's one bay area block grant advocacy principles. this is an action item. >> good morning. i will be presenting this item, which begins on page 59 of your packet. we will present a general update on the regional transportation plan and, also, seek your action on recommending bay area advocacy principles. we have been to the committee at least twice so far in the planning cycle. once at the beginning of the presentation, which was the region being trapped in this planning process. the second time was when san francisco submitted our integrity project -- the entire the project -- and tientirity project. the result of senate bill 375, transportation and housing planning, which were linked together through the funding process. in the past there was a regional transportation plan created by the metropolitan commission. is an important plan, guiding the investments of the discretionary revenue coming into the region. there are about $68 billion expected to come into the region over the next 28 years. on the housing side, the other regional

grant koufax.y also are really a ground-breaking research organization as well as providing prevention services and leading the presense efforts in the city. they have really spearheaded this effort at looking at how treatment can effect prevention, how if you get people tested and treated more globally, you can really drive down h.i.v. infection. and so through that, they have pioneered on viral load and h.i.v. testing, in treatment of substance use and a variety of other topics. and then i head the h.i.v. research section and we have a number of talented folks who work with me. we're test age number of different kind of prevention interventions including h.i.v. vaccines, preexposure prophylaxis which is using h.i.v. medication to prevent new infections, reaching out to the african-american community to understand what is driving the epidemic particularly in that community and using peer health navigation to connect them with services, combination prevention intersenses and so forth. in the last y

this is a 2010 ford security grant program grant. there are no matching funds. -- this is a 2010 port security grant program grant. the system will have multiple language monitors and an announcement capability throughout the ferry terminal plaza. supervisor mirkarimi: very good. any comments or questions? seeing none, thank you. any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. we are almost there. supervisor campos. supervisor campos: i make a motion to move forward with positive recommendation. supervisor mirkarimi: move forward without objection. i shall look to the full board. is there any other business before this body? >> no, this is not. supervisor mirkarimi: this is probably one of the quickest meetings in the history of public safety. thank you, everybody. this meeting is now adjourned. ♪ >> hello, and welcome to the department of elections right choice voting instructional video. it is part of the department of elections right choice voting out

you want us to grant the appeal? >> a condition on the permit that the tenants get to remain in occupancy during the work. that is my understanding of the appeal, and i think we will go along with that. vice president garcia: thank you. commissioner fung: i think that is correct. director goldstein: any department or comments? ok, any comment on this item? so, commissioners, the matter is yours. vice president garcia: i guess they motion would be to grant the appeal -- thank you -- and place a restriction that, because i think there were other elements to the appeal, or was that pretty much it, that they be allowed to stay there? is that the entire scope of the appeal? director goldstein: i think there was our -- there were questions about the scope of work, but we have heard from the attorney about them not raising other concerns. vice president garcia: so we uphold or grant the appeal on the condition that the tenants do not have to vacate their units during construction. commissioner peterson: and that would be ba

one is the safe and healthy students block grant. the other is defined for improvement of teaching and learning. we give full flexibility from one pot to the other. we also get full flexibility from both pots to title i. if in colorado that determination is made that title i need for money and funding title i is more important to the success of the bottom 5%, then they could pull money from the fund for improvement of teaching and learning. they could pull money from the safe and healthy is didn't block program to increase the dollars in the title i. if in fact the improvements in teaching and learning are not that districts problem and they need mermen in the the safe help the student locker area, it's that ability to follow money over to it. basically what we are doing is not prescribing too bad the only weak at the federal money is if you do this federal program. now, i recognize that there may be some afterschool programs currently funded that are now thrown into a pot and they compete with every other names so that school distri

on that motion from the president to grant of jurisdiction request. commissioner fung: no. president gohpeterson: aye. >> this jurisdiction request would be denied. but we will move on to item number five, which is appeal 11-018, jason bley verses the zoning administrator. this is an appeal for the amended request for release of suspension addressed to the director which requests that the suspension delisted because the property it -- be lifted because the property owner has worked to clarify the proposed improvements under these permits. yet on march 23, the matter was continued to allow time for the parties to meet with zoning administrators to see if an agreement could be met and if they trade estimate of list for all permits associated with the property and -- if they could submit on the scope for all who work permits associated with the property. >> i learned moments ago that they will present you with the various versions of the agreements that have gone back and forth between when we were here last and now, and the only commentary i would like

there is a grant cycle and we submitted a proposal for mobile devices. this morning, matthew green was with the department of emergency management and we're having the grant scoring or the departments come in with their proposals and we score and evaluate these grants and they go to a disaster council group that will evaluate which ones we think have the best chance of being successful. the grant money has really been cut back. is half as much as last year. the key is, good experience for us, we want to get any available grant funding we can for our department and staff. we want to target what we want for a very specific use. these mobile devices would come back to our tracking system and save countless times in terms of documenting data and damage and safety assessments. these devices were compatible and used extensively during hurricane katrina. we gave amazing statistics in terms of how much time it saved getting the data back for that. >> in terms of personal preparedness and safety, which is very important, the human- resources ready to go, we have

students that want to go to university on pell grants or cal grant in california, scholarships in the sector, like the hispanic fund but that's changing, that's great news. recently, the governor of california signed a law that allows for any undocumented student, starting in 2013, to only pay the in state tuition in california. and not only that, they're going s a year to be able to go to school. we have seen universities with non-profitable organizations who are also raising private funds to destine them to students, the public funds in virginia, the dream project are doing the same thing, so we have to encourage that, that many states participate and do the same. >> raul, i want to talk to you about these students who are undocumented in the united states. what do you recommend to people who are undocumented here? >> i recommend that they look for information, but just like we've been told, not only states, but many organizations have grants and scholarships that don't ask the person's immigration status. finding information is the most important thing, because without information,

grant program, for now anyway. and the grant program is relatively small. i thought it fulfilled, it was in a bipartisan display in hearing last year to help foster children, to help children who are in foster care, but i've been told that this would be too problematic for my friends on the other side so i dropped it. i'm a little disappointed, very disappointed about that but i also don't -- i'm going to offer amendment number one, title i, amendment three, a scaled down version that does not include the grant program. i will be offering the other and containing only the grant program. i hope this committee can support on a bipartisan basis the scaled-down version which is vitally important for foster youth. we all know the difficulties that children in foster care face. my an amendment addresses educational instability which deprives many foster children of the opportunity to get, obtain a decent education. i think many of us remember the testimony of kayla vandyke before this committee. in fact, i think the chai