and other grantees. we would have to have a competitive process. certainly with your direction, it is something we would be mindful of to make sure we are included in the conversation. >> what i am hearing from you and correct me if i am wrong, we are trying to get people who are formerly incarcerated to get into living wage jobs in the trades. is that what i'm hearing from you? >> absolutely. what is the mechanism that is going to actually be the vehicle to have them access these challenges. this is why they come in. i know it is a specific organization. but this connection is a pathway to a job. i think even within dutch as you know, that there are challenges to create a pathway for formerly incarcerated into these jobs. they are highly competitive. some of the processes may not be too open to formerly incarcerated folks. i worked on this with great concern with project labour agreements. so just tell me how this is actually going to be implemented because i think that that is very helpful and i think it is a very good plan. i just think that we

of the grantees. you can either stop giving grants and continue to give them the benefit, or if you keep giving grants, and then have some decrease in the amount given to the prior grantees. >> unless we got additional funds from the city. there is some lobbying. >> and i think, you know, what we are -- for this year, definitely, we don't have enough to fund both programs. we definitely need the approval of the direction of the staff in recommending. as rick said in january of 2019, we will come forward with some set of recommendations and so, it could be, you know, you might -- it could be your decision is to direct staff in the future years to -- when it comes time to discuss the budget with additional dollars. >> so the current period, with assistance grants. >> we received applications. we told the applicants it could take quite a few months to go through and we have to go through all of them before we pay the grantees. the recommendation of paying less than 500... >> there is that suggestion you

most of the grantees who lived there have moved on. so as i say, history turns and can turn again. we'll hear now from our three eyewitnesses. first, frank, and then laura and judge. i think frank is going to speak from the -- from his chair and then laura and the judge will ome to the podium. ed is moving around collecting questions. put them on the note cards. we'll have a break in between each of the remarks by the speakers and a chance to ask the question or two then. raise your hand if you have a question and we'll collect the cards. we'll begin with you. thank you. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> i should quit right now. i got the applause already. i hope you don't know if i sit. old age creeps up on you. and a sciatic will start hurting. anyway, as indicated, i was a in germany, in breslow, city that doesn't exist anymore. it's not rutlag or however you pronounce it in poland. we were a very comfortable middle-class family. two maids, that was useful for a middle-class family. one made for me, one made for for me,e -- one maid one for the house. shape wh

most of grantees who lived there have moved on. so as i say, history turns. and can turn again. we will hear now from our three eyewitnesses. first, frank cohn and then laura wester and judge say. i think frank is going to speak from his chair, and then laura and judge say will come to the podium. ed cohn is moving around collecting questions, i hope if you have them you will put them on the note cards as you go along. we will have a break in between each of the remarks by the speakers and a chance to ask a question or two then, or else at the end. so raise your hand if you have a question, and we will collect the cards. we will begin with you. >> thank you all. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. [ applause ] >> i should quit right now. i got the applause already. i hope you don't mind if i sit, but old age creeps up on you, and the sciatica will start hurting. anyway, as indicated, i was born in germany, in bresslow, a city that doesn't exist anymore. it is now rutlev or whatever you pronounce it in poland. but we were a very comfortable middle class family. we had two maids,

but of course the grantees have the discretion to hire and have -- because it is over match funding as well. this particular contract would be for continuation. >> commissioner knutzen: thank you. >> president serina: thank you. just one quick question. the city funding, did it allow us to leverage more money from the federal government and the state government for this housing to make us the largest provider in the country? >> ms. lapitan: yes. the city leveraged over $90 million in soft loans. 22 leveraged $1 of city money brought in. ten city departments were engaged in the work. and we went -- the housing authority which only had about $5 million a year to keep building up, we now have operating expenses that allow the building to maintain the maintenance of the building and putting reserve in every single building. >> president serina: thank you. it is to the department's credit at leveraging funds that way. commissioner pappas. >> commissioner pappas: the jurisdiction of the housing itself, is that under the city administrator's office? >> ms. lapitan: under rad these were federa

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serve are safe, office of lead hazard control and healthy homes provides technical guides to our grantees and stakeholders to confront hazards related to rehabilitating damaged homes, such as mold, lead-based paint, and asbestos. earlier this year, hud announced it would make lead hazard reduction grants available to help eliminate dangerous lead-based paint hazards from lower income homes. today, we are announcing the winners of those grants, who are working to put that high-risk desperate to protect high risk -- to protect high-risk american families. hud is proud to have her --sipated in the task force to have participated in the task force. the task force is unveiling its blueprint of federal action plan to reduce childhood lead exposure's associated health impacts -- exposure and associated health impacts. i will repeat them again. psychologists tell us you need to hear it three times before you remember it. --y are 1 -- reducing's producing children's exposure to lead sources, identifying lead exposure children and improving their health outcomes. three, communicating more effective

and families we serve are safe, hud's office of healthy homes provides technical guidance to local grantees and other stakeholders to confront hazards related to rehabilitating damaged homes such as mold, lead-based paint and as best us. earlier this year hud announced it would make lead hazard reduction grants available to help illuminate dangerous lead-based paint hazards from lower income homes. today, we are announcing the winners of those grants who are working to protect high risk american children and families. hud is also proud to have participated in the president's task force on environmental health risk and safety risk to children. and the task risk, the federal action plan of reducing childhood lead exposures and associated health impacts. the action plan has four goals and i will repeat them again because you need to hear it 3 times before you remember it. they are, one, reducing children's exposure to lead sources. 2, identifying lead exposed children and improving their health outcomes. 3, communicating more effectively with stakeholders. 4, supporting and conducting critical

some stay on the zbleets bronx connect is one of 10 grantees awarded $10 million each led by the chan zuckerberg initiative and rockeoulleration. these organizations are turning to community leaders to solve economic and socl issues ranging from disenfranchisement to ill literacy. >> it's important to lock at barriers to success for these individuals. and the folks in the besto positionnow and address the questions are folks embedded in the community. >> part of the premise of the challenge is that hein in a strong economic environ are left behind. >> a generation, two generations ago people had much more economic mility and opportunity in america than we do today. >> bronx connect is already seeing success. participants in the alternative to incarceration program hadon 17% reoffense rates compared to 76% i the city. >> they are completely rethinking the way we addressds the n of young people committing misdemeanors and felonies. and there -- they take it a an opportunity to give the mentorship -- give the opportunities for education, for kids to actually then move forward in their li

all rad grantees are required to pay for services staff in their building operations budget to make sure program costs are embedded in building operations. the same way that property management is. >> vice president loo: is there a percentage because some oh larger than others -- some are larger than others? >> ms. lapitan: yes. when we built the whole project, we built in services staff into the operating building costs so that services couldn't be cut out once things stabilize so that we would value services at the same level as we valued property management and maintenance. we set up -- it came out to about one to 100. people are required depending on the number of units to put that amount of money in their operating budget and have a cost of doing business every single year. the city negotiated with our department to reduce it down to one to 75. they continue to have what is in the operating budget. we put in as a city a supplemental services contract which covers 25 lower staffing ratio plus program costs. any supervision for staff and any indirect cost. the staff themselves are pai

we have an internal function within the agency as a federal grantee. we have certain requirements under federal regulations for any eeo program that we have to have, including having an eeo officer and doing some of the kind of data collection that's called for in the executive directive, but that function also sets kind of eeo policy and does things such as ensure diversity of panels. reviews the candidate pools, the final selection of candidates. to make sure we're following equal opportunity. there's underlying cultural issues that can create problems that then go into a complaint process. so a number of years ago, we established what we called outstanding workplace committee. that is representative in terms of demographically and classificati classification-wise, people who have been advising me and the agency on what we need to do to improve the culture of the agency to root out some of the issues that you maybe heard about in the previous hearing. in the last few months, i've started myself meeting with employees, sometimes in small groups, somet

there are americans impacted by this, not just federal workers but the grantees, full-time contractorsericans who depend on these paychecks are now in limbo because of this unfortunate shutdown. it could drag on for weeks. >> we've also heard from incoming white house chief of staff mick mulvaney, he's saying who is to blame for this. let's listen. >> this all comes down to mrs. pelosi's speakership. i think left to their own devices, chuck shuchumer and th senate democrats would cut a deal. but if she cuts a deal of any sort, she's at risk of losing her speakership. >> what's the truth level? >> that was a cute and lovely spin but i think if anybody watched how soon to be speaker pelosi worked to secure her votes in the caucus to become speaker, i think that you would understand that what he just said is a lot of bs, actually. it's a very cute way, quite honestly, to spin the fact that, you know, trump has tried to make the shutdown the democrats' fault kind of the way, for my fellow millenials who watch "mean girls," it's not going to happen. it's very much he claimed proudly in the

grantees will be required to maintain a clearinghouse for collecting and disseminating information on rural health care issues and research related to rural health care, as well as innovative approaches to rural health care delivery. the grantees will also be tasked with identifying both federal and state programs to address rural health and to promote technical assistance to public and nonprofit private entities regarding participation in these programs. state office of rural health provide much value to the 57 million americans that live in these areas around the country. many of us represent towns and counties that are largely dependent upon the strength of rural health care. for these reasons, i ask members to join me in supporting s. 2278 , and i yield back to the chairman. mr. walden: mr. speaker, don't believe we have any other speakers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. tonko: mr. speaker, i'm prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. tonko: thank you. i ris

a 2014 out for peace loan foundation fellow and virginia foundation for the community's grantee, she the founder of the human computer project, an endeavor that is recovering the names and accomplishments of all the women who worked as computers, mathematicians, scientists and engineers at the naca and nasa from the 1930s through the 1980s. he gives me great pleasure to welcome margot lee shetterly. [applause] ♪ >> i couldn't be more honored to present the awards to doron weber, the director of the alfred p. sloan foundation. i met doron weber when sloan made the decision to support the research and writing of my book hidden figures was the question i asked myself back then that i know each of you is asking right now tonight, who the heck is this guy who gave outbox to an unknown first-time author writing about mathematicians? black women mathematicians from the 1940s that no one has ever heard of? allow me to tell you a little bit more about mister weber. doron weber is a rhodes scholar, oxford and brown university as is all a matter -- alma maters. that someone with his educational

the bill would also require grantees to report how funds are being used, helping to ensure federal dollars support native students' education. the federal government has a responsibility to provide parity and resource to native education. currently the department is prevented from updating the count because of an effort from over 20 years ago to cut spending through the use of block grants. congress at the time determined one way to reduce funding for indian education was to freeze efforts to count the number of native students. as a result, the department of interior continues to use the 1994 number of 272,000 native students even though it is estimated based on census reports that there are now more than 750,000 native students. this policy is just another in a long list of second class treatment to american indians by our government. i want to thank my colleague, betty mccollum, for introducing this version of the legislation. my republican colleagues tom cole and don young for providing bipartisan support. my hope is that the passage of this bill is a first step, however small it may b