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we really have to campaign at a local level, at a time level to say we need to measure how many kids are missing a month or more of school, about 10%, in a week or less. two incredibly understandable metrics. once we have those thinks, the community can galvanize against. we have to get our kids to school on a regular basis. with that in mind i want to thank you. i think we turn it back over now to john bridgeland to talk about some powerful institutional plays. [ applause ] >> fantastic, bob. not only wonderful data but a homework assignment. also great to know the 13 states where the battle will be won or lost over the next decade to reach this national goal. as brian gallagher highlighted at the outset of this plenary session, the theory of change of the civic marshall plan is to highlight groups that are beating the odds and making ground breaking progress on one or more of the benchmarks. many case studies in the report that are featured this year, for example double digit gains in rural maryland. thank you, betty morgan. to significant progress in georgia, in atlanta, in housto

at the local level close to home. the mayor of a city or town represents the executive branch of local government. motion to second to approve recommendations of staff. please vote. the role of the mayor of riverside is both complicated and simple. you're involved in chairing meetings and being the official spokesperson for the city. in addition to the kind of formal things, i try to see problems, get people who can make some difference ing them together and say, "let's do something about this." [ narrator ] the city council makes the laws that govern the city. they represent the legislative branch of government similar to congress on a national level. i'm having some concern, not feeling comfortable about... what our long-range plan is at the sewer plant. what we'd like the opportunity to do is to review the report, have the different departments look at it and come back with the council in the second week of february. [ narrator ] in this city, like many others a city manager administers the services the city provide

trying to move that back in the community to a local level so that our local businesses are disaster responders that can help them in the recovery process is very essential. thank you very much for your time. [applause] >> thank you. that's great. it brought back a lot of memories. our next speaker is mayor bates. first elected mayor bringing a lifetime of service including four years as alameda county supervisor and two decades a california legislator representing berkeley. he worked to build berkeley into an international powerhouse and because of these efforts berkeley has been named the third most sustainable city in the united states in the peer review study by a major environmental organization. i would be remiss that i wouldn't mention that mayor bates was part of loma prieta. he and his wife worked hard to make the city of berkeley a national center of disaster resilience. mayor bates will discuss the importance of citizen awareness as loma prieta engaged with the city to address emergency preparedness headon. let's welcome mayor bates to the podium. [applause] >> thank you,

that the district and local levels where there are elections particularly in helmand because we've had some success there, the central government still doesn't trust the local leadership. they want to appoint their own people. i have had three regional chiefs of police in helmand province. you build a relationship with one. he's pulled out because he's not doing what he's being told to do. somebody else comes in there. what we really need to do is stop central government's med e meddling in the local politics. the only way you're going to make a difference in afghanistan is to allow the local districts and provinces to control their own fate. but there isn't that degree of faith yet in the central government. they don't feel comfortable in doing that yet. it's going to come. but that's how i think you limit the impact of the senior level influence on -- negative influencers on afghanistan, in helmand province for example. the second part of your question is a lot -- more important and certainly something that at the provincial level impact. that is how do we support the afghan national

and then they organized at the grassroots and local level of the republican party. and started rising to the point where they have become today really the most powerful bloc in the republican party. >> host: this is the book, the title is "delirium." who will open up the phone lines. we'll put the book to the numbers on the bottom of the screen. send us an e-mail at otb@c-span.org or to eat at the tv. did you get get the title? >> guest: i was thinking a crazy american politics had gone no matter what side the political side you are on is pretty clear things have gone crazy. i can't really call it a crazy and delirium seemed to be the right word he says that captured both the kind of ecstasy at some of our politics recently, the joy and ecstasy of obama being elected, but also the kind of irrational anger that we've seen in our polarized politics over the last couple decades. >> host: you are an historian political commentator. suddenly the genesis of this book. who had the idea and how did it come to be? >> guest: it first came to me during the 2008 election when t

levels, local levels. who is going to be in charge of the transportation? who is going to be in charge of the school systems? who is going to be in charge of the parks and recreation? the availability of opportunities for expansion of knowledge. be involved in those things, your town hall meetings, your city council meetings, your boards of supervisors' meetings, and then expand that to the state levels. expand that to the congressional levels. expand that to the national levels, but don't start too big. start at the lowest possible level, learn, ask the right questions, don't be content with the status quo and be willing to sacrifice. and don't enter or be involved in politics to make a living. do it to make a commitment, to make a contribution and to sacrifi sacrifice. don't go into politics to or for the vain glory or power, go into it for the purpose of serving. >> let me have you listen to what the late senator robert byrd said. in an interview we did back in 2005, this runs just about three minutes,

epa programs and activities that have either met their goals or can be achieved at the state or local level or by other federal agencies. let me spend a moment discussing major elements of our budget request. this budget recognizes the importance of our partners at the state, local and tribal level. as you know, they are at the front lines of implementing our environmental laws like the clean water act and the clean air act. in fact, the largest portion, 40% of the funding request, is directed to the state and tribal assistance grants appropriation to support their efforts. specifically, this budget proposes that $1.2 billion, nearly 15% of epa's overall request, be allocated back to the states and tribes through categorical grants. this includes funding for state and local air quality management grants, pollution control grants and the state general assistance program. the budget also proposes that a combined $2 billion, another 25% of epa's budget request, goes directly to the states for the clean water and drinking water state revolving funds. this funding will help support efficient sys

this is being investigated in the local level, the state of florida and the local level. interestingly, we heard today from the attorney general. we heard from eric holder. and he hooz referenced this case in the past. this is the first time he's referenced this case by name. take a listen. >> we have a high barrier, we have a high bar that we have to meet in order to bring charges in this case. the fbi has been on the scene doing forensic scenes to try to build that case, while at the same time, we're helping the state in its attempts to build a case as well. we want to allow the legal process to run its course. if there is to be charges that are going to be filed, if there's to be a trial, to let that play out. i have great faith in our justice system and i'm confident through the investigative process that the truth will ultimately be determined and the appropriate actions will be taken. the notion of having to bury a child is some ways the ultimate pain. so there's that reaction. we also have i think a reaction that was based on the issue of this nation over the years

to understand the source of funds at the federal, state, and local level. and began discussions with the production gap. many of the advocates, we have a housing trust fund that is a local and permanent source of funding, something the city has not had a number of years since the expiration of the bond for affordable housing. we thank city staff and advocates on a solution, and hope that it helps the discussion taking place. we will be hearing brief presentations from the budget and legislative analyst's office. the planning department and the mayor's office of housing. the supervisor and his staff helped shepherd the audit. >> to want to thank the chair and the members of the committee for giving me the opportunity to be here today. as a supervisor kim indicated, we are facing a housing crisis in san francisco that is impacting san franciscans, if you have been looking at the production patterns of come portable housing and compare that to market rate housing, you know the production is out of balance. it is out of balance in such a way the own report on t

could exercise power at the state and local level and then eventually move up and become members of congress. senators. maybe even a president. probably our most famous chairman was newt gingrich. he was chairman of gopac when he became speaker of the house. if we have had other famous chairman. mike steele, j.c. watts. i have been chairman since 2009. host: what is your background guest: and the republican: i was active -- what is your background in the republican party? guest: i have been political director in the white house. i have been involved in republican campaigns. i was deputy campaign chairman and rnc chairman for john mccain in 2008. i wanted to do something to help the cause, but not full time anymore. that is why i became chairman of gopac. it host: what is the new study out by gopac? guest: there has been a lot of discussion over the years about non-voters. most of the studies have focused on voters who are registered, but are only occasional voters. there has not been a lot of work done on what you might call her record on registered voters. and so, we conducted two

clearly, we have a long ways to go to be able to put teeth on measures we can propose here at a local level that can protect consumers, households against foreclosure, and i look forward to working with everyone on that. when it comes to work in my office, there are two things i am working on related to our hearing for item number four. that is -- i am working on reckless -- i am working on legislation. one is tenants who are -- homeowners who have been foreclosed on. protection rights to stay in their homes. i am looking on his supporting that. i can assure the people do not have to face evictions, they will be able to stay home if it is taken over by a bank. i am looking at that with the city attorney's office right now. i am also looking for ways we could apply to ensure that, when there is a change of title and transfer property during a foreclosure, that we could actually apply the real estate transfer tax to banks that are currently not paying a tax when there is a foreclosure and the transfer of title. currently, our transfer tax provides a britain exemption for banks in those instan

we're putting them back in charge of our government of the state and local level. sitting in the city of milwaukee, mayor tom barrett was able to save $25 million and not have to rely on gorging the pot taxpayers. >> he said you're following the policies that he implemented. what are you saying about that? >> the city of milwaukee got the largest cut that we have seen as a city. largest cut. probably close to $15 million until cuts we had. he wanted to paint me in a corner. he wanted to paint me in a corner and say you go out there and lay off hundreds of people or you take other action. i did not want to lay off hundreds of people. i didn't want to close libraries and lay off nurses. that's the challenge i face because of scott walker. the biggest mistake we as democrats can make is aim the gun at each other and forget it was scott walker that brought the cuts to the local level and play mayors had to respond to that and make decisions. >> great to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. >> thanks, ed. >>> the fbi confirms it's performing a parallel inve

cartels and the fact that they own the police and they own the government and at this date -- the local leveland sometimes the state level but overall i don't think they are -- but that is just my opinion. >> phil? >> i guess i would have to direct this question to sylvia. i saw the back of the beaufort police car there written in very large letters, this vehicle was purchased with confiscated drug money and i have read numerous articles about the amounts of money that the police departments confiscated from people who are suspected or actually involved and i'm curious if you thought that there might be developing just as there is an mexico is symbiotic relationship between the people who are in the drug business and the people who are in the law enforcement business, if they are becoming very much dependent on each other for their own survival? >> you are not the first person to suggest that. ian, there is a writer out there and he lives out in arizona. he doesn't like me very much. he believes that, he believes that it's a huge industry that border security as an industry and there is a lot

require americans to buy wheat, that people who are in the market, even though they're in at a very local level, are analogous to local bootleggers and congress power to regulate the interstate liquor market allows them to get at local bootleggers. what it doesn't allow them to get at is teetotalers, people outside the relevant market. that's what they're trying to do here. and that was the key point that we made, which is if you're not in the market, you can't possibly adversely affect market participants. supply and demand will be precisely the same as it was. you're in no way engaged in the kind of activity that has always been the rationale for congress to regulate local people like wicker. the government's next argument was, okay, even if you don't negatively affect commerce, you negatively affect commerce regulation. this plan, this act won't work unless we can conscript all these healthy people in to buy insurance and we really need their money because if we don't get them to buy insurance and we're requiring insurers to insure all of these sick people, premiums will go through the roof

at the national level, the local levels, the local governments behind this push. they brought in a lot of civil society organizations. so in the big name for five or ten years, it was very messy. there were different types of models in play off grade, on grade and all these coexist today in vietnam. you have the ledges powered to many grades in off systems with local generation. there are systems connected with it. many islands that have stand alone systems. so what has emerged as a very micked kind of approach, but it has worked in its dimensions. for five or ten year, did it guard more system attic and starts to produce more. >> very interesting and no problems with pricing, under pricing. there's constant pressure. >> there's always pressure for pricing. >> right. >> and it's as much of a political issue as anything else that's in it to work. >> that's our problem in the u.s., too. 12,000 megawatts or whatever it was. >> 10,000 kilowatt hours. >> there must be some underpricing as the global level. all right, let's turn to those of you who would like to raise q

blighted properties and foreclosed properties customer >> that is tied in with this package on a local level and i did bring a copy of that legislation. >> this is local enabling legislation? >> yes. this is on the 30 day calendar and probably will not come up for another month in committee. >> thank you. >> update on permit tracking system. >> we are doing really well on the permit tracking system. we have met with and gone over what the requirements are for our configuration as it was mentioned a couple of times here. we have communicated our needs and they are recognizing the configuration documents that we are working through signing off and they will start of actual program and configuration. they have met with all areas of our staff and the worked through items that have interface in terms of having information flow and people flow between planning and our departments and fire and dpw. we are doing quite well working on the system to improve our processes and you will be happy with that and more importantly, that our citizens will be happy with it. we are working on a program for cash

it is organized at a fairly local level. they are still coming out. maybe there is 100,000 people here, maybe more. everything in this country is highly orchestrated. the reaction so far to what is being described as a failure of the rocket satellite launch has been one of celebration. >> even big countries like russia and the u.s. only succeed in the launching of satellites after many failures. although he failed to launch a satellite this time, i am proud that we were able tried to launch a satellite, and weekend gained strength and succeed in launching a satellite in the future. >> people are coming out and expressing their absolute confidence and devotion to his leader, past and present. everyone is now just on their way home and are still coming through the streets. >> that was richard engel reporting. now that that is -- erupting is mou -- mount aetna is dropping again. so far officials have not had to issue warnings for people believe houses. it is not affecting air travel in the area. >> now your 11 insta-weather- plus forecast with john colli

the elimination of voting right at the local level. regardless of who you voted for. last night we reported on something even more radical than that going on in michigan politics. republicans in the state legislature there in dozens maybe hundreds of cases including when they passed that emergency manager law declaring they had the super majority to enact those laws immediately without the long by the state constitution. they appear to have done that without counting the votes that they would need. that endeding being handy because they did not have those votes. the practice looks and sounds a little like this. >> all those in favor, please rise. immediate effect is ordered. >> that was supposedly a michigan republican legislature counting to 73. no way, right? no way. we realize that our story has set off a bit of a bombshell in michigan politics. this is a bombshell. this is a radical, usurptation of power. because this has kind of blown up and is attracting more and more attention. we have posted last night's report along with some

at the same time, funding has been produced of the federal, state, and local level. gso has the ability to give more money out of their portfolios a. there has been a reduction, because their portfolios have suffered more than the cities have. the san francisco foundation, one of the most philanthropic of until the next few years has had a maximum grant of $30,000. maybe you can get a three-year grant, but you have to continue to get that money. it used to be government was the answer. that is not there anymore. no foundation will fund ongoing operational support for a longstanding agency year in and year out. it is one piece of the puzzle, but it is not a solution to funding reductions. it is a fair allocation for the city and county. >> did you have a question? >> that was my last question you covered. next up and we have emma. it looks really good from here. it looks like the chambers have been occupied. >> fifth chambers have been occupied. did we have overflow rooms full and about 50 people waiting to get inside, and it shows what a need there is for this. i hav

you hear the need for it, but we can see that the funding for it, that the federal, state, and local levels, are collapsing. i can't imagine how it turns around if we don't start building lots and lots of housing for along time. >> i have a couple specific requests. please ask the planning department to provide for the last 10 conditional uses that have come before the planning commission the housing analysis done on those projects as well as the generic description of the project. i think it will be helpful to see the real world. no. 2 is the planning department giving automatic renewals and extension for projects approved that haven't started construction. they should do in analysis of the existing need whenever there is an extension, because we of the project on three and four extensions already, particularly on the hill. the-ford needs to be done not only for the planning commission, but when it comes to the board of supervisors, you should see the dashboard. there has been a boom hall last couple of decades. hi and housing is what we have been producing. we are still not really focusin

the big news is that governmentç cut, that is cuts spending, budget cuts mostly at the state and local levell level, that is a drag on the economy. that should be no news. we know that's happened in the past. it's what's happening in europe. europe has embraced austerity economics and that has pushed the continent, europe is now moving into recession. britain is already in recession. spain is in recession. when you cut government spending as much as they're doing, when you cut it as much as going on in our state and local level, you are dragging the economy down because you're cutting total economic demand. when you have a recession or you're trying to get out of a big recessionary hold, when consumers can't make up the difference, when businesses can want make up the difference, government cuts are crazy. >> the news today on economic growth included, i think a real bright spot, the automobile industry in this country. this is a big win republicans just can't take away from the president. had we had not done what we did with the automobile industry and floated a loan which they are paying b

and it's important to remember that as each incident happens, people who are at the local level, the city level know that. sometimes just once in a while, some of the feds might forget that. but it's important to remind people of that. so if you look and you have federal government with all sorts or local and state government. very impressive team. very impressive team. can do a lot. but by no means, the team. about this much is government. can do a lot, should do a lot. but needs to bring in the private sector. as we heard not a new concept near san francisco. wasn't a new concept in boston. but let me tell you for a lot of places that is a new concept. to bring in the private sector as a key member of the team. what they can bring to the table, what they have brought to the table and what they will bring to the table. i was a little surprised when i got to fema and the first major incident that i had the opportunity to experience tpwhuzz haiti and it was an unusual response to fema. we usually don't respond out of the country. and we did. and i was in the national response coordina

the problem is enormous, there is a lot of corruption at local level. it will be very difficult for the government to fix the problem. i just released a book this week, i have a whole chapter on food safety. i discuss how chinese people are willing to spend a premium on food that they feel is safe and healthy. the change is not going to come from the government, it will come from businesses that cater to their rising income of the chinese. >> how long will it take before these changes are put in place? dr. it will be a 10-year thing. chinese wealthy and expatriate'' travel abroad to buy baby food. it is very hard for local citizens to buy be formula cans. there is a smuggling ring wear the traditional hong kong late formula and to mainland china. -- they try to ship honk kong baby formula to mainland china. >> does this improve the quality of food on the mainland? >> i have to give a lot of credit to food companies like mcdonald's and kfc, they are really craving better quality control supply chains. mcdonald's is investing in their own potato fields. i

there have been some reforms that separated powers a the local level and established the requirements for local elections. these are prompts. they have not yet been fully implemented. it's not entirely clear when they will be, but at the very least, they have put into place some incentives and some frame works for reform of the future. most importantly in pakistan, there are a lot of pakistanis who also want their government to function well and would refer there not be support to militant groups and terrorists operating within their borders. now you can't build strategy on optimism or pessimism. you need to build strategy on a realistic understanding of facts on the ground and what is actually possible. in pakistan, it probably is not useful for us to disengage. the more we disengage with pakistan, the less influence we'll have in there. and we already have very little influence on pakistan's domestic hp so the challenge is, how do we marginalize those within the pakistani government and military services, those who are anti-american and who will take more militant views, more hard l

more prisoners are being pushed down to the local level. we are doing more studies in the future.hink we can wait on this so we're looking at a phased approach. looking on strategies to purchase the block next to the hall of justice and see if we can face the development of the new jail. we may build the capacity for 400 beds in phase one. a similar or maybe smaller capacity on phase 2 depending on what the projections look like. >>supervisor chu: this is jail funded? >> that is right. the next slide, we talk about another part of the hall of justice. that is the medical examiner. this last year we added some funds to the budget to pay for one new hall. that is the photo in the bottom left of the session. we have purchased at. they have done some studies on it. it will meet the level of service we expect. what we're doing is looking for that earthquake safety bonn to pay for the majority of the capital improvements there which will be around $50 million. we should mention that the expansion is something that was in the capital plan last year and is moving forward. we have done qui

of course we need to advance a local level today, so that is part of the problem we have, this federal system which is very difficult to align the incentives and programs, but we are moving ahead. so the outcome is that we are reducing the time required to start a business from almost 60 days to only nine days on average in the country, and that is quite important for us. macroeconomic stability, as i was mentioning, our inflation is really probably the lowest inflation in several decades for one administration. you can compare this with the inflation in the region or with other countries. we are below china, we are below brazil, russia, india, very close to chile and not close, but close enough to the inflation here in the united states. so talking about public finances, i was telling that we are facing right now a deficit of 2.5 of gdp, including investment. and we are far below the ocd average, talking about fiscal deficit. so that is the lesson we learned from the past, from the past mexican crisis in the '70s, in the '80s, in the '90s. we need to preserve fiscal deficit. actually

i want schools to have the power to make these decisions at a local level. but i think the federal government can play a role in standing up to the federal teachers unions. >> greta: would you agree that the education system has hit the skids, in general? not the private schools and some of the public schools and some of the wethier areas, but a lot of our schools have hit the kids and as a result, our kids have hit the skids. >> i think it's a mixed picture in cities and states in the country, some better than others. florida, under governor jeb bush was able to put in a series of school choice measures, measures to test the quality of education for the children and that had a big impact and drove their schools to be far better than they had been prior to these policies being put in place inform my state, driven to be number 1 came as a result of school choice and testing and higher rewards for the student who is were doing particularly well on their tests, in terms of getting scholarships for school -- for college afterwards. we know what works in educatio