control, local values, and local oversight. only then can we legitimately say we're working collaborative leigh. officials and advocates to assure a safe community for all. i'm here to voice support for the san francisco civil rights ordinance and give support to supervisor jane kim for bringing this ordinance formant -- ford. this -- bringing this ordinance for. this will offer a local police agencies to work with the fbi without sacrificing local control, local police, local oversight. it's my honor to speak among some a strong community voices and support the safe san francisco civil rights ordinance to protect the civil rights and civil liberties of every individual in our community and work to provide alternatives to policies that disproportionately target people of color, emigrants, and other marginalized community members. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm from the grocer's association in san francisco. i stand with you in full support of the safe civil-rights ordinance. we urge you to add your

a local police officer in alabama made a traffic stop. based on plain sight observations, the officer asked to see the contents of a duffel bag in the backseat. inside the duffle back were four police uniforms and four police badges. when reviewed, each of them stated they were headed to a location in colorado and the occupants were allowed on their way. what haepz next shows how far we have come in taking pro active measures to protect the homeland. the officer completed a report and clicked the sar button in the alabama system. that went to the alabama fusion center which analyzed the information and contacted the colorado fusion center. the fbi has a presence in both of the centers. matters still being considered, whether this situation has to do with terrorism or some other criminal activity, a key point is that within hours federal, state and local officials can act positive prevent criminal activity were aware of the situation. this goes far beyond information sharing. this is deep collaboration that makes our country safer and the

very local. after him, we have the managing director for local news at yahoo.com, guiding the company's local coverage nationwide. last but not least is the senator who represents san francisco and san mateo counties, and he is the recipient of spj's freedom of information award in 2010. that is our panel. back to you, rose. >> before we start, i want to get a sense of who we have in the audience. how many of you currently work in the media? lots. how many of you used to work in the media? how many of you want to work in the media? ok, good. that will give us a sense of who we are talking with. great. every friday, we have a media roundtable and invite international, alternative, and mainstream journalists to talk about coverage of the week's news. we believe it is important to highlight good journalism because so much of it gets passed over. we think it is also important to start off on a positive no. with that, i want to start off on a positive note tonight. i worked with very. we were on staff

they went from local control, local oversight, local policy, state civil rights protections to wiping them under the agreement completely and in its place are a series of provisions in the 2007 mou that says only federal policy is applied. there is a clause in there that says the sfpd officers working the jttf cannot even speak to their own supervisors without the permission of the fbi, much less our civilian oversight system. the informant policies -- and there is a huge problem around that nationally. informal policies are the fbi's. those protections have been stripped. san francisco stood up for this in the past. we need to stand up for it again. well the brought this issue to the police department and the police department should speak for itself but characterized it in principle, agreed with us, issued an order and left this mou in place. when this legislation was introduced, the public affairs office issued a statement that said because we have issued our own internal order, the it mou the longer applies. that was the language used in the statement. no longer applies. to be sur

fusion centers analyze the national threat information at a local context, past critical state and local information up to federal partners and intel general community and dem nature relevant actual information state and local decision makers and all this has done while protecting privacy, civil liberties and civil rights. fusion centers are owned and operated and budgeted at the state and local level. a sustainment model that works in boston may not work in my hometown of montgomery. for example, the alabama fusion center budget was $800,000 in fy-11. 40% of that came from the state general fund and 60% from dhs preparedness grants. north carolina information analysis center budget was $683,000 in fy-11. 77% of that came from dhs preparedness grants and 27% from doj grants. flexibility from urban areas to determine how center is supported is an essential element of the national network. simply put, the decentralized network is a national asset and it's the same as a shared responsibility among all levels of government. there is no other mechanism to leveraging more than two million publ

on the issue of jobs, we do hire locally. our goal is always to hire 100% local. that is not always possible. however, we believe we can reach that goal in the mission of 100%. we would like to take some employees and train them and one of our existing stores, so that when the store is ready to open, they can come in as managers and team leads, and we can get closer to the 100% goal. everyone must work enough hours so they are entitled to full benefits. everyone that works for us, part-time or full-time, are entitled to full health care, with a 3% company match. we do quarterly bonuses, up to 10% of your salary in a bonus each quarter. we do life skills training. you can handle the skills of life and work, so you can bring your best self to work. we really value our people. we have worked with young community developers at the bayview store to build -- to fill our vacancies there so we can keep having people come in from the community to work for us. that is jobs. second is wic. i want to say this is not fresh and easy path policy to not accept eas -- easy's polic

they're not local. i do not see them as being any more local than this organization is. the 15 meetings with local organizations is impressive, adding the bike space is, donating food, and -- donating food is laudable. the subletting to a head start or the mission neighborhood center is laudable. i think we're getting a healthier food which is something that people are always asking for. i think this is very good. we frequently hear how markets will not come into economically challenged neighborhoods and when they do, i think they should be encouraged to do so. we hear people say, we do not want them here. i think we have got a letter from supervisor malia cohen and not necessarily supportive of this particular thing, but supporters of the store that has gone in in the bayview. all the same issues that are being raised would be part of any fresh and easy as well as its 32nd and california store and those have been approved and seem to be functioning well. i am in favor of this. it was also presented that the owners of the property had tried to work with the previous groc

the solution was that there would be local legislation. changing the terms of engagement between the police department and fbi. process of passing the legislation was open and transparent. you love the input from those of arts advocates and federal law enforcement. is worth noting in poor and the fbi operatives bid in the process and publicly dialogue with and endorsed the local legislation. legislation in portland that in contrast to the standard 2007 mou being utilized in the case of a sense of the police department facilitated this patient in the joint terrorist task force while ensuring various civil liberties concerns the elected by the memorandum of understanding were addressed. recently, the portland police chief issued a first annual reports on the joint terrorism task force. some key things to know include police officers in portland continue to be able to put his bid in the full range of jttf activities through legislation. a concern that pivots been raised in san francisco is the ability to purchase bid in confidential briefings

local and regional contractors. recently there's been a talk about use core when compared to other options. we had a report that requires fema in conjunction with the corps of engineers to explain the disparity in the cost factors in the core and the private option communities have for debris removal. i wanted to see what the status of the report is. >> it's in process. i'll tell you my personal observations. when we have jurisdictions that have the capability to the debris, they have their contracts and if they follow the steps required, it is generally faster and lower cost. where the corps provides a significant advantage is in those communities that don't have the capability, haven't had the contracts or the event is bigger than their capabilitys so provide management and bring in resources across the nation. so i think you'll see in many cases we would support local jurisdictions that have the capability of management debris because it's more cost effective. we get local hires and we put money back in the econo

we also incorporated local hiring requirements with 28% participation by local residents with 28% by the advantage workers and the role of the apprenticed partnership by local residents without 20% performance by disadvantaged workers. we were briefed on the item at the february 22 meeting and adopted a motion but six members voting in one member abstaining. in terms of fiscal impact, the contract will be funded with the $750 termination fee from 100 van ness allowed by the new building at 1455 market street. with that, i would like to recommend an award to rossi builders inc. for the construction contract. i am happy to answer any questions and we have a representative year from rossi builders to answer questions. supervisor wiener: any questions? any public comment? seeing no one, public comment is closed. can we take item no. 3 without objection? that will be the order. item #4. >> item #4. recommend authorizing the executive director to execute a memorandum of agreement with the office of economic and workforce development for a one-year period with two additional one- year exten

and the focus is always been from the perspective to deal with local -- state and local jurisdictions. so there's also the concern that state governments lack the personnel and the expertise to evaluate maritime risk or determine how ports could be prioritized against other homeland security priorities. so in the event, a worst case scenario that it plays out and that ports do not receive the attention that they need through these grants do not get that money, given the importance of securing the ports of what would be the backup plan to make sure that they are protected against a terrorist attack? >> i'll make myself popular with a lot of folks when i say this. i keep hearing this that we can't trust state and local governments and ports and transit to work as a team. yet in a disaster, that's exactly what's going to have to happen. but we can't trust and work as a team to come up with funding strategies. i can tell you that secretary nepal tan ycessit napolitano is going to make this a key. we look at the ports as our key transportation assets. the question is if we allocate the mon

we encourage businesses to local from -- hire from local neighborhoods. i was wondering if you could touch on that. you do work with young people and if you could talk about how the small business commission could help. >> i know that since 1300 came about, it was -- i feel like we're in this community. it is our social responsibility to do something for the use in our community. i think the commission could put some program in place that has small businesses, work with youth organizations and -- in their neighborhoods. in my case i work with the kids -- we tried to do something with a entrepreneurship with them. summer programs with the farmers' market, working in our office and other businesses can do that as well. >supervisor kim: thank you. as much as we can work with our small businesses to make connections with our local residents and used to make sure we are employing them. thank you. next, mario west. >> thank you for giving me a chance to talk about my qualifications. i was born and raised here in san francisco. parmele the past president of loud

think local d.c. organized this event to kind of support local businesses, and drive a big burst of traffic, i guess, to a local business and everybody bring cash, buy something, and it's, you know -- the reins held out, which is great. >> i like it, because i have been here a lot and they have good flowers. >> reporter: more than 170 organizations around the world are mobbing retailers today. think local was hoping for about 100, at least a couple dozen showed up. >> d.c. has such a strong, independent business community. we think -- think local first has 300-plus independent businesses we support on a daily basis. and it's important for us to bring consumers into the business so they can stay open. >> reporter: the mobbers are spending at least 20 bucks in cash, and for the owner of old city green, he appreciates the business here at his urban garden. >> i'm competing with the big businesses, like home depot or lowe's, and we need to survive. we need to really, like, reach our roots out to the neigh

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that leaves local governments to fill the gap. with many localities facing budget shortfalls, the teams become more burdened and suffered to afford readiness. for a minor investment, congress can significantly enhance the nation's prepared this to respond appropriately. with courage the subcommittee to increase funding of the 2012 appropriation. we wish to express our reservations regarding the proposal to consolidate 16 homeland security grant programs into the new national. this -- into the new national preparedness grant program. each was created to serve an important public safety. merging these priorities into a single block grant could cause priorities to go and served. as a major metropolitan area and border state with port and rail freight, houston faces significant risk of terrorist attack and other large-scale disaster. these targeted programs have contributed to a more complete level of preparedness. we're concerned the national grant would be administered solely by the states without asking for input from local emergen

there must be a criminal predicate under our local policies. this is not a situation where san francisco police department is somehow now the fbi and acting the way the fbi acts. we have our own a local policies and police officers are expected to comply with them. it is interesting that the san francisco police department is not being demonized here. people seem to be admitting, and it has been stated it repeatedly today, that the department is acting in good faith. the question is not about whether we should have to comply with local policies. we do that. i'm 100% support of of having those local standards that reflect san francisco value. including the requirement of a criminal predicate. the question for me is whether this needs to be legislated. do we need to put this in our code? i don't think it does. when you look at the general orders of the police department, they touch on some incredibly important things. we have an entire detailed order about the use of force, the use of firearms, arrest procedures, domestic violence, investigation

yet everywhere i go in maryland from our local police commissioners to local district attorneys or state's attorneys as they're called in my state, people say we need those justice department grants. they either give us better technology, they give us tools to deal with violence against women. they express gratitude for the legal index. they need you. they love having you as a pa partn partner. do we have enough money in the right places to do the job to protect our communities? >> we have, in the budget request, $2.04 billion for state and local assistance programs, $1.4 billion for office of justice programs, about $290 million for cops and about $412 million for the office on violence against women. we think that -- this is a level equal to the level we requested last year. it is lower than the numbers you had said. but i think that given the budget realities that we face, the amount that we have requested is strong on law enforcement. it's strong for science, strong for victims. would i like to have more money? yes. but the budget realities that we confront and the needs to stay within

the local sourcing, etc. i really think their track record speaks counter to that. also, how do you comply? how you hold them accountable? you need to make a decision. maybe we will come back a year from now to see how they are doing. president fong: thank you. >> good afternoon. i have lived in the mission since 1941. and i have seen a big change. it seems to be improving. i am telling you if kids want liquor that are going to get liquor. i have seen them with their friends who are sober and older to buy liquor for them. i have reported it to the police department. that is not new. they are going to get liquor if they really want it. when they see the store to buy golden gate park -- it is a beautiful store. it would be nice to have in the mission a store as nice as that. also, i go shopping. i cannot carry bags, so i use a grocery cart. i put all my groceries there. i go up to safeway. it is embarrassing to catch the bus. someone has to help me put the groceries in the bus and then take them out. i think the senior citizens and people with families needing nice gr

commissioner campos: good afternoon and welcome to the march 23, 2012 meeting of the san francisco local agency formation commission. i am the chair of the commission. linda wong is the commission clerk. madam car, if you can call roll call. commissioner avalos: present. >> commissioner olague is absent. commissioner schmeltzerchair ca? commissioner campos: we do have a quorum of the commission. >> approval of minutes from the 2012 -- commissioner campos: before we take action on this, is there any member of the public that would like to speak? public comment is closed. motion by commissioner schmeltzer, second by commissioner avalos. call item 3. >> community twice aggregation, a status update on cleanpowersf program, a status update on proceeding at the california public utilities commission and a status update on state legislation. [chime] >> good afternoon, and director of cleanpowersf. a few things to update on, we continue to move forward with finalizing the services that we need, the call center in tracking which puts customers and and out, working with noble america's on that. ha

of that, $74 million was state and/or local funding. which totals about 67%. 33% of that was from federal investment, either through the state homeland security grant program or the program. that was pretty specific. i asked earlier with the staff to keep the record. we would actually like to submit state by state, urban area by urban area the funding both the total budget of the centers as well as what categories of funding, where it's coming from with the committees. >> let me ask you another question. >> we'll keep the record open. >> let me ask you another question related to this consolidation proposal. it has to do with uasi. i think you were fairly outspoken last year about the undesirability of limiting the number of uasi eligible cities during our debate, especially on hr 1. now given our current fiscal environment, and mr. mullen has stressed this as well, this money is hard to come by these days. and knowing the orange intent of the uasi program, do you still believe that uasi shouldn't be targeted to the very highest risk ur

in the local action plan, we have to find high-risk and in- risk. the high-risk population does not tap into the juvenile justice system. in risk means the population in contact with into the justice system. that is the big difference. we have defined it in a different way. not to emphasize where the problem is more severe, but to emphasize what target, who we are targeting. these dollars are supposed to target youth in the juvenile justice system primarily of or involved with criminal justice. >> i just wanted to add the five agencies that provide days after carry entry services include cyc, cjcjc, ymca services. although these agencies and programs are focused in particular communities, they were all over the city. violence happens all over the city and affects all of us. supervisor avalos: thank you. there are no other questions from the committee, we can go on to public comment. any member of the public that would like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i want to thank the department for your presentation and for your great work

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that is the target population of our local action plan. it's important to be targeted since we're looking at this plan and informing some of the dollar's weak and up with. in terms of the framework, one of the key areas is the theory of change we have worked closely with evaluators to develop. this emphasizes that at the end of the day, what we would like to do, if i can concentrate your attention to the top box, what we would like to do is create living space for meaningful and can't -- and productive lives. this explains about the way our theory of changes constructed and promotes a way of looking at how important intervention, prevention and comprehensive approaches can reach to promote a healthier lives for young people. this model has been part of the local plant since its inception. this is a diagram that demonstrates what we're trying to promote with the services they get funded is to use prevention mechanisms to have young people, if they have to go into restrictive settings, they add up in areas where you see these two circles are

, to these local counties and the local law enforcement agencies along the border that have sucbu trafficking that is coming across the border. i would hope that you would help us restore that funding. the v.a.l.o.r. program, the violence against law enforcement and ensuring officer resilience and survivability is one that i applaud your efforts to put in place. and unfortunately, the number of federal, state and local officers who died in the line of duty in america last year increased from 153 to 173. the feedback from the training through v.a.l.o.r. is very positive, including the alert center at texas state university which was credited by the two when major nadal hasan started shooting unarmed military people. both of those officers survived even though sergeant munley was shot several times. but they both credited their swift response that day to the alert active shooter training program that they had received. so that's something that's very good that i applaud in your budget. i want to state a concern that i have about the u.s. national parks service pushing for construction which is

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the legislation i have produced is similar to what is currently done for local businesses. a business would have to be legally recognized as a benefit corporation but that of california. under our local business enterprise rules, the city provides references under a program run by the human-rights commission up to 18% bid preference. this would be modeled after that existing program. the initial proposal i put out stated there would be at 8% bid preference for a corporation and additional 2% preference for benefit corporations which could lead to a total preference of 12%. we have significantly amended the legislation since then. we had a meeting with the small business commission that did and of supporting this legislation with changes we have incorporated. we have had numerous meetings with the human-rights commission with their staff at commission as well as the subcommittee at we have incorporated many of the recommendations. we have met with stakeholders, department heads, the coalition for economic equity at lots of feedback and meetings and because of that, we have s

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it would also encourage production of locally-made goods. we hope some of these changes will improve the economic climate in our neighborhood commercial areas on the sunset. thank you. clerk: thank you. supervisor wiener? supervisor weiner: i am introducing a license agreement with the san francisco school district to install solar panels on the rooftops of public schools in san francisco that are flat enough and have good sign access. we have a lot of our schools with very large, flat roofs that would be ideal sites to generate solar power. this has been a long time coming, and we are finally there. the first school up is going to be a alvarado elementary school in in noe valley. the school community has really been wanting this to happen and are incredibly excited to be the first up. i just want to acknowledge a former san francisco resident and former high-up person in the puc, laura stangeon, who played a key role in getting this moving forward a few years ago. i know she is smiling now that this is actually going to be a reality. the re

70 grantees who were instrumental in and forming our local action plan. from that point forward, they defined 5 questions that would inform whether the work was effective or not. finally, there's a couple of of accomplishments -- we are at the point where the action plan has been implemented, so we have revised the local action plan briefly but it's been awhile since we published the plan were here in front of the public safety committee in august, so there have been some accomplishments we have seen so far. we have also got a lot of accolades from our state partners to have seen this plan. they have requested for us to come in front of the board once again to have an updated resolution and demonstrate the support of the current year. however, from the last hearing and those results that were favorable, the state acknowledged our plan and we worked with their state to highlight the work that has come out of the action plan and may have seen the way san francisco structured their strategies and activities as an ideal way the state should be performing whic

. >> they are scheduled to have elections. 48 seats are open in local assemblies. she's running for lower seat in the country's largest city. in 1990 elections, the government ignored her victory. she observed lower house discussions from the public gallery. they discussed whether to lift restrictions on foreign travelers. >> translator: it is difficult to comment since i have only listened to the discussion a short time. >> she's stepping up her election campaign. in addition to stomping in remote regions, she appears to campaign on the state run tv channel this week. >>> in thailand, they commemorated the earthquake and tsunami while reflecting on their own experience of disaster seven years ago. here is the story. >> there were silent prayers for the victims in japan. this event was held in central bangkok on march 11th. more than 140 pictures painted by thai people, including professional artists were auctioned. money raised about $7 million will go to support victims of the tragedy in japan. this picture was painted by young thais effected by the indian ocean

we get local hires and put money back in the economy. there are those events when the corps provides the service when they exceed the capability or not in place prior to the disaster.expired. mr. price? >> thank you, mr. chairman. administrator, i want to focus on the new national preparedness grant proposal. let me lay out just a few questions that i hope can you address. a feature of your budget is the extreme lining of the 16 separate preparedness grant programs and to this new single titled national preparedness grant program. this excludes the emergency management performance grants and the firefighter grants but not much else. i mean you have 16 programs that are consolidated here. you also lay down a couple criteria which will govern your grant making. one is the utilization of a competitive risk based model for making funding decisions. those criteria raise certain issues, i think. because you're consolidating programs here that have had somewhat different,ales and certainly different criteria for funding decisions. the two large

your burn grants, cops on the beat and so on, what was the amount of money requested by state and local people to apply for those grants and what could you fund? my time is up. i'd like that for the record. the second thing is the gao report raises issues related to duplication of services. i would like to have your reaction to the gao report on how we can streamline, get more efficiencies. i think you're already on that road. let me turn to senator hutchison. >> thank you, madam chairman. mr. attorney general, we will have questions for the record, but i wanted to pursue this public integrity unit's misconduct against senator stevens. the court appointed council after you moved to dismiss the case, the court appointed council to investigate the botched prosecution of senator stevens and found the prosecutors engaged in systematic concealment of evidence, but they were not guilty of criminal contempt. according to the summary that was put out in the public, the full report coming l, said that the court said despite findings of widespread and at times intentional misconduct, the special

it is locally tailored. it's not one size fits all. one community may find they have plenty of girls and boys clubs, but no big brothers big sisters, so you have to look and see what your situation is, where your problems are, what your resources are and put together a comprehensive package. in the funding mechanism is actually the first award would be a funding, a planning grant. because getting all this information and getting an evidence plan together, evidence based plan together and we put evidence based in the legislation. you wonder as opposed to what? as opposed to the slogans and sound bytes in a plan if you didn't put evidence based in there, so you have a plan of action and putting that together is a significant job and you have funding to get the plan put together and then if it's successful, you'll have an award to get the plan implemented. after it's implemented, as people are saving money, it will kick back in to keep the program running, so what you would do in your locality help put together the plan, help figure out w