indeed, no madame. very wrong, madame. very wrong. you speak like that, madame? yes, you speak like that. but how's that? never been better. it would bring a comic relief into the crudity of the situation. yes, you speak like that, madame. it'll be absolutely wonderful. wonderful, and why not? when you're hear a certain sort of suggestion made to you in a lingo like that, there isn't much doubt about what your answer is going to be. it almost seems like a joke. you feel inclined to laugh when you hear that there's an old senor who wants to amuse himself with you. an old senor, madame? not so very old. not quite so young, yes. and if he does not please to you, well, he has prudenza. you old devil. you old witch you, madame! no! please! calm yourself. calm yourself. what are you... and sit down here just for a minute. please, take that woman out of my sight. it is impossible for my mother to remain here. oh, they can't be here together. that's why when we first came in, that woman wasn't with us. if they're around at the same time, the whole thing will inevitably b

murkowski: thank you, madam president. request that proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: thank you. madam president, over the past several days, we have all watched the news of the massive landslide in washington state. we've watched that with sadness, with shock, truly, truly an awful, awful episode. our thoughts, our prayers are certainly with all those that have been affected by this terrible tragedy. we continue to hope for the best as rescue and recovery efforts continue. today, madam president, i have come to the floor to speak about a different natural disaster. this is a natural disaster that affected alaska on good friday exactly 50 years ago today, in 1964. this is the great alaska earthquake, the good friday earthquake, the epic earthquake of 1964. at at the time that alaska was struck by this massive earthquake, i was a young child. i was living in the southeastern community of wrangle, alaska. i've got an order here but i'm going to go ou

reid: madam president? madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i'm hoefpl and confident the -- i'm hopeful and confident the next two votes will be by voice. we expect to have the next vote at around 1:45 today. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the bill for a third time. the clerk: calendar number 328, h.r. 4152, an act to provide for the cost of loan guarantees for ukraine. the presiding officer: under the previous order the question occurs on passage of h.r. 4152. all in favor will say aye. all opposed nay. the ayes have it. the ayes do have it. the bill as amended is passed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, small business administration, maria contreras-sweet of california to be administrator. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form. the senate will be in order. who yields time? a senator: madam president? the presiding offic

thank you, madam president. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from kentucky. mr. paul: william wilburforce wrote, "having heard all this, you may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say that you didn't know." having heard the stories of sexual assault in the military, we can look away but we can never say that we have not heard of this problem, that we are going to ignore this problem. i don't think anybody in this body wants to but the definition of an insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. we've known that sexual assault in the military's been a problem decade after decade. i think it's time that we tried something new. when i heard of a young military recruit from my state, a young woman, who was raped, attacked, beaten to a pulp, three nerves pinched in her back, her legs and hip hips bruised such that e couldn't walk. she considered suicide. when i heard that her rape kit was lost and that the case was dismissed, i'm disheartened. her assail

reed: thank you, madam president. madam president, the senate needs to do everything it can to help create jobs, improve our economy and address the basic needs of the average american. unfortunately, many efforts to make meaningful progress on these issues have been thwarted in the last few months. specifically for the last 87 days, emergency assistance for job seekers have been blocked by gridlock. and despite the best efforts of several of my colleagues, including my colleague and friend, senator dean heller of nevada, today over 2.2 million americans are being denied assistance in what remains a very difficult economy. but i'm pleased to say that a group of five republicans and five democrats have reached a principal compromise to end this impasse and help get people back on their feet. indeed, senators heller, merkley, collins, booker, portman, brown, murkowski, durbin and kirk have introduced a bill to continue emergency unemployment insurance for five months retroactive from december 28. as i have advocated, th

madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: i'd like to thank the senator from texas for his comments and for his eloquence. i believe he's touched on the right issue. i would just add one thing. i was in the ukraine about three years ago. a delegation was there. we met with state department people. we met with ti tymoshenko, the fabulous leader of the orange revolution. he had those beautifushe had ths in her hair, and she was concerned that she would be put in jail. i just can believe it. the ambassador told us she hadn't committed any crime. but she was placed in jail, served two and a half years. they released her her now. she was in a wheelchair. you could see she had suffered from that. the people of ukraine did a fab- did a fabulous, wonderful thing when they stupid for democracy. -- when they stood up for democracy. i stand with them, just like i stood with the people of georgia when the russians invaded kosovo. so i would say unequivocally, bipartisanly, th

a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from missouri. >> senator from missouri. >> i would like to yield eight minutes to the senator from road island. >> thank you, madam president. there is no doubt that when a sexual assault occurs in a military unit when a service member is a victim or perptraitor of sexual assault, we have had failed. and that is why the senators have been so critical and so important. they are galvanized this debate and forced action where action wasn't being taken and now the question is what is the path that is going to achieve what why all want: reduction of sexual abuse in the military forces. i expressed concerns of the approach that senator gillibrand is taking because i firmly believed based on the experience in the active military that leadership has to be involved in every state, recruitment, training, evaluation, promotion and retention. when we take the commanders out of any of the steps we take away their effectiveness. to remove the commander, weakens h

madam director? >> item 8b is what we're reporting on, and i'm pleased to report that just last week, in fact, last monday, i believe, both commissioner rosales as well as george bridges, who is a contract compliance specialist, a senior contract compliance specialist, they both were recognized by fellow sister government agency, the city and county of san francisco, for their efforts in furtherance of small, minority women, or so-called lbe or dbe enterprises. vice-chair and acting chair rosales was recognized for her years of work, both in the public and private sector, and certainly you've seen mr. bridges' work over the course of your tenure here. i think it really speaks to the policy objectives that you have instilled in staff and the work, the collective worth, really, of the commission, and the great work that we have. this is the task, we believe, in developing these areas. so, just really, it's an announcement. congratulations not only to our acting chair and mr. bridges, but really to the

so, madam president, i yield the floor and i'll say more later. mr. burr: madam president,. the presiding officer: the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mr. burr: i just want to take this opportunity to say to my colleagues we're now at a point that we would like to consider amendments. so if you've got improvements to this bill, it's after lunch, before you take a nap, come down to the senate floor, offer your amendment, let's talk about it and let's process as many as we possibly can. it is our intent to consider amendments for the majority of the afternoon. at some point with the cooperation and agreement of leaders on both sides to set a time that we would then vote for the amendments that have been processed, hopefully continue to take some amendments early in the evening, but our intent would be not to have votes tonight, so that the schedules are predictable, to come back in the morning with the leaders' agreement at a specified time to consider the votes that might be stacked, any additional amendments that need to be debate yoed and voted on, and i

. >> thank you, madam president. madam president, members of the security council, since the briefing by the deputy secretary general on 1 march, the situation has evolved rapidly. we understand there is a continuing buildup of russian troops in crimea and that a number of ukrainian military bases have been surrounded by russian troops. in addition, the situation in eastern ukraine remains fluid with reports of demonstrations in certain cities as well as attempts by local groups to seize control of some official buildings. on sunday, the parliament urged russia to fulfill immediately the agreement of the black sea fleet on ukraine territory and called for the fast withdrawal of russian troops to their bases. the russian position on event was articulated by the foreign minister in remarks made at today's human rights council. he stated that russia's actions were a question of defending our citizens and compatriots and assuring human rights. the secretary-general has remained closely engaged on the situation in ukraine

madam secretary, please call the roll. >> thank you, madam chair. the first order of business is roll call. commission members please respond when i call your name. commissioner el son? orctionv? >> present. >> [speaker not understood] is abseptember. commissioner singh? >> [speaker not understood]. >> kumar mondejar is absent and [speaker not understood]. the next scheduled commission meeting will be a special meeting held on tuesday, march 4, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. b, announcement of prohibition of sound producing electronic devices during the meeting. [speaker not understood]. c, announcement of time allotment for public comments. please be advised, a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item the commission adopts a shorter period on any item. it is strongly recommended any members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card provided by the commission secretary and submit a completed card to the commission secretary. the next order of business is item 3, report on ac

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madam clerk, do we have any other business in front of us? >> no, mr. chair. >> all right. we are adjourned. >> all right. good morning, everyone and welcome to the board of supervisors budget & finance committee for wednesday, march 5, 2014. my name is supervisor farrell i'll be chairing this committee i'm joined bill supervisor avalos and we'll be joined by supervisor mar as well >> madam clerk, any announcements? please silence all electronic devices. and items appearing on today's agenda will be on the next meeting. >> call item one. >> llc to have the are replacement services not to exceed $60,200,000. >> we have dph here. >> i'm the deputy financial officer this is for uncommon sat down care or recovery this contract represents medi-cal appeals and they evaluate be patients for eligible and they assist us with the services we typically can't recover that with without their just an $34 million is the estimated amount and after we pay fees to the krashlth it's a net revenue of 28 million to dph. thank you very much colleagues, any questions mr. rose your report please.

madam director. ah thank you, madam secretary. ~ commissioners, the former redevelopment agency had a very active project area in the south of market redevelopment project area. through that work, the former redevelopment agency issued approximately 30 of these tenant improvement loans to model the program as you'll hear from staff. it was known as six on sixth street. it was so successful, the former redevelopment agency made over 30 of those ~ pearl's deluxe burgers was one of the largest if not the largest of a forgivable loan of $400,000. there were specific provisions within that loan that tenant improvement loan consistent with the loan program that did allow ~ the owner to step in and continue retail operations which was critical. this is a catalytic corner and continues to be a catalytic corner. even though the commission, now stepping into the shoes of the former redevelopment agency, no longer is entering into new projects, you still have the oversight for existing loans and obligations in

welcome, madam secretary. yesterday the house of representatives past a bill dealing with the affordable care act the clarified religious exemption clause for a small segment of the population who, the annual tax return will have to basically verify that their religious conscience inhibits them from participating in traditional health care here in our country. this is modeled after a lot of the state of massachusetts put into effect. in the state of massachusetts since 2006 only 6000 residents have taken advantage of it, primarily christian scientists and others. the bill passed out of the house yesterday unanimously. it's now headed to the senate where it enjoys bipartisan support. senators ayotte, schatz, bernie sanders but i wonder if you did whether not you support this clarification in the religious exemption clause? >> i haven't read the language, but i will take a stroll look at it and they do know that it passed yesterday but i haven't read the built. built. >> will you get back to us with your opinion

madam clerk, could you please read that item? >> item 30 is motion that the board of supervisors convene in closed session on march 4, 2014, with the mayor's office and the department of human resources pursuant to san francisco administrative code, section 67.10(e), and california government code, section 54957.6 regarding negotiations with labor unions representing city employees. >> thank you. colleagues, could i have a motion to go into closed session? motion by supervisor breed, seconded by supervisor mar. is there any public comment on whether we should go into closed session? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, without objection, let's go into closed session. [gavel] >> ladies and gentlemen, if you could please step out of the room, we do have a closed session on this item regarding an update on our labor negotiations. >> ladies and gentlemen, colleagues, we are now back in open session for our board of supervisors meeting of march the fourth, 2014. colleagues, could i have a motion to not disclos

madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. mr. hoeven: thank you, madam president. last night the majority party had a all-night session talking about energy but there's no specific action plan with legislation drafted and introduced that let's just, instead of talking about it here on the senate floor, let's do it. let's start voting. let's pass it. let's put solutions in place for the american people. now this isn't one big mono lithic one size fits all federal plan, federal approach. instead it's a series of bills sponsored, as i say, by members on both sides of the aisle that would truly creates an all of the above energy approach. things like my good colleague said let's improve the keystone pipeline. the administration has been working on it for five years. maybe they're going to work on it for another five years. i don't know. well, let's just approve it here in congress. let's act. another bill, the domestic energy and jobs act, a bill i already introduced, already

thank you. >> thank you, madam president.china is deeply concerned by the serious turn of the situation in ukraine. despite the many appeals the part of the international community for action and for dialogue. the charter has stated any conflict between u.n. states should be dealt with in a peaceful way as part of the u.n. charter and with respect --peaceful way as part of the u.n. charter. and peaceful settlement of disputes. given the deteriorating situation in ukraine, chad reiterate this appeal for restraint, calm, and calls upon the international community to undertake a mediation so that the world died -- so that there will be dialogue between the parties. in this respect, chad supports all efforts of mediation by the international community, seeking to bring the parties concerns to settle their disputes in ways that fall under the charger and with respect for -- charter and with respect for different agreements. >> i thank the representative of chad. i will now like to make a statement in my national capacity. luxembou

i thank you, madam president. >> with that, madam president, let's change here is a bit and address one of the most significant pieces of legislation for women in my lifetime, the affordable care act. on sunday, madam president, the law celebrated its fourth anniversary serving as a stark reminder of where our nation's health care system was just four years ago. four years ago our health insurance companies could deny women care due to so-called pre-existing conditions like pregnancy were being domestic violence victim. four years ago women were permitted to be legally discriminated against are akin to insurance premiums and often were paying more for coverage. four years ago women did not have access to the full range of recommended preventative care like mammograms or prenatal screenings and much more. four years ago insurance companies have all leverage and all the power and too often it was women to pay the price. now thanks to the affordable care act, for the first time women and other insurance companies or their employers are now fully in charge of their own health care. in fact,

. >> madam president. >> the senator from oklahoma. >> madam president when the majority leader said the congress cannot idly stand by and not do anything i have to remind him that we have been doing this for quite some time. we have been working on this, the problem of sexually assaults and the reality is that congress has been aggressive in instituting reforms to tackle the essential assault in the military since fiscal year 09. the defense authorization act, we have an active 47 provisions either directly addressing sexual assault or instituting reforms to the uniform code of military justice will improve efforts to address allegations of misconduct. these reforms have strengthened the protections in the care of victims while preserving the rights of the queues. these historic reforms are vital to ensuring the sound and effective and fair military justice system. now i look at the bill that we are considering that will be coming up in a short while. the bill would modify the court-martial convening authority in a way that i believe creates really serious procedural problems. .. on

madam director? madam chair, excuse me. >> do we have any speaker cards? >> i have no speaker cards. , madam chair. >> do we have any comments on the minutes from my fellow commissioners? >> i thought they looked good so i move we he approve the minutes. >> is there a second? a i'll second. >> we have a motion and a second. all those in favor please say aye. >> aye. >> any oppositions or abstentions? >> [speaker not understood]. >> we are on minutes, item 5a. approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of february 18, 2014. >> [speaker not understood]. >> madam secretary, i believe we have a motion and a second with mondejar abstaining. >> please announce your vote when i call your name. commissioner ellington? >> yes. >> commissioner mondejar? >> abstain. >> commissioner singh? >> yes. >> chair johnson absent. acting chair rosales? >> aye. >> madam chair, the vote is three ayes one abstention, one absent. >> very well. i would like to ask the commission to take item 8a out of order. if everyone is fine with that, i'd like to proceed to item 8a. madam s

. >> madam chair, the vote is 4 ayes, one absent. >> thank you. >> good luck, everyone. >> yes. >> madam secretary, please call the next item. but i'd like to announce that i'm going to take a short break for about half an hour and i think the commission can elect to have an interim chair. >> i propose [speaker not understood] act like a chair in your absence. >> we have to vote on that? >> well, i support it. >> okay, i think that's fair. >> do we need to call the roll on that? >> commission members, please announce your vote when i call your name. commissioner mondejar? >> yes. >> commissioner singh? >> yes. >> vice-chair rosales? >> yes. >> and then commissioner ellington. >> yes. >> i will return shortly. thank you. >> so, the vote is 4 ayes one absent. >> perfect. madam chair, please call the next item. >> item 5c, approving, consistent with the 2006 transbay streetscape and open space concept plan, and pursuant to the transbay implementation agreement, an addendum to the schematic design package for the folsom streetscape improvements project adding an east-bound separated bike lan

sessions: madam president? madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: i thank you, madam president. i know that the senator from alabama wants to speak, and i can assure him i will not remain on the floor to hear it. because i know what the senator from alabama is going to say, that it has something to do with paying for out of defense spending. i'll match my record with the senator of alabama on defense spending any time, day or night. and the fact is that this money is taken out of programs that were already canceled and were going to be returned to the treasury, and if they had been used for defense, then it would have busted the budget agreement that the senator from alabama has so stoutly defended time after time. so i -- in a bit of preemption of the senator from alabama, your argument is wrong that this is taking money out of defense. you are dead wrong. so all i can say is i'd say to my colleagues again, the senator from wyoming came down and wants us to take up and pass a bill passed by the house of representatives which has not a singl

and the motion to approve those >> so moved. >> madam chair i'd like to ask the department submit the adjustment for tomorrow morning. >> so at the 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. >> yes. thank you very much madam clerk, call item 2. >> it's approving the execution of the building in the plot 90 between southwest airlines and the city of san francisco with the rental amount of $104 million 3 hundred thousand for the boards approval. >> thank you. we have ms. wagon we have commented you should have an office here at this point. >> i thought you were going to say i hadn't been here for a few weeks. >> the we did. >> this is for the south west airlines for 4 hundred plus square foot ever cargo warehouses space in order for the airline to conduct it's cargo operation. southwest has been operating on a permanent basis and this 5 year lease will lock in a structure they currently pay the airport 2 hundred thousand flue plus a year and this is subject to the annual adjustments based on the calculations. the airport has a guaranteed rent of 1 had the $3 million of the 5 year term and the budget analysis

quigley: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, a famous storyteller, mark twain said, never let the truth get in the way of a good story and for proponents of the keystone x.l.line, they're painting an awfully rosey picture while completely ignoring the truth of the extraordinary damage it could cause. transcanada, the canadian company that wants to build keystone x.l., claims the pipeline is safe. but this is the same company that operates the existing keystone pipeline, which spilled a dozen times in the first year of operation. the worst spill released 21,000 gallons of oil in north dakota, contaminating local soil and water. transcanada claims that significant spills will be few and far between. but engineers at the university of nebraska found that the company ignored data on spills and failed to factor in the more corrosive tar sand oil transported in keystone x.l. the engineers determined that keystone x.l. could have as many as 91 oil spills over the life of the pipeline. this concerns me because keystone x.

lowey: thank you, madam chair. i yield such time as she may consume to ms. tsongas. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized for such time as she may consume. ms. tsongas: i rise in opposition to h.r. 3189 because it could have severe unintended consequences for the third district of massachusetts which i represent. a hearing on the bill was held in a most untimely manner, during the government shutdown, thus preventing the forest service, fish and wildlife service, national park various or any other administration official from answering questions on this legislation. given the harsh statements about these very important agencies coming if the other side of the aisle, it seems only fair to have given them a chance to address these charges. according to views of the legislation submitted by the department of interior after the fact this bill, quote, could significantly impact the department's ability to manage water related resources within public lands, unquote. they also go on to say, quote, the legislation is ov

thank you, madam president. mr. whitehouse: madam president, i thank the distinguished senator from california for her speech. and for those who know of her history with this issue and her leadership on pollution issues over many years, this was an important speech. this was an important speech. and i thank the senator very much. before we turn to senator boxer, i wanted to say a few things about the comments that the senator from oklahoma made earlier in an effort, i suppose, to suggest that this climate change thing is not all that we shake it up to be. the first point that he made was about a group of emails that came out of east anglia university which the climate denier university seized on and nicknamed climategate, as if cliek watergate there was a big scandal in those emails. there were some probably not entirely appropriate things that were said in the emails, but the question is was the science underlying it affected or compromised in any way? well, so-called climategate was actually looked at over and ove

madam secretary please call the next item. >> the next matter of business is item 11, madam chair, adjournment. >> thank you very much. we are adjourned at 3:21. [gavel] [adjourned] >>> >> >> >> february 27, 2014, >> good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of the city and school district committee. i'm joined by supervisor mark alvarez and farrell and sandra feuer who will now join our community for 2014. i would like to that have sf gov. tv. san francisco television and our clerk mr. derek evans. mr. clerk are there any announcements? city clerk: yes. please silence all electronic devices. >> thank you. commissioner mendoza did let us know she is sick. may i entertain a motion to excuse commissioner mendoza mcdonnell and we'll do that without opposition. mr. clerk, please call the first item. item 1: agenda1401421.[hearing - update on the 2012 supplemental appropriation to fund a credit recovery program for san francisco unified school district]sponsor: kimhearing to receive an update on the 2012 supplemental appropriation to fund a credit recovery program for san francisco unified school d

farnteholet: thank you, madam speaker. -- mr. farenthold: thank you, madam speaker.i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. think jilt -- the gentleman is recognized. mr. farenthold: thank you, madam speaker. h.r. 1813 was introduced by the gentleman from ohio, mr. ryan, and would redesignate the facility of united states postal service located at 162 northeast avenue in tallmadge, ohio, as the lance corporal daniel nathan deyarmin jr. post office building. marine lance corporal daniel nathan deyamin jr. who went by nay chan -- nathan was born in akron ohio. his family moved to tallmadge when he was two years old and he grew up there. he was a 2002 graduate of tallmadge high school. he served with the 25th marine reg meant 14rksth division. in march of 2005 he was deployed to iraq. sadly, just phi months later, he was killed on auling 1 -- august 1 by enemy small arms fire while conducting dismounte

madam secretary >> for the contract cost for dw 2666. commissioners >> i have a question. >> commissioner moran. >> it struck me as iconic we'll have to be drilling wells to water vegetation that i assumed would be native to california and part of that native to california is we have drought. i'm hoping just because we need for them to take root but the type of mrnz in the years to come they'll be able to withstand those drought >> yes. those are narrative plants and it's just for to get them started everything suffers in the drought but they should be able to come back from the drought that's the expectation. we'll see about the climate involved >> thank you for that. >> commissioners any other questions or comments. >> i'd like to make a motion. >> okay been moved forward. >> >> any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i'll californl for a vote madam secretary >> item 11 any public comment? for closed session >> any public comment on closed session. seeing none, public comment is closed >> item 12 we need

collins: thank you, madam president. i ask unanimous consent that proceedings under the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. collins: thank you, madam president. madam president, i rise today to introduce the clean cook stoves support act. this legislation addresses a serious global public health and environmental issue, and i'm very pleased to be joined in this effort by my friend and colleague, senator durbin. madam president, nearly half of the world's population cooks over open fires or with inefficient polluting and unsafe cook stoves, using wood, agricultural waste, dung, coal or other solid fuels. smoke from these traditional cook stoves and open fires is associated with chronic and acute diseases and affects women and children disproportionately. alarmingly, the global burden of disease study of 2010 doubled the mortality estimates for exposure to smokes from cook stoves referred to as household air pollution from two million to four million deaths annually in the developing wor

welcome, madam secretary. yesterday the house of representatives passed a bill dealing with the affordable care act that clarified the religious exemption clause for a small segment of the population who on their annual tax return will have to basically verify that their religious conscience inhibits them from participating in traditional health care here in our country. this is modeled after a law from the state of massachusetts that they put into effect in 2006. only 6000 residents had taken advantage of it. primarily christian scientists and others. the bill passed out of the house unanimously yesterday. it is now headed to the senate, where it enjoys bipartisan support. i am just wondering if you could speak to whether or not you support this clarification in the religious exemption clause. have not read, i the language but i will take a strong look at it. i know that it passed yesterday, but i will read it. >> will you get back to us with your opinion? thank you. the second thing has to do with the admini

madam clerk, any announcements? >> phones, devices please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. >> thank you call item 1. >> a resolution to modernize and replace 23 or 3 slartsz with 80 and 90 with a extract needing 2 hundred thousand. >> okay. thank you. >> good morning chairman and councilmembers i'm carla i'm the director at the mayor's office on disability thank you for the opportunity for talking about this resolution for the emergency contract for the building 80 and 90 elevator project it is near and dear to my heart and we're the clients with you we're the advocate for the patients and the staff at the san francisco general hospital. an emergency declaration neat to be made in december of this year we ran into the problem with the contractor who was to do the contract it has been in the works for three or four years and to suffer other details may cause us problem.

madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. delaware. mr. coons: madam president, i come to the floor once again to talk about good jobs, about manufacturing jobs and about what we can do together in this chamber to strengthen the vital manufacturing sector of the american economy. last year democratic senator sherrod brown and republican senator roy blunt came together in a bipartisan effort to cosponsor an important bill, s. 1468, the revitalize american manufacturing and innovation act of 2013, an effort to build a national network for manufacturing and innovation, also known as manufacturing innovation hubs. this bill, if enacted, would allow us to build institutes across our country dedicated to discovering the next breakthroughs in technology and translating them to the next breakthroughs in manufacturing. i've been proud to support and fight for this bill. and now because of my colleague's leadership and determination we are close to getting a vote. we've heard about

madam clerk, do we have any further business? >> no. >>supervisor mark farrell: we are adjourned. >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> welcome to the san francisco land use & economic development committee i'm scott wiener the chairman of the committee to my left is supervisor cowen and supervisor jane kim will be joining us momentary our clerk is andrea i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting the hearing. we do have overflow seating in room 250 dillon across the hall to folks who have to go into the offer flow please submit public comment cards so i can bring you into this room to make public comment at the appropriate time there's the yellow cards and indicate the item for which you wish to testify. so madam clerk, call item number one and two together >> i'll read announcements first. >> please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room responsible for the ringing o

[gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read the in memoriams? >> yes, today's meeting will be adjourned on behalf of the following beloved individuals. for [speaker not understood], mr. william farrell and [speaker not understood]. on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late girardo [speaker not understood] castro rena. >> i want to take a moment and thank our sfgov-tv crew of jesse larsen and nona melkonian for their work in televising today's broadcast. and with that, madam clerk do we have any more business before the bore? board? >> mr. president, mrs. a in me morian off behalf of supervisor cohen for me young. >> with that, without any further business, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> good afternoon. today is march 3rd, 2014. welcome to the local agency formation commission otherwise known as lafco. and joining meeting with the san francisco public utilities commission. my name is john avalos, the chair of lafco, and we are joined by our public utilities commission members and the vice-chair is also here. she will be sharing the podium with me

madam clerk, do we have any announcements? city clerk: please silence all cell phones and electronic devices and please include in the copies into the file to the clerk. >>supervisor london breed: thank you madam clerk please call the first item. city clerk: agenda[hearing - implementation of audit recommendations status]1310431.sponsor: cohenhearing on the update by the city services auditor on the status of implementation sf 11234 >> good morning supervisors. my name is tonya, i'm the director of city audit of the controllers office and with me is cat skog an. we are going to talk about our follow up process for audit and memorandum issue. the benefit from audit work is not only in the findings or recommendations made but in the implementation of those recommendations. by conducting audit follow up ensures our department to enhance change and city agencies and city management and assess the value of our work. our office does two kinds of follow up work. regular and field follow up. our regular follow up procedures are done f

thank you, madam president. a senator: madam president madam president.the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. murphy: thank you, madam president. yesterday healt healthcare.gov w about 1.2 million visits to the site. the call centers, which are busy enrolling people at a pace that is exceeding now 50,000 to 100,000 people a day, saw 390,000 phone calls. a new poll just came out suggesting that a full 60% of americans want the affordable care act to stay in place, and if they want changes, they only want minor changes. only 11% of people in this poll said they want to repeal and replace the law, and only 18% said they wanted to repeal it completely. it's not rocket science to figure out why you have hundreds of thousands of people lining up, as we approach the deadline for enrollment of, seeking to gt care. it's not rocket science when you see over 100,000 people yesterday going to get health care. as we stand on the brink of the enrollment deadline, there are still millions of americans who remain on the outside of the best health care s

thank you madam clerk. city clerk: i would like to motion be sent to us by tomorrow 9:00 a.m.. >> madam clerk go to item 2. city clerk: item 2: 140190: [appropriation - library preservation fund - public library teen center project - $3,243,752 - fy2013-2014]1401902.sponsors: chiu; kimordinance appropriating $3,243,752 of library preservation fund balance to the public library for the teen center city clerk: sf 21234 >> thank you. i appreciate you very much for being here. >> thank you very much. city librarian. we are going to provide background on issues requesting today on making the teen center on the lab. we have a powerpoint presentation we are going to walk through. we have new skills that is going to involve new media. one of the reasons we have received the award is the department of california science, the bay area video coalition to in fact create this planning process that truly engages our young people. i will provide more details on that. it's also linked to other improvements to the entire pr

special order, madam clerk. if you could call items 19 through 22 ~. >> item 19 through 22 comprise the special order -- >> supervisor campos? >> thank you, mr. president. i was wondering if we could go back to item 18. my apologies. >> okay. before we do the appeal. >> mr. president, that item has already been approved by the board. it is a resolution that was adopted. >> are you looking to rescind that vote? >> yes. >> okay, supervisor campos has made a motion to rescind item 18, seconded by supervisor farrell. without objection, that item is rescinded. [gavel] >> supervisor campos. >> thank you. and my apologies, colleagues. this item was voted on right after the special recognition, but i want to take this opportunity to simply acknowledge that there are a number of people who are here because of the city college resolution, and this is a very important issue for many people, not only in my district, but throughout the city. and i want to thank the co-sponsors of that resolution, supervisors mar, avalos, wie

[gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read the in memoriams? >> yes, today's meeting will be adjourned on behalf of the following beloved individuals. for [speaker not understood], mr. william farrell and [speaker not understood]. on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late girardo [speaker not understood] castro rena. >> i want to take a moment and thank our sfgov-tv crew of jesse larsen and nona melkonian for their work in televising today's broadcast. and with that, madam clerk do we have any more business before the bore? board? >> mr. president, mrs. a in me morian off behalf of supervisor cohen for me young. >> with that, without any further business, we are adjourned. [gavel] you. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in landing a contract with the sfoifk is pretty champ but now with the opened contracting center visitors can get opportunity at the new state of the arc facility and attend workshops and receive one-on-one technical assistance and learner what you need to become a primary contractor or what information to be a subcontractor and a created bed p