good afternoon, madam chair and members of the board and director. director of enforcement and sustain able streak, and thank you for inviting me and our team. in september of 2012, the enforcement division acquired a mobile command vehicle, through the department of homeland security grant the opportunity, and when emergencies disasters or special events occur, or require on-site incident command, the mobile command vehicle becomes a vital component of our mission. when enforcement received the van it did not come with an operating manual. we had to do the task and it took many hours to complete and performed this after hours, and with our existing tasks on top of that. and the van, currently to date has been deployed to the american cup and fleet vehicle and the chinese parade and most recently the cup series so far too, with 19 more to come. and great success at managing all of the traffic successfully. >> supervisor chin began as a parking control officer in 1994, and his duties now are managing and or overseeing the port property, and supervisor

garamendi: thank you, madam chair. i want to thank the ranking member and the chair for making my amendment an en bloc amendment. this amendment deals with the 50-plus billion dollars that we have spent on the afghan national security forces. an additional $7.7 billion is to be added this year. a 50% increase over last year. the $2.6 billion addition is for equipment with absolutely no justification, no idea what the equipment is. airplanes, no knowledge whether the afghan national security force could use it or not. the amendment simply says that money will not be available until and unless there is clarity as to where the money is going to be spent, how it's going to be spent, how the equipment will be purchased. we don't want to write a $2.6 billion blank check for additional craft and corruption in afghanistan. this amendment, the en bloc amendment, i thank the committee for making it possible. the chair: the gentleman from california yields back. the gentleman from california, mr. mckeon. mr. mckeon: continue to re

. >> thank you, madam chair. as you pointed out this is a very important hearing on a topic that demands significant congressional involvement. the cyberthreat as we all know is increasing and becoming more challenging as our adversaries grow bolder and more capable. we've seen recent and stark reminders of the threat with constant cyberattacks on the financial sector. the chinese hacking of "the new york times" and "wall street journal," iranian attacks against the saudi oil companies, and reporte reports that informn our most advanced weapons system were stolen by the chinese. earlier this year, and information company reported chinese attackers are running extensive cyber espionage campaign with the likely support of the chinese government. more recently the same company exposed iranian hacking in the u.s. these troubling developments remind us about virtually we need to coordinate effort to counter, to respond to these attacks. madam chair, this committee may be the only one with jurisdiction over the full co

gingrey: madam chair. the chair: the amendment is not agreed to. pursuant to clause -- does the gentleman from georgia seek a recorded vote? mr. broun: yes, madam, i request the yeas and nays. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from georgia will be postponed. the clerk will read. the clerk: page 5, line 10, military construction, army national guard -- $315,815,000 to remain available until september 30, 2018. military construction, air national guard -- $107,800,000 to remain available until september 30, 2018. military construction, army reserve -- $174,060,000 to remain available until september 30, 018. military construction, navy reserve -- $32,976,000 to remain available until september 30, 2018. military construction, air force reserve -- $45,659,000 to remain available until september 30, 2018. north atlantic treaty organization security investment program $19 -- the chair: the clerk will suspend. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? mr. brou

thank you, madam chair. >> thank you, madam chair. couple like to cede a of questions for senator wyden to finish up and angry. -- an inquiry. two movie clip -- to move them there, that a silly question. if you could get back to me. >> thank you, madam chair. thank you for a time of danger. i was just thinking this morning you have been off tempo in war for 12 years. the unitedy in states. that is longer than the revolutionary war, longer than the vietnam war, longer than any period of off tempo war fighting in this country. so i want to start with a thank you. then i will say thank you for serving in a time of uncertainty, both of your written testimony, your oral ,estimony, secretary hagel today the department of defense faces a significant challenge of conducting long-term planning and budgeting at a time of considerable uncertainty. general density, your test my comes in the context of extraordinary uncertainty. why read the testimony, and it struck me, you guys good diplomats. you mentioned uncertainty as if it was a hurricane or

thank you madame chair. >> senator johnson? >> thank you madame chair.king of the hangar general dempsey, i would like to talk about commanders and extremist forces. it's my understanding that these are units of 40 special ops from individuals there for rapid response, rapid deployment; is that correct? >> it's one of several key buildings like that. >> and we have the c110 it is called the you com sif. >> each combat and commander has one. >> there was a report on april 30th filed by adam howsley that they were in europe and deployed on a training operation, is that correct? >> are you talking about last september? >> yes during benghazi. >> it was on a training mission in bosnia. >> on the night of the terrorist attack in benghazi; connect? >> that's correct. >> what is the time of the planet of the us forces? what is their standing order? >> the response times are ratcheted up and down based on the threat. they can be anywhere from m plus one come notification plus one which means they are sitting on the tarmac up through about n plus 6 depending on t

king: madam chair, i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from iowa will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? mr. ellison: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: clerk will read. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. ellison of minnesota. at the end of the bill before the hort title insert the following. section, none of the funds made available in this act may be used in contravention of any of the following, one, the fifth and 14th amendments to the constitution of the united states, two, title soisks the civil rights act of 1964 relating to nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs. three, section 809-c-1 of the omnibus crime control and safe streets act of 1968 relating to prohibition of discrimination. four, section 210401a -- for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition? mr. ellison: unanimous consent to have the amendment considered as read. the chair: is there obje

. >> mike --- >> hello madam chair and commissioners. at the last meeting you heard how we have had labor dispute with metro over the years, especially since 2008. we have sat down with metro recently and try to resolve this year some of those issues. it has to do with our jurisdiction and our jobs, american jobs, and keeping those jobs here for the locals. we are a partner with the port of san francisco and the citizens of the city. i was born and raised in the city. meeting with metro over the last few weeks -- they have assured me that they will continue talks going forward. some of the things that we have discussed and have agreed upon is getting back on these ships and doing what we do best, load and unload passengers and provisions and cargo. that is our main argument. last year we had a big blowout with metro. it got resolved with them stating that it won't happen again. the issues have to do with jobs. you know the ilw - we are not going to allow anybody to take our jobs on these ships. so moving forward, with the discussion, i t

>> madam chair, i'd like to claim the time in opposition. chair: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. peters: i would like to recognize the chair of the house agriculture committee for one minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. lucas: we hear a lot from the proponents of this amendment about moving american companies to mexico and canada. but that has nothing to do with the price of sugar. it has everything to do with labor cost, health care costs, and trying to get every penny out of the american farmer. have any of you seen the price of sugar, cakes, cookies plummet over the last few years as sugar prices decrease by 55%? no, you haven't. you'll hear a lot from the proponents of this amendment about the high prices of sugar, so high the restaurants give it away? that you can buy a five pound bag of sugar for almost nothing? the idea that adopting this amendment is going to somehow create a free market for sugar is ludicrous. the sugar market is one of the most distorted in the world. adopting this

enenthank you, madam chair. -- mr. enyart: thank you, madam chair. thank you, ranking member peterson. madam speaker, i rise today in support of this important and long overdue legislation. when i ran for congress i pledged to work for southern illinois' agricultural industry. that's why i voted in committee to advance this bipartisan five-year bill. the inability of the house to pass a farm bill was amongst the biggest failings of the last congress. this is by no means a perfect bill. it cuts far too deeply to the snap program. there are people in my district and in yours who depend on this program and while we must reduce the deficit, we shouldn't be doing that on the backs of those who can't afford to put food on the table. however, i believe that funding will be bolstered here on the floor of the house and in the conference. but let's look at what the bill does right. it funds infrastructure upgrades for midwestern waterways so farmers can get their crops to market. it increases energy access in rural america, improving efficiency and reducing the

>> thank you, madam chair. i want to express my gratitude for everyone who came to speak and the correspondence and express my gratitude to everyone who has worked on this, the staff particularly, that helped to put this together and the supervisors that have worked on this, and mr. dufty for his good work in helping to develop a solution and to help us with this transition. and this has been obviously no easy thing for any of us to be able to talk about and to have to address. but at the same time the reason why i am going to be able to support this is because i am striving for a sense of equity with how we are enforcing what we are doing in the city and that the streets are being used to the best possible and to the utmost capacity in different ways. and we can't just do one thing in one neighborhood or one thing in another neighborhood and not expect every other not expect to have biases. so, we are hearing from a number of folks in different ways that the use of the streets needs to change and i think that

thank you, madam chair. >> senator king. >> thank you, madam chair, and thanks to the witnesses, thanks for services in a time of danger. i just was thinking this morning you have been off tempo in war for 12 years. you, the military and the united states, that's longer than the revolutionary war, that's longer than the vietnam war, longer than any period of off tempo war fighting in the history of this country. i start with i thank you. i'm going to say thank you for serving in a time of uncertainty, boast of your written testimony, oral testimony, secretary hagel, today, the department of defense faces a significant challenges of conducting long-term planning, budgeting in a time of considerable uncertainty, and general dempsey, this year's testimony comes in the context of extraordinary uncertainty, and when i read the testimony and heard it, it struck me. you guys are good diplomats. you mention uncertainty like it was a hurricane or something. it's congress. it's not a hurricane. it's not uncertainty like we don't know what's going to happen. you're dealing with a congress that wil

supervisor campos. >> supervisor campos: thank you madam chair and supervisor ferrell and staff. this is a no-brainer. i had a quick question. thank you also to the film commission. is anything else besides what we are doing to the amendment of this ordinance it can be done to deal with the issue of space? i know that you have spoken to all of the city agencies, all of the city department. i don't know for instance if there is anything else that some of these other jurisdictions are doing. is it just an issue of the physical limitations of the city? just wondering if you could talk a little bit more about that. >> if i understand you correctly, is there anything of that we can do right now? >> supervisor campos: anything else that is a good idea. >> ultimately what i would like to see is defined a property that can be used as a dedicated stage space that is currently under the control of certain city agency. i don't know. i have identified buildings in the city that seemed very appealing to us that look like they might be open to a change in use; right now they are occupied eithe

>> no, madame chair. >> okay. seeing that there is no one from the public with any more questions, you guys it is exactly 2:00 and we're going to take a 15-minute break right now. 10-minute break. i'm sorry, a 10-minute break right now, and we will be back. thank you very much. thank you for >> thank you everyone and welcome back to the second-half of our meeting; which is going to be exciting. welcome back, council members. we are pleased to have five presentations on this next half. we're going to ask if you would keep your public comment until after the presentations are done. and then we will take public comment from the council first and then the staff and then the public. this month is mental health awareness month, and we are so glad to have so many different presenters this month. and it is a pleasure to have language matters, resources, mental health veterans and on and on. so you guys, today to start it off, we have language matters, doing the presentation today is terri byrne the solve program coordinat

>> good afternoon, madam chair, and directors. president of the (inaudible) company. and i have come here today to speak specifically about the new riding services and its impact on the taxi industry here in san francisco, from my perspective and i want to make it very clear to everyone that there is a reason why you need a badge and testing to be a licensed taxi cab driver and there is a reason why they have to be properly insured and inspected and metered, and it is astounding to me, and i understand that the jurisdictional issues but that we are allowing people to take their personal cars and pick up the public like a taxi cab with an app. and i am going to give you predictions here and this is not exaggeration, if this continues it will deregulate the taxi and the med dallons will go down and any lenders will not come in, what you are going to see is a major crime happen with someone who is picking up the public. you are going to see major accidents happen and this is not exaggerating it is already starting to happen. in terms of the taxi industry i have to ask yo

chair. >> thank you. colleagues can i have a motion to not disclose what happened in closed session? >> so moved. >> is there a second. >> second. >> with no objection, the motion passes. [ gavel ] madame clerk, is there anything else on the agenda? >> no, mr. chair. >> if there is nothing further, the meeting is adjourned. [ gavel ] >> we very pleased that mayor lee is here today and building is strong foundation for the future of the airport and now my pleasure to introduce mayor lee. thank you john and thank you to you and the airport commission and all the staff here at the airport for loopholes working hard to make sure this engine of opportunity is for everybody. i'm joined by representative from congresswoman thank you for being here and, of course, richard our commissioners is here as well and than mr. mac who is part of the labor council. i think we'll have quilts from the board of supervisors from both couldn't. you know something we despair a little bit over jobs. they get to continue bragging they have is an unemployment rate lower than ourselves but that's because the airport is booming. and everybody's is investing in this year. looking behind me it's always been about pe

. >> thank you, madam chair. mr. chairman, following the tragic incident in geismar, we talked on the phone and you were very richest to act very, very quickly, and that that folks on the scene. can you give me a quick update on that particular investigation? >> yes, senator. we have deployed with an investigating team there. we have engaged a number of consultants, especially structural engineers. we have concern about the safety of the people that have to enter that has to look at the specific site of the explosion. we customarily don't enter until the structural engineer tells us it is safe because there is still hanging debris in the place. in the meantime, we are taking views with common you know, by taking photographs, aerial photographs of the site. we have interview close to 14 people that have been witness, direct witnesses of what happened. and we are preparing to enter the place in immediately that our safety engineer tell will be safe to do it. but we are at this time mostly engaged in on into thing peopl

. >> (calling names) >> good afternoon madam chair and members of the commission. i'm real estate manager for safe way they opened in 1985. i'd like to start by saying we fully respect the legislation and we fully understand and accept our role. the undertaken plan and we also work very colonels with staff and are very sensitive to california and market street which is at capacity and the new target coming up on the hill. our certain about the proposed legislation centers around the 3 hundred foot language due to our size we're 2 hundred and 55 square feet which is always going to push us over the 20 percent threshold. the other mrpts are panned district attorney express and popeye's. so safe way like many of the committals in the last item we're nervous by what this is going to entail in the future how this would play out. we ask for your consideration if we come forward with a remodel i thank you for your consideration and i'm here to answer any questions and a thank you. any further public comment? seeing none, it's closed >> i have one question under exhibit c

. >> madam chair and commissioners. i'm here with 3 of the partners that will be a recuperate and lodge. this is b.a. luck inc. last known as - this is basically a major amendment that was requested be brought before the commission but i think everyone will agree this is a change for the better. this was a type of 47 it did have food there was a cook back there but if you walked back there you wouldn't see anybody eating. we have - when mike quan owned the majority interest his other partner was bruce and he started the majority partner in a restaurants called foreign cinema. and has been one of the 10 or 15 high grossing restaurants and it's on the top one-hundred list. it's a beautiful restaurants people thought they were crazy to go in there but mr. mcdonald has been a significant owner of this place for a number of years but a silent partner. he is now bringing in a real restaurants into the area. the bar across the street is proven it's ready for a restaurants. a they've hired randy lewis he's a chef and he was vot

madam chair i'm here with the person in charge of this particular establishment. i'd like to first state i've been in talks with southern station and we have - we would request that the after hours portion of this application be continued. until the next meeting. the police feels officer chan feels we have to have more discussed this is 6th street. we would like to have more discussions with the police department. >> our next meeting will not be until the first day of august and you're just like 16 accounting is off-site so i want to tell you that. and so is that okay >> we're fine with that. there's going to be some rehab >> why don't you stop for a second and let's take care of that first. >> okay. so let's move for a continuance of the extended hours permit to the first meeting no august. is there a public comment on that? >> seeing none, can i have a second to my motion somebody. >> second and we have a second. come on up >> good evening. we would like to revisit this 6 months into the operation >> because of the location of the premises and because it's histo

opening it up for comments (calling names) >> thank you, madam chair. i am a member of the k ac and the member of the southeast corridor. i've been watching this for two decades and we're at a instantly we need our approval. i see in 1997 you approved it but because of the times we had to come back and ask you for your approval again. i know the people out in the southeast corridor are excited. so thank you very much for your time and opportunity >> any further public comment? >> seeing none, public comment closed. >> yes, i'm in favor of amendment the document. i'm not to make a motion >> i have a question that was stated that we remain with 16 hundred units so someone would say that the units would be less dense to make them workout is that true? >> the increase in density is about a one hundred units no total and the explanation for why this 16 hundred actually are shifted into that site is the small portion of the d area was originally part of the first phase and subsequently moved into the second phase. >> oh. okay. so your unit count is 17 hundred

madame chair, in particular who has done an amazing amount of work for almost five years now and probably longer as part of many of our efforts. thank you. we have a couple of tag team efforts from mhasf today because i have to take off a little early. i am going to give a quick 8-10-minute overview for hoarding and cluttering challenges and joining me is my colleague gillian, who will share some specificks about our peer-based services and i will time myself here. so as chair wilson said, as idell said i'm the deputy director with the mental health association of san francisco and very delighted to be back here today and thank you to joanna for inviting us back today. to start things off, you know, i think just as a point of reference, i have a wealth of materials, we can provide the council members and public afterwards. a quick background on mha, we're a non-profit based in downtown san francisco. we do not provide direct clinical-based services. we are an affiliate of the national mental health association. we provide a lot more services based in education and advocacy, research, trai

madam chair you do have a quorum. >> thank you. are there communications from the board today? seeing none any old or new business? seeing none we move on to executive director's report. >> good morning directors, members of the public. as you know we put out our seal bid that can be broken up into three packages recently and bids are due june 20 and after that he we expect to bring a board for your consideration to the july board meeting in order to stay on schedule so that's really the main item right now in addition to the 100% cd's minus the it component us due at the end of may and that is on back to be delivered to us and we will review that with our team members and turn the package over to webcor by the end of the year at the latest and i will have steve give your construction update. >> good morning directors. steve rule with turner construction providing cmo services to the tjpa. the last month has been another good -- make good progress overall on the project and again no injuries or osha reportable accidents. we had one near miss accident involving a crane losing so