. >> thank you, madam chair. madam chair, this is the first time an official from the department of health and human services has appeared before this committee since president trump took office. yet this opportunity to hear from the department is long overdue, and i appreciate the secretary giving us time this morning. it may not be his fault that nobody has been here before, but the fact is, we haven't heard from anyone from the department of health and human services. d of health and human services. i'll also implore the majority and the administration to try to schedule this hearing at a time when gives us time for statements and questions. i understand his appearance is truncated so that members will not have a full five minutes, even after a year and a half of questions. it's impossible to do oversight if you don't have time to ask questions and follow up. the mission of department of health and human services to enhance health and the wellbeing of all americans. unfortunately this administration appears to

>> thank you, madam chair. thank you for scheduling this important hearing and i, too, want to welcome all of the commissioners here. it is good to see a full and functioning ferc. your responsibilities and overseeing and a permitting the federal power act particularly as it relates to just and reasonable power rates is something the pacific northwest hold very dear. i know the past six months have been very busy time for the commission, the new energy sector that is cleaner, more sophisticated comes with many policy changes. i want to applaud the commissioner for several important unanimous decisions this year. in my view you start things off right by rejecting secretary berries radical proposal to force consumers to bear out unconverted call and i hope we can return to the topic intimate because i really do believe that'll is underlying policy wrong, i also believe that it is a threat on your independence ad oversight to be directed this way. in order it for when you directed operators to blueberries to energ

madam chair -- or madam director. >> thank you. thank you, madam secretary, through the chair, this item is before you because back in 2015, you had approved this item and approving this event center project, the agency also approved by resolution amendments to the design development, recognizing that some signs and displaced that would otherwise be prohibited would be beneficial due to the unique aspects of the operation and marketing of the event center as an arena for professional sports and other entertainment uses, and that general advertising, fines, video boards, electronic and other signs should be permitted at the event center and on the event center premises in accordance with the comprehensive sign program. what's before you is a proposal that we've been working on for the past year with a development partner and other city agencies, specifically, the planning department. and today, we will have a presentation on this item, as well as a development partner, and he will lead the presentation. >> good afternoon, madam chai

mad dam -- madame chair, board members. i'm here to is you to adopt a resolution that memorializes your leadership in a very important topic and is the topic

thank you madam chair. according to the annual index report a family of four will pay on average a little over $28,000 in annual healthcare costs. as you know, costs are higher on average for rural americans. this is unacceptable particularly in a district like mine, i represent one of the most rural districts on the yeast, new york's 21st district. one of my legislative goals has been to lower the cost of healthcare while maintaining the quality and accessibility. so two of my legislative initiatives i wanted to highlight today and then ask you what you're doing administratively to lower costs and ensure that healthcare is affordable for rural americans. the two issues i wanted to highlight are how we can increase access to preventive care. i co-introduced the primary care patient protection act of 2018 which creates a primary care benefit for all high deductible health plan holders allowing two deductible free primary care office visits per year. as we're seeing the increase of high deductible plans i thi

. >> thank you, madam chair. madam chair, this is the first time an official from the department of health and human services has appeared before this committee since president trump took office, yet this opportunity to hear from the department is long over due and i appreciate the secretary for giving us time this morning. it may not be his fougault that nobody's been here before, but the fact is we haven't heard from anyone from the department of health and human services. also employ the majority in the administration to try to schedule these hearings at a time that gives all members a full five minutes to ask questions. as i understand it, the conflict in the schedule will truncate his appearance here so that members will not have five minutes even after a year and a half worth of questions will not have a full five minutes. it's impossible to do oversight if you don't have time to ask questions and follow hup. the mission of the depth is to enhance and protect health and well-being of all americans. unfoshl

senator lee. >> thank you, madam chair. i want to thank each of you for being here today andensing o an our questions. i want to start with you, chair mcintyre. i want to talk about the pipeline project in southwestern utah. this is one of the fastest growing population centers in the entire country. this is a project that's been going on for some time and is badly needed for the local population. after a decade of furk acting as the lead agency for the project, the commission indicated a few months ago that it hadn't yet determined whether it has jurisdiction over a very significant portion of the project. the abrupt notice of this development at such a late stage in the process has obviously introduced a whole lot of uncertainty into the project. and it could result in significant time delays and the expenditure of a lot of money that the state has invested in this ploroject over the last decade or so. you may recall that my colleagues and i sent you a letter on january 23rd asking about this issue. and in december, the ut

seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor peskin: madam chair, i would move item 5 to the full board with recommendation. >> supervisor kim: great. so we can adopt item 5 without objection, and we can do that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, can you please call item number 6. [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you. rachel alonso, the transportation financial analyst from the department of public works who's here to present on this item. >> good morning. the proposal allows us to accept a total expend of $926,426 in t.d.a. state grant funds. this is an annual funding source, and the expenditures are similar in nature to previous years' resolutions. the transportation development act of 1971 earmarked one quarter percent of the general state sales tax for funding. m.t.c. allocates funds annually to the nine bay area counties in accordness with the sales tax collected in each county. public works and the m.t.a. are submitting a joint resolution. improvements could include but are not limited to striping and signin

seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed [ gavel ] wendy paskin-jordan madam chair, i move that we send items 1 through 4 to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor kim: thank you. and we can do that without opposition. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk. can you please call item number 5. [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: and maria benjamin is already up at the podium, director of bmr and home ownership. i also want to acknowledge that cice yen, as well as deputy city attorney sam ray are also here to ask any campbell. severin campbell is also here to make comments after. >> good morning, chair kim and supervisor peskin. item 5 would allow ocb to purchase a condominium that is scheduled for foreclosure sale. it is located at 860 mission street, and the building is called soma grand. the original owner purchase it had in 2008 through the bmr program. he had a first mortgage and since 2015, mocd, the planning department and the city attorney's office has been in contact with the owner several times to try to bring him in compliance with the prog

bost: madam chair, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 24 printed in part a of house report 115-711 offered by mr. bost of illinois. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 918, the gentleman from illinois, mr. bost, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois. mr. bost: thank you, madam chair. and i wish to thank chairman shuster and ranking member defazio for their support of the amendment. the purpose of this amendment is to help local communities recover from flood disasters. under current law, the u.s. army corps of engineers can only repair a nonfederal levee if the flood protection benefit outweighs the cost. however, the standard can't always be met, especially in rural communities, with specific economic and demographic changes. a small levee in southern illinois is a perfect example. the levee breached in the winter floods of january, 2016. several thousand acres of infrastructure and agricultur

madam chair? >> do we have any speaker cards? >> we have ace washington. >> so if this commission would allow me to just speak, and i know you guys have this three-minute thing, and then you broke it down to two minutes. but i've been asking you all for the longest, let me present -- let me come and make a presentation to you all. give me three to five, ten minutes like you give every american, every immigrant, every person off the street. i've witnessed over my 20 years, 30 years, everybody gets up here to make presentations, even the ones that came up here and they're in jail right now, you gave them a chance. yes, i'm -- yes, before you came on, before you came on, they had people come up and get contracts, most of them in jail now, okay? what i'm saying is case: community assistance service enterprise. so i try to tell your executive people that. you ain't got no money, but now you're talking about outreach. that's been my downfall for the last 30 years, i've never asked you all for nothing. i

seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ] wendy paskin-jordan madam chair, i move that we send this item to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor kim: thank you very much. we can do that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, will you read the next item, please. [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you, and we have mickey callahan, director of human resources, presenting on this item. >> thank you very much, madam chair, super peskin. i'll be brief but certainly i'm here to answer any questions. i'm here with community relations director carol isen, as well. we're here with a number of contracts, particularly the fire mou's. there are many changes. our highlights covers most of them, but there are a lot of updates, but parties came with a lot tot table. as a result we did end up in arbitration. there were a lot of work that people wanted to do, and the results of these arbitrations are the agreements before you with respect to police and fire. additionally, we have a number of mou changes which reflect the agreements that

supervisors and madam chair. thank you harose kerry tam from the board budget legislative analyst office, kelly and chris from the mayor's budget analyst, and pleased to say we accept the recommendation and have no challenges. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much for being here. colleagues, do you have any other questions for t department of the environment? ou. right. we can take public comment -- actually, no. we'll move on, already taken public comment. >> clerk: public comment has been taken on these items already. >> supervisor cohen: mr. rose. >> you want to hearrtur >>supervisor cohen: yep, waiting to hear it. n pa 25, our recommended reductions to the budget total 194754, and 18-19.of t amount, savings, 100,454, 1-time savings, and for 19-20, recommended reductions total 94300, and all of those are ongoing savings. and as i understand it, the department does concur with the recommended reductions. >> supervisor cohen: thayou. i have a question for the director. it has to do with the solid waste contra

scott, your time has expired. >> thank you, madam chair. >> mr. grossman, you are recognized for five minutes. >> sure. you can give me the dr. west question. it may be someone else wants to weigh in on this as well. it seems to me, when i tour scoreless -- schools, or hear anecdotes about good or bad schools, some of this is the difference which you get the most out of your employees. and if you have an employee who is not cutting it, you let them go. in districts that i've seen that are not that good, you have a superintendent that is a gladiator. never moves out the deadweight. in general -- not in general, even in specific, dr. west, which schools find it easier to move on the dead weight? you know, mr. clark talked about, for whatever reason, i assume he's got his reason, he knew a charter school got rid of their best teachers. but i think the real problem was when you have really underperforming people, maybe they don't care, burned out, which type of school gets rid of the teacher quicker? seems to care more about the students, or just go w

thank you, madam chair, and members of the committee. i'm happy to answe your questions. >> thank m up welcome to the committee. >> good morning. thank you forthe otunityo appear before youhi morn to discuss 2018 outlook in the department of the interior fire management program. as we've heard this morning, 2018 is shaping up to be anher challenging year. lacts drought, eady accumulation vegetation are creating landscapes that are more susceptie, devtiwild fires. so far this year, we've seen large fires in the south, the midwest, and especially in the southwest. eect the fire season in the west to be comparable to recent years. as the outbreak of major wild fires over the weekend in new mexico and colorado demonstrate. together with our partners, we'll continue to mobilize pers other firefighting assets in support of a fully interoperateble firefighting effort. as secretary zinke and purdue recently reaffirmed to all fire leip in both departments, the protection of firefighters and public safety is the top priity for every firetivity an

thank you, madam chair. members of the board, thank you for coming back and addressing any follow-up questions you may have. i believe you are in receipt of our written response to a number of the questions raised last week in the budget hearing and if it pleases the committee, i would like to walk you through the analysis we did on the -- >> yes. >> on the police department staffing. you'll see on the first page a lot of the analysis was based, the 0 based analysis based on a number of factors and see the factors relate to the significant growth we have seen since 1997 to 2017, and probably most meaningful is the column on the right that talks about the percent change in the factors, and it's a function of the growth we have experienced and some of the impacts that it's had. you can also see it, our request as a function of the new facilities that we have opened since this time, and those are also listed on the page. many of the projects related to the airport capital improvement program of the late 1990s a

>> thank you madam chair. with the idea that we have not seen -- >> the quality of service visibly compromised. >> i do. i do not quarrel with the study you referenced in an earlier remark about how there is no immediate calamity or threat to our ongoing of availability to have our bulk power system operate and satisfy energy needs. >> do you agree with that? >> i think we need to take a longer-term lens and ask ourselves what should the future landscape of our generation resource mix look like to ensure that we get that right as well. >> with the rest of you in green that where we are right now, is that the quality has not been visibly compromised? >> i agree, senator. i think the history of electricity in this country for the last century has been one of continual change in resources and we are seeing that from when i first got into the industry, we were switching fund from oil to coal, because of the oil embargoes in the 70s, and now we are seeing yet another, as commissioner paulson, said, tectonic shift.

next speaker. >> madam chair and members. my name is bob finebaum. i'm chair of save muni. and i suspect, madam chair, that you will hold a comment period after the m.t.a. budget as well, is that correct? >> supervisor cohen: no, that's not correct. now is your time to talk about the m.t.a. budget. thank you. >> thank you. two things. first of all, we've submitted a statement. i will submit a written copy for you today, which should be in your packet, where we're asking you to reject the m.t.a. budget and send it back for further work. today you will hear a report from the budget analyst on every department other than the m.t.a. i understand the m.t.a. decision you have to make is to vote for it or to reject it. but that does not excuse the fact that you need information that can appropriate i will be given by a budget analysis. we call upon you to not take action on the m.t.a. budget today but to ask the budget analyst to do a thorough analysis, focusing specifically on the additional personnel, additional budget, that is being asked for by the m.t.a. and whether those ser

to the controller's office. >> i apologize, madam chair. i've lost track. could you -- >> supervisor cohen: sure. 500,000 from reserve for the body worn cameras, and then, $500,000 for professional services contract. i'll leave the workload study. >> okay. understood. >> supervisor yee: i'd like -- >> supervisor cohen: supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: i'd like to at least look at the vehicle and reduce it by the 500,000 so it's consistent with last year. >> supervisor cohen: okay. so you're saying 4 million? >> supervisor yee: right. their ask is 4.5. i'd reduce it to 4. >> supervisor cohen: okay. so that's 1.5. all right. i'll make a motion -- supervisor -- ben? >> just -- we understand, so together, that's a $1 million reduction to the budget that's in front of you for body cameras -- sorry, for the professional services and the increase in the fleet allocation, and then, it's a $500,000 closeout of a prior year project? co>> supervisor cohen: catherine -- and supervisor yee has made a request for an additional 500,000 for new vehicles. that way, it wou

speaker card on this topic, madam chair. >> chair c. brinkman: thank you. >> my name is david hooper. my neighborhood is mission terrace is considering putting in residential parking permit, between glenn park and balboa park station. we get a lot of commuters, a lot of people from excelsior in the overflow parking because it's available. i'm here to say i support a particular part of the proposal. the idea that future residential parking permit areas are limited to two per household. i think that's a valuable step. the point is, we have to do something. we haven't done anything in a while, it's gotten worse and will get worse yet if we don't start to present to people considering the residential parking permit area, if we don't give clearly defined options. households is a problem, i don't know how to define that. we have homes in our

>> thankou madam chair. thank you for that strong statement, i agree with you on the issue of sexual harassment and what the agency nes to do to bter manage and train people in responding to these issues. i appreciate your strong statement about drones. as wprchhis fire season, making sure those on the fire line have the best possible information is going to be critical. weather conditions, info about fire movement, all of that, i recently attended a breakfast where the secretary of act was entering into a mou.thes done remarkable work on our drone system. i do not want the department of act two waste one minute re-creating something that could be the same implementation that the department of interior has done. i hope that they will work on that. on -- want to get started climate scientists have telling us the fire season is getting longer and hotter and now this new forecast of the pacific northwest will have a the-august fire season on side of what we have seen in the past being potentially worse. receive

>> thank you, madam chair. i just want to re-emphasize some of the points that supervisor peskin said here at the end. there's some important conversations that we had in our negotiations that are not reflected in the updated version that you all get. i know that a lot of reaction today was based on an older version of the legislation. that often happens. unfortunately because of drafting, because of timing, because of where we are in the process of negotiations, what's online and what is available to the public is not what we are actually working on. we may be two or three steps ahead, and it's just based on the legislative process. i want to be clear. i think there was a lot of consensus on both sides about the data driving the conversation further and trying to achieve goals in this legislation, in this overall agreement, based on data. and supervisor peskin touched on those. we're not going to get into the overall details right now, but i just want to say that will be reflected in the next version when we c

>> >>clerk: no speaker cards madame chair. >> chair mondejar: we will close public comment. mr. singh. commissioner singh. >> commissioner singh: i am not very good at the computers but what is that system? >> drupple is a content management system thinking that you see online is hosted by a content management system and drupple is one that the city currently employs and it's a template that is very customizable. you don't have to follow exactly what drop tells yowhat drupple . our current site is on drupple. if we were to switch to a word press site, the buildout takes longer and that will slow down the process. >> chair mondejar: commissioner bustos. >> commissioner bustos: this is long overdue. i have had trouble navigating through the website. i am excited about it, so with that comes expectations. you have heard me talk about the wow factor. i would love for us to have a wow factor that when people come on to our will be site they are going to be so wowed by not only the visuals but the content and it will make people want to visit frequently. jennifer as you guys are all t

madam chair, by function and division in the controllers' office. we'll wait one second -- [ please stand by ] >>> a very high level overview is requested for the new year. as you can see, our total budget is growing by approximately a million dollars in the first year of the two year budget declining by $700,000 in the second year in the budget. that relates to a couple -- i mean, there's a lot going on in our budget, of course. the most significant changes that drive the increase and the decrease is a couple of one time investments proposed in the budget regarding our systems in the controller's office in year one. it increases and those are completed into year two. the two biggest one time projects we have for the year ahead are it's time for us to replace the hardware on which we run all of our systems in the city. so that the infrastructure in which it exists, the machines, are at their end of life. we plan to complete that work in the year ahead. and then we have a few requests from departments for enhancements to the new financial system. >>>

thank you. >> madam chair, what we're saying here is this car is not needed at all. i agree, the maintenance should not be expended. this car should just be deleted is what we're saying. >> supervisor cohen: okay. and supervisor sheehy? >> supervisor sheehy: i wouldn't agree with that. if we can start getting employees out of cars, and using mass transit, but eight miles a day, seriously? >> supervisor cohen: hold on. the reason why it's eight miles a day is it's an old car and it's breaking down. >> and the reason -- >> supervisor cohen: director, director, i'm sorry. i want supervisor sheehy to finish his thought. >> supervisor sheehy: i just thought it would be great if the b.l.a. could look at car usage overall and look at the size of our fleet. who knows. maybe they'll put everybody on scooters. but honestly, the cars, that's -- now, it's just -- there are a lot of city cars. >> supervisor cohen: maybe we do need city scooters. >> supervisor sheehy: we do need -- i mean, we put so many encumbrances on people being able to drive in this city with the goal of ever

madam chair, we just can't work fast enough. the changing climate and environment is making fire more challenging environment for our forest service, for our wildland firefighrs, for our communities, we put a down payment on, but we need to do so much more, and so, i thank everybody and thank you for having this important hearing today. >> thank you, senator cantwell. we will now turn to our witnesses this morning. miss christensen, again, welcome. the interim chieff forest service, and we appreciate your leadership. we'd ask you both to try to keep your comments to five minutes so we have an opportunity for questions. we have two votes scheduled for 11:00 and we'll power through them so that we can allow members to ask their very timely questions to a very timely issue. welcome, ms. christensen. >> madam chair, member of the committee, thank you for inviting me back to testify. i'd like to touch on three topics today. the wildfire outlook and our preparations to respond. our progress to increase work to improve forest condition

has to say. >> madam chair. >> supervisor cohen: mr. rose. >> madam chair. members of the committee, i recommended reductions to the proposed budget. all one time savingses reductions still allow increase $15.7 million, 4.12%. we recommend closing out prior year $45,707. i recommend reduction for proposed budget in 19-20. of that amount, 96, 634. these reductions will still allow increase. as i understand it, the fire department concurs recommended reduction except for the ambulances on page 81 of our report. i will just briefly summarize that recommendation supervisors. in fiscal year 2018-2019. the department only requested four ambulances. it only included funds for eight ambulances. our recommendation will provide funds for the four ambulances that department requested. it's slightly different types but basically it's consistent with the number of request four. in fiscal year 19-20 we recommend disapproval until the department's pilot program is completed and determination should be made to determine which type of ambulances should be included in 2019-20

. >> thank you, madam chair. the title of today's hearing suggests that the power of charter schools is nothing but positive. majority of witnesses wit limited exception will describe a sector of schools tt is fixing our nation's allege ed'sly dismal system of public education, saving the children hand satisfying all parents. calls to increase charter funding and rapidly expand willing charter schools in every community across the country. but such glorified telling is only part of the study. it is our job as policy makers to examine the full impact of charter schools both good and bad on the children and families they serve. as is usually the case, the truth about charter schools is complicated. there is some good, even great things happening in the public charter schools. there is some areas of serious and legitimate concern. large scale study of student data from 16 states conducted by center of research and outcomes at stanford university found that only 17% charter schools produce academic gain so significan

. >> thank you, madam chair. i appreciate everyone's comments today, those that kept it within the bounds of kind of focusing on advancing a positive conversation. i think, again, this is not an easy conversation to have. in my short time on the board, this is probably the most difficult issue that i have been involved in. i appreciate, again, supervisor fewer and peskin for engaging in this as well as the city staff along with president breed over the last number of months. i do have a few follow-up questions because i think that base on what i have learned in these conversations over the last few months, i have heard some things that i don't find to be -- things that i find to be true as well as i think it's not helpful for our conversation to put things forward that i don't think are really factual. one of the things i want to ask directly to our city administrator is: from where we were in our conversations the other day, there's this conversation of l.b.e. discount or a 10% discount, how that kind of plays i