>> abstaining. >> madam chair johnson? >> aye. >> madam chair, the vote is 3 ayes, one absanction, one absent. >> thank you very much. the next alioto-pier item on our consent agenda that we're going to consider is an extension of the personal services contract for overland pacific and kutler, inc., they are charged with the relocation program for the shipyard, hunters point shipyard. there is no change to the budget or to the scope of work. we are looking at an extension here because of the solution of redevelopment. there were delays in many parts of the work that we do, including to the scope of work for this, for this contractor. so, we're looking at a six-month extension, same scope, same piper jaffray. are there any questions or comments on this item? >> no. >> seeing none -- >> i move that. >> thank you very much. is there a second? >> second. >> thank you very much. madam secretary, please call the roll. >> commission members please announce your vote when i call your name. commissioner ellington? >> aye. >> [speak

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

it's their constitution, it's their state. >> thank you madam chair. i will yield back. >> the chair recognizes the chairman from south carolina mr. sanford for five minutes. >> just to delve in a little bit deeper if you are to look at the overall budget or look specifically at fema you pick your category but if you were to pick the two areas that are the biggest waste and duplication that jump out at you, what would they be? >> this will make me real popular. beach renourishment. what mother nader takes away we have to put back and we spend a lot of money on sand. it's one of our largest costs. it's primarily an economic issue and i understand that but again in budget constrained times we have to make decisions about willard teaches really tied to safety or are they tied to commerce? understand the arguments on both sides but again i think we have to look at that. the other thing is the responding to disasters because we have the systems built around the reimbursement of actual costs. i think we can show significant savings because congress gave us th

hastings: thank you, madam chair. i'm pleased to yield two minutes to another member of the house natural resources committee, the gentleman from utah, mr. bishop. the chair: the gentleman is recognize for two minutes. mr. bishop: thank you, madam chair. when the ranking member was speak, he quoted from the bill and said, you know, this does not limit the secretary's rights, nor does it expand the secretary's right, so what does it do? what it does is simple. it stops the federal government from hurting people this came to view in the federal government trying to take away water rights from ski resorts and not just in colorado, it was all ski resorts. as i have said repeat think, the ski resorts in utah are far more significant and far better than the ski resorts in colorado it affects all of us. but it's not just limited to ski resorts. we found out the same tactics have been used by d.l.m. and other entities to affect farmers and ranchers, same concept, same area. what the tipton bill tries to do is solve the problem

. >> thank you very much madam chair. this is an enormously important hearing because it's vitally important that we hear from folks around the country who are struggling with one of the great challenges that we have and that is the crumbling infrastructure and i'm especially delighted by the vermont secretary of transportation could be here with us. sue played a role when the state was hit by tropical storm irene. many of the towns were devastated and she was the recovery officer the recovery officers we attempted to rebuild those houses and she did a great job doing now. i think the bottom line is that i don't know that there is much disagreement among our representrepresent atives who come from all over the country and we are very appreciative that you were here that is a nation we are all aware that something is fundamentally wrong in vermont and i suspect in your states as well your bridges are crumbling and the roads are in need of repair. in many parts of this country unemployment is much too high and we are sittin

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 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

thank you, madam chair. >> senator merkley. >> thank you very much madam chair. talk about unified budget, i'm looking at the budget total chart that someone 63 of your book. do you have your budget? >> which table? >> it is a table s-1. just to be clear, this table includes social security trust fund embedded within it, right? so as we look at those numbers, there's not some separate liability or concerned that's on top of these. it's embedded inside these numbers? >> yes. >> as a look at 2015 and we projected a deficit of $564 billion, deny that compares to the simpson-bowles like path, the bipartisan plan that would have, what we would've had for deficit in 2015? >> i don't know the specific number within simpson-bowles, but within simpson-bowles a number of the actual numbers and presentations are incorporated within our budget. one of the differences, and so much of it is embraced so i think they haven't scored there's against the new baselines we've seen so don't know the exact number. i think it's important reflect that there are places where we have a num

in the next order of business is item 7, report of the chair. >> madam acting chair, do you have a report? >> no report. >> thank you. >> the next order of business is item 8, report of the executive director. 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.

madam chair. >> thank you very much. do we have any speaker cards? >> oscar james. >>> oscar james again. i want to bring up two things that -- well, three things that's been bothering me. one, certificate of preference holders in south -- well, i would say down by moscone center, that area, there were people that were relocated out in those houses, too, that had certificates that has not been brought up. and i think they should be added onto the list of certificate holders. the other thing i want to bring up is turnkey housing. back in '73, '74, i served on a committee, honorable [speaker not understood] and burton and i brought up the suggestion of about homeless housing and also turnkey housing, people who are coming out of foster care, [speaker not understood] housing. out of the 540 acre that's in the shipyard, they're going to be developing all of that. i haven't heard since that time, me and mrs. vincent brought it up in the p-a-c meetings, what have you. we need to have housing for people in our community who have been in foster care and who

it's their constitution and it's their state. >> thank you madam chair. i go back through. >> the chair now recognizes the gentleman from south carolina for five minutes. >> just to delve in a little deeper if you are looking at the overall 10 billion-dollar budget and specifically at fema you pick your category but if you were to pick the two areas of the biggest duplication that jump out at you what that would they be? >> this will make me real popular. beach rainer schmitt. what mother nature takes away we have to put back and we spend a lot of money on sand. it's one of our largest cost. it's primarily an economic issue and i understand that but it its budget constraint times. we have to make decisions about our our beach is tied to your tie to commerce? again i think we have to look at that. the other thing is the overhead response to disasters because we have all the systems built around a reimbursement of actual cost. i think we can show significant savings because congress gave the ability and when you were governor and you have projects we would g

and i would ask -- spent thank you, madam chair thank you, madam chair, and thank you, madam administrator. i'm going to my very limited time to asking questions about the john beale case, because i do think this case reflects a deeply broken bureaucracy, long-term. that it's not an isolated incident, and the john beale with his good friend robert brenner were instrumental in developing key epa regulations. isn't it true that you received a memo on january 122011 informing you that beale's salary was illegal, it exceeded the statutory cap? and recommending that bonus be terminated? >> it is true that i became aware of the bonus, yes. >> and isn't it true that you did not cancel that illegal bonus and kill over two years later, february 2013? >> actually what is true is i did pursue that issue effectively, and i think the agency was addressing it effectively. >> but the illegal bonus, you knew it was illegal january 12, 2011 but it was canceled fit your 2013 spent yes, i went ahead and i avoided that. >> you consider that effective? >> it took a while to get to the bottom of the john beale

. >> thank you, madam chair. i want to thank you and this committee for having a second hearing on our ethics reform package. and let me just make a couple of comments at the outset about this legislation. in my first term in office we moved forward a number of pieces of legislation around online filing and reporting electronic filing of campaign information and updating of our conflict codes, but we have certainly heard over the years that there are many other reform that we ought to make in the area of our ethics laws. we've heard the frustration from the public about wanting to know more information. and from my perspective i think it's important for us to move forward with a package of reforms really to help bolster public confidence in our public institutions, to help public officials make better decisions, and at the end of the day i want to emphasize that this reform package is not about saying that activities that end up influencing government shouldn't occur. simply saying we're trying to emphasize trans

edward cho. >> i'd like to second the nomination. >> all right. >> i move the nomination be closed madam chair hallway are there any other nominations due to close therefore let's move all in favor, say i. >> i. >> against? okay. the i's have it the next nomination is for vice president >> madam president i'd like to nominate you for vice president of the commission. >> did i hear a second and so second. >> are there any other nominations? okay hearing no one all in favor, say i. i >> against. >> all right. let's moved and just for expedientcy. >> thank you. >> congratulations new officers. >> thank you. i'll thank you for the opportunity to make a brief statement first of all, i think all our commissioners commissioner melara thank you but in my two years of learning i'll be able to carry on our mission to support the commission of the department in the work we have to do. we're very fortunate to have your staff and its only apartment but we're going to ask him we ask each of our commissioners to tell us what they want to serve on we've built a strong team in our committee structures the stru

. >> thank you, madam chair. you have to be careful how you strike it balance. i don't think that anyone can sit up here and say that under us a specific scenario would be clued. you want to give enough direction but provide flexibility. i trust that the rent board will go back and look at the form and figure out what's reasonable and to the extent p there are people who have suggestions i hope they're open to that so the department association and altercating others have ideas we know should be on the form. i'm sure there's an openness on the tenant side i think the idea is to come up with something fair that didn't hide the ball but gives certainty and ultimately provides the opportunity for the mom and pop landlord that you wish referencing to really provide all relevant information. i want to be careful not to say certainly types of information is not admissible because that could be helpful to a mom and pop or tenant. we need to find the right balance and we're trying to follow the gowns of the city attorney to the level to have guidance but at the same tim

supervisor kim, you are up. >> thank you madam chair. i do aul alenjoy this and i agree with snob nob how every day is black history month and we should celebrate the diversity in the community, but do a terrible job of [inaudible] for the work they do to make this country more democratic and [inaudible] commissioner [inaudible] who i work on putting together ethnic studies curriculum that we have in all the high schools. you can take it and it can be a class that helps you graduate. i didn't learn enough btd my history and it helps me get to the place i am today. [inaudible] the people that we are recognizes today [inaudible] it is important to acknowledge those folks. i am excited to add this name [inaudible] a group of folks in the african american community in san francisco and that is joe wilson. i'm glad you all sat down because if you know joe, there is a long history here. we go our community relies on the resources and care committed by the non profit providers many that go [inaudible] are recognized here today. for the tremendo

any comments yes commission >> madam chair in the letter summer we had a memo from jerry and i had there was about merced issues to make sure that the staff copied rec park i want that a standing request i'm always interested in what they have to say and the recreation and parks department should have copies of everything. >> any other comments? communications seeing none, are there any that i any public comments. move on to other business we're a quiet bunch today. item 7 report of general manager >> so the first and only thing i'd like i'd like to update you on is the water supply. ellen >> i'm going to speak from here my arms aren't long enough to move the computer screen. i'm santa clara a gm i'll be covering the water supply. so a summon our water supply the total reservoir is 69 percent of maximum and only 13 feet is available for water supply we're up a 3 hundred and 4 acre supply. the month of february was quite good at the hetch hetchy gage when we were one hundred percent and in the local system over one hundred percent of the average. demand has responded to our request for re

thank you, madam chair. >> inc. for that excellent testimony. -- thank you for that excellent testimony. tenon, from louisiana. >> chairman boxer, members of the committee, it is an honor and a privilege to testify before you today. i am a professional civil engineer that has the pleasure of working 38 years for the louisiana io td -- dotd. i served as a regional district engineer for the a parish -- 8 parish. it is less about mardi gras and throwing beads and more about the common ordinary man dressing up in colorful costumes and masks, riding horses throughout downountryside and chasing animals to be in a gumbo. thew currently serve as president of st. landry parish in south louisiana. i am pleased to introduce to you jerry read, jimmy edwards, and tim legeren. come to washington dc to visit with you and are in the room today. >> raise your hands, gentlemen. welcome. >> to you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth -- [laughter] >> if they want a ride home, they have to. with a majority of others, they work ve

edward cho. >> i'd like to second the nomination. >> all right. >> i move the nomination be closed madam chair hallway are there any other nominations due to close therefore let's move all in favor, say i. >> i. >> against? okay. the i's have it the next nomination is for vice president >> madam president i'd like to nominate you for vice president of the commission. >> did i hear a second and so second. >> are there any other nominations? okay hearing no one all in favor, say i. i >> against.

. >> thank you, madam chair. i thought you were going to ask questions. >> we will do the whole panel and then we will have questions. >> thank you. of thehair and members committee, i am also honored by your invitation to testify today in this distinguished company. it was my privilege to lead the study of macroeconomic impact at my company, national economic research associates. end of our recent update to that study. i provided a copy, along with my testimony, and like to ask that this be entered into the record. reportsmony and these represent my own opinions and conclusions, not necessarily of any other consultant. i can speak only for myself. to address some issues about our earlier study. particular, one using 2011 data made our study. we updated it to the energy administration's most recent forecast. we used the 2013 outlook. as mr. simmons suggested, they have not published cases that were critical for our analysis of scenarios. we agree that we have to look at scenarios, because it is very difficult to

commissioner link ton, madam chair johnson, present. mondejar is absent and all members are present . the next regularly scheduled meeting. commission meeting will be held on tuesday march 18, 2014. at 1:00 p.m.. please be adviced that the ringing of and use of cellphone, pagers or other similar sound producing electronic device. are protected at this middle east meeting. please be adviced that a member of the public has 15 minutes to make pertinent public comments on the agenda item unless the commission adopts a period on the item. the member of the public who wish to speak to the commission please provide a card and commit the -- submit the card. there are no reportable actions. the next order of business is unfinished business. first the consent agenda item 5a. approval of minutes regular meeting of february 4, 2014. >> do we have any comments? no speaker cards. >> everyone should have received minutes in their packets. any questions? >> commissioner? >> yes, i was absent from the day of the minutes can i abstain? >> yes. any other

madam chair. >> thank you very much. i will miss my first commission ever. i will not be here for the next committee meeting. commissioner rosales will chair. >> the next report of the executive director. >> commissioners i wanted to report on legislation approved by the governor on february 18th and relates to how success or agencies a number of provision to how success or agencies operate and intended to provide some relief which is why the governor signed it about a week before these roths were due. fortunately for us there is a summary that council robert brian has prepared for taund actual tax assembly bill in g of your binders and i will go over what those are. really the key changes for us was to allow an expenditure beyond a roth period. if a lender requires that that cash be on hand. as typical all the affordable housing project not only are they able for a contract ual ordinance and what the tax requires is all the money in hand and not extend to a 6-month period an pursuant to a contract. it's spent out over time over the life of the construction p

madam chair. >> thank you very much. i will miss my first commission ever. i will not be here for the next committee meeting. commissioner rosales will chair. >> the next report of the executive director. >> commissioners i wanted to report on legislation approved by the governor on february 18th and relates to how success or agencies a number of provision to how success or agencies operate and intended to provide some relief which is why the governor signed it about a week before these roths were due. fortunately for us there is a summary that council robert brian has prepared for taund

chairman and welcome, madam chair. the open market committee has several times made the point that we seem to be operating in course purposes, as the federal reserve is pursuing an expansive monetary policy, we're pursuing a very restricted fiscal policy. it would seem to me that if we were in harmony or compleme complementary, it would be better for the overall economy. there are several examples. our current debate about unemployment compensation, most objective observers would suggest that could add from 180,000 to 200,000 jobs to our economy and at the same time helping people who need help. we're in the throes of trying to figure out if we're going to actually fund our highway system after next accident which is another example of how fiscal policy could aid your efforts. can you comment on this apparent cross purpose activity? >> so fiscal policy really has been quite tight and has imposed a substantial drag on spending in the u.s. economy over the last several years. the cbo estimated that last year the fiscal p

department of state and we are all subject to congressional oversight. >> thank you. >> thank you, madam chair. not madam chairman as our colleagues has had, but madam chair. mr. bennett, i am not going to ask you a question and i apologize for that. i am simply going to say that i spent two productive years in the state department working for roger hillsman. he lost the battle for what the war in vietnam was about. he lost his job and i lost my job. for a while, i was very happy. ms. krass, i want to take this up a bit. the committee report that we adopted a year or so ago was not only historic, but it was the single largest, most significant oversight effort in the history of our committee. it took nine years. to do that. 11,000 pages, close to 50,000 footnotes. you cannot argue with footnotes. you cannot argue with footnotes. 6000 plus 5000, 11,000 total. i started working on this committee just before 9/11. when i began to doubt the accuracy of the information that the cia provided me and former chairman pat roberts about this program. we want this report -- i say this with all my heart --

. >> thank you, madam chair. >> so, essentially, mr. st. croix and perhaps our representative from the city attorney's office, do you want to explain what we will be looking at? >> so, and i am going to defer to the city attorney in a moment. this is again, like last month sort of a unique situation it is not a process that we have gone through before. but this is not the same as last month. so, it will be necessary to go into closed session. the city attorney and the deputy city attorney will explain in a moment. so first we have should amotion to go into closed session and perhaps words from the city attorney and then a vote. >> do i here a motion? >> so moved that we go into private session. >> i will second. >> and any discussion? >> public comment? >> do you want me to comment before or after? >> yes, please. >> my view is that we it is necessary to go into closed session, the basically any question that, so just as a bit of back up, you know this was, these two settlements, the city attorney's office and sort of took the lead in negot

name is supervisor mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee and joined by supervisor avalos and thank you to clerk linda wong and billing and the other staff. 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 deta