supervisor chu: thank you very much, mr. young. just a bit of information, the office has put out a schedule of hearing dates for the upcoming budget season. primarily we will be seeing a number of enterprise departments in the month of may as well as a number of general fund departments in the month of june. i believe that that schedule is posted on the boat -- on the board web site. the two months before june we will be having a number of hearings relevant to understanding the budget that we are seeing before us for 2011- 2012. if we can, please go straight to that. please call items one and two. >> item #one. hearing to receive information regarding budget instructions issued to departments and plans to close the budget deficit for fy2011-2012. item #two. ongoing hearing to receive updates on the state's budget for fy2011-2012 and its impacts on the city and county of san francisco. supervisor chu: mr. wagner is here from the budget office and the comptroller's office might add a few words. >> thank you very much, madame chair.

mr. young, do we have any announcements today? >> yes. please turn off all cellular phones and pagers. you wish to speak, please fill up a speaker card and return it to myself. items acted upon today will be on the board of supervisors agenda for march 29, 2011, unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you, mr. young. we do have a number of items today to consider. these are hearings to lay out the cost goes associated with the city budget. we have hearings on employee benefits, labor contracts and where we stand with those, and we also have a hearing for discussion surrouupcoming budge supervisor farrell:. we have the desire -- the upcoming budget year fy2011- 2012. we have the desire to have those proposals out there. we are really endeavoring to make that happen. i asked you to call item no. 1. >> item #1 -- hearing to receive an update from the department of human resources on the status and provisions of city labor contracts. supervisor chu: this is to talk about general trends and lay out the big picture. i will ask the city c

mr. young will testify later today. i served in several administrations and i can say this is not a partisan issue or problem. in my written statement to refer to the struggle to control acquisition cost. it's not just cost overruns. it's control costs overall. every defense acquisition executive committee principal deputy, every service or component executive has engaged in the struggle. wyeth has been so difficult? by doing so if cost overruns? there's a number of reasons why this has been so retractable. understanding the causes has to be the first step in addressing cost control and cost overruns in dod. i'd like to say somewhat reinflated that deposition system only has two powers. planning and execution. but start with landing. planning is largely a government responsibility. it includes presetting requirements for new product. second, sending key schedule date. third, estimating total program costs. fourth, establishing budgets and evaluating plans come including bids received from indus

supervisor kim: thank you, mr. young. >> hello, i am an organizer. i am here to support supervisor campos becoming part of the mtc. i just wanted to talk about how he has been supportive of the work we have been doing since last year, trying to advocate and work with our communities around issues having to deal with public transit. he has not only been very responsive to us and our concerns around the increasing fares, enforcement, and also the issues with youth not being able to get to school because they don't have the money for it. he has been incredibly supportive, opening his doors. he has helped coordinate meetings with the mta board and the different officials and we would have had a much harder time having access to them and having those conversations. as we continue to work on transit issues, it will be very important for an organization such as ours to have a relationship with mtc, so this is really critical for communities like ours, communities of color at low- income families to be able to count on his upper limit to the mtc, and we real

sfgtv, mr. young, do we have any announcements today? >> if you wish to turn in public comment, please provide a copy to the clerk. items heard today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda on march 1, 2011, unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: please call item no. 1. >> item #one. resolution approving an emergency public work contract under san francisco administrative code section 6.60 to replace the sewer on polk street from bush street to pine street with a contract amount not to exceed $422,339. supervisor chu: that this item was heard at the last budget committee. the reason it was continued with, the dollar value was slightly lower. previously stated that 420,000 and 07 $1. -- $420,071. it was continued for one week to allow for the actual public notice of the value. i will be prepared to take a notice to take it out. there is no presentation, but we can open it to public comment. are there any members of the public that wish to speak on item number one? seeing no one, public comment is close. i have a motion to send th

that was something mr. young and i agreed to last year and was agreed to by others. >> but there is a provision in hr-1 that says, all previous earmarks have no effect in fiscal '11. and if you want to see the language, i have it here. >> the president has also said it he'll veto any bill with earmarks. >> so we're looking at a final budget deal including something along those lines where all the prior earmarks are removed, correct? all of them. clearly this cr is a step in that direction. >> -- earmarks but leave the money there, too. that's another possibility. >> the money that would then -- >> be used for other purposes. >> it's money whether you use it for savings or whatever purpose. thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. to echo once again our thanks for both of you being here today. you know, when you look back in history, in particular in what occurred or didn't occur raft year in regards to what got us in this predicament right now as we're talking about a continuing cr, you know, my bigger concern is w

fukushima station is it is it is it really because of the earthquake yes of course well then i would ask mr young local we've got as far as i understand we do know the russians do have nuclear power plants also in say slick areas so how vulnerable are the far eastern regions of russia from the from the beginning of this year i think prediction the in this year exactly to two thousand and eleven you have. some nuclear. not clear accident it was my prediction three months ago in japan a lot more to jump on the north something is there on the global outlook did you do you see a pretty short wait for the ones who are caught because a lot of love now became all. continue. beyond that a little give it your life for three years for fifteen years. buff as a brick. you know you're not you know that's right this is true even though we were losing go ok we also before we always thought the game was quick the. only reason our very technically took we played was people so so if something happened well it should look back and well and about a square game and let's remember i mean two units where all four forty

mr. young, are there any announcements? >> please turn off all cell phones and pagers.you wish to speak during public comment, please fill out a speaker card and submit it to myself. items acted upon it will appear on the board of supervisors agenda on march 1, unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. supervisor chu: item one please. >> item 1. hearing to receive an update from the controller's office on the six month budget status report. >> thank you, chair chu, members of the committee. i am the director of budget analysis. i am pleased to give this update on the six month report. can we have a laptop on the screen? it is nice to bring a bit of good news in this budget environment. we will see how much more we will be able to get as we go through. our six month report in terms of the bottom line, showed an updated general fund balance of $89.2 million, which is $43 million in improvements from our three month report. if you look at the assumptions the mayor's office had been using in their last shortfall projections, there were already some of these improvements factor

mr. victor young. do we have any announcements today? >> please turn off all cell phones. if you wish to speak during public comment, please fill out the speaker card and turned it in to myself. if you wish to submit documents, please provide them to the clerk for the file. items appearing today will appear -- supervisor chu: thank you very much. please call item no. 1. >> item #one. resolution authorizing the department of the environment to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of $114,138 from the california department of resources recycling and recovery for the purpose of increasing used motor oil recycling and household hazardous waste management. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we have the department of the environment here. >> the morning, supervisors. this grant is to promote used oil recycling. the focus this year is on mechanics, people in the community that change other people's oil. we are finding the bulk of the oil not being recycled properly. in front of you you have a brochure. you can see a list of drop-off locations for oil a round of

particular a colleague asked and i have more general one that he asked me to put to you and this is mr. young from alaska. i'm going to read the question and he asked were due process is an basic in basic notions of fairness considered when you rescinded a properly issued permit on the desert rock power plant. that bill has said this plant will be the cleanest coal plant in the united states. this doesn't mean clean air standards within a coal plant be able to do so going forward? i want to tell you ahead of time i don't know this issue particularly well but he particularly asked he have an opportunity to address it. >> is that a new mexico? >> again i wish i could tell you more. aegis of the desert rock our plan. >> i believe he is talking about a title v petition for a coal-fired power plant. >> this is a native american angle to it as well. there was a tribe that was going to benefit financially it is gone at. >> we had significant petitions and concerns raised by the state of new mexico and downwind areas that were very concerned that this plan will contribute to regional haze, the visibi

that was something mr. young and i agreed to last year and was agreed to by others. >> but there is a provision in hr-1 that says, all previous earmarks have no effect in fiscal '11. and if you want to see the language, i have it here. >> the president has also said it he'll veto any bill with earmarks. >> so we're looking at a final budget deal including something along those lines where all the prior earmarks are removed, correct? all of them. clearly this cr is a step in that direction. >> -- earmarks but leave the money there, too. that's another possibility. >> the money that would then -- >> be used for other purposes. >> it's money whether you use it for savings or whatever purpose. thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. to echo once again our thanks for both of you being here today. you know, when you look back in history, in particular in what occurred or didn't occur raft year in regards to what got us in this predicament right now as we're talking about a continuing cr, you know, my bigger concern is w

obama say, from the budget request, that was mr. young denied last year, we agreed to that with senators. >> there is a provision in h.r. one that says all previous earmarks have no effect. if you want to see the language, i have it. >> we are then looking at in the final budget deal, including something along those lines were all of the prior earmarks are removed, -- where all of the private -- previous year march are removed. -- previous year marks are removed. >> that is a possibility. >> and the money would be used for other purposes. thank you, and i yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i echo our thanks for you being here. when you look back in history, particularly back at what occurred or did not occur last year with regard to what to do what got us in this predicament, this cr, my bigger concern is, where are we going to be as it relates to -- we do not want to be coming back. i am sure you do not want to keep coming back. it is not that we do not like it, which is not like to see you coming back every two or three weeks.

investigators would later establish than during his visit to sweden mr song to young women. he spent the night with both of them a short while later both young women a king for the wiki leaks founder of sexual assault. they went to the police. primarily to discuss with the police to tell the police what they have been through and to get advice or try with new and when they tell their stories both of them separately from each other and they tell the stories to the police the police officer realized they're telling a story concerning a crime. according to daniel don't try to beg a son who's always had a weakness for women we were at a conference and would have passed and he told a lot of people at our conference that he has children on every continent swedish authorities put the songs on the international wanted list by which time the wiki leaks founder had landed in britain many describe the criminal prosecution against him as politically motivated swedish lawyers claimed that it was a routine criminal case. it's nonsense it has nothing whatsoever to do with the wiki leaks ac

this is mr. young from alaska. i'll read the question. "due processes and basic notions of fairness considered when you were given a permit on the desert rock power plant. if built, this plant would be the cleanest plant in the united states. if this doesn't meet standards, can any coal plant going forward?" i don't know the answer, but i wanted him to have the opportunity to address it. >> in new mexico, does that sound right to you, sir? >> i wish i could tell you more, but he just said the desert rock power plant. >> title v in the four corners region. >> this has innative american -- this has a in this casive american -- this has innative american case to it too. >> we had concerned raised by the state of new mexico and down wind areas that were very concerned that this plant would contribute to regional haze, the visibility issues over the grand canyon as well as some significant additional pollution issues. i can get more information for you. >> please do, i'd appreciate that very much. i got one other specific question, and that's

congresswoman hirono, along with mr. young from alaska were among those who signed it on this bill. native hawaiian government reorganization act of 2011. what does it do? it really establishes us as meeting the fiduciary obligations that we have to the native hawaiians, this is a trust obligation that has been created long ago with the creation of the commission act of 1920. in addition, when hawaii became a state in 1959, in it was contained really a public trust obligation for the betterment of native hawaiians as defined by the hawaiian homes commission act. and we created the concept of the apology resolution and in that, recognized, recognized that we owe a special apology to the native hawaiians and process of reconciliation. this is what this act will do, give us the right to make things correct. and that is why i ask that you along with the rest of the colleagues support this. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: are there further requests for one-minute speeches? under the speaker's announced policy of january 5 of 2011, the gentleman from california, mr. garam

young mr. davies.was in violation of the honor code and was immediately dismissed. there he told us everything that sword, that he let us down. told us-everything. and it is something that with it is part of life. >> gary: just for the record, he was recruited by mike montgomery. if he stays? or if he transfers? >> gary: the sharks tonight against their number one opponent is the detroit red wings. one of the best franchises in history. the sharks aren't there in the western conference. 16-19. and 7:3:00 p.m. san jose. >> tonight we will not talk about winning streaks, or magic numbers or anything like that. or lead, position. and i think there could be 13 teams and our conference that are looking at it that way. >> gary: giants defeated the rockies. posies first home wrong. therese-11-9. this next story. >>pam: hey, vern >> deserves more! [laughter] >> gary: and it is a building blown up? >>pam: yes! >> gary: a new reporter j.r. stone and it is demolition time. what did vern glenn do earlier? >>pam: i

mr. welch together planned and put a young man in a false arrest situation, kidnapped him, flex cuffed himk him back to his house. >> reporter: the men's attorneys say it was an attempt to buy the p.i. to help a mother scare her son. >> mr. butler and mr. welch did a fake sting or arrest. should it have been done? of course not. did it have in the final analysis a helpful role in scaring this young man straight? i don't know. >> if you're the mother and it worked, it was a great thing. if you look at it now in a lot of what happened, everybody is going to criticize it. >> reporter: the incident appeared to hit a nerve with the judge, who refused to lower bail for butler after lowering bail for welch a week and a half ago. butler's attorney believes his client is being positioned to take the bulk of rap. >> my view is when you weigh culpability, the sworn police officer who is in charge of dozens of arrests of citizens and has access to evidence and is recirculating that evidence and using my client to find somebody to sell it, certainly one has to question the disparity of treatment on bai

mr. clerk, do you have any announcements first? clerk young: yes, please turn off all cell phones and pagers. if you would like to speak, please fill out a speaker card. if you have any documents you would like to present, please provide a copy to myself for inclusion in the file. any actions taken on today's agenda will appear on the board of supervisors' march 9 agenda, unless otherwise stated. chair chu: would you call item no. 5, please? clerk young: that would be march 8. sorry. i missed the date. item 5, an emergency hearing regarding the closure of lyon- martin health services, the impact on their client base, and provisions for continuing care or additional emergency support from the city and council of -- and county of san francisco. chair chu: i am joined by supervisors kim and mirkarimi, and also, supervisor wiener is here. supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: just some opening comments. the board of supervisors has not had a meeting on this to date. we learned about six or seven weeks ago about the possible closure an immine

mr. speaker. this young man's name is tyler jordan from cincinnati, ohio. he is attending his father's funeral. he was a gunny sergeant, phillip jordan, who was killed for this country. a 6-year-old little boy. you can't see his eyes, but they hurt. they're pained. how many more tyler jordans are going to be wait naring daddy or mom to come home to be buried if we stay there four, five, six, or seven more years? that's what's been indicated by the leadership of the military and this administration. how many more moms and dads and wives and husbands are going to be at dover air force base to receive the remains of their loved ones? that's why this debate is so important and why we need to have a date and a time to start bringing them home. my last poster, this absolutely handsome couple, the marine, worn out with ptsd, his beautiful wife katy and his little boy, last year at camp lejeune, he pulls his car over in the middle of the day and shoots himself in the head and kills himself. how many more will commit suicide? how many tyler jordans will not have the

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you know where we welcome good cheer darkness young women the foundation of the state mr adams. and the face pastry reflect the discovery of x. didn't want to go out on a course that the jewish people would have landed there it seemed. so anti their right and of course didn't understand that this was going to be at the expense of the existing. and have. to practicing. the chose because of that you think you. know. there was an imminent corruption process more a corruption process but it's part of occupation when he takes an eighteen year old man you just in this uniform you get in a gun in the power to control people just like a massacre where you are one plus one instance the sins of using protestingly and the stronger property looking shooting against orders or where stores and hurting innocent people. it's something that you can avoid when you're there the real story is the political power the source of it's the power to persuade the commanders to brigade officers is the same for never great control the earth you see is all everyone feels it and every brigade commander ever k

mr. mason call as soon as he comes in. you're very welcome. bye. gilman? carter gilman... morning, della. morning, perry. a youngan just called, and she's lost her father and she seems terribly frightened. what do you mean, she's lost her father? well, it just so happens that he disappeared right in the middle of breakfast. good place to disappear. she found your name on a list of appointments in his briefcase. do i know him? not that i know of -- carter gilman? that rings no bells. perry, yesterday afternoon, a man called. he wanted an appointment and said it was of extreme urgency. i gave him an appointment at 11:30. here -- 11:30, this morning. mr. edward carter. edward carter -- carter gilman. mm-hmm. carter gilman's address is 6231 volksman. mr. edward carter also left an address. 6231 volksman? mm-hmm. i think we'd better get in touch with your frightened young lady right away. the red stain on the floor... is not blood. it's paint. thank heaven. but there was obviously quite a fight in here. this must have been knocked over during the struggle. your father's workshop? yes. woodworking is his hobby. he's v

mrs. bryson, it is your claim that this young man caused injury to your son's tooth. >> that's correct. >> judge judy: they were playing a game. his father says it was an accident. they were both fooling around, and accidents happen. so, since neither you nor mr. mccann were there, you can both sit down. what's your first name? >> ryan. >> judge judy: and yours? >> zakk. >> judge judy: how long have you been friends? >> about two or three months. >> judge judy: when did this accident happen? >> december 20th. >> judge judy: what were you doing? >> we were sliding a replica of this plastic bottle on the ground after school. >> judge judy: sliding it? >> yeah, sliding it. >> judge judy: where were you? >> by my locker, which is in the third wing of the school. >> judge judy: i want you to show me how you were sliding it. >> we were sliding it back and forth -- >> judge judy: no, show me on the ground how you were sliding it. you can step right in front of the bench. step in front of the bench over there. show me how you were sliding it. >> we were both sitting down. >> judge judy: sitting do

mr. milligan... well, it turns out he's just young enough to die. i mean, think about it. it's the holidays.'t you just feel it? [thinking] i did feel it. and i knew what carla was gonna say before she said it. mr. milligan is unconscious. newbie, let's go. j.d.'s voice: think of your best moment in medicine. thanks for taking care of me, ma'am. if there is ever any way that i can hook you up, you just call me at work. don't worry about it. so, what do you do? i raise and breed ponies. [gasps] ponies! come on, thunder! tch, tch. can't be late for rounds again. let's go. giddyap. hey, elliot, would you keep an eye on tyler here while we take care of his dad? hi! yeah. i'm not that great with kids. they've got such tiny hands. it's creepy. i'm leaving now. heh! my dad's in the icu. what does that mean? well, tyler, that stands for intensive care unit. it's where we put our patients who need extra care, like somebody who might need help breathing because their lung collapsed, or maybe they had a brain aneurism-- which is basically when a vessel ruptures, and then blood pours into the-- you know

mr. speaker, these young men truly are of character. mr. speaker, i ask that we rise today and honor wes, the team, the fans that supported them and that they accept condolences on my behalf and the behalf of so many others who have asked, as i have been wearing this ribbon, to pass those condolences on to the community, to his family. we thank wes for his leadership and all that he has done for his community. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from hawaii rise? the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. hirono: mr. speaker, i grew up in japan where earthquake preparedness is part of life, but none could prepare the nation for the natural disasters that occurred on friday. while my mother had successfully contacted our relatives in japan, many families haven't been able to find or contact their loved ones. thousands of victims are in shelters. many are still missing. the death toll continues to rise. tsunami is a japanese word that the world understan

mr. muhammed hamdani, 23-year-old young man who was killed as he was trying to save his fellow americans and after he gave his life to save fellow americans some people threw rumors and stereotypes around suggesting that because he was a muslim he was implicated with the killers. but he wasn't. and i want people to look at that as a lesson that before we jump to a conclusion around who a muslim is or what a muslim does that we should first of all say is this person a human being, a fellow american who cares about our country the way all of us do and should. so i'd like people to know that. the muslim community needs to be a partner in protecting our country and that if we promote what our essential values are as americans, which is that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, if we go by that simple creed we will be able to make full use of everybody's talent and protect our country. >> so how would you assess congressman king's opening remarks? >> you know, his opinions, i though

mr. green. >> i think that we did not have a hearing on christianity and how it is radicalizing young american boys. we could have. we did not. that is my point. i yield back. >> and mr. green, it is good to see you both. we have been here since 9:30. i was thinking a little longer than that. it was not my idea to leave, but they set me somewhere else. >> we missed you, brother. [laughter] we will see in another five minutes if you are saying the same thing. >> is long is a beautiful religion, mr. chairman. but this hearing is not on as long. it is on the muslim community. there is a big difference. when you are admonishing people that they do not know what they are talking about, here is the title of this hearing. correct, mr. chairman? it says it. that is what we are talking about. but the extremists, many times are at in the eyes of the beholder. what we do not understand, all of us are bound to miss characterize and to stereotype. i do not believe anything i have heard. i listened to part of the hearing. i was in another meeting. i do not think i have heard anything from the panel of tryin