with that, mr. chu, welcome. good to see you. whenever you're ready, please begin. >> all right. brian chu, director of community development, mayor's office. and i think you have paper copies of the power point available in front of you. so supervisor ronen has given an excellent overview of the genesis of the process. our office has been working closely with offices of work force and economic development with the arts department, public works, human rights commission and other departments to come together to see how it can most effectively collaborate on this project. as supervisor ronen stated, one of the elements of this program is to formalize the partnership between the city and the diverse communities to develop clear strategies to stabilize these communities. we want to leverage the city capacity. one of the primary purposes is to identify the existing resources that may be available for many of these vulnerable populations. they just don't know they're available to facilitate that and come up with a more formalized process for creating these districts. supervisor ronen s

chu: mr. bush? >> mr. bush: i had an opportunity to talk to kate hard hartley, she was very informative. i think -- a minute or two, to put context into the housing bond. because the housing bond is a little different than the bonds we have. on the others we have the city doing the construction and this one, it's not the city. what happened in many bonds is that there is not as much specificity as you expect, which makes it harder to evaluate, that people are getting what they thought they were getting. that can be advantage in how we spend the money and it can be a concern for people in the community. for example, if you thought a park was coming in by you and it's not going to come in by you, you don't know for sure why that is. what i want to make clear is the that the city is not gaining the bond, it's not playing politics with it. there are developments that require the city to be more nimble in how its spending money. some of the ones that need to be acknowledged is the north bay wildfires, that dest

chu: thank you, mr. thomas. >> mr.hughes: as a liaison from the committee to this bond, i met with mr. thomas and his staff on april 16 of this year. and without belaboring this too much, i'll just run through some of the things that we touched on at that time. on road repaving and street safety bond -- first of all i want to preface it with you have either reached the goals that were set out at the time of the ballot measure or exceeded on those complete. and those that are pending, are pending completion are very close to the original anticipated goals that were met. so on road repaving the street savings bond, you were at 95% of the goals had been reached as of that time. and it is currently projected that you will meet or exceed the original goals set out at the time of passage. so, thank you. and to your staff. outstanding. on the pci, the metropolitan transportation commission's revised pci scores, there was a change in the way that was determined. and that resulted in a new score. and we understand that the old

mr. larsen: i would like to yield the final two minutes to the gentlelady from california. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. chu: mr. speaker, i rise in strong opposition to mr. gallagher's amendment to the national defense authorization act. this harmful amendment would add language to the ndaa that specifically targets chinese foreign nationals who receive u.s. pliment or student visas for extra scrutiny by our federal government. if this amendment twor confine itself to the serious issue of safeguarding american interests against foreign political influence, industrial acquisitions and regional global capability, it might be supportable. but this amendment specifically targets an ethnic population in this clint by singling out the chinese who participate in student visa programs and who are receiving employment visas. while there's no doubt that we must take national security threats from foreign countries seriously, including russia, this amendment assumes there's widespread abuse of our visa program from china alone and attempts to paint all chinese students, scholars and employees en s and potential spy -

mr. speaker. the prime minister has said it many times that she will have no hard border between dublin and belfast. can she tell this house just once what kind of border chu would like between dublin and --? >> we have been very clear that we would not see a border by the irish sea. we have been clear about that in the -- issued between us and the european commission. and when the european commission made a proposal for dealing with the border between northern ireland and ireland, which would have meant a border down the irish sea, i was clear that neither i nor any british prime minister would accept that. and -- a rising budget this government has clearly demonstrated its commitment to the nhs. but there are short-term challenges recruiting pediatric --ff to that he had electric to the pediatric ward. can you -- the decision has not yet been made, and that she will work with me to leave no stone -- can workthat together to make sure that we recruit the doctors we need? i give my honorable friend the reassurance he is asking for. he is right that we are supporting nhs. any decision taken by the trust about services available will be made to ensure the pr