mr. andrew better known as drew howard. so mr. howard is a 91/81 mta manage and her a licensed engineer in the great state of california and he heads our division's project manage and group and we have the several of the folks here to be withdrew and could you stand? >> okay, thank you. >> thank you. >> and his distinguished career, spans over 22 years, and he served as project engineer and overhead engineer unit and civil engineer and project manager for many successful projects for the agency and he is certainly a gifted engineer and really to us at cpand c he is much more than that he is a talented writer and articulate and focused on producing quality work on time and under budget. and drew is a leader in his field and in our division, and he is an example for all of us at sfmta to follow and mr. howard and a person who leads by actions and snot not just his word. he is knockal and he has shared his knowledge openly and without reservation and with all of us who needed help, me included. he is a native san franciscan and who is

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mrs. wolowitz: howard, your bath is getting cold!like an armadillo. he showed up in the middle of the night with his bongos. i foolishly thought it was some sort of musical booty call. poor guy. he must have been exhausted. sheldon like to sleep while leonard play the bongo! that was kind of uncalled for. no, it was called for. what's going on? all right, sheldon, this craziness has gone on long enough. please come home so i can cut your hair. penny, you're not trained. you're not licensed. most importantly, you don't have access to my haircut records. all right, honey, look, we've known each other for a long time now, right? i've taken you to disneyland, i kicked a bully in the nuts for you, i sing you "soft kitty" when you're sick, you've even seen me naked once. i'm sorry, w-what? it was a long story. anyway, sheldon, i promise i know what i'm doing. please let me cut your hair. amy, what do you think? there's not a hair on my body i wouldn't let this woman trim. fine, let's go. thank you for letting me sleep on your couch. there'

mrs. wolowitz: howard! what are you doing in there? i'm taking a bath! i hope that's all you're doing! oh, man. all soaped up and no place to go. (knocking at door) how ya doin', buddy? i was humiliated on national radio. how do you think i'm doing? come on, it wasn't that bad. (sighs): what do you want? (munchkin voice): we represent the lollipop guild, and we want you. okay, so kripke played a joke on you. it wasn't funny. i thought it was funny. raj. you laughed. did you laugh? i fell on the floor. all right, he got you. you can get him back. i refuse to sink to his level. you can't sink. with all that helium in you, you're lucky you don't (high pitched): float away. are you really admitting defeat? i never admit defeat. good. however, on an unrelated topic, i am never getting out of this bed again. what if you could make kripke look even sillier than he made you look? i don't think that's possible, dude. you're not helping. i didn't come to help, i came to mock. sheldon, what you need to do is figure out a way to exact vengeance on kripke, like, uh, like, how the joker got back at

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mr. wong. >> howard wong, savingmuni.com. half of my career has been overseeing large city projects; i am aware of the problems that projects can fortell at any point in the project. with the award of the tutor perini contract, the project report dated may 16, 2013, will drop the central subway contingency to 65 million dollars, or approximately 4% of the project cost. when the federal requirement at this point according to the fta is 10%, or 160 million. but - savemuni.com analysis indicates that perhaps this is even worse than it seems based on records that we have obtained the contingency might be closer to 3%. given the fact that major construction of tunneling and station deep excavation has not started at this point of the project is prudent to have large contingencies for project with high risk as the fta acknowledges. in 2009, the fta recommended a contingency of 20%, 330 million dollars. the report they wrote in 2009, they said there was an 80% chance this project would cost 2 billion or a 420 million contingency. in

mr. bloomberg. >> i'm howard. i'm a resident. i'm a member of p sock. i support the efforts of chairman to take all of the agencies and put them together and coordinate their activities. mostly in support of the initiative we suggest we start talking with the state to get the urban issues resolved. as discussed earlier a lot of regulations were talked about in regards to the environment. it's important we show the state wire cooperating with each other. we want to reduce serious injuries and facility. this is going to be a real challenge. we're going no, the wrong direction and really kworptd action is required >> any additional comment on items 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. fall i want to thank the departments and members of the public to express their points of view. we talk a lot about having liveable and walkable streets and - if i could ask folks with their side conversations to take them outside. thank you. we're not done with the items yet. we talk about having liveable and walkable streets. there is a significant public desire to improve the safety of our s

mr. mayor, supervisors, budget director, kate howard and other city departments. my name is pam denenberg. i am a member of the coalition that includes -- and has support of the san francisco -- and many faith-based groups. we are speaking for justice for the whole city, for those affected by the behavioral, mental health issues, which includes many homeless people , as well as people with money and those affected by gun violence in the wonderful city of st. francis. we ask you not to cut the budget for the mental health services; the services already lacking in terms of inpatient mental health; we also speak to you about the fact that -- was in the building two new hospitals in the city without one single behavioral health bed, -- here is an opportunity to provide some resources. we have a plan that was produced by some physicians who try to deal with this issue in the city. we met with many of the supervisors and we would like to meet with mr. -- with you, mayor ed lee and also with kate and any of the other departments. we have heard the horror stories of patie

mr. rose: we are undertook the occasion that ms. howard has clarified that the unencumbered expenditures have been taken so withdraw the recommendation. page 27 of the report. >> supervisor farrell: there seems to be a discrepancy between you commented there is not agreement regarding the second fiscal year we are talking about here and i think the chief is articulate in something different. i want to be clear. >> mr. rose: oh, excuse me. it's the other way around. i'm sorry mr. chairman that was my mistake. the chief is correct on that. >> supervisor farrell: okay so it is that 1,016,195, if we were to reject the recommendation then there would be a zero dollar reduction in year two. >> mr. rose: that is correct. >> supervisor farrell: okay. colleagues? questions? supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: if you could explain the need for that 1 million to better police the housing authority buildings, if you could explain and justify that again? >> essentially this is the community policing model, the same officers, a desired assignment, 32 off

don't we ask kate howard to speak on the mayors proposed budget then we'll ask our controller to speak on the budget and then ask harvey rose. i believe we have some questions for mr. rose on a report that supervisor al loss had conducted. first up ms. howard >> good afternoon supervisors kate howard thank for having merry me here today to talk about the mayors proposed budget. the items before you the bulk of them the action items are approving the interim budgets and salary ordinance for the city. essentially those are place holder budget that allows the city to continue to operate while the board is considering the budget for the scent two years. i'll briefly present this. so at the highest level the budget this year is growing to $7.9 billion. it's about the same in the fiscal years for the next two years. it's approximately $4 billion of that $89. billion. your overall employees is growing up to 27 in the second year but those increases are largely driven by the city to have the affordable care act. it grows if the human services i agency. as we're move forward to enroll 40 thousand people who are currently not enrolled in medicaid. high-level this chart show

mrs. william howard taft went on one of those -- lesser tour than mrs. harrison, but a tour we were talking about, and she saw those dirty old trunks as she said and she had the silver taken out and put in drawers like anyone does at home today and had the trunks thrown away and the silver was decimated. it began to go out with the garbage. a lot of it remains but you began to lose it, if you can't count it. >> that is painful. >> it's like the decayed furnishings sales at the white house, all these things thought to be out of date were sold at auction. they had huge auctions and all of this marvelous stuff my grated out of the white house. >> sam is washing us in cherry hill, new jersey. you're on, sam. >> hello, there. i had a question about mrs. harrison's ill health. let me begin by saying i am a huge caroline harrison fan, i've been following her for years but did her ill health have any effect on the amount of work she was able to do in her husband's administration? do you think it prevented her taking on more work in the administration? she was a

mr. vice president, speaker boehner, harry reid, nancy pelosi, howard professor dr. edna g.ford and the douglass family led by its matriarch, ms. nettie washington douglass. the great, great granddaughter of frederick douglass who we all are pleased to welcome to the capitol today. [applause] it took a community to choose frederick douglass to represent the capitol joining statues from the 50 states. and the entire congress to bring the statue to the capitol today. i especially find that it was d. c. residents who selected frederick douglass to represent the district and the capitol. our residents are accustomed to hosting national and international visitors who make the district their home. none before or since douglass however have so joined his national prominence and philosophy with the aspirations of the people of the district of columbia. douglass lived here for 23 of his 57 years as a free man. he knew and felt deeply about where he lived. he refused to separate his life in the district from the quality of his courageous life. rising from bondage to become the most pr

mr. city attorney we've had a motion in terms of the budgetary items so we . okay. up next, we have kate howard back things were a trust matter for the board to review. we have the specific funding remedies that are proposed by the programs that are listed there which total $886,000 they are so specific allocations is discretionary such that the specific matters are the matters of board of supervisors >> and to be calory on those items we've done this last week there is no action on the committees behalf. >> colleagues any questions or comments. >> okay. thank you ms. howard. why don't we move on to our city attorney's office >> good morning naomi. i'd like to thank harry rose and this is for all the productive conversations we've had. i'm breaking out my budget we agree with the budget on operating budget with expectation of one is our medical examiner and reduction to the attrition in the medical examiner's office. there's a recommended kit by 82 though 8 hundred and 88 and reducing the attrition by 80 notice o thousand in fiscal year 2014. the medical examiner is required by state law to inv

mr. city attorney we've had a motion in terms of the budgetary items so we . okay. up next, we have kate howard back things were a trust matter for the board to review. we have the specific funding remedies that are proposed by

mr. city attorney we've had a motion in terms of the budgetary items so we . okay. up next, we have kate howard back things were a trust matter for the board to review. we have the specific funding remedies that are proposed by the programs that are listed there which total $886,000 they are so specific allocations is discretionary such that the specific

for their incredible work and mickey callahan, kate howard angd the various leaders for their support through the last few months. i want to thank mr. lee and i hope this will help the last remaining. the rest i submit. >> supervisor kim, supervisormar? >> i would like to invite my colleagues to the balboa theatre what some might feel brings back a lot of memories. some are saturday movies. there is popcorn palace that began last weekend and continues this weekend with a showing of assortment of kids movies. you get popcorn and a bottle of water or juice for a really good admission price. it's made possible by the independent film makers of the northwest film festival. also beginning june 1, saturday morning are filled with children's classics. i would like to invite a number of you to attend these events. some of you know that friday nights in district one at the museum is a great opportunity for family and art making for kids, but there is -- every friday is an amazing time for art, music, creativity and for families. a performance of dances. her name is l e n o.r. a lee. it's called escaped. it's two performances this coming fri

mr. weiner be president? >> he won't be president and i think howard dean put it best when he went yeah! >> john: howard dean could be president. that's another topic for another show. that concludes why will these men never be president. thank you for playing. i have to return this to the prop house now. thank you al jazeera. don't go away. my comedy panel will discuss why everyone in the media is piling on paula deen and someone else who is getting a lot of scorn. a friend of ours. go time. you know what time it is. go time! it's go time. it's go time. what time is it rob? here comes the young turks go time! it's go time. oh is it? oh, then it's go time. anybody? anybody? what time is it? oh, right. it's go time! this show is about analyzing criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal, or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i'm given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not

mr. chairman, i have the privilege of working with two close friends of yours. howard pastor>> i lev them both. and paul rogers. >> as i was sitting here thinking about your many great contributions to congress. i thought about the epic fight over the clean air act in the 1970's and the film that was made about that. hr 261 act of congress. ir those who haven't seen it recommend it. but it explains the art of governance and i thought you might take a moment to help us understand -- think of today when we're not governing very well. the process, as you touched on, a compromise and how legislation should come together despite competing interest in the house. question. congress is a human body. there was an observation like sausage or government -- don't watch either one. [unintelligible] when we finished the clean air they handled it and we passed the bill in 13 hours on the floor. they said mr. dingell what a it in 13 hours. topassed 420-10 or close that. that was a rough number. hours. i said yeah, it only took me 13 years to do it. [laughter] what was interesting was

mr. goolsbee put together plans to deal with life-threatening diseases agreed to finance this for a year now. you should be really proud of howard. every one of these schools including howard are committed to doing this work for three or four years for only seven percent overhead. the lowest in history of any foreign assistance programs. you should be proud. [applause]you'll save countless lives for decades and decades. i am well aware that the commencement speech is the least important part of this day. i congratulate all of you who are here. your parents and your friends i think --oved ones. andk those who taught you supporters of howard who are here. i actually remember who gave my commencement speech 45 years ago next month. i remember exactly what the speech was. we were like this on the lawn at georgetown.just across town. it started out to be a clear day. then a huge storm cloud came over. the lightning began to dance in the sky. a howard graduate, the mayor of washington, d.c., stood up at the podium and looked at the sky and the students and said, and-- congratulations. get out of here, we are all going to drown. [laugh

mr. clerk can you please call item number four. >> item number four and administering the administrative code for the cultural arts fund and art funds. >> we have kate howard here from the mayor's budget office. >> supervisors, kate howard mayor's budget director. as you are aware this item creates special funds for certain arts related activities in the city and that's the primary focus of this piece of legislation. >> okay. colleagues any questions? comments? okay. we will keep this item on going. thank you very much. would you call item nine ready. mr. clerk can you call item number 11. >> i believe that we have item eight that we have not called. >> all right. please call item eight. >> item eight resolution approving expenditure from the incentive fund for one time purposes in fiscal year 2013 and 2014 and 2014 and 2015. >> ms. howard. >> thank you supervisor farrell. this item before you approves this expenditure from the budget fund. i think you're aware this fund was created in the administrative code and allows -- it is intended to encourage departments to generate savings in their operating budgets and to use those savings on one time expenditure