>> mr. mayer, hole in one --that is impressive. i think i have the record for a hole in ten. [laughter] by was bragging about the fact that we are joyful learners. we do not just go to school to learn. but we learn about fund. when i counted three, i want to hear the loudest yell you can yell to show the mayor and the president how joyful we really are. are you ready? here we go. one, two, three. [yelling] ooh, that was a big breath. that is the last time you can yell that loud on of golf course. mr. mayor, thank you for why you and pg&e are doing for the children of san francisco. these are difficult times when things are caught and scaled back. physical education does not have to be something you do when time of the day or one half hour of the day. it is a lifelong skill but all of our students will be able to use as they grow older and hopefully get better on the golf course. we want to thank you on behalf of all the 65,000 san francisco unified school district students. thank you to pg&e for giving us an opportunity to introduce the sport of golf to the students of san fr

. >> thank you, mr. mayer. thank you for the feedback on the pension proposal. we're in the process of kicking around ideas. thank you for your thoughts. as the mayor said, the goal is not to punish anybody. the goal is to have a fair pension. we also need to look at some of our policies and think about the changes we need to make. so that when you look out in the future, we have a solvent pension system and have a city budget that can support all of the services we care about. i appreciate your feedback. i want to let you know that we have a lot of ideas in consideration and that is our goal. >> i am here to address the issue of cutting services for the mentally ill in san francisco. in response to a rash of police shootings of the mentally ill the past few years, the police commission approved the implementation of the memphis model of crisis intervention training for the police department. the model is a community effort in joining the police department and the community together for understanding and service to the mentally ill and their families. the effort

. >> dear mr. mayerhought this is shocking and i am proud. >> i noticed the flag was waving and i felt proud and then i was sad. . >> that young lad that found a tattered flag in oceanside, a military town is fantastic. >> i think it is important and thank you.. >> i thought it was great, we give it to the city manager in we've replaced that flag. >> we are very proud and honored to have that he listened to children. most people to listen to children. >> i do not worry about the future when there are children like this. keeping this to be moving in a positive direction. >> the mayor sent luc a latletter of proclamation. he will cherish it every day. >> i wish everybody a happy memorial day weekend. >> the national weather service is measuring the joplin tornillo devastation. 6 mi. wide path of destruction. >> the a's will find out why they are on the stoppable not ♪ [ woman ] this icelandic mud was working wonders on my skin. but if it was going to do the same for my spa, i had to figure out a way to get

but i'm going to take the moderator's brought it and as a quick question mr. mayerwe will bring you up here. you mentioned when you were talking and articulating the third job of the mayor being the articulation of the vision for the city and recruiting others to be part of that and touched on public employees unions. can you talk a bit about how you brought some of those unions perhaps on board and if you were not able to do so how you dealt with that especially right now when so many elected officials are facing that. >> well, for the most part, in our case we had five union bargaining groups, and we had six bargaining groups and for unions in the city. so we were dealing with that a lot, police, fire and the blue and white collar unions to work with and i'm not going to say that's an easy process to go through its difficult process to go through and the motivations and this is not a criticism their objective is to improve the benefits of the folks they represent. and while you certainly care what the employees of the city i care deeply. i love them. i have many f

mr. mayer, your team has been remarkable thus far. we have set up, led by the state, a housing task force that is leading the effort to help people recover. obviously, housing will be perhaps the single most critical part of the recovery. we have a number of efforts under way already that i want to touch on. our first priority was reaching the most vulnerable. seniors, people with disabilities -- we have identified almost 500 units, 484 units and thus far that have been either destroyed or nearly destroyed, where we have relocations under way. we're also working very closely with homeowners. one of the innovations we have learned in working closely with secretary of paula taney -- secretary napolitano is that, oftentimes, where there is damage, we can help people get back in their home quickly. we set up a rapid response effort to do short-term temporary repair much more quickly than we had in past disasters. this is one of the first times we will be using that. we also have longer term assistance for homeowners. we declared a 90-day

mr. andrew pincus is a partner at mayer brown rowe and maw. and pursuant to committee rules, all witnesses are sworn before they testified. if you will stand and raise your right hand? the solomons where or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the trick of a culture, and nothing but the truth? all right. have a seat. the record will reflect that all witness answered in the affirmative. in order to facilitate discussion, your written statements will be admissible to the record. you can simply sub--- summarize. we would love to hear your testimony. mr. zywicki, we will start with you. >> it is a pleasure to be here today. i want to say at the outset that i was in favor and remains strongly in favor of regulatory reform dealing with consumer financial protection and that sort of thing. i think we have been much in need of regulatory reform, streamlining, coherence, that sort of thing. this day i remain disappointed with the cfpb. we have squandered a golden opportunity to create new useful safeguards for consumers that would pro

mr. andrew pincus is a partner at mayer brown rowe and maw lp. with that, as is pursuant to the committee rules, all witnesses are sworn before they testify. if you will stand and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to get will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? all right. have a seat. the record will reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. in order to facilitate discussion, if you can -- your written statement will be admissible to the record, and you can simply summarize assemble five minutes and at one minute you get the yellow light which sort of helps you round up and i would love to hear your testimony. mr. speed, we will start with you, sir. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it's a pleasure to be here today. i want to say at the outset that i was in favor of -- strongly in favor of regulatory reform, dealing with consumer financial protection and that sort of thing. i think that we've been much in need of regulatory reform streamlining coherence and that so

mr. andrew pincus is a partner at mayer, brown, and rowe. with that, raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear the testimony will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing through the truth? all right. have a seat. the record will reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. in order to facilitate discussion, if you can -- your written statement will be admissible to the record. you can simply summarize simple five minutes. at one minute, you'll get the yellow light which helps you. i would love to hear your testimony. mr. zywicki, we'll start with you, sir. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it's a pressure to be here today. i wasn't strongly in favor of regulatory reform, dealing with consumers financial production and that sort of thing. i think that we've been much in need of regulatory form, steam lining and that sort of thing. so this day, i remain disappointed we squandered a golden opportunity to create new useful safeguards for consumers that would promote consumers choice and protection. instead, what i think is we've created a monster of an agency that is