mr. paulson and mr. bowers? >> i checked with a colleague before coming into my understanding is we haven't lost any in afghanistan. we have had national employees held but not lost any expense. >> mr. powers? >> we have lost staff before in the past, most of our casualties lately have been natural causes deutsch avalanches and airplane crashes. >> but i'm talking doll violence, been killed. >> our rate of the ability to stay safe there is remaining high right now. >> this question would be relevant to you. >> we have staff on the ground of afghanistan and we haven't taken any. >> thank you very much. mr. -- mr. tiefer? >> it's a learning experience for me. i -- my students a the university of baltimore law school there is such a thing as grants in the legal world and i don't know enough to really teach it to them. i will know a little more after today. i also want to express my respect for the chairman and the insatiable appetite for going to afghanistan that i think led the way to the trip by chairman shays wh

mr. paulson. does anyone else wish to speak? public comment is closed.ant to thank the comptroller's office. i want to thank the outside auditors for their work, and i also want to thank the department's staff, who came to present to this committee, and you cannot have clean and open government without a robust oversight function. we take this very seriously. it is important for us to be very open about the areas where there is the need for improvement. it is important for us to hear back from the department, about the steps that they are taking to discuss these efficiencies. with this or any other report. hun-- we can file this item without objection? i want to thank every member of the public for being here. is there any other business. >> no further business. >> meeting adjourned. thank you.

mr. paulson? >> ♪ we'll shake it up city shake it up city fix it all about fix it about ♪ ♪ i hope i make it makes the safety work onnow -- on now won't you fix it up fine ♪ ♪ land use make the item safety shine make it shine dig a little bit closer know this city's yoursan and mine work this city's safety program on out ♪ ♪ fix it up good you know to dig a little closer look like you really should like you really should oh ♪ captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- -- ♪ work it out city land use fix it about the cases of earthquake because we will be broken about ♪ ♪ wn't yoon't you fix it up city fix it up fine because this city is yours ♪ supervisor mar: thank you. is there anyone else that would like to speak? public comment is closed. i was wondering if jason wanted to talk about capital planning, or even more of a mandate. just the thinking in the mayor's office. >> directly to supervisor wiener's questions, thank you for digging in to these issues. the question is h

mr. paulson? >> i am walter. ♪ you got treasure island on a string sitting above the water wrap the string around your fingers what a city, what an island fix it up so fine city island is a beautiful thing city, you hold the string your silly if you ever let this play scope's -- this place go you have the city island on a string, sitting on a rainbow wrap the string around your city figgers -- fingers what an island what a city what a place ♪ chairperson mar: thank you. mr. brooks? >> eric brooks, representing san francisco green party and our city. at last week's planning commission hearing, we reiterated our strong opposition to this project and that the eir should be recirculated. we were joined by the sierra club and others in that same call for the eir to be recirculated. the reason for this is not only the past things i have seen -- i have said about c level dangers, but the main reason now is the massive financial and governments changes in this project. these changes have happened all with

company and work for a private company or competes with the state company insists the key issue from mr paulson recently spoke of the our growing worldwide competition for investment what competitive advantages does russia have on. three different brands just one this. is so long they need compact introduction from the true source and natural size. of the russian economy you have the country. as a so i said. investors in the market this year because of market potential is big second thing is the fact that russia is probably the biggest any meaning european country the u.s. and our largest can think of it as an asia or latin america or africa but if you think that european civilization russia could be the potential for this sort of thing the most important think of people what if occasion people there once the first potential orphan for your. from the resources cycle for a police force and this is what attracts investors to support we can use to explore our potential in the same time to give people with a very careful what kind of responses are you getting to prison. reform for thought proposals

mr. paulson? >> i used to live in parkmerced in the way back when, in one of the towers. ♪ parkmerced city spirit moved me every time i am near and you were like the project sponsor in my mind could it be parkmerced city magic? major building fast could it be the city magic, parkmerced at last? let me take you and show you the building's height upon a steady building district high up were the buildings meet the sun could it be building magic i want parkmerced magic last to last please make it work a right tonight, mcgee last -- make it last ♪ chairperson mar: thank you. is there anyone else who would like to speak? anybody else that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, are other comments or questions? supervisor weiner: i pressed on mr. yearney on this issue. the reason i did that is because i remember the time when trinity was under consideration and we had this wonderful solution where we got to dramatically increase the amount of rental housing in mid market.

mr. paulson who was the ceo of goldman. that was during and republican administration.'d like to yield my remaining time to congresswoman moore of wisconsin and congressman ryan of ohio. speedwell i can tell you that freddie and fannie were the to take these mortgages from underwriters, razors mortgage brokers and credit raging -- credit rating agencies. somebody needs to go to jail. and it is not necessarily these people who had the mortgages. >> the time of the gentlelady has expired. the question is agreeing to the moment offered by the gentlelady from a higher. those in favor say aye. those opposed the suppose they know. the no's have it. a recorded vote is requested. the clerk will report the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] >> anybody else was to change their vote or was to vote? the clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, on that vote, the ayes are 15 and the nose or 23. >> there've been 15 ayes and 23 knows the amendment is not agree to. >> mr. chairman? i was just wondering, since she pronounces m

mr. steve paulson. >>> sal, that is correct. we heard from nicole she goes light drizzle here. we do have light drizzle and light rain in there. more of a nuisance. more of that pesky stuff called oregon missed. thank you very much. [ laughter ] light showers and mostly cloudy. one more system. we have heard that before. well one more at least for the next couple of days. tuesday and wednesday do look warmer it will be a dry pattern. right now you can see coming down from ukiah to mendocino county. there is not a lot here but it is producing light rain. 52-56 for your temperatures. concord 55. santa rosa at 54. step out of the way so you can see this. you're going is that it? yes. that's how the moisture source is streaming in. so these are whole hum systems but they are there. morning clouds some fog. light rain. we might get partly cloudy to partly sunny. there is so much moisture in the air. so it's the same pattern for one more day and then we will see a little bit of a break. 60s. upper 50s to low to mid 60s. we will go 64 for mountain view. 65 san jose. 66 morgan hill to

mr. paulson? >> as i mentioned in my remarks on the accountability and monitoring evaluation i don't have a sort of independent view on the private side. >> i think to answer to question generally know and it's partially a function of the nature of the mechanisms versus acquisition mechanisms where there's a great deal of oversight and conversely a lot more control over a contract they can change the geographic location and completely shape up the entire project until you go this way or that we but a lot of the inherent nature of the contract is that a lot of the success or failure isn't judged on impact it's just how many metric tons we've distributed not whether they got planted were germinated or were distributed through a streak to the country strong men who cut 75% for themselves and where is the cooperative agreement there's a lot less control but the monitoring evaluation does tend to be much more focused on impact the teachers retain what they learned and so forth. >> ms. richard? >> you k

mr. timothy geithner and the president and even hank paulson has had business connections before any of them were put into the positions they are and that between themselves, they are deliberately doing the dollar so we can pay off china, japan, brazil or whoever we owe money to in worthless paper. i wonder if there's any possible grounds to something like that? i will hang up and listen. thank you. host: mark zandi? guest: no, i don't think so. chairman ben bernanke of the federal reserve was princeton professor. timothy geithner has been a lifelong government official and the federal reserve system and was head of the new york federal reserve and now head of the treasury. he was never, as far as i know, in the private sector. hank paulson was. that was the former treasury secretary under president bush. he was head of goldman sachs. he had extensive private sector background. quite varied in their backgrounds, have very different perspectives on the economy, financial mall -- markets and policy. going to your point of intentionally debasing the dollar, the answer is no, i do not think that

mr. timothy geithner and the president and even hank paulson has had business connections before any of theme put into the positions they are and that between themselves, they are deliberately doing the dollar so we can pay off china, japan, brazil or whoever we owe money to in worthless paper. i wonder if there's any possible grounds to something like that? i will hang up and listen. thank you. host: mark zandi? guest: no, i don't think so. chairman ben bernanke of the federal reserve was princeton professor. timothy geithner has been a lifelong government official and the federal reserve system and was head of the new york federal reserve and now head of the treasury. he was never, as far as i know, in the private sector. hank paulson was. that was the former treasury secretary under president bush. he was head of goldman sachs. he had extensive private sector background. quite varied in their backgrounds, have very different perspectives on the economy, financial mall -- markets and policy. going to your point of intentionally debasing the dollar, the answer is no, i do not think that is