ms norton? ms wynns? >> item -- consent calendar resolution for immediate action. there was one severed by a commissioner ross said. >> i want clarification to know if this is the same classification of security guards we have been talking about in the context of budget negotiations. >> the same classification, this is an outside vendor that we use for the same classification. they are not police officers. but they are not district employees. last year, he wants me to explain what we did? last year upon the request was that we offered through the high schools and middle schools. that if the security at the school chose to offer to doo-doo overtime to supervise those games, we would offer it to them first and we would reduce this contract by the money that went to those personnel. there is a process in place. we communicated that to the security guards and they signed up with their assistant principal and then it was sent into the commissioner of athletics. and i just spoke to susan solomon and she agreed to do the same process again this year and i will contact com

ms. norton's district and ms. edwards district. there's a $2 billion lease on the fbi building coming up. billions of dollars of taxpayers dollars. if you can't manage conferences and bonuses, how do you expect congress will allow you to handle billions of dollars worth of leases. >> mr. denham would you yield for a second? i want to explain the issue he is raising right now and because we have leadership of the committee here. this is a very important issue and ms. norton, our committee is responsible basically under law and for years any lease that gsa signs over $2.7 million needs to come back for our approval and then we approve them. we had pending $350 million lease of the world trade center. the administration, gsa signed that lease without approval. how long is the term? 20 years. signed a 20-year, on top of everything else you've heard today with the kvrconferences, bonuses, waste and abuse. now they have just stuck the finger in the eye of the committee. i want to make sure everybody hears what mr. denham is saying. $350

ms. norton's district and ms. edwards district. there's a $2 billion lease on the fbi building coming up. billions of dollars of taxpayers dollars. if you can't manage conferences and bonuses, how do you expect congress will allow you to handle billions of dollars worth of leases. >> mr. denham would you yield for a second? i want to explain the issue he is raising right n and because we have leadership of the committee here. this is a very important issue and ms. norton, our committee is responsible basically under law and for yearsny lease that gsa signs over $2.7 million needs to come back for our approval and then we approve them. we had pending $350 million lease of the world trade center. the administration, gsa signed that lease without approval. how long is the term? 20 years. signed a 20-year, on top of everything else you've hear today with the kvrconferences, bonuses, waste and abuse. now they have just stuck the finger in the eye of the committee. i want to make sure everybody hears what mr. denham is saying. $350 milli

ms. norton's district and ms. edwards district. there's a $2 billion lease on the fbi building coming up. billions of dollars of taxpayers dollars. if you can't manage conferences and bonuses, how do you expect congress will allow you to handle billions of dollars worth of leases. >> mr. denham would you yield for a second? i want to explain the issue he is raising right now and because we have leadership of the committee here. this is a very important issue and ms. norton, our committee is responsible basically under law and for years any lease that gsa signs over $2.7 million needs to come back for our approval and then we approve them. we had pending $350 million lease of the world trade center. the administration, gsa signed that lease without approval. how long is the term? 20 years. signed a 20-year, on top of everything else you've heard today with the kvrconferences, bonuses, waste and abuse. now they have just stuck the finger in the eye of the committee. i want to make sure everybody hears what mr. denham is saying. $350

ms. norton's help we've turned that first property from a money losing asset to where a thousand people willemployed and potential significant revenue for the taxpayers. that took us over a year. since that we've done two subsequent hearings in vacant buildings in our nation's capitol. one in the annex, cotton annex. a huge rock of land. that building was vacant for five years and several weeks ago we conducted another hearing in an empty power facility behind the ritz carlton georgetown on 2.08 acres, vacant for 11 years. just examples of some of the huge waste of these conferences that are significant abuses and waste but they're even more dramatic problems with gsa. next we'll be doing a hearing in miami and there's a federal course that's been vacant there for a number of years and we'll continue during august recess. i think we'll be in los angeles with mr. denim to look at the situation there with under utilized or excess property sitting idle. that sort of sets the stage for today's hearing. we have been working with inspector general. we have a limited investigative staff on the comm