ms. deborah and i are here thank you thank you for being here today. any comments or questions? >> okay. mr. rose do you want to go to your report. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee open page 73 for 13 and fourteen the reductions are ongoing savings. it would allow on a increase of 3.8 percent in the 13 and fourteen budget. all of which are ongoing savings and allowing at about increase of 2.57 percent in 2014 and 15 budget >> thank you, mr. rose we have an agreement. colleagues any questions? >> okay - what's that. >> can we have a motion to approve the motion. thank you for being here >> all right. >> as with all departments that are no, we have no dispute with you have no need to come back next week. we'll move along to the mayor's office. please do. >> item number 12 remove certainty observations of the hotel tax and remove obsolete items. and this is regarding the quantifies of charities. >> good afternoon supervisors. kate howard. i'm here with the deputy demeanor of the mayor's office with housing and community development. and brian two from the community deve

the second witness chris is deborah balen from public policy insurance institute of safety. ms. balen has also worked with the american insurance association and the university of colorado advisory committee for the hazard center and graduated from harvard law and from princeton university. thank you. >> our final witness is an assistant professor at a university of florida. he is some of the university of florida department of civil and coastal engineering since 2007 and his research focuses on the mitigation of extreme wind damage to low-rise construction. he is a member of the american society of civil engineers come on the board of the american association for wind engineering and a member of the u.k. wind engineering society. he received his ph.d.. welcome the spokane test manet is committed to five minutes each after which members of the committee have five minutes each to ask questions your written testimony will be included in the record in the hearing and i now recognize our first witness for five minutes. >> thank you. mr. bucshon, mr. . . . -- neugebauer i think for t

ms. delauro: i will just say, you were talking about the effects. it is about growth and development. there's wonderful material which we sent out to our colleagues from dr. deborah frank who talks about, you know, what happens to children, what happens -- it is concentrating but it is their ability to grow, to develop, you know, to be physically well. and the cost of dealing with, you know, what happens to the health issues, only adds to our health care costs. i'm of the view, if you can't deal with the humanity, let's deal with the economics of this. and the studies, the studies are so clear about what happens with the absence of food, particularly with children. mr. mcgovern: i would say to the gentlelady that, the point she raises -- the points she raises are very, very important. because the health of our children should be first and foremost. and we are now experiencing this country, a record level of obesity. and there is a tie-in between food insecurity and hunger and obesity. people who are struggling in poverty do not have the resources to be able to buy nutritious food. sometimes they live in food deserts and rely basically on food items that just kind