ms. howard, pulling it from state reserves, we have 15 million from state reserves right now budgeted, and to take some money from that according to this amendment. question is, from your point of view, from the mayor's staff and from budget office, what are we anticipating for, you know, state cuts, that we haven't seen yet? if it's less than 15 million we should talk about it. if it's more than that then i don't understand why we're doing this. >> thanks, supervisor. kate howard, mayor's budget director. so you're correct, we have allocated $15 million this year for state budget impacts. we expect to go forward, and i think i've talked to many of you previously about a state supplemental in the early part of the next year, covering childcare cuts, healthcare cuts, as well as other mostly in human services agency. that's in the neighborhood of $8 million. i think the bigger question for us, in terms of what are the draws on that, what other draws might be on that, are what's the impact of the federal sequester and the fiscal cliff. so we're certainly hopeful that the federal government wi

kathrin howard and ms. bowen, sarah bowen. is that right? >>> good afternoon, commissioners. you called and i am here. kathrin howard, golden gayedv preservation alliance. i want to support the concerns about the c-e-q-a legislation already stated. generally the amendments decrease the opportunities for individuals and community groups with serious vieerthval concerns to provide input and assert influence on development projects as part of the c-e-q-a process. for example, the legislation allows any city department to very prematurely and quietly start the clock on environment review appeals by concurrently making a first minor approval of one aspect of the project while also declaring it from exempt from environmental review with only a casual final by planning staff. we are very concerned about the impact that this litigation will have on our parks and open space. there is no reason to quickly develop a park unless a certain department which shall remain nameless at this time wants to put it on a fast track to commercialization and privatization. the city departments and dev

howard berman and myself on foreign aid. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: i yield to the gentleman from texas, judge poe, a member of our foreign affairs committee and author of this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. poe: i appreciate the chair woman for yielding time. i want to thank ms. ros-lehtinen, and especially ranking member berman, and the house leadership for getting this bill to the house floor and also mr. connelly for his -- mr. connolly for his support. this is a simple bipartisan bill. we have equal number of republicans and democrats as co-sponsors on this legislation. last year, the house foreign affairs committee passed this bill unanimously as an amendment to the state authorization bill. this bill does two things. it increases monitoring and evaluation of our foreign aid programs and also increases transparency of foreign aid. our foreign aid can do some good to other countries, but there are problems with american foreign aid. unfortunately, we don't keep track of what we're spendin