processing and reimbursing claims for non-va providers, we found patterns of va non-compliance with itsn processing requirements, attributed largely to poor oversight at both the local and national levels. therefore, some veterans were likely billed for care that va should have paid for and many were not informed that va had rejected their claims for reimbursement for care from non-va providers. as a result, many may have been denied their appeal rights. while va has made progress in addressing recommendations we made on these three reports, only about 1/3 of them have been fully implemented. moving forward as new components are added to va's non-va medical care program such as patient-centered community care referred to as pc-3 and provisions of the choice act, it is anticipated the number of veterans seeking medical care through non-va providers will continue to grow. it is vital that va establish robust oversight and accountability in its non-va medical care program such that relevant va staff at every level understand the importance of and are held accountable for ensuring that vete

each of these awards will be a minimum of $20,000 and more to non-profit organizations.ch one once a week so each organization gets their week where they can celebrate. the total is over a quarter of a million of dollars of love that we are sharing through at & t's generosity. and you know, these grants are to agencies that are doing great work in our city. at a time even when we are probably considered the richest of the most unaffordable city in the country maybe next to new york. affordability, accessibility are everybody's concern. and certain is one of my top concerns. so, i want to remember that the organizations that help us deliver our services is not all government. it could be community based agencies in many ways are more culturally competent when they are working with our immigrants in particular, working on the ground in the community. so by design, as non-profits they invest everything they have to the betterment of our communities. so we wanted to acknowledge them through these grants and through this fantastic campaign that we are lucky to have. specifica

if they were above the $10,000 for fee care and they were non-f. and the non-f.a.r.based, they probably require ratification, and if they require ratification we could perhaps make an argument that they perhaps were not proper. >> i will allow a colleague to follow up on this. but for the record i'll ask mr. williamson what is knowable about the cost of purchasing this care without contract, $7 billion, do we know it or is it noble. i realize i don't have time now. but we'll can this question-- ask this question for the record. i'll yield back to the chair. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm aiming this? the direction of mr. murray and mr. doyle. i'm not sure which but there's a business in my district that supplies specialized shoes, die betzic shoes and custom inserts to vets through the va. this business didn't have a contract. in november of 2014 they were notified that the custom orthotic appliance and related service released a request for proposals. the business filled out all the paperwork. they were denied for not meeting the minimum technical req

is authorized to obtain non-v.a. medical services when demand is infrequent and the needed health care is not available in house. or through an existing contract. unfortunately, the v.a. uses this process even when these requirements are not at issue. moreover, v.a. admits that the execution of these authorizations does not comply with the contract requirements of the federal acquisition regulation or f.a.r. and veterans affairs requisition, v.a.r. mr. fry will testify that by long standing and massive circumvention of the f.a.r. and v.a.r. in the fee-basis view, they have billions of improper payments that represents material weaknesses in audit controls. the o.i.g. reported on inaccuracy and inefficiency of fees paid through the fee-basis program. it was reported that v.a. medical centers made hundreds of millions of dollars in improper payments, including duplicate payments and incorrect amounts. most troubling is that v.h.a. had not established fraud protection controls because it did not consider the program to

the opinion categorically declares non-va fee-based cared the firebase. there's no confusion in the legal opinion inside of what you heard to the contrary. neither my predecessors for myself have granted authority except by vaar-based methods. you may wonder why i'd never seen this legal opinion and why they were such obvious to provide it to me. that is an enigma. mr. moran myself testified the subcommittee in 2010 stating fee basis care was not firebase. if this existed in 2009 by mr. cap from us in preparation for the hearing. given the recalcitrant engaged by vha accounts less submitted a complaint to the office of inspector general march 2013. the oig reviewed my submission questioning my motives for submitting the complaint. i stubbornly persevered and they subsequently accepted. i'm unaware of oig ever investigated. april 2013 i requested senior leadership assistance from the office of general counsel conducting ratification actions for violations of federal law and receive no assistance from either office. may 2013 secretary should vacuum of space

herrera thank you for coming i know thank you to you and all both attorney and non-attorney staff for the incredible work you do attire the people of san francisco obtain so many levels and much of it every researching the newspaper but a critical work i know we at the board rely on our office to be able to do the work we do i also want to thank you for the lawsuit you filed last week against one of the worse splairts that purchased 9 buildings and systematically violating the law ♪ a lot of ways and your office filed a lawsuit i appreciate it coming from a bad situation but continuing off of that in terms of code enforcement the office i everything did a lot of terrific work but in general, i think - i don't think we do enough code enforcement and the city attorney's office is often i've often wait for the departments to refer cases over to you some departments refer cases and other departments heralds every refer them do you have thoughts to improve your code enforcement system i know your work with legislation to empower the city attorney's office >> i mean a matter of administrato

measures a snapshot of what we do on non-discrimination marry in 2013-2014 we had 13 hundred plus inquires phones and walk in inquires about issues of alleged discrimination most are transferred to other city agencies or we recommended outside services for them to go to because they don't fall win our jurisdiction on the protected classes 2014-2015 we're estimating one thousand a deposit drop of 3 hundred and total number of compliments between you wouldn't and hundred and filed settled between 25 and 10 the big differences we do mediation before the complaint and during the complaint process by doing that mediation most are successful we reduce the complaint process down to a much for rapid process which is going good for the city and client new complaints our biggest complaint is disability those are the protected clients a section orientation is race in the city and county of san francisco so exact date it in the area of housing his or her discrimination like elevators not repaired in an sro or other non-discrimination and those are unusual relatively easy to meet it requires some type

b cell non-hodgkin's lymphoma what kind of treatment is available?hear cancer and everyone becomes frightened but how advanced are we now in treating this form of cancer? >> well, we are really very advanced. there are some wonderful therapies that we have that have been tried and true over the last ten years or so. one of the biggest treatments in treating b non-hodgkin's lymphoma is a targeted antibody therapy against the specific malignant b cells and has really given patients a lot of hope for a cure and long-term survival after treatment with this therapy. >> more about that, doctor. because everyone is wondering his chances and his odds. that was addressed at the press conference, too, to some extent, because no one knows, as you have mentioned earlier every case is different. but the fact that this had spread so much around his body discovered shaving kind of around his adam's apple and found several lumps just in his neck area alone and the armpit, the groin area and back, too. the fact it spread this far, what does that tell you? >> well it

and the planning department and entertainment commission and non-city board of equalization took an from for obviously reasons. >> and the san francisco unified school district a. >> that's not a department but they're a voting member i think there might not a typo in the digest but the legislation itself 1 through 7 non-voting and seat 8 the san francisco unified school district that may include the board of education and seat 4 is someone that worked in the cannabis entry the owner of an mcd and 11 is seat 11 and 12 users of cannabis one must use them for medical reasons and the 13 is the owner of a small business in san francisco and 14 the business interests and 15 a hospitality and tourism seat and 16 and 17 neighborhood seats and 18 a public health department advocacy phone call thinking focusing on drug and 19 is the entertainment and seat 20 for someone represents the labor unions who work in the cannabis industry and seat 21 works in the capacity and 22 a use for someone between the age 21 i building the commission commissioner over and over brighten said we have a missing piece

in our signature segment, the growing business of gender roles and non-conforming fashion. >> i think people see me in a way that may actually be aligned with how i see myself. >> sreenivasan: and, the death of beau biden. next on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. the senate is in a rare sunday session tonight, wrangling over three key surveillance provisions of the patriot act set to expire at midnight. the most controversial provision allows the n.s.a. to collect and store americans' phone records. the house already passed a bipartisan measure, forcing the government to give up the mass data collection and have

non-hodgkins is more common and b-cell non-hodgkins is 90%. stage three is key and important information that's fairly aggressive and on both sides of the diagram and there's multiple lymph nodes. someone presents with a big lymph node and they may have weight loss, some night sweats or fever. they biopsy that and then they find out it's lymphoma and then they get a cat scan and p.e.t. scan and realize how far it's gone. most of the treatment chemotherapy which is what he's going to get. they may treat him with some immune therapy and ritin to boost his survival. stage three survival rates around 60% and there's hope. don't know what the causes are, julie, a lot of times genetic, agent orange, nobody knows exactly why this happen. >> marc, what's interesting about this is he found it in his neck, he said, when he was shaving. do you feel this beforehand. he said it was a huge lump. why wouldn't you be able to detect that before it gets to that point, and when we shave as men. >> pay attention. >> what should we do? >> i knew you were going to

first non v.a. base services is? >> i don't know that we actually have our own data but there are plenty of research studies that have been done looking at outcomes between private sector and v.a. that have found the quality is comparable whether v.a. or outside. one of the things i would suggest we do is a comprehensive tool briefing to evaluate the care quality patient safety access, satisfaction and many metrics that we use are also accused in the private sector's we have the ability to compare the rates to get somebody to have a briefing. >> what about the hepatitis c treatment is to is that show a good health care outcome? >> it is very early to assess that process. many of these arms over months as a course of therapy but the study done shows they have very high cure rates with much lower side effect profile than what we had in the past. >> since so much resources are in that direction we need have a clear understanding edition results -- it did show results. >> thanks for being here today and want to expand up

trained for that the next year and 10 the following year and 40 non-academy trained and so for the we believe that helps us catch up to a motivations this body is having with the police department. >> next please other areas that we have requested but did not make the budget proposal before you is the attrition reduction to fill current vacant positions that amount is one million dollars plus we believe that this is virtual in order to make sure that we are not entrenched in an overtime problem in the future years and able to meet our staffing obligations so this didn't borough itself to a bigger problem to safety next is the backfill post and bs cc training the state board of during the course we're governed by 8 hundred and 93 thousand and the backfill for the mental health and country intervention training we're now the largest institution in san francisco that provides the most mental health hospital beds our staff is not getting country interference training but a robust discussion an appropriate one with the board of supervisors and mayor to provide that train to the prosecuted

union and non profit housing we have a precedent and i must give lou goldblack credit. it wasn't harry bridges idea. not only affordable multiracial housing, all the maintenance staff who are most-ly luteeny receive union s wages. san francisco is appearanceing the 1 percent of the 1 percent. this is ground zero for global capital. the role of government is to regulate global capital. unless you personally do your tax returns with carried interest i suggest you look at the numbers, they can afford to build affordable housing here. i have told ed lee 3 times, he does not understand why he was asked to appoint a goldman sax lower to the ppp >> thank you, next speaker >> good afternoon supervisors. gent fiication is cullization. the reamergence orphcolonialism is planet wide. the same effects of globalization are everywhere. they are especiallyly acute in the mission. ace and other groups found out on may 4th as tom mentioned there was 18 sthinets mission where affordable housing could be built, but already develop rbs for the wealthy have taken 5 on which to build luxury

please be non right side of history today and support this really moderal moratorium. it is a brief pause enablinging the community not only in the mission to be heard as to why it is imperative to look at a plan for in13 parcels that are left. if we were a city of economic democerary there would be a city wide moratorium on luxury housing. i would thrike thank there the supervisors who support this and my supervisor wiener i hope that he shows his other side today, i know it is there and votes with us the people. >> thank you, next speaker please >> hello good evening my name is [inaudible] san francisco native born and raised in the mission. when i say this i speak on behalf of a lot of people. the young generation, when i say i'm losing my support system, my friends and elders and teachers and family members. aench new business that emerges in the mission, park squz luxury condo being built, [inaudible]imeler losing my support system t. isn't done for me and the people i lived with. avenue wn in favor of the moratorium is well aware of this because we see it and fee

. >> here is a look at the best-selling non-fiction books according to the chicago tribune. the life changing magic of tidy up. the job to simplifying life. and david mccall, a two-time winner of the pulitzer prize recounts the birth of flight in the wright brothers. bill o'reilly and david fischer come in third with a campanion book leanlygendlegends and life. and then fox contributor shares her life in "the good news is" and american wife, the wife of chris kyle recounting hoar her life after her husband's death. and in the road to character, david brooks looks at the live of ten individuals as examples to achieve success. and the inventor of tesla and paypal. and tom broke caw discusses his personal battle with cancer in a lucky life interrupted. and that is a look at the current non-fiction best sellers according to the chicago tribune. >> here is a look at recent books featured on booktv's afterwards. one recent guest was april ryan whitehouse correspondent for the urban radio networks

when we don't have the appropriate level of staff because of disability the number under the column of non-net positions hundred and 34 requires us to compensate with over time i think the offer time number is higher it is no whereas high if not for our fiscal year savvy and our staffs savvy in coping the number under the $18.7 million we're looking at the overtime million dollars but that can be affiliated from the board of supervisors entertains what we've been push putting us in a multi year hiring plan until that we are properly funded over time and our ability to fill positions that have been essentially vacant we're to be trying to catch up and exceeding our allotments i'm hoping this conversation yields the push we get the sufficient funding that combines over time and attrition next slide, please as you can see 2013-2014 the new hires of 29 this year 2014-2015 new hiring 29 new sprargz that is point blank we're and why we're at a deficit and that continues compound it's the multi year proposed not accepted yet is on the right side of the 15 academy trained for 2015 25 non-academy train

and it is even more so for transgender and non-conforming students in schools.bout almost three quarters of transgender students in our research. we have been doing research. it's been around for 25 years, and they've been really examining the experiences of l.g.b.t., and transgender students. three-quarters do not feel safe in the school, they feel unsafe because of gender expression. and that is - that's very high. they are experiencing high levels of harassment. name calling and victimisation in school. >> there are things that schools can do to make it a better positive climate. whether or not you have your own parent or parents in your corner makes a difference if you go up against the school and ask them to be treated as someone in another gender from one you entered the school as, using the schools and so on. if your parents are on the verge of throwing them out of house, it's one road. if they have your back, it's probably another. >> yes, having parent support can make a strong difference to have the allies supporting them. i think students often - when

non billion budget. [inaudible] party like it is 1999. the politics in the building today may be as bad or worse as they were back in 1999 when we turned out hundreds of people from the mission to demand our grievances be addressed and demand the community members actually have a say in the future of the neighborhood. look, this controversial piece of legislation >> thank you. >> [inaudible] >> thank you, next speaker. hello everyone. i hope you can hear me. my name is elizabeth [inaudible] and live in supervisor wiener district. i have lichbed there for a long time. i came to san francisco many years ago to go to school as a matter och fact. i'm from philadelphia. i thought i would come to california and become a resident like pleny others did y. use today live in north beach. when i came to san francisco i paid 450 dollars a month for a 1 bedroom apartment on chestnut that afforded me to be full time student and part nime worker. imagine that now. my daughter is 3 to 2 years old and full time student and can't afford to live anywhere ne

non, non! but little by little the world got to love what he had made. grey goose, francois? to those who make it. (cheers and applause) >> larry: welcome back. now as we all know election season continues to heat up so it is's time for a quick check-in with the unblackening roll it. >> that's right you guys we have a new presidential candidate, lust louis governor bobby jindal announced yesterday becoming the 13th republican to officially join the race. hold on hold on. now listen now now since one of those candidates is a woman, i can now refer to the rest of the republican field as 12 angry men. thank you very much. i have been sitting on that one for a while. approximately for 45 years. good to finally get it out. oh, oh this is so much fun. okay so jindal announced via thanny cam. >> i thought a lot about this. we have decided we are going to-- . >> larry: what is that to catch a president? what-- that just looked kraepy right? what's going on over there. i mean but he obviously did this so he could catch his kid's spontaneous reaction to the announcement. okay so let's

additional testing confirmed type b non-hodgkins lymphoma. here is the tough part. it is aggressive and it is advanced. he described how he has tumors throughout his body. he has noticed back pain there a tumor that is pushing on his spine. he made the announcement and he talked openly about what lies ahead for him and he grew emotional when he talked about his father's day weekend when he told all of his family about the diagnosis. governor hogan: in the midst of this struggle, i was reminded once again of how blessed and how lucky i am. as i climb this hill i remain comforted by my abiding faith that the lord continues to bless me. the best news is that my odds of getting through this and beating this are much, much better than the odds i had of beating anthony brown. [laughter] [laughter] >> he had a sense of humor. that is what he displayed. tremendous strength and humor and a reto beat the dancer. what happens now? he is going to start very aggressive chemotherapy treatments almost immediately. he will be checking in to a hospital and says for a period of four

campos thank you for authoring ledgeilation that will at some point hopefully deal with the issues of non affordable housing in san francisco. there has been billions of dollars spent on development of tax commitment dollars in the city with the promise of affordsable. the law requires 33413 and you can check it is a [inaudible] is affordability cuv nns required for the housing developed for people in very low and extraemly low income dat gores. the problem isn't the moratorium or the adequate funding, the problem is the lack of oversight and people who hold authority to make sure the law and legislation and declaration and public policy is functioning as the way it is authored throathe legislation and law. that sh it problem. if you look at sb 2113, we no longer have sb 2113, that means over 5 thousand of housing will not be developed in san francisco because of the [inaudible] approach and aggressiveness of the oci and redevelopment agency. not one of those housing for dee developed. they say they want them developed u about the intent is passify the deep pockets coming to the san franc

we face a funding gap due to the non continuation of [inaudible] this next year nor the non continuationhsa one time funding. woe have a small staff that is difficult to cut. we are involved in the expansion of medical respite included enthe mayors budget and proud to host the program. we are asking for 130 thousand dollars. thank you. >> thank you very much next speaker >> hi, my name is [inaudible] i am a instructor at the sylvan learning center of robotics teacher and coding but i came here as a homeless youth immigrant and lgbt. from jordan the middle east. for me i am here to represent the transitional youth. when i first came here i came here without a home, without anyone to know and the first building entered was the lgbt center and over there i was able it get connected to many services like larken street, hi 5 rfx lyric and a few other services and during my time i had to live in a shelter, i had to actually also live on the streets for a couple of days. it was really hard and i was also a [inaudible] and during that time it was really hard, i needed these services and someone

budget also includes funding for cost of doing business increase or inflationary pressures for non profit organizations in each of the new years of 2 and a half percent and fully funds minimal wage costs associated with the cities budget. you remember when we started the budget process in december the mayor issued instructions for the first time issuing instructions with no requested reductions from general fund departments. at that time we were projected 104.2 million dollars over the dwoyears which improved to 88 million in march when the 3 financial officers updated the 5 year plan. in may when you received a update from the controllers office our deficit strunk to 9 million over the 2 years. that is a testament of the strong revenue we see in the current year and project in the budget year. i know the controller will provide a update on the overall health of the cities revenue momentitarily. just high level balancing to give a sense of the big categories the city is spending resources in. this table is showing-i apologize it is missing fiscal year. the first is fiscal year 15 is 16 an

so northeast federal credit union is the non-profit we contracted with. again they're in the business community, and they of course definitely specialize in engaging with chinese owned small business owners but have done the workshop and outreach and door to door knocking to other businesses, and we have conducted workshops in spanish and vietnamese and that gal log. >> >> so how we engage with the -- how businesses get engaged with access to the subsidized cass inspections? again through the workshops, through direct contact with businesses, and now that it is a city wide program we're also working with our council of district merchants which is an association of over 22 merchants associations to assist in out reach to businesses in those areas. and then i noted that there are 344 businesses that have been able to get the subsidized cass inspections you but we had a total of 450 businesses applied and 36 weren't eligible either they're in litigation and for various other reasons and then we currently have 74 on the wait list. again we probably have more

. >> here is a look at the best-selling non-fiction books according to the chicago tribune. the life changing magic of tidy up. the job to simplifying life. and david mccall, a two-time winner of the pulitzer prize recounts the birth of flight in the wright brothers. bill o'reilly and david fischer come in third with a campanion book leanlygendlegends and life. and then fox contributor shares her life in "the good news is" and american wife, the wife of chris kyle recounting hoar her life after her husband's death. and in the road to character, david brooks looks at the live of ten individuals as examples to achieve success. and the inventor of tesla and paypal. and tom broke caw discusses his personal battle with cancer in a lucky life interrupted. and that is a look at the current non-fiction best sellers according to the chicago tribune. >> here is a look at recent books featured on booktv's afterwards. one recent guest was april ryan whitehouse correspondent for the urban radio networks discussing her life and career. and we spoke with mike huckabee. he talked about poli

my very first job was a non-urban job.unior high school, middle school grade student. i got people to connect me up with what they were doing. i thought that would be fun. i can work in restaurants, i can do all the stuff that i see everyday, but my very first job was on a farm and that's where i got to drive a truck. i destroyed about 25 cabbage heads in trying to deal with a truck. and i worked with a farmer whose every fourth word was a curse word. mr. tanaka, he was great for instructing us properly for how to get our bushels full of beans and strawberry and corn. i learned a lot. i learned discipline, i learned open farm area. i know that in san francisco we have a program and very strong policy and support for urban agriculture. we have a gardening program that reaches out to many of our transitional age youth to allow them to use the incredible farm that we have up in san bruno area and train them in skill sets and yeah, a lot of people use language that is kind of urban street language, but in that association with

he says it -- non-hodgkin's lymphoma. he says is t is treatable and he -- it is treatable and he is planning to work through chemotherapy and radiation. >> this cancer is very aggressive but also responds very well to chemotherapy treatment. the best news is that my odds of getting through this and beating this are much, much better than the odds i had of beating anthony brown to become the 62nd governor of maryland. [ applause ] >> over the coming months i'll be receiving multiple very aggressive chemotherapy treatments. most likely i'm going to lose my hair. you won't have these beautiful gray locks. i may trim down a little bit, but i wouldn't stop working to change maryland for the better. >> reporter: better.. >> he told us he'll be here working every day, lieutenant boyd rutherford. if the governor has to step away a little while, boiled rutherford can certainly take -- boyd rutherford can certainly take on the responsibility. it's sad that our friend is going through this, so let's come together and keep him in our

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he was diagnosed with type b non-hodgkins lymphoma. this is what we can tell you about the disease. it atags the immune system as far symptoms go. they have enlarged lymph node, shortage of breath, fatigue, night sweat. i asked the governor how he is feeling today. he said he is feeling pretty good. governor larry hogan says he felt no symptoms but discovered a lump in his neck. testing over the subsequent days in the last week revealed he has type b non-hodgkins lymphoma, a kenner is -- cancer of the immune system and is in at least stage three, maybe stage four. governor hogan: i have learned in the past few days that this cancer is very advanced. very aggressive. brad: the governor grew emotional when talk about telling his family over the father's day weekend. governor hogan: i was reminded how blessed and lucky i brad: he will now begin a chemotherapy battle that will last 18 weeks, a battle his doctors tell him will be like going to hell and back. >> most likely i will lose my hair. you won't have the beautiful gray locks. i may trim down a little bit. but i won't stop working