but when we say priority, we meant priority. you have to address priorities in order. i moved almost 2000 agents from the criminal programs to counter terrorism and national security because that was the priority. we have, since september 11, then run according to a set of priorities that we continuously review, but precludes us from doing things we have traditionally done, we all enjoyed doing, but is not as necessary as the priorities we have identified, and we were fairly rigorous when it comes to budget, when it comes to personnel. we adhere to those priorities. in a tighter budget, those are the things that save you because you go down the priorities and are able to make the decisions somewhat better than you otherwise would. we are not doing as much in the war on drugs that we did before. it is a continuous battle. we do participate in a number of ways as a war and a battle worth fighting. >> we have a number of questions about cyber security. question that emerges in the minds of many people is how the fbi might approach the challenge of balancing the security-

as the chairman said, we have to set priorities. priorities means making choices. i'm prepared to support and choose transportation as a high priority. unlike so much of what washington does with taxpayers money, good roads are tankible life changing matters that make the economy more productive. it does that for decades. it kree aids american jobs and virtually all the matters that go into those highways are american produced. and the americans can't be produced in a foreign country. it's here. so i think it's a way to create jobs and permanent improvements in productivity. now the tragedy is that there was a great opportunity as you eluded to, mr. chairman, to advance our highway system as part of the president's stimulus package. instead, nearly $1 trillion of borrowed money was taken away on failed proposals that succeeded only in sinking our nation deeper in debt. i do not believe it made a significant improvement in our economy although you and i would disagree. and good people can disagree on that. certainly more people are out of work today than when that b

the second priority is around education and engagement. there has been a lot of thinking this past year about how we bolster our capacity to provide education and engagement of the public in difference takeovers on what the puc does. we talk about as a cradle to grave approach as far as wanting to go after the next generation of white -- of ratepayers and water users to folks in the public to elected officials so when you turn on your tap, you understand it is hetch hetchy water and an asset we need to protect and value. as you think about the power enterprise, when you are in the airport, it is powered by the puc. there's a lot of talk around how do we ensure the public, the investments we're making to the city agencies, whether it's around the school district or department of environment it's tied to getting our message out to the type of work we're doing in the community. there will be greater attention in that area. the last part is run workforce development. jobs are a huge party out of the mayor's office and a huge priority for us. i

and we still had priorities. you have priorities. one of the priorities is pay down the debt. that's what we did during that five-year period. but we still had priorities. one of our transportation priorities is implementing passenger rail. when florida turned back $2.3 billion, we had $10 billion worth of requests. some of that came from republican governors. one in michigan that we just gave almost a billion dollars to so he could fix up the tracks from detroit to chicago, so people can get higher speeds. we've invested in the northeast corridor, which a lot of people in this town use from washington to new york to get to higher speeds, to fix up the area. we're going to continue to make these invest men's because this is what america wants. they want the next generation of transportation. >> what was your to fix up -- fix up the -- >> detroit to chicago. >> northeast corridor. >> we've invested about a billion dollars, just recently. >> what will that do? >> it will get new canton area, new cars and get the tracks in a position where they could go higher speeds. >> the cant

it is the identified as a priority development area by the bay area plan. it has great potential, right next to city college, a high- school. thank you very much. supervisor kim: thank you. are there other public speakers for item number one? >> good morning, supervisors. i lived nearby in westwood park. i would like to speak out in favor of this resolution, but i have some concerns that i think the advisory committee should address in the future. the obvious one is the traffic congestion here at the station. the second one is changes along falen avenue for traffic for city college. some of the changes i find a bit mysterious. and traffic along the 280 ramps nearby the balboa park station. those three things have been mentioned to me by some of my neighbors and a lot of us go way out of our way so that we don't travel on falen boulevard or the 280 ramps, anywhere nearby. it is better to drive a mile away from the traffic than to sit there and wait afor light after light. i think this committee is long overdue and they have plenty of issues to deal with. sup

and balancing the budget will be a priority. has to be a priority. we will do that.ve done that time and time again. public safety is also something we are very interested in. it has to be a priority, because if we do not have public safety, nothing else works. one of the things we are focusing on is trying to focus on how policing works in san francisco. i used to be a member of the police commission, and i learned that the most effective community policing is the policing where you have the police and the community working together. it is important to have police officers on the street and have the police presence. at the same time, there has to be a connection within the police and the community. so, that requires -- also we have a focus on violence prevention. in the mission, we are focused on gang activity. we have to balance the very important work of the police would be very important violence prevention work -- with the very importance violence prevention work we're doing on the ground. so, public safety is something we will keep pushing on. we are trying to

>> sure, that is most definitely been a priority for me. i came into planning work wanting to connect grass-roots groups to planning. i think that it is important for the planning department staff to work with the groups that are working in neighborhoods, so those might be community-based organizations. they might be churches. the mib other entities that already have those relationships, and getting the information to those groups and in creating a forum where input can be gathered and actually used. sometimes at the public meeting, sometimes it could be something like a website. we have not seen websites or in-person work for a lot of communities. so you have to be careful about who you are working with entering to figure out what their needs are but obviously, language taxes, child care, time of day of the meeting, how you ask the questions, how you from the question. are you talking about enter regional context or in a way that is about people's daily lives. making the language understandable. sometimes land use decisions become just abo

we have to set priorities. priorities be making choices. i am prepared to support and choose transportation as a high priority. unlike so much of what washington does with the money good roads are tangible, long- term quality of life improving matters that make the nation more productive not just for one or two dead years but for decades. it creates american jobs. -- it makes the nation more productive not just for one or two years, but for decades. i think it is a way to create jobs and permanent improvements in productivity. the tragedy is that there was a great opportunity as you alluded to to advance the highway system as far as the president stimulus package. instead, nearly one trillion dollars of borrowed money was suck away on failed notions. i do not think it made an improvement on our economy. certainly more people are out of work today than when the bill passed. but the president said his stimulus would be used to repair the nation's crumbling infrastructure. it was sold on that basis. repeatedly we were given stories that the in

it is a place to set priorities and principles for the city. much like question time that was done to the charter amendment recently, the way that that was done, there was a policy priority set. the mayor should appear before the board. we will leave it to the legislators to work out the details. we have taken very much the same approach of this charter amendment, and we can't forecast what the best process would be. we can't forecast if this step should come before this that, it is hard to predict those things. we wanted to take a step back and say that in the charter, what we're asking for your support, is requiring the board of supervisors to wait 60 days before adopting an ordinance that may result in significant net loss for jobs in san francisco. simply saying that sometime in the year 2012, 2013, 2012, that the board of supervisors should do what we did at question time, talk about details, work out a process, and that would be through the ordinance. if we set up a process in the charter, we can never change it except for another charter

this was the founding mission of dhs and remains our top priority today. the fy 2013 budget safeguards the nation's transportation systems through a layered detection system focused on risk-based screening, enhanced targeting and information sharing efforts to interdict threats and dangerous people at the earliest possible point. the budget supports the administration's global supply chain security strategy across air, land and sea modes of transportation. by strengthening efforts to prescreen and evaluate high risk containers before they are shipped to the united states. we also continue our strong support for state and local partners through training, fusion centers and intelligence analysis and information sharing on a wide range of critical homeland security missions. second, to secure and manage our borders, this budget continues the administration's unprecedented focus on border secure, travel and trade, by supporting our border patrol agents and cbp officers on the front lines as well as the continued deployment of proven, effective surveillance tec

now that the mass i mean it's already been made why is it not a priority for the pentagon to clean it up. well the pentagon's got other priorities frankly and a lot of it said at the top we have these huge deployments there are these big ticket weapon items that cost a lot of money and they squeeze out other things in the budget so you've got you know the profits of companies like lockheed martin and boeing and raytheon and or the brahman that really is forming the core of what's going to come out of our defense budget in the next couple of weeks and so while we're spending all these monies on huge weapons programs that by the way oftentimes don't work there's not room left in the budget that's this dictated by congress in the pentagon for these kind of cleanup and it's just frankly not enough priority and if we set priorities that were more in line with actual human security and that includes environmental health we would make room in the budget for these kind of things which are just not seeing right now and as the u.s. plans to expand that there's the shift now to the asia pacific

our priorities for the next two years include hetch hetchy protection. if you have been reading the newspapers, you hear questions abound compliance and there is work to make sure we're able to respond to this questions as they come up. the sewer system improvement program -- there are things that need to get approved by you and the board of supervisors we will be working with. the issues and licensing -- a lot of pac -- a lot of activity is happening with the future of ocean beach and our infrastructure that we have been spending time with the coastal commission and other decision making bodies to do that work and we have a priority are on making movement with regard to the local ground water activities, whether it's recycled water or local groundwater in the system. communications accomplishments -- as we were putting the presentation together, i was struck by how much time we spent on crisis management whether it is around saving granny the tree or things that happen with pipelines exploding, we have an amazing team of 20 plus communications staff tha

and we still have priorities, one of the priorities is pay down the debt. but we still had priorities, one of our transportation priorities was implementing passenger rail, when florida turned back $2.3 billion, we had $10 billion worth of requests. some of that came from republican governors. one in michigan that we just gave almost a billion dollars so he could hook up the track from detroit to chicago so they could get a little higher speeds. we have invested in the northeast corridor, which a lot of people use from washington to new york, to get to higher speeds, to fix up the cabin area lt and we're going to continue to make these investments because inns what america wants. >> and what will that do? >> it will get new cabin area, buy new cars and get the tracks in a position where they go to high speeds. >> that's the electricification. >> fixing up tracks, identifying systems that are cost effective, i say do that and report to us and we'll see if it can be justified. but what you're talking about is, major rail systems, new ones across florida or so

you have priorities, part -- one of the priority satz pay down the debt. that's what we did during that five-year period but we still had priorities. one of our transportation priorities is implementing passenger rail. when florida turned back $2.3 billion, we had $10 billion worth of requests. some of that came from republican governors. one in michigan that we just gave almost a billion dollars to so he could fix up the tracks from detroit to chicago so people can get their little higher speeds. we've invested in the northeast corridor, which a lot of people in this town use from washington to new york. to get to higher speeds, to fix up the+++t

the strategy is to contrast our priorities with their priorities.nies instead of investments in the middle class, every time they favor tax breaks for the wealthy instead of -- and also at the same time favor cuts in medicare, every time they favor the wrong priorities we're going to get up and attack them on the priorities. we're not attacking them personally, we' talking the wrong priorities for the middle class. >> i'm going to ask you a question from "the new york times" reporting that the obama campaign is going to be send, they didn't say surrogates, they sort of said, i forget the word, surrogates to go into michigan and hold press conferences about mitt romney's really position on the auto bailout of detroit. so my question is who exactly are those surrogates and what exactly are they going to say? >> well, i expect that there's going to be plenty of people who will go to michigan and around the country and tell the story of how mitt romney was four square opposed to the recovery of the auto industry. he opposed the critical efforts that had

i think the construction plans being put forward have the wrong priority. what i think the building owner should be concentrating on is alleviating the problem of someone living in unhygienic conditions without a proper bathroom. and without a kitchen. that is where their efforts should be concentrating, not trying to start for out of the apartment or create conditions which are so unbearable that they win their conflict. as far as the stairs are concerned, i am all for making those work. it is an issue of priority. i have not received any information on the back stairs. i am concerned about the lead paint because those exist. we have not been informed about anything regarding that. i do not know if we need to move out of the building or not when the back of it is demolished. i am in the dark about that problem. i concern is priorities. and doing the right thing. >> is there any other public comment? we will move into rebuttal. >> i do not have a rebuttal. i have to agree that it is a case of priorities and doing the right thing. this picture was taken toda

i hope if you are confirmed that this will be one of your top priorities. will you tell us as a committee that this will be one of your top priorities when you get there? >> it will be one of the top priorities. >> lastly and i will not take all of the time that i have left, but i do want to ask a question that i would like you to answer for the record. and it has to do with your present position as the head of the, in essence the work that has to be done for our overa recruitment, i'm concerned, that despite the years i've been raising this, including with your advent to this office that the issue of spanish recruitment at the state department remaining pathetic, in the 2010 census, there's 16% of the population is hispanic but they are 6% of foreign service specialists. so, i would like two things for the record. one is can you your office share the most recent statistics with the committee as well as what barriers you have encountered in any effort to recruit hispanics. this is probably in all of my work in hthis regard, this is oe of the worst departmen

today i want briefly to highlight our five priorities. . first, our request allows us to stain our vital national security missions in iraq, afghanistan and pakistan, and reflects the temporary extraordinary costs of operating on the front lines. as president obama has said, the tide of war is receding, but as troops come home, thankfully, civilians remain to carry out the critical missions of diplomacy and development. in iraq civilians are now in the lead helping that country emerge as a stable, sovereign democratic power. this increases our budget but state and are asking for wun hif tenth of the $48 billion z ut government spent on iraq in 2011. the 2013 u.s. government wide request for iraq including defense spending is now $40 billion less than it was just two years ago. so we are doing what must be done to try to normalize our relationship at a far lower cost than what we have been expending. over time, despite the tragic violence of this past week, we expect to see similar government-wide savings in afghanistan. this year's request

does this budget reflect the same priorities that the quadrennial technology review identified? >> to a large extent, yes. i think the quadrennial te in the history of the department of energy, we wanted to step back and say a slightly different question than what are the things we should be funding, but what are the things we should be finding where the taxpayer dollars will do the most good? if we find there are certain areas that the private sector is well invested in, we have to say we really shouldn't funding that. they're taking the ball and running with it. this is good. we did this with research in shale gas, 1978, '92, the industry didn't want to touch it. horizontal drilling or fracking the rock. industry picked it up. that's the attitude we in doing

new mexicans can be confident that we didn't lose sight of our priorities along the way. over the past year, school districts throughout the state had to do more with less, but they did it by cutting administrative waste and increasing the percentage of their funding that goes directly into the classroom. we protected health care for the most vulnerable, expanded child care for working moms. food stamps for the elderly and disabled. school clothes for kids most in need. thinking about the state of the state last year, it gives me great pleasure to report to you today that new mexico's financial house is back in order. we're no longer running a budget deficit. in fact, our historic deficit has now become a projected $250 million surplus in one year. but a great deal of economic uncertainty persists across the country, across the globe, and too many people are still hurting. we must move cautiously. we cannot go back to the credit card spending that contributed to the financial crisis in the first place. that's why i propose keeping budgets flat for most state agencies. rat

commissioner kim: i think it is important we have supervises that have made transit their priorities other legislative agenda. i know supervisor wiener has taken an incredible amount of time and commitment to these issues. it is also a representative of the mtc for the mayor. i think these leadership appointments are prepared for these two individuals and am excited to support both of you. commissioner campos: comments? let's open this up to public comment. >> commissioners, let me allude a little bit to what i think a good care and by chair should stand for -- chair and the vice chair stooshould stand for. from time to time, i attend these meetings. from what i have seen over a long period of time from the vice chair, he may mean well by putting forward legislation, ever since the six -- in section, but he seems to target the most vulnerable. whether it is the homeless, the lgbt community, youth in the open space. area. any human being can make a change. that is why i am speaking to this point. because of the dire economic situation that san francisco is in, even though we have 60 b

natural disaster preparedness should be a priority of the government. critics say the national government is not prepared. over the past few months, we have seen the philippines been hit by natural disasters. particularly the one -- the heavy flooding were you had 1000 people died. -- where you had 1000 people died. >> the philippines are often hit with disasters of this type. the government has said it is going to prioritize it better. it is trying to cope with these sorts of disasters better. even in this situation, they do not know accurate figures for anything like damage in some remote areas. there is no heavy lifting equipment in the area. there is nothing that is going to stop the illegal logging, which is often what triggers the landslide in these disasters and contributes to the death toll. >> there have been a lot of support from the private sector in terms of helping out with food, clothes, medicine. it seems like there have been raided the response of the government has been slow. -- it seems like the response of the government has been slow

and three, maintaining our laser focus on safety, our number one priority. and all of this would be fully paid for. president obama is proposing to cap the funding for the overseas contingency operations over the next 10 years there by saving hundreds of billions of dollars. then we'd used half of those savings to pay down the debt and the other half on a six-year transportation bill that let's us do some nation building at home. so let's take these goals one at a time. number one, an america built to last needs a strong transportation infrastructure. that's why the president's budget will improve highways, railways and transit networks and will continue to ensure these systems are safe. of the president's $476 billion proposal, $305 billion would fund road and bridge improvements. a 34% increase over the previous authorization. the president's plan will modernize and simplify the highway structure by consolidating more than 55 programs into five programs. of course investing in our transit systems is another critical need. the president's budget includes $1

priority two is actually travel. once you get into your business and start speculating the wits of your files. access to all of your services. [inaudible] rearranging furniture. that is something we would call readily achievable, if you move your table out of the way to allow a person with a wheelchair access to your space. restroom facilities only come into play after you have already made the entrance accessible and you have trouble accessible. restaurants only have to be accessible if they are available to your customers and clients. and actually does not cover employee access to the restrooms. we have other priorities that come into play. [inaudible] you want that inspected to come out before you get a that letter. it is not only your obligation, but it is the right thing to do. you want to be disability accessible. you want more customers. the best way to do that is to start planning. when you are choosing, ideally, your inspector would have a background in inspection, design, and construction. that means we hav

forces in a taiwan or south chi na sea are a priority. it's designed to' chooef p periodic and local air and sea superiority to include islands closest to the mainland. once focused on territorial defense, china's air forces develop an offshore strike, air and missile defense, strategic mobility and early warning and reconnaissance capabilities. china may incorporate new capabilities in novel way to present challenges for u.s. forces. last year's first flight of a fifth generation fighter in launch of china's first aircraft carrier underscore the breadth and quality of china's military modernization program. however, aa lack of modern combat experience is but one example that steps remain before china aachiechieves the full potential of new technologies, platforms and military personnel. regarding cyber threats, we continue to see daily attempts to gain access to our nation's government and business computer networks including our own secure systems. this threat is large and growing in scale and sophistication. finally, al qaeda losses in

many of you know that affordable housing has long been one of my top priorities. i knew this year that housing would be a big issue. it was not just low-income families and individuals coming to our offices. it was writing e-mails about how hard it was to continue to live here in san francisco when middle income and even middle upper income tenants and residents in the south of market in the mission were e-mail in our office and telling us how tremendously hard it was for them to remain in the city. i knew this was an issue we would have to begin to tackle. last year ended on a down note with the abolishment of redevelopment where we lost our only permanent stream for affordable housing in the state of california. it is great to be part of a city that is taking a proactive step only a week later to state that we are all going to work together to build housing for everyone in san francisco. i look forward to this work as well. working my colleagues, i know the ones who are standing behind me have also said housing is a priority for them. we need to make sure we con