that is a top priority for my office. i know we mentioned this as a priority for me, which is not currently on this list is $1.2 million for a 20% increase to community-based contracts that are working with survivors of domestic violence. which intersects, you know, a lot of the time with sexual assault. so this is an area that's very important for me on a number of levels. we know that with demi too movement and time is up, that many more women are feeling comfortable coming forward and the place they feel comfortable going is to the community-based organizations. if you see the number of cases of women that access different services in fiscal year 2016, we had 21,000 cases and community-based organizations while only 3,000 cases went to police departments. 1500 cases to the special victims unit, and the d.a. filed incidents in only 545 cases. the bulk of the places that survivors are seeking services, is in the community. that number has gone up substantially and we haven't met that need to. >> supervisor cohen: is as a

thank you for your priorities. what if i were myself and my staff to put it down into another list, into another master list. we would update the website so everyone would have a chance to look at that, and we could start from that so that's a little bit of a stronger starting off point. >> supervisor yee: before you do that, chair cohen -- >> supervisor cohen: what did you say? >> supervisor yee: before you do that, i guess what i did and some of us did was just rattle off, here's some more things that i'd like to see funded, here's an amount. and when the other supervisors came in, some of them gave more rationale and so forth, and i was actually holding back on that discussion. >> supervisor cohen: would you like to say some more? >> supervisor yee: in terms of understanding why i'm asking for it, i thought we were going to have this discussion now, rather than -- but when i heard the other supervisors, when they gave rationale, i said geez, i wonder if we're going to have an opportunity. all we did was rattle o

is that also your priority? i'm not sure where that came from also. >> i don't believe so. >> i haven't heard anyone talk about it. >> neighborhood clean and green? >> i was a little surprise it was in their. >> city wide street cleaning priorities including pitstop expansion programs. so that was resolution file number 18. >> is this for just cleaning street's at dbh? is it greening? is it planting plants? >> give me a second. i don't know. i will make a note and come back to you. i don't know the answer to that. i don't know whoha

i'm not saying these are the right priorities, the wrong priori priorities. it also feels like we have -- 'cause we're here now, that we have created expectations by even these early declarations. we now have five core programs that if we decide to shift them, and we might, and we might not, we now have five core projects with five core constituent groups who are -- as they've very ably done so, spoke to each one of them. and what i would have preferred, a process whereby we let the life cycle complete its process, and then, a report in the fall where we're then looking at a set of assessments, could establish some commission priorities in partnership with staff and then engage in a public discourse around where the priorities might land that would then inform a proposal for the bond. and so now i'm concerned that we -- again, the narrative has begun, and i feel, as a commissioner in somewhat of a defensive posture because i either -- i'm exaggerating because i want to make the point. i have to be for or against these five core. i have to defend not only my p

you have allocated it to your prioriti priorities. if it was approved in 2013 that money would have added to your pot. >> a quick correction to that. it actually is non-general fund. it's related to the security bond self-insurance fund. these are funds that have been allocated from enterprise departments including the public utilities commission, dpw and then airports -- ports. sorry. those are the three departments. >> and the committee -- >> hold on. let him finish. >> those funds come to us in regular transfers in the amount of $30,000 per transfer from those departments for a total of $150,000 per year and that helps to fund the cost of the position but helps to build the self-insurance fund which we've been trying to increase the size of over the years that helps us provide additional protections to small firms so they can have assurances to reduce their cost of entering into a contract so we can have more small businesses developed. so there's a multipurpose to this. one was to help insure that the bond self-insurance fund was

that is one priority for mitch mcconnell. the other priority is moving along on nominations. more judges that they want to move along and the big news of the summer will be president trump's announcement of his choice to succeed anthony kennedy on the courts and that will become number one on the hit parade. >> go back to appropriations for had the, your podcast package -- you see the process of spending bills any better than in prior years, any semblance of order? david: when the senate's it was theminibus, first time the senate has passed a standalone in several years. they are trying to show that they can do the routine business of governing. will it actually help when the big end of september drama ha ppens which is almost for sure because the more progress they have on the appropriations bills, the less to fight about. meantime, the republican majority is showing some voters that they can do some of the routine business of governing. having said that, there is a correlation with how productive a congress is in a midterm election year, and what the voters do to that congr

the plan will be updated every five years and identify implementation priorities for both policy and construction projects. the priorities are seismic and future flood risks to 2070 projections, and then, the geographic focus goes from the three mile focus of the seawall to the port's entire jurisdiction, the full 7.5 miles. and then, we have the envision element, and the idea is to develop three to five visions that can respond to the remaining seismic risk as well as the landscape scale flood risk that is -- that are represented by those much higher water levels. it allows us to have an ongoing public conversation with all of the other city departments about how do we respond to those much higher flood levels? the planning and implementation timeline is quite long. it's 2018 to 2100. we would be updating that vision every ten years. the priority, again, is the seismic risk that remains as well as the future flood risk of much higher water levels. and again, it's the port's entire jurisdiction that we would be considering. all along the way with all these of these elements, we're go

that is one priority for mitch mcconnell. the other priority is moving along on nominations. they have got a v.a. secretary nominee they want to move along. there are more judges they want to move along. and of course the big news of the summer will be president trump's announcement of his choice to succeed anthony kennedy on the supreme court and that will become number one with a bullet on the hit parade for the remainder of the summer. >> let me ask you about the process, go back to appropriations for a second. before the break you were talking about your podcast about the package that passed the house and senate. do you see the process this year of spending bills any better than prior years? any semblance of regular order? david: there is some semblance of regular order. particularly in the senate, when the senate passed that so-called minibus. it was, i don't have the report card in front of me, but i think it was the first time they passed a standalone appropriations bill in several years. so they are trying to show the public and lobbyists they can do the reaching busi

we're doing this a little bit backwards, given that this is a priority of the city that we want to partner with -- with other agencies within the city and we're on board with affordable housing, but we want safe affordable housing. we've jumped ahead and come up with these equivalencies on our own that we would accept. but to your point, supervisor, those are only as good as if -- if both sides aren't on board with that, it doesn't do us any good. so if it's good for fire and not good for building, we're still as an impasse. that's why we're wanting to meet with building together to come up with a document together that we can all sign off on for consistency and to represent the review process. >> supervisor safai: so what i'm going to ask for when we duplicate the file to come back tomorrow and make amendments, when it goes to planning, i'm going to ask that you all have the recommendations to put together those recommendations and working groups, so by the time it comes back, you all will have a plan implementable. you say there's 61 in the cue. i understand from the report it has the po

>> priority. so these are one of the details that we are working through and we launched in 2019 so we have more thinking to do in early its of how we prioritize the neighborhoods but some of the inputs would be the number of collisions and the important land uses that the department of public health has determined to be important, particularly for senior and disability groups. i can't share the exact details at this point but these are some of the inputs. >> an early plug in for the neighborhood... >> take note of that. >> thank you. >> in terms of the tool kit that might be proposed i have a few things on the slide here today but this is not necessarily all that we would consider. i think that the takeaway point here for this program, the infrastructure program, is that the tools and the measures that we would implement on streets or in a particular neighborhood are going to really vary tremendously, determined on the collision patterns that we're seeing and hearing from the community. so what w

funding to the priorities. so the plan will function as implementation tool and guide you in your discussions here as well by providing guidance with impact fees in parks and open spaces the interagency effort has been critical in the implementation budget with programming over $4 million toward complete streets and parks with more to come. indeed, it's galvanized support for and guided investment of over $10 million of public realm improvements in the neighborhood from ucsf, including $5 million for renewed park. now i want to take a moment to recognize the tremendous amount of interagency effort it took to move this plan forward into several years of dedication. as staff, we we have other staff from m.t.a. and there's been a partnership of moving through forward through the community process and now implementation. some of our sister agencies are moving forward with improvements as well as underpass lighting and installation. and now i would like to take a moment to thank some people, individuals and groups t

what we have done is use these priorities as a framework. a framework to evaluate the department's proposed budget asking a handful of specific questions. for example, how do these investments made further these priorities. what investments are missing? where should we be funding more, where should we be cutting and funding less? as we know the judge budget city has been a chaotic time where community benefit organizations quite frankly first responders on the ground doing the work have come directly to the board to request funding. historically we call this the add-back process and it's been behind closed doors with very little understanding of who was advocating for what, or how the final programmatic spending will be determined. this year we made publicly available the list of organizations individual requests. i don't know if you know these lists hold approximately $140 million with 41% of that for housing and homelessness, 15% for youth services, 13% for community and neighborhood services. so rather than funding specific organizations,

it's part of our housing stock, and i said that affordable housing is one of my priorities. this is affordable housing for our most vulnerable residents. i want to also thank all of the angels out there that take care of our residents here. and thank bernie joseph for being one of those people, second generation, that isn't saying i can't do it, you know, because a lot of people -- a lot of people age out in these board and cares and they can't do it anymore. they don't have someone to replace them. and i just really think that it's amazing that it's a family affair because they are a family here. so i want to thank everyone for coming out and i'm very excited moving forward of how we look creatively at supporting our most vulnerable residents. thank you. [applause] >> thank you supervisor brown. our newest board member rafael mandelman, and in recent conversations with supervisors he's very interested in looking at housing, skill nursing and residential care facilities i know is one of his top priorities. so supervisor mandelman, thank you so much. [applause] >> good mornin

we are asking the commitment the city is making in dollars is matched with the city priority in possessing. i am going to cut the rest of my talking points because i know you want to get on. >> thank you. you can stay there. the quarterly report is it come anything the form of memo? a written report? >> we didn't get -- we did specify the things to be included through ocd. >> i would say for the record i think it is important not to take away too much staff time from doing what you want. a simple clear property makes the -- report makes the most sense rather that in depth analysis to take up staff time. everything else i fully support. >> are we -- do we need comment from the departments? >> several of the departments are here in order to answer any questions. we weren't asking any presentation. >> what departments are represented. >> ocd is a leadership role. >> who is here today? the mayor's office of housing, building inspection, planning, public works and fire and mod. there are five departments listed that are named in the legislation. those are the departments that such affordable ho

one was in 2013 there was an executive directive to give priority to affordable housing. in 2017 a subsequent directive to streamline all large residential projects affordable or not diluting the intent of the previous directive. the board has recently passed the former mayor's legislation to streamline. ocd is leading the construction cost containment discussions and implementation of the directive. this comments those by focusing on affordable housing specifically. what the legislation does is very straight forward and simple to direct five city departments to give absolute priorities to 100% affordable housing development, second, it requires each department to designate a person to shepard the projects through the process, to tract those and third to require the board receive a quarterly update. that allows the board to keep an eye on the projects and for the public to inform if hold ups. we are asking the commitment the city is making in dollars is matched with the city priority in possessing. i am going to cut the rest of my talking points because i know you want to

essentially into the priorities for kenya government, the priorities of the national government and the nga's forecast, economic opportunities, homeland security and environment, energy transportation. this match as well with priorities that we ourselves are focusing on and this is an area particularly with the strength that you have through engagement with high-level discussions you are having benefiting us much more. we have also seen private-sector industry yesterday and this morning, so very close and it gives the opportunity for innovation and to contribute to the public good which governors are key to them and this is something we can be able to take back and put into those quality engagements and the other take away is the best practice center. the best practice projects we have seen being presented here. this is a big lesson we will take back with us and we also learned about land from other countries to be able to prove your own and also best practices of what did that benefit can benefit all the others and the council of governors to benefit ourselves with governance, and have

owings with bring sparseness is of high priority twenty seventeen the trade with our brics countries has grown thirty percent which was more than one hundred ten one hundred million dollars. we add further developing this kind of partnership we play pay special attention to these direct contacts between our business men i support new initiatives of business council of breaks in the area of e-commerce has them east and proposals to simplify administratively there is in order to stimulate trade between our countries we await positively in the activities of the council for implementation of joint multi rental multilateral cortex this should golinger have the count we think it is of new development bank completeness should be involved in filling up credit part of all of the bank recently the after rate effectivity of the new development bank bank and expanded notably board of directors of the bank has approved twenty round projects out of this number five projects will be implemented in russia with the budget of five billion of dollars we support the. support creation of regional branche

a priority is to have a strong defense. we believe in taking care of the men and women who serve in the military so they aren't a position to defend us. that will -- so they are in a position to defend us. that will always be a top priority. >> you have highlighted the congressional budget offices regent -- recent projection of exploding debt and deficit into thatoming decade and said would pressure defense budget. who in congress is going to enforce fiscal discipline and what parts of the defense budget do you think can be cut? >> there is no short answer to that question. i think it is important to give the more detailed answer. we have an unsustainable fiscal policy in this country right now. most people do not understand that. they are trapped in the partisan back-and-forth. the latest presidential tweet. -- ouriscal policy lot fiscal policy right now can best 134 members of the house, all republicans, voted for a $2 trillion tax cut and a $500 increase -- a 500 billion increase in spending and a constitutional amendmen

event and the policies and priorities. it seems the police are more concerned with harassing mentally disturbed individuals and harassing and attacking women than they are with dealing with child assaulters. on may 17, the sfpd were protecting and abating known child assaulters and former israeli prime minister ah ahad barak. so the sfpd is going around being all big and bid, when they're protecting the enemies of not only san francisco by the american people. so the sfpd is engaged in treason, which is war against the people. i see we have a lot of legal scholars. do any of you know what the punishment is for war against the people? it's capital punishment. does anyone know what capital punishment is? that's execution. so all the police and everyone up here by association is subject to capital punishment under the law. if you call yourself law enforcement, you should understand that. i assume you've read the constitution, which is the law of the land. and another thing, as far as chief scott saying he doesn't know what go

those are two priorities of the department and continue to be priorities to the commission here. let's hear from deputy chief janeane nickelson now. good evening chief. >> greetings commissioners. , president and chief hayes-white. deputy chief of administration janeane nicholson. this is my report. i like to thank commissioner nakajo very having us to the ceremony the other night. it's a pleasure and honor to be there and congratulations to you. i will begin with my administrative vision. investigative services bureau, 59 drug and alcohol tests all negative. the assignment office the chief covered lot of it. thank you chief. what i can say, our current uniform staffing not including h8s is 1665. we're in a pretty good spot now. that also does not include our civilian members. strictly uniform. the assignment office is very busy with reassigning classes 122 and 123. class 1 through wil 122 will bef probation. class 123 will be going through their second probationary house. they're bill doing all that. support services. the good news on our facility requests, the repair of our fir

another priority is law enforcement. this bill also provides funding to fight opioid abuse epidemic, protect ours financial institutions from cyber crime, and support ours federal courts. i'd like to commend all the committee members on appropriations who led the drafting of these bill, particularly chairman graves and his ranking member, and interior ranking chairman ken calvert and his ranking member, betty mccollum ape along with their subcommittee members and professional staff that did a remarkable job. i'm pleased that the house is taking the next step forward on our appropriations bill this evening. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. i rise in strong opposition to the interior environment and financial services and general government mini bus that fails the american people by slashing environmental protection, rolling back consume brother text, and even c

ensuring religious freedom around wha the globe as the keer of the priority of the policy and to that and toda end today e concluded the first-ever ministerial to advance religious freedom. the success of this event was truly unbelievable. the level of enthusiasm for the groups and other governments was so high i've already committed to doing this again to holding the second ministerial year from now. this week we were joined by more than 80 foreign delegations and religious leaders all across the world worked closely with civil society groups often on the front lines reporting and responding to cases of religious intolerance and persecution. i want to thank the dozens of foreign dignitaries attended. i interact professionally with them every day in the course of diplomacy and as a man of faith, the presence is significant to me personally as well. number two, we had survivors and religious persecutors sharing their stories and driving home why this work is so important. we had a chance to sit with a number of them and hear their stories to talk about why they were working in this and

the priority for the investigation team now is to establish how these two people have come into contact nerve agent. i have around 100 detectives from the counterterrorism network working on this investigation alongside their colleagues. we have cordoned off a number of sites in amesbury and salisbury areas and we believe the two individuals visited in the period before they fell ill. this is a precautionary measure. while we continue to investigate how they came to be exposed to this substance. i do want to reassure the public that there is no evidence that even this man a woman recently visited even the sites that had been decontaminated following the attempted murders of yulia and sergei skripal. looking ahead over the couple of days, people in the area can expect to see increased police presence which will include officers wearing protective equipment as they carry out activities at a number of sites. this will look very similar to some of the activity you have all seen ta ke of the activity you have all seen take place in salisbury earlier this year. again, this is a precaution but

in the department and a major priority of mine.i think we have a collaborative effort in the sector >> in the activity between themselves things felt constrained interpreting the statute says it's time to redress this ar alarming the bas to share such with appropriate safeguards? >> that is an issue that we are working with them on. >> would you be supportive of the legislation that achieves that objective? >> we would want to make sure to work with you on the specifics. >> thank you for being here. and i will yield back. >> the gentle lady from utah. >> thank you mr. chairman and secretary for being here today. i want to be clear the questions you are getting today usually go to the district to ask what questions they would like to ask the secretary said just note these are coming from people that have genuine concern. forgive me also if you've answered some of these questions i need to make sure that i get these on record. you aryou're here to report thes including the u.s. involvement in the international monetary fund in its re

every other priority democracy human rights. it's etc was aboard. the trails defended his record with the police commandos to p.b.s. frontlines martin smith he says he was aware of individual militia members in the commanders but not militia groups. i did not see militia groups in the special police during the time that i was there did you feel. different. to have prevented the development of these militias that were developed by your lie again don't i have not seen you know we heard we kept hearing this all the time martin that this or that to find the absolute evidence of this has actually been quite difficult but jerry buck who is a senior advisor in police affairs to the iraqi interior ministry says that the trace must have known that organized shia militia were dominant in the police commanders he had to have known these things were discussed openly whether it was staff meetings or you know before or after various staff meetings and general conversation. pretty much the whole world in iraq knew that the police commandos wer

this is one of the priorities of getting as much aircraft support as we can overhead right now and to take the wind out of the front of this fire. there's a little bit of a breeze out here and dry vegetation. some really low humidities we're contending with. >> jonathan, we have reported on the evacuations along marsh creek springs near leon drive and morgan territory road. are you expecting more evacuations? what can you tell us about that? >> so right now, those evacuations, the extent of the evacuations, the, um, the -- the concern is until we start to get some really good containment on this fire, it can always expand. so it's a constant evaluation by our commanders and law enforcement. and we will expand our contract that base on the fire behavior. but right now, our priority is really just to try to get ahead of it and slow it down because of how fast it's moving. >> and once again, right now, how many homes do you figure are threatened and also, do we know the cause of this fire? >> yes. so both great questions. as far as the cause is concerned, that's for our investigators. it

i think i mentioned in the past paris financing mis a major priority of the department in a major priority of mine and i think we have a very good collaborative effort with the private sector. although congress intended section 3 14b of the patriot act to allow banks to share information on illicit financial activity between themselves, things have felt constrained by the rules interpreting of the statute. is it time to address this issue and allow banks to share such information with appropriate safeguards? like that is a specific issue we are working with them on. >> thank you. would you be for legislation that achieves the objective? >>. i would but i want to make sure we work on the specifics of that with you. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i yield back. >> the chair recognizes ms. love. >> thank you mr. chairman thank you mr. secretary for being here today. i want to be clear that the questions you're getting today i usually go to my district and ask what questions they would like me to ask of the secretary. just note that these are coming from people who have genuine concerns. you are b