we also find a beacon programs and in reaching -- enrichyining programs throughout the year, working on skills building. supervisor olague: at some point, i would like to see a breakdown for summer programming between what goes on with parks and record -- park and rec and dcyf. the western addition seems light. there is not a lot there. >> i can definitely talk about putting together a comprehensive list of what happens by district. supervisor olague: at booker t. washington, and other groups have reached out to our office recently, around some of their day camps and this type of programming. i just want to make sure the children, especially the children that live in some of the adjacent public housing facilities, are really having the resources provided to them that they need to have a fulfilled -- you know, a summer that is going to provide them with, you know, some recreation. supervisorlaxities see why it ao provides work force and development and career exposure year round, but we are expanding our summer job opportunities for young people but will provide approximately 1500 sum

each program, and even programs in the mayor's office of housing, they change over time. programs are created for specific purposes. our staff is pretty capable of identifying those programs and getting them to the right people in the right manner. it will not be a difficult for us to handle these programs. they will be treated the same, regardless of the source of funding and regardless of the particular program. commissioner sugaya: with -- commissioner moore: with you being in charge, i believe that. but it is a stretch. redevelopment tax in the public interest, and this looks more like a private deal -- redevelopment acts in the public interest, and this looks more like a private deal. commissioner antonini: thank you. i thought the response for the two questions was very important about the buying power that is increased by this program. and, of course, we have always been concerned during my 10 years on the planning commission of that group of people who cannot afford housing, that middle income group that is leaving san francisco. anyway, what was really interestin

that we extend the program. it will provide jobs for local group, actors, and we will have these large amounts of direct spend coming into the economy. i respectfully ask you to extend their rebate program for another two years. thank you. the have any questions for me? -- and do you have any questions for me? [applause] supervisor chu: thank you. why don't we go to the budget analyst report? then we'll open it up for public comment. >> on the bottom of page two of our report, we point out that as shown in table 1, page 3 of our report, that of the previous appropriation by the board of supervisors, it shows the rebids for production companies. a balance of $260,179 for additional rebates. on page four of our report, we point out that the balance of $2,260,179 would be available for additional rebates to qualify filming and television production to but is it the board of supervisors appropriates the additional $2 specify. we consider approval of this to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors. supervisor

but it includes graduating seniors, but a preparation program, a grade 6 stepped up program they have not step -- they have not touched on -- this is new to our district. this is taking advantage of grant funding to offer an across-the-board one-week experience for students transitioning from elementary school to middle school. this is to assist in the transition, more than academic, so that are entering middle school more familiar with the names, faces, and expectations, and are able to touch base in fall, aware of their surroundings. we talked already about the eighth grade transition program, the credit recovery. gear up is another operation. we have excel operating in our high schools. this is a grant-related programming, and very much at the discretion of each school community as to how to deploy these resources. you see a broad range of programming across our high schools making use of these funds. supervisor campos: before you continue, commissioner? commissioner maufas: i want to just ask a quick question, based on something commissioner mendoza said earlier around schools hav

core program in the energy title. now, this means that not on will we not have the $1 billion that was made available for the last farm bill with you we about l not have allocated any mandatory money for continuing these programs. this is a tremendous challenge in these fiscal times as we look for ways to cut spending and make government more efficient yet still achieve our desired goals. our panel witnesses will offer their feedback on what is most important for them and the energy title given budget constraints. our second group of witnesses will discuss forestry and the farm bill. we share forestry jurisdiction with the national resources committee. it includes land owner assistance programs, forestry research as well as overoversight of the forest service. over the past year and a half this subcommittee has been very engaged with the forest service, which as many of you know is located within the department of agriculture. several members of of the subcommittee, including myself, have forest lands in our districts

we have the fishing program. every year, we take 1500 kids out to san francisco bay and go fishing and the deep sea. it is a 10-week program. it is a public-private partnership. we also had the wilderness program. we take kids from san francisco school district to angel island for a daylong cams and hikes to the presidio. we have river rafting at the american river, sailing and pie act -- kayaking in the san francisco bay. we're partners with operation dreamed. all through the year, we have a project that is going on. for instance, during christmas season, we're with the forty- niners for a toy drive. this past year, we had 3000 children participate. during thanksgiving, we have a turkey giveaway. over 700 families benefited from this giveaway. recently, we had our easter egg hunt at garfield park. we're currently working on summer camp programs and field trips. recently, chief suhr had a basketball tournament. he partnered with the university of san francisco. there were 15 teams of boys and girls who participat

so, the use works program, the -- youth works program, the program at city college, those programs are available to all students. as far as the academy programs, we try to make sure our students have accessibility. we recruit from all i schools as well. and you see the program beginning in the second semester of the ninth grade. students have the ability to get from 5 credits to seven credits before they graduate from high school. make sure students have direct entry to the building trades, construction, also, welding or automotive programs as well. i talked about work-based opportunities. that is really where tjpa and the school district's connect. by supporting the curriculum, we have seen this in our carpentry class. we have worked very closely with burton high school, and i know we have worked very closely with the city program and our academy of engineering programs that washington and offered to develop their camp curriculum -- their curriculum. really the cherry for the students here is internship. we have 40 students that have expressed interest between all our programs. we are

these three programs, along with the rural energy from america's program, are among the core programs our coalition is supporting and urging this congress to reauthorize and fund. without an ongoing commitment to this effort, america's leadership commitment on this endeavor will erode. this will undermine our economic and environmental and our national security and could put the u.s. in a position of purchasing and importing these technologies from foreign companies and countries in the years ahead. this covers the entire renewable energy bioproducts and wind power works very well in the midwest and west. solar power works across the country, particularly in the west and the south. biogas potential is huge in livestock and dairy areas, and bioproduct manufacturing has already begun to develop near industrial hubs and the potential to use biomass exists from coast to coast. in other words, every corner of the country will benefit because these programs allow them to exploit their individual inherent natural resource bases. the senate agriculture committee recently agreed that the inves

status update on clean power sf program. status update on proceeding at the california public utilities commission. status update on the state legislation. supervisor campos: great, thank you very much. we have three items under item three. i like to turn it over to robert, the assistant general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission. good afternoon. >> thank you, commissioner. i just wanted to give a brief update on, first of all, the program itself as we have conceived it. what is going on at the california public utilities commission. and i really do not have anything to add today on state legislation. with respect, first of all, to our activities, we are anticipating consideration of our proposed contract and supplemental appropriations request that the board some time in may. that is our expectation. meanwhile, we have been busy determining, with the help of our market research -- our polling firm, the phasing and notification process approach we would like to take. you know, we have had many questions

the entire program expired after may 31st. 22 days. slightly over three weeks. and we really, really need to act for the good of the country and the economy. and we need to act in a longer-term way. not just another band-aid, another short-term extension which creates and continues an unhealthy level of uncertainty. and i appreciate the chairman feeling the same way and working very closely with me and others in this regard. i'm going to be doing two things this week, but i hope to get widespread support. i'll be passing around a new letter addressed to senators read and mcconnell, urging this to be put on the floor absolutely as soon as possible. senator tester and i had that same sort of plea in a letter dated february 14th. that was three months ago. so it's even more urgent now. and secondly i'm going to be proposing as a floor amendment to the next bill after the present one, whatever that is. the senate reauthorization bill with some controversial perfecting amendments that have been worked out since committee. so it looks like that next bill on the floor

the assistance program is a prime example of a program gone wrong. we took part of the program but had methane but extra paperwork but although those operating cost never know markets established as a direct result. the program may have worked well for the agriculture sector but it was a disaster for other businesses in the harvesting community. alas programmer like to address and to the current law we like to see the language of the 2012 farm bill to create parity between other bio based broker at -- products that apply the innovative approach with cardis of the date of entry into the marketplace. i am working with american progress is completing construction on the ethanol plant to take waste-water from a plant and use that to put would ethanol. the company sought in media saw when needed and made the investment. thank you for allowing me to provide comments on the farm bill i will be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> buydown recognize mr. goergen. >> members of the committee i am the chief executive officer and i appreciate being here

program, and hopwa program. this is a new program that was transferred to us after the dissolution of the sentences for redevelopment agency. it came to us because it is managed by the same division of the community planning and the bell division. they felt it was the best home for hopwa. we have been able to retain some of the stuff here we have communicated with officers that we are comfortable that the transition for various service providers that are funded by the rig development agency will be served well by our department. we have had one continue already with service providers to make sure they understand the transition process moving from the redevelopment agency to our office. in regards to the other three programs, as we do every year, we started this process for the 12-13 funding by holding two public hearings last fall, one in the bayview, one in chinatown. we made sure our fundament recommendations were in accordance with our consolidated plan. we participated in the on going cdo convening that were

educational programs, programs that support our infrastructure. in short, if this were to be adopted into law it will threaten our economy as a whole. and the bill not only protects the pentagon budget, it increases it by billions of dollars. does anyone here honestly believe that there's not a single dollar to be saved anywhere in the pentagon? if you do you're not read be the newspapers. it's there in front of us every single day. the abuse that goes on. no mid defense contract. i can go on and on and on. we will continue to have the strongest military in the face of the earth, but at some point national security must mean more than throwing billions of dollars at unnecessary nuclear weapons or a pie in the sky star wars program that will never materialize, but national security has to mean taking care of our own people. it means educating our children. it means that infrastructure that isn't crumbling around us. it means clean air and clean water and a health care system that works. those should be our priorities, but sadly those are not the pr

you need to continue programs that are going to expire. there are more than 30 bonuses that will expire december 31st. it's mostly for the new policy changes, pay raises, weapons programs, construction and things like that. it was 56 throop 05 in the end in the this is one of the committees that even though there's a lot of partisan bickering these days the committee can actually get a bill done and pass it on a bipartisan basis. >> it was a daylong hearing there must have been contention in that 16 hours. >> contention means you can spend a lot of time talking about things with a lot of very many votes. over 100 million-dollar plan to create east coast missile defense for the possibility of countries like iran in the united states. it's not an immediate threat right now and the initial money is $100 million was isn't very much in terms of 650 billion-dollar defense budget. but it's a long range to be a 6 billion-dollar program so it's committing to something now. >> defense programs are going to take a hit in january 2014 because of the d

program. one of my concerns with all of these programs, and if you could respond within the time frame that we have here, it seems to me and i'm a former business owner, it seems to me that business owners have a tendency to build pricing based on whatever the subsidy is. and then without an exit strategy, they're always back here wanting the program to continue, because now they have established a marketplace that has been based on a false market premise, below fries product. how do we know we're not just falling into this same trap here with you all? >> well, i think i can only speak to the biomass portion of that. but i think the fsa rule as was written was absolutely the thinking was so dead on when they talked about the chicken and egg problem. the payments that we received in biomass, they went to the farmers, to get them to commit acre into the program. with that, knowing that they were in the program, then we went ahead and invested the money in the environmental assessments which were

programs. indeed, one would think from looking at the block grant effort today for some programs and the elimination of block grant that has been in effect since ronald reagan's day with bipartisan support, the real approach here is first block grant and then cut. like repeal and replace. and the effect on so many families and individuals is a very very harsh and unamerican one that we don't have to do. there are other ways for all americans to get together and support the budget restraint we need without putting so much of it on the most vulnerable citizens. i yield back. >> time expired. has anyone wish to claim time in opposition? mr. chairman, i oppose this motion. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think what we should do is look at these programs is go back and see what brought them about. look at their history. and if we look at the history of this program, it goes back to the 1950s. and it originally was set up, the eligibility -- let's talk about eligibility in the program, was set up -- el

for congre for congress to nfip the program as it stands now needs structural reforms adrsed in the senate bill. the nfip is deeply in debt and must transition to a more sustainable path. i would point out that if a private insurance company held no surplus and carried $18 billion in debt on a $4 billion annual revenue stream regulators would -- for six years running regulators would immediately shut it down and the ceo would be fired and yet that's the situation that we face with the nfip program. two pci studies on flood risk producing revealed that the nfip is providing government-subsidized flood policies at roughly 1/3 of what the full risk cost would be in the private sector. the subsidies for repetitive loss and high-risk policies are even greater. 1% of the properties insured by the nfip have accounted for over a third of the claims on an ongoing basis and the previous panel spoke of that so eloquently. the third point i wanted to make is while the program needs to be reauthorized and must be reformed it's important to note that discussions on privatizing the program are unfeasible

our welfare program for families in california, our federally required ha foster care program as well as a host of federal matching support services and other programs. supervisor chu: what constitutes the category that you call realignment? >> realignment 1 was crafted in 1991 that goes to support services, wages, foster care, aid payments predominantly. for the second realignment, that as child welfare services, that is the big realignment with the public protection realignment. so not only including what has been talked about a lot, the probation and county jail, the child welfare services was part of the public protection peace. again, we will reflect that, but it goes to pay for foster care payments, the staffing of workers and adoption assistance. from a policy point of view, it is good for us because it pulls child welfare services out of a state and the general fund debate every year. and it is obviously not subject to reductions by the legislature and the governor. in the break down, i mentioned a mandated portions of the budget, they comprised of federal, state, and local. i

of the house is the programming side. to provide a program on the lake -- >> without reference to a budget? >> the program as we developed for the fall would cost about $17,000. we have the existing equipment. we received kayaks, stand up paddleboards and other sports equipment through a grant from coca-cola. we have the gear, it which is the staffing costs. >> mr. chairman, i move to reject the mou. >> i have a motion. >> i have some comments. i don't know if there is a second, -- >> i will hold my motion to listen to your comments. >> it's hard to believe we are still addressing the same issues. i have been on the commission almost four years now and i think one of my first meeting as we were talking about these exact same issues. it is with some frustration and consternation that we have to listen to the same comments over and over again. i'm not happy that the mou -- i hear what a lot of the task force members from lake merced are saying because i don't think the mou is significantly different enough to squarely say w

there is also 18,000 workers and that program. some of those are the folks that dan talked-about better over 65- years-old. the next division is protective services. this is where we have an adult protective services, which is there to focus. these programs are there to serve people, regardless of their income. our protective services programs are available to anyone, regardless of income. our public guardian, public administrator's office, public conservatives office, and re pae. they help people manage the income so they can actually remain living in the community. doing investigations on reports of neglect and abuse, and that is an ever-rising problem in our community. the third division of the department is long-term care operations where we have seen some of the most innovative and creative program development, largely due to the mayor and the board of supervisors. this is where the community living fund resigns, a fund that helps people leave nursing homes to come back to the community, or to help them stay in the community

farmville energy programs such as bio refinery assistance program, the cap and bio-based markets program in combination with the complementary federal policies like to renewable fuel standard are supportive tax policy center speeding technologies to commercial reality. it is vital for nations future that we continue in this meant in america's energy and agricultural futures as the committee acknowledged when it passed mandatory funding for these programs in the bipartisan bill that passed the committee last month on a vote of 16 to five. i urge this committee to do its part as well and to reauthorize farmville energy programs with meaningful mandatory funding. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. greenwood. mr. stroschein, please proceed with your five-minute testimony. >> thank you, chairman thompson, good to see you again. i appreciate this opportunity. many of his ransacked two, codirector of the agricultural energy coalition. i was raised a farm in south dakota, which icann is still operates amazing first-hand the growing impacts the production of rural economies. the agricultu

programs. go a long way towards easing volatility in the dairy markets stabilization program. just like corn, wheat and soybean, sugar, cotton, the other farmers of the country. dairy farmers work hard for a living and almost want to leave them out. you make great improvements in kovati k conservation titles. i know both of you have worked consolidating, a confusing alphabet soup of programs and authorization. i continue to work with you on the new agriculture conservation easement program. i think we have to work now to slow the loss of farmland in this country. farmland is part of our national security. it is not sustainable, to lose over 1 million of farmland each year. since this is the only federal program available for farmland protection, i hope that we can opt more funding to the agriculture land easement, and as the author of the officer ganic foods production act i'm extremely pleased the bill continues to make strong improvements for organic agriculture as well as local foods. i'm ve

we wouldn't have significant improvements in the farm level program pooir program. i've learned more about montana. they have bigger -- it has a bigger -- bigger counties than michigan. i now understand that and the differences, in all seriousness, is part of the challenge and i very much appreciating your advocating. nobody could fight harder for montana and we appreciate your add voe cases and leadership. >> thank you. madam chairwoman, if possible, i'd like to return the compliments that other senators have given to you and i say if it's possible, i don't know if i can compliment you more, they've complicated you so well i just want to associate myself with their compliments. you have work sewed hard to get us here. all the numerous telephone calls received from you and i deeply appreciate the calls i've made to you. i hope you appreciate, as we've tried to work all this out. you were always there. i don't know anyone that works harder than you and is more receptive than you. you've been just terrific and in helping put this bill together. there were times i wasn

it's not like an open-ended program. it is based on what we have available for the rebates, so up to a certain amount, i can accept it. what else can we get out of it in terms of later film productions? i'm excited about woody allen coming to san francisco and maybe he will reprise himself as virgil stark well or do something like a new production of "what's up doc" or vertigo. he needs -- we need something iconic to put san francisco on the map again and it shows san francisco in the greatest way, the beauty of this city is what we are going to make happen and that will have a great effect on this city and the city's economy in years to come and i think the art form itself is something to invest in as well. i do appreciate the concerns supervisor kim has around local hiring. i think the room is packed with people here who are local residents who i think expect to benefit from the film program. if we need to tighten up, and i sure if we do it in this legislation or separately, but it makes sense we invest locally in our

i was asked to talk about our job training program. we have a program called "environment now." is our green jobs training program. there are currently 18 team members throughout san francisco and our core to the outreach effort. their activity is extensive. they do monitoring, recycling, composting, knocking on doors to promote energy efficiency, talking with small-business owners of reducing energy use and bills, and tabling at fairs and festivals to educate about the zero waste. as part of this program, they participate in a number of work- force training activities. that includes environmental literacy, which uses the curriculum to teach sustainability, soft and technical skills development with training focus on skills like public speaking, outreach, customer service, data collection and waste and energy auditing. there is also a project-specific training where they learn about the many innovative environmental policies in san francisco and interagency coordination. another critical component is the on the job experience. they have done work in the residential sector on ene

this is a very critical program for us, very important program. some point in the future, this plane will be 95% of our air fighter force. so it's important that we get it right. it's that we move forward with it. are there -- is there any further debate on the amendment? >> mr. chairman, yes. i'd like to talk about the substitute amendment. >> the gentleman has five minutes. >> well, the substitute amendment essentially, if you take it at face value, it's saying we're going to get an ioc date not later than december 31. what i'm requesting is an ioc date by about march. so this is in a sense more strict. the only trouble is there is no teeth in this one. and there is no guarantee the pentagon is going to necessarily do what we say. we've been talking with them on all kinds of different things. we found the helicopter problem with our medevac helicopters. you can talk to them and say you want a report and you want them to do this and that. they don't do it. so this thing has no teeth. the proposal i had was simply saying by march if they don't hav

this is not a blanket program.is dependent on each team's determination that the gap in services in the summer represents a significant shortfall in their learning. each team receives guidance from the special education department to ask a number of questions based on student performance data, outcomes, and anticipated learning over the summer to determine whether the student should be extended an esy offer. we are processing our acceptances and will look at the students represented in the slide. esy, last year, we made significant efforts to expand the professional development for teachers serving in esy. the recipients of a day of training on a specialized literacy intervention. that same intervention is used during the school year, what we call a tear to reading intervention. it deepens teacher expertise in how to deepen reading experience across the spectrum. it enable teachers in esy to meet students' needs as they found them. not only are we talking about keeping kids at a steady level, but pushing them forwa

this is a massive program for us. it's the only program without an ioc date. that's initial operational capability. has a milestone decision. but it's the only one that has no ioc date. and the problem is, we start building a product and we don't have a final design. that runs the costs through the roof. now this amendment is about transparency. it's about accountability. and it's about project management. now there's two pots of money. the first is the development and the design money. this amendment leaves that completely untouched. the second pot is the procurement dollars. and this freezes half of the procurement dollars until we get an ioc date now the ioc date should have been given to us right after it passed the milestone "b." but even if we got a date some time this year, this is not going to affect the program at all. all we're doing is saying we want to play for real. if you cut half the procurement money out, that would take effect in march of 2013. so all we're saying is some time in the next year almost we want some type of an ioc date. this also

we do have a variety of programs. when we are looking at this is a pilot program that we are moving into individual homes with gray water usage. we give large landscape grants to promote efficient irrigation. we are looking at ways to promote new developments > of 40,000 feet and how they can actually look at plumbing gray water into their facilities. >> and for existing households, we have a program as well? >> yes. we are taking water from laundry out to the art for irrigation purposes. supervisor avalos: thank you. >> the history of most base -- most waste water programs as they wait until they have an epa violation and then they can blame the federal government for having to borrow money and going out to have to fix their systems as opposed to polluting the waterways. we have been trying to do it the right way and making sure we take care of the bay and the oceans and neighborhoods that we impact. because of that, the epa has not been on our case. the largest program right now is a philadelphia. as we look at it,

, to pay the participants and revamp the program. to sign the legislation when it comes to the desk, the budget will improve more participants. [applause] >> hello. i am george -- who has lived 15 years in north beach, and 2.5 years in the tenderloin. i work on police issues and election campaigns. i have noticed that at union square, there is a police presence -- they protected the -- when the giants had the playoff game, a deal was made about getting a police presence, and i read that the twitter people, part of the contract included 12-18 hour foot patrolsin the block area. those people are protected. what about san francisco citizens in the tnederloin. friends of mine from out of town have been attacked. there is intimidation, violence, threats. people are afraid to go out at night. i am a person who was out in the morning and i am a night person. i do not see any or most any police presence in the worst areas of the tenderloin. i hear from the police station ad jones and eddy. people get in their cars and go somewhere else other

snap is an $80 billion program. a major part of the business line for these stores, and i think these are tax dollars going into those stores, and we have the right to say if we are going to participate happily so, and we want to make sure that you are enabling low-income persons who avail themselves of that benefit to have more access to a healthier array of food. so we're watching that very carefully. summer food, we're entering into the period of the year where an american child is more likely to face food security or hunger than any other time of year. how so, why so? schools will be out shortly and we have a summer food service program that we are promoting this time of year, we have about 3 million american kids, who participate in that program, and we're also promoting again the most nutritious for those summer food service program, to make sure they are providing access to nutritious foods. the my plate, about one year old, and we spend about $1 billion in the food and nutrition service, and $1 billion. and