the food lovers fat loss program is definitely a family-friendly program. it's food that we all eat anyway and that has been the best thing. on other programs, i've been eating a frozen meal or... something that's totally different. but now, when they're eating pizza, i'm eating pizza. when they're eating cheeseburgers, i'm eating cheeseburgers. i'm not having to go and fix something different. in eight months, i've lost 50 pounds and i've gone from a size 16 to a size 8/10. >> on the food lovers fat loss system, i have lost 48 pounds and i have lost 33 inches off of my entire body. i have listened to some of the other diet programs and every time they said the word "diet," i felt like i was going to have to give stuff up. i have... i've given up nothing for food lovers. i have pasta for lunch several times a week and i eat potatoes, i eat rice, i eat cookies, i eat brownies. there are absolutely no foods that are forbidden on the food lovers fat loss system. i actually eat more now than i've probably ever eaten in my entire life. when i was heavy, i was ea

launch and timing and this is really at a high level and the two-phase, program and the program launch thises fall and there is a six month window, during which the workshops happen and the business community is informed of the program, and a number of that is the time that the business community is asked to register if they are not certificated through the partners which again are still in the planning phases to be determined, which ones we will use. and the phase kind of closes with the end of the program, and the beginning of the procurement, starting early next year and that allows for the nfl and the suppliers to start using the data base that we created and certificated the minority women and businesses for their procurement needs and the rfps and communicate with the suppliers and engage them in the procurement process. >> and another one is a high level, and presentation, and i think that underneath it, the important part about engaging the local, diverse community and we see this as a great opportunity to link them to the nfl and the procurement process for the super bowl, 50

many constitutional programs in than in 2013 highlights in terms of programming one of the biggest categories over the thirty years of prop k this slide shows the street resurfacing and the 5 categories about 2/3rd's of the programming in the entire programming of prop k similarly instead of 3 years but the next 5 years in terms of the programming those categories will 5 hundred and 07 o 70 employed million dollars those categories alone and i want to note a blue box box in the upper right hand corner replacing the fleet is better performance the 2 hundred and 93 will the evidence will then show that effort all right. we see a list of the number of categories that run out of money sooner or later and by looking at the category that are giving more or less years where the funds are happening since 2009 those categories are shown with a negative number for instance, and as was mentioned earlier the expenditure plan the metro we are van a ton of money over the next 5 years to fully fund van ness and the geary construction and put a substantial amount towards the initiative categories with additi

people aware of the program and to apply for the program. i guess that's -- got any other thoughts on that one? >> i'll give you one example. i'd like to -- like for us to have some people who are involved in nongovernmental organizations, like our foundation work, that operate at a smaller level but do really great work. but need to figure out how to ramp it up and do so with the help of modest donors. so, it's become sustainable in their community or in their state or wherever. i think they could benefit from a program like this. i would like to have some people who are entrepreneurs in the program, who are working in areas with enormous potential but significant uncertainty for america's economic future. and i'd like to have to -- to go back to one thing george said -- i'd like to get some people from dramatically different backgrounds together, with the charge to come up with something they can do together. for example, when the tea party first got organized, a lot of the early people who were interested in it were not involved with anyb

it or not on the work program. >> okay. and while you are at the mic, are either, are there any projects coming forward on either of these addresses? >> not that i am aware of. >> okay. commissioner hyland? >> i just have a concern and that is that, i'm totally in support of adding any appropriate project to the landmarks program, but we don't seem to have enough resources in order to process these and just learning today that we did not get the one head count in order to pursue this forward. do we need to agenda ized further discussion to have a further conversation about moving this forward. we have made several projects on landmark but they have been initiated. we need some resources to identify this progress. >> mr. frye and i have spoken on this previously outside of this chamber in how do we track and follow our monthly allocation, and what i always worry about is that we have staff that is doing both active, private enterprise projects as well as landmark background research for the work program. and, everyone is hot

and about the program, that is available, through the clinic by the bay. and i have also i am working with the other organizations that just started to work with the council of the district merchants and i am working with the mission of the economic development and working with the mayor's office to do the same thing and again what i am asking for is, support, and out reach, to a small business community of san francisco. >> okay. >> thank you. >> and commissioner dwight? >> well, i was not so well informed about this until recently speaking with scott over the phone and i am just really impressed with what you have dealt and the effort that you have put into it and i hope that we can assist you in the out reach and we have talked about how this might relate to even some of the employees that we have and that our business even though we offer, the health insurance benefits and so i think that there is some real upside to this and i would like to explore it more and in lieu of making any firm commitment here and at least know that you have our interest, and

program. s. port security, transit security, our firefighter programs, staffing for emergency managers and firefighters -- >> again, when people get things for free, get a lot of money, one of the first things my wife as an irs agent learned, first government phrase was, use it or lose it. and that is just concerning how you put money to work. miss mason, the $4.4 billion granted by the depth of justice since 2005, that hat had any kind of cost-sharing requirement. >> the jag money is formula money that does not require cost sharing from local governments. but for example, this year, we awarded $280 million in grants. those are spread between the 56 u.s. states and territories and local governments. so for 80% of the grants, jag grant, the average award size is only $30,000. >> are you aware of any piece of equipment that is either given away for allowed to be purchased? i'm talking about tess defense department. any pieces of equipment given away that would not be available for purchase by lo

so we modified our training program. so this year what we have seen is a decrease there that, because we have changed our train program. we are lookinging alooking at what is causing the injuris and have a meeting scheduled next week to modify our training program to reduce those injuries. so we constantly look at that and evaluate the programs. previously our return to work program was 90 days and an employee would come back for a period of 90 days while still recovering and seeking treatment. in an effort to reduce those payments we have extended that to 180 days and now employees can come back to work for a longer period of time. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other questions? >> no, we're good the questions. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for your presentation. before we open up to public testimony, is there any response from the civil grand jury regarding what they have heard from the sheriff's department, as well as dhr? >> just briefly regarding the community involvement in the charter schools and adult edu

this is for the restaurants program. the difference being that the program was introduced by the city. it's an official designation of the program to recognize bars, cafes, billiard halls for architecture has rendered them worthy of preservation. these businesses are eligible to receive grants for conservation project and like the window decal program and businesses are promoted actively by the administration of culture and non-profit group to increase patron acknowledge of these businesses. on the far end of the spectrum is the program. i'm just going to call it that in paris which in paris is as many of cultural uses were faced with closure and displacement such as book stores, artisans, the city enacted this to allow their department to purchase hundreds of property in predefined neighborhood for lease for specific uses. the agency then sells the property to the tenant or a real estate subsidiary with a covenant for a particular use. final two examples, one here in san francisco and i'm really happy that lisa beckham

justice program.ubmit the rest of my mie questions for the record. ms. mason, i just want to extend, if i may nor a moment, i did a complete oversight of the grant programs 3 1/2 years ago at the justice department.ov what we saw wasn't pretty.er your testimony kind of inferred that you guys are on top of allf your grants right now. would you restate what you saidr in your opening testimony in yor terms of grant management? >> thank you for the question, senator. ques what i would say is that we have done a very good job of implementing the things you s suggested in your assessment of our grant programs primarily f through the creation of the t pa office of the audit assessment and managementwh where we do a lot of internal self-assessment and looking at our programs. we implemented risk assessment e tools to determine which of ourm grants should get more in-depth monitoring. we've also implemented that tha every single one of our grants gets a desk review every year. so we believe that we are doing a

they'll do a little job training program.have federal money going in to a group that not only empowers poor african-americans in mississippi but empowers them to begin challenging local officials so you can imagine state and local officials calling democrats calling the johnson administration, hey, wait a minute. there's the political pressure, right? all right, let's turn to ronda williams and the case in baltimore. cara and patrick. >> i thought this article was interesting because baltimore is a northern city. >> border state but did. >> it's in maryland. i guess. anyways so basically the gist of this article is you have johnson's community action program going into baltimore and setting up social -- all of the stuff that it's setting up and you have the activists in the city saying like hey, we have our own thing that's we want to add to this plan that the poor actually want from their communities and they didn't just let johnson's program come in and take over. this group formed in 1965, i don't know if it formed in 1965

programs and other programs inated to our interest federal support for good programs that increase efficiency and provide benefits for nutrition and physical soundness. that we need in our country. i think we can continue to improve on the federal role. this hearing also has a purpose. suggestions from our witnesses are welcomed and encouraged. we think there should be local flexibility to accommodate from thense concerns administrator's of the local level. changes inions for federal legislation to underlying legislation supporting these programs is welcomed and we appreciate your participation with us in this endeavor. thank you. >> thank you. very much. i know, senator cochran, you have two distinguished representatives from mississippi. we will introduce our members. at the appropriate point to introduce your guest's, we want you to do that. welcome to put opening statements into the record but we will proceed with the testimony. very pleased to introduce our first witness. eddie wiggins, the executive director for the detroit public schools. she has helped the district develop 77 school g

when you say new, it's in the early years of the program. it's not necessarily new power, it's just power they have contracted for in excess of their rps obligation, their newer portfolio obligation. >> thank you. we have other parts that you wanted to explain and i cut you off in the middle of that. i apologize for that. >> no probable. i'm here to help support the understanding. so while it's dormant we are keeping an eye on it and expect puc will continue to propose this and we'll continue to initiate the city's interest on that. and to legislate proceeding ab 24 died in the senate. when we last talked it was on its way to senate appropriation where it passed and it was ordered to a third reading on august 19th, pg & e ultimately opposed the final proposed language. it wouldn't accomplish what they initially set out to accomplish so we are happy to report that that bill died. that's the scope of my comments. mr. freed? >> jason freed. lafco staff. this part of the report is to get information of what is currently available of being planne

and the bridges program for state university people, and we also have a creativity program for high school students and you would be amazed -- at least i was with the tremendous brain power that these young people in high school have. science projects that they presented to us. oh my god i was embarrassed. i couldn't believe the brain power of young people from every ethnic and racial group in california that was represented there so i am glad you're concentrating with high school students because many times organizations think they're not ready or prepared. know me more prepared than i ever was in high school. >> and we're moving in that direction to really focus on service learning projects so have them produce something we can use and allows us to tap into their creativity that we couldn't do on our own. >> thank you for that. >> there was a stat that you mentioned about the work force and how it's aging and a high number -- >> [inaudible] >> wishes. and it was a high percentage so i think it's a thing to be tracking bringing on the next generation of workers. >> that's something

today i'm pleased to present the jury's report on the operation and programs of the san francisco jails. this report is a product of cooperation and agreement. this report would not have been possible without the cooperation of people in the san francisco sheriff's department, the five charter schools and adult education programs, the jailhouse services division of the department of public health as well as the staff of the san francisco general hospital, and members of the san francisco police department, as well as jail inmates. this report presented findings through discussion and through numerous site visits, many interviews and comprehensive literature review and evaluation of pages and pages of documentation. there is no requirement that a report be generated by the jury. however, the 2013-2014 civil grand jury has generated a report that contains four findings and 13 recommendations. regarding the fourth finding and corresponding recommendation &%fos from the jails reports, the jury reports the five key charter schools and adult education programs and the community partnerships e

program. in the afternoon, live comments with tom harkin and hillary clinton. on c-span 2, book tv. the secret world of oil. then, christian gillibrand on her life and politics. find our television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you were watching. us, e-mail us, or send us a tweet. the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. at a senate homeland security hearing yesterday, a defense department official defended a program that transfers military equipment to local police departments. the committee heard testimony about how police use that military gear. this part of the hearing is an hour and a half. >> come to order. we want to welcome all of our guests. we want to welcome eyewitnesses on the first panel and second panel. unarmedh ago today, an man named michael brown was shot and killed by local police in the town of ferguson, missouri. theas been stated that officer was acting in self-defense. remainse investigation ongoing, t

helped us to be aware of the program and to apply for the program.ou know i mean do you have any other thoughts on that one? >> i will give you one example. i would like for us to have some people who are involved in nongovernmental organizations like our foundation work that operate at a smaller level but do really great work but need to figure out how to ramp it up and do so with the help of modest donors. so they become sustainable in their community or in their state or wherever. i think they could benefit from this. i would like to have some people who are entrepreneurs in the program who are working in areas with enormous potential but significant uncertainty for america's economic future. and i would like to go back to one thing george said, i would like to get some people from dramatically different backgrounds together with the charge to come up with something we can do together. for example when the tea party first got organized, a lot of the early people who are interested in it were not involved with anybody big, anybody rich. they just t

program. though those these grants can't be used to buy weapons, they do fund vehicles, and non -- and the burn jag program which received 376 million proposes gives state and local law enforcement agencies for funding from everything from mobile data terminals, lethal and nonlethal to office supplies and uniforms, and to provide the maintenance funds to maintain the expensive vehicles that have been given them by the department of defense. these grant programs provide important assistance to state and local law enforcement agencies. however, it is impossible to tell how these federal funds are being spent, because department of homeland security and department of justice don't track the purchases or keep adequate data, so we just can't know. from asking they agencies how much military equipment or anything else that local law enforcement agencies are actually buying. in fact, it is possible that either or both of these prams are funding police department in fact to maintain and sustain the sa

so now for some program level updates. we're doing a lot of work on cellties plant because there is going to be so much construction happening at the same time we initiated this integration plan because we have to keep the plant running 24/7 even so we have different projects moving plus our planned r and r in addition to maintenance so we're looking at utilities and mapping that out in terms of gif so we know where they are and where foot prints are at facilities or planned or existing. we're identifying the staging and layout areas and folding into a master schedule, really a logistical effort. when do we need it available? when will each project start? and how will the plant form with these constructions so maintenance and operations can be fully up to speed. we're doing work on climate change. we completed the mapping for the areas and we are looking at the areas of risk are. pump stations at risk sooner? will we get salt water into the system? this includes sea level rise as well as storm surge. we are updating our co

missile and space program.re was much public debate about the military versus civilian control of the program. at that time it was suspected the president eisenhower would address the nation. >> long-range ballistic missiles do not cancel these destructive and deterrent powers in our strategic air force. the launching of earth satellites is an achievement of the first importance. the scientists who brought it about deserve full credit and recognition. already useful news -- useful new facts have been introduced with more on the way as new satellites with added instruments are launched. the satellites by themselves have no direct effect upon the nations security. however, there is real military significance to these launchings, as i have previously mentioned publicly. their current military significance lies in the a advanced technique and military technologies. for example, the powerful propulsion equipment necessarily used. >> on the eighth of february, 19 58, the president gave authority to all space projects

urban areas programs.under the homeland security act states are required to distribute 80% of the funds to local communities within their state. the act also requires the department to ensure that at least 25% of the combined funds allocated under the state and urban areas programs are used for law enforcement terrorism prevention activities. these activities include purchase of equipment. grant recipients must purchase equipment listed. the department prohibits use of grant funds for purchase of lethal weapons and ammunition. these are not on the authorized equipment list. homeland security grant funds may be used to purchase equipment classified as personal protection equipment such as helmets, body armor and ear and eye protection. the homeland security act allows equipment purchased with grant funds including personal protective equipment to be used for purposes unrelated to terrorism so long as one purpose of the equipment is to build and sustain terrorism based capabilities. the authorized list notes

pushing states to fark a food stamp program or medical screening program.hey wanted an adequate income. they wanted a guaranteed income. they wanted training for jobs they could do and work their way out of poverty. they wanted child care to help them do it. that they arerted mothers and their mothering had middle-classike women's mothering is seen as valuable culturally if not financially. one activist put it smartly. if government was smart, it would start calling afdc day and night care and say the welfare crisis had been solved because women were put to work raising their children. this welfare rights movement had some success. i am fast forwarding to 1977. it had success for a short time. but never established legally a right to live. we don't have poverty as a suspect class under the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. there is no right to live. and the kind of negative culture of poverty rhetoric raises this notion of an underclass, a pathological underclass by the late 1970's and 1980's. we will get there. running out of time. jr., decide

we support the program.he program's flexible approach prevents against attack by ing the industry's ability to remain innovative and members have quite literally bought into the program. costs a lot of time and money to plan we weren't certain that cfats would continue since it had been basically taken over by the appropriations cycle and had not be authorized. this was a concern for industry because they are investing money and resources in trying to come ply with the cfats scan. if you're going to have to make new investments. that wasn't good for industry. it also wasn't good for dhs, cho is trying to build on the framework that they had had in place to not have that certainty that the program would even continue was not helping them out at all either. noigs that, there seemed to be sort of like the top ten list of complaints and shortcomings about cfats through its history. and a lot of those, as i said, were common. so i was hearing the same things over and over from a lot of different stakeholders. it

are part of the new program the pro-active residential program allows mta to have the residential locations that have not summit the cohn applications but benefits in terms of safety and moenlt as well as an opportunity to improve the groeveng equality and the prop k funds in the fiscal year are to further plan and scope out those elements the traffic cohn program and come up with a method doing and implementation plan for the aerials and pro-active residential this is really mta is transitioning away from the program and in full swing to the new program in 2015-2016. i think i've pretty much covered the highlights in the next 5 years mta is coming in for more money than the last 5 years there's significant funds available from existing allocations so the work will be continuing as time is going by and we're supportive of vision zero and there's also the pavement funding for the mta and dpw can coordinate on the improvements. for bicycle safety we're identified through the 2009 bike plan and funded the bike plan through the transit stations and through the vision zero large vehicle educatio

that this program is different. isn't there still quite a bit to the government's argument that even in this context, there is not much of an expectation of privacy in these records. aboutample, if you look all the things the government could find out from these records the government could if metadatafrom this could determine that someone was hiv-positive or summary had an abortion. could not verizon find out those things? could they not release the record it has and make the same claim? can the user for commercial purposes, not remotely important to anyone as the government whose 60 uses data. just because they might be able to make money selling a list of people that verizon thinks has recently developed an unwanted pregnancy. group,n antiabortion send information on those people. verizon can do that, could night? >> i don't think our contract provides for unregulated access to our call records. only access that verizon has our records is likely through computerized collection of those records. it is a bit ironic

it is pending in the program, thank you. >> we have got someone else. and thank you. >> speak a little more in detail. >> thank you. >> we presented the plans and programs committee in october. >> okay. >> thank you. >> let's see, colleagues do you have any other questions? >> i am sorry, one more thing, could you tell me which papers you advertised in? the paper advertised let's see, it is on the mainly on page 3 and down here. on the second paragraph, and san francisco chronicle and examiner, the western edition, the san francisco bay view and the world journal and the small business exchange. >> so when you advertise these and send these papers do you pay to take out an ad or do you have a contract? how does that relationship work? >> the handle. >> good morning, for finance and administration, we do actually contact and various newspapers or agencies that pertain to the type of work, we don't have actually a contract with each and every single one some of them we do and some of them we don't, just to get the best price, and which ever that we have c

b.s., then of course graduate programs and certificate programs. it probably exceeds 100 in total and that includes both online education as well as education that occurs on campus. >> how do you address at the university of nebraska lincoln, this issue of job placement. after kids graduate, what's the rate of them getting a job and how do you encourage or do you encourage kids to pick majors, professions that will get them a job when they graduate? well, there's a lot of important questions that you have asked there and i'll dissect that a bit. first of all, in terms of the colleges experience, we want our students to be aware of the fact that they should obtain some skill during college, that is valuable to a potential employer. now that doesn't mean we want to provide a technical education, we want to make sure that students first of all have the range of experiences that lead them to have a full and productive life. so that implies there would be good counseling for those students, as well as opportunities for internships, working with companie

program. we are not allowed to use usda expense funds to pay for this. the cooperative is self funded. we charge about half a penny for for all costsrved associated. we order and distribute about $16 million in usda donated foods annually. through the purchasing cooperative we have a statewide delivery system in place able to further reduce the costs of the organization by having the foods delivered by the same manufacturers, same brokers. use of both buying power and distribution network help faceperative to challenges implementing farm to school programs. many of our states most abundant crops -- cotton and soybeans -- cannot go to the table. then we have many of our most plentiful crops have harvests during the summer when school is not in session. to assist schools and farmers, we work with the department of defense and the mississippi department of agriculture to bring locally grown products to schools through the state. and 2015 we will have about $1 million worth of locally grown produc

part of -- one of the services that is under the wellness under this program is a program for those that lack a fixed night time resident and reside in a shelter, motel, hotel, temporary housing, abandoned building or temporary foster care. of course these students have educational rights that include immediate enrollment, attend the school they're attending, transportation to schools and participation in all programs and they of course can contact the district liaison to resolve any dispute. it's important that these students have critical services available to them. they may receive assistance with school enrollment, advocate on the transition of students, handle disputes and offering tutoring and we know that many of the unaccompanied immigrant children are trying to benefit from. they get free breakfast and lunch and get backpacks and supplies and resources and referrals to other agencies. so we have done two different things in terms preparation thus far. in the class classroom we have gathered the data to project and anticipate the number of new comer cutche -- unaccompanied childr