you said to me, when you're in public service and your family's in public service, it's a way of life. >> yeah. i had -- in my household, my family had a daughter and my wife, and they had a routine that they would do when i was at work, they would have a routine that they would do when i was at home. we would be at work for two days straight or sometimes four days straight depending on the situations. and they would have, you know, their own little things that they would do. it happens in public safety all the time. the families have to do things without the -- whoever is in the public safety, the man or the woman. >> that's an excellent point because often think of just the law enforcement personnel or the firefighting personnel but it's the whole family. the whole family gets caught up in that because their lifestyle changes so drastically. >> they realize that there are going to be times when you're not there for christmas, you're not there for thanksgiving, you're not there for birthdays or special occasions, anniversaries. >> but you actually probably spend more time with the fi

ever since i was in the third grade, i've been walking down this path of public service. so to my future senators and business men and women and doctors and entrepreneurs and engineers and architects, i welcome you to the table, to the -- what is it, the hundred million club? the one million dollar? i've increased the vision. 100 million sounds better to me. that's the ron conway club. sign me up. i welcome you to the club because we have a lot of work that needs to be done. we won't be able to get it all done in our lifetime and we must continue to pass on this torch to continue to move things forward and mr. omar, where you are? come join me up here, please, sir. i want to present -- this is one of the best parts of the job. you get to present certificates of honor to recognize outstanding leaders and sove lia certificate of honor but i want you to know that i'm stingy with my certificates. everyone may request, but few get them. ladies and gentlemen, if you will bear with me, i'm going to share with you the words i have more college track. in honor of college track bay

the president and the chief of staff for public service had an uneasy relationship the two men played according to their own rules. then thought in under pressure by the international community card has signed a plan to divide both mia between muslims and serbs america and europe had guaranteed peace and all sides involved had promised to lay down their arms if the plan was signed but not it showed a map to members of parliament making clear what the serbs with lewis was divided in that way in the payment as a result parliament refused to ratify the plan it turned it down as it were courage had to renounce his signature. by the end of the war tensions between the president and the chief of staff had reached an all time high rather than courage signed a decree forcing luggage to resign. in july of ninety ninety five the hague tribunal indicted both from similar charges crimes against humanity and genocide. but i have heard those accusations of the hague tribunal against me yes i am a person who belongs to my people. just like my ancestors my people would be first to stop i would. i don

they are considering careers within the rec and padepartmentn within the realm of public service in generalthey are also gaining confidence as they are moving forward on their path to adulthood. ok, so that was just my brief five minute presentation. thank you for all you do in your ongoing partnership with our organization. >> thank you. the last item on the general managers' report, three stop acknowledgments, and i would like them all to come up. terry parker and terry church. these are three individuals from the rec and park family who have made a difference of the past years and truly exemplifies this type of employee every city park department would love to have, and all three are retiring. i want to start with joe faulkner. the career that began in 1973, only one year before his father retired from the city in 1974. together they represent over 76 years of continuous family history working with the city. as a kid he picked up golf balls for joey wright. he was accomplished golfer in his own right. he is a two-time men's championship and they are family tournament champions until did

secondly, we also want to thank edmund clark and mabel, who have basically provided a level of public service here at the department, along with renzang on the fifth floor. thank you very much for providing the service that the department always liked to hear of, from the department of public service. other than that, that is it. >> all right. public comments on the president's announcement? item number four, general public comment. we will take comments on terrorist action items that are not within the agenda. >> kenai have the overhead on? >> it is on. >> a they're going to focus on it when you put it down. >> good morning, commissioners. i want to bring to your attention a rather unusual circumstance that you may wish to look into. you will see that there is a copy here of the lobby permit tracking system that shows a missing -- how do you prove a negative -- but a missing complaint. i wanted to bring to your attention that the complaint on the system, as early as august 17 of this year, was recorded correctly. the case was opened. the case was abated. but i am not familiar in any

you, chairman cardin and let me also echo, ambassador sherman, the appreciation for your long public service and also your family's sacrifice. and one of the things that hasn't been noted is you have served in the public in a number of positions dedicated to children and children's issues and that's something that's very close to my heart and i very much appreciate that. if iraq were to make the request to retain u.s. troops in iraq, and i know today there is a big front page article on "the new york times" about various parts of this to retain -- iraq makes a request to retain u.s. troops past the december, 2011 deadline. how would it change the defense to stay if at all and how would it affect the state department's ability to operate in iraq and the preparations being made for the transition? >> senator, i read this in the paper this morning along with you, and so i don't know all of the answers to the questions but certainly we'll ask the state department to make sure that you get a full answer. my understanding is that this may be a request for military trainers and if so it would be ot

. >> and the extraordinary public service award goes to supervisor maxwell. she is a native of san francisco, and she was elected to the board in 2001. she served until 2011. this affected everything from land use, to children and families. including a residential water conservation ordinance. congratulations, supervisor maxwell. >> good afternoon, everybody. this is me. people have been asking me, what are you doing now? i am thinking about things that i want to think about. you take it for granted, but i don't anymore. i want to thank the status of women, and all of you. i want to thank all of the people that are in this room that worked with me. thank you, it is collective leadership. you're certainly a part of my team. thank you all. [applause] >> i asked if i could do this one because it is pretty darn important to me. this is the community leadership award. she was a young woman from hunters point that said, most kids in this community who don't believe they will live to see their twenty fifth birthday. she was gunned down at the age of 23, celebrating

i really believe in public service. could be in the private sector and make a lot of money, but i believe that i have a duty to try to make things better for other people and to pay back to a country that has given me so much. >> i just want to make a public statement to acknowledge that appointments to the police commission and any commission which is a policy-making body is very important. i want to encourage about keep in front of our minds the importance of not only to elect women, but to work to get more women appointed to these bodies that help make legislative decisions for our city and county of san francisco. >> i am from san francisco. i grew up in the local neighborhood. i did my under deprad wait work at fisk university, where i studied political science with a concentration in public administration and worked eight years largely in the public sector. then i earned a master's degree from carnegie melon in pittsburg, pennsylvania. i spent some time as assistant executive director for a non-profit. we did work

the serbs called the public service. rather than courage previously a practicing psychiatry first became leader of the serbs as well as president he was also formally known as the commander in chief. rather than courage didn't have the right skills to command troops he had authority humanitarian frame of mind because of his character in occupation war in a parliamentary public service good to get that into account when it elected right can lot of the army's chief of staff. the president and the chief of staff for public soaps had an uneasy relationship the two men played according to their own rules. then been under pressure by the international community card has signed a plan to divide both mia between muslims and serbs america and europe had guaranteed peace and all sides involved had promised to lay down their arms if the plan was signed but not it showed a map to members of parliament making clear what the serbs with louis was divided in that way in the payment as a result parliament refused to ratify the plan it tu

we monitor that because -- automatic wet -- what ever is empty, automatically becomes public service ads. i'm not sure we communicated that effectively to the budget analyst, but we feel comfortable we know how many ads are sold and where they are and who is buying them. supervisor campos: it seems like there is a disconnect in terms of the information was provided because that's different than what the report says. something else the report says is you have not audited the contracts. have you audited the contracts? >> when they did this review, they did this for fiscal year 2009 and 2010. both contracts had just officially been initiated. we are in the process of auditing the second year now. having said that, every year during our fiscal year-end audit, the outside auditors that control the audits go to our contractors and ask them to verify the revenues and audit the revenues to make sure what we are reporting in our books is what the contractor has indicated, so we have an ongoing process and we are initiating are already full process and the contracts are now over one year old.

of current ship programs, cleaning up our streets and parks -- public service apprenticeships. i believe in sustained attention to real day-to-day challenges people see on the streets. i believe in focusing 100% of our energy on solving these problems and improving the quality of life for san franciscans in all neighborhoods. supervisor, if that is not enough, i will invite you this sunday to play ping-pong in chinatown because we are going to have a very substantive, dynamic, and interactive engagement of using been wrong to really establish sunday streets from all of grant avenue from bush st. -- to really establish -- a engagement of using ping-pong to reestablish on the streets from all of grant avenue 2 bush st. i played when we celebrated the 40th anniversary of ping-pong diplomacy, about a month ago when delegations came in from china, and they were the olympic winners from back in the 1970's when we first got started. >> i used to work at the boys and girls -- supervisor avalos: i used to work at the boys and girls club. i played every day. [laughter] supervisor chiu: g

service minister for public health zoran stankovic worked at the institute for forensic study history in the war he witnessed the inquest into the deaths of the serbs and examinations from mass graves in bosnia august third from a we saw the bodies of captives military men with their heads chopped off one served for example had been hit on the head with a blunt object and his eyes had been cut out moreover it was clear that his eyes were removed when he was still alive many of the bodies bore signs of a very cruel method of murder we informed the hague tribunal about it and supplied it with all of a little records vestiges of. one of the most popular theories concerning caesar a stripper an example i'm not of just troops is that it was an act of revenge against muslims. nine hundred ninety three un resolution called on peacekeeping forces to disarm the combat formations that had entrenched themselves instrument so the muslim enclave was declared a demilitarized zone. the dutch the talent of group the race was dispatched to monitor the cease fire. well most of those now given in this o

i have work to implement and support these programs throughout my entire career in public service. i love this department and i am completely, absolutely dedicated to continuing the surest vision and moving the department forward as we face new challenges in the public safety. i have the universal support of the two labour organizations in the department that represent the men and women carry out the shares vision. at the close, personal, emotional tie to the department. on my very first day on the job, i was late in relieving a deputy. to make up for that, i married that deputy and we are now raising our five children in this community. my priorities as europe are as follows -- the realignment of the california state prison system will have a significant impact of the criminal justice system. our past and continued success in these programs and services for individuals and out of custody is especially important to ensure since convicted felons will now fall under county level oversight. i have been responsible for carrying out the surest vision for the last 15 years. as the sheriff

how do we maintain our safety net for public health services, public security services, public safety? all these are critical decision that need to be made. the pension question is something that comes up. the cost of our pension liability will cost the city, especially because of our investments in the market have come down since 2008. we are spending more of our general fund to pay our pension costs. that is a big challenge. it is a long-term problem, but it also has short-term implications. we know right away we are not going to have the enough money as we need to cover our services and pension costs as well. i support efforts to figure out short-term solutions around contributions that workers can make. it is important to work collaborative way, as much as possible with labor, organizations, to come up with solutions. we have to figure out, jobs are at stake. we have to cut positions, services. if we do not resolve the pension issue, we will have to cut services in a way that will be harmful to san franciscans. fewer options for muni, parks deteriorating, less investment in public

in 2005, almost 100 years later, arizona public service decommissioned the last of the dams that heldssil creek after citizen and environmental groups questioned the validity of the small amount of power being generated. - they gave it up for the better public good, and that's not only rare. it's never happened in arizona, and i don't know that it's ever happened in the southwest. burkhardt: news of the born-again desert paradise quickly spread. in the last five years, since arizona public service returned water to the creek bed, fossil creek has become a mecca. now the fragile riparian ecosystem, in the process of reemerging, is also in danger of being damaged by a large number of visitors trying to escape arizona's desert heat. - [yells] - the sheer number of people we see is tremendous. it can approach 1,000 people on a saturday along four miles of waterway. if you do the math on that, that's about one person in the creek every 20 feet. - well, it's relatively close to phoenix, where we're from, so the drive isn't too bad. and it's beautiful just going down. there's lots of water.

was from that summer i developed a lifelong admiration for senator hatfield and his model of public service. here is what senator hatfield had to say about public calling. he says, and i quote, "political service must be rooted in the philosophy of a society's overall well-being. with a broad vision of how the body public serves the people, the heart of one's service in the political order must be molded by ideals, principles and values that express how we in the words of the constitution are to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." he continued, "political service must flow out of such a commitment. convictions about war and peace, about the priorities governing the expenditure of federal funds, about the mat earns of economic wealth and distribution, about the government's responsibility toward the oppressed and dispossessed, both in our land and throughout the world, about our nation's system of law and justice and about th

lives to public service. we are also fortunate that andspon si they did it with a feeling ofion, responsibility not only to their state and nation but also to thense of public servants in the besth sense of the word of working with everyone to try to finds. solutions to problems.elearn it's a lesson we need to learn today. mr. president i yield the iinois. floor.k: i a >> the senatorsk u nafrniommo usillinois to suspe the estimate i would ask consentndime to suspend with the time limitation and continue for eight minutes. eulogizeenator >> without objection to anithout estimate of what is the three my colleague from illinois, the senior senator durbin and of course senator rockefeller related to the percy family. to eulogize senator percy who we lost on saturday. agreed and one of the most percy successful alliance senators. lif senator percy dedicated much of his life to serving the nation. first in the u.s. navy and then the unite for 18 years here in thest u.s. th senat senate.e who a i think i'm the one m

state and city in america is not going to be able to pay their bills, and the very important public services we rely on are going to be put in jeopardy or else the alternative to that, and i think this is the alternative to public sector unions, is to double and in some cases triple the taxes on american workers to pay for these benefits. ladies and gentlemen, the sham has got to come to an end, and i urge you to come back with a guilty verdict. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, mr. moore. professor hsu maker? >> gold-plaited benefits, the new haves, we hear all this rhetoric, but the numbers simply don't back it up. one u.s. senator has twice claimed that the average salary of a public schoolteacher is $89,000. he was off by $40,000. it's only $49,000 a year. to listen to the rhetoric, one would imagine that throughout wisconsin and other states there's altars set up on which taxpayers are sacrificed, and ungrateful public employees lap up the flowing blood. this simply isn't the case. on average 3% of state and local budgets are obligated towards pensions. that's on the high en