but at no point were either of those people ever the respondent and the named respondent. so, while they were invited to come to the meeting, and there was no information that mr. ginsburg. >> i thought that she was the named respondent? >> she was and the letter to miss gong from the sunshine task force, requested that mr. ginsburg and miss ballard also attend >> and if not named as a respondent he does not have notice. >> could i speak to that, and i have a different view of whether this is a due process violation and not all government decisions are violations of the due process clause and even if there was no notice and no hearing, the due process clause only atriggered if there was a liberty or a property interest that was affected by the government action. and here, the referral by the sunshine ordinance task force even assuming that it is a reputation interest, that alone is not sufficient to trigger or to invoke a need for a notice or hearing and the supreme court has been clear that you need a reputational interest and plus something else and so i have serious que

and responding to the aircraft. we had 189 individuals that were transported to hospitals, around the bay area. and obviously there were multicasualty plan was put into place and we had mutual leaders and thoughts, from the city here and the county that responded for the plan to the airport to provide additional support. and over all, the big picture, our plan worked. we have an emergency procedure, and we are required to have one by the ffa and everything, for the most part worked. as we head into the division and we will go over some recommendations that were given to us on ways to enhance some of those procedures but over all, we were happy with the way that the response went. >> one thing in the response was over, we quickly began to devise a way to get all of those first responders together to capture what had happened, and develop some recommendations on how we can improve, we decided to bring in a third party to assist us in that effort and as we brought in a consultant from the outside to help us facilitate,

it's a huge honor for me to be surrounded by our first responders that are the heros of san francisco. you'll met them but first mayor ed lee who i feel like the luckiest be able manager in the country because mayor ed lee understands what we do and he's a huge advocate so mayor ed lee thank you >> thank you very much (clapping) and thank you for your leadership we were there at the lurngz practicing for a potential earthquake with a sue anonymous and that's how valuable it is to have a department of emergency management that trains trains trains and anticipates thinks out of the box pee has all of us as emergency people from the city practicing how we do it better and better and we learn something every time we come together. we learn from other disasters and international disasters prosecute other countries we we bring that back home and think about more. i'm proud to be in front of the of so many people who decade all their professional lives being a great team of first responders to the city i'm proud of what you do not only on the hours you spend many the office at auditor sites

thank you very much for coming today, we're her to honor our first responders from the mission bay 511 bay fire last month they're standing behind me i wanted to introduce starting with mayor ed lee thank you for being here (clapping) chief suhr, chief joanne haynes-white (clapping) edward reiskin head of mta and mohammed head of dpw and rebecca kate's rebate can animal care and control (clapping) so san francisco prepares for and cooperated and plans for disastrous everyday we're good at it we do it to practice our life saving skills so we know how to communities with one other but most of all to protect our public and residents of san francisco and to protect our first responders. today is also the one hundred and 8 anniversary of the 1906 san francisco earthquake. we went to lotta's fountain this morning to remember those people who came before us who were brave and worship reliant that made san francisco come alive but it made us remember the great fire over after the earthquake and the biggest it threat today is the fire that's going to happen afterward so in 1906 we're better pre

respond, this is a federal event. were able to provide that authority and say -- listen, you are now acting on behalf of the federal government, that would inarly give them some relief their willingness to help us. >> there have been concerns about fps staffing levels for , having required a minimum staffing level. you only have 1300 employees, but we understand that up to 40 may have been reassigned to functions outside fps. is that correct? of those employees have been assigned outside that and why? left the fighte and came in, we lacked the infrastructure for things like human resources. that is what we had contributed to. that is how we created our infrastructure, if you will. >> given the outstanding number of work items at yes, can fps assign its employees or other parts of the department? >> we have not looked into whether they were assigned or what the rationale was for those assignments, but it is clear that fps still struggles with trying to get the basic job done that we have talked about here this morning

to them, or in some cases not able to respond to them as effectively as we would like. some of the programs that have emerged since 2007 include the prop aa program and the vehicle fee that the voters approved in 2010. this requires set programming which we welcome. it allow us to knit the program with the city bond and other fund sources but the more complex arrangements emerging at the regional or state level with the bay area grant program created under planned bay area as well as the active transportation program for bicycle and pedestrian projects and administered at the state level so we with other congestion management agencies find it challenging to respond to those in a effective way to play the financial and architect and engineering role and make sure that the sponsors are getting the projects on the ground as quickly as possible. there is a lot of work from the state to individuals like cycle track projects. the bay area coordination has been a major emphasis for this agency and others in the area and across the state in response to climate legislation in sb

to respond to the complaint. it should be easy for the respondent to resolve the problem at hand and i think that reducing challenges for respondents will be a fundamental improvement in the next term of the sunshine ordinance task force. if it means the bylaws, i think that's a conversation i would like to be a part of. i would be an asset to the rules committee and that's something that i would like to continue with. on the other hand, good effective communication is another skill that i hope to bring to the table. i believe i am a mediator at heart and i know very well too often poor communication gets in the way of process and bogs down otherwise simple issues and matters that need not be raised at the time. i think the possibility of mediating disputes prior to bringing them before the task force is really important and necessary. and to the extent that i can bring my skills to the table as a attorney and try and dispose of basic issues like jurisdiction prior to the task force meeting, i would like to, i wo

at that time, there was a full two half a weeks for you to step in as one the main responders and take responsibility for the lawsuit payrollly i didn't do so i wonder if you have a policy that you ignore. from people who are not have your class. i don't know what you think your class is but, in fact, we've discussed as a society that having representation for the entire citizenry and have a representative who will hear the points we want to make is one of the things that holds society together. and the society needs to include everyone. now if you look at your own agenda it says you're going into closed session as defendants, of course, this is preposterous reduce there's no defendants in the lawsuit you're the petitioner you're a party at all that raises a number of significant issues. first of all, you can't be petitioner's without taking action to initiate a lawsuit. when did you take action to initiate the lawsuit? i've been following this commission closely i don't think you've done so, in fact, if you've not taken action to initiate those lawsuits as petitioner's you're not part

. >> if it is the proper that the conclusion was that the proper respondent was not referred to the ethics commission. >> and i mean that you could say, make a referral that the ethics commission believes that there was a non-willful violation, but improper respondent was named in the referral and so we are sending it back and it is up to them if they want to rerefer it. >> unless someone has a question. >> i am of the chapter three, and i mean, that it says that if the commission determines that there is insufficient evidence to establish that the respondent has committed a violation the commission shall publicly announce this back and announce and may not include the findings of fact and law and fact, and therefore, the commission will take no further action on the matter. but i don't think that there is anything that preincluding the commission from referring this back to the task force, to name who, and on name a respondent, and who they believe properly should be named for this, for the decision to not to disclose this information. >> and you are telling the task force that they can't

the metropolitan police department is going to respond. we will probably have arc services respond. this will be a significant response. want -- thees, we challenge is, we want to limit the scope of the response until we assess the magnitude of the threat. >> does fps have any capacity, any technical capacity to deal with an ied? are there bomb techs within the ranks of fps? >> no, sir. we do have explosive ordnance dogs we use. that is our first line of defense. if we expect an issue, we will bring in the canine to give us an alert, and if they alert, clearly we begin to evacuate that area and call the metropolitan police department and others who have the capability to further explore what the issue is. sea --so outside of the .c., i would assume there is a similar plan with local municipalities that have the capacity to respond to a ied threat? >> absolutely. if a dog is not available, we have relationships with local law enforcement where we can leverage their assets as well. if we get a positive hit, if it is the city of chicago, we will call on the city of chicago. if it is a

i also so certify >> the respondent are presumed to be innocent until the allegations are approved on the regulation the executive director should issue an acquisition in corners with the proceedings regulation 9 a. third and final announcement findings the probable cause for the ethics claimed at a special meeting of wednesday, may 28, 2014, in the matter of the case the notification made a determination that there's probable cause to building the following violations of the california government codes as incorporated by governmental consultation code and the respondent made them one violation of government code dot 3 subsection a-1 for failing to file a campaign statement by the required deadline of go october thit 2013 and violation for failing to file a campaign statement and 3 one violation of california government code subsection a for failing to file a campaign statement by the required deadline of july 31st, 2012, and four one violation of california government code subsection a for failing to file a campaign statement by the required deadline of january 31st, 2013, and 5 one

the mission blaze that's a stark reminder to give me itself firefighters the tools they need to respondentnd encourage everyone to go to the polls and vote for prop a. >> we believe this is the wrong time to do this it's widely recognized the number one issue n in san francisco is the lack of affordable housing many people are leaving the city and here; right we have a measure from city officials that doesn't budget they now want to ask a huge $400 million borrowing money basically, it be paid off by property tax and half of those will be passed along to renter that will hit everybody and the city leaders don't worry about this they make more money than most of us the san francisco chronicleal regarded that politicians make over one hundred thousand a year and the average city salary as of 2008 were $120,000 so the people, you know, george mentioned larger are not heard they'll feel the pinch but their bad budgeting and failure to plan has put them in this situation there needs no be more cost analyze only 4 people died in the 1994 earthquake so i think more lives can be saved by measures.

to a daily incidents and san francisco, county alone, we responded to 80 incidents, over the past nine months. and we have served 1100 individuals, and 255 families, and mostly in single and multiunit fires where we come in and go with the fire department, with our partner and we worked with the family to get them housed and get them income and get them replacement and replacement for the clothes and restabilize and we look forward to building the partnerships and thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. >> thank you, i guess that we can say that you are new for two more months, the first year. the honeymoon period. and welcome to our disaster council. this comes to the point in the program where we are not at a roundtable, but it is the roundtable discussion, so is there or are there any updates, comments, and i know that michael, you have had something and michael? >> greetings everyone, on wednesday, of this coming week we are going to be working with our partners and the san francisco inner faith are going to work with the partners from the emergency management and the ame

we complete the fbi will respond. we are probably going to have park services respond. this is going to be a significant response. the challenges we talk about an explosive device, or to at least limit the scope of the response until we decide the magnitude of the threat. >> does fps have any capacity, any technical capacity to deal with an ied? that is to say other bomb techs? >> now, but we do have explosive ordnance dogs that were used. that is our first line of defense. if we suspect there is an issue, we will bring in the canine to give us an alert. they begin to evacuate that area anaconda much about police department. we have the capability to further explore what the issue is. >> so outside of d.c., i would assume there is a similar protocol with the capacity to respond. >> absolutely. if and fps targets and available, we have relationships with local encores that where we can leverage assets as well. if in fact we get a hit, the city of chicago recalled the city of chicago. a smaller city, whatever arrangements have been made for a response. >> do you have any

the second respond, do you want to respond? a number of the services are putting together programs to address the folks with the history of sexual violence. clearly everyone can go in to mental health counselling provided by the department of defense or each of the military services and address those issues. one of the challenges is that when folks come in, they want a new life. they want something different. a lot of times the military is that bridge. and so trying to -- we have to be able to offer those services in such a way that allow them to, number one, deal with their past and history. but at the same time is remain somewhat anonymous and stay out of the system. because no one wants to jump up and say, me, me, me, i was a victim earlier in life. it's part of that sensitivity that we want to be sure that we're paying attention to. so i know the number of them are looking at how can we deploy those kinds of services and balance those two interest. they are working on it. >> thank you. >> anything else? >> general, thank yo

barbara gaza garcia through the public health department and also connect we have to be fluid and respond creatively so congress recognizes some citizens are not moving into the veterans housing but be ableing to respond we'll connect more citizens. i'm pleased to share i received an e-mail from our 311 team talking about the using the 311 for the last allocation of homeless beds but the homeless agency has been recognized with a public technology award as one of the best e government consortiums to make those changes we feel are dramatically important for the citizens and disabled not to be part of an allocation of 90 daybeds that's an example of recognizing the issues. and h s h has helped with the housing authority and many of the cases we work with individuals that are homeless. i want to touch on veterans i think this is one of the areas i go out and talk i think we can show with more investment and with the participation of the federal government we're able to have a much, much stronger impact and the numbers well over, you know, close to 25 reproduction in the last two years if in

short. >> i'm responding to the application the box walk was held 4 months later. the dpw order is not an ordinance. it was intended to provide a process that allowed for multiple locations to be considered. we're noted following that process because multiple locates are not being proposed so again, we're following the spirit of those guidelines and because this process has no one been working it will be codified in an owners as proposed by supervisor wiener and credit card at the land use committee. i don't see anyone here from the public so mr. johnson your rebuttal >> i'll point out the respondent has made for me, the argument i've been making you've heard her get up and she said the department is not following their own guidelines i can simply say as a matter of state law this is was an order and the department is bound to follow it and given that you've heard respondents and see they're not following their own guidelines i'll request that you reverse on that basis. thank you for your patience and i'll further add to the extent there further appeals i'll be hap

sir, we obviously did not respond in time to get there. >> could we have?have been able to, but we'll never know. >> reporter: in his testimony, he echoes a contention made by republicans that part of why our mission in benghazi was so vulnerable was because of administration policy, a premature push to normalize relations with the libyans. >> basically, there's a lot of looking to the state department for what it was that they wanted. >> reporter: that push for normalization may have spread beyond the borders with libya, leading to a military force woefully unready to deal with a terrorist attack that would turn into a pitched battle for survival. in his testimony, the general sounded a theme often heard from military personnel when reflecting on benghazi, a view perhaps more from the heart than from a clear-eyed operational assessment. >> there are accounts of time, space and capability, discussions of the question would we have gotten there in time to make a difference? the point is, we should have tried. >> when we come back, the panel and i will discus

housing to where they would be responding?s there a regulation regarding the amount of time for response? >> those regulations are part of the operational factors we will look at. there are standards. that is part of what we will evaluate and if we determine deficiencies and we see recommendations to change those, we will do so. this is all part of the investigation. we are just focusing on the fact you'll -- factual part of the investigation. >> do you have the exact response time? >> thank you is part of what we will develop. that is stuff that can be developed later. we are focusing on the perishable evidence leaving today: wreckage, ground scars. that is what we have to focus on. the other stuff will be developed. will it be developed by the time we publish the preliminary report? i don't know that but it will be part of our factual report and all --. >> you are watching an ntsb-f.a.a. joint news conference held at travis air force base answering reporters' questions of the air show tragedy that claims the pilot's live at

and the question that bothers me the most, if america condition respond to an -- can't respond to an emergency endangering lives of our diplomats in the world in a matter of hours, there is something wrong, we all the to be ale -- ought to be able to get there. there. lou: made it clear he would listen dispassionately to what the general had to say and build a record, the record is clear yet we hear from chairman mckeoh, try following same talking points, and if you will, following same strategy as democrat members on your committee trying to dismiss want it capacity of the military to have wreaked. what in the world is going on -- is this committees both led by republicans at work or is there something else going on? >> blake and i are on oversight government reform. on that committee, we don't have an agenda we're following, the testimony, depositions, e-mails, written words, and the testimony we received live, and today's testimony from brigadier jane general lovell confirmed his written statements, they track with what ben rhodes' statement was. in other words while our people wh

we make sure they respond and the committee let it is us know if someone isn't responding and we follow up on that. you ask why one shelter is successful and one isn't? in the family shelters the stay is longer from three to six months and easier to maintain. there are less complaints. if you look at the number of complaints and the size of the shelters there is a direct correlation. our adult system has 90 beds and we make use of every bed and if someone doesn't claim a bed it's released for the night and we will see 6,000 users in the system and naturally there is a higher number of complaints. not that we're satisfied with that but i wanted to explain the difference. in terms of the lgbt issues we do monthly meet with our contractors. it is an issue that we discuss along with other access issues and people feeling safe. ideas are exchanged how signage works. we also do our own looking at complaints because unfortunately in congregate settings many complaints are about guest to guest statements and are rule enforcement system and our shelter grievance process doesn't allow us to deny

responding to the hospital's keeping fake waiting list. delays that may have been deadly for dozens of vets. at one point the secretary was forced to defend his performance on the job. >> explain to me after knowing the information you should not resign? >> i am here to accomplish a mission that i think that they critically deserve and need and i can tell you over the past five years we have done a lot to make things better. we are not done yet. >> in your judgment, are people uncooking the books and is that a problem in the health care system? >> i am not aware other than than a number of isolated cases where there is evidence of that. but the fact that there is evidence in a couple of places behooves us to take a second look. >> the incident made him mad as hell. nwhite house press secretary jay carney asked if the president feels the same way? carne replied. he certainly does. members of various veterans groups are before the committee right now. they will answer questions and we'll continue to monitor the hearing and bring you the late

allow the military to respond faster. what the military did mobilize forces. it did ask, and it did try. you can see that now that you have been presented with the actual evidence. you can agree that they did try. >> i have always stated that they did try and acknowledged that. my point is there is more we should be able to do, and if there is a further line that we can move towards, if across the interagency -- this is spoken about in the way you have described it to me, as a dod issue. this is not about a dod issue. this is an interagency issue, and that is what we really need to look at here. i respect absolutely what the house on services committee put together, but they looked at it from the dod perspective, and why i came to this body was that i felt it looked more broadly across the spectrum of all the agencies, and the fact of the matter is that is the perspective we need to have so that we can see exactly across the board how we interacted, how we behaved, how that translated into action, and most importantly in

>> four individuals died, sir, we obviously did not respond in time to get there. >> could we have?n able to but we'll never know. >> in his testimony, lovell echos a contention made by republicans that part of why our mission in benghazi was so vulnerable was because of administration policy, a premature push to normalize relations with the libyans. >> basically there was a lot of looking to the state department for what it was that they wanted. >> that push forizati normaliza may have spread to borders beyond libya, unable to deal with a terrorist attack that would turn into a pitched battle for survival. in his testimony, lovell sounded a theme used by military personnel. a view from the heart rather than a clear-eyed assessment. >> there are times in discussions of capability, could we have gotten there to make a difference? the point is we should have tried. >> when we come back the panel and i discuss what we now know about benghazi. also the possible impact on november's mid-term elections and the 2016 presidential campaign. when you sat down to dinner with anticipation, not

they do not respond.e're again requesting an interview with general shinseki. >> the invitation for general shinseki to come on the program. president obama is said to be mad as hell. both promise to fix the problems. the question is how long have they known something was wrong? >> when was the president first made aware of these problems, of these fraudulent lists that were being kept to hide the wait times. when was he first made aware of those problems and when did other white house officials, top white house officials become aware of these problems. >> when you say these problems, the fact that there have been -- the specific allegations that were reported by your network out of phoenix we learned them through the reports. >> so "keeping them honest" that may be true in the narrowest sense. this is a widespread practice of fudging the numbers how long has the administration known about that? so, it seems to be boiling down a question presidents are always asked when scandals emerge what did the presid

or we did respond with the information they provided and they didn't follow up, so i want to spend a little time on this category. one of the areas that the human services agency has brought up to us is how this area, the no contact area, isn't really the way the committee is presenting it, isn't really helpful to the providers, so what happens when a client files a complaint the site responds, and then the client, the complaint antd has an opportunity to read the response and decide whether they agree or not. with this category and the majority of the complaintings we're not seeing if they feel the issue was addressed so what the committee started doing last fiscal year and this fiscal year is any area addressed in a complaint within this category the committee divides these issues up and conducts their own investigation or site inspection to see if the fact -- that the issues that were brought up -- that there is reason to file a complaint on behalf of the committee or if the issues have been addressed and this has been a pretty successful way for us to see what's happening with th

the application 23 responded and all of them got money awarded to them. so i think stand up if you're here. anyone oh, there's my son he made it (clapping) i would recognize the 23 from balboa high school and ask the others to help me from balboa high school and marvin and claire and

and thank you, and i will respond to any prononesation of it, it is a real honor and a pleasure to be with all of you and i have been in this role now for ten months and actually in the process of joining the organization, it was in a major reorganization of how it delivers disaster service and one of the simpler changes is use asiana air crash as an example, in the old model we will have to report up to our national organization, and now we have been resourced and organized to move vertically so that instead of us coordinating upwards, we are coordinating with you and so as a part of that, we instituted a new disaster operations system which akin to a command system which positions us to take the feedback from you and the other partner and it has reduced our time on the scene by 20 minutes. and the other part of reengineering is that it is caused us to refocus on the whole disaster cycle, from preparedness to response to recovery. and for those of you who may have been involved over the years, we started with the prepare the bay area program, and this continues to our ready neighbors

and asiana themselves did not have a lot of staff at the airport to respond, but united did and because they have an alliance and a partnership with those two airlines, united stepped in virtually as the asiana to handle all of the family and friends and support effort and we want to be sure that we have plans in place and if there is an airline like these airlines on the right here, who don't have alliance partners we want to make sure that we focus with those airlines and go over and, we have actually met with each one of them on here to get a copy of their emergency plans and to review those to make sure that there is no gaps in those plans, particularly, if they are an airline that does not have a lot of the own staff on the airport here in san francisco. and there is going to be a gap between the time that they can get there, and their go teams or the response teams from their headquarters out here. that we understand what those limitations are, and we try to put some plans in place to bridge that gap, until more support is come to the airport and care for the passengers in the eve

says that if the commission determines that there is insufficient evidence to establish that the respondent has committed a violation the commission shall publicly announce this back and announce and may not include the findings of fact and law and fact, and therefore, the commission will take no further action on the matter. but i don't think that there is anything that preincluding the commission from referring this back to the task force, to name who, and on name a respondent, and who they believe properly should be named for this, for the decision to not to disclose this information. >> and you are telling the task force that they can't name mr. ginsburg, are you? >> i don't, i mean, the... and as i understand it. >> the problem that you are having with their naming mr. ginsburg is that he was not initially named when this alleged violation arose. and that after, second hearing, they suddenly came out, and named him and so the whole question comes did mr. ginsburg get a proper notification, so that he could go to the task force and say, hey, you should not name me and here is why you sh

they're responding to that. that's true. what they're really responding to is the realization of how much they've contributed to that popularity. because the republicans succeed en in the country, hillary clinton to the 2008 presidential campaign one of most polarizing political figures in the country. did that by attacking her every single day, nonstop, she and her husband were two faces. the moment that barack obama sup planted them as standard bearer of the party. the way of thinking, the strategy changed. barack obama became the bad democrat. source of daily, daily republican attacks. bill and hillary clinton for five years have been the quote, unquote, good democrats. in the narrative. they impeached bill clinton, great bipartisan guy, got along with him, if barack obama could learn. talked about hillary clinton states woman at the state department. if she won in 2008. barack obama. how many times did you hear this from republicans in the last, five, sick years. the result, she has poll numbers she hand her husband neve

. >> and additionally, we have, tweaked the designs to respond to affordable concerns from the artists for example, the slopes have been revised several times to make sure that the artists that said that my current space, and the current size of my space and the current rent i will have a problem but if i reduce the space i could afford it, but the majority of the people that have been communicating to us have been indicating that through a reduction of size, that will not inhibt their work, they would be able to afford to move into the new building. and there was a very small number of people that we either got a response or communicated with them in person it was six or 7 people, who indicated that they would still be a problem, lorna is one of them and we have been meeting with her at several locations and i and star has and the developer has. and the last indication that i had received from her prior to this meeting is that she can afford a space at 2500 space with the new current rate, which is a slight reduction from what she has as the current rent rolls shows 2600 square feet.