process in january we met with the panel we handed out the proposals and went over the rfp the rfp wasided into two phases the phase one was a written proposal that was worth one hundred points the bulk of the points focused on the firms management approach but equally for the structure of the lbe partnership both of those partnerships were worth 50 points after the written proposal phase we had an oral phase are forwarded to the phased an february 4th held those were worth 50 the bulk of the points were on the articulation of the structure of the lbe partnership we really wanted to put weight there and see that succeed sp plus hyde park received the highest score from the selection panel give you a little bit of background it is the nation's largest parking lot firmer they operate 4 thousand 200 locations their 4 hundred cities and 22 thousand employees by craft their lobe partner hyde is a small minority owned firm that operates 4 parking lot fates the two signed a joint venture that includes the cost and responsibility and risks in their proposal sp plus clearly defined how to mento

as part of leader to the rfp. we discussed the approach we took to the market outreach. this either show you before where over a seven month or not we talk about the grooms entities we met and we believe we've done a very robust market approach and time is right to release the rfp. we are, as you can imagine concerned about -when the facility opens there's retail activation, commercial platform activation, and there's not a whole lot of time left in terms of negotiating this master lease and a green and given the master lease significant onto the all the tenant improvements, to get the facility activated by the time it opens. finally, we had feedback and input on phase 2 and the use of the lower-level space. the peer reviewers understood was significant complexities in the use of phase 2 space. right now, but they also recognize that as an option we put in the rfp that we would encourage master lease to think creatively on the phase 2 space and from a financial perspective we consider those options. i love mark ta

process in january we met with the panel we handed out the proposals and went over the rfp the rfp wasided into two phases the phase one was a written proposal that was worth one hundred points the bulk of the points focused on the firms management approach but equally for the structure of the lbe partnership both of those partnerships were worth 50 points after the written proposal phase we had an oral phase are forwarded to the phased an february 4th held those were worth 50 the bulk of the points were on the articulation of the structure of the lbe partnership we really wanted to put weight there and see that succeed sp plus hyde park received the highest score from the selection panel give you a little bit of background it is the nation's largest parking lot firmer they operate 4 thousand 200 locations their 4 hundred cities and 22 thousand employees by craft their lobe partner hyde is a small minority owned firm that operates 4 parking lot fates the two signed a joint venture that includes the cost and responsibility and risks in their proposal sp plus clearly defined how to mento

and i do want to say, we understand that and we get the benefits of an rfp and i have never asked for this type of permission before i don't expect to, again. but it really is because of the unique nature of this situation that we are in. so i think that the way that we are really thinking about it is, this is not a situation where you have vendors that can provide you a product that all can kind of do it and you are going out, and looking for the best cost for a similar product or the best quality. that is part of what is out there. and that could be where we end up at some point. but what we are really doing proposing here, and the way that we are looking at this, is this is kind of a different route, instead of just buying a product from a vendor, we are proposing to say, let's take a different approach and go with a government to government agreement where we are leveraging both their system and their operations. and the reason that we are doing that, is because we have kind of come to realize, that by virtue of that partnership, and not by virtue of what the software is or what t

>> yeah, as i understand it, our rfp's assumed that the master lessee would be reimbursed. >> correct. >> for certain of its xwepbses. >> that's correct. >> and i see we've got revenue in here anticipating coming from the master lessee or i don't know if it's real revenue or if it's in kind services, but con trib because for o and m for areas of responsibility. but it's a two-way thing here and do we have our part going to the master lessee in these numbers? >> no, these numbers, the deal, when the deal comes out from master lessee it will be structured in different ways so we're not sure what we will get back but it will all come out in the end. >> in our rfp as i understand it, the idea was to have the master lessee do a lot of the maintenance of the building and things like that. >> they are going to do all of it, yes. >> for which we were going to pay them. >> correct. >> reimburse a lot of what their expenses were. >> correct. >> so this, this is an all-in, an all-in study, as i understand it. this is what operations and maintenance of the building p will be. >> most of this mone

were to go through a process of your standard rfp process, what does that look like? we want a vendor that will, be or provider of care and especially services for the population that trains our figureses. and if we did, and there will really only be one respondent and cap able. and meeting those criteria, if we don't include those and then we don't capture those benefits in our evaluation. and so that was our logic and our thinking on why, because this is such a unique, situation, it does not lend itself to the normal process that is -- >> thank you. >> okay. if no other questions fl rose could we go to your report, please? >> yes, mr. chairman. the members of the committee, on page 17 of our report we note that the actual projected expenditures from july, first 2010, to june, 30, under the existing contract, the electronic healthcare system, between dph, is 52.3 million, and that is shown on table one, and again, on page, 176 our report. and the board of supervisors has appropriate ated the general fund moneys for the existing contract. we also know that as shown in

and i do want to say, we understand that and we get the benefits of an rfp and i have never asked forhis type of permission before i don't expect to, again. but it really is because of the unique nature of this situation that we are in. so i think that the way that we are really thinking about it is, this is not a situation where you have vendors that can provide you a product that all can kind of do it and you are going out, and looking for the best cost for a similar product or the best quality. that is part of what is out there. and that could be where we end up at some point. but what we are really doing proposing here, and the way that we are looking at this, is this is kind of a different route, instead of just buying a product from a vendor, we are proposing to say, let's take a different approach and go with a government to government agreement where we are leveraging both their system and their operations. and the reason that we are doing that, is because we have kind of come to realize, that by virtue of that partnership, and not by virtue of what the software is or what the

one version says if we are unable to conclude negotiations, in six months, we go to rfp, and the bodyf the report it says if the director of health is unable to obtain substantial assurances under subsection b of the ordinance, that we will go to an rfp. and we would prefer significant assurances language, because it does not lock us into that hard deadline. >> and we agree with that. with he discussed that with the department and the wording that i read to you, today, is consistent with that. so we are in agreement with the department. >> thank you. mr. rose. >> do we need a different vote at this point? >> i think that your vote is okay. if it is consistent with the regular dagss. but just one point of clarification, in the write up to the clerk, we will not say that the department has to go with an rfp, if the negotiations break down, but that it has to go with a competitive sola solicitation process, which could be a range of options. >> no other vote needed? in no. >> any other business in front of us. >> i would like to request that the department provide the am d amended ordina

and i do want to say, we understand that and we get the benefits of an rfp and i have never asked forique nature of this situation that we are in. so i think that the way that we are really thinking about it is, this is not a situation where you have vendors that can provide you a product that all can kind of do it and you are going out, and looking for the best cost for a similar product or the best quality. that is part of what is out there. and that could be where we end up at some point. but what we are really doing proposing here, and the way that we are looking at this, is this is kind of a different route, instead of just buying a product from a vendor, we are proposing to say, let's take a different approach and go with a government to government agreement where we are leveraging both their system and their operations. and the reason that we are doing that, is because we have kind of come to realize, that by virtue of that partnership, and not by virtue of what the software is or what the system is, it is the partnership itself, that we can do something good for our patient an

for our parking rfp that will come before you next month, we went out and did canvased and [inaudible] encouraged firms to become certified. we had 4 new firms certified and increased the pool by 40 percent. i think those are areas where we have time to look at a specific scope and encourage local firms to beam certified. it increases the overall subcontracting amount and participation so think that is a primary focus. >> i was following up on that and following up on a successful-we had a couple years back to meet with representatives from the various different groups representing different communities, prams it may be time to do something along those lines gaen following up on take agplay from the success we had on the parking contract and see if we can do more outreach but perhaps set something up to make it easier to sign up. i know that is a barrier, often it is not a horrible process but it is not easy as well and it may be helpful if we can figure out a way bringing other folks in from the city and perhaps setting up something here at the port where we bring in the firms and en

>> yeah, as i understand it, our rfp's assumed that the master lessee would be reimbursed. >> correct. >> for certain of its xwepbses. >> that's correct. >> and i see we've got revenue in here anticipating coming from the master lessee or i don't know if it's real revenue or if it's in kind services, but con trib because for o and m for areas of responsibility. but it's a two-way thing here and do we have our part going to the master lessee in these numbers? >> no, these numbers, the deal, when the deal comes out from master lessee it will be structured in different ways so we're not sure what we will get back but it will all come out in the end. >> in our rfp as i understand it, the idea was to have the master lessee do a lot of the maintenance of the building and things like that. >> they are going to do all of it, yes. >> for which we were going to pay them. >> correct. >> reimburse a lot of what their expenses were. >> correct. >> so this, this is an all-in, an all-in study, as i understand it. this is what operations and maintenance of the building p will be. >> most of this mone

the ena acknowledges that three agreements that be contemplated in the rfp all need to succeed. so we'll come to that sort of unique element to this in a second. one variation from the port commission direction provided on september 22nd, there was acquired in the resolution but staff urged that we joint venture new temporarily called would be entered to vetted to enter into the ena itself and the partners felt it would work better for them to take place after. we made the recommendation to staff port to accommodate that request and added that in the benchmark in the ena so it's in the exclusive negotiations agreement. so there are three sets of this negotiation here. staff gave the staff go ahead on the lease terms. at the same time the san francisco public works will be negotiating two separate supply contracts, one for concrete with central concrete for asphalt with nuko an those are happening with the ports department working with one another. lastly this unusual aspect of it which is based on how the rfp was constructed which was the lease itself in both supply contracts wi

and i do want to say, we understand that and we get the benefits of an rfp and i have never asked for of permission before i don't expect to, again. but it really is because of the unique nature of this situation that we are in. so i think that the way that we are really thinking about it is, this is not a situation where you have vendors that can provide you a product that all can kind of do it and you are going out, and looking for the best cost for a similar product or the best quality. that is part of what is out there. and that could be where we end up at some point. but what we are really doing proposing here, and the way that we are looking at this, is this is kind of a different route, instead of just buying a product from a vendor, we are proposing to say, let's take a different approach and go with a government to government agreement where we are leveraging both their system and their operations. and the reason that we are doing that, is because we have kind of come to realize, that by virtue of that partnership, and not by virtue of what the software is or what the system

for our parking rfp that will come before you next month, we went out and did canvased and [inaudible] encouraged firms to become certified. we had 4 new firms certified and increased the pool by 40 percent. i think those are areas where we have time to look at a specific scope and encourage local firms to beam certified. it increases the overall subcontracting amount and participation so think that is a primary focus. >> i was following up on that and following up on a successful-we had a couple years back to meet with representatives from the various different groups representing different communities, prams it may be time to do something along those lines gaen following up on take agplay from the success we had on the parking contract and see if we can do more outreach but perhaps set something up to make it easier to sign up. i know that is a barrier, often it is not a horrible process but it is not easy as well and it may be helpful if we can figure out a way bringing other folks in from the city and perhaps setting up something here at the port where we bring in the firms and en

for our parking rfp that will come before you next month, we went out and did canvased and [inaudible] encouraged firms to become certified. we had 4 new firms certified and increased the pool by 40 percent. i think those are areas where we have time to look at a specific scope and encourage local firms to beam certified. it increases the overall subcontracting amount and participation so think that is a primary focus. >> i was following up on that and following up on a successful-we had a couple years back to meet with representatives from the various different groups representing different communities, prams it may be time to do something along those lines gaen following up on take agplay from the success we had on the parking contract and see if we can do more outreach but perhaps set something up to make it easier to sign up. i know that is a barrier, often it is not a horrible process but it is not easy as well and it may be helpful if we can figure out a way bringing other folks in from the city and perhaps setting up something here at the port where we bring in the firms and en

right continue rfp and the commission will be reviewing and approving the rfp. >> okay. all right.o i think we haven't called for public comment. >> any public comment on this item? that we've exhausted seeing none, public comment is closed. >> all right. move on to item 9 director's report so commissioners, i want to provide you with an update on the staffing for the commission and the small business exaggerate team we'll be making final decisions and hopefully, i'll be able to report out on by the end of the week for the two positions donna the director of the office of labor & standards enforcement is retiring he hoped we'll be able to acknowledge her but her scheduled in permit and this week is her last week i want to wish her the best she's been an exemplar leader in the department for trying to facilitate what is mandated for her office to enforce but working well with the business community as well thank you for that and acknowledge bob from the chamber of commerce who will be leaving his role as the director there and for his you know close work with the this body the commi

hsa is working with dph to put together a framework for an rfp to be procured for the next navigation center site, so we are working on it, and as sam said we would hope to expedite it, but we will work on it as expeditiously as we can possibly can so i am here to answer any questions that you have. >> thank you and thank you your entire team. i know we have met over the years to talk about this and many parts around homelessness and hsa's work and thank you for the hard work. we really do appreciate it. i will turn it over to my colleagues first. supervisor yee. >> thank you. i am just curious i mean it you were answering it or is it jeff; right? i'm just trying to figure out the navigation center is a point and a pathway from street to home, and part of it is -- i am just curious like where's the bottleneck in terms of getting people from street to home? if we were to have more navigation centers let's say is that going to be the solution? >> okay. so let me see if i understand your question correctly, and i see scott might have an answer, so i'm going to let him answer and then i w

awarded the opportunity described the property rfp for the high park management and authorize staff to initiate the negotiation for sea level lot green street and a 3 year lease with two one year options to renew for sea level lots 2 excuse me - 323

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right continue rfp and the commission will be reviewing and approving the rfp. >> okay. all right.i think we haven't called for public comment. >> any public comment on this item? that we've exhausted seeing none, public comment is closed. >> all right. move on to item 9 director's report so commissioners, i want to provide you with an update on the staffing for the commission and the small business exaggerate team we'll be making final decisions and hopefully, i'll be able to report out on by the end of the week for the two positions donna the director of the office of labor & standards enforcement is retiring he hoped we'll be able to acknowledge her but her scheduled in permit and this week is her last week i want to wish her the best she's been an exemplar leader in the department for trying to facilitate what is mandated for her office to enforce but working well with the business community as well thank you for that and acknowledge bob from the chamber of commerce who will be leaving his role as the director there and for his you know close work with the this body the commiss

payer kinds of norms and premises that would make sense when you ended up rolling it out,atw, did an rfp and spent $600 million on a six-year random experiment. which gaveby rand policymakers on all sides of the equation very solid reference about what to do in terms of where the pain points were in copayments and what made sense. imagine if we had done something like that for this common core. if we actually went out and did testinga pilot test when it is important and costs significant amounts of money can really pay off area just a comment on the chemistry major, most jobs right now if you look at the oban network in the department of labor, there are hundreds of jobs and occupations that require the cons of critical thinking skills. job students will not get a they thunder undergraduate major. they will get looked at first because of their employability more generally. >> questions? you, it has been provocative. . i know the focus is on standardized tests but the recommendations that are in your paper, is your conclusion that nobody is working on those and there are no alternative th

is there an rfp process and what's the process? >> commissioners tim frye department staff. it was surplus property but from the department of real estate and request of the community and supervisor avalos the property will be remained as a city property. mr. rothman is in the audience and may have more about a recent hearing he attended that discussed obtaining some additional money for the building but it's my understanding that it will do that. >> okay thank you. commissioners any questions before public comment? at this time we will take public comment on the landmark recommendation for 34-45 onondaga avenue. if you have comment please come forward. you have three minutes and there is a warning buzzer at 30 seconds. >> commissioners thank you. i don't think it will take three minutes. my name is david hooper and i spoke to you regarding this issue. there is support for returning the buildings to public service, not just serving the structures but doing that for the community. at the same time earlier there was a request for a supplemental budget request for the geneva of

organizations that may not have completely been able to wait for the needs and expenses until the formal rp rfpadministered. next is a funding summary of the allocation of the funds per the board's directives could you can see an overview of the financial assistance. there was a $1.2 million of the 2 million for arts and culture dedicated for direct financial assistance meeting the board's director of 60%. social service nonprofit 64% of those $2.515 million was out of her direct financial assistance could of technical assistance to see 524,000 hours for arts and culture were 26% of the fund, and then $528,000 approximately 421% of the fund and also you see the administrative meeting the board's directive not to exceed. in total, 11 total 4000 with around 2 equally $503,000. on one social service grants were 566,000 hours run to social subs grants totaling approximately $698,000. balance is remaining for arts and culture remain until assistance pool for arts and culture around 3 and the seed grants totals 20 $96,000 this approximately 3 or 44,000 for social services for both the seed grant prog

organizations that may not have completely been able to wait for the needs and expenses until the formal rp rfpdministered. next is a funding summary of the allocation of the funds per the board's directives could you can see an overview of the financial assistance. there was a $1.2 million of the 2 million for arts and culture dedicated for direct financial assistance meeting the board's director of 60%. social service nonprofit 64% of those $2.515 million was out of her direct financial assistance could of technical assistance to see 524,000 hours for arts and culture were 26% of the fund, and then $528,000 approximately 421% of the fund and also you see the administrative meeting the board's directive not to exceed. in total, 11 total 4000 with around 2 equally $503,000. on one social service grants were 566,000 hours run to social subs grants totaling approximately $698,000. balance is remaining for arts and culture remain until assistance pool for arts and culture around 3 and the seed grants totals 20 $96,000 this approximately 3 or 44,000 for social services for both the seed grant progr

hsa is working with dph to put together a framework for an rfp to be procured for the next navigation center site, so we are working on it, and as sam said we would hope to expedite it, but we will work on it as expeditiously as we can possibly can so i am here to answer any questions that you have. >> thank you and thank you your entire team. i know we have met over the years to talk about this and many parts around homelessness and hsa's work and thank you for the hard work. we really do appreciate it. i will turn it over to my colleagues first. supervisor yee. >> thank you. i am just curious i mean it you were answering it or is it jeff; right? i'm just trying to figure out the navigation center is a point and a pathway from street to home, and part of it is -- i am just curious like where's the bottleneck in terms of getting people from street to home? if we were to have more navigation centers let's say is that going to be the solution? >> okay. so let me see if i understand your question correctly, and i see scott might have an answer, so i'm going to let him answer and then i w

hsa is working with dph to put together a framework for an rfp to be procured for the next navigation center site, so we are working on it, and as sam said we would hope to expedite it, but we will work on it as expeditiously as we can possibly can so i am here to answer any questions that you have. >> thank you and thank you your entire team. i know we have met over the years to talk about this and many parts around homelessness and hsa's work and thank you for the hard work. we really do appreciate it. i will turn it over to my colleagues first. supervisor yee. >> thank you. i am just curious i mean it you were answering it or is it jeff; right? i'm just trying to figure out the navigation center is a point and a pathway from street to home, and part of it is -- i am just curious like where's the bottleneck in terms of getting people from street to home? if we were to have more navigation centers let's say is that going to be the solution? >> okay. so let me see if i understand your question correctly, and i see scott might have an answer, so i'm going to let him answer and then i w

right continue rfp and the commission will be reviewing and approving the rfp. >> okay. all right.o i think we haven't called for public comment. >> any public comment on this item? that we've exhausted seeing none, public comment is closed. >> all right. move on to item 9 director's report so commissioners, i want to provide you with an update on the staffing for the commission and the small business exaggerate team we'll be making final decisions and hopefully, i'll be able to report out on by the end of the week for the two positions donna the director of the office of labor & standards enforcement is retiring he hoped we'll be able to acknowledge her but her scheduled in permit and this week is her last week i want to wish her the best she's been an exemplar leader in the department for trying to facilitate what is mandated for her office to enforce but working well with the business community as well thank you for that and acknowledge bob from the chamber of commerce who will be leaving his role as the director there and for his you know close work with the this body the commi

they put out rfp numerous times have not been able to get the interest for a cafÉ there.o, it is zoned for business and professional services as well. so, we are exploring that space. not only i think it will work for the small business commission but i like the idea of having our office some retail component and also being very close to the building and dbi. and the planning departments. so, we hope this is an opportunity were going to be able to engage and be able to take advantage of. i want to just keep you and to a prized >> will be a buildup or preparation of the space? >> there is an were in discussion with the dept. of real estate about exactly how that would be taken care of and managed, but they seem to be very interested in being a cooperative partner in this. angel and i are working out the budget and details right now on our ends and also with them. then, i think lastly, i just want to circle around a couple years ago. we talked about doing a logo for the office and so we are revisiting this. thank you to commissioner dwight who's agreed to work with staff on

i also wanted to remind everyone we released the rfp for the master lessee on march 4, we expect to have proposals come in on may 26 by 5:00 pm and we will be bringing this to the board sometime end of, sometime in the summer of 2016. now i'd like to ask sarah to give an update on our quarterly financial reports. >> directors, you have in front of you your standard quarterly reports. the first is the fiscal year budget to tuel, shows expenditures for the capital side as well as the operating budget are within budget for the year. these reports are through second quarter, so through end of december 31. the second report is contract status report. it shows contract amounts authorized, spent and disadvantaged and small business enterprise participation. we are still tracking over the life of the program 20 percent small business enterprise participation. the third report is the investment and earnings report, about 15 million we hold in the city treasurer's equity and pool and at the end of december just under 360 million in the trust account, which is a combination of land sales proceeds a

is there an rfp process and what's the process? >> commissioners tim frye department staff. from the department of real estate and request of the community and supervisor avalos the property will be remained as a city property. mr. rothman is in the audience and may have more about a recent hearing he attended that discussed obtaining some additional money for the building but it's my understanding that it will do that. >> okay thank you. commissioners any questions before public comment? at this time we will take public comment on the landmark recommendation for 34-45 onondaga avenue. if you have comment please come forward. you have three minutes and there is a warning buzzer at 30 seconds. >> commissioners thank you. i don't think it will take three minutes. my name is david hooper and i spoke to you regarding this issue. there is support for returning the buildings to public service, not just serving the structures but doing that for the community. at the same time earlier there was a request for a supplemental budget request for the geneva office building and 30-45. tho

listen, this new contract, which nobody has an issue with relative to the operator, relative to the rfp both of to the new wat

but it is up to us to set the direction because we write the paid checks and rfps, and the contracts. >> the last question is about whether there is a role for nondevelopers in all of this. are you looking for people who run businesses, or who have more entrepreneurial business skills, maybe maybe not tech skills. i see you shaking your head #. >> yes, absolutely. we need an incredibly diverse range of skill sets because this work is incredibly hard. we need the best engineers in the country as well as the best project managers, designers, research, policy experts of people who are getting used to getting things done and heart environments. i guarantee there is no less hospitable environment than the government for getting stuff done. if it would also be bureaucracy hacking, so please apply. >> that is a real thing. >> the final question and maybe a little personal. you talked about your shaping culture, not just services, shipping culture and having it affect you as a two-way street. so i want want to ask you as a final thought, how have you changed? has this experienced change you?

hsa is working with dph to put together a framework for an rfp to be procured for the next navigation center site, so we are working on it, and as sam said we would hope to expedite it, but we will work on it as expeditiously as we can possibly can so i am here to answer any questions that you have. >> thank you and thank you your entire team. i know we have met over the years to talk about this and many parts around homelessness and hsa's work and thank you for the hard work. we really do appreciate it. i will turn it over to my colleagues first. supervisor yee. >> thank you. i am just curious i mean it you were answering it or is it jeff; right? i'm just trying to figure out the navigation center is a point and a pathway from street to home, and part of it is -- i am just curious like where's the bottleneck in terms of getting people from street to home? if we were to have more navigation centers let's say is that going to be the solution? >> okay. so let me see if i understand your question correctly, and i see scott might have an answer, so i'm going to let him answer and then i w

hepatitis c linkage to care service for a five-year period, 3 contractors were selected through the rfp process. we reviewed the 3 contracts. we would recommend approval of 2 of those contracts at the moment.. that is the contract with glide foundation 4 $1.086 million and the contract for sf aids foundation, for an amount of $750,000. and we are reviewing details of the health right 360 come up which we recommend be deferred. we then reviewed a new contract for public health foundation enterprises that will be providing fiscal intermediary and management services for the private program, which was the prep programs that have been discussed earlier and that will be for a five-year period. the last contract that we reviewed is a contact with gartner inc. for consulting-4 services for consultation on the acquisition and implementation of integrated electronic health record, which we have been discussing here as you know, for several months. so, that will be a contract that is $3.7 million and while it is calling for a three-year contract, the bulk of that is going to be done in preparatio

listen, this new contract, which nobody has an issue with relative to the operator, relative to the rfp both of to the new way it is structured, which is as a management fee, why are we paying and subsidizing the cost of various mta staff when that is what the management fee is for. so, i question why a portion of the director of the mta's salary is being passed on to these individuals who get their cars towed to objectively, 87% administrative fee is usurious. we should all recognize that and delighted in the next week or 2 the mta will rethink this wrongheaded policy and bring those fees down for those unfortunate individuals for help have their cars towed. eject bt suburbia supervisor yee >> there's been some interesting issues raised in this discussion that were not raised at the budget committee. i guess, one of the things i want to hear a response from mta in terms of some of the issues that are been brought up . is that possible? >> is their representative hear from mta? >> good afternoon. steve lee from mta. i'm here to answer any questions. >> supervisor yee you have a specific

instead of having give us a 300 page rfp, we said to compete into this, here is an application programming interface, a set of data. here's the problem statement. build it. we want to see how you do it. we want you to understand that you know what we mean by fragile, doing research, making the design. it will be open sourced. we want to be able to see it and judge it. we give them two weeks to build something. i believe it was about 17 companies that are now in these pools of precleared vendors that use agile, lean methodologies. john: is anybody look at you and say two weeks? are you kidding me? hillary: that is the concept in our world. the main environment product. that is all we wanted. -- the minimum viable product. that is all we wanted. it can be a prototype. we just want to see that officially you can build something and activate it and that you understand all the ways we work. some of the results surprises us -- there was one story. john: go ahead. hillary: there is one story and i will not tell you the name of the company but they sent us an e-mail during the questioning phase. w

. >> and then it would be an rfp that would put out guidelines for like? >> exactly. it'd be a grant program where districts or a consortia of districts because there are places where the district lines create those barriers, so it might be a partnership of districts. they would apply, use these funds for planning and implementing new socioeconomic initiatives. >> that's great. join me in thank acting secretary john king. [applause] .. >> so there's now a rulemaking coming up were the fcc will decide what to put in place in lieu of or perhaps replicating the rules under the fcc authority. >> most of the rules that exist, existed in the world of telephones. now that they've extended by declassification the situation to cover isps, they have to come up with rules that are appropriate to the world of the internet, not just the telephones. >> watch "the communicators" tonight at eight eastern on c-span2. >> campaign 2016 continues on tuesday with primaries taking place in missouri, illinois and swing states ohio and north carolina and florida. live coverage, 7 p.m. easter

. >> it would be rfp that would put out guidelines for -- >> exactly. a grant program where districts or consortia of districts because there are places where the district line creates those areas. might be a partnership. they would apply, use the sponsor planning and, therefore, implementing new socioeconomic integration initiative. >> join me in thanking acting secretary john king. [applause] >> thank you. >> as we leave this conversation with acting education secretary john king, a reminder that the senate will debate and vote on his nomination to replace arne duncan this monday. you can watch that live here on c-span2. a confirmation vote at 5:30 p.m. happening right now the funeral for former first lady nancy reagan at the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. speakers at today's service include president reagan's chief of staff james baker, former nbc news anchor tom brokaw and daughter patti davis. you can watch it live now on our companion network c-span and we will air it again tonight starting at 8 p.m. eastern time. a

organizations that may not have completely been able to wait for the needs and expenses until the formal rp rfpdministered. next is a funding summary of the allocation of the funds per the board's directives could you can see an overview of the financial assistance. there was a $1.2 million of the 2 million for arts and culture dedicated for direct financial assistance meeting the board's director of 60%. social service nonprofit 64% of those $2.515 million was out of her direct financial assistance could of technical assistance to see 524,000 hours for arts and culture were 26% of the fund, and then $528,000 approximately 421% of the fund and also you see the administrative meeting the board's directive not to exceed. in total, 11 total 4000 with around 2 equally $503,000. on one social service grants were 566,000 hours run to social subs grants totaling approximately $698,000. balance is remaining for arts and culture remain until assistance pool for arts and culture around 3 and the seed grants totals 20 $96,000 this approximately 3 or 44,000 for social services for both the seed grant progr

a really good feel for where we stand going forward so that by the time we're ready to release some rfp, we'll be confident this program can stay on track and be executed properly. we have the funding in the budget throughout the life of the program to do this and our intent is as soon as we understand completely where we are in that tech maturation and radar risk reduction that we can then do whatever we can to accelerate the program. >> again, can you talk about what those issues were -- general welsh: no, i can't. yes, ma'am? >> general welsh, two questions for you, sir, on two completely different subjects, if i may. on drones, can you bring us up to date since your last discussion here about how you view the drone inventory and the availability of active duty air force crews? has that situation improved at all? do you still have the equivalent of a shortage? how are you working that? completely different subject, as the head of the service, as a member of the joint chiefs, do you believe at this point that there is any military utility for congress to repeal the law banning enhance