and if i line those up with the public school system, the public school system is doing a better jobturning the schools around in the state -- >> council woman, i think -- lienel and his -- his counterparts raise a good point which is the schools have -- it's not that they have been underperforming for years. they have been underperforming for a decade or more. and at what point are parents allowed to take things into their own hands and say this isn't working? nothing is changing -- >> at no point apparently. >> wouldn't you want to be able to take the power back and say if you aren't going to do it, we want to try to make this better for our kids -- >> of course they should -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> council woman -- >> to try to see what they could do to make the school better instead of pulling them apart. and i really -- and let me make one other point and then i'll let you talk. >> okay. >> just because you get a school -- a district -- a city -- st. george city is not going to guarantee your school's system. the legislator may not give it to you still. so what then? >> i d

look at the amount of waste and fraud we already have in the system. this is going to coit us to a huge fraud. >> go ahead. >> i'll answer that. it was passed because the right agrees with the premise of obama care, is that you have a rght to health care. so whether it starts as this essentially trojan horse of where you can keep your health plan, next keep your doctor, although your doctor is going away, so establishing the right to health care we know doesn't mean that you actually get health care. socialized medicine has failed in every place it's been tried to the extent it's been tried. it's why there's as many mri machines in washington state -- more mri machines in washington state than the whole of canada. that's our future under obama -- >> michele, i contend this was the plan allll along. i contend they saidlet's get this thing passed, we'll sell it on whatever we have to do, make it law and then we'll morph into what wereally want, single payer socialized medicine top to bott bottom, cradile to grave. >> absolutely. every american should be

this is a big system and but for a water enterprise this is a big system we have the responsibility important out there. one of the 3 powerhouses is kirk wood that produces the majority of the power in our budget. some brief summary of our brief project we've completed the water projects in the hetch hetchy area hetch hetchy is still going to, critical in integrating projects. we still have to complete the tunnel and the dam project in making sure the hetch hetchy project can deliver water. we continue to support our participation in bay delft and other procedures. when we talk about feshg it deals with the enterprises and it deals with hetch hetchy it's the new don padding restraining order for the districts their primarily in but we're an active participate. this is ahead of the phase and it's going to take a lot of involvement for san francisco. we're also actively working on the upgrades in the system and mr. taylor the powerhouse facilities for health and safety and regulatory reasons. i didn't list the rim foyer recovery. we've made good process and there has a lot of things have been r

systems. we are also concerned about that, oath republicans and democrats. while we have to remain one step ahead of the hackers, i think you'd for putting all this up, clearing all this up, our job is to ensure that the american people have accurate information of that they are not wrongfully deterred from continuing to health care coverage they need and deserve. i want to go do briefly, ms. fryer. the chairman asked you some questions. i want to summarize as a close. i want to make sure that have this right so let me ask you a series of very recent questions. the draft memorandum that he talked about, you're familiar, right? did you ever send a member into anybody, anybody? >> no, i did not. >> you never send it to your boss? >> no. >> you never sent to administrator tavenner? >> no. >> so you never pressed the send button? >> no spin during her interview with the committee staff you explain you stop working on the memo and put it aside after you found out that your superiors were moving for

a decentralized system and decentralized systems are usually the way nature organizes things so in nature you don't see hierarchical systems very much in fact usually what you see is these loosely coupled decentralized systems that create emergence and complex behavior based on some. very simple rules repeated by thousands of members a perfect example of that is an ad colony like the leaf cutter ants where individual members are extremely simple organisms you can even simulate a single ant on a computer but you put several hundreds of thousands or even millions of ants together into a colony and they exhibit incredibly complex behavior that leave colorado for example farms aphids as a farm species like a domesticated species the way we farm cattle and that's an incredibly complex sophisticated behavior but it doesn't exist in any of the individual members it's something that emerges from the complex interaction of simple rules because when is a system that exhibits extremely complex emergent behavior but it's based on a few very simple rules that are followed by all of the barbers of the

what are the critical components of the system? certainly the pipe network. it constitutes the largest share of the work present in the rehabilitation of the system. these are some scenarios for replacement strategy over a period of 30 years and at the replacement of .67 and called out as the probable scenario that is actionable and cost for replacement at $294 million and that is expressed in $2,013. next slide please. this last slide is probably the most tangible and relevant to many folks and the system throughout the city. you will notice according to the legend and the original system and the subsequent improvements expected which are both versions and beyond and you can see that we are in a sense providing robust high pressure water and ancillary system throughout the city to that end i believe it's to the reason the system exists and why we rely on the fire department. that's it in sum total. you have the action before you and we're available for questions. thank you. >> thank you. colleagues any questions or comments at this time? okay. seeing none mr

those are liability for the bulk electric system. basically folks operated under voluntary practices until 2005 there were regulatory rules button in place. after 2005 it was changed and it was enacted for the canada blackout and, in fact, they've got reports over the last year or so. i'll call it the true story i don't know if it's true or not it's the tree branch in ohio that fell on a line and tripped on the system and there were event that tripped another system and set forth so southern canada was blacked out in 2004 hey, if one tree branch can do that what else. so congress enacted the policy to require the mandatory standards be regulated. in 2006 in the course the north american electric corporation was the electric organization at the time. in the course hearsay been previously been a coalition that voerl joined but all of a sudden they were designated a regular lowest in 2006. there was an agreement between them and the electric council approved in 2007. so this was when the first regulatory standards were approved and put

style health care system. you would quadruple your income instantly so you're arguing and to some degree against your own quadrupling of income speak of this well i think you know what the n.h.s. is instilled is a national health service is a public service ethos you know doctors for the main don't go in it for the money obviously there's a few that you know we've got a hundred fifty thousand doctors and there's a few bad apples amongst us but the vast majority of got this n h s running through their veins is public service ethos where they want to do what's for the public good now some people do a little bit of private practice on the side you go to separate private health care system i don't personally do that i'm not ideologically opposed to having a separate system the idea of a competing system is mad because it undermines the doctor patient relationship it's really interesting in terms of american medical profession isn't that the american medical profession lost public support forces in any other profes

san francisco street light system as you mentioned supervisor weiner is old. and most of the assets we're talking about are beyond they're useful life and for some areas within the city it's a very old technology that's fluid and those are where we see many of the most challenging maintenance issues. parts are obsolete and it's creative work on the part of the street light repair crews to keep those systems operating >> in terms of quote/unquote updating i know in talking to pg&e if one goes out am i to assume they all go out. so quote/unquote does that mean eliminating the series group so they're not connected >> yes. that's not not only improving them but it's more expensive they're put in the sidewalks. you can see they're related to open this map throughout the city. and what i've shown here on this map is the series of loops owned by pg&e in yellow and red and the series owned by the city in black it comes out sort of okay. on the slide as displayed but pg&e and puc have improvement programs and capital programs for comfortably those parts of the system b

system. >> right so per diem has their own system. what kari's staff does with is we close a light for legion arrest we have data we think the best data is reflect our employees that work on our system. legion is a third party check but when it's not reflects of reflective it casts a diagramer performance >> and legion is down a lot. >> legion has been down 3 times in the loose three weeks. >> it's been down 3 times. sometimes, you know, 4 hours or more so it has compacted our ability to get do the system. that's a manual process like someone has to go in and do the work as opposed to the pg&e system as soon as they're done there's an automatic closer and my staff checks the quality and there's a gap in between >> and you give that - >> we e-mail the contact we have that he puc. >> that system is rub by 311 correct. >> yes. >> i'd love to see that data in terms of the number of temps times in the past year it's been down. i agree 311 is one of our most important systems and it's troubling if not just in the last couple of weeks it's d

a mirror system here, then a panel system here, and further on we have a parabola system.e are taking the energy from the sun to generate warmth which runs a chiller in the background. this chiller has been operational and cooling some of the offices in the background here. >> this is a good example of trying to diversify the technologies you are developing, not just in the region but around the globe. >> exactly. we look at the scale outside of this. we are not looking for just a niche application right here for the backyard. we want to make sure that there is a market gap and that somehow masdar and its network can accelerate through that market gap. we position ourselves as a commercial accelerator. if we can prove something out, together with our partners, and get it a year earlier to market that is a huge value for a global company which has a large portfolio. one has to consider masdar city is not even our largest business unit. we do global renewable energy. we have global capital funds. >> shams 1 is today the largest csp plant in any term you can think of, power o

firefighter water system or awss is at $55 million. the puc is the also here to talk about how the impacts of that change which we don't believe chb significant in the long. police stations which and the first time doing overalls and seismic work on police station stations. prior to that it was funded by the general fund with the exception of southern station which was moved in the 2010 bond and then we have two other major -- well, two other larger facilities. one is the medical examiner moving them out of the hall of justice and moving the motorcycle police and crime lab out of the hall of justice and for the crime lab they're it is also partially at the hunter's point shipyard. if we go to the next slide again these are projects that were recommended in the 10 year capital plan and approved by the committee december 9. it's a continuation of the 2010 general obligation bond and again that bond -- you know, the big focus was the public safety building which got them out of the hall of justice and they will be co-located with a new fi

transit systems. was supported by industry because it helped sell automobiles supported by the petroleum ministry. the president was wise enough to say we're going pay for it and be able to expand and we can't -- without the road systems that began in the eisenhower administration. the productivity our -- lifestyle. we're at the point where if we don't move quickly and thought -- thoughtfully. we can begin to unralph our productivity, our lifestyle, our ability to function. senator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you for being here today. i have a couple of questions relative to that. i wanted to followup on where senator reid was headed. not asking you to state policy position on precial way finance this area in the future. i would be curious to know in your mind what options might be available for congress to look at. again, i'm not asking preferred course. >> well, there's a wide options. as i mentioned earlier, the president discussed most recently is the opportunity to corporate tax reform

function of the vascular system could be lethal. searching for new. to prolong the life of the patients is of utmost importance. that can be expanded to keep weak or narrow arteries open unfortunately delicate arteries can be damaged during the implant operation expansion. of complications after the operation coated in titanium nitride oxide shorts the super smooth coating helps avoid arterial damage and promotes healing significantly reducing the risk of blood clots forming although archie collapsing again later the coating also remains intact as the expanded within the artery just like bone implants are applied using the p.v.d. process. there is so called early. this stands currently on the market guarantee successful treatment for older patients with early from bosis but there's increased risks of late from occurring even after several years are preliminary findings allow us to predict that we can avoid both early and late. given all the medical breakthroughs we've already made and with three d. printed ones coming in the not too distant future hop

and like i mentioned we were using a system for ten years and that was a non-profit system and we could extend the life of this project. and last item that i would like to point out is this went to the cac committee on december fourth and there was a support for this item. i would are more than happy to answer any more questions that you may have. >> any questions or comments? >> okay. thank you. >> we will now open item five up for public comment, is there any public comment oit em five? come forward. >> my name is jackcy sacks and i was at the meeting last week and i approved and i was one of the individuals that strongly supported this item and i hope that you do the same thing, thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> and any additional public comment on item five? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. could i have a motion to forward item five to the full authority with positive recommendation? >> okay. and we will take that without objection. >> item 6. >> introduction of new items this is an information item. >> are there any introductions? >> okay. is there any public

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hasstrial production the bankingks grade system is recapitalized and the financial system is safer. when the economy was in freefall, such improvement was far from certain, as indicated by stock prices that were nearly 60% low current levels. the spite this progress the recovery remains incomplete. the unemployment rate is still elevated. -- theber of an term number of long-term unemployed remains high. and other measures have improved less than the unemployment rate. labor force participation has continued to decline. this is evidence he cites a evidenced by a number of factors, including declines in the station. the boom and bust left severe imbalances that would take time to work off. research,n the economic activity following financial crises is usually anemic. weak recoveries from financial crises reflect, in part, the process of delivered to -- whileraging and repair. financial institutions repair addition tolios, in these factors it reflects the changes in commercial real estate. activity is esepcially tepid. beenught the fed has overly optomistic, we have at pessimistic.o th

transit systems. was supported by industry because it helped sell automobiles supported by the petroleum ministry. the president was wise enough to say we're going pay for it and be able to expand and we can't -- without the road systems that began in the eisenhower administration. the productivity our -- lifestyle. we're at the point where if we don't move quickly and thought -- thoughtfully. we can begin to unralph our productivity, our lifestyle, our ability to function. senator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you for being here today. i have a couple of questions relative to that. i wanted to followup on where senator reid was headed. not asking you to state policy position on precial way finance this area in the future. i would be curious to know in your mind what options might be available for congress to look at. again, i'm not asking preferred course. >> well, there's a wide options. as i mentioned earlier, the president discussed most recently is the opportunity to corporate tax reform

we tested the system. to see who was willing. >> can we see the latest inspection report before we eat? >> he's the manager of this denny's in sunnyvale. >> denny's is different. >> how are we supposed to know if it's clean or not? >> if we were not clean, they would shut us down. >> the do you means show it was shut down in late 2011 for a large amount of roaches. inspectors found more roochs living at denny's just last summer. kobe in santa clara claims it was voted best japanese restaurant known for the sushi bar and known for inspectors for the cockroaches. it was shut down last summer. >> have you been shut down? >>. >> instead of showing us the report, they showed us the door. >> good, how are you? are. >> this is yummy buffet in south san jose. the latest inspection report. 16 violations. >> why don't you go somewhere else. >> of the 10 we visited, only one showed us the report. >> great. >> is this acceptable? are. >> absolutely it is not acceptable. i am disappointed that the restaurants are not p

originate as credit in the banking system. it is far from being a commodity it is actually a system built on a social construct. if you like and social relationships based on trust. and as such it can be created if you like out of thin air so these two very divergent views of what money is have informed economics but the dominant view is that money is like a commodity like gold or silver or copper and as such it's in limited supply you have to build up savings before you can you can spend under that basically under those theories was under the keynesian theory came to an understanding of money which is actually goes back to jordan law. back to you know sixteen ninety four when the bank of england was founded as a banking system can create credit which can in turn initiate economic activity which can generate income to repay the debt and if that system is stable in equitably and searches speak then the creation of credit is entirely a good thing for economic activity if it's allowed to be wasted or gambled on speculative activi

there are several systemic problems. there's a cult you are in the courts where -- culture in the court where sometimes among public defenders there is bravado like, how much work can you do without complaining. so the culture of the court can fuel that. especially also among judges who have an attitude, move the cases along. clear the docket. let's keep things going. keep the calendar clear. so there is that culture. and then there's big financial problems and there is boosten not enough public defenders so their caseloads get too high. so that is another huge problem. and then there's also a problem with the way that public defenders are paid in many states. for example, out in washington states, one of the case that is i wrote about out there, they have these things called contract attorneys. they are paid a flat fee contract for every client that gets sent their way in a particular county. all of their fees for experts or investigators or any of that have to come out of their own flat fee contract. so there's a disin

it's gonna be a huge drop in temperatures after the system passes. now to the americas to go for licking at the cold arctic air flowing in much of central and northern areas of this continent as well but in the first couple of talk about this system uses a winter storm very potent one another thing about sixty centimeters of snow fall across much of the eastern half of the continent as a new student northeast rejection for southeastern canada thirty centimeters will be likely across the southeastern canada into tuesday night but moore's the freezing rain which will be widely spread across the mid atlantic new england states and the southeastern areas counted as time's sake so any lingering moisture on the roads will be on icy note the front seat not to venture out on the cars that he has traveled by dubai behind that this is the arctic cold and they'll be lasting and dominating much of these areas to collect it back until wednesday. toronto minus eighteen s very high on your pc frostbite weather on on the flip side of the continent sacrament is reach

the frontline of the concerns about the shuttles and their impacts on the neighborhoods and transit system we're fortunate to have great leadership on city hall on the board of supervisors and the transportation commission who have been sharing their feedback and giving us their input and bringing leadership to you'll of the transportation in san francisco not the least of this issue. i'm pleased to be with david chiu >> i want to thank you and all the men and women that behind me who have addressed a series of headaches i know within councilmember kersey district. in recent years we've seen a wild, wild west open our streets this is a way to bring order to our city and asking companies to pay a fair share. the fact is the men and women behind us have been thinking intellectually and based on facts what rules we need to make sure we're minimizing congestion on our streets and folks not to have to travel in private cars or be in vehicles where a multiple people are and our roads are are properly maintained. i want to thank all the companies with working with our sfmta and the mayor to get i

ventilation system.here was a weakness in the code and so they got into the data center. the benefit for us is that we access them from anywhere. the hackers can also access them from anywhere, meaning these things become weakened. of paranoiaa lot that u.s. companies are hand-in- hand with the nsa, that the nsa is being allowed access into their systems by backdoors or whatever it is. still do not understand all of the mechanisms. how real is that as a threat? >> it is murky. we all worry about what happens when the chinese come and invade our systems. the truth is, the nsa is listening into as much information as they can do. that is how they gather intelligence and they can act on intelligence. it is their mandate to try to listen to everything. they need these backdoors to come in. it seems like every month, there is a release from one company or another saying that we either let them in or did not let them in or they bypassed us. last week, apple said we had nothing to do with this and the nsa said

there are several systemic rob lands. there is a culture in the courts where sometimes some public defender is a sort of a bravado about like how much work can you do without complaining so the culture of the courts can fuel that especially also among judges who have an attitude of move the cases along, and clear the docket and let's keep going, keep the calendar clear. so it is -- so there is that culture and then there is big financial problems and financial disincentives. there is often not enough public defenders so their caseloads get too high so that's another huge problem. and then there is also a problem with the way that public defenders are paid in many states. for example out of shinki in state one of cases that i wrote about there, they have these things called contract attorneys. and they are paid a flat fee contract. for every client that gets gets sent their way in a particular county. all of their experts who are investigators are any of that, the fees have to come out of their own flat fee contract. so th

originate as credit in the banking system. it is far from being a commodity it is actually a system built on a social construct. if you like on social relationships based on trust. and as such it can be created if you like out of thin air so these two very divergent views of what money is have informed economics but the dominant view is that money is like a commodity like gold or silver or copper and as such it's in limited supply you have to build up savings before you can you can spend under that basically under those theories was under the case he and theory came to an understanding of money which is actually goes back to jordan or. back to you know sixteen ninety four when the bank of england was founded as a banking system can create credit which can in turn initiate economic activity which can generate income to repay the debt and if that system is stable in equitably in such a speak then the creation of credit is entirely a good thing for economic activity if it's allowed to be wasted or gambled on speculative activitie

so, we will encourage that the patrons feel comfortable to use those vertical elements system-wide. and here is the project schedule for this pilot. as i mentioned it is on the street and opening next week and we are anticipate about 6 to 7 months of construction, and again, because of the advantage of value, is and it is using that exit is most likely we can close off in time and exit for construction to speed up and the budget is typically we look at and caused various on the side of conditions, we look at it in the two million dollars per head of the house and so that is all of the other pilots, if you have any questions, and i am more than happy to answer. >> thank you i just wanted to ask, earlier it was brought up that we locally have the main nens and the responsibility for seven of our bart and i think that it is 8 san francisco bart stations what is the other bart station that bart is responsible for? >> bart responsible for is it called geneva? which station? owned and operated? in addition to the boss stations. >> my understanding is that there are seven bart stations. >>

system. host: the v.a. system oh. what do you say to people who complain about the increasing cost of health care? what it costs to even check in to the hospital, visit a doctor, the cost of technology. the way pricing is done currently is a system that has been in place for a long period of time. multiple sectors, hospitals, insurance companies, state regulation. it is a very complex system of how bills are itemized, if you will. an analogy would be if you went and bought a new car and you bought at the bill of the car -- look at the bill of the car come you would see with every bolt and every component in the car cost. that is a system that is in need of reform. it is crying out for reform. we would like to see that happen. host: what is the mayo clinic's position on all of the votes that the house republicans have taken to repeal the affordable care act? this is an act that people feel very passionate about. the republican party does not feel it is good legislation for the country. that is a democratic process. the

and learning exactly how the system works within the military, how the justice system works, has madea big difference. the convening authority, and i think this is a later finding, is almost always not the direct commander of either the accused or the accuser. and i think there is a perception out there that the victim of sexual assault ends up having her case determined by her direct commander or his direct commander. and i think that it is important to make that distinction. i guess i should back up and say this is also a response systems panel that is charged with looking for positive responses that will be effective to reducing sexual assault in the military. and i have not been persuaded that the removal of a commander is going to have a positive impact. there is no evidence that reporting is going to increase. there is no evidence that prosecutions will be better handled. that investigations, even before prosecutions will be better handled. which, and i should say that there is a lot of evidence with reforms and also just the training that has been going on for several years, in

they've agreed with us would be a better system then the he felt skeleton. >> thank you go

code of military justice works and how the command system works, the convening authority system works, you have to have some confidence that there is going to be a positive result in responding to sexual assaults. that is why i don't believe that we are necessarily going to see that. i have no proof of it. see wherei don't switching out a commander who is advised by a judge advocate, a general and his staff, is going to come out with any different, ass informed decisions than jagsrent body of ajgs -- who will be somewhere else. i don't think the victims are going to know they are going to see military lawyers. if they see them making these convening decisions. i don't know how different they are going to look from the decisions they are getting now. my concern is -- i cannot say as i sit here that i think there will be incredibly negative results to the command if this convening authority is taken away. i don't know and that is something that we are continuing to look at. we don't have any clear evidence of what the impact would be one way or the other. what i also don't have any proo

we need to solidify our pension system and reduce costs by reforming our disability retirement system to thend fraud and abuse. let me be clear, we're not talking about taking away benefits that people deserve but if folks are going to abuse the system, it hurts every person who needs the system. when they're really, really injured permanently. not only will this help that pension system but it will help to reduce costs and reduce property taxes. now here's one of the open secrets in local government. since the enact. of the 2% property tax cap. some towns get around the cap by enacting user fees to fund traditional services that they use to put in their budget. 10 let's end this practice. all of you in this room who voted for the cap, did not want the cap to be gone around. so let's not make people's property taxes even more expensive by not enforcing the cap and ending these user fees. [applause] now i'll have more to say about new jersey's taxes when i present my budget to you next month. that's for a reason. i've always believed we have to consider changes to our tax system in the