let us improve the system. as we project what is likely to happen in the future, let us look at what will allow us to place more than one choices on the ballot. that will make a major improvement in our ability to make ranked choice much easier for voters to use, because it would give them a chance to write everything i like, and not just two or three candidates. let us make sure we do not drop the ball in getting rid of the campaign financing problems. let us make sure we solve that. that directly messes with french choice as well. -- with ranked choice as well. chairperson campos: public comment is closed. any other questions for mr. fried? if not, thank you for your work. we look forward to continuing to hear from you and get updates. hopefully, you can get any relevant information from some of the folks who spoke. thank you very much. if we can have this matter continued to the call of the chair -- a motion by commissioner avalos, seconded by commissioner mar. call item no. 5, please. >> item number 5, goa

i hope there is a use of this system elsewhere. it could be on another continent, a place called utopia, maybe. perhaps not a real place. >> more than happy to do whatever the commission wishes. chairperson campos: if i may, commissioners, whether it is at a meeting today or subsequent to the meeting, if you want to have a follow-up discussion with mr. fried, i want to make sure he is able to follow up on the specific issues or concerns that you may have. if there is something specifically that you think it is important that he looked at, if you can make sure that you let him know, whether it is today or any subsequent meetings, we want to make sure the questions that the commissioners want answered are, in fact, answered. just a reminder that the point of this exercise by lafco is to provide information and make sure we have data that sheds light on this discussion. i think it makes sense to include the system the commissioner avalos raised. it makes sense to look at it. supervisor mar: i would be interested in how voting rights o

>> the old system has been in place since 1999. it's a proprietary system created by the vendor. they're the only ones able to maintain it. the technology has advanced since 1999 and there are a lot of off-the-shelf products available which means city staff will be able to maintain more of the system themselves and we will need less vendor support. it will have the same functionality that i described earlier. >> why don't we go to the budget analyst report? >> on page 4 of our report, we point out with respect to the retroactivity that the office of contract administration notified the department of emergency management. the amount for services was to under $56,357 more than the current to not to exceed amount. -- $256,357. we recommend you approve the resolution as amended. >> with regard to the not to exceed amounts. i understand the reason why we had the level which was not to exceed because we have amount and the previous legislation. if we had a previous amount below what the department is spending, where are the controls from stopping the department from exceeding the not t

financial system, there would be a real consequence for the financial system and the economy as a whole. i think that's somewhat underappreciated. particularly during the course of this financial crisis, most of the attention has been on the big systemic companies. but -- and clearly from the fdic standpoint and the rest of the regulators, that's going to be an ongoing priority, as i've just talked about. but there really is a need, i think, to pay some attention in effect to the other end of the spectrum for the community banks. the role really is quite important, and i will tell you, we are in addition to the systemic resolution responsibilities, the fdic is making the future of community banks or other major priority over the course of this year in part because the fdic is the lead federal regulator for the majority of community banks in the united states. in fact, we just hosted a conference a couple of weeks ago on the future of community banking. we're now going to be doing a number of things over the course of this year, including a series of round tables with community bankers i

chaff defeats this system. the ballistic missile defense also says that the new break throughs in missile defense technology that allow for the missile defense is particularly the paa to have chance of working. in fact, the president said that in his speech announcing it on september 17, 2009. let me be clear. there are no new technologies in the paa. none. there are no propulsion technologies. there are no sensor technologies. there are no material ballistic missile defense technologies that give this system greater capability. i'll have something more to say about that shortly. the paa is a proven and effective missile defense. the president said that in september 17, 2009. yet, fb the paa -- if the paa has never been tested against a tumbling target, now that means something because in the gulf war of 1991, where incidentally the patriot was originally represented as 96% successful and our mit group showed it was almost 0% successful, so we went pk equal to one to pk equal to zero, which should tell you some

what would be a better system? and religions, of course, are front and senter in the spectrum of world views. but there are other world views that present other moral systems. the virtue of a inclusive system is it allows you to sort of find symmetry in certain components of that moral vision without having to be the same. so the logic of trying to give the moderates more platform and more opportunities to express themselves is to allow more places to find those symmetries. to isolate the world views, religious world views and the secular world views that find no room for any alternative at all. it's my view and anything else is simply unacceptable. so a more inclusive system creates the space for those kind of symmetries to happen. in that sense, you know, different religions and groups will find all kinds of common ground about moral issues. i think that's a significant virtue of inclusive political systems. in some ways i think the confessionalism, per se, is almost equaphenomenal to the other effects of the sys

financial system, there would be a consequence for the financial system and the economy as a whole. i think it's somewhat under appreciated. and you noerknow, particularly the financial crisis, most of the attention has been on the big systematic companies. but -- and clearly from the fdic's standpoint and the rest of the regulators, that will be an ongoing priority as i just talked about but there's a need to focus on the other end of the spe trum -- spectrum for the community banks. the fdic is making the future of community banks another major priority over the course of the year, in part because the fdic is the led federal regulate later. we just in a conference -- we are going to do a series of rounds tables with the community bankers in each of our regionals ofs we will do a round table with our community banks in other of our regions. i've asked our division of insurance and research to undertake an effort to review the development of the community banks in the u.s. financial system over the past 25 years. to gain a better understanding of sort of what is happening to communi

i think that, you know, because the system of, you know, fundamentally working through the grant system has been so difficult, that there is a lot of obligated funding and grant funding. and people seem to perceive that as a difficulty with the ports and really not take a hard look at a system that has become, as i said, very cumbersome and has this huge sort of pile-on effect, particularly with requirements both state and federal, and requirements from historical state people and historical federal people. and it's just -- in our world, it's made it very, very difficult to execute money. so as a result, i think there is money that appears like it isn't needed because it hasn't been executed. but i think realistically, the grant funding, port security grant funding is still needed. and my principle recommendation would be to restore the funding to the levels. it's been dramatically cut, about 75% over the period of the -- over the last three or four fiscal years. and in addition to that, really take a look at the grant system and try to fix that, and then you will be able to sort of exe

take as from a 19th century system hopefully into a 21st century system. specific to hear, san francisco is leading that trend. roughly in the 1990's, the san francisco juvenile justice system was the subject of harsh criticism. it was two decades of harsh criticism for its monolithic practice that week -- kids would get arrested, police officers would take them into the youth guidance center and take them to the youth guidance center. they would be detained for some time and were released onto the street with you services and little follow-up. in the mid-1990s, it was decided that was not such a good approach. we needed to diversify our juvenile justice services and that came on the heels of a number of reports, a number of actions by the board of supervisors and various commissions. with the passage of children's fund in 1992, a new pot of money was created for the establishment of innovative services. services that up to that point did not exist. it is the department of children and youth, and families. when that department was launched, what we saw is

first of what looks to be three main systems, that'll be a system within the system.ating those around has set up shop and it'll start to carve itself out. by the weekend we'll see a system eventually dig all the way down. boy, will that bring in some really cold air. we start out with rain for the early two parts of the system. this weekend it'll be wind and cold. look at ben lomond, santa cruz mountains, scotts valley, they'll be looking at two to three-inch amounts. these are projections. so a decent system here taking us through thursday morning. snow will be really measured in feet. so just keep that in mind. winter storm warnings out until 5:00 a.m. and rip roaring wind up there in some of the high erelevations above 6,000. heaviest rain in the north bay and sliding south by this afternoon and this evening. warmer lows, that's one consolation, focus on the positive. 50s and 60s. but it could be a mild day towards past are parts of the east bay and the santa clarita valley. rain will take us into wednesday. there'll still be some rain around, but a little bit of

that system is a fairly mature theater missile defense system. we used to call theater missile defense systems. the language has changed a bit. the standard missile three is a naval system which is quite mature. the ground based interceptor that is up in alaska is the least reliable of the hit-to-kill interceptors that we have. that is failing in several test flights for a host of reasons. not only is it less reliable, it is more expensive on the order of $70 million per interceptor. whereas these are the ones down in the $6 million or $10 million in the standard missile. these more mature will be less expensive. most people talk about the interceptors. that is what captures the public's imagination. the most important technology behind missile defense is the sensors and architecture and the control system. the sensors are radars. the spy one radar on the cruiser and the forward based ex-band radar or the tpy-2. this is the radar that is associated with the missile defense system. both of these radars are mature. tpy-2 is sophisticated and effect

america's health care system is a mess.ee enterprise and partly state subsidized and highly inefficient in developing quality care at a reasonable price. let me step back before making suggestions and outline a few principals. i'm a big fan of the free market. it has an almost magical ability to allocate resources and generate growth. for precisely because it is so powerful in places where it doesn't work well, it can cause huge distortions. the nobel price winning economist outlined in the 1960s why markets don't work very well when it comes to health care. he explained that people don't know when people know they will need health care and the cost is often prohibitive. you need some kind of insurance or a government-run system. now, if we decided as a society that it is okay that when people suddenly discover they need health care, dthey can get it i they pay for it, that would work. the vast majority couldn't be able to pay for that triple bypass or hip replacement when they need it. the market would worng as it works fo

that we can obtain in this system. there is better quality to be given to the citizens of this country if we reorganize the way we deliver health care more efficiently. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> the time of the gentleman has expired. the chair recognizes now the gentle woman from illinois, chairman of the subcommittee, mrs. collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i too want to extend my heart felt thanks that you are here at our hearing, mrs. clinton. as always, you bring a certain perspective with you that we certainly learn from. one of the things i'm concerned about right now, a number of issues is red lining, what i call medical red lining at this point in time. as i look at what i perceive to be the kind of plan that we're looking at, if we are, it seeks to address redlining by health alliances by preventing states from drawing those health alliances in a manner that would discriminate against segments of the population on the basis of ethnicity or economic status. but i wonder how the plan would prev

we must never allow protecis political system. instead, we're actively seeking investment from overseas pension and sovereign wealth funds and working to develop london as an offshore market for the chinese currency. we also want investment from british pension funds and british infrastructure and are now working with a dozen of the large pension schemes specifically on that. we're the first british government to set out a national infrastructure plan the projects we're going to prioritize in the coming decade. the roads, clean energy and water, things we all need and have identified. i also believe this country must confront the lack of airport capacity in the southeast of england. we cannot cut ourselves off from the fastest-growing cities in the world and the transport secretary will set out government thinking later this summer. we want to look at the opportunities for increasing the role of private investment in the road network, learning lessons from the water industry. and i confirmed today that network rail will extend to

because the systems need to be healing systems. as obama says, we need to start uttering healing words. president obama said that at the tucson memorial. we have to start uttering healing words to one another instead of wounding words. what we are trying to do is create systems -- school systems and juvenile justice system is that he'll instead of juvenile justice systems and school systems that continue to wound our youth. >> can i just say something about the systems of discipline in schools? so that before it even gets to the place where it is an issue, is that those systems definitely need changing. the question that parents need to ask when they have been told that their child has been involved in some misbehavior is to ask what was happening? what were the conditions? what were the circumstances? what were the antecedence that led to this behavior? because if we do not fix those, we will seed the systems you talk about. [applause] it is amazing how many young people can be turned back from negative behavior if the situation i

system size. i don't want to into details on that i want to make sure you get the right -- that's the only area of confusion that i have seen on bids that can affect the sales part of it. so first off, i want you to get the full price. that means the maximum you'll be charged. that includes any additional things that they may charge you because you have a difficult roof or steeply pitched roof or concrete tile or whatever they might see. you get that full price. that's before rebate, before tax credit. then you take the system size in cec, california energy commission a.c. watts. that term is understood by the people in the industry. that means they use the c.e.c. ratings to determine the a.c. wattage. you get the per watt price. you divide this by this. you get the price per a.c. watt. you want to ask about permit fees as well. each city typically will charge fees. now those fees are coming down and we're working very hard to get them standardized and clear. there is some cost. sometimes the inst

systems like this that will allow transparency, clarity, accountability, and efficiency -- i think systems like this need to be applied to all parts of the city. we really strive to lead and embraced technology so we can be ahead of the game. [applause] >> we are spending $15 million per week just on our water system. that does not happen without incredibly good management, personnel management and i.t. systems to make it work. harlan kelly is responsible for all of that. [applause] >> good afternoon. first, i would like to thank spur and mfac for this prestigious award. also, ed harrington for nominating me. also, a special thanks to my family. mason, kelly, tray, my wife, naomi, my sister joy, and my mother-in-law. they have been supporting me for a long time. behind this individual all board, there's a team of people that are responsible for making things happen. just for a moment, i want the puc to raise their hand and give a shout. we have a lot of folks who really committed in making the systems wwork. again, we have billions of dollars that we are entrusted with delivering in a time

i can't say more, they do with our transit system. we're down 30% in crime and the transit system. as the director said, the only place where we can do a little bit better are larceny crimes. that is what this campaign really is all about. i don't want to beat a dead horse in terms of reiterating this, but we can't say enough. perhaps don't use the white earbuds. opportunistic people look for those opportunities and no that it means iphone. if you lose one of these devices, and do what you can't disconnect your personal information from these devices. if something is taken from you, don't go after the suspect. just look, pay attention, and get as the description as you can and, in 11. he will be there to take this information and after had the suspect. >> a pretty straightforward message, grateful for those of you covering this. they provide to my family and friends, everyone in our system and in our city to make sure that they get to where they want to go. they make themselves vulnerable to theft of our system anywhere. will be happy to take questions. thank you all for coming. >>

the new high-tech systems worked well with the legacy system. legacy is a buzz word. i'm sort of a legacy system myself. it means old. they did work well. the millstar, for example, it is used for command and control. it is not jamable, really. it is parked out there at 23,000 miles in altitude. it was used in this war to help rescue the private first class jessica lynch. used to send information to the tomahawk. it could communicate with the navy. it was condemned as unworkable, unnecessary, too expensive and due to failure. there were other satellites, one of them you may be familiar with, the g.p.s. system, global positioning system. it is 24 satellites parked about 12,600 miles above the earth. an accuracy of a millionth of a second. you get an exact position to 12 feet. they were tweaking to get it down to six feet. if you can imagine. again, i'm saying incredible and remarkable a lot, but it is. we could have spent this money and had it work. how many of us bought nice cars or new things and found out it is not worth the money. we spent the money and it is worth

how we manage ourh spect to the financial system. in particular, during much of the world war ii peri,rltively . because financial crisis were something that happened in developing markets and not established countries, many central banks began to view financial stability policy as a junior partner to monetary policy. it was not as important. it was something that attention was paid to, but not something that the same amount of resources and tea attention was paid to. obviously, based on the crisis and what happened on the effects that we're still feeling it's now clear that maintaining financial stability is just as important a responsibility as monetary and economic stability and indeed, this is, very much a return to the -- where the fed came from the beginning. the reason is fed was created was to try to panics. financial stability was the original motive ofe d. so now we saturday of come full will always be with us. that is probably unavoidable. we've had financial crises for 600 years in the western world. periodically there's

a system entirely. as you lead to a more inclusive system, people can move to what their more individual agendas might be. and you'll see, for example, islamist groups that might have a little affinity in the repressive system, the differences will start to pull apart is the hypothesis you would expect to see. i think kbeer empirically there's reason to expect that. this is something you've seen in a number of cases historically. i'm return to that in a second. i do want to mention one of my big points i want to emphasize here is in a more inclusive system, you may not actually see extremists becoming moderate. what you might actually be seeing and what i think is more often what you see is moderates don't have a logic to alie with extremists anymore. and so the moderates will pull away, their voices become more prominent and agendas become more prominent. that doesn't mean you're seeing them pull away -- that they were the ones that were extreme being pulled to the center. i think that's an important p

the canadian system grew at 4.8% inflation rate annually. and the british nationalized system grew at 4.07% above inflation. all of these countries are showing significant real annual increases above inflation. in contrast to the experience of these nationalized systems, your cap on health expenditures allows real growth above inflation of less than 1%. mrs. clinton, this data shows that nationalized, single-payer systems, such as britain and canada, have not come even remotely close in limiting health expenditures to less than 1% above inflation. in fact, except for germany, they have been growing at least at 4% per year above inflation, and even germany has been growing at close to 3% annually. in the case of britain and canada, we are talking about systems that explicitly ration care. my question is, how is the president's plan going to accomplish these extraordinary reductions in health care expenditures when even systems thatration care have not remotely approached these growth limits. >> mr. bliley, that's an excellent question. i real

i think if you look at the health care system, what you see is a system that lacks any of the normalplines we see in everything else. >> so give me an example of some place where you find market forces can actually work the way you're describing them? >> well, you know, around the fringes of health care we have things that look like health care that aren't in the health care economy. they're not insured. we see that in certain types of cosmetic dental surgery. in cosmetic surgery generally. we see it in medicine for pets. and what we see in all of those markets are markets. >> take lasik eye surgery, for example. since the procedure was introduced, prices have dropped considerably, despite all of the expensive equipment and well-trained specialists. lasik doctors actually compete for your business, with ads that tell you about their safety record and prices. >> ask a very simple question of your viewers. how many of them know the safest hospital in their neighborhood? why not? why is there nobody with a billboard saying, don't go to downtown, go to uptown, downtown will kill you? we'

they have helped to guide the development of modern financial systems, modern monetary systems and play major role in economic policy. now we've had various arrangements over the years, but today, virtually all countries have central banks. the federal ree japan in japan, bank of canada and so on. the main exception is only cases where you have what's called a currency union where a number of currents collectively share a central bank. the most important example by far of that is the european central bank which is central bank to 17 european countries who share the common currency the euro. but even if n that case, each of the participating countries does have its own central bank which is part of the overall system of the euro. central banks are now ubiquitous. even the smallest countries typically have central banks. now this is a very important theme here. what do central banks do? what is their mission? and as i'll discuss throughout the lectures, it's convenient to talk about two broad aspects of what central banks do. the first is to try to achieve macroeconomic stability. and by

, which is the jury system. we are interested in your views about the role of the jury system, both in civil and in criminal cases. >> well, i strongly believe in the jury system. i am a jury traveler. that is all i have done for 45 years. my personal experiences that i have seen the collective wisdom of a jury actually be one of the most beautiful things you can witness in achieving justice. sometimes, the jury, still following the law, can see through a lot of legal arguments and do what is right, legally right, and that is a beautiful part of the jury system. i have been involved with a magnet part of a celebration, which is going to go into its 800-year anniversary in 2015 that is the genesis of the jury system. surprisingly, england has virtually no jury system left as part of its justice system. we're the last bastion of the jury system. however, japan just recently decided to inaugurate the jury system. we're working with the japanese, who culturally, historically, are not comfortable with the jury system

and project tracking system. we are currently in the analysis stage. the milestone for that is this month. we are on schedule for that. we are having meetings a couple times a day, three hours each. dbi planning, the vendor, al- zeidi apartments, getting a lot of good input on how we should configure the system to meet our requirements and improve the process flows. we also started enterprise analysis sessions, looking at the big pictureñr in terms of processes that handoffs between planning and dbi. what is the most efficient way to handle these, and how should we configure the system to support this? we also started some system prototype development where the documentation that is being done out of the analysis sessions are being prototyped by the vendor, and they demonstrate some options for us in terms of how they can configure the system, how they have done it for other agencies, recommendations that they have to support our process flows. we are also continuing to document the configuration, a very detailed

such is the this system. only someone like our pension's minister can work out what someone's entitled to and what they need to save, so i can confirm we will introduce a new single tier pension for future pensioners set above the means test, this is currently estimated at 140 pounds. it will be based on contributions, and it will cost no more than the current system in any year, we will bring forward further details later this spring. a single generous basic state pension for those who have worked hard and saved hard all their lives and a further major simplificatio simplification. people should know what taxes they're paying and what their money is being spent on many my honorable friends, the -- we send to taxpayers an annual statement, showing them just that. i think this is an excellent idea, and i intend to put it into hmrc contacts roughly half of taxpayers each year from 2014. the 20 million taxpayers will at the same time receive a new personal tax statement this will tell people how much income tax

health care system.we want to go from scratch and we asked the guy who designed the health care system and there was really nothing because our system and hospitals are private, doctors are private, but you have a single government-sponsored insurer, in other words, medicare. >> right. paid for by tax dollars? >> paid for by tax dollars. not surprisingly, they have the lowest health care costs in the world. they are among the best in tems of the outcomes but only spent 7% of their economy on health care. we spent 17%. >> we're going to take a look at a chart which shows the steady increase in per capita spending on health care in the united states or a share of gdp. let's put it that way. starting around 5% in the '60s up to the 17, 18% that we have right now. let's say, some people think market-based systems work best where there is competition and some of the most efficient health care systems in the world are single payer. whether you want that to be a socialized system, or like you described in taiwa

as we move away from the second party system, or as i should say as the second party system begins to collapse, you get the emergence of something new still sort of taking shape, taking form. we haven't seen exactly what form it's going to take yet, but you get a sectional realignment. in other words, it seems to be more important what part of the country you come from than what political party you're affiliated with. however, having said that, that's a good point, but having said that, notice within the regions what's going on. so, for example, within the north, ignore the south for a minutes, within the north what's going on in terms of the distinctive positions of the two parties? remember we talked a little bit about this last time in the 1848 election. we said that it was kind of interesting how in those days the national parties could really run a candidate two different ways. could run them one way in the south and one in another, rather different way in the north. what's going on within the region, within the section? within the north for example. what's happening? how are the

we had a big turnout in our election system. we take this system for granted. the american people have on occasion rallied objective things. you have seen a transition. bank of america threatens a fee on cards and we have legislation, telemarketers on saturday night come overnight, we can get rid of that. we still have a democracy. we can do this. i happen to advocate for this campaign. remember that $10 check off? we cannot give 10 books on the tax return to go to our electoral system? that is the answer but i can hear the screams and hollers, speech and money and the rest of this. we have to understand that we are destroying what has made this country so great, so unique, and the beacon for the world with our constitutional republic. and we are turning into a banana republic. tavis: if i said part of what is aiding and abetting that is the media itself, it is grist for the mill, there is money to be made, or ratings to be had. you know how this works. that msnbc gets something out of this. fox news' get something out of this by playing the right game. part of

permit tracking system. we're working with the vendor that is being used by the treasurer tax collector closely to make sure that it is going to work for the next system. and then coming in know, a lot of people have issues or are concerned about addressing, and we continue to work with the assessor's office and dpw in terms of an enterprise addressing system. it went live on february 15 and we're still working through some of the -- and we will continue working through addressing issues for probably quite a while. then, of course, we're working with puc because they continue to put together ordinances having to do with everything from irrigation to waste water to storm water compliance to landscape ordinances. they keep us pretty busy. >> thank you. i believe that was the final item. >> there's one more item. 13g, update on new hires. >> since our last meeting, we have been able to hire one new i.t. person who has been directly responsible for the q- matic training-. -- for the training of q-matic. as vice

you can confuse the system with chaff and decoy the various kinds of systems. you can blind the radars. you can now use cyber against the communication systems. there are many things you can do to try to defense an abm system. and you are going to hear quite a bit about that, i think, by my colleagues. the administration decided, after many meetings, consultations, memos, and other activities and consulting with many experts of a variety of persuasions, to modify the approach. and what was -- what was proved by the president was the european phase adaptive approach, epaa, european phase adaptive approach. what that entailed was a group of interceptors placed in different places, some of which were yet to be determined, and some radars that were enter connected. that could defeat what we saw as a growing missile threat, particularly from iran, but against other potential threats against european targets. the poles and the czechs had never actually approved the bush plan. their governments had nominally approved it but their legislators never essentially ratified