that means the budgets you see at the general hospital and the mta and other general fund departments, including street light costs, would go up on your general fund, part of the budget. >> what pobltd is there possibility is there to renegotiate the 55 /45 split between power and water for the tunnel? >> one of the things we are actually -- we've done some research and we are seeing the -- sort of the -- what was behind that split. you're talking about that in our water and power, we have facilities that are joined -- they convey water, but also generate power, and 55 percent of that asset is funded by our power enterprise and 45 is of water. and mountain tunnel, which is $519 million in need of infrastructure repairs and 55 percent is power, and so the question is that we need to -- >> if we program can we renegotiate the different splits, because clearly the volume that comes out of the tunnel is greater volume even by dollar is for water, not for power. so it seems like power's covering greater part of -- >> that's something we're going to talk to our customers, but as we bring it

general. we now call upon the inspector general, echo horowitz -- rowitz. horwi senators shelby and i are vigorous supporters of the inspector general system. we look forward to your testimony and your advocacy here. please proceed, sir. >> thank you, madam chairwoman and ranking member shelby, members of the subcommittee. thank you for inviting me to testify today and for your continued strong support of our work. it'll be hard for me to overstate the importance of having an appropriated budget fiscal year that we can plan around and that will enable us to rebuild our staff, which shrunk by nearly 10% over the past two years. --eover, we are moving fastugh our staff is dead they performed at extraordinarily high levels over the past two years. last my parents before you june, our office has issued numerous imports of important -- applications for a budget. month, we report on department's efforts to address mortgage fraud. we audited the fbi's management of terrorist watchlist nomination's and we reported on the federal bureau of prisons efforts to prove ac

this saves the general fund $50 million a year. i think that's especially important for san franciscans and something to be proud of because it' efficiency and our work and your previous funding ~ of the hetch hetchy water and power project. $50 million a year is saved by the general fund, by the community college, by the school district, by the metropolitan transportation agency, by the muni's parking and traffic division, and others. that allows the general fund dollars to stretch a lot further. we also have done a lot of thing to advance the city's climate agenda. and, for example, installing the 8 megawatts of rooftop solar on city facilities as well as the grants that have been provided for private solar on rooftops. but the system is aging and needs a great deal of improvement. take a moment and think about our mountain title as an example, it's been in continuous operation for over 80 years with very minimal improvements. and, so, you will hear from us as our commission has been deliberating over the last several months, that

this is the inspector general. you should provide him the material to see what is going on in your department; good and bad. i believe the work of the inspector general is essential to the well-functioning government agency. they are independent and shouldn't be emcumered by people in the position of power. yesterday, the chair and i sent you a letter on this matter and we expect you will address our questions and resolve this controversy. but without on independent inspector general that can kerry outb responsibility, i am concerned the integirity of the whole department could be called into question. i look forward to hearing more. >> senator collins, do you want to say anything? >> madam chair, thank you very much. i want to welcome the attorney general to the subcommittee today which has great leadership on both sides of the aisle. i am going to being directing my questions to you on several topics. one has to do with our broken asylum granting system when the department of justice has jurisdiction with the depa

i think for one thing the rose is only one element of the general plan. in and of itself has to have policies that address the open space that's in the strong it language possible and the housing element is going to have elements that address elements in the strongest manner. there are other elements european design, etc. pr so when the decision makers of the board of supervisors the planning commission, others taking a look at other specific projects or tasks or things that come down the lineup as staff said the programs they need to look at all of the general plan and to see how those specific things are balanced. between housing and open space, between housing and european design, between all the elements that are in the plan and that's the kind of analysis that we receive from staff on various issues we consider references are made to general elements relevant to the project or program so i don't feel that having strong language in this element saying when a particular program comes along it's overwhelmingly considered under one elements because other

, how does that relate to any revenue outlook that the city's general fund might have. to the degree that there is less commercial activity plan or less commercial activity happens in a proposed development because it's down sized or eliminated altogether. that could have an impact on a revenue picture. those are not, the effect of that development is not reflected here in this projection. >> it's not, it more of a, i'm just trying to play out. if we see a significant reduction or elimination of the developments to port has been contemplating because apart from revenue, these development agreements require developers to do capital work on port assets. i'm just trying to gauge what the possibility is of us having no choice except to start putting general fund money and have the port deal with these problems if they are not able to generate revenue on their own. >> i know it's a complicated question. >> it is a complicated question. it's certainly not something that we've had. we haven't had a historical pattern in investing general fund dollars into our enterprises partic

the general manager has, has said that he will continue. he continues to support funding go solar s.f. at the $2 million minimum level so that we can balance that out with other needs. one of the other needs we hear a lot about, not in the forum here today, but in other forums, our street lights. you know, our street light funding and our current proposed budget that we'll be bringing to you is at about the $5 million level. so, these are the issues we hear about locally from residents and businesses associated with power. go solar s.f. energy efficiency and street lights. most of the capital funds that you see on the slide as a cost, the essential capital costs of 44.7 million is really funding up-country needs to keep the generators operating, to keep the system providing reliable greenhouse gas-free power. and with that i'll go ahead and sit down and take notes on the good comments i'm sure we'll hear from residents. thank you very much for your time. >> appreciate your comments.

the general manager has, has said that he will continue. he continues to support funding go solar s.f. at the $2 million minimum level so that we can balance that out with other needs. one of the other needs we hear a lot about, not in the forum here today, but in other forums, our street lights. you know, our street light funding and our current proposed budget that we'll be bringing to you is at about the $5 million level. so, these are the issues we hear about locally from residents and businesses associated with power. go solar s.f. energy efficiency and street lights. most of the capital funds that you see on the slide as a cost, the

it seems to me that the general and the command structure reacted quite well.uthorities reacted well. a lot of good stories. women police officer mp who was the hero, stopped him and he killed himself - sounded like she may have discharged her weapon. so there's success. we have to look at ways to increase security amongst their own people. that's a hard thing to do when you work together in combat situations or team work. you have to question one another and eradicate that quickly. >> thank you for joining us this evening. >> thank you. >> we are learning more about the alleged gunman. roxanne is here with more. >> as you mentioned earlier, the gunman was a soldier at fort hood. it's not yet confirmed what his names were. the authorities wouldn't confirm his name. they have to notify the next of kin. he has a wife and family. they would not yet state what his motive is, they are looking into the motive. he was one of four shot to death. the authorities say his body was found on a parking lot after the military police confronted him. he raised his hands in the

determination as to whether the view that the attorney general, the deputy attorney general was taking was correct. the decision was made by the inspector general not to have that olc opinion done. we have copies of the letter that i will be more than glad to make available to the committee that shows that what we have done is consistent with the law and also consistent with the important responsibilities that the inspector general has. >> but we want to make sure the inspector general can do his job, even in the justice department. >> senator schober, why don't we then continue this with the inspector general? >given the fact there is an 11:0 vote, we want to make sure members have time to answer their questions. not to stifle. this is really crucial, and we knowledge the central nature of this conversation. and we hope to be able to squeeze in the inspector general. senator collins? [coughing] mr. attorney general, i mentioned in my opening remarks that the department of justice, along with the department of homeland security, place a critical role in reviewing claims for asylum. i b

that's one the challenges of the general plan overall to distinguish those levels. so after we released the draft in december of 2013 we received a number of comments and everyone in the bauktd u pathway we slefrdz the comments and included those on our website so if anyone needs an extra copy we've got extras i'm going to walk electro the highlights of the comments and the changes. again, i wanted to say there's no prehectic preservation we worked with their staff and at two new policies and a bullet under a third policy. this is quickly to highlight the first policy is a new policy. and that talks about the overall value of the historic preservation and the second policy discussions the character features and removing those if at all possible not to remove the language we created a sustainable policies. and under that we put how historic predict e preservation is a sustainability policy. we heard a lot more about the need for the recreation route the active and passive recreation and we added emphasis that's meant to be more language added throughout the document.

mental health issues that this man was being treated for. >> the key point that general millie pointed out is he was being diagnosed or treated for behavioral health issues. when you walk down the path, he goes through a certain diagram and you end up with ptsd as a potential option. so the diagnosis had not reached that point. that was not necessarily an inevitable outcome that this soldier suffered from ptsd. but it could have a result of his experiences and where he was in his current status in terms of his medical status. >> so let's go through this. i'm going to bring in general marks and evan perez, bill gavin and also javier amador, who treated nidal hasan who killed people at ft. hood in 2009. the general said he wanted to give his condolences to the soldiers. this happened at 4:00 p.m., someone firing shots near the medical area and within 15 minutes the military responded and engaged the shooter. he doesn't believe at this point it's related to terrorism but not ruling it out. he's saying the atf, fbi and the texas rangers, texas state police and local law enfo

the marketplace. this is kaiser's approach. so generally they have had a book specific trend that's run approximately 7 percent. if you look at that and have to trend it forward and the materials i was provided they have cut their trend to 3.72 percent. so they are giving you a fully insured quote based on this data set and they have trended it, increased it 3.72 percent per year. i actually have and that's a book trend. that's kaiser's basic trend for this case and other cases of that size. it's a very low number. the argument has always been why do you apply across the board 7 percent trend when my utilitization is coming down. this addresses that. this is a positive thing. i have their case specific data. my colleague, mr. brigs and i ran that data through my regression models and i want to say that i can't match their number which would be coincidence because it's only specific to them. but i'm very close to their number. so my combined trend over the last 12 months is very similar to that. i think that their 3.72 is taking the data and

in terms of the market octavia, we'll try to get that information. but more generally, the whole approach of walk first in particular is doing exactly what you are saying. it's looking at data, understanding which counter measures meaning a bulb out versus a signal, versus more time to cross the street, whatever it is. understanding what the effectiveness of each of those counter measures are for each mode of collision whether it's a failure to yield or left turn. it's very much driven to the point where we can reasonably predict at this intersection knowing it's history if we do x counter measure we'll get results. that's what the counter walk street is based on. >>supervisor london breed: something we talk about on a regular basis. we are making changes all over the city. there are changes in the area that are not in the 6 percent number and i'm trying to understand why our efforts aren't specifically concentrated to address that small 6 percent very aggressively. of course not at the spend -- expense of the other things we need to do as a city but these corridors th

those are numbers very large that you may have heard about on the general fund and the three-year order of pfizer report. but just for our enterprise alone, because of the significant increases and the $6 28 million for the mountain tunnel along with the pg&e costs and the regulatory costs are a net result in about half a billion dollar shortfall. that means while we would like to be able to give and deliver clean greenhouse gas free power to municipal facilities for $50 million less than what pg&e would cost, i don't know mathematically how that's possible any more. so, we look forward to working with you as well as the budget committee over the upcoming month. and our proposed budget is $2 million over the next two years in our plan as adopted and review to date by the commission has $2 million for the next four years for a total of 8 million as well as continuing to increase funding for street lights. we want to do more. we would like your help in reviewing how we could possibly do more and look forward to working with you. assistant general manager [speaker not understood] also has

i do a lot of work with buster implies in the city i want to lend my support to the general plan of the rose. i think anything we can do in this generation to secure those remaining jowls transcends anyone in this room. i think you're at the same place that the folks who put the national parks together did that i hope you'll listen to the winded managing trees become the third rail of the generation there are more to that. it's the experience that is about to blink out it's not even the kraefrnz so i want to cross any fingers when we look back you'll do the right things. recently, i heard art talk about be the commonwealth and he said conservation is a choice to please when all is said or done let the commissions choice fall think the side of protecting diversity and not the hometion of history >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm here representing the test for public lands that protects land for people. in san francisco we worked over the last 40 years to help with this and we appreciate the rose has been developed and we several applaud the cities effort we support the r

'60s, the silent generation. these are the shares to america back when they were the age that millennials are today. this is a dramatic change and there's a mix of economic and attitudinal data to explain the change. about seven in 10 unmarried miners say yes i'd like to get married one day and women ask them why not, why hasn't it happened, they say i'm not a good marriage partner. i don't have a job. i don't have a career. under heavy economic foundation. a lot of this is reflection of the difficult economic circumstances but some of it quite frankly is reflection of the value they place on marriage and children. and again if you ask, we have questions like this and we see millennials place that marriage a little bit lower on the scale of what's important in life than the older generation did at the same stage of the life cycle. this is a very important part of the life of this generation. they had the bad luck of coming into the workforce. we know what happened then and we know what's happened since. deep reces

generation x, y. or millennial. >> millennials, the lost generation was cool. >> the greatest generation works, too. >> greatest generation is not bad. >> why not baby boomers. >> it's just an explode in infant, sounds like. who wants to be called that all their life. >> i want to ask you about a couple of things in the news these days. chris christie, what do you think is going to happen? >> i think it's a slow newsweek is what i think it was. it was, we were talking about this before we went on camera. the story just goes on and on and on and like of course here in new york, you're like george washington bridge traffic jam, oh, my gosh. >> every day. >> what are they thinking in ohio. the news tonight is there are traffic jams in new jersey. >> it will be interesting to see how it's playing. >> it shows, i think, the interesting part of the story is somebody is really scared of chris christie in 2016 and looking for scandal. if they think bridge traffic jams have legion that are going to last until 2016, thief got another think coming. >> one final one given that we're talking about baby boomers and

individual rate pay er and policy expenditures if desirable and if necessary should be funded by the general fund departments whereas community benefit programs and other policy expenditures may have benefits to some interest groups, they do not benefit all rate pay ers whereas city rate payers have not bought into the value of these policies because there has not been a venue and aggregate costs of these programs therefore resolved strongly urging the puc commission policy expenditures and also on the cap program as you know the big horn desert california supreme court ruled in 206 that this type of program is illegal the city needs to ask the board of supervisors you do to fund these programs if you find that low income water rate payers need help it should not be put on the rest of the rate pay ers thank you. >> thank you very much for being here lorraine. >> the next card and this is the last card i have -- unless -- is there any mail? is joan -- this is good. joan girardo is that right? >> hi joan good afternoon. >> thank you for the venue i wanted to say when we talk about an average b

the competitive solicitation requirement under administrative code, section 6.40, and authorizing the general manager of the recreation and park department to enter into a professional services agreement with aidlin darling design in the amount of $837,863, for the purpose of completing design development documents and partial completion of construction documents for the geneva car barn and powerhouse project, and to amend the agreement as necessary to complete final construction documents, to commence following board approval. >> ordinance waiving the competitive solicitation requirement under administrative code, section 6.40, and authorizing the general manager of the recreation and park department to enter into a professional services agreement with aidlin darling design in the amount of $837,863, for the purpose of completing design development documents and partial completion of construction documents for the geneva car barn and powerhouse project, and to amend the agreement as necessary to complete final construction documents, to commence following board approval. >> supervisor avalos

you can see on the left the megawatt hours that are generated by our system. and on the right, the dollars, what those megawatt hours are converted into. and i think it's important to note here that 41% of our customer base creates 69% of our revenues. and you can see also that those customers are paying around 14 cents a kilowatt hour for on average for that power. our general fund customers use just a little less than that in terms of the megawatt hours, but they provide substantially less in term of revenue to fund our operations. and then when we have -- when we have power in excess of our customer needs, we have the opportunity to sell that power on the wholesale market. we're also obligated under the raker act that allowed us to build the system on public lands to provide power to modesto and turlock irrigation district. that's what you see in that red bar. so, we're obligated to provide that power to them to the extent we have it available, up to their municipal and agricultural pumping demands. and we must under the raker act sell it to them at our cost

department's california environmental quality act determination; making findings of consistency with the general plan, and the priority policies of planning code, section 101.1; and directing the clerk of the board of supervisors to submit this ordinance to the california department of housing and community development in accordance with california government code, section 65852.2. >> ordinance amending the planning and building codes to provide a process for granting legal status to existing dwelling units constructed without the required permits, temporarily suspending the code enforcement process for units in the process of receiving legal status, and prohibiting units from being legalized under the provisions of this ordinance of there have been no-fault evictions; amending the administrative code of prohibit the costs of legalization from being passed through to the tenant; amending the subdivision code to prohibit legalized units from being subdivided and separately sold; affirming the planning department's california environmental quality act determination; making findings of consistency

in terms of the general plan, it remains the same. >> commissioner johnck? >> i want to comment and ask the question. i appreciate your presentation and seeing the nesting of all these elements. i guess, i think we've been very sensitized during the discussion of the park and the discussion of the national heritage which is part of the natural hetero -- heritage. i will be commenting on how that is reflected. >> okay. thank you. >> any public comment on this item? >> i'm desiree smith with san francisco heritage. first we are very excited that this is for the element moving forward and look forward to working with the hpc and with planning department staff through its adoption. with that said our board most specifically our issues policy committee has reviewed the draft and they do have significant reservations and concerns about the current status and direction of the draft as currently written on many of the same concerns raised by the planning department were raised by our issues policy committee. but we are encouraged that the planning department recogni

mark milley, the commander general at fort hood. rily. we'll have live coverage of course here on cnn. in the meantime let's bring in our justice correspondent, pamela brown. she's got some new information. what are you learning, pamela? >> reporter: we're learning from sources, wolf, that the shooter in this case used a semiautomatic handgun. again learning from sources it's believed that the shooter used a semiautomatic handgun. we know that atf agents are there on the scene right now. they're going to be look at where this handgun was purchased, how the shooter obtained it and so forth. so in this early stage in this investigation, it is believed again that the shooter used a semiautomatic handgun. and also we're learning from sources as we've been sailiying it's believed this was a soldier on soldier incident, that's how this started. sources are telling us the attacker here was wearing fatigues. so perhaps that's what is leading investigators to believe that this began as a soldier on soldier incident. but again it's still very

gut because in the plan itself that's discussed generally without us having the specification. the issue i'm concerned about is that when it comes to the public's concerns over commercialization and privatization of the parks and plazas we're can you tell the court in the middle of working with the mayor's office on his suggested amendments 2 p public zoned districts. and i would have liked the particular management chambers to first seen and explained in more detail before i broadly support of what's applied her in the rose as currently presented to us. i don't want to draw the awe anyone else of the google park i would have liked to have the detail and the details are properly vested before i have a general policy embrace something which i would like to first examine in a pilot or more definition of the legislation which we'll be hearing in early may. i need to add that comment and as far as the motion stand i would generally support of documents of what's in front of us but set aside item 4.2 and the issue on management of public plazas and open space as issued i want to exp

the common retail include the apparel and height and beauty stories. in general the banks and other services that serve the customers needs are in districts with controls. this is the direction of impoverishes of dial needs. some parts of the city with lower incomes appear to be underserved so for the most part the formula retailers have distribute equally. some are immersing like in the upper fillmore it has clusters of duty stores and other merchant but they report a decline in the services. on this charter it's stationary stores and art galleries and the like. comparing that retail mix to the ocean avenue mix the ocean avenue has other retailers and that includes the fruits and vegetables and framing stores and other stores. and in this section we'll be looking at how the railway formula effects their willing and able to pay higher rents that serves tourist. landlords in the city most attracted city market like the fillmore they require letters of 10 to 12 months of rent human resources they've reported landlord keeping the vacancies up until a national tenant

why they matter is the largest generation. interesting stats, in ten years they will make 75% of our work force. if you don't already work with a millennial you will. the sort of refer to them as al fatah influencers because they are absolutely influencing their parents and piers purchasing decisions. in our study specifically 74% believe they influence the purchasing decision of people around them. like any generation before and after it them they are unique but what makes this generation unique, paul and harry spoke to this little bit but they come of age during troubling times. they are an incredibly diverse generation. with traditional and non-traditional values their new kind of consumer. this is again years of studying them, counseling clients on how to reach and resonate with millennials. we sort of the find them in a lot of ways but they are smart, they are curious, social, flexible, moral, hedonistic, very values centric which makes them debt averse supported by what we heard today. they really value community. they ha

year. >> that would affect the clerk of the board aspects of the general fund, correct? >> right. and quite frankly, i haven't had a conversation with the clerk's office with that impact and i would hate for you to do smidge on anything on that score without me talking to them first. >> if we gave back a portion of the reserve, what would that enable us to do? >> we're not giving back a portion of the reserve, but giving back a portion that is set aside each year. our reserve account is our reserve account and i don't think staff is recommending that we give that back. >> right. >> the money that is allocated within the budget process, we have it down as $344,445 a year. we reserve the right to it in the future, but we're going to give that money back to the city and county, because we can continue to operate another year without having to accept the money. but that gives us the right next fiscal year or the fiscal year after this one to go and say we now need this money and we're accepting the money and unfortunately not giving it back because our reserve is depleted fro