there is a way to do it, and the more the city staff helps them to see a way to do it, the easier it is to move toward saying, i am going to see what it takes if you cannot fix anything, that may not as expensive as it would have been. i am happy to see you are focusing on restaurants as a

there is a way to do it, and the more the city staff helps them to see a way to do it,

there is a way to do it, and the more the city staff helps them to see a way to do it, the easier it is to move toward saying, i am going to see what it takes if you cannot fix anything, that may not as expensive as it would have been. i am happy to see you are focusing on restaurants as a place to start. all of the early lawsuits were again restaurants, because they make so many changes to keep customers coming, and they were the first people to be sued, so i think they are the best group to start with. they have a lot of customers, and they have great responsibilities. i would hope dbi can go further than that sending out notes curator -- sending out notes. i looked at it. if i got it, i might put it on the long list from my a a very good -- from my bank. i would like to see them expend to a larger range of small businesses and work their way up to see if you can hit 50,000 or some number. the other way is to let the small businesses know you can do some facilitation. the fire department figures out how to myo

it's a hard thing to do. there's lots of different departments with lots of different visions but we've just got to keep pressing on with it. we've been somewhat successful with our planning department and building inspection in at least getting them to the table and making them -- i think they are starting to understand the problem now. we just have to keep pressing on. >> great, great question dave. >> dave erickson, (inaudible) we're a nonprofit (inaudible) i find it interesting we're dealing with primarily adaptations. we've got a lot of success looking at mitigation, looking at it from the side of what we're going to have to do locally to address the cost of global warming. i wonder if you could address what you see as being a proactive method for addressing solutions to going forward to lowering impacts, incorporating the integrated planning element. >> anybody want to tackle that one? . >> well, i happen to have the good fortune of being in a room with the executive directors of the metropolitan transpo

it is not to force someone to buy what they do not want to buy. if we go that far, it means united states government can do anything to you that it wants to, and there are no limitations. liberty is built on limitations, and, frankly, when there is no liberal -- limitations, liberty is gone, so we are really looking at some very, very important thing right now, and i, for one, what to think the tea party for what they hav done. -- want to thank the tea party. they are going to double the unemployment tax from $7,500 to $15,000, so they have money for more employment in this country -- $1,500. the businesses are not going to put up with that, and they would just get rid of employees. we have to remember of the things that made this country so great. all i can say is that i am so grateful for this great nation and what it means to the world. i have been all over the world for our country, and i have to tell you, everywhere the we go, people have always been amazed, and yet, we are in danger -- everywhere that we go. i am very happy to have all of the

you want to do. and you need to get to them and communicate out to them. you can start a yahoo group and add one e mail at a time. i would be happy to share with you on how we started our yahoo group. we didn't start with 600 people we started with 5. our yahoo group has grown by 200 people in the last year primarily because we made it easy for people to sign up and we have been promoting the neighborhood association we have flyers up. we are doing a lot of value added activities for the neighborhood including parties. what cheryl said about finding daniel holmesy. do you know daniel holmesy? >> i know other people that are my husband is on the treasure island advisary committee. treasure island's an area the city is investing in. i think you can leverage resources. >> if i can briefly answer becky's question. this is for everybody. number one, stay positive. >> number 2, listen to your constituency that's important and i think the key to the whole thing is find somebody in if it's department of publ

the majority is right to do it. but it did strike me, the fact they were going to cut 32 billion, and then suddenly it becomes 100 billion and so what we were hoping they were doing judiciously became meat cleaver, just cut it out. >> let me correct that. >> let me finish, mr. rogers. i've waited a long time to get here. >> but i need to correct something you said that isn't correct. >> that was somewhat troubling to me. but you know you said there aren't any sacred cows here. there sure is one. neither one of you will like this. if we really want to cut this deficit in half, what we're serious, what we never talk about is spending $8 billion a month in afghanistan. $2 billion a week in afghanistan for what? we've been there for ten years we've got, what, 36,000 troops up in korea on the dmz. we need to look at those things at ways we can save some money. but i would really love to str somebody really talk to me quite honestly about, what is the end product of afghanistan other than making all of those people extraor

but we need to have that conversation. how do you measure the kinds of things we are actually providing for our students? it is a much larger question for us to ask. i am not opposed to going to the outside for our evaluation. if we need to go and think about raising private dollars to help us to the evaluation from the outside so we are thinking differently about it and not just trying to give what we are accustomed to outputing, and looking at how -- the impact of our kids have based on what we normally do, i am willing to raise that money. having a pair of eyes from the outside looking in could make a difference. we have changed our spending pretty regularly over the last few years because of the budget challenges. i feel strongly, with my colleagues, that we absolutely need to do and a valuation, and we needed to start it yesterday. we anticipate going back to the voters in 2013. as we are looking at six years of work we have done, i think we probably could conjure upper -- conjure up a look at the programs we have focused on

to do as a battalion, as a brigade. when i wrote the back, that's what i was trying to expain. that's what they like. i've gotten criticism from other guys in different units. combat is an emotional experience. when i wrote my event event evey thoughts in the sequence that they occur and i'm saying they didn't agree with somebody's decision, naturally, people don't like that. so i got a lot of criticism about stuff that i admitted that i was wrong. people were just -- they were getting to that certain point, but they weren't reading on. about me second guessing myself. and second guessing my own decisions. so it was an interesting experience. but all in all, the actual -- the marines and the company, they love the book. yeah? yes, ma'am. >> can you talk about the image on the cover? >> that's a great point. this gentleman right here, this is another thing that i got criticism for. i got an e-mail from a fellow captain who thought it was wrong of me to put a picture of myself holding a marines gulf medium machine gun. it'

thais the way to build your state economy. do not dream about some field where you ve no capability or assets. it will not work. for strategy is to build on your strength. for each of you in your presentation, i have given you the portfolio of clusters in your state. this is south carolina. the red clusters are losing jobs. the green clusters are gaining jobs. thones in the upper right are gaining market share. the ones on the left are losing market share in america. eryone of you has your own portfolio. everyone of you has your own circumstances. getting a handle on this, what is going on, and how you can help is going to be fundamental to your strategy. this will really this proportionally drive your prosperity. what we find is that clusters in an economy are interconnected. some of them are related. this chart is a little schematic in the sense that it is try to capture multiple dimensions. see the areas that are overlapping? these are the roughly 40 coster's that exists in any modern economy. when these overlap, that means th

i'm going to pay you to do my vehicle maintenance. instead of me reflecting my payment to you as a revenue, you are reflecting it as a rejection to expenses, so you spend $114,000, and then, i give you $114,000, and you update the expense. instead of showing it as revenue, we show it as a reduction to expense. it is the way that the internal service department is doing it. internal services are department of technology, central services, that sort of thing. we are not in -- so, if i'm understanding -- since there are also services of other departments, and that is -- so the first one is from your perspective -- the first one is i'm paying you to do something, and the second perspective is you are paying somebody else to do something. you are paying department of technology to do something, and the services of other departments, so payments are shown as a reduction to expenses, and services were shown as an ex so we are not -- we are going up by $31,000 for services of other departments. we are not changing payments of other departments

people say they have to do lists, is there a difference in your mind between a to do list and check list? >> there is a fundamental difference, which is that the checklist, one that is going to be something used every time, has a kind of "do not go beyond" phase. one of the things that makes a checklist work if you have a pause point. if you find there is a item missed on your checklist, you will not move on until you fix it. a. to do list can be all of the things that you want to do, but how often do you end up skipping things? the checklist is about the things that you cannot miss. tavis: i am a believer in checklists. i operate off the schedule every day that my assistant prepares for me every day, mike to do this, things i have to do today, i have to be in the studio at this time for radio or tv, have a meeting here. i have the to do list, but they also have a checklist i operate off of. i have found, curious on your tape, for those who think chess list -- who think checklists are silly, i find on any given day, i get more done than a lot of my friends, a lot of people i know because

to change one entry. the building will find a second entry. i do not know if that specifically answers your question. >> what i am trying to say is if we have a database of those that have permitted and allowed for meeting ada, both on state and -- >> i think my answer would stay the same. the only searchable database we currently have is through the texas appeals commission. we record each case and make a note in the file, addressing the problem in the case. as far as our regular dbi database, i am not sure it is equipped right now to do those kind of searches, based on the description. >> in case i do not speak again, i would like to say your questions have been very well put. particularly, the president of the commission was very direct. synched questions. i enjoyed them. thank you. >> as i have studied this issue for the last three years, i have looked around the different neighborhoods -- the mission, north beach, a chinatown. i am always cruising for access, just looking. just about every business that i frequent, i look at the different acce

when you go to europe, do you want to burden a share? if they do not burden chair and say no to, what will you do? >> to be truthful, let's see how the scale of the indebtedness is. if it is more than what we were led to believe, then we would not be putting money into banks unless there is a burden sharing with bondholders. as i said, it is an obscenity that the irish taxpayer should be forced by this grant to pay -- >> first of all, in terms of banking policies, we know there will be no change. there will be no change because he has signed up for the fundamentalism of banking policy. he did support the bank guarantee. there's no question about that. >> on the bond holders -- >> there are two fundamental problems. first of all, they brought in the bailout of the irish bank and the labor party opposed that strongly at the time. it is that bailout that has resulted in the fortunes or misfortunes of the banks being tied to the head of the state. that is why we ended up not being able to borrow. >> stick to the bondholders. >> yes. that is w

to give. so you have one vote. >> as a quick thing, do you identify that to the public. >> yes we do. we have a chart that shows demand, need, cost and a basically broadens the band we're working on. >> peter? >> i want to say something. not everything is equally uncertain. in addition me, you, all of us spend money in the face of uncertainty. i'm a customer of the east bay utilities district which has just spent 2 hundred to 3 hundred million dollars - a huge amount of money on earthquake retro fit. we don't know how big it's going to be or when it's going to be even in the life-span of structure. but utility decided it was vulnerable enough to be willing to spend real money and explain it to the customers. not only do they have a pretty good campaign explaining why they're doing it but on my bill i have an explicit retro fit seismic charge. so they can do this and be very good at it. >> and i'm happy to pay that fee. >> yes, all right. from the floor? >> i'm from san francisco public utilities commission. building on the comments i think we need more knowledge and utilities can learn

that's what we try to do. this sort of body language here, she's trying to comfort here, do you think she's buying it? not with that body language. she's not really buying it. some people won't. some people will never be the same. like that thing with katrina, some people are really good but you can tell just under the surface that they are a wreck. give them space, try to be professional, try to comfort them if you can, but some people won't let you. and don't take it personal. that's the main thing, just don't take it personal. sometimes people just can't be helped. they are not mad at you, they don't hate you, you are trying to help them. they probably understand that, but they have suffered a terrific loss and some people you can't help. but try. you got to try anyway. that's kind of why we're here, we want to try. some other feels, disorientation, physical or emotional numbness, loss of trust or abandonment, cranky. i would be. if i had to go shave in the marina medal school, my cat ran away, i'd be pissed

we are also here to help. i do not know whom to believe, but if you had a prison his title was "facilitator" or had some operation that really did that seriously, i think that would help. you also can offer expertise. you have expertise on your staff, and doing teaching for the small business groups, for the neighborhood groups, for others, putting together flyers and education materials -- that would all be terrific. unreasonable charges go to the commissioners, and we are happy to get them. we have had very few cases from small businesses, recently. they have all been from very large buildings. i'm sorry i was not here to view the ot

the service providers would have the ability to do that, and the government would have asked them to do this. i do show concern that people would see this and say that the president could declare an emergency and take everything off line. but you really have to work through and a fine with this would mean and show what constitutes this emergency. >> the former official of the management and budget office, with the legislative title -- >> i believe that the more policies that are in place for clarification for the executive branch is easier to implement. i do understand in this particular case, why i am supportive of this. there was not a department of homeland security when many of these things came through. we will ask the department of plant security to do certain things and you must make certain they have the statutory authority to do this. >> that is karen evans, the former minister for the office of management and budget from 2003-2009. we now have to make the car -- timothy whitkarr. what are your thoughts on this legislation? >> i agree in the fundamental point and say that we

so it's a system to try to get everybody to do what they say they want to to do. on the house side john boehner saying he thinks there's a six to eight-month window to have this conversation everybody's talking about. >> that's really interesting. john, mike allen, of course, spoke with paul ryan. >> right. >> he said that in april they are going to include entitlement reform in their budget. why do they want to do that? >> they want to show credibility and particularly want to show credibility on health care costs, which they think is politically safer. if you really look at the nuances of what paul ryan said to mike allen, he definitely said yes, we will be in talking about medicare and medicaid. when mike pressed on social security, he sort of glided past that and that reflects the republican calculation. he feels they have been burned many times in the past on social security. on the other hand they definitely feel there is consensus towards bringing health care costs under control. widespread belief particularly among independents that last week's health care

cannot continue to do this. we have got to draw this line. once this line is drawn, then we can fight about exactly where the cuts will go, but we have to fight that battle first, and we have to win that battle, so, please, contact your representatives in congress and make sure they vote for this. >> yes? >> hi. congresswoman bachmann. >> congresswoman bachmann. [cheers and applause] >> the ultimate ideological question for the united states of america is, in this country, can it survive? that is what we're talking about. we're talking about, when you look at the objective of this current government, if they can get more people wedged into the the government either by subsistence check or in " mischa, what happens when the production cuts is exceeded? when you look at the fact of our progressive tax good system, where you have 47% of americans who are not paying federal income tax, and we are you talked about how they want to raise the unemployment tax on our businesses. bill hall goal is to meet more americans victims, and that is not part o

not want to do prescriptive policy. we would rather be -- we would rather do descriptive policy. we want to be able to expose the performance of the delivery system and look for opportunities. then of course public information. more and permission about how the delivery system works. they are investing in the future. if you want to boil it down, we see it produces a cigna began amounts of unjustified variants and patient safety. we the get these lies. he can see where it is. are beginning to see into the system where it is. over time, we are going to be tracking it and driving it into a delivery system. these are on the top levels of where we see significa cost versus the national average versus the best practis. we can get the difference by areas or whether it is miami or louisiana or texas. there is a relationship between the cost and quaty that see. if you look at all of the red, it begins to break down where we are seeing the best practices. our goal is to work with the delivery system and not regulate its to move it

i do not technically require one to have an account to do a loan with. what i look for, i generally start at 100,000 and up. when it is a requirement of 50,000 or less, i tend to call of the micro guys to help me out. that is right in their box. for us, the capacity for us to do the smaller side is not there as much as it is for them. on getting a loan through my side of the bank, i do not require an account to do that. we would like to have it, but i do not require it. >> last question for the opportunity fund and a critic representative. are you a cdfi? is san francisco and s.p.a. in support of cdfi's being established in san francisco? >> yes, we are. we were founded in 1999 with a small business loan. that is how we started our tenderloin office. >> opportunity fund is a certified cdfi, so we are providing a benefit to low and moderate-income communities. he is the city establishing support for new cdfi's? >> mark wanted to address that, in support of cdfi's in the city. >> we have a wealth of partners in the city. s.p.a. is just now rolling out a pro

what standards do you look? to your contractors have, your security contractors, do they have certain professional standards that you hold into? how do you ensure the quality, transport? >> thank you. similar to what we said before we have an internal group that does an assessment of the companies that we had to choose from. in the case of afghanistan, we have three different companies that we use across the country based on what our investigation has found, their strengths are regionally. >> what are the company's? >> we use all of, blue hackle and cohort. what we found when we first went into the country is we use companies that were already in use in the area and that we got a good feedback from others as well as the u.s. government who uses the same countries to a certain extent from time to time. so they were prequalified in that respect, and they continue to serve us well over the last three years. >> to your companies subscribe to what people refer to as the swish initiatives for private security? >> i'm not

not want to do prescriptive policy. we would rather be -- we would rather do descriptive policy. we want to be able to expose the performance of the delivery system and look for opportunities. then of course public information. more and permission about how the delivery system works. they are investing in the future. if you want to boil it down, we see it produces a cigna began amounts of unjustified variants and patient safety. we the get these lies. he can see where it is. we are beginning to see into the system where it is. over time, we are going to be tracking it and driving it into a delivery system. these are on the top levels of where we see significant cost versus the national average versus the best practices. we can get the difference by areas or whether it is miami or louisiana or texas. there is a relationship between the cost and quality that we see. if you look at all of the red, it begins to break down where we are seeing the best practices. our goal is to work with the delivery system and not regulate it

having a chance to review it in more detail. i do not want to -- >> yes, i basically said adopt the model, give it to me, let me figure out who will be the coordinator of it. adopt the resolution, yes. i am sorry. adopt that resolution, but as it stands tonight, there is going to have to be some tweaking and some things that have to be adjusted. just give me the ability to take it back, tweak it, make sure we can implement it with resources, and the timelines may need to be adjusted, but give it to me so we can start working on it. president mazzucco: commissioner hammer? commissioner hammer: i support this. i have not done the research that commissioner chan has done on it, but i want to thank you, it director fixed -- thank you, director hicks. i will be the first to move to amend it, chief. we will work with you. you have worked tremendously, and this could have been a different approach. i think is good to have a working document, and to the extent that the cheap ones changes, i think we will be able to work with up -- that the c

we will continue to do so. we will work with our partners to improve stability, produce cost savings for government at all levels. this cooperation is what we need to put our nation on the path to economic recovery. governors are also asking for innovative ways to enhance the education system. up by maximizing our state resources in the classroom. as the chair, i have the privilege of working with all of the nation's governors on what is called the chair initiative. we are far more effective when we get together, bipartisan, in the tradition of the national governors' association to ensure that our states and citizens are prepared to compete in the global economy, we must develop sound policies that enable more of our people to complete degrees, increase the efficiency of our institutions so that each and every one of them could get a good job of tomorrow. the 2010-2011 chair initiative focused on the urgent need to increase college completion and productivity in the united states. let me share with you some fac

so we have to do things to decrease or increase revenue and water supply and improve water quality. the higher that you brick in your system the more you can do for it the easier it is to recycle it. the more things you'd do with it. the higher the less energy you have to put into it. practice resource stu ward ship. hopefully the water industry has learned it's not just an issue of supply but imagining all the issues that go with that and if you don't, those environmental issues will come back to bite you and undermine your supply reliability. final point on this slide is improved operational efficiency and transfers and pa

and it is possible to do it. i have a lot of tales to tell about working with police on the ground and how frustrating for them -- it is for them. i call the police, and i rarely call the police, and i have had officers say, i'm not going to take him to the office. they will just let him out in an hour. i will take him to jail for you, if that's what you want. no, that's not what i want. no, we're not going to do it. i can't tell you how many times i've heard that. i'm being honest with you all. officers on the ground are frustrated. those of us that work in mental health are frusstrailted. i know you all are. if we're to change this, we must work together. the resolution you-all have is so simple, it is brilliant. please look at it and adopt it. there are changes in there that would be simple to implement. i urge you to take a look at this now and make sure that we move forward together on this before there is anymore completely senseless loss of life. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. [applaus

to teach. still, 91% do not plan to be teachers. the top third are recruited, what you find is for those top third graduates, first of all, they do believe they can change the world through their job. they are motivated and see the ability to make a difference. and they are not sure that their colleagues are the kinds of people they choose to work with given the choice. more importantly, only 3% of them think that by doing well they will get promoted. that is a big problem. it is not just about recruiting people. it is about their prospects of being recruited. so, summarizing, getting the policy agenda right is very important. as you can see here, is that the challenges that the u.s. faces compared to other systems. all these things should be on your agenda, state-by-state. many states have chosen to put them on the agenda. all of these issues are very important. and focusing on the quality of principles makes a huge difference, too. finally, coming to political leadership, system leadership, whether it is a state or district, what

to watch. i do have one last thing i would like to add for moving forward. that is that with the sb-1608, the california commission on disability access was formed. i think for the department of building inspection, spall business commission, and mayor's office of disability, working for wood to star providing reports and feedback -- working forward to start providing reports and feedback for that commission. with that, i will turn it over to neil friedman. i also want to state that susan mizner from the mayor's office of disability is here as well. >> thank you very much. that was a very impressive discussion of the issues. i think you practically steal my thunder. there are just a few things left that i can say. maybe i will preface it all with a couple of items. i was listening to gina give her speech. i was watching myself in the monitor. i saw my father there, who is 98 years old and just starting to use a walker. all i can think is we are all headed in that direction, and we had better get acc

what did they have to do? they have to drive to the accident emergency and camp until they are admitted for treatment. that is all legacy -- that is the legacy. many fine people working in this service work under enormous stress. they tell me about the millions of waste in that system. >> i know there are problems and in the health service. but thousands of people walking around -- we are trading far more people faster and with better outcomes than ever before. an increase of 400,000 since 2005 and we have transformed the way we deal with heart disease in this country. he talks about his five. plan and -- and what does he want to do with halt service, it is going to cost him a billion to layoff 8000 health-care workers with a plan that will take 10 years to employment. >> i'm not sure where he's been for the last 14 years that he talks about himself. >> he said he had 2000 people and could do the job with 700. people have come to me and said here is three save 5 million. there were 200 million wasted on the com

that has to do wiéh!sence, being able to tow, and it has to do with being visible. >> are their current programsç that you are modeling this after? >> there are other jurisdictions were taxi regulators apply administrative enforcement. police resources are scarce. the problems are huge. los angeles, for example, has moved to an administrative enforcement mechanism to deal with the legal vehicles because it is more efficient for staff time. another thing is you control of the citation. right now, he would go off to the court of justice. we have no knowledge or input as to how the judges actually treat that citation. if it is it an administrative citation, it wouldç be treated like a parking ticket and it would be sfmta officers who would be fielding those citations. >> so you will be cracking down on gypsy cabs, these forms of transportation that are not necessarily authorized. where i am concerned is, a large part ofç the reason why these wrote taxi services pop up is because they serve and underserved

we do not have seemed to -- we do not seem to have any tunisia questions. >> we need you on a microphone. we have a lot of cameras in the room. >> i offer an opportunity for penance. do you gentlemen wish to confess that you made errors during your tenure as in egypt or tunisia? is there anything you might have done differently during your time there? >> good question. >> there is always stuck you can do differently. the question is what you are putting your emphasis on and the priorities you face at any given time. we have had a lot of dealings with egypt over a long period of time. we have as some successful dealings, such as the peace treaty with israel. we have helped develop a military that is modern and professional. it is actually standing in the streets now as a moderating force in this crisis. i think they have taken a very responsible role. while i argue that this a ministration should not take credit for things like that, it still has something to do with the communications and we have had and the training we have had of the military. if it is a force for good, we have had a p

we have a lot of work to do. the american people expect washington to cut spending in order to grow jobs in america. >> did you discuss the budget? >> no. >> did you speak to the president about reaching out to republicans? >> it is clear the president was to find some common ground with us. we will disagree on some things. all of us know there are some issues in which we can work on. whether it is education, tax policy, trade, or even cutting spending, i think we can find common ground ensure the american people that we can work together. thank you, you all. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> the patriot act passed after the 9/11 attack. it made it easier to conduct surveillance on terrorism suspects. lawmakers are trying to renew its provisions. the house try doing that this week, but failed to get the votes needed to pass. all the history of the bill today online with c-span's congressional chronicle. there are time lines and trans

they want you to go out and do the briefing. i consciously and never tried to give the president my opinion on something. i gave him a point of view a couple of things privately, but not as part of the policy-making process. >> i totally agree with that. you simply do not have time. it is difficult to return all the phone calls. you have to be a hand holder to be a press secretary. >> do not be an adviser, ba press secretary. -- be it a press secretary. >> it is beyond the credibility. you have to go back to those people, who were just on the other side of a big fight that was important to them, and they will n be as reliable. you need to be an honest broker in side. >> i want everyone to -- i wanted to hear everybody's point of view. >> when i was press secretary, i had access to all meetings that i could manage. i've played that fly on the role to role. sometimes i was asked my opinion. i did have a sense -- you go down that road, this is what is going to happen. it does not mean that we cannot management. -- we cannot manage i

and rayyan said "we've got to do entitlements" and cantor said "this is going to be tough." this week or today they got so pissed off at barack obama's budget that eric cantor and the leadership signed on the do entitlements. so they're at least thinking big. >> rose: so what are they going to do with entitlements? >> well, they haven't committed to anything but paul ryan, i spoke to him yesterday and he said "we've got to do it now." and paul ryan's been on the show several times and he's an even tempered guy. he's a principled conservative guy but i've never seen him so angry. he said "i really did not expect this." he really felt the president's budget was much smaller than he expected and he said it's going to make it harder for us to do a lot of the stuff we want to do because his numbers are so small but he was genuinely angry. but i think it goaded them up and so the republicans are going to be bigger. now, the crucial issue is how does this all play out? and are the republicans walking into a suicide march by doing entitlements. >> rose: so what does the president thi

we've got policies in place to do that. e cannot stay at deficits that are 5% of gdp which is roughly where we would be if we did not make policy. we need to bring that down so we can get to primary ballots. we have done that and that is what we have to do to have a sustainable fiscal policy. >> is this budget sustainable? does it solve the problem? >> those are two different issues. sustainable is a step along the way. the problem is bigger than that. i prefer the sitting in this state -- seat when i could project surpluses in healthier economic times. we are a long way from being able to do that on either side of the aisle. we will need to work together to get to a point where we start adding to the problem and we will need to work together to solve the rest of it. >> earlier, use the word sustainable with this budget. do you believe that if we did this budget and it was enacted for the next 10 years exactly as it is on this paper that we would move along fine. we would not have a debt problem. >> no, this budget produces

and as a result, you do what you are told to do, not what you want to do. and i think that i was afraid always to exercise my feelings about anything because i thought i would be pow! get my face slapped or something like that or a little slap on my derriere because i wasn't obedient. but when the time came for me to really say, "i think i'm in your way," to my aunt when she brought me to new york . "i think i'm in your way. " because she was a very beautiful woman and she didn't know anything about taking care of children. my mother had died, or whomever was . that was saying that she was my mother who had given me away to so many people at the time down south. so she brought me up north, my aunt, and she told me she was my mother. i'm very confused about the whole thing. but at any rate, i thought that i was in the way. and when the time came that i was offered this opportunity to go down and meet catherine dunham, because i had seen her in the movies with these beautiful legs in the air, you know, and . (growls) (laughter) ek: and i thought, oh, this is s

get some consideration between now and when you have a chance to think about what you can do to find a fork in the road this sooner. i do not want to wait until august to find out that maybe we need further involvement. i will not come here to beat up on people. it does not achieve anything. i am respectful of the fact that this is not an easy process. i do take some solace from the fact that the rfp process is out there. that is tangible to me. i can see it. i strongly urge the commission to put this as a standard agenda item. on every commission hearing from here on in. it is that exposure and follow up that makes things happen. like it or not, we need to admit that the lack of exposure and follow up is also a contributory factor to why it is 16 years later. the fact that we keep harping on this -- and i hope that mr. director and pamela will understand that we are trying to keep this in the public light to keep this moving on. that is what helps to keep us focused. including yours truly. without a fire underneath me, i will move on to something else. i think it should be a standard

the question as well as the concerns that i have, have to do. i think the gentlemen in the orange and the other young lady and also this is for the mayor's aid. we are talking about mentor programs. i have been listening to this for the last 7 hours. i attend a lot of other events. the idleness of not having enough to do. are the basics keeping them in step. so, i'd like to know what other leadership programs are going to be available to these young kids. we heard about the sport things. what about the things coming out of silicon valley, working with yahoo or google that gives mentor ships. i haven't heard anything with the media and i have heard of the arts doing something with the idleness. >> what partnerships with the private sector. >> at the bay view safe haven, we have a project with pixar. that's going on through this summer as well. we also have another project with another participant in my program, will be taking a flight to the colorado film festival where he one a prize for a film he did about his brother in hunter's point. i will b

it is hard to do that of the way institutions are set up. so we still have a statutory construct and it is of to congress to change that and up to us to try to adapt as best we can. some of those bureaus have been renamed and there's a lot more cross talk within the agency then there was in 1999 when he lay that out. but when mike cops became acting chairman in january of 2009 and sent him a long detailed letter and then in july of 2009 a sense the same long letter with a few revisions outlining some suggestions. how could be different? if you wanted to be fundamentally different -- >> let's put that aside. understand your not the chairman but erode those letters. as to put a point on it, tell us a couple of ways if you could change it, that you would change it. even including what congress ought to do. just put a point on it. be both davis. you are among friends. >> just among us and c-span's cameras are done. what should communications regulation look-alike. i described the philosophy that competition supplants the need for regulation. ther

we do not know how much we are going to make as individual utilities, and we do not know what our cost to san francisco is going to be. as todd displayed last time, when you under collect revenues one year, you have to add it to the bill for next year and end up chasing your tail. i think there are ways to get around that to provide a steady flow of revenue to you, to provide predictable costs to our agencies, and to still have water use reflect what purchases so there is an incentive to conserve so that people can do cost effectiveness analyses. we will pursue that with your staff. i hope something good will come out of it. i do not know that this is done anywhere else. this would be another groundbreaking event for san francisco. finally, on the matter of what customers that for the value, you had some discussion of the last time. as i recall, it's sort of focused on getting reliability out of wsip. it does not do a lot for water supply. it is mostly reliability so we do not have 60 days without water. that is a good point. but there are other beneficiaries of the work that you do an

i respond to the media and how do i respond to where the community and the public can know that the benefits of long-term recovery? i think the main message there is that people in long-term recovery can move onto advocate for people with addictions and people to also get long-term recovery like they did. the message is real clear that the benefits of recovery, it works, and that's a reality for many people that's in recovery today. lureen you wanted to comment. yeah, i really wanted to comment on something that, that carlos said and connected to what john was saying. carlos talked about the confusion around the language and john talked about the research that really showed how using strength-based language, how it impacts the person. and i think that there is this flavor of the day language. i mean we, you know, chemical dependency, it's always something different. but i think there's an opportunity here for us to really show the leadership because i think the difference is, is that this language that we want to promote, is actually something that's going to help people, i