my name is walter james. i am an organizer for the central city collaborative. i am also a resident for the mission hotel. the reason i am here today is to support the recommendation. first, i want to thank the people that put the report together. i think it is great that they put that report together. my main concern of, in these hotels, it is unbelievable. the things that are important to me, enforcement no. 3, a structure that is efficient, right now we are dealing with electrical problems. right? they are like the property management under support services. since they bring us to the front page, doing my own research, maybe something has to happen. right now i am trying to come on board with this and do something in a good way. new policy, my time is up, but with support services like property management staff and case managers, it needs to be restructured and more sensitive. bring them to the middle ground. times have changed. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> ladies and gentlemen. my name is [unintelligible] i would not exchange it for another hotel. the pl

my name is walter james. i am an organizer at the mission hotel. i am here to speak on behalf of la voce latina. the reason is since the beginning, when i got help from them through networking and getting jobs when bobby lopez was the organizer, now, they have a crystal, and the beauty of it is she is a very strong woman in organizing. she networks with the willing of the hispanic base, and she is doing very well with them. she was telling me a story about how san francisco -- in arizona, everything you get you have to fight for it. she pointed that out to me. i am saying you guys should restore their funding because the worker you have there right now is a very strong worker. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am with seiu 1021. i am a non-profit union representative, and i want to thank the supervisors who supported us and the cost of doing business. we appreciate the 1%, but after five years of funding, we really do need a 3% for numerous reasons. one is that the health care costs has skyrocketed. i have two nonprofits that i represent

walters, who has done a terrific job out there. he wanted to say a few words to the commission about this transition. >> thank you, peter. commissioners, executive director moyer, my name is james walter. i want to give you some background on me so that you get to know where i came from, about me. i have two college degrees, at a bachelor's, double major in political science and history, and a master's degree in international management, business management. i have been in upper senior level management for well over 30 years. i have been harbor master at south beach since december 2007. prior to that, i was marina manager at an 850-slip herbert. prior to that, i was the general manager of a 300-room hotel in waikiki, honolulu, hawaii. i did that for nearly 20 years. those two industries may sound very different, but they are almost identical. both are pleasure industries. there is a high degree of customer service. there is a high degree of maintenance, especially in appearance and functionality. they are both transient businesses. it takes knowledge of specific regulations and laws that are designed -- that regulate those industries specifically. i feel like i have been doing

walter lord's version as well. i'm very fond of a night to remember. it's more documented. there's beautiful cinematography in a night terminal. and i shall and i look at a recent i saw james cameron had imitated some of the actual scenes in a night to remember. perhaps as a kind of a mosh or perhaps elected. prep comparing the two, which is more accurate? i suppose night to remember is more of a documentary style but it does have quite the invented characters. anyone in night to remember is intended to be a genuine character. so i guess in terms of accuracy, it is more accurate of the do. but each have their merits. i'm kind, i have a soft spot for the cameron movie. it just interest his own people in the titanic that i'm willing to forgive it. julian fellows who made the tv miniseries was lambasting cameron for its lack of accuracy. i didn't see the holsters because i thought it was so bad. but it was filled with inaccuracies. so how he can accuse cameron of being inaccurate, i don't know. >> the movie with barbara stanwyck? >> yet, 1953. they have everybody on board standing like a welsh choir singing near my guide to the. [inaudible] >> i like that character. they tell

walter reed national medical center. this is how this is going to work today. i will turn it over to the senior enlisted advisers starting with james roy. then bill will provide three four minutes of briefing on those things that are working on the themes that they helped craft. we will go through the panel and turn it over to q&a after words. with that in mind -- >> good morning. thank you for joining us today. i don't know if you noticed the there are different levels of acceptance. little over here but the one that caught my eye was master chief prince. his wife is over here. welcome. as we always say everybody has to have a wing man or a shipmate. go ahead -- thank you for putting this on and to dod and veterans affairs you make this seem less. .. as a group, as dod, we still a long ways to go. we still have long way to go but we are there. we are ready for the challenge and we are up for that. i may be -- you may be asking yourself, in your capacity and what you do each and every day, this should not be any surprise, quite frankly when i go out and talk with their man in my case, what i usually begin with is why is this import

walter reid national military medical center. this is how this is going to work today. i'm going to turn it over to the senior enlisted advisers starting with james they will provide perhaps three to four-minute briefing on those things they're working on, their themes, policies that perhaps they have helped craft. we'll go through the whole panel and then we'll turn it over for some q&a afterwards, so with that in mind, chief? >> good morning, everybody. thank you for joining us today. i don't know if you noticeded but when we all got -- noticed but when we all got introduced, there's different levels of acceptance. there's a little bit over here and a little bit over here. the one that caught my eye and caught my ear was master chief prince. he had a special guest here, his wife's over here. welcome. >> good evening. >> as we always say, everybody's got to have a wingman or a shipmate so -- hey, listen, thank you so much, again, for putting this on and, um, and to d.o.d. and veterans affairs that would you come together to make this seamless, particularly as i talk to some folks earlier at this strategic level, yes, it's seamless but it's at th