so it is fairly similar to what we thought that we had a meeting and we went through the list of pretty closely and it is fairly similar to what was originally given at the board of supervisors. >> thank you, mr. yee, any other questions for director yee? if not, let's have a discussion, could i have a motion, please? >> yes. >> motion to approve. >> second? >> second. >> okay. >> discussion around this? board members? any discuss discussion. >> i know that what i am feeling is that i know we have had discussions with the office of hope and i know that we have had discussions with the coalition and we have said that there are certain things that we can do to help make sure that before a ticket gets or before a vehicle gets to the status where it will get booted or towed there is the opportunity for us to bring that to the attention of mr. dufty's office and perhaps intervene before that happens. or get his office to intervene before that happens. >> yeah, that is correct. and i think that mr. yee made reference to this as well. and i think, that first of all i would just acknowledge tha

this time that we didn't have in the past, how do we get through that and how can we improve getting folks to the facility and making sure we know where everybody is at at all times. >> thank you. mr. boland. >> one of the major challenges that we have incurred all the way from 2003 till now, is credentialing or badging of utility emergency responder personnel trying to gain access into a secure zone that needs their services. as a prepop drapbs of the heavy equipment sometimes falls under a contractor's jurisdiction and a local officer at a local roadblock does not always know or understand the necessity to get that kind of equipment in there to restore the grid, the water system, for the telecom it is something we are still struggling with and we are working with on a daily basis. >> thank you, mr. brig. >> every exercise i've been involved with, managing information and communication is easily no. 1 or 2 on the list. in the heat of an event, information is flowing in, there's usually no shortage of information rtion it's translating that to something credible that is the challenge

we have 75 youth per year that we provide -- we provide them with an education. we provide them with activities to keep them empowered. dcyf did not fund us this year. our school was 74. the cut off was 75. we had a job fair. we had 38 employers, 22 wrap around services. we had over 500 participants to attend the job fair. we are now in the last phase of the job fair, calling employers. as of today, there are 50 individuals employed from thursday of last week's job fair. we had ross, we had cvs, we had five security companies. it was a group process. i was the lead agency along with puc, ycd and other agencies in district 10. it was hard. it was hard trying to gather all of the employers. it was hard trying to do the [speaker not understood]. it was hard trying to do orientation with the clients coming in. but we did succeed. we did have a very good job fair. we have another program which is a security training program. we provide guide cardthx to individuals in the community. i have guard cards ambassadors already. what we do is even if you have a felony, it's o

to make sure we don't backslide, that we don't see increasing infection rate, that we don't see peopleetting sick. that is going to be a key priority. also in matthew we need to refocus on what i call the bones of our city. the very, very basic in civil services that people, everyone across the spectrum relies on an needs and that at times we have been little shaky in terms of funding. we are now thankfully fully funding three police academy classes every year; we will stop the slide in terms of the number of police officers down i think about 15% from its peak; we just had a police academy graduation last night which was amazing. we are getting new officers onto the street which will benefit everyone. we're finally having fire academy classes again and that is important because we have seen the shrinkage in our fire department. we are way, way down in our recreation and parks dept. in terms of the number of gardeners, the number of park patrol officers; it is almost embarrassing how few park patrol officers we have in our parks and those are parts that all of us rely on. we don't have

we are back in open session, we are. colleagues could we have a motion not to reveal the contents of our closed session? okay. that is a motion from supervisor weiner and seconded by mar, and we will take that without objection. and then, we can have public comments on the closed session? >> we do. >> we open this item up for public comment. and seeing no member of the public come forward. we will close public comment. and this is an information item. so we can go on to our next item. >> item five, introduction of new items information item. >> any new item to introduce, any subject matters? >> none? we will go on to public comment. and we will close public comment. >> and our next item it >> item number 6, public comment. >> general public comment and the opportunity for any member of the public who is or is not in this room to come forward and to say or speak their minds. we will close public comment. >> next item? >> 7, adjournment. >> colleagues, we are adjourned. thank you very much. thank you. >>> i'm nicole and li

we want to help as much as we can. i do appreciate the dilemma we are in. >> supervisor breed: i can't necessarily -- i appreciate your bringing this forward supervisor avalos, i cannot speak to the sheriff's the proper because i don't know whether challenges are but the fire department in particular in one year i think we had definitely over 80 people retire. it is continuously climbing. over a ten-year period we actually had no classes for the fire department. currently we are experiencing mandatory overtime; and institutional knowledge of the department is walking out the door. it is a similar case with the police department as it relates to that institutional knowledge. but i do think that the time is of the essence to move these classes forward as quickly as possible because when they are finished in the academy there is still a learning process; there is still time that they need to adjust and learn from some of the other officers who are out on the street. whey have to learn the community; they have to know what

that we can't have that same smooth service that we had yesterday. and i realize now that you know, it is a frustration, and you get shown a little bit of greatness on one day and then on three successful days you don't have it and why can't we have it every day? >> and i appreciate the explanation for the multitude of problems that you face on a daily basis and at the end of this, i want to be sure that we are addressing some of the big ones and i will ask for some way to sort of measure whether this is working. and whether director haily can fix this or we need to go a different route and talk about bond measures or whatever for a whole new lrv fleet. but i will say that the current status is not good enough. it is too, scatter shot and too inconsistent especially when we have the infrastructure with the tunnels that should be a great service and which we do see every now and again. so the frustration is that we see these things, sort of on a daily basis, anybody who asks the muni downtown in the morning knows that on many if not most given days th

we are doing better in some respects but we can to a whole lot better and we need to. this hearing is almost adjourned and i am told by this young lady over here on the left who will be retiring -- in how many days? four days -- she has been our chief clerk for longer than you imagined. it is hard to believe she is eligible for retirement. we appreciate very much for work. i don't know if we will have another hearing before you step down. we will have a business meeting later but i just want to say in front of you and those who have admired your work before, the many years we admire and respect you and are grateful for your service not just on this committee or the senate but to this country. with the bat, the record will remain open for 15 days until july 9 at 5:00 p.m. for the submission of statements for the record and i would say to our today -- three of us rear and a number of staff. we have a vote at 5:30 with members flying in from all over the country from their home states. the fact that there are not more members here, don't be discouraged by that. and by any

we need to -- we know the data. we know the problems. so, we need to aggressively look for real solutions that positively impact people's lives, which are why i'm really excited about the fact that we are looking at public housing, which a significant number of african americans live. but the fact that you have brought this to our attention in this way, i'd like to bring up a point, a problem i have with various city departments in the city, because they're not using actual data when it comes to allocation. specifically, the department of children youth and families, when you look at the biggest decrease of support in this grant cycle, it came out of district 5 which was over $500,000, $53 1,000 to be exact in terms of the level of cuts in district 5 for program allocations. and in district 3, which received over 1 million in additional revenues, when it has less children in that particular district than district 5, there's something wrong with how we are allocating resources in our various departments in order to effectively provide the

and on time and with that we know that we have other bonds that we will talk about more. but this is really important because it is earthquake safety. and it is today, this morning, again, with the board's help, we signed off on the soft story, seismic retrofit program to suggest that 3,000 other soft story buildings in our city will get the attention, and get firmed up, with the soft story bond. while we take care of the low income tenants that are living there to make that affordable for them as well. so i want to celebrate and thank dpw for the leadership here, for the ten year capitol planning group that has their focus to on honoring the public's wish and for all of the different, some ten different agencies coming together to make this public safety building happen. and again, to honor everybody here and by the way, 700 construction jobs, 20 percent were committed to local hiring, that is how smart we are doing this. and it is going to be a lead gold building that we are putting up and so we are honoring the environment at the same time. again, with the wonderful co

with young people and this is an rfp process we want to look at how we can assure that we have people responding that could go through the process that public health went through, it seemed like a good process that is specific to san francisco. yes. >> and that might really be really well tail lored to what we need here in san francisco. >> right, for example our harassment prevention training that we are working on now, we specifically asked the vendors to reach out to the lgbtq community center. and get some expertise from them, regarding developing some of the scenarios. to track the youth, i know that there is a state law that allows for the individuals to self-disclose no seeking those types of services but i would caution us and perhaps look out to the city attorney's office for device on the tracking of individuals in other services, utilizing other city services because we want to mitigate any risk management that might come out of that by someone requesting information and freedom of information act and regarding who we are serving the numbers or any types of discrimination c

we have to work with the money that we have. waint to better understand what tools and resource dollars that they will have and i guess one of the things that i am constantly sort of trying to turnover in my mind is if we have priorities in the school sites have priorities, how often do they know what those, you know, where is the connection so that we understand fully what we all believe in? and i mean what we want to make happen? i think that is, you know, a discussion that is not just for you deputy superintendent, lee and today's conversation, but really for our organization, as a whole. you know, how do we connect together to make certainty that we as board members are reflecting what our community is asking us to do? but also that translates to a school site and all of our school sites serving our students and families. and employees better. >> so i think that is the ongoing conversation, but it always seems so disconnected and i guess that i want to hear more articulation about how we connect in these conversations which

we have got to balance this, and we are trying to do that so we do not hurt people, so we keep our commitments to people, we do the right thing. if we get at it early and make these modest adjustments, we can work through this. >> we cannot do this one year at a time. these things come up once a year, and we keep resubmitting them, and we do not get them. unless we look at the impact of sequestration over the course of sequestration, and recognize the trades -- strategy is about choice, and we have got to make a choice. how much readiness? how much modernization? how much compensation? we have to look at it over this 10 year period. we have to do what you just suggested. >> my time has expired. if you have specific data, i would take it now. >> by 2018, our proposals save two point $5 million in that year alone. if we cannot do that, it is about 25,000 troops cut. we need to slow the growth. thank you. >> thank you. >> about five years ago, we had a group in the military associations, a summit about health care. i think we need to do that again i would volunteer to be part of that. what percen

what we focus on when we talk about the general fund deficit. i wanted to share with you one of the best sources of information that we have become stricter from the public is 311 data. i to share with you the most common types of calls that we are receiving from district two and three out of 311. the top two for both districts, kind of together, our street and sidewalk cleaning, 24 percent, and property damage. in district 3 property damage of the most significant concern; graffiti, 14% is also significant concern but that is really just one piece of data for us and one of the things we are here to hear from you today is how to understand this information. is this it? i don't think so. i think you have other ideas that you want to share with us. finally i stood know who is up here listening today; we have a bunch of city department heads here, several in the audience. police department over in the corner; if you would raise your hand when you share your department's name, office of economic workforce development; the department of public works

why don't we go, mr. rose, to your budget analyst report for item number 7 as well as to the budget. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, on page 40 of our report, we make reference to the legislation item 7 file 05 46 relative to some fee increases and we have a table on that page. and we do recommend that you approve that resolution. we note that the proposed fire department budget is balanced based on the assumption that the fee legislation will be approved. regarding our recommended reductions, we recommend 1.3 million 408 in 13-14. of that amount a million 249,7 88 and 50,000 one-time savings. these reductions would still allow an increase of 6,93 2,883, 2% in the department's 13-14 budget. we recommend closing out also prior year unexpended general fund encumbrances which would allow the return of 15,339 to the agenda fund. so, those two amounts combined result in a savings of 1,315,747 to the general fund in 13-14. and on page 41 i recommend the rep roeducks total a million 664,7 78.14 50 of

we have to invest in a lot of things as we think about how we could have prevented that kind of horrible activity in the boston marathon. and we will make our events safe, i assure you of that. whether it's mohammed looking at every trash can or officers making sure everyone is safe in our events, working together, every event that we have in our city is important to us, the public and the visitors and the residents be safe. and we have a tremendous amount of events that happen in our city. all through this summer rec and park has got huge numbers of events that draw a lot of people. that money will come right back to our neighborhoods as we all work together, along with the events that we have along our waterfront all year long, along with the ones that we know every year like the beta breakers. this year we have a deficit that's smaller than in past years. a year ago we were facing $170 million deficit. we have a 7.6% unemployment rate. this year and the next -- we do two-year budgets, by the way. this year it's about 123 million deficit for this next fiscal year. the following year of

we continued our third year we do a procurement process. we applied that as of april of this year. we had 51 agencies apply the total dollar amount is lifting .8 million down from the previous years. some of our other initiatives mandatory local hiring requirement going from 25 percent to thirty percent. we issued our annual report as well. everything is going positive in terms of local higher implementation. we're currently in the process i i know that supervisors avalos we're currently in the process of review and looking at and determining whether we want to bring forgot a set of recommendations around holly the percentages or moving forward. so we're going to be currently in that process which includes department head recommendation and karaoke representation and my own representation. so over the next three to four months we'll have a set of recommendations as to how we should precede. we have the fourteen initiatives we have department labor grants that are h1 b grants. we're in our second year and that grant will end june 30th of 2014 pardon our workforce grant is around tec

we are an army of citizens. and as an army, we expect, we demand character within our rankles. that's character that we demand, not to say that we're better than the nation and the people that we serve, but rather we strive to lead by our example. and if we are true to our convictions, we have to be honest about our performance. as i stand here before you today, we have failed. that's not to say we're without hope. that's not to say we made no progress. we probably talked about all of if not most of the progress we made. significant, a 70% decrease and reports of sexual assault. the greater propensity to report. 56% prosecution rate. with the conviction rate of 81%. the army special vick them investigation course is the d.o.d.-wide best practice and the army is training military investigators and prosecutors from all of the services. these are trends that point to the good work of this army, the good work of many of you right here in this room. and they are statistics that can point us in the right direction that, in fact, say we will continue to push to prevail in erase the sc

clearly, in any case, we all agree that we will need to make more investment if we are going to get those folks who are not fearless or enthusiastic to get on to their brakes. as i said, this is what we will be benefited by the fact that the mayor's task force is looking and does have this as one of the things that they are looking at. along with the ped strategy and of course all of muni's needs and we should be seeing recommendations from that group around september or october. so that will help us as that is right when we will be starting to develop our next proposed five year cip. we want to use this opportunity to get feedback on just the approach and from that, from the approach and the assessment, identify, specific list of projects, that we will build into the cip and the capitol budget and obviously the number of projects that we can do and how we do them will depend on the money available and so that is the plan coming forward. we are doing all of this to lead up to the next cip. and to think that we are going to easily be able to find something on the order of $600 millio

when we throw a party, we go big. we don't do little things very often in san francisco but every hundred years or so, we do it in a big way and you know what, the bay area is overdue. we're going to need every player at the table. that's one of the best things we do with these exercises is getting to know what's available. with that i will ask the medical panel to come up so we can get the next part started here. >> thanks for that introduction, rob. as we started our last panel with, what i'd like to do is have our panelists introduce themselves so you can again understand their perspective and the lens they were looking through when they went through yesterday's medical exchange. >> my name is nadine baba, i am with the san francisco department of public health, unfortunately dr. karen holbrook couldn't be here. i work in the emergency preparedness section and our section is responsible for medical surge events in the city. yesterday's exchange was really helpful in forwarding that planning ?oo ?a i'm greg jones, i

we need to know what we do right and what we can do better. a lot of progress has been made but we certainly have a ways to go. i would like to turn it over to senator claire mccaskill for her opening statement. welcome, clair. >> thank you very much. and i hope this be is the first of many joint hearings we have with senator portman and senator johnson. i think all four of us have demonstrated a desire to get after various problems that are sometimes embedded in our government without adequate oversight and i'm very happy with -- to work with all three of you on this effort today. earlier this month, a contractor working with n.s.a., edward snowden, released classified information. he had access to this because he had received a security clearance following an investigation of his background. er 90% of the investigations for both employees and contractors are conducted by the office of personnel management, including all background investigations for members of 9 middle, civilian and military contractors. we received information regarding how

so my point is that we will -- we should be able to, as we indicated, report on the progress and we can give you specific dates on when we expect to -- on each of these items. >> thank you. >> director rubke? >> two access disability related items, one the focus of overcrowding and i know just wheelchairs in general and other mobility devices take up more space. so those folks are more likely to be left behind on the platforms and the second thing i want to ask about is the facilities especially in the sunset. i know the platforms, there are not so many accessible stops on the n lines and the other sunset lines. so i know that is a space issue and kind of a streetscape issue, but it does again kind of affect the service for our people who need level-boarding out in that neighborhood. so i would just be interested in any funding sources to go after in terms of making the facilities happen over the years. i know it's not exactly right in what the presentation is about, but it's related. >> i think we have had funding to put in some of the elevated stops that allow for level-boarding. we h

we do and we have a pretty robust method to how we plan for these things.n the day we aclovate we - if it's a large meeting many of the public safety departments will be there whereas a smaller event like the fourth of july we'll maybe only have some many phone calls. the role of the emergency center is not a emergency center as such we leave the tactical command to the field be commander that have the on the ground view. thank you rob >> i believe next the police department is going to present. >> i'm john. okay planning i'll toward talking about whether this is a parade a marching a dignitary visit the streptomycin whether it's indoors a outdoors. and third it's itself history of the event who's the event organizer is there alcohol being served and is it a controversial group where we're going to have an opposing group come out. we get an overall plan with routes and permits requirement and staffing required specialized meeting meetings with the community groups in the effected area and all our city agencies that's going to be taking part and also the out

we are authority figures and what we do for our children and that's care, but we need to empower them to become the leaders they are waiting to become. this notion of youth adult partnership is esoteric in its term but on the ground how do you operationalize it, those things in the public school who are working so hard to meet the required mandates. schools are driven by mandates, academic achievement, achievement, enrollment. but the conditions in which the virus grows, if you follow the metaphor that bullying is a systemic virus, then the environment has to change so the virus cannot grow and the only way the environment changes is if youth and adults begin to speak with one voice about changing the social norms that allows it to happen. it makes sense to most of us, you have it khaifrpb the social norms. we must educate. but we must go beyond thinking more rigor will get us better achievement. we have to remember a school is a community and in a xhuept, people look out for each other. they've got each other's back. how do we begin to promote that idea that we are in this thing toge

not only did we persevere, we excelled. we went into the neighborhoods and heard them.e lived through one of the busiest december in san francisco, and a good january and february, we can talk about that play-calling later. we were relatively unscathed for the mission district celebrating the world series. we pulled together as a team, with one common goal to keep the city safe. this took leadership not from the top down but from the streets up. the senior officers and lieutenants knowing what was needed. it took the captains to be sure that their teams were willing to work as one. and again keeping the city safe. we did it like the champions we are. like no other law enforcement can, san francisco's finest. as each of you move in your new role, you will have the technology of advancements that provided for us locally and regionally and around the world. and we have issued laptops, courtesy of hp, thank you very much. and making our officers more mobile and where they need to be. outside and on the streets. as i have said often, we have four generations of cops now sift

. >> what we do, charles, we do this quarterly. every four months we go around and clean all the heat exchangers so we don't have a large build up. . >> go around? . >> yeah. (sound of hammering). >> what i'm trying to do, charles, is always pull it out on the low stroke. >> right. so you are not, like, flying out. now talk about clean up. . >> then where does this stuff get deposited? . >> we're going to dump it in a debris box and it will go back to the plant. >> if you think back, the romans came up with a system of plumbing that allowed us it use water to transport waste away from the hub of civilization, which enabled cities to grow. . >> you have a large bowl, a drive motor and another motor with a planetary gearbox with differential pressure inside there. the large mass up there spinning separating the solids from the liquid. we have to prevent about once a month, we go in there grease those, change the oil, check the vibration levels. the operators can tell just by the hum of that machine that it's a harmonic noise emitted

we hire people from the community to be eyes and ear in the areas where we feel unsafe, but where we may not need necessarily the attention of a police officer, but they work together. they actually train our ambassadors to become additional extensions with our community. but we won't forget that the community is the most important thing. if we build strong communities, then i believe very well that our whole community policing will work just as it does with so many of our other departments that rely on the community to get their projects or their work done. so, again, thank you for coming out this morning and i look forward to hearing your comments this morning. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. i'm also so happy that we have many people, the new leaders of our neighborhood from young people to the elders and seniors with so much experience and a diversity of people from the richmond. but this is also about district 4, the sunset district, and park side district. so, we're going to be doing our best to share kind of district 1 and district 4 comments today. i'm the representative

we have as your well aware we have a very old financial system in the city we call famous which we're running the budget. the budget before you proposes $2 million in the year ahead about 60 percent from the general fund to begin some scoping. the system is approaching two-year-old and mainframe based not quite green screen but close to it. our hope is we begin to get our hands around what the core system t is in which the city's fray operates. it's very expensive and time uncommonly - timely project >> that's probably the single it largest thing in the budget. we also as the committee knows having approved the lease we're working with the department of technology as lead implementer to have a disaster site to run the city affairs if we have a disaster. so while the focus on the first 72 hours after a earthquake where the fire department and police department needs to be that are we're worried about the 72 hours and our need to pay vendor and city employees process good days potentially without electricity and that's what this site to intended to provided for all city departments. our

the reason we need to move is that we do have enough cash but we do not have sufficient budget allocation and this is in fact from supervisor farrell's overtime legislation two years ago. this is the second time we have worked with this ordinance; the department is learning how to manage his budget within the parameters of the ordinance which is exactly what we were intended to do. and you can see that in the following slide the problem is primarily due to a structural budget problem. if you look at the pec work order you can see that we have three separate categories. the prominent salary categories, uniform salary categories and overtime salary categories. if you look at the budget you can see that all of the budgetary funds were placed in hermann and miscellaneous salaries which is people like me which were uniformed and there were no funds for uniform salaries or overtime, unusual because u staff work this position and the puc determined that they would like to hire two positions and work two half shifts on overtime. this means that we had about 250,000 in overtime that was worked and

we get it at the end of the process we are the ones that collect the money but we are at the end of the process usually. i would like to follow up on the people you see with the large plans. oftentimes they come up for a recheck. they have gotten their comments and they have done the corrections and now they want to resubmit. the person they want to resubmit to is up on the 5th floor so they can't sign in and seek that person out and say here is my comments that you gave me. >> do we have data, do we have written -- i think it would be good to keep some data. this is recheck. this is new submittals. that's kind of what would be good to alleviate some of this question that everybody is coming through in an equal manner. >> to answer some of the questions. thank you, commissioner walker. first of all i was in the county all the time before, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. generally by what size of the roll. generally when they come in the building department over the counter, usually they are not new building, not addition, not changing use. generally they are simple or ti jobs. you saw tho

we have the skills necessary to communicate with the diverse community we serve. however, when a language is not assessable by a member of staff then the department used ten based on interpreters to communicate with the folks. the department recognize the need to communicate and sever our diverse community. we know that multiple language assess brings with it a new level of complexity. we have redesigned our systems and we track it to keep track of the number of documents we've been able to document. we have one example that is translated in another languages. as i can see from the chart we have made documents available that have been translated from 1 hundred and 91 documents to 3 hundred and 88 documents that are currently translated and available. this is a benchmark indicator to serve san francisco community as efficiently as possible. we have, however, numerous changes to the law and the information people need it's also constantly a changing target. related to its goal to - related to this is to improve our website so we're fully assessable to has much of th

we walked through that. we saw how meals are served. we tried to do it in the proper way. ~ earthquake we know we're going to need a lot of help. the main message that we wanted to have was after a disaster hits, we want the message to be out before disaster, during a disaster, and right after, that we welcome everybody to participate in our recovery. and the best way to recover quickly and faster is we engage everybody immediately about how we can help and assist each other. and that's partly a philosophy of the sharing economy as well. and whether it's a need for space, people need to have space as they did in the aftermath of hurricane sandy, or now in oklahoma, or whether they needed to get a car because their car was damaged, or they needed some repairs in their house, they're trying to relight the pilot in the stove and they didn't know how to do it. they can't find the big utilities enthralled in a great effort elsewhere. these sorts of things people can help each other and we can access the companies that are part of bay share a

we took that to ann kronenberg and said here we are, what can we do. in the meantime we did some brain storms, is this something real, is there any value we can add to this scenario? what we came up with was obviously we don't have the deep pockets to send over rebuilding teams or send over thousands and thousands of tons of material, that's just not what we could do. but what we could do is assemble a small team to go on a mission to van and meet them and talk to them and find out more about what do they need and is there an intersection of what we can do for them and in the meantime it gives us an opportunity to really look and see what the situation was and what we can take away from it. so that led to the next question, which all of us in government understand this one really, really well, how do we pay for it? last time i checked, home land security grants and general fund don't really look fondly on missions to foreign countries because we do have a department of state and a military that does this all the time. so is it really something that's i

the good news is we have done research studies and we have evidence, as we move the slides forward and you have it if you go to our web site, that it works. when you begin to create a social tipping point by educating young people to raise their voice and giving them a tool so they feel more competent to do it, they will naturally do it. it is their nature. as they do it, other kids, positive social peer influence, do it. we change the norms in our school. suspensions have decreased nationally in the thousand schools we've been in by more than 30 percent, discipline referrals go down because young people are defusing the escalating interrupting, preventing and stopping injustice. do we have the courage as a nation to stop focusing on the problem and begin to really understand the best cost effective solution is to empower our young people? treat them not as empty bottles to be filled but candle sz to be lit. and i hope we can all use our collective voices today to spread a message of empowerment, justice and courage. courage. thank you . >> thanks, rick, i think we'll dig into that mes

we are working that and we have good discussions about some ways we are thinking creatively. can we use a different methodology to do the surveys and how we reduce our costs to accomplish that same goal. i think that is a good step for us but again in the proposal that we have before us in the budget effectively those revenues that would be coming to our state we are saying okay we will take from you in order to complete to pay for those. i cannot understand why any state should ever be expected to effectively pay the federal government to perform that federal application of conveying the lands that have been approved by congress and clearly past administrations had somehow or other it seems that the interior department needs to share in this financial burden. so you need to know that again i've been pushing on this issue since i came to the senate. we advance legislation that put in place an expedited process and we are still nine years later and we still have not yet fully and finally issued these conveyances. so we need to make better progress on that. we have got more in

we are going to play that piece no matter where we are. thank y today on this beautiful summer san francisco morning. it's a little windy so bear with us. i'm with the s fm t a. i'm so excited to have you here, to have these folks behind me here but most of all to have these vehicles here. as i think about why we are so excited to have these new vehicles hitting the streets of san francisco. the first new vehicles to hit the streets in six or seven years. it's not just that our riders will have a smoother nicer ride on vehicles that are cleaner and neater and easier to access. it's not just for the operators and the mechanics that will have vehicles that are easier to maintain, it's not just for the agencies to have increased security in the buses and better features from everything from the fuel to the light bulbs, what it's really about is when munis is working well, munis is such and important part of the city's economy that all city of san francisco benefits. all of the people who ride these buses are really benefitting everybody becau

assuming that we did, if we had the data base that we have now and we searched on that yemen number and saw it was talking to someone in california, we could have tipped that to the f.b.i. another step, and this is an assumption, but let me play this out, because we will never be able to go back and redo all the figures from 9/11, but this is why some of these figures were put in in order to do that, going from midar, we would have been able to find the other three teams in the united states and/or one in germany. so the ability to use the metta data would have allowed us, we believe, to see something. so it is hypothetical. there are a lot of conditions that we can put on there. you would have to this have this right, but we didn't have that ability. we couldn't connect the dots, because we didn't have the dots. so i think what we have here is one more additional capability to help us work together as a team to help us prevent are future attacks. you look at this, the new york city and others, i think from my perspective, those would have been significant events for our nation. so i th

. >> as i indicated we focus on we, the fbi, we are focused on this and that is who we want to identify with and ultimately prosecute. to do that, we have to show that the information went from this person to the person who published it. part of the investigation you gather facts about the individual who had security. >> you tell the judge that you are intending this and you have reasonable suspicion to believe that this person has violated the law. how often have you as a law-enforcement officer submitted a subpoena to a judge saying that somebody is suspected to have violated the law and you have no intention to ever prosecute that person and you didn't think this was going to leak. >> i have to think about that. >> i would ask if you would allow me to ask this question. >> if we violate the espionage act, saying that there was probable cause to find that he was not -- he was at least an eight and a better later said that he was a risk includes 18 months and if those were the facts, but those were the case, why would you not prosecute the individual. >> due to competing interest. >> t

we have option papers. we meet weekly thursdays. number nine was yesterday, so we have reached a point where we have done a lot of talking and a lot of learning, and the rubber is going to meet the road. we have to start making some proposals here. the next steps are more concrete in nature proposals will be coming out fairly soon. in addition, dave and i are going to travel around the country, and we are going to go to different cities and talk to people, families, consumers, business groups, just to try to help get a better idea of what people think about tax reform all around the country. we have the website, which is also helpful to reach people. people can reach us more directly. the next steps are basically the end of the working groups and options papers and start coming up with some ideas. as dave said, the pressure point will be increasing the debt limit. at that point, i think we will find other next steps. >> last one for me, and then we will take some questions. chairman baucus, on the subject of the tax-exempt groups th

we gave the paving specks to three contractors yesterday and we expect bids from them so we can get the best bid out of that and get the paving work a week from monday. so you do have room for a little process to get good deals for the city even when it's an emergency when you're doing work like this. >> what's your approval. >> you're able to bid it out? >> yeah. >> okay. >> anymore questions. >> no. >> thank you very much. >> we do not have a budget analyst so we'll open it up to public comment. anybody wish to publicly comment on item 1. public comment is closed. >> mr. chairman pay we add the language concerning the language providing a copy of the contract once it's approved. >> absolutely. we'll make an amendment to this item to require the pc and once the contract is approved to submit it to the clerk of the committee. >> i'll move that. >> we can move that motion. we can do that as well. all right. thank you mr. clerk. can you call item number 13. resolution approving professional services agreement, airport contract 9185.9, program management support services for the san franci

we should go to 6. >> i think that's where we are. the clerk: item 6: discussion and possible action to approve and swear in a member of the board of examiners licensed architect seat. appointments recommended by the nominations subcommittee are: bradley sugarman and toby engelberg. seat to expire september 15, 2016. additional eligible applicants reviewed by the nominations subcommittee that the bic also may consider include: david mcdermott, azemina favretto, ron giddings, alexander lirisman, brian foust, and george wesely. the clerk: item 6: discussion and possible action to approve and swear in a member of the board of examiners licensed architect seat. appointments recommended by the nominations subcommittee are: bradley sugarman and toby engelberg. seat to expire september 15, 2016. additional eligible applicants reviewed by the nominations subcommittee that the bic also may consider include: david mcdermott, azemina favretto, ron giddings, alexander lirisman, brian foust, and george wesely. #124 1234 >> what was the second name

we can't go lower on the officers, we need the police presence and we need the youth and the police officers to have a relationship. if we could keep this on the forefro forefront. i want to speak and not lose anymore youth and the neighborhood. all of our youth have someone who has been shot or killed. so thank you very much. >> cathy davis. >> good evening, mr. mayor and supervisors and department heads. my name is cathy davis. i am the executive director of bayview hunter's point senior services. i was trying to think of what part of our agency it talk about. i want to talk about the most vulnerable seniors we know. mr. boston said what i needed to say about housing. that's pretty much the deal. our agency sees seniors like him all the time. constantly, consistently looking for housing and can't find it. we need more support services to help people and to help people a app apply. a lot of people don't know where to find housing or where to start. we are trying to focus on that with seniors. and i want to talk about senior exit center, that looks out for ex-offenders. those are the people

so for every gallon we put back in the colorado, we can take an additional gallon out, or we send it to reuse facilities. and we deliver it to golf courses and parks and other outside applications. man: water's about a third of our budget. that's a lot of money. the lake right over here, 24 hours ago that was in somebody's house. it's been through a treatment plant. and now it's in our lake and we're watering with it. narrator: these reuse and conservation techniques enable las vegas to exist in the desert. another important form of conservation is preventing leaks. man: every drop counts. all water systems have what they call an efficiency rating. so if you were to measure the water that goes into your system and compare it to the water that goes out, how much is unaccounted for? most states have a goal of 10%. ours is at only 5.5% right now. and we have plans to lower that to 4%. man: we actually have our entire distribution system mapped out in a computerized or electronic format. and we can locate our pipes, we can locate our valves, we can locate water meters that are out there.

>> we think, possibly 30. >> we are guessing. >> we are not sure, we have go out and do and actually go out and research it. >> so like a beauty salon will have to go through this process now. >> they never had to. >> so now they do. >> they will. >> has there been any out reach to like the beauty salons. >> not yet. >> i think that it

we planet. we need some legislation. we need some legislative changes because without legislative changes we will not come to a common basis. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> i will give the floor now to my colleague. >> commissioner, the debates here today are about increasing the trust and the faith of citizens and holding to account governments and agencies that serve and protect them. those companies already named and shamed have so far denied acting outside the law. governments in the european commission have expressed concern this morning but rightly acknowledged that it is currently two early to draw final conclusions. yet here we are already pointing the finger. some of you are the expressing strong anti-american or anti-commission rhetoric that is all too familiar as is the opportunism and grandstanding without pausing to gather facts or proof. because this is most danger to the practice of convicting a defendant before the trial, this problem is currently working hard on reforming its data protec

that we once had. neil: worthiest strategies or methods, the iphone records, we they crucial in tracking down bad guys? >> i guess w had this with the boston bombings and that did not stop the two brothers. >> i do no have inside information in ts particular ogram. but g able to track the communications not only those within and passing to the united states, but is not a datais critical not only to identify and track and have insight into what these organizations are doing, but in the case of the bombings and oer activities at we did not get ahead of. to go back and see what did we miss and w do e reestablish and get insight into pose future acivity? nnil: i now you' talking about those whoere harming us and wanted to do thisto kill us. but i think that it is a good thing that this came to light. in the name of protecting s, my immediate reaction was what is this a aut. so i'm gng to ask you that. what the heck is this all about. say what you will about the bad guys and now we will find ways around it.

we have 5000 homeless youth. if we are setting goals here, we need to meet that. i'm shaking, life or death thing. i live in the mission. i survived a hate crime. i want to have affordable housing. i live in the mission. if i could live in supervisor farrell's district i would love to. but the mission is my home. please continue violence prevention dollars. thank you. (applause) >> moderator: we are coming to wrap up. i want to point out that if you have one information about the budget hearing process, go to the front, the mayor's office staff will give information about what the plan is for the upcoming hearings and how you can be engaged. now we will have closing remarks. i want to welcome supervisor campos, that supervisor wiener, and then the mayor. so he can make a final closing remarks. >> scott wiener. we heard all of you. all of the comments will make an impact and we appreciate the fact that everyone came out. i want to highlight a couple of communities that were heard loud and clear, the transgender community, this is something that we have to deal with