i want to get back to the whitefish. >> as far as whitefish, that is a prepa question.gibleo is reimburse applicants for eligible work done. >> do not think fema ought to put greater checks on the work before you just pay out this kind of money? even i would have reservations about such a major job and over time it was shown there were not up to the job. don't you think that is your responsibility? >> the responsibility is always pass to the locally executed state-supported. all disasters begin and end locally. do we support the locals in one and dictate how the contract and the other? >> i'm asking you to provide some oversight for $30 million of taxpayer money. >> i believe the total bill was over $300 million. i feel certain we have strict oversight on what the taxpayer dollars are going to. there are oversight measures in place with white fish and other contractors. >> is that part of your after disaster report to have greater oversight? >> i never said i did not think it should be. i said we have current oversight and current policies and procedures in place to ens

ma'am, as far as the whitefish, that's a prpa question. we would reimburse eligible applicants across the nation for eligible work done. >> do you not think fema should have in place greater checks on contracts that are issued before you just pay out this kind of money to the company that you -- even i and i'm certainly not an expert in this area, would have some reservations about contracting with for such a major job and over time it's shown that they weren't up to the job? >> right. >> you don't think that's your responsibility? >> no, ma'am, i don't. i think the responsibility is always best if it's locally executed, states managed and federally supported. as you heard the esteemed colleagues on the panel, all disasters begin and end locally. what are we asking fema to do? do we support the locals on one hand and then manage, oversee and dictate how they contract on the other. >> i'm not asking you to dictate. i'm asking you to provide some oversight for the amounts of money of $30 million of the taxpayers. >> i believe the total bill

endlessly enough serves as a school board member for almost predominate, not predominate, predominate whitefish next door. he serves on the school board of a rural white pair. >> he runs our urban paris african-american. the present of our school board is african-american, and the leader of our new orleans new school for new orleans which is our harvard master to recruit and bring all kinds of wonderful people to help us is african-american. i'm going to conclude their by saying blowing a few minutes. this did not start when the levees broke. it is not going to be fixed by just old-fashioned solutions. we had to be bold and innovative and focus on the kids. african-americans can leave an african-american city, and have great diversity and we building that model. and the numbers speak for themselves. you don't even have to believe me, although i think i'm pretty convincing and my record is based on in terms of integrity. just look at the numbers for yourself. they are like david said, it's unassailable. it's just unassailable. there are room for unions. you can unionize these innovative schools