it will be a new department . that is one of the many 40 odd touch points that we've identified so we are going to do our best to make sure that is seamless. we routinely contact each other now even though they're in separate divisions. we expect we will routinely contact each other even after the split but it will be through a mou. >> one last question before we turn it over to our budget director ashley. is there anything that you can yet tell us because to me as budget chair the condition of our streets is one of our top priorities and it looks like and it rains absolutelytrue to me . we're assuming you are going to fill all the vacancies and have thoseexpert extra positions is what i'm assuming so we have a double burden there and a task before us . but has the mayor made a decision as to the priority for you and the mayor as well in terms of the upcoming budget that your present to us in a very short time? >> thank you for thequestion, ashley rothenberg or . obviously as the department presented there are man

the department will it continue to investigate those. reporter: you mentioned that you are helping to document war crimes that are taking place. that you are helping your international partners. can you be more specific on what specifically you are doing? mr. garland: i have told about all i can tell right now. we have been meeting with eu ropol and eurojust in paris this week. our senior prosecutor has been meeting with the branch prosecutor -- french war crimes prosecutor, and we are working with the state department team on multinational efforts to support the ukrainian prosecutor. reporter: mr. attorney general, could you identify the organizations you believe are linked to the oligarchs. mr. garland: i don't know whether that was disclosed in the indictment. >> the specific names are not disclosed in the indictment. mr. malofeyev is a public personality, you can find plenty of information on him. reporter: it's been a couple weeks since we heard from mark meadows. what do you say to those who may be losing confidence in the departme

, sheriff's department, adult probation department, and juvenile probation department purchased after april 1, 2021, through august 31, 2023. item 5 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the police department to accept and expend an in-kind gift of 900 units of in a lax own values at $66,600 through the naloxone distribution project. madam chair? >> chair ronen: thank you. i believe we have a representative from the police department. >> yes. good morning, chair ronen. one of the grants is to help fund the purchases of bulletproof vests for the police department, sheriff's department, and adult and juvenile probation department, and the third resolution we are aa-asking for the community's recommendation is -- we are asking for the committee's recommendation is the acceptance of 900 units of naloxone used to prevent deaths from overdose. >> chair ronen: thank you. and we don't have a b.l.a. report on this item. i have a question on item 4. why do probation departments need bulletproof vests, especially juvenile probation, and how many do they need or have? >> i don't have the spec

it will be a new department . that is one of the many 40 odd touch points that we've identified so we are going to do our best to make sure that is seamless. we routinely contact each other now even though they're in separate divisions. we expect we will routinely contact each other even after the split but it will be through a mou. >> one last question before we turn it over to our budget director ashley. is there anything that you can yet tell us because to me as budget chair the condition of our streets is one of our top priorities and it looks like and it rains absolutelytrue to me . we're assuming you are going to fill all the vacancies and have thoseexpert extra positions is what i'm assuming so we have a double burden there and a task before us . but has the mayor made a decision as to the priority for you and the mayor as well in terms of the upcoming budget that your present to us in a very short time? >> thank you for thequestion, ashley rothenberg or . obviously as the department presented there are man

so, as you know, the department, fire department, the public health department, sheriffs department and department of emergency management have been hit and do require the additional appropriation to meet their obligations. you can see $6 million for the fire department, 3.6 for the department of public health, .24 for the department of emergency management and $3.4 million for the sheriff's department. we are requesting approval of the funding that is necessary to pay our required benefits to help care for the employees who have been injured or become ill as a result of their work for the city. thank you for your attention to this. i'd be happy to answer any questions. >> chair ronen: thank you. and before we have questions and comments, if we can hear from the budget & legislative analyst. >> so this ordinance would appropriate $13.1 million from the general reserve to the workers' compensation budget and the public fire health sheriff and emergency management. and as we show on page 43 of the report, claims for workers' compensation increased by 34% this year relative to average numb

so this process included the analysis within the departments where we asked each of the departments to share what they are doing to combat a violence prevention strategy. programs do not all speak to each other, they're not all aligned, and i also think there's not great collaboration within our law enforcement, so that's one thing we realize. we also did interviews. d'anthony jones and rico hamilton did surveys out in community, engage with folks. we did additional on-line, try to collect additional information, and then, we worked with folks who would come forward -- supervisor mar, you referred some people to us, and then, we also just heard from individuals who highlighted their struggles and ways to get response, and then, we had a violence prevention summit at the end of last year with over 100 participants and have tried to sit back and tried to figure out what would be the next week. next slide. the folks who want to be heard want us to understand the overlapping parts of violence. i think we are -- i personally am concerned about some of that rising, you know, the last few wee

>> i don't know that the justice department has a position. this is a state and local roll normally. >> do you think it works? >> i'm sorry? >> do you think it works? >> i think in some questions it works, of course could be abuse. >> right. why doesn't the justice department aggressively encourage law enforcement officials to use that technique? it's been declared constitutional as you know? >> the supreme court has a firm the cost to nationality of stop-and-frisk, that's exactly right, we don't, this federal government doesn't do patrol. this is work for patrol. >> i know you don't, you're one of the country's chief lot fortunate vessels, maybe the chief, what you say matters. here's what i'm asking. let's take chicago, where you have, we haven't made any inroads and stopping the killing. chicago is now the world's largest outdoor shooting range. we know that a lot of the shootings come from gangs. why wouldn't you want to call the police chief the mayor in chicago, say, look, you know who these gang members are. when you have reasonable sus

s. department of justice. they're set to announce new enforcement actions and disrupting russian economic activity. this is attorney general. i've magically gone no stone unturned in our efforts to investigate arrest and prosecute those whose criminal acts at naval russia to continue its unjust war in ukraine. that is a promise we are keeping. i am joined here to day by deputy attorney general monaco and f b i director re. also here our assistant attorney general olson principal, deputy assistant attorney general mcquaid f b i cyber section chief fram. and klepto capture task force director adams. to day we are mounting several actions. the justice department has taken to disrupt and prosecute criminal activity associated with the russian regime. the 1st action we are announcing today is the unsealing of an indictment. charging russian oligarchy, konstantin mouth. f with sanctions violations, as indictment charges. the treasury department previously identified malik f, as one of the main sources of financing f

and the departments on that. and we're also going to hear a presentation from the advocates that have really been pushing the city and leading on this issue on the community side, and -- and, again, this is really intended just to continue our public discussion and moving forward the important work on expanding the efws citywide. so first, i want to invite john scarpolla from the p.u.c. to present on the recently completed efws 2050 planning study. mr. scarpulla? >> good morning, chair mar. thank you so much for having me here today and for your leadership on this item. also, good morning to supervisor stefani. i am joined today by colleagues from the p.u.c. as well as from the fire department and office of resilience and capital planning, so they're available to answer any questions that i cannot, and with that, i will jump in. as supervisor mar mentioned, i'm going to talk about the objectives and the development of an emergency water pipeline and water supply sources to all of san francisco, and really to help

department has done. it's changed the way we do policing and the way that we handle people in crisis. so without further adieu, lieutenant mario molina, crisis police officer this charge. >> good evening. thank you, it's all a pleasure to come before you and present the wonderful work that our officers are doing every day. our officers go out there every day with only one intention. that's to serve and protect our community, so tonight, i will have the privilege to tell you about the work they're doing, how they're doing it, and how this came about. i just want to commend you because the people that are seating where you're sitting tonight decided to pass resolution 18 back in 2011, asking the police department to create a training. at the time, it was called crisis intervention career training. when i took over in 2014, we had a lot of work to do. chief scott joined us a couple of years later, and the work continues. the main core of the crisis intervention training is to train our officers to respond to

treasury department. to date, the city has awarded $66 billion of new market tax credit allocation, over 70 rounds, through a competitive process. to date, sfcif has been awarded $240 million in allocation. we have deployed 160 million allocation. of sfcifs allocation, 47.7 committed has been committed to three projects in the city. in order to continue administration of the sfcifs new market tax credit program, the resolution before you requests approval of an amended and restated cooperative agreement between the city and sfcif. key changes to the agreement include an adjustment to the city staff cost, reimbursed by the sfcif, to an annual cap of $350,000 and an extension of the agreement through the end of fiscal year 2025 with possible extensions to the end of fiscal year 2032. this completes my presentation. my colleagues and i are happy to answer any questions. >> chair ronen: any questions, colleagues? no? okay. we can open this item up for public comment. >> clerk: thank you, madam chair. members

one of them was the internal affairs department . they weren't addressing internal affairs investigations in a timely manner, and this goes back all the way to 2000 and three well, they have fixed that problem. that's one of the 52 problems that they were going through. a lot of the things are kind of behind the scenes stuff that we don't always see. and it looks like the department has come around, so it's going to be over a year or so for them to complete the final task and then for the judge to review that everything is in compliance. and after that, and only after that will open the finally be released from this n s a. but the good news today is they're very close. heather and frank to that to that eventually happening, and as we heard from both the police chief and the mayor publicly making their commitment to continue the work that needs to be done, saying once that federal oversight ends , it doesn't end all of the reforms that have been put been put in place, but they will continue to work hard every day to make opd what it i

item 5, chief of department's report. report from chief of department, jeanine nicholson. report from chief of department, jeanine nicholson. report on current issues, activities, and events within the department since the fire commission meeting on march 9, 2022, including budget, academies, special events, communications, and outreach to other government agencies, and the spubl. report from administration, deputy chief tom o'connor. report on the administrative divisions, fleet, and facility status and updates, finance, support services, and homeland security. >> thank you. i want to wish everyone a happy women's history month. i have attended several events since our last meeting. mayor breed's state of the city address, grand opening for station 35, women's history month city leaders photograph in the rotunda here in city hall, and i also participated in a special video with the warriors, a piece on women's empowerment. we also worked in collaboration with sfgovtv, whom we love. they are facilitating this for us, but we worked in collaboration with them to shoot three

police department was one of them. we worked with our partners, dr. colfax and our health officer dr. susan phillips for the police department and we're actually able to work through that and they were able to lift the booster mandate for the police department. i think that went a long way and they can ensure that a couple of things, we're already challenged staffing wise and the doctors would not have done this if it was not safe for our department to do it. they approved it. and the department, we still have vaccination mandates, but we do not have the booster mandates. so we won't have any cases coming to the commission for that reason. so i think that was -- i appreciate, we appreciate the public health officers working with us and working through this particular thing, but i just wanted to update the commission on that and that concludes my report for this week. >> vice president elias: thank you, chief. i also wanted to give a huge congratulations to director sutton and a huge thank you to the department, directo

it is no surprise that the departments police officers, police departments and sheriffs officers are sort soft and having issues recruiting new police officers. the budget request would undermine the board of president, excuse me the bureau of prisons ability to maintain suitable and modern facilities there cable of divot delivering educational, vocational and fellowship programming. in addition, it proposes new unauthorized grant programs, intended to inhibit americas exercise of their second amendment right. budget request is ultimately a proposed allocation of scarce resources, it's disappointing that these messaging programs where prioritized over the budgets critical missions in fully addressing the surge in violent crime. the budget request is the first step and the appropriations process i look forward to working with you attorney general and with senator shaheen as we craft the fy 2023 appropriations bill. thank you. >> thank you, senator moran, i realize that the chair of the appropriations committee, senator leahy, is here. i've got to ask if he would like to offer some ope

what will be the steps of the state department? [indiscernible] they cannot travel without their kids. [indiscernible] they do not get any response from the state department. [indiscernible] >> nothing could be further from the truth as you know. we have continued to stand by the people of afghanistan in terms of our communitarian leadership, and the contributions that we have made including in recent days to the humanitarian needs of the afghan people, but also in terms of what we are doing diplomatically on the world stage together with our allies and partners, and you raised the issue of girl's education. the egregious decision last month, march 23, what was supposed to be the first day of the school year for schoolchildren, including girls across the country turned into a day of horrible disappointment and despair for millions of afghans with the taliban's very regrettable decision not to allow girls to return to secondary school. in doing so the taliban reversed commitments that they had made a very publicly and commitments th

last fall i had the opportunity to check out a modernization agenda for the department. to respond to these complex demands. thanks to the fy 22 budget we have been able to make real progress on this agenda. to give just a few examples, we have strengthened our capacity to protect our interest, boost our competitiveness and upholds our values with bipartisan group -- congressional support, we launch the new bureau for cyberspace and digital policy. i am grateful to the committee for long supporting this effort for the ideas you shared and how best to do it. we are making headway on the ensuring diplomats have diversity. it is one of our greatest strengths including our diplomacy. we have our first ever chief diversity and inclusion officer spearheading an effort to analyze and address the obstacles that prevent underrepresented groups. we created for the first time thanks to the support of congress and this committee paid internships along with strong congressional and put -- input. we recently welcomed a new cohort of 179 exceptional foreign service professionals. that

between the port and fire department to transfer the property to the fire department. as we show on page 13 of our report, the resolution caps the carroll acquisition at $40 million including closing costs and the acquisition costs of the port property is capped at $6 million including closing costs. i want to raise a couple of issues that came up during our review. one is that the board authorized $275 million of earthquake safety general obligation bonds for fire training facility development and land acquisition cost as well as the rehabilitation of fire stations. now when you consider the estimated cost of the facility of $210 million plus the $40 million of the prologis acquisition, it only leaves about $24.3 million left in those bond funds which is sufficient to do a limited scope renovation of one fire station. there are four fire stations that need this work that are identified in the capital plan, so it does -- there is not a funding plan to address those needs if you move forward with that plan to consolidate the training operations on this site. and then th

why we hear from planning department, mrs. chan. >> planning department. we stand behind we provided the correct information to doctor kir up until the time change of permit was fileod may 25, 2021. you know doctor kir had purchased the property. we wished we filed instructions the cu. we believe this will had he file today we would have realized it was in the permissible. again we have apologizes. but it was attributed boy doctor kir and his represents we wish we had not made this mistake we like to offer assistance and options and assisting finaling an althoughive. the department asked the board to deny. i got a question. so -- from being on this board for years i understand when a permit is issue in the error the city does in the stand bind it. in this case, i 19there was a short wind open in escrow and felt they had done due diligence but -- we do not have the ability to over turn it there is legislation this says we can't do that. is this correct? >> you are looking at the city attorney. >> i mean it is clear. on the ground floor is in the permitted.

under the department has been working tirelessly. doctor rosenblum of doctor bloom understand you're holding the first-ever biodefense posture review. appreciate the critical review and looking for to hearing out their view is proceeding. finally it's essential understand how all this connects to the budget request. i'm pleased to see how -- specially cooperative threat reduction program which contrary to putin's falls propaganda has been etched metal in this memo weapons of mass destruction and the chemical biological defense program with investments in vaccines and therapeutics for i look for to the discussion i will now recognize ranking member kelly for his opening remarks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. for your opening remarks and your leadership and organizing this morning's posturing. today with her from four experts across county weapons of mass destruction portfolio. and i want to thank each of you personally for meeting with me earlier this week and in-depth briefing some in us give come some open source but it really appreci

so, as you know, the department, fire department, the public health department, sheriffs department and department of emergency management have been hit and do require the additional appropriation to meet their obligations. you can see $6 million for the fire department, 3.6 for the department of public health, .24 for the department of emergency management and $3.4 million for the sheriff's department. we are requesting approval of the funding that is necessary to pay our required benefits to help care for the employees who have been injured or become ill as a result of their work for the city. thank you for your attention to this. i'd be happy to answer any questions. >> chair ronen: thank you. and before we have questions and comments, if we can hear from the budget & legislative analyst. >> so this ordinance would appropriate $13.1 million from the general reserve to the workers' compensation budget and the public fire health sheriff and emergency management. and as we show on page 43 of the report, claims for workers' compensation increased by 34% this year relative to average numb

is -- a big department and a small department. and has arc lots of diverse people in it and -- a lot of -- people that comprised family away from their family. and although eric deng was not a firefighter he was a part of that which is necessary to make this department department it is. i would like to adjournment and record in the his memory. and i think that -- the chief and announce am should be heeded by anybody that can help the family out really should give consideration for that. because it -- it is really a tragic loss to the department. must be really horrific for them. so in his honor and with our deepest condollences and sympathy y we will adjourn at this time. i thank everybody. >> thank you and the time is 5:58. >> thank you. why thank you. >>> there's so much involved with becoming a firefighter. and as a component of being a woman in the field, it takes a lot of perception. it takes belief in yourself. it takes asking the right questions of people who already have the job so that you have the confidence to build it

now, a cultivator can go in to the department of building inspection and to the department of health and say, with this first registered and temporary license, and then what will eventually be a permanent license, this is the project, this is what i am going to do. >> very rarely in city government do we interact with industries that are asking to be regulated. these guys want to be regulated. they want to be compliant. they want to work with the city. that is rare. >> san francisco has created a temporary licensing process so that the pre-existing operators here in san francisco can apply for a temporary state licensed. >> we have taken teams of up to 12 inspectors to inspect the facility twice a day. we have been doing that with the department of building inspection and the department of public health. and the fire department. >> it is really important for the industry to know that we are treating them like industry. like manufacturing. like coworkers pick so that is the way we are approaching this from a health and safety and a consumer protection network. this is just the way pra

, the fire department and the health department. and it's a heavy-lift. and it's one that i really truly believe we can be successful at. but we need to -- we need to have that shift in numbers and we need to see the difference on the streets. and i will just stand by also saying i know we're going to have a hearing on cart, which is the community led response which has not been implemented yet, but i believe, you know, for some of the priority c calls in these areas, we can shift that work from the police department to community. so i really do believe we can make a big difference in this area. and that will ultimately make a big difference in people's health. and in what the conditions that people witness in the streets. so, i want to thank you, all, again collectively for your extraordinary work and we'll keep moving. hopefully in the right direction. and with that, i would like to -- >> thank you, supervisor. >> chair ronen: thank you, i would like to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair in case we need t

i'd like them to go back to the state department or, as they call it, the deep state department. >> ...and secretary pompeo, who is the head of the state department, snickered. he stood there and snickered. you know, that's not leadership. i mean, i don't think pompeo was unique in pandering to the president, but when we choose our elected leaders, we want profiles in courage. we want people who are ethical and have integrity and show real leadership skills. and i didn't see that in secretary pompeo when he was running the state department. >> one more last one about nato. as you and i both know, the debate over nato is not new. in 1987, in fact, before the dissolution of the soviet union, william f. buckley jr. hosted a program that was called "pull out of nato?" professor melvyn krauss argued that nato had made the west weaker, not stronger, by encouraging european allies to depend on us for their own defense. take a look at this. >> i am very concerned that we have made allies into weak allies. we know what the status quo has given us. it has given us peace, but it also has given u

>> i don't know that the justice department has a position. this is a state and local. >> do you thinkdo it works? >> i think in some circumstances it can but of course it can be of abused. >> why doesn't the justice department aggressively encourage law enforcement officials to use that technique? it's been declared unconstitutional, as you know. >> the supreme court affirmed the constitutionality, that is nsexactly right but the federal government doesn't do patrolling. one of the country's chief enforcement officials and what you say matters. chicago is the largest outdoor shooting range. we know that a lot of them come from gangs. why wouldn't you want to call the police chief and mayor in chicago and say you know who these gang members are when you have a reasonable suspicion and objective standard more than just a hunch, why don't you aggressively stop, question and frisk theti gang members, you gt guns off the street, guns off the street and a lot of gang members off the street and stop people killing each other. why won't you do that?

treasury department. it was part of a suite of sanctions imposed in response to russia's invasions of crimea. he defied the sanctions to finance his luxury lifestyle. including making payments to u.s. banks for the support and maintenance of his yacht. direct violation of the sanctions imposed on him. in seizing the tango, the department demonstrated our -- holding accountable crush -- corrupt russian all the guards. a commitment we are not finished honoring. today, charges have also been -- southern district of new york against constantine malatesta. russian national and russian oligarch. he's charged with conspiring to violate and violating united states sanctions. these are the first criminal charges brought by the department of justice against a russian oligarch since russia invaded ukraine. in the years since, he was sanctioned, he was flagler -- flagrantly and repeatedly via violating the sanctions opposed on him while attempting to establish media companies across europe, companies that would help

we prioritizeapproximately 20 key performance measures each department . examples for sas include service requests and response time to cleaning, trash cans, treat infections while public works and the rate of construction contract awards within the target range of the original designers cost estimate. we're expecting sas to present data monthly while public works will present quarterly which reflects the differing nature and speed of operations compared to capital project delivery. and then speaking of capital project delivery, while both commissions are empowered and mandated to improve contract awards and modificationspublic works as an average of 13 awards per month compared to sas which has a monthly average of only one and a half contract actions to keep meeting agendas and durationsmanageable their recommending thresholds based on contract type , dollar amount andchapter 6 requirements for which contracts go to the commission and whether they are on the consent agenda or the regular agenda . knowing of course the commissioners will always have the d

he is also in the defense department. good to see you, in terms of having vladamir putin pull back once and for all. we just heard of new sanctions out of the u.s. today, and yet he continues to bombard ukraine. i'm curious, is it going to take cutting off oil and gas, and that obviously will have to come on the part of the europeans? >> i can't answer that with any assurance. the russian economy is groaning under the sanctions, and the new ones coming will make it worse, but so far putin has the resources to continue this war. more interesting, more important is that his army is beginning to hollow out a lot of these units that are redeploying from kyiv where the battle was lost are are one-quart eiter or one-half their strength. they are depleted. they're having difficulty replacing the equipment. they're having more difficulty recruiting new soldiers, so at some point he simply can't fight anymore, but i think he's bargaining that he can hold out for weeks more, maybe more than a month, and that the ukranian side will

bring in the resources of the department of justice and the department of treasury, to bear. and we are working to deter irregular migration throughout the region. this is not a phenomenon, mister chairman and remembers of that committee of the united states encounters alone. this is something that countries throughout the region, throughout the hemisphere and we so powerfully have seen in recent months, throughout the world that a number of individuals displaced from their home countries is greater now than ever has been. and we are working in response to a regional challenge with a regional solution, working with partner countries throughout the region. i was in panama last week. to accomplish that end. >> thank you mister secretary, my time is expired. >> mister secretary, since the administration took office, you deliberately released into the night it states, it hundred and 36,000 illegal immigrants who crossed our borders in violation of our laws and sovereignty. that is more than the entire population of the state of north dakota. and all the border patrols been overwh

or is this just unfolding the way the department of justice was going to see it unfold? >> i think the department is very much aware of the criticism, but i think the best way to think about this is parallel tracks. the other thing to keep in mind is that the justice department investigations tend to go much slower than the public or the congress expects or wants them to go. so i think -- i don't think this tension is going away, especially because the committee is trying to wrap up its work, in the summer, but i think you're going to see essentially parallel courses going through this process. i think you're going to see more and more indications that the justice department is looking into some of these things that are of concern to the committee, that are of concern to the public, but they're gonna do it at their own pace. and i don't think the criticism that it's not fast enough, i think the criticism will stay there, but obviously, this indication is a big step forward in a lot of people's minds and the direction they want it to see the justice department going. >> d

(public health department) >> the chair: thank you so much, madam clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster. without objection, we would take this item same house, same call. without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 10. >> clerk: item 10 is a resolution that designates those agencies qualified to participate in the 2022 annual joint fundraising drive for officers and employees of the city and county of san francisco. >> the chair: thank you, madam clerk. seeing no one, we will take this same house same call. this is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 11. >> clerk: item 11 is a resolution supplementing resolution no. 7-17, of the city and county of san francisco infrastructure and revitalization financing district no. 1 (treasure island) (irfd), to authorize the issuance and sale of one or more series of bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $30,000,000 approving related documents, >> the chair: thank you, madam clerk. seeing no one on the roster, we will take this item same house,

over the last year, the department, the leadership and the policies of the department have been justifiably scrut niced. through numerous reviews stemming from the january 6 insurrection. those include capitol police by the inspector general, the architect of the capitol inspector general, the g.a.o., government accountability office, third party assessments and numerous congressional reviews include big this committee that have offered substantial recommendations in the needed evolution of the operations of your department. in fact, we installed a new chief. in addition to those -- the enhancements to your intelligence and investigative capability, enhanced train, developing better resources, management methods and advancement to the department's overall culture, are still a work in progress. they've been -- you're building on it but it still is going to grow. it can expand its reach across the nation, i'm just going to repeat it because i think people need to know. we went from, you know, 1,000 to maybe 1,500 threats about five or six years ago to members of congress to almost 10,000 in a

it lies with the state department in canada. >> is the department of energy working with the department of state to tell them what -- because you've got the expertise site -- with the importance is. >> the state department has expertise as well and has identified -- as identified by mr. upton earlier. >> does the department of state know how reliant ohio and michigan are on line five, $5 billion economic impact it has on our economy and our region? >> i suspect they know. >> beg pardon? >> i suspect they know. >> the department of energy is not relying -- is not relaying that information to them? >> the department of state is well aware of the economic issues related to the upper midwest and are relationship to canada and the desire to get this line done. it is in the courts. >> let me ask the question. as former chief executive of your state, would you say that line five plays a massive economic impact on the state of michigan? >> i'm not going to respond to that. >> you are not going to respond to that? >> [laughter] i'm not going to get into that because it is in court. >> when i tal

she challenges bad planning department decisions. she is the right planning commissioner to address land use unfortunately, we can't say the same thing about commissioners appointed by the mayor because, again, the partisan politics has trumped everything for this segment of the commission. and we're looking to ms. moore to actually enlighten us and bring up good points and raise the issues that should be raised by planning. and we look forward to another four years. her knowledge, her competence and her courage to speak up is invaluable. so we're here to support her and we are grateful again to president walton and above all to ms. moore for accepting another four terms. thank you so much. and in case i didn't introduce myself, audrey rome with . >> clerk: mr. atkins, can we have our first caller? >> caller: can you hear me okay? >> clerk: we can hear you. please proceed. >> caller: great. good morning. david pillpell. i wanted to join the chorus in support of the reappointment of kathrin moore to the planning commission now more th

it is within our department. it is how we help our community partners, and we are actively committed to continuing on that path with the departments. and i want to thank you for your time. i want to thank in particular the human rights commission and my team. and we would be happy to field questions. thank you. >> thank you so much, director. i also want to thank you for being efficient with time, and that is the perfect way to see how we moved through the slides in an efficient manner and i appreciate that floor presentation. colleagues, do we have initial questions for him at this time? >> one question that i have right now, director sofus, you gave us the numbers for direct payments received in terms of a dollar amount. do you have actual number of participants? >> so i know that that number is growing with each cohort of trainees. and i will defer to my team. i think that is probably information we could follow up with. what i can tell you of our total, say, $20 million, and around $6 million of that is reser

the shooter is still at large department and said they are looking for the shooter or she has not been apprehended yet. so there are thousands n y p d officers fanned out to out this area where the shooting took place. searching for this shooter. clearly there is very much urgency to try to apprehend that the shooter before they could potentially do some more act. that's the case. so clearly it's very urgent situation as they try to apprehend the shooter. they're going to be looking for video cameras that are all of the subway stations pick all ready got some sort of what they think is video or some sort of image up the shooter. and they are going to be searching for them over to come in minutes and hours trying to apprehend them. this can happen at the very busy morning commute part of the day. this is what people children are going to school. commuters were going to work. and so the subway station was obviously very busy when this took place. yeah. okay, well and where are we just a moment ago, in fact, we were looking at the light fixture from just outside the subway station. and th

it is no surprise that the departments police officers, police departments and sheriffs officers are sort soft and having issues recruiting new police officers. the budget request would undermine the board of president, excuse me the bureau of prisons ability to maintain suitable and modern facilities there cable of divot delivering educational, vocational and fellowship programming. in addition, it proposes new unauthorized grant programs, intended to inhibit americas exercise of their second amendment right. budget request is ultimately a proposed allocation of scarce resources, it's disappointing that these messaging programs where prioritized over the budgets critical missions in fully addressing the surge in violent crime. the budget request is the first step and the appropriations process i look forward to working with you attorney general and with senator shaheen as we craft the fy 2023 appropriations bill. thank you. >> thank you, senator moran, i realize that the chair of the appropriations committee, senator leahy, is here. i've got to ask if he would like to offer some ope

the department seeks to modernize and strengthen u.s. deterrent and defensive capabilities to ensure the joint force can fight and win in wmd contested environments. as the department proposes a significant increase in chemical and defensive -- biological defense across the fighter, and like to share three examples of how the department will seek to deliver novel capabilities for the war fighter. first, because emerging biologic threats can circumvent traditional concepts of we need to change the paradigm by integrating all available sensors and data collection has a network of networks to identify changes within the environment rather than waiting for the onset of symptoms in our war fighter. second, we must explore the concept of defending form within through preventive and post exposure medical countermeasures. third, we are working to enhance protection while reducing the burden to our war fighter by replacing heavy bulky and extremely hot individual protective equipment with novel types of materials and responsive technologies to cr

the department concluded that the cdc is -- >> but you are in charge. i'm sorry, go ahead, finish your thought. >> and so, that was so. answer the other part of your question, i think all intelligence address that there will be a large increase in the border, yes. migrants, yeah. >> when it comes to drugs coming into the united states from the southern border, in the last year has that problem gotten better or worse? >> i don't know what the numbers are. i mean, it's obviously the case that the transportation of fentanyl, particularly, has increased. fentanyl is much more compact, much smaller, goes a longer way. the smugglers, particularly in the trucks, have developed ways to hide it even from our x-rays. so, that problem of fentanyl crossing the border has definitely increased in a way that makes all of us very worried. >> okay. so, when it comes to your role in all of this, if title 42 is repealed and we get a surge, there is an increase in fentanyl coming across the border and of the leading cause of death for americans from 18 to 45, they tell me,

our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is l