Good morning. This hearing will come to order. Let me welcome our panelists, all of whom are as deeply troubled as all of us are by the situation in south sudan. The reason for this being the first hearing of this committee of the new year is the hope that our attention can send a message to all parties in the sudan that a ceasefire, a continuing ceasefire, a political solution and reconciliation is critical for u. S. Longterm assistance, and in doing so hopefully we can save lives. We have many questions about the direction in which this young nation is headed and the greater implications of the conflict and i hope our panelists will provide us with deeper insights into the situation on the ground which i might add in a different context underscores the importance of Congress Moving quickly on Embassy Security with our embassy in juba, operating at severely reduced capacity as a result of the violence. Looking back, the United States government and members of this committee were hopef
The agency. Were not saying not give them positions. The positions, existing positions and in this case in specific positions that they are being requested which are vacant, can be filled from existing positions rather than creating new positions. Let me just continue my presentation. Lets have you finish first. So weve identified, supervisors, on page, the bottom of page 10 of our report, the last paragraph there where it says that hsa has a total of 157. 2. The department provided us with updated information and we now would revise that number to 152. 2, or 5 positions less than the 157. 2, and these are across the relevant classifications that were talking to today. On page well, i can go now to our recommendations. First of all our first recommendation on page 12 is to reduce this requested supplemental appropriation by 1349. 58, as i understand the department concurs with our recommendation. Thats recommendation no. 1. On recommendation no. 2, were recommending with respect to all
Demonstration eggs. Thats an awful book was halted and warren fact that cleveland was going to be. Ive written to the home had a great week of the arctic ice bochy. In the wind direction. Welcome good news update on cctv designed to let you reach a top story at the sala chinas ambassador to United States tweet on kais says japanese prime assertions the lobbies visit to a shrine that honors war criminals has closed the door to direct talks between the two countries. Tori said nabs move has talent the Political Foundation of sino japanese relations. We made the remarks while attending activities hosted by the New York Stock Exchange to mark the thirty fifth anniversary of the establishment of china a Us Diplomatic relations adi has proposed talks with china and south korea to explain his motives for visiting the shrine. Two he was asked by reporters if you believe im a wuss and see so cheryl and using that to be on anybody who believes was an offer he says. I dont think any serious quota
The hsa position ordinance increasing that. Thats almost. So i have a mind. Sorry, theres another option to thin for a week to see if everyone can figure this out and ill throw that out theres a different option. We can do that too. Again, im sensitive to timing and implementing, im sorry mr. City attorney if i screwed up my explanation there of my thought process. Deputy City Attorney john gepner. I wanted to be sure i was understanding supervisor avalos comment. You can place funds on reserve. If you want to consider future aso amendments you can do that by continuing the item or as supervisor farrell says, approving the positions for this fiscal year, considering the position begin in next years aso which you will be considering. I just dont know how to land on the number of positions in the aso to move forward today, but we do have money that is from the state, we know its a certify night amount that would cover the services and the positions. So what i was thinking was approving s
Item no. 2 is an ordinance appropriating approximately 31. 5 million in order to support in home supportive services, cal works and other Program Expenditures in fiscal year 20132014. Madam clerk, why dont we move on to Public Comment . Anyone wish to comment on items 1 or 2 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor avalos, if you want to talk. I dont know what to say. I feel like were pretty far apart. I dont in any way want to hamstring the Human Services agency on Core Missions and clearly theres a need for ensuring that people can access the Many Services that are provided, cal fresh, medical, and income support as well as all the job training. But i feel like its pretty far apart between the recommendations from the budget analyst and the department. One idea im thinking is there a way to perhaps, you know, put money on reserve, on Budget Committee reserve, and get a report on actual hiring of new staff to implement these new programs and Service Integration and, you kno