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Commissioner sass . Present. We have a quorum oh, im so sorry, commissioner breslin, im so sorry. Were not trying to write anyone help. We need all the help we can get [laughter ]. That is exactly right. Thank you, secretary. With that, well go to discussion item 1. Item 1 discussion item opening remarks. President scott. Yes, would i like i would like to be sure that we all understand what this meeting is about today. There are a couple of features that are not customerary for meetings of this ...

Now ill ask our board secretary to please call the roll. Roll call, employees [pr ez ] scott. Present. Vice president lim. Present. Supervisor farrell excused. Commissioner ferrigno excused. Commissioner follansbee. Present. Commissioner sass . Present. We have a quorum oh, im so sorry, commissioner breslin, im so sorry. Were not trying to write anyone help. We need all the help we can get [laughter ]. That is exactly right. Thank you, secretary. With that, well go to discussion item 1. Item 1 d...

In a program chosen for affordability that the gao has reported has doubled in cost with a potential for future overruns. Like so many major programs that preceded it though cs failure predictably from an inability to stabilize requirements and roofs date cost estimates and unreliable assessments of technical and integration risks race made worse by repeatedly buying ships ignition packages before proving they are affected and can be operate together. What is so disturbing is that these problems...

A also identifies a great deal of information about the causes of errors which allows the specific and effective policy solutions. That policy solutions. They are challenges to improving accuracy and a vast and complex system whose main system is to educate children, not administer the meal programs. The School Meal Programs operate in nearly 100000 schools nationwide and theres wide variation. Their staffing and resources and technological capacities vary widely. Theres also variation in what c...

Pay attention to the marginalization narrative. I mean i think muslims are your best partners in this. I think muslims understand we can do without each other. Its a common enemy. They are not going to think twice. Im there with my family. I will be killed along with everyone else so we are in this together. Help us make those connections. Mr. Gartensteinross. I agree with what jm berger said that we are in a radical change. The question for us is are we up for this . I think we have grown conte...

About the eligibility requirements of the current child nutrition assistance cadre of programs as they exist today . I think the important thing when youre talking about reducing errors and improper payment which is i think we all agree is a very important endeavor is to create a culture where a culture of compliance with the rules. We want the rules to be followed. I dont think the rules themselves are the problem i think its helping people understand them and there are lots of different people...

Has put in place knew rules for prime institutional funds that get rid of the fixed dollar value. They will have net asset values that will reduce run risk. That aside to allow firms to impose fees something that could create Financial Stability risk that we need to watch. The so called Triparty Repo market which is a major source of shortterm wholesale funding, that contained great risks. We have taken steps important steps to mitigate. Central counterparties a thrust of reform has been to try ...

Thank you. Do you think that a shift from the current verification process that emphasizes for cause verification would enhance the Program Integrity and secondly would it have a negative effect on access for eligible participants . No, i think theyre again senator, there is a way to do it without aversely impacting people that truly deserve it and what we found in our work is for cause, thats the review of questionable applications. Some School Districts were not doing any for cause verificatio...

Local with 16 projects worth nearly 2. 7 billion in construction actively. We completed construction on 62 of 82 projects. We only have a few projects left of the ground water restoring recovery and the pipeline which will be going in in the spring. We have a number of accomplishments to report this last quarter. As has been reported in the last quarter we passed the instruction of the program. You can clearly see in august 2012, we had a much higher rate of work hours than we do in december 13t...

Similar to the last presentations on this, we are doing each Commission Meeting for the commission our total reservoir storage is about a million acre feet which is 69 percent maximum which is good but not a panacea. Precipitation is good this weekend. The outlook is mixed. There is definitely more needed and well continue to evaluate this and bring it forward to you. This slide shows a reservoir storage as of february 9th. There is a million acre feet in storage and there is only about a half m...