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Said he would back off on the 40 million jail rebuild if the population dropped below one thousand inmates so the Pretrial Diversion Program the Mental Health programs in the community with the leadership and the Substance Abuse could continues the trend of reduction i know the Controllers Office has mentioned it is leveling off but really San Francisco value type of programs that can help us reduce the population im interested as this move forward while the iron is hot before the august 28th de...

From the Sheriffs Department. Good morning, supervised on Jill Robinson dir. Of Behavioral Health services. My prior position was that of the director of Behavioral Health services for the jail. I was in the jail for about 20 years. In the jail, there is approximately 1117 of the individuals that have a serious Mental Illness, that being defined as someone with a psychotic disorder were a major Mood Disorder like bipolar. About a month ago we did a oneday snapshot to try to get an exact percenta...

Are there presentence because they cannot afford bail. If you or i or our children were in a situation in jail we wouldnt be. We would get out due to the bail process, etc. Only to step up the number programs that are of able to address is very small number. The years that i spent running a jill health service, we spent battling jails overcrowded we are now completely under the she very proud of our efforts and build on those success. Thank you very much. Should you thank you for your work. Than...

Alternatives did you examine how many what the reduction of beds would be if we for example doubled the funds for a pretrial diversification or Diversion Program we cant take any more clients and put out of our county jail system. Supervisor i cant speak to that ill redirect it. As it relates specific to the matter of pretrial drefrgs or diversion their funding stream one of the things ill point out will young from the pretrial diversion will be here to speak in detail about that topic but rest ...

Of children with in this neighborhood. Thank you. Hi. My name is with critical resistance. In california united for responsible budget. Thank you so much for holding this hearing. Its really excellent and important to have these opportunities for the public to have time to highlight the really practical and already existing opportunities we have two estimates of yesterday derail this train which is the crisis of imprisonment or turn the train. So, i just want to draw some attention, i think the ...

Seriously considered. Senator mccain has already referenced them. One is i think we have to take a hard look at overhead. The army but not just the army but the military across the board, all of the services to include department of defense are very very Large Organization with a big bureaucracy with a significant overhead. A second is acquisition. As already previously mentioned, theres a considerable amount of cost and in many cases waste in the acquisition process. We need to get that under c...

We are working hard to collect every penny that we can. I am out of time, apparently. Mrs. Titus. Thank you mr. Chairman. A lot of that money leftover though, was used quietly to pay for the continuation of the denver project, wasnt it . Are you talking about the money from the treasury for the last five years . Wherever you found that. Its not available to us. We cant use that money. We thought we could, and its money that essentially becomes, as i said deobligated as expenses come in and also ...

I introduced a bill that reforms the the act to provide greater congressional oversight and to protect against the throat of Nuclear Proliferation. When the president says it is this will deal or go to war there is another option. Lets not forget about the agreement that was withdrawn by the Bush Administration in 2008 because the president could not certify that russia was not providing nuclear and advanced nuclear advanced weapons. Iran can buy Nuclear Missile ap weapons from the russians. Nex...

At the v. A. Have any accountability or any responsibility at all for this happening . If so, how much . Of course we do. As was laid out in the last hearing on the same subject just a few weeks ago, there are many reasons that we are where we are. I think we all share some of the response ability. We have a new program called the Choice Program. We have seven different ways of providing in the community. Im sorry. Did you want to interrupt . My time is limited. You have described with the layou...

Did you have a sense at all of whether the cabinet secretaries were speaking to the whole house in their briefing, or maybe just to the concerns of a crosssection of democrats who would be the ones to protect the white house . It was a classified discussion of a very important treaty. I dont see any other motives except to exploited in the way that would encourage us to vote for. Was there any part of the briefing that was contentious or disrespectful . One of your colleagues says john kerry was...