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Hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee of readiness of the House Armed Services subcommittee on the continued oversight of the transfer of excess military equipment to civilian Law Enforcement agencies to order. I would like to begin by recognizing the dedicated service of our readiness secretary clerk. This will be her last official event for our subcommittee and i want to personally thank her for her contributions to our efforts in the past year. I wish her the best of luck as she mo...

Hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee of readiness of the House Armed Services subcommittee on the continued oversight of the transfer of excess military equipment to civilian Law Enforcement agencies to order. I would like to begin by recognizing the dedicated service of our readiness secretary clerk. This will be her last official event for our subcommittee and i want to personally thank her for her contributions to our efforts in the past year. I wish her the best of luck as she mo...

The Defense Department have stricter requirements for the program. This is just under one hour. [indiscernible conversation] [gavel pound] mr. Wilson good morning. The hearing will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, i welcome you here today and call the hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee of readiness of the House Armed Services subcommittee on the continued oversight of the transfer of excess poetry equipment to civilian Law Enforcement agencies to order. I would like to begin by...

A law passed in 1997 allows state and local police to buy excess military equipment at a reduced cost. Pentagon officials testified on capitol hill on the program last week about strengthening requirements on who can buy and transport the equipment. Good morning this hears comes to ordinaries, called this hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee of readiness to get of the House Armed Services committee on the continued oversight of the transfer of excess military equipment to civilians, ...

Thank you. [applause] one of the objectives of this subcommittee is to bring attention to matters that impact the overall readiness of the department of defense. This includes programs or activities which face management challenges, present budget implications, or could be administrated more efficiently. It is our goal to provide necessary oversight in order to ensure our armed forces achieve the highest level of readiness possible. Given the current threat facing our nation and budgetary pressu...

Have these contractors these contractors under the jok. I think thats a good point and having the 50,000. We had the safety valve. Yeah, so the obligation to the contractor is three years of 50,000 . Thats the minimum. The other thing we were trying to do which the contractors is saying okay if you use 50,000 but i am concerned about you tying up 3 million or 5 million in my bonding capacity for three years. Thats for them is a big thing because they cant pursue anything because we tie that up s...

One firm can have one at a time so when the capacity is reached i think 95 of the contract then theyre released to pursue another one so that is a limitation that others may would like to pursue are already in contracts. Then it goes to the question well bidding and someone knows that they may be the only one how do we take the gouging or inflating the price or Something Like that, so one of the things we have experience with are what are the factors or multipliers used previously to ensure to h...

That up so we talked about ways of reducing that down so those are the things we have been working on. Would we get more bidders do you think if the catalog of biddable items was smaller . I think in this case the limit tends to be geographical because we use the same catalog for local work in the city and typically get three or four contractors interested in the same line of work. Its just the work as the director was saying its not only its up in hetch hetchy but if youre a contractor in that ...

Do which the contractors is saying okay if you use 50,000 but i am concerned about you tying up 3 million or 5 million in my bonding capacity for three years. Thats for them is a big thing because they cant pursue anything because we tie that up so we talked about ways of reducing that down so those are the things we have been working on. Would we get more bidders do you think if the catalog of biddable items was smaller . I think in this case the limit tends to be geographical because we use th...

Carries. Okay. Item 12. Item 12 approve the warnerville substation project and authorize the general manager to release of 3,143,000 in funds on reserve with the board of supervisors. Any questions on this . I thought ritchie had left. Move to approve. Second. Additional comments . All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Item 13. Would you like Public Comment . Oh Public Comment. Seeing none item 13. Item 13 authorizelet general manager to review the Treasure Island Development A...