February 7th, meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor fewer. Board president london breed has appointed me in place of vice chair peskin and i am joined by london breed and katy tang. Thank you to the clerk, and also like to thank those for staffing the meeting at sfgovtv. Silence all cell phones and electronic devices, speaker cards and copies of documents to be included as part of the file should be committed to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on the february 13, 2018, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Can we have a motion to excuse supervisor peskin . Motion to excuse supervisor peskin. Thank you. Without objection, that motion passes there any changes to the agenda . Mr. Clerk, please call item number one. Clerk hearing on the operations and maintenance status of the citys Emergency Water supply system since 2010 and spare parts deemed no longer useful or ongoing to the functioning of the system. This hearing is sponso
Meeting will come to order. Welcome to the wednesday, february 7th, meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor fewer. Board president london breed has appointed me in place of vice chair peskin and i am joined by london breed and katy tang. Thank you to the clerk, and also like to thank those for staffing the meeting at sfgovtv. Silence all cell phones and electronic devices, speaker cards and copies of documents to be included as part of the file should be committed to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on the february 13, 2018, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Can we have a motion to excuse supervisor peskin . Motion to excuse supervisor peskin. Thank you. Without objection, that motion passes there any changes to the agenda . Mr. Clerk, please call item number one. Clerk hearing on the operations and maintenance status of the citys Emergency Water supply system since 2010 and spare parts deemed no longer useful or ongoing to
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 control. And the third and final piece that i think is worth taking a look at theres a wide variety of emerging technologies that could in the outyears could lend itself to automated processes and reducing either manpower or manpower costs, compensation cost over time. Thats three big areas that would want to lock at if confirmed. We have russia creating a looming threat in europe, we have the pacific and chinas expansion or i should say increased activity there. We have the ongoing war in the mi
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 sometimes that there are new expenses for whatever might have happened in, lets say, in 14, and that money is used in that year, so you can become antideficient after the fact, so to speak. So that 1. 3 billion was not available to us. We had hoped it would be. I was the staff person that had the cryptic conversation with the house staff back in june and we had we thought we had a plan when i mean, in my opinion, quite frankly, we are a victim of our success. We have gotten many more veterans ca
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 layout of the land is. Is going to show you what accountability we half. Ok. Do you have any role in this . One of the things you learn is to have no excuses. One of the things that baffles me this case is we are dealing with a Computer System that is over 30 years old call the fms system. It is written in a language i wrote in 1973. We have got to change the Management System of the financial of this enterprise. Our i. T. Budget is about 50 of what a Health Care System i. T. Budget is. We have got t