Request i want to thank you, mr. Chairman, for allowing me to ask that question in case i have to leave. Thank you. Senator heller. Thank you for your testimony and everybody thats here today. Its good to see you here. At 4 30 this afternoon i have the secretary coming into my office and im going to ask him a lot of questions. Im going to ask him obviously about the veterans backlog issue and progress if any are being made. The issue of lack of communication between my office and reno will be another question that im going to ask and hopefully get a good answer for. But there are other questions that you might think that i should ask him. Are there any questions, if you were talking to the secretary today, what question would that be, and im going to take notes and this is your chance to advocate. I wouldnt presume, sir, to tell you what to ask the secretary, although the secretary is an Airborne Ranger like me, so he is my friend. He has told me that he will reduce the backlog by 2015
Get a fully develop the claim . I would make just a general comment before i turn this over to my staff. We believe that the reduction of the backlog is a combination of a claim process and dbqs and then also accountability thats passed onto the review officers. We think those three things are exactly the types of answers to not only reduce the claims but to a manageable level but then reduce the backlog entirely. Let me if i can ask a followup question, i know they work hard to encourage veterans be served to file as complete a claim as possible, but i also recognize they need options to file any way they want. Whether that is on that forum or perhaps on paper. Is that accurate and can you explain why its important that veterans still have the option to file a claim any way they want . Ill defer that to the staff. Its important that veterans still have the opportunity to file a claim, paper on the standard or regular form. Currently they can take that regular piece of paper or as many
On the job. Using this holiday break to learn how to handle firearms. Applications for these classes are up all across the country. Were going to talk much more about that in a bit. We want to get right to the breaking news this morning. It affects so Many Americans hoping to adopt. The president of russia has just signed a bill, banning americans from adopting russian children. And this now blocks kids from being adopted by American Families, leaving russia, to move here to start a new life. Abcs lama hasan has the latest from london. Good morning to you, lama. Reporter good morning to you, josh. This controversial new bill banning u. S. Citizens from adopting russian children is igniting a firestorm among human rights activists, saying this law victimizes children to make a political point. Now, the u. S. Is the biggest destination for adopted russian children. Some 60,000 of them have been given homes by americans since the fall of the soviet union. Whats more heart breaking, theres
And were coming forward inaudible having individuals plead guilty to charges shows a lot. I think as we continue doing those kind of cases and building those cases we will see results. We have asset forfeitures that will be coming so i can foresee more things happening. Were currently working with the fbi right now. Commissioner turman. I move that we, the ask the board of supervisors to authorize the police to retroactively accept and appropriate a grant in the amount of 200,000 from the california Emergency Management agency. Second. First we have to have Public Comment. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, all in favor say aye. Please call line item 5. Line item 5, Public Comment on all matters pertaining to item 7 below, closed session, including Public Comment on vote whether to hold item 7 in closed session. Motion with reference to the closed session matters, ladies and gentlemen these are disciplinary matters involving police officers. They are protected by the california constitu
good morning and welcome to the local Agency Formation commission as a joint meeting with the Public Utilities commission. My name is chair avalos, john avalos chair of the lafco. I am joined by other lafco members, commissioner olague and commissioner pimentel. This is a joint committee so i will pass on the mic on our chair from the Public Utilities commission. Yes, art torres member of puc and other members. Thank you very much for being here. We make a very legionary and strong quorum on this rainy day. Okay. And of course our general manager is here as well, har an kelly and the staff of the puc. Thank you. I want to thank sfgtv for their work broadcasting this meeting, and madam clerk if you could chair with us your announcements. Please make sure to silence all electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents should be submitted to the clerk. Okay. Do you want to call the roll . You call the roll on puc. Yes. President torres. Here. Commissioner. Here. Commissioner moran co