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Would agree with that. The department of interior has an incredible broad portfolio. It is responsible for managing our nations public lands, our National Parks, our National Wildlife refuges, and overseeing mineral and Energy Development on our public lands and in our federal waters offshore, making sure that the taxpayers of the United States get a fair deal for the resources that the public, the public actually owns. So ensuring also that Tribal Trust Responsibilities are met and attending to...

Okay welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget finance subcommittee for wednesday, july 20, 2016, my name is mark farrell ill be chairing the committee and joined by supervisor yee and by the supervisor tang. Thank you clerk linda wong and mark as Nona Melkonian from sfgovtv for covering the meeting madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Yes. Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, madam clerk we were here quite late madam clerk call number one. The approval...

Preprinted transfers with on demand realtime that printing of ios transfers and will go through that in a little bit the fare box hope with the security accommodating new policy changes in the future and provide information about the fair transactions the vendor weve selected through a procurement process beginning late last fall is s p x jen fair theyre a contractor 5 years after initial installation busing plus options plus two options for additional 5 year for a total term. All opposed by the...

Sfgovtv for covering the meeting madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Yes. Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, madam clerk we were here quite late madam clerk call number one. The approval for the calendar year 2017 to remove the rates from ohio and colleagues this is something i sponsored on the health board and the representative i want to welcome the amazing director katherine dodd. Thank you. Good morning members of the board brown today a administrative code for...

Justice holmes said the constitution is made for people with fundamentally different points of view. The constitution is a debate all citizens can participate in and cspan believes that with its great nonpartisan motto. My justice was the greatest justice of the 20th century. He reminds us public discussion is a political duty. Its not just a right we have of free speech. We have an obligation to educate ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of the constitutions. Thanks so much to susa...

What im curious about is that if ths is an independent review and we are assuming that thats the way youve set it up to be most certainly there would have been a contract or documentation as to what the expectations were. Is there a memorandum of agreement or documentation concerning what the dui would review and if not why would we receive copies as requested by the committee as requested by the documents including the charge questions or the scope. They havent received the recommendation last ...

Mind and into the river. Beyond the immediate cleanup of the spell it is time we overhaul our abandoned mine cleanup policies. We need to make future disasters like this less likel ar while resources like oil, natural gas, and coal all pay royalties to return of fate value to taxpayers, hard rxak Mining Companies can still mind valuable roles for free. A comprehensive approach to refouan should include the establishment of a hard rock reclamation fund. Funded by a fair royalty. In a comprehensiv...

In mexico through our consulates and the role they play. Now the United States, i think, mr. Starr has widely tried to involve itself in reform of the criminal Justice System in mexico itself. In order to truly get at drug trafficking, gun trafficking, organized crime which, of course, is always at the top of our agenda. And id like to ask you in that regard about the socalled midira initiative. Which is charged with disrupting criminal organizations, strengthening institutions in mexico, improv...

Once again, live for a hearing on last months waste water spill at the Gold King Mine in colorado. A couple of house committees this morning will hear testimony on capitol hill from epa Administrator Gina Mccarthy and a number of tribal officials from the Navajo Nation, just one area affected by that spill. The spill contaminated rivers in kol co colorado, new mexico and utah and in the Navajo Nation. Yesterday, Gina Mccarthy testified before a Senate Committee and she defended the epas response...

We do that through our rfp process. How would we know what that experience and process is if we potentially dont have the experience in our own staff to be able to hire that type of contractor to understand what you need in that process . Im not assuming that we dont have expertise to understand. I would like that answer to that question. Through this process, when a mine is open and it has gone on for at least in the state of nevada for 60, 70, 80 years. You have to provide documentation and en...