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Priorities including overtime rules, training and apreniveship programs, collective bargaining rights, retirement programs and accessibility of other employment benefits. The House Education Committee held this hearing last month. The quorum being present, the committee on education and the workforce will come to order. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to todays hearing. The committee is honored to welcome our distinguished guest, secretary alexander acosta. Secretary acosta has been at the h...

Under secretary. And the civilian officials from the army. Air force and navy. They discussed military readiness and modernization efforts. This is about two hours. [ inaudible conversations ] Armed Services Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the Department Reform effort. We welcome our witnesses ellen lord under secretary of defense for technology. Mark es per. Secretary of the army. Heather wilson secretary of the air force. And james gerts assistant secretary of the navy for resear...

[ inaudible conversations ] Armed Services Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the Department Reform effort. We welcome our witnesses ellen lord under secretary of defense for technology. Mark es per. Secretary of the army. Heather wilson secretary of the air force. And james gerts assistant secretary of the navy for research and development. Acquisition reform is wup of the most important frustrating topics we address. For years, we have been warned that america is losing its technolo...

We look forward to that. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our panel of witnesses. After, senators will have five minutes of questions. In 2007 doug oliver, who is in the front row i believe, a Computer Programmer began to have trouble, had his drivers license taken away and declared legally blind. It was a rare form of macular degeneration. He moved to nashville where they told him while there were no cures, he could Search Online for a trial. He found ...

Kim has made a month eggs to continue. Seconded by supervisor cohen. Supervisor peskin . Councillor peskin colleagues, im rising to speak to both 56 and 57. And without any disrespect to the mayor or supervisors ronen or sheehy, and not to the substance, but to the use of an emergency exemption, and if you read section 6. 60 subsection c which defines what an emergency is, respectfully, this does not meet that test. I mean, i can ask the City Attorney, i dont know if i need to put the City Attor...

Certainly fought for those Additional Resources at 1515 south vanness, and i wanted to hear and reiterate that those resources would be committed to those two, as well. I cannot commit resources from other departments, but i can certainly commit to 1515 south vanness continuing to work with the Police Department and the department of Public Health to ensure that not only the needs of the residents of the navigation center, the residents who live around the navigation center, and the residents ar...

Heard next, has the sunset 56 really just focused on 440 turk, and again, i would just echo what supervisor ronen said earlier about the fact that we are experiencing an emergency on our streets. We all see it every day. My staff and i see it. I think even more acutely with the people who are out, trying to assist and to get indoors. And i also just want to add that i do think that we do have data emerging, and i think we just saw with the release of huds report with homelessness rising in every...

Of the highest order. As a matter of fact, theres a hepatitis outbreak in los angeles that is spreading into the streets that could easily come to san francisco. There are people dying in fires that are started in tents on the streets and moving to other tents. I dont know what else could be a greater emergency. If were not in every single building and every single district with every single ounce of political will we have all working to solve this issue, as a crisis, and in an emergency fashion...

To put the City Attorney through the paces, but these were all foreseeable events. An emergency is an unforeseeable event. And its a really slippery slope when we start applying Emergency Declarations where an emergency does not exist because it was a foreseeable event. 440 turk street, highly foreseeable. This board took unanimous legislative action to not allow the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing to use a different site and to require them to use the 440 turk street site, so ...

Are bringing job training to the residents and are cleaning up the environment around the facility. Just a couple of days ago, i was touring the site with supervisor cohen and two of the downtown streets residents had recently found housing or people who were engaged in their job training program, so i think this model has worked very, very well at this site, not only in terms of keeping the area cleaner, but also in terms of providing services to the residents. So we certainly can move forward ...