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Happy and proud that we found another way to move forward with this project. So in working through kind of rescuing the project our strategy was to achieve a market rate of return so the develop or had incentive for the project and giving us the Community Benefits we needed and as you can see on the slide we accomplished this we revisited and tight ened the Public Benefits package and prioritized it and made sure we were getting the most important benefits and de emphasizing the lessor ones and approximately the 50 million that we lost from redevelopment and you will hear more about how we did...

Meeting with supervisor farrell and part of this business working group. Working group in poor neighborhoods in San Francisco. I like end it last week to wind is surfing in the tsunami which wouldnt happen. We had open meetings. I always felt whats good for folsom california is good for sacramento or whats good for San Francisco is good for russian hill and vice versa. I have been to dolores park. All of us have gone to golden gate park. Parks is necessary for kids. I never thought i would never see this day. I said to supervisor farrell, if you can make this happen, i think you should start t...

On the veterans we are here to serve. Fifth, the va has failed to hold people accountable. And last we lack physicians, space, staff, Information Technology and perchase care funding to meet the current demand for Timely Health care. Furthermore we dont have the capacity to quantify the staffing because we have not built resources from the bottom up. We have instead managed to a budget number. As a consequence of all of the failures the trust that is the foundation of all we do, the trust of the veterans we serve and the trust of the American People and their elected representatives has eroded...

All right, senator burr suggests maybe we should make a wait a few minutes for other members to come back from recess. Lets take a quick recess here. Its create cal we continue to have these hearings to do everything we can to hold v. A. s feet to the fire and make sure that accountability is there. We know some things now that we did not know at the last hearing. We know for a fact that v. A. s wait list manipulation and access to care issues is, in fact, systemic. Report after report has confirmed this. In fact, 77 facilities are currently under investigation by the v. A. Inspector general. ...

But what could be more pressing than to make sure our veterans receive the care that they need and deserve . Thank you, mr. Chairman. Other members will be filtering back. But i would like to hear from the acting secretary now. And customarily, we give five minutes, but youll have more time. This is a serious discussion, and we want you to have the time you need to make your case, and we want the members here to have the time they need to ask you the questions. All right, senator burr suggested maybe we should wait a few minutes to make sure all the members come back. Lets take a very quick re...