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Appreciation to everyone and there was a important Planning Commission up stairs and supervisor campos will be joining us and and i want to recognize your clerk derek evans and recognize committee members. Supervisor norman yee and commissioner fewer and commissioner wynns and we will be joined by commissioner hydra mendoza and are there any announcements. Please silent all cell phones and Electronic Devices and items to be included in the file and speaker cards will be given to the clerk. And i want to thank sfgtv for making todays meeting live on sfgtv and seeing no further announcements can...

Other disasters would be less expensive and others were looking at, are we driving trends down . Are we seeing overall we contain overtime costs are we not, you know, doing things just because people always did it that way to really drive down the costs of every dollar we administer. I can give you things we work towards, case studies of disasters where we have done reductions versus what we would have spent before and show you trend. Youll show us metrics on outcomes . Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you, i look forward to hearing those. Back to the conversation with senator baldwin. You talked about g...

Screeria nigeria. A look at two Agency Budget requests, first fee mas budget then a hearing on the department of transportations 2016 budget. And later Border Patrol officials discuss threats and security along the u. S. canadian border. Next fema administrator craig fugate renting his agencys 2016 Budget Proposal to a Senate Appropriations budget committee. It is for disaster radio preparedness and resiliency. From capitol hill. This is about an hour and a half. I call this hearing to order for the dhs appropriations subcommittee. Today will be id like to welcome administrator fugate, adminis...

That have capabilityies, we want to address that life safety immediate response, communications evacuation and sheltering. Thats pretty much something youre going to need to do in a lot of different events. This is our idea that grant dollars have build a lot of capability are looking at where do we need to put more emphasis. Our first work with dot is looking at training capabilities, we want to make sure Senior Executives in the fire service have the latest. But also looking into the Grant Programs and again as we see these threats emerging, because this is dual use, we do have capability, w...

Because it got wiped out. We need to move beyond that. We have to look at not just Building Back to what we always looked at cost benefit analysis and make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for d...