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For being here and his hard work. After opening statement, well go to secretary shulkin for statement and then members of the committee for q a. Let me say, this meeting is not about whats happened in the past, its about whats happening right now to correct some things that happened in the past. This is an accountability hearing. Ive told the secretary that we want to take the legislation we passed last year on accountability, on appeals, to give them the tools to address the significant problems confronting the veterans of america, vsos of america, and this committee, to begin moving away fro...

Include an anchor that drives foot traffic to the district, and an anchor could be a fullservice Grocery Store or another large retailer or it could be a cluster of smaller stores, related Retail Stores or restaurants; some sort of use thats a little cluster. Other businesses in a healthy mix include restaurants, nightlife and entertainment that compliment retail sales and provide gathering spaces for potential customers and potential services and Fitness Centers that provide needed services and also help to draw foot traffic. Professional Services Provide needed services in an officelike sett...

So what all this means, diversifying the mixes in an ncd so that retailers can support their customer base, is it should include a range of storefront sizes, and storefronts should be designed to adaptablity, and be able to serve a wide set of uses. It also means that the office uses that that are not open to the general public could be located off the ground floor or on the periphery of an ncd. Limiting ground floor retail requirements for new development to the strongest locations for retail could also help reduce potential vacancies. So we talks a lot weve heard a lot today about vacancies ...

At 43 million twoyear shortfall we needed to close. This is just a little context of kind of where that baseline comes from. On the revenue side, it assumes all of the indexing of the fees, fares and fines per board policy. There are some funds that come in that flow through the operating budget for capital use such as prop b, the population baseline as well as Development Fees and state capandtrade funds. We are assuming that the sb1 funds that i referred to earlier will be there. We have made other assumptions you can see here in terms of the revenue side, including the continuation of free ...

Kind of where that baseline comes from. On the revenue side, it assumes all of the indexing of the fees, fares and fines per board policy. There are some funds that come in that flow through the operating budget for capital use such as prop b, the population baseline as well as Development Fees and state capandtrade funds. We are assuming that the sb1 funds that i referred to earlier will be there. We have made other assumptions you can see here in terms of the revenue side, including the continuation of free fares. Were going to walk through fare proposals. One thing that i dont think i menti...