There is a number of interesting things here and think there are quite interesting for dbi, particularly at page 592. Dbi requirements. Dbi would require that the detail geotechnical reportthis is not 301 mission, this is transbay. Report address the potential settlement of impact of excavation dewater. The report include determination bl a Lateral Movement and settlement survey of adjacent streets during construction. If a Monitoring Survey were recommended department of public works require a special inspector be retained. It goes onif you can wait one second mr. Brigs. Mr. Hui, relative to dbi requirements in the eir for transbay, do you know who in your department is in charge of that . I wasnt involved at all. I think it [inaudible] presumably this requirement is ongoing right now. I think [inaudible] hired their own consultant. I only doing the plan check in charge of the plan check for them. So, the watering is not in my area of expertise. I appreciate your candor, mr. Tomthis i
There is a number of interesting things here and think there are quite interesting for dbi, particularly at page 592. Dbi requirements. Dbi would require that the detail geotechnical reportthis is not 301 mission, this is transbay. Report address the potential settlement of impact of excavation dewater. The report include determination bl a Lateral Movement and settlement survey of adjacent streets during construction. If a Monitoring Survey were recommended department of public works require a special inspector be retained. It goes onif you can wait one second mr. Brigs. Mr. Hui, relative to dbi requirements in the eir for transbay, do you know who in your department is in charge of that . I wasnt involved at all. I think it [inaudible] presumably this requirement is ongoing right now. I think [inaudible] hired their own consultant. I only doing the plan check in charge of the plan check for them. So, the watering is not in my area of expertise. I appreciate your candor, mr. Tomthis i
Good morning, and welcome to the government audit and Oversight Committee for today, november 17th, thursday. Im eric peskin joined by supervisor katy tang who is sitting in for vice chair supervisor nor man yee. Well be joined shortly by member and president breed. Our clerk is dash derrick evans. Do you have announcement. Speaker make sure all Electronic Devices and complete speakers and it should be submitted to the clerk. Board of supervisor agenda thank you, mr. Evans. Supervisor tang, can we have a motion to excuse supervise yee. So moved that will be the order. And mr. Clerk, could you please call item 2 out of order. Item number 2 is hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending february 1, 2017, to the park, recreation and open space advisory committee. rules committee vacant seat 4, succeeding heather fuchs, resigned, must be nominated by the district 4 supervisor and from district 4, for the unexpired portion of a twoyear term ending item number 2 is hearing to cons
In 1989 to 80 during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. In recent years, significant disaster aid was provided outside the fema Disaster Assistance programs. These charts show how aid programs outside fema have grown. In fact, for Hurricane Sandy, there was less fema assistance from the department of housing and urban development or the department of transportation. We found these additional disaster aid programs dont have the same requirements and restrictions as the fema assistance. Fema assistance is tied to actual disaster damage and is for individuals, governmental entities or certain nonprofits performing governmentlike functions. Fema only spends money on eligible items for eligible applicants, no matter how much money fema receives. Fema mitigation funds must be used on cost and official projects to ensure the federal investment is a wise one. Fema makes every effort to get money in the hands of applicants as fast as possible to enable rapid recovery from disaster impacts. From the sandy
The 114th congress, i stated that my top Emergency Management priority was pursuing life saving and cost reducing disaster legislation and launching a Public Policy debate about the costs of disasters in terms of both the loss of property and human life. We follow that hearing with several round tables to help us understand what disasters cost this country, who pays those costs and whether the problem is Getting Better or worse. Early last year, Ranking Member carson and i introduced the fema format to call for the First Comprehensive assessment of disaster cost and losses in over 20 years. We also wanted to reform several Disaster Assistance programs to make them more efficient. If february, the house passed the fema legislation and we hope the senate will take up hr1471 and pass it soon. The purpose of todays hearing is to discuss what we have learned so far and begin exploring potential solutions, particularly the principals that should be driving those solutions. While there are si