Have been occurring on a regular basis since Early September so i would like to thank you and i appreciate the time that you have invested in openly communicating with the staff on the house and the senate side of the committee on the implementation issues in the progress that you have been making on this implementation issues. In the va i hope it is a precedent for improving relationships as we go forward. The law provided Additional Resources and authorities to provide for the key improvements for veterans. Timely access to health care, expansion of the internal capacity and the indication of the benefits. Today i hope you will hear tangible ways that benefits. The veterans are getting the outcomes intended. If there are roadblocks to the implementation you need to know what they are and how it can be fixed on those roadblocks. With regards to timely access to health care i am aware that the department has expressed serious concerns with the 90 day deadline on the Choice Program. The
Please proceed with your testimony. Chairman miller, distinguished members of the committee, our goiding principles for implementation of the choice act have been to do whats right for veterans and to be good stewards of taxpayer resources. While our challenges are clear, were turning those challenges into opportunities to improve the care and service we provide to veterans. We are reorganizing v. A. For success to make sure we maximize those opportunities. We call that reorganization my v. A. , an associated Customer Service solution that goes along with it. Because we want veterans to view us as an organization that belongs to them. Providing quality care in the ways they need and the ways they want to be served. My v. A. Entails functions, operations, improving processes, leveraging technology and enhancing efficiency, increasing productivity and effectively implementing the choice act. A 360degree effort to provide veterans with a Seamless Integrated v. A. Regardless of how they co
So one of the, i think, test when the rubber hits the road here is what is the capacity in private secretarior to really absorb patients in a more timely way than we have been able to provide that care. Thank you. How is the v. A. Tracking the use of the 10 billion allocate had for the Choice Program . All of that will be accounted for separately under the Choice Program. This is actually a mechanism very similar to what we set up back in may for the accelerating Care Initiative where we were allocating specific amounts of funding out into the field. So we had already established a separate accounting clan to be able to track and record all of this information. So we will know exactly at any point in time whats been expended and insured that only been expended for those Choice Program activity. Great. Thank you. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Youre recognized for five minutes. [ inaudible ] you said that an ses employees cannot be fired for without what the chairman called a phanto
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Effect by supervisor mar well did that well take that without objection. Madam clerk call item 4. Item 4 a resolution authorizing the Second Amendment with the Land Ordinance of 9 thousand square feet he 711th avenue informs to january 31st, 2018, at the basement of 350,000 per year. Good morning, mr. Chairman im glaud a i cant the director of real estate the resolution authorizes a Second Amendment to an existing office lease that provided an overflow space for the department of Emergency Management and the Recorders Office and the commission at 7th and van ness the original lease was approved in july 2012 a First Amendment approved on extension in june 2013 extending the lease the Second Amendment provides a 3 year term commencing now until january 31st, 2018 landowner llc required a minimum 3 six months lease the bails rent increases one dollars 17 and the departments will be required to pay for actual utilities and services and share as the expensive of common space so for operatin