Commissioner stacy we have quorum. Thank you. So um, before we get to the first item id like to say that that that are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush rahmytoosh ohlone olonee who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. Responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. Elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Founding in 19 three 2 it is important we recognize the history but also, we acknowledge that the Ramaytush Ohlone established and partnership with the sfpuc anticipate are in the great area great bay area communities so can we call the first item please. 3. Approval of the minutes of february 13, 2024. Commissioners any corrections to the minutes of the meeting seeing none, well open to the Public Comment. Any members of the public present to provide comments on the minutes. Seeing none, no remote ca
Forward and pointed it out and said i want to return the check and they said no. thats why state senator bill dotzler believes the iowans who received unemployment checks in 2014 due to an error by Iowa Workforce development. Should be allowed to keep that money. Even though they got money that they werent supposed to. Dotzler, whos a nonvoting member of the Iowa Workforce development board, is proposing that iowans should not have to pay the money back. 02 12 1729 you cant get blood out of a turnip and when somebodys been laid off and they dont have any resources, youre gonna have to go through procedures of garnishing wages and all that. Andy roberts of the plumbers and Steamfitters Local Union 33, is the chairman of of the Iowa Workforce development board. Roberts is in favor of dotzlers proposal. 01 50 1524 i just feel that what its gonna cost for the state of iowa taxpayers to recuperate this money is far more, outweighs the amount that youre gonna receive back in. both dotzler an
Help up here on the hill and we lose months. We move loose four, five, six months to hire Replacement Program or we dont have time. So shipbuilding gets held up. Projects get held up. People were tired and that loses that trust with the industry. So precluding getting sequestered as helpful and in the continuing resolutions having a similar effect in that we are not doing any new projects and some of these are pretty critical as we move into the years and need to modernize. Senator the first comment i would make is over the last two years where above the level of sequestration and the army was only 33 ready. And so yes flexibility will give us the ability to manage insufficient funds in our department but thats all it does. It allows us to better manage because today we extend our aviation programs so the cost for every apache has gone up to the cost for every ua 60 has gone up. The cost for every ch47 has gone up because we have extend the programs longer and longer so we are paying m
Absolutely. Yes senator. General wasser wants to ask you about comments that have come to my attention that were reported to have been made by Major General james post the Vice Commander of air combat command and he is reported to make these comments when addressing a group of airmen this month. What he is said to have made in comments to the airman was anyone who was passing information to congress about a 10 capabilities is committing treason and is part of those comments he also said if anyone accuses me of saying this i will deny it. Let me ask you this general welsh. Do you find those comments to be acceptable in any way to accuse our men and women in uniform to say you are committing treason if you communicate with congress about the capabilities of the a10 are the capabilities of any other of our Weapons Systems yes or no . No maam, not at all and there is an investigation currently ongoing with the incident. When i read the newspaper article i contacted the general officer invo
Command general and they are in regards to addressing a group of airmen this month. What he has said to have made in comments to the airmen was anyone who is passing information to congress about these capabilities is committing treason. As part of those comments he has also said that if anyone accuses me of saying this, i will deny it. Let me just tell you general welsh. Do you find those comments to be acceptable in any way to accuse our men and women in uniform to say you are committing treason if you communicate with congress about the capabilities of any other of our Weapons Systems . No, maam, not at all. There is investigation currently ongoing with that incident. And i actually contacted the general involved and his commander and the department of defense is overseeing an investigation being run by isaf eiji. And they will present that as soon as the investigation is complete. I hope that this is a thorough investigation because obviously, i think its very serious to accuse peo