$22 million has been taken out of the till, said espy. this is a true 0.4% increase including dental and as was said earlier, that is below the national average of 7%. lastly on page 25 of your packet, it goes into the split between the $351 million in terms of how much the employer spent and how much employees spent. right now your spend is 88% as employer. and 12% or 12.1%. 87.9% and 12.1%. that is the differential between what the employee pays and what the employer pays. that number, but to numbers are

$308,000,000.42000001 -- $308 million and $42 million. regarding board approval is included in your agenda for item 6. i have no other things to share with you. supervisor kim: let's go to our budget analyst's report. >> page 8 of our report, the six month cost for all the health plans is 351.3 and that includes the unified school district. on the bottom of page 8 we point out that the audit found the health services trust fund had increased by $13.3 million or

93% compared to june 30, 2010. this would be a jan 30 of 2011. that is showing -- sean on the table on page 9 of our report. finally we point out that ms. dodd pointed out the implementation of proposition c has not resulted in a reduction of costs. we recommend you approve -- approve the ordinance that is before you. supervisor kim: -- supervisor chu: are there members of the public who wish to speak on items five or six? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues? >> motion to approve these items. thank you for your great work.

all your work and helping to negotiate these rates. supervisor chu: we have a motion to send items 5 and 6 forward with recommendations. thanks to the department for all your hard work. we know you'll be back in july for the next set of rates. thank you. we will do that without objection. thank you. do we have other items before us? >> that completes the agenda. supervisor chu: we are turned. -- we are adjourned.

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>> good afternoon, everyone. thanks for being here. this is our first disaster council meeting for 2012, and it's been quite a previous year, but again, i want to start out by thanking everybody for working as closely as together as we are. i do feel it's just a higher level of collaboration by our community, our residents, our agencies, our responders and i know that towards the end of last year, we had a number of fires. we had a fairly big one just a few days before christmas in our

western district area. i want to thank all of the residents that were out there because there were individual heroes that acted very quickly to get others out, and then, in those precious minutes, our fire department showed up with not only one but five different divisions which was absolutely necessary, five-alarm. their response was excellent and not only did a good job but immediately there was also the fire commissioners, including the chief. we were there. i want to thank ross mirkarimi, then supervisor, he was out there with me looking out for the residents. several other board members, as well. and we immediately saw not only the residents there but the non-profits that had been there helping out. our faith-based community was there, as well, because immediately, the needs were felt and i think in the context, that

there were no fatalities, no real serious injuries, it was just another reflection of the way we're handling serious disasters, yet response is so thorough, so good. and then to follow up with those needs, not only did the community help out and i think the city started showing immediately our sense of support for the residents there that had lost everything that they had just before the holidays, and good response from our helpful communities to help out, whether they were churches or individuals that would help. d.e.m. also, they made, i think, a very critical call to cal nema to get our city declared particularly at that fire, a disaster, and got the attention of the s.b.a. and the state programs to help out and ind that there are at least six

individuals who are going through the process of getting specially handled loans out of that program. there was good follow-up because people, although not serious injuries, their lives are being put in place with that additional help so i thank the staff for doing that and all the other agencies but i think it's the reflection of the kind of response we want to see in case there is that and while we're doing that, we do everything we can to prevent but when it comes to the winter times, it was something we were all paying attention to and i know sheriff mirkarimi shared this with me, as well, because we had a chance to talk then. we were thinking there were too many fires going on in that district and we were wondering why, trying to make sure we looked at every opportunity, whether our police department and others, to research the backgrounds for all these things to make sure that if they were

accidental, we can do something even about accidental better, by better education with all of our residents about how these fires start and where they start and how to prevent them, while we look for any other indications beyond just accidental. again, i think we're doing everything we can to do that. i also want to acknowledge the work that's going on behind the scenes but now becoming more visible, and that's our america's cup. as we approach that very active event, that inviting event with thousands of people that will be here, a number of agencies are already working together doing the necessary training and i know a number of you are involved in that because there will be so many people and so many activities that are going on throughout the city in anticipation of that and so many agencies that need to have a lot more ability to work with each

other and maybe have not had the opportunity to do that. and, then, to, of course, prevent anything from happening that would be negative to the event and really reach our goals for it. so the exercises that are being led by d.e.m. in anticipation of that, the agencies that will touch upon things that include things that will happen in the air, crime control, e.m.s. fire, park events we anticipate, the people movement that are needed, the general security and the use of the water, both for security as well as recreation, all will be in play so appropriate agencies are being tapped to work through the leadership of d.e.m. to coordinate exercises that will test and need to be tested any assumptions that we are making with our individual plans so we never work in silos. and i want that to be, again, the mantra for all of us.

these large events, we have to get out of our silos and make sure we're cooperating and that's been the theme of this and that's why we go through the exercises so i appreciate this and want to thank people for doing that because when we're doing that up front, we're making every effort to mitigate anything that can happen beyond our individual borders which i know all of you will take care of on an individual department basis, it's really where it doesn't come across as individual departments and effects several of us, i don't want any gray areas to prevent us from doing an excellent job as we go on the world stage with this event. thank you very much for that. i want to single out the -- also the leadership that d.e.m. is doing when it comes to a bay web. that's been in the papers. it's before our board of supervisors and thank you for holding those hearings, members of the board, that we are pushing forward this bay web because we do have very, very

clear needs to have better communication, better spread of data. the chief mentioned that during the playoff games at candlestick, as well, some examples where things could have worked better if we had a bay web approach to our other agencies to promote higher levels of data exchange. we need to get there and i want to signal to the board that our staff, working with d.e.m., will make sure we answer every question about the financing aspects to it that might be of concern and make sure we get through that quickly so we can get on to building a system in collaboration with all the other agencies that are involved in the bay area, all their responders, all their emergency agencies. we need this because we are going to be hosting more events in this great city that command a level of bay area collaboration and with that, we need, then, data and communications that work across

our cities. that's important to us and we are also honoring the serious federal funding that had been made because they believe this is also their goal in supporting us, as well. and finally, again, i want to acknowledge all the members of the disaster council, including the new members from the community and from various agencies we work with, along with all the departments, and the board of supervisors, as well, in paying attention to how we manage disasters and how we prepare for them. things do still make me nervous in my years as public works director and i've already asked d.p.w. as well as the city engineer to begin studying what's happening on the tower and telegraph hill because those slides always leave me some

level of uncertainty as there's so much housing up there and visitors that go up there and the tower itself so we're going to get a study going to what the short term, middle term and long term challenges are on those rock slides and what they're indicating to us. i need the best engineer minds to give us that information so we can go on to higher levels of effort there. i also want to make sure we are all continuing to pay good attention to disaster recovery. that's been my personal interest but i'll tell you, all the things that we're already doing on disaster recovery, i've indicated to many other cities as i go through the conference of mayors and talk to them about what they're doing, they acknowledge that disaster preparedness has a lot to do with recovery planning that goes on now because that leads to a stronger tie with our communities about what mitigation is really all about and where we need to spend our infrastructure money. i want to thank everybody for

participating in that. you'll hear reports. every time there's a disaster in the world, if we can get somebody over there that representing our city, not only as part of a humanitarian effort that we've done like for turkey that you'll hear about today, but if we can bring back that very live experience that people have every single time we come back with a reinforcement that our recovery planning and our disaster preparedness is not only apropos, it is absolutely necessary, and again, i also signal a thanks our fleet week because that is really turning the corner for us. it's no longer the very important celebration of our military, the humanitarian and ongoing training we have with our military in the country about our own disaster preparedness is extremely important, getting everyone involved in that. with that, i just wanted to make that initial report and thank everybody for participating this

disaster council meeting. thank you to the board members, again, for being here. >> thank you, mr. mayor. i happily can say the mayor gave most of my director's report so that's wonderful. thank you so much. i have a nice little presentation for you, mr. mayor, that is a fun way to start this out, i hope. we had a beautiful coat made for you so that when you respond to our disasters we can tell who you are right away. [laughter] >> it is the mayor. anyway. i hope it's all reflective, it's heat resistant, all of that stuff. i hope you enjoy it. [applause] >> we didn't want to be outdone because i know the fire chief gave you a hat after your

election. >> i'm hoping not to wear this too often. >> i hope you don't have to, as well. just a couple of quick things that i did want to touch on, is a little uwasi update. i think most of you know that there has been cuts at the federal level on uwsai funding. this last year, we lucked out in that san francisco and the core cities remained whole, which is wonderful. so we will continue to have our $34 million of funding regionally for this current year. next year, it's questionable. what we're hearing from washington is that perhaps all of the tier 2 cities or regions will be cut out this year. if that's the case, we still may be ok next year but i think we need to be thinking long term about how we sustain the efforts that we have begun and make sure that we can continue to become more and more prepared and ready

for the big one when it does happen because funding at the federal level is definitely declining. san francisco, at this point, is in good shape and in fact the approval authority last week voted to keep the core city allocations of oakland, san jose, and san francisco, $1 million each before any other funding is expended so that's a very positive thing. just real briefly, we were very happy that the state e.m.s. authority ruled just a few weeks ago that san francisco can maintain its exclusive operating area for ambulance response for 911 and emergency calls. this has been up in the air since 2008 so that's a big victory for us, very happy with all the work that mr. dudgeon has done working with the state and with chief hayes-white and her command staff.

we really -- that's a big victory for us. just following what the mayor said about advance recovery and the resilience work that san francisco has been doing. we have really been acknowledged throughout the entire country as being at the forefront of that work and that gets back to what mayor lee, in his former position as city administrator, led up the resiliency effort and did that pre-recovery planning. on february 16, fema is coming out to roll out their national recovery plan and so they are doing it in san francisco, here in city hall. the mayor is going to be giving the opening remarks that day and in fact i had the opportunity to go to harvard in december and go through the national preparedness leadership institute, which was this fabulous program, and all of the instructors from around the country are saying that san francisco is the lead, that we are the model that should be

followed in other places. so fema will be looking to us for direction and i think that it's a way for us to highlight all the great work we've been doing and continue to do. just on a very last note, we will be doing all the 1906 earthquake remembrances that we do every year, so i hope you will join us at lata's fountain at 5:42 a.m., or whatever time it is, some god awful early morning but it's a lot of fun and we will be doing community events during april. april's a big month for us so look forward to getting messages from us and i hope you can join us. thank you. next on the agenda, i believe, is rob, recent e.o.c. activations? >> certainly. i'm going to touch on the last three or so that we've had because they're in relatively recent memory and work backwards

a little bit. first starting with, we did activate a small team for the rock slide earlier and we did that to basically make sure everything gets pulled together in one spot and make sure that everybody's working together. it seems like maybe it doesn't raise up to the level of e.o.c. but this is a key message we've been trying to push, it doesn't have to be a big event in order to have the benefits of the cross departmental, cross-agency coordination. in this case, this is specifically one of those events that really benefits from getting people in the room because oftentimes what happens is if something -- if there's an event, it gets put in the dispatch system, we get pages and updates and what the fire and police part is done, they go back to their stations and go back in service and it drops off everybody's radar so one of my charges to my team has been to keep tracking these events beyond the end of the first respond because it is first

respond. it doesn't mean the event is done. we've really seen that in dealing with displaced people and a lot of these fires in the past year and it also folds over into this where we're able to maintain tracking it for several days after it until we get a sense that we've got to the recovery phase and it's down to one or two departments working together to solve the problem. that's what we did here. it also gives us visibility and i think this is really important. it gives us visibility for identifying those events that might be eligible for some form of reimbursement down the line because if we get together early and capture the data early and get the damage assessments early, we're able to make that determination and work with cal ema to determine whether or not it's going to hit their thrish hold so we don't miss these opportunities and i think it's going to be critical as we move forward and the economy can continue to do what it does and government budgets can do what

they do. i think it's important and sometimes it's the small events, all it takes is working together. the one before that we did was the n.f.c. championship game which, again, people say, well, nothing really happened. that's because we didn't win. let's be honest. i'm very sorry for that. >> chief, sir, is still crying. >> he's all broke up. but the reality is, in today's environment, we see, you know, all over the country, where you have big professional sport event games, when people win and you have what i've been calling celebratory chaos so the point was getting everybody in the e.o.c. ahead of time working together to solve problems before they're big problems and we learn from every one of these things so we went home disappointed that night but we were there in case it went the way it did. prior to that, it also means -- this is one thing i have to say, a note of progress.

because prior to the game, we had a request from park and rec. and d.p.w. to pull together a team and do coordination about -- because, honestly, i didn't really think about it, i forgot because i hadn't been down there in too many years, the marina effect at candlestick when the parking lot floods so we got a team together and was able to keep track of what was happening. everybody knew what the other participants were up to. it was quite helpful. then going into the game, we all knew who was doing what and what the efforts were throughout the game. it was quite helpful. it went really well, all things considered. there's always stuff to learn from. we'll do a hot wash on it next week, is when it's scheduled, and when the after-action report is put together, we'll can read that. and finally, i'm going to close on new year's eve, which was a resounding success this year.

on just about every metric i could come up with to measure the city's ability to manage an event that is incredibly unpredictable from year to year. we know it's going to be busy but exactly what happens, you know, this year we were lucky not to have a fire on new year's eve so we didn't have that added complication but based on the lessons of previous years, we ramped up in significant ways both on the law side, the e.m.s. side and then did some out-of-the-box things, some nontraditional approaches. last st. patrick's day, we piloted the idea of doing an alternate sobering center so we increased the capacity for those who drink too much to where they would have a place to go that's not jail and not a hospital and therefore not tying up those two critical resources. that particular facility, the extra one, saw 46 people that night. it was a good investment on the part of the city to get that done and i have to -- absolutely have to thank the bearer of most of the cost on that was the

health department because the clinical staff involved. that was a huge contribution to the overall event and the success of it. we also upstaffed the ambulances. i have to throw out a thanks for bearing the majority of the cost on that was the fire department. they up-staffed significantly and our private e.m.s. partners up-staffed significantly and threw a lot of resources into the game with no guarantee of being able to run calls and seek reimbursement from medical payers so it was all kind of just a -- we think it could have been business but it could have been a big loss all the way around and we were able to have the resources in place. for about two hours, it was dicey. we had called coming in and resources going out at about the same pace but we held and it was a good model and i think we're going to use similar planning for next year. as far as the rest of the activities that night go, everything went without a hitch. we had the usual celebratory

chaos that is new year's but we didn't have any real significant events and we're working on the after-action report on that, as well. with that, questions from the members? >> going back to the n.f.c. championship game, contrary to a report in one of the papers today, there was not one moment of radio silence between public safety and/or back and forth with the 49ers on sunday. in fact, we took over 400 calls. i want to assure supervisor cohen, where candlestick is her district. it went as well as it could go. we've gotten a lot of compliments from the nolve how it went -- nfl on how it went. our main mode of communication, police and fire, is via radio, not by cell phone. i never spoke to the reporter that wrote the article. what was taken was out of context from a budget and

finance committee meeting earlier in the week when we were speaking to the bay web project and the advantage of having exclusive public safety spectrum in a disaster when asked why wouldn't we just go with a commercial carrier and we said, because in big events like loma preetta, 9/11 or n.f.c. championship game, sometimes cell phone service can be unreliable and text messages at time. that does not include radios. we were on top of it the whole game. we had a great plan, as rob said, it went off without a hitch and we appreciate that and apologize for anybody thinking it was otherwise. >> thank you, chief. yes, mr. ginsburg? >> the department of emergency management, not just the n.f.c. championship game or preparations for flooding but we had power issues going back to the monday night game in pittsburgh so there was a ton of interagency coordination with sfpd, fire, d.p.w., rec. and

park and d.e.m. often throughout that three or four-week process, served as the quarterback and coordinator facilitating conference calls and making sure we were working as well together as we could so my thanks to all of the other city agencies involved in helping us manage the variety of issues that came up at candlestick, special thanks to d.e.m. sometimes even little events, we can use this model and it works and it worked well. thank you. >> we're getting much better at it. we're figuring that out as we move along. thank you, phil. i'm going to move on, then, unless there's other comments, here, to recent fires and we have three presenters today but we're going to start with chief hayes-white. if you could give us a little update, please. >> certainly. good afternoon, mayor lee, elected officials, colleagues and members of the public. it was the comment is that you were really busy during december and january and when we analyzed it, we were,