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certain issues it has to be taken care of by the navy but we have to provide some of the capital funds. >> so if a sue anonymous comes and wipes out the facility we're not responsible and a that's correct. i want to be clear >> a sue anonymous or the - >> all the wildfires. >> that's right we that didn't stepdaughters what happens after the fire in terms of the erosion. >> all right. is there a motion and a moved and second. >> any public comments that is
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the motion carries. >> item number ten. >> public hearing on the 2013 inform the san francisco water system. >> good afternoon water quality description of director. we're here today to conduct the hearing we have to do this ever 3 years. their ideal levels of drinking water that don't take into accountant the public health goals and that's because the technology is not there. could i have the slides please. our requirements are that we have to compare our results and we submit a report. we have to solicits the reports
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and we have to submit a letter to the state health department that we held this particular meeting. this chart is meant to give you a prospective where the system is operated. the red line at the top is the lc l the regulatory standard. we've met outlining all the regulatory standards and we try to operate somewhere below that level. the very bottom is the public health goal and this is the public health goal. for the 90 containments there were 6 that we cleed and i'll go into that detail. for aluminum and architectures
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we had the surface source so our treatment worked for led there was nothing in the water that we provided but once you get into you tell household there's faucets with lead in it so the detection were in the homes. we had a hit of uranium and we were not exactly sure where that happened. this monitor where we had the hits was in june 2011 and if you remember that was tucking she mean but the uranium is again, we have no idea. >> those occurred naturally as many chemicals do. >> that's the hard part was
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there something strange going on in the watershed so you can see we're right there we're not quite sure what it was but we feel sure certainly we're going to pay attention to that. >> very often we have those waters that occur naturally. but when i wrote the clean water drinking issue many people were a alarmed about the chemicals in the water thinking someone had put them in there but they were naturally occurred >> so we're not sure we'll take up to look at the stuff so we have a long term of looking at
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the water but the nuke she mean we're going to have to pay attention to this containment. >> well, it didn't impact the olympics. >> we always see the chloroform but the 27 percent what the michael month. if we look at the entire 3 years so maybe 3 hundred plus samples we get a positive. so discussion about the sources for aluminum arsenic and erosion is a natural thing and there's also in the chemicals you have lead and household plumbing we don't live in a stare relay
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world. we have operations that we minimize the sources and we have a watershed protection plan and we look at the chemicals to make sure they're not out of the speck. we worked a lot with the department of health. we look at one of the optioned to replace all of our meters with compromise with the policies. we offer free tests for low income people and we have a phenomenal fee of $25 to drop off the bottles and we'll report the information back to them. and basically we'll make sure we
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send a letter to the regulatory agency so that's any report >> so one is to direct staff to do something. >> basically to send a letter. >> we don't direct it. >> it's your meeting (laughter). >> is there a motion to move. >> so move forward. >> all in favor significant by saying i manufacture motion carries thank you. public comments on things to be discussed in closed session? all right. do you hear a motion >> i will move. >> attorney-client privilege and a those in favor?
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donna will read the items >> in closed items exciting legislation vs. the city and county of san francisco. item 14 existing litigation. and number 15 claims with somalian and item 17 existing litigation for the city and county of san francisco vs. the panic gas and electric company. and item we'll be back to order3 public session. is there a motion to disclose
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what we decided in closed sessi session. do you wish to disclose >> the
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>> we have a coram and the next item is number 2. employee public. i like to make a brief announcement. the bic will start its close session at city hall in room 416. the meeting will be moved to an undisclosed location. when the meeting is complete the bic will reconvene in public at the offices 1660 mission street. and vote on whether to disclose any or all of the discussions held in
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closed session. this public portion of the meeting at ddb office at 1660 miegs will not be televised. >> a correct as far as role call. commissioner walker are expected to they'll be in attendance at the later meeting. >> item 2, public employee apartment, the record of building inspection. discussion and possible action to interview candidates for the position of director of the department of building inspection. two a, public comments, is there any public comment? seeing none. item 2 b, possible action to convene a close session. is there a motion. >> i move that we convene in
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closed session. >> second. >> there's a motion and second. >> are all commissioners in favor? >> i. >> we are now in closed session. it is 1:07 p.m. thank you.
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>> san francisco parks, golden gate park transforms into one of the greatest music festivals of all time, let's journey, inside, outside land. ♪ >> to this, our 6th year doing the outside lands and our relationship with san francisco, rec and park. and we work very closely with them in the planning and working very closely with the neighborhood organizations and with the city supervisors and with the city organizations and with the local police department, and i think that the outside lands is one of the unique festivals in the world and we have san francisco and we have golden gate park and we have the greatest oasis, in the world. and it has the people hiking up hills and down hills and a lot
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of people between stages. >> i love that it is all outside, the fresh air is great. >> they have the providers out here that are 72 local restaurants out here. >> celebrating, and that is really hot. >> 36 local winerries in northern california and 16 brewers out here. >> and you have seen a lot of people out here having a good time and we have no idea, how much work and planning has gone into this to make it the most sustainable festival in the united states. >> and literally, in the force, and yeah, unlike any other concept. and come and follow, and the
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field make-up the blueprint of the outside land here in golden gate park and in the future events and please visit sffresh parks.org. >> everybody ready? the health service board meeting will come to order. all take down for the pledge. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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roll call please. roll call. president, vice president limb. specify farrell >> supervisor phrasing. here >> inspires scott. >> we have a quorum. all right. item one >> with possible modifications of the meeting regular meeting of august 8, 2013, all the any kreksz correction to the minutes? no corrections i will entertain a motion >> so move forward. >> second. >> okay. any public comment on this item. all in favor? it's unanimous. item number 2, please
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>> item two presidents report and i have nothing to report today. >> any public comment on this item? moving item 3. >> director's report lisa god from the. >> please. lisa acting director i'll to give you an update of the work of the health service tame in the month of august. very, very happy we have our new cf o pamela has been with us in the comptrollers office and working in the public health for
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years. very, very experienced cf o in the city and a health care. i think the insurance health care side might be a challenge but she'll pick it up fast. we've started interviews for our wellness manager and we've got some national candidates that are looking forward to interviewing >> financial analysis position is closing and interviews have gone and we've posted the manager positions. in terms of operation we have august was slightly lower that in terms of vacuum card to august of last year and our targets in terms of performance
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were all below targets. so in preparation for annual enrollment we try to clean up our easy and make sure that our addresses are valid the postage costs a little bit under 3 dollars and we send out 65 thousand paths costing 65 thousand dollars so we make sure when we're mailing the address is accurate. we've done better in terms of only have 23 addresses that were identified as incorrect by the u.s. postal service and they spend time to track those down and we're looking at the about maybe 17 hundred that might be
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questionable. we should have pretty good deliver rates. we also do before an open enrollment we do on audit to determine whether or not the folks are still eligible for benefits whether or not they've obtained employment or coverage elsewhere. we had one-hundred and 26 folks identified on the list and have received response from nine hundred and 8 and other folks have other coverage so the audit will be completed in time for the open enrollment mailing. as we've talked about in previous meetings we've had to rebuild the refluks flex credit for the units.
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the teams have long been working hard on u a test to make sure it's functioning correctly and i think we have completed all i have that and we're confident it's going to be a smooth enrollment for the m e a unions. in the really a fundamental step to make sure we're ready for the obama benefits in 2015. the communication team has been very busy with getting the guides and the information correct and they've all been think sent to printers and they'll all be out on time in advance of the october 1st date. you will see later under agenda item 7 you'll see a communication strategy project that ross mary has been working
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on and it's a very interesting presentation on where consumption with benefits needs to go in the future and we're also starting an rfp system. our rates and a benefits are completed and the benefits are on track to be completed for the beginning open enrollment and the audit is in progress started on september 9th. rates and benefits negotiates and kaiser negotiation negotiations we started number 5 and we'll be going into that. we've gone discussions with blue shield cost alternatives for 2015. the wellness team/have long been working hard on an enormous
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number of flu clinics we have 17 and including up in boston and all over the city we're going looking forward to that and i think that will go a long way to our winter costs that we'll see because of the flew. the epa staff supported our pe c during the rim fire and the traevenlg accident with our parks and rec pr we have the city's annual performance you'll see on item 6 have had to do
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some building of our blue shield data and the data team heads up all the work around the projects. in terms of meetings we met that the kaiser negotiations and the school district leadership to start talking about doing some attraction moldz. as you know, we've worked with the city on contribution models and the school district is interested in similar effort. we've been joining the committees on health and wellness and participated over the summer on payment reform that were interesting on where the marketplace is going toward bundle type of payments based on outcomes. covered california forum was
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hosted at mission bay i guess it was sort of a kickoff presentation on covered california. the km g kickoff and the atf we had over 1 hundred and 20 members at the seminar and to hear about the employees that might be facing early retirement and to make sure they know what their benefits are and the best practices in government epa was an interesting seminar that our staff participated in to see whether there's opportunities to approve the employee benefits. on a more recent note the s b-46 which is a bill sponsored by senator len 0 on transparence
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passed for a signature and we spoke with retiree about open enrollment. in closing, i want to say not an hour of the day goes by when we don't miss our director kaefrlg todd. we're all working hard together to get through. i think it katherine is doing is good job fighting cancer and want to say how much she's missed and thank you everyone in terms of we're having slow irons in some areas and thank you for your patience we're definitely feeling here absence >> any comments?
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i'd like to ask a request about s p-46. could you give a short summary of that will it make a big difference and i think we believe that this bill will be very important to all large group employers doing business in the state of california you are about to give there are essentially 3 sections of the law that are changed. the first two have to do with transparency other than the premium payment. - plans that set their claims based on claims data so a lot of the services that are driving the trend that are driving the
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premium rates and also another section, section f chickens specific to i think health plans that do necessarily base their pricing on claims and it's getting into detail. we see it as something that will provide significant trainers on the the trend driving the marketplace and as a purchaser more information about what's driving our premium rate increases >> will it have any effect on the contracts for the doctor's at hospitals. >> not directly you'll be able to see if inpatient is driving a premium you'll be able to see whether it's unit cost or utilization by you won't be able to say can i see the contract on
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one hospital so if itself hospital is driving the trend this law doesn't get to the level of trainers around contracts thank you. any more comments. >> i - sorry. i have to get used to hear my new - here human resources commissioner scott >> histoe oh, yes. the consensus survey director - no - she's helping over there. i'm sorry. the sense of survey employer sponsored health plan can you explain that and will the results of that be shared with us >> i'm wondering if i can get my colleague to respond. >> it gets