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bring it back to you. >> okay. i don't need a motion to continue, do i? do i need a motion just to continue? okay. the item will be continued unless there is an objection. item eight please. >> item eight action item approval of resolution ordering the 2014 board election for two terms and authorizing the staff to in fact and proceed with the election. lisa ghotbi. >> so before you under tab eight is a resolution ordering the health service board election, setting the dates for the election, offering the health systems to operate the election and proceed and the two elections are president breslin
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and commissioner fig rigo and will occur on the dates listed and the individuals will assume on the meeting of may 12. are there any questions on this? or any comments? >> june 12. >> did i say may 12? i'm sorry. june 12. >> any discussion? i need a motion on this item to approve. >> i move that we adopt the resolution as distributed. >> second. >> okay. any public comment on this item? all in favor say? >> aye. >> opposed? okay. it's unanimous. item number nine. >> item nine discussion item presentation of rates and benefits calendar for plan year 2015. lisa ghotbi.
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>> okay. so it's that time again for rates and benefits cycle. commissioner scott will be leading this year in the cycle and before you is a calendar of the plan schedule of topics between february and taking -- but taking the final vote in june and to the board of supervisors for the july meeting. it is i think well laid out. it is going to be a busy time but i think we've got a good plan for making sure that we are making -- we're reviewing things every meeting and making decisions so it's not all backing into one meeting. of course at the final meeting we will revisit it and do a final approval. any questions or comments or suggestions for the calendar? >> commissioner scott. >> as always i am going to
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appeal to everyone that will be involved in this process that you use the time that is provided during each of the subsequent meetings to bring forth your concerns, your views and your comments so that we do have a robust discussion, and not have to appeal to other forums because we didn't like the outcome. we will try to be as public and transparent about this as we possibly can, but i hope that people will actively engage throughout the process so that when we do come to a final recommendation we all know how we got there and that's an appeal to every one of the members who are covered and supported by these trusts and participate in the plans and if we have to fill the room that's fine. if we have to stay longer that's fine but i do hope that people will come out, share
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their concerns, as we address these topics. i only appeal that you stay on point, not talk about the end game but the things that we're dealing with at that particular moment if you can, but i do hope that there is wide and active engagement during the process. thank you. >> and i noticed that the february meeting is when we will discuss the retiree delta dental and that would be the time when you would be -- the last meeting after the prior meeting about other options for retirees. will that be discussed at that meeting? >> correct. at the february meeting. i think at the last meeting the board asked us to look at other options in terms of higher amounts. we will bring those back as well as the board asked us to draft a survey to the retirees to get their understandings and preferences so we will have that for you to review. >> so if the member vs any
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suggestions. >> >> i welcome them to come up now as far as the retiree dental plan. >> there is one concern i have about delta dental and that is it came up last meeting about how many times you have your teeth cleaned in general. two times a year was considered optimal. i think four times a year is actually a preventive for root canals and extractions and i think this ought to be reviewed at the next meeting. >> thank you. >> i just wanted to comment they have surveyed some dentists on that and i haven't gotten consensus that four times a year is actually recommended. we're going to be asking the retirees about what they're saying but
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we're not getting that recommendation. >> come forward please. >> i am diane erlick. at the last meeting i asked why delta dental didn't cover the follow up care for the checking your mouth and the dental plan for sleep apnea and the representative explained to me that retirees do not have i think he called it tmj coverage and if we have that in our plan it would cover that, the active hadn't, so i request that you maybe get tmj coverage included in our plan so if we have the money left over in the plan something like that would be covered. >> thank you. >> thank you. it's on the list. >> thank you. >> dennis krueger activity and
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retired firefighters. in my continued saga of the dental coverage one of the questions that come up is "how many would it cost for me to have a plan like the active employees? how many would it cost for a $2,500 a year plan?" so i am hoping delta which seems to have -- very good monopoly on the dental system and coverage which probably has 25 or 30,000 people from the city could come up with rates for maybe $1,500 plan, a $2,000 plan and equal to the $2,500 plan, and then i would like to have some consideration from delta in our $1,000 plan if you have one root canal or one crown your coverage is gone so you're not able to get the one
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or two cleanings a year so i think some consideration should be put into the policy that even if you get to a thousand dollars because of a crown or some kind of procedure you still should be little entitled to get the two cleanings a year because again as everybody seems to know oral health is also contributor of physical health so thank you for those considerations. >> thank you. >> i will just respond and just say those are the concerns that we heard at the last meeting. we are pricing out those titles. we are also pricing out preventive care being excluded from the cap. >> thank you. any other public comment? all right. seeing none item number 10.
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>> item 10 discussion item report on network and health plan issues if any. >> anybody want to come forward on this item? any comments on this item? any public comment on this item? seeing none item number 11. >> item 11 discussion item opportunity to place items on future agendas. >> commissioner fraser. >> thank you. i'm not sure when i would like to ask this, but i think it might be useful for the board and for our members to have a presentation that's a little bit more on the public health side but related to the importance of exercise and in particular a comparison of exercise to many medical treatments because there is fairly good evidence that 30 minutes a day is more effective than many of the medical treatments we're paying for and i think getting that
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information out is useful and i will take the burden on getting a speaker but i hope the board is interested in providing the information to the members. i think it's a great idea. any other suggestions for future agenda item? seeing none any public comment? item number 12 please. >> item 12 discussion item opportunity for the public to comment on any matters within the board's jurisdiction. >> you can comment on anything in our jurisdiction. >> dennis krueger active and retired firefighters. the other side of the coin i just want to thank the representatives from delta for looking into a particular situation that arose and even during the middle of the holiday i was still getting contacted by him and he resolved all of the questions they had so again i want to thank the
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our new headquarters. as you know yelp has lived within the same radius. we've moved a short distance away and to keep our headquarters in san francisco was a conscious one. san francisco was a key player in the yemz story. we realized that yelp might work in cities around the world with yelp in 23 criteria's we need a little bit more desk space. yelp has 17 hundred employees 8 hundred in sf. we're committed to growing the local economy and maintaining a strong connection to our san francisco lines.
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when looking for a new headquarters it was location, location, location. we needed somewhere to provide easy access to lots of local businesses and restaurants and remain convenient for mass transit riders and bike riders a lot of our employees ride bikes. combrem is pack at about local plays and celebrate the distinct active and unique. we want to have this into a more than workplace. talking of resident at the 130 montgomery is an important milestone.
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we'll celebrate our tenth anniversary next year. i'm privileged to introduce yelp leader our 2kwishd nancy pelosi (clapping.) and what on a honor to be your representative in congress. thank you jeremy. your leadership and your sense of community and for staying in san francisco. i'm honored to join you and your colleagues especially our mayor who has a relationship with this part of the whole city, of course, but this was his baby and he's done a remarkable job. when we cut relishes at another
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that i have i tip my hat to president obama for helping to make business grow in this part of town. it's great to see you again jeremy. he brought some of the enthusiasm to washington for yelpless recently. and erica congratulations on our work here. lisa and matt congratulations on our awards how wonderful. but it's a principle for me to be here as your representative in congress to the new headquarters but a building of great tradition and that's in our city. this whole faith is built on
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technology and really save in community because community is what yelp is all about. yelps success is living proof that american business doesn't want just service a small community but this whole community. from the beginning this torrid company acknowledged that this can be a good model of bits. and certainly there's no befrt place to test this model but in san francisco. consider where we are today 140 new montgomery street stand for innovation. the first sky skrarpt to be in
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san francisco. it was then the pacific telephone company. i've been using caving stone as means of communication but that was the innovation of the day. that was here in 1929 that, sir winston churchill made a telephone call for his 21st wedding anniversary he said why say the age of migraines it past it's just the beginning to today, we mark a new beginning it's called the monument for talk it's called yelp. today, we have the opportunity to celebrate the now global company community community
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community how many communities jeremy. while millions of companies understand how yelp can help to change minds fewer know how dedicated this is to helping nonprofits doing the same they're committed to helping leader to find czar grant award and a having champions within the company to open the doors of opportunities pr i congratulate you it's a small amount of money to help incurs who are striving to build better community. 826 val say thank you for
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helping children to learn more skills. and that's what communication is all about. and the initiative to expand their business. it's all connected to communication and empowerment. i take it something is going to happen with bell, pack bell jeremy said they have their yellow pages and we have yelp. we affirm our deaths for the economic engine it drives the american dream so thank you yelp for your leadership this tliefrz on the power of community.
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thank you for your imperial spirit and a your commitment to the community. thank you congratulations to yelp (clapping.) don't use it as a model but (laughter) you really this is such a passion for the mayor. and i know what this means to many this building yelp coming here for him everyday strives to make san francisco the engine of economic growth of community respect of giving opportunity to so many people. i know this is a special program and he wanted to decade yelp to
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the san francisco community >> thank you (clapping.) well, that's kind of neat to have it yielded by the leader. i am, of course, very glad to be here at yelp this is my second invest to this site. i know that erica having something in common being from berkley. it's great to see people coming together after law but it's good to see maybe there's life for me. but i'm happy to be here and join nancy pelosi and congratulating he yemen they're new home. yelp is special they're starting here and staying here that i i love coming here it is now 8
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hundred the numbers changed. i visited a few weeks we looked at the building restroom for a thousand. i want to join leader pelosi it is a happy day. i love to see companies succeed and the collaborating and sharing ideas this is what yelp has done. and then to do something special in the what happened in san francisco because companies that are here and start here they follow in the tradition like the charles swabbings and the fisher's and the hell man's they discover the resources and want others to grow with them.
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that's why to recognize 3 outstanding nonprofits you've columbian but even if company like yelp now, it's yelp and yelp foundation. i love that because i got it, it's sales force and sales force foundation the technology companies are taking up that social responsibility like no others and i love seeing that because that's been the values of san franciscans. we've shared in our success and as we present more companies whether their along market street or monday night grorm we have 1 thousand companies in san francisco plus. think about how many foundations
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this represents >> we all know the understanding is becoming clear innovation is not about the temple it's about a way of thinking. it suggests that community collaboration, building of that community, sharing of ideas is really a spirit. i've been very happy to collaborator collaborate with yelp and looufrt has been with us a couple of times we have a relationship that's not just in the city. i'm happy to bring yelp with me and present them to other mayors. we get to not only brag but to announce we're solving things that we're not in the drudgery
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of retention reform and run away accounts but we can solve them in partnership with the private sector. we took this one example data that no one looks altered from restaurants and we discovered there's no eyes on that so we matched that up with the real eyes that are at yelp and made that connection so when you go to let yelp website i can see the relationship in government and we announced that and other cities asked how we have more people using that process. that's one of dozens of example whether it's in transportation
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finding parking spaces and ride sharing to function more efficient. this partnership goes beyond it and you have made it exist. i'm interested in seeing the other donation you're making to consumer free speech and thank you yelp for being here i want to call up jeremy and a nancy pelosi it's about time that on the occasion of establishing you're wonderful headquarters and i'll watch the demonstrate you're wonderful services this is today yelp day colleagues, that places you on the next item >> does that mean he can park
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