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claims data base. the data manager and i were on a call today where we listened to risk adjustment and how it's being done across the country by the states that have exchanged. there is a lot of work that goes into it and a lot of effort, but i think i'm expecting that california will be doing their risk adjusting at a state level. we are building our data base to also be able to do risk adjustment and i'm supportive of the comments of the team today and that is the way of the future. a lot of efforts around data analytics to go with the negotiations and the units. the marriage certificates that were received for partners who had paid income over the last prior years we've now worked with pay roll to correct w 2's back to 10, 11, 2012 and
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2013. i think with the wellness team we have a health coach every wednesday now taking appointments for people in the civic center area. the shape up walking challenge is going strong and i think eap has been very busy and enjoying the new location. it gives them a little more room to do counseling sessions. i think that's it for my highlights. >> did you want to add anything? >> we want to encourage our commissioners and our loyal audience to join our shape up walking team. you can help boost our numbers. >> thank you. >> any comments on this item
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no. 7? any public comment? all right. item no. 8. >> city clerk: item 8 discussion item. update on the financial report as of february 28, 2014. >> pamela levin, is out today. if anybody has any questions, they can put them out there and we would continue them to the next meeting. this is about the financial reporting on item no. 8. does anybody have any questions on this item? >> all right. any public comment on this item? that will be continued until next meeting. >> item no. 9, please. >> city clerk: item 9. discuss item, report on network and
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health plan issues if any? >> any reporting on that? we've had a lot earlier on. so probably nothing new. >> all right. public comment on this item? come forward, please. thank you. >> i'm rudy faufs and represent the retired. i'm just wondering, i got your wonderful survey for people who need more cleanings per year. if we are talking about keeping the routine cleaning stuff outside the amount whether it's $1200 whether
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the other cleanings i need could be covered? i'm not the only one. many of us need four cleanings. we get annoyed. we don't spend $1,000 and we need this covered. >> i don't believe that was considered. i don't believe it was considered as part of one of the issues. >> it wasn't specifically. although we might have talked about it. we didn't actually price to see if it was different. i understand the request seems to be reasonable and we'll ask delta dental. it's coming back to the next board meeting with recommendations and we can have the price on board so you can view that as one of the
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options. >> any other public comment? seeing none. item no. 10. >> city clerk: item 10 , discussion items. items to put on future agenda? >> i just have this comment. i raised the point with kaiser and want to also say to any representative of blue shield, this physician information that's been released by medicare in how the these health plans are going to respond to either clarifying or interpreting the data out there is something this board would like to have comment on. if i can have public commitment to assessing it in the context of their medicaid or retiree proposals to us. i think it's something that we need to, that blue shield
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needs to speak to as well at some future point. so i just make that as a public comment at this point for a future agenda. >> thank you. any other suggestions? any other public comment on this item? seeing none? item 11. >> city clerk: item 11, opportunity for the public to comment on any matters within the boards jurisdiction. >> any public comment? no public comment. if there isn't any objection, this meeting is adjourned. [ gavel ] [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >>
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>> i want to learn more about it. >> social networking and e-mail. >> i want to know how to use it. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> divisional divide is a divide between those with access to use digital tools and those who don't. >> with young people, having computers and i just don't know. they're doing it fast. so, i want to know. >> not knowing how to navigate the internet or at a loss of
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what to do. >> we don't have a computer. >> we're a nonprofit that unites organizations and volunteers to transform lies through literacy. our big problem right now is the broadband opportunity program. a federally funded project through the department of aging. so, we're working in 26 locations. our volunteers are trained to be tutors and trainers, offering everything from basic classes all the way to genealogy and job search. >> to me computers, knowing how to use it. >> i think it's really important to everybody and possibly especially seniors to get enough of these skills to stay in touch. >> it's been fun. with seniors, to get them out of their homes. >> so they can connect with their family members.
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or their family members. >> [speaking in spanish]. >> so, what we focus on is transferring skills from volunteer to learner to help them get onto facebook, find housing in crisis, be able to connect with friends and family. >> i decided to teach what i learn and it made me want to give back. i discovered that seniors do a lot of review. >> i am a beginner, so, little by little i learn. i learn a lot now.
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>> if you get the basics, you can learn it. it's simple. it's easy. once you know it. and that's what i want to learn, how to make my life easier and more knowledgeable with the computer. >> so, what we need right now are more people who speak languages other than english or in addition to english who can give their time during the day and who care deeply ideally about helping to close the divide. >> it's a humbling experience. it's something simple to ask in our daily life, but to someone that doesn't know and to help somebody gain that experience in any way is awesome. >> [speaking in spanish].
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>> no matter how tired or cranky or whatever i might feel, when i walk into this place i always walk out feeling great. >> if you feel comfortable using computers and you have patience, we want you on our team. >> would you show me how to type? >> [speaking in spanish]. >> will you help me learn more?
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idle to voices the members of the audience kind and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. irving at this point commissioner president wu. commissioner fong. commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya you commissioners first on your calendar is items for continuance. formula retail controls informational presentation is proposed actually may 44 e 24, 2014 items a b requests for
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discretion review is proposed for continuance until may first, 2014 and a variance is tail proposed for continuance actually april 23rd which is the next wednesday variance hearing the reason for the separation the dr is going to be withdrawn but if not, we're continuing that matter out. commissioners hale that's all i have for continuance nrdz >> is there any public comment seeing none, public comment is closed commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i'd like to ask why item one is continued it's an informational presentation. >> that is a request from the
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board of supervisors from supervisor mar he wants to have his ordinance heard with ted's report bus that's it or supervisor mar's ordinance. >> it's not an action item for us either day. >> the ordinance i believe would be an action item. >> i'd prefer to have this heard as an informational item before an action item italian-american i'm going to vote against it. we've had a series of presentations and then everyone can mull over those and make their decisions when the ordinance is brought before us. even though it's a supervisors request i like the procedure >> commissioner sugaya. >> move to continue item one
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actually, the 15. >> commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes and is there a motion for item 2a >> commissioner antonini. >> motion to continue to may 1st for item 2. >> on that motion to think continue. commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously zoning administer >> i'll continue this case until april 23rd, 2014.
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>> thank you zoning administer commissioners, that places you under under your consent calendar their to be routine of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. item 3 case no. 23w0 14 at 1440 on filling better street the condominium conversion and the next at the 330 san jose after i have no speaker cards. >> is there any public comment on the consent calendar. seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner moore >> move to approve. >> second. >> on the motion to approve all items under consent calendar.
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>> commissioner antonini pr commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you under commission matters item 5 consideration of draft minutes for march 7, 2014 i want to point out one correction a typo on page 8 under sprshg hills context this warrants additional analysis and calibration not warrant that's a typo >> thank you. is there that any public comment on the draft minutes. >> i think we're doing minor seeing none, public comment is closed. >> under the same item under david pill powell i think it's
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not out reached but outreach. >> thank you. duly noted. >> commissioner moore. >> move to approve with the items corrected. >> on that motion to adapt the minutes as corrected. commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on item 6 commissioners >> i glanced at the wall street journal what city lost the highest percentage and number of jobs in the last two or three years i forgot the time period they think it's detroit and st.
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louis they named a bunch of them and the answer was about a large percentage los angeles lost 3 percent of their jobs see pointed out most of its even worse in the low income areas in los angeles sometimes that was 10 to 12 to 15 percent and the causes were employment laws and regulation fees and the ones that gained the most were houston and san antonio and among the jobs created they 0 had a lot of entry-level jobs created that is instructional well meaning laws to increase the minimum wage and they have an effect on death penalty enthe entry-level jobs.
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then when we approve projects and various things to make sure that there are p dr jobs and entry level jobs so it's interesting and i believe it's yesterday wall street journal. thank you >> commissioner moore. >> i'm very happy to see that supervisor kim introduces a new legislation on hours balance. declaring an su d with specific boundaries by which affordable housing would be monitored to be concurrent with marketing rate houses on line it's an interesting piece of legislation one richmond to the mayors mandate but complimenting supervisor wiener and supervisor
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chiu that innovative proposals looking at housing. there's an article out there i hope the director will give us an update i think this is an interesting pie and love to get more details >> thank you commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i wasn't going to comment but in view of that i don't think this sounds good we did the eastern neighborhoods and people don't want to consider each project a conditional use but be able to move forward. i don't see this is only stifling the affordable housing even less because there are no fees. and each of those projects has fees connected i know we'll get
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a report later but if when we talk about the percentage of affordable housing is that only inclusionary one hundred percent affordable or public housing and include rent controlled unit because most of the unit are de facto affordable. once someone leaves their market rate because the rent can be changed but we have to define the definitions of that what is the percentage of affordable housing that exists in this particular area and they gave us a figure in the newspapers regarding the income levels in this ear how recent is that income there's been a lot of growth and newer condolences and rentals that tend to make that
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higher. in terms of staff when we moved we'll have to consider this legislation in the next few weeks i'll assume >> commissioner antonini i appreciate your comments please don't get into items that are not k4r5u7b9d. >> those are mainly two things i wanted to ask. >> thank you commissioners, if there's nothing further we'll move on to departmental matters directors announcements. >> i want to comment on the article regarding short term rentals and the role of the planning department. it's a prominent role and it inflated a couple of aforementioned. i wanted to clarify for the commission and public that the departments enforcement actions have nothing to do with evictions those are private
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matters between landlords and taentsd relating to leases. the complaints the department has received has entirely to do with unit held off the markets why no one it living in the unit and their rented as hotel rooms that's the vast majority of complaints and actions that we take are related to those types of dwelling units. and, in fact, we submitted an letter to the editor i was concerned that the department was seen as being involved with the evictions we're noting importing and exporting nothing to do that the evictions >> commissioner antonini. >> director ram that kind of conflict article talks about two
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folks who were sub letting their rentals there's a concern idiom of those. >> the vast amazement of complaints are no one is is living in the unit full-time and there being a used as hotel rooms. >> commissioners item 8 the past event there was no historic preservation meeting. >> good evening, commissioners there were no items concerning the planning department at the full board supervisor chiu's ordinance that grants status to the in-law unit as you recall this ordinance will allow legalization of the unit and this was heard on march 16 and
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recommended for approval on modifications it's with the mayor's office awaiting action and supervisor wiener's ordinance it unanimously passed the board the ordinance allows additional units in the castro this commission recommended 6 to zero for approval with modifications. this ordinance will have the second reading next week. and as was mentioned by commissioner moore and commissioner antonini supervisor kim introduced the city south of market balance district that will amend a special use district in district 68d supervisor kim's district to balance the affordable housing and require the affordable housing if the balance is not maintained. amending the zoning map to establish the special zone my it
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came with other co-sponsors including supervisor mar. and receiving to commissioner antonini's comments i believe the affordable is between 90 and one hundred percent a m i i don't believe that rent control is included. with that, that's it >> thank you. >> good afternoon board of appeals last night was a bit of a did you see i didn't (laughter) >> had 5 cases on the agenda 4 of them maybe a note for the planning commission. 11050 van ness street was back at the board of appeals briefly it's a 12 unitld