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family we blend based on enrollment we have to combine the employee pier one and two those are interpreted by the trend rates set that i myself and my colleague projected them to 2018 we did use separate rates for the different plans based on our prospective outcome as well as past experience and so simply taking the 2015 premiums and turn them 2018 and compare them to the threshold and multiple by combroorment that's the general methodology. >> thank you other questions from the board on this particular topic? >> 2018 seems to be a vastly
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distant time to us it's a vastly different time we sit here today and say 2018 it will be upon us rapidly and people are saying we consider the election that will take care of it all that's a foolish position to be in i'm pleased to see we're spending time to get an advanced understanding and important popular the regulations are not complete so the degree we have through our coalition partners and other founders what understand and bring to bear some clarity about what the regulations are going to although they could be issued any day i hope we can find partnerships to try to get clarity rather than assuming
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well, you know the election is going to take care of it or the repeal or congress some other wish list of disasters or probabilities thank you for your work. >> just a comment the excise tax is the final nail to get employers to drop health care under the affordable health care act why wouldn't most employers do that it appears that would be moved. >> the penalty on the other side. >> how much. >> some people have done the calculation already the thresholds is not offering health care and the city is a philosophyly it's an issue that has to be regarded moving
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forward. >> secretary. >> is there any other public comment on this item secretary oh there is public comment. >> just real quick dense active retired firefighters i hope that affordable housing iron hewitt has more tools in their tool chest than reducing benefits and reducing co-pays if that's the only solutions available than a lot of peep in this country need to get together and do something to stop this from going forward that's all this happens is benefits get reduced and co-pays go up so 30's this is one more pressure point to continue to
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reduce health care in this country that's sad i hope there are a few more tools in affordable housing voluntariness tool kit that can possibly come up with other solutions. >> easement defending or - its mother avon hewitt this is driving the boat but the law talking about taxing or collaborations the cadillac plan so it is what they've done at our request and thank tell me fully to conduct an analysis what might this potentially look like based on what's described in the law that's our request of them they came back as a result of the analysts and said here's areas of high cost if you understand the calculations and
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signages it go along with it, it's a walk up call to try to partner with others to get clarity about the law and more importantly the regulations that are going to follow up that's my take away so they've done what we've asked them to do it's not a pretty picture understanding the law as we see it today dobd. >> i think the relevance of those numbers to the earlier blue shield presentation needs to be underscored when we trend it out the blue shield costs we were looking at our trends has been since the implement of the aco and blue shield has been unable to negotiate those rates with sutter to the blue shield numbers could be grossly expand if he were to allow whatever the market would bear so in terms of
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explaining to employees and retirees the importance of keeping our hospital developments down have approved complications in 2018 in taxes and i think hence blild action now in 2015 is it would be too late if they did it in 2017 for 2018 so our actions the board of supervisors actions the whole idea of anti explosive rate setting of keeping rates down is really going to hit us if they're national successful in norwalk the same kind of rate trend we've had in the past few years. >> thank you
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other comments pr any public comment on this item? if not we've proceeded to the next item other public comment i should say please. >> item 18 opportunity to place items on future agenda autopsy do i have any. >> we have the closed session we deferred from today and is there anything else. >> and there's others. >> we have item before 17 he did it before blue shield. >> we're going to cocky absolutely will come back to that. >> item 7 report on health issues if any. >> i'm sorry yes. i understand thank you very much. >> hi kate area vice president
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for strategic kaiser permanente i said to alert the board we have a strict notice that's been given to us from the national union of health care workers and will be the strict notice is for this coming monday to kennedy end on the 19th we have about seven hundred of our optical workers as well that have issued notices they've be striking along with them as support. >> the optical center and not the physicians. >> i'm talking about the service center where you go get your glasses. >> yes. yes. >> i better hurry up this afternoon and get it done. >> we've put a contingency in
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place we're going determining whether to close some centers before you we have a plan in place we expect routine appointments that need to be reschedule but our mental heath services is aware we'll be working with dobd to make sure she understands what's happening. >> you've gone a strike notice is there further negotiation going on. >> further negotiation all the time. >> do you know if we have scheduled meetings right now? >> all right. thank you. >> so we'll let you know if that happens on monday and any further communication. >> thank you are there any other vendor partners that they wish to bring to our attention.
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>> there are things that are not responded out on the negotiations they're getting closer though. >> yes. >> vendor or partner united health care please come forward. >> i'm jackie representing united health care on behalf of jennifer couldn't be here they told me our final response to our urge care issues forbids the last couple of months we were having naturals to helping our members to quickly find urge care facilities no matter where
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they are we'll be mailing outpost cards to them the first graft draft of a postcard we'll be mailing we have already went the proof went objective to kathy republican dodd they're making corrections on 8s postcard before mailing out those postcards though we'll have the approval of katherine and on the postcards just to outline what is going to see or is to the members it's going to tell you the highlight how to use customer care the vendor line instead of pressing the promotes i know that's annoying they're getting to the wrong places and not getting the correct answers when you call our customer service center just
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say representative instead of project one or two and the postcards will let you know also a twenty-four hour nurse line to call those nursing should be able to tlifrm what urge care is near their home or work place and if they need to go to the urgent health care or go to the e.r. or maybe the nurse can give them advice before and also the use of m i use.org we're going to mail it that to all the members of the city of san francisco the members that are with united health care, of
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course and that should help out we're looking forward to working with katherine dodd that's our segue. >> at the i'd like to do a test around the cards before i show it to everybody. >> okay any other vendor partner comment? observations considerations explanations no secretary >> item 8 discussion opportunity for the public to comment on items within the board's jurisdiction. >> any public school public comment ma'am, secretary. >> item 20. >> oh, that's it. >> by my lights we've covered the agenda in a raeblg
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reasonable there were notes whether we have to bring our diner by no other business to be entertained before this board at this meeting i hereby declare us adjourned.
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>> good morning. welcome welcome to the to the san francisco budget & finance committee january 7, 2015, i'm mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee joined by supervisor avalos and joined by myself want to thank the staff madam clerk, any announcements? >> . >> yes. electronic devices. and completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the january 13th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, we're going to tailing call one item out of order item 5 and item 5 is an ordinance amending the
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administrative code to require the rehe centuries to submitted the annual reports on the number of tenants who receive nos notice of evictions on the same the mayor and the board of supervisors. >> okay. thank you mr. clerk this is legislation i sports along with supervisor breed for the statute of limitations of the affordable housing units a across san francisco we place great priority in our homeless and this is a step in the right direction this stems from a series of items from last year around our homelessness issues i want to thank my colleagues for sitting through those hearings and from any prospective we've
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heard alarming statistics from homelessness 0 that house our vublg are the last resort for me in the first step for getting a better entrap on evictions occurring in our publicly you funded units again, it will mandate the statistics and information to contract with the city to provide contracting statistics the city will get the city statistics from the sro's and some housing authority sites and other city run programs it will include the unlawful detainers and the number of tenants and the householder and the reason for the evictions to protect privacy no flying identification will be released missouri will collect the data and compile the report for the
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portfolios and i have the reporting requirements that gives them eviction information and lastly we're encouraging our information for the past evictions we certainly hope the housing providers will submit past information so this trends more quickly and adapts as quickly as possible i want to thank all the housing providers on that issue given the vast resources in keeping them housed on the homelessness i want to make sure we're not spending additional resources for people to end up on our streets 3rir8 we're going everything in our power to keep people housed i want to thank
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the public health department and the mayor's office of housing and psa and thank you for your hard work into the future this legislation is a first step toe hopefully improving our city's past evictions we're doing a lot at the board of supervisors on this go topic and again, thank you jess from my office for your support and we have members of the missouri and dpw for questions and i'd like to ask for your support any questions. >> opening it up for public comment anyone wish to comment on item six at all seeing none, public comment is closed i don't have a budget analyst report so make a motion to approve that madam clerk. >> would i like to adapt the
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amendment. >> so moved and adapt the line item we'll take that without objection. okay madam clerk cail items one and two together. >> item 4 a completing rec and park department for the pga word golf 3r0i789 to the rec and park department important revenue lost during the closer of the golf course and this is the execution of the fourth amendment with the pga for the golf course ending in 2014 that will result in the evaluating 6.9 million. >> okay. thank you madam clerk. >> thank you madam clerk supervisor avalos. >> thank you just first of all i want to thank the rec and park department for you're openness to relook at the agreement with
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the pga and not only that but to renegotiate a new amendment that i think has terms much better for rec and park in the city just want to say president chiu thank you for your patience and welcome that. >> (inaudible) thank you supervisor from the rec and park department we want to thank the budget analyst and the economy for the nudged for the amendment we spoke with the pga tour and made the recommended changes that the budget analyst and this committee suggested. >> few weeks back it is a stronger agreement for the city with that said i want to extend my thanks to the pga they've been great partners since 2009 and some of the benefits are
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including over $4 million nearly $9 million in egging nofkz and $1.7 million to run times harding park they're doing with no profit and 4 hundred thousand donated for the improvement and more significantly $1.8 million in charitable commissioned from our partners in working with the youth and teaching the youth for sport it's been a terrific partnership and most popular beginning in april with the match play 64 of the world's best governors this is a new format it is google going to look like world cup matches and
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each group go on to the final round it will give people that love golf a great opportunity and explorer out there we're proud of harding it is publicly maintained by the staff and known around the world considered one felt best public golf courses in america we're excited to move forward and thank you, very much fewer assistance. >> it is mr. ginsburg if you want to speak on the items. >> i can remind you of the terms of the supplemental appropriations if you like what's our pleasure. >> actually i'll appreciate that. >> sure absolutely as well as an amendment to our master tournament agreements with the tour you have in front of of a appropriation in the
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amount of $3 million plus through a reimbursement to fund the costs associated with the harding park for the match play tournament happening in april of the $1.3 million $800,000 is associated with costs $50,040,000 in benefits and $2,005,060,000,000 in supplies and the remaining to backfill the loss of revenue due to the closer of the golf course and we expect that during the week of the tournament it's our gardening crew will be working 3 hundred and thirty hours of overtime everyday hand watering the golf course and filling
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holes and our crew will repair any damage from the hospitality facilities that are built out under our master tour agreement the tour will reinforce us up to $2.3 million per the committees request and the recommendation when the last item was heard we amended did agreement with the tour the city will invoice the tour for the cost associated with the tournament no matter than 60 days after the close of the tournament. >> okay. thank you no other questions we'll move on to our budget analyst mr. rose. >> on page 7 of our report as stated the rec and park department has revised a
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proposed fourth amendment subsequent to the 2014 committee meeting to lower the they recalled the percentage shown in table 2 on page 6 of our report as a result, the rec and park department now stimulates the does want will receive one million dollars $300 million under the revised fourth apartment e amendment on page 4 of our report resulting in a percentage of rp d of one million dollars plus for the two required and one optional pga tour events we recommend i approve that legislation. >> thank you, mr. rose. >> supervisor avalos. >> harvey thank you and your staff it was structural to help with the renegotiation agreement i noticed there was nothing but
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bowling but that's on here. >> all right. seeing no other questions i'll open it up for public comment i have two speaker cards and anyone else who wishes to speak please come up to the podium and if there's more than one line up. >> good morning. i'm dan the executive order for those who are not familiar we're a local nonprofit to teach the kids life skills and provided opportunity for the game of golf i wanted to say a few brief words it's a unique program and to the effects such the match house in our community there's a common word used in the game of golf and the nonprofits this is
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impact the golfers their referring to the moment a golf club hits the ball it may make the bail go in a direction it traffic lights directly at their target this makes great spectating for thousands for the championship in may this event will once again show case san francisco as the great city in the world, however another thing overlooked not seen object the cover of the sporting green the impact that it has had on charities is a reason to bring the golf tournament to this committee it is an important detail it should not be forgotten for dot all the i's and cross the t's on the agreement the pga tour has given
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over $2 billion this is more than all major sports combined the impact has been approved and critical 0 to our growth and success the single largest contributor and the pga tour as a result of this support over 50 thousand students of the san francisco unified school district has participated in the program over the past 10 years in 201410 thousand kids took advantage of this and over 5 thousand rounds of golf was you if he intubtsdz by our organization the majority of our kids are at risk in the bayview and hunters point and the sunnyvale the positive effects
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of the program have been nothing support short of a miracle it is possible by the pga and the partnership with the city of san francisco and the rec and park department lastly we look forward to continuing to grow and provide the much needed opportunity for the kids the pga match in the years to come will be critical to achieving our mission of impacting the underserved youth of the city i want to thank the to your and the city and the receptionist for their support now and in the future thank you for your consideration. >> any other speakers wish to comment on item 1. >> hello, i'm tom clark the executive order for the golf tour this will be the fifth event i've worked on in san francisco on behalf of the pga and our players we're extremely excited to be ba