this, it would be helpful, so i did call one, two, okay, then i will try to dig through here and figure out which ones are from the family council. >> just come forward. . >> my name is gloria simpson. i am concerned with cpmc and delivering their messages to us. as my sister mentioned earlier, we requested to have a group meeting so we can all hear the same thing and that didn't happen, so here we are coming with a message to cpmc in regards to the information that they shared with the family

members that was inconsistent. i spoke with joshua anderson and i asked a is few questions an specific with the activity coordinator at st. lukes. she is so involved with our patients in a loving, caring, affectionate way, and i asked him if we can please have her since it's a nonunion position to be transferred with cpmc because basically she would be the only one there which the patients are comfortable with, and joshua mentioned they couldn't because she didn't have a degree, so the person they hired has a degree. so i said well carmen has 27 years experience with these patients, so unfortunately he said no. i wanted to read here a mission

statement of cpmc. the mission statement states we are inspired by our northern california community and work tirelessly to deliver top-rated affordable, health care doctors and employees are always looking for a new meaningful way to care for your loved ones. we believe that every moment matter when it comes to helping you live a longer life. >> thank you. so i have ton rivera and comer marshall. any other family members that would like to line up. >> thank you for taking your time to speak with us. my name is ton rivera. and my

sister is a subacute patient. dr. warren browner is right with him says it's not about money. last year sutter health had $893 million in profits after expenses. this is about choice they are making a choice to close down subacute the same way they made a choice to temporarily house subacute and they made a choice to find space at davies. thank you. >> i am comer marshall and i want to thank you for your support. my sister francesca is a patient at the hospital, st. lukes, she has been there for about six years. i want to

support the family coalition the commitment they have made. my sister met with sutter and she is very disappointed because she was not clear of the timeline specifically how they were going to handle my sister and as mentioned before we need continuity, and she is not clear about what that is going to be. the timeframe, i understand there are four rooms being prepared with 17 patients, what is the timeline getting those completed? i think we need clear on that, and the new subacute patients as we moved forward, we need to make sure that as we get new patients there is a plan in place to keep these people because they are not able to speak for themselves. we don't know what is going to happen

tomorrow but i would request this be thought out very clearly so that we can move forward and keep your patients here in the city and county of sa san francisco. >> do we have families of patients? do we have families of someone dells? swindells? if they would come up. i want to give them an opportunity to speak if that is okay with everyone else. >> my name is rick. my sister has been a patient there for seven years and i have a cold but i just want to say this i

know the time is brief. i want to give you my experience. before laura was taken to st. lukes, they fractured her shoulder, they let her go early and we didn't want to bring her back so took her to ucsf. they don't have a stepdown so we tried to get her into st. lukes but they weren't expecting anyone and they sent us to kent field across the bay, and they said they were concerned with laura and me not ever dealing with anybody with a trach and so she was only supposed to be there for two weeks, it turned out for me to be a three-month nightmare. her -- was dislodged and her abdomen filled with

fluid and for three months i was going back and forth to the city from kentfield. kentfield whichs the golden gate bridge. people were telling me at work you don't look good you look tired and thing. i would ask that the city do something for the future so no one experiences what i went through because i'm sure my case is just one of many. >> thank you. next speaker police. >> anne ludwig. my husband is 79 and has advanced alzheimer's and has lived at skilled nursing.age sutter healther decided to close this facility with 25 licensed beds and move the 17 residents remaining there. we have their proposal

to move as many as 14 of them to alma via. this would be a great relief if it's developed, however, so far we have nothing in writing to guarantee the subsidy for comparable services there where the space they will occupy is under renovation and unable to see, yet we feel pressed to make a decision to accept the proposal as soon as possible, but at least by june. if all goes well, our loved ones will have somewhere to live and receive care but they lose their devoted caregivers and the city loses the institutional know-how of this 20-year-old skilled nursing, there will be a 11 bed loss of care in san francisco, what about the need for more critical care beds for this

frail population, which could include any of us. we think hospitals have a responsibility as nonprofits and a civic duty to partner with the city to provide skilled nursing and dementia care in our city and we call on your our elected representatives to provide policies that will make that happen. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> linda rosario and my mom is at skilled nursing for almost three years she is going to be 104 in september. my main issue is the future families who have to look for memory care for their loved ones and to be able to pay for. i put my mom in irene swindell hoping to sell

her home but that can't be done because i cannot evict my sister who is also a senior and disabled. struggling for funds managed to get subsidy grants from irene swindell and from there it was medcal which doesn't pay for memory care and went through va because my mom is a widow of a veteran, so they managed to help pay half, and the other half would be her social security, and the remainder will be me, so right now i am holding three casual jobs trying to make end meet and i'm hoping in the future that there would be assistance to help family members find memory

care which they could afford. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> my name is jeff tanaba, and my father is a resident of swindell unit since 2016. his diagnosis was a devastating blow all we are fortunate enough to say that the smartest man we knew was also the kindest. i have won't discuss my father's wonderful life, instead i will discuss the effect this rushed closure is having on our family and although we must discuss the possibility of this for all of us, i won't discuss how this takes away our loved ones and leaves us emotionally, physically, and financially

lost. i will discuss the implication of losing these beds on all of our futures. swindell has been home for all of us and this has been a huge life change for pau all of us and the rush h which this is implements and the fact that it's due to the almighty dollar is sobering to us all. the leaders among the swindell have fought for a suitable venue with affordable care, costability and the ability to move with new staff to a cpmc venue. we have been promised these results with the exception of the staff and we will miss the staff. we are hopeful that dad will be cared for as promised. we are less so for the future of elder care due to the implication of losing these 25 beds. i hope that our

children will not have to face this difficult situation in the future. we are seeing aging populous and growing shortage of beds particularly in a city such as ours. >> thank you. >> my father jack is also a resident of swindell. i will assume that this deal with swindell is a good deal, which we don't know that. we don't know anything about it. we haven't seen a written contract. let's assume it's a good deal. once our family

believes alma via, dies, eventually that's going to happen they die or leave, the new residents will have to pay the going rate which is $10,000 for expenses. that is a lot of money. so the loss of swindell will mean the loss of 25 beds of affordable care, memory care. alzheimer's and dementia is a fact of life and $10,000 would be an extreme burden for most families. my family is lucky because we do have this deal, but we don't know about the future. are the next generation families going to be as lucky as ours? we don't know that. >> thank you. can i call up theresa palmer, melanie.

>> raymond holland, memory of the family council for swindell as well at the california street facility. a lot of what you have heard today is really on the right issues. i hate to say it, but i think it's all part of the affordable housing crisis that you are focused on today it just has a few twists to it. 150 years ago your predecessors had a similar problem and that problem was they had too many cemeteries on the outside land and so they exhumed the bodies and shipped them to calma and lincoln park and all of those areas on the outside became populated and became used for things other than cemeteries. i think we are seeing today the

tip of the iceberg in terms of skilled nursing and sub-acute care facilities that are affordable for housing and affordable for care. what is happening is it's all being pushed outside of san francisco it's something that really should occupy your attention. i think the issue is when and to whom will there be an end to all of this so we can get back to business and do that. my wife passed away early last year unexpectedly and she spent a month over in the east bay in you wilultabates also owned by r healther.

you are on the right issue. i applaud you. >> theresa palmer retired geriatrician. what i wanted to ask about the sub-acuteth and skilled nursing crisis and i wanted to ask cpmc also if the state and city would cooperate with cpmc over issues of licensure, which i am sure they will because this is an emergency, what is the hurry about building medical office space when we should just stop, keep the subacute people at st. lukes even if the acute services move across the street there is no hurry to build medical office buildings. i'm

not aware of sort tajes of medical office buildings in san francisco. for reasons of profit and plan to maximize revenue wants to get out of the sub-acute business, at least wait until there are other options and it seems to me that this could maybe bedi bedeclarea public health emergency and we could ask the state and the city and the planning people and cpmc to all work together and keep the sub-acute unit open and work together on licensure for distributer subacute agencies in the future. >> michael lion with senior

disability action. cpmc is the largest, richest and most powerful hospital group in california. the department of justice even says that cpmc they have such a strangle hold on northern california hospital it is able to jack up the prices of all hospital care, so when the hospital council produces a document like the post-acute care council's report, you know that it's cpmc that's talking here and sutter healther health, and ssuttersutter healther heall care and they talk about -- so g

thing of what cpmc's group is saying is still a regional care forcing people out of the county. they talk about using existing facilities within san francisco like exploring unused space in hospitals medical office buildings. are they talking about the open floor in davies and empty med call medicl facilities. their main thing is

trying to expand university based care. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> my name is linda carter and i'm a retired nurse and i worked at st. looks for almost 50 years and i wanted to just talk a little bit about sub-acute patients and their needs. many of the patients come to our icu that need sub-acute care. sub-acute means they have ongoing issues and many of them are ventilator dependent, they are vital people and they are not just the ventilator and not

just a body there, they are people. the aim is to get them out and back into the community, but the sub-acute is close to all ad admissions at st. lukes d those patients that need those beds, it is really part on them sub-acute patients need a place that is home. many of them have been there for years and you can't dismiss that fact. that is home for them. some of them are able to get out on to the street a little bit on a mobile wheelchair with a ven ventilaton the back. they are needing to be part of the community. sending them out of the city the jus,when they are closed by

attrition then we are minus more sub-acute beds and we are going to have to go out of county to get them. i hope that st. maries is abl mariys marri - >> thank you. next speaker please. >> my name is elizabeth halifax visiting o ombudsman at st. luks i have witnesses first hand the anxiety this has generated for

families and residents and i have been truly disappointed by the lack of -- shown by cpmc and their failure to develop trust and give reassurance to those affected in many many, many yeas working as a nurse, i have never witnessed this degree of lack of compassion. >> i had stated in the beginning that i have to leave at 12:30. i have another something that i have to leave and prepare for. i appreciate department of public health and director gar sey for preparing the report. we talked about the possibilities whether or not cpmc sutter healther were going to continue their subacute care

and we came to the agreement along with h2j2 that it is a priority for the city of san francisco. we will continue to work with you. i have personally met with chinese hospital. i know that you have been working really har hard. e need to bring in kaiser and ucsf and continue to work with dr. browner and see if there is a way to find additional space -- i want to thank h2j2 for coming out today and advocating on behalf of proper level of care. it saddens us to think that people of these economic means that indigent would be

treated in this way and this is not a criticism of anyone in particular, but it's being caught up in a transition of our city's history where this has not been a priority and we need to make it a priority again. we have to have this level of care when you look at this report presented today to see how los angeles has over 2,000 sub-acute beds and we have 17. that is crazy. all over the bay area there is sub-acute care and san francisco is not. i understand it's a cost and a space and there is all different kind of things that come up, but we need to work with the community based organizations, labor and the department of public health and my colleagues to come up with the right solutions. i know there are proposals for legislation and we will aggressively look into those. we will continue this

conversation and continue to push. i think we will have an additional hearing because we want to come back and have a discussion when the patients are getting ready to be transferred and we will continue to work with -- on the plan for subacute care. sorry i have to leave now. >> thank you for supervisor asophe. we will go back to public comment. >> under title 42, the patients have appeal rights against involuntary transfer. this right is included to notices given to each family and patient member. what happens when a patient appeals is that an administrative hearing officer will hold a hearing at st. lukes

and preparations made of the patient to a new location. each patient had the right to appeal if they feel that the new location may not adequately provide the care that they need the ombudsman program will advovat for each patient's right for good care. >> any other persons interested in testifying before public comment closes? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> supervisor ronen: i want to thank every for coming out today and especially families who are going through such a difficult time. every time we have a hearing on these topics, i just feel a little bit heart broken that we don't have a single payer health system because to put families financial jeopardy

and ruin when they are trying to care for a loved one is just so deeply wrong and to not have a medical care system that is built around the needs of patients, rather than a profit motive is so deeply wrong, and i am hopeful that in my lifetime we will see a single payer health plan in our state anded in our country. it just can't come soon enough. having said that, i will also be continuing to watch this issue very closely. i would ask cpmc to continue to consider what it would take to continue a subacute unit in your system in san francisco. i know space is an issue, and it's a legitimate issue, but if we partnered with you, the city, the state, what could make it possible if we had

a yes attitude? i am certainly willing to be involved and give it my all and fight within the city to make it happen and to make a similar partnership like the city is exploring with st. mary's possible with you. i also just wonder for all of the systems, i know we are focused on cpmc and sutter but for all of the systems you see kaiser. these are your patients that need these services and to put those on another entity doesn't make sense and it's not fair, and certainly the city is ready and willing as director garcia has shown to work with any system of care who is willing to step up and partner with the city to serve this essential need of our

residents. i will just put that out there that i would love to continue to work with you on this issue and to partner to address this need. in terms of the other eight suggestions of the commune and h2j2, did i get that right? we will consider looking at these ustio suggestions. i wily like in so many arenas it's frustrating at the local level when we are preempted on acts on some of these more prescriptive pieces of legislation. i wish we had more power than we have, but we will continue to look at these and take these suggestions very seriously, so i want to thank everyone for coming out today and we will continue to pay close attention to this issue. will that, i will make a motion to continue this item to

call of the share when supervisor sheehy is read. >> supervisor sheehy: we do need single payer and we need it yesterday. i will comment the city and director garcia on the work and identifying twocyte for subacute beds so we can start to address this capacity that we are using. i want to thank everyone for coming out today. i think we need to stay on top of this issue and rationalize this system so we can meet those needs within the city. the issue of alzheimer's memory care was brought up today and i think all of us that are getting older had that on our mind and i would like to add that to the list of issues as we prepare for health care for san francis cans. i would like to encourage cpmc to

take that large step with the arrangements they are taking with the swindell patients. sounds like there is something positive that's moving forward and if that work can get done and i know it will leave the angzies orelieve theanxiety of g gone with my father who had alzheimers all the way to the end, but when you have something of this magnitude being a i believable toresolve that and ge peace of mind, the sooner that can happen the better. i will take your motion to continue to the call of the chair. the motion passes and mr. clerk any other business before this body

>> >>clerk: there is no further business. >> supervisor sheehy: then we >> supervisor sheehy: then we are adjourned. thank you.

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koret playground and excited to be a part of it and the outpouring to get the playground back open. thank you so much, thank you for being a member of the parks alliance and for loving your park. back to you, phil. >> heart of the matter, a lot of people that stepped up to get the playground reopened and no way we were going to keep kids off it. but today the true, true, true heroes are the young, young men and women in orange today. the young kids from stepping preschool, you can clap for yourselves. who kicked this all off on their own by raising $283.17 in lemonade and donuts out there on irving street and presented it to our beloved mayor lee and said please fix our playground. and the rest was history. so, a big round of applause to

stones. [applause] all right. of wonderful speakers who have led and made sure the project happened. drew and i have made a personal promise to the mayor of san francisco whose schedule is filled with parades and community events and all kinds of things today that we would be brief, which is not something that comes naturally to us. >> so, that means under an hour here. >> yes, no, yes. so, what drew and i, are you ready to go? what drew and i thought we would rather than a long boring speech, i offer mr. mayor, an welcome to koret children's playground fixed up, children ready, let's play. because of your, your loving generosity. forget to tip your waiters, i'll week. mr. becker. >> so, phil called me about this like last night and said i want

you to do an haiku, i thought it very sweet, here i go. ashes, ashes sad. children playing happy face, playground back. >> well done. all right. and without further ado, my great honor to introduce the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, mark farrell. [applause] >> thank you, mr. ginsberg. i don't have an haiku for you today, sorry about that. i want to say thank you to stepping stones preschool, to kids, you are awesome. this is so amazing to the future city. you know, when this playground burnt down, it captured the imagination of our city, and so thankful for everyone who stepped up, i really want to pay mayor, ed lee, who made this a priority, here in san francisco, before he passed away, it was without his support this would not have happened at all. and so a huge, how about a round of applause for his leadership

in this. you know, my wife is here today, we have been taking our three kids here to this playground of their birth, and to see it rebuilt, to see the kids back on the concrete slide is amazing, and what's also amazing, though, i think we need to recognize, what a legendary playground this is and city of san francisco. standing with some other guys earlier today also born and raised san francisco kids and we came here when we were little and remember the slide and the cardboard and getting some air off of some of the jumps. but what an amazing place this is. look, parks are the heart and soul of our city. we are all about. we have such amazing leaders ginsberg. thanks so much to the parks alliance and drew, congratulations to everybody. happy easter, happy passover, have a great weekend, everyone. >> thank you, mayor.

give it up for mayor farrell again. next up, we could not do this would you tell us the leadership of the rec and park commission and here representing them is commissioner alan lowe. thanks, drew. also want to thank our general who really brought us together but really the stepping stone kids to tell us old folks hey, let's get this fixed. this is a great example of the city coming together in a time of need and just getting it fixed and done. of the recreation and park commission, thank you san francisco to save our recreation sports as well as the parks alliance and the koret foundation, and also thank mayor lee who is looking at us from heaven saying well, we got it done. thank you. >> thank you, alan. i also want to give a very, very special shout out, i see some folks in uniform today, both the san francisco fire department

and the san francisco police department were immediately on when actually this all went down, and reminder of how important you all are, and how much, how hard you work to campaign our city safe. and this would have been a lot worse without the amazing quick response of the san francisco fire department. so thank you very much, very [applause] and then just so you all know, on that other side of the fence, san francisco fire department is locked into a fierce battle with the san francisco police department and the san francisco recreation park department, it is our version of top chef, name show, it is the barbecue competition of the year, and it is very serious business. so i invite everybody to come get a taste of the fire department, police department park department barbecuing and then vote for the parks department, ok? we -- things like this happen and unexpectedly and you

know, like it -- it's hard to kind of make a half a million dollars lift and get this fixed as fast as we wanted to do it, so we need supporters, friends, supporters. koret foundation, truly amazing. this is the koret children's playground, so the foundations caring investment and support in created it at the outset, and what is so amazing is that when this came down, and we said we needed a little help, koret said we are here, and that's what they do city in so many different ways and we are so anita freedman, for your support. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. i'm anita freedman, as phil said, the volunteer president of the koret foundation, and we have here also our professional leadership, danielle foreman and

her family. where is danielle? and it's because this foundation is one of the largest philanthropic foundations in san francisco and we believe in children, believe in families, in san francisco, we believe in bringing them all together in wonderful places like this to make san francisco one of the best, one of the wonderful places for families and children in the world. and that's our commitment to san francisco and i know it's all of commitment, too. now, i personally remember having been here one of the first times, who remembers what if you -- if you know, you get a genius point. ok. i happen to have here, happen to have here tickets, the ticket i bought here for a free ride on the carousel when we dedicated the carousel. ok?

phil, can i use this still? >> you can. >> i came here with my family, my son joseph, who was two and a my son adam, who was six months, and aaron, my third son is here someplace, he was but not a physical form yet, and now they play here, we came here on this day we dedicated this and granddaughter margo and granddaughter nava, so my family as all of your families understand how important it is to the life of the city to have resources like this. so, thank you, thank you for leadership. thank you for making this happen. thanks to all of you and now let's play. [applause] much, anita. yes, that is still valid, there is no question in my mind that as anita noted, parks are so important to san francisco, the

first city in the united states of america, 100% of us live in ten minutes walk of a park and over the last ten years, in capital investment all over the city, and that is in large part, because san francisco loves their parks and also the political leadership in the past generation. and there has been no bigger park champion than our next president of the board of supervisors, london breed. >> good morning, everybody. i am so excited to be here today. i grew up in san francisco and one of the highlights of my life was when we took our annual field trip in school to this playground. and we would always try to find cardboard so we could slide down that slide. so, mayor mark farrell and i later, we are going to get some cardboard and slide down that slide. know, i just want to say

when this park was vandalized last year, when makes me love san francisco so much is how so many people came together, to raise money for the purposes of making sure that we got this done and we got it done quickly for our young people. and i just want to say how proud of the kids from stepping stones preschool. [applause] i remember last year when they visited mayor lee to present a check to the city after doing a lemonade stand and raising money and what amazing young people to just step up and want to help and do all that they can. i mean, how amazing is that. i'm so proud of each and every one of you for everything that you did. you are the future of this city and you are going to make sure that this playground is here for generations to come. thank you to the parks alliance, thank you to the koret

foundation for not only helping to renovate the playground in the past but chipping in right away when we needed additional money to get it done quickly, thank you to phil ginsberg for leading the effort. i call him mr. parks. everything he does is ensure that our playgrounds and our parks are safe, that they are clean, and that they are fun for kids all over this city. what a wonderful event. thank you all each and every one of you for being here today. [applause] >> thank you, president breed. dressed in green today for parks. we go. next up, it takes a village to and we have another great partner to help bring this play ground back to life. san francisco, sports and recreation, tricia weaver moss. >> good morning. mayor farrell and commissioner lowe, and everybody here on

behalf of san francisco for sports and recreation, i'm thrilled to be able to support the reopening of this historic park. historic playground. i would like to thank phil ginsberg and drew becker, and commissioner lowe and everybody at the parks department and the parks alliance and the parks commission for making our park system in san francisco one of the greatest in the country. we are really the envy of the nation. i would also like to thank our partner, alexandria real estate, here today for their extremely generous donation to this project. am i on here? ok, a little close to the mic. thanks, alexandria. especially like to thank my colleague, david brentlinger, for his enormous effort to lead

the improvement of public spaces around the city of which this is one. thank you very much, david brentlinger. you know, our organization, san francisco for sports and recreation, genesis in court advocacy. but my colleagues had the opportunity to have literally thousands of personal conversations with people from san francisco, every walk of life, every age, to every corner of the city and when we learned in those conversations is there is a real yearning among city dwellers for even better parks. not just better tennis courts, which what we were initially interested in, but better pools, and better basketball courts, recreation centers. and most importantly, so, we learned that public spaces in general, places to

play in general, but particularly playgrounds and the koret playground in particular, are really the heart of the city. and indeed, little children breathed new life into this playground with their grassroots advocacy. and without them, getting the ball rolling, who knows how long it would have taken our diverse group of project sponsors to come together to get this going. so, with that, let's have some fun, enjoy the park, and have a great day. >> thank you, trisha. >> before we bring up the stars conclude our program, just a few additional thanks. first of all, acknowledge derek brown from the mayor's office neighborhood services is here, comes to every park event, lends a hand. i want to thank my own team, lisa, nathan, david, here, our

superintendent of golden gate park, my capital division, karen ruppert here, and the folks who managed the project, this is truly a team effort and you can tell by the fact that no kid is listening to us at this point. just how special it is. all right. the stars of the show are stepping stone preschool, what i would like to do is gather all the kids and bring up lizbeth and mary, come on up. and where is j.p.? so you know how you know who j.p. is, j.p. was the guy with the cash or check? >> cash. >> it was cash. it was cold hard cash. >> it was bitcoin, phil. >> that stepping stones presented to mayor lee, $283. so, j.p. you were telling me about your lemonade salesmanship. what was your strategy? >> like we, i guess like we just wanted to raise money for like

the children's playground. and lend a hand. >> right on. like, what was it like meeting mayor lee? >> it was like to meet mayor lee, so we needed to fix the playground. >> well, you guys proud that you did it? >> yes. >> right on. well, i want to say a big, big thank you on behalf of the recreation and parks department to you guys, and i want to present this certificate to stones on this day because this doesn't happen without you guys, and then i would love mary and lizbeth to say a few words and selfish personal note, my daughter, turns 18 tomorrow, went to stepping stones preschool. >> on behalf of all our parents

and the stepping stone families, we are so happy you are here today. this -- this whole experience is really kind of part of what stepping stones is all about. the children came here on their weekly outing to the ca ro you -- carousel park we call it, and it was burnt down and upset. and instead of the punitive measure on the bad people they came up with a fix. a lot of talk what to do, lemonade stand is what they did, and turned basically a bad situation to something amazing. and it just so happened this they had already scheduled a field trip to city hall and so our amazing director, could not be here today, called them and said hey, can you have someone show up in a suit so that the kids can hand over the money and so ed lee came down, which was

amazing. >> fabulous. >> rest is history. >> our team, and one picture and then let's have usually it's the kids saying screaming out and saying thank you, we'll have a picture with the mayor and president breed and everybody here. let's move this. we'll come around the picture on three, i'll have the adults say thank you, stepping stones. or thank you kids. thank you kids. stones kids on three. all right, everybody gather in. let's go, come on, come on, everybody gather in. all right, on three, thank you stepping stones kids. 1, 2, 3. thank you stepping stones kids! [applause] thanks for coming out, everybody. enjoy your day. the playground is open. come to extravaganza, taste the

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good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the april 11th, 2018, meeting of the rules committee. i'm supervisor ahsha safai. to my left is catherine stefani. our clerk is alisa somera. i was like to thank maya hernandez and jim smith. madame clerk, any announcements to make? >> clerk somera: silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards and