it's been an honor to work with that team and to work with barbara smith whom i would like to invite up to have some mark. >> thank you gail it's been wonderful working with community housing partnership too. we are working hard to keep that you are subsidies flowing on a regular basis. thank you for having me here. before rad i would go to bed at night and pray and none of our senior and disabled residents in the high-rise would end up without elevator service or worse yet be stalled in a stucked elevator. all too oven often i would getn the middle of the light -- get call. the residents here, you know what i'm talking about, and we are thrilled that things have changed. this was a stressful situation for our residents but with declining federal dollars the housing authority wasn't able to keep up with the needs at 666 ellis and all the other properties. we are thrilled that ellis and the other propertyities can get these improvemented through rad. this leveraged 2.2 million in financing and 750 million in hard construction improvements did require the brilliance, dedication and sup

one day shirley showed up at barbara's house with a 3-month-old caldron da patricia smith. rbara could see it was iffy. but she wanted that baby so badly. so she ignored the red flags. >> nope. didn't care. didn't really care. >> she was going to see to it, she said, that rhonda was loved and cared for by the best parents she could ever possibly have. bob and barbara legally adopted their little princess four years later in the fall of 1973. it was shortly after that, said barbara, when shirley and renee showed up at her door. >> the kids played together and we visited together and she asked if rhonda could come spend the night with renee. took me a while to get answer to that. i really had to think about that hard. i'm one of these tender hearted people and i said, well, i want her to know her sister. >> sister? yes. barbara told them they were sisters. daughters of the same mother, the woman who worked the streets. barbara said by then, she didn't trust shirley with rhonda. but -- >> i want rhonda to know her sister. i wanted her to have family and stuff. i asked bob, and

, the core staff that worked on these supply contracts: randall smith, erin mulberg, and mike himes. mike. thank you. >> thank you, barbara. >> thank you, barbara, and good afternoon, commissioners. mike himes, director of cleanpowersf. it is a great pleasure to be here with you this afternoon to share some of the work we've been doing over the past few months to build a power portfolio to complete enrollment in cleanpowersf citywide. i've got just a few slides -- four slides, exactly, that i will run through quickly with you. this first one is a chart that shows how or portfolio looked before we started our recent contracting effort a few months ago. of course this really kicked off with rfp's that we issued in the summer and fall of 2017, but we began signing contracts after obtaining authority from the board and from this body in the early -- or the winter of 17-18. so this chart shows cleanpowersf's annual projected demand and contracted supply over the next 12 years. the back line on this chart represents our projected annual energy demand given our citywide enrollment plan today. this line's plotted against the left

i would first like to thank chairman barbara come stack, ranking manies will lipinski and ranking member wieber and vesey and i want to recognize chairman smith and ranking member johnson for joining us this morning. there exists a large and growing number of veterans who rely on va rehabilitative care for functional restoration. when medically indicated a team delivers custom the pro threatics and trains the veterans how to use the devices effectively and assure long-term rehabilitation success. you look at fall risk and persons with upper and lower limb loss. we do not fully understand why nearly 50% of community living persons with limb loss fall at least once per year, many of whom experience a fall-related injury. this has considerable implications and the veteran quality of life and va healthcare costs. my studies aim to identify factors useful for fall risk screening and modifiable through targeted risk interventions uniquely these studies utilize technologies to discover how prosthetics users respond to disturbances. moreover, these can train and who to manage disturbances and provide falls. i'll provide two examples. first example we

smith, the chief operating officer at the alzheimer's society. welcome, all. just a thought from you, the story about dame barbarapeople ringing us and talking about it, and that is just what we need. simon, it's interesting. we've spoken to you before, with your dad as well, and lots of people will remember the car karaoke, because you are singing with your dad in the video that went viral, because he could remember songs when he was forgetting everything else. it is talking about this and recognising it. a long time your father was very angry and frustrated with it. maybe had some inside, but he did not acce pt had some inside, but he did not accept what was going on, so the confusion was coming out as a rage and that was what we tried to deal with. and it was getting him to go to the doctor and get diagnosed, that was a massive effort for us in the end. wendy, i know with your daughters, they've been a massive support but it's been really important in terms of boundaries, and assessing your life that you are still independent. that's right. it's the talking that has helped us decide on those boundaries. i need