>> good afternoon president breslin and commissioners and board members. chief operating officer of the health services system. the dependent how -- audit report is behind the director's report. as you recall starting around the end of 2016 and 2017, we began a discussion on doing the first full denverificatio depent verification audit. however, looking at not only your fiduciary responsibility but the system fiduciary responsibility doing a complete audit. which is typical in industry standards and benefits and administration as well as the public sector. i wanted to present some of these results for you. >> president breslin: do you want to pull the slides up? >> on the first slide, reminder our audit began in april 2018. it included just over 26,000 employees and retiree who have enrolled legal spouse or domestic partner. the audit was performed by a benefits administration company that we contracted with by the name of life solutions. the division of their dependent verification centre. we chose this route because hhs not only have the staff to handle

president's report, report by president breslin. >> president breslin: i have nothing to report other than to say that this is a start of the rates in benefits. i like to remind everyone of our fiduciary duties. i was looking at some old information i had. it said trustees can put the general good entire population as their highest priority. they must act for the sole benefit of the beneficiaries. just a reminder, we are trustees and fiduciaries which means we must work for the sole benefit of our members. any public comment on this item? seeing none. number seven please. >> clerk: discussion item. director's report. report given by abbie yant. >> good afternoon commissioners. as highlighted in the director's report and reemphasizing president breslin's report is our staff is gearing up for the rates and benefit season and have a full calendar meeting ahead of us. our blackout period began in november. it continues through rates and benefit cycle. we'll be going over the calendar later in the meeting. the strategic plan is continuing to be rolled out and implemented and we have purcha

commissioner scott, president breslin.te howard managing director of the department of human resources. thank you for asking dhr to support the commission in the annual process. i am here with a timeline and overview of the survey questions that we have used in prior years and ask for your action on those a tems today. >> as a part of the terms of governance we have undertaken to do a board selfie valuation to kind of look at, take time to reflect during the prior year what did we do? what could we have done better or differently? we dirt do this last year. it -- we didn't do this last year. it was adelin berrat decision. there was a real reason why we didn't do it because we were engaged in selecting a new executive director that was consuming most of the focus. mitchell was giving leadership to the management team as well with all of the things, including the verification audit. we decided to for last year to skip the cycle and made a decision to do that. now that we have an executive director in place and we have most o

bresli >> president breslin: any public comment on this last item? please come forward. >> there was a question about the allocation of the projected three years of savings for the implementation of the medicare advantage program from 2017 to 2019. i quoted a figure just over $30 million and there was a question about the allocation of that savings between the employers and the retired members. going back looking at our calculations it's approximately a 90% of that $30 million figure or $27 million attributable to the employers. the remaining 10% or approximately $3 million for the retired members who participate in family coverage either retiree plus one or retiree plus two or more. there's to contribution in the medicare coverage. if you translate the $30 million savings it's 90% employer, 10% for the dependent cost contributions for the retiree members. >> president breslin: public comment? is there anything else of the director's report? >> i want to make verification about the audit it applies to president breslin's question about divorce and co

commissioner scott, president breslin.te howard managing director of the department of human resources. thank you for asking dhr to support the commission in the annual process. i am here with a timeline and overview of the survey questions that we have used in prior years and ask for your action on those a tems today. >> as a part of the terms of governance we have undertaken to do a board selfie valuation to kind of look at, take time to reflect during the prior year what did we do? what could we have done better or differently? >> supervisor fewe >> supervisor fewer: our clerk is miss wong, and i would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. [agenda item read]. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. let's see...madam clerk, we will hear items one through six last on today's agenda. can you please call item number seven. >> clerk: resolution approving an emergency declaration of the san francisco public utilities commission to repair the southeast

this is the estens sense of breslin, i want more than every other journalist. an interview with him and found out everything including what the guy ate for lunch that afternoon. >> he opens up with the doctor who gets called to see if he can save the president's life. jackie kennedy is standing there and you're in the room and he's telling their stories. >> many notable figures from journalism and entertainment appear in the film with their reflexes on breslin and hamill including our very own mike barnicle. take us back and bring to life these two icons. >> we started off this segment talking about russell baker, wonderful newspaper guy and wonderful human being and jimy e breslin and pete hamill indicated parts of the newspaper business that has been diminished by cutbacks and especially smaller regional papers, but they brought you into the lives of ordinary people, places they witnessed and people you would never meet in the course of your life. they exposed issues of race and class and privilege and what happens to people who live on the edge, pay academic

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big city in america had somebody like a mike royko or you know jimmy breslin there was that blue collar voice you know that kind of spoke on behalf of the ordinary person those people started to be replaced in the eighty's and early ninety's with the new class of journalists who typically came from the ivy leagues they were not working class people and and so they have a natural animosity and hostility towards the whole idea of populism whereas the the journalist of the old school even though that wasn't a panacea either because it was you know they were all white men back in the day but. the class was you know back in the forty's and fifty's and sixty's the journalist tended to be more of a working class iconoclast that kind of a person who didn't who had more sympathy you would think through for you know a populist movement now if you open the new york times and the washington post that's it's white collar urban meritocratic you know highly educated point of view it doesn't speak on behalf of ordinary people though doesn't know how dangerous is all this because if you like washington

. >> president breslin: i am looking for a motion. >> i move we not report on what was actions taken during the closed session. >> second. >> all those in favor. oye. >> it is unanimous. >> item 20. >> item 20 is an action item. vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion held regarding the employee evaluation in closed session. >> i move we not disclose any of the discussion held in closed session. >> i second the notion. >> those in fair. >> aye. >> it is unanimous. >> i move we adjourn. >>> good afternoon. it is now 10:00 1:00 p.m. this is the regular meeting of the community investment and infrastructure for tuesday, december 18, 2018. welcome, members of the public. please call the first item. >> the first order is item one, roll call. please respond when i call your name. (roll call). >> commissioner singh is absent. all others are present. item two announcements. the next regularly scheduled meeting will be held january 15, 2019 at 1:00 p at city hall room 416. announcement of prohibition of sound producing electronic devices. the use of cell phones and similar ele

. >> president breslin: i am looking for a motion. >> i move we not report on what was actions taken during the closed session. >> second. >> all those in favor. oye. >> it is unanimous. >> item 20. >> item 20 is an action item. vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion held regarding the employee evaluation in closed session. >> i move we not disclose any of the discussion held in closed session. >> i second the notion. >> those in fair. >> aye. >> it is unanimous. >> i move we adjourn. sharon l e adjourn. >> hello, everybody. happy new year. we're glad to see you for this first meeting of 2019 of the treasure island development authority. thanks for coming, and we will begin. >> clerk: for the record, this is the january 9, 2019 treasure island development authority board meeting. item number one, call to order. [roll call] >> clerk: and we have a quorum. >> president tsen: next item. >> clerk: item number two, general public comment. this item is to allow member of the public to address members of the treasure island development authority board about items that are n

congress and witness tampering msnbc political analyst jonathan alter is, director of the documentary breslinat 8:00 p.m. on hbo, the former president for young democrats of america and sophia nelson for u.s. today. welcome to all of you as we get started. >> thanks. >> part of roger stone's defense are process related charges. can he make that case here >> we'll find out. one thing i would be very leery of his suggesting he will flip. it could happen of the i've known roger for 30 years and i wouldn't bet on it. somebody was saying he might want to be john dean. he despises john dean. he could much more identify with lee gordon and he came out and was a big celebrity on the right. he'll fight this and try to beat it. he'll have good legal help, but if he loses and does time, he'll be fine with that. >> i want to take that further. if he does time, he'll be fine with that and then what? >> i think stone is an interesting character in that he's going to, you know, fight this all the entire way. he's been doing that since last night, certainly all of this time. i think we'll see how this plays

we've covered them reporting just like donald trump and he's got ka irs father >> but the late jimmy breslinis like roy cohn bad. roy cohn famous. >> he likes to actually give out that image and i think that gives him a powerful image he's willing to go there and do the dirty tricks and get the job done and so far until now he's gotten away with it. >> look at him here. he looks - david, he looks like he's enjoying this. like i always thought nixon in some weird way liked all the attention of the watergate prosecution. in some sick way he liked the attention. you know what i mean like any narcissist would. >> we've all known for roger for many years and i think narcissist is a good word for him and it also applies to trump. maybe there's a bond there roy cohn was a dirty underhanded player who was trump's lawyer, also lawyer for the mob and trump loved him. he was a mentor in a lot of ways i think when roy left the scene, roger was a natural person to gravitate towards. he's a bit of a kook he put out a book saying bill clinton was tied to a series of murders. he's a conspiracy theorist who