[captioning made possible by california farm bureau federation] >> so we all know that california is king when it comes to growing citrus. and when it comes to growing lemons, no one is bigger than this ventura county farm. and with over 7,000 acres of lush lemon trees, limoneira isn't just the biggest lemon grower in california, but in all of north america. based in santa paula, the farm is a testament to what hard work and determination can do. founding fathers nathan blanchard and wallace hardison first bought the land way back in 1893 and named the ranch limoneira, which means "lemon lands" in portuguese. >> and at the time, they wanted to bring about the first full-scale commercial operation citrus ranch in the u.s. and from there, we added, throughout the years, over the last 115-16 years, 3 other families have come into the fold, and that's where we've grown today to be our 7,000 acres that we are in california. >> once called the home of the lemon, it actually took 15 years before those first farmers even turned a profit at the limoneira farm. but they persevered, and as they

[captioning made possible by california farm bureau federation] >> coming up on "california country".et the face of andy boy produce. yes, there really is an andy boy. >> who is this? >> yep. it's me. >> oh. >> then she's getting her goat, but that's a good thing for this talented farmer. >> you see how comfortable the baby is? you can't carry the big one. >> then as the weather heats up, it's timeo get gardening and our expert has the tips to get you started. >> think of the best salsa you've ever had. it was the fresh cilantro, wasn't it? >> it's all ahead and it starts now. take a walk through your average produce aisle these days and there are more choices than ever, but one fa has very eye-catching marketing strategy to entice you. and it all has to do with the bright picture of a little boy named andy. but have you ever stopped to wonder, who is this andy boy guy anyway? >> andy boy's my father, andy d'arrigo, he's the face on the label and a lot of people ask, is there an andy boy and i say, yes, there is. >> who is this? >> yep. it's me. >> oh. ha ha. you see, when folks aroun

take a listen. >> this is amy from california.hat calderon scandal is just the tip of the iceberg, and we're going to see a lot of issues next year with candidates and their super pacs. this investigation, i think is definitely needing to go further into how candidates are given their funds from their super pacs or how things are spent for them and their families. >> trevor so clearly obviously the problem of super pacs and all of that stuff does not allow for the type of bribery allegations we're dealing with in that case, but the fact that our political system allows for this kind of thing to happen, does that feed a culture where politicians take the problem of money coming into politics in a way less seriously. >> you see in the calderon case he was raising money in very legal ways. it was within the legal framework. the problem was he went over that line where he established a quid pro quo relationship according to the affidavit. and in a case like this, that really undermines our confidence that government can work in a way

take a listen. >> this is amy from california.hat calderon scandal is just the tip of the iceberg, and we're going to see a lot of issues next year with candidates and their super pacs. this investigation, i think is definitely needing to go further into how candidates are given their funds from their super pacs or how things are spent for them and their families. >> trevor so clearly obviously the problem of super pacs and all of that stuff does not allow for the type of bribery allegations we're dealing with in that case, but the fact that our political system allows for this kind of thing to happen, >> are the people who have poured into the streets are they being sheltered inside someplace? >> i do not know the answer to that, but you where absolutely right. we're not seeing a mass rush of people being ushered into the streets.

california ha recibido casi 2 billones para conservar casas >> ¿que programas se ofrecen?que devolver dinero al estado? >> no lo tienen que devolver. con que viva 3 años después de recibir los fondos no devuelve >> ¿como sabe alguien si califica? >> les recomiendo que llamen a conserva tu casa california 888954337 o la página web conservatucasacalifornia.org >> perfecto, gracias a graciela, buenas tardes >> más adelante: >> en california miles vieron bola de fuego en el cielo >> méxico y nigeria se vuelven a ver las caras en mundial sub 17 para definir título del torneo >> buenas tardes. se está perfilando fin de semana, hablaremos de condiciones para nosotros >> regresamos a linea de a >> mire esto. anoche en sur de california miles de personas presenciaron espectáculo en el cielo debido a lluvia de meteoritos que podría durar todo noviembre >> osvaldo salio a investigar a las calles >> primera vez que lo veo en mi vida >> fanáticos en centro de los ángeles, para muchos las pupilas estaban fijadas en el firmamento por meteoritos >> al principio tenía dudas, si los vería,

health and safety code, california public resources code, and title 24 of the california code of regulations; providing for an operative date of january 1, 2014; and directing the clerk of the board to forward the legislation to the state building standards commission, as required by state law. building inspection commissionn1234 items 36-41 providing the adoption of january 2014. >> without objection these ordinances are passed in the first reading. next item? >> the clerk: item 42. sfitem 42: 131002:[opposing golden gate national recreation area's draft dog walking access policy] sponsors: wiener; tang, breed and avalos resolution opposing the golden gate national recreation area's ggnraa currently proposed preferred alternative for dog management; and urging the ggnra to adopt a different approach.124 >> supervisor wiener? >> thank you, mr. president, colleagues before you is a resolution that i introduced that i want to thank cosponsors and supervisor tang and breed and avalos for your support on this resolution. it's putting san francisco and county on the record again against the oppos

>> yeah, i know the "covered california" site has options. they do take feedback from the public as well. so i think that would be a great channel to go through. actually i might ask, fd action. i know you are also about giving feedback to the state as well as the call center. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you, i have two questions. if you have like medi-cal and another, do you have to pick a plan or can you just stay with what you have? >> i don't know if i'm following the question. if you are existing on medi-cal do you have to pick something in you? >> yeah. >> if you are already on medi-cal you don't have to do anything new. so you are going to continue as you are. if you are, say, a pregnant woman which is covered under medi-cal today but she'll be covered under the new medi-cal program come january first. at the time of renewal, if there is any changes you need to make or plan selection differences you will be walked through at that point. there is some specific things around our healthy san francisco program and sf pro

there's things to do that won't run a foul of what has happened in california. you may receive some push back on some of that, but to the extent that you keep it narrative on what's happening in san francisco accident i think you can make great public arguments about why this is an issue for the city and it provides information for the state going forward and my basic understanding of pre-' em gs law, is it is very case specific and healthly swayed by public policy. i think that the things you could do is try things like requiring disclosure for plans negotiated here and set up a disclosure for city and county employees. things like that, i think you'll have a much better -- >> thank you very much professor. i appreciate you being here for all your hard work. and best of luck in the next few months. >> i'm going to go pass out now. >> okay. up next is professor raps. want to invite ann mccloud up who is the president of the hospital. thank you for being here. >> good afternoon and thank you for having me today. as senior vice president for hospital, cha represen

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especially in california.g republican, who liked the party's economic platform, but who were also more moderate and liberal on cultural issues w those voters saw in the rise of gingrich and the gop congress was a new different republican party, a far more conservative southern and religious infused republican party. a party they weren't comfortable with anymore. put all of that together and a generation later, america's biggest state, which is once a republican friendly swing state, the state that gave rise to richard nixon and ronald reagan, the home of orange county, the orange conservative suburban uprising began, that state has been transformed into a top to bottom democratic bastion. voting for president obama by 24 points in 2008, 23 points last year, every state wide office is controlled by democrats. and last year democrats even gained a veto proof two-thirds majority in the state legislature. this is why one california republican strategist in a memo that leaked out this week offered this assessment t

it is now one of the most overcrowded prisons in california. tracy jones was one of the women forced to move. >> they combined two prisons into one and we were kicked out for male genders. so we're over here. >> many inmates told us off camera that the medical care was worse than before, and the conditions of their cells were appalling. >> it's not just fifteen minutes in confinement. it's day after day, year after year, decade after decade. people cannot comprehend that. we've always known the time entire i was there, we always talked about if there was ever a fire or an emergency how many of us would die because you couldn't actually evacuate the place safely because of the population total. >> two years ago, a federal panel ruled that the california prison system was dangerously overcrowded. the state was ordered to reduce its prison population by at least 30,000 inmates. >> they are horribly, horribly overcrowded to the extent that people were literally dying in our prisons from simple medical conditions simply because they didn't get acces

california. our hospitals are 6% of the hospitals in california.e do 50% of the uninsured care. >> oh, my goodness. >> what's not being talked about with the affordable care act is the big impact on those who are uninsured and those who will be newly eligible for medi-cal. we anticipate that by june of next year there will be 1 million new medi-cal enrollees, 600 thousands of those are being cared for now in our system and the other 19 hospitals and will roll over automatically on january 1st, 2014 to become medi-cal eligible. that's a big number. 100% federal dollars. a huge help to the state and to local governments like ours trying to provide care to the uninsured. >> doctor, just for folks who might not know what medi-cal is could you explain that, please? >> it's part of the federal program called medicaid, california's version of medicaid. that basically provides insurance to folks who are poor. what's different in becoming affordable care act implementation is that a whole new category of folks will be eligible for medi-cal. not just those r

else in the jurisdiction. >> that's for california. we uncovered one case in north carolina from the late 1990s where hmo pricing information was considered to be a trade secret but it was done on public policy grounds. it was when they were trying to promote hmo and give them protection and they're specific about the reason for doing so. so 20 something years later, we can say that didn't work out well, so now public policy may put us in a different position. mar. >> i had a specific question to the budget committee and probably the health -- the health commission as well. as we were discussing kaiser rates and it's great that kaiser is here, it was some question that the care management and other issues were protected and could not be revealed because of trade secrets but i'm wondering on different data like that, would you consider that a trade secret? >> explain to me the data again. what is it? >> so as we were discussing kaiser's rates, there were different issues that i believe kaiser rep said they didn't give and we did receive

>> well, california, i think, is actually doing a really good job.we're showing other states what it means when a state comes together to say, let's not play politics with our citizens. let's enroll them and covered in health care. there's a 16 other states that are also state-based exchanges like us. new york, washington, connecticut. they're doing a good job. but in air year or two welcome people in states like texas or florida want what california has, insured people getting good coverage that's affordable. >> quickly, if the national website did you want get fixed in a timely way, can -- i mean, we're dependent on that, aren't we? >> absolutely not. for people that need to enroll in coverage in california, we're not using the federal website at all. instead, we actually do a checkup against the irs, the federal hub. so covered california at covered ca.com, we do not use were link or depend on healthcare.gov. a different website. we do, though, ping against the irs and this is an example of what the federal government works really well. three seco

case, an entire nation because we do a poor job of training those physicians in california. good back to those reference pricing, they don't lower cost. they shift them and they actually kind of ex asser bait this issue. i don't think that it's the best finance structure example around, but the cross sub sti -- substidi that we have is a dell indicate balance and if we start forgetting to address that there is a delicate balance and there's issues that has to be addressed. failure to recognize those cost drivers that include those benefits, it places no value on those hospitals that restore the health to the sickest patients. maybe they don't see a lot of med-cal, medicare but they're your trauma centers. maybe it's a children's hospital or some other -- >> i don't disagree with that at all. those things provide benefits. we're so lucky here in san francisco, not only all of the hospitals, but uc in terms of a research institution is unbelievable worldwide and we're lucky it's based here in san francisco. but outlining what those cost are, we shouldn't hide from them though.

california g.o.p. communications director is with us. mark, you're in california.ong in what he said. take us through it point by point. where is he wrong? >> well, first of all, if i've got the president and paul krugman as my biggest cheerleaders, i'd be worried, so that's-- >> wait a second you're referring to the paul krugman article where it says that california is indeed a standout success and the president picked up on krugman article. >> that's right, krugman is the guy back in 1999 that was trying to convince the world that enron was doing just fine. again, these aren't the guys i want out in front screaming and yelling about the whole thing. they're touting 80,000 signups here in california and as far as the national scale, maybe wiping the table with what obamacare is doing nationwide, you know, they've got a projected 1 million signups by the end of march 2014. that was the original estimate when california opened up its doors for business. now they're trying to walk that back to manage expectations. last month we only need 700,000 by the end of march a

so much goes on here but california will thrive even more if the university is thriving.re is a direct connection. >> is there a concern you think? the university is a terrific institution. there are noble prize winners, lots of books are written by professors on national and international tv. is there a risk, do you think, of appearing almost too elite that the legislature that represents low income folks may not be able to relate? >> let's back it up and say we are not elitest in that way and in fact, almost 40, 42% of our students get pell grants. they are from lower income families. another 20% pay less than half of what the tuition is, so the doors of the university are wide open. i think we don't advertise it as well as she should. >> many of those kids and families don't even know they are eligible for those grants. >> that's right. i've been to several high schools and asked for a show of hands, how many knew if their family made $80,000 or less they would pay no tuition at the university and hardly anyone knows that. so -- >> so they write off the university as a

prevailing wages and i ask you to help me in welcoming the council of california mr. robby hunter (clapping) >> >> the state building construction trade represents 4 hundred and 80 thousand workers. i myself am a member of the structural and workers and spent almost thirty years building skyscrapers and bridges thought california. as we stand here today in the shadow of two of the most historic bridges built over 80 years ago on this labor day i decade those words to all the workers even the ones that are gone. construction of thousands of bridges those historic spans - those - of historic bridges spanning the great national divides this will allow our nation to grow. part of the new deal to lift us up from the great depression the construction of this bridge one of the greatest employment for our nation. the jobs this bridge provided during this time helped many families to get through the did the times. a bridge of this type of is one of the most dangerous of the construction folks. over 1 hundred million hours were worked with no loss of life. i would like to thank

is more characteristic of the california street block patterns and also being that california street is a wider street. along perine place it is also a four story two unit building proposed there but with more mod laigz of the front facade and setbacks to address the smaller scale and narrowness perine place and addressing some of the light and air issues that were brought up. just to mention to the commission the code complying -- as proposed now would require a variance with the rear beyond and it's between the buildings. the code compliant project would place it along perine place or california street. in placing the yard where it is now the proposed building that places along perine place their main rear wall essentially lines up with the rear wall of the requester's building and provides relief of the yard to the adjacent requester's rear yard. at this time the department proposes -- would like the commission to not take discretionary review and approve the project as proposed. i would be happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> thank you. dr requester. >> commissioners, goo

they laid concrete in southern california. without which, a good deal would be washed into the ocean. the ccc and the wpa workers were trained for disaster relieve. we didn't have to rely on the national guard. these kinds of things wouldn't be as disastrous. we need a new wpa. they are walking over the sidewalks, which is wpa. this was a demonstration outside of dianne feinstein's office. and demanding it not be torn down. the new deal moved in and gave rural areas water and electricity. this is one in modock county and we have cheaper electricity. and then, there were sustainable communities, people think they are discovering this at this time. this one was done in georgia. this is one in maryland green belt outside of washington d.c. this is right outside of the co-op. and then urban roads like this in the los angeles river and this is being built. this is mira loma park. this is lark merced blvd. it's all made of clay. it's going to slump. these are the roads built in

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even though they are compliant with the california law, the california government used the dispensary as a criminal organization, but harborside is going to fight back and they have an unusual ally in the corner, and the city of oakland has taken the city to court to keep harborside up and running. this marks the first time any city has taken the u.s. government the court over its marijuana laws. >> so the next big test is going to be december 20th. it is going to be a really historic day of hearings and critical constitutional issues about the power of localities and the cities and the states and the relationships to each other will be discussed and implicated in the case. it is a case of huge national importance. first we will hear a motion from the city to stop all of the proceedings. if the judge hears a motion on that day, it stops everything in its tracks and will never resurrect it again. but then we will hear motions from the landlords to ask the court to ask us to cease and desist selling cannabis. if we win, we will get our day in court and we will win. we will be in front o

so where is calmedi connect starting in california? in 2014 the first 8 counties or the pilot demonstration project in this statal alameda, san diego orange, san mateo river side and santa clara so those count ies are now getting up to speed integrating medicare and medical funds for the target populations in those counties to be served through managed care health plans. alameda county is doing an enormous amount of work we're tracking those closely. in 2016 there will be 8 other counties included san francisco we anticipate will be one of those counties in 2016 so what we're doing now is to take this time to get ready to learn what's happening in the other 8 county ies so that we can do the best possible job for all of the people who are going to be transitioning to this demonstration project in san francisco. san francisco is what is known as a two plan model. we have the san francisco health plan which some of you may have heard of which is the public option and we have anthem blue cross which is the commercial plan and we have a th

california's not as bad, and then finally, california is well funded.t's important to hone in on this. take away the federal exchanges for a second and just look at the 20 states implementing it. how do you explain the massive wide variation in implementing essentially the same project. >> some has to do with the management. a very good management, a very experienced head in california, and also in connecticut. so mlgts has something to do with it. you see this in connecticut too. we don't underestimate how important it is to use the bargaining power it has. number two it forces insurers to compete on price. and third, it makes the technology a little easier. i don't want to overstate that, but where there's a simpleler system with fewer benefit packages, the technology is easier. and obviously that's one thing that we can state is very, very important. when you're going to work working on imp men indication on this law, how much does a political threat from republicans hang over what you were doing? >> well, it hung over it a lot. it hung over us a lot

not just in california but around the world. this professor skyped from oxford, england. >> most likely to misrepresent it to get going. >> reporter: it's called strategic bias, or lying. all those other things you suspected might come into play -- >> once costs start rising, they will never stop unless you make a major transformation. if the money is there, it will be spent. >> reporter: like the big dig in boston started aat $2.5 billion and ended up $15 billion. but people have forgotten because the three-hour drive is now 30 minutes. project managers are counting on our short-term memory. >> long after projects are built, the public tends to forget as we have in boston. >> reporter: we pay the price for that lack of vigilance. nine out of 10 projects go over budget and this has been going on for 70 years or more. so while technology has improved, our ability to estimate the final cost has not. the reasons why are long. optimism, poor oversight and accountability, and something called the christmas tree syndrome. things get a

now has a green building code and that's mandatory in california, we're able to amend it just like we are mechanical code, electrical and plumbing code. minor changes -- building code wise -- >> i don't think we need to go through minor changes. >> that's it then if you don't mind. any questions? >> i don't think so. thank you for the presentation. so we will now open up items five through ten to public comment. is there any public comment on these items. seeing none, public comment is closed. and can we forward items five through ten with recommendation? that will be the order. madam clerk can you call item number 11. >> ordinance california commemorating the location with a plaque. >> okay. this item was amended and continued. it is before us again. we received a presentation at the last hearing and so if there are no comments or questions we'll open this up to public comment. is there any public comment on item 11? seeing none, public comment is closed. and can with forward to full board with positive recommendation? without objection that will be the order. >> madam clerk is there

now, steve, california is not going to help the white house. and this could affect hundreds of thousands of people. >> reporter: well, "covered california" essentially voted to stay the course. they are not going to allow those who are facing their policies to be terminated january 1 any type of extension. there was a chance of a one- year extension. the vote was unanimously by the "covered california" board 5-0. and, of course, this comes as president obama has been facing backlash after telling americans they could keep their healthcare insurance if they wanted. it turns out that's not true. one of the critics of this vote