looks like we have not quite 3,000 enrolled in fsa. is that where we want to be or should be? it seems relatively low to me. maybe everyone is health and not needed extra money for medical. >> i think we wanted the fsa numbers to go up for a number of years. one of the reasons we are doing an rfp is for wage works and in particular our current vendor is the complaints that we've had from members that the administration is not as easy. so we are hoping through this rfp process that we can get an application going for our vendors to take advantage of that pretax benefit. >> this this is a great report. very helpful. >> so on page 23, out of curiosity you have retirees at age between 35-44. >> these are most likely disability retirees. >> okay. i just want to know what those are. they are too young to be retired. >> thank you commissioner fraser for calling out the fsa. >> thank you. >> any other comment? any public comment? no public comment. item no. 11? >> city clerk: item 11, action item approval of the hhs branding. rosemary postantino. >> now that we have stephanie from our

so while this is a little higher categories in saying specific to data warehouse or fsa, we are asking that you avoid discussing this r fq to this type of vendors. there is ability for this board to communicate with vendors for reasons that aren't related to hhs business disclosing with directions within the actual policies and the agenda item on how to disclose them. what we are hoping as much possible is to be able to send out these types of documents, rfp's, rfq, to as many people as possible to qualify so that we have a rich group of members to be able to choose from. so, and that's basically the foundation of san francisco government is to provide everybody as much as possible, the ability to at least try to get a city contract. i'm sorry i can't give you a list of the vendors, just ask that you observe this blackout period by if someone would come talk to you about services or ask questions to refer them to the department. >> i completely understand the issues of what i do. i cannot agree to say that i will not discuss anything about communications with any firm. it's just too br

has been working on making sure the contract is one of the last ones to complete and we are doing the fsa and cobra rfp which is released on monday. that will be three rfp's on monday and the controllers report that will provide some information for the data basis going and we are working on the data for union negotiations. a lot of request on that and there is city's report is being updated and we providing a lot of report and data for that calculation. i think we've talked about the wellness efforts and it's launched. they are doing big conferences down there in the big conference we have and starting to do other trainings and in terms of meetings, we wanted to just highlight that. we are working with the city's cat program so the catastrophic illness program and long-term disabilities programs are really well integrated and working effective for the members going through that kind of situation and needing both of those benefits to work together. and we've also been continuing to work on kaiser and clinic can engagement and we have one on one meetings with every member of the staff to s

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farmers are remined that enrollment reminder for payment and other fsa programs. if we can be getting notices out for all of these efforts we sure ought to get notice out to the farmers about dealing with their participating in the food stamp program. let me move to another area, mr. secretary, and that is gofer e are -- again, thank you for coming by and talking about all of this, but why is the department so intent on moving forward with the poultry modernization rule and given the reality associated with this? the house of based inspection model projects twice found to have no food safety benefits. i will just -- this is over 15 years usda's pilot programs in chicken and turkey processing plants and the project has been assessed twices and both times they failed to convince any investigator of any food safety benefits. and they commented no data collected over the 15 year run that demonstrates any reduction in food born pathogens. studies suggest a reduction when more offline testing is done. no provision in the plant from m mandating the test two pathogens mos

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the appropriate technology, you've talked in -- about sort of streamlining the management of rural fsa offices and combining them through electronics. is there a way where we could essentially, if we have to -- if we're not going to changed microrequirements of measuring each child each day for the amount of food they get and whether it's nutritional food could we begin sort of a bar code system so that things that the chairman are talking about where the servers are -- they're just overwhelmed by the amount of work they have to do, and the limited amount of money they have. can't we use smart technology to sort of portion size and make sure that the child who is receiving that proportion is also all those records are kept electronically? >> well, i think a couple things, congressman. we are obviously very anxious to work with technology advances to modernize our programs. it is an issue of resources, obviously. we are -- we think the first order of business is to help schools better equip themselves to be able to produce food on site, which is why we've had the school equipment grant

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we've now used, we now use fsa and veterans determination for disability. so the vagueness around what total and permanent disability is, that's been addressed. and so i think we've improved the process, but there's probably still work to be done. and it sounds like the issue around attacks at the end of the forgiveness, that's something that has been discussed a lot. and in a people are looking at that. that is, we can operationalize that pretty easy if that comes to fruition, but we have made some significant improvements. and were looking for additional ideas in terms of how we can further improve the total and permanent disability process. >> i don't want to get anyone off but i've just been informed we have three votes at noon. i think we'll have to call a halt to the string. we have a whole nother panel of experts that we want to hear from soy just ask if you don't have any really, mr. runcie, i know you've answered a number of questions but i don't want to cut anyone off coaches like to read as long to we can get your next panel. >> i will hold my qu

although it is not that far predominantly reaching, but the fsa has received calls over the weekend toign. he says these have been quoted by saying we'll have larger complex groups and are costliest to regulate. at the same time, the prime minister is looking into how to reduce funds with ben ch mark marksers. this business plan includes series of new views into the conduct of wholesale banking and investment management firms as well. and we'll look at issues surrounding conflicts of interest, but perhaps rather ill-timed during a blunder on friday as they are asking for more money. >>> now north and south korea have been exchanging fire. close to a disputed maritime border. pyongyang warned of its intentions to conduct a firing drill, but when shells landed in south korean waters, they got the f-15s and marines from the south and fired back. >> china sees nearly $15 billion worth of assets from the family and associated of zsu yongkang. bonds, car, paintings and gold are all part of the seizure. the operation has been going on for four months. more than 300 of his relatives, political

. >> can you give us some idea for the fsa droerktor's position that's vacant in georgia of when we can expect to get a director? it's been vacant for some time. >> congressman, i don't know the answer to that question specifically, but we will get you an answer by the end of tod today. >> thank you very much, mr. chair. thank you again, mr. secretary. you've put in a long morning and afternoon with us, and i won't drag out the pain too much longer, but i do concur a lot of my colleagues have asked many of the things that i wanted to talk about so i appreciate them bringing so many things up. i've just got one and i'm sure it's yet another one of your favorite topics. that is around gmos. maine just recently became the second state in the country to pass a law requiring the labeling of genetically modified ingredients in foods. just as an aside, i would say this was a republican sponsored bill passed by democratic legislature signed by a republican governor. i think i can say maine's call for action konls from people who want to know what's in their food as well as farmers that are conc