there are actively looking for relationships with our general hospital. to talk to me about, ok, when we're finished with this, there is another project that money to pay attention to. they're thinking ahead about the medical needs of our community. that is why it is so wonderful to be out here, because people are not just taking care of immediate emergencies. there also assessing have those emergencies can be part of a wonderful city that protects itself, that will be seismically safe, that will be working all along this time with disaster recovery. these are all of the elements of the great city. so i want to thank everybody here was with me. again, i want to thank naomi for a wonderful decision. naomi. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. in addition to all the wonderful things that you said about mohammed's leadership and the reason why i am so confident that he is the best director for dpw right now and can leave this world-class organization is his hardworking it does the plan and work ethic, to oversee all these wonderful public works projects. he i

inflationary is the cost of pharmaceuticals, costs for the general hospital. other cost growth. regulatory includes the cost of the expenditures to meet the federal guidelines and drawdown 45 worth of revenue. leslie, emerging needs includes implementation of electronic " but records. supervisor chu: your revenue is $26 million. target was 29. a gift you almost always there with revenue growth alone. it looks like what is happening is your department has to absorb increases in pharmaceutical costs, the fact that there are additional expenses you have to capture, and that each of some of the revenue. >> that is exactly correct. one of the challenges we have been struggling with in terms of how we communicate with what is it in half the budget is if our reduction target is a challenge, it would be easier for us to get there, because we do have some of the revenues. because of the investments we need to make associated with the federal requirements and cost growth, those challenges are over and above reduction targets. we have the dual challenge where we are forced to make investme

i used to work at san francisco general hospital. i am a little puzzled by this mou. mainly i am puzzled as to why it was assigned to this committee. it seems this is a financial matter rather than an audit and oversight matter. i do not know whether it actually belongs here. i have a feeling that maybe it is here because there is something else to do on this committee. i find that a little hard to believe, but maybe i am wrong. i would like to thank mr. feldman for his comments. he is part of the new 1021. in my opinion, it is a vast improvement over the previous 1021 i had to endure with. hopefully, this mou, whichever way it goes, will benefit the union. hopefully, the union will continue to improve itself. we have to be optimistic in the future, even though, according to my interpretation, the union sometimes cooperates with the employer to often. it is kind of like the nfl situation, where you need a commissioner to put down the hammer on people that obstruct justice. the last thing i have to say it is -- who is the next coach sean peyton? chairperson farrell: th

d.c.ption is the old general hospital.rilled about the redskins call in that area home. >> i want to give you a sense of where this property is. armoryme you have the dc where a public meeting was held. the redskins used to play before moving to prince george's county. s the siteer side it i about for the o potentially move headquarters and train at. a lot of people not wild about this idea. tonight vincent gray faced the crowd, the majority of which did want the redskins' training facility in their neighborhood. not a lot of will bring.it they are typically closed with fences sera them. the site there are worried is where the d.c. general hospital used to be. >> has life been better since the redskins move to maryland? >> it has for me. >> she says she does not want the redskins to come back here, even if it is only a training facility. she wants a mixed use development that has been talked about for years. >> for a long time they have promised us something else. we have not got it. >> carolyn smith has lived her corner h

i would like to ask whether san francisco general hospital will be receiving any of this money since it has been involved in related work in the past. i would also like to know how much of this money is going to be used for the and recipients compared to administrative costs. also, this mentions waving in direct cost. since i'm not an expert in this area, i don't know what indirect cost mean, so i would like to have a small discussion of what does that mean and whether indirect costs is a sizable item or not. thank you. supervisor chu: any other members of the public wish to speak on this item? seeing nine, public -- seeing none, public comment is closed. we have heard public comment on this item, do we have a motion? we have a motion to send this item forward with recommendations and we can do that without objection. thank you. item #5, we will call but i would like to wait a bit -- the sponsor of this is supervisor elsbernd. >> a hearing on the san francisco vincible transportation agency transit priorities, including funding for existing programs, proposed projects and proposals f

one, to get an idea of where we're at with the rebuild of our wonderful general hospital. i need not repeat how important this institution is but to tell you that we are honoring that level of importance by being out here in full dress, because we want to make sure that we're on time, with an budget, and this is proceeding with all of its complications as a major, important hospital-first city. i want to think the whole team that has been working together. i want to thank our dpw construction management team and the inspectors, because they're doing a great job. the reason why this is on time and we look forward to the possibility -- and i always have to say without being too overly exact on updates, but sometime this summer, perhaps towards the end of july, we are looking at the top behalf of this structure -- topping it off of this structure. that is a milestone. the largest bond capital program we have experienced. but one that was a smartly, thoroughly assessed with our capital improvement program and the city, one that i know carmen was proud of in her supportq this a

i used to work at san francisco general hospital. i am a little puzzled by this mou. mainly i am puzzled as to why it was assigned to this committee. it seems this is a financial matter rather than an audit and oversight matter. i do not know whether it actually belongs here. i have a feeling that maybe it is here becae

first one, we currently have outpatient rehab services of san francisco general hospital, and in the held at home program. we have an initiative to combine those programs so they can coordinate and operate more efficiently and work together, so that is what that initiative represents. the second, which are rucker see it touched upon. -- barbara garcia touched upon. supervisor chu: you are not closing down any locations? >> it is a reduction of efficiency, and it could have an impact on the length of time people are waiting to get into rehab. the second one is a larger piece and one of the things we spend a lot of times with -- a lot of time talking to shareholders about, a reduction to the unmatched general fund contracts. the challenge for us is a we are increasingly in a place where our decisions must be driven by the federal dollars that we are able to draw down our system of care. as we have looked at what we have a available -- what we have available to take on the expenditure side and the budget, it is pretty harsh reality that most of our services are drawing down between 2-1

kathleen cairns and blue for babies. 3 at howard county general hospital... every day... new is wwlcomed into thh world... but it's hard to tell who is a boy.. or a giill. righttoff the bat... (mom cllse)"i think these are standard hospital lanketss. laugh"'she' is less then one day old. "this is baby girl smmth we havent come up with a name for her yet.. " no name.. but the colors she will wear.. are lear.:(mom elissa smith) "mostly pink...hah a hah or.. white." down he hall:(wide shot)"this is our first boy" (baby cooing)((om as aughter comes ii)"ohhh hi kayla.. is 3 thattfor ommy and the baby?" (sherrre mitthell)(voice mitchell he arrived yesterdayy at 8 10 pm"it's a first meeting for siblings.. now.. forever bonded.. (i missed you meet your baby brother mikayla" &p they will share their love.. but not clothes. (mom)"hes going to be ressed in blues browns and green colors.. " (voice only over baby face)"definitely boy like im not going to put him in pink anything!"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxx(prof)"so ttere is o reason scientifically why it would be pink for girls

street is a major thoroughfare for cars and bikes connecting the castro close to san francisco general hospital. it is a very appropriate place to start. when we went in to the campaign , i was proud to work with a great team to pass it. there were a lot of people who said to me to go for it but it will never pass in 100 years. sometimes we failed to get it on the ballot. in 25 years, two different bonds have failed. that is not just in san francisco but throughout the bay area. it has been a very hard thing to do a hard sell. the people of san francisco understand that we as the country have failed in maintaining our infrastructure and investing in that. we see the consequences of that with bridges and public transportation and roads. people are beginning to understand that we have to invest in our infrastructure. our roads and sidewalks are a key part of that. i am so proud of the people of san francisco for understanding that and giving us the 2/3 that we needed. my counterparts around the bay area and elected officials from other areas of the county, their jaws dropped because they have nev

for the overall quality control program for the department public health, especially for the general hospital. thank you. chairperson chu: thank you. >> ♪ one more ♪ item to answer ♪ one more and to find ♪ one more item ♪ to make it all better ♪ and make it better ♪ and we will be happy ♪ we will have a programs ♪ to make it better ♪ and we will make it safe to eat ♪ ♪ and we will be there ♪ and we will answer the budget called ♪ ♪ today thank you. chairperson chu: are there other members of the public who wish to speak on item number one? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion? we have a motion and a second. item number two. >> item number two, up resolution authorizing reentry on behalf of the council to retroactively accept money from the institute of local government as a recipient of an award of the california reentry council network. >> jessica went off here with the department of reentry division. thank you for considering the resolution to accept and expend this grant of about $40,615. it is a small amount of money to continue some of the work that we started last

is the area where the general hospital used to be.one is >> there's not a lot of economic development it will bring. closed facilities and barbed wires. >> one thing we would get is the the cityo move into taxes here.r income >> they are considering leaving. >> the great weather for the cherry blossom festival. the park service announced that there will be in a variety of trees. ohio drive. they're still standing there. more activities for families include the and international friendship merrill landscape for a japanese garden. >> we want to see photos of the beautiful trees. good to our web site wjla.com the cherry blossom sendd to find that out to your pictures. e best one will win a cherry blossom festival prize pack. there sneezing along with everybody. >> you cannot win the contest. >> i know. >> the week and got off to an it starts for those who e men i story of games." made $130ated it million in ticket sales. some shows already sold out. ticket sales have already surpassed presell levels for first "twilight" films/ >> 62 degr

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the department of human resources from my experience for 20 years at san francisco general hospital needs improvement. something like this is a step in the right direction. we should be passing this resolution. i would also like to take this opportunity to say working with the fbi is not a bad thing that 99% of what they do is good. like any organization, there are few problems, so maybe this is a good step to reconcile the city of san francisco with the fbi. the first speaker made some very good points and i feel she is emphasizing that even when people have a past history, they should not be judged on their future job. from my experience, it seems like many superiors, especially in decision making capacities have a tendency to stigmatize certain employees and this type of resolution will tell decisionmakers you have to give everyone a fair chance and just because of one or two mistakes doesn't mean they are going to do something similar in the future. i support the first speaker and this resolution should be passed thank you. >> are there any other members of the public would like to co

i go by a general hospital, i want a reason to go there. but then i end up going to the channel 20 or else i'd go to the flea markets. there is no excuse. people need to help each other a little more. the doctor said he did not want to see me no more. and then you would not all be ♪ cryin' over ryan's fund ♪ ♪ now you're gone and you gotta carry on ♪ ♪ you've been cryin' ♪ thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good afternoon. i am from the san francisco human services network. thank you for this early hearing. it is good to get this stuff out on the table. i was going to speak about the impact on the health department. jennifer did a great job of letting that out. there are three areas of decisions that the mayor and this committee are going to have to take on. first of all, to what extent are we going tolay our values on the line? secondly, the general fund cuts, a $4.8 million across the board cuts that range anywhere from 4% to 25% depending on how different services are impacted by the formula. it does not take into account questions

i want to thank you for that, and thank you for the contribution that make our general hospital so specialto the organizers for the event today, and most importantly, thank you to the doctors, nurse practitioners, administrators, janitors, a security guard people, everybody at that hospital. sue kern you are doing a fantastic job. thank you for giving us the world class hospital we need in our city. i know that you saw some of the earlier videos as more examples of how our hospital had reflected the bellies of our city. okyou saw ryan white and how he recovered from that hit and run accident. and then you saw at the very end, this past halloween, where he proudly wore the san francisco giants uniform for halloween. congratulations to ryan for recovering. thank you again to hospital staff. you know, i have been there. some of the most wonderful and hardest days i have had as mayor of the city. i want to let you know, for the firefighters out there, certainly the two i had the chance to be with in their last days, i want to thank you again for the wonderful hospital team we have and how we c

our public safety building as well as the san francisco general hospital. you can see $18 million over two years for the public safety building and $170 million for the general. $65 million is expected to come through private fund-raising. i would also point out to you one of the other things that is included in this is the cost of implementing federal health care reform. that is a disclaimer. the district electronic medical records implementation, those sorts of things. that is costing the city $12.9 million. the next slide addresses reserves. overall, there is $11.2 million change to our reserves for fiscal year 12-13. that is due to a couple of things. we will be making an increased deposits into the budget stabilization reserve of about $21.4 million. we also will be increasing our deposits into our general reserves. as you recall, as part of our financial policies, increased the deposit into the general fund reserve. it has been at a level of $25 million. next year, we anticipate finding adds approximately $31.5 million. -- funding at approximately $31.

members of the san francisco board of supervisors who came to ask them to open san francisco general hospitalh they did. they ran it for four years until a very familiar thing happened, and that was the county board of supervisors had a dispute about how to pay health care bills. the sisters said we've had enough of that and went on to create st. mary's hospital. as you can see, very familiar with how the city works. even then, over 150 years. it is an important issue. we're glad to be able to provide it. we're glad to be able to be here and to recognize some super creative people and the super creative programs. the committee which reviewed folks and review projects had a tough time picking who should be chosen and who should be recognized. the list is fantastic.

the child was rushed to san francisco general hospital with a compound leg fracture, the driver did stop and is cooperating with police. police have not issued a citation. that accident is still under investigation. and there is another frightening crash today. take a look at this, a woman, her baby escaped zwlir. she crashed her suv into a house. there is a foous house severely damaged. there is no word yet on the indegree fwrity of the building. >> there is police in pinole looking for occupants of a house this morning revealing a massive pot growing operation. investigators removed bags and bags of marijuana plants from the property confiscated 350 plants in all. and investigators say the building was filled with plants and grow lampes. the occupants had tampered with the pg&e box to avoid paying electricity. investigators say a mexican drug cartel is tied to a $34 million meth operation in san jose. police looking for a stolen ipad stumbling on the methamphetamine lab in a unit in the woods apartment complex. police say they found 750 pounds of methamphetamines making it one of the l

they are able to help these women deliver their babies at the hospital, at general hospital. we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and