i was pressured out of laguna honda and city employment by the administration at laguna honda. nothing in the employee hand book and the controlers website prepares us to become whistleblowers. and in our experience unfortunately goboc, who oversees the program, knew even less about the unique and life changing experience of becoming a whistleblower than we did. over the past two years we've been a lot of research on this subject and would like to offer some suggestions. all new members should get some information beyond what the controller gives them. whistleblower advocacy groups should be giving information to all employees and also to perspective whistleblowers. the national whistleblower center has a guide book. a step by step guide to doing what's right and protecting yourself. the government accountability project guide book. corporate whistleblowers, survival guide, a hand book for committing the truth is another valuable resource. the government accountability project also puts out a free newsletter called whistleblower news and finally the government accountability pr

the laguna honda gift fund was reported as well. it is a charitable fund for poor patients that was being plundered for staff parties and perquisites by the laguna honda

the laguna honda gift fund was reported as well. it is a charitable fund for poor patients that was being plundered for staff parties and perquisites by the laguna honda administration. nine months later, pressure led to an audit which restored three under $50,000 for the patience of a good on that, but again, this complete was ignored by the ethics commission. and lastly, i was driven out after 22 years, and the doctor was laid off. our whistle-blower complaints were dismissed by ethics without a hearing. is this an ethical decision making? thank you very much. >> good evening. i am peter, the executive director of the library users association. first of all, i want to thank the ethics commission for having publicly televised meetings, which will make it much easier for the public to observe what is happening at your meetings compared with audio only. i hope that the ethics commission will continue progress in the direction of open government by improving in a variety of other ways and especially by having public hearings on issues

the laguna honda gift fund was reported as well.t is a charitable fund for poor patients that was being plundered for staff parties and perquisites by the laguna honda administration. nine months later, pressure led to an audit which restored three under $50,000 for

the first bond i want to bring your attention to is the laguna honda hospital. that started in originally authorized $299 million, and has finally has a completion cost of $585 million. obviously our purr view -- our perview is to try to make it on time and on scope. things didn't go particularly well with this one. it did start prior. but we did learn a lot of lessons from that and these are lessons we can bring to quite directly with another product we have in front of us which is the general hospital. i should say the controller is also here. should i not be able to answer any questions, you will be more than happy -- ok, i'll keep going. so the second program here is the improvement program which again started prior, the good news is that 22 of the 24 branch libraries are complete. and reopened. and the bad news is that it has well overrun its initial budget and schedule. and there's something that happens in the course of this that improves things, the m.o.u. between d.p.w. and the branch library improvement program helped a lot. there were a lot of, i thin

the rebuilding of our public hospital laguna honda this is on going work with the same contract ors that move successful apprentices from one project to another and keep them working for several years. the construction workers of the future to be the superintendents the construction owners. that's the perfect thing there. that's success. >> we believe we can bring innovation to government, entrepreneurs, developers, with the government to make a difference. i would like to introduce mayor ed lee of san francisco to kick us off. >> thank you, good morning. happy new year i want to start out by saying the new year brings us -- while we still hear bad news from the federal and state economy, i have always believed, particularly this last year as interim mayor, working with people like ron conaway, jenn, certainly talking with david chiu, we need to innovate our way out of a lot of these problems. you are going to hear me use that word innovation quite a bit. i think, for our city, innovating ourselves into more transparency to be more customer friendly and transparent, to be more efficient

the rebuilding of our public hospital laguna honda this is on going work with the same contract ors that move successful apprentices from one project to another and keep them working for several years. the construction workers of the future to be the superintendents the construction owners. that's the perfect thing there. that's success. >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to

laguna honda is an example that you're likely familiar with. this will provide medical care and rehabilitation services in a residential setting and is the highest level of care that elderly and disabled patients can receive outside the hospital. skilled nursing care services are referred to as beds. cpmc provide this for over 30 patients. currently, approximately 62 patients are receiving skilled nursing care at st. luke's. the st. luke's is licensed for 79 skilled nursing beds, the average occupancy rate for 2010 -- excuse me, for 2010, the last year for which there is publicly available data, it is 62 beds and thus the 100 total. cpmc is not proposing to include more in a hospital but will instead add 62 new beds in san francisco. these new beds, these will be new beds, not simply existing beds transferred by another provider for this purpose, and it will thus maintain the overall ability -- availability of skilled nursing. with the exception of those that have medicare and/or private insurance or medi-cal. cpmc under the proposed agreement

talked about in previous meetings, reductions in the metical rate at a good hospital, cuts in laguna honda. other states, particularly at the human resources agency, other reductions at mental health, one-time revenue, various other changes. all in all, from this year to next year, the prediction is we will see a net change of $20 million in revenues, and the following year, $105 million in revenues. the problem in our deficit is not a revenue problem is more -- problem, it is more a deficit problem. driving personnel changes, predicting $94 million in salary increases next year with expiration of our labor agreements. approximately 12 furlough days with the concession that was made in most labor agreement that are expiring. the assumption is if those go away, that will feel like a 4.6% year over year change in the cellar cost. we continue to see increases in health and dental benefits costs. this is not based on any actual information from the health services. you have not enacted on those rates yet. there are some kid is going on that health services from changing to a calendar year plan

those measures, he helped to lead our efforts to rebuild the san francisco general hospital and laguna honda. it turns out that every older person deserves quality nursing care as well. she ended by saying, but i intend to learn to play the banjo, and while i may never be good, my effort will teach my children the value of hard work, discipline, and fun. i will remind them to be generous and lend their talent and their resources to making the world a better place. i will ask them to stand up for workers, as warren recently did with the passage of proposition c. i will ask them to treat everyone with respect and generosity and a plot others for their creativity and coming in. i will ask them to practice gratitude. we will go to, and i am going to modify this, too hellman hollow, and i will bring the banjo and fix some bluegrass tune that warren e. there sang or road, because the best i can hope for them is that they will be just like warren when they grow up. as for me, i am never going to grow up, just like warren. i mention these things because the best thing campus -- encapsulates, from my

ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by patricia tanneato against the city and laguna honda hospital for $75,000, filed may 19, 2011. president chiu: roll call vote? clerk: elsbernd, aye, farrell, aye, kim, aye, mar, aye, mirkarimi, aye, weiner, aye, avalos, aye, campos, aye, president chiu, aye, supervisor chu, aye, supervisor cohen, aye. there are 11 aye's. president chiu: this ordinance is passed in first reading. clerk: item fret authorizing settlement of the lawsuit entitled mitchell engineering of bioshy organization versus the city and related cross actions by payment of $14,950 from the city to the mitchell engineering corporation. president chiu: this ordinance is passed in the first reading. clerk: item 49 approving the settlement of unlitigated claim filed by janet o'hara filed march 112011. president chiu: this resolution as adopted. clerk: item 50 authorizing settlement of unlitigated bond claim against travelers casualty and surety company of america item 51 motion appointing fernando marty, chris block, wendy phillips and oscar grande terms ending october 1920