mr. farrell? eric maurd, norman yooe, you've got the whole board. oh, my god!. i am just so delighted, christina that mom's at the mayor's office that you altogether decided to do a closing ceremony for black history month. harlem would disagree with you on that because tomorrow there is another harlem kelly version of black history and he's been doing it for years. it's the most inexpensive event that i have ever been to. i'm going to try to get him to upgrade it, mr. mayor, now that he's the big man. we just finished the most magnificent chinese new years parade it was and the lord obviously smiled on the chinese because it didn't rain this year. most years it rains for the chinese new years. this was at an incredible location. it's always the location over the last years or so, an elective family has reached out to include an -- array of people. in january it was chinese new years celebration and now we are doing black history month. in about five weeks we'll be doing the cherry blossom festival which is japan's town and and then carnival and then we follow t

mr. farrell, welcome back to "mad money." >> jim, nice to be with you today. >> all right.'re biting theel bullet, taking the big move, talking about 3.4 to $3.8 billion in capital expenditures. did you export? what is your confidence level you might be able to get this thing on -- rolling by 2017? >> well, jim, that's the -- the number you give, 3.4 to 3.8. it is a range of capital we'll spend just on a lick which fire. these as you said, are very expensive to have a complete facility. keep in mind, we already have 15 billion cubic feet of storage in tanks, a pipeline dedicated to the facility that goes right to the heart of the marcellus and utica shales near the hub. and then we have a terminal that can take super tankers. all we're talking about is an additional lick which fire. still almost up to nearly $4 billion. we have had a lot of checks in the -- we need to check off a lot of boxes. our recent announcement yesterday, just yesterday, of the contracts with gail and sumo tomorrowo in turn with cons eye electric were big steps forward. we need to get the two permits

. >> chair farrell: if there are to further questions for mr. wagner we'll go to our budget report. mr. rose. >> harvey rose: the bottom line of this request is $46.1 million. and this request, if you look at page 6 of our report, in table 3, it's paying for miscellaneous salaries, permanent salaries, temporary salaries, premium pay, holiday pay, and -- so it's a 46 million request while it is true that the bulk of the revenues are not coming from the general fund, they're coming from within the department, supervisors, if those funds did not -- were not needed, if there was not this deficit in salaries and overtime, then those revenues would cause the general fund to have -- to need less general fund in next year's budget. so it's -- the bottom line is this is a deficit. and fortunately, there are revenues that can help pay for this. but if they didn't have the deficit, those revenues would fund next year's budget. on page 4 of our report we pointed out the proposed supplemental would appropriate, as has been pointed out, $12.7 million from the state revenue loss in general fund re

. >> chair farrell: all right, mr. clerk, can you call item 2. >> 2. ordinance appropriating $38,689,454 in the department of public health, including $4,314,849 of general fund reserves, $8,410,605 of the city reserves for state revenue loss, and $2,600,000 from community mental health services; surplus hospital revenues of $6,504,000 in general hospital, $12,560,000 of laguna honda hospital revenues, and $4,300,000 of laguna honda hospital reserve for debt service (senate bill 1128) revenues are recognized, as well as expenditure reductions of $7,389,546 and additional expenditures of $35,070,000 at san francisco general hospital, and $11,009,000 at laguna honda hospital. >> chair farrell: thank you very much, mr. clerk. we have greg wagner from the chief financial officer from public health to present. >> thank you very much, mr. chair. gregg wagner cfo department of public health. we are here today to request a supplemental appropriation based on our current year deficit for the department of public health. as you all know, we were here last week,

farrell. >> thank you, mr. chair. i want to thank everyone who is here and stuck around today for this legislation, including my colleagues. this has been a long road to get to today. i want to thank supervisor wiener for your support in this legislation. we introduced this legislation last year in 2012. and since that time we have had numerous ongoing meetings with all parties involved in these discussions. i want to thank the tic advocates as well as the tens advocates who sat down over the course of the last few months and certainly last week, as well as supervisor chiu and norman yee who are introducing amendments today. about two months ago, both sides sat down over a multiple week span and had some encouraging and not so encouraging discussions. nevertheless, important, but given the two sides have not spoke men years, that we had that dialogue. last week alone, i met with the tenants advocates in my office and spoke with them over the weekend as well as met with numerous times ~ with the tic advocates over this

. >> chair farrell: thank you very much. mr. clerk, can you please call item one. >> the clerk: 1. hearing to review the impact of illegal manipulation of the london inter-bank offered rate on san francisco's finances; to explore options to recover any losses; and to review any interest rate swaps or other financial instruments the city is engaged in that may have excessive interest rates or fees that should be renegotiated. >> chair farrell: thank you very much, mr. clerk. this hearing was called for by supervisor john avalos and cosponsored by supervisor campos. so i will turn it over to supervisor avalos. >> supervisor avalos: thank you, mr. chair, thank you for hearing this item. colleagues, this is an item i brought forward a couple of months ago, looking at the real manipulation that had occurred under the london interbank offered rate. the lie board scandal and what the impact is to san francisco. clearly, we know that there has been real cases of manipulation and scandal and fraud under the liebore scandal and we want to make sure we're doing everything we can locally to tr

program which is shown really tremendous success in moving families into self-sufficiency. >> chair farrell: mr. rohr, i want to make clear, and thank you, we've spoke in my office before this hearing. you know, in the context, so people understand the context of budget cuts and so forth, and reduction for the mayor's budget reductions, i think the bottom line is you're able to achieve those cuts but also the overall budget increase for your budget is basically coming from the state and feds almost on a dollar-for-dollar basis so we're in a fortunate situation with your agency. >> that's right. i'll talk about some of that expansion in a couple of slides. one piece i forgot to point out which is significant is the increase in medi-cal that you see from 24 -- a little under 25 million to over 31 million. our role in medi-cal delivery is to enroll families and individuals who are eligible. we process their applications. we do outreach to get them in. we provide ongoing case management to make sure they remain eligible and continue to receive medi-cal benefits. the increase is because of the affor

farrell. >> thanks, mr. chair. and thank you, president chiu, for your comments, for your amendments as well as supervisor yee. we have had discussions over a while about these and president chiu, i appreciate your comments. i think at this point in time i would feel comfortable amending them into my legislation. and i think in the spirit of good faith moving forward, again, i do think we're within striking distance of achieving common ground and which is what we sought to do from the get go. and meeting objectives of both tic owners and tenants advocates, again, some find it hard to believe we are going to get there, but i think we are very, very close so i would be open to having an amendment to the legislation and carry the item going forward. >> supervisor kim. >> i will reserve my thoughts for after public comment, just recognizing that some folks have been waiting here a long time. but i will also be introducing one amendment as well and i will pass out copies in advance. but it's really out of concern for th

appear on the april 9 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> chair farrell: thank you very much. mr. clerk, can you please call item

farrell: thank you. colleagues, any other questions? okay. thank you very much, mr. rohr, for your time today.at this point, i'd like to open it up to public comment, if there are any members of the public who wish to comment on this item, please step forward. >> my name is vera hale. i'm a member of the advisory council to the department of aging. and every year, i come up here about cuts, and it's such a joy to be here and to be able to talk about what the needs of the people are, and what some of the things we think are coming in the future. i want to mention three things. one is the difference between -- one difference between calworks and medi-cal. cal fresh -- not calworks, cal fresh, has no asset limit. and this means that people will be able to apply, regardless of whether they have excess money in the bank or not. medi-cal will still, unless the state changes it, have an asset limit of $2,000 for one person, and $3,000 for a couple. and that's going to make it harder to ever get everything going easily back and forth. but one of the things that we found, anne hinton held a hearing in

. >> chair farrell: thank you very much, mr. clerk. this hearing was called for by supervisor john avalos and cosponsored by supervisor campos. so i will turn it over to supervisor avalos. >> supervisor avalos: thank you, mr. chair, thank you for hearing this item. colleagues, this is an item i brought forward a couple of months ago, looking at the real manipulation that had occurred under the london interbank offered rate. the lie board scandal and what the impact is to san francisco. clearly, we know that there has been real cases of manipulation and scandal and fraud under the liebore scandal and we want to make sure we're doing everything we can locally to try and recover any losses we've had in san francisco. and this hearing is to explore what those might be and to encourage the city to seek action as well. before i start off, i do have a little bit of humor to add to initiativnrnt this process, goi- initiate the process going back from the report as they reported to the liebore scandal. >> chair farrell: may we have the computer

farrell: supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: thank you, mr. wagner, for the great presentation. i wanted to ask you about the good news in the last slide. could you explain a little more the 19 million that may come into our general fund through the igt program for seniors and people with disabilities transitioning. >> sure. so under the medi-cal waiver, the state's medicaid waiver, there was a provision to transfer seniors and persons with disabilities from fee-for-service into managed care. so basically instead of getting paid a certain amount when somebody comes into our hospital for a day, we get paid a flat month -- flat amount per person per month. so we -- the reimbursement structure has changed. as we've implemented that change, and as we've done analysis, and this is for san francisco, but also statewide, of the impacts of that change, it turns out that the reimbursement under the new managed care model is less than counties had been receiving for the -- under the fee for service payment model. so the counties and the public hospitals have collectively been working with

farrell present. supervisor kim? kim present. supervisor mar? mar present. supervisor tang? tang present. supervisor wiener? wiener present. supervisor yee? yee present. mr.resident, all members are present. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, before we do the pledge of allegiance, i'd like to ask that we take a moment to recognize the victims of yesterday's boston marathon tragedy. [moment of silence] >> thank you very much. and ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> colleagues, we have our march 12, 2013 board meeting minutes. could i have a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor breed. without objection, those meeting minutes are adopted. [gavel] >> madam clerk, do we have any communications? >> there are no communications, mr. president. >> and if you could read our consent agenda. >> items 1 through 14 are considered routine. if a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately

farrell present. supervisor kim. kim present. supervisor mar? mar present. supervisor tang? tang present. supervisor wiener? wiener present. supervisor yee. yee present. mr. president, all members are present. >> thank you research, madam clerk, ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. colleagues, we have our march 5th, 2013 board meeting minutes. can i have a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor yee. without objection those meeting minutes are approved. [gavel] >> madam clerk, are there any communication? s? >> there are no communications, mr. thv. >> can you read our consent agenda? the consent calendar is considered routine. if a member objects ictiontionth the item may be removed and considered separately. >> colleagues, unless there is any objection, if we could take a roll call vote on items 1 2,, 3. >> supervisor yee. yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor

about, about jazz, in it, billy farrell, who is one of a very large number of characters, is a jazz pianist and before he begins playing a black leprechaun appears to him, mr. mcginniss so you can assume it's the ghost of mr. mcginniss. as margaret said, in 1949 we came to the south bronx, which was an irish neighborhood, mostly. i was sort of a spaced-out kid, destined obviously to be a poet. i was this big at 13 and i was a good rollerskater and the kids were amazed and they befriended me. after a while, they recognized that i had some sort of athletic ability and because i was so spaced out, they mistook it for great courage and if they pushed me, i pushed them back. it was just like a game. so they took to me and asked me to join the shamrocks. i even changed my name from ed vega to ed mcveigh. and this is how they passed me off because most of the teams they played were other irish kids. this was a regular football team so, consequently, they listed me as eddie mcveigh. it was great fun and my friends were jimmy flynn, paddy o'connor. my siblings married the shenny's and i almost married a catherine finerin but it didn't work out. i have a nephew, sea

mr. malmud for the time he's already spent on this legislation as well as [speaker not understood] the specific idea. i'm happy to support supervisor kim's amendment. >> supervisor farrell, did you want to -- okay. so, i have a few comments. so, first, i want to really thank all of my colleagues who have spent an inordinate amount of time on this legislation and potentially getting it to a place where it may be passed by the board of supervisors. i think coming into this legislation and this very lengthy and challenging debate is, you know, i came in, and i know a lot of people came in with recognition that we need to take into account the needs of all of our residents including renters, including tic owners. and i really want to -- in fact, we've had a number of hearings on this already. i want to thank the advocates on both sides who at least acknowledge the challenges that the other side faced. and there were folks on -- who were opposing the legislation vociferously, but who at least acknowledged the challenges that not all, but quite a few tic owners are facing. and i want to thank the tic owners and advocates who at least acknowledged the crisis in housing afforda