mr. hewitt. >> thank you. members of the committee, supervisor wiener, good morning, my name is jay hewitt. i'm the executive director of the san francisco employees retirement system. we have provided to you -- we have been asked by supervisor wiener's staff to provide a written response to his october request that we refinalize divestment from the russian system that the portfolio currently has. i will update that as of today. those holdings have been reduced from 37 million down to just over $26 million. these investments and these holdings are placed by discretionary managers. so, we're not sure why there is, you know, a significant decrease in the holdings, but i just wanted to update the committee that, in fact, now it's just over $26 million of russian securities that the portfolio has. as i pointed out in the letter, i believe that we have a strong track record of responding to requests from the board of supervisors for members of the public for information that is not covered specifically by a policy.

mr. hewitt. >> this time i got data from kaiser in november. and they sent necessity -- me the premium and claim summaries. kaiser is fully insured and we talked in january about whether or not we wanted to consider taking risk and just what kind of renewal given the ruckus from last year we should anticipate. so this is a twofold presentation. one is, do i want to keep the temperament of possible taking risk and some board members are opposed and others lukewarm and others think it's a nice idea. that being said we are going to review the data briefly and i can give you my actuarial view of the trajectory of the data of what it implies of a fully in insured rate. so just to give you a sense of what we have. we have a premium built upon experience data, 100 percent experience rated for inpatient claims, outpatient claims and of the rx data is all supposedly specific to kaiser. where they have to have a big access charge which has been a lot of discussion if this meeting and other meetings at the other.cms. that is allocated not a specific basis

mr. hewitt. i appreciate it. colleagues, just a few speakers from organizations in the lgbt community who have been doing work around the persecution of lgbt people in russia. first i want to invite up amy wheelan, senior staff attorney at the national center for lesbian rights, followed by julie [speaker not understood], council for global [speaker not understood]. gary virginia who is the president of san francisco pride board of directors. so, am i wheelan. >> good morning. my name is amy wheelan. i just want to thank the board of supervisors for inviting us here today. i'm a senior staff attorney at the national center for lesbian rights and these issues are really, really important to us and we have been working on them recently. i want to keep my comments very brief, but i do want to address two issues today. first, just to paint a brief picture of what it's like for lgbt people living in russia today. and second, i'll just add to what has already been said about the efforts that we know that already exist