medicare program is single-payer program. if you're a doctor or hospital, pick anything, durable medical equipment supplier, wheelchair supplier, get medicare number, you send in bill, you tend to get paid. a lot of people figured out ways to defraud the program. i think government spend a lot of time on it. every administration does. huge issue for all administrations. i can tell you my successor, marilyn tavenner, who runs cms, very capable, very smart, not same political party but incredibly good person they spent a lot of time on it. i believe personally if you look toly get rid of fraud and medice program, 70% of the people in the traditional medicare program the risk of fraud is on treasury and all of you. when you hand the risk over to blue cross plan or aetna, united risk of fraud is on them. when their money is at risk they tend to be tougher to make sure people are not defrauding. in my opinion that we regulate you well, only this much profit, guess what, somebody defrauding you on your nickel, much more effective w

legalization program or some kind of expanded deferred action program. these roles are outreach in public education, documentation, education, and protecting immigrants from fraud. let's look at these on by one. first, outreach and education. states and localities can and do play an important role in educating communities about how to apply and assisting with the application practices. we found that in new york when irca was being implemented local , officials publicized the legalization programs. the mayor's offices created task forces to identify barriers to legalization. and there was a legalization information hotline that was funded jointly by the city, the state, and the federal government. now with daca, we are seeing the same thing, that some states and localities are doing town halls, conducting community meetings, organizing application workshops, creating informational materials in multiple languages, and trying to educate the community about daca and the application process and help them with the application process. i think amalia is going t

to you this to this program? why was it something you said yes to? >> i think being able to make an impact in the jewish community for me personally is important, with the addition of being in the lbgtq community as well. those two things intersecting and making sure that other people get involved and feel like they have the home in the community, it's really important to me. >> and for me, this opportunity came around birthday, turning 40, realizing i need to both use eye cream and i didn't know what my place was formally in the jewish community and my father worked in federation for most of my life and other family worked in the jewish community but i haven't known what my personal place was going to be and hadn't realized i was super involved in the jewish community and that's something really missing from my life. >> come back as we continue this wonderful conversation. come back here on mosaic. ♪ ♪here i am. rock you like a hurricane♪ fiber one now makes cookies. find them in the cookie aisle. >> lbgtq and j

. -- .47 program. -- tony 47 program. 4/7 program.my favorite slide. these are alcohol related traffic fatalities in south dakota from 2000 through 2013. charts, theat the bars in red represent the five years before we implemented the program. the average death rate annually was 83. , that hase years dropped to 55.3. there are a lot of reasons for that. there are a lot of reasons for that. betterwear our seatbelts than we used to. i am sure there are other factors. but i think that the 24/7 program is part of that equation. day for2200 people a alcohol consumption. i am confident that that has nothing in terms of reducing traffic does in south dakota. so, thank you. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. i am a judge. i was a career prosecutor. the only state where the defenses through the defense. i was the first prosecutor on the circuit court bench. i ate lunch alone a lot. then, i was the united states attorney. i bring that up, because starting something like hope is a challenge. being a career prosecutor gave me the credibility

to set up navigator programs. there wasn't money to set up navigator programs per se so these work-arounds got established. this slide shows you that only about 30% of the assistor programs that were established in the first year were actually funded by the marketplace or with marketplace implementation funds. the other programs, these volunteers that were funded comprised most of the programs in the first year and helped most of the people during the first open enrollment. it will be interesting to see if that changes in the coming year. and it's not moving. did i do something wrong? assistance was unevenly distributed across types of marketplaces, not surprisingly because c.m.s. had limited implementation funds to support navigators in the 29 federal marketplace states while the state-run and partnership marketplace states could apply for these unlimited exchanges development grant funds. there were twice as many assistors relative to the uninsured population in state and partnership marketplaces compared to the

educational programs. we need to make sure we do not push people into these ready to work programs that simply do not work. we need to make sure we do not put people and to nursing programs to become a cna and cannot compete with the others in that category. let's make sure it is ok for me and other people on public assistance to be able to open up a savings account so we can save money to on our own homes and safe for our children's college. instead of a caseworker say because you're of a savings account, you are not eligible. i feel light right now in america, there should be no child that goes hungry and no one that will have to see the troubles every day of not knowing. this photograph right here is a photo of my children. my children are everything to me. i would like to say we need to break the cycle. we need to make sure we all remember what the american dream is, providing family values. i am not a number or statistic or food stamp recipients. i am an individual lives in the inner-city we just all

this is for the restaurants program. the difference being that the program was introduced by the city. it's an official designation of the program to recognize bars, cafes, billiard halls for architecture has rendered them worthy of preservation. these businesses are eligible to receive grants for conservation project and like the window decal program and businesses are promoted actively by the administration of culture and non-profit group to increase patron acknowledge of these businesses. on the far end of the spectrum is the program. i'm just going to call it that in paris which in paris is as many of cultural uses were faced with closure and displacement such as book stores, artisans, the city enacted this to allow their department to purchase hundreds of property in predefined neighborhood for lease for specific uses. the agency then sells the property to the tenant or a real estate subsidiary with a covenant for a particular use. final two examples, one here in san francisco and i'm really happy that lisa beckham

program.e are not allowed to use this defense defense fund to support the program unfortunately. instead of the cooperative is self-funded anself-funded into e participants about half of a penny per lunch served to pay for the staff to travel and office supply associated in the program. the donated goods annually through the purchasing cooperative we already have a statewide delivery system in place so we are able to further reduce the cost for the participating organizations by having those delivered by the same manufacturers and brokers. we also made use of the buying g public is tradition at work of the cooperatives to support the schools at the state level. even though mississippi is an agricultural-based state but challenges remain in the school programs. many of the states most abundant crops, soybeans cannot go to the cafeteria table. then we have many to have harvest during the summer season when school is not in session. we worked together with the department of defense and the missis

legalization program or some kind of expanded deferred action program. these roles are outreach in public education, documentation, education, and protecting immigrants from fraud. let's look at these on by one. first, outreach and education. states and localities can and do play an important role in educating communities about how to apply and assisting with the application practices. we found that in new york when implemented local , officials publicized the legalization programs. the mayor's offices created task forces to identify barriers to legalization. and there was a legalization information hotline that was funded jointly by the city, the state, and the federal government. now with daca, we are seeing the same thing, that some states and 9 localities are doing town halls, conducting community meetings, organizing application workshops, creating informational materials in multiple languages, and trying to educate the community about daca and the application process and help them with the application process. i think amalia is going to talk about

of the program. i know some districts that are really in trouble but part of the problem is that not that they don't want to come is that the person leading the program is not able to. so the whole issue of professional standards is really, really important because you can make all the rules you want but if you don't understand how to do them, then that doesn't help. but helping with professional standards and having people -- and it is too bad we have to require it but in some districts they don't do it. i know that i've worked in a very small rural district, only 1700 kids. back in 1990 they were throwing away 18 gallons of milk a day in elementary school. we decided to do something about that and to be proactive but it wasn't about because of the kind of food were serving. it was the milk they were dumping a bucket to throw away. that was back in the early '90s. that's nothing new. that has to be proactive ways, to find out why is it being wasted. we switched interdistrict and we did recess before

it or not on the work program. >> okay. and while you are at the mic, are either, are there any projects coming forward on either of these addresses? >> not that i am aware of. >> okay. commissioner hyland? >> i just have a concern and that is that, i'm totally in support of adding any appropriate project to the landmarks program, but we don't seem to have enough resources in order to process these and just learning today that we did not get the one head count in order to pursue this forward. do we need to agenda ized further discussion to have a further conversation about moving this forward. we have made several projects on landmark but they have been initiated. we need some resources to identify this progress. >> mr. frye and i have spoken on this previously outside of this chamber in how do we track and follow our monthly allocation, and what i always worry about is that we have staff that is doing both active, private enterprise projects as well as landmark background research for the work program. and, everyone is hot

and quick start program. i look for during from today's witnesses, and with that i will begin introductions. seated at the witness table we have all members from the first panel, from the department of defense we have ms. nancy weaver, deputy assistant secretary of defense, warrior care policy, who was accompanied by mr. david bowen, director of health information technology, defense health agency. and from the department of veterans affairs we have ms. diana rubens, deputy undersecretary for field operations we get veterans benefits of administration who is accompanied by mr. thomas murphy, director of compensation service, upon conclusion of the first panel we will seek to subsequent panels which include panel two, ms. linda halliday, the assistant inspector general for audits and evaluations for the office of inspector general can use department of veterans affairs, accompanied by ms. nora stokes, director of the benefits special division and mr. ramon figueroa, project manager with the bay pines benefits

if they qualify for say, that food program, the snap program, right? right. that means they automatically qualify? they would automatically be qualified for, to apply for the communications lifeline program, and then they would receive a discount of more than $20 on their local telephone service. now for... that's huge. it's huge because for lower income families, everything helps, and $20 a month makes a significant difference for people who are working hard, trying to pay their bills, and this would keep them connected. and for seniors... hmm, talk about our senior piece. and for seniors and people who have medical issues, being connected is so important. it is so difficult for them to make local calls to their doctors, and to other medical providers, sometimes those calls take a while, even if they're dealing with their insurers, it takes a while. and so to have a program that gives them unlimited local service, and it's essentially free. where did you guys even come from? where does new jersey shares even come from? well, in the mid-1990s, a group of peop

public, 63% approved of the program and 33% disapproved of the program. among all hispanics, that number was 89% and you see across hispanics, native or foreign born or registered voters, very strong support for the president's deferred action program when it was announced back in 2012. now, unfortunately, i wish we had some new data on this. but we'll get to that sometime later on this year. nonetheless, we've also asked about whether or not latinos were aware of somebody who has or said that they will apply for daca. you can see that back in 2012 when the program was announced, about 31% of all hispanics said they knew somebody who was either planning to or has applied for the deferred action program. of course, foreign born latinos, more likely to say this than the native born. when you take a look at among the foreign born, those who are legal residents, a greater share say that yes, they know somebody who was planning to or had applied, but among those who are not a u.s. citizen and not a legal resident, they're likely an unauthorized immigrant, you

those are also in our inclusionary program our affordable housing programs all of our affordable housing cop and certificate holders get the first preference. what we do we give ellis act housing preference holders that come after the cop program or other cites specific preferences that will come after those and before the general population or the san francisco residents. we - the board of supervisors and the christmasing committee that put together the eligibility requirements recognizes that someone who moved into a unit their rents were high enough and probably able to make it in the market but people that have been in the unit for a longer are the ones targeted. so the program is that you have to have been in your unit for 10 years. we will also will allow you to be in the units years if you're disabled or have a doctor illnesses so it's for folks that a significa a significant impediment >> so this year we implemented the program in april of this year and went back to 2012 we were able to give certificates to anyone who was ellis act evicted from january 12th through now. as of is

the pro-active residential program and the aerials program are part of the new program the pro-active residential program allows mta to have the residential locations that have not summit the cohn applications but benefits in terms of safety and moenlt as well as an opportunity to improve the groeveng equality and the prop k funds in the fiscal year are to further plan and scope out those elements the traffic cohn program and come up with a method doing and implementation plan for the aerials and pro-active residential this is really mta is transitioning away from the program and in full swing to the new program in 2015-2016. i think i've pretty much covered the highlights in the next 5 years mta is coming in for more money than the last 5 years there's significant funds available from existing allocations so the work will be continuing as time is going by and we're supportive of vision zero and there's also the pavement funding for the mta and dpw can coordinate on the improvements. for bicycle safety we're identified through the 2009 bike plan and funded the bike plan through the tr

programs were beefed up.ens of new projects were started. projects in the cities and rural areas. were ever spanish-speaking newicans live, there was opportunity. i conferred with a number of policymakers from the department of labor. they heard my story. i told them what the foundation did for the mexican-americans. i explained to them that this was the first time the mexican-american organization had developed expertise in the area of manpower. we have mexican-americans developing programs for mexican-americans. i told him that for the first time, we have received degrees of recognition, but that was not enough. [applause] i met one afternoon with a distinguished gentleman. we talked about new careers. we talked about what kind of a program we could develop for mexican-americans in this area. he said to me that he has a person and the ministration was willing -- and the administration was willing to get a new program off the ground. utmostt you to do your to see that you fulfill your responsibilities as enr

and i'm here to talk about the home upgrade program in san francisco. this program provides rebates of up to 48 hundreds for people that own single-family home or homes to have an energy upgrade. there are 5 major green house gas emissions in san francisco. one of which residential buildings that accounts for 22 percent of our foot in san francisco part of the cause and the reason it's high is 50 percent of the housing stock in san francisco was built before the 1950s and not designed to be energy efficient first comfort those homes are not comfortable and the heat escapes quickly and more to maintain the temperature and from a safety precipitate outdated awe appliances causes carbon monoxide through improper venting of carbon monoxide p there are a number of things to do you can add installation or replace a hot water heater or a fortune or ductwork and 4th district where the cracks are around window frames and a lot of heat is lost and once you do that look for renewables the department of the environment understands this and pit forgot a step-by-step

to set up navigator programs. there wasn't money to set up navigator programs per se so these work-arounds got established. this slide shows you that only about 30% of the assistor programs that were established in the first year were actually funded by the marketplace or with marketplace implementation funds. the other programs, these olunteers that were funded comprised most of the programs in the first year and helped most of the people during the first open enrollment. it will be interesting to see if that changes in the coming year. and it's not moving. id i do something wrong? assistance was unevenly distributed across types of marketplaces, not surprisingly because c.m.s. had limited implementation funds to support navigateors in the 29 federal marketplace states while the state-run and partnership marketplace states could apply for these unlimited exchanges development grant funds. there were twice as many assistors relative to the uninsured population in state and partnership marketplaces compared to the

>> it's less of a program, it was -- program, but more of a program.they had much more material than had been declared and a history of a program of enrichment. and one of the stumbling blocks was the 17,000 barrels and it took a long time. but why it was successful is the government had changed their view. they have given up their nuclear weapons program. they wanted to close that chapter in the history of south africa. and in order to do that they needed someone to certify that and that organization was the iaea. so the cooperation was there. once they did disclose it in 1993 it was easy to go because the whole government was set up to help them to complete its mission. but if that change doesn't take place in iran that they want to come -- that they come clean -- want to come clean from their past, it's going to be difficult as it was in korea. >> so even though in this case south africa had determined as a government that it wanted to end that chapter in its history wanted to end its nuclear program, it took 17 years to get a clean bill of health.

in district 10 i was in the six months program after the program i was left what nothing and failed the program is it broken our dead end programs are not leading to employment people in need of their ged are in need and that was supposed to be a priority we need the real job training programs so we can be self-sufficient and take care of our children that there will lennon the crime wave for our brothers and sisters. >> again good afternoon talking about the community jobs program the current programs don't provide tainting and job skills for long term employment also the programs are welfare to work programs they hold the participant to strict time restrictions they're a waste of time because they're not giving the right skills 80 so less work together and get the right skills. thank you >> ladies and gentlemen, of the audience and commissioners. good afternoon. i have to things one is that last year, i spoke to this board about the san francisco 49ers being kicked out of time their stadium is open $1.3 billion work or worth i recommended candle stick point be turned into a soccer

that the athletic program.rybody is talking about what are we going to do overall in a very positive light ex- >> we agree with the mission and that is to allow the students to participate in competitive athletics and learn something wonderful from that experience but to do it in a way that's healthy. >> i can look at a parent that has those questions and say here's what we've done. here's what it's brought to the county schools and when we brought the heads-up football is an awesome opportunity for the coaches and parents and kids and officials and everybody to get on the same page. if you were an administrator at a high school and you are being asked the question how are you making the program safer and doing for our kids? we can answer that now. >> i appreciate you being here and you are recognized for five minutes. >> i served as the starting goalkeeper for the united states national soccer team from 1994 to 2008. during that time i helped lead the team in the olympic gold medals in the atlanta games in 200

the federal drug-free workplace program was established as a deterrent program incorporating detection as well as referrals for treatment as needed for federal employees in safety-sensitive positions while protecting national security and public safety. public law 100-71 directs hhs to publish mandatory guidelines using the best available technology to ensure the reliability and accuracy of drug tests and to specify the drugs for which federal employees may be tested. established the scientific and technical guidelines for federal drug testing programs and establish standards for certification of laboratories engaged in drug testing for federal agencies and the regulations industries. currently 157 federal agencies are affected by the guidelines based on public law and executive order. the executive order covers approximately 2.2 million executive branch employees and job applicants. the department of transportation and nuclear regulatory commission use the samsa guidelines in their regulatory testing programs requiring testing in over 5 million safety sensitive employees and applicant

afsp is the program called interactive screening program. it's a program that's been adopted -- we're talking to several universities and colleges in the d.c. metro area right now about adopting it. we're really excited about that. there's five in the state of maryland that have adopted it. it's a program that screens anonymously. research found that the stigma of saying, i have a struggle with this or feel these things, was the key to areas of treatment. and so once they were able to anonymously say they had issues to the screening program, we're then able to get a dialogue engaged to realize that it doesn't affect their school, it doesn't afct their corporate advancement, it doesn't affect their getting into graduate school at a college level. >> sure. >> it's also a program the va uses. it's a program that the nfl uses. it's a program that qualcomm, our first fortune 500 company, uses. they screen their employees and their students for general mental health and then they look and see who is at highest risk, how can we engage them, and get

it's a big program. it's a lot of moving parts.i'm skeptical because again i think we're better at creating the appetite for this, and we've been curious about some of those issues and what exactly the kids are going to do all day, and also the follow up is important. you can't say well, we've done preschool well even if it is done well. what happens with fade out later on. you can't take your eye off the ball for k 5 and on as well. it's a continuum. >> connor williams will we be able to see a difference in the kindergarteners, first graders, second graders soon? >> i doubt we will. we have got three big worries. we haven't talked about this much. but because this has been rushed at the pace it's been done, there are serious concerns about quality. we're talking about 70% of contracts for pre-k providers have not been reviewed. in some that have been reviewed there were horrifying oversights. one person over the organization was convicted for child pornography. i'm worried about basic human safety. i talked to a trainer in the tea

so i'm just curious whether your program, whether you're aware of that kind of effect from the programor more generally aware of how the liability concerns intersect with the safety efforts that are underway? >> thank you for the question. at the high school level we are literally on the front, you know, one yard line marching down the field. and i will mention that we're having very positive conversations with the state of maryland about participating across the entire state. so we have a lot to do. we have not seen anything from a liability concern, insurance concern with fairfax county can work very close with all the schools and school district about those issues but they told us and we checked ourselves, they felt they have the appropriate coverage. however, to your point at the youth level we are absolutely saying insurance, the insurance industry at large and really the largest provider of casually and liability insurance step forward and actually stated that if youth football experts is that in the heads up football program they would receive a discounted program and the more c

supervisor to give you the certificate of honor creating one of san francisco's premium defense programs and for everything you've done being the communities go to people's lawyer and for doing our work with tremendous love and passion and respect for your clients. on behalf of the city thank you for everything you've done (clapping) and i know that some of my colleagues perhaps want to say something. supervisor avalos >> yes. i want to say thank you for your great service francisco it's been really an honor to work with you. you've been part of my pieces of lvengs we've done at the board of supervisors protecting immigrants and it's axiliary because you've protected families by you've also lived up to the inspirations of a network and working with other attorneys in the community to protect immigrants in the city i've sat down with a lot of folks you living up to the commitment and because of that work we have others people that have the capacity to do this work this is fantastic and part of your contribution so thank you and look forward to working with you in the public defender's off

for wheelchairs and as well as our low income programs through our community share programs. and so, we take the public right-of-way very seriously and we never do anything that would jeopardize that with either our members or our communities. for the past few months, we have worked tirelessly, with a number of groups, both personally, and with merchant associations in those cases, we have got to talk to a lot of people when there has been objection and we have moved the spaces where we like it and worked best for the neighborhoods and when there are general objectives we are not able to call on some of our own data from the 12, on street, spaces that we had for the last two years and say that on average, those particular spaces in cars, served 20 individual different members each month. and in some cases it is 40 individual members each month and so what we like to ask the folks who ask about that is what we would they do without reasonable access to car share and the truth is if they would probably find that and buy the cars and so we would like not to have them do that. th

more to our apprenticeship programs. for that reason i find the proposal to establish the apprenticeship program at glen eagle very, very exciting and very promising and i will note that sunnydale is perhaps most isolated neighborhood in san francisco, and yet has never had a relationship with the golf course right next to it, and this begins to break down those barriers and open up sunnydale and the residents to career in the trades, more specifically laborers but more the other trades as well and establish a relationship with the broader city by means of glen eagle so i am supportive of this proposal. thank you. >> okay. may, tony and then chris, ed, and thomas. >> good morning commissioners, uncle phil. i have been before you many times in support of the current operator of glen eagles. in the past we didn't really feel that glen eagles was concerned with the neighborhood. with this operator we feel much more comfortable and i hope you support us in supporting them and renew their lease as requested. thank you. >> tha

they'll do a little job training program.have federal money going in to a group that not only empowers poor african-americans in mississippi but empowers them to begin challenging local officials so you can imagine state and local officials calling democrats calling the johnson administration, hey, wait a minute. there's the political pressure, right? all right, let's turn to ronda williams and the case in baltimore. cara and patrick. >> i thought this article was interesting because baltimore is a northern city. >> border state but did. >> it's in maryland. i guess. anyways so basically the gist of this article is you have johnson's community action program going into baltimore and setting up social -- all of the stuff that it's setting up and you have the activists in the city saying like hey, we have our own thing that's we want to add to this plan that the poor actually want from their communities and they didn't just let johnson's program come in and take over. this group formed in 1965, i don't know if it formed in 1965

programs. -- for the existing programs. >> let me use an example. engine technology which proves you can create systems that save you editor 5% of your% or 30 fo cost. -- of fuel cost. we should implement that because it will pay for itself very quickly. i think we should take advantage of things as they change. it may not be a major missionary change but we shall look forward at every level. >> what is coming up that you can work you are new paradigm on? what programs reflect these new ideas? >> we have a replacement, a new trainer that will be coming up within the next two years. louie? can i ask about the recent incident in africa? newou have any developments? does that raise red flags about andrity for your aircraft going towards the readiness issue you were talking about? >> it does raise security flies for everybody involved. it has command for that airplane. the european command wants to make sure they are trained properly. the latest i heard about is the u.s.-european command has told us the young man died of asphyxiation. --y believed are i

up a hill i'm confident this program will be part of the fabric of san francisco life i was talking to a supporter saying her 6-year-old grandson didn't know is streets without this program it is hard to understand this is such a great institution thank you all who have helped to get this program 0 our 50th event >> (clapping) my second accomodation is national rec and park department month i want to offer accomodation to a program and group of young people that have done an amazing job in improving our small business please step forward. for those who don't know their young people from our city is from our underserved community in san francisco. who have worked critically hard to volunteer to improve the experience of our parks and small businesses in san francisco. we've had this year i want to thank the 36 teenagers who transcribed over 2 thousand hours of service for research and plan habitat and restoration projects and 25 open green spaces primarily in the southeast areas of san francisco those young leaders have help with the workshops and engaging teamwork and vial education