the medicare program, i think there is a lot of abuse and fraud in the program. i will tell you why. in virginia, i know several toes, i have talked community members and know several cases of individuals who are not disabled and have two or three children and are on medicaid and working. and now i know of a situation where an individual just got a job after two or three years in virginia, the two children are on medicaid and the individuals are cared for by the mother. and the mom is under a government program, whereby she is receiving medicaid for the children, and it is illegal. there is a lot of illegal stuff going on and i think it has to be corrected. i want to know the percentage, you mentioned the percentage of people on medicaid, the majority was elderly and disabled. but it is hard to believe that is a majority, because children make up a large amount of that cost in medicaid. and um, i think that those percentages are, that you have given, i cannot see that as well as a lot of community members cannot see that. and i am not saying people do not qualify

program. after years of collaboration, among my office, city departments and advocates, san francisco voters approved proposition 80 by 79%. they made clear that protecting and caring for her san francisco 's urban forest was a high priority. for too long, had our cities trees been neglected or healthy trees removed because homeowners did not want to bear the cost of maintenance. with the implementation of street tree s.f., we can make sure that san francisco's trees are well cared for and this will benefit the city for decades to come. the incentive to remove trees is gone. in fact, more and more trees are being planted each year. our friends a public works and friends of the urban forest continue to do amazing work in making sure that the urban forest is in every neighborhood. senator weiner has great confidence that this body will work diligently to ensure the best possible outcome for street tree s.f. with just over a year since the program was adopted, senator weiner is optimistic that th

program. >> thank you. i'm very excited for this hearing. in 2016, 79% of san franciscans voted to pass proposition e. declaring, by an overwhelming majority of the maintenance of our overwhelming forest should be the responsibility of city government and not neighbors. i want to give special recognition first to say centre -- to safe centre supervisor, scott weiner. in this regard, he was carrying a torch handed to him by his predecessor, mark leno who had long been a member of friends of the urban forest and a champion of our street trees. at any right, following passage of proposition e., we inherited almost 100,000 additional trees. with that came a dedicated $19 million a year for the hundred 25,000 street trees lining the sidewalks and public right of way. growing pains are to be expected with any transition of this magnitude and implementation of property now deb street tree s.f. is no difference. i called this hearing to provide the bureau of urban forestry and the public works the opp

can create opportunities and state law that allows compassion programs connected to equity programs. >> that would be great. we don't have any amendments prepared for today. we do because they are ready, i don't have them. do you want to talk about them clock i don't think i have them with me. it is a small change, correct? >> as the ordinance was introduced and agenda eyes it was an amendment to the labour peace agreement provision in the existing article 16. the amendment today would take this city grow portion and the 30 5% requirement out of the labour peace a crime just requirement as a standalone. so you would be making those amendments today and one little tweak to the written amendments we have prepared to do you is referring to a community benefits organization that the draft should refer to community-based organizations. >> i'm sorry. i was thinking about the last one. that was the big change. we are moving it out of the labour peace. if we can do that, there are so many deadlines to meet. essentially, it is moving it from one place in the code to another place in the code

infrastructure grant program. i will be going over the golden drivers behind the program. the elements that influence a program development and the components of the proposal itself. the program has three main drivers. the first is to manage stormwater using green infrastructure and the second was to respond to feedback from you to look at lower cost alternatives for delivering green infrastructure in the third is to address customers that may be impacted by the face two stormwater cost allocation. so the goals state for the program to manage stormwater cost effectively by funding green infrastructure projects that meet the minimum performance and co- benefit criteria. in the structure of this program , the maintenance responsibility will lie with the property owner and the inspection responsibility will live with the s.f. p.u.c. through the budget process, the commission approved $8 million in funding for the first two years of the program and to anticipate being able to award a 6.4 million dollars in funding two grants to about 11 projects. the program has four elements

>> to be part of the program? is only about six months of experience doing something related to trees or landscaping in order to apply for the apprenticeship program through the city. and then contractors work with organizations like city built to work with apprentices and to get apprentices if they don't have their own apprenticeship program but a couple of the contractors have their own in-house apprenticeship program as well. people can apply to them directly. >> over the course of the program, we are confident that communities can actually appreciate the benefits of greener and healthier trees. it will take us a few years to get us to the baseline. those requests for trees to be removed should drop dramatically we will have increased safety as we are inspecting trees more regularly and pruning the more regularly. we expect emergencies to drop dramatically as well. we really have the opportunity to create a model program for tree maintenance and tree management. in san francisco, we also have a diversity of spe

>> for the program? >> right. >> no. >> as i'm reading through the target pop laugs, a person can qualify for it. it's not just income based. it's any one of these five. >> right. >> i'm mike dodd, sorry to delabor this item. we all understand that our providers are putting in their own resources to get the services provided. we are getting the benefit of the bargain and what you are asking for makes sense but it creates a challenge and they say, this is how much the cost is and this is what will be in a program. and then it puts it on us to potentially audit that amount to make sure that it's correct. and that brings up expertise from staff time and things like that. it's a catch-22. it's something that we're trying to work through. everyone can feel comfortable that our contractors are putting in for every program, but really demonstrating through a budget what that cost is does come with some challenges. >> vice president loo: and i understand that pretty much every agency is doing fundraising and i w

the curb ramp program and the sidewalk program, this light has not changed. my understanding that for quite some time now, it has reached substantial and 100% completion for some time. we kind of keep this here as a show. for our roadway structure program, we do have 100% of the appropriate funds expended or encumbered and we have completed 39 out of our 40 projects. we have one remaining project, the richmond project that we use the bond funds for design and we are looking for construction funds which we have recently identified. we will be moving forward with the construction of this project and we anticipate completion in summer of 2020. traffic signals, we have these broken up into three different categories. from the last update, we were about 97 or 90% complete. since then, we completed all the work so everything is 100%. that is something we can highlight and celebrate. this last slide is a snapshot of our most recent updated financial information. it has a broken down by the different programs such as the curb ramps, resurfacing structures, streetscap

and in the 5ypp allows us to invest in request-based traffic calming programs and developing new programs to address safety at schools. and also for seniors and persons with disabilities. so some programs and some projects advancing for -- in the name of vision zero. and the safety category, the 5ypp, there are a lot more placeholders than 2014 for the larger problematic lines like non-project specific. at this point there's many more named projects because m.t.a. has conquered some of the low-hanging fruit, the work is done, and it's been installed as an example, so in the 2019 5ypp you see projects on important bike corridors that are listed on this slide. and also listed on the next slide. and you have balance between the programs like 20th avenue and then the opportunity to provide opportunities for projects to advance on neighborhood streets as well. so a range of projects advancing. and the pedestrian safety, that category has funding for several projects in the 2019 period that are vision zero improvement city-wide. as well as funding the final phases of long-standing projects like

, the same program with the homeless prenatal program. so this additional funding went to complement the existing funding for that and to extend the needs-based subsidies for the families enrolled in the program. with the additional funding, we expect to serve up to 35 families who are unsheltered, and homeless and of particularly high needs. this is a very unique subsidy program in our community. is designed to target highly vulnerable families with children who have documented reasons to need to stay within the city of san francisco. and two are not necessarily eligible for other programs. the average rental subsidy for this program is approximately $33,000 annually per family. we measure success for this program through our ability to stabilize the household during the subsidy period, which we aim for about three years, and then to achieve stable exits for those families when the subsidy expires. i'm happy to take any questions about the family subsidy program >> thank you very much. i appreciate that. now we have maria sue. >> sorry.

, why the program mattered, who the program could affect, how the program would impact the city of san francisco, its culture, the history of the city, and kind of some of the design aesthetics from the city. and we used all of that to present the initial design concept. and what we did was in addition to kind of doing that initial research is we did send out 156 surveys to all of the legacy business programs that were currently accepted into the program. that was back in february 2018, and we asked, you know, a series of 11 questions. i'm not going to go through all of them, but the main goal was to really understand the uniqueness that these businesses provided to the city and how they kind of affected what we were trying to develop and how to help represent these businesses because they're so diverse and so unique. i mean, even the three businesses that were shared today are, you know, very diverse businesses. it's not all just one type of business, so that was a really unique challenge that we had to over come and figure out, how to represent all of these businesses. some of the re

programs as city certified equity programs. because they are recruiting equity candidates for employment , but also because it is working a system that also works with the employers as well i will turn it back to my colleague and i'll be available to answer questions should they come up. thank you for the opportunity to present to the commission today. >> thank you. >> thank you. that concludes our presentation. as you can see, this has been a labor of love and in transparency and collaboration. we look forward to hearing your feedback. supervisor safai supervises he cannot be here. it is extremely important to him if he could have been here he would be. he is in another commission right now. we will all do our very best answer questions and we will definitely listen to your feedback and recommendations. >> great. i first want to say, thank you to supervisor safai. i really like this legislation. i'm very happy that they are working with josh in oewd. that is great. and the city build's program, i'm really happy. you guys are a

we're talking about the program, want to hear your experiences in the program, especially if you're one of those who started receiving coverage amid the expansion under the affordable care act. 202-748-8000 is the number for medicaid recipients. 202-748-8001 for all others. we're talking with carolyn yocom of the government accountability office. how long have you been covering healthcare issues there? >> since about 1998. >> and how much of a focus of your work now is the medicaid program, particularly? >> it's pretty much close to 100%. i also look at the children's health insurance program, but almost all medicaid. >> taking your call. charlotte's up first, a medicaid recipient in st. louis, missouri. good morning. >> good morning. i wondered if you could tell me why -- what the difference is or the concern that people have with managed care versus the people that -- the concern people have with managed care because i hear so many bad things about it and i'm just unsure if it's a good or a bad thing. and then also, if you know the difference between spin down or if you could explain

our program here in san francisco is a free and voluntary program.it's not required but it's the reason we require owners. we're not regulating them. we're just trying to help address well-being. whether it's exposure to toxic chemicals or proper workers' rights. and yeah, so just last year the state of california was tasked to produce guidelines to help spread this free and voluntary healthy nail salon program throughout the state of california. it's department on toxic substances control who is organizing this. we have worked really closely with them and they've taken our criteria and our creating tool kits for other jurisdictions to create this program. thank you. >> there was a state bill that would have required training at all nail saloons that failed. it could be revived. >> i don't remember. >> thank you for the comprehensive presentation and i'm a proud alumna of advancing justice working on hate crimes projects. i got involved with them probably back in 2001-2002 when judy chu was still in the assembly. she tried to advance some bands on to

some of the opportunities of this program. as i mentioned, we have an apprenticeship program. this is an opportunity for green jobs and highlighting the industry and getting people trained. all of our contracts also require an apprenticeship portion of the contract. we have an in-house arborist program as well. in addition, their opportunities for local businesses through our contracts and we have had a really great result working with local contractors. >> what are the requirements to be part of the program? >> to be part of the program? is only about six months of experience doing something related to trees or landscaping in order to apply for the apprenticeship program through the city. and then contractors work with organizations like city built to work with apprentices and to get apprentices if they don't have their own apprenticeship program but a couple of the contractors have their own in-house apprenticeship program as well. people can apply to them directly. >> over the course of the program, we are confident that communities can actually appreciate the benefits of g

it's an outstanding program. it started with bringing world war ii veterans here who haven't seen the wonderful world war ii memorial here on the mall that was built for them and finished in 2004. now, because of our distance, alaska's distance, thousands of miles literally from d.c., we did not have a program, despite having all these veterans. we did not have an honor flight program. well, guess who changed that? ron and his wife linda. they were at a veterans' facility when they were down in washington state visiting ron's mother at a resthome and hat that facility they met another veteran, they were shown pictures of a recent trip and said, you know what? alaska needs to do this. alaska needs to do this. ron said, someone should start one. someone should start one of these programs. he looked at his wife and they realized that they were going to start it. and the last frontier honor flight program was born. two times every year since 2013 they organize a trip for up to 25 veterans, their escorts, a photograph

the other support of programs like the transit pass program, affordability program from day one, and we need the revenues to pay for them correspondingly. along with these revenues that we will start with in 2021, the developer has a subsidy obligation as well. the capital contributions that the developer is making to build the infrastructure, capital infrastructure, is also an operating subsidy obligation from the developer of up to $30 million in installation to 4 million per year. the program depends on that subsidy in the early years to meet the revenue needs as the island phases and before build out. this is a timeline of some of the key milestones in the transportation plan development and adoption. the first plan was adopted in 2006. all the way back in 2006, and the goals and strategies you see here due date back to that plan. a key here was 2011 when the development agreement was adopted with these obligations and performance requirements. today, we bring to you additional policies for your consideration. again, time to help us launch the program and its components in 2021 w

going through a couple of the programs, the clean program. we ended this fiscal year with an existing contract with s.f. clean city. they delivered sweeping steam cleaning graffiti but in may the c.b.d. selected block by block a national cleaning company that allowed expansion of our sidewalk cleaning services to seven days a week and added a second pressure washing truck. we also were able to partner with downtown streets team to provide not just additional cleaning resources but also direct pathway out of homelessness for tenderloin residents. we removed 1900 graffiti tags, collected over 400,000 pounds of litter and steam cleaned 675,000 linear feet of sidewalk that fiscal year. our approach to safe is the safe passage program. we were able to expand and integrate it into the c.b.d. we grew it from 10 corner captains helping to move children to and from school and the morning and in the afternoon to 15 corner captains. we promoted two of those corner captains into staff positions, paid positions within the c.b.d. and actually since then we

and the local partnership program. to be able to find those additional detail studies that i mentioned and regal -- eager to begin. we have heard request on this board and in our outreach. that is this transit service detail analysis that i mentioned staff has proposed a prop k. fund exchange. this action would approve the exchange of funds allocated to public works with an equal amount of prop k. dollars resulting in no reductions to street resurfacing. then up to 4.1 million of the lp p. funds would be made available for future phases of this, including those detailed analyses that i mentioned. the exchange is necessary because there is no expenditure plan line that could result directly found this work. staff will return to the board in early 29 teen -- in 2019 to amend it. street resurfacing five-year prioritization program would allocate the funds for the project. staff also expects this project to be competitive for future rounds of corridor funding and our m3 toll funding. that concludes my presentation. i'm hap

so this is a socio equity socioeconomic program. one of the flaws that we had in the amendment was to say if the next 50% of applications will be equity applicants, then there should be as many applications for true equity applicants as possible. one person, or one equity applicant should not be allowed to have four, five, six equity applications and then retain those permits. it's not fair when you have a limited pool that we're opening up. we want to have as many opportunities for equity applicants as possible. so one of those is to say, essentially, is one bite at the apple. in all the different vertical cultivation, incubation, delivery, so forth, we want to have one particular applicant per person. another thing i want to say is one of the requirements to be qualified as an equity applicant is you would qualify under an income program. we want to make that now a requirement. that's one of the other amendments that we have today because we don't want people that are financially sound or stable or so on and so forth using the pro

program, we will be here as needed. it's not necessarily always in an office, but whatever we can do to get people engaged. we have a lot of work to do. >> director dunlop: yes, indeed. it's important to know after the first 14 units are taken, there will be more. it's not the end of the world. it's like somebody doesn't make it in the first round, there will be more affordable housing available. >> yes. we'll be doing this for quite a few years. >> president tsen: okay. good. any other questions? hearing none. next item. >> clerk: any public comment? >> president tsen: if you have a question or a comment, you can come up. >> good evening. i'm chris. i was curious if you could tell us how many units will be made available for below market level and how many residents there are on the island today. thank you. >> i think the question was how many residents currently qualify for b.m.r. units. is that the question? [inaudible] >> there are 650 households on the island, including 250 one treasure island residents. 203 mixed

>> because the eligibility for this program is dictated by the eligibility for the calworks program, which is a federally funded and state funded program, undocumented moms are not eligible to receive these benefits. there could be -- i should restate that because it's nuanced. the eligibility rules are complicated. if there are documented children of an undocumented mom, they can be served. if it's 100% undocumented, because it's state and federally funded, these funds cannot be used. >> supervisor fewer: so i assume it's the same for the calworks program, if there are citizen children, they can be served. >> yes, that's correct. >> president cohen: continue. >> that concludes my presentation. >> president cohen: we're going to hear from the budget and lejs laytive analyst agisl understand there's a discrepancy on the proposed number of positions. would you like to speak now or do you want to hear from the b.l.a.? >> so we have proposed -- let me go back to my -- so the slide before you shows what we are proposing. again, we're anticipating an increase in our calfresh caseload by ab

program. we're potentially looking for partners. and finally, several respondents have expertise in designing, planning these types of piers and wanted to provide some of their concepts, as well. when we received the 52 responses, we laid them out on a table and then we started gat -- categorizing them. we rated from largest category with the largest number of respondents and the smallest category. just to give you a flavor, education, training, incubator, and innovation. included programs that were educational in nature, different types of specialty schools, training, professional types of training, incubator space that focused on one public interest type of use or another, and innovation space. we also had a number of response that had live performance associated with their use. attractions like gondola rides, entertainment uses that are unique for the waterfront, and i'll get to how you can review these in just a moment. food and beverage uses, small proprietors of food and beverage locatio

this is a new program, right? and people are learning as they find out, oh, wait, this has to happen. so, we have a way for people to call, have someone else call or e-mail on their behalf. come into an office, whatever it is, come in, tell us what's going on, and our folks will work with them. so, if, in the case as you're talking about, we find out afterwards that there was a reason somebody wasn't able to get to us and get their exemptions, we granted. we're trying to implement this. i love the way the director of the county says we're looking, if there's a judgment call to be made err on the side of the client, that's the approach they're taking. we're in the beginning stages and i think that the team there is doing a great job. they are doing it with compassion. and i'm very hopeful that we will continue to see success. we have individuals who are accessing services, who are getting training, who are going from making zero to making $24 an hour. we have success stories, i'm hoping a year from now we will have

civil rights program, voting rights program which is an undocumented youth group.housing housing rates, immigrant rights and worker process rights which i will get into shortly. our workers' rights program, we have a long history of fighting on behalf of low-wage immigrant workers through legal counselling, policy advocacy, direct services, on a wide range of employment issues including wage and hour retaliation, workplace safety and discrimination unemployment insurance benefits appeal hearings and retaliation as well we regularly partner with worker centres to support workplace organizing and worker led campaigns and the development of immigrant worker leaders in the community. we also have a semi monthly clinic where folks can come to our office and receive free and a language consultations about the rights network and we also have notable cases. one case we did in the past is a very popular nail salon chain and the san mateo county where workers were misclassified. it allows you to help them get their wages back. we also had a case against -- i'm not sure if fo

we feel it's important to look at both because if you just look at the micro program by program we might be missing the bigger story where providers buckle down for a particular program and do well for that but do more poorly elsewhere. we think it's important to look at both. let me give a few examples of things that employers and other purchasers are trying and what we know about the results. there have been efforts to change the fee asked. we are living in a fee for service system what's can we do to change the relative amounts we pay for things to encourage better quality. one program locally, the pacific business group on health worked in southern california to create a blended payment amount to be labor and delivery services and by paying the same for caesarian delivery and vaginal birth, they were able to reduce see syrian birtbirth by 20%. medicade stopped paying for early elected surgery and while they had sickness that area, when they stopped paying they found a drop in something like, now even in the country, we've seen a dramatic drop but in south carolina they've done better

other programs. the fair market rents in san francisco have had to be increased. we did a special market study to do that in order to keep landlords in the program. that is another situation that h.u.d. has created. it is a gap between the funding we have available and the amount that we need to keep people in the programs. >> just so that is clear, i am actually looking at the website that has not been updated since april 11th 2017. i have just been informed that there is an old housing authority website that has not been updated for a year and a half and there is a new housing authority website. that is a little problem. [laughter] >> we are both right but they are on different websites which is not that hopeful. >> i think the old website is for historic information. you can be referred back. i don't know if you want more detail on that. >> no, i just want one website that has archival material so people like me who knows how to use the internet doesn't end up on the wrong website and not being ab

that north carolina air contract was central to about program. we traveled to gratz nostra to meet el masry in late two thousand and three he was arrested on holiday at the macedonian border he was then taken to a small hotel room where an official accused him of being a member of al qaeda. and certainly should be punished. on the other side he's in the school. with. them fresh from. college was telling the truth he was not a member of al qaeda shockingly this was a case of mistaken identity but that came worse he was hunted a wity u.s. agents and bundled on to an air raid contract his plane. from oregon. or see him for life even our. own human. unnamed to him his destination was a site in afghanistan used to cia interrogation one of the network of foreign prisons and secret so-called cia black sites places where suspected terrorists many of whom turned out to be innocent was systematically tortured in a brutal theater to gain intelligence. this man was a career cia operative his name is glenn hall he vividly remembers his first impression of one