i think we all know what it means for the company to provide health insurance. i will explain in more detail what the city option and what the reimbursement plans worare d how they work. i should preface that the person who runs healthy san francisco is here and can answer questions. those who are eligible, they are provided reduced or free enrollment in the program. those not eligible for the program are provided a medical reimbursement account. the department of public health works with a third party to set this up on behalf of those individuals. this is not an issue in the amendment today, but i will tell you a little bit about them, by way of comparison to the help reimbursement account. money remains available to these workers in these accounts beyond a calendar year. they roll over forward and remained even after words a employee separates from employment. there are some circumstances where those accounts can be closed after a certain period of inactivity. the money is available to reimburse any type of virus- recognized medical expense, no limitations --

>> i will be happy to provide you a copy. there were 50 vacant beds, 33 at providence. a at the use of shelter. last night, there were 48 vacancies. 2/3. small numbers in the shelters that tend to be in the central city and the larger numbers out in the bay view. it is understandable. the transportation, providence is now out on the floor rather than beds. it serves for of the have lived out in the bayview ended services centers out there and they go to a province to sleep. >> moving half of the proposal or the ordinance itself to talking about care not cash, what has achieved. i understand the motive behind it, but my biggest fear is that we are trying to solve a smaller problem in kreplach a program that has provided incredible success. i'm wondering if you can talk to what can i cash has achieved. >> and the notion of cannot cash was born in 2002 to address the problem of a cash assistance system that was failing. homeless individuals were on for an average of three years. a large portion have been over five years. cash was not helping these individuals improve their

provides. and they provide more training than in the categories but for the purposes of the shelter monitoring committee, we focus on these 10 categories. which include prevention precaution training, hand washing, and communicable disease prevention, proper food handling, emergency procedures, including but not limited to c.p.r., intervention and harm reduction training, interaction with clients who suffer from mental illness, requirements under the a.d.a., the shelter training manual and culture community. and those are the areas that we focus on. >> so currently the department of -- currently the department of public health will deal with the shelter programs developing training modules that focus on the fire trainings and we're working with half to identify and to make it helpful for shelters to access the information and to utilize the trainings. we're also advocating for funding to meet the training requirements within the standard of care within 2011 and 2012 fiscal budget including main

, only 68% have access to that many broadband providers. does this mean there's a need for more competition in the broadband market? >> guest: i think one thing we have to, i think, make clear for the viewers is this is a report that looks at 2009, okay? so it's not even 2010, and here we are in 2011. so the majority of the data is for 2009, and when you look at what was happening in 2009 with regard to broadband, we were still as an industry moving to 3g and hadn't introduced much in the way of 4g or wimax or lg at that point in time. if you move forward already to where we are now, the united states has 92% of the world's lte subscribers and 77% of the world's wimax subscribers. so we're clearly on the cutting edge of both of those advanced technologies. and you're seeing, you know, again, even in the ten years that i've been at ctia we've moved from analog to second generation or digital technology to third generation to three and a half, to fourth generation depending upon how you define that. i know that's up for debate. but the realit

we provided health care well before 2006, and continue to seek to provide health care. we do not have that 3% tax because it has always been a cost of doing business. however, this legislation, as it is written, is counterproductive to the idea of universal health care, and this is why. right now, employers are faced with health insurance or a use or lose it hra. most will choose insurance because it is a better option. the with the legislation is set up now, the hra continues to grow, like a pension plan. now when faced with a pension plan, $2 more an hour, they made choosethe hra. if there is a catastrophic accident, the person choosing the hra is going to get screwed. i really believe this legislation, as it is written, is counterproductive. supervisors have raised a great question. where does the money go? what happens if the employee changes jobs and has full health-care benefits? where does that money in the hra go? these issues are not addressed in the current legislation. we provide health care to our employees. we want to level the playing field, close loophole

do you agree cutting payments to providers has an effect on providers? >> mr. chairman, i do believe that certainly cutting payment has an impact. but i know is that the care become medicare trends are better than the private sector and growing at about 4.9% as opposed to the private sector growth of about 7.2% over the last ten years and i do believe medicare has the opportunity to actually change the cost trend by improving the underlining cost of delivering health care as opposed to i would suggest the house republican plan just shift the cost on to seniors and those with disabilities and not addressing the underlying cost attwell. i think improving the care and lowering cost makes a lot more sense than shifting cost. >> this is the hospital chart that shows under the affordable c.a.r.e. reimbursements to hospitals. go to chart to if you can. that's the physicians chart that shows medicare and medicaid goes down precipitously on the private plans to pay. obviously if we underpaid in its way to save more money. the question is if we keep underpaying at this p

provide that. >> i see the clock is going up. i yield back the balance of my time. >> chair recognizes mr. kensi e kensing kensinger. [inaudible] >> please check your microphone. thank you. >> about time. thank you. thank you for coming out. appreciate it. the explosive expansion and online marketing and tracking over the last few years has been unprecedented. from 2010-2014 it will grow $2.6 billion from one$.3 billion in 2010. the consumer who uses free services, and extend the value of behavior advertising and the effect is having on this country's economic growth and job creation. any privacy legislation must fully contend with the implications of what slower growth will have on our economy and the service provided to the consumer. privacy legislation could cost the industry $623 million in growth if legislation imposes limits on online tracking. i am keenly aware of the decisions we make in this committee will impact the question of whether privacy is still a right in this country. the accelerated accumulation of aggregated

they provide all of the cleaning services for the district. this committee also works on the safety and training projects. -- and greening projects. and we work on promoting the identity of the neighborhood and the organization. the way our budget is structured, we received assessments from 605 properties. it is actually more property than that now, but the fiscal years we are reporting on, this is the number of properties that were assessed. our annual budget is around $1 million. we received that revenue in two installments. the property owners are build with their property tax bills -- are billed with their property tax bills. the funds we receive are applied to that fiscal year. we received another installment of assessments in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year. that installment is applied to the next following fiscal year. we have had questions about the large number of funds in our budget. but it is divided into 2 below fiscal years. that is sometimes confusing for people. we basically provide cleaning, beautification, and safety for

providing housing is not enough. we need to do it in a way that really reflects how much we care about our clients and makes them feel welcome. i ask you all to think about the young adults that you know, your children, your grandchildren. think about what you want for those young people. i think we all agree what we would like is for them to live in a situation with support and oversight from caring adults. i think we all agree that we would like the young people we know to live in a safe neighborhood, and that is what we want for our clients. our young people at larkin street have had the misfortune through no fault of their own to be without permanent housing. they are full of potential. providing affordable housing to them in a safe neighborhood is the right thing to do. thank you. vice president miguel: thank you. next speaker? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i purchased and moved into a home in early 2011 and i can attest to the problem of affordability in the city, moving from out-of-state. i believe the int

typically, that would be if one provider was under delivering units of services, and this provider could deliver more units. supervisor chu: thank you. if there are no further questions, why don't we open this item up for public comment? are there any members of the public who wish to speak on item 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have a motion to send the item for with recommendation and a second, and we will do that without objection. i believe that we have a representative from the mta for item four, but they are on their way, so why don't we call item 5? >> item 5, resolution authorizing the mayor's office of housing to expand so many stabilization fund dollars in the amount of $325,000 to provide housing and job readiness services, low-income residents, and workers in the south of market neighborhood. supervisor chu: thank you very much. supervisor kim, would you like to say in the opening comments? >> i think the presentation from our staff would be appropriate. supervisor chu: ok. i believe we have claudine from moh. >> good evening. i am with the mayor's office of hou

we provided the mitigation strategies. that has been included in the new mitigation strategy, even though a costly one, in the environmental impact report. so, we're getting to the end. our work in environmental impact assessment does not only deal with negatives or things that are adverse or harmful. we are also concerned about creating a help the city. we are concerned that every neighborhood have the resources and conditions, the parks, schools, grocery stores, the safe and adequate housing that makes life healthy, that every neighborhood have access to jobs and transportation that makes life healthy. the hulk -- the health department is not the only agency in the city. all agencies can contribute to the health of the population. i think one of our long-term goal is to work with each agency to identify how they can do that. 12 will be developed with community partnership and planning as a healthy development measurement tool. it was developed between 2004 and 2006 with over 20 community organizations and 10 agencies sit

we provide any coverage that can be covered. dental, medical, so on and so forth, but utilization rates are still low. president chiu ask the question about 20% compared to 55%. there may be an assumption that is incorrect. we are assuming all things are equal. in healthy san francisco, i believe these are people who sought out health care and applied for it because they knew they needed to access the health care system. in our hra's, utilization rates are lower -- nobody argues that young people never access health care, but young people dollar for dollar probably access health care a lot less than older people. i have a lot of young employees, and they are noticed about the hra, and simply do not use it as much. one thing you brought up that i would like to address -- the perpetuity of holding these liabilities on our balance sheets would be catastrophic. i got to try to find financing for my next unit, and i have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of liabilities on my balance sheet that will never be redeemed or go an

i want to provide some updates on their ada. i did a presentation with urban solutions on survival tips for small business. my topic was on doing ada improvements and the topics one could use to bring a business to compliance and prevent a lawsuit. on june 30, working solutions, the micro lender who manages the loan fund, it did a presentation for their loan recipients. i really want to express my appreciation for the leadership and the fourth thought for the micro lender -- forethought for the micro lender. we are educating businesses that have staff to work with loan recipients before receiving their loans around if they are going into a brick and mortar if there are any liabilities. it helps to insure their assets. it is a dual thing of caring about their business and insuring their assets. the gdra is offering a discounted inspection for all new members as a means of helping get the word out. we have our intern, catherine burton, who is a hastings law student. i am working on having her compile as the role of a list of busin

and also provide a list of benefits to the community stakeholders.lso think that there are endless possibilities for larger corporations and small businesses to provide reciprocal benefits to each other. especially in an area that is rich with community resources and significant challenges. they encouraged and exchange resources and provide significant benefits. i also want to add that i currently served on the mid market had representing an organization that services and small business in the mid market area. there of the larger companies moving into the area. can you talk a little bit about that? >> i would hope to see reciprocal benefits. supervisor kim: to be more specific, you have a good relationship and a strong sense of small businesses in the neighborhood? >> i think the small businesses in the neighborhood are really kind of special and distinct from the small business in other parts of the city because of the challenging landscape. how have a lot of the same concerns -- and there is like a different level of expertise and what their challe

provide facility. the department would provide notice to the immediate neighbors. i believe currently it is established 150 feet, mailing and posting. interested parties can then object to this specific location, at which point the department all hearing would be held in a review of this and would continue to move forward with that. there it would be approved, approved with conditions, or reject it and denied -- or rejected and denied. vice president garcia: two questions. 1, d know about the other box? >> actually, sir, yes. that appears to be a comcast box. i believe that is a cooling system for a comcast facility. vice president garcia: is it legal? >> it is placed on a joint pile with pg&e, and comcast is allowed to do that. avice president garcia: they stated that this board had required some nextg equipment be taken down at another location and it is still there? the know anything about this? >> yes, sir. up on 24th avenue, the board had rejected nextg's argument and directed the department to revoke the permit, which we did. we provided noticed to -- we prov

two of the approved items were to provide local matches. one of the sub-processes of that effort is to pilot the recommendation. supervisor campos: thank you. >> reviewing the issues associated with that of the shuttle, we wanted to understand the range of benefits and impacts and how some of the concerns raised by constituents and stakeholders on neighborhood impact be address to while maintaining the interests of the sector. in our study in partnership with four major employers we did a survey of passenger shuttles and had a 50% response rate, which was fantastic, calculating the benefits with these original operations in public testimony. these shuttles provided significant citywide regional benefit in terms of emissions reduction. we found that over 50% of writers would have driven alone to work if the shuttle had not been available. from a workforce perspective the shuttle's aided productivity of the employees and for the employers. we also research to that the shuttle's assisted households in not using their cars as much and getting r

but i think everybody agrees to provide excellent service. i have heard an argument that we should somehow delayed this because there is the possibility of a ballot measure next june to repeal the 1932 ordinance. the 1932 ordinance has been around for a long time. this whole process, culminating in today, has been around for a long time. if people want to repeal the 1932 ordinance, they had a long time to put something on the ballot and try to get it repealed. i know there have been efforts in the past that have failed. i do not see a reason just because this late in the game some once again -- someone collected signatures to put this in the ballot, but we should stop the process when we know we are going to run out -- that we should stop the process when we know we are going to run out of landfill space. i will be supporting this item. supervisor kim: i also sat on the budget committee, and this is an issue that has been brought forward several times. although many questions came up around barging, things i support in the long term, i think

we provide services to seniors. this will continue to provide, to increase the cost of remaining in one's own home, our own relatives, forcing the industry to go underground without protections, supervision. adult protective surgeon

and also provide a list of benefits to the community stakeholders.at there are endless possibilities for larger corporations and small businesses to provide reciprocal benefits to each other. especially in an area that is rich for all grand jury work, to do an investigation. but it is simply as a bully pulpit in that regard. with specific required responses. commissioner antonini: i disagree with commissoner moore. i think this is fine. the combined response by the planning department on behalf of the commission is, of course, very opprobrious. what we always do when appeals and made to the board of supervisors or when action has to take place, there the department talks to the commission. this is sort of the same thing. we are one in the same on this type of thing. while it is a legal requirement we make a response to the grand jury, i think this issue is behind us now. as long as their response is appropriate and accurate, i do not think we need to spend more time on it. i would move to approve the draft. >> i would second that. >>commissioner bord

provides.during the most recent -- there was a statistic cite d in the shelter monitoring committee report's about tokens not being available and i remember that day when they visited because the person usually visits glide twice a day because we have two shift. she got the flu in the afternoon and came back another day. we had a substitute reservation clerk because one of our reservation clerks was ill and also h.s.a. was the person we contact there was ill and that was a statistical anomaly. and h.s.a. is very accommodating and if we get near running out of tokens, we send staff to the site with tokens or pick them up at meetings. so i can speak for glide it that's very, very rare when tokens are unavailable. >> supervisor kim: thank you. you can pull down the mike. >> hi. i eat me again. and i have probably more than two minutes to say, but overall since last fall, things are better because people have complained and i do understand it's new management and there was an existing corporate cul

we provided noticed to -- we provided notice to nextg to remove it. nextg did not do so. the bureau chief provided an additional formal letter directing them to remove it. nextg appealed the decision, seeking injunctive relief from the court system. currently, we are going through the legal system. i believe we are currently at superior court, providing a brief to the judges. vice president garcia: thank you, sir. >> is there any public comment on this item? please step forward. >> hi, my name is jim shea. i live 117 lower terrace, directly across from this. i would like to support his request to have the permit revoked and the box removed. i have lived on lower terrace only a year, but in the course of choosing and buying this house, we looked at least 100 houses. i can tell you there is a difference, neighborhoods that have poles and neighborhoods that do not. neighborhoods that have poles, where things are not underground, seemed to be getting worse and worse as more and more boxes are added. to me, that argument that this box is smaller than the comcast bought or does

we provide the same benefit. so i just want to let -- just want you to know that companies are using their health care dollars across the work force, and many times at a much greater rate than is the spending requirement. this is a policy. i just want you to be aware of this, when you are talking to our small companies and what they are facing. providing fair and flexible benefits that benefit our employees -- these are some things i really want you to consider on behalf of the small businesses. supervisor campos: we have considered them. we are here to listen as much as we can to what you have to say. the vast majority of businesses, as you noted, are trying to do the right thing, not only under the letter but the spirit of the law. i think that one of the things that is frustrating about this process is there are many arguments that people make about the impact that healthy san francisco would have on the local economy. those arguments were made repeatedly to argue against healthy san francisco. but the reality

it can provide a new college experience for them. >> we need more funding for schools on all levels. >> of like for president obama to push for more ethnic studies so people can learn about themselves and learn the role that they are destined to play in the role they played for many years >> universal health care. >> allow use more job opportunities, especially youth that have criminal records. basically the same thing, it can cost 120,000 for a incarcerated youth and about zero hundred and 20,000 to employ 25 years. i think more youth jobs. >> i am all for currency, you know what they are. unless a budget cuts. >> i would like more access to resources for students so that they can get the resources they need. >> if president obama walked through the door today, my advice to him would be about the juvenile justice system had out i feel that it should be more restorative. i heard in the past five years, $20 billion taken out of budget cuts. 22 prisons or juvenile facilities -- that is not right. vinny's to be more alternatives, not just going straight to jail. they can clean up the gr

it provides jobs for high risk use. these young people will be working with gardeners' for the summer, acquire and job skills and positive role models. there are about 10 other programs as well, but i wanted to highlight two of the most impactual. furthermore, our companies with twitter and other companies we are trying to bring into the area will have an emphasis on economic self-sufficiency and youth employment as well. we will be working closely with your office as well as each and every one of the supervisors to make sure that everything we do in relationship to building the community benefits agreements that we are focused on will have some benefit for our youth employment. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you for your leadership on this issue. supervisor chiu: our next question will be provided by our colleague from district 8, supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: thank you. part of public works and recreation and park have seen significant reductions to their tree maintenance budgets in recent years, though i'm

there's probably one service provider. how do we coordinate so your officers don't have to go to the agencies? that's been the issues because how do i connect with the probation prove that's servicing the youth? i think it's figuring out how to set up the time where they don't have to try to hit 350 service providers to accommodate that. >> i think i may have mislead everybody. >> there may not be 350 individuals. there maybe some of the kids that were there on 2 occasions. the engagements are not only based on what service are available or interesting on the part of the youth, it has to be also consistent with what vision of case plan is. that's really the challenging part about this. this is something we're working on very closely to make sure there's a follow up. it's still better than the folks being directed or encouraged to connect with an agency and there maybe some that falls off the chart. this is something very real and we're pledged to make this continue >> when will you have a status on it this is working >> wh

three of our largest providers are among the top ten advertisers in the country. you can look at innovation. you can look at capital expenditures. i mean, everything suggests this is an industry that goes to battle with each other over serving consumers so we were, you know, we obviously would have liked a conclusion that it was competitive, and yet, we are happy that the commission has begun to look at this wireless industry as an ecosystem. it's a term we coined year and a half ago or two years ago looking at the wireless space and believe it's a growing and breathing ecosystem, but from the pure perspective of drawing a competitive or not competitive, we just can't see how one concludes this is not effectively competitive. >> host: how much of the data did the ctia pride to the fcc for the report? >> guest: sure. throughout the year, we make filings to the fcc, you know, probably a fair percentage of the information in the report coming from cti, and yet over the last -- i've been there for ten years now -- and over the last ten years the commission has used mo