it provides high rat -- high writer ship to the business plan. we believe it could be a model within california. we think it has the potential of making better use of the funding than the other options might. the comparison of a fast start to the center column, the blended operation as proposed within the aboard the -- the authority plan, you can see that the bottom line of the art project can be delivered for something under $5 billion. you know that there is a significant price difference for the connection and the underground tunnel. the number being carried by the authority within their budget is a three track system. the $1.5 billion is a target number that we believe is possible to achieve by reducing it from three tracks the two tracts, with ultimate alignments for the projects. it must be borne out in further strikes. looking at a writer ship comparison, the 2012 high speed rail authority business plan forecast writer ship in the central valley at only half of a million boardings per year. high-speed rail boardings on the peninsula were a

it provides a simpler, more convenient experience for our customers. in the coming years, we want to dramatically increase the number of retail partner locations that we offer, and we think there's a huge opportunity for small businesses to operate village post offices or some type of other postal retail unit. and by the way, virtually everything that you can do at the post office today you can also do on usps.com. now, the question is, will there always be a role for a traditional, full-service post office? absolutely, but there are other creative, convenient options for providing access to our products and services. we just need the flexibility, just like any other business, to provide them. we're in a deep financial crisis today because we have a business model that is tied to the past. we are expected to operate like a business but do not have the flexibility to do so. our business model is fundamentally inflexible. it prevents the postal service from solving problems and being effective in a way a business would. delivery companies facing a signif

taxpayer-provided decease for this 50 or 60% of employees that are now provided with employer coverage? >> well, senator, i think a couple of things. the economy certainly has a lot to do with employer coverage being lost, but i would also suggest that every analysis that i've read suggests that the extremely high cost and often lack of choice for small employers is also a driver in this marketplace, where people are dropping coverage, particularly in the small marketplace. large employers are keeping their coverage, small employers and individuals are often dropping coverage. and then people in the recession have lost coverage. so the availability of state-based insurance exchanges in every part of the country, with competition and by every congressional budget office and every analysis estimate, significantly lower premiums based an reduction of administrative overhead, pre-negotiation, and kind of an active purchaser role, i think, again, means that people will be coming back into the marketplace. i can't speculate on what it is that people are looking at. what we know on the ground

they provide oversight in those corridors. we also check out to neighborhood organizations that have the capacity to do major our reach. >> >> for the excelsior, that would be the excelsior action group. at ocean avenue, that would be the ocean avenue action association. supervisor chu: it had formerly been funded by the city in the past. >> yes. supervisor avalos: has there been any real assessment of what the success is? what do you see standing out as what really made this program worth funding again? >> after my half of the presentation, we will be talking about the current loan portfolios and success stories with that, so that we can answer the questions in the later half of the presentation. supervisor avalos: great, i will hold on to those. >> thank you. about the revolving of loan fund in requirements in terms, businesses need to have no access to bank loans and be able to create and return one full- time job. in terms of the revolving loan funds, it is very favorable. up to 50,000 for existing businesses. the term of

and that the team that i work with was going to provide the knowledge to our providers on how to best medications. those pharmacists had a responsibility to review the literature for all new medications to determine what medications really were new medicines, were important medicines, and what were "me too" medications that were there basically as a brand name to be provided at high cost, but not provide any better quality than a generic medication. if the 20 cent pill works as well as the one dollar pill, why would a doctor prescribe the expensive one? that's a hard question to answer. i think sometimes i've been amazed at how part of our education needs to include what the cost of drug therapy is. the docs don't know this coming out of med school? no, they don't. but we can teach them. we also looked at medication errors between the time that a physician prescribes the medicine and it is filled in the pharmacy. and in fact, errors were reduced by over 60 percent. i don't see what the error is -- you mean, the doctor prescribes the wrong pill? no, the error could relate to the penman

the housing on-site or you can provide housing offsite. if you're providing physical housing offside as opposed to paying a fee, there is the 1 mile radius. they're simply paying therefore will housing fee in this situation. commissioner borden: everyone prefers the housing on site. i have a friend who lives within 300 feet, concerned about the economic diversity of the neighborhood. i know about which they speak. ahis disappointing. this is not the first project that has come to us for this or parking saying they need these things for financing. and recognize that that is an issue. i appreciate the project sponsor was willing to provide at 18% when the requirement was 12 and will have to pay 20% as a consequence. i do also recognize olsen lee, that fund is depleted and needs the fund and with the rock -- loss of redevelopment there are less sources for for housing. i will support this begrudgingly. i am less than happy with the outcome because i wish it could go to housing in that neighborhood. i have asked the project sponsor if there wa

the feedback from them is they would not be able to provide us with that information. they have yet to provide that information but we have been moving forward in the sense of working with the type of space they say they need. what we have been in conversation is how much space they want that you say you can program. >> with the budget cuts, they don't know how much money they have. >> de almost want to guarantee up front that the classes are filled, right -- they almost 1 to guarantee up front the classes are filled, right? >> they are saying they will put the money into the southeast facility as they have their budget conversation. those with the types of conversation that will be appropriate questions to ask. >> i think i'd rather stay on track with a budget discussion. >> we were originally thinking of the second meeting in february but there were scheduling difficulties. the secretary is asking if you are free and available to have a late afternoon or evening meeting on either of the two meetings in march. you could look to your calendars and get back to us that w

we've hired more of those, to provide special investigators. we've hired six highly qualified experts in sexual assault and harassment to come into our ranks to guide us both in terms of program development, but also to help our prosecutors, and help our investigators make sure that they're up to the latest developments that come about. we have mobile training teams that go out and go to every unit in the army, conducting specialized training for our on-post camp and station investigators as well. i think if you look at the data, they're still too high and they're unacceptable, but we do have some glimmer of progress. our report rate is 33%. i view that as abysmal. but in the u.s. sector the rate is 18%. we refer some 60% of all cases of actual rape and assault brought to our officials four court-martial. and our conviction rates have gone as high as 78%. not every one of those data points has a similar data point within the civilian sector, but we are doing better, in some cases better than the civilian sector. but better is not good enough. w

tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over the next 9 months. group prenatal care is designed to give women the opportunity to bond during their p

notification was provided to the public.we received an objection to were the appellant did come forward and provided testimony. the department determined this was appropriate, and we issued it. the appellant has an appeal to reagan during -- has appealed. during the hearing process, through our tape-recorded information and our review of the document provided, the primary concern of the appellant was our power, which is governed by federal law, and is beyond concern region beyond the purview of the department. what is suggested does not appear to be a change from the position there are issues as it relates to the federal government and not local governance situation. i am happy to answer any questions you may have at this point. >> any idea when the street is scheduled for underground? >> right now i know the city has expanded its underground funding and new revenue source, and it is not slated for underground in the near future or any time soon. >> the department will underground if neighbors pay for it? >> that would be co

going onwards to 35,000 elite warriors that provide specialized and unique capabilities. as we look forward, and the secretary already touched on this a bit, there are several focus areas that will help us guide the way ahead. foremost, we will remain committed to our 67,000 war fighters in afghanistan, and continue to provide trained and equipped soldiers to win that fight. we'll be responsible governmental stewards through energy cost savings and institution al and acquisition reform and continue our equipment reset program to restore unit equipment to a desired level of capability, that is commensurate with their future missions. there have been over 1.8 million pieces of equipment reset to date, which equates to approximately 31 brigade equivalence annually. finally, we'll be become leaner. with a leaner army, we have to prioritize. yet, we must never sacrifice our capability of meeting a wide range of security requirements. this requires a delicate balance of end strength, modernization and readiness as we cannot afford to reduce too much too soon. with the end of op

if you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contra contraception coverage than it does without. >> chris: why not? >> look at an actuarial coverage it costs nor provide a plan without than it does with. it actually does not cost the insurance company money to do it. contraceptivesontra september cost money. pills. >> if you look at the costs on its own you're right but the overall costs are taking care of a health of a woman it doesn't raise the cost of a plan. what the president did here was consistent with where he has been all along. he has very deeply that every woman's right to all forms of preventive healthcare. he has a belief we have to respect the religious liberties that the country is built on. the solution is consistent with the core principles and it got the support of a range of groups from the catholic health association and catholic charities to planned parenthood. we should put this issue to rest. the president was expecting this policy to be reached over a longer period of time. we said it would take a ye

all of their buildings usually accommodate this but providing -- by providing a use that is available for walk-up's and provides a minimum of a 12-foot high ceiling. as you see in this picture, this is an example of an older building and with a high ceiling that has active store fronts. in some new buildings have moved away from adding such visual interested. this is mostly due to the height limit that has been practiced in the city for a while. they result in a ground-floor -- usually, product sponsors try to maximize the number of floors and units. for example, in a 40-x height district, it would result in four floors of around 8-9 feet. that would result in an aesthetically inviting character for pedestrian activity. as you can see in this other example, this is an example of a newer building with four force -- floors and a lower ceiling. this black line shows the ceiling of the ground floor and you can see how the bay windows are really close to the ceiling of the ground floor. those uses are not inviting and there are not attractive to pedestrians. therefore, they do not lend the

to provide operator salaries or whatever else is necessary to provide necessary trades as service. the t.s.f. would be much more constrained in its use. we would be allocating funding to specific routes the disturbing to offset the impact of growth. there is funding available for preventive maintenance, but that is a transit reliability issue to make sure we of the vehicles available to provide the service, fixing overhead lines, etc. i think it is fair to say the use of the funds under this program would be more transparent than what we experience today. commissioner avalos: that is always good to hear. thank you. is there an expected built up between what the current the -- is there an expected delta

and yet we were still providing services for over -- ended up basically continuing to provide medical services. and then as people -- food banks came back up, we were able to stop our food service. as the salvation army began doing some more of the services, we were able to drop some of the services we were doing but that was after coordinated efforts wall of the community-based organizations. and any of the time i have been talking in san francisco about disaster preparedness and what we saw in watsonville was that the first night of the -- after the earthquake we found over 3,000 people in parks and open space and we ended up with thousands of people continuing to be in parks and open space for months ahead -- after the earthquake. and so in a concentrated place like san francisco with the housing shortage i'm always pressed to tell people to learn how to shelter people for a long period of time, how to deal with the fact that -- especially in san francisco, at least in watsonville people were living in their back yards and front yards for months at a time. here in san francisco we

is now providing answers families need. siemens.e to see you... [ male announcer ] this is your moment. this is zales, the diamond store. take an extra 10 percent off storewide now through sunday. >>> the cpac is meeting this week in washington. this is the time and place that mitt romney dropped out of the presidential race four years ago. this is the same time and place where exactly one year ago ann coulter said this. >> if we don't run chris christie, romney will be the nominee and we'll lose. >> even though ann coulter had since tried to recant that comment and has now got in line with the republican party's support for mitt romney, it's as if her words still haunt everyone at cpac. >> i think the republicans decided they're going to go with electability instead of issues. if electability is your case and the electability is base the on i can fix the economy and the economy fixes itself, then why do we necessarily need a nominee who the obama campaign is going to spend millions of dollars on to make unlikeable? >> the wall stre

into an issue or provide general recommendation. commissioner moore: thank you for clarifying that. i will ask the supervisors to consider that we have talked about it many times before. it might have gotten not look that -- not looked at so i would just pass this on for your consideration. president miguel: commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya: never mind. commissioner antonini: i'm fine with the spirit of what commissioner moore is saying. we are only talking about the height increase, not designation as to what they're going to do with the frontage and how it is going to be divided up. sometimes it is advantageous to have a larger and sometimes it's better to add to or three smaller businesses. >> the way you at the architecture, this is not just the subdivided phase. obviously you could rent the entire space. >> second emotion. -- the motion. >> commissioners, you have a motion for approval. with that motion -- >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> i believe that we go back now to item number 9. hot h >> going b

number two, the manner in which interpretation services were provided. number three, any complaints concerning language access whichever and forward it, and number four, the department resolution to any language access complaints. so far, there is a separate report that i have to do for the officer engagement in immigrant affairs, and it is a requirement for quote unquote tier-1, such as the police department. the report, some of these reports, the specifics are dressed in that report, as well, butthere are some others, like a biannual report for the department efforts in addressing language access. commissioner: how does that fit into the report? access was requested but never received? >> cents a case number was not -- the officers, therefore, it no report was made, there would be no record. commissioner turman: that is a situation that we need to fix. that is a situation that we need to know about, that the commission needs to know about an address. >> yes. commissioner turman: thank you. commissioner -- >> thank you. there are those that provide this

it connects the southern valley and provided before when he 34. i just for wheat -- group -- completed a review of the business plan and i will look at highlights from the analysts review. we did take note that the new delays for the overall system. additional concerns from the legislative analyst's office included the fact that committed funding had not been identified for the project. that environmental reviews, to meet the schedule laid out by the authority, would have to be completed by 2012, which seems extremely ambitious. there is really no funding available to complete the initial operating segment, southern or northern. questioning the analysis of prospective benefits and costs to the overall system. san francisco also had some concerns with the plan. notwithstanding the fact that we are supporters of high-speed rail, we did think that there were aspects in which it could be strengthened. both of the options identified for the initial operating segment for connecting low rider ship areas, which we thought was not the optimum way to begin

the hiv/aids provider network is a coalition of over 30 san francisco-based nonprofits that provide aomprehensive array of services daily to people living with hiv and aids. today is a good day for san francisco, and let me tell you why. in december when the service provider community found out about this loss of funding of over $4 million, we truly were in a state of shock, but we knew what was at stake. so we quickly got to work meeting with barbara garcia at the department of public health, supervisors campos and wiener and the mayor to figure out what solution we could put to these devastating cuts, and i am pleased to report that all of them were keenly aware -- hold on one second. i am pleased to report that all of them were keenly aware of these devastating cuts long before we met face to face, so we gather here today to thank and acknowledge mayor lee, supervisors wiener campos and olague for their receptive ear and nimble response to our request for support to help mitigate these devastating cuts. mayor lee and the supervisors joint request for supplemental appropriation of $

there has been a lot of thinking this past year about how we bolster our capacity to provide education and engagement of the public in difference takeovers on what the puc does. we talk about as a cradle to grave approach as far as wanting to go after the next generation of white -- of ratepayers and water users to folks in the public to elected officials so when you turn on your tap, you understand it is hetch hetchy water and an asset we need to protect and value. as you think about the power enterprise, when you are in the airport, it is powered by the puc. there's a lot of talk around how do we ensure the public, the investments we're making to the city agencies, whether it's around the school district or department of environment it's tied to getting our message out to the type of work we're doing in the community. there will be greater attention in that area. the last part is run workforce development. jobs are a huge party out of the mayor's office and a huge priority for us. it is increased emphasis on how we leverage and amplified jobs opportunities as relates to the puc. this

they provide great service. when you see the reductions we've done from a cost standpoint and the productivity improvements that our people have shown, they do a great job. we have an excellent working relationship with our unions. we have four unions, three management associations. they understand the issues that are facing the postal service. so, when we got to the point last night where we needed an extension, i think it's well worth sitting down to continue to talk. i mean there may be a solution in there. from a postal service standpoint, we're looking to resolve this health care issue, and at the same time, more flexibility with our labor. >> okay. what happens if you don't reach an agreement? >> well, then we go to arbitration, but let's -- i'm a glass is much more than half full person, so i'm hoping we can get something worked out. >> questioner says, "the november 18th deadline for you to make a $5.5 billion retiree health payment has come and gone. did you default, and if so, what's the consequence?"

also providing revenue to the city was the -- city's planning. i want to point out their revenues you see on the next slide do not include predictive levels to the events. they're not projection as the 2010 analysis. we're showing a consecutive nil -- analysis. there have been taiex with its economic benefits. that is some thing to keep in mind. and his ruling out the cost items for operational rising of the events. mccall is that. running through the costs is we did a planned level estimate. that call for 5.4 million specters and we realize that is of high estimate based on what we see coming at us but wanted to do that to show you we can take a conservative outside envelope. these costs can be adapted to reflect the spectator demand. what we're talking about here is a living city services in a way that all eligible to move around and ask congress to continue. the waste is the fifth step -- we need to do this to put our best foot forward. they are level of effort specific. in terms of norah buses. or the number drivers. a number of -- to make su

providers just can't pour the same content into a different rapper. the challenge creating content tailored for each of these sources. we have to constantly reconceive how we deliver the same message and figure out what works in each place. think of content today as software, needs to be optimized for the device or platform for which it's being delivered. this has changed the way media gathers and disseminates, media technology companies who fail to do this as we all know will become obsolete. words and images and platforms are also intertwined to consider individual parts of the process in isolation is to miss transformative connections between gathering, writing, delivering, consuming, and sharing. few, if any companies have to think through the ramifications through each new medium the way and to the extent we do at bloomberg. we are, i would underscore, totally agnostic. we don't care how you want it, where you want it and when you want it, but we're going to deliver it. let me give you a couple of examples. our terminal users, 315,000 subscribers

future information that the banks can provide to us. if there is open is that we can guarantee, we can make further inquiries. it will be important to have. is that something you think can be built and? >> i imagine that we would certainly describe this questionnaire as something that would be a dynamic flexible document or inquiry that we would be able to adjust as time is able to have us accommodate. supervisor avalos: separate from the treasurer's office, there are other ways that they might be compelled to try the information at our disposal. that is where we might come in. you mentioned community investment, looking at making investments up to 200 to thousand dollars insured by the fdic to perhaps financial institutions are credit unions. can you tell us further about that? >> we are excited about the announcement of this program. as with any individual like ourselves, we also enjoy a fdic insurance on any deposits we make in local banks or credit unions as guaranteed by the u.s. government. as i said, our goal is to keep the city'

she is sitting to my left and will provide the board with any legal advice. have our legal assistant. we're joined by representatives from the city departments that had cases before the board this evening. we have this in your building inspector representing the department of building inspection and we have the representation for a taxi services. we will conduct the swearing-in process. >> the board requests you turn off all phones and pagers so they will not disturb proceedings. carry on conversations in the hallway. the rules of presentation are as follows, permit holders and department representatives each have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments with and those periods. members of the public not affiliated with the parties have up to two minutes each to address the board and no rebuttals. to assist the board in the accurate preparation of minutes, members of the public who wish to speak are asked but not required to submit a speaker card or business card to s

we think that providing coverage to tens was millions of americans and providing the kind of care they need and drive down the cost of the care is an important thing. this question of the impact on religious nusions is something we took seriously right from the start. that's why when the policy was announced we said it would take 13 months tition. i think we have addressed that and this concern is one that people can disagree on the margins about. but we have addressed the coreissue and no institution, that has religious principles violated has to pay for or offer the services. women have acess to the kinds of care they are entitled to. >> chris: let's turn to the budget i am sure you are happy to hear. we know the outlines and let's go through them. you would cut the deficit by three trillion and half of that would come from spending cuts and more than one and half trillion from new taxs and corporations and wealthy. there are no structural changes to entitlements. this is how congressman paul ryan describes it? >> guest: the president is doing little more than class envy and that is

they will provide backup personnel services and accounting. on this side, it's a requirements -- it is a requirement to provide those services. the whole point is they teach children. they do not run businesses as having their own staff. the fourth item i want to bring to the staff is that first services are reimbursed directly. it is a direct relationship. that is where the problem comes in. on the tax forms of 2009, which are the most recent available, they received $254,000 for this reimbursement. this is not penny ante stuff. we're talking about a major relationship. to go back to the last point i want to make, they use these offices to provide services to the first tee. will this space be used to operate golden gate park? the relationship is they do not have the staff to do the work and we are now getting into them providing services going to another entity and the question is, do they intend to use the services for the golden gate park police operations? >> if they are going to continue to be -- golden gate operations. the corollary to t

i'm happy to provide the justification to you, mr. burgess. >> well, i've been waiting on some of those questions that we've submitted last time. i will resubmit some today and i am looking forward to that. since we have the cfo with you today -- >> i'm sorry, we have authority for 30 positions so we do have a cap. i'm sorry. so we're using 17 out of the 30, which is our cap. >> are you going to adhere to the fact that those are to be temporary or time limited position sfs. >> i will look into the issue, sir. i will not concede it here. >> clearly, mr. chairman, this is a reason why this authorization committee needs to take a greater role in the oversight of the money spent bit environmental protection agency. let's go -- miss bennett was kind enough to be here and talk to some of the issues as to the e pa suspending last year. i'm so glad she's here today. last october i think we had a hearing here and there was concern because of unobligated funds that were sitting in the epa's bank account. just purely as an example we had i think