this provides us with a unique opportunity to create a healing center. there are a lot of people who are in chronic illnesses, have wasting diseases, that have difficulty being able to keep their weight, difficulty being able to manage their chronic diseases. what we wanted to do was partner together with key people like shanti and lgbt center and our organization to build together and case management system. with his partner in, with this collective so that we can actually manage this properly. i think the federal government in the last 15 or 20 years has provided sufficient evidence that medical marijuana does provide some beneficiary -- benefit to people who use it and use it properly. we see our role as helping this move along along those lines. i want to support this and seek your support in endorsing it. we will also benefit from this as a nonprofit in a time where dwindling economy and that is seriously affecting our services. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am the volunteer program coordinator for aguilas, we provide services and to welcome every

be required to provide fewer units. under future alternatives, and hire am -- at a higher ami level, we could provide or units or fewer units in the cases where we are looking at deeper affordability. this would be a modification of our program that would occur outside the charter. given that there is a lot going on here -- i have talked about a lot of stuff. quick summary -- on the revenue side, these are allegations based on -- allocations based on projecting new revenue sources. ongoing funding for our below- market rate housing production, affordable housing production, up to 120% ami. it authorizes the establishing of a complete neighborhoods program. it reduces the on site obligation and caps that. it allows for mayoral veto should new revenue sources not be available, and it is a 30- year term. outside of the charter amendment, we are looking at returning the inclusion ary threshold for up to 10 units, eliminating the five to nine requirement, a citywide bmn -- bmr buy-up program, and extending fee deferral for h

this change would allow the airport to provide lease space to the businesses that currently provide supportservice to our airline tenants, the aviation support services are defined in the ordinance, they range from the servicing, keening -- cleaning and provisioning of the aircraft to the inspection and ?aint nans of an aircraft, the handling of passengers and baggage and loading and unloading of passenger baggage, it includes grant support services and check point screening and it states that all the services i just listed but also says but are not limited to these service and is the airport agrees with this suggestion. i just want to clarify that we're talking about businesses or contracts specifically between aviation support services and the airlines, these are not contracts between the companies that i've talked about and the airport specifically. if the airport were to offer these airport leases through a competitive bid processes, the only qualified party would be the one chosen by a particular airline to provide this service, making bidding a competitive bid somewhat impractical. cu

provided another a letter and i would like to provide that if i may. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you very much. we will hear public comment and then get questions. >> [reading names] >> and here to speak on behalf of the san francisco [inaudible] we support this project and we would like to see a lot of these improvements being made in glen canyon. but having said that, we are very concerned and rather shocked by the number of trees that are going to be affected. i would like to say two things about this. one is the number of trees seems to be very high and secondly, the criteria for the removal seems not to be related to whether they are hazardous are actually in the way of the project, but another criterion altogether which is a grab bag of various criteria. i would like to talk to the transparency of the process. a lot of community meetings were mentioned that they were held and people associated with our group were at many of them. the understanding we had was the trees that were just referred to would be the ones to go. let me put

the services we can provide with our bilingual staff. over 90% of our patients are fluent in cantonese. over 90% of our patients are 60 years old or older. the chinatown community also takes full advantage of the area inside and outside of our building as a community gathering place or just arrest but for the wall up the hill -- just a respite for the walk up the hill. during the loma prieta earthquake, many residents saw safety in the hospital just because they felt safe there. maundered standards -- modern standards of care. you can see from this image. our current three-bed room meets the current requirements and standards for a single patient room. the seismic reading of the building is such that it may not be able to withstand an earthquake such as that that northridge experienced in 1994. it will be a state of the art hospital that will provide the standard for modern health care practices. it maintains our current 54 acute-care beds, which will be predominantly private and fully handicapped accessible. it provides space for new an

and provide alternate paths of travel for the network. we are blessed in san francisco with the grid network to help us manage some of those turn movements in a more effective way. another area we looked at was how can we make octavia function even if we are not drastically reducing traffic. there are property improvements. most are familiar with oak and octavia, eastbound traffic making a right onto southbound octavia. there are opportunities we have worked out with the mta and project team to improve pedestrian crossings, provide corner bulbs, extend medians to the northern side and look at reconfiguring oak street to east of octavia from three lanes to two. recognizing that two lanes are only that what is provided from oak, west of octavia boulevard. this would help to also additionally channel some of that turning traffic and potentially extend that -- those two turning lanes further westward on oak to help ease that traffic, provide for more orderly cuing and paramount improve the pedestrian environment. >> it wasn't that long ago we

to also provide capital to build that the project is feasible.l operating subsidy program was created to support building operations were the tenant rent payments and all other forms of resources coming into the product decked are not enough to cover operating expenses. where there is a gap, loss pays the difference through multi- year grant agreements which are subject to annual appropriations. so this is a slide about the typical tenant rand company -- contributions. for a typical homeless single adults, the average household income if he or she is on disability is approximately $800 a month re. rent famous standard is typically 30% of household and come. however, for the dp hh unit, the city is providing more intensive services including tenant care. tenants are required to pay 50% of their household income as rent payment. even requiring the higher rent payments, it would still not be enough to cover the full operating costs which services the unit, which could range from $6,000 to $12,000 per unit. the local operating subsidy program ensures

cultural competency training to service providers. early on, i was a volunteer with the black coalition on aids as a support person. and just have a broad interest in the issue, personal as well as general interest in the issues of aging. of course a strong interest in establishing lgbt-friendly senior housing, but just health and wellness, overall. thank you. >> chair kim: thank you. i was going to ask where you were a school librarian? >> in san francisco public schools, but also in the community college districts in the area, a number -- >> chair kim: which schools? >> if they were elementary schools a number of them because we had four or five, did a lot of story-telling, library skills. >> chair kim: thank you. >> where were you -- >> chair kim: i served on our school board previously. we have mark burns and then michael smith. >> good afternoon. my name is mark burns and i have a deep professional and personal passion for service delivery. as a person with delivery, a 27 year survivor of hiv, a nonprofit professional and a very

we provide critical infrastructure with our local and regional food system and continue to provide quality jobs that help businesses establish themselves and succeed in our community. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you very much. >> i would like to go into the details of the lease itself and the key terms and conditions and address some of the issues in the budget analyst reports. this is a 60-year lease with the sf market corp.. the negotiated term was elected to cover the entire reconstruction to completion, which could be out to 2036 and assuming a final tranche of debt that takes us out 54 years. with consideration for flexibility in the schedule, 60 years was deemed most appropriate. that term would provide comfort to the institutional financiers of project certainty which affects not just the interest rate due to the risk of the debt issue, but also address the basic viability of financing. we don't have a lot of term, financing may not be available from certain sources. a shorter term would make financing not only much more difficult but much more expensive. it also provides certa

is information not in our possession and people who haven't filed their form seven hundreds has provided public with getting this information and there's also the fact that hundreds of other people did manage to do their forms at some person inconvenience and sacrifice and i think it's better that everyone was held to the requirement to do it. i appreciate the responsibilities that staff have at a challenging time and i realize we couldn't do everything in cadillac fashion but i wonder whether we could be more imagine /tphau a list and putting it in our website if we haven't done that, sharing it at a meeting asking people if they have thoughts about what we can do about it using the public value. you may want to remind us about what we've done to raise these people or follow-up with them or give a list to the mayor and the people who do appointments to these folks and reappointments to other folks and i know we've talked about this before but it might be helpful on the record to tell us what has been done and for all of us to think about what we can do that could reinforcelet seriousnes

i provided only some. i didn't want to give you all of them. it's lots of pages. >> vice president fung: thank you. >> commissioner lazarus: you just stated and i believe it's in some of our material that you made requests in june. the department responded that the materials, the information was ready. they did not hear back from you for almost a month. can you explain that lapse please. >> the first things i requested included the plans and the notes from the project. and i was contacted by two different people. i did not realize that there were two different sets of information. i went down the next week, after making my request, before fourth of july, and i went to the department -- the planning department, who provided me with two project folders, two project files and allowed me to make copies of relevant materials in those files. i didn't realize that the other materials, because they were all supposed to be project plans, would be different. but they did include some additional different information about the original permit plans. the o

, i mean, you have gone in to see a provider, a healthcare provider, you know, within the first 30 or 60 days before you've either attempted or, or um, actually completed suicide. so, as we are looking at that particular piece, we need to make sure that our providers are healthy, so that when we do come in to see them that they are assessing us for how we are doing for our mental health. jen, i want to go back to give an hour. talk a little about that program and what it tries to do. sure, give an hour is a national nonprofit and we provide free mental health care to post 911 veterans, their families, and the communities. so, it's anybody who's been impacted by the current conflicts overseas. what happens is that they can come to our website and they search our provider data base and they can find somebody who's willing to donate therapy to them. so, i mean, we have psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, r.n.s, l.p.n.s, we have a whole entire gamut of people who are willing to donate their services to try to help out our military families and communities. well, that is very hon

the bill also provides tos[ to our state and local partners flexibility to fund the most important andent projects without congressional earmarks. importantly, for the first time, map 21 gives the federal transit administration oversight over transit safety, a long overdue step that will provide americans with confidence that the subways, streetcars, buses, and light rail system they ride e are working very o implement the new law as quickly as we can, and in the weeks and providing much more information and guidance to our partners and stakeholders to help people understand exactly what this all means and to get it working for you. for now, we look forward to working with all of you as we continue to invest in the transportation systems across the country and the need to grow and compete, providing opportunities that all americans deserve. thank you so much for welcoming ime home to san francisco to share this news with you. to [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor, ms. mcmillan. we are always happy to have you back home. we are happy to have a bay area voice in washington, especially wh

and i would say all the providers we are providing and have come forward have a holistic sense. not just throwing a service at a person but looking at the whole family. >> who should come? >> everyone should come. not just alameda county residents, but everyone. these issues cross -- certainly cultural barriers, county barriers, city barriers. everyone is invited. children, family, services if you want to participate. you can build a network with other providers doing similar work. >> i was talking to someone and saying if you don't take care of the folks now we'll have to take care of them on the back end in the emergency rooms. that can be more dire for the patient and more expensive for the taxpayer. >> absolutely. public health is very prevention, you know, focused. and i feel as we all should be, if you don't take care of a situation or illness now it will get worse. it's just a matter of time. i agree with you. >> we should get the screening. it's at alameda county. september 15th at the eastmont town center in oakland. it's sponsored by andre swanson. log on to his websit

i wanted to highlight in the ledger that was provided to you additional information. the nearest open mcd's are miles away. they're within a one-mile radius but there are outside -- they are outside of the mission district. this would be the only open in the mission district and the nearest ones are closer to the bernal heights and to the castro and while there are some within a one-mile zone, their outside of the mission district. substantively, the broader collective will be focusing on providing medical cannabis treatment to patients with illnesses such as hiv and aids, cancer, and other life- threatening illnesses. the collective is setting a truly inclusive community model by working with multiple, highly respected, anchor organizations that are based in the community and are run by members. these are true partners. among the organizations are a guilas, support to persons living with hiv. they have been around a little over 18 years providing these services and we have shockey -- shanti, serving patients to suffer with harshened debilitating effects of aids, brea

so that the nature of the state provides that state statutory authority. your oversight and you will over see the activities of the proposed successor commission and all activities through supervisor cohen has stated through approval of the budgets and then there is that separate check that the state department of finance has required that the oversight board again reviews that. >> thank you. >> colleagues, any additional follow up. >> seeing none, why don't we open it up to public comment. if there are members of the public that wish to speak on this you, if you could please, line up on the right-hand side of the chamber and why don't we hear from the first speaker. each member of the public will have two minutes to speak. >> members of the board of super vicers, ray heart. i have heard some questions regarding oversight and those are the concerns that i really had. james and i have been coming to this board of supervisors and to the library commission for a long time now. talking about the fact that the private public partnership between the san francisc

we could actually provide prevention and health care

providing much more information and guidance to our partners and stakeholders to help people understand exactly what this all means and to get it working for you. for now, we look forward to working with all of you as we continue to invest in the transportation systems across the country and the need to grow and compete, providing opportunities that all americans deserve. thank you so much for welcoming ime home to san francisco to share this news with you. to [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor, ms. mcmillan. we are always happy to have you back home. we are happy to have a bay area voice in washington, especially when you are bringing such good news. feel free to come back any time. you are always welcome. the leadership i talked about takes different forms. you heard the deputy administrator talk about the map 21, reauthorization, so important to the transportation funding in this country. it would not have been possible without of leadership from the executive branch, president obama, and secretary lahood, and also support from the legislative branch. we are so lucky to have here in

and you know, it's all free services that we're providing. it's very important for you guys to look at this and see -- what we're bringing for these youth. otherwise the youth that you're going to be hearing from next, these are kids that need root canals, things that if they don't get treated now, can lead to them having to lose teeth. it's really, you know, they have serious kid issues. we're hoping that you would take this into consideration. thank you. >> good evening, commissioner, my name is joe paicci. i'm a licensed architect. i currently work for patterson dental. we design dental offices, all the specialties that dr. kalicka mentioned. what i'm here to talk about is the amount of space to correctly design and facilitate a dental office where it is perio or endo or what have you. the key to be able to correctly treat the patient the to get them in and out and make them comfortable and make sure that the dental team has the tools to do their job. the more we chop up the building and you know, the light well, there is an issue between

i don't see the benefit of providing any other recommendation to the board. commissioner liu? >> thank you. i do understand commissioner hayon's concern for taking a position on the consequences and what effect the misconduct charges should have. however, i think that i am more inclined to agree with chair hur on this particular issue, because -- and the reason is because we were so careful in analyzing what the charter says and what the standards are and we parsed the language. we were trying to be true to what each of felt what the charter allowed us to do and not do. so i would not feel comfortable now straying from that principle and doing something that i really don't see that the charter allows us to do. so for that reason, i wouldn't want to take a recommendation on it, simply because that is not what i think we're authorized to do under the charter. and if we have been true to what we each believe the charter allows or doesn't allow and i understand commissioner renne's point of view as well, but for myself, i think because i have been sticking to what i think the char

currently you provide a seamless transition to students to go from school to after school.nd these after-school programs are private after-school programs. there might have been a way if your budget permit you, to allow you to consider through auspices of your organization, perhaps certain other private providers? so this is just a plea once again to reinstate bus service or provide us with some feasible alternative. thank you. >> thank you. >> if i could ask staff for a reminder of the criteria that was used for eliminating the routes. this has been in progress for a long time. i'm getting a lot of requests. >> if we can get the speaker's contact information. we have a rule that you have to sign up to speak. >> i just want to add a couple comments. >> i want to stick to the rules. >> i just drove five hours to get here in time. you have to give me one minute. it is regarding, and you cut out the one bus stop that has a program that is open to all children. it does not accept kids in the after-school program unless they go to that school. you cut out the boys' and girls' cl

they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more womenild bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol or th

to the taxpayers to provide intensive services as well as then it reduces the victimization because you don't have addicts out there stealing to support the habit and other subsequent crimes. and in addition to that, dealing with the addiction breaks the cycle of crime and breaks that inner generational cycle that exists, looking in prisons and managing them, i've seen generations of families come through the system. and it's because their behavior, their addictions have not been appropriately dealt with. and we researched, we've seen millions in the prison system researching substance abuse treatment. and what we know and what the research told us was the fact that it wasn't putting somebody in prison and it wasn't the amount of treatment in prisoner jail that changed the behavior, it was the treatment out in the community after that individual was released and had to deal with life stressors. so what evidence -- practices tells us is that there is a more effective way in which we can get a better return on our investment, 1506 is one of those strategies and it also reduces victimi

so in turn provide better service and it will provide more jobs. we have to -- for every cab put on the streets, you have got to put at least four drivers into service to service that cab. so it's going to be a good opportunity for more people to work. while at the same time, providing this good service to the city. so again, we're very supportive of this. it's been a long time coming. a lot of studies that we know being done. there was a study that we recently put together and actually been put together by a former city attorney phil ward, who i think is going to address you next and tell you about the study that we provided each of you a copy. thank you. >> thank you, mr. gillespie. next speaker, please. phil ward, john loewsar, kevin carroll. >> good afternoon, mr. ward. >> good afternoon, my name is philip ward. i'm an attorney for yellow cab and luxor cab and have been involved as an attorney and advisory since 1989. in the report that supports this particular item, staff reached the conclusion based on various data that there was a significan

health insurance to their workers provides the vast majority to have spending are complying with the spirit and intent of the ordinance. looking just specifically at reimbursement programs as a general category, we did see the reimbursement rate increase sleekly from 2010 to 2011, that number went from 20% to 26%, and we found slightly more employers were utilizing reimbursement programs, that was a point that's been mentioned here. that 29% of employers, up to 32% of employers were using these forms of reimbursement programs, looking just as hra's which has been the source of some policy sdrution and much of the grand jury's interest here, 20% of employers, 373 employees allocated 66 million million dollars to these programs, 11 million dollars was reimbursed, 5 5* 5 million dollars went unreimbursed, the amendment tos the ordinance require employers who continue to utilize health reimbursement accounts to make sure that unused money is available to their workers in 201. as has been indicated, the reimbursement rate looking just at these health reimbursement accounts in 2010 was 17%

we were not provided a grant. taking part in this clinic is extremely important to us because as a community-based organization, i am one of five people in our department. we have an extremely high volume of cases and we have done everything within our power to be able to provide weekly clinics. unfortunately we have to assess a fee because we do not apply for and receive a grant. so taking part in these clinics that are being offered throughout san francisco, also in other counts, we took part in one in san mateo and it was great to see so many applicants lining up as early as 6:00 a.m. for this service. it is great to be able to help another no cost. i'm simply here to stress poverpbes having this and having the community and these students come together to make these applications to rid themselves of the fear that they have in submitting their applications so i would respectfully urge everyone of you to please provide an aye vote in this and pass in re-resolution. coming from an oh,, as i'm sure we all have men

it pays providers, decided how much to provide. as i understand the cuts in the aca, most of the general cuts involve those kinds of decisions as to what an acquittal payment a hospital was for another provider. so there were changes in provider payments. there was no change made except improvements and benefits are car sharing to beneficiaries. so presumably, there always is a problem if you cut providers to far you could have a problem having access to them. but i think most of these cuts are probably invisible to beneficiaries right now. >> or when somebody said -- i forget which of the witness says that this pressure on medicare with the cards is going to make them more efficient. does that mean you won't get good medical care? if it is efficient? >> what sufficiency? >> let me ask dr. schwab or mr. tallent, what do you can't in changes to medicare that will make people get out of their program or leave? or is it just that the rural areas are too far away, so we're not going to get that coverage? will drop that? what does it me

that is why i provide this range. if every store that closed had four employees, that is the worst case, the higher number of jobs would be lost, but it could be a smaller number with fewer employees. so there is some room for variation in these numbers. but i think it gives you the overall picture. and then this was the second-year impacts, which i think i already talked about. which shows the increments that occurs as the second year impacts are felt by district. we provided one policy option recommendation in our report and that is for the board of supervisors to consider. that if such a store were proposeded or such an establishment, to add to existing regulations in the planning code pertaining to retail formula. so the idea here was to include consideration of the economic impact of a large retail food formula -- retail formula food store opening in san francisco. so that questions such as this could be answered. how many jobs are actually going to be at the new location? because our analysis is talking about re

the way we provide assistance to women veterans is, foremost, is ourselves. so as women veterans, we're connecting with the other female veteran and trying to help them figure out which is the best approach to solve their problem. and then, when you pick up the phone, if you've been to afghanistan ... i've got somebody who's been to afghanistan. you want to talk about iraq? i've got three iraqi veterans. you want to talk about the vietnam era? i've got one of those. you want to talk about desert storm? i've got a gal that's done that. a couple of us were at kosovo. we actually have online support that's available 24/7. anyone can become a friend or family member of grace; you do not have to be the veteran. it's anonymous registration, so that you are able to blog. there are some phenomenal, fascinating, heart-wrenching stories that have been posted on our web site, where women are for the first time feeling safe to talk about something that happened to them years ago. we don't know where they live, we don't know what their name is, but we can give them the an

any particular benefits or plans or alter existing plans, or to provide plans or employee benefits at all, we believe if the city were to try to ban hra's, there are hundreds and hundreds and businesses and thousands of employees who have that benefit that would be forced to change that benefit and therefore would not be legal, and then in regards to we were asked to comment on i believe finding 5, it is something that we're not -- we don't have a position on, it's an mra, it's the city's plan, so we did not comment specifically on that, but otherwise, i'm very happy to address any other questions or if you have any issues. er >> thank you, mr. black, colleagues, any questions, okay, thank you, so those are all the presentations we have, i want to thank all the speakers from the departments for your comments and responses. we'll now proceed to public comment. i have -- supervisor compos? >> if i may, mr. khai, i know we have a worker, i was wondering if it would be okay to call upon him so he could testify, and that is graciano, yes. >> that's at the top of the pile, i have four speak

but provided one is well- qualified there, there are companies providing solar service and take on risks and responsibilities of maintaining the system over time and acting of a miniature utility where you agree to pay a monthly fee for electricity generated in lieu of pay that the payment, depending on how appropriate and easy it is for your home or business. that cost of energy can be lower than the utility. it can be a little higher, but at least it is predictable. >> i was encouraged last week to talk to one of the credit unions hear about the concept of having unsecured loans of up to a small amount, $20,000 for green building, to make it really easy for people to get money to have upgrades. i think we are seeing these kinds of products coming forward in a year or two, so you can do insulation. we have a special program for you, a public service program. >> one challenge the financial industry had is what does it mean? a single photo system as a particular set of parameters and output, but building grades are well attended to, appropriate for the building. that is being addressed by