it provides a public a transparent opportunity to engage with providers. >> tom wheeler has been cagey about the road and his perspectives but there are implications. >> he has been forward saying he will accept the court's invitation to act. we are reviewing options and we will, again, stay firm for a free and open engagement. >> moving to another topic, which is one of interest to viewers, the fcc sports blackout rule. what impact will that have? because we hear that there are still the possibility that there could be blackout for nfl games. >> this gets the fcc out of the business of determining what will and will not happen in terms of private negotiations. and looking at why the rules were enacted and most of the money back then were ticket sales. the majority was ticket sales and there was a reason for this 40 plus years ago. the reason no longer exist. we will be out of that part of the business and i think the talks are where they belong. i am hopefully the fans will have more opportunities to engage. but that is, of course, in the hands of the others and hopefully not the fcc.

i provided you with a short update on proposal to ask the warriors to collaborate and provide a college classroom that could also serve as a field study classroom which as one -- also a copy of a letter i provided to this commission 5 years ago exactly which details some of the comprehensive benefits a high school classroom inside this arena could provide. the port property, everybody talks about trying to attract more visitors and tourists and i consider this a magnet effect, not only tourists to walk around and advisity the water front but also become involved in high school projects we have here, high school students and kids and classrooms from around the state and around the country to come meet our kids and see this high school classroom that would be provided as a model for other sports facilities around the country. i also want to support this exclusive agreement with the warriors and hope all the city leaders and the port and the warriors continue to work on this. obviously it's a challenge, has many different challenges, not just the neighborhood, our socioeconomic situation t

now, i'd like to provide an opportunity for mrs. tono from the work force development to briefly describe to us the formation process for these districts. >> good morning, and thank you. >> good morning, chair breed supervisors. i currently oversee the city's community benefit district program. currently the petitions -- the cbc process takes about a year. currently the cbd program which will be a plowed to the project which says that they're collect 30 percent of waited vote. upon receiving that petition, we take this through the legislative process where we have a process include the department of elections and require that of all ballots submitted, 50 percent are in favor of forming the district. owd is in favor of article 15a, kurnltly our cbd legislation doesn't allow for residential areas to form community benefit districts so our current cbd law is limited and the gbd would allow for many communities in your own neighborhoods to be formed through the gbd program. if there are any other questions, i'm available to answer them.

we expect to have a full-time staff providing the facility with reliable service. we're anticipating the facility beginning to provide service to transit needs in october of 2017. it will be about 4.3 megawatts as it opens. it's expected to grow to about 8 megawatts over time. and with that i'm happy to take any questions you may have. we also have representatives from tjpa here if you have specific questions for them. thank you. >> thank you, ms. hale. actually, i have a few questions. i'll start with i'm very supportive of this and i want to thank the agency for working through tjpa as well, and also supervisor kim for sponsoring this. >> thank you. >> so, my question isn't so much about this particular project, but i would like to see more like this. i think a lot of people don't realize that san francisco public utilities commission's power enterprise generates an enormous potential to provide power for use in san francisco. as you mention, it is clean power and it is generated by our municipal utility, the agency has served whether it's muni or city hall or ai

comcast is the nation's largest internet service provider.rner cable as a big footprint as we talked about earlier. so in the end, i think in many ways, this is about broadband. this is about an effort by companies like comcast to keep typing that product, a very profitable company to them to their television services. if they can keep you subscribing to keep the content you want to see online, that's good for their business. for most americans, compacable companies and this cable company might be their only option. not in every market but in most places if you want truly high-speed internet, you are talking about the cable company. if this happens, that company will be comcast. >> how does net neutrality and the rules and the debate about the future of the regulation of the internet play into this corporate merger, baron? >> it's a red herring for two reasons. comcast is subject to, as i mentioned earlier, the net neutrality rules. they agreed to that when they bought nbc, and that condition runs until 2018. they might extend it here. even i

>> in all 30 cases the direction provided by the written direction provided by the p.a.d. was followed appropriately. >> and are these records available to reflect that for anyone who might wish to use the freedom of information act to obtain that information? >> ma'am, family members can certainly request that through foy, and they would be redacted, according to the foia rules. >> okay. would anyone else care to offer perspective on that question? thank you. what are some of the guidelines for reporting, recording, notifying and assisting next of kin whoever d.o.d. casualties are sustained? once again, i would direct that question to whoever wishes to answer. miss skillman? >> mam, thank you for that question. the services are directed to provide standardized training for their notification offices, their casualty assistance officers, and to provide proactive support to family members. . they will have a dialogue with the family members that they are assisting, and they will proactively provide them with information regarding the circumstances surrounding the death as so

will be able to hack huge websites much like cable providers do with t.v. channels for example if you're a search engine user in a lot of looking up things on google being a yahoo then telco could charge you an extra five dollars a month for access to them but if you're a real news junkie and like taking in the news from a global perspective telco could charge another five dollars a month to access international news websites like the b.b.c. but don't think that means telco will give you access to u.s. based news for free no pay it wants you to pay another five dollars a month for access to american news websites like c.n.n. if you posed the new york times. say you're done reading the news do you want to kick back and watch the latest viral you tube it or an episode of your favorite show on netflix to do either of those things are going to pay telco an extra ten or fifteen dollars and finally say you're big on line shopper well if you want access to sites like amazon e bay or overstock dot com you get to pay telco another five dollars a month while this cou

it's going to provide a down payment for firstnet, the first responders' network, that will provide an interoperable, nationwide public safety platform. for this nation. and, again, it is not so long ago it was spectrum that no one thought was valuable. and so our engineers did a lot of hard work to insure that this spectrum was ready and able for this wireless mobile engagement, and i am very -- i'm still anticipating. you know, we set a reserve price of $1.56 billion, and i am confident that, i am hopeful that we'll exceed that. >> host: what to you see as the timetable for the larger spectrum auctions which are due at the end of this year, beginning of next year? >> guest: in terms of aws? or are we going to -- so, you're right. we anticipate that to be engaged by the end of this year. but, of course, the big talk is the incentive auctions that we anticipate in all next year. so we are working hard to repurpose spectrum to its best and most efficient use. we are engaged in a voluntary process following the model with broadcasters to insure that we are able to support and to feed the

that's what the permit provides that's a dollar per day per we're governed by prop 18 such we can only recover our costs for the program and not generate money only the san franciscans can generate a tax. so we identified was it would cost us to develop and run an 18 month pilot about some thousands of dollars and we expect the dollar per day finger >> (inaudible). >> no. >> and (inaudible). >> we don't have - >> (inaudible). >> if you want to use our bus stops you have to be part of the permit program and once that's in place you have to be permitted to be part of the program. >> (inaudible). >> how much money are are we talking about and again, it's not going into the general fund to pay for administrator and $1.15 million to be the one hundred thousand figure is the afternoon for companies some are larger and small but the one-hundred 5 million will pay for the costs of a.d. administering the program. >> so did you commuter buses on - >> so the buzz the question is what's the impact been on muni services. their large vehicles and those who have ripened muni experience this we hear i

and, you know, have the vendors providing fresh, free water. and cups. yeah, i just, i think that i need to look at that a little more to see how that would really work out, in implementation. >> okay. do we want to take any action on this? we can say yes, we can say no, or just have them relook at this issue. >> mr. president, i just have a quick question. so, just would like to sort of maybe get a barometer from the commission on in terms of city property real estate. if there is not, and i have not heard much of a concern in relationship to that just so that if there is a clear direction to provide to supervisor, but then in terms of events, mobile foods, you know, on the public streets, those kinds of things, where you know, we have retrofitted city hall to be able to have like back here the water filters and to be able to get, you know, the water the tap water. where it is in a stationary place and you know, it is easy to facilitate. and so i just wanted to just ask that question and if you wanted to provide any direction in relationship to sort of

that her nonprofit provides, discuss the successes and pitfalls, and her vision for how we can make tangible progress on this issue moving forward. ultimately, i do believe that would focus attention we can make a significant dent in the number of homelessness on our streets. it's a complicated issue. it is a costly issue, but i believe it's a challenge our city government should focus on and embrace. as a city we have to help those who are currently on our city streets with no roofs over their heads. today is the first hearing regarding the discussion of this issue and the coming months. although we may agree on some issues and disagree on others, i hope everyone will agree on the importance of the issue and turn a deplorable situation in our city to one of hope and promise. so, with that, would like to invite bevan dufty up to the podium to speak. thank you, bevan. >> good morning, everyone. it is great to be here. let me first start off and acknowledge my colleagues in the hope office. so, amanda freed is here who is our policy director, and then dee sheck snyder who works with p

will the new cable provider hinder competition and options for subscribers. as we look at any competition, of which there's much, whether it's direct tv, at&t, vios, verizon, this allows us to compete better by bringing own products into the new market. >> time wanter ceo agreed. >> no reduction in competition, improved customer experiences. and we think that this will clear all the regulatory hurdles. >> comcast is also a major player in broadband. the comcast deal brings new focus to the on going battle over net neutrality that's the right of content provider toes have equal access to the internet. after a u.s. court of appeals struck down regulations. the court ruled the f.c.c. does have regulatory authority, but it used the wrong legal justification. so now the fcc can rewrite the rules, or copping can act. the concern is that comcast, and other broadband providers could give preferential treatment to their own produced content, and that critics say can drive up the price for consumers. the planned acquisition comes at a critical time in the history of ta

and the other one was the guard card and it was a copy, the firearms guard were never expired but providing a copy to me of the valid card and that was provided to me. >> okay, if i might, when these commissioner charges were filed, i had actually gotten a chance to speak to officer brown after they were filed and i think that it was last wednesday night or a couple of wednesdays ago when we were present for the commission in talking to officer brown about other cases that we began to discuss the case and she stated that he was in compliance and so the thought it been should we turn it back to the chief level to see if there were further decisions. he is in compliance and certain things came in at concern times and did not come in at once but he has been working with her and that she was pleased with the progress and the fact that he was in compliance and i know that officer brown has been working hard with these special cases. >> i am sorry, but thank you for clarifying that. that helps a lot. because i heard a refusal to comply and now i am hearing that there was no refusal to comply but

we've been keeping them updated we went to our policy and governs committee to provide opportunity for any public comment? and ultimately that will be the board of supervisors that will adapt this to make sure we're vance the transit first policy. i'll note that while muni is by far the largest transit provider our ridership is equal to all agencies combined. if you look at the collective ridership their equality to a big part of bringing transit to the bay area in a way that compliments what the bay agency it doing. it will be the feet of the board of supervisors i'm pleased to bring up tom nolan >> i have a good feeling about the vote on the 21st president norwegian. we want to shift the modes of transportation in san francisco to get more and more people on bikes and walking and this is an important step forward. we're pleased to be part of this and working with those fine companies and continuing to work with the bay companies. this is huge 45 thousand is not insignificant and this is a big step forward for the entire city. thank you (clapping) my so the people who are elected by t

. >> the number one and two cable providers are merging to create a new giant. if you are watching this over cable, is this bad news, good news or yet to be determined. that's the "inside story." >>> hello, i'm ray suarez. comcast is a huge company and the largest communications company in the world with revenues, it is owning a number of companies, the golf channel and pictures and theme parks and digital voice and broad band internet properties. time warner is a huge company and owning operations in 29 states, news and sports channels, internet and computing services and now the two plan to become one, americaning the first and second largest cable providers in america to control a big share of the american cable tv market and putting the other a competitor in the shade. if you are watching on television you are by definition a cable watcher. this could have long term impacts on the products you buy and what this merger means for the competitors and millions of people buying the services is the "inside story." the two companies are planning to join forces by t

they're represented today overlook is here in the room and facebook google, bourdz and transportation provides a good chunk of service and others. those are incredible world-class companies. i was on an e-mail i didn't know who volunteered for some reason and dublin was comfortably and named 3 of the company's i named because they've set up satellite offices in ireland. our bay area headache companies were responsible in another part of the world and dublin is only one example. we need to take great pride their unique. there's not a week that goes by unusual less when we have a visitor from another part of the world well, those shuttle buses are part of the notation. they're part of the bay areas success. i'm proud of the bay council was able to pull together those organizations and workout some that make sense. it won't solve everything it's a work in progress. i want to thank you know the key staff folks. 245i6 worked with the city to come up with this very, very fair proposal. that's going to bring money to the city and a administer this program and among the city to properly oversee the pr

he provide more training.ne of the recommendations was to provide training before any election, so we will make sure people understand what is appropriate and what is not appropriate in terms of reviewing these as we go forward. we are comfortable that while the standard is still facts and circumstances, we are comfortable that we have much better training and much better on thisty and oversight issue. nobody paid a lot of attention to it, which i think is part of the problem. >> i know you have a very difficult job. better,kes you feel any understand that all the years i have been in public office, i have always known the irs was never very popular to begin with. that is right up there for some folks. yes, you have a challenge to bring back the confidence the president wants, but this is not new. -- a has been a distressed distrust for many years by the public, and that's something we have to keep working on, so thank you for your service. >> thank you. your answers.or i appreciate that. a couple of things. o

many of the kinds of benefits that they used to provide are now guaranteed by law.ed to be a big big plus for union membership now with obama care, unions lose even that advantage. and in fact, the kind of cadillac insurance plans that unions were very suggest cessful at getting for their workers are going to receive an excise tax. so you're going to see that that is not going to be much of a plus for union members either. >> but to say with you miss chavez, you're saying that this is the overarching issue generally for the larger picture for unions. it goes beyond individual project, such as in chattanooga? >> that's right. i mean it used to be that employers smartened up. they have to attract workers. there's competition for workers. so you've got employers now giving their employees the kind of thing that used to be won with very hard battle. by the union. and again, you have unions now focusing almost entirely on political activity. they spend a lot more of their time, energy and money organizing politically and the a againa that they support, generally is quite

we provide water bars for other event producer. if you have any questions in regards to the implementation of this, i'm happy to answer any questions and have been in touch with david chiu's office some in terms of helping this. so, if you have any question, i'm happy to answer them. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is taylor stafford. i'm the president and ceo of pier 39. the san francisco bottled water ordinance unfairly impacts an entire industry that provides important services to visitors to san francisco, and in particular a proud partner of pier 39 whose innovation this in environmental achievements should be celebrated and promoted rather than restricted. each year millions of visitors come to san francisco and visit pier 39 with back packses and children in tow, people walk our cities to experience landmarks and attractions. these families want and prefer their convenience and healthfulness of boltled water in small, ease toy carry packaging such as 12 to 14 ounce bottles. elim

she's able to provide the technical assistance, provide any kind of support that the schools need and also contract every student, every school and run data based on that so we can assess where we are and either make improvements or adjustments as we go forth. >> thank you. so this is something that i would like to talk about which we find very exciting and within the spirit of san francisco. so, this is something that our office came up withnd we call it sprout funding. what we found is we budgeted our money and we felt that really to meet the needs and goals of the students we wanted to provide an opportunity for local school sites to be able to design their own program of credit recovery without kind of the centralized top down management style. although we do have those very specific evening school summer school and online learning. what we wanted to do was provide them with micro funding to be able to assess what programs they need and the purpose of this is really to supplement programs, not to splant and to encourage renovation at the sight and be able to meet the needs of the

they provide oversight and provide ideas on how to more efficiently effectively manage and provide government services. and it allows for agencies like the board of supervisors to use resources other than the general fund to conduct issues and reviews. the perfect example is what would with the issue of garbage and waste management where lafco was instrumental in helping with that. what this does is it simply allows us to be able to proceed with expanding the scope of that work. in that sense it brings the san francisco lafco in line with every other lafco in the state of california. i also think that to the extent that there are specific concerns about how the individual position has been filled will be filled and how that will be managed. i can tell you as chair of lafco and i know the commissioner supervisor avalos does the same thing that there is a lot of time and care that goes into managing lafco staff. when i was chair of lafco as is the case with supervisor avalos, it's very careful monitoring of staff, scheduling and all of that. i think that it's really imperative to move this item

the bulk of the service we provide is between san francisco and santa fe and we provide limited peak service is from santa fe so gilroy. since 2004 when we implemented our baby bullet service we have roughly 25 average week day riders and now we're at 53 thousand and climbing. in terms of governance of the caltrain service we're governed by the joint powers board from the 3 counties that provide funding for the service and policy gieps so that's san francisco, san mateo and v ta you see the organizations from the 3 that county's involved in that. the basis for the modernization program is our blended system vision i see the major tenants of that is a community driven approach using a two-track system we current have with speeds up to two hundred and 70 missiles with a certain amount of grade separation we have roughly 43 at grade crossings in the 51 miles between santa fe and san francisco. currently, we provide in the peak hour 5 trains per direction we want to increase that to 6 caltrain's and have more high speed rail for direction for the basis of this vision service plan is the

. >>> at a time number 1 and number 2 cable providers in the u.s. are merging to create a new giant. you are watching this program over a cable. is this bad news, good news, or to be determined? >> "the inside story." hello. i am ray suarez. comcast is an enormous company, the largest in the world by revenue it owns eentertainment, the golf channel, universal pictures, theme parks and digital broadband. time warner is another enormous company. it owns cable operations in 29 states, local news and sports channels. internet and cloud computing services. now, the two plan to become one, merging the first and second largest cable providers in america to control a big share of the american cable t.v. market and put the other competitors in the shade. if you are watching us on television, you are, by definition, a cable t.v. customer. whether you get your service from comcast, time warner or another company, this merger may have long-term impact on a product you buy. what this massive merger will mean for their competitors and thetentions of millions of c

so, i'll switch it back to the policies and let you provide any comments or public provide comments or however you want to do it. >> commissioner wolfram. >> i have a typo in 1.1 -- 1.12, 1.12. it should say in the second sentence, the value of these resource he should be celebrated because they provide an important link. the word "because" is missing there. all right, a, because, whatever you feel is best. ~ as, because, whatever you feel is best. >> okay. >> commissioner johnck. >> i have a question. the last 5 years or more, you've been words missing this -- well, it hasn't been continuous every week or anything like that, but so, really for five years there have been words missing to finally come up to this -- >> yes, 7 years actually. >> yes, right. [multiple voices] >> this is a comment on the scope, where has this come from where it started? >> yeah -- >> trying to get a sense of this. i mean, they keep making changes as well, but i'll speak about those after the public [inaudible]. >> i think -- most people would say a lot has changed over the course of 7 years. some of the thi

it still provides the public a transparent opportunity to engage with their providers and that's a good change. >> tom wheeler has been cagey about what the road forward is in his perspective but there are indications they are not planning to reclassify broad band. how do you feel about title one versus title two for broad band internet. >> i take issue with that. he's been very forth right in saying he will accept the court's invitation to act. we are reviewing our options and we of course will again stay firm to objective for a free and open engagement. >> moving to another topic which is of interest to a lot of viewers. it's the blackout rule. we saw this at the end of the season. i believe your last act as chairwoman. >> it was. >> what impact will that have because we are hearing there could be blackouts for nfl games. what impact will it have? >> it's determining what will or will not happen in terms of private negotiations. looking at why the rules were initially enacted, where the moneys -- most of the moneys back then were ticket sales, the majority of that came from ticket sal

services fall in on that the army provides. and by the way, the army falls in on things that the other services provide. this will have an effect on all of the services if we go to all the way to sequestration levels. and the human dimension of this -- for example, inside a structure of about 420 thousand, about one third of it is consumed by support to other services, the institutional support to itself, whether it is schoolhouses or medical programs, you know, all the things that make a service a service. it really begins to limit in some significant ways that which is available to deploy into combat. i'm telling you 420,000 is too low. >> [inaudible] >> those are all details that will come out as we discussed this budget, i think. >> thanks, everybody. >> thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> in the past there have been disagreements about ending some programs. do you think we will see the same conference with this new round of cuts? rex

we do provide a robust type of assessment as well as intake. the in takes that we do are in home support services. adult protective services, home delivered meals for seniors, the community living fund which is a special case management fund to prevent institutionalization and settings like laguna hospital and other services we provide which is part of the information assistance umbrella which we have spoken to this council before is options counseling. this is a resource we have with the independent living center where we can help and assess and guide people in their long-term and short-term needs. developing action plans with individuals. it's not case management. it's really more consumer centered and it is something that probably more comes from the independent living center model that we've kind of gotten on board with in the last couple of years. it's a great service and it goes beyond just one phone call. it can be a long term relationship working with that consumer to achieve their goals around their long-term services and support. the

the greater detail will be provided in our report for the fiscal year. we did find that the 11 recommendations we did test to be fully implemented and the remaining 38 recommendations did not require follow up. puc has collected $34,000 from has hassan son and addressed the personnel and the issues that had resulted in poor management of the lease. since the audit they have done significant work and continue to have significant improvement in that particular area of their organization. in july 2012 we issued a report on our audit of sf mta having fully implemented 33 -- 23 of the 29 recommendations. however the department is contesting the implement of one recommendation. this recommendation comes from the audited finding revenue to not seeking reimbursement for providing traffic control activities for some street fares and festivals. recommendation 2 asks sf mta to include a traffic control fee as part of the permit fee paid by sponsors of street fairs. however their response is they have made previous attempts to do so and have not had support of sf mt

a lot of the providers they thought were online aren't there. there is a lot of issues with materials going out and notices getting mixed up. that's normal with a huge transition. on the medi-cal expansion. this program is really difficult to, we are trying to put something into preexisting world where there are all of those legibility requirements. i think gloria can talk to you about it a lot is putting the systems that we have already in place in california has been a challenge and keeping them in the rules no response place is a challenge. it's an on going process. a lot of that is happening behind-the-scenes. a lot of the consumers are not seeing that yet. but there are a lot of things too that aren't happening yet. >> do you have any follow up questions regarding your center? >> we actually don't provide direct service, but we do like to collect problems that people are seeing. thigh that -- i think that would be a good thing to do. the national program on help and the western center on law and poverty have been involved in the creation an

recommendations, we provide clearer guide ands to employees, providing training.ne of the recommendations was to provide training before elections so we make sure people understand what is appropriate and not appropriate in terms of reviewing organizations as we go forth. we are comfortable that while the standard is still facts and circumstances, which is hard to know about, we are comfortable that we have much better training and visibility and oversight of this issue. going back 50 years, nobody paid a lot of attention to it, which is a part of the problem. >> i thank you for your time today. i know you have a very difficult job ahead of you. if it makes you feel any better, understand that all the year i have been in public office, and it is 40 now, i have also known, and before that, that the i.r.s. was never a very popular agency to begin with. that and the i.n.s. were right up there with some folks. so yes, you have a challenge to bring back the confidence the president wants, but no, this is not new. there has been a distrust for many years by the i.r.s. b

do we support the nonprofit service providers? and as you've so wisely commented today, do we support the arts? both of these groups are vital to this community. so, we fully support this proposal. we look forward to continuing working with the task force. we thank you for your attention to this. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> thank you, debby lerman from the san francisco [speaker not understood]. we support this measure. i want to express our appreciation once again to supervisor kim and president chiu and to brian chu for your hard work on this toshibationv. if you look at the affordable space report it looks like it was wrin

and it is real private sector kind of customer service that we need to provide because we're providing services to a range of people. you've got the medicaid, you've got middle income or upper income getting tax credit or buying as 100% of the cost and then you have small businesses. essentially that we look at those pieces like that. the invest your view of the world that's a very different thing than the way the private sector looks at marketing. and investment in in sales. is what's that happening now. so we do need to rethink how we look at and invest in those kind of components. >> the maul buys for the future. four small business. as we're doing in rhode island and many of the other -- my colleague's here and other states are moving toward. the it's also managing cost and looking at outcome. small is essential in that -- in that component. we really need to understand what they want and how to provide the kind of data and information that your employees need to make decisions. >> finally this is the most important investment in health care. i've been at this for 30 which is way l

>> i always follow the footsteps of what the ceo provides. i follow what they recommend. if there is anything that is above and beyond or doesn't seem right, it's my job to basically ask questions to make sure that san francisco health plan is very transparent. >>supervisor norman yee: colleagues, any questions? thank you very much. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, is there a recommendation? >>supervisor david campos: yes, i would like to make a motion to move the reappointment for ms. brenda yee for a positive recommendation. >> john gibner again. this is provided understate law and requires that the members of the commission either must work in the city or reside in the city so that charter position usually requires a waiver position does not apply in this case. >>supervisor norman yee: motion passes. thank you. congratulations, once again. bye now. madam clerk. item 4. city clerk: item 4: 140134: [appointment, graffiti advisory board] hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending april 10, 2015, to the

the electronic medical record provides an opportunity as well, provided it is interfaced with all theother electronic medical information about the patient. having an electronic medical record as opposed to a paper record does not necessarily do that unless it is linked in with other systems. of that is proving to be somewhat complex. there are some great successes and some areas that are struggling. one advantage of these electronic medical records and these advances in technology is we have an opportunity to study data from patients and the insurance companies to determine which things work in medicine, what provides better care at lower costs? we have launched a large initiative in the last year, working with a subsidiary of the unitedhealth group to put together an open innovation lab where their outcomes can be linked with 150 million patients and their claims data over a couple of decades. now we are getting other providers and payers and device companies and so on to join us in an innovation lab, anonymize in the data so the concerns of our caller never come to pass, and we can

to be able to provide education and services that fall under the category of noncredit classes. and i'm very concerned that our ability to be able to communicate, the richness and importance of these kinds of courses will be denied us and we will lose them. the second party want to as a community representative to speak of is of the access, affordable access and access of students to be able to go to city college. i see that there's been legislation which making it very hard for students to be able to get their waivers. and these things, we need to be able to have a voice to stop the continued limiting of the access and finally, city college made a difference in my life. and i want to be able to maintain that and to be able to have access for everybody to the kind of courses that changed my life in areas of humanity, et cetera. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is james tracy. i'm a city college alumni, proud, went there for many years. city college allowed me to work full time while i put myself through college and allowed know figu

providers in the u.s. merging to create a new giants. you are watching this program over a cable, is this bad news, good news, or to be determined, that's the "inside story." ♪ ♪ >>> hello, i am ray suarez, comcast is an enormous company. the largest communications company in the world by revenue. it owns nbc universal. comcast cable, e entertainment television, the golf channel, universal pictures, theme parks, and digital voice and broadband internet properties. time warner is another enormous company. it owns cable operations in 29 states, local news and sports channels, internet and cloud computing services. now the two, plan to become one, merging with the first and second largest cable providers in america to control a big share of the american cable tv market and put the other competitors in the shade. if you are watching us on television, you are, by definition, a cable tv customer and whether you get your service from comcast, time warner, or another company, this merger may have long-term impact

this bill provides dental care. i don't know about other states, but i can tell new my state -- and i suspect all over this country -- talking to veterans, they think that dental care is part of health care. right now except for service-connected situations, dental care is not provided. we have a major pilot project to say to veterans, yes, dental care is part of v.a. health care, and you can get that. advanced appropriations for the v.a. not everybody knows, but we were seven days to ten days away from disabled veterans not getting their checks when the government was shut down. this legislation ensures veterans receive consistent access to the benefits they've earned by establishing advanced appropriations for the mandatory accounts at v.a. we move afford in a bipartisan way -- we move forward in a bipartisan way to end the benefits backlog. my colleague points out that it is a serious issue. everybody agrees it is a serious issue. i think the v.a. is make some progress. this -- i think the v.a. is make -- is maki

happy to provide it and we'll be able to exile -- compile some prior information. you may recall 2 years ago we came to the board, the mayor and commission and expressed concern about having an out of balance financial picture. as a result of that, we made some major cuts in our infrastructure program. we committed to going forward with an acquiring a rating to help issue debt to help fund some of our longer term investment needs. we have taken those steps and we are back out of balance with these unanticipated capital and operating cost. the materials that we presented to our commission are public materials, but we would be happy to put into a greater picture at the meeting about the capital needs and how we are spending the revenues we do have. >> sorry, one thing about the conversation with kelly was we would have an independent analysis of what you present and controller involved and analyst to weigh in as well to help understand what you are sharing right now. >> right. and to restore trust. right. >>supervisor london breed: i think my comments were along the