service that aereo is providing is not materially different from the service provided by the cable company before this court in 1969. >> why aren't they cable companies? >> they're not -- >> i'm looking at -- everybody's been arguing this case as if for sure they're not. but i look at the definition of a cable company, and it seems to fit. a facility located in any state. they've got a, whatever they have a warehouse or a building in brooklyn, that receives signal transmissions or programs broadcast by television broadcast stations. they're taking the signals off of the -- >> they're taking the signals, right. >> i'm sorry, they are. makes secondary transmissions by wires, cables, or other communication channels. it seems to me that a little antenna with a dime fits that definition. to subscribing members of the public who pay for such service. i mean, i read it and i say, why aren't they a cable company? >> well, justice sotomayor, a couple of things. first of all, i mean, i think if you're if you're already at that point, you've probably understood that just like a cable company, they're

there's no content being provided. there's equipment that's being provided. so when they activate the system and they say, i want to watch the news at 6:00, they then start the process that then fills their individually assigned storage with the 6:00 news. but until that happens, there's no content being provided. so the notion that they have in their reply brief over and over that we're somehow a content provider would mean that everybody who provides an antenna or a dvr is somehow a content provider. and if that's true, then the implications for the equipment industry are obviously quite massive and you can understand why that would frighten the cloud computing industry because that turns them into public performers whenever they are handling content. now, the government says -- >> they give the subscriber a menu, and it says you can get any of these things. it's not as though the subscriber initiates it. you have these choices and they're providing you these choices and those choices are content. >> it's no different, justice ginsburg, than if i'm at home

if you would like me to provide a copy of that i can provide a copy of the formal correspondence. >> what was the upshod of the correspondence? >> so let them know it didn't appear we were launching our program. >> did that severe the contract or put on hold or the nature of the relationship as codified by the contract or nullified by the letter of the contract? >> i think it would be fair to say that we weren't holding them to their offer to provide service under the terms that we had negotiated. >> okay. >> thank you. >> thank you, i appreciate your responses. thank you. >> you bet. >> any other parts to the presentation, miss miller? >> my staff report links the next three items together, 3, 4 and 5 and we could call those and do the presentation as well. >> let's keep this item open and we'll add the next three item 4, 5 and 6. >> thank you. >> before we do that, let's have public comment. we'll have public comment on 3, and then we'll call the next item. >> good afternoon, commissioners, eric brooks representing cleanpowersf and the local grassroots organization our city. first

the mana study that we provide references in the backup document that really provided some concrete data as to how much savings in health care costs it is. 30% reduction in hospital care as well as in patient care is significant, you know. also there is another study, a national study, that found that the cost of one year of home delivered meals is equal to about one day's stay in a hospital, so any way you look at it yes if we can keep seniors healthy living in the home in the long run it will reduce the health care cost for the city. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> linda and now we will hear from out of school meals i will note it's a while since we had district representation on the task force and we are thrilled to have all of the partnerships we can expand through the involvement in the task force. >> thank you. i just want to know i know this is important stuff. i want to make sure if we don't lose the quorum and we can move it forward. i want to make sure all of the information is provided. >> i am heather and senior planner for the department of children and families. i will

keep the provider with the department of public health and other healthy san francisco providers and so at least for 2014, and people eligible for healthy san francisco, or i am sorry, people elible for coverage california in healthy san francisco including hiv will not have to change providers and that will give us time to look at the impact of the transition of d into c to see how that will impact them before we make the changes to that population. >> i just want to note that there was any public comment at this point and we will go on to the commission comments. >> i have not received any at this time. >> commissioner karshmer? >> so i have a question about the jail, when you leave the jail is that one of those life qualifying events? >> yes. >> open enrollment any time. >> yes. >> have you said that... >> true, i believe that is true. >> that is an ongoing opportunity to enroll people when they leave the jail. and you mentioned the sheriff said that he was considering doing this and considering, are we going to have an update on when that might be decided n >> the legislation is

i would start with providing more funding to provide attorneys to work an eviction defense. i would increase the 12 attorneys to at least 24. and also fund parallel support. this will have the impact of providing legal representation to those tenants who are not currently being represented and lawful detainer actions and evictions. ~ paralegal i also think there need to be lawyers available to provide advice to thousands of people who have been offered a buyout or harassed out or choose not to contest their eviction, but still need legal advice. these san franciscans need help and lawyers can be assigned to various hot spots throughout the city where the largest number of evictions are occurring. they can be assigned to communities such as bayview hunters point where there is a legal clinic now that is not receiving any support from the city. we can reduce the number of eviction cases also if we require mandatory mediation in lieu of litigation and ali vix actions from city-funded housing ~. this could actually reduce the number of forced eviction cases by 25 to 40%. so, aga

smaller providers more? and will consumers in places like my state of iowa, which is not served by comcast, pay higher tv and internet prices because of the merger? >> okay, i think i only got two parts, but i think i can cover that. >> okay. >> so let me do two parts to the answer and i think i can merge them all together, which is we currently have 22 million customers, comcast does, and we're the largest cable company at 22 million customers. and i wish i could represent to you that i thought by moving to 30 million customers we would generate all this wonderful leverage and be able to really negotiate harsh programming deals, bring down the cost of programming, bring down the cost of equipment. but i don't think that's the reality. programmers have inordinate market power, and attractiveness of their content. i'll just give you one statistic that i think drives this home. so this is for comcast, the largest cable company in the country. over the last decade, our programming costs have gone up 98%, and wh

renewable provider. that's where go solar s.f. factors in. and we provide service to san francisco's 40,000 street lights. so, for a part of the city's important public safety feature, street lights and pedestrian lighting, we provide the electricity. we pay all the costs for the operating and maintaining those lights whether we own them or not. next i just wanted to review quickly the power enterprise's overall priorities. this is a very familiar slide to folk paying attention to our budget. what's unique about it and what's emphasized here on slide 3 is the fact that we're now focusing more on developing new revenues to support our long-term capital requirements and continuing to work to comply with ever changing regulatory requirements. ~ folks there's been quite a bit in the news lately about one aspect of that. you know, the metcalfe substation that pg&e owns and operates was attacked by an individual. the federal energy regulatory commission who has responsibility for overall reliability of the ele

there's no content being provide. there's economic that's being provided. so when they activate the system and they say i want to watch the news at 6:00. they then start the process that then steals that story until the 6:00 news. but until that happens there is no content being provide it would ben that everybody would provide an antenna and a d.v.r. >> and if that's true the implications are quite massive. you can understand why that would fly in the commuter industry because that terns puck lick performers. >> you can get any of these things. it's not as those you -- the subscriber initiates it. you have these choices an they're providing you these choices. >> it's no different that if i'm at home and have rabbit ears on tv it's -- >> it's no different from a uses perspective. it's no different than watching cable, right? you just have a different content intersection. but it looks the same to you. >> the mean you justice kagan and justice ginsburg is what is technological available. there are broadcast signals that are available and they are limited bec

you know, the use of cbos to provide community-based organizations to provide our citizens ~ with the certain services is something that san francisco is a leader at. and we found it's a very innovative and cost-effective way to provide often very technical and specialized services. however, we would disagree with one of the conclusions of i think the board and others that there is a robust process for measuring actual outcomes of the hundreds of programs that provide it. so, [speaker not understood] has been working on it several times in the past before our civil grand jury investigation, but other civil grand juries and also two independent task forces that were set up to look at this issue. and we concur that, that a robust process for measuring the actual outcomes of the programs be established. in conclusion, i just want to state my own personal impression, my interactionseses with the person at dph and with the two community-based organizations that we talked with was nothing short of inspirational. they were all very qualified, clearly dedicate today their work, addressing ver

color it's organized by the play works working with the san francisco unified school district to provide trained full-time coaches focused on recess thank you for doing the sweat equity the school districts across california are to have a plan asal cap that will show you how funds are spent for the one site budgets and plans parents and community members will be consulted in the el cap the san francisco unified school district is working with the district learning and other organizations to hold a serious of public groups it includes the chinese for fifks and youth and mission graduates and parents for the public schools and the district pta it's for parents of low income foster youth. the first forum open to you'll parents will be held this weekend saturday april 12th at american people tuesday middle school at 105 app tuesday avenue i want to thank all the partners. we invite you to attend and have your voice heard the sfusd program has received a grant for $4.4 million to continue the prevention of tobacco use for the department of education. this will help us to educate the people ab

and it is given us in the dph an opportunity to work closely with the providers at kaiser and providers at other sites, on kind of facing the same challenges together. and being able to develop a city wide kind of a wisdom on this. and so that has been exciting. model of care, very briefly, we are seeing surgery, as a means to improve our patients' over all health. our referrals originate with the primary care providers and it is a little different than the conventional model in which the referrals or in ated with the mental health professionals and we think that since the system is primary care centered that that makes sense and we have needed to train our primary care providers, as well as our behavior health providers in how do we, and what do we do this? a requirements are very much insync with the international guidelines put forward and there are a few very exceptions now to align this with the san francisco health plan policy and considerations and at this point, those exceptions are, i would say, very minor and we have been able to really align this with the international guidel

other times, assets are strictly dedicated to providing water service and districtly dedicated to providing power service, but those providing both components we split those costs between water and power rate-payers. 55 to power and 45 to water. that is an historic -- that is an historic method that has been applied to the hetch hetchy system for all upcountry facilities. we arrived at that method -- it's referred to as the separable cost methods where you look at what it would have cost to provide the water service separate from the power service or the power service separate from the water service and see how the costs would have broken out? when we performed that analysis some years ago, utilizing consultants, we arrived at a figure -- a split, went into negotiations with our wholesale water customers, who also had views on how these asset costs should be shared and arrived at the 55/45 split. this is a method -- the separable cost method is used by the federal energy regulatory commission and other municipal utilities with joint asset as components of their service. it's a recognized me

, we are a market provider. our goal is to help provide a place for both our graduates of our program and for folks who are looking for them to be able to access them easily and help make decisions. we don't tell you who you should pick. we don't tell you why you should pick anybody. we don't promote anybody over anybody else in the process of it. so the relationship that you have is directly with the provider that you are selecting. so the only thing to see what do you do once you sign into to the beta and what does it look like for you. >> here is log in. you can see pictures of what the providers look like and get relative information and a quick snapshot for the individual profiles. one of the important things i would like to state is the website is completely visually accessible. we are using software from the independent living and excited to be in partnership with them. it really allows us to be able to say and helps us focus in making sure that we really prioritize accessibility and prioritize the needs

dike director of real estate, the item before you here is a lease for 70 oak grove. 70 oak grove, provides programs that are alternatives for incarceration and reentry programs for released offenders, we have been there about a decade now. and a site that is about 10,000 square feet. and this particular agreement is a lease extension. and it is for a five-year term, and it includes improvements to be made by the landlord to bring the property up to ada compliant standards, and both in the rest rooms and other issues that were involved and it is $500,000 of capitol improvements that landlord will be providing, the new rate is 44.65, and that is a fixed rate for a five year term, we not have an inflater during the five year term, that includes, also, a termination right, with 7 months notice. if we were to effect that termination right there will be a repayment of some of those ada improvements over that term of five years and so there is a slight cost in an early termination and it was something that we felt that was important to secure, and let me explain why. the city is engaging in the o

so patients should be able to look at it and see more how many services the provider is providing duringe year. and also it could help predict what kinds of costs the patient might expect going to that doctor. >> there are lots of anomalies in the data. for example, i believe in the case of the ophthalmologist in cohen's report there he was prescribing a quite expensive opthalmic drug when another drug was comparable, according to many physicians would have worked just as well. but the numbers in the data indicate that medicare pays more for an expensive drug, are there indications here where a doctor might have been billed or received payment from medicare for procedures performed by other people in his practice? like at the mayo clinic, for example? >> well, that is possible. the physicians can -- can have a large practice where they have other providers that are working under supervision for them, for example some nurse practitioners can provide supervision under services. they can also provide and bill separately independently. but if they're providing services under the supervision

medical providers. but we learned today that as far as the government's concerned, that's just congress' judgment. if congress changes its judgment and says that a for-profit medical provider has to provide an abortion, rfra doesn't apply. that, with all due respect, cannot be what congress had in mind when it passed rfra. they also suggested if a kosher market takes the trouble to incorporate itself, then it has no free exercise claims at all. now, you can go back and read the crown kosher case. i took it as common ground, that all nine justices thought that if the massachusetts law there had forced crown kosher to be open on saturday, that that would be a free exercise claim notwithstanding the incorporation. the second point i want to talk about is the least restrictive alternatives. in a colloquy with justice scalia, the solicitor general points out that yeah, well, it's a little bit different from the pre-smith law because now you have the less restrictive alternatives analysis. that's not a small

for the next slides i will provide a follow-up activity for the second quarter, and provide highlights for specific reports in the memorandum for the follow-up activity. and i will give an overview of the follow-up work. and i will highlight the recently issued report. for the second quarter of the fiscal year, we conducted 24 follow-ups, and nine recommendations. the follow-ups are responsive to the follow-up status. and with one recommendation open and contested by the department, six of these follow ups are still open. if still open after the two-year follow up, and we give a report on recommendations not implemented after two years. two follow-ups had still open recommendations after two years, all had a status of closed and six of these are now closed. after we receive our response from the department and an auditor reviews the response and based on the reported actions. we determine if those actions would resolve the problem underlying recommendations. whether the department has fully implemented the recommendation or that the department has provided a specific alternative to the

there's no content being provided. there's equipment that's being provided. so when they activate the system and they say, i want to watch the news at 6:00, they then start the process that then fills their individually assigned storage with the 6:00 news. but until that happens, there's no content being provided. so the notion that they have in their reply brief over and over that we're somehow a content provider would mean that everybody who provides an antenna or a dvr is somehow a content provider. and if that's true, then the implications for the equipment industry are obviously quite massive and you can understand why that would frighten the cloud computing industry because that turns them into public performers whenever they are handling content. now, the government says -- >> they give the subscriber a menu, and it says you can get any of these things. it's not as though the subscriber initiates it. you have these choices and they're providing you these choices and those choices are content. >> it's no different, justice ginsburg, than if i'm at home

keep the provider with the department of public health and other healthy san francisco providers and so at least for 2014, and people eligible for healthy san francisco, or i am sorr

and the authority has been used to postpone the application or to provide new legislation to provide transition relief with respect to the effectiveness timing of legislation on various occasions across administrations of both parties from more than two decades. i am not aware of any assets with the treasury department provided a transition relief in a case where they believe that it was not appropriate to provide transition relief. >> i should hope not. >> and the cases the list of examples which is not a complete list that we provided to the committee in our testimony last year in july and then again in letters to the committee, examples of past exercises of this well established authority under 7805 a of the tax code exercises and treasury discretion to give transition relief. that list of instances. again, i am sure there are more than that. that was intended to be illustrative they are all instances where the treasury concluded that there was a legitimate need for more time. stakeholders you are effecting -- affected, taxpayers are affected by the law would be able to implement

and so we make stays available at the providence. foundation and it is separate from the single adults and the single adults are in the gym and the families are in what the church called the family life center. >> and if you could tell us real quick, if i am an individual or a family and i find myself needing a place to sleep at night and i mean, where do i go first? right? the family there is a central intake here with compass. >> yes. >> but you know it is a little bit confusing for people to think if that ever happened, or where people go or where to go. so from the family perspective, and we have met with so many of the great organizations that provide, are they all running for the compass? the beginning? >> yes. >> on the two low thresholds most of the community know that they are there and the what we encourage the people to do who go for the friendship or to providence was to put themself on the wait list in order to be eligible for housing when and if it comes up but it is basically through word of mouth. >> okay, thanks. >>

as glen mentioned earlier, we want to provide year round services which is going to provide closer work with the school district and i have a slide at the end. we're going to have upgrades to the online system and i have a little pre-view for you in the next couple of slides on what the new online platform will look like. we added the tracking system and we want to add more things to that cl

the authority to provide regulations in general under the tax code including to provide relief on those occasions where transition relief is worth considering is cop tanned in the statute, section 780 # 5a of the internal revenue code, and that language reads as follows. it says that the secretary of the treasury, and i quote, shall prescribe all needful rules and regulations for the enforcement of. .. across administrations of both parties, for more than two decades and, i am not aware of any instance where the treasury department's provided they believe that it was not appropriate to provide transition relief. >> i should hope not. >> and the cases, the list of examples, which is not a complete list that we have provided to the committee in our testimony last year in july and then again in the letters to the committee, examples of past exercises, this well-established party under 7805 day of the tax code exercises that discretion to give transition relief unwise . that list of instances. and again, i am sure there are more than that. that was intended to be illustrative. there are ins

and we can provide temporary relocation. and we make referral in -- referrals in that process and you can imagine that people that just had their entire family and life thrown into chaos as a result of a crime and additional burden to figure out housing. in what we know is an exceptionally challenging house other market. those are two our requests that dovetail in what adp is doing. we think it's challenging to take on this work and look forward to increased restitution to be collected on their behalf. >> do you have an estimate of how much restitution is not collected because of lack of resources? >> i think that the chief's numbers are accurate. on our part we provide that restitution be paid to the victim. what will make that more effective, is restitution of $400 to replace the window, and etc., and we don't have that and as we pass from adp they don't have the time to put in a specific order for the court to review and make a specific order. and the numbers that you received i have no reason to believe they are less tha

a case worker merely has to go on the computer and look it up to provide assistance.d about horizontal integration a bit ago, someone can come in thinking they are just applying for medical but once we're fully operational in service enter gracious, in that same transaction they can leave our building with medical, cal fresh and cash assistance. that's the idea, that's the goal. we're not fully there yet. in order to make this a good customer experience for our clients, we've developed a lot of technology, a lot of information technology tools to help our clients. we have lobby navigation software, we have work force management software, we have what's called task management assignment tools. it's very, very data intensive but what it attempts to do is sort of balance the workload across our offices based on the needs of the clients. so for example if we see any given week a huge spike in the number of people applying through the phone or through the internet we're able to quickly redeemploy rr people from front end lobby or if we have a huge increase in lobby like we

i want to tell you that at&t would be amenable for all the future applications to provide that kind of notice provided the board give the derivative to at&t and dpw and dpw felt that was in compliance what the s m f approve or disapprove >> you have thirty more seconds. >> the last point i understand people have legitimate concerns the public it supposed to be involved it's not true at&t didn't care the stories that was appointed the original location didn't work and told the hearing officer as such. the - >> your time is up. >> i have a question though how could do hearing officer approve the location if you weren't given that alternative. >> it's precisely the scenario donates presented by appeals. >> where show me the language. >> so if you go to page 8 and i'm going to ask you to look at number 4. i'm going to read this because i have to apologize i've been trying >> i can read it number 4 page 8 what's the language your relying on. >> at the conclusion of the hearing the hearing officer may keep the hearing open 20 days for other locations identified in the hearing. that's what ha

as to provide a copy of all of that information to this committee? >> yes. >> thank you. senator heller. >> thank you, chairman. you've answered most of the questions with the response that there's an ongoing investigation, you want to see the results of the. do you have a target date for when that review would be complete? >> i hope to have that done within 45-60 days. and i've asked them to go as quickly as they can but not sacrifice accuracy for speed speed what opportunity will we have to review that? >> as i said before, any information related to safety than anything related to this incident and anything we think would help from a nhtsa broader we will provide it, anything related patrick the on thing we want is issue of competitiveness or is there privacy issues we have to comply. >> how broad will this review be? >> i've asked him there is no boundaries and are no sacred cows. i want to make sure we have a complete understanding because the with equally understand to we make all the changes we need to make from both a people and a process per

the next thing is the services provided at san francisco general. there's a number of ancillary services provided by ucsf that are billable so we're going to true it up based on actuals and request of $1.2 million increase in affiliation agreement offset by revenues. 11 is a pharmacist to support some of our patients who are anti blood thinners. you know, there cease on the significant on those medications and what this will do is have a pharmacist run a clinic that will help patients more understand the medications to review the dosage and ensure -- or try to minimize the number of hospitalizations for patients on this medication. finally our fiscal intermediary conversions, a true of where we're seeing that there's some services that would be more effectively provided in house and more appropriate and we'll do a neutral conversion of reducing contract dollars to help pay for those services. moving on to the newer initiatives, first and foremost is the sf health network call center. this is a proposal to create a centralized call center that will s