you know market rate small ramps without kitchens were actually affordable to our guests people on ssi and people on extremely low income arrest ssi is the maximum amount is $889 around $10,000 a year those types of rooms are no longer affordable for people another motivator they used to be it would be great to talk about ways to expand the housing opportunity for people that are lowest end of income in our city and i would love to be part of that discussion as we go forward. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i'm the general meadows i live downtown for 40 years the housing situation this right here represents the 12 percent and this represents the 80 percent of housing that we for people that have more money than we do our city shouldn't be put under the burden for the places i think you should work for the benefit of all people there are hardly any homes for the salaries what you're doing is fort worth about the poor you're saying that the poor - the poor are here you know this why are you working them so much but at what costs will you do this the more you push with people with m

. >> hi, i'm carol miller speaking as a very low income disabled senior on ssi and i want to speak about elevators for disabled seniors okay. i have a heart condition a ruptured heart value i look healthy and everything but having a hard time carrying things up the stairs i'm not you know there are people way worse off than me doing this for years and years i know of someone that needs oxygen and has to have a c packet and frequently having centers and going to the hospital they live in an sro and live a full-time worker being in an sro they canned afford one this person has to rest own each floor for a long time so she can continue i found out searching for a place with an accelerator that are so many people worse off i have an ssi worker that helps when she can doing laundry but i'd like to be independent and save money i'd like to do it myself with an elevator and it is really on emergency for a lot of disabled low income seniors that are way worse off 0 than i am and only waiting list that moved two or three a year which you know got one in our lifetime >> thank you. >> thank you. >>

i'm also disabled with chronic depression and don't qualify yet for ssi, but if i did qualify for it and got 850 dollars a month i couldn't afford the market rate rent in the city. for the past 30 years i have been a professional handy man [inaudible] i repaired a lot of apartment s and put them on the market and they have been paid city taxes. i can't afford the [inaudible] that i worked on. basically i am here today to say that seniors need low income housing, disabled people with mental problems need low income housing especially those who have been homeless and yes i'm homeless. not only do seniors and disabled people need low income housing but i need it. >> seeing no further public comment for the chair if we can clous public comment >> close public comment. it is closed. >> thank you. i did have follow up questions but think we'll have a opportunity to continue this discussion. for the sake of time i would like to wrap up. i want to thank everyone who came out and your eloquent words on why this is so important for us to fully implement and how the measure in the ordinance wil

i live on ssi disability and 6th market street. there are a lot of people in hard sp in the city. fl is devise ive line in the economics of the wealthy and the poor. i have a dream of working on creating a non profit that can create paid jobs for people coming out of hardship. the idea is open a caf aeatary and meeting spaces. community spaiss were people can use for meet up groups, conferences, study groups and have it joining acafe so it is free. making it a non profit would allow people to have a reintegration into the work force, would allow the community a place to gather and the idea of doing something like this would be hugely tremendous because there are not a lot of 9 or 10 thousand square foot plates that are available to be custom built out in san francisco. we all know the retail space isn't available. i'm working on trying to propose this with the warriors and i've had very good feedback from members of the community from urban solutions to [inaudible] some of the non profits that have [inaudible] similar to this and others. i've spoken with supervisor kim and would l

some work two, three jobs and don't qualify for ssi, only tenants can. don't touch this law. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. ? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sonya and i'm a small property owner. today, the small property owner are attending this public hearing because the small property owner makes money to pay for the property and the house we pay. when the housing market less properties on the market, you know why? because of the ridiculous law scares property owners. they are afraid -- they have pay their own money to hire the lawyer, but tenants have free lawyers to help them. it makes the city's housing crisis worse and worse. we pay for the bonds and everything, but we don't have any right. the rent-control make the tenants -- if they are trouble, they can get a lot of money from the small property owner. you know, in san francisco, enough with this ridiculous rent-control law. >> next speaker. >> my name is tom ray. i'm a native san franciscan. i live in the mission district. i encourage the supervisors to pass the eviction protections 2.0 ordinance

. >> i'm michael picking for the record for the transportation authority the ssi has 11 members severing a 2 year term this board appoints any members for vacancies more the cac make recommendations on the appointment to quality applicants must be san franciscan and appear before this committee for the qualification it is attachment 2 and can detailed applications can be found in the enclosure is shows information about the current committee members this is the term of expiration and two members gone this is - a total of 24 applicants for the vacancies with that i'll take any questions all right. thank you very much any applicants that would like to speak today please come on up. >> good morning, commissioners i'm jackie saks fifth avenue on the citizens advisory committee since 1997 i was one of the 45 individuals i'm sure you're aware of that was structural in writing prop b i with wrote as prop k years later i've been working on with the presidio parkway project which was opened last weekend i went to the since 2000 i've been working on the central subway i've been involved in the tra

>> when i turn 62 years old i qualify for $550 a month in ssi retirement funds. san francisco you can't even rent a closet for $550 a month. nowhere in the united states basically can you rent an apartment an sustain your medical bills, your food, you know just day-to-day survival. $550 a month. >> looking for work but you haven't had a job history in over the past ten years so what is it that you can do, what can you get hired for and then when you go apply for it, i'm ex-offender. we're not hiring ex-offenders so they got great stigma upon them when they come out. >> where do you think you would be in this day if you weren't housed in a pod where you're getting these kind of services? >> i might be getting ready to go back to crime. >> really? you say that without pause. >> it's true. i know i have to man-up, humble myself, i got to slow up for my own day-to-day responsibilities. nobody's going to just give me a job and opaycheck. so all those are challenges. i'm ready to tackle them all. i'm ready to confront them head on. it's either change for better or find

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we have as you know, many many programs for people who qualify for example around ssi or medi-cal or both so we have a lot of services for that group, but it is that group right above that and up that there is not a good service package for or you have to have quite a bit of money. the villages are one of the many ways we are looking at as a department and city and county how to strategically serve a group of people that can probably afford to pay something. not low income enough to qualify free service but can afford something but may not be able to pay the full amount. this is a test, it is a-the village has been around for any numbers of years in other parts of the country and in the city for a number of years and think something i realized-i will say i hoped in the beginning this is a program that would never need government money and there would be enough members and membership money that it could stand on its own but i have come to realize that is totally impractical. all organizations of this type need infrastructure support so that how we see this. this is a organization with

it's being used on ssi p so all the management presentations, we go over the triple bottom line. so it is used to evaluate the projects. shift it. if you could provide a memo on that. they'll be very helpful. some examples of how it's being used. should duplicate. shifted thank you. >> thank you very much. julie take public comment on this item clicks april? next item, please general manager >> the next update is steve ritchie drought update. >> steve ritchie assistant john manager for water. if i could have the slides please. bring up the presentation, which a lot of these things will look familiar, but particularly here on the storage cells. these are storage levels in our reservoirs. you can see the hetch hetchy got 95.1%. basically topped out now unless there is a significant storm and sometime the levels in the reservoir within a start dropping over time and there. one bank has gotten to, in effect, its low point of about 57,000 only 10% capacity water tank will actually start to, as we see water down from charity and generate ido potter with incidental -- so we got a good s

you know market rate small ramps without kitchens were actually affordable to our guests people on ssi and people on extremely low income arrest ssi is the maximum amount is $889 around $10,000 a year those types of rooms are no longer affordable for people another motivator they used to be it would be great to talk about ways to expand the housing opportunity for people that are lowest end of income in our city and i would love to be part of that discussion as we go forward. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i'm the general meadows i live downtown for 40 years the housing situation this right here represents the 12 percent and this represents the 80 percent of housing that we for people that have more money than we do our city shouldn't be put under the burden for the places i think you should work for the benefit of all people there are hardly any homes for the salaries what you're doing is fort worth about the poor you're saying that the poor - the poor are here you know this why are you working them so much but at what costs will you do this the more you push with people with m

next item, ssi and cola [inaudible] >> that you thank you sir your time is up. next speaker please >> hello my name is [inaudible] i work in disease pr vention. it is important. a hospital bed in the u.s. cost 4300 dollars a night. in europe it averages more like 700 dollars and usually the patient pays none of that cost. according to aflac insurance company, 66 percent of americans don't have sufficient savings to pay for a serious medical emergency. i continue to get harassment. i discussed before people are able to get into my room at night and also how hypodermic needles are left in my path as a way it threaten me and as least twice i developed colds as a result. once when i gathered signatures on a ballot measure, there was a substantial bonus offered and suddenly developed laryngitis which i never had before in my life and despite being barely able to speak i still made bonus . july 1 is-i don't know if you can see this. the 50 syringes were left in the entrance way of my building when i got home at night, the police were investigating this. supervisor kim

i won't be able to collect ssi.ny vocation i take now won't be any good by the time i'm old enough to parole from here. technology changes every day. i have no idea what half the cars look like out there, let alone a computer. so it's going to be scary. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer direction is advised. there are 2 million people behind bars in america. we open the gates, "lockup." >> we are working with serious, dangerous criminals. >> if you like being told what to do, if you like being told when to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, if you like taking a chance of getting your ass kicked by inmates or police, if you like that type of thing, then this is the place for you. >> that's my buildings right there. i can look at them but i can't

next item, ssi and cola [inaudible] >> that you thank you sir your time is up. next speaker please >> hello my name is [inaudible] i work in disease pr vention. it is important. a hospital bed in the u.s. cost 4300 dollars a night. in europe it averages more like 700 dollars and usually the patient pays none of that cost. according to aflac insurance company, 66 percent of americans don't have sufficient savings to pay for a serious medical emergency. i continue to get harassment. i discussed before people are able to get into my room at night and also how hypodermic needles are left in my path as a way it threaten me and as least twice i developed colds as a result. once when i gathered signatures on a ballot measure, there was a substantial bonus offered and suddenly developed laryngitis which i never had before in my life and despite being barely able to speak i still made bonus . july 1 is-i don't know if you can see this. the 50 syringes were left in the entrance way of my building when i got home at night, the police were investigating this. supervisor kim

. >> i'm michael picking for the record for the transportation authority the ssi has 11 members severing a 2 year term this board appoints any members for vacancies more the cac make recommendations on the appointment to quality applicants must be san franciscan and appear before this committee for the qualification it is attachment 2 and can detailed applications can be found in the enclosure is shows information about the current committee members this is the term of expiration and two members gone this is - a total of 24 applicants for the vacancies with that i'll take any questions all right. thank you very much any applicants that would like to speak today please come on up. >> good morning, commissioners i'm jackie saks fifth avenue on the citizens advisory committee since 1997 i was one of the 45 individuals i'm sure you're aware of that was structural in writing prop b i with wrote as prop k years later i've been working on with the presidio parkway project which was opened last weekend i went to the since 2000 i've been working on the central subway i've been involved in the tra

chris is a federal employee who lives in ssi, maryland. good morning to you. caller: good morning.'m hoping the guest can and let the audience on some information that was in the "wall street journal" last month that part of this problem is federal employees from behind the firewall being able to go to their personal gmail or yahoo! imo accounts -- e-mail accounts. "the wall street journal" article basically said that the government tried, several years ago, to eliminate this. the federal union went to court and the court ruled in favor so that people like me would continue to have access to personal gmail accounts. that is how i understand article. i wondering -- i'm wondering if your guests can clarify or enlighten us in that area of discussion. host: thank you. guest: i have not read that particular article, but this is an ongoing concern in ensuring information security across networks. it speaks to sort of the way we use technology now. you skip between different you know accounts. you may have devices. youthe 10 tatian to not move from one account that you know a specific for

. >> i'm michael picking for the record for the transportation authority the ssi has 11 members severing a 2 year term this board appoints any members for vacancies more the cac make recommendations on the appointment to quality applicants must be san franciscan and appear before this committee for the qualification it is attachment 2 and can detailed applications can be found in the enclosure is shows information about the current committee members this is the term of expiration and two members gone this is - a total of 24 applicants for the vacancies with that i'll take any questions all right. thank you very much any applicants that would like to speak today please come on up. >> good morning, commissioners i'm jackie saks fifth avenue on the citizens advisory committee since 1997 i was one of the 45 individuals i'm sure you're aware of that was structural in writing prop b i with wrote as prop k years later i've been working on with the presidio parkway project which was opened last weekend i went to the since 2000 i've been working on the central subway i've been involved in the tra

i spoke to the affordable care act has done to us poor people on ssi and medicaid who are disabled. medicaid, they have a lot for medicaid but it has not been for the patients. i had 19 -- in 2003, 52 pharmacy were stealing from medicaid. me, myself i called medicaid to report two people. first whose houseworked a program in manhattan, for two years they stole for medicaid in w my name. and bns who stole six months of do medicaid in myno name. and i called medicaid to report them and they didn't do nothing about it. but yet they had taken away ny com almost everything from us. ha >>t is okay, eduardo. meghan mccarthy, any comments there about medicaid and what is being offer. >> fraud in medicaid and medicare system have been a big focus of the obama administration. there is a task force set up between hhs and doj that has reported record numbers of winnings or cases that they have won. as far as medicaid goes it is rt to thanks in part to the affordable care act one of the largest o with insurance insurers in america. and so as it gets bigger, these challenges will also grow with i

you're getting it instantaneously, many ssis don't work for two, three, four months. >> thndand thene bought the weird anti-depressants. >> that's problem with suicide. remember suicide is the number one cause of death. you got weeks and weeks before it. they can't deal with it. >> thank you. it's important you're here on the set. >> it's really good. >> did you watch? >> i watch you guys every morning. >>> when we come back a kick starter campaign raising the money needed to preserve the space suit of neil armstrong's famous air suit. we got the details when "squawk box" returns. at the dealership. nice buick! i guess that test-drive last night went well. actually, i'm still on it. you know, we're test-driving this buick for 24 hours, right?. yeah. so what are you doing? test-washing it. okay, well let me know when you're done, i'm gonna take it test-shopping. introducing the buick 24-hours of happiness test-drive. it's on your terms and a better way to take a test drive. can it make a dentist appointment when my teeth are ready? ♪ ♪ can it tell the doctor how long you have to wear

some work two, three jobs and don't qualify for ssi, only tenants can. don't touch this law. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. ? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sonya and i'm a small property owner. today, the small property owner are attending this public hearing because the small property owner makes money to pay for the property and the house we pay. when the housing market less properties on the market, you know why? because of the ridiculous law scares property owners. they are afraid -- they have pay their own money to hire the lawyer, but tenants have free lawyers to help them. it makes the city's housing crisis worse and worse. we pay for the bonds and everything, but we don't have any right. the rent-control make the tenants -- if they are trouble, they can get a lot of money from the small property owner. you know, in san francisco, enough with this ridiculous rent-control law. >> next speaker. >> my name is tom ray. i'm a native san franciscan. i live in the mission district. i encourage the supervisors to pass the eviction protections 2.0 ordinance

obama creating a welfare state. 50 million people on some form of public assistance between welfare and ssi. cut the numbers down and you will have plenty of money to fix the roads. host: that is rich in charlottesville, virginia. in south carolina, republican, what you think? caller: i think we should open leases on federal land and drill. that way they will take the oil and build these roads and infrastructure. also it would save sending all of that money to countries that don't think much of us and keep it here at home. plus, that would open up many jobs if they do the drilling here and get our own oil. host: alan in delaware, what is it like in delaware? caller: delaware roads are not that bad in general. but you go across the line and i saw a car not too long-ago blow attire in front of me. -- blow a tire right in front of me. unbelievable. if you had a one-time 25% increase in the gas tax and use it for two things. the roads and to shore up social security and medicare. not use it for anything else at all. host: do you think you can get republicans and democrats to sign onto that? cal

some work two, three jobs and don't qualify for ssi, only tenants can. don't touch this law.nk you. >> thank you. next speaker. ? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sonya and i'm a small property owner. today, the small property owner are attending this public hearing because the small property owner makes money to pay for the property and the house we pay. when the housing market less properties on the market, you know why? because of the ridiculous law scares property owners. they are afraid -- they have pay their own money to hire the lawyer, but tenants have free lawyers to help them. it makes the city's housing crisis worse and worse. we pay for the bonds and everything, but we don't have any right. the rent-control make the tenants -- if they are trouble, they can get a lot of money from the small property owner. you know, in san francisco, enough with this ridiculous rent-control law. >> next speaker. >> my name is tom ray. i'm a native san franciscan. i live in the mission district. i encourage the supervisors to pass the eviction protections 2.0 ordinance. ma