. >> come out of stablization. but in general, there is a lot less risk on the dental than on the medical, the benefit is capped. >> right. >> wouldn't hit the benefit cap, that's it. those are our recommended changes to the methodology of the budget setting, in order to help spend down the stablization while maintaining a, you know, smooth budget process. >> and you are now on page nine? >> moving to page nine, where we are going to go through, our recommend -- same active delta p.p.o. in the course of the reviewing, reviewing of the plan as well as the renewal with delta dental, discussions with the staff, we want to recommend several programs. the first of which is called the smile way program. this ahouse members with specific chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, stroke, hiv, to receive additional services and so the goal is to make sure the plan is providing adequate oral health for these folks where they condition may require additional services. >> and how would that bene

so, do we need a stablization czar? and i don't just mean that in terms of title, but in terms of legal authority as well? vanda, do you want to start? >> thank you. tammy. that's a fundamental question. i guess i'm not fully comfortable with the example and the crucial reason i'm -- is of course, our fundamental problem is not simply the lack of our coordination and the illusion of the whole of government approach, the difficulties. but far more-- i would say that the crux of the problem far more is the cross-purpose workings of our counterparts. so, when that was not an issue in germany, of course, is that the german leadership had a very strong vision of what it wanted to achieve as a country and had very strong commitment to how to integrate east germany, and a vast amount of resources and still, what we are three decades now past, it's still the disparate between east and west, but nowhere the level of the disparate we would have. so, to me, the crucial problem is not our deficiencies, althou although, they are, of

it plus stablization? >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> so these are the rates that do include the application of strategies of a and e. >> yes. >> yes. >> plus b, c, and d, but necessarily hasn't been discussed, then, in absence of the spending stablization policy is the $1,065,000 of additional employer money to enact a and e. if it's not then applied for by the stablization moneys, that, i would view, as an open question still. >> yeah. the rate is going to be higher at some level if we don't use the full stablization recommendation, correct? >> the employer spend will be higher. >> the employer spend will be higher. all right. so what we will see next month is tables developed without the use of stablization based on our action today. >> okay. so just as an illustrative example, the third row versus the fourth row, so 73 employees and 436 retiries who live in areas without any other selection, that's about a $118 permonth difference. so the person living outside of california, based on the approval of a, is g

but stablization reserve that brought the rate down. for $0.87, and if the retiree needs 3 or 4 cleanings, especially, and additional -- additional procedures, then it's worth, i myself as a retiree, i would need that benefit. >> president scott: thank you, commissioner lim. any other comments? >> commissioner follansbee, m.d.: i would just like to acknowledge the last testimony from the floor which i think is quite compelling to me, that many of our members are actually already attempting to follow the recommendations of their own dental providers, and this just actually puts the benefit in line with good dental practice is the way i see it, and so it might be an incremental increase for many people, this will actually be an added benefit that will save them money on an annualized basis. >> commissioner breslin: my problem is it does not cover everyone, and every retiree who probably already has the problems. my main issue with it. and other options and the h.m.o.s, i don't consider those options because i've had bad experiences with t

. >> i'm saying if we used the stablization, more of the stablization reserve this year to keep the rate flat, the same. >> so you would actually use less. so, a decrease in the rate, including the stablization balance. if you want the rate to be flat, we need to take stablization money out. >> don't want to do that. >> decrease the rate 4%, talking about 5% plus rate. >> i wanted to put that out there. commissioner lim. >> vice president lim: if he put the rate flat, using $5.56 of the stablization reserve, put the rate flat, we are using less of the reserve and changing our policy, because the current policy is one-third stablization reserve. >> president scott: i understand. i'm only asking a hypothetical, given the fact that we had a nearly doubling in this area of stablization increase, made, recommended some improvements and i'm just raising a broad question, what if we used more stablization money, is there another way to -- flat or decreased it further is what i'm asking. >> if we used additional stablization money, we would decrease the rates even further. >> all right. i just r

adopting the above recommendations is a minimum necessary step towards stablizing and protecting the existing community in the south of market, especially those who are must vulnerable to displacement. as such, we urge you to adopt these recommendations before your final approval of all of the plan. all these demanding musting met to address the very real displacement pressures that will come with this plan. these demands must be met to sustain this plan. the planning commission, i urge you, should not adopt the plan today and the adoption hearing should be continued to allow for more time for this confusing component of the plan and for more time to allow understand and impact the displacement and gentrification that will come with it. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, espla. >> good evening. my name is diane ruiz. with the central soma plan, the city had the chance to address the advanced gentrification of central soma. instead of plan with its complete lack of strategies to address displacement impacts and its huge imbalance of jobs and housing will turn up

and decades of miss vinson's work and other great citizens who have done everything possible to stablize that neighborhood. is there a waiver process? is there a way to deviate from these statutes after -- after the city has spent lots of dollars to do exactly the opposite of the effect of what this is going to cause, which is to pull the rug out of a great business, create a big hole in the block, and set that corridor back yet again? is there a waiver possibility? is there a possibility of a deviation? >> yeah. not under the current ordinance, there isn't a waiver possibility. >> perhaps, commissioner swig, the question may be not a waiver process, but there are quite a number of exceptions. like, now, the appellant's representative didn't bring forth any of this. i'm wondering if any of those could potentially apply. as an example, one exception deals with if the ownership of a -- of a store changed. i'm not sure whether it occurred here. it did mention that the parents have retired, and that the kids now run it. is that an example? that is an exception in there. i don't know if those

diversity of our communities under really strong threat at this point, we think it's critical to stablize our nonprofit organizations, our vulnerable residents, our arts organizations, our cultural organizations, many of which we're hearing from today, the unique events they hold in the neighborhoods which are critical to their identity, and the small businesses that which we're talking about also who will support and are supported by these communities. we also appreciate some of the language changes we notice here and particularly in regards to the tourism element, which we think is a nice improvement, and we'd like to even suggest maybe strengthening it in the same way that i noticed some of the other elements are that really specify the cultural out come of strengthening our existing residents and existing culture, and i think that this legislation's moving very much in a strong, permanent direction there where we can all feel confident and safe, and also realizing that there is a lot of economic opportunity that arises out of this, and as we're hearing from other folks, we want to mak

unit to a market rate unit, and you can see on the third line there, the nonrenovated deeply stablized units are the rent controlled units. >> supervisor sheehy: and what is the basis for this? is this a loan pass through? >> sure. we'll be getting into that. it's a combination of -- pass throughs are a major component, yet. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you. >> but in addition to that, it also reflected that tenants are being displaced from their units. there's atrition of the rent controlled housing stock, so this also reflected that many of these documents as the loan documents in your packet shows were nearly fully occupied when they were bought, 97 to 100 is occupied, and then to see this kind of aggressive rent increase, because of significant pass throughs or tenants were constructively evicted, or self-evicted. the speculator model, key features that we're observing, an investment vehicle like veritas investments partering with large companies, this is actually from a rent board petition for an operating and maintenance pass through for a veritas building showing kind of the intr

inflation has stablized moving closer to the 2% objective. ashley, back to you. ashley: adam, thank you very much we go down to the nicole petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. >> the fed was up six but now up 34. it had a little bit after pop, you can see it moving from the highs of the day. gold came off. everybody was looking at gold. now i see gold into the green now up $3. also taking a look, the dow, s&p and nasdaq all higher in the green. we had a tepid market this week but great movers on earnings. which brings me straight to apple, which is a winner today, look at that up 5% after quarterly numbers beat. iphone sales was not the greatest. that was not the best part of the story, but did beat, announcing $100 billion lar buyback. also gaining $40 billion in market cap. china has been a very big bright spot for apple. after the bell we'll watch for tesla. now tesla, everybody watched model 3 production somewhat stalled. they say they will be on target. we'll listen to that the cash burn rate, capital raise, analysts want to know is there a capita

. >> whoever becomes mayor of san francisco must focus on stablizing and healing our system, our neighborhoods, and our neighbors in crisis. as ellen said, there are some great ideas and capable people that are sitting up here, and we have an opportunity to work together to address these issues. currently in san francisco, like i said before, we spend $30 million a year to dpw and sfpd on a move along strategy that shuffles our homeless from block to block. as the founder of the st. francis homeless challenge, i focused on developing an actionable strategy to get 3,000 people into safe, organized spaces and out of crisis conditions for that same $30 million. there's a proposal to put more police officers on the streets. did you know that 200 new police officers has a price tag of $34 million? i am proposing that instead of 200 new police officers over the next 1.5 years, we put -- we take the sites -- 100 sites with the highest 311 and 911 crime incidents, and we invest in unarmed programming at that site. we could put $300,000 persite and still have $4 million to administer the program, and t

inaudible] >> we think this'll afford better oversight and provides opportunities with the soma stablization c.a.c. the second recommendation is to create a commission policy regarding good jobs. for background in the last few months, organized labor has become very involved in the plan and has raised issues of job quality. in recognition we amended the proposed central soma plan as i previously mentioned. the proposal before you would be one way that the commission could bring this issue to the floor. it states that all nonresidential development over 20,000 square feet shall provide a community good jobs employment plan for community comment prior to project approval by the planning commission. [inaudible] >> -- with benefits. the plan must detail how the strategy would be implemented including -- [inaudible] >> the document would be informational only and implementation of jobs program would still be the responsibility of the office of economic and workforce development and the office of labor standards enforcement, and in terms of process since this is a commission policy and not a chang

so there are mechanisms that the california puc as a regulator can put in place to regulate and stablize over time. ensure transparency and the regulation to allocate costs responsibly. so make it easy to see that the numbers are correct, in other words. to accurately reflect the long-term and short-term value streams in the commitments that the utilities made for customers. generally speaking, the -- the proposals that we've seen from the utilities have overemphasized short-term evaluation, so it's something that we hope the puc will consider. encourage prudent utility resource procurement and portfolio management so that they actively manage those resources and go into the market if they need to to sell them at the highest rate possible. that reduces the fees that departing customers have to pay. on a voluntary basis, provide access to the resources in the utilities portfolio. so to the extent a cca formation results in a utility like pg&e having excess supply that the utility makes those available to the community to purchase on a voluntary basis. and enable california to continue its

i do just want to thank the soma stablization citizens advisory commission including claudine who has worked with them since its inception. i think this is a great use of ensuring that we are providing wraparound services to our communities, and i wish all of our schools had a fund like this to support our students. so colleagues, i'd like to make a motion to move this forward with a full recommendation. we can do that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, item number two. [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you. and presenting, wie have elizabeth leona, and we also do have severin campbell if there are any questions. >> good morning, chair person women and supervisors. my name is elizabeth leon. hsa is requesting authorization to enter into contract with allied universal security services in a contract amount of $12,704,160 plus a 10% contingency for a total not to exceed amount of $13,974,576. this contract provides unarmed security guard services for 16 city sites, 13 of which are hsa, the other three are other city departments that pay through work or

legacy was faced with closure, and while i'm incredible proud of the progress that they've made to stablize and protect one queer space, we all need to be looking at the bigger picture. the cultural legislation does just that. we can better support our businesses, focus on culturally appropriate health services and celebrate our unique cultures through unique spaces and events. this legislation is the most promising strategy we have to keep our vibrant cultures from disappearing. supervisor ronen, thank you so much for all of your work on this and thank you for listening to us today. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is david hyman. i'm on the board of the san francisco bay area leather alliance, and i also have been working to create the leather and lgbtq cultural district. i'm very pleased to support the ordinance that supervisor ronen has created which will give needed recognition and support to these districts which in turn will give stability and vibrancy to these neighborhoods. the result will be making san francisco a more attractive destination

we need to stablize the existing community now before the plan is implemented, including before the plan is passed, there must be aggressive acquisition of rent controlled buildings, aggressive site acquisition for new, 100% affordable housing, the creation of a right of first refusal for residential renters, commercial renters, and nonprofits, and a more atorium on the sale of existing rent control buildings, the sale of land for profit or private development and on any housing construction for plans not included in the existing central soma plan. in addition, the following changes must also be made to the central soma plan before the plan is implemented, including reaching 50% affordable housing for any new market race housing development with an ami range of 30 to 90% for affordable unit and a mandatory dedicate of land for sites for any new housing development that is one acre or larger. the public needs more time for conversation input and discussion as again is highlighted by this informational hearing, and we need this because this plan again will impact the entire city of san fra

do see some softening at the rate of which we're growing which could be an indication of a rate stablization or even a slow down. we have -- real estate is driving our growth. real estate drives our portfolio overall. we have some risks in our maritime budget as it relates to the shipyard, and we really want to secure a new operator who can successfully run that facility. so in terms of what's happening in our budget expenses, you will see that we've grown 47% between '14-'15 and the proposed budget year '19-'20, and that growth shows capital. i will note that personnel costs have increased by 10 million since 14-15, and that's primarily from keeping what we have in staffing. so staffing changes, we have a total of 3.5 new fte, but that's completely offset with atrition. we have 12 now project funded positions, and 31 new substitutions and reassignments. those substitutions and reassignments were all director desire to organize the operation in a way to achieve our maximum results, and that's really the aalignment of the planning and environment staff that you just described and real estate

throughout the next 14 hours senior chief slabinski stablized casualties and continued the fight againstntil the hill was secured and his team was extracted. by his umdaunted courage, bold initiative, leadership, and devotion to duty, senior chief slabinski reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the united states naval service. [applause] trish: the president there awarding the medal of honor. before we go today, i want to tell you about someone who is very, very special to us, my friend, our very own gerri willis. breast cancer survivor. we have very good news to report because she, not only has survived this very, very difficult disease and wonderful way she received the surviving with impact award by the susan g. komen foundation just yesterday. watch. >> i was face-to-face with my fear. for the first time, what if cancer won and i lost? i never did get back it normal, ever. i wasn't the same old gerri. i was better. i was more patient. i knew what was important. trish: this award came after gerri raised more than $21,000 for komen's race for the cure

there is also information about the rent stablization grants since they were issued in february 2017. marketing and branding is a new section this year. it covers social media promotion, press releases and notable media engagement, note aable press release mentions, and resulting articles. there is an extra word in the first sentence of the press release's section and we'll make that correction. program budget includes the budget for last fiscal year. this fiscal year, and next fiscal year. program challenges is a new section this year. challenges include writing of legacy business applications, grant writing and grant reporting and getting setup as suppliers with the city and county of san francisco. major upcoming activities. the order of activities mirrored the order of sections in the annual report. lastly, contact information includes the small business commission, the office of small business, and small business development center. any questions, feedbacks? you're welcome to markup your draft report in your packet, hand deliver to me or you can e-mail me at legacybusiness@sfgov.

. >> so i think the markets will have to stablize a little bit. look, computer trading has things more volatile but they recover quicker now. people are more sensitive. i think once they settle in and realize look, there will be tough talk on tariffs. he will back off as a result of his conversations. david: congressman, i have to ask you real quickly because we're running out of time. the banking regulation senate voted in favor of it. the house is about to this evening. critics say as you know it will lead to more consumer problems, more ponzi schemes that could lead to another financial crisis to which you say what? >> i say that is so far from the truth this helps the small guy, the small banks, credit unions devastated by dodd-frank. georgia lost more banks than any other states in the nation. we still have counties that don't have a bank branch. because they have been unable to recover and build new banks. this will provide significant regulatory relief for dodd-frank, which was designed for really large banks yet it applied across the board

that i think is probably the best reason to put a cap on immigration right now until we can, we can stablize things. >> i think we can see from this just how this issue just generates some real strong opinions. i just want to throw in myself one thing and that was an idea, a book i think, the americanization of emily, i'm trying to think where that was? bob, a novel? to me that is a major issue when you start talking about immigration is, assimilation, education and americanization of people coming here whether they're particularly, of course if they're legal, they should be willing to accept our culture, our language, our ideas, and so forth and our ideals. that is also a part of this greater debate which we need to conduct on immigration. we'll keep on going but i want to do on that. yes, please. gentleman in the front row here. >> okay. i'd like to evaluate heritage of richard nixon. i will start by giving my own opinion. he was not really a conservative but in many ways he was kind of a much more intelligent and much more moral character version of donald trump. he was able to appeal to

ratings on tv sports will go up if not help stablize them.up a whole new eco-system and opportunity with this ruling yesterday. it was a great day for the sports business. neil: you don't think it would hurt, to your point, obviously a lot of casino stocks, anything with remote connection to this has been benefiting. normally that tells me there is problems with that. they all can't be winners in this. >> neil, you hit the nail on the head. this has been an industry, estimates are 150 billion as you mentioned offshore. but i've seen some reports that there could be as much as $500 billion that is illegally wagered offshore. and when you think about march madness most recently, there was an estimate almost 10 approximately dollars was wagered on march madness. the past super bowl in minneapolis was almost five billion dollars wagered. now all of a sudden you're going to bring that back into the light. you're going to legalize it. you're going to regulate it. certainly the government, state governments, potentially federal government will tax i

develop apple music and develop cloud services, i cloud, but it is not like the revenue stream that stablizeske an iphone x doesn't. neil: what is better barometer for technology, apple or amazon. >> i'm with amazon. >> me too. >> proven time and time again they're able to diversify, innovate and interrate. that is the most important thing. >> and hardware. >> pivoting and diversification, absolutely. changing on a time, no, this is the future now. apple has done a little bit of that but they have not been as quick as amazon. >> amazon is bananas. it bought whole foods and doing like medical and hospital gear. if you go for fiscal therapy -- neil: the president likes tim cook. he doesn't like jeff bezos. >> that is the big risk to buying amazon actually. neil: really? >> yeah. neil: interesting. >> can i point out there is a solar system that resolves the sun of apple as well. we have a lot of apple suppliers. neil: you're right. >> korvo is best performer on s&p, barclays upgraded the stock. neil: even with the apple connection? >> even though they reduced their target price on apple yesterd

the first and immediate, would set the conditions, first to stablize nuclear risks and safely enable negotiations in a way that does not provide undue advantage to one party or the other. a sustained moratorium on missile and nuclear test ing is -- testing is fundamental. a robust strategy to counter and prevent north korea's proliferation activities and the its ability to continue to fund its illicit programs is vital. third, what's fundamentally essential, is an aggressive plan for alliance maintenance that reduces the risk of strategic decoupling as negotiations continue. over time, we have additional steps that we can take. i mean by that i mean fairly short amount of time. capabilities reduction to cap and reduce to the the greatest extent advanced nuclear missile capabilities. consider whether such steps could be taken as well and other areas, such as chemical weapons, which actually pose a tremendous allies and their neighbor to the south. inducing transparency and verification measures to enhance visibility and access and to improve our ability to understand the nature of the

the markets can step back, sort of stablize, unless all hell breaks loose. have i explained it? because i barely understand. that is the way it was explained to me. ali, if the president wants this middle ground he avoids a panic in the oil markets but he doesn't guarranty that, right? >> yeah, definitely. i think you actually explained it very well in a very simple way. i think that is why he is probably walking this middle ground. he wants to fulfill the campaign promise pulling out what he said is absolutely terrible and outrageous deal that helped america in no way and probably funded state-sponsored terror in the middle east. i think he is a right to pull out of it. but for the very reason that you listed, he probably doesn't want to cause the markets to absolutely freak out. this is an attempt at some kind of stabilization. let's hope it works. neil: liz, there is another way to look at it too. just say, since we're told, "the new york times," that he let his decision be known to emannuel macron of france, that this was kind of hinted, but it gives him sort of like a flexi

president's plan goes into effect, can you tell me definitely that the price of drugs will go down, not stablizemuch, go down? >> stuart, there is a lot of great element to that plan that the president announced along with secretary azar. it will have more competition. it will stop gaming by pharmaceutical companies. it will give more flexibility to plans to negotiate lower benefits. over time we will see prices go down. we have work to be done on regulatory side. we're riley positive about this plan. but actually go down. you're going to reinforce that please. we heard for so long, all these plans, oh, we'll get the costs down but it never happens. drug prices don't go down, at least not in my experience, they don't go down but you are telling us, yes, they will go down? >> the administration is really focused on the list price and high list prices getting those list prices down. think about it this way, stuart. if we're able to get competition for really expensive biotech products that does not exist today the president's plan, commissioner gottlieb at the food and drug administration, secreta

american military forces are stablizing force, not just on the korean peninsula, but in the region as a regime murdered an american citizen just a little while ago. a regime where the leader had his half-brother murdered in malaysia using vx gas. brutal regime. human rights violation. a death camp for its own citizens. don't forget the nature -- brian: where would you have this? >> probably certainly not in washington. certainly not in the white house. there has been some talk of maybe doing something close to the dmz, demilitarized zone between the two koreas. i think that would be all right. geneva is possibility. they tend to do these things. i think it is less important where they have it. obviously the symbol system an issue. it has to be very well-prepared. i think the fact that secretary pompeo, when he was cia director was able to go to pongyang and we didn't know it, that is good sound, good sign. steve: tell us a little bit about your new book. >> my coauthor and i amy seeing gert, who is a professor at sanford, we taught a occur in the business school. we didn't have any ma

it was much more difficult to undertake coherent stablization in syria. so we had to think of areas where we're in opposition to the central government or the central government can't reach into the area. we have to have flexibility in that regard. but the grand strategic meeting of the nations has to occur early along in the process, whether it's a u.s. called coalition as this one was or a u.n.-led coalition, that process of early leadership to determine from the very beginning it begins, where stablization plays in that process. it can't be an afterthought or as we finally cleared the first village. it has to be something to think about from the beginning. i'm sorry we went over a couple of minutes and my apologies to the next panel. john, thank you for your comments and your contribution this morning. ladies and gentlemen, help me to thank our friends. [applaus [applause]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]