the commission could be more specific. in terms of timing, i would suggest the commission has already indicated that we are going to have a police commission retreat soon, and we are going to set prore priorities, and we wait until that time to determine where this fits in terms of where we want to hear this issue and set a deadline for a response. coming from the special pafrols. and what we want to see in that response, specifically, but we determine that time and date at our retreath. -- retreat. president marshall: we can always have this type of foreyum. -- forum. i would be careful to craft exactly what we want. i think we ought to be clear. i think a good time to do that would be the retreat. i would think -- i did have thoughts about maybe putting a commeet committee of a couple together to look at it. we don't have to do that tonight, but i think a retreat is a good time to look at this issue which is coming up very soon. it is not var away. it is hopefully the end of september. that's our plan here. until i would

will we be able to go through some of the specific findings and have the department's response to those items in particular? it will help us in drafting our own responses and will better help us understand specific things in the report. will that be ok? their findings to think people disagree with because the state of the fact that our pensions are guaranteed by city charter or federal state provisions, those are not the ones i am interested in talking about. the other ones that are substantial, i like to share their thoughts about the responses. i was thinking we might be able to get on finding a-1. the finding is from the grand jury report, san francisco's retirement benefits are financially unstable without significant cutbacks in jobs and city services. i know the departments have a response, so i'm wondering if they would be able to respond to that finding in particular. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. finding a-1 is not one that we specifically responded to. we do have responses on some of the other items. >> supervisors, and in particular, supervisor chu, with a-1, the san franc

well, when i went to the reservation and got into a culturally specific recovery plan that taught me culture and tradition, something happened. but what basically saved my life was, like most tribes, historically, when one member is down, the whole tribe comes together. well, for my particular case when i was down, my immediate family that was in recovery came around me, as well as the community, and that is what saved me. we've kind of taken the community aspect to another level as well because so many of our clients are marginalized- they are hiv positive, they are in recovery, they are lesbian or gay. we decided to introduce into treatment the whole concept of advocacy, both self-advocacy, but also societal change advocacy. and it came to the fore last year when the state was cutting hiv services, some of our clients in treatment said you know, we'd like to start a letter-writing campaign to the governors and see if we can reverse this, because this is important to us. so we facilitated that. so we do advocacy, as well as treatment in stepping stone. well, one of the greatest thing

one of them that i was interested in meeting with the department specifically is recommendation d1. talks about san francisco should take steps to curb abuses from pension spiking by eliminating the final pension income and employe can climb on retirement from pension pyramiding. the jury suggest the three-year formula, limiting the final pension compensation to 120% of the rate paid, independent review of the comptroller disallowing employes from drawing pensions from two and tinias city jobs, and pension compensation should not include separate pay from different pay types, known as pension pyramiding.

i can only agree with one of finding and that is there was no actuarial evaluation of the specific proposals important to correct a mistake in the grand jury report. the date of what we would call the swap, the point at which our largest union would resume payment of their own employee pension contributions, 7.5%, is july 1, 2011. that is significant. we cannot agree to have this. we did not agree to do so because we were anticipating a large number of retirements and we did not want to give people an incentive to stick around to draw an increased pension after a race. -- after a raise. we did have about double the number of retirements that we normally have in any year, largely because the expirationÑi of the sick leave at cash out program and a large number of people choosing to retire. for those reasons, that is important because it actually goes into the city's strategy with the second employees payment wages. as you have heard, the actuaries to sell 4.5% wage increase -- assume 4.5% wage increase. we think those are overstated. in fact, -- they're not overstated, but they are over what

. >> they're for or against the specific things that are in there. >> let's talk about the specifics. this is 21 pages long. and there are few specifics in this thing. let's talk about obama care, what republicans call the president's signature health care reform proposal. you said today, you want to repeal it and replace it. so let's talk about some of the protections that went in place today. i want specific answers from you on this -- one of the things that went in place today, coverage for kids with pre-existing conditions. you want to repeal that? yes or no? >> look at the document itself. it says when we repeal obama care, part of the replacement is protection for people with pre-existing conditions. it's in the document itself. >> so that's a yes. >> read it. >> what about a ban on lifetime benefit limits? yes or no, do you want to repeal that? >> we want to repeal all of the obama health care proposal and begin to replace it. we laid out four or five specific things to replace it with immediately. but the key point to make on health care and all of the other issues. >> this is

when we come back, i want to get more into really the specifics among groups of what the, basically, the approach should be for each one of these groups within the context of providing services. we'll be right back. well, i think treatment programs that recognize that language and cultural icons and support and cultural imagery play a critical role in how a person relates both psychologically and socially could position themselves to do a better job at reaching the person who is affected. so one size does not fit all, but the strategy is one of welcoming and incentivizing through environmental and social and psychological support. so whether you're in a hispanic social organization or an african american social organization or a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender social organization, that is not the issue. the issue is, are you having a problem with alcohol and drugs and if so, does your social context acknowledge that there are those problems and does it embrace recovery as a construct. because that's the other thing we want to push is social support for being in recovery. treat me

and as that gets more concrete, on the specific proposals and how does that feedback get incorporated into the decision-making process. that was discuss add little last night, but in the community that's still the big question. superintendent garcia and deputy superintendent caranza mentioned significant changes that have to happen in a lot of schools to strengthen and create programs that don't exist yet and reflecting a new approach to special education that the conversation isn't really even starting until next week about that. so the questions are, how will this be implemented, and how will the success of that be measured, and how can parents understand what you're doing throughout that process? because for so many families that come to us the questions are, we don't know what's going on, and we just want to understand better what's happening. so we see our conversations about enrollment really and being about school quality and how we focus on making all of our schools really meet the needs of the students that are in them. so i really -- in closing, i want to echo what elie rost

specifically a third fast-food restaurant in the center but it was only to be used as a bakery. >> and why does chipolte fit into the use as a fast-food restaurant such as pizza hut did? is it the difference in the type of food? what other types of restaurants can go in? >> it is narrowly drawn and that only applies to the large fast food. the restaurant they were referring to may not have been a large fast food. only this par space. >> ok. >> i would certainly think that miss jones as representatives of lakeshore plaza has listened well to the comments of the various neighborhood organizations and i and here stand them. in defense of the plaza or in defense of business in general, might i say in 21 years the concept of individual restaurants verses fast food has greatly changed. all individual russia wants in -- restaurants in areas that are not heavily trafficked have a very difficult time to survive. this is a fast-food restaurant which is not a derogatory term, by the way. those of the ones that survive in these locations. also in 1989, the process by which this4hñ department and c

>> it gets into some specific areas about the differences between data collection and data use. there are some proposals that would prevent you from collecting data from users in the first place instead of simply using it for certain purposes. that is concerning to us, because there are a lot of uses where data is used to be able to bill advertisers and fight fraud across the site, in ways that relate directly to the advertising model. depending on how prescriptive the language is, it could create problems in some of those business operational areas. when you offer an opt out of showing a consumer behavioral advertising, that same data could be used for fraud detection and control. you want to make sure you have the appropriate use and right to be able to prevent fraud across your website. there are some protections there that we are looking at very carefully, making sure they are drafted and a way that protects those necessary uses of data. >> do you foresee legislation passing this year or next, and if the republicans take over congress in november, as far as your business mod

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for an exception for the arlington hotel of this specific requirement. in our mind, the risk to be assessed is whether or not we will be able to count on it fulfilling its public purpose for the length of time we would be making this loan. it would be a 55-year deferred payment loan like all of our own loans. the question to ask would be whether mers could, with the assistance we put in place for operating costs, would they be able to do that. they have a very strong track record of serving this population. in any event, if they for some reason went out of business or were able to continue to serve the population we have in mind, we have in our loan documents the right to replace with with another service provider and owner. for these reasons, we ask your approval on this ordinance. we have someone from housing here, and someone from m.o.h. to talk more specifically about the project itself if you want to hear that. supervisor maxwell: colleagues, would you like to hear that, or any more comments or questions? i think we are ok. let's open t