youth and young professionals are partnering with programs such as the coral center for legal -- in trichet, project full and use works and our mid market committee benefit agreement as part of a payroll tax exclusion. agreements with companies from work force and community development. the cba was executed and in november, we anticipate 7 to 10 more committed to benefit agreements. we can go to the next slide. language access. the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs provides departmental training to improve language access for people with limited english proficiency. ocia has provided over 3500 hours of interpretation, serving over 1000 immigrants, monolingual lep persons at events. they have translated hundreds of documents and websites and assisted over 100 victory -- 150 victims due to fire or crime. the language line interpretation -- does interpretations for 170 + languages. supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i had some miscellaneous questions asked. you brought this up earlier. this was a question i asked for the budget legislative analyst report on our fleet her your looki

when asked to name the most effective way to control costs, 61% believe that implementing a consumer trichet health plans is one of the three most effective methods for controlling costs. 43% believe consumer directed health plans are the most affected. they are the most effective. in addition, 60 1% of respondents indicated that wellness initiatives of one of the three most effective methods for controlling costs. that is power point slide 12. only 36% cited increased talk sharing among the top three. they did not cite that except in the third. they worry about too high cost sharing hurt low-wage employees and it can also discourage the use of appropriate care. it is ok to discourage inappropriate care such as excessive use of emergency rooms. it is not ok to discourage appropriate care. it is a complicated balance. 57% are increasing contributions. contributions are what the employee pays out of his or her paycheck. contributions are what come out of the paycheck first. they are increasing them mostly a very small amounts, less than 5%. we have copies here for those who did not attend our

conference last week, representative alan west of florida said military experiences the most important trichet reaper -- presumptive -- presumptive nominee must have. he says for the first time in 77 years there is a possibility that neither the sitting president or vice president or the candidates for president or vice president have served in the military. that concerns me. he based the comments on what he sees as mitt romney's need to fill the hole in his own resume with a running mate. so, congressman west calling for someone with military experience, and he said it is the first time in 77 years where the the the president, nor the vice president, nor the leading contenders have been its -- military experience. rose, a democrat, memphis tennessee. -- memphis, tennessee. caller: i guess paul ryan is exactly what i would have expected mitt romney to do because the radical right wing of his party has been clamoring for this, in he has to do what they say. i just feel that the 99% if they want to hand it all to the 1%, go ahead and get him in there, but one thing that was not challenged, chica

trichet i don't think ever not go. we didn't focus on jackson hole the same way when he was president of the ex. no other board member from the ecb governing council is going. so mr. asmussen who has been supportive about this bond buying idea won't be going. what's interesting, weidmann, and of course thinks that bond buying would exceed the ecb's mandate is going to go. so, that whole thing is a very interesting, sort of c conjuncture. i don't know what you make of that or the reasons they are not going. we got a little euro spike on the news. you have to make into that what you will. we can speculate what it means. heavy workload. he certainly has. if these plans are progressing in terms of spain in negotiations, potentially getting a bailout with ecb reaction but a lot of details network through. others might say he had to do it today, he wasn't going to go because he would have lost his deposit on his hotel room if there was a 24 or 48 hour cancellation. it's come on the back, by the way today of two auctions. not

. >> trichet is joining us from new york city. go ahead, -- . >> i support president obama.that? >> he is getting the job done. almost everything he said he would do he did, and he did it in such a small time frame picots this country who -- even though this country has been jacked up. >> what would you say to people who support the president? >> in those first two years they were tremendously active and promises were made. many of those promises were kept, and then the president's advocates will say something happen. the president was restrained, and there is an intense battle over the future of the country, and one thing the president is going to say is if you like the first four years and the health care law and other pieces of legislation that were passed, you need to reelect me because the opposition will try to repeal most if not all of those accomplishments, and if you want to move in the direction i sat forward, president obama and joe biden will say you have got to reelect this president reagan -- to reelect this president. they will say if you want to continue what