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So, im very excited, colleague, to work with you and others to move this proposal forward. I also my second introduction is not nearly as positive. And i am submitting an in memoriam which i hope we can do on behalf of the entire board for stu smith who passed away late last night. I think many people in this room knew stu and his partner and soul made dave earle and they had actually contacted our Office Yesterday because they were having trouble getting an appointment to get married. And, so, ...

Mothers, daughters, parents, children, elders, what were doing in a town in society. Now the medical world we have patients and we dont need people and you can get prescriptions, there is a thing called tinitis which is constantly ringing in the ear. Marginal, the prescription is marginal. The dps, department of public health, has promoted into law law 55 45 decibels which means your apartment, your house has tinitis ringing in your apartment 24 hours a day 7 days a week. From something across t...

Program, the shanti project, positive research center, applied aquatics institute, San Francisco publicity club, and we also appointed him as a board to the lgbt aging task force where he was a very productive member. Stu was extremely active in shanti and served four terms as board chair. He helped keep that organization strong. Shanti was a key, key part of his life. Recently he he chaired the executive council at the San Francisco para transit coordinating council. He was also serving as the ...

Motion by supervisor breed, seconded by supervisor mar. Is there any Public Comment on whether we should go into closed session . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] colleagues, without objection, lets go into closed session. [gavel] ladies and gentlemen, if you could please step out of the room, we do have a closed session on this item regarding an update on our labor negotiations. Ladies and gentlemen, colleagues, we are now back in open session for our board of supervisors meeting ...

His volunteerism, has worked in the community, including the james [speaker not understood] spirit award, the [speaker not understood] award from sfmta and the kqed local hero award in 2013. Stu was unique in our community. Ive never met anyone quite like him and this is a huge loss for our community. And, so, i request that we as a board adjourn in his memory. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor wiener. Actually, if we could do that me fa in memoriam on behalf of the full board that should...

Going down by as much as 15 percent. But i think with the information that you presented, im happy, well, i will be supporting this today. And i also want to recognize our Community Advocates and labor that have spent a lot of time also trying to raise awareness around this issue. This isnt just an issue in San Francisco. This is a statewide national in San Francisco. I want to thank those that have pushed accountability that kaiser has made more. Im going ask them to publically justify their ra...

Rates. This isnt just a fight for this city. This is something that i know that our ally has done. They have been working with cal state insurance commissioner jones to push for more transparency, looking how to cap rates and looking for things that actually miss dodd lets the efforts around with blue shield last year. I look forward to working with hsf. I tried to serve on the group, its because of you that im incredibly fascinated by this issue. As we work with cpncs and now with kaiser that w...

Back there and a special thanks to Catherine Day to kath dodd who has been instrumental in our Health Care System and one of the most effectual leaders in our city departments of driving a real meaningful change in terms of our Health Service rates for our current and retired members. Catherine has been on medical leave for a number of months now. Very pleased to hear that things are going well. Catherine we missed you so much at the Service Board. I want to thank you for being here today. I kno...

On this matter and also to give you the opportunity to talk. I know that you have been watching by your bedside over time as this dialogue has happened over the past few weeks. I want to give you an opportunity to speak about it. I know there has been confusion and different statements about what would happen if we didnt pass these rate increases. I think it would be great to give you the at some point to speak about this. Also, its great to see you doing well. Its yat to have you back. Catherin...

In approving these rates. More potentially in not approving the rates today that Peoples Health care and lives are at stake today with this vote. If we dont was this, thousands of people will be forced to move doctors and primary care providers and so forth. As well if we dont pass it out by next week, on second reading we do jeopardize open enrollment and other issues with regards to beginning this system. I do want to recognize my colleagues supervisor mar and avalos for discussion over the la...