And Community Health thank you very much. Thank you so next, i want to call up james and matt from the San Francisco aids foundation and. Good afternoon supervisors. Thank you first i want to thank you for bringing up this important discussion and opportunity im james the Vice President of Public Affairs at San Francisco aids foundation and i want to start by saying i stand before everyone with tremendous help the reason; right why the progress is one hundred percent when you think about it today Community Cross the United States for the very first time are designing and implementing plans to eliminate the transition of aided even a few years ago would have been unthinkable this is progress we cant take for granted now more than ever we have to identify threats to this as we work to make San Francisco the first hiv transition were here today to address one of the threats San Francisco aids foundation is concerned does the description between the lack of transparency in the health plans
For calling todays hearing in 2004 the voters approved proposition i did mandated the creation of apple Economic Development strategy in 2014 the city realized the cooperation with the office of Economic Analysis retailed that in 2007 proportion i talked about this were before you to present the 2014 update to the strategy that was done in collaboration with the office of Economic Workforce Development and the office of Economic Analysis in coordination with mta and Arts Commission and many others across the city to give you a sense of the structure of today is presentation ill give a belief overview and innovative you up our colleague who lead this in the office to implement the goals and recommendations of the report ted egging on is going to speak on the Economic Performances and talk about continuing barriers to job growth in the city ill be go balk e back up to talk about the conclusion so briefly one the 2007 strategy. Org the citys economy into 20 ports driven by Financial Servi
Total across 5 key areas from education and nomination and invite up you laura to talk about what the citys efforts are across the 40 policies and the work weve done for today. Hello supervisors im going to cover some of the actions taken inch breakdown down by the action areas the first is education and training oewd oewd weve been successful in construction and Health Care Hospitality and implementation and technology we focused on a streamlined path to access our workforce programs Workforce Partners and clear Educational Program added them to the report this allows the School District and allows the city to have our academies with the School District curriculum with the pathways to the employment industry. Finally every 20 percent of broadband the city focuses on the Digital Literacy and establish and advanced 14th century tech labs in tech centers it serve our seniors and expand the obeyed over several miles of cable and extensions to our park the North Waterfront and Treasure Isl
Reductions with the network which helped individuals to reduce the costs this hearing is timely in that this last week im helping a client for 14 months his individual copay was 35 a month until recently changed under the speciality tier which brought him up to 500 a month pharmacy bill this was factoring in the fact you have to pay for individual to the doctor as well as the lab during the pricing and gain access to medication through programs you such Medication Assistance Program and a copay card and assess network we reduced those costs for the individual is looking at 20,250 a month this is well outside of his financial bracket he came to us seeking proving lax assess because of the speciality tearing of the medication we provided him a pass and are actively helping him to continue for his access to life saving services. I want to acknowledge katherine dodge do you want to Say Something about this issue with our familiarity. Thank you katherine dodi want to highlight because we sp
2014 strategy after thirty years of stagnation our city is seeing its share of a regional and National Growth were having an opportunity for the full spectrum of san franciscans but theres a ton to do to make sure our economic boom continues for san franciscans of all strips and background there is a ton of work supporting the industry and our Small Business community as commercial rents is revising and office space scare reserve this will continue to serve as a guidepost as departments cross our city as they work to implement policies to strengthen our local economy thank you oewd and welcome todd to present. Thank you supervisor farrell for calling todays hearing in 2004 the voters approved proposition i did mandated the creation of apple Economic Development strategy in 2014 the city realized the cooperation with the office of Economic Analysis retailed that in 2007 proportion i talked about this were before you to present the 2014 update to the strategy that was done in collaborati