Items acted upon today will appear on the june 24th board of supervisors unless otherwise stated. Okay, thank you, madam clerk. So, colleagues, members of the public, today we start the core of our budget season where the mayor will propose the to allow for adequate time for [speaker not understood]. For members of the public that are interested, you can find out which City Department is presenting by going to a Budget Hearing schedule on the boards budget website at www. Bos. Org back slash budget. [speaker not understood]. Public comment [speaker not understood] will take place this friday, june 2g, starting at 10 00 a. M. Right here in the board chambers and Public Comment this year also weve a added an additional layer by advising the board of supervisors website at www. Bos. Org budget and selecting the comment budget all those comments will be submitted for the record. This committee as always will not take any action to amend the mayors proposed budget or to approve any part of
Madam clerk do we have any announcements . Yes, mr. Chair. [speaker not understood] dock youthtionv to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the june 24th board of supervisors unless otherwise stated. Okay, thank you, madam clerk. So, colleagues, members of the public, today we start the core of our budget season where the mayor will propose the to allow for adequate time for [speaker not understood]. For members of the public that are interested, you can find out which City Department is presenting by going to a Budget Hearing schedule on the boards budget website at www. Bos. Org back slash budget. [speaker not understood]. Public comment [speaker not understood] will take place this friday, june 2g, starting at 10 00 a. M. Right here in the board chambers and Public Comment this year also weve a added an additional layer by advising the board of supervisors website at www. Bos. Org budget and selecting the comment bud
All right, good morning, everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for monday, june 16th, 2014. My name is mark farrell. I will be chairing this committee. I am joined by Supervisor John Avalos and london breed and well be joined momentarily by supervisors scott wiener and eric mar. Want to thank the members of sfgovtv covering this meeting jim smith and jonathan gum wall as well as the clerk of the committee linda wong. Madam clerk do we have any announcements . Yes, mr. Chair. [speaker not understood] dock youthtionv to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the june 24th board of supervisors unless otherwise stated. Okay, thank you, madam clerk. So, colleagues, members of the public, today we start the core of our budget season where the mayor will propose the to allow for adequate time for [speaker not understood]. For members of the public that are interested, yo
Being proposed in one state or another so even though it seems we just got through a few weeks ago, insurers are already proposing their rates for the department of insurance for the coming year. What we are going to try to do today with the help of a group of panelists with analytical firepower is to help explain what those numbers mean and what importance we should place on them. One fact i would like you to keep in mind is most of the members you will be hearing referred to policies in whats called the individual market and in the year 2012 about 19 Million People were covered in that market out of the 267 on the elderly americans who have coverage from all sources. As interesting as this discussion will be remembered that it applies to about 7 of americans with coverage. We are pleased to have the Commonwealth Fund a century old philanthropy to establish a commonwealth and we are pleased to have as the moderator the Vice President for federal and state Health Policy somebody with a
Overseas if we had a preclearance locations. We have global entry located overseas. We are working towards that together. The secretary is driven towards that goal and i think we are in the process of doing that. I would differ to my colleague from cbp to answer some of that as well. If you would please. Looking up at different arrival experience. Its getting rid of forms for them to fill out. Its motivating selfservice kiosk that not only gives them a better strength but helps us be more efficient and more secure in what we do. Saying things like global entry that frequent lowrisk travelers keeping a program like that. We are getting 60 to 70,000 applications a month for that program. Its been steady like that for the last yeartoyear and a ha half, tremendous uptick in that program. Usage can vary from five to 10 depending on the day the week but it tends to trend with business travel. Later in the week we see those percentages increase up to 10 of total arrivals. Automated passport c