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Good morning. I want is start by that thanking mayor lee for starting first. There are two stories today, the one you read about in the papers today, the deal and the process. The deal, the transaction i believe is a win win for the city of San Francisco and for the Medical Center and the Center Health system. By the name, my name is gerardo. This agreement ruts results in a significantly larger hospital. 120 beds. A significantly smaller hospital. 255 beds. Saint lukes hospital will be 25 of al...

An issue and initiated on the side of the hospital. Over and above the on going care obligation of the hospital. The agreement is 90 million for cash benefit and others related to health care, Affordable Housing and pedestrian safety. Thats an overview of the deal and you will hear, im going to be to make some acknowledgements an those that negotiated the contract, the Development Agreement as to specifics. The process was one that i came into with somewhat or some bit of trepdation. I have been...

It is a store. Can you talk us through some of your favorites . These are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. These pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. We do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. They are probably not for prime time. You sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that ...

Start. Most of you should have copies of this if not, it is up on the board. Northern station, for those that dont know encompasses a fairly large area of the city and council of San Francisco. But when you look at that map, you can see that northern station really starts at the corner of church and market. And it goes all the way down Market Street to larkin, from there, everything north all the way to where you hit water is northern station. So, we have the lower hate, we have the haze valley ...

Last year the occ mediated 62 cases. Those 62 cases that the occ mediated report the work of one investigator it was 8 percent of the cases that we closed last year. It allows them to resolve the issues with the accused officer in person in a dispute resolution format. It goal is to bring the parties together in an effort to achieve Mutual Understanding and we have a partnership with the Bar Association who provide us with neutral mediators for the program. We have conducted medations in languag...

This is a 6 percent reduction in complaints they received in 2011 when we received 784 complaints. Last year we sustained allegations in 60 percent of the cases we closed. We found proper conduct in 31 percent of the allegations we investigated and we found that 4 percent of the allegations were unfounded or not true. The largest percentage of allegations we received were for unwanted action, 33 percent of the allegations followed by the conduct reflecting discredit. 29 percent of the allegation...

Languages including can toe knees, man da raoen and spanish, two of the investigators are bi lingual speakers and that is important because the largest number of our nonenglish interviews are conducted in spanish. For languages other than the ones that i previously mentioned, we will obtain the interpretation services, last year we conducted 14 intakes in spanish, and five intakes in can toe knees, one in russian and one in american sign language. We have a website, which is www. Sfgov. Org occ....