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Members of our community. This needs to go well beyond health care. It includes the availability of private housing, employment, education, meaningful relationships, as well as social participation. In addition, we will be working with the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services to develop, refine, and strengthen policies that promote independent living among all populations, especially those served by medicaid. We would also look with cms to promote home and communitybased services and suppo...

Will post the Technology Advances you are experimenting with today. Our own residents at every location of our Senior Centers are going to enjoy the Technology Advances that we have as a society. This is why we work in a great city like San Francisco. We want everybody connected. We want to make sure the San Francisco connected Program Reaches all of our seniors, all of the people with disabilities. There is no reason why people ocean not be connected up, and therefore no reason why people shoul...

Part of what i do for the Grassroots Organization i called them on the phone to get an update on the organization and to keep them you know to get them to fund and things like that. And to quite often i get comments and frustration with the sf program, and the funding is not there and the part of the solar panels on there on the roof and so i would say whatever it takes lets accelerate this as quickly as possible as issuing this funtding because in the beginning the changes being made is positiv...

And the aspect of the program has concluded that the program and the funding our capitol plan for ten years total. I think that you would come up. And that is a concern of mine is and so now, i clearly understand it and i appreciate that and i only have one last clarification. And once we start to rule out whatever we are going to rule out from this point forward, there is going to be conversation and there is going to be labor components and we did get it back on how we will let that out and th...

Pilot program. Will we begin to analyze that and then no longer make those references and just call it a program and a budget item of the puc . Well, it does not address that specifically, and my hope is that as we move towards a customer, you know, a San Francisco customer, based program, that, that that will have the effect of terminating it. And i dont know if we ever need to make a formal declaration i think that if we are starting with our own customer its changes character and i think that...

So, eddie had proposed that we expand the Workforce Development to allow for that staffing and so that we can hire the 20 individuals through the state certified apprenticeship programs and i think that would be a positive thing. The main, we support getting the funding released as quickly as possible. And the solar installation we had a lot of pent up demand over the last few years because there has not been enough funding with the sorts of structure that existed and so we knew that the structu...

The habit coming into it because the legislation was for ten years. So i think that perhaps, folks are thinking of ten years and that is the pilot aspect of it. And the aspect of the program has concluded that the program and the funding our capitol plan for ten years total. I think that you would come up. And that is a concern of mine is and so now, i clearly understand it and i appreciate that and i only have one last clarification. And once we start to rule out whatever we are going to rule o...

Senior centers that you live and work in and enjoy yourselves in. Youre going to be able even to read a book online or be able to just have a game and download a game and play with your friends as well. We are all lucky to live in San Francisco, because so many of our Technology Companies have located their headquarters here in San Francisco. [cheers and applause] and because theyre located here, we can always ask them for a favor here and there and make sure no one is left out, because that is ...

What are the technologies and what theyre doing in San Francisco and what the latest discoveries are that we can possibly use to help improve our city. Finally, as someone you know, i celebrated my 60th birthday last week. [applause] and my staff gave me an ipad, and is looking at it i might have to go and join your classes to be able to appreciate all the applications that we have there. So do not be surprised if the guy next to you has a mustache. When i leave here this morning, i will be goin...

Nation is warning of even more measures. Follows an under ground nuclear test the north conducted earlier today that World Leaders are condemning. North korea says the test was quote a First Response to what it calls threats from the u. S. And warns it will continue with unspecified second and third measures of greater intensity if the United States maintains hostility. President obama calls the nuclear test quote highly provocative. The president says the danger posed by north koreas threatenin...