Some of the contractors who built it are going to have some explaining to do. Were going to bring that to you live in just a few minutes. First we explain just how we got here. Lawmakers will be ready to pounce today at the first of three hearings to probe the glitches on the federal Website Health care. Gov. House republicans long opposed to the penaltys Affordable Care act are expected to grill the definiteliors of the system. The rollout is nothing short of a debacle. On wednesday, health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with c. E. O. S of Insurance Companies at the white house. The initial high jam of users clogged the system, which failed early testing. The Vice President of the company that built the website will say today the Obama Administration acknowledged the website was not tested enough before going live. We did not expect or anticipate the scale of the problems that has occurred. Thats on us. Some democrats claim the investigation is political and the go
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That. I dont want the board of supervisors to dictate what the Homeless Services should be. I take my position as City Government very seriously and we are the body that take from individuals and departments to make that happen. So with that, madam clerk can we do a roll call vote on the motion. Mr. Chairman, do we have a second on supervisor avalos . I will second it. Mr. Chairman i want to add that im supportive of your efforts to move forward on a new tenured plan on addressing the homeless crisis in our city. I feel like the Stakeholder Community based organization have to be working with all of us to do that and i appreciate the department of Public Health of expertise, but i feel that Community Based organizations have to be at the table and im not sure after listening to the discussion that there is consensus. I will respectfully disagree with you on how to move this forward and but say that i really appreciate your efforts. I did want to add that the budget and legislative anal
Budget committee in 2 weeks . I will second that. I appreciate the comments, i also will not be supporting this motion. This has been in a month 1 2 now where we have worked with stakeholders on this issue and its ready to go. Im convinced and while i appreciate everyones opinion another week is not going to buy consensus if you will. This is something to me i think should be a priority of ours as a city. As mr. Wiener mentioned the city and residents in our neighborhoods to do all we can as soon as we can to get people off the street. I wont be supporting this motion. Madam clerk can we do a roll call . Supervisor john avalos can i respond to that. Its not about a motion about getting people off the streets. I would like a plan that is more baked. I dont hear that. I have asked for that, i havent heard that. So lets have a vote. City clerk on the motion to continue the item for 2 weeks, supervisor mar, aye, avalos aye, breed, no, wiener, no, farrell, no. The motion fails. Supervisor w
Okay with that. But i also think it is important that we look at our existing stock, housing authorities is not necessarily directly run by the city, but there are a huge number of vacant units and the fact that we now have a number potentially to rehabilitate those units and make Homeless Individuals a priority there, especially homeless families which there is a shelter in my district and these with no shower, with no ability for these families to get prepared for school or work or anything else. So i just think its insane that we are looking at entities with hotels that have an stock that we can invest money in where we have those Properties Available and give individuals those priorities with properties. This is the first step in that direction but the next supplemental which im hoping to get support for is a supplemental to rehabilitate the vacant Public Housing development all over our city and allow Homeless Individuals receive priority and access into those development. Im read