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Hope that other participants in the dialogue will as well, but it will be a challenge for us to make sure folks are getting Accurate Information and really being educated about this choice. Very good. Thank you. Lets go on to Public Comment. This is on these three items. I dont have any cards before me. We will do three minutes per person. Good afternoon commissioners. Eric brooks representing San Francisco green party and the local Grassroots Organization our city. Hopefully you have read the e...

War on the poor. My district is also very low income. Manufactured housing is a big deal. 50 of the homes in my district are manufactured housing. And yet, the policies really made it very difficult for banks to lend on that. I suspect that your staff has made known to you that these pressures exist. Have you all discussed that in any greater detail that wed need to look out for the people on the low end of the income spectrum . Well, qm was a policy adopted by the Consumer Financial protection ...

Education Program Survey and early notification portions are the sort of the new pieces that arent required by state law. We are using those outreach efforts, those outreach components to inform who we talk to in the actual statutory opt out phase. We are not suggesting that anyone who is going to be served by cleanpower sf would not receive an opt out notification. Anyone who wishes to participate can participate which sounds like opting in, but we wont enroll them after we have included them i...

Two majorrou major humane ris groups are blasting the United States and their toront drone s. The Rights Groups say the u. S. Has killed civilians in pakistan and yemen. Randal joins us with more. Amnesty international has put forward suggestions for regood reforming the u. S. Drone policy. Release more information about the dont hav drone strikes. Ensure that u. S. Policies follow human rights laws. And stop making claims that the government has use lethal force in an any region its involved n ...

Welcome to al jazeera america. We are following a developing story out of washington state. Earlier tonight Union Members called for a no vote to protest boeings push to end a pension plan and decrease health care costs. Workers would have received a signing bonus of 10,000 if they had approved. Boeing says it needs the deal to assemble the new planes in washington state. Figures show sign ups through the federal website have fallen short of targets. Fewer than 20,000 americans bought policies t...

We begin with an address of bad news for the president its a setback for the Affordable Care act. As lisa stark reports, numbers are not good. Reporter they are not the numbers the Obama Administration hoped for. 106,000 americans have signed up for health plans under the Affordable Care act. 75 did so through the staterun websites only a quarter fewer than 21,000 used the federal exchange. House Speaker John Boehner called it a rolling calamity that must be scrapped. They faced tough questions ...

Thank you for spending a halfhour with us to talk about your 12 years in washington. It ended with the reelection of barack obama. If you could think of adjectives, what would they be to describe these seven years . Interesting. Challenging. Sometimes totally frustrating. Full of opportunities for the country. There were good times during these 12 years, laced together with some that were not so good. 9 11. The anthrax scare. There were also positive things. The election of barack obama i though...

Being delivered right now that will shape or improve the developments and resources and financial modeling and make the economy more sustainable and provide economic benefits to our people and effectively reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. The way cleanpower sf has passed the board of supervisors is as opt out program and the language used in the outreach plan changes the character of the program the way the legislators envisioned it when passing cleanpower sf. We are concerned changing it in way ...

Power but the lifetime of this program. Thank you very much. Thank you. I have one other card. Anyone else that would like to comment please come forward. Thank you. I am david mccord and el cerrito and the chair of the Sierra Club Bay Chapter Energy subcommittee, and the bottom line is that the plan is not yet ready for approval. For one thing the staff needs to fill in the details about just how youre going to reach out to the various communities in the city. Supervisor olague that touched on ...

Identifying is businesses, so we want to have a big waits list and so when we determine the size thats what were taking into consideration as well, and not only focusing on the green areas but looking at the notification who is interested in the red areas and put that on the waiting list so we take all of that into consideration. So the first group of participants to be enrolled in the program and stay in the program are going to be in the green areas and second early the people out of that. On ...