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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisor meeting and happy st. Patricks day. Please call the roll. Supervisor avalos. Avalos present. President breed. Breed present. Campos present. Supervisor christensen. Present. Supervisor cohen. Present. Supervisor farrell. Present. Supervisor kim . Top of the morning. [laughter ] kim present. Supervisor mar. Mar present. Supervisor tang. Tang present. Supervisor wiener not present. Supervisor yee . Present. Yee present m...

Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisor meeting and happy st. Patricks day. Please call the roll. Supervisor avalos. Avalos present. President breed. Breed present. Campos present. Supervisor christensen. Present. Supervisor cohen. Present. Supervisor farrell. Present. Supervisor kim . Top of the morning. [laughter ] kim present. Supervisor mar. Mar present. Supervisor tang. Tang present. Supervisor wiener not present. Supervisor yee . Present. Yee present m...

Board of supervisor meeting and happy st. Patricks day. Please call the roll. Supervisor avalos. Avalos present. President breed. Breed present. Campos present. Supervisor christensen. Present. Supervisor cohen. Present. Supervisor farrell. Present. Supervisor kim . Top of the morning. [laughter ] kim present. Supervisor mar. Mar present. Supervisor tang. Tang present. Supervisor wiener not present. Supervisor yee . Present. Yee present madame president , you have aquorum. Okay. Would everyone p...

We have a vote on the floor which should be over in the next ten minutes. I will talk a little bit and tell you what i want you to know. I will start with testimony from sloan gibson. Make the note that his staff said that was okay. I want to take extra time because this is an important hearing. Last year culminating with the passage of the veterans choice bill problems in raleigh, denver come orlando and answers that were in completed for understandable reasons. Just left about a year early. Go...

The field of vaccine research, was recruited in 1947 by the university of pittsburgh to be the director of Virus Research and to work on finding a polio vaccine. His work caught the attention of basil oconnor, the president of the National Foundation for infantile paralysis now known as the march of Dimes Foundation. The organization decided to fund dr. Jonas salks work to fund a vaccine against polio. For five years dr. Salk worked tirelessly on this effort while the country donated their dimes...

Thought. So explain your logic in terms of not allowing them to make that choice than elves. We have spent a great deal of time talking about this. One of the things for us to keep in mind is that 81 of the veterans we provide care for have Medicare Medicaid or some form of private Health Insurance. Oftentimes what you see today, you mention this fact earlier that the veterans have given the option for toys and somewhat elect to stay in and that is precisely what happens today. Roughly half of 4...

At the same time, weve had a large increase in care in the community, choice hasnt worked as intended. Here are some things were doing to fix it. On april 24th we changed the measure from Straight Line to driving distance. Using the fastest route. This roughly doubles the number of veterans eligible for the 40mile program under choice. Excuse me. But there is much more to do. A followon mailing to all eligible veterans is about to go out. Weve Just Launched a major change in internal processes t...

Affairs adviser for concerned veterans for america. Joseph violante, National Legislative director of disabled american veterans. Mr. Bill raush who is missing in action right now. Or awol. Political director for iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, and carlos fuentes, senior legislative associate for the veterans of foreign wars. Well start with you, mr. Butler. Chairman, Ranking Member blumenthal, and distinguished members of the committee, on behalf of our national commander, michael ham...

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I just want to say thank you for your dedication, your work, your involvement in the park is beyond this concert series, in so many other ways you are stewards of our trees, open space, play grounds. Thats something that is really tremendous for the future of the park. And your dedication also guarantees [speaker not understood]. 10 million is coming to work in the park ha been part of really how part of revitalizing the community, advocacy around the park. So, the first day, i believe, there is...