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Going to continue to have people without insurance. The Congressional Budget Office reiterated just recently that at the end of the ten years, how many people wont have insurance . 30 million. How many people didnt have insurance when we started . 40 million. To disrupt the entire health care tableau of the country and i think were going to have people lose insurance at work, who had insurance at work. That will be one of the consequences this aa thisconseqe end of this year. I am talking to man...

Happening. Were currently working with the fbi right now. Commissioner turman. I move that we, the ask the board of supervisors to authorize the police to retroactively accept and appropriate a grant in the amount of 200,000 from the california Emergency Management agency. Second. First we have to have Public Comment. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, all in favor say aye. Please call line item 5. Line item 5, Public Comment on all matters pertaining to item 7 below, closed session, including Pu...

Vanderbilt brought this forward. I think he has a lot of credit and commissioner loftus is holding the departments feet to the fire and rightfully so. Thats why were looking for this grant and well be actually at some point in time growing the Human Trafficking unit as we get our staffing up to speed. Also we do attend other meetings in the bay area so we attend a monthly meeting down in san jose, so were constantly in communication with other sister agencies, not only Law Enforcement but also o...

Puc. Yes. President torres. Here. Commissioner. Here. Commissioner moran commissioner caen and cortni are both excused from todays meeting. Okay. That serves as items one and two. Lets call our hird item. Third item opening remarks and expectations for the joint meeting. Okay. Actually lets just call lets just call items four and five along with that and we can have our opening remarks that will cover all these items. Item four is general update on the cleanpower sf. Item five is discussion on t...

[applause] [inaudible] [cheers and applause] good afternoon supervisors. My name is dave canner and the acting director for seiu 1021 San Francisco. I want to start by saying its really unacceptable that the community has to be out here begging every year and yet private for profit contractors never have to do this. That is absolutely unacceptable and i think thats a struggle were going to need your support in fixing in the coming years. Its just unacceptable. I want to speak about the where we ...

Cost of living and food and everyday costs and were talking about wages that are pretty low and these are workers that with the poorest of the poor and frankly their work is hard and they deserve to be compensated fairly. They deserve to have Family Health care where a lot of folks dont have. Its so expensive that some of them use public assistance. Its unacceptable. White the nonprofit funding has been flat in the last five years which is basically a cut and the private contractors have increas...

Demorizing and our jobs are point scpls cant do the work and not to mention we have small salaries and for these reasons and more were asking for the 4 so its imperative these services are funded and we get these and we dont need the americas cup. Nonprofits dont care about americas cup and the kaiser increase and taking money out of the general fund also we dont care about that and please give us the 4 . [applause] hi my name is kaitlyn and a researcher at seiu 10 to one representing nonprofits...

Today officials voted to open the new eastern span no later than tuesday, september 3. That is the morning after labor day. But its not going to be easy for commuters because in order to open the new span, they have to close the bridge for a total of five days to allow all work required to connect the new eastern span to the rest of the bridge that. Is why they want badly to close the bridge or a holiday weekend. That means crews have better access to the bridge on labor day. Meaning more likeli...

And. Existing bridge is one folks ought to be worried about. That is the one they should bt be trusting. And there is no contest between which is safer it you had wont be completely finished. The bike path will be tear f youre expecting a big opening ceremony, well, its not any time soon they say theyre going to cut a ribbon and get on with it. And to get the bridge open, the shut down will be long, five days and impact on businesses will be significant in many parts of the bay area. Were live n...

Over private contracts. Thank you. [applause] my name is matt feltstein. I work for Progress Foundation for a house for the mentally ill and the drug addicted. In the years i have been doing this job i had all kinds of jobs. I came from a privileged family and dont know what its like to struggle. What i can say about my coworkers is theyre brave, compassionate understanding people ever going to meet in my life so i am in awe. Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. [a...