Regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. Im sandra lee fewer, chairman of the budget and finance committee. Im joined by supervisor Raphael Mandelman and aaron peskin, whos sitting in for supervisor stefani. Colleagues, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani . Thank you. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much, madam clerk. Can you please call item number one. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much, madam clerk. Colleagues, you might remember that this item was before us at the last budget and finance committee, and i requested it be continued so that we could get a b. L. A. Report. I think we have jim hendray before us from the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am james hendray from the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. We are here to talk about an ordinance introduced by mayor london breed. The goal is to ensure t
Okay, this is significance of what employees can do, not what theyre considering doing in 2016. One of the reasons we do the survey in time frame that we do it. Karen and i will be tagteaming this presentation this morning. I will walk you through major findings in the survey an observations about those. Karen will come up to talk about key tactics employers will introduce in 2016 to manage Health Care Costs. I will talk about implications for employees during annual enrollment. Then well go to q a. First brief about a National Business group on health. Only nations Nonprofit Organizations that works with employers and devoted to working with employers on National Health care policy issues. Working with them to optimize Business Employment through Health Care Improvement and health Care Management. We have roughly 425 members. These are primarily Large Companies. They, 71 of the fortune 100 and they provide Health Coverage for over 50 million employees, dependents and retirees. So a bi
Message wouldve been a different one to the business community. Would have been yes we are negotiating ploy might have the dl, yes there will be a deal, but dont cross these lines because this is whats going to happen. Instead, the examples given in the precedents that were in the opposite direction. The message was sanctions or is till in the law books but we are not going to implement them which is why Companies Feel comfortable even though they are so five, six months into implementation they go through the breach. The Swiss Parliament by the way feels the same way. Switzerland maybe not the biggest Global Player but it had a fruitful trade relations and a lot of the phone companies they were running to circumvent oil sanctions, procurement sanctions, to lg sanctions lifted all of its sanctions. They abolished it. They are not waiting for congress. They are not waiting for implementation. Even if you can treat sanctions as a yellow light, not a red light anymore, it is not the yello
Will not solve the problem. The challenges dealing with hostage taking in the middle east is the challenges us dealing with the middle east. How to sort out our enemies from our friends. Thank you very much. [applause]. But also the lone wolfs, meaning that particularly now as we are seeming to take over the people who came to watch a movie, opened fire and all that, and obviously we have to think about also the future in terms of the environment of the socalled lone wolf now to weaponize, lets say, ebola and take over, you know, entire communities hostage. Let me move on to our friend and colleague, dr. Wayne zaideman, as i mentioned, with his experience for decades at the fbi but also academically. He has a doctorate from nyu on iran, and i asked him to share with us his experiences in the middle east and elsewhere. Thank you, professor yonah. When i took a crisis hostage negotiations course in the fbi in the early 90s, it was focused basically on criminal hostages. And when i asked
I actually took another look again at Inconvenient Truth and the sequel. The interesting thing is, i thought about something that dr. King said. About the impacts happening. Sometimes we silo and segregate ourselves. Were coming up on the 12th anniversary of katrina, august 29th. I was there on the ground. We also places like north carolina, princeville. African slaves, just had a 100year flood. And a place in south carolina, same thing. Movie so important . T this moment in time mr. Gore i want to join you in banking and knowledge in all the speakers that came before. Dolores and gerald and tom stier, who gave such a wonderful address and pamela. I want to thank eric and mary highend the entire net roots nation. For doing a wonderful job. Thanks to all of you. Applause] mr. Gore the work that you have done for so many years actually way to answer the question you just asked, because Environmental Justice and Climate Justice is a cause that connects what we are doing to the environment