Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

Adjourned. Shop dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local Services Within the neighborhood we help San Francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop dine in the 49 my name is jim woods im the founder of Woods Beer Company and the proprietor of woods copy k open 2 henry adams what makes us unique is that were reintegrated brooeg the beer and serving that cross the table people are sitting next to the xurpz drinking alongside were having a lot of ingredient that get theres a lot to do the district of retail shop having that really close connection with the consumer allows us to do exciting things we decided to come to Treasure Island because we saw it as an amazing opportunity cant be beat the views and real estate that great county starting to develop on Treasure Island like minded Business Owners with last week products and want to get on the ground floor a nobrainer for us when you you, you buying local goods made locally our supporting Small Business those are not created an, an sprinkle scale with all the machines and one person procreating them people are making them by hand as a result more interesting and cant get that of minor or anywhere else and San Francisco a hot bed for local manufacturing in support that is what keeps your city vibrant well make a compelling place to live and visit i think that local business is the lifeblood of San Francisco and a vibrant community selfplanning works to preserve and enhance the city what kind hispanic the environment in a variety of ways overhead plans to fwied other departments to open space and land use an urban design and a variety of other matters related to the physical urban Environment Planning projects include implementing code change or designing plaza or parks projects can be broad as proipd on overhead neighborhood planning effort typically include public involvement depending on the subject a new lot or effect or be active in the final process lots of people are troubled by theyre moving loss of theyre of what we preserve to be theyre moving mid block or rear yard open space. One way to be involved attend a meeting to go it gives us and the neighbors to learn and participate dribble in future improvements meetings often take the form of open houses or focus groups or other stinks that allows you or your neighbors to provide feedback and ask questions the best way to insure youll be alerted the Community Meetings sign up for the notification on the website by signing up using youll receive the notifications of existing request the specific neighborhood or project type if youre language is a disability accomodation please call us 72 hours before the event over the events staff will receive the input and publish the results on the website the notifications bans feedback from the public for example, the feedback you provide may change how a street corridors looks at or the web policy the get started in planning for our neighborhood or learner more mr. The upcoming visit the plans and programs package of our we are talking about with our feedback and participation that is important to us not everyone takes this so be proud of taking ann a. A lot of water heater in San Francisco look like this may be yours doesnt too do you know it is the post earthquake problems well show you to brace our water heater hi, everybody im patrick director of quarter safety for the city and county of San Francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe today, well talk about bracing water heaters water heater failure is a leading problem with earthquake fires you have a a Single Source youll have in our home. How are you. So what are we looking here. This is a water heater 3 weighs from 200 to nine hundred pound during an earthquake that weight will try to move sideways we need to secure is. Well brace the water heater our model home in south of market well use a simple kit interest the Hardware Stores from 20 it the the clean up itself single thing to do what necessary look like. This is what youll find in our kit a inch and a half wide strap to attach to the wall around the water heater and so you want to compare this in some garages around the city and state which is called plumbers tape innovate as strong and we need to brace the water heater if you find this youll want to replace it with a streetscaping kit. Weve put blocking so that way we streetscape the water heater a nice fit it is important and important probation officer mention you need to move our water heater to strap is it talk about to a license plumber theyll come out with a firm once we streetscape those obviously we want to follow the manufactures instructions. Typically the instructions will require the strap one strap be installed to fit the top third of the water heater and the bottom on the bottom 1 3rd away from the controls if it is above a certain size 50 gallons a third train e streetscape in the middle of the water heater. A lot of time i see older water heaters on the ground obviously explain why this is required and the mr. Chairman is required if you pa a water are hereto in the garage gas fumes can accommodate and the pilot light will ignite the fumes so you want to above the grouped level. So why not go ahead and he get started with the bracing. Were joined with peter from construction hell help us there you have it for not a lot of 340e7b in a short time we were able to reduce the risks as you can see secure and even in a big rumble bell not going to come losses thank you for watching well give is one more big push as you can see with we are definitely pioneers in airport concession world a world of nationally if not entirely or internationally everybody is cop us right now. The people that were in charge of the retail this is where that began. I didnt think we would have a location at the airport. Weve set the bar higher with the customer commerce. Telling me about the operator and how you go about finding them and they get from being in the city to being in the airport. So first, we actually find a table and once we know what we want a sitdown we go to the neighborhoods in San Francisco and other people seminary of the retail let us know about the rain water and are excited to have the local operators in the airport. We have to go going through the conceive selective process and they award a lease to the restaurant. They are planning on extending. We that you could out the china and the length evens and the travel serve and fourth your minds and its all good. How long for a vendor to move through the process. I would say it could take 80 up to a year from the time we go out to bid until they actually open a restaurant. I dont know what we signed up for but the airport is happy to have us here. And, you know, even taking out the track simple things theres a learning curve with once were here they are helpful. Its an awardwinning program. Were prude of your awards we have won 11 awards the latest for the best overall food address Beverage Program and. Like the oscars laughter . The professional world. Tell me about the future food. All the sb national leases are xooirz and were hoping to bring newer concepts out in San Francisco and what your passengers want. Well, i look forward to the future laughter air are we look fofofofofofofofo San Francisco Health Services system board is now in order. Please stand for the pledge of allegian allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madame secretary, roll call, please. President here. Vice president here. Mary hao is expected. Scott present. Canning present. We have a quorum. President breslin item number 4. Approval with possible modifications of the minutes of the meetings set foorth blow. The regular Meeting Minutes from may 9, 2019. President breslin any corrections to the minutes . Any corrections . No corrections. All right. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, all those in favor of moving the minutes . Opposed . Its unanimous. All right. Item 5. General Public Comment on matters within the boards jurisdiction. Discussion item. Hello, im gail. United educators, retired division. And i want to say how much i love this. It is so wonderful, this guide for the retirees and wellbeing. Its excellent. I have a couple of things that came up in the last month since the last time ive come here. And im a longtime san franciscan, so you know, my dad worked in the Controller Office and i have family members who use the medical system. And our medical workers as well. So i came to have the experience using the new sutter cpmc on van ness avenue. It was quite an interesting experience. First of all, i came in on van ness and geary. There were no signage. I wanted to find the emergency room. I couldnt find it. And when i tried to leave the building, there were no signs of this door is xray, or that door is here and no signage. I had the experience of riding with four different emt people and they said they still cant find their way throughout the building and some of the signs are wrong. They think the signs might have come on before i dont know, but thats the situation. And the situation with the emt was interesting. As we were moving my mother back to assistedliving, she stepped on human feces. And she was quite upset. So you know, its a very, very tough job there. Okay, thats so that. The second thing happened when i talked to my cousin and he has the opportunity to use the kaiser in south of market. And his doctor told him, please, dont make any appointments to see me during any game days, you wont get in, you wont get out. So i hope there is some kind of, you know, busing situation, carpool. I know there is talk of some kind of a ferry service, but it may i think its something to think about and not forget. Thank you so much. President breslin thank you. My name is connie levi, im a member of the uesf retired and member of United Health care. My concern is the recent hospital ratings. My doctor is affiliated with Mission Bernal which got a drating and im concerned, i dont have to go to the hospital before that is improved. Only two hospitals in San Francisco got an a. And most of them have a lot of room for improvement. I hope there is something that can be done to so we can prevent botched surgeries and hospital infections and all of the other issues. Thank you. President breslin thank you. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, item number 6. Item 6, president s report. The report given by president breslin. President breslin i am pleased to introduce our new board member, chris canning. Commissioner canning is a lieutenant for the San Francisco Police Department where he has served for 12 years. He has also served on the board of directors of the Supervisor Police officers association. He has quite a good background. Welcome, chris, i hope you enjoy being on the board. Commissioner canning thank you, i look forward to it. I would like to make an observation. This is the first time this board has been at full strength in more than two years. Very pleased with my fellow commissioners, that they have joined am me in this labor. President breslin any other comments . And i also wanted to say that our july 11 meeting will not be cancelled this year. Well have a special meeting and our director will elaborate more on that in her report coming up. Thats all i have to say for my report. Item oh, is there any Public Comment on my report . Seeing none. Item number 7. Item 7, election of the Health Service Board Officers both president and Vice President for the fiscal year 201920 presented by president breslin. I currently am serving as chair of the Governance Committee so i assume the responsibility on behalf of the president to make the recommendation for the president and Vice President for the ensuing year. And that the board approve the reelection of Karen Breslin as president and dr. Stephen follansbee as Vice President. Any other nominations . None, all those oh, you. Sorry. [laughter]. Im ready to a motion to that effect if someone wants to offer or accept the recommendation . You dont really need a motion, you can just i move that we accept the recommendation. All right, moved. Ill second. Properly moved and seconded that the recommendation be accepted. Is there any discussion . Any Public Comment . All those in favor signify by saying aye. Those opposed . Its carried unanimously. Ill turn the chair back to the president. President breslin thank you. Item number 8. Item 8 is the director report. The report is given by abbie yant, the executive director. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners. The directors report ill draw out highlights. Yes, we are holding a special meeting of the Health Service board on july 11, as i mentioned in our last meeting, we thought it was useful and necessary to take sort of a timeout and bring in subject Matter Experts to really help us understand the current information about the rapidly evolving health care marketplace. We intend to cover market consolidation, emerging integrated delivery systems, changes in physicians practices, Health Plan Integration with pharmacy benefit managers and other partnerships. And understanding of these changes will help us understand the different models that benefit packages that hsa should be considering. Once we have educated ourselves and designed possible models, well have multiple stakeholder sessions facilitated by our staff to solicit discussion and feedback on what were learning. And well report back to the hsa board by the end of this calendar year, the conclusions. There are announcements on the table. Theyll be up on the website today. As we get things get our facilitators secured and get a plan for our outreach and meetings, that information will be heavily promoted and through our usual mechanisms, and in addition, if anyone in the audience or listening to this, wishes to be on a particular mailing list for this purpose, let us know and well design our outreach to meet what i hope to be a rich discussion that will take place over the next several months. Next id like to let folks know that our blackout period officially ends today. Because all of the rates have been negotiated and presented and im presuming approved at the board today. So that will end the blackout period. The i did want to mention that mitchell in conjunction with our work tara partner, offered a special mid year special enrollment for voluntary benefits and very much exceeded our expectations. We had a total of 1153 enrollments, 221 Critical Illness benefit accidental insurance 146, supplemental term life 477. Shortterm disability 124. Legal shield 111. Life lock 29. Pet insurance 45. So our members clearly are interested in some of these volunteer benefits. It was a test to see how we could manage that in offcycle while outside of open enrollment and i think it was successful. So congratulations to mitchell and the team for doing that. And since theyre doing such a great job in operations, theyve asked us to create a more standardized office operations. Weve had for some time now a practice where we closed the office for Member Services every other thursday that coincides with when the system is down, due to payroll. But trying to communicate an every other week schedule is extraordinarily difficult. So we are we are going through a lot of changes in training in the Member Services, so weve determined that its best to open the office to Member Services at 10 00 on every thursday. So that i think will be more consistent and easier for members to figure out. Its often i come in on every other thursday and i see people waiting to get into the area. Thats not the best way to operate. That is effective august 1. We have a Robust Communications plan in development and well let people know, but i expect actually it will result in increased member satisfaction, because theyll arrive when were actually open. Also, in your packet today, there was a quick look at some of the tolls that are available through the cascade product that helps us monitor the Strategic Planning. We have on the list to do a robust presentation to this group at a later time when with we can take a look at that together. Also, in operations, we have partnered with the Controllers Office to develop our expertise in doing process improvement, using lien methodology. Weve partnered with the Member Services and finance team in looking at one of the top drivers of calls into Member Services has do with delinquent payments when staff are on leave. Its quite a complex process. And is a really excellent place to start. Were rea

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