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Good afternoon, welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday november 26, 2013. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Supervisor avalos . Here. Avalos, present. Supervisor breed. Here. Supervisor campos. Er present. Chiu. Present. Supervisor farrell . Present. Supervisor kim . Kim absent. Supervisor mar, mar present. Supervisor tang. Present. Tang, present. Supervisor wiener, wiener present. Supervisor yee, yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of th...

So this is an important policy for the city. Unfortunately with our first two classes the level of cuts that theyve been experienced has not allowed our School District to fully support the program that is needed to do that. I think, also, with our city passing really the highest budget that we have seen in our citys history i think its more important than ever that we really step our support for your families and our kids. That being said i think that there are a lot of conversations in kind of moving targets as were finding different moneys coming in from the last fiscal year so i wanted to ...

Americans 85 and older, our oldest old, are the Fastest Growing segment of our population. And this is the very population that is most at risk of the multiple and interacting Health Problems that can lead to disability and a need for longterm care. At the same time, declining birthrates mean that there will be fewer Family Members and paid caregivers to care for our nations growing aging population. Today, there are approximately seven potential caregivers for each person over 80, as this chart indicates. By the year 2030, there will be only for. And by 2050, the number drops to fewer than on...

And in a speech be he delivered on the 10th of december this year, so a couple of days a he said there is no excuse for 750 billion u. S. Dollars in food waste per year. When we only need 80 billion u. S. Dollars to feed the hungry. And this comes from a businessman, one of the biggest businessmen there is. So he is really sincere. Im very convinced he is. Nevertheless, roughly i onethird of our food is waste, and i think others you will have better figures of that, but lets say in kilograms or pounds or whatever measurements, but onethird lets keep it at onethird. And it gets lost or it gets ...

Overwhelmingly, and it made it with Social Security actuarially sound for the next half century. That was 1983. So, those folks knew how to get along. Chairman nelson, Ranking Member collins and members of the committee, thank you for holding this hearing. And especially for the opportunity to testify about the future of the longterm policy. The perspective that im about to share comes from my work over the past 20 years of the office of management and budget as a person responsible for the Medicaid Budget. And also the last ten or 15 years consulting to a nursing home providers and assisted l...