and it will take longer for providers to be paid. now some things that are the same, paychecks are still issued within ten working days from the time that the facility receives the time sheet. that is also true today when we have to have ten days to process a time sheet from the day we receive the time sheet. and paychecks will still be mailed as they are today from sacramento. so it takes two additional days for the paychecks to be mailed. however, the system -- the new system will take longer for providers to be paid, because when the system changes first of all, we have downtime, when the system changes over. so there is going to be three working days where no one will be able to enter anything into the system or change anything in the system at all. and then it will take longer for paychecks to be mailed to chico than it is to just mail within san francisco. also the computer, when it can't read the images that are on the new time sheets, it will send an electronic image back here to san francisco to our office, and we will have

will you be providing asl interpreters? >> yes. >> and megan, you mentioned that time sheets that can't be read in chico will be sent back to san francisco. is there a procedure in place for dealing with these and will the provider be notified about the time sheet and there will be a delay with the pay? >> so currently, when there is an issue with the time sheet, there is some problem with it, what happens is our staff will look at. they analyze the problem and if they can pay it out, without going through too much trouble, we pay it out. but if we can't, we contact the provider and work through whatever problem it is. and sometimes we have to issue replacement time sheet. and in the new system, that is largely what will happen. the can time sheet processing facility is much more sensitive than our staff are in terms of things that it doesn't like. for example, you can't write in any other kind of pen besides black ink. and you can't stick a sticky note onto the time sheet. and you can't fold the time sheet. various, little

jane gong provided you with a demonstration we're just about to launch. so at our next meeting she will be providing you with the full demonstration, because the tool will be ready to go live on the 28th or shortly thereafter. so all the items that we have been working on and working with the company will be done and complete. the online business portal project update, the comprehensive one, erica has been working on this. we had the departments fill out a comprehensive survey. and so their deadline was this week and we have pretty much all departments' surveys completed and in hand and eric and i are going to start working on that, taking a look at it, both to help with either gleaning some information for streamlining and permits to improvements to take but also make the assessment on what it will take to build the comprehensive portal in terms of time and technology needed to develop the portal. and then as a conjunctto that, eric and i have been going out to merchant associations, business associations to solicit participation to get their members for

it's really an extra benefit that our office provides. we're a civil rights office and civil right laws are not affirmative action laws and they don't say you have to do more for people with disabilities. you have to provide accommodations, particularly if requested, but because we have members who sometimes have participated on the bridge line, we have allowed that. i will get into a little bit of weeds here, we're a passive meeting body. we're not a policy-making body. the city attorney of the berkeley and state- the city of berkeley fought having a bridge line for their disability council and were successful with the state. they said that having a bridge line for council members to vote is a violation of the brown act and that to have a bridge line you have to declare the individual council member's home a meeting place. that anybody from the public could go there as well, which was goofy, but that is the law. but in any case, we have that. other public bodies don't and they don't have to. >> so they are not obligated to have these pho

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so for the take aways, it provided us an opportunity for real exchange and interaction. the military has a lot of capability and sometimes we don't always know how best to modify that in an appropriate response and being able to get together and practice the situation allowed us to understand each other better. the lessons learned: throughout the exercise a lot of lessons learned were gains and we're taking those lessons and applying them to real processes where we have interchange and response. 18 months of planning allowed us certain benefits as well. we were able to look at the capabilities that each other brought to the table in these type of environments and we were able to really take those and learn more about each other for future responses. we were able to take and provide a taylored response package to better serve the customer. again, we don't want to go in with a full package that the state or civil environments aren't really asking for, we want to be sure it's taylored appropriately and it's responsive and timely. we also had the humanitarian assistance coor

san francisco health plan is the non-profit provider and anthem bluecross is the for-profit provider. in san francisco we have the two-plan model. for those people who are seniors and people with disabilities on medical only, those people have already moved into managed care and have seen how it works or doesn't work. we have had a lot of challenges with that over the past year or two. in the next couple of years, people who are duly eligible, on medical and medicare at the same time will be entering into that systemment on one hand it's kind of scary because we saw to people with disabilities and seniors on medical only moving into the system and it's been confusing. on the other hand it's a great way to look at how we can make it stronger and better for people. so one of the things that we have been doing at the department of aging and adult services, along with department of public health and the health plans is to look at the delivery system and figure out if there is a way that services can be provided in a more coordinated way. our long-term care coordinating council. i was thin

. >> there is no question that if other providers in this state would also help women, would also provide abortion services, we wouldn't be so isolated and it would be much less easy, it would be more difficult for outside forces to pressure us and it would be more difficult for them to get some of this terrible legislation passed. and it would create a whole different atmosphere. so i really do think that the fact that we are the only provider is an enormous problem. and it's an opportunity for the other side to target us and to target women's access to health care and to target women. >> these providers are the only ones left in their state who are sticking it out, willing to take personal risks to provide action to a legal, constitutionally protected matter. in talking to them it becomes clear their lives and work are not just about security cameras and looking over their shoulders and carrying con seemed weapons, although some of them do. it is about doing a job they think is important and rewarding. they might have to fight protesters, their own state's governments and extremist is w

so, amendment number 2 actually provides $150 million and we'll be asking the station contractor to provide a $50 million contract. in doing this we essentially will rely on the contractors to provide their own insurance that they already have as a corporate policy so they don't have to seek that contract -- that additional insurance. whereas if they had to provide $200 million they had to market and go through brokers. at the same time, other bidders are doing the same thing. so, there are essentially multiple bidders going after one source of insurance essentially. with that, we would like to try to contain our costs in that one area. if you have any questions, i certainly could help answer them. >> i believe you have representatives of aon. >> yes we do. >> do they have anything to add to this presentation? use the microphone, please. >> i would just add that the approach is to reduce the cost that's already burdened in the construction contract by not having the contractors provide the full 200 million, but only provide the 50 million and buy the buffer layer of 150 million in a more co

he helped put providence back on the map. so that's why some people loved him. >> senator sheldon whitehouse is next from providence rhode island. this book is on virtues quotations and insight to live a full truly american life. >> we were coming on that dreadful field and passing it in the open ranks in the country. we were ragged and we had no shoes. there were less than 8,000 with farms and our hands though they were burned still. this is a book that is a somewhat personal and quirky book, but it's one person's look through history and through what people have said in the past to call out things that have meaning that i think still have meaning in the modern life. i collected things i liked from my own views and then as i got more into it i thought this was an america that i could pass on to my children and i ran on to a college friend and he saw the book and he said you know, this is pretty good. you ought to consider publishing it and he knew an agent and it went from there. so my sore left hand written old book has now

so he will be providing you can a presentation at the first meeting in march. excuse me, i said february 11th in my notes. so actually change that. he is going to provide you with a presentation at the february 11th meeting and get your feedback and mid-march we're working on your final proposals. also included in your packet is an update, the most recent update on the funds distributed through the revolving loan fund. so in case you are interested in knowing what businesses have received for the revolving loan fund. that is there for you. and then february 17th is the council of district merchants 60th-year anniversary event. and then i wanted to provide for you, chris and i have been talking about standing items that we need to now start calendaring in terms of regular presentations. so in your report is just a list of items that we are going to be working to -- we're going to be providing for the commission as standing items presentations and now that we have two meetings a month, these will likely be our second meeting of the month, unless we have a heavy l

he help but providence back on the map. so that is why people loved him. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to providence rhode island and the many other cities those visited by local content videos go to c-span.org/localcontent. now on booktv sarah gordon talks about religious cases in u.s. history to transform the laws of the country and eliminated protection to religion in the u.s. constitution. this interview part of booktv's college series was recorded at the university of pennsylvania will -- pennsylvania. it's about 20 minutes. >> university of pennsylvania professor sarah gordon, "the spirit of the law" is her most recent book. what do you mean when you talk about the old constitutional world and the new constitutional world when it comes to religion? >> guest: well, for most of her nation's history with the states rather than federal government that controlled access to religious worship, the rights of religious organization and so on, and in the early decades of the 20 century that began to shift. th

as rick said, provide a quick overview of the land dedication option. land dedication option as rick said we're excited this is the first land dedication project presented to you. as wewer aware it's limited in geography where it can be provided in the eastern neighborhoods specifically to the [speaker not understood] districts. the project can dedicate either a portion of the principal project of the principal project site or within a one-mile radius. it provides a mechanism for us acquiring land for the development of permanent affordable housing and it actually would provide more affordable housing because of the higher percentage of land that must be dedicated should they do it off-site as land dedication versus if they were doing it on-site. in the long run, we think it's a good option because it will give us an opportunity to build more affordable housing units in the long run. while we were reviewing this particular project, we were also updating our procedures manual which provided some clear guidance on the underwriting guidance we reviewed as

to educate new providers. there's the exception of quality of care and support funding for rural areas. with boomers turning 65 at the rate of 10,000 a day, there's an increase of demand in health care in acute care settings as well as expansion of nonhealth care settings like long term care. wyoming's practice act allows advanced practice, nursing practitioners to practice independently in our state. this ability helps nurses provide patients in rural areas access to primary care. unfortunately, some federal laws and regulations limit the nurses' ability to practice at their full scope. a quirk in medicare law kept aprn from signing home health plannings of care and from certifying medicare patients for home health benefit. in areas where access to physicians is limited, this prohibition led to delays in home health services. moreover, the delays in care inconvenience patients and their families and can lead to increased costs to the head care system. this occurs when partes are unnecessarily left in institut

our green test bed provides a nice sector. and a list of accomplishments under that umbrella of innovative deployments here in san francisco. that the mayor's office has initiated. we will be coming to you with next steps. trying to launch this as a broader program. given the experience we are having with this early test. >> all right. >> thank you. >> any questions? >> how is it funded? >> this is a renewable project, we are funding through our small renewable item approved by the commission. our cost for this first initiative was a little over $11,000. most of that goes to dpw for installation. the equipment and supplies themselves were all donated by so-lon, and then we had a little bit of management staff time here at the puc to bring it to $11,000 total. >> thank you. >> other comments. >> with respect to the installation, is this an installation agreement or some record between the public utility commission and the department of public works? >> yes, typically we have a work order. they provide with scope and cost, and w

or to% are health care providers. around the rest of the world, the numbers exactly the opposite. 70% of practitioners are primary health care providers, 30% specialists. what can congress do to address this serious issue? that they rattle off a few points and get to make to senator enzi. first and foremost, we must address the issue of primary care reimbursement rates. specialist aaron as much for their lifetime apart is, $2.8 billion more than primary care providers. if you're going into medicine, you can resurrect their lifetime and earn $3 million more than a primary care part titian. radiologists and gastroenterologists have an comes more than twice that. the system in this country is largely determine the physicians on the american medical association committee the rock by the census for medicare and medicaid services and are adopted by private insurers. specialist on the committee determine reimbursement rates. we have to look at that issue. medicare has promoted the growth of residents use the specialty fields

but if you're not going to be an abortion provider, soley an abortion provider, then you're going to have severe consequences with the practice outside of the rest of your practice. if you're an ob/gyn, you'll lose patient. if you have partners, they're going to harass you about your abortion services. so over time, we have become the sole provider. because of attrition. >> there is no question that if other providers in this state would also help women, would also provide abortion services, we wouldn't be so isolated and it would be much less easy, it would be more difficult for outside forces to pressure us and it would be more difficult for them to get some of this terrible legislation passed. and it would create a whole different atmosphere. so i really do think that the fact that we are the only provider is an enormous problem. and it's an opportunity for the other side to target us and to target women's access to health care and to target women. >> these providers are the only ones left in their state who are sticking it out. who are willing to take personal risks to provide ac

but if you're not going to be an abortion provider, soly an abortion provider, then you're going to have severe consequences with the practice outside of the rest of your practice. if you're an ob/gyn, you'll lose patient. if you have partners, they're going to harass you about your abortion services. so over time, we have become the sole provider. because of attrition. >> there is no question that if other providers in this state would also help women, would also provide abortion services, we wouldn't be so isolated and it would be much less easy, it would be more difficult for outside forces to pressure us and it would be more difficult for them to get some of this terrible terrible legislation passed. and it would create a whole different atmosphere. so i really do think that the -- the fact that we are the only provider is an enormous problem. and it is an opportunity for the other side to target us, and to target women's access to health care and to target women. >> for these providers who are the only ones left in their state, who are sticking it out. who are willing to take person

in cases where off-street car parking is not provided. overall, no variance would be given when automobile parking exists, or proposed in the building. this concludes my presentation. we are pleased to present this to you today. this ordinance would help the city to satisfy the increasing need for bicycle infrastructure. sufficient bike parking would help make biking a convenient choice for commuting. >> we have receive some support and comments from the san francisco real estate department and san francisco bike coalition sfmta. we looking forward to comments from you toble possibly have an adoption hearing in january. >> is there any public comment on this item? >> we look forward to continuing this conversation and moving forward with this for a vote in january. the current bicycle parking standards adopted in 2005 were sufficient at the time, but since then we have seen as was specified, seen an increase of 71% ridership since that time in 2005. with the san francisco city council and the board of supervisors adopting a 20% of trips b

i have provided money to provide for roughly 1000 families to adopt foster care children. this will help more young children find the loving homes and loving parents that they need. i want to thank secretary janet kelly for her leadership in bringing this to my attention. i am also saying to you today that we owe our children a clean environment and a clean chesapeake bay. i am proposing a $200 million water quality improvement bond issue that will provide over $100 billion for much-needed waste water treatment plant upgrades, and $35 million for urban storm water projects in multiple municipalities all over the state. the budget surplus will provide an additional $17 million for projects that are proving successful around the state. partly because i am concerned about the number of oysters you may consume later tonight, i am also asking that you approve 2.5 borrows million for the marine resources commission for targeted oyster restoration projects. i believe it will be the largest single oyster restoration project in the history of virginia. while we have significantly i

it's -- it provides heating and cooling. and it's a nice system because it takes boilers and chillers out of buildings, and buildings connect to a centralized system. and this helps in the efficiency, environmentally, and therefore also economically because it's a tighter system so it needs less power. but it also frees up space within the buildings that the building owners then could rent or do other things with. and one reason why i really like it is boilers and chillers in individual buildings aren't monitored through our bay area quality management districts requirements. because they're new small. so putting them into a centralized system requires that air quality that's associated with those companies that run those systems to be monitored. so ultimately it can result in cleaner air for all of us. >> commissioner antonini: that sounds great and hopefully we can persuade some of the existing buildings in parts of doubt to get involved with the -- downtown to get involved with a system like that and certainly new constru

but if you're not going to be an abortion provider, soly an abortion provider, then you're going to have severe consequences with the practice outside of the rest of your practice. if you're an ob/gyn, you'll lose patient. if you have partners, they're going to harass you about your abortion services. so over time, we have become the sole provider. because of attrition. >> there is no question that if other providers in this state would also help women, would also provide abortion services, we wouldn't be so isolated and it would be much less easy, it would be more difficult for outside forces to pressure us and it would be more difficult for them to get some of this terrible legislation passed. and it would create a whole different atmosphere. so i really do think that the fact that we are the only provider is an enormous problem. and it's an opportunity for the other side to target us and to target women's access to health care and to target women. >> these providers are the only ones left in their state who are sticking it out carrying concealed weapons, although some of them do. it i

studies have identified the retirement of providers is one of the obstacles to providing care. wyoming responded by creating a funding stream that would assist nurses to continue their education and work as faculty at community colleges. this allowed the nursing programs to increase enrollment and educate more registered nurses. they are continue to continue education and to advance practicing. wyoming has a small amount of state incentive, prepayment money. id, some students receive funds from title viii and title vii. many residents are using health services and surrounding states who could have been served and wyoming to address this issue, we should recharacterize the y tohel -- the situation bu grading services at the point of care, collaborative planning and policy implementation, effective use of financial services, shared responsibility for achieving goals for individual health and organize leadership that keeps the state responsive to changing needs. federal designations provide eligibility for federal to world health clinics. underserved populations are based on facto

the states provide and the gulf provides to the nation, it if it is going to be afforded through the nation. we believe with this plan we can have sustainable healthy ecosystems but also healthy communities. there's an essence of -- there is a form of social engineering because if you can't ensure the communities, the supermarket, the schools, the things that the communities depend on, the communities will not survive. we want to make sure we will develop a healthy system but also healthy communities that can provide those resources. we have come a long way, it is not perfect but we have a plan to achieve this sustainability and protecting the communities long term that are critical to the region and to the nation. i think is something we're working with the other gulf states in light of what happened with the oil spill. unfortunately, that event will provide some resource, it won't be enough but putting those resources that he mentioned, making sure we're putting those to good use and thinking long- term to address those problems and to reduce the risk to protect the ecosystems and

service by providing parking. they are very clear and very concise in their attempts to run the garage in the best manner that they can and provide the most revenue for the city and the best service for downtown parking. and i have always been proud to be part of the uptown parking corporation, because i think they do a great job, and i would like to see them continue. so thank you. >> thank you. >> my name is sidney goodwell, the president of the uptown sparking corporation. i have been on the board for 30 years and i was a retailer in the area and still involved with property there. on our board we have a cross-section from retail and hotels and businesses in the area, who give their time over and over and over again, for one purpose only. to see what we can do to improve the situation in the union square area. it works very well. we have a good organization. i think we have two employees and i'm not sure if the corporation cease to exist that the work of these two employees would be just absorbed. you would hav

so we want to have a better process in terms of giving the numbers of the public an at any time to provide input on this and so with that in mind, i hereby make a motion to send this back to committee. >> supervisor campos has made a motion to send this back to committee and seconded by supervisor mar and colleagues if we could do that without objection we can send seasoned that back to the committee. >> student: roll call. supervisor first on roll call is supervisor chu. >> thank you very much i have simply one item to introduces it's an item that would require that all public work construction works contract under chapter six include a pro vision that requires all prime calendars to pay subtractors within seven days of city and we have been working with local business and is trying to make sure that we have better process for them and that they are able to receive payment when they have adequately completed their work and this is something modeled out-of-state law and stat law has pro vision visions like this that took effect this year and we hope that will make a difference for local su

of care to other providers outside of the v.a. system helps us in a number of ways with that issue. you know going along with that it's not it's no secret the v.a. and they're overworked underfunded we have a long wait times mental health as we had in the report goes untreated for a long amount of time i that are a part about how drug abuse is running around then and these institutions even the one here in d.c. and one of their main facility is and this is a government run system so dr rod could this be an example of what a government run system on a national scale. and the alaska look like well i think a part of the problem is that the larger the system the larger the bureaucracy the less flexible the less responsive the health care system is that's why it's important to look at alternatives to look at unique approaches even really to look at can we make your more readily available in some of these rural areas where our veterans are so they don't have to travel we may have a much more flexible nimble responsive system that's what

on is what can we do, what kind of intervention to create a strength-based approach to where we're providing rewards, also when someone is doing good and recognizing their progress, not just sanctioning them when in fact they relapse because relapse is a fact, and it's part and parcel to addiction recovery. >> george, let me ask you, marty raisesed the point that the reason that we need felony possibilities with drug possession offenses is that we need an incentive for people to choose treatment when they are charged with a crime. do you agree with them [ >> i don't. i understand where marty is coming from. i think we have to make sure when we're treating this as a misdemeanor we do have a tool to ensure that people who need treatment are going to be afforded the opportunity and are going to have treatment. i also agree with tal, not necessarily everybody that uses drugs is an addict, and not necessarily everybody who uses drugs needs to have treatment. but having said that, people that we often come in contact with will be people who have a severe drug abuse problem and generally they also

we're provide something flexibility in terms of the annual certificate if he annual certificate if he annual certificate if he xinc c: program filesxinc c: stenoprogram filesxinc c: stenoprogram filesxinc c: stenoprogram filesxinc c: ificate.trn /r/t}{( recertification of income. the fourth point compliance is referenced to the land dedication to give additional instruction to the planners to identify in the review process whether the land dedication applies to a single site or multiple sites in cases where there are multiple parcels being dedicated under the land dedication model. also under the land dedication model, we make clear that the approval letter that moe issues can change, but only under situations based on new information. but approval by the mayor and the board of supervisors is of course final. and finally, important insertion under our bmr rental to ownership conversion rule. where the right of first refusal for the existing resident includes pricing at the original bmr rental rate. or the actual income level of the renter, in cases where the existing occupant or tenan

he did provide us with a copy of the information request provided by hud. we talked about what the hud scope would be so we would be able to work cooperatively and make sure we are making the best use of resources in terms of conducting the audit. we have already begun that discussion, although abortion is not the best. >> supervisor campos: ms. campbell forgot to brought this, and glad that you brought it up. housing authority staff has been very helpful and willing to work with the budget and legislative analyst. i want to thank them for their willingness to do that. >> they have been very helpful up until now even though emotions not been adopted yet. in terms of defining the audit, how differs from the hud audit, hud has their criteria, rules, compliance procedures that they will look at. they will be looking at financial and governance of the agency. nonetheless we would go in and look at where the city has interest. this is part of the cities stock, city residents and housing. we hope that sf, with future plans of development of public housing, -- we

and also does a single-audit and provides letter. this is a second year in a row we have received no findings, which is good and this is the first year we have -- this is the earliest we have completed the audit, which is a good trend. so here we're comparing fy11 fy12 numbers, our revenues went up by $6 1 million and you can see the areas where our revenues went up. the majority of it came from the general fund baseline, which you know, because the economy improved, we received additional general fund monies. and we also received significant more additional federal and state grants. those are our two largest increases in state revenue. we also got $16 million from fares and parking meters, a combination -- mostly due to our annual fare increases that we now have established a policy on and the fact that we are getting more money from parking meter because of our new technology. to offset the increase in revenue of $6 1 million we saw an increase in expenditures of $54 million and mostly in the personnel services and repairs and main

to increase this, but to provide better choices at consumers can make and provide them with the information and make those choices and reward them for making those choices. the third pillar is to make markets work better. so that regardless of what approach you take, it will work better and be more effective at producing the results that we want, which is essentially summarizing better health and better care and lower costs. the commission developed a set of illustrated policies still have the potential to save $2 trillion nationwide. we did estimate and that was the result that we got. the impact of these sets of policies is portrayed here in this slide and you can see that two thirds of the $2 trillion worth of potential savings are in provider payment reforms and they make sense because the key is to provide better incentives and better words for the health care delivery system to produce the kind of care that patients have been a more effective and efficient way. the increases in information and better choices for consumers was estimated to produce about $190 billion in savings from 201

they sent packing a special team that the defense department provided. they provided it at no cost. if senior officials knew that our diplomats weren't save and adequately staffed. why did they continue to withdraw security. that's the first question. in testimony this morning, you said you never saw those requests. i understand that. last month though, deputy secretary burns testified that the memo regarding the security situation did make their way to the seventh floor. what senior official was he referring to when he talks about top management there. who in the senior management was responsible for responding to those requests coming from the field. that would be my question. >> there is a lot of important questions in that, mr. chairman. let me begin by saying i was aware of certain incidents at our facility and the attack on the british diplomat. i was briefed on steps taken to repair the brief breech after the june bombing and to reduce off compound movements. our team led by security professionals and intelligence and others did not recommend based on those incidents abandoni

happy to provide you with that. but that's where that fee emanated from. >> co-chair kim: in terms of depending on the number of years obviously that fee reduces down to $4,000. i know there's concern about whether $4,000 per unit can mitigate the loss of rent control units. beyond the normal existing procedure that we have currently for -- to ensure that there's sort of a metered rate at which we lose -- basically lose rent controlled units. >> supervisor farrell: i challenge probably the premise of that comment but i will say that the amount of fee reduction was a balancing act -- and to the city attorney can speak to further detail about that. we have to match that with the nexus study but also there is at a certain point a breakage point where people will not be incentivized to go forward and pay a fee. if they are seniority base you have a greater chance of winning the lottery. if you have missed it for x number of years you will be much closer going forward based upon seniority so therefore the incentive will

providing stable housing to t.i.c. owners is part of this equation and this legislation helps provide them with housing stability without harming renters. there's been a concerted effort by some to demonize these t.i.c. owners, calling them real estate speculators, part of the 1%, suggesting that they're all tech millionaires. when you look at who these t.i.c. owners are, that could not be farther from the truth. they're primarily middle class former renters who scrape together downpayments to purchase a home in the city they love. they teachers, nurses, government workers and others who couldn't afford other kinds of homes. these t.i.c. owners didn't teleport into the city and drop out of the sky to purchase homes in san francisco. these people are our neighbors, our coworkers, our kids teachers, the people we see on muni. they are part of the fabric of this community and are just as much a part of the fabric of this community as you are, or as i am. we need to stop demonizing them and start coming up with solutions.

we provided direct housing case management and outreach to over a thousand community members and provide as of date 450 clients with short-term housing, case management, which our soma residents and worker of the neighborhood. the outcome has been a more engaged resident population to possible upcoming below market rate and other affordable housing opportunities. and really, the realization of the rapid change that is happening in soma, particularly the rise events in the area in the past six months. what has emerged is residents that wanted to be a part of this process in their neighborhood and strategies to save their long-time home, soma. the strategies proposed for this round is essential to the existence of the community and we thank you for the support for this. thank you. >> thank you very much. i don't have any other speaker cards for this item. are there other members of the public who wish to speak on this item, number 15? seeing none, public comment is closed. okay, colleagues, we have this item before us and also an amendment that was put forward by supervisor kim. can we tak

this is providing access. it's providing efficiency, and it's providing new revenue streams and opportunities for the city of san francisco and other departments. we are really excited to be here and i thank you all again for this opportunity to be able to innovate, to be able to work with the city of san francisco, and have this incredible opportunity to be here at the hatchery launching our application and our company. thank you very much. (applause) >> thank you, yo. so, san francisco has been a leader in open data for the past three years nationally. in 2009 we launched our open data initiative, one of the first cities to do so. in 2010 we partnered with the white house to launch open 311 api, the first ever read write api for cities. we now have over 40 cities that have joined us. in 2011 we partnered with gray area foundation on a series of hack-a-thons, 10,000 attendees, and created nearly 30 applications all being powered by open data. now in 2012 we have our legislation that you heard about. as you he