Crosses the border . Oh, yeah, good question, thank you. The Paratransit Program is required to provide service that complements the muni service and so the and thats under the a. D. A. Requirements and guidelines and so Paratransit Service goes generally threequarters of a mile around where muni goes, and the muni lines and the muni service and if a person that has a trip that is outside of that they can take their paratransit to wherever the end of the end of that border is, that service area, and then i would suggest they could continue on, but then theyd be responsible for paying for that portion of the trip. Yeah, i think that is an interesting point because it also eats up a lot of time and paratransit has a specific schedule theyre bound to by routes and those things dont always match up so thinking about consumers with disabilities and maybe physical disabilities as well and vision issues and fatigue and any other things that might come up, i think that theyre doing their best to kind of figure out the solution to get to where they need to go but i know that its not a perfect system, just when we think about real life situations and then these boundaries that make impacts individuals situations and maybe something to think about and maybe not to be addressed now but to consider in the future. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Council Members for your questions and ill open it up to staff at this point. Thank you very much, kate, and to kristin for being here. Actually i have a question for cristip, ikristin, is she still . Hello. And when speaking in preparation for the anticipated Comment Period to the cpuc, we had had mentioned a few weeks back that we wanted to try to coordinate some different efforts and get maybe some sample language out for folks that would help with providing comments, assuming that the council is wanting to move forward with assisting with comments. Can you talk for a minute about where we are with that or the best way to move forward with providing comments when were ready . Yes. So weve been talking internally because we were at this odd in this odd position where the cpuc hasnt set a deadline for that particular track of their rulemaking yet so i think were still a little bit nervous that if people start submitting comments now that they might not be considered, so we will though as soon as they set a date, sort of mobilize those activities that we talked about and wed love to have the m. D. C. Participate in getting the word out about commenting, if possible. So thats when we would start distributing any language and sample letters or postcards that people could submit for people to submit their experiences with accessibility issue with the t. N. C. S. Thank you, is there a general time frame for a Comment Period . It varies and theres 34 sets of comments and reply comments as part of this rulemaking so its going on for quite some time and it varies in terms of getting notice when the comments are due. But id anticipate that wed have a good amount of time to, you know, before the cpuc gives the deadline and because in this current rulemaking there are multiple tracks and the accessibility track is number five and theyre still working on the earlier tracks. Thank you very much. Thank you for notifying me. And well open up to comments. Theres someone on the bridge line and my apologies, we had technical difficulties. Sorry bridge line holder, thank you. Go ahead. Go ahead. Can you hear me . I cant. We cannot hear you at this time due to technical difficulties. We have some speakers here for Public Comment. First one . Well, we have mr. Lanholt, but can this gentleman go first . Im howard shapner. And two quick comments about this. Number one, chariot is owned by ford and i have written to ford several times about chariots lack of access and didnt really get a response, and i understand that very recently that chariot settled a complaint by the u. S. Justice department, and its disappointing that m. T. A. Would have partnered with ford on the go bikes, they should have done their Due Diligence and recognized that ford owned chariot and that chariot was not providing Wheelchair Accessible service and the analogy is that i think that it was back in the 1990s that s. F. O. Required airlines and other partners that were using s. F. O. To provide partner benefits which is the right thing to do and they basically said that were not going to do business with you people and let you land unless you do that. Even though that was beyond what the law really required. So i really hope that, you know, m. T. A. Or any other city agency would not partner with someone that is that owns a company that is basically discriminating against people with disabilities. Thats number one. And the second comment has to do with the hop on hop off buses and other privately operated tourist type buses. I have written to several of those, and probably half of them are not accessible. And, you know, i have written to m. P. A. And so forth and basically been told and i think to m. O. D. A while ago that, you know, s. F. Has no jurisdiction and thats california p. U. C. , well, again, as the San Francisco allows those buses to park, in fact, gives them designated Parking Spaces and theres other forms of leverage they have. And so even though there may be gaps and there are gaps i believe in the a. D. A. , in terms of the coverage of those type of buses, i think that, again, that San Francisco has some practical effective leverage in making those companies go beyond what the law may require and, certainly, if its a gray area, interpreting the gray area to provide more access, rather than less. Thank you. Thank you. Im bob planholt and i want to point out two areas where the Public Utilities commission is oblivious or neglects to respond to disability access, even when prodded by advocates and first when years ago we pointed out that these t. N. C. S didnt have vehicles that accommodated anybody and everybody, cpuc said, so the t. N. C. S now have to keep track of all of those people who call in saying, i need an accessible vehicle. And right away you say, if you know that they dont have accessible vehicles, why are you going to call in . The cpuc set up a survey counting system guaranteed to have low numbers and not measure the demand. That was just so grade school obvious. But, secondly, and this goes beyond the cpuc, these t. N. C. S are public accommodations and yet they failed to provide what is required of a public accommodation. Public accommodations are supposed to be available to all. If you dont have a smartphone you cant use your home phone to dial or touchtone phone you cant contact them to make a reservation and even a simple regular cellphone, its not smart enabled, you cant get their service. You cant write a cheque, you cant pay with cash, and theres a variety of barriers that t. N. C. S have that say theyre not fulfilling this and cpuc ignores this. But im going to say so does our City Attorney. City Attorney Says they cant sue cpuc for failure to enforce, but theyre ignoring they can sue the t. N. C. S for violating the public accommodation requirements. So even within the city we have people shying away from and sticking their head in the sand, avoiding, responding to disability access. And im going to be very direct because the cit City Attorney hs sued agencies on behalf of other disenfranchised and discriminated communities but theres a real low number, almost a silence, regarding continued advocacy through legal complaints and suits on behalf of people with disabilities that is not arising from our City Attorney. Another issue that maybe the council can take up. bell ringing . Thank you. Were going to go ahead and close Public Comments and go on to information item number 10. Vision zero. San francisco and people with disabilities and id like to thank our presenter for waiting and welcome megan l. Weir, d. P. A. Director and program on Health Equity and sustainability, cochair of San Francisco Vision Zero Task force. Thank you for being here today. Good afternoon, council, and thank you so much for the opportunity to be here to share more about vision zero and thank you to nicole for the invitation and i hope that this is the first of a longer discussion with respect to how vision zero can increase our engagement and address issues of concern with respect to Traffic Safety for people with disabilities. Again, im megan weir and im the cochair and i also work for the Public Health department. So traffic injury has and is a real problem in San Francisco with respect to Public Health. Recently weve had approximately 30 People Killed each year on our streets and another approximately 500 people hospitalized with severe injuries at our public hospital, zuckerburg San Francisco General Hospital. We estimated that approximately 35 million in medical costs alone per year and our city surgeons respond to a serious traffic injury approximately every 17 hours. We are working closely with the hospital as a part of vision zero and rebecca plevin, a doctor at the hospital, i invited her to come today to just, again, this is an important issue and to better understand the concerns specifically of the Disability Community. Half of the patients at our Trauma Center are people injured in traffic collisions and in doing this work and thinking of being here today, from vision zero is fundamentally focused on eliminating traffic deaths and prevention but we also know that many people sustain lifelong disabilities in traffic injuries so, again, this is a really important area for discussion. Nationally we know sure okay, okay, im sorry. Nationally we know that traffic fatalities are actually increasing, so while in San Francisco we havent seen the same increases and nationally weve had 14 increase in traffic deaths in recent years and this is primarily driven by increases in deaths of people walking or rolling, biking and on motorcycles. Vision zero was launched in 2014, and its led by our mayor, with the leadership from our board of supervisors and also with Strong Partnership by the city family as well as our Community Stakeholders and we released our second tier Action Strategy earlier this year and vision zero really focuses on creating safe streets, safe people, and safe vehicles and im going to share a little bit more about that. Sorry, im like i apologize for my lack of sincei coordinath my slides and talking. They focus on prevention and preventing severe and fatal injuries and saving lives and on addressing ecowa equity and focg on reducing fatalities and it leads with designs and creating safe people and safe vehicles and so education and enforcement and education and policy are all important pieces of creating the safer streets. And vision zero is fundamentally focusing on slowing speeds down on our streets because speed is a predictor of whether or not people are injured and killed. And its a shift in Traffic Safety. San francisco was a the second city to adapt vision zero in our country but now theres more than 20 cities in the United States who have adopted vision zero and as opposed to previous Traffic Safety paradigms which have really focused on individual responsibility, vision zero as i think that janice articulated earlier, focuses on creating a safer system. So we need to anticipate human error and accidents and our accidents are not accidents, theyre preventable, and we need to anticipate that people will make mistakes and that we need a system where the consequence of a mistake isnt a death. Equity is a core vision of vision zero and so its not just a social or moral issue but a Traffic Safety issue and understanding that we really need to consider equity as we design safer streets and that means prioritizing our most vulnerable populations, including the Disability Community. And our core group took the time to define equity so its, you know, its increasingly common term used with respect to policy and planning and Program Decisions but we need to all be on the same page about what were talking about. So with respect to vision zero we defined inequities and severe injuries as avoidable disparities and injuries that are from unfair differences and social and economic and environmental and political conditions. With respect to the communities that were focusing on that experience or are at risk for inequities and they include seniors, people with disability, youth, lowincome people of color, and immigrants, nonenglish speaking people or marginally housed residents and people walking and biking and as well as people motorcycling. Our fourth year on vision zero were focusing on deepening our work on equity so that means increasing engagement with vulnerable communities and thats an important reason that im here today and also maintaining and expanding our data systems that can inform the targeted investments and monitoring impacts and im excited to share the developments with respect to understanding disability and traffic injuries in San Francisco and implementing targeted initiatives informed by this data. And im now focused on some of our current efforts on vision zero, i cochaired the Citywide Task force and we meet quarterly here in the city hall and its comprised of both city agencies and Community Stakeholders and i cochair with the municipal transportation agency, mta and we have partnership with our Police Department and the public works and the Transportation Authority and a number of other city agencies as well as rock San Francisco and the Bicycle Coalition and senior and disability action, bob planholt is a frequent participant and many people in the room are there on a regular basis and i invite you all to attend if youre ever interested and we also have a mailing list that id be happy to add people to if interested. And the mayors opposite of disability is an active member of the task force and their work on this, of course, even predates the adoption of vision zero and prior we had a Pedestrian Safety task force which the Mayors Office on disability was a key member. And San Francisco department of Public Health, sorry, im just want my brain is not thinking apologies. And the San Francisco department of Public Health launched last year this safe streets for Seniors Initiative and i wanted to share that today because we know that a number of seniors also have disabilities and the focus is on educating seniors and Service Providers about vision zero as well as getting input to bring back to the city departments. So this includes multilingual presentations to seniors and senior Service Providers and our program has reached over 730 seniors and staff at 25 locations. And also the program and administers many grants to engage locally more around these issues and address the specific concerns. Last year seven organizations were funded and funding was Just Announced for eight communitybased organizations this year. And in addition to cochairing, i lead work on evaluation and this map depicts the high Energy Network and the network comprises of 13 of the streets in San Francisco where 75 of the severe and fatal injuries are concentrated and its important because it really helps us to understand where targeted investments could fundamentally save lives and d. P. H. Conducts the analysis and compares it with other departments. And the yellow part of this map is what the regional metropolitan Transportation Commission defines as communities of concern and these are communities where lowincome residents and people of color and seniors and people with disabilities and other populations who are reliant on walking and Public Transportation are concentrated. And what we can see on this map is that while those communities comprise about a third of our streets in our city, half of the High Injury Network is in these communities. So in using the High Injury Network we prioritize improvements and taking steps to address the historic disparities in the Traffic Safety conditions on our streets. When the Pedestrian Safety works that i began partnering with the Mayors Office began in 2011, one of the main concerns that was raised was a lack of data on people with disabilities and injury. We know that theres not a category in the Police Reporting forum to collect data on disability, and that was one of the main reasons that we began partnering with the zuckerburg San Francisco General Hospital to link the police data on collisions with Hospital Data on injuries. The hospital is our level one Trauma Center in San Francisco and that means that the most serious injuries that occur on our streets are transported to the hospitals that we know that are an important source of data to have a more complete assessment of injury. And we know that historically approximately 25 of injuries to pedestrians and cyclists are not captured in police data for a number of reasons and so this year we completed our first linkage of three years of police data with this Hospital Data, and we now have data that were working to analyze on disability status and the trauma system collects data on hearing impaired and visually impaired and whether people will use a walker on a wheelchair or a cane at the time of injury and im working with the citys Attorney Office to best understand how we can share that data with the public, while also protecting patient privacy and confidentiality and i hope to come back to share the findings with the council next year. And we have a summary of the areas that the target safety investments could improve safety for people with disabilities using this new data and were going to be working with sftma and the Community Stakeholders to develop recommendations of prioprioritized locations both n and off the main network and i am excited to say that sfmta is working on a new problem am to address the collision patterns with seniors and people with disabilities off the network and we look forward to reaching out to the council and engaging more around or engaging more as that work progresses. That concludes the presentation that i prepared today but im interested in understanding the questions or concerns or experiences or interest that you have with respect to vision zero so thank you so much and i am happy to provide my Contact Information as well for more information. Thank you. Thank you, and open it up to council and Council Member alex madrid. Thank you for coming. Two questions. And then you have any information on how many people are disability or seniors are injured by collisions. And how and i see the map, how do you see addressing those areas with respect to changing any stoplights or anything like that . By now or in going forward, do you guys have any plans on improving those stop areas . So i would i would be happy i can share more written information but briefly the the search fmta is using the network to inform priority engineering improvements to address the safety concerns using a whole range of changes, depending on the injury patterns and the context on those streets. We have some maps that i can share in more details regarding the specific projects which i would be happy to share. And th the analysis that i just described well look deep or that network and as well as citywide where people, seniors and people with disabilities are injured and then, again, working with m. T. A. , and conducting outreach to better understand what what improvements could address the issues that were seeing in those locations. Thank you. Thank you. Council member Sally Macdonald has a question. I have a question, if neighborhoods have a concern about a particularly bad area, is it something that they come to vision zero or to the m. T. A. Or how how do the citizens get their input in . Yeah, i mean, if the neighbor has a very specific concern and i apologize that i didnt say 311 in the last stage, but its where you can lodge specific concerns and the sfmta will route them to the correct person because theres technically trained staff, that depending on your issue, can help to address that and vision zero though is another the task force that would be a place to come to talk, you know, more broadly i think about safety and citywide issues with respect to safety and how we can address them. Yeah, im wondering also because you see neighbor against neighbor and a lot of these things are going to be do something at this corner and not that corner and how are those decisions made . I mean, i think that is obviously like a project by a project basis and i think that the importance of engaging more in outreach etc. Is really important. You know, your comment does bring to mind i think that one thing that vision zero and the high end network has done is to help to orient orient the city more towards corridor patterns of injuries as opposed to locationbylocation fixes and i refer to that as the whackamole problem where a whole street has probably had similar issues along the same intersections and if we fix one it might pop up at the other but id be happy to connect with you the right person if you have specific questions. Thank you. Council members, okay, sorry. Close Council Member questions. Staff, any questions or comments . This is nicole, thank you very much for being here and we are looking forward to look to look at what weve done so far with vision zero and to start to line up what some of the specific disabilities are and some of the potential solutions might be and i encourage the council if you have specific desire or an input or thought into that process to please be engaged with this because we really need feed diagnose back from as feedback from as many sources in the Disability Community that we can have so we can have a really robust response book now. please stand by so fort. Thank you. The interpreters will be leaving soon. I will make this quick. Information item 12, any correspondence, staff . 13 announcements anything . Okay. I am going to adjourn. Thank you for our presenters, Public Comment people for waiting for our technical difficulties. We ran over. I wish everyone a happy holiday. We hope to see you at the party on december 15th at the Mayors Office on disability from 4 00 to 6 00 and or regularly scheduled meeting on januar january 19th, friday. Happy holidays, goodbye. Well, it gives us great pleasure to be in San Francisco for the coverage or our flesh tour. I would ask you to all to join me welcoming our host, dr. Kitka from 360. Thank you all for coming. Health care is a right. Now, normally, we shout this from the roof tops, but covered california kind of took care of that for us because they actually painted it from the to have tops roof tops, so on behalf of the 35,000 clients from roof tops 360 [ inaudible ] its not a very big room, so on behalf of the 35,000 Health Care Clients of health care 360, i thank you for this gift. When we took the leap to move into this new building, 50,000 square feet of welcoming integrated health care services, it was for one single reason that we knew without any reservation that health care is a right and not a privilege, and having this message emblazoned on our building empowered us not only as Service Providers, but every person who passes by, which is a lot of people. Theres a three way off ramp right there. So peter lee and the amazing cover california team, thank you. We are so proud to be a canvas for your beautiful work. Mayor lee, supervisor breed, mayor kim, thank you for being here today and for your unending support for the communities you serve. And to everyone, covered california is going to have a long open enrollment period. Dont wait. So sign up for coverage now. Thank you. Thank you so much, and its such a pleasure to be here in San Francisco, but in particular, its a pleasure to be here in health right 360. I think some of you know some of the members of the health care 360 family have very deep roots in San Francisco and california. Two i want to call out, the haightashbury client in, is part of the oldest is the oldest Health Care Clinic in San Francisco. And del martin, one of the oldest communities established for the gay and Lesbian Community and serving us for more than 30 years. The reason were doing this program here, health care is a right, and this billboard is going to be here, because like the clinics, we are woven into the fabric of this community and this state, so this has been something of a wild ride in washington. All this talk about repeal and replace, sometimes people are confused about whats happening in washington. We in california are not confused. The Affordable Care act is the law of the land. We have provided coverage through medical in Southern California to 5 million californians, and while it is a roller coaster in washington, it is not a roller coaster in california. Were not taking people for a ride. Were making sure that people get kompl, and that its affordable coverage. One of the reasons we have coverage in california, we have hard working people in washington and in sacramento, and i want to appreciate representatives of Congress Woman nancy pelosi, and youll hear it from several people, including mayor ed lee. There is some confusion in washington, but lets be clear. Here in california, 1. 1 million neighbors get coverage through covered california. For them, their Health Care Costs will go down on average in 2018. Were making a difference in millions of peoples lives, so how do you do that . People are financially eligible, get that financial leg up. Without getting that financial leg up, many would not be able to support coverage, and were trying to get the mess amg out, open enrollment, short period, but here in california, its three months. Its gone through the end of january , but we want people to sign up by the middle of december, december 15th, because if you do, youll have coverage for the entire year. You can go to our website, and in two minutes, you can find out if youre eligible for financial help, and the back news is theres 700,000 californians that are eligible for financial help who have not signed up. They are one minute away from finding out if theyre eligible for health care that may cost them 50, 100. They have people that will help them sign up, some of the the hundreds of organizations, there are thousands of people ready to hem them enroll, and that help is there today. So with that, im very please to introduce first mayor ed lee. Hes taking the initiative to make sure we truly dont leave people behind. Mayor ed lee. Okay. That was a great introduction. Blown away. All right. Welcome, everybody. I am so thrilled to join peter and covered california, of course, president breed, who is already Pretty Healthy because she was at the exercise room this morning before going to work, and she was talking on the phone while she was doing her exercises, so i know shes keeping healthy. You know, it is ten times better so have insurance than to not have insurance, and while its been a challenge to get the Affordable Care act, while we have it, peters absolutely right. Lets take advantage of the affordablity that all of the wonderful people at covered california have done in partnership with us as a city, but also with health right 360, because they dont just work by themselves, they work with Community Based organizations. Peters described some of them. I happen to know chinese supporter health care i happen to know blue cross blue shield, high numbers, 36,000 people enrolled, and not only do we want all 3700 to reapply and to do it comfortably in the next few months, we want more people so that they come out of the unsured category. Weve done a pretty good job. In fact our uninsured number of people is less than 5 because of covered california. It is also less because we werent just stopping covered california is a wonderful thing, and its so good that we even added our own program to it, our San Francisco health plan to make sure additional people can be covered. This is how much enjoyment and how serious we take peoples health. In our Chinese Community and asian community, if you dont have good health, you cant help anybody else, and this is why covered california is a principal part its something that we not over fought for, but lets not confuse, as peter says, that because theyre having the debate and ups and downs in washington d. C. Doesnt mean we cant get the Health Care Coverage for people right here in california, and i want to also address my thanks to apexer because i think youve got to have the branding with it, and with the buses that covered california are going around, youre not going to be able to miss it even if it gets to you late. Okay [ inaudible ] i want to make sure it gets to all of the destinations. I understand, peter, youre going to go to some 22 spots and make sure, not just at these speeches, but the visuality of making it easy for people to enroll, making sure that people take care of themselves, and that is the whole point of this. Our health is value. We dont want people to take up all the emergency spots that we have for people who truly have an emergency as the zuckerberg General Hospital does for all of us, so be healthy, make sure you have that insurance, and were going to be saying this in spanish, in chinese, in tagalog, and in all the other languages, that we want to make sure people have that access, so congratulations, covered california. Itll be our privilege to bring this not only back to San Francisco to make sure everybody get reapplies and make sure we stay healthy. Thank you for being here thank you so much. Can we have our board president breed come up and say a few remarks. And you dont look very sweaty after your work out this morning. You look great. Thank you, thank you. Its easier for the mayor to get ready after a workout because he doesnt have to do his hair like i do, but its wonderful to be here, and i want to thank the mayor for choosing health care 360 which has been providing health care to our communities in the city and county of San Francisco for more than 50 years, so it is appropriate of the 13 locations that have been chosen to display this amazing piece of art by this incredible artist apexer, thank you that we made sure that we art in places that demonstrate what our values are as a city, and this is the exact place where it needs to be based on its reputation, based on the work that they continue to do, and based on the continued needs. As the mayor pointed out, 37,000 people signed up for covered california, and 80 of those people qualify for subsidies, but we know there are 30,000 people out there in the city and county of San Francisco who qualify and dont know that they qualify and could use the benefit of health care. When i was in college, i remember leaving home and thinking what am i going to do . It was expensive, i had a few schol arrestships. I had to pay for the Greyhound Bus to come back and forth from home, but i didnt have health care, but i just prayed where nothing bad would happen where i didnt have to go to the hospital or go to the dentist, things that we take or granted. Health care is a right, its not a privilege and so thank you to health care 360 tor demonstrating time and time again that thats why its so important to make sure we continue to get the word out. Go to cover i coveredca. Com. We want to make sure they get the services that they need to continue to grow and thrive in our great community. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much supervisor breed and mayor lee, and the numbers are big numbers. 35,000 San Francisco residents, 700,000 californians eligible for Public Health, and they dont know it. So what are we doing . Big advertisers. Its not that big scary stuff like cancer, but that small stuff, like reading your cell phone while you walk across the street, tripping and falling and breaking your wrist. We have someone on our bus who broke their wrist recently, 57,000 its the little stuff up on the ladder, putting Christmas Lights on your ladder. Were going to get the word out. One of the ways that were going to do that is this cover in our tour. Over a dozen locations, local artists conveying on community clinics, a paddle shop, insurance agencies. A couple of things, that health cares local, and were bringing it home. But were working with groups Like Health Care 360 that have been a part of this community for years, because covered california is here for the residents of this city and state. This mural is not going away in three months, its not going away in three years, covered california is here fore the long haul, so youll see us here. Health care is a right. Were so thrilled by this piece of art, but i want to Say Something that ive marked many times in the lesbian and g gay parade right here down on market street, but health care is a right in rainbow colored, anchored in the streets here in San Francisco, but health care is a right and its known by San Francisco residences, by californians, and americans. Health care is a right, and thats what were going to make sure we keep delivering on in california. So with that, id like to introduce ricardo richy, apexer. I want to say thank you to everyone who spoke today, ed lee, supervisor breed, 360, everything that everybody said when this project came to me, im a native San Francisco resident, born and raised here, working in hospitals and health care industries, and i live really close to here, and i remember seeing the building get remodelled, and i think its great that its a health care center, health care 360 in the middle of San Francisco that a lot of people when it comes to Public Transportation, traffic in and out, so thinking about the mural, i definitely wanted to touch base on a lot of different points. The different communities that health care 360 helps with services, as well as i also think the rainbow colors represent everybody. Its not just one group of people or one race of people, San Francisco is of many different races. Theres a lot of different people, as well as a lot of different class levels. You know, painting murals in San Francisco, i get to see all walks of life every day, and a lot of people speak to me, and they relate to my work and different manners that i dont of my interest, but not necessarily the first thing that you would think of. It lets me know that my fingers on the pulse of that, and so for this particular mural, i really wanted to give back something that everybody immediately, when you look at it, you know what it says, you know what it means. You feel it, and you can just take it away with yourself, and hopefully continue the conversation, as well as to have a mural that kind of highlights this corner, and if you come around and you see the logo on the building, that then, youre like oh, thats what that is. Thats where i can go, so that was something that was really important for me, and thats just a little bit about the mural that i created. Thank you. Apexer, thank you so much, and every one of these murals done by a local artist in their community telling a story of their community. I couldnt agree more. This is the diverse cities in one of the most diverse states in the entire world, and we have done a lot of work to make sure many people are enrolling, and i appreciate the mayors comment. Youll find the material on our website in english, in spanish. Youll find people at our location that speak english, spanish, chinese, tag dli alog is katey mcbride with us . I want to know that we talk about big numbers, and we in california have reduced the rate to historically low numbers, and behind those numbers, peoples lives have changed. I want to introduce katey mcbride. Shes one of the people that have benefited from covered california to say a few words. Thank you so much. So yes, i am a big fan of covered california. In 2006, an undiagnosed congenital birth defect caused my colon to twist into a knot. Two surgeries and the removal of 15 centimeters of my colon was saved, but i knew that i would not be able to ever be without shurinsurance. When the Affordable Health care act passed, i was finally able to purchase individually without being tied to an employers plan. My health care did not have to determine my trajectory of my professional life. I learned the hard way how quickly a person can go from being healthy to needing medical care. I am forever grateful for the passage of the aca and for covered california. Thanks. Katey, thank you so much. You know, talking about personal Health Issues takes courage. I want to thank her, one of the bravest things is people talking about their health care issues. This is not an abstract, this is a real issue thats changing lives. Sos ayou heard, 36,000 San Francisco residents have coverage through covered california. 80 gets subsidies, this is something for families that makeup to 90,000. Beyond that, no one can be turned away because of a health condition. Thats what the aca is doing. Its changing lives. I want to remind you in california, and covered california, were going to be open until the end of january , but theres a deadline, december 15th, and because of that here in San Francisco theyre having a big enrollment on december 2nd. Sign up so that you have coverage that takes effect january 1, and to do that, you must sign up by december 15th. So now, id like to invite you to join us in a moment were going to take questions oneonone from media that want to do interviews with any of the speakers here, and then quickly, were all going to go out to the bus to get a group picture. We would like all of you to join us. This is really about all of us getting San Francisco, californians covered. Join us at the bus, and hopefully, well get the right apg will to g apg angle to get the mural behind us. Were going to be done, were working to get this finished, but please join us outside for the picture, but thank you so much San Francisco. Youll been at the forefront to make sure we dont leave anyone behind. Thank you so much. [music] i came in with her impression of what i thought it was good what i knew about auditing with the irs spears i actually knew nothing about auditing in my mind it was purely financial. With people that audited the pain no one wants to deal with it now i see a lot of time explaining auditing is not just about taxes. Oftentimes most students believe that auditing is only financial whereas when they come into a Government Environment we do much more than financial audits. We do operational audits that were looking at the operations of the department for economy and efficiency and effectiveness. When i hire an intern some of the things that i am looking for first of all is is this individual agile and flexible because i am our environment is so fastpaced and where are switching from project to project depending on whats going on in the government at any given time. Primarily i didnt with audits on utilities management across city departments. Citywide this ods management audit was also been assisting with Housing Authority Audit Program the homelessness audit the it functions [inaudible] were starting any water on the department of Public Housing environment allows i also assist with the [inaudible] program. Then additionally i really enjoyed having staff who have some Critical Thinking skills. Because i believe the basis of auditing is not do you know how to audit, but to have Critical Thinking skills [inaudible] [inaudible] even though ive only been here for short time our quick indepth analysis and Research Analytical skills theres a lot of taking enlargement of information a compacting it a very concise report because weve a big focus on [inaudible] if youre transmitting this information to the audience you need him to be able to understand it. So i work with the Sparrow Program primarily. Broadway stan abused [inaudible] they prepare me for fulltime employment because i knew i could not to challenge myself in order to be an auditor. At the [inaudible] we are a content feedback and communication and they pointed out areas where i need to grow. One of the things i like about working at [inaudible] is that they actually give you quite a bit of autonomy i feel like kevin sage trusted me. The environment really [inaudible] to everyone feeling super collaborative and wanting to get to know one another. Which i think at the end of the date is a better Work Environment and gives you a better workflow. I believe that a really is a great experience because it provides an opportunity to have a better understanding of how government works. I think what ive learned so far is that every audit is unique everyday. Different learning opportunities. The recordation we make in on its i can honestly go home at the end of the day and zack and treated [inaudible] in a better way. Even of not familiar with what auditing is you should deftly find out. Its been really really awesome he was it turns out theres a whole world of auditing that i cannot open file oriented performance and [inaudible] and thats an exciting. Audit is a lot broader than i ever knew before. Good morning, and welcome to the government audit and Oversight Committee for november 15th. My name is jane kim, ill be chairing todays committee. Joined by aaron peskin and joined when i president london breed shortly. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Clerk silence all cell phones andle
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