You will hear from our cfo details on our own budget, but i wanted to give you highlights on the overall city budget. The mayor really focused a lot on his investments and opportunities for all San Francisco residents, including investment into affordable housing, Service Increases to make San Francisco more livable, maintaining and improving or citys social net and youll hear today regarding the takeback of our firsz Year Community service cuts. The budget also continues to grow the citys reserves to offset the impact if an economic downturn does occur and the citys reserves for Economic Stabilization loss will grow over the next two years. The City Projects to have a 234 million across its general reserve Budget Stabilization reserve and rainy day fund. The 25th anniversary of the he tie sis c virus looking back to look forward, our own doctor with the center for Public Health research has been selected to present on hepatitis c at the center for Disease Control at their Public Healt
Have and also to note that we have a lot of work to do in the future to strengthen our Security Systems within the department. I also want you to know theres another Law Enforcement on campus at any given time, ucsf police because they are responsible for some of their areas of particularly the labs and then our own San Francisco Police Department who could be called to an incident regarding a 911 incident. We are still working on the 911 dispatch center issues and i think theres some progress going on that, but one thing i wanted to let you know that one of the things weve been working on is how do we then now talk to our own staff about this and just to let you know we have tentative date, were [inaudible] with the sheriff but were bringing the sheriff and the ucsf chief along with us to discuss this and the integrated staff on the campus at San Francisco general in the coming weeks. Of the staff recognized were all working together and have been working closely with the chief of ucs
What percentage of our revenue comes from people paying this rate . I should have known you were going to ask that and had it on hand. Of our and dont stick me to this number, but its a ballpark of our patient charges, not our entire budget, but of our patient revenues, i believe it is about a quarter to 30 comes from of our total revenue comes from commercially insured services at General Hospital. Although, if you look at the fraction of actual accounts, its much smaller than that so its in the Single Digits in terms of the percentage of accounts, but its a large portion of our revenue, but this is really a financial driver for us, it allows us to bring in rates from those privately insured accounts at the hospital that thereby help fill the gap on our uninsured patients and some of our lower paying Safety Network that we do for those patients. I can provide the exact numbers to the outline. Yes. Commissioner [inaudible]. How close does this bring us now to the Industry Standard . I
Of deputies who former cadets and some of them may cut through teeth on very welding sf again and thats exactly the kind of [inaudible] that we should be encouraging in San Francisco who gets that level of training and who wants to make the longevity be with our department. Im wondering if we can hold the questions for mr. Pickens until i can make sure that the commissioners have had the questions in deference to the sheriff and his time. You have none . Okay. So thank you again, very much. Youre certainly welcome to remain and potentially your own representatives could answer any other questions that may arise. I want to make sure you understand your own timing and that we respect that too and thank you for coming. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Pickens, there are questions and well start on my left here with commissioner karshmer please. Thank you and thank you to the sheriff for the work that you obviously have worked very hard to address some of the issues. And my r
Even talk about racial equality until we prevent violence against women and he was asked specifically to comment on whether or not the violence accessive force was a racial issue, and so that is food for thought as you go to your conference. And i am happy with the steps that we have recognized and being on the board of Saint Francis hospital and there is a womans physician Dialogue Group and so we have had the privilege of having the doctor from ucsf as well as christie from the department of Department Health as trainers to train the Healthcare Professionals to be able to identify, the victims of dow Domestic Violence and we also need to integrate, our care system and those children, who might be going to our Public Health system and identifying how to prevent them from falling into the hands of violence, and one thing that i noticed in this particular report and i was a 2006, california endowment sell out for thedowneralist fellowship and one area that we talked to was the infant mo