One specific thing. Our department has been involved in with many others building city academy which is helping many young people of color get into the Building Trades and weve been working with trustee Chris Jackson and folks in the neighborhood. Im replicating that model with culinary Hospitality Training program that will bring young folks into the neighborhood into the culinary and hospitality industry. We cant do that without a Community Trustee who speaks of and for that community. Mr. Ar dwell a doesnt know that community. We need our elected board back. Thank you so much. Thank you, mr. [speaker not understood]. applause i have three more names. Martin [speaker not understood]. Tomasita [speaker not understood]. And alisa messer. My name is martin trinidad lopez [speaker not understood] and i served four tours of duty in iraqi freedom as a sergeant in the United States army. As a math major applause and elected student ar and chicano resident, it is a shame our noncredit educat
Access, it is eleven Nonprofit Community healthcare, and more than 10 percent of the citys population, and i am here today to support this legislation and illustrate why it is needed because coverage california is not affordable for the many san franciscans who currently enrolled in the healthy San Francisco coverage but eligible for coverage california. Last fall i had the pleasure to train, 115 staff from the department of Public Health on how to enroll people in the coverage california, many have been working with the clinics and the population since the Program Began in 2007 and they know these patients very well, they were so excited to learn about the program and the prospect of helping people enroll. And well, when we got to the part of the training about the cost of the premiums, the cost of the copays and the cost of the deductibles their eyes got very wide. And mouths dropped open, and coverage california is significantly more expensive than the healthy San Francisco program.
Additional spend, and we additionally contend that especially because of the individual mandate that if an employer offers the insurance and they should not be on the hook for creating an account because the people have declined insurance that has to be affordable to them by federal law and the other thing that is problematic to us is that because of the change of the Affordable Care act, the smaller businesses and those with less than 50, it is much more challenging in this environment to provide the healthcare and it will be easier for the people to get a better deals and it is a real problem that we need to look at and the businesses have the same challenge of finding the plans and when the employees dont take the plans up it makes it difficult for them to provide the affordable insurance. And we really need to look at who is actually an mra accounts and who are in hra accounts on many of those people who actually dont need coverage, in San Francisco. And they are other reasons, let
Spending requirement of the city if your insurance cost less than the hourly spending requirements you still have to meet that requirement in another way, and the Health Reimbursement were birthed out the fact that the employers needed to reach a dollar amount. And we always contended with the implementation of the Affordable Care act that this law should be amended to allow the employers that provide insurance that is aca compliant and which has a threshold of 9. 5 percent of income, and that those people should not have an additional spend, and we additionally contend that especially because of the individual mandate that if an employer offers the insurance and they should not be on the hook for creating an account because the people have declined insurance that has to be affordable to them by federal law and the other thing that is problematic to us is that because of the change of the Affordable Care act, the smaller businesses and those with less than 50, it is much more challengi
And they teach you at balboa high that you should go to Community College for the first two years of your college experience. And the reason they teach you that is that you save a lot of money and they give you a time to figure out where youre going next. So, i have a deep stake in whether this Community College lives or does not live. So, for me its really, really important that, a, we have a democracy and that we have the people back, restore the duly elected board of trustees, and b, im very, very happy and applaud mayor lee and senator leno for suggesting legislation Going Forward to make sure that there is enough money for city college. City college is a vital, vital part of our Public Education system. Its for all of the kids of San Francisco. Its for seniors, its for veterans, its for everybody else, but literally middle class or lowincome person in San Francisco today cannot afford a fouryear college. So, city college is absolutely vital as a piece of the puzzle so make sure pe