Evans. Any announcements . Please silence all cells phone and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards should be submit today the clerk. Items today will appear january 12 meeting unless otherwise stated would like to thank Jessie Larsson squh gym smith for braus braud casting todays meeting. Item 1 is consider apointding 3 members terms ending february 1, 2015 to the parks and recreation Advisory Committee. There are 3 seats and 3 appicates great, we have seberate members of prosack who are here today. Looks like [inaudible] is first is not going to be able to make it. She has written testimony boy robert brooust, if you can please come forward. Good morning, supervisors. I am robert braust and thank you very much for hearing and giving me the opportunity to introduce myself, explain why i was original picked to represent district 8 on prosack. Explain a little of what i managed to get done in the first 2 years and what i hope to get done in the next. I am a Founding Member of d
Many dispensaries should be allowed as well as growers and how much space and symptoms. San franciscos kind of small so we have a lot of vertical space we can take advantage of that with changes. I think that would accommodate a lot of things and resolve a lot of problems. Keep everything here in San Francisco where it started. At least set the bar where it starts and continued to set the bar higher for other states as well. As the years progress. Okay, thank you. Peter maxwell. Thank you for your time. My name is peter mashup i spent 5. 5 years in the cannabis industry. I spent 3. 5 years at the apothecary in San Francisco. The manager there for the past year and a half. My User Experience and practice some a lot about the industry. I think we understand all about patient needs and concerns. The supply chain of cannabis and demand of that supply and how to best operate and maintain a successful dispenser good especially pride myself as an educated ive composed a couple different lectu
June 7, 2017. Okay, supervisor farrell. Thank you supervisor avalos and supervisor cohen and everyone who is here. I will keep my comment brief. We brought this item before committee and will continue today until the next rules committee, but want to reiterate the purpose behind this. I think everyone shares this here, the parks inside the sit a are some the greatest assets qu provide a high quality of life and as the city grows in terms of population and otherwise and we feel it every day, the parks are used with greater intensity more than ever before. Over the last few years inside of city hall the parks budget has note grown and if we want to maintain had parks and new open space we ptd to develop in San Francisco, we need to make sure spending for the park saz priority and that is what this amendment does. Before i introduce this we had a huge neighborhood process across the city. I want to thank the Parks Alliance for a great partner throughout the process. Neighborhood groups in
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