Here to talk about federal spending. Mark goldman, lets begin with defining deficit versus debt. The deficit is how much we borrow each year. The debt is how much we owe. It is for some of all of our past deficits. If we think about a credit card, the deficit is how much you have added to the credit card bill in 2023. The debt is how much you owe total. Where we are right now and 2023 without deficit . There is different ways to measure it. People like to talk about 33 trillion. I like to look at debt held by the public as a share of the economy. The bigger the income, the more debt that you can afford. We are very close to 100 , meaning that the debt is as large as a full years worth of output. Why . Why are we in this position that we are in right now . There is no one thing. The covid crisis, the recession before that included a lot of onetime borrowing that got us far from historical average. Underlying that, we keep passing tax cuts and spending increases that widen our structural
Our membership and we value all the hard work that you all do. So, thank you and happy new year. President scott thank you very much. Any other Public Comment. Hearing and seeing none, the next item. Item 4, discussion item, directors report, acting executive director griggs. Board report for the december work, so we are in january, but looking back and highlighting the december work, and we are in the mode of thanking everyone, i want to thank the board for this opportunity. Its been a challenge, educational, its been fun, actually. Believe it or not. It has been a lot of hard work, and just to reiterate, specifically pamela and marina coleridge, the staff has been helpful but thanks to them and their support, having to put some things of operational, things on to marina and pamela stepping up with her expertise and how the city financial stuff works. So, thank you to all the staff. It has been a very busy year. And we are about to start a new rates and benefits cycle which well talk
Number of cases under advisement, 11. Number of cases abated, 49. Number of cases referred to the litigation committee, is two. Thank you. Mr. Lowry, just on the accessible business Interest Program which is now kind of starting to build for us. I would not mind in the presentation maybe in february we could have some thoughts on that at some point later on, i know its 4 to 6year program here, but how we are going to deal with a notice of violations on that. If somebody doesnt apply, or doesnt seek out the, to ratify and what is the tenant or the landlord. Maybe an accessibility section. I think we need to keep it separate. My first reaction, we could have huge amount of these, we cant really act on. We cant close out for one reason or another. And it will skew our numbers if we dont have them separate. Historical issues, or d. P. W. Issues to work through, we are trying to do our job with you we cant because its out of our jurisdiction. How we handle that, you know, i think is importa
Ill call special meeting of the Health Service board of the city and county of San Francisco to order. I would like to have the secretary please call the roll. Roll call, president scott. Vice president lim, [roll call taken] we have a quorum. Happy new year, everyone. Now ready to take up our first action item. Item 1, action item, Public Employee appointment hiring, h. S. S. Executive director position, vote on whether to hold closed session for update regarding board selection of h. S. S. Executive director, president scott. President scott will to entertain a motion to go into closed session for action as described. Properly moved and seconded. Any comment from the board, Public Comment, hearing and seeing none, now ready to vote. All those signify by aye, president scott we are now reconvened in open session. I am willing to entertain item 3 on the special agenda. Clerk action item, vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion held in closed session. President scott. Pr
Regarding board selection of h. S. S. Executive director, president scott. President scott will to entertain a motion to go into closed session for action as described. Properly moved and seconded. Any comment from the board, Public Comment, hearing and seeing none, now ready to vote. All those signify by aye, president scott we are now reconvened in open session. I am willing to entertain item 3 on the special agenda. Clerk action item, vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion held in closed session. President scott. President scott will to entertain a motion as to whether we disclose any or all of our discussion in closed session. Not the nomination, just the discussion. President scott discussion. Willing to entertain a motion. I move we not disclose discussion in closed session. President scott properly moved we not disclose any or all of the discussion held in closed session. A second . Second. President scott properly moved and seconded, any Public Comment, hearing