Rate decision. I was talking to michael mckee, the gdp report dovetailed with the fed. Interesting as we get to the jobs report on friday. Big economic day. Earnings before the bell, time warner. After the bell we have yelped and carlyle. Dotheres the brief, let me the data check before we get to a busy front page. Features negative two, future nothing, nymex crude 100. 34, douth. South. 1300, renminbi currency,er chinese exporting deflation out of china something to watch into may. An incredibly busy morning. Look at the front pages. Heres scarlet fu. Top our front page. Prosecutors considering charges against Credit Suisse and bnp paribas according to people familiar with the situation. Credit suisse big investigated over whether it helped americans as a taxes. Prosecutors trying to figure out whether bnp broke the law by doing business with iran, cuba, sudan, countries we have sanctions with. These are criminal. It could result in the first guilty plea from a major bank in 20 years.
Thank you. Supervisor tang . I dont have a question, i did have a chance to look over all of our summary sheets and i want to thank you you and your team for all of your work and even when we think about all of the contracts that you had to negotiate this year it was a huge headache and so really thank you so much for all of your work and i know that all parties had to come to an agreement, for the best of our city, and so, again, just wanted to express my gratitude. Thank you very much. And i want to express my surprise that you reached an agreement in such a timely manner, before we were. So thank you and your team for your hard work on this and we really appreciate it. Colleagues . Are there any questions . No. Any motions on the table . To make a motion to on ford. You need to take the Public Comment. I apologize, are there any members of the public who would like to make the Public Comment at this time . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, are there a motion to move
Reason it was mostly medical calls, and that was the person in every instance that had to deal with the situation. Constantly, and i just see that it clearly from my perspective, it seems like it is something that we should begin to look at. And whether, and analyze, and determine whether or not that is a good route for the department to take. Because, it definitely as you know, from your experience, i mean the need is definitely out there, and it may cost money on the front end, but could it be a real cost savings on the back end, and could it be, you know, a savings of efficiency, on the back end . To be able to address this with the department . Right. And supervisor, breed, and i am going to ask him to step in for the next two items and he can certainly weigh in more appropriate than me, but as a certified emergency medical tech nifm i know that the fields that we are trained in are helpful in the field and we have nine receiving hospitals unlike more rural areas, we are able to ge
Period after 2008, the city also worked closely with our labor partners to overhaul the citys pension system, and the citys retiree, health investing and benefit system. Both measures resulted in employees, in the vast majority of employees contributing something towards additionally towards the pension obligations and also start to paying into the Retiree Trust Fund and so as we entered into these negotiations, we certainly had some pent up demand and we tried to reconcile what the expectations were with the realities of having a healthy city budget but not a limitless one and so we believe that we reached a very fair agreement, the details of the wage package are as follows, effective october of this coming of 2014, the 3 percent general increase, and effective on october 2015, three, and one quarter percent, and then in the third year, of our three year deal, a wage increase which is based largely on how or what the rate of inflation is and so if we continued to be in good times it
Surprise that you reached an agreement in such a timely manner, before we were. So thank you and your team for your hard work on this and we really appreciate it. Colleagues . Are there any questions . No. Any motions on the table . To make a motion to on ford. You need to take the Public Comment. I apologize, are there any members of the public who would like to make the Public Comment at this time . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, are there a motion to move these items forward with positive recommendations . So moved. As the Committee Reports . Committee reports . Yes. Okay. So motion to move item 1 through 31 that is the Committee Report to the full board of supervisors. Yes, with recommendations. Yes, thank you. Without objection, without objection, the item moves forward, thank you again. Madam clerk, could you please call. We are just going all over the place today 34. Item 34,resolution authorizing the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to subm