Executive director of the Housing Authority Barbara Taylor smith. Thank you barbara i know youve had quite a year and at least i want to thank the hunters view residents thank you so much for being patient. And recognize the Hunter Tenants Association and as we help our people with walk its a new organization thats been be born out of the entire process. To our Housing Authority and commissioners thank you very much for your services and mothers against crime we wouldnt be her without you and uplift our educational macomb X Institution and we wouldnt be here for the leadership of then mayor gavin newsom and my predecessor between the two of them i also want to welcome the secretary back to San Francisco thank you for being here. And thank you, everyone clapping. as weve heard so far take the village i was to invite our next village person secretary thank you. Now well do the ymca. So good morning to you all. Thank you congresswoman and supervisors and mayor and residents for the invita
Weve expanded in the bay area because of the hope. And the investor were the investors for bank of america and let me say they took a big risk you had to have a sense of vision to look at what was here before to see that cross the street and say were in this and we believe the mayor and we believe the City Government and thats really important. So i want to thank everyone involved for allowing enterprise and the campaign to be a piece of this and congratulate jon stewart and rich theyve stuck through this like no one can 33 and i understand how incredibly difficult projects like this are congratulations and thank you for allowing us to be part of this clapping. so all morning long youve heard folks it talk about why were here i represent those folks in the community so why dont we hear from one of the residents, please come to the stage man god is good. So my name is p j im the member of the host and Activities Committee im also a hunters view pier leader and a a long time resident. I
I want to thank leader pelosi for her devotion to San Francisco to john stewart and the Housing Corporation none of this would be possible and tiffany with the infrastructure as well as the commissioners, thank you. Again, i want to thank Entrepreneurs Community partners and the San Francisco foundation and welcome back our brother Fred Blackwell and director olsen lee. And also want to recognize the executive director of the Housing Authority Barbara Taylor smith. Thank you barbara i know youve had quite a year and at least i want to thank the hunters view residents thank you so much for being patient. And recognize the Hunter Tenants Association and as we help our people with walk its a new organization thats been be born out of the entire process. To our Housing Authority and commissioners thank you very much for your services and mothers against crime we wouldnt be her without you and uplift our educational macomb X Institution and we wouldnt be here for the leadership of then mayo
That already on the provider side we spend enormous amounts of time as you mentioned enormous phonecalls trying to sort through these complicated issues regarding Health Insurance and by the way this is not just for people in the private market and not just for people on medicaid. Its equally true for people on medicare in the 130,000 regulations that go along with medicare. This is only going to grow and so at least for our practice since we have no idea what the exchange will bring in this 90day grace period issue is such an enormous issue for us that we dont feel we can actually see patients under these Exchange Contracts that we were pushed into without choice until this body or other bodies figures out what the rules are going to be so we can continue to provide service to be able to pay her staff. Thank you very much. Would the gentleman yield . Dr. Novack i just want to make it clear, under this 90day plan if you have lets say a 2 billiondollar practice that you pay all your peo
We have howard here as well. You have the ridge point, which is i think the most mature of the housing managers here, ridge points been around since 68, right . Thats right. And all of you amassed together with the Mayors Office of housing with hope sf, with the Housing Authority to make sure this dream comes alive. And, so, im just here today to say this is just the first of many announcements. Weve got three phases just at hunters view. Now, hunters view was seen only as a Pilot Project. And if you see the smiles on this familys faces and the other 25, its working. This Pilot Project is working. Its working not just because of the physical rebuild, but the care that hope sf has is about the lives and improvements of those lives. We had residents of hunters view involved in every stage of this project, looking for job training, looking to be part of this, looking to help move in and being part of the establishment. And, so, they werent just going to be sitting back, receiving the bene