We have closed captioning. Thank you. All right. Well convene the Mayors Disability Council for friday september 18, 2015. Im cochair chip supanich and asking harriet wong to read the introduction. Good afternoon, welcome to the Mayors Disability Council, this friday, september 18, 2015. In city hall. City hall is available to provide wheelchairs and access. Wheelchair access at the polk street is provided via a wheelchair lift. Assistive listening device are available and our meeting is opening captioned and sign language interpreted. Our materials are available in large print and braille. Please ask the staff for assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this rooms sound system and for everybody act to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment. You may fill out a speaker card at the front of the room or call our line 14155549632. Staff will be available t
Individuals beyond the most frequently cited group of undocumented immigrants who are categorically excluded for from eligibility for subsidies. As tom ammiano said, there will be people who simply will not be able to afford to enroll in the aca. Therefore, i have asked the City Attorneys Office to clarify eligibility requirements for healthy San Francisco to ensure that the Program Remains open not only to the citys undocumented residents, but to other groups of immigrants who are excluded from subsidized exchange coverage. Medical and medicare, to ensure that its accessible to dependents who are disqualified for Exchange Subsidies because their family members have received offers of affordable individual coverage, payer with unaffordable dependent coverage and to other individuals who are exempt from the individual mandate provisions of the aca. The final point, final principle that will be at the heart of this ordinance is that in order to maximize the uptick of Health Insurance rec
Benefit program, worker can use city medical reimbursement accounts to pay for premiums, deductibles, copayments and other costs associated with carrying Health Insurance coverage through cover california without actually disqualifying them from federal subsidies under the aca. During the process thats was followed by the universal health care council, staff and the mayors office, the department of Public Health, and the City Attorneys Office vetted the question with federal officials, and i believe that they were all satisfied that the city mra funds could be used for these purposes. Because of that, i have asked the City Attorneys Office to explore how we can best codify the structure of the city option as receipts of employer funds and assignment of enrollees to receipt sets of benefits with the aim of ensuring that the funds are most efficiently used to encourage enrollment and Health Insurance and to provide useful benefits to medical beneficiaries. The third point that i want to
The 50s all around the bay area. And, again, we are going to see a cloudy morning, a mix of sun and clouds today, and, yeah, that heat wave is over. Cooler temperatures for the next seven days. Well take a closer look at your extended forecast coming up in a few minutes. Developing news, a 3year old child is in the hospital this morning after falling from a second story window in benesha. The fall happened just after 8 30 last night at a building on brentwood drive. Emergency crews transported the child to a landing zone about a half mile away, then a helicopter took the toddler to Childrens Hospital oakland. Theres no word yet on the childs condition. An elderly woman died early this morning in a house fire in oakland. The fire was reported shortly before 3 00 a. M. On the 2500 block of parker avenue. The woman who lived there alone was pulled out and pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of the fire is under investigation. New this morning, a boy who stowed away on a jet from calif
Hi, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. It is official, three days in the announce we are in the middle of a heat wave. Heres lawrence with the numbers. We are starting to see some signs of changes and thats pretty typical of a bay area heat wave. Were on day 3 of hot numbers. These numbers this afternoon a good, yeah, 19 to 22 degrees above the average. Maybe about 86 in San Francisco. 92 in san jose. And about 91 degrees in santa rosa. Changes are in the works already. This High Pressure ridge starting to slide a little bit further to the east. Looks like that sea breeze is going to kick in this afternoon along the coastline. And that will carry with it some cooler temperatures and some muchneeded fog coming our way. Well talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. Back to you. All right, lawrence, thank you. Happening today, more bad news is expected when state water managers measure the latest snowpack. Officials are heading to the sierra to get this seasons final report. The last m