The members of the public are here and well take them out of order and that will be the longest and the others are not long and madam clerk if you call item 1 first. Item 1 is a resolution authorizing the San Francisco department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately 2. 8 million in active Transportation Program funds through the metropolitan Transportation Commission safe routes to School Grants program for a period of for the period september 1, 2017 through august 31, 2019. Okay. Thank you madam clerk so i know dph is here to answer questions unless there is anything to say . No. I am here to answer questions. Colleagues seeing no questions i appreciate it. We dont have the budget Analyst Report for item 1 so we will move on to Public Comment. Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Supervisor could i have a motion to move this forward without recommendation. Moved. So we have a motion by supervisor yee and take it without objection. Madam clerk
Speak on item 24 which is to amend the redevelopment plan area to allow block one also known as 160. Period we would encourage you to approve the item to move it to the full board on april 12 we been supportive of this project that think its important to remember that this project is within the form of redevelopment Planning Areas gone through much more extensive approval process including going through the citizens Transbay Citizens Advisory Committee which received an endorsement from and into the opposite Community Infrastructure commission which received unanimous approval for. Then the Planning Commission. Overly onto the full board. Its unprecedented 40 onsite Affordable Housing for middle class families and we would think that given the discussion that state place at this for the past couple weeks with the Charter Amendment this be a project he would want to support. We support it just because the extra hundred amazing affordability 73 more homes, 44 formerly affordable at 60 .
Do you and arnie duncan sort of sit down and talk about how you interact and how to change what education means and what continuing education means in the labor front . I would ask the president of conversation. What the president understands, and i think the biggest adjustment we have to do is there are multiple pathways to the prosperity and apprenticeship is one of them. Community college etc. And the workforce innovation and opportunity that is a joint venture between the department of education and the department of labor. But it does is end and that the collaboration between the two agencies. One more quick example weve done a lot of collaboration and redesign in high school for the career Technical Education so the sixyear High School Model that some of you in the audience and twitter may have seen is a remarkable example of how to create pathways to the middle class. At the end of which youve gotten a Frame Associates degree. I went to the academy in chicago and that school is
The Forest Service must comply with well over 50 separate laws like clean water act and ep endangered species act. Three years. Not to mention the threat of frivolous lawsuits. These are fundamental and systemic problems contributing to the National Forest system. Its time that congress and the administration advocate for solutions that imfriewf management of our forests. Tough decisions will have to be made for policies that promote stream lining so the Forest Service can conduct this kind of work. If anything changes, everything goes up in smoke. I recognized distinguished member and offer any remarks she might have. Thank you, this is a an very important hearing and we appreciate all of the witnesses giving time and perspective and exter pis. I would like to give a thanks to chris wood, and so so happy that you are here and look forward to your input on the critical issues. This summer was as we know another recordbreaking wild fire season. We know that our thoughts and prayers are
Hepatitis c, diabetes and oncology are the primary drivers of the spending growth. Prescription growth is 1. 2 for the year. That is a substantial reduction from last year. The primary effect is the rescheduling of hydrocodone to more restrictive schedule which cut that market by 30 . And also you have more chronic care prescriptions are 90day prescriptions. 75 is on specialists. You cant look at that market here or everywhere around the World Without talking specialty. And next year we expect crestor to go off. So these are whats driving spending growth. You can see hepatitis at the top followed by diabetes, oncology, autoimmune, multiple sclerosis, hiv, respiratory, nervous system, and so forth. Almost all of the big five are in the specialty area. And if you look closely at the slide, and i assume youll get copies of this later, what the significant impacts are in each of these things and we break it down by new brands, whats going on with protected brands, with generics and patents