Unacceptable and i think thats a struggle were going to need your support in fixing in the coming years. Its just unacceptable. I want to speak about the where we think some of the money could be found to fund the services that these folks are providing. The Systems Commission is submitting to you 2014 insurance renewal rates within the coming days. Now negotiations between kaiser and hhs staff has been [inaudible] so far and they use proposal which was the last offer. With kaiser refusing to negotiate for month hhs staff has outlined the issues for you folks to consider when this comes to you. Members have trended younger and healthier and requiring fewer services over the past seven years. Rather than reducing the premiums to reflect this theyre proposing a five and a quarter rate increase which equals 15 million. Their proposal includes intergreated care management. That total is 81 million. Kaiser has refused to give any data to justify why the fees have increased by condollars. Be
Nonprofit funding has been flat in the last five years which is basically a cut and the private contractors have increase and they had increase of 16point. 4 and addition to landlords that lease with the city get average of 1015 increase so basically the city is recognizing that other sectors that they do business with has the realities of business such as health care and workers comp goes up but what does the Nonprofit Sector . We have the same realities and workers have to pay the bills and we deserve to be compensated fairly for the hard work that people do, so pie colleagues gave you some really testimony about where the money could come from. I want to take a really hard look at that but at the end of the day its about where our citys priorities are, and we think it should be with the citys most vulnerable. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is peter mace ac with seiu 1021 and with the Nonprofit Coalition and the cost of living in San Fr
The nasdaq gained. The dow finished the day down 46 points, s p down 3, and the nasdaq up 3 points. Gold dropped slightly, but stayed above 1300. The Washington Post is being sold to jeff bezos, founder of amazon. Com, for 250 million. The deal includes all of the posts newspaper and media assets except slate and foreign policy. American eagle nose dived 16 after the teen clothing retailer cuts its secondquarter outlook in half. Abercrombie fitch also fell. Better times in july from 16 nonmanufacturing industries in the u. S. Everything from arts and entertainment to retail, transportation and warehousing. Glen schultz of Performance Trust joins us to help sort it all out. Hi there, glen. Hi, how are you . Im doing all right, and id like to know, the rate for the nonmanufacturing sector seems to be accelerating. How is this happening if job growth was just 162,000 . One of the things that we saw at the beginning of this year was employers beginning to back off in terms of hiring. So, w
Good morning, everyone. I am sandra smith. Ed i am ed henry. Police are investigating at least two shootings inside seattles capitol hill organized protest zone or chop which left a 19yearold dead and Authority Still on the hunt at this hour for suspects involved in a mass shooting in minneapolis sunday morning where one person was killed, 11 others hurt. At a new york city, also seeing a big increase in shootings, 22 people shot in just two days. Ed chicago seeing the worst gun violence with at least 99 people shot in at least eight killed including two young children. Ed a brutal weekend. Matt finn is live in chicago breaking it all down for us. Good morning. Good morning. Right now, Chicago Police are putting together their official tally of the weekend violence today so the number of People Killed on the number of people shot is likely going to jump from what we can officially report at this hour but here in chicago over the weekend, a 13yearold girl shot and killed while watching
Gaza. The images of dead palestinian children changing the tone of the war coverage. Im sorry, this is just this is assinine. The killing of women and children is is israel losing support in the American Media . The New York Times launches a crusade to legalize marijuana. And what about the warning signs in colorado . Plus, the ray rice controversy. Espn suspend commentator steven a. Smith for saying women who are abused by men have to be careful about provoking them and then declared he was annoyed at the criticism before finally saying this. Unfortunately, i did an incredibly poor job of asserting my point of view this past friday. For that, again, i am truly, truly sorry. Is that apology enough . And was espns punishment way too light . Im howard kurtz and this is media buzz. The Republican House voted to sue president obama this week for exceeding his legal authority. The latest round of political shadow boxing between the two sides. This is during an equally surreal debate that wa