Good afternoon commissioner will please come to order and owe secretary call the roll. Commissioner lloyd arrest commissioner singer and commissioner karshmer the second item the approval of the minutes of 2016. So commissioners the minutes are before you for approval is there a motion . Move to adopt a second. Second. There is a motion and a second are the corrections to the minutes. If not. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes are adopted. Item 3. The drortsz. Good afternoon, commissioners im not going to go through the Court Reporting in detail but answer any questions you may have i want to note that we have been doing a lot of work regarding responsive to postelection issues colleen our Deputy Director director of policy is here shell give us an update but three staff to discuss any of the concerns they may have and let them know our mayor has made it clear well continue to be a sanctuary city and continue to encourage people to Seek Services in our packets weve sent out
Go through the Court Reporting in detail but answer any questions you may have i want to note that we have been doing a lot of work regarding responsive to postelection issues colleen our Deputy Director director of policy is here shell give us an update but three staff to discuss any of the concerns they may have and let them know our mayor has made it clear well continue to be a sanctuary city and continue to encourage people to Seek Services in our packets weve sent out a postcard to all of the clients to make sure they know that it is safe for them to continue to get care copies for the commissioners were also looking at this as a time to think about our future financial status of department so were very, very mindful of coming budget and suhr we start thinking about reducing our expansion to really look at any vacancies we have today and realign those to try to start reducing our expenses so that over one thousand employees that we have brought on over the last couple of years we
Part in a discussion about the Childrens Health Insurance Program. The program is up for reauthorization in congress this year. This is 40 minutes. Starting the panel, we have the president and ceo of the Childrens Hospital association, the president of the American Action for him and a former director we were joking about the cbo scores and withstanding criticism and so forth and we also have the former director of the Medicaid Services and bill, the favorite of reporters everywhere, the Bipartisan Policy Center very helpful and also a former director of the Senate Budget committee thank you. Thank you for coming. We appreciate everyone being here today. When we planned the conference we thought we would be a little further along in the discussion of the Childrens Health Insurance Program reauthorization. We thought there would be conversations going along. There have been a few private conversations but not as we might have expected all those many months ago. When you think of Childr
To talk about two examples, case studies, if you would come of the approaches that we took when i was in the senate to actually get things done and move things forward. Ive had fellow senators during my tenure who had come to the end of 5 years and say they werent even able to get an amendment that theyve introduced to a vote on the senate floor. I will take two cases here to show you the way that we were able to do this. The first is on the post 9 11 g. I. Bill which i believe is the greatest Educational Program for our veterans in history. I started speaking about the need for a new g. I. Bill a real g. I. Bill fo for the people who would serve since nine 9 11 well before he decided to run for the senate in 20 2006. I come from a family that has a citizen soldier military tradition. My father served in world war ii. I grew up in a military. My son left college and enlisted in the marine corps during the iraq war and was in ramadi, iraq, and we kept hearing over and over again this is
Goldman sachs in 2007 interesting timing to run the markets desk and became president of the new york fed in 2009. In that role he served as vice , chair of the open market committee, the policymaking committee of the event. John taylor is the Marion Robert professor of economic at stanford and many other things at stanford. Among other things he was a , member of the Council Economic advisers in the First Bush Administration and under secretary of treasury for International Affairs under the second Bush Administration. John taylor is known as being the creator of the taylor rule. Although i am told he did not put at the name on it, somebody else did. It is a simple rule of thumb that talks about how far inflation is how far the economy is from full employment. John developed the taylor rule in 1993 when Alan Greenspan was chairman of the fed. Alan greenspan was either incapable or unwilling to describe his approach to the rest of the world. What made john so amazing was he seemed to c