Last 15 years and im here in support of the healthy San Francisco for the following two reasons, i work in a downtown restaurant for more than 11 years with no medical benefits of any kind, the Restaurant Owner made sure i got less than 30 hours per week to be ineligible for my kind of medical benefit, my dental and vision care went from 2 thousand to 3 thousand dollars a year, my one year doctor visitors went from 1 thousand to 2 thousand dollars a year considering the fact that i havent had major illnesses in the past year, my partner was admitted in the emergency room, the doctors said if he hadnt been taken to the emergency raoment, that his condition was worsening, he wouldnt have made it through and died in a matter of hours, hes a healthy man again and doesnt have to worry about medical bills, thanks to the benefits of healthy San Francisco in emergency medical situations. These two examples illustrate in one hand the costly effects that the elimination of healthy San Francisco
Accountability and has unleashed authority to oversee state funded Community Collegeses. It is also a bureaucratic mess of contradictions. While the Community College faculty staff and administrators are being forced to ban their normal student and campus responsibilities in order to comply with unsubstantiated accjc mandates. When did a Community College become based more on the institutions governance process, which is thank you dedicated by california state laws and less on the quality of education being provided . These are important questions that we believe the state audit will answer and im honored to be joined by [speaker not understood] in this effort to examine whether our Community Colleges and students are being treated fairly, consistently and without bias. We ask for your support to ensure our safe public Community Colleges are not being forced to waste [speaker not understood] through the fees and taxpayer dollars. [inaudible]. Thank you. Thank you. applause hello, my na
Francisco labor council, you can tell by the color of my hair that ive been around for a while, i know that san franciscans Love Good Health care and health care for all of our citizens, back in the 90s, we passed six initiatives to Better Health care for our citizens, we know the single payer or many of us is the on the answer and in 94 or 96 that the state ballot that passed, that the single payer initiative, san franciscans passed it, californians didnt, san franciscans passed it, when we got to cfos, we couldnt have it all by itself in San Francisco, so we brought in all of the different force, we brought the federal government funding, the state funding and the employers funding to help provide access for everything, acso is not just San Francisco healthy, healthy San Francisco, its both, the mandate from the employer so they should pay their share as well as everybody, and as your attorney said today, we think aca is coming in, were excited about the possibilities, we wanted to w
Support the city of high users of city, tepwe recommend we aggressively do outreach and keep healthy San Francisco, thank you. Next speak e please. Hello, my name is [inaudible] taylor, im sure youre bombarded with call tos do the right thing, so im just going to say be clever today, i would ask you to pay close attention to whos going to be on the Mayors Commission and the voices and the backgrounds and where theyre coming from. Youre going to have an unrealistic view of obama care implementation, or thats what my worry is. If other ruminating of this advice may have a list of anecdotal evidence and howell they take care of their employees, if you must look to anecdotal evidence, look to the young kids in their 20s who are trying to get a start in their restaurants or any other business, we take kids who can get hurt easily and we have to give them an option for health care and its hard to pay 2 thousand dollars for one bedroom apartment for this town, so ive been one of those kids a
San francisco can have in the pockets of rest ranted workers. On the other hand, healthy San Francisco is an affordable option for our workers who work less than 30 hours per week at the city post minimum wage. I want to remind you that restaurant workers are the face of San Francisco in the sense that we take pride in the services we provide to rez densest and tourists by means of entertainment and pleasure. I assure you that restaurant workers are happy with the benefits of the healthy San Francisco program, we will make our economy a healthy one. Im going to read a couple more names. reading speaker names . Next d supervisors, my name is connie ford and im one of the vicepresident of the San Francisco labor council, you can tell by the color of my hair that ive been around for a while, i know that san franciscans Love Good Health care and health care for all of our citizens, back in the 90s, we passed six initiatives to Better Health care for our citizens, we know the single payer o