After the budget we will have the support of all the republicans because we have no support from the democrats or almost no support, because they really become obstructionists. And have no good policies, franco, theyre are not good politicians, but they are very good obstructionists. Thats what they do well. The number of nominees i have approved by the democrats are about half of what president obama had, and when you look at that, you look at judicial appointments and how slow thats going. I will have 145 ultimately, which is a tremendous number. We will have 17 court of appeals appointments. But they are not getting approved. They are being slow walked by Chuck Schumer in the group of really, itst disgraceful. Even people they know they are going to approve, they take it right out to the end and use every single minute. I think its a very disgraceful situation. Deadcare is everything but , the people are going to take it. Alaska had over a 200 percent increase, there were 116 , and
Offeofficer of the academy. For those of you who were here who was here at the demystifying healthcare session this week . You will hear a little overlap. The academy itself is its 30th year of existence and 30 years ago wilbur cohen, bob myers, real legends in the area of a social insurance realized that we needed the academy for two purposes. One, to serve as a network of consisting social insurance scholars so they can support each other in advance the field. At that time 30 years ago we scoured the country and could come up with just about 100 people in this country who were legitimate social insurance scholars. Today, the academy has a thousand members so within 30 years weve had a nice growth. The second goal of the academy and this is the essence of what is today is a magnet to attract younger people and at that point the academy younger people were me. It was a fear that we boomers were not understand why we had programs like Social Security and medicare and workers comp. The f
Francisco the only reason i didnt thank you very much. As you all know this process was very comprehensive a great deal of effort in searching candidates with the skill setsdz and characteristics that are desired and talked about in so many communities meetings and the right experience to lead the San Francisco Police Department the search included internal and external national as well as local about the its my pleasure to announce the author process paid off we found a candidate that both the commission and i felt embodied what the Police Department needs in the police chief in William Scott the deputy chief of the San Francisco Police Department. Deputy kind of scott a 20year veteran of lapd during the course the last years has under gone transforms within the department of justice and with the experience of managing a Department Taking on similar changes coupled with the progress made under 101 i didnt see leadership i be we have exponentially increased to build the 20 percent Poli
Commissioner moran mentioned. The other thing that bag says is they need togiven cra is projected to continue to grow that the investor in the utilities need to be cautious in their acquiring of assets that they know in likelihood might become stranded. Yes. Along those lines pacific gas and leckric when they applied to retire deoblow canyon rsh they think it is wise to retire is because the expansion of Community Choice aggregation and wont need the output of that plant to serve bundled utility cusmers. Thank you. I have one other item that is the rates item to address if i may. Please. So, i have been filling you in that pg e was making filings at the california pu c to modify their rates. When i last mentioned this at our december 10th update where we talked about projections of what those rate changes would be. Pg e said they would increase rates. You may have seen in the news they did on january 1, so pg e increased the rates and expect the impact to the hetch hetchy customers to
[closed session] [closed session] commissioner turman we are back on the record in open session and you still have quor. All right. We are back in open session. We have before us whether or not we should disclose the business we took care of in closed session. Do i have a motion . Mover nondisclosure second. New will set all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes] opposed . Unanimous50. Next line item mdm. Sec. Item number eight adjournment action item do i have a motion . So moved. Second. We are adjourned. Thank you everybody. [gavel] [adjournment] speed good morning welcome to sunny know we doubt. I am Deborah Nieman executive director of the newly Valley Community benefit district. [applause] yes. Longtime resident. So welcome to know we value the land of [inaudible] its the heart of our study and the heart of district aged i like to knowledge a few key people here today. I know i will miss him and im sure somebody will remind me were nudged me. But i like to note board president