supervisor compos make some opening remarks and my other colleagues would would like to do so will maer from the civil grand jury and from the departments bho have responded, then we ll take public comment and then the committee will prepare responses, so supervisor compos? thank you, mr. chairman, if i may, i want to note that my hearing requests was a broader discussion about the amendments that have been haed and the status of the ordinance, one report that aos related to that is the recent report from the labor and standards so we d like to hear from them. so, we will maer from lsd, supervisor, compos? yes, good afternoon, mr. chairmen, members to have committee, i want to provide some context of how we got to this point, the health and security ordinance was introduced by my predecessor who s currently in the assembly and it was passed by a super majority of the san francisco board of supervisors in 2006. the health and security ordinance created what is known as t
supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. er would you call items 1, 2 and 3. they re involving hearings involving the civil grand jury report, including health care security ordinance, addressed concerns raise ined the report and to provide the board of supervisor s to the reports finagled and recommendations. thank you very much, just to be clear, we are holding a hearing as required on the super grand jury report, in addition, supervisor compos called for a hearing on that report and then we have to prepare our responses so we re calling these together since they are on the same subject, and the way i would like to proceed is first i will have supervisor compos make some opening remarks and my other colleagues would would like to do so will maer from the civil grand jury and from the departments bho have responded, then we ll take public comment and then the committee will prepare responses, so supervisor compos? thank you, mr. chairman, if i may, i want to note
was a very simple reasonable piece of legislation that said that when the health and security ordinance says that you have to spend money on health care, the word spend or expenditure means spend expenditure, means making an expenditure, not collecting money and not spending that, and that was really the very simple legislative solution that we tried to come up with that is a solution that recognized that most of this area is covered by federal law and that we as a city cannot get into the business of micro managing how business individual businesses manage these accounts because if we were to do that, we would be in violation of federal law. as you may recall, at the time that this was introduced, what we thought was a very simple piece of legislation turned out to be one of the most controversial pieces of legislation for that year, that legislation was approved by the board of supervisors but much to our surprise and disappointment, the mayor vetoed that legislation in o
for supervisor mark farrell, to my right is supervisor carmen chu bho is sitting in for supervisor elsbernd, we re joined with supervisor compos, i would like to acknowledge and thank sfgtv staff for broadcasting today s hearing and our clerk is alisa miller, are there any announcements. er please shut off any cell phones, items upon the day will be ton october 16th board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. er would you call items 1, 2 and 3. they re involving hearings involving the civil grand jury report, including health care security ordinance, addressed concerns raise ined the report and to provide the board of supervisor s to the reports finagled and recommendations. thank you very much, just to be clear, we are holding a hearing as required on the super grand jury report, in addition, supervisor compos called for a hearing on that report and then we have to prepare our responses so we re calling these together since they are on the same subject, and
thank you very much, colleagues, any additional comments? with that, we will start with the civil grand jury to present its report. i m not sure who s going be speaking for the civil grand jury. thank you. good afternoon, supervisors, thank you for holing this hearing on the 2011-2012 grand jury report health care security in san francisco, i am the person protemp of the [inaudible]. if you could speak up a little bit so that folks watching on tv can hear. sure. i will try my best. before i turn the podium over to my colleagues who will be presenting the report, i wanted to acknowledge the presence of members of my jury, also present here today are members of past grand juries as well as some members of the current sitting grand jury and going to president chu s opening remarks, something that may be reviewed in a continuity report, i wanted to recognize absence of certain members of the 2011-2012 grand jury, they could not be here, that includes our foreperson, as we