Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for your patience. Both in allowing us to move this to 3 00 today due to the white house vtc, which we will come back to but a lot of good content, it ran a little bit long. We apologize for the fact. We are a little bit behind. Im joined by the woman on my right, the commissioner of the department of health. To her right, another guy in need of no introduction, dr. Ed. The guy to my left who doesnt need an introduction, pat callahan. Joined by jared maples, director of the department of Homeland Security preparedness and soon by chief council, matt plotkin. Lets begin with our daily update on the numbers and charts. May these never be just numbers and charts. These are real lives were talking about. First, today, we are announcing an additional 347 positive test results, pushing ur state total to 102,196. My monitor is out. If someone could get it plugged in, that would be great. Even as we cross 100,000, we must keep in mind there are tens of thou
Days, midterms around the corner, etc. If they get too caught up in the first 100 days, they will wind up like president obama did in some respects overplaying their hand. Tom has done a lot more work in health care than i have. Lawyer pass is perfect. With time, you need to revisit most of them. I dont think anybody would disagree we have some problems with Companies Pulling out of a. C. A. With costs. There needs to be worked on. I do know this. This is not easy work. It is complicated. It has a lot of moving parts. I think clearly the Trump Administration and congress will have to deal with this. I would caution them to take your time. Maybe not do this in the first 100 days. Work through how we can get better participation and how we can deal with cost. Can we add some things . President elect trump has talked about being able to buy across borders and medical savings accounts. I have been a big advocate of that and even worked with ted kennedy years ago to get medical savings acco
Perfect score of a hundred is not necessarily achievable so we go through the whole process and what we come out with our total needs that are estimated as 21 p. S. . 4 billion and here were sun shining it by the major programs by which the primary investment is muni one the big things from this plan it is significantly larger than the one we showed you two years ago good a big there of 5. 5 billions more a big component westbound fully assessing the states of replace specifically in the transit fixed railway the cable overheads and the parking the passing but also the state ons parking we added a lot of projects and completed a studies on the ocean subway was adams to the capital plan in this cycle about a year ago we undertook a Feasibility Study at the Fishermans Wharf extension of the t line third line this was excluded included and weve been developing a real capacity strategy to unlock the potential the light rail system to perform at a greater capacity to allow to it carry more
Thats the case again this morning, not as cold as yesterday morning. Not a pictureperfect day. We track a little rain, most of it off to the east of us this morning. Well get a couple scattered rain and snow showers throughout the day, but plenty of dry hours, too. I wouldnt count on a whole will the of precipitation. Temperatures generally running into the upper 30s to near 40 this afternoon. Nicelooking weekend ahead and plenty of 50degree wealth ahead, too, guys. Sarah time now for fast track traffic with Danielle Gersh. Danielle thanks, sarah. Good morning, everyone. Happy friday. Lets head outside. Heres a look at the zakim bridge and leverett connector. No issues to tell you about yet this morning. Heading into town from the north, 93 southbound, route 1 looking good so far this morning. South of town from the braintree split into boston, that drive nine minutes right now. Route 3, 24, 95 all looking good this morning. Into town on the pike eastbound from framingham, no delays as
Please rise for the pledge of allegiance commissioner president loftus earl please do. Commissioner president loftus Councilmember Sherman is in route commissioner marshall in route commissioner de jesus commissioner mazzucco is excused commissioner president fong and commissioner melara commissioner president loftus you will have is quorum also the police chief chief suhr and joyce hicks good evening, everyone here at city hall and welcome to the wednesday, september 9, 2015, Police Commission meeting sergeant next item. The presentation of certifies of appreciation calling names . If those folks with with us, please come up to the front. clapping. were getting a call applause before we even start we want to make sure we see your faces on sfgovtv in the one side of bar laughter this is a failure of my directions not your. Youre the leader we want to see your faces welcome chief colleagues and members of the public you are all sure that the Police Department went through a redistrictin