an hra is more flexible than an hsa. an employee can take advantage of this money and it is not reflected as income. if i want to go in need to go to the doctor, i can see the doctor and get reimbursed $100. that $100 does not reflect as income to me. that is a tax advantage and benefit for that employee. i have to admit, the testimony today, especially from the employees, was carried challenging and difficult. it was hard to hear those stories. as supervisor, said, i agree that must be a minority of employers behaving in that way. but i would like to be able to find out if that is the case. all we are relying on now is anecdotal education -- information. we do not know what is being provided and what is not. that is something we could investigate. i also believe it is important that employees know what their legal rights are and what their benefits are. other than when you first sign up with an employer and you have to fill out the form regarding healthy san francisco, i do not believe there is any other point in the or

that because of the partnership with the mayor's office and with mayor lee's commitment to jobs, with hsa, and private sector leaders, we've been able to move this forward with state and local and some federal funding. i particularly want to single out scott, who pointed out our numbers have been lagging in the private sector. he brought this to our attention. what we really ask you, our media partners, is to give the word out. there is still be potential for hundreds of jobs to qualify between now and june 30. the latest estimate is 300 new jobs that could be created if companies take advantage of what we have got here. with that, i want to thank all the partners here as well as our friends in private sector and small businesses we hope will be using this program to put our people back to work. >> good morning. i am the founder of small business california. but i am also an employer. everybody knows that small business is the engine that drives the economy, nationally. they hired two-thirds of the net job increases. it is really important that this information get out to the small busine

it stood on its own for a while and then was observed into hsa, which can be a good thing, but it does not have a lot of money. if you think about the hierarchy of needs, food, shelter, transportation, housing. that is where the priorities are. in many cases, it was small amounts of dollars. if you can eat -- supervisor mirkarimi: all of that makes sense. one of the growing trend that can be denied hi is the increasg demographic of people over 55, 65, especially in immigrant communities. it would be unlikely for me to feel confident that those communities, in particular, -- that we are getting through to them on questions like domestic violence. if there was more, i think, of vocalized presence from the senior community about us finding resources -- we are working together to do that -- aimed at this objective, i do not think we would have the after thought that you think might be. in the russian community, asian community, where we hear anecdotal reports of, i think you are at a tipping point right now of the population in san francisco looking for some attention and needs to be a foc

we are trying to leverage the good leverage thehsa -- we are trying to leverage the good work that hsa did. consolidation of reduction of mail services. again, it is an opportunity where we have similar solutions are around the city's embedded in apartments where we think this is another one where we can collapse into consolidated services and perhaps save the city some money, be more efficient. my favorite, having come from the private sector, looking for ways to market things is we have a lot of opportunity, i believe, and i am happy to say that we signed up our first customer on this plan that as we deploy fiber technology around the city, we have the capacity, we have the ability to also provide this type of fiber services to other government clients that nonprofit agencies to, frankly, to other businesses. this is a way we can actually generate revenue using our technology investments we are already making that have very low incremental cost to generate revenue over time for the city, and we are excited about not being seen as a cost center, but as a potential revenue source for t

collaborative to vocational services in seven of our own support of housing sites, and especially to hsa's $900,000 cut to families and single adults supported housing. san francisco has been a leader in development of supportive housing. what we do not believe is that you can strip away the services of housing for homeless people and continue to achieve the successes that have marked the work. high housing retention, low use of emergency services, high movement of residents off of general assistance, significant movement of residents into employment, and into higher levels of public benefits, and food health outcomes, and a development of community that breaks the isolation that so often marks homelessness. placing 100 formerly homeless people in a hotel with one social worker is a recipe for taking apart the successes that we have achieved as a caring and responsible community, and i urge you to reject the plan to strip down supportive housing. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good afternoon. i am here to act -- ask you to restore all of the cuts that have been proposed that are

hsa was a leader for us. bringing together how they could share staff and looking to expand the program to look at, seeing how we can shares that. another technology we are currently looking at and considering in terms of a way to save the city money, we spend quite a bit every year in replacing personal-computer is around the city. it has somewhat of a negative impact in terms of waste and things like that. there is a movement in the industry where we are replacing physical personal computers with virtual personal-computer. we will talk about how that can benefit the city. there are discussions of combining the mail functions in the city. the one that is exciting to me, as we think it is an area where we can stop looking at i.t. as an expense that looking at it as a revenue source, but would like to start aggressively marketing the dark fiber that the city helms, generating revenue for the city, working with other companies that are at that -- interested in attempting to market that capability, making the ci

one is our family resource centers, and that is in collaboration with our other city departments, hsa and dcys specifically. this is highlighting the importance of the work that we have been doing. first five is what we call the lead department in that initiative, so we contribute joint leadership, but is in our contract. we do the contract in for the funds there. the one thing to point out, and if we had more time, we could talk about it, is our commitment to using evidence-based practices in our frc and in all of our work. we're fortunate to know that we're making contributions to the field through the work we're doing here and in san francisco specifically. i will end with brief highlights on our other platform, the high- quality preschool program. it gives you a sense of where we are with respect to increasing -- to our anticipated increase for 2011-2012. we're proud of the fact that we have, even in these very dire times, a focus on serving our lowest income and highest need communities and children. to give you a sense, we have 100% participation of our headstart sites and our p

she will talk about highlights from hsa. >> good evening. what we talked about in general was the concern that the aging population is increasing rapidly in san francisco and how was the aging network going to survive all of these budget cuts, given all the cuts we have had thus far? i would say in comparison to the previous groups, we spent a lot of time talking about, "we have been cut." then there, done that. then cut many times and have a lot of experience trying to figure out what to do. our particular departments have always done their 10%. what we came up with was other departments do not, and it is not fair that some of the departments get away without getting their 10% cuts, and year after year, department on aging and other departments have to come up with their 10%. there was a fairness issue that came up in our group, and a lot of it was around changes to pension reform and health benefits. our staff do not have pensions at all, and they always contribute to their health benefits. everybody has to take a hit, then everybody takes