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It is friday august 14th this is the appropriations and budget meeting im sandra fure. Fewer. Thank you for sf gov tv for broadcasting. Do have an announcement. In accordance with governor newsoms executive order no. N3320 declaring a state of emergency regarding the covid19 outbreak and mayor london n. Breeds proclamation declaring a local emergency issued on february 25, 2020, including the guidance for gatherings issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health officer, aggressive directives were issued to reduce the spread of covid19. On march 17, 2020, the board of supervisors authorized their board and Committee Meetings to convene remotely Via Microsoft teams and will allow remote Public Comment via teleconference. Visit the sfgovtv website at www. Sfgovtv. Org to stream the live meetings, or to watch meetings on demand. Members of the public are encouraged to participate remotely via detailed instructions on participating via you can call 14156550001 again 14156550001 me
And lots to talk about in your Weather Report today. Shell have the latest on that very soon. We want to get right to our top story. That is the president s late night communetation for his late night friend. Stone was just days away from going to prison for his help in the russia investigation. He was found guilty for lying to congress in part prosecutors say to protect the president. In just a moment, we will talk to congressman adam schiff who led the impeachment fight against President Trump, but we want to begin with kelly odonnell. She is at the white house with the latest. Kelly, good morning. Reporter good morning, peter. This is the first time the president has used this absolute authority to benefit a convicted figure from the russia investigation. After years of mocking and underdhauunde undercutting that probe. And part of the rationale is that the president wiped out the prison sentence in order to protect roger stone medically, to keep him from contracting coronavirus if
Here. Commissioner elias is present. A commissioner brook. Present. U a Vice President taylor, you have a quorum. For the members of the public who wish to make a comment the number is 4084189388 and the access code for tonights meeting is 146 6282245 and as always, please make sure you are in a quiet location and try to mute your sound, the sound around you to eliminate background noise. For the commissioners and presenters here, i will ask you to mute yourselves and minimize background noise unless you are speaking. And as always, either type your name or the emoji of your choice into the chat box if you would like to be heard. Tonight i will allow two minutes for Public Comment and lets get started. All right. Thank you, commissioner. For the members of the public this, meeting is being televised by sfgov tv. If you are interested in making a Public Comment, please dial 4084189388 and enter access code 146 628 2245. And then press pound. Press pound again to join the meeting as a pa
Comment is closed. Vice president follansbee okay. On the motion to move the budget to the Mayors Office, all in favor . Opposed . Lets go into item 16. Clerk item 16 is the infert willi infertility benefit status update for blue shield of california, presented by shawn lovering. I would be remiss if i did not think, on behalf of did not thank, on behalf of blue shield, natalie, for all of her work and support. We are going to miss you. Next slide. Next slide. So were here today to give you an update on our efforts around infertility. It was brought to our attention last year that there were some issues, and were going to bring to your attention that we can fix things. [inaudible] when they added the Custom Benefits that you see on the right. Next slide. So we did a ton of research when this was brought to our attention, and we identified the following areas where we had gaps. Benefit authorization and identification process. We understand that infertility is a prepersonalize very pers