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We have a quorum. Could you please read the announcement. Dont to you covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health regulars issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health, they have lifted restrictions. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and held by s sfg tv. Please be aware theres a brief lag time between what is being viewed on sfgtv. I would like to extend our thanks to the staff for the assistance of this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item dial 888 2733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 10 to be added to the speaker line and you will hear an automated voice that when tell you when its your turn to speak and your twominute speaking time will begin. These instructions will be repeated. If they havent done so, ill ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise. Your first order of business is approval of the minutes of may 26th, 2020. Commissioners, before you, you have the min
That is dated. And so im very enthusiastic about the water supply budget work sheet. I think we will have a much better understanding of water supply, issues related to that. So i hope you get a chap chanceo look at my letter. I requested there be a backgrounder included with that, so the elements are clear on how the system works and water rights. So information about the baker act, the 1995 flow schedule and i requested that there be information in there to look at the history of water entitlements and demand and storage level and so annual entitlements, tourist demand over the years and how much water was remaining in storage at the end of the year. I think that will be very helpful in transformin determiny moving forward. I hope there will be an opportunity to for the public to ennaturengage in using this too. Some of the factors to be considered are entitlements but alternative supplies, demand is we know demand is much lower than it was projected. New storage could be included an
Setting now is under the auspices, frankly, of another Insurance Company cigna. So i think that this is opening up a hornets nest in terms of pricing for all of these specialty drugs. I know that they specialize in drugs that have to be administered intravenously, and it can be administered by the members themselves. But there may be other drugs. So i point this out because this is an issue not resolved for this benefit and i think that it deserves our look at it more carefully for all of our contracts that involve this kind of a pharmacy benefit company, a forprofit company, where our members are paying outrageous amounts of money for drugs that are accessible to them in other ways. Yes, thank you. And i think that is exactly why, you know, we are seeking additional contracts with other providers at this time. You know, the way that the benefit is currently set up, the drugs are paid under the medical plan and not the pharmacy plan. Because the fact that there are injectable drugs. Bu