Clara county specifically when we did one of our peers and we had people at hss look at it again could correct me if im wrong but they want to the new period of collective bargaining adjustably increased with a offered. It stayed fairly stable for a while. Our understanding is gone up in the hope it will continue to go up. So theyre just being more right now. It was more of we need to is that correct . That is correct. But they also formalize the county plan could Santa Clara County employees could elect to be part of the Santa Clara County health plan. I think its called valley health. Yes. The county was subsidizing it. The county stop subsidizing it. Yes sir i will make sure im clear. Some counties like la offers an account like 50 different plans and some are like five. These are not weighted. These are not weighted averages based on how many people actually elect what looks like a cadillac plan or something week its just an average of 15 that is the algorithm until we go through t
Now have your secretary call the roll. President scott, present. Lim,print. Breslin, here. Farrell, expected. Ferrigno, here. Follansbee, excused. Commissioner sass, excused. We have a quorum. Thank you. Well now take action item number 1. Item 1, action item approval with possible moud fiication oz thf minutes of inmeeting set forth below regular meeting of march 9, 2017. Im ready to entertain a motion fruproval the minutes. Move that we approve the minutes. Second. Hear second. Any edits clarification or comments by the board . Any Public Comment on the minutes preceding meeting . Hearing and seeing none, we are now ready to vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed . Motion carries. I do have discussion item. That is item 2, discussion item. General Public Comment on matters within the board jurisdiction not appearing on todays agenda. Is there any matter in the boards jurisdiction any member the public wish to comment on it . As it relates to the Health Service system . Not
Now have your secretary call the roll. President scott, present. Lim,print. Breslin, here. Farrell, expected. Ferrigno, here. Follansbee, excused. Commissioner sass, excused. We have a quorum. Thank you. Well now take action item number 1. Item 1, action item approval with possible moud fiication oz thf minutes of inmeeting set forth below regular meeting of march 9, 2017. Im ready to entertain a motion fruproval the minutes. Move that we approve the minutes. Second. Hear second. Any edits clarification or comments by the board . Any Public Comment on the minutes preceding meeting . Hearing and seeing none, we are now ready to vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed . Motion carries. I do have discussion item. That is item 2, discussion item. General Public Comment on matters within the board jurisdiction not appearing on todays agenda. Is there any matter in the boards jurisdiction any member the public wish to comment on it . As it relates to the Health Service system . Not
And that food be happy to invite any of you to come to our daily stand up that we do every morning we review the data and take action. Thank you so much. Thank you. Mr. Schatz. Thank you mr. Chairman. I know va is working with dod so that the two can share servicemembers medical records electronically but progress as you know has been slow p. Gao cited the lack of progress is an issue and added va to its 2015 highrisk list. According to gao quote the two departments have engaged in a series of initiatives intended to achieve Electronic Health record interoperability but accomplishment of this goal has been continuously delayed and has yet to be realized. The ongoing lack of Electronic Health records interoperability limits of va clinicians ability to access records and so on. What kind of progress are you going to be making and when can we expect for you to be off of the gao highrisk list . First of all when i met with ahead of the gal isp put on that list. They run the largest Largest
Those reductions would have these effects. It would cut veterans medical care by 690 million. It would eliminate the funding for four Major Construction projects. This would reduce the va ability to provide additional Outpatient Services and will impact the following projects. The planned rehab therapy building in st. Louis missouri. The initial phase of the alameda california outpatient clinic, construction of the longsought after french california communitybased outpatient clinic. The replacement 155 bed Community Living center in. Center in. , maryland and would eliminate funding for cemetery Expansion Projects in st. Louis portland riverside, bayer month, and pensacola and a new column in alameda at reducing our ability to provide burial honors for as many as 18,000 veterans and eligible family members annually. The impact of these tested veterans care and benefits is unacceptable to me and i no it is unacceptable to members of congress. Chairman, Ranking Member members of the comm