Supplies, and work orders of other city services, such as department of Human Resources, Controllers Office services, and rent. We have six f. T. E. S with the Directors Office vacant since march of this year, and we have an open grant funded position that youre not seeing in this chart, just vacated last week that were working on filling quickly. We, like all City Departments were instructed to propose a 10 reduction. We proposed initial reductions amounting to 959,000 annually, and this was an across the board proposed reduction of almost 12 to our communitybased grant fees. Realizing the impact of these grant fees to the vulnerable populations and the populations these serve, the Mayors Office asked us to submit some lower alternative reduction scenarios. The Mayors Service accepted our approximately 7 reduction, which would come from the departments genderbased balance intervention program. Understanding that all of our grantees work serves vulnerable and underserved communities, t
Due to excessive coronavirus hospitalizations and intensive care admissions. We have to minimize our mixing, we have to minimize the transmission of this disease. We have to minimize that by practicing physical distancing, wearing the face coverings, and doing the kinds of things that i think are well described and obviously now need to be more vigilantly followed. Reporter california is now averaging 124,000 tests a day with positive cases over the last two weeks flattening at 7. 4 . But still more than the 5 benchmark. Hospitalizations continue to increase by 16 , but far better than the previous twoweek averages of 28 and 50 . Icu administrations increased by 12 , but better than the previous two weeks averages of 20 and 39 . But we want to see a decline, not a reduction in the rate of growth. Reporter deaths averaged 91 a day, a slight improvement over 102 a day the previous week. Thats why we want everybody to double down on everything we have been doing, so that we can get back t
Commissioner scott this is commissioner scott. I move the acceptance and staff recommendations contained in the presentation now on page 29 and ive forgotten the earlier page and the resulting rate cards that have been presented. President breslin do i have a second . Vice president follansbee this is commissioner follansbee. I second the motion. President breslin any other discussion . Commissioner zvanski commissioner breslin, im sorry. I was muted, but i do have a couple of questions, if i may. President breslin certainly. Go ahead. Commissioner zvanski ive noticed for some employees, the employee and family plus rate have been going down im sorry for the echo and im wondering why those rates or at least the outofpocket seems to be diminishing. I was curious about that, and i may have misunderstood something. I thought i saw somewhere there was a charge for a u. H. C. Dental h. M. O. , and im wondering what happened because i thought we had delta for employees. And the last thing, i
Board commissioners, the Health Service system staff and members of the public. I wish to thank all the people who have worked many hours to make this meeting possible. Please note that our board secretary Natalie Ekberg and many of the Commission Secretaries across the city have collaborated to learn about these meetings. I also wish to note that our internal team has worked behind the scenes to provide the technical support, including marina coridge, Brian Rodriguez and others have stepped in to help manage our Public Comments today. I want to share my gratitude and thanks to all of you, as well as the Health Service staff who have helped make this meeting a reality. And finally id also like to acknowledge the Citys Department and Technology Staff of government tv for their time and energy into preparing our team. The staff and board commissioners appreciate all of your dedicated work, and i would like the board secretary to share her remarks regarding how to conduct ourselves in thi
So much. Thank you, president yee. Supervisor yee thank you so much. Ill seal you all tomorrow. Supervisor ronen see you tomorrow. Mr. Clerk, is there any other items . Clerk that completes the agenda for today. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. The meeting is adjourned. The Health Service Board Meeting will now come to order. I would like to turn this over to our director now for some opening remarks regarding the present situation. Good afternoon and thank you for joining the Health Service board Virtual Meeting with us this afternoon. During the declared covid19 Health Emergency and authorized by state and local authorities, the Health Service board Public Meeting is being held using teleconference technology which provides access for Member Participation online, thus producing a virtual Public Meeting in lieu of an inperson meeting. This virtual Board Meeting ensures safe distancing and safeguards the Health Service board commissioners, the Health Service system staff and members