Updates from the Health Plan Representatives overall. And agenda item requests. Additionally, we are going to begin Public Comment with three minutes in length. All Public Comment should be made concerning the current agenda item that has been presented. Again, any Public Comment made outside of the current agenda item presentation will be asked to hold their comment and remake their comment during the appropriate agenda item. Next slide, please. I will not review all of the instructions for Public Comment. But there will be a Public Comment slide at the end of each presentation for members to make Public Comment during that time. Thank you. President breslin all right. Item number 2, please. Clerk item 2 is the roll call. President karen breslin. President breslin here. Clerk Vice President stephen follansbee. Present. Clerk commissioner mary hao. Present. And commissioner randy scott. Present. Commissioner chris canning. Im here. And supervisor dean preston. Here. We have a quorum, p
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
Other Health Coverage thats not sponsored by one of our employers. Number two here, this is 2 and 3 is in respect to our s. F. A. S with health care s. F. A. S, they can decide to cancel Going Forward for the rest of the plan year, cancel their election. They can make a new election if they had not enrolled in a flexible spending account before. Or they can increase or decrease their election. And this is Going Forward. And number three, applies to our dependent care flexible spending accounts. Again, they can cancel Going Forward in the plan year of their election and make a new election or increase or decrease the election they have made for the plan year 2020. Next slide. So the next one, which is based on i. R. S. Notice 2033, is specific to Health Care Flexible Spending accounts and this is our carryover provision that we currently have in our Health Care Flexible Spending accounts. Typically i would ask you to approve this, again, this september for the following 20202021 plan ye
My concerns about longterm sustainability. President breslin okay. Who made the motion again . Clerk commissioner lim. President breslin would you like to withdraw your motion or modify i think the concern of commissioner follansbee is getting all the commissioners i mean, getting all the health lines answer questions about increases. Id be willing to withdraw this, but remember the timeline, although i wont be there for the next meeting regarding the renewal for next year. President breslin commissioner lim, you will be there for the next meeting in may. Clerk no, he will not, president breslin. His term ends tomorrow. Commissioner simanski would be there, as long as we get others sworn in. President breslin well, i think its fair if they have the same questions across the board here, so they could be done at the next meeting and dispose of this. Just some clarification, and i think mike would be able to help me on this one. Blue shield this is a flex funded plan, unlike kaiser. Its n