Justice for all. Thank you. Our secretary will call the roll. Roll call. President scott. Present. Vice president lim, excused. Commissioner follansbee, excused. Commission sass expected. We dont have a quorum but we will by the time we get to an action item ive been assured by those expected commissioners. We do have some opening remarks so if youd call on discussion item 1 please. Item one opening remarks, Health Service board president and acting director. Mitchell, ill take the privilege of going first, if i may. Thank you. This forum is designed to do several things. Not only to provide more in depth information on certain tommics and issues that topics and issues that will bear on the work and policies in part as well as the issues as we work win providers. Some of these are not unique to the system but theres changes year to year well be addressing today. We began to do this three years ago. The premise was we werent going to try to cover everything. The landscape has changed dr
Look forward to your testimony. Of the past year our committee has been working to improve, strengthen, and streamline health and welfare programs under our jurisdiction. We have taken action to cut needless red tape, and make it more difficult for providers to deliver highquality care to their patients. We recently advanced targeted bipartisan reforms to improve medicare for the American People. Continuing the drive to strengthen a quality and care coordination. A role intee played developing comrades of regulation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. With the American Health care act that was passed by the house last may, we delivered marketoriented solutions that would increase flexibility, reduce costs, and return control of health care to the American People. While this bill is stalled, reliefs has delivered from obamacare. We also took action to prevent several Damaging Health care taxes from going into effect. When it comes to the welfare and antipoverty programs, we a
Allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Our secretary will call the roll. Roll call. President scott. Present. Vice president lim, excused. Commissioner follansbee, excused. Commission sass expected. We dont have a quorum but we will by the time we get to an action item ive been assured by those expected commissioners. We do have some opening remarks so if youd call on discussion item 1 please. Item one opening remarks, Health Service board president and acting director. Mitchell, ill take the privilege of going first, if i may. Thank you. This forum is designed to do several things. Not only to provide more in depth information on certain tommics and issues that topics and issues that will bear on the work and policies in part as well as the issues as we work win providers. Some of these are not unique to the system b
Visibility is less than a quarter mile outside the airport in oakland, and in the north bay and east bay, fog brought in by the offshore breezes. You can see how the low clouds by 2 00 finally clear out of the north bay and east bay, so well see mid 50s for highs. Maybe closer to 60 in san jose. Dry today, but check out the satellite view. We do have more storms setting up. Were watching two of them in particular as we head to the next five days. How much rain you can expect and how much more snow in the sierra coming up. Thank you. Well, a polarizing figure who sparked protests at uc davis is now headed to berkeley. Milo yiannopoulos, a controversial Breitbart News editor and activist was back on the Uc Davis Campus yesterday morning speaking to supporters and shouting down critics through a bull horn. This after an event with a former pharmaceutical ceo marken shu r Martin Shkreli was broken up. He was invited to speak by the Berkeley College republicans, but many have called for the
Gentlemen, the board will come back to order now, please. Here we go. Okay. The next item, item 12 presentation and discussion regarding the work of the mayors 2030 Transportation Task force to develop a coordinated set of Transportation Priorities and identify new Revenue Sources. Thank you. Director. As ive been informed the board since the beginning of this calendar year, the mayor state of the speech identified transportation infrastructure and dealing with the funding needed to resource it as a priority for him for this year. He soon there after established a task force bringing together a wide range of stakeholders to tackle this issue in the same way he brought people together to address business tax and pension reform and Affordable Housing so this comes from a string of successful collaborative efforts to solve difficult problems. Fortunately he tabbed two people in the system and monique, the city deputy controller who really has done the lion share of the work on top of a bi