Coffee or something. Lets maouts our microphones unless were talking. Hi, even. My name is mark morowitz, the Health Commission secretary. Im going to flash the side again to explain how to make Public Comment. The phone number is 8883634734. And the access code is 2241350. Once youre on that line, you will be able to listen in on the meeting and when you want to make Public Comment, you press 1 and 0 in order yes, 10 in order to get on to the line for a specific item. For those of you who are watching on sfgov tv, a reminder that there is a delay on what youre seing from what the live meeting is. So, i encourage you to get on the Public Comment line one item before you intend to speak so that youre on in time. That way there will be no timing issues. And, again, we apologize profusely for the issues at the last meeting. Commissioners, is it ok to go on to the next item, item 2, the minutes . Thank you, mark. If commissioners have had the opportunity to review the minutes, without does
Comment line. We apologize for those issues. We asked a representative from sfgov tv to join us today to moderate the Public Comment call line to alleviate any issues. And we will have this resolved today and moving forward. Mark, would you like to give some specific instructions to members of the public who would like to make comment . Sure. I want to remind everyone to please [inaudible] and were hearing someone make a latte or coffee or something. Lets maouts our microphones unless were talking. Hi, even. My name is mark morowitz, the Health Commission secretary. Im going to flash the side again to explain how to make Public Comment. The phone number is 8883634734. And the access code is 2241350. Once youre on that line, you will be able to listen in on the meeting and when you want to make Public Comment, you press 1 and 0 in order yes, 10 in order to get on to the line for a specific item. For those of you who are watching on sfgov tv, a reminder that there is a delay on what your
Okay. So just a reminder to everybody, laguna honda folks, youre going to be first, so dr. Hu, please sign out of this. Everyone has to go to the closed session. S. F. G. Folks, please stay out im going to notify kim and dr. Ehrlich that were we spoke with people regardless of what they are. That is when you see change. That is a lead vannin advantage. So Law Enforcement assistance diversion to work with individuals with nonviolent related of offenses to offer an alternative to an arrest and the county jail. We are seeing reduction in drugrelated crimes in the pilot area. They have done the program for quite a while. They are successful in reducing the going to the county jail. This was a state grant that we applied for. The department is the main administrator. It requires we work with multiple agencies. We have a community that includes the da, Rapid Transit police and San Francisco Sheriffs Department and Law Enforcement agencies, Public Defenders Office and adult probation to Work
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