Those in the audience would please take their seats, well get underway. I now call the regular meeting of the Health Services board to order. Would you please join me in saying the pledge of allegiance. 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. Well have the roll call. Roll call. Scott, present. Lim, present. Breslin, here. Farrell, expected. Ferrigno, excused. Follasbee, present. Sass, present. We have a quorum. Thank you. First action item. Item 1 approval of possible modification the minute of meeting regular meeting december 8 , 2016. Do i have a motion . Moved and [inaudible] the minutes the regular meeting och december 8 , 2016. Second. There is a second. Properly moved and seconded we approve the minute of the december 8 regular meeting of the board. Any comments or questions or edits by members of the board . Seeing none, any Public Comment . If
May be removed from the meeting. Cell phones on vibrate cause micro phone interference. Approval of minutes for january 3 regular meeting. Motion to approve. Second. All in favor say aye. The ayes have it. Item 5, communication. I know of none. Item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business. I like to [inaudible] i nominate Malcolm Heinicke. For chair . I thought we were doing both at the same time. We are just doing the chair. Any members care to address the board . Seeing nonenominating cheryl to do it this she is dedicated and knowledgeable person. The agency and staff and colleagueerize very fortunate to have sheryl step in. She is knowledgeable about mta and transit agencies around the country and world. She is very artechulate advocate for the goals of the agency and spend Many Community meetings during the year so will be a outstanding member of the board. All in favor of Cheryl Brickman say aye . Opposed . Thank you. [applause]. Call for election of the vice chair. We have
And this person wears 3 hats of the department and the solution to that was to divide those responsibilities so that person is doing one job predominantly\and we have more sports in the department i just wanted to ask about that doubling of the wellness e ap and doubling the staff is that because of the health care act. Ive got Additional Information it might be better if when we get to that. But it is not because of the Affordable Care act its really what we see is the larger needs of the city to have one person there is not sufficient to respond to the citys needs and potentially the courts and city college we need a more Robust Program thats going to be effective and the goal be obviously so to bring down a little bit im for wellness and improving healthy employment. I have some metrics ill be showing you these but those are the 12 contracts and meeting and were way behind open getting contracts final listed. And we have little time to do everything so were going to add a data manag
I just wanted to ask about that doubling of the wellness e ap and doubling the staff is that because of the health care act. Ive got Additional Information it might be better if when we get to that. But it is not because of the Affordable Care act its really what we see is the larger needs of the city to have one person there is not sufficient to respond to the citys needs and potentially the courts and city college we need a more Robust Program thats going to be effective and the goal be obviously so to bring down a little bit im for wellness and improving healthy employment. I have some metrics ill be showing you these but those are the 12 contracts and meeting and were way behind open getting contracts final listed. And we have little time to do everything so were going to add a data manager and another analyst so we can complete the work we need to do. And so those are the key position that are on the chart. We can come back to this later what the next slide is this is not the enti
That doubling of the wellness e ap and doubling the staff is that because of the health care act. Ive got Additional Information it might be better if when we get to that. But it is not because of the Affordable Care act its really what we see is the larger needs of the city to have one person there is not sufficient to respond to the citys needs and potentially the courts and city college we need a more Robust Program thats going to be effective and the goal be obviously so to bring down a little bit im for wellness and improving healthy employment. I have some metrics ill be showing you these but those are the 12 contracts and meeting and were way behind open getting contracts final listed. And we have little time to do everything so were going to add a data manager and another analyst so we can complete the work we need to do. And so those are the key position that are on the chart. We can come back to this later what the next slide is this is not the entire department. As ive said