Becomes a more acceptable conversation and the stigmas reduced, theres just a lot of learning on what needs to happen on what services are available and who they help the best because theres a lot of misinformation out there about what Mental Health services cannot do because it covered everything from the homeless methamphetamine addicted person on the street to the officer that is responding to these behaviors as a result of addiction. The Ripple Effect is pretty large. So many, many City Employees are experiencing the stress of their work today. So, like, three those three employees cant handle too many people, so do they refer to your health plan . Do they have contacts within the health plan that they send people do . They do. So thats the health plan liaison where we have direct phones, direct lines, and all three of our e. A. P. Counselors do utilize those. I am somewhat familiar as a Police Officer with the model there. I imagine that the model that im familiar with is is, from
Future. And the Nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has told us that the houses proposal will not generate sustainability of Pension Plans or the sustainability of the pbgc. So we better not spend time on something the Congressional Budget Office just isnt going to bring a solution and definitely not a longterm solution. In contrast, the proposal that senator alexander and i are releasing today addresses the immediate needs of the few multiemployer plans facing immediate crisis in a manner that protects participant benefits and also ensures a sustainable multiemployer Pension System for the long haul. And it does this all in a fiscally responsible way. Our proposal is not a giveaway to corporations or to unions, and its a better deal for the taxpayers at the same time than a future that even with a larger problem and a pbgc funding needs that will almost surely be met with a taxpayer bailout. All participants in the system would make a sacrifice. Let me make that clear. All partici
Benefit is and what you get through the smile way benefit. So that is why there is the difference in the flyers. But we have been promoting these at the health fair. I actually helped two of your retirees in role at the health fair just recently. They were really excited to learn about the program and that was really the conversation that we had during the Health Affairs the next slide is what you are currently doing. You are promoting on your plan resource section the delta dental wellness highlight. So both of the flyers are on your website and you also have a smile way Program Section and it actually gives the instructions to members on how they can and role in the plan. And then what i didnt put on here, and im so sorry, but you did promote smile way. You have, both in the retiree and the active benefit guides for 2020. You have a paragraph and there is a smile way pattern on there. And also there is a little footer on the benefit summary page in case they didnt read the content. T
Okay. Item number four. Item four is the approval of possible modifications of the minutes of the meetings set forth below. The regular Meeting Minutes from september 12th, 2019. Are there any questions corrections to the minutes . I move the minutes from the september 12th, 2019 meeting be adopted. Second. Any Public Comment on this item . All those in favor of approving the minutes signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed . It is unanimous in favor. Will all right. Item number five. Item five is a general Public Comment on matters within the boards jurisdiction. Do we have any Public Comment this is the time to come forward if you have any questions or concerns about something. Please come forward. Hello, my name is jason and i am from ucsf. Currently vaping and ecigarettes are still widely used and there are many programs in place that offer Preventive Health care screening and Mental Health care consultations. What are your thoughts about implementing or expanding the Tobacco Cessat
Currently doing. You are promoting on your plan resource section the delta dental wellness highlight. So both of the flyers are on your website and you also have a smile way Program Section and it actually gives the instructions to members on how they can and role in the plan. And then what i didnt put on here, and im so sorry, but you did promote smile way. You have, both in the retiree and the active benefit guides for 2020. You have a paragraph and there is a smile way pattern on there. And also there is a little footer on the benefit summary page in case they didnt read the content. There is a reference on the benefit highlight peace as well. You also previously promoted the smile way program in your in the news section on your website as of april 11th. So some future possibilities or considerations on how we can continue to promote this wellness benefit, one would be to add how to enrolled in the smalley program on your dedicated page within delta dental. So i gave the website we