Thank you steve. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to our dc members and or guests. It is wonderful to be here at the Detroit Economic Club. Organization is long attracted some of the nation his most distinguished thinkers and innovators. It is my privilege to introduce todays participants. Well engage us to the capitated rating discussion about the future of healthcare. The may begin by introducing our guest speakers, someone who ive known for monday years and consider him a mentor and a friend. Scott promises the president and ceo of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association National federation the source 36 independent communitybased and locally operated Blue Cross Blue Shield companies. Including Blue Cross Blue Shield of michigan. The Blue Cross Blue Shield system through his federation of insurers, covers one out of every three americans. I think this is the very important statistic. What else does this frankly. It serves every zip code in the united states. In every zip code in ame
Little cleaner. Okay. And i believe that was seconded by supervisor tang. Thats correct. And, colleagues, can we take that motion to amend without objection . Without objection that should be the case. [gavel] and then now on the motion to continue this item to november the 25th, colleagues, can we do that without objection or do we need a roll call . Without objection as amended, mr. President. Im sorry . As amended. As amended. Without objection this item as amended will be continued to november the 25th. [gavel] and with that, why dont we go to item 28. Item 28 is an ordinance amending the police code to repeal the prohibition on entering or remaining within a 25foot buffer zone of a Reproductive Health care facility; to prohibit individuals from following or harassing others within 25 feet of the entrance to such a facility; to prohibit impeding access to the door of such a facility; and to prohibit excessive noise through yelling or amplification of sound within 50 feet of such fa
That were very proud of. Im honoring him for his social justice work. He has been active in the Asian American community for over a decade. I know he looks a lot younger than a decade, but he has been extremely active. Hes been involved in grassroots activism in the Asian American immigrant worker and lgbt communities on both coasts of the country and his vision for social justice is grounded in the realities of those communities. After graduating from Brown University and ucla law school, chris worked as a Ford Foundation new voices fellow where filipino advocates for justice in oakland before joining the positive Resource Center in San Francisco as a staff attorney representing clients living with hiv. He is currently the executive director of the asian law caucus which works on housing rights, immigration, labor, and employment issues in the Asian Community and ha been very active in effecting positive social change on the policy level here in San Francisco and right here in our own
This is an organization that promotes healthy children and families by providing services to prevent child abuse, Domestic Violence and ensuring that our families are safe. And i can certainly tell you, colleagues, and i think many of you know amors work. He has been able to impact hundreds of families and children in ensuring that the city of st. Francis really takes care of her own. With that in celebration of filipino History Month i want to thank amor and i see that supervisor cohen would like to add a few words. Amor on behalf of our constituents in district 3 and many districts around the city i want to thank you for everything youre doing. Supervisor cohen. Thank you for allowing me a moment just to also lift up and honor amor sanity whition owe. ~ santiago. Youve been incredible to the valley since you stepped n. I think your leadership transcends any kind of ethnic boundaries, any kind of class boundaries. You have a good heart. You have a wonderful nature about you that reall
Right actually be protected . applause i ask for your support. And i want to thank supervisor wiener for his cosponsorship of this legislation. Thank you. Colleague, any further discussion . Lets take a roll call vote on item 28. On item 28, supervisor cohen . Cohen aye. Supervisor farrell . Aye. Farrell aye. Supervisor kim . Aye. Kim aye. Supervisor mar . Mar aye. Supervisor tang . Aye. Tang aye. Supervisor wiener . Aye. Wiener aye. Supervisor yee . Aye. Yee aye. Supervisor avalos . Aye. Supervisor avalos . Supervisor breed . Aye. Campos aye. Chiu aye. There are 11 ayes. Ordinance is passed on the first reading. [gavel] and with that, colleague, we have a number of 3 oclock and 3 30 special orders. What i would like to suggest is because we have many people in the audience here for our 3 30 special commendation is that we take the filipinoamerican heritage month commendations first. But as soon as we finish them, we will go back to our two 3 00 p. M. Special orders. So, with that, col