Present. Thank you. Mr. Hursh . Present. Lipkin present. Tavares is absent. Vice chair gee present and madame chair present. Directors, you do have a quorum. Go ahead and call the next item. Sure. Directors, the next item, item 3 is communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process which has changed slightly from the last meeting. Members should dial into the published number, 408 4189388 and enter access code, 1466334383, press pound and then pound again. Listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comment to be announced. At which time, members would have up to three minutes to provide comments on each agenda item. They would get into the queue for a particular item by pressing star 3. I will announce Public Comment on each item and or for general Public Comment. And that is when callers will dial star 3. It will show their hand is raised and theyll be added to the queue and called on. Lets see. Callers will remain muted until their line is ope
This hearing to the call of the chair. But its my intention to have d. P. H. Back at one of our two july meetings, because i would like to have more of that detail and maybe some dollar figures attached. And i do have at least a couple of additional questions about the you know, the results of the bed study, for example, you know, how does that proposed increase in funding relate to the existing d. P. H. Budget for beds . Because my understanding is the existing budget for beds does not actually account for all of the beds we buy over the course of a year. So if were adding 10 million to a budget that already doesnt account for for the beds that we need to buy over the course of the year, im not sure thats guaranteed well be making progress toward the number of beds that we need. Anyway, maybe somebody can explain to me that aspect of the budgeting and maybe we can have craig wagner talk to us about that. And im wondering how the bed study relates to the beds we dont use. We know we ha
Thank you. Mr. Hursh . Present. Lipkin present. Tavares is absent. Vice chair gee present and madame chair present. Directors, you do have a quorum. Go ahead and call the next item. Sure. Directors, the next item, item 3 is communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process which has changed slightly from the last meeting. Members should dial into the published number, 408 4189388 and enter access code, 1466334383, press pound and then pound again. Listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comment to be announced. At which time, members would have up to three minutes to provide comments on each agenda item. They would get into the queue for a particular item by pressing star 3. I will announce Public Comment on each item and or for general Public Comment. And that is when callers will dial star 3. It will show their hand is raised and theyll be added to the queue and called on. Lets see. Callers will remain muted until their line is open. Automa
Expanding, we can make good decisions about how we use our limited resources to uphold the public good if were clear about our values and if we understand how to make the difficult trade offs. For me, i can promise to continue to update the public to be fully transparent and really to be brutally honest. This is going to be a really, really difficult two years. Perhaps unprecedented in the last 100 years. And the only way were going to get through this is by being honest, by being transparent, by engaging with the public and by coming back to our core values to make the tough choices. So thank you all for joining us. And well be back with more information as history unfolds. Thank you. And good bye. Roll call, please. Clerk all right. Ill go ahead and mention that director chang is sitting in as director haneys alternate. With that [roll call] clerk noting that director tavares is absent, with that, you have a quorum. Were going to change our agenda here in a little bit and start with
How to make the difficult trade offs. For me, i can promise to continue to update the public to be fully transparent and really to be brutally honest. This is going to be a really, really difficult two years. Perhaps unprecedented in the last 100 years. And the only way were going to get through this is by being honest, by being transparent, by engaging with the public and by coming back to our core values to make the tough choices. So thank you all for joining us. And well be back with more information as history unfolds. Thank you. And good bye. Roll call, please. Clerk all right. Ill go ahead and mention that director chang is sitting in as director haneys alternate. With that [roll call] clerk noting that director tavares is absent, with that, you have a quorum. Were going to change our agenda here in a little bit and start with the closed session. Before we do, id like to rerecu recuse myself for the closed session. Id like to ask that director hirsch, as i did so last time, take