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Of the San Francisco Health Service board to order. Our regular meeting for thursday, august 11, 2016 would you please stand and join and stay with me the pledge of allegiance . [pleage of allegiance] i will now ask our secretary to call the [reading ordinance] [call of the roll] scott lamb Breslin Farrell excused, ferringo expected, follansbee sass. We have a quorum. Thank you. With that we will undertake action item number one item 1, action item approval with possible evocations of the minute...

I also think in terms of when you look at the mayors power visavis the board, if the mayor appoints someone who is then prohibited from running for reelection, the mayor will have less incentive to appoint someone who actually reflects that district and who will therefore be viable to seek reelection in that district. The mayor, in fact, will have incentive to appoint someone who is not necessarily responsive to the district, but is more responsive to the mayor. And that person can be in office ...

Please [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Lets not interrupt the voters right to decide for themselves. Lets put it it on the ballot. Let the voters of San Francisco decide, you know. It can go either way. But democracy, the beauty of democracy, is that its not the elected officials, but its the voters who have the final say. So, as a former as an a point aloe of gavin newsom, i am proud to say lets change the system or at least give the voters the opportunity to have a voice ~. Thank you. Tha...

Please [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Lets not interrupt the voters right to decide for themselves. Lets put it it on the ballot. Let the voters of San Francisco decide, you know. It can go either way. But democracy, the beauty of democracy, is that its not the elected officials, but its the voters who have the final say. So, as a former as an a point aloe of gavin newsom, i am proud to say lets change the system or at least give the voters the opportunity to have a voice ~. Thank you. Tha...

Please [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Lets not interrupt the voters right to decide for themselves. Lets put it it on the ballot. Let the voters of San Francisco decide, you know. It can go either way. But democracy, the beauty of democracy, is that its not the elected officials, but its the voters who have the final say. So, as a former as an a point aloe of gavin newsom, i am proud to say lets change the system or at least give the voters the opportunity to have a voice ~. Thank you. Tha...

Other board comments . This is an action item. Item 10 is a discussion item. Discussion item. Public comment . Hearing no Public Comment item 11. Item 11 presentation of fiscal year 201516 and 201617 Health Care Sustainability fund 2. 05 budget. Pamela levin. Our chief Financial Officer is looking a little puzzled. I apologize. Thats all right. Were in regular order and looking at the budget. Mr. Chairman and if i may and ms. Levin thank you and may i suggest we open it up to questions and comme...

Which is the president s report to this part of the agenda, and also after as we go through the other portions of the agenda item 9 i want to combine with item 11 in our agenda. There will be no special discussion on item 9. It will be combined into item 11 so with the and in addition we have item 16 which is designate d as a discussion item. I believe it has to be probably carried over because it is an action item, and item 18 is identified as an action item and its actually a discussion item a...

Comment. Good afternoon. Nice to see you. I wanted to make a couple of comments on the legislative session. I was too at the legislative committee yesterday and complete understand the current watch position on sb26. I am hopeful and anticipating that we will do Everything Possible to move that bill to a place where we can move to a support position because it begins to get at all of the things that we spent so much time struggling with around having data that we could use to make good decisions...

Youre comfortably reserved. This is based on prior Years Experience. Yes and we forecast it forward and apply the statistical tool kit and come up with a number. Based on the last three years . 36 months, yes, three years. Any other questions from members of the board . On these items theyre list listed as discussion items and i know Public Comment should come after each one of them. I have elected at least at this stage to ask the Public Comment be slightly defer because these items are existin...

Just go [inaudible] go right ahead. So im at the preliminary rate on page 10. Okay. On plan year 2015 we have the rates that are presently part of the rate basis for this year. We did all the math with the numbers we have and the trends that we developed, and overall the rates for 16 from 15 which dropped approximately 20 from 14 i am saying they should only go up 4 , three and a half, 4 . Now, thats good, real good as an act area and if we have the rates and they need to go up based on this inf...