Commissioner moran mentioned. The other thing that bag says is they need togiven cra is projected to continue to grow that the investor in the utilities need to be cautious in their acquiring of assets that they know in likelihood might become stranded. Yes. Along those lines pacific gas and leckric when they applied to retire deoblow canyon rsh they think it is wise to retire is because the expansion of Community Choice aggregation and wont need the output of that plant to serve bundled utility cusmers. Thank you. I have one other item that is the rates item to address if i may. Please. So, i have been filling you in that pg e was making filings at the california pu c to modify their rates. When i last mentioned this at our december 10th update where we talked about projections of what those rate changes would be. Pg e said they would increase rates. You may have seen in the news they did on january 1, so pg e increased the rates and expect the impact to the hetch hetchy customers to
Thank you all for coming back after the break and finding a seat. Appreciate it. Well just get settled again. Hi, im david lanski. Im the ceo of Pacific Business group on health. Some of the panelist you just heard from were members of ours. Let me just say a word about what were doing here and my job here really is to help make a transition between the wonderful case studies and purchasers to the implications for policy development in washington where we started the day with dr. Burgess. First i want to thank aei and brookings for sponsoring this meeting with us. Tremendous opportunity to have a dialogue that is nonpartisan and across many points of view to try to think what the successful developments of health care policy. Pbj is one of the sponsors. We represent about 60 very large employers and purchasers. They together have about 12 million covered lives and together they spend about 60 billion every year so they have a strong stake in the improvement of the Health Care System fo
Will join shortly. The Committee Clerk is steve stamose and the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record our meetings and make the transcripts available to it public online and of course the staff are gym smith and jessie larsson. Mr. Clerk, you have announcements . There are no announcements. Okay. Um, could you please call item number 1. Item 1, roll call. Peskin, present. Safai, present. Yee, present. We have quorum. Alright. Please call item number 2. Approve the minutes of december 15, 2017 meeting. This is action item. Okay. Any comments . I have no comment. I was not on the Vision Committee at the time but i have read the minutes and in so far as commissioner safai was not on there either i will not abstain as i usually do so we can get them passed and subject to Public Comment and move the minutes. Any other comments . Seeing none, any Public Comment on the item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Is there a motion . So moved. Any objectio