Serve as administrator of the centers for medicaid, medicare and Medicaid Services. Welcome, miss verma. Were so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. And i see that your family is joining us here today to lend support. So i extend a warm welcome to all of you and to them as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer, covering over 1 3 of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over 1 trillion, and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Miss verma having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on a daily basis. And i suspect you also know that the job youve been nominated for is a thankless one, fraught with numerous challenges. The good news is there are opportunities in t
Item eleven, and just a couple of announcements, i made this announcement at a Cultural Heritage Committee Meeting a few minutes ago. In the february 4th, chronicle, there was an article entitled preservation falls flat, and he made a suggestion about possibly creating plagues to talk about the outside of the building to talk about the stories inside the sense of place and i thought that that was a really good idea. And possibly food for thought, for this commission to take up further with the Planning Department staff to see if we can somehow encourage that. Second thing is that there was an email that was forwarded to me today about the California Arts Council creating the cultural cultural district, asking for a letter of interest from various organizations as well as local businesses to become part of their Pilot Program to further acknowledge diverse and Cultural Resources, to identify high concentration of Cultural Resources and activities thought that it would be a great idea if
That later. Sure. We will move on to commission matters. Yes. Very good, commission matters item three, president s report and announcements. Item four, consider of adoption for the minutes arc july, 20, and the draft minutes of hpc february first, 2017 hearing. Commissioners anything for comments . All that i have to dredge my memory. We transscribed the comment letter from the staff on to here and we are probably waiting for that. I thought that was mine. Okay. Does any member of the public wish to comment on the draft Meeting Minutes on wednesday, july twenth for the review committee or february first, for regular hearing . Do i have a motion to adopt the minutes . Motion to adopt . Second. Thank you, commissioners on that motion to adopt the minutes to the july, 20th, and the regular hearing for february first, 2017. Commissioner haus . Yes, johns, yes. Matsuda, yes. Highland. Yes. And we move the commissioners passes seven to zero. Xh is that will place us under item five, Commiss
The subject matter description, with respect to agenda items it will be afforded when it is reached, each member may address the commission for up to three minutes,vy no speaker cards. Does any member like to speak on a nonagenda items. Seeing and hearing none we will close comment. That will place us under the department matters, directors announcements. Mr. Fry is not here at the moment, so maybe we will reopen that later. Sure. We will move on to commission matters. Yes. Very good, commission matters item three, president s report and announcements. Item four, consider of adoption for the minutes arc july, 20, and the draft minutes of hpc february first, 2017 hearing. Commissioners anything for comments . All that i have to dredge my memory. We transscribed the comment letter from the staff on to here and we are probably waiting for that. I thought that was mine. Okay. Does any member of the public wish to comment on the draft Meeting Minutes on wednesday, july twenth for the review
The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to the this mornings hearing. Today we consider the nomination of sima vermia to serve as administrator for the centers for medicaid and mediCare Services. Welcome. Were so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. And i see that your family joined you here today to lend support, so i extend a warm welcome to all of you and to them as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer. Covering over one third of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over 1 trillion and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state and Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on a daily basis. I suspect you also know that the job youve been