With six members present. Item two, general Public Comment, this is a discussion item. Do we have any members of the public that would like to make a comment on any items that is not on todays agenda. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item three the approval of the march 24th regular meeting minutes. Move to approve. Second. All in favor, aye. That motions passes. The next item of business, is welcoming the new Small Business paul toursarkissian, so welcome to the commission. Thank you. Thank you mr. President. I request to speak. Go ahead and speak. Okay. And well, thank you for giving me the opportunity to introduce myself. I would like to start out by thanking the mayor for making it possible to serve on the commission with you. And i had the chance to meet with our director and acting secretary. Who briefed me on the ongoing matters before you. And told me also, how the work that you have been doing in this commission. So i. Looking forward to bringing my contribution to this
This isnt about creating a New Washington system to how to figure out how to pay people to provide care. This is much more broadly, about how do we establish policies to allow patients and families to remain in control of their health care and health care decisions. So so why did you guys bring up the reimbursement rates under medicare and medicaid as one of the reasons why there is this lack of adequacy of network i would say providers within some of the plans . I would say it is one of the reasons. Okay. So it so if the congress could help address the reimbursement rates and reform sgr, would that help or hurt the process . I think it all depends on how its done. And, again, id refer you back to the position of the Obama Administration who said in a court filing this year saying theres to general mandate under medicaid to reimburse providers, including hospitals in that, for all or substantially all of their costs. So the position of the medicare, sgr is focused on medicare. But im j
Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the friday january 25, 2013 meeting of the San Francisco local Agency Formation commission. My name is david employ campos and i am chair of the commission. We welcome everyone to the meeting and wish everyone who is watching a very happy new year. Madam clerk if you would call roll. President campos. Present. Commissioner avalos. Commissioner schmeltzer. Absent. Commissioner mar. Commissioner pimentel. If i may i know with commissioner pimentel there is an illness and if we could excuse here. Okay. Mr. Chair, we have a quorum. Before we start we would like to thank the clerk linda wong and acknowledge the sfgtv staff for covering the meeting today. Madam clerk if you can please call item two. Item two is election of the chairperson and the vicechairperson for 2013. Okay colleagues this is something that we do every year at the local Agency Formation commission, and ive had the honor of serving in the capacity of chair of lafco for the last two
I would like to make sure that we thank the staff of st. Anthonys, who is here in force today. Raise your hands and thank them. [ applause ] a couple of other grantors to st. Anthonys, thanking jack fitzpatrick, who is here. Stephanie and the koretfolks that have already been mentioned. Were actually going to do a groundbreaking. So i would ask those involved on that, that is everybody on the stage pretty much to start moving into the pit. So if you can stand up and start moving. Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the friday january 25, 2013 meeting of the San Francisco local Agency Formation commission. My name is david employ campos and i am chair of the commission. We welcome everyone to the meeting and wish everyone who is watching a very happy new year. Madam clerk if you would call roll. President campos. Present. Commissioner avalos. Commissioner schmeltzer. Absent. Commissioner mar. Commissioner pimentel. If i may i know with commissioner pimentel there is an illness and
Is there a motion . So moved. Moved by commissioner caen, seconded by commissioner moran, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Er aye. Opposed . Thank you very much. Item 10, approve the increase in the construction contract cost contingency for contract number wd2551 in the amount of 449 million 443, 646 dollars. Okay, this item is similar to what i did discuss earlier. It was approved in april and what we are asking is that the approved amounts you had done in april was 88. 7 Million Dollars, were asking part of that money to be transferred to the construction contingencies to cover all these pending change orders or potential change orders, trends and to some extent, some of the risk. Alright. Any Public Comment . Is there a motion or discussion by the board . So moved. Moved, seconded. Seconded. Commissioners, all those in favor, signify by saying aye . Aye. Opposed . Motion carries. Item 111, public hearing discussion and possible action regarding schedules of rate and is ch