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Well call the meeting to order role commissioner pating ill note to here commissioner singer commissioner chung commissioner sanchez and sxhashgs the second item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes for august 418, 2015. There a motion. Missouri any comments no nope ill call for a vote. All in favor, say i. Thank you. Ill note no Public Comment for the item. The audience this is the first time ive chaired ill not get it right so. You have a skilled secretary here to help you laughter so ...

There a motion. Missouri any comments no nope ill call for a vote. All in favor, say i. Thank you. Ill note no Public Comment for the item. The audience this is the first time ive chaired ill not get it right so. You have a skilled secretary here to help you laughter so we move on to item 3 the directors report. Good afternoon wanted to lead the issue on the waiver because we do have a couple of is to have staff people to address this so ill leave that alone and move on to the next item and righ...

Like the Substance Abuse medical is the bridge to reform waiver as of 13 it is a demonstration waiver 1115 waiver called the organized Delivery System of medical waiver so the state amended the state plan and made a parole to cms approved this august to show it if they increased the Services Covered by drug medical that they could by organizing the system and having smooth trisz from levels of care and using evidence based practices they could improve the care and overall costs of medicaid would...

To the new communications and transportation capabilities that weve developed. Given the shifting culture and those expectations for speed and ontime delivery, im reluctant. You have to look at the economics of all of this and the trade offs and costs, but i hate to see the Postal Service give up one, two, three. Thank you. Mr. Miller. Mr. Chairman two things. One, as i recollect, the rational for this change in Service Standards was developed after i left. I dont know the details of it. I hesit...

The centers changed the standard of delivery and gone from one, two, three, days to modified one so au so if youre in the same met oe metropolitan area. Thats modified one. If were outside the area, you might get it. You may not. Modified one, two, three. I think the Postal Service would like to go to two, three. Two day even in the same metropolitan area. It would be one but two would be the expectation and three. In terms of whats appropriate for us, im not comfortable with the Postal Service ...

Essentially they are getting paid more money by some of these companies then some of the American People. You end up with this dilemma that they are essentially working more and more for the companies and for the independent parties, whoever is funding them, then they are for the American People. Who is paying the more . That is a major problem and has been and it shows more and more in our laws and regulations that are coming out. Host you have a couple of big races in georgia. Which way are yo...

Of pedestrians and cars. And it used to be i have to watch even after the light turns green for me. I watch for cars. These days i stop and i watch between cars and make sure that there are no bicyclist barreling down on me. The reason i want to say this is, i had a friend who was on a motor scooter and she was hit by a car, a drunk driver. She lost her leg. And august insurance is 15,000. Okay. What happened is bicyclist dont have insurance. Okay. If we get hit as a pedestrian, who is going to ...

Are the people that you really have to sit down and say, this is very serious. The city of San Francisco has to pay for these things. I think its important to sit down and have classes and have people come and talk and ask questions especially youth. Because if they dont start putting that into place, who is going to listen . Thank you. Now i will turn it over to comment from staff. Okay. Lets go to Public Comment. Well start with, if you will be kind to hang back if there are questions. We have...

[inaudible conversations] next day here in looking how veterans are transitioning to civilian life. In a washington journal segment on the destruction of chemical weapons and later a discussion about brain injuries and the elderly. A lot of people dont know how difficult it is. I dont know one person may be in this room that can juggle the things me and my husband have to juggle every single day with having three children on medical disabilities going back and forth to work sometimes maybe havin...

Prosports leagues are doing to address the issue of Domestic Violence. From professional athletes unions also testified. His hearing at the Senate Commerce committee is 2. 5 hours. It begins with Committee Chair senator jay rockefeller. [inaudible conversations] the hearing will come to order. Sports have always played a huge role culturally and otherwise in the United States. Just last week on thanksgiving millions of americans were probably paying more attention to the tv sets than their turke...