Item number 2 is approval of the minutes for the september 22nd Port Commission meeting. So moved. Clerk it looks like we may have lost the commissioner. Lets see if she can rejoin us. [no audio] commissioner, are you able to call in with audio . Commissioners, are you able to dial in using the phone number on the teams link . We have your video, just not your audio. Hi, i can barely hear you commissioner brandon. Oh, im sorry. Can we use indiscernible signal . Yes, if its visible. So people would need to indiscernible yes. Okay. So ill so, commissioner wuho is here. I got back into the own meeting, doreen. Right, right. Okay. Trying to give you hand signals. Great. Okay. Now we have a quorum. Can i have a second to approve the minutes . Second. All in favor . Oh, no roll call vote, please. Clerk sure. [roll call] thank you. Item number 3 is Public Comment on executive session. We will open up the phone lines to Public Comment. The members of the public joining us on the phone, jennife
Due to the covid [indiscernible] being held via teleconference. For those watching the live stream be aware theres a brief time lag between the live meeting and what is being viewed on sf gov tv. Id like to extend our appreciation to the staff for their assistance during the meet. If you wish to make a Public Comment dial 1415655001 [audio digitizing] ill ask asking to keep muted and item 19 has been removed from the agenda and we will not hear closed session item 19 the other closed session item will remain on the calendar. The first order of business is the annual election of officers. At the first regular meeting of the commission after the first day of october each year the members shall elect a president and Vice President of the commission to serve a oneyear term. Commissioners you, will first nominate the elected position and elect the position of Vice President. Public comment will be taken separately on each. [indiscernible] members of the public who wish to make two minutes o
I will ask everyone to place your hands on your heart to say the pledge of allegiance. Please unmute everyone. Okay. All right. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please call roll. Clerk yes. Commissioner dejesus. Present. Commissioner hamasaki. Present. Commissioner elias. Here. Commissioner rickter . Present. And commissioner cohen is excused. Vice president taylor, you have a quorum. And we have director from the department of Police Accountability and the chief. Thank you. For members of the public, the number to call in to provide Public Comment is 4156650001. And access code 14664628. 26, i believe. And remind the members of the public to have any of your devices on mute and there is no background noise and same thing for the presenters and commissioners unless you are speaking. Try to reduce the background noise by having yourself mu
Okay. All right. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please call roll. Clerk yes. Commissioner dejesus. Present. Commissioner hamasaki. Present. Commissioner elias. Here. Commissioner rickter . Present. And commissioner cohen is excused. Vice president taylor, you have a quorum. And we have director from the department of Police Accountability and the chief. Thank you. For members of the public, the number to call in to provide Public Comment is 4156650001. And access code 14664628. 26, i believe. And remind the members of the public to have any of your devices on mute and there is no background noise and same thing for the presenters and commissioners unless you are speaking. Try to reduce the background noise by having yourself muted. If you can please call the first line item, sergeant. Line item one, reports to the commission, discussion
Comment is closed. Vice president follansbee okay. On the motion to move the budget to the Mayors Office, all in favor . Opposed . Lets go into item 16. Clerk item 16 is the infert willi infertility benefit status update for blue shield of california, presented by shawn lovering. I would be remiss if i did not think, on behalf of did not thank, on behalf of blue shield, natalie, for all of her work and support. We are going to miss you. Next slide. Next slide. So were here today to give you an update on our efforts around infertility. It was brought to our attention last year that there were some issues, and were going to bring to your attention that we can fix things. [inaudible] when they added the Custom Benefits that you see on the right. Next slide. So we did a ton of research when this was brought to our attention, and we identified the following areas where we had gaps. Benefit authorization and identification process. We understand that infertility is a prepersonalize very pers