and commissioner slang and wanting breslin and i had two communications in conjunction or not with our board meeting hold a forum on states use even if concerned with the american clj of card lifts that came out with a standard of care and required that people who don't have indicators for the need for stalg even use go on them. so 75 they estimate it will one in every 3 people between the ages of 15 and 75 will be on staten so the idea was to have a panel to invite our major vendors to talk about their standards of care this is not to say there's not an important role for state and local governments but exercise should be tried first and try counseling or mental health issues and if that doesn't work consider going on some kind of pharmacyal but to have the first line of defense being the non pharmaceutical i was advised when we met with kaiser rather than the form include card lifts we ask appropriate experts their experts on cholesterol if we ask the experts to come and present their prospective on the issue we've looked for rooms to have an evening meeting to open this up to the pu

. >> item 10 president's report president breslin. >> i want to thank the staff for the high rates and a successful outcome and thank you to the vendor and to our members especially for showing up and gaifg their input very much and that's all i have for the president report. >> item 11 discussion item. >> would i get a public comment on that item public school. no public comment sorry >> item 11. >> discussion item director dodd. >> thank you catherine dodd director of health services system you have my report i want to highlight a couple of things the wellness department has underlined their position we have the last person starting next week and finance has two open positions we'll be making an offer and operations has 4 open positions we'll have a productive meeting are d hr and appointing you'll recall those positions have been open for sometime we're going to try to stick to a tight timeline and have everyone in operations from the 1209 to 10 so they are trained for open enrollment that's important. i will want to talk about the budget. pamela our cfo has been a significant time

roll call >> president breslin. vice president. supervisor farrell excused. commissioner frazierier. commissioner scott. commissioner slain excused we have quorum >> item one, please. >> item one action item approval with the modifications of the minutes set forth below the meeting of april 8th. >> any corrections in the minutes no corrections. >> i move the adaptation of the minutes as distributed. >> any public comment on that item? all right. all in favor of adapting the minutes say i. opposed no opposition it's unanimous thank you with your in the rates and benefits section i'll i'm going to turn it over to commissioner scott. >> i'd like to start out with a general comment with our work of the past year. we started with a rather mixed bag of activity at the conclusion of this process last july and subsequentially the health plans the staff harassing have been very, very diligent of bringing us to the point we are today, i find it absolutely remarkable we don't have the same level of interest with when there's a victory to be dlafrd. be that as it may i t

dr breslin favor another member of the task force majority asserted that a psychologist assisting interrogations has no responsibility for detainee welfare contradicting the most basic ethical principles of psychology practice america happens to be my client america's americans or who i care about i have no fondness for the enemy and i don't feel like i need to take care of their mental health needs producing some pain just seems to be you know what head first blush. something that would be wrong because we do no harm but if it does the most good for the most people it's entirely ethical and to do otherwise would be unethical. officials stress the organization strong resolutions against torture and claim that psychologists keep the interrogation safe ethical and effective in two thousand and eight thousand members effectively rejected this claim and voted down the interrogation policy. in spite of this referendum psychologists still assist detainee interrogations and their work remains highly controversial. today behavioral science consultants and research psychologists have a prominent role in