president breslin? >> i move we go into closed session for member appeal. >> second. >> president breslin: okay. any public comment? all those in favor of going into closed session say aye? opposed? >> president breslin: all right. item number 14. >> clerk: item 14, action item. vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion held in closed session regarding member appeal. >> i move that we not disclose any of our discussion held in closed session. >> second. >> president breslin: all those in favor. opposed? it's unanimous. item 15, please. >> clerk: item 15 is also an action item. possible report on action taken in closed session. >> i move that we not report on any action taken in closed session. >> second. >> president breslin: all those in favor? opposed? all right. so that's -- >> i move that we adjourn. >> second. >> president breslin: i know there is no objection. >> good. thank you. gentlemen. are you guys excited? today is budget and finance committee. we have 11 ama

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and now in orlando colin breslin morse found some fossils while working trapped between the different layers of rock thanks for those responses. a revolutionary gene editing method has been making waves in a science world in the last few years crisper cas nine can also d.n.a. very precisely by acting as genetic scissors. it works like this the scissors are a protein. it is assigned a kind of search word for example a g c in this simplified model our d.n.a. is made up of lots of different combinations of codes like these. the series of proteins scans the d.n.a. . and when it's found the search word the scissors are activated and they cut the section out. then a different section of d.n.a. like the code t.c.c. for example. can be inserted the method is precise easy and cheap to perform and scientists all over the world a trumpeting its prizes. is for me it's a dream come true because christopher cox has made everything easier than with it's the biggest breakthrough in the scientific field in thirty years essentially this is the start of something really big. one of the researches he tri

remarks, health service board president and health service system executive director and president breslin. >> this is our annual educational forum. not to be taken as a substitute for board education entirely. any of the board members know if they look to the rules there's a whole list of subjects that the board should be educated in. so this is one of the options but there are also many other with the fiduciary duty is an important one -- and i hope they keep up with education outside of this forum. thank you. now i'd like to report on the conference attended. >> commissioner: i was privileged to go to the annual meeting of the international foundation of employee benefits plan in new orleans from october 1231 13 to october 17 and part of that was a workshop for new trustees and i learned a lot in the trustee section and throughout the meeting. the overall impression and a won't go through the details is i really learned even more. it reinforced my appreciation for the work this board does and particularly the work of all the employees of the health service system and the leadership in i

president's report, president breslin. >> i have nothing to report. is there any public comment on this item? all right. item number four, please. >> item four, discussion item, director's report, executive director jand. >> good afternoon. it is open enrollment month, and i am informed as of today, we've had 3,757 calls, 1,068 applications have been received. over 400 of those are already processed. we had good news, too, early on, about the self-service. folks were using it, and that seems to be going very well. haven't had any major glitches with the self-service, so that's very promising, and we'll keep you posted on that. we will, today, be talking about the strategic plans and i'll skip over that. and what i would like to jump to, though, however, is the november education forum. we did receive feedback from -- on a survey that we sent tot board members about what topics would be of interest to this board, and about 70 to 100% of the ratings vary from interested to extremely interested in. one is under the rubrick of care navigation, health care