marlo simmons is here to present from the department of public health.good morning. >> good morning, i am marl low simmons with behavioral health services within the department of public health and we function as a managed health care plan for mental health services to medical beneficiaries in san francisco and under that work we are required to have a mental health plan contract with the state department of health care services. and they in turn answer to the feds. in 2016, the federal government released new regulations that oversee the requirements related to the work that we do and the state is required to develop new contracts with the mental health plans at the county level that reflect the new changes and so we -- the fourth item really is the new contract that outlines all of the new requirements and the third item is taking the existing contracts and backing it up. so we don't have two contracts at the same time. >> chair cohe.it is a retroactio july 1, 2017, which is a requirement from the feds down and on to us. >> chair cohen: does that concl