Health and Human Services Committee Special Called Meeting Transcript – 08/03/2020 Title: City of Austin Channel: 6 - COAUS Recorded On: 8/3/2020 6:00:00 AM Original Air Date: 8/3/2020 Transcript Generated by SnapStream ================================== Please note that the following transcript is for reference purposes and does not constitute the official record of actions taken during the meeting. For the official record of actions of the meeting, please refer to the Approved Minutes. [2:03:23 PM] >> They are ready for you in executive session. >> Harper-madison: I'm sorry, what was that? >> This is the av tech in city hall, chambers. They are ready for you in executive session. >> Harper-madison: Okay. Thank you. All right, folks, good afternoon. I'm Austin city council member Natasha harper-madison. We are meeting virtually on Monday, August 3, 2020. This is the health and human services committee meeting. It is now 2:03 P.M. And I call the meeting to order. And I'm pretty sure we don't have any speakers, but this is where we do general citizen communication. So we'll now take up citizen communications. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to voice concerns regarding items not posted on the agenda. Is there anyone on the line who would like to speak? >> We do not have anybody to [2:04:24 PM] speak. >> Harper-madison: Thank you very much. All right. Next up, item 1, approval of the minutes. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes for may 26, 2020? Looks like the motion is being made by councilmember kitchen. Do I have a second? And mayor pro tem Delia Garza seconds that motion. So the motion to approve the minutes passes on a 3-0 vote. If, councilmember tovo off the dais. Item 2, discussion and possible action, we have item on the agenda to discuss appointment of members to the central health board of managers. The committee will take up this item in executive session and once we come out, we will report back on this item. Briefings. We have no presenters on the agenda and will now move to our executive session item [2:05:24 PM] where the committee will discuss the members to recommend to the central health board of managers. The time is now 2:05 P.M. If there is no objection to going into executive session, the health and human services committee will go into executive session. I don't -- hearing no objection, the health and human services committee is now in executive session. [Executive session] [2:09:17 PM] . >> We will now go into closed session to take up one item. Pursuant to section 551.074, the committee will discuss personnel matters related to item 3, appointment of board members to the central health board of managers. I believe that's all we needed. [Executive session] [3:48:17 PM] >> Harper-madison: So Weare out of closed session. In closed session we took up matters related to item number 3. We have narrowed our selection and are going to goingto -- hhsc is out of executive session. During executive session -- sorry -- we discussed item number 3. So future items -- does the committee have any items they had like to identify? >> Garza: I don't. Chair, you froze. Do you want to just try to repeat the first part? Because you froze when you explained the process that we were going to do [3:49:17 PM] with Travis county. >> Harper-madison: Okay. So I'll start over. The time is 3:49 P.M., and the health and human services is out of executive session. During executive session we discussed personnel matters related to item 3. Today is August 3rd, 2020. The time again is 3:49 P.M. I'm sorry, we are out of closed session where we took up and discussed personnel matters related to item number 3. So what we'll do moving forward is work collaboratively with [indiscernible], work collaboratively with them before moving forward with a vote on the selection of our final candidate. All right. So future items. Does the committee have any items it would like to identify? [3:50:20 PM] Hearing none, as a remainder, the next health and human services committee special called meeting to review applications for the sobriety center vacancy will be August 31st at 2:00 P.M. If there is no objection, we are adjourned at 3:50 P.M. Thank you.