I want to thank mr. Yoder and mr. Antweiowe had a meeting last month on the role of the legislative branches together and directing your role in sacramento and there was a bunch of process improvements leading up to that hearing and im very pleased that you are here in person thank you for making the trip on short notice from sacramento in the middle of a very active legislative session in our state capitaland i want to thank mrs nicole wheatonelliott. And her staff for the work that with a have done and were now getting minutes from the Legislation Committee that we have been in endeavoring here at the board regarding pieces of state legislation to get them in your hand in our clerk has been giving them to use so thats been a resolution on our part and i want to give an opportunity for the public is watching as well as my colleagues to get to know youre in person it was a pleasure to get to meet know you over a bowl of soup i confess i am sick and have a fever so thank you for humorin
The hospital diversion rates contributing to this. Of course is also the high number of patients needing low levels of care who are not able to be diskharpbld discharged from the hospital, how the flow from the system would assist in decompressing this and how at least a short Term Solution as we move into the new building the number of slots that are available within the emergency room will be increased considerably over what we have now so that diversion hopefully would then go down. We also then discussed the Patient Care Services and the hr report showing that were on schedule to be able to staff the hospital. During the medical staff report we did approve the radiology Clinical Services rules, regulations, cidp, policy, controlled substances utilization review and evaluation systems mandate and in closed session approved the credentials report. If there were any questions from that, otherwise you also see those in the minutes that will be distributed. Now commissioner karshmer can
Budget budget to loot and invest in ways that reflect our San Francisco values my budget submissions and the boards deliberations in the coming weeks it city halls way to menu our priorities our city is facing challenges we cant deny that neighborhood crime is up and homelessness is visible and preying concern, the need for reform in our Police Department is evident i hear from resident about those issues they want safe and clean neighborhoods they want us to address homelessness they address it in a humane way 2 respect San Franciscos values and want worldclass City Services well, this budget addresses those needs it invests in answers to homelessness and housing, that invests in Police Reforms and Pedestrian Safety and quality of life in our neighborhoods and the wellbeing of our people were using this unique time to make the lives of all the residents and the city stronger homelessness is a top priority we all know that there are far too of people on the street in fact, in and aroun
All the way to albapia. Im dannial lack in toronto. Home to the first museum of art from the muslim world. Good morning, thank you for joining us on Al Jazeera America, live from new york city. Im morgan radford. A 5month dispute obvious afghanistans presidency timely comes to an end. Overnight the two rivals signed off on a powersharing deal, one creating a unity government with the winner named as president. The runnerup shares power in a newly created job as chief executive. For more we turn to jennifer glasse. Live from kabul. How did the deal come together . Morgan, it was a longhammered out deal taking weeks of negotiations. This is the agreement, four pages long, and has an english translation. The whole idea is that it spells out who does what in the new government. The role of chief executive is a new role, created by a president ial decree after inauguration. The chief executive will have two deputy chief executives, and therell belongs therell be a longs Christopher Gibson.
Leadership institute and other grassroots organizations have done Great Research door to door, door knocking and advocacy. I wanted to acknowledge not only our former youth commissioner louisa c [speaker not understood] from the south of market area but also amanda from the sunset, malaysia funders, some of you may have seen advocating on different issues from the bayview Hunters Point area. Many of them kind of were from various high schools but also city college, San Francisco state as they were advocating and organizing for this piece of legislation. I wanted to also say that this ordinance specifically would amend the health code to include a cap on the number of allowable tobacco permits in each of the citys 11 supervisorial districts. While no existing permit will be taken away, a new permit would only be allowed in a district after the number of permits in that district has over time reached a cap of 45 permits. In addition, new permits have to be located at least 500 feet away