Everyone in the country. At the aft, we really want to reopen schools safely for our workand for the staff that with our kids every day. We didnt hear anything from the president about this for weeks, until after joe biden spoke at the Convention Earlier last week, lifting up educators, pledging support for public education, and now suddenly, President Trump and betsy devos have woken up about schools and reopening after being completely silent for months. Instead of doing what we can usually count on a president to do in terms of leading with a plan that keeps teachers, kids, families safe, trump is demanding schools and campuses reopen without funding any of the necessary measures to do so safely, rejecting the cdc devosce, and he and betsy , unlawfully threatening to withhold funds if schools dont reopen. That is not president ial. That is not nice. That is reckless and dangerous, and it is purely political on his part. It abandons children, it abandons educators in the midst of a p
Im the first to say that we have a problem that we have some services for those people who have the most severe, most complicated needs, that they dont want you know, as many people as we put on the streets say thats not how people want to engage, and thats what i hope we get to moving forward on in these main areas around that Mental Health s. F. Legislation. Supervisor mandelman but i would just point out and i think i have a couple more questions, and ill feed to the other members of the committee. You know, the meth Sobering Center was i mean, what is it many different people on the Meth Task Force had many different ideas what the Sobering Center would be and what services it would have, from a place to get out the streets to more of an altern e alternative to p. E. S. From what ive heard on the streets, there was a real need to reduce pressure on p. E. S. And how a Sobering Center does that i can see stories how it does a little bit on the margins, but unless it has more, unless
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Activation . Its part of expanding our staff in the hotels, expanding our street presence, working with c. B. O. S to see if we can do contract modification so that we have more workforce to draw on so that we can get the successful programs that predated covid19. I dont have a cost on it right now. As i try to articulate, a lot of what we have quickly put into place, more quickly than anybody expected, during phase one of the activation, i think its given us sort of a foothold, a building and expanding into those areas that i talked about. Supervisor mandelman although that doesnt i hear that youre doing the work on the on the street response, but i guess im still missing the where folks in crisis would be taken, you know, over the next year if we dont have adequate capacity in p. E. S. Right. We we i mean, i think what we need to really focus on is with some slight reduction in capacity at urgent care. Weve been able to maintain most of our capacity in our diversion units and a. D. U