And welcome to the july 25, 2013 special meeting of the board of supervisors Neighborhood Services and safety committee, my name is david campos and im the chair of the committee, were here with eric mar, we will be joined later by Supervisor Malia Cohen bho is currently chairing the government of audits and Oversight Committee and sthe will be filling in for supervisor norman yee, the clerk of the committee is mr. Derek evans, we want to thank sfgtv staff for covering the meeting today, mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards should be submitted to to the clerk, items acted upon will appear on the board of supervisors agenda. Before we move to our item, i would like to entertain a motion to excuse supervisor norman yee, so we have a motion by supervisor mar, if we can take that without objection. I know that there are a number of people here for item number 1, we have a
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the july 25, 2013 special meeting of the board of supervisors Neighborhood Services and safety committee, my name is david campos and im the chair of the committee, were here with eric mar, we will be joined later by Supervisor Malia Cohen bho is currently chairing the government of audits and Oversight Committee and sthe will be filling in for supervisor norman yee, the clerk of the committee is mr. Derek evans, we want to thank sfgtv staff for covering the meeting today, mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards should be submitted to to the clerk, items acted upon will appear on the board of supervisors agenda. Before we move to our item, i would like to entertain a motion to excuse supervisor norman yee, so we have a motion by supervisor mar, if we can take that without objection. I know that there are a number of people here for
Provides, we believe that, that trend will not happen in San Francisco because the Health Care Security ordinance ensures that employees that work more than 8 hours are covered. This is yet another example of how the Health Care Security ordinance and especially the employer spending requirement aspect of the ordinance can work very well with the aca to provide meaningful access to health care to all san franciscans, so with that, i want to thank all of the members of the public, members of the community, the business community, labor who are here, and so it is now my pleasure to call on our fabulous Deputy Director of Public Health, Colleen Chala who is going to make a brief presentation. Is that okay . Good afternoon, supervisors, im glad to be here on behalf of the Health Department. I am as you side colleen, Deputy Director of health at the Health Department, im here on behalf of director garcia, she regrets shes unable to participate in the hearing today, but she is as we speak en
2013 special meeting of the board of supervisors Neighborhood Services and safety committee, my name is david campos and im the chair of the committee, were here with eric mar, we will be joined later by Supervisor Malia Cohen bho is currently chairing the government of audits and Oversight Committee and sthe will be filling in for supervisor norman yee, the clerk of the committee is mr. Derek evans, we want to thank sfgtv staff for covering the meeting today, mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards should be submitted to to the clerk, items acted upon will appear on the board of supervisors agenda. Before we move to our item, i would like to entertain a motion to excuse supervisor norman yee, so we have a motion by supervisor mar, if we can take that without objection. I know that there are a number of people here for item number 1, we have a very small item thats coming
Like human beings. People are gratified. You give back to people. You give back to our community and it makes the world a little less cruel. I heard people in line talking about the donation when they walked out. It was nice to see people come and get the things they want and leave. Its rewarding for our employees to help out. The feedback i have gotten from the employees today has been positive. They are encouraged that the fact the city is doing Something Like this for the homeless. I got involved, my son adam whos a teacher in San Francisco participated and invited me. I got involved with a friend. I came a couple months ago and wanted to make it a priority to come again and invite my family and more friends. Its well organized. Im impressed how organized it is. It feels wonderful to be a part of it. Affords dignity to the people who affords the services. Every service you can need or get you started is here under one roof. If you leave here you should have [inaudible]. The bottom l