He once was dying of cancer and his family was facing serious financial problems. At this point in his life he was a man trying to take care of his family and we get to tell his story here that most people dont know about. Welcome to Saratoga Springs on the tv. Located about four hours north of new york city it has a population of about 27000. Names for the numerous springs in the area early settlers walked here to experience the therapeutic effects of the natural mineral or water. Today Saratoga Springs is a popular Tourist Destination with its spots. Revolutionary war history and. With the help of our spectrum Cable Partners for the next 90 minutes will learn about the citys history and feature its local Literary Community including Andrew Mckenna on his battle with opioid addiction. Growing up i thought the person who is addicted to heroin lived under a bridge somewhere and was pushing a shopping cart around or Something Like that you know, that is not the case. One of the most abus
About it the right way. We are proud to have passed our peer review. And finally, as it relates to our audit recommendation follow up program, what we realize and know is that the value of the cfas work is not just in the recommendations themselves but the corrective actions implemented by the City Departments. Its ongoing basis at 6, 12, 18 and 24 months from audit issuance, resulting in the recommendations issued by us from july 1st, 2010, through 2017 and 98 of the recommendations issued from july 1st, 2010, through june 30th, 2015, is just a testament to the work of the department and the seriousness they take from the audit work performed by our team. So of the 190 recommendations not implemented, which is only 37 or 1. 7 , they are more than twoyearsold. Generally because either its a major implementation or there needs to be some type of bargaining unit discussion before anything can occur. So thats the end of my presentation. Congratulations on passing the audit and thank you a
Planning committee and the citys chief resilience officer is a good resource. Hes sort of i dont want to say a toll collector but kind of organizer for a lot of the discussions. I think that would be helpful. And he will be here in march. We can bring it up at that point as well. Would you be up for writing a memo . Maybe the Controllers Office can help draft this. I guess do other members feel strongly that a memo sent by this committee to the Capital Planning committee to express our concerns specific to this bond and how the broad nature of the bond has ended with possible problematic ways for us as we oversee the spending of the bond. Would the controls office help us draft i think what we would like to do is have a memo from this committee to the Capital Planning committee to share with them the problems that we are encountering as a result of the broad structuring of the bond. Youre welcome to send a memo if you like. Im listening to your conversation and clearly we need to do a
Respected Inspection Services in San Francisco and is still in operation. Alec was active in politics serving during feinstein, agnos and brown administrations. He was personal and compassionate and wrote campaign speeches. We thank alec for his years of service to San Francisco and our deepest condolences to his family and close friends. And i would also like to do an in memorial for dennis parone. Born april 8, 1945. He served the country and served his country in the United States army during the vietnam war. Following his discharge, made his way to San Francisco and settled into the castro, where he met harvey melk and was an integral part of the melk machine. Whenever harvey needed bodies, he called dennis, who had, at that time, a cannabis operation, obviously not legal at that time. Dennis could turn people out at a moments notice and did a lot to help harvey. He met and fell in love with his partner jonathan west in 1990. Jonathan was diagnosed with aids and was dying and denni
Involved with cannabis would give jonathan cannabis and the cannabis that jonathan received gave him substantial relief from the symptoms of aids. It helped him eat. It relieved pain. In the early case, many of the diseases that people were struck with were incredibly painful, whether it was the sarcoma lesions, which were unbelievably painful, or some of the bacterial infections that made it hard to eat, and hard to swallow. And so out of that came really the origins of the medical cannabis movement. Dennis opened the first cannabis club. And i believe i could be wrong, but i believe the very first one was the church at market, where people i think that was the original where people suffering tom aids would come and he would provide cannabis to them. That cannabis, like what happened with jonathan, would relieve their pain, would stimulate their appetite. Eventually, he opened a 5story club, and i talked about this before, around the corner on market street, more of an aids hospice th