Public Health Effects of opioid addictions and Treatment Options available. This is just over an hour and a half. Good afternoon and welcome to aaas. Im charles dunlap, interim director for the center of science policy and society programs. Our lecture this afternoon on the Opioid Epidemic is the second in the 2017 aaas Dana Foundation lecture series on neuroscience and society. Our first lecture this year on the brain and video games was held in march and our third lecture in september will be on meditation. So please keep an eye out for the announcement date. The Dana Foundation is a private Philanthropic Organization that supports Brain Research through grants, publications and Educational Programs like this one. For the last five years, aaas has partnered with the Dana Foundation to present an annual lecture series on neuroscience. By my count, this is the 20th letter in the series. Were grateful for the Dana Foundations support of this series and for deborah runkles leadership of
Its a crisis. It doesnt discriminate. Its in every corner of my state. Earlier this month a Police Officer named chris green in east liverpool, ohio, had a near fatal fentanyl overdose following a routine traffic stop. He went up to a car and noticed there was white powder spread around the car. He put on his mask and gloves, arrested some individuals, went back to the police station, and noticed that on his shirt there was some powder. He reached up like this and brushed the powder off his shirt. This guy is 63, 225 pounds, big man. And he fell to the floor unconscious and overdosed. They administered narcan immediately but it wasnt enough. They had to rush him to the hospital, where two more narcan doses were administered. And luckily his life was saved. His police chief said he would have died he had been alone. His police chief said, what if he had gone home with that powder on his shirt and hugged his kid . Thats just an example of what were facing. Its an obvious its obviously de
Shes looking at extending the initial compliance deadline for the checklist on that just to make sure that theres ample time for this program to get upcoming we think this program is going to run out by the next 8 to 10 years we want to get those initial Foundation Infrastructure pieces into place and on the maneuvered soft story implementation we mentioned that tooerp two were down to have 35 noncompliant buildings out of 5 hundred and 50 so were at 93 or 94 compliance rate those buildings out of compliance are elected to be scheduled for code compliant directors in early march were hopefully between now and march that number of 35 will drop significantly lower we obviously want as few buildings out of compliance as possible and that does highlight the reality that for tier 3 that has 35 buildings and the deadline this coming september 5th this year we still have been 19 hundred buildings that are out of compliance so well be initially a free press Outreach Program in the next months
And note that neil sims is present. I would like to approval of the agenda with changes and Meeting Minutes and under reports no report from the nominating committee. Can i have a motion . So moved. Second. Its approved that we approve the agenda with the following changes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes . Ayes have it and the motion carries. The next item is approval of the january 4 Meeting Minutes. Could i have a motion. So moved. Second. Okay. It has been moved and second that we approve the january 4 commission Meeting Minutes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes. Aye it is have it and the motion carries. Item 4 approval of the february 1 Meeting Minutes. So moved. Can i have a second . Second. Okay. Its been moved and second that we approve the february 1 Meeting Minutes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes . Ayes have it and so the motion is carried. [gavel] five item 5 directors report. Executive director. Good afternoon commissioners. Im going to keep my report very brief to
About the just to remind you that the Oversight Advisory Committee of the dignity fund is going to have its first meeting on the 24th and i know you have representation there so youre probably well aware of it already but i wanted to remind you of that, and were getting that kicked off, and then i just kind of wanted to say give a kudos to some of the staff. There was a major fire in chinatown this past week, about a week and a half ago i guess and we had great response from our staff and our cantonese speaking staff that went down and acted as translators in the shelter and i really think their work was exemplary and judy chan as part of the ad min team so it was nice to see staff kind of step up and take on volunteering you know on their off hours to be down there to help out and make sure that the seniors really had you know, were able to have their needs met because there were translators that carry cared about their neats and thats it. Thank you. I have a question. Commissioner ow