Franciscos growth wealth divide between the haves and the have nots. Id like to thank supervisors campos, cohen, supervisor chiu for joining me in calling for the Digital Divide in our city. Last week the San Francisco chronicle came out with an editorial calling the Digital Divide a disturbing divide, citing a field poll study done saying 25 of californians, about a quarter of everyone living in our state do not have adequate access to highspeed internet. I think it raised some concerns for me of one of the wealthiest cities in the world. One of the regions of the world that perhaps is a tech capital of the world and how many children and seniors and others are left outdated without access to the internet. And im calling for the hearing and study done by the budget and legislative analyst to look at this issue. From access to Public Services to helping children accomplish their schoolwork, we all depend on fast and reliable Internet Access or many of us do. As a single father, i often
Multiple International Studies have shown that the daily use of prep can nearly eliminate the risk of contracting hiv. In may, the World Health Organization recommended that among gay and bisexual men, prep should be used as an additional hiv prevention choice with a comprehensive hiv prevention regimen. Additionally, new federal guidelines recommend that prep be considered for people who are hiv negative but are a substantial risk for hiv. However, two years after truvada was approved by the u. S. Food and Drug Administration for prevention and more than four years after studies showed that its actually effective, very few people unfortunately are actually using prep, even though the ability to reduce infections is so significant, more than 90 . We in San Francisco are at the forefront of efforts to control the spread of hiv. Current efforts by San Francisco dph, at San Francisco General Hospital and kaiser are working to make it easier for uninfected individuals to see an expert and
2017. So, thats about in less than 31 2 years, i believe, and it seems really unlikely that they will be able to do it without some serious help. My hope is San Francisco, once we identify what the Digital Divide is, that we have action steps that we as a city move forward with to make sure that nobody is left behind from the booming econ nip and the Booming Technology that we are seeing in the city. And my other item is a sad in memoriam and id like to close the meeting with the support of cosponsor supervisor david campos in honor of an amazing giant for immigrant rights, for senior access, and for for the poor and the vulnerable in our city, vera hale, also known as vera hale dallenburg. She was a leader, colleague, and friend within the senior and disabled Community Activist and i miss her very, very much. Commissioner hale, she was an immigrants right commissioner. She passed away peacefully at kaiser in San Francisco on the evening of july 9, 2014. While holding the hands of her
Thank you for the opportunity to speak about this and the Management System, department of technology completely grease agrees this is very much needed and has begun implementing a system in Management System for department of Technology Assets actually has been working on that since the it was pro cured in april and started configuring in july. The benefit pointed out by a grand jury were certainly all valid. Second bullet point addresses some of those that gives us a broad view to some of the assets and allows us to share resources. It allows us to make sure that the resources that we have purchased are being used fully. It allows us to find out if we have assets that are becoming dated and end of life and on that before it becomes an issue with operations. Compliance and life cycle issues are also addressed. We also anticipate that well be able to consolidate all the tools that we use for management and have other tools that have been used and well be able to over time remove those
Safety to bring water hook up where appropriate where there is a heavily used park or plaza. In the absence of any Capital Projects are ordinance asking to investigate solutions to allow events to hook up to our water infrastructure. The ordinance requires City Departments to report back to the board of supervisors within six months 6 months which is now on the following, the properties and facilities shall within the puc on properties that have events for drinking water. The puc in consultation with dph and other appropriate City Departments are to investigate other procedures to access Water Supplies and report their findings to our board and also the sf puc is supposed to have investigated back flow preventers and other equipment related to plumbing for existing Water Systems to facilitate Public Access to potable water. The sf puc is to report findings to the board of supervisors. We have received from interested events in the future and we are here to understand where things are.