Good morning, commissioners. I just want to start with the Older Americans act. I usually start with the federal level and i wanted to give you a report that the Older Americans the Congress Passed a shortterm continuation of the Older Americans act. As i mentioned before, it was some set it on september 30th so they passed a shortterm resolution to keep it going until november 21st. In the meantime, we are hoping to work out the appropriation differences that they have, so we had really news on the house side that there were actually they were proposing some increases for the Older Americans act and on the senate side, it was much less impressive. So theres still a lot of advocacy to be done, and hopefully our advocates from San Francisco will be thinking about how we can reach out and make sure that the Older Americans act gets funded at hopefully better levels than it currently looks like on the senate guide. We will keep you abreast of that situation, but it might be that the depar
Important things. That was it. Good report, as usual, chief wyrsch. Thank you very much, commissioner. President nakajo thank you very much. Commissioner cleaveland, please. Commissioner cleaveland thank you very much, chief wyrsch, for your report. Couple of quick questions. Do you track the type of overdosing that people are having on the streets . We have this huge uptick of narcan distribution. What percentage are fentanyl based and what percentage are heroin based and do you track the reason for the overdose or the cause . So if i may interject, when we give someone narcan, and it reverses the overdose, we know its an opioid, okay . We dont necessarily know if its fentanyl or heroin or what it is. So we dont run a test to figure that out typically, so that may be done at the hospital. But what we can say sort of anecdotally. But what we can say is the use of narcan by our members has gone up, and i know the Health Department has put a lot of narcan on the streets in the hands of f
I mentioned last meeting that this month we lost Toni Morrison , she passed on august 5 th of this month. In her memory, i was going to start the Board Meeting for the month of august with a quote from Toni Morrison. Tonight i have what i think the Political Correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want to the power to name, and the defined are now taking that power away from you. Section a, General Information number one accessibility information for the polk, public , number two, teleconference Information Section b. , opening items. Number one, approval of board minutes of the regular Board Meeting for august 13th, 2019. Can i have a motion or a second . So moved. Second. Roll call vote on the minutes [roll call] speaker cards for the regular agenda are if you wish to address the board of education, members of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called. Members of the public have two
In San Francisco and where these people live. If you look at the key there, sort of the darker color concentrations show the higher number of s. S. D. Recipients. 92124, thats the Hunters Point bayview area, a lot of recipients there. As well as the bayview, and the tenderloin neighborhood. So what weve done is to help sort of handle the influx of work that will come with, you know, meeting the demand of all these new clients, h. S. A. Has hired some new staff. Weve hired a total of 33 new f. T. E. S, and this slide provides a breakdown of those classifications. So for instance, 10923, manager two, three clerks, five senior clerks, and so on. So in a nutshell, this slide explains if theres an existing cal fresh household with an s. S. I. Number who was previously who was previously ineligible for cal fresh, the s. S. I. Member does not need to submit an application for cal fresh. They just need to wait until their annual recertification comes around, and then, the county will automatic
[roll call] mr. President you have a quorum. Thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sf gov tv. They record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available, to the public, online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Clerk we received a communication from the office of supervisor wilton, who indicated he would be late in attending the meeting as he is attending a funeral this morning. Thank you very much. Colleagues, before we move forward with our meeting today. I want to share a message of unity and strength with the city of gilroy. We are outraged, by yet another horrific mass shooting, to the community of gilroy, we stand by you. To the victims, and their families, we are praying for you and we pledge to fight until