Yeah. Ill just add to that, and ill channel kristin marshall, maybe, from the d. O. P. E. Project, that its connected to income inequality, its connected to homelessness, its connected to racism, its connected to sort of our punitive system around substance use, so i think if we can make advancements in those areas, as well, that well see reductions in Overdose Deaths. Supervisor haney thank you. Again, i dont want to take this out all on you, but the frustration, i hope you can understand my frustration. These are people who i represent largely. Theyre dying, theyre dying at rates weve senever seen, and seems theyre going to continue to die at higher and higher rates, and we need to understand how we can save them. We cannot help them, we cannot do anything for anyone if theyre no longer with us. I appreciate and i understand your work, but as a policy maker who represents all of these folks and their friends and their families and their neighbors, i think that we need to have a more
Just come on into the conversation if you like. What im hearing is that we actually have pretty much consensus on item number 1. Item number 2, i feel there is a pathway there. Item number 3, i believe it will take more work with the Sheriffs Department. As a board member, we dont have the authority to actually change the rules and procedures within the electronic monitoring in the Sheriffs Department, but we can actually help facilitate a conversation that we reach a consensus and agreement on how we can better serve those people, those clients we are serving. I think these three recommendations brought forth is an attempt to do that. Before we go any further and we lose some of our Public Commenters, i would like to open this up for Public Comment on items number one and two. Can you see how many speakers we have in the queue . My apologies everyone that this hearing has gone on for such a long time, but as i said, that we have continued this item, i think five times. I felt like we
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Thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduced. We continue to encourage everyone in the city to get a flu shot now more than ever. This is certainly not the year to skip on a flu