Memori secondly, some of you may recall that late last year, which seems like a lifetime ago, i requested a budget and legislative report. That report was released today and im requesting a hearing on the report so we can better understand the citys use of these conservatorships. Contributed to a decrease in the total l. D. S. Conservative caseload. Interestingly, that caseload has increased somewhat over the last year. Now one of the perhaps surprising things i learned from this report is San Francisco is conserving gravely disabled people at an alarming average and is ranked ninth among counties in its per capita rate. So whats going on . Are there fewer people in need of conservatorships in San Francisco county or are we failing to meet the needs of residents that cannot take care of themselves . Part of the explanation of that decline is the loss of the last decade of appropriate placements of people suffering from serious mental illnesses. Plainly, theres more work to do, and the
Memori secondly, some of you may recall that late last year, which seems like a lifetime ago, i requested a budget and legislative report. That report was released today and im requesting a hearing on the report so we can better understand the citys use of these conservatorships. Contributed to a decrease in the total l. D. S. Conservative caseload. Interestingly, that caseload has increased somewhat over the last year. Now one of the perhaps surprising things i learned from this report is San Francisco is conserving gravely disabled people at an alarming average and is ranked ninth among counties in its per capita rate. So whats going on . Are there fewer people in need of conservatorships in San Francisco county or are we failing to meet the needs of residents that cannot take care of themselves . Part of the explanation of that decline is the loss of the last decade of appropriate placements of people suffering from serious mental illnesses. Plainly, theres more work to do, and the
Noncustodial programs, in collaboration with the police to release bookings. Im looking forward to working with these departments. To this hearing, i want to thank my colleagues for their support on this as well. Secondly, quickly, i am introducing legislation to create a streetlevel Drug Dealing Task force which will be comprised of community members, city departments tasked with evaluating the increase of streetlevel drug dealing, and putting forward new Creative Space solutions. Many of you remember, or you were there, and we had a seven hour hearing where we had most of the departments, who respond to the issues related to drug dealing present. What we heard from them, and what we heard from the many residents that came out and spoke, at that hearing, the city urgently needs ordination. We need a comprehensive strategy. We need to partner in a serious way to put this forward. This Drug Dealing Task force will allow us to bring together experts, residents, Department Officials to be
Enforcement agents. This portion is just over one hour. The committee will come to order without objection. The chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. We are convening to hear the testimony of acting secretary of Homeland Security Kevin Mcaleenan. I want to briefly address the spectators. I already saw two signs being held un, so i want to address you. We welcome you and we respect your right to be here. We also ask in turn that you respect we ask for your respect as we proceed with the business of this committee today. It is the intention of this committee to proceed with this hearing without disruptions. If a disruption occurs, listen up, a Capital Police officer will go up to the individual and instruct that they cease demonstrations. If the individual does cease, no action will be taken. However, if the person does not cease, he will be asked to leave. Were grateful for your presence here today and your cooperation and we want to move this hearing along
Testified before the House Oversight and committee. Just over anis hour. Hour. I want to briefly address the spectators. I already saw two signs being held up, so i want to address you. We welcome you and we respect your right to be here. We also ask in turn that you respect we ask for your respect as we proceed with the business of this committee today. It is the intention of this committee to proceed with this hearing without disruptions. If a disruption occurs, listen up, a Capital Police officer will go up to the individual and instruct they cease demonstrations. If the individual does cease, no action will be taken. However, if the person does not cease, he will be asked to leave. Were grateful for your presence here today and your cooperation and we want to move this hearing along quickly. Every time i have to stop and the police have to address issues like that, that just slows us up. I would also remind all members to avoid engaging in any adverse personal references. I now rec