chair ronan: good morning. the meeting will come to order. this is the may 18, 2022 budget and finance committee meeting. i am hillary ronen, chair. joined by supervisor safai and supervisor mar. i would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. mr. clerk, any announcements? a friendly reminder to make sure to silence cell phones and electronic devices. we are convening hybrid meeting to allow remote access and public telephone by telephone. the board recognizes public comment is essential. first is taken on each item on the agenda. those in person will speak first. then those waiting on the telephone loan. those watching charm 26, 78 or 99 and sfgovtv. public comment call-in number is 415-655-0001. id24852951638-pound and pound again. you will hear the discussions and you will be in listening mode. when your item is called those in person line up to speak and on the phone dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. remember to turn down your tv and listening
Guests. [applause] Nonfiction Author or what you would like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email at booktv cspan. Org. Tweet us at booktv or post on our wall facebook. Com booktv. Robert doubek, cofounder of the Vietnam Memorial fund provides an inside account of the creation of the Vietnam Veterans memorial which was completed in 1982 after a much debated Design Competition. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, thank you for coming out this afternoon. I am one of the coowners of politics and prose. I wasnt expecting that. I did not arrange that. Kerri kind. My husband and co owner is not here, he wishes he could be. The rest of the staff we are delighted to have you here for this event and for such a fascinating book and topic. I want to make a couple quick housekeeping announcements, the first of which is if you happen to have a device of any sort that might make noise in the next hour we would be grateful if you could turn it off or silence it or get it to a point where
On his way to the middle east. Went straight over to iraq. So february 2004 hes going over there. That must have been hard to went down. His youngest brother and father and i went to spend three days with him before he deployed. He said just dont go. Itll be too hard for you. I tried to take care of him all of his life and then at that point it was out of my hands. He was going to be a man and do what he wanted to do. Thats got to be a source of pride. Absolutely. But a source of fear; right . Lived in fear when he did deploy we lived in fear i didnt want to hear a phone cringe or watch tv. I didnt watch tv or news for the whole time he was deployed. She talked to him twice when he was gone. The last time was march 17th. St. Patricks day he called. That was the last time i not to talk to him. Was he happy . He was. He loved it. He said, mom, you know, things are scary over here many he said i watched a few of my friends being blown away but im not scared and weve been giving kids candy
Are everyday people, like you and me. Reporter the medical director for the San Francisco fire department, teaming up with the department of health to launch the ms six. One paramedic and one outreach worker, and the mission is to reach the high risk users, the 911 system connection with service. One thing is that people want help. People that have had an acute overdose or 4 to 5 times more likely to have another one that is fatal. Reporter nickless is a young man that says he comes from a good family, and now wakes up every morning. I like to get high, and that is what i chose. Anything that happens to me, jail, freezing cold at night, starving, it is worth it. Narcan is a lifesaver. Reporter narcan reduces and reverses the effect of the opioid overdose. We have had over 2000 overdose is reversed in the city of San Francisco sense 2003. Reporter the nonprofit with that help of the Public Health coordinates the use of narcan in the city. The idea is that you get is much into the high r
Inside like county jails would be surveyed and they have identified a couple different methods to survey, so i [inaudible] quite impressive with the approach. Questions to commissioner chung . If not, well proceed to the next item. There was Public Comment requested on item 6 which is consent calendar which we just reviewed the two items. Motion came from the committee for the acceptance of the consent calendar. Are there questions extractions . If not we are prepared for the vote on the consent calendar. All in favor of the consent calendar say aye. Opposed . The consent calendar isa proved item 7 is resolution to commitment to trauma care and before dr. [inaudible] step tooz the microphone, i will note that the [inaudible] jcc did recommend approval of this resolution. Good afternoon commissioners. This is a very straightforward commitment. It is one you approved before and comes in the context of a survey we are about to undergo in august from American College of surgeons around tra