There a motion. Missouri any comments no nope ill call for a vote. All in favor, say i. Thank you. Ill note no Public Comment for the item. The audience this is the first time ive chaired ill not get it right so. You have a skilled secretary here to help you laughter so we move on to item 3 the directors report. Good afternoon wanted to lead the issue on the waiver because we do have a couple of is to have staff people to address this so ill leave that alone and move on to the next item and right after my report well have a couple of Staff Members to report on that the San Francisco Health Commission has worked with the San Francisco Police Department the dope project for the current overdose just to let you know San Francisco has the largest number of over disposes in california weve work hard to curve those Overdose Deaths on thursday august 27th the Police Department said a Police Officer o Police Officer said saved the life of that person the june incident marked the first time the
Like the Substance Abuse medical is the bridge to reform waiver as of 13 it is a demonstration waiver 1115 waiver called the organized Delivery System of medical waiver so the state amended the state plan and made a parole to cms approved this august to show it if they increased the Services Covered by drug medical that they could by organizing the system and having smooth trisz from levels of care and using evidence based practices they could improve the care and overall costs of medicaid would not go up you can opt in or not opt the community likes a demonstration waiver they should we we already do so were coming in and the bay area was chosen as phase one so there are several tasks for Substance Abuse services im in charge of one to have the implement plan with the timelines for everything and another one to set rates we negotiate with the state and make a new contract we want the rates to be realistic because if you compare grants the drug medal there is a huge increase in account
Like you say theres hopeful rain but it is fading fast. But it is good. A few high clouds around. Mainly clear skies. Today was our second spare the air day tying our win record set back in december 2013. Air quality is improving gradually tomorrow. North bay and Santa Clara Valley heres a live look. A beautiful western sky. Currently 59 degrees in San Francisco and san carlos. Morgan hill 57 and half moon bay. A lovely view northward. 67 in santa rosa. 64 in fairfield and livermore, and as we look across the embarcadero, heres the first forecast. Well have patches of fog developing in the evening hours. Lingering areas. Ill give you a look seven days searching for some rain but it may be a fruitless search or a rainless search. Okay. Thank you. Still ahead returning to the hot zone. A doctor who almost died from ebola reveals he is going back to africa. Coming up, a preview of the National Championship coming up. And hitting the pickett line. How Mental Health care is at the center of
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Senator, first off the air force understads the immediacy of necessity of Close Air Support. I believe the systems they have in place will provide us that immediacy. Again, as we use different platforms, we will have to work we will work through with the air force how we use those and how theyre best effective in supporting our Ground Forces as we move forward. Find it curious that you come over here with all the necessity for cost savings and the a10 costs for flying air is 17,000 for flying hour, the b1, 54,000 per flying hour. I as i said before, general welsh, i challenge you to find an army or a marine commander who is functioned in the field and needed Close Air Support that would feel comfortable with a b1 replacing the a10. Ill look forward to you providing me with those individuals. Fact is that the b1 is a much more expensive, it flies at high altitude, and it hit attacked static targets. That does not fulfill the mission of the of Close Air Support as i know it. Id be glad t