The 2016 we learned from the New York Times weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdoses. That is more in one year that all the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and likely, that number is underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of this year, 2017. Its staggering. For every fatal overdose its estimated there are 20 nonfatal overdoses and for 2016 that could mean your 1 million. 183,000 lives have been lost in the us from overdoses between 2015. Thats about 50,000 we lost over the last, 500,000 we lost over the next decade. The roots of this crisis began in 1980 when a letter to the editor in the journal of medicine was misinterpreted as evidence. It was unlikely someone become addicted out of 4000 cases a center was only four connections. Years later the joint Commission Following the american medical associations recommendation assessment established standards for Pain Management interpreted by many doctors as encouraging the prescription of
Week. Yes, week we have a necessary Weather Forecast today. We have sunny and my conditions and clear skies. We have live doppler hd. Chill be chilly inland, some temperatures in the 30s in the morning. Around the bay in the 40s, temperatures are rising comfortably. Bright sunshine. A mild afternoon by 4 00. A cool evening ahead. I have changes on way. Right now we will go to alexis smith. Not often i can deliver good news so i will enjoy it, we are really, really light, with no metering lights and normally metering lights and normally they flip on at act 101 to cupertino is green at 15 minutes. Did you notice we have new details on a terrible smell invading San Francisco with people complaining rotten egg people complaining rotten egg and sulpher for 24 hours underway at nob hill. It is a mystery. I dont smell anything now so it comes and go. The Fire Department got a few calls overnight. Some at the Fairmont Hotel complaining. A crew checked it out and they dont know where it is comi
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Prejudice, the small contractors but it is going to be good for the city. And it is going to reward, the good contractors, and the many good contractors, large and small, and who do good work for the city. And so, i do and i just scribe these amendments in the beginning i would ask that the committee would adopt them and to forward this item with the positive recommendation. Supervisor yee . Thank you. First of all, i also want to thank the public for coming out. And thank you for supervisor weiner for putting this forward and i am happy to as you mentioned join you as a cosponsor. On this and i think were right this is really the much of this will be on the shoulder of city staff to figure out the languages so that that is going to be effective when were talking about the subcontractors i felt like in the contractor can continues to keep on using the same bad subcontractors will be reflective how youll rate them for me advertised im not looking for the city to go after a after a contr
Hearing for the budget update on Information Technology and the capital plan for 20162017 and 20172018 and okay. Thank you i know we have bryan sfroong from Capital Improvement planing well leave to you in terms of which ones goes first. Good afternoon board of supervisors Budget Finance Committee im sandra the director of the committee on Information Technology i have the pleasure this afternoon of providing a brief presentation on this by fiscal year 20162017 and 20172018. Go to our computer screen thank you. As part of the budget process the budget has projects that reviews from the general fund and Nongeneral Fund departments projects submissions that scored against a set of criteria for the 5 year information and Conversation Technology the scope and impact on efficiency and the support of Technology Infrastructure and transparency and innovation coit started making recommendations to the coit information subcommittee on the highest projects for krfrgs approval this meeting define