Approve. Member rajeo. Yes. And chair williams . Aye. All right, so we are adjourned. It is 4 33 p. M. Thank you, everyone, for sticking with us and well see you tomorrow. Thank you. Bye, everyone. See you tomorrow. The meeting is closed. Just want to notice we didnt have. Can you call the roll . Im going to read my script first. This is held by web x modifying requirements for inperson meetings during the coronavirus disease emergency. This committee will be convening remotely until the committee is authorized to meet in person. Public comments will be available on each item. Each will be allowed three minutes to speak. Comments during the Public Comment period are available by calling 14156550001. Again its 14156550001. Access code is 1469968636. Then pound and then pound again. When connected, youll hear the meeting discussion, but will be muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest comes up, press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Speak clearly and slowly and
Been supportive of Mental Health sf. So lets just know that they have been supporting us from the getgo on this initiative, because they know what it means when Mental Illness goes un treated. So thank you to them and thank you to huey sf, 2121 and i said that the San Francisco labor council, the consumers and the families, most recently Zach Williams who made a beautiful video and tribute to his father, robin williams, who battled and struggled with Mental Illness in his lifetime and has been a huge supporter of Mental Health sf. Weve had so much incredible imput from all of our communitybased organizations from the getgo, Community Housing partnerships, tenderloin development, coalition on homelessness, senior and disability action, Mental Health association of San Francisco, taxpayers for public safety, st. Anthonys glide, the support of Housing Providers network, Human Services network, Progress Foundation, the National Alliance of Mental Illness, the direct policy alliance and so
With the Health Justice academy and the San Francisco heath plan advisory and aim a poor magazine and a former San Francisco commissioner and because im someone that cares and i experienced trauma in my life and i have Mental Health issues. All my issues have a lot of issues that go down to my basic needs being met. And so, im someone who needs Wraparound Services in my life. Im at the mercy of the handout to survive and its still not enough. We have a crisis in my city. This is my city and my home. What i see daily disturbed my heart and what i go through disturbs my mind. Its a challenge to stay focused and not give up because i live a hard life. Mental health sf offers Wraparound Services. And that is something that we need. We need wrap around services because the issues in our life are intersected with the needs that we need to be met. Instead of that in place, what we have right now is incarcerating, criminalizing and killing us. My friend was killed by San Francisco police at th
Public comment. Please come forward feel free to line up and every speaker will have two minutes. Feel free to get us started. Im a me member of a volunter organization of psychiatrists, therapists, attorneys, family members and others on behalf the severely mentally ill. Demanding treatment before tragedy and i find it encouraging that attention is finally focused on improvement but both bills right now failed to tang int take into accounts y aspects of why our system is dysfunctional. Theres less visible severely mentally ill who live with family members and attempt to ward off disaster for their loved ones and bear the brunts of death threats, visible and physical abuse and disruption of their entire lives attempting to protect their family members. Yet, we have advised by representatives of the department of health to let our loved ones to be destitute to they qualify for services, that is evident. In the 1990s, there were over 100 beds in sanfrancisco and now there are 22. There w
Would like to thank Lawrence Brian for starting this meeting. Please make sure to silence all cell phones, complete speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. And before we get started, can we have a motion to excuse supervisor walton . So moved. Without objection . Thank you. Without objection that motion passes. There clerk, please read item number one. Item number one is a hearing to considered the proposed ordinance by four more supervisors to the march 3, 2020 election to establish Mental Health sf to provide Mental Health services and psychiatric medication to all adult residents of San Francisco with Mental Illness and or Substance Abuse disorders, homeless, you uninsured or healthy sf. Thank you so much. I could not be more excited to be where we are here today. We just came from an incredible rally with over 600 people, healthcare workers, frontline social workers, conservatives and family members, psychiatrists, psychologists and, you know, e