Health. Happy new year. Of aofi have a few things to highlight. Very exciting news with regard to medy cal expanding coverage to undocumented immigrants up to age 26. This is an expansion that Governor Newsom authorized as part of the states 2019 to 20 budget, including full scope medical to eligible adults ages 19 to 25 regardless of immigration status. Statewide this is expected to have a wide impact, covering 90,000 people, and enrollment started the first of the year. We have to make that expansion will apply to about 1,000 to 2,000 individuals in San Francisco. And we have been working with the Human Services agency to notify eligible san franciscans, including transitioning those who qualify from healthy San Francisco to medical. This is also an important opportunity to remind residents about the available of medical, that immigrants are not pen liesed when they apply for a green card, and there are no changes to the public charge rule as the courts issued an injunction and the f
Getting to zero h. I. V. Infections in San Francisco. I am just really delighted that we in San Francisco, since the 1980s, have been at the forefront of pushing for innovative ways to change policies, new sciences and technologies to help us get to this milestone that we are so excited about today. We are showing progress, real progress, in fact. In 2018 for the first time ever, not only have we dropped diagnosis by 13 , but we have finally seen this number go below 200 for the first time ever. That is significant. [ applause ]. Mayor breed its progress that we should all be so proud of. This shows that when we Work Together with the community, with our policy makers, with our Public Health experts, our nonprofits, we can truly make a difference and save peoples lives. Im particularly proud of the department of Public Health. They continue to show their commitment to innovative and groundbreaking health solutions. I also want to thank ucsf and getting the goal coalition and all of tho
pledge of allegiance . Cell phones, pagers and Electronic Devices are prohibited. Any person responsible for the ringing of any electronic device. A member of the public has up to three minutes to make comments on each agenda item on the supPort Commission on any item. Item 8, Public Comment items notlessenotlisted on the agenda. Any Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 9, public directors report. Good afternoon. Im the support director and first, i would like to update you on the fire station at pier 22 and a half, the expansion project. This will be the ports first floating facility and were excited about this important lifesafety project. We have issued the first of two in a series of Building Permits and Construction Activity is set to start this month. The project should be completed april of 2021. The initial work will consist of demolition of the existing finger pier and fire boat shed behind the historic firehouse and were anticipating a groundbreaking
And it was sent by a committee to the full board with no recommendation. Thank you. Do you have updates for budget . I also wanted to say that the new school was presented, we put it forward with no recommendation and also wanted to let the public know that, at that meeting, the Budget Office shared a lot of helpful information about the timeline for the year, and i encourage folks, budgets are important, and i encourage folks to come out to budget meetings. It is the best committee ever. If they go online they can also see what we are going to be covering over the year, so that when we make decisions those things are not surprises. I encourage folks to come out. You can also reach out to me im happy to share with communities how were trying to make things more transparent for families and staff, how we make budget decisions. That will be happening throughout the year. There is lot of opportunities for folks. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any board member delegate membership updates
pledge of allegiance . Cell phones, pagers and Electronic Devices are prohibited. Any person responsible for the ringing of any electronic device. A member of the public has up to three minutes to make comments on each agenda item on the supPort Commission on any item. Item 8, Public Comment items notlessenotlisted on the agenda. Any Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 9, public directors report. Good afternoon. Im the support director and first, i would like to update you on the fire station at pier 22 and a half, the expansion project. This will be the ports first floating facility and were excited about this important lifesafety project. We have issued the first of two in a series of Building Permits and Construction Activity is set to start this month. The project should be completed april of 2021. The initial work will consist of demolition of the existing finger pier and fire boat shed behind the historic firehouse and were anticipating a groundbreaking