Im frances rivera. This morning your credit cards, mortgages, car, even student loan bills could see an immediate Interest Rate hike. After the feds raised rates across the country. But it is another major Financial Change in the wings thats leading our program this morning. Your taxes are on the verge of some sweeping changes. On wednesday republicans reached a major deal to push through their 1. 5 trillion tax plan and now were finally getting some specifics on what that tax overhaul will look like. With the president out shilling for the proposal looking to get this passed before christmas. For more on this we go to nbcs tracie potts in washington. Good morning. Philip, good morning. Lets talk about whats in this tax plan and how it might affect many americans. First of all, the wealthiest americans get a break. Their top tax rate goes down from 39 to 37 . Thats according to multiple republican sources. Some of those popular deductions that people were worried about, the state and l
Im philip mena. Im frances rivera. This morning your credit cards, mortgages, car, even student loan bills could see an immediate Interest Rate hike. After the feds raised rates across the country. But it is another major Financial Change in the wings thats leading our program this morning. Your taxes are on the verge of some sweeping changes. On wednesday republicans reached a major deal to push through their 1. 5 trillion tax plan and now were finally getting some specifics on what that tax overhaul will look like. With the president out shilling for the proposal looking to get this passed before christmas. For more on this we go to nbcs tracie potts in washington. Good morning. Philip, good morning. Lets talk about whats in this tax plan and how it might affect many americans. First of all, the wealthiest americans get a break. Their top tax rate goes down from 39 to 37 . Thats according to multiple republican sources. Some of those popular deductions that people were worried about,
Is the minutes and approval of minutes of october 172,017th. Motion is in order for the approval of the minutes. Second. So moved. Its been a motion second are there any corrections to the minutes . If not all those in favor of the minutes please a aye. All opposed the minutes have been approved. Thank you. Next item. 3 the directors report. Good afternoon commissioners i want to welcome the ucsf pharmacist students, lift your hands so we can wave at you. Also our members of our drug usage union are here today to testify so i want to acknowledge all of you. And many advocates from the community so well have a very Great Commission meeting today. And just on that note, well let you know President Trump announced he is helping Human Services agency to declare a Opioid Crisis a publichealth emergency. This does not provide us new dollars. There are a couple of things i think are worth noting, one is that there may be flexibility about the regulations of certain medications considering bei
Facilities would reduce abscesses and were fortunate in the city because of having naloxone available and we dont have a huge number of Overdose Deaths like is happening in the rest of the country. And overdose is a bit strange in english because the it doesnt necessarily mean fatal overdoses. And a lot of people overdose. Thank got they dont fatally. If we had supervised Consumption Services it would reduce those fatal and nonfatal. Commissioner chow we have norman tanner, shawn laura and dr. Alex crowell. Hi, im clara nichols. Im a pharmacy student at ucsf. I have a comment and then question. My first is my comment. I wanted to thank everyone for coming up today and sharing their story. It gave me a more humanistic perspective on the need for injection sites which is different than the perspective i walked in here with today. The task force recommended an integrated model with staffing. They mentioned differences with Behavioral Health and also recommended Community Engagement and ed
Also our members of our drug usage union are here today to testify so i want to acknowledge all of you. And many advocates from the community so well have a very Great Commission meeting today. And just on that note, well let you know President Trump announced he is helping Human Services agency to declare a Opioid Crisis a publichealth emergency. This does not provide us new dollars. There are a couple of things i think are worth noting, one is that there may be flexibility about the regulations of certain medications considering being able to pay for tele medicine for many Rural Communities who do do not have access, this would be a real important part. Also naloxone, trying to reduce cost to that and also there is some concern from h. I. V. Advocates in the way theyve allowed for thinking about flexibility to shift resources from h. I. V. And a. I. D. S. To this issue but i think over all, knowing that its a publichealth emergency i think is from a symbolic message i think is very i