The incredible 3rd Baptist Church, which we plan to make official landmarking status today. Arent we excited . I just want to say one, praise god, right . Praise god, thank you for being here, thank you for supporting this ceremony. We are honored here to have the mayor here to perform the ceremony who will speak in just a little bit, but i want to thank my colleague, aaron pes k kin for sponsoring this legislation, and thank you for supervise cohen for joining us here today, as well as our city administrator, naomi kelley. This is a wonderful day today. Im so excited. Remember when we celebrated with reverend brown and lady jane brown at the celebration with bill clinton, and i told you we would make this happen, and we made it happen, and look how quickly we made it happen . Well, i didnt have a choiz because reverend brown was calling me every single day, every day fighting for this community, every day fighting for this community, and one thing i want to say about 3rd Baptist Churc
Tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown San Francisco and on every Street Corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes Grocery Stores im the cocoordinated of the Healthy Corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about 23,000 a year so a low Income Neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the cocoordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support Small Businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didnt have access to a full Service Grocery store an
Definitely helps. But i think the other plans can also do it. We hit 44 in two years. Trying to virtually integrate and then the cure system would help us. Well, again, i thank you for the presentation and the work youve done particularly in your recycle bins in the pharmacy. Kaiser, without a doubt is the large largest prescriber of prescription drugs in the county and finally the bins started showing up. My household was lighter because of it so thank you. You asked about the dentist. I met with assemblyman wood who is a dentist and the California Dental Association to work on this together. Our kp pharmacists will call the dentists if we see a large prescription. If you have a root canal and it hurts three days you dont need 30 pills. Commissioner thank you very much. Paige, do you have Closing Remarks on this topic at this time . Do i not. Commissioner all right. Well, we thank you each of the plan representatives. We thank aon for providing the overall leadership to this effort in
Mental health respite programs perhaps looking this is an opportunity for overturning the imd exclusions as a long term goal. Lastly, at the state level, we might keep active ton safe injection issue, i guess that was a two year bill, that tha may come up in another year, so if that could be considered, those are my wishes, very excellent policies, i think you guys have always been ahead of the curve and as you know, as San Francisco goes, so goes the nation. Commissioner, was there something specific in either to have paragraphs or some area that you wanted to have consideration of asking for . No, these are justice ewes as i went through and looked, i didnt see them, they could be in there, if you feel theyre appropriate, i would add that as my suggestion, if you dont feel they meet our overall goals, ill also no, i think the federal policy on couldnt tra accepting is something we can add, the federal legislation on cannabis is something we could add, there is some language around co
Place in San Francisco. It is an unappreciated institution because of its advocacy for being on the front line for anything related to challenges with our community, the displacement of our community, the issues with our children in the public schools. Every single occasion when there has been an issue in the city and county of San Francisco related to our community, 3rd baptist is at the front lines, trying to make sure we speak truth to power and we change the city for the better, and so it is only fitting that we come here today in city hall, and we celebrate our community, our accomplishments, and all that we have done to make San Francisco a better place, but more importantly, we leave a Lasting Legacy with the changes in San Francisco making 3rd Baptist Church a landmark location, make sure that the next generation of young people, and the next generation know that we are still here, we have left a lasting impression. We have built this city, and we are not going anywhere. And so