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Chairwoman good morning, everyone, the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the march 2, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Seated to my right is captain stefanie, and well soon be joined by supervisor gordon marr. Mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Please silence your cell phones and all electronic equipment. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Chairwoman can you read item number one. Item one is appointing two members to the commission on aging and Advisory Council. Chairwoman than thank you so much. I believe were joined by juliette rothman. If juliette would like to come up and address the committee, thank you so much. If you just want to share with us your interest in the appointment. How are you . Good. Im here to seek reappointment to the Advisory Counc
Working compliance, whats working and has the least chance of recidivism. I think 95 of our high risk homeless and mental patients are alcohol, not necessarily drugs or maybe a combination, and also im wondering how that works in the system. Yeah, we can provide that because we work very close with healthright 360, and they have the Drug Management services. With their Drug Management is mostly alcohol, but then, we are expanding services in the pharmacy to provide medication, and also, the telebupe that we are providing. And also, healthright 360 is a close partner that we can collect some data. Also, this is a pilot that we are studying . Maybe in six months we can come back and give you some preliminary data that we have. I think also i know philip mentioned earlier dr. Barry zephen who manages the street Response Teams and prescribing the buprenorphine, and i think they would be able to share that story, really, about how people are showing up and how people are being really succes
Grant colfax, director of health. You have the report in front of you. Just a couple of things. One is we are continuing our covid19 preparations and actions. Ive asked dr. Aragon to provide more details after my report, so he will be doing that in just a minute. We are continuing with our ongoing daily work, and that includes Behavioral Health options for people in the city as part of our Behavioral Health reform as part of health s. F. We are currently establishing a health center, to be established at 180 jones, with a particular focus on methamphetamine users. This will have a 15bed capacity, take care of many more than that over a 24hour period. This is really the beginning of a larger expansion if this initial phase is successful at providing more lowbarrier opportunities for people to have a place that is safe, that provides Harm Reduction approaches and also not only helps them but also mitigates the effects of Behavioral Health issues in the surrounding community. Im proud to
The february 4, 2020 minutes. Commissioners, after review, does anyone have a motion to approve . Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor . Okay. Clerk thank you. There are no Public Comment requests for that item. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Gra grant colfax, director of health. You have the report in front of you. Just a couple of things. One is we are continuing our covid19 preparations and actions. Ive asked dr. Aragon to provide more details after my report, so he will be doing that in just a minute. We are continuing with our ongoing daily work, and that includes Behavioral Health options for people in the city as part of our Behavioral Health reform as part of health s. F. We are currently establishing a health center, to be established at 180 jones, with a particular focus on methamphetamine users. This will have a 15bed capacity, take care of many more than that over a 24hour period. This is really the beginning of a larger expansion if