We will get started just in a second. Welcome, i have a brief Opening Statement and doctors lawyer thank you for coming. Well get you sworn in here in a moment. Its important that we have this oversight here and there is a couple of inquiry and everything is about Jeffrey Epstein and hopefully about the first steps act and where could we go from there and how could you build upon that and those of three areas i would like to talk about at all tonight over. Thank you very much mister chairman. I want to welcome you and its wonderful for me to say a woman in charge so we can celebrate for a few moments at least that you are responsible for the care and custody of over 180,000 federal inmates and one of the Justice Departments largest employers and approximately 35,500 employees as may of this year. As the chairman mentioned there are two issues i hope we can focus on. One is the First Step Act which you mentioned and the second is applaud blooms with staffing within your department. Im g
D. B. I. Is sending out a final mailer this week to 9,000 noncommunity property owners, for the december 1st deadline. And so just again there might be a spike and you might hear from some property owners. The tobacco economic Mitigation Working Group held its second meeting last wednesday and was we received a detailed review of the tobacco permitting process from the department depf public health. It was very informative. And then just i wanted to make sure that all of you are aware that the city is now requiring all commissioners to go through implicit bias training. So dough minka has forwarded an email to you. Its due by the end of the year. And then following up on some of the legislative matters, so a new piece of legislation has been introduced, that is going to require all departments to hold two meetings, regarding the annual budget. So this will be something that, if passed, we will be adding to our calendar. We will need to finalize those hearings by the end of february. So
And i will turn it over. Thank you very much mister chairman. I want to welcome you and its wonderful for me to say see a woman in charge so we can celebrate for a few moments at least that you are responsible for the care and custody of over 180,000 federal inmates and one of the Justice Departments largest employers and approximately 35,500 employees as may of this year. As the chairman mentioned there are two issues i hope we can focus on. One is the First Step Act which you mentioned and the second is applaud blooms with is problems with staffing conditions within your department. Im going to put most of this in the record. I think what ill do mister chairman in the interest of time is put the statement in the record. Without objection. Senator durbin . Thank you mister chairman. Last Year Congress came together to pass what i considered one of the most important criminal Justice Reform laws and the nation. The first stepped hacked from overwhelming majority signed by President Tru
D. B. I. Is sending out a final mailer this week to 9,000 noncommunity property owners, for the december 1st deadline. And so just again there might be a spike and you might hear from some property owners. The tobacco economic Mitigation Working Group held its second meeting last wednesday and was we received a detailed review of the tobacco permitting process from the department depf public health. It was very informative. And then just i wanted to make sure that all of you are aware that the city is now requiring all commissioners to go through implicit bias training. So dough minka has forwarded an email to you. Its due by the end of the year. And then following up on some of the legislative matters, so a new piece of legislation has been introduced, that is going to require all departments to hold two meetings, regarding the annual budget. So this will be something that, if passed, we will be adding to our calendar. We will need to finalize those hearings by the end of february. So
All right. Madam secretary, roll call, please. Roll call. [roll call] we have a courtroom. Okay. Item number four. Item four is the approval of possible modifications of the minutes of the meetings set forth below. The regular Meeting Minutes from september 12th, 2019. Are there any questions corrections to the minutes . I move the minutes from the september 12th, 2019 meeting be adopted. Second. Any Public Comment on this item . All those in favor of approving the minutes signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed . It is unanimous in favor. Will all right. Item number five. Item five is a general Public Comment on matters within the boards jurisdiction. Do we have any Public Comment this is the time to come forward if you have any questions or concerns about something. Please come forward. Hello, my name is jason and i am from ucsf. Currently vaping and ecigarettes are still widely used and there are many programs in place that offer Preventive Health care screening and Mental Health ca