With sterile needles, only steps from medical personnel trained to treat overdosed. In philly the socalled comprehensive User Engagement sites will go a step further attempting to connect to recovery. Officials believe the sites will save lives and reduce the neighborhood problems associated with the drug trade. Even the Police Commissioner admits he doesnt yet know how his officers will police the spaces. I went from being against it to having an open mind. Reporter officials still have to decide where the sites will be located and who will run them. As of now, even the cost is uncertain. If anybody can make this work, this city can. There are also a lot of legal questions as well. The Trump Administration declared the Opioid Epidemic a health emergency, but has not endorsed safe sites. The attorney general indicated these sites would be illegal under the current law as it is written. You mentioned that safe injection suit set up in toronto. If that had any measurable impact. Its abou
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the peoples palace and im here this morning to announce yet another milestone in our citys commitment to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour by and people will work this fourth of july weekend we are celebrating our countries birthday but recognizing in the celebration throughout the weekend people like the people had that are standing with me are working whether the restaurants or hotels or Health Care Workers and others and and we all feel for working people that is hard in our expensive city to survive unless you have a december sent wage thats why a couple of years ago i destined or joibd the board of supervisors full board of supervisors to place before the voters an 15 an hour minimum wage and people that work in all those industries we did it together and were celebrating because today it goes from 12. 25 an hour to 13 and up to 15 and after that cpi takes over i want to remind everybody this city was brought together with our labor unions
Team with respect to every single fire have stepped up to the plate not only in trying to find housing for the victims of many fires that have taken place but also working with my office the city agencies to prevent the fires and so i failed to mention that and i want to say that but i wanted to know that. I know for instance, with every fire, i dont know we wouldve been able to find housing for every one of those victims without the Apartment Association playing the role that are played and i know just now with the latest fire that theyre playing an instrument to roll in and find housing for these folks. I want to personally thank the San Francisco Apartment Association for the leadership ever knowing that the city cannot solve this on some to the private sector has a role to play mesa may have played a very Important Role. With that, mdm. Chair, i like to continue this will to continue this item to the call the chair. If we can make a motion to excuse the supervisor. Motion to excuse
Meeting of the budget and finance committee for june 29, 2016 will begin shortly. Please stand by for the meeting to begin. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday june 29, 2016. My name is mark farrell. I am chairing the committee and joined by the vice chair katy tang and supervisor wiener and thank the clerk and staff from sfgtv for covering the meeting today. With that madam clerk do we have any announcements . Yes mr. Chair. Please silence all cell phones and complete speaker cards and documents to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will be on the july 12 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. Madam clerk will you call item 1 and two together. Item 1 resolution determining and declaring that the Public Interest and necessity demand the acqusition improvement and accountability and conversion of at risk multiunit residential buildings
Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday june 29, 2016. My name is mark farrell. I am chairing the committee and joined by the vice chair katy tang and supervisor wiener and thank the clerk and staff from sfgtv for covering the meeting today. With that madam clerk do we have any announcements . Yes mr. Chair. Please silence all cell phones and complete speaker cards and documents to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will be on the july 12 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. Madam clerk will you call item 1 and two together. Item 1 resolution determining and declaring that the Public Interest and necessity demand the acqusition improvement and accountability and conversion of at risk multiunit residential buildings to permanent Affordable Housing and performing need the seismic, fire, health, and safety upgrades and other major accountab