Im lisa loy, Vice President for programs here and privileged to direct the Prevention Network which is part of our comprehensive health program. We are delighted to host this event with American Cancer Network and thrilled to be joined by three secretaries from hhs Whose Service has spanned multiple administrations from parties both democratic and republican. For those new to bpc, our mission is to drive principled, actionable policy solutions that combine the best ideas from both political parties. Today were here to talk about health and in particular to talk about ways to promote health and prevent disease, specifically cancer for ourselves, our families and our communities. From individual behavior changes to changes in our environments to policy changes at the state and federal level, theres a lot we can do to prevent cancer. For many of us, cancer is personal, some of us personally or affected someone we care about. Theres a tremendous amount of good work happening to better unde
All right. Senator klobuchar, were delighted to have a good prosecutor. Okay. Well, good. Well, thats a good way to begin. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, and thank you to all of you for working on this issue. Senator durbin and i have been long involved in this issue, and also senator franken and i represent a state that has a lot of refugees and are a big part of the fabric of life in our state, leading businesses, teaching our students, on our police forces. So i think i would start with this issue with you, director rodriguez, on the Security Check. As you state in your testimony, refugees are subject to the highest level of Security Check of any category of traveler to the u. S. I believe we need to uphold these stringent Security Standards which require extensive by graphic and biometric checks, information vetting. Do you agree with me that refugees are the most carefully vetted of all travelers, and what has uscis done to ensure that the high security requirements for refuge
Zsfg was called a part of the vital infrastructure and the new Trauma Center was one of the best real estate deals in 2016 and was given by the San Francisco business times. We also had a Homeless Council award given to dr. Michelle snyderman and the recipient of the medical respite award by success for the Homeless Council and this award recognizes those that delivered outstanding medical Respite Services in the communities and evidenced by the in tact and improved quality of life for home experiencing homelessness and this will be presented in Portland Oregon in the end of may. Mayor lee announced the new Navigation Center march 23 and the city will open the Navigation Center at least additional 200 units for homeless individuals. This center will be begin accepting clients in two months. The department provides the roving medical team for the Navigation Center and the Navigation Center is located at the civic hotel right off of market street. And just the last we heard a lot about t
[gavel] good afternoon. The Commission Meeting will please come to order and the secretary will call the roll. Commissioner pating. Present. Commssioner singer. Here. Commissioner chow. Present. Commissioner chung. Present. The second item on the agenda is approval of the minutes is for the minutes. There is a motion. Second. Are there any corrections for the minutes . If not were prepare for the vote. All in favor of the minutes please say aye. Aye. All those opposed . The minutes have been approved unanimously. We will provide to the next item. Item 3 is the directors report. Hello commissioners. I want to let you know that National Public health week is from the fourth to the tenth this week. The department is active on social media participating in a twitter chat and highlighting different programs for the San Francisco department of Public Health and social justice, healthy communities, and Healthy Youth and healthy food and we have a twitter identification if you would like to fo
Helping us broadcaster this meeting completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the april 19, 2016, oikdz thank you call item one. Ordinance for the human did care in the Tobacco Sales ordinance. Supervisor peskin youre up the sposh of this piece of this item. Thank you, madam chair and supervisor wiener this origin about have one long term business in district 3 from the aufrsz piece of legislation give you a little bit of background a couple years ago the board of supervisors passed an ordinance that limited the number of Tobacco Sales permits per district to 45 per district district 3 as most supervisorial district has in excess of that number of what the legislation was developed no ability for an individual with a valid existing permit to move to another location in this particular instance the individual who is hsa had this longterm institution is actually the victim of rent increases and found anoth