At Winder Aga Georgia in a hunt for answers after the daily high School Shooting, a Press Conference said to get underway in a moment. It took place at the apalachee highs go, about 40 miles east of Atlanticmac Appearance was naydamac as their brains headed back to school. As we waited for this update, what do we know right now . Hello, in for neil cavuto, this is your world. Steve is alive it aint a winder, georgia, steve . At the numbers could change but right now it stands at a flop of people, 30 people wounded a big nine of those wounded in serious enough to be hospitalized. The numbers could change. As far as It Shooter goes, he is alive and in custody, we are waiting to hear more details, likely to hear that from Law Enforcement officials, there are some unconfirmed reports of the shooter may be as young as age of 14, that is not confirmed yet. When we are hearing our stories about what people have gone through today, Including One 11th Grader who describes what happened when he
Alive cablecast did online, too. This is the same channel as the regular Board Meetings. The live video stream will also be available online. Welcome to the district Staff Members and members of the public. Thank you to the budget staff in advance for their the hard work and getting information ready for this special meeting. The process for this afternoon, i would like to turn it over first to superintendent matthews and the staff who will start out with a presentation. I will then open it up to Public Comment and depending upon how many speakers we have requested, i will also put a time limit in case, again, really wanting the purpose of todays meeting to have dialogue amongst the commissioners. We have had a lot we had lots of engagement as well the past tuesday evening at our Board Meeting and we will also have an opportunity this upcoming week as well. So at this time, i would like to turn it over actually, before i turn it over to dr. Matthews, you know, the purpose of the meetin
Good afternoon, welcome to the stand lus and Transportation Committee for today, monday, july 6th, 2020. I am the chair of the committee joined by supervisor safai and member supervisor dean preston. Our clerk is ms. Erika major. Could you please do you have any inaudible . Clerk yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken inaudible state wide stay at home order and all local and state federal orders, declaration and directives. They will continued through participate in the meeting to the same extent if theyre physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the addenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunity to speak during the pluck comment periodd are by calli
When the house gavels back in, watch live coverage here on cspan. Back now to the white house summit on Mental Health. What i would like to do for a few minutes. Lets start with you. In terms of the imd exclusion that they express concerns if we live the imd exclusion we open the door to institutionalization of thousands of people. Do you have comments about that . It will not open the Door Community treatment will always be cheaper and government will always will be a cheaper option if it is effective. But then go back to snakepit conditions of the past of one flew over the cuckoos nest but it is the lack of money for hospitals that created substandard conditions allowing them more money that is truly therapeutic. And to have the panelist speak about the continuum of services that are needed to support the seriously mental ill. What do you see as a continuum of care what happens if you dont have those kinds of services . But these fights over scraps so now we are worried about inpatie
Why is in crisis half of the description clicks because 11 million americans upwards of 4 million are receiving no treatment to their lives lost to psychosis untreated serious Mental Illness represents a huge and unnecessary loss of human potential. It also makes our more dire social mission such as random acts of violence and sheltered homelessness Substance Abuse, and the disturbing rise of the rate of suicide i want to emphasize these problems are exacerbated not by serious Mental Illness but exacerbated by serious Mental Illness. Todays historic conversation draws broadly on the expertise of people from many disciplines and experiences and perspectives our goal is to put on the table a robust set of reforms how we go about delivering treatment to persons with serious Mental Illness. The Trump Administration has already begun the process of rebuilding our treatment system this very week the president will sign fiscal year 2020 appropriations bill that makes important in the improvem