Talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that oh, yeah, i hear you, its so very weird. Im used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where theyre all moving around and having to have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them . Lets listen. Hi guys. I kind of have stage flight when im on t. V. Because im normally quiet . Shes never quiet. No, im not quiet. My sister was, like, i saw you on t. V. My teacher was, i saw you on youtube. It was exciting, how the community started watching. It was a lot of fun. It also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun. I want to end today with a thank you. Thank you for spending time with us. It was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. Im so happy to see you today. Today is the last day of the school year, yea it really helped me in my teaching. Im excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. We received a lot of
Then pound, and pound again. You will hear the meeting but be in listening mode only. When your item is called, press star, three to enter the queue. Thank you, so welcome, everyone, to this regular meeting of the our city, our home Oversight Committee. It is november 17, and we will call the roll. [roll call] we will move into item 2. Do we have any Public Comment on this item . Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item call 4156550001, enter meeting access code 1462611651, press pound, and pound again. Press star, three to enter the queue for Public Comment. Please start speaking when the system indicates you are unmuted, and you will have three minutes. There are no Public Comment. Okay. And i just wanted to say we will have two hours today, so we wanted to be realistic with our agenda, and i know there was a lot of interest in looking at our bylaws, our procedures, and then talking some more about Decision Making criteria, so i just wanted to expla
Sharp and tough. We are going to leave this and go live to a briefing with the d. C. Mayor. Mayor bowser good morning everybody. I am the mayor of the district of columbia, i am joined by members of my Public Safety team, the city administrator for the district of columbia to provide a brief update, and take your questions. Let me just start with this. We talk about statehood, people wonder why we fight so hard for it. And, i think that the events of the last several days demonstrate that our fight for statehood is more about more than getting two senators, about our right as taxpaying americans to autonomy, and the autonomy that can only be fully achieved with statehood. Curfew at i imposed a 7 00 p. M. , about 25 minutes noted thatcurfew we protesters in front of the white some were dispersed using form of munitions. D. C. Police throughout the night enforced the curfew, and last night, i think the chief will confirm this number, a number of people were arrested in violation of the p
We will be addressing some of the needs of the Public Health services. Then at the next meeting we will have a presentation which will be an overall of Behavioural Health programs in the department. In addition, i would like to on behalf of the commission, welcome commissioner suzanne gerardo. She has been the chair of the San Francisco Families First five commission and the founder and trustee of the demerlac academy which is serving underserved children and families. You certainly bring a lot of credentials to the commission, and were very happy to have you. Would you like to say a few words . Yes. Im very happy to be here, and i hope with my background in Mental Health, Behavioural Health, as a practising psychologist, im not just an administrator, i see families and adolescents daily. I look forward to being part of the planning, program, and solutions as the department of Public Health moves forward. So i welcome the opportunity to serve the city. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome, co
Is we would be running 41 beds in that facility and maintaining 29 lowbarrier hummingbird beds. In the interim, five people will be moved, provided its clinically indicated or they agree to move to other facilities, to open up a 14bed hummingbird that would last in april. People would be moved from that hummingbird to other hummingbird options and we would reopen to the state of 41 beds. Really pleased that we were able to come to some agreement. I think the staff input and the collective problemsolving let us move in the right direction. The governor just another key piece of news in our rapidly developing Behavioural Health field, the governor signed sb40 into law which helps strengthen our conservatorship and will help more people in what i consider lifesafing conservatorship. We will be able to help people for up to six months, provided they meet a number of criteria with regard to what these bills regarding we see the multiple offers of care. So we are working on this. A work grou