For service youth, and especially the diamond shelter. We want to present Homeless Youth from becoming homeless adults. Thank you very much. ~ prevent thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors, members of the budget committee. My name is sandy maury and today im representing the longterm care coordinating council and the two requests we have for you to consider before i go into that, i just wanted to give you a couple of demographics. In all of your 11 districts there are between 15 to 24 of people who are seniors over the age of 60, and within all of the districts of the city, of all those seniors, the 18 to 61 who live alone. So, the first request that were asking you to consider and by the way, these two requests are not presently in the mayors budget. So, we are asking you to consider to add these to the total budget. Were asking for 2 million to add to the Community Living fund which now is administered by the department of aging and Adult Services. This
Honor. For the record, my name is nick wilcox, i live in penn valley in california here with my wife amanda who because of the crowded conditions is in the overflow room, shes also put in a speaker card and would like to reserve the right to speak at the end if she deems that necessary. I would like to thank supervisor farrell and mayor lee for your steadfast support of lauras law. As supervisor farrell said, amanda and i are the parents of laura wilcox, laura when she was 19 in 2001 died in a rampage shooting while she was trying to help people with severe Mental Illness. She was working at the Behavioral Mental Health clinic, i man named scott thorpe came in and shot her pointblank 4 times and she died instantly. Since that time we have come to realize, actually we came to realize rather early on in the process, that there are significant gaps in the Mental Health services system. We became involved with assembly mental Helen Thompson in ab 1421 which was eventually signed by the gov
Next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors, members of the budget committee. My name is sandy maury and today im representing the longterm care coordinating council and the two requests we have for you to consider before i go into that, i just wanted to give you a couple of demographics. In all of your 11 districts there are between 15 to 24 of people who are seniors over the age of 60, and within all of the districts of the city, of all those seniors, the 18 to 61 who live alone. So, the first request that were asking you to consider and by the way, these two requests are not presently in the mayors budget. So, we are asking you to consider to add these to the total budget. Were asking for 2 million to add to the Community Living fund which now is administered by the department of aging and Adult Services. This has been in existence for the last seven years and the fund from this particular fund help people to stay in their homes, in their apartments or in their neighborhoods as
Protect our duties from fire and other emergencies but our duties also require us to respond to the medical needs of others, both homeless and other individuals. For some of these individuals when our ambulances assist them, it is not the first time. We see them day in and day out. We get to know them by their first name, we see what street corners they hang out on and too many times watch them slowly decline in health and selfrespect. Its almost as if you are watching them commit suicide slowly because they cant get into a facility that can help them out. This cycle that i speak of is not only a detriment to the resources of the department but more importantly a detriment to the individuals we are watching slowly fall into greater and grader disrepair. Our Union Supports the implementation of lauras law because these Services Free up the resources of the Fire Department but also will help provide a Community Based individualized treatment that is needed by these individuals and Mental
Good morning. Im here from Market Street Youth Services and im here to request your support for Homeless Youth. Mental Health Services for Homeless Youth, substance use, services for Homeless Youth, Lgbtq Services in the castro for service youth, and especially the diamond shelter. We want to present Homeless Youth from becoming homeless adults. Thank you very much. ~ prevent thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors, members of the budget committee. My name is sandy maury and today im representing the longterm care coordinating council and the two requests we have for you to consider before i go into that, i just wanted to give you a couple of demographics. In all of your 11 districts there are between 15 to 24 of people who are seniors over the age of 60, and within all of the districts of the city, of all those seniors, the 18 to 61 who live alone. So, the first request that were asking you to consider and by the way, these two requests are not presently i