is the minutes and approval of minutes of october 172,017th. motion is in order for the approval of the minutes. second. so moved. it s been a motion second are there any corrections to the minutes? if not all those in favor of the minutes please a aye. all opposed the minutes have been approved. thank you. next item. 3 the director s report. good afternoon commissioners i want to welcome the ucsf pharmacist students, lift your hands so we can wave at you. also our members of our drug usage union are here today to testify so i want to acknowledge all of you. and many advocates from the community so we ll have a very great commission meeting today. and just on that note, we ll let you know president trump announced he is helping human services agency to declare a opioid crisis a public-health emergency. this does not provide us new dollars. there are a couple of things i think are worth noting, one is that there may be flexibility about the regulations of certa
also our members of our drug usage union are here today to testify so i want to acknowledge all of you. and many advocates from the community so we ll have a very great commission meeting today. and just on that note, we ll let you know president trump announced he is helping human services agency to declare a opioid crisis a public-health emergency. this does not provide us new dollars. there are a couple of things i think are worth noting, one is that there may be flexibility about the regulations of certain medications considering being able to pay for tele medicine for many rural communities who do do not have access, this would be a real important part. also naloxone, trying to reduce cost to that and also there is some concern from h.i.v. advocates in the way they ve allowed for thinking about flexibility to shift resources from h.i.v. and a.i.d.s. to this issue but i think over all, knowing that it s a public-health emergency i think is from a symbolic message i think
pharmacist students, lift your hands so we can wave at you. also our members of our drug usage union are here today to testify so i want to acknowledge all of you. and many advocates from the community so we ll have a very great commission meeting today. and just on that note, we ll let you know president trump announced he is helping human services agency to declare a opioid crisis a public-health emergency. this does not provide us new dollars. there are a couple of things i think are worth noting, one is that there may be flexibility about the regulations of certain medications considering being able to pay for tele medicine for many rural communities who do do not have access, this would be a real important part. also naloxone, trying to reduce cost to that and also there is some concern from h.i.v. advocates in the way they ve allowed for thinking about flexibility to shift resources from h.i.v. and a.i.d.s. to this issue but i think over all, knowing that it s a public-
secretary will call the roll. [roll call] actually, commissioner, please turn on your microphone. thank you. ok. great. [roll call] and i believe commissioner chow has an announcement. yes. as many of you may know, but others may not, i want to just acknowledge all the work that commissioner [inaudible]. he had resigned for personal reasons as of the beginning of this month. for that reason we have made adjustments until we have election of officers. as you know, he was vice president and with the concurrence of the commission, we will not vote for a new vice president until we reach march. and meanwhile, however, dr. pating s assignments, i would like to publicly make the following assignments in place of where he was. as he was chair of community and public health committee, i ve appointed commissioner loyce to be chair of that committee. he is currently a member. and commissioner bernal will join him as a member of that committee. dr. pating was also on laguna honda
torques the majority of the staff here, i m reaping that sometimes. but again, i have an investment to give the kids, what was given to me. as a former beacon student, i had many, many different staff members continue to invest their time in me, treat me like a little brother and even like a cousin. however they wanted to do me, but though, sometimes i was being rude, sometimes i was an obnoxious student, they still loved on me. and i decided that, ok, i have to go ahead and give back. i never thought i would be in this position i m in now, but i m honored to give them what was given to me. to hear we re going to be receiving $377 million over the next five years, to invest in our children, the youth and their families? it literally touches my heart. because now i know for a fact that san francisco is definitely invested in our young people. and want to see them grow. it s a beautiful into beautiful young adult. so again, i would love to give honor to everyone else in the r