Budget, um that we really should go ahead and have a community meeting. So this is a community meeting. We have our commissioners present. Um, one of our commissioners. Was unable to be here. Uh thats commissioner joaquin guerrero, whos out of the country, but we have five other commissioners here. We also have members of the public in the room and we have members of the public on line. And so were going to go ahead and go through our regular, um the items that we were planning to cover today, which is our directors report. We will have a report on the budget and then we will have, um , a presentation on the which is an overview of the homelessness response system just to set the framework for everyone. In the ensuing months, we will we have worked with the commission to set up some presentations for all of you and for the public so that you can start to understand the various interventions and various pieces of our homelessness response system in San Francisco and how they all fit tog
So i always talk to reporters why are you now saying somethingses that youre saying i said for months because aye been talking about real ideas and they dont cover them. I give speeches about educationing and they ignore it. I give speeches about health care and they ignore it, but you talk about it you talk about anything that has nothing to do with that, and they jump all over it. It leads the newscast. What a sad indictment on the state of the political debate in this country today. [applause] so from time to time i read the main tweet, but i never stop talking about the ideas you deserve to have. Theyre on my website go on it now. Not now, when youre done, marco rubio. Com and youll see we have a real plan to fix our tax code. We have a real plan to roll back regulation. We have a real plan to save Social Security and medicare. We have a real plan to balance our budget one of the most embarrassing moments in the last debate is when donald trump was asked about the debt and he said
Addicted to Prescription Drugs and overusing and misusing Prescription Drugs, and then the price of heroin on our streets so low and people going to heroin and also a combination of heroin and a deadly drug called fentanyl. So i very much want to thank senators portman, whitehouse and klobuchar for the work that weve been doing together over the last several years on this bill and to see this bill come to the senate floor. This is a very important piece of legislation that will help us address the Public Health epidemic facing my home state of New Hampshire and this country. This is something ive come to the floor on on several occasions before. And traveling around my state, i cant tell you the number of stories that ive heard from people in New Hampshire and what were facing, and the number of lives that are lost, the number of lives that are devastated by heroin and fentanyl and the misuse of Prescription Drugs. This is a lifeordeath issue in my state. The number of Drug Overdose de
Ones that have to implement that policy and that sometimes comes with challenges. Whats interesting about the university of south florida, as you pointed out, it is a large institution, its a young institution. Most particularly, its a top 50 Research University public or private in the United States. And i mention that because all too often its the Research Universities that lose sight of the focus on serving the needs of the students and enhancing Student Success. Over the past six years, we have seen an 8 increase or an eight point increase in our freshman retention rate, a 15 increase in our sixyear freshman graduation rate, which only tells part of the story. Because a large number of students entering the university of south florida come to us as transfer students as well. We have also seen an increase in Graduation Rates there from 60 to 68 in four years over in recent past. So were pleased in the direction were moving. Were not yet satisfied. I think first and foremost, its bee
Disadvantage the students that we are most concerned have access to and through College Needs to change and it needs to change dramatically. In the department, we have as you well know, carmel, we have for the last several years put in our Budget Proposal opportunities for the federal government and states to Work Together on many of the lines of contact were discussing here this morning. The state higher ed Performance Fund that we have proposed would seek to reward states that create Stable Funding platforms, that make sure that their commitment to low income students remains in place and that would also move states toward a more performance based budgeting overall. So we want to continue to have those conversations. We see great virtue in aligning federal resources with a states willingness to Fund Higher Education and to make that funding centrally available to low income and middle income families who we need to get into college and across the finish line if were going to meet the