[drumming] [cymbals] [cymbal] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome sheriff matt freeman. Thats a great way to kick off a party and celebration. Ladies and gentlemen, lets hear it for the San Francisco Police Department lion dance team. [applause] my name is Matthew Freeman and im the undersheriff for the city and county of San Francisco Sheriffs Office. And it is my honor and my pleasure to serve as your master of ceremonies for todays event for this auspicious occasion, and i cannot tell you enough how happy the men and women that wear this uniform are of the person we are going to swear in as sheriff today. [applause] and welcome to San Franciscos crown jewel, this beautiful San Francisco city hall. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, if i can please ask you to stand for the presentation of the colors and pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republi
All members are present. I. I would like to acknowledge the staff of sf gtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. Before we do that, i would like to ask everybody to join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome back, colleagues. I hope you all had a great break because im hopeful that this year, 2020, will be as fruitful as last year, 2019. And i would like to welcome our new city Deputy Director who is over there. Shes already busy, ann pearson, welcome to chambers. And i promise that at least, my colleagues promise not to pick on you for the first week, anyway. I also like to make an announcement that in december, at the end of december, there were three positions on the department of public inspect
Happy new year. Of aofi have a few things to highlight. Very exciting news with regard to medy cal expanding coverage to undocumented immigrants up to age 26. This is an expansion that Governor Newsom authorized as part of the states 2019 to 20 budget, including full scope medical to eligible adults ages 19 to 25 regardless of immigration status. Statewide this is expected to have a wide impact, covering 90,000 people, and enrollment started the first of the year. We have to make that expansion will apply to about 1,000 to 2,000 individuals in San Francisco. And we have been working with the Human Services agency to notify eligible san franciscans, including transitioning those who qualify from healthy San Francisco to medical. This is also an important opportunity to remind residents about the available of medical, that immigrants are not pen liesed when they apply for a green card, and there are no changes to the public charge rule as the courts issued an injunction and the federal g
[cymbals] [cymbal] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome sheriff matt freeman. Thats a great way to kick off a party and celebration. Ladies and gentlemen, lets hear it for the San Francisco Police Department lion dance team. [applause] my name is Matthew Freeman and im the undersheriff for the city and county of San Francisco Sheriffs Office. And it is my honor and my pleasure to serve as your master of ceremonies for todays event for this auspicious occasion, and i cannot tell you enough how happy the men and women that wear this uniform are of the person we are going to swear in as sheriff today. [applause] and welcome to San Franciscos crown jewel, this beautiful San Francisco city hall. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, if i can please ask you to stand for the presentation of the colors and pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which
Francisco. I am excited about this Incredible Opportunity to open up a 200 bed Navigation Center in San Francisco. We all know what the statistics say. We have a real problem around homelessness, and the fact is last year we helped 2146 people exit homelessness. Since we have opened Navigation Centers in San Francisco, they have helped over 5,000 people. Despite what we know the challenges are, the fact is i am grateful and proud of so many of the incredible people behind me today. The people who workday in and day out to help make these Navigation Centers a reality, but more importantly to help the people that we know are struggling on the streets exit homelessness. We have seven Navigation Centers in San Francisco with a few more on the way. I am really excited what we are going to be doing. At the end of the day, lets be chair clear. It clear. It is that we need permanent housing for people who are exiting homelessness. Today we are well on our way to meeting the goal that i set of