homeless youth. all of the proceeds of this project will be donated to the larkin street youth services so that they may continue their valiant mission of changing the lives of thousands of homeless youth throughout the city. what prompted this is let me

just -- [please stand by] . >> and his reaction was son, why haven't you done this sooner? so i also have known people who have battled with homelessness as a youth, and they found programs like the larkin street youth services, and they attribute their services to their success in leaving homelessness and finding stability in their health, employment and housing situations. the lgbtq communities in san francisco is one of the largest and most prominent lgbtq

communities in the entire world. the san francisco police department is the 14th largest police department in the nation, and we have a duty to reduce the number of lgbtq youth sleeping on the streets each night. june is lgbtq pride month, with a celebration of how far this movement has come around the world. san francisco police department are dedicated to excellence in law enforcement and to treatment of people of diversities and ethnicities around the city. i ask for your favorable declaration of approval in our request. for you, i have a copy of the patch, so go on here as well as

a mock up shirt of what it would look like when it goes on everyone's uniform. >> may i congratulate you for your -- your creativity and your willingness to move forward on issues like this. this is great. are we being asked for an action here? we have to take action in order to modify -- >> clerk: we need a motion and a second, correct. >> i'll make a motion. >> i second. >> president hirsch: all right. any comment from commissioners on the motion? >> commissioner dejesus: i -- i'm sorry. >> president hirsch: commissioner mazzucco? >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. you're right, you are a third generation with your dad serving at mission station. your grandfather was my dad's partner. i'm proud of you, i'm proud of the strength you brought forward as you entered this department. you're a brilliant young man and you represent this department well. i want to thank you and all the

members of the pride alliance and this is something that we can really be proud of. thank you. >> thank you. >> president hirsch: and commissioner dejesus. >> commissioner dejesus: and i agree with the previous statements. it's a positive thing for the lgbtq community and i just want to say thank you for the pride alliance to come up with this, and i'm looking forward to supporting this motion. >> thank you, commissioner. >> president hirsch: vice president taylor? >> vice president taylor: yeah. i want to thank you, as well. no one can say pride patch project three times fast, but it's a fantastic project, and thank you for your work. >> president hirsch: director henderson? >> yeah. it's about time. i was surprised when you were talking that we haven't seen this already, but my question was a practical one. how much is the patch? >> $10. >> did i miss that part?

did he say that already? >> we are going to be selling the patches for $20 a set. >> well, make sure you hit up all the commissioners. commissioner brookter? >> commissioner brookter: yeah, i want to go along with all of my commissioners. i'm glad to see we're working with larkin, and i think it also shows this department's wherewithal understanding that homelessness is a big issue here in the city, but we're going to focus on this young people to make sure they do have housing, so they can get off the streets and when they grow up, they have this interaction with the police and make it that much stronger. >> president hirsch: commissioner ham -- hamasaki?

>> commissioner hamasaki: yeah. i'm going to sound like a broken record. there's been some things over the last few years, actions by officers in the department. i think officers that wear these and show to the rest of the city, to the other members, to our visitors, that we are an inclusive environment, that we are a supportive environment, and this department supports all members regardless of any background or orientation is really important. i think it's important not just for the department to see, but for young people that you're describing might have negative pressures of law enforcement based upon what they see in the media. i think actions like this are not just symbolic, but they can help change how people feel about the department, so i

think it's overall an excellent plan, and i look forward to seeing officers wearing these on the street. >> thank you, commissioner. >> president hirsch: thank you. i think we now need public comment on this before we vote, correct? >> clerk: correct, commissioner. >> president hirsch: okay. i'm getting good at this. okay. we're asking for public comment on this motion only. any public comment? seeing none, it's closed. can we have the vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion presented by commissioner elias and seconded by commissioner mazzucco, all in favor of passing the pride patch project motion? any opposed? the motion passes unanimously. >> president hirsch: okay. thank you. thank you, all. yes, sir? i think we need to make $20

donations. >> president hirsch: thank you very much. >> commissioner elias: thank you. >> commissioner dejesus: thank you. >> president hirsch: okay, chief, i think you have another item. >> clerk: we'll move onto line

item four. [agenda item read]. >> good evening. the department is excited to announce the issuance of much needed and highly anticipated piece of safety equipment, the ballistic helmet. the ballistic helmet is basically a replacement of our riot helmet. we've had the same helmet that we've issued officers as protective head wear for approximately 30-plus years now. the ballistic helmet changes that piece of safety equipment with one important aspect, and that is it now will have ballistic capablities to protect an officer from gunfire. it changes or slightly amends three separate department

general orders. it's department general order 10.01, 10.02, and 10.03. specifically for 10.01, it would simply alter the uniform for a class d, which is basically like a tactical crowd control type of a uniform. that particular general order identifies the helmet that's issues as a riot helmet. this would be a ballistic he helmet which would be taking the place of that. 10.02, the change for this general order would be the department bulletin calls for officers that are assigned to uniform sector patrol to have their helmets readily available with them and then all other officers to have their helmets available as is practical.

and then, finally for department general 10.03, the change would be in regards to helmet identification. 10.03 talks about numbering of officer's star numbers on the side of the helmets to be readily identifiable, and it specifically calls for gold numbers on the side of the helmets. our helmets and what we've requested in the department general order would be silver for officers and sergeants and gold for commissioned officers, and the purpose for this is to have commissioned officers more readily available in either crowd control situations or critical incidents that you can look at the helmets and readily identify who's a lieutenant or captain or member of the command staff as opposed to officers or sergeants. and with that, questions? >> president hirsch: the only question i have is assuming we approve this, do the general

orders actually then get amended in your office and do we see the amendment? how does the mechanic of that work? >> so the amendment would be via the department bulletin, and then, eventually, the department general orders would be amended as they would come up through the process to amend all the general orders. >> president hirsch: all right. i just want to make sure we don't lose track of that because some of these general orders may not come up for three years. >> and commissioner, they get reissued. if that general order is like in year three or four, this bulletin would get reissued down the line until that order gets amended. >> president hirsch: okay. may i have a motion to amend those three orders? >> motion. >> second. >> president hirsch: okay. questions from commissioners? okay. we need public comment. is there any public comment on this motion?

seeing none, public comment is closed. we are ready for a vote. >> clerk: for the vote, all in favor? any opposed? the ayes pass, 7-0. >> president hirsch: okay. thank you. thank you. >> clerk: line item five, general public comment. [agenda item read]. >> president hirsch: thank you. any general public comment?

>> just wanted to end the day and talk about my son, as i do every wednesday when i come here, and i'd like to use the overhead. and my son, aubrey aberkasen, who was murdered august 6. they just had a meeting yesterday with the mothers -- with some mothers about unsolved homicides. our homicides are still not solved. seemed like we were creating the table, creating the same thing over and over again, talking about our lost loved ones and still no justice, still no solved homicide for our children.

we're just coming to meetings and another meeting for bringing up these feelings when something should be done. there's nothing being done not fast enough. i keep bringing these names of the persons that shot my son, and one of them's deceased. i also want to put here, i bring this because i want to read it, my son's birth. it says, my son. i close my eyes for but a moment, and suddenly, a man stood where a boy used to be. i may not carry you in my arms anymore but i will always carry you in my heart. you are -- you have given me so many reasons to be proud of you, to be proud of the man

you've become. but the proudest moment for me is telling others that you are my son. love, mom, and happy birthday. this is his birthday card, when he was alive or he isn't. >> president hirsch: thank you. again, the tip line is 415-575-4444. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we're ready for the next item. >> clerk: line six, public comment on all matters pertaining to eight below, closed session including public comment on closed session. public comment on closed session. >> president hirsch: any public comment on closed session? i see none. it's closed.

>> clerk: item seven, closed session. >> so moved. >> >> clerk: on-line item seven, all in favor? any opposed? the motion passes 7-0. >> president hirsch: okay. and thank you all. we're going into closed session. uxz gsz. >> clerk: okay. commissioner, we are back in open session. line item nine, vote to whether to disclose on any or all discussion held in closed session, action. >> president hirsch: all right. i think hang on, we have to note that commissioner mazzucco is no longer here, we have a quorum, is that correct? >> so moved.

>> president hirsch: is there a second? >> second. >> clerk: all in favor? opposed? the motion passes 6-0. line item ten, adjournment, action item. >> motion to adjourn. >> second. >> clerk: all in favor? opposed? i' >> i'll oppose. >> clerk: the motion passes 6-0. thank you.

>> i view san francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. i just love the city. i love everything about it. when i'm away from it, i miss it like a person. i grew up in san francisco kind of all over the city. we had pretty much the run of the city 'cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would -- in the summer, we'd all all the way down to aquatic park, and we'd walk down to the library, to the kids' center. in those days, the city was safe and nobody worried about us running around. i went to high school in spring valley. it was over the hill from

chinatown. it was kind of fun to experience being in a minority, which most white people don't get to experience that often. everything was just really within walking distance, so it make it really fun. when i was a teenager, we didn't have a lot of money. we could go to sam wong's and get super -- soup for $1. my parents came here and were drawn to the beatnik culture. they wanted to meet all of the writers who were so famous at the time, but my mother had some serious mental illness issues, and i don't think my father were really aware of that, and those didn't really become evident until i was about five, i guess, and my marriage blew up, and my mother took me all over the world.

most of those ad ventures ended up bad because they would end up hospitalized. when i was about six i guess, my mother took me to japan, and that was a very interesting trip where we went over with a boyfriend of hers, and he was working there. i remember the open sewers and gigantic frogs that lived in the sewers and things like that. mostly i remember the smells very intensely, but i loved japan. it was wonderful. toward the end. my mother had a breakdown, and that was the cycle. we would go somewhere, stay for a certain amount of months, a year, period of time, and she would inevitably have a breakdown. we always came back to san francisco which i guess came me some sense of continuity and that was what kept me sort of stable. my mother hated to fly, so she would always make us take ships places, so on this particular occasion when i was, i think, 12, we were on this ship getting ready to go through the

panama canal, and she had a breakdown on the ship. so she was put in the brig, and i was left to wander the ship until we got to fluorfluora few days later, where we had a distant -- florida a few days later, where we had a distant cousin who came and got us. i think i always knew i was a writer on some level, but i kind of stopped when i became a cop. i used to write short stories, and i thought someday i'm going to write a book about all these ad ventures that my mother took me on. when i became a cop, i found i turned off parts of my brain. i found i had to learn to conform, which was not anything i'd really been taught but felt very safe to me. i think i was drawn to police

work because after coming from such chaos, it seemed like a very organized, but stable environment. and even though things happening, it felt like putting order on chaos and that felt very safe to me. my girlfriend and i were sitting in ve 150d uvio's bar, and i looked out the window and i saw a police car, and there was a woman who looked like me driving the car. for a moment, i thought i was me. and i turned to my friend and i said, i think i'm supposed to do this. i saw myself driving in this car. as a child, we never thought of police work as a possibility for women because there weren't any until the mid70's, so i had only even begun to notice there were women doing this job. when i saw here, it seemed like this is what i was meant to do. one of my bosses as ben johnson's had been a cop, and

he -- i said, i have this weird idea that i should do this. he said, i think you'd be good. the department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there. so the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. finally took an inspector's test and passed that and then went down to the hall of justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. i just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didn't know if we'd ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit.

he transferred me out, and a couple of weeks later, i found out i had breast cancer. my intuition that the job was killing me. i ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28 years or the years in, i think. the writing thing really became intense when i was going through treatment for cancer because i felt like there were so many parts that my kids didn't know. they didn't know my story, they didn't know why i had a relationship with my mother, why we had no family to speak of. it just poured out of me. i gave it to a friend who is an editor, and she said i think this would be publishable and i think people would be interested in this. i am so lucky to live here. i am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. i am so grateful they did. that it nev >> welcome to another episode of

safety on today is episode we'll show you how 0 retroactive you're home let's go inside and take a look. >> hi and patrick chief officer and director of earthquake for the city and county of san francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe in our model home with matt we'll talk about plywood. >> great thanks. >> where are we we if you notice bare studs those are prone to failure in an earthquake we need to stabilize those they don't lean over and plywood is effective as long as you nail along every edge of the

plywood for the framing we'll nail along the sides and top and on the bottom 0 immediately you'll see a problem in a typical san francisco construction because nothing to nail the bottom of the plywood we've got to wind block between the studs and we'll secure this to the mud sill with nails or surface screws something to nail the bottom of the plywood. >> i notice we have not bolted the foundation in the previous episode thorough goes through options with different products so, now we have the blocking we'll a xoich attach the plywood. >> the third thing we'll attach the floor framing of the house above so the top of the braced walls one to have a steel angle on top of this wall and

types of to the top of the wall with nails into the top plate and the nails in this direction driving a nail it difficult unless you have a specialized tool so this makes that easy this is good, good for about 5 hundred pounds of earthquake swinging before and after that mount to the face of wall it secures the top of wall and nailed into the top plate of the with triple wall and this gives us a secure to resist the

forces. >> so you now see the space is totally available to dots blocking that he bottom and bolted the foundation in corneas what the code in the next episode you'll see you apply

good afternoon. the commission will please come to order. and the secretary will call the roll. >> commissioner guillermo? >> present. >> commissioner bernal? >> present. >> commissioner chow? >> present. >> i'm sorry. i missed commissioner loyce and then commissioner chow. >> present. [laughter] >> i apologize. i can't see you. commissioner chung? >> present. >> commissioner green? >> present. >> actually the second item on the agenda is the approval of the march 19, 2019 minutes. >> the minutes before you, motion is in order. >> so moved. >> second. >> are there any questions to the minutes? if not, all in favor please say

aye? >> aye. >> all those opposed? the minutes have been approved. >> thank you, commissioners. i'll note no public comment requests for that item. item 3 is a resolution honoring david sanchez. >> right. and clearly we got confused today, because dr. sanchez is no longer up here. >> yeah. [laughter] >> and we hope our secretary will get back in order. >> thank you, sir. i will. >> we would like to take a few moments in order to recognize a colleague, who has been with us on the commission for over 22 years. and last meeting notified us that he was going to be leaving the commission. so we felt it was only proper that we have an opportunity to thank him for his many years of service with a resolution, which commissioners, is before you. and the resolution is one which

i think warrants reading, because i think it speaks to who dr. sanchez is and what dr. sanchez meant to, not only the commission, but to the city. and so we've constructed a resolution, which says, and dr. sanchez is right there. would you like to stand, dr. sanchez, so we can recognize you, please. dr. sanchez, thank you. [applause] and now you may sit, because recognizing that i'll have to read a number of things, because you were here for 22 years. and it says, during his long tenure on the health commission, he served as health commission vice president, the chair of laguna joint conference committee, the chair of the finance and planning committee, and as a member of zuckerberg

san francisco general hospital joint conference and represented the health commission on the san francisco general hospital foundation. and, whereas, at each health commission meeting that he attended, dr. sanchez provided enthusiastic support for the san francisco department of public health, with particular interest around issues related to diversity, seniors and veterans. and, whereas, he was a dedicated advocate and leader within san francisco for decades, even before joining the health commission, serving as president of the police commission and president of the board of education. and was also a member of the community college board, the san francisco foundation board of directors, and the california commission on aging. and, whereas, dr. sanchez devoted most of his professional career as a university of -- at the university of california as

professor and a valued member of their administration, helping to connect the san francisco general hospital campus to the community, through development of vital programs, such as the child and adolescent support advocacy and resource center, known as kazar, urban health program and the latino assessment center. and whereas dr. sanchez is a produce proud, lifelong member of san francisco and a navy veteran, be it resolved that the san francisco health commission honors dr. sanchez for his many years of dedicated public service, and for the impactful contributions he has made to the residents of the city and county of san francisco. this resolution i put before you, commissioners. is there a second? >> second. >> and at this time there are several people who would also like to speak on behalf of their -- for themselves and for their

organizations. do we have that list? >> clerk: oh, how about if i call them. >> okay. why don't you please. >> dr. ehrlich. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm i'm the chief executive officer at zuckerberg hospital. on behalf of the s.f.c., i want to extend our deep gratitude for you for your years of service and to our community. you served on the health commission for 22 years. and for much of that time, served on the sfgh and the zfgh joint commission at j.c.c. you've also served as a health commissions represent to the san francisco general hospital foundation board. and that's a really important spot there as well. you've been a tireless advocate for patients and for our community. i know you're informed about this, by being a lifelong resident of san francisco, a

professor at ump cfc and having a deep history of advocacy that the resolution goes into so well. with that experience, you've always had a unique part of the j.c.c. in terms of how much you remind us of the history of all that we do, about the history we do and the perspective that that brings to where we are today. i just wanted to say how much i appreciate your deep respect for our team and the work we do and what an advocate you've been for us. so please accept our deep thanks and gratitude for the incredible legacy that you have left with us. thank you very much. [applause] >> vick rosy. >> good afternoon, doctor, and president chow, vice president

loyce and director and dr. colfax. on behalf of the laguna honda community, i have a gratitude note for you dr. sanchez, that i would like to read from our community. dear dr. sanchez, we are grateful for your time served on the health commission and on the laguna honda j.c.c. for the past 22 it years. we are grateful for being a proponent of laguna honda's work, as one of the supporting san franciscans. we're grateful for your leadership in chairing the j.c.c., always with a welcoming demeanor for the members of the public, residents, patients, staff and volunteers. we are grateful for your support at the laguna honda rebuild project, starting with proposition a in 1999. and through our transition to the state-of-the-art hospital in 2010. we are grateful for always

thinking about the community, as we celebrated laguna honda's 150-year celebration in 2016. your idea of having a flu vaccination station available for those attending the event could have an opportunity to also be ready for the flu season. i believe we provided over 80 flu shots on that day in octobe. we are grateful for reviewing and approving thousands of policies and procedures, providing advice, guidance and feedback on strategic directions and tactical initiatives, to improve our services and quality for the residents we serve. we are grateful for the lasting impact you have made within the department, the network and especially on the laguna honda campus. thank you, dr. sanchez, for more than two decades of service and we appreciate the commitment you had in advocating for residents,

staff, volunteers and partners on the laguna honda campus. we wish you much aloha from the laguna honda community. [applause] >> dr. critchfield. >> deputy commissioners and director, i'm president of u.c.f. and also the medical director of risk mechanicment at zuckerberg san francisco medical and the chief cheer. i'm speaking with my experience, i have known dr. sanchez for 11 years now. he's on the j.c.c. i was the chief of staff for several years. and then i had the opportunity to bring the adverse events and root cause analysis cases to j.c.c. to present to dr. sanchez. i'm so pleased, first of all, that we had the opportunity to honor you in the way you deserve. thanks -- this was a gift to us,

i want to thank you for that. you're a humble man, but thank you for that. in thinking about dr. sanchez, i was trying to imagine a couple of words. the words that came to mind for me were unwaverwavering convict, generosity, and in a world of today something so important, kindness. true kindness. and so i think we've heard about the unwavering commitment and conviction to patients and also in the course of when i presented difficult case, he's always been how are the staff, how are the patients. he's been an important guide for us, you know, with the language part of this, how might race play a role in this. i want to acknowledge that. your generosity even in the difficult times, he also tried to see the good in what was going on. what could we learn in the good in each one of us. as i said, in a world filled fid with rancor, i appreciated your presence as a beacon of

kindness. and so i thank you. and i want to thank you all. i thank you for the opportunity to talk today. may we all learn from your example. thank you. [applause] >> and dr. aragon. >> good afternoon. thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak. i'm here actually representing myself, but also representing san francisco and representing people like myself, who grew up in san francisco. so i did not expect to actually

get emotional. i think one of the challenges that we have is that we see very few latinos in public health. and so for me, having role models like dr. sanchez has meant a lot to me growing up. i just want to say thank you. and if you look around, there's very few of us. so me today is a sad day, that's all i want to say. thank you. [applause]

>> that concludes that. >> commissioners, comments from each one of our commissioners. vice president loyce. >> dr. sanchez, i have known you as an employee as the department of public health and also as a fellow commission. -- commissioner. i want to say to you, i always felt your genuine respect and care for us in the department and for the community, as you've sat on the commission the last 22 years. when i think about the contributions you made and will continue to make, i know you're not going away. the thing that strikes me the most is that when we had a very profound policy decision to make around health care in san francisco, you were the one who put it in context. you are the one who gave us the history of why we should do what we're doing. and you are the one that pointed us in the future direction and for that i'm eternally grateful.

and i have learned one hell of a lot for you. thank you, sir, for all of the things you have done for your community and san francisco. >> thank you. commissioner guillermo. >> dr. sanchez, i add my voice to everyone who has spoken today to honor you. i have had a short time to be your colleague here on the commission. but in that short time, i have learned -- i have learned a tremendous amount. you know, we always hear that you should be constant learners. but you also have to have teachers alongside of you to be able to learn the right lessons. and you have definitely been one of those. i'm going to miss you. i have really enjoyed being on the joint committee with ufology. -- for laguna honda. i'm going to call your voice and your aspect to mind when i sit at that table from this point

forward. and i again just want to thank you so much and congratulate you for the career and the contributions you've made to the city of san francisco, as a fellow san franciscan. it means a lot. >> thank you. commissioner bernal? >> dr. sanchez, david, i, of course, have known of your leadership for a very long time and the esteem in which you're held in the community. but it really wasn't until i became a member of this commission about two years ago, where i really understood how connected you are to the communities we serve. and i'd like to associate myself with the remarks of commissioner loyce, that you really have provided context for the work that we do, deep and abiding sense of history, that will be sorely missed on this commission. i want to thank you for your many, many years of service and i'll miss serving with you on the commission very much. >> thank you. commissioner chung. >> commissioner sanchez, i'll

call you commissioner sanchez forever. it has been an honor to serve with you for the last seven years. and i don't want to repeat what people have said so far. but i think that, you know, to have somebody who is like the uncle in the family, who can share, you know, stories and histories of how this started and continue to remind us how far we've came and how much more we have to do to get to where we really wanting to -- want to go. you have been that voice and that spirit for us to remind us that this is all about community. and it shows in everything that you do. and for everything that you have spoken on. it means a lot. and i know that it's hard to say

guillermo to any like fellow commissioners, but this is like saying guillermo to a -- good-bye to a family member leaving home. i hope we'll continue to see you every once in a while. i appreciate your mentorship and how you've been so kind since day one i got on the commission. and to your support. and all of your gentle nudges for me to speak up. so i still got a lot to learn. so hopefully we're going to stay in touch. thank you so much. >> thank you. commissioner green. >> commissioner sanchez, as commissioner guillermo said, i'm relatively new to the commission. the way you taught us and mentored us, your generosity of spirit. i've learned so much in just how

to express that by watching you in action. you know, as commissioner chung said, the way you represent these underrepresented communities are, the focus on equity and your voice in that topic has been so invaluable. and i hope we can reach out to you. we have your phone number. [laughter] and we have your address. [laughter] and we're not going to throw it away. it's just been a remarkable experience to to see you in actn and to be a part of an organization that you have helped lead. it's just an incredible life experience for me and i'm sure for all of the other commissioners as well. >> yeah. director colfax. >> dr. sanchez, i really am so grateful for your commitment and contributions to the department. and, you know, one thing is we haven't been able to work together very long in this capacity, in this relationship. but i will say that i did come to the commission several times over the period of time when i was here in the department last

time. and something that stood out to me, with you, was your kindness to people presenting at the commission. i think you also not only were kind, but you also taught us how to be better and how to do better. and i wish you could look -- you should look behind you, i've never seen so many people smiling at a health commission meeting. [laughter] it's not -- yeah. that joy and appreciation that they are showing to you today, it really reflects your kindness, your wisdom and also the way you eliminated the history of the department, even for me in the short period of time. i'm really grateful for that. i hope that even though you won't be serving as a commissioner, i can still learn from you the history. because we need to go forward, we need to know where we've come from. and i think you've always been a bastion of that wisdom and guidance for the whole department and for the city. so thank you so much for your contributions. >> thank you.

commissioners, after working with dr. sanchez, actually working with david for 20 some odd years, hard to believe nearly a whole generation. and it's so nice that you've also brought your son with you. and we want to also, you know, commend your work, of course, to your entire family. i know they know that you spent a lot of time here. i think they need to know that this city, this commission is very grateful for the fact that the family gave that much of your time to us. and that you've already heard all of the ways that you have impacted all of us. and in the years that you've also been just stepping up when it was time to fill in a position, because somebody was missing or had to be vacant and we've gone through a number of vacancies on the commission here

over these 20 some odd years together. you were always there to say, i will be there and do it. it's what everybody has said, your contributions can't really be measured in anything. although we did see the opening of laguna together, we saw the opening of san francisco general, we've seen the fact that the public health department has become accredited. all of the things that i think -- when we all started, they were aspirations. but whether we'd get there. and working with what, four, five directors who have brought us through this journey and you were always there to continue to show us the way. so commissioners, we need to vote the resolution. then, you know, commissioner sanchez is used to handing out the plaques. [laughter] this time we are going to hand

it to him. so commissioner, all in favor of the resolution, please say aye. >> aye. >> this resolution has been passed unanimously. please come up and accept your resolution. [applause] >> let's come for a photo. come on. you're going to take a picture. come around this way. you want them to go all the way. >> one more. >> yes.

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[applause] >> when the new mayor was elected, i was having to interact with some of the folks over there. and i was trying to explain how the health commission, the department of public health, our community, not just a business, and this is a great example of that. so thank you again all for witnesses that. we shall move on to next item.

>> before we actually get to the next item, we should talk about the fact of continuity and to congratulate commissioner guillermo for having been sworn in this afternoon to a full-term of the commission. so thank you. [applause] >> now we'll go on to the next item again. >> yes, item 4 is the director's report. >> yes, director. >> good afternoon, commission. you have the director's report in front of you. i'm just going to highlight a few items that i think would be of particular interest to you. so assembly member david chow have announced state legislation to treat substance use disorders by increasing -- for incarcerated populations. you'll recall, of course, there's a very high rate of substance use disorders in the prison population. one of the key challenges we have is being able to pay for

medically assisted treatment. we have a great toolbox of medications now available to treat substance use disorders, particularly opiate disorders and alcohol disorders. the bill creates a pilot program and provide state funding for this type of work. so obviously the san francisco department of public health is supporting 1557 and it's going to be heard in assembly health committee in april. second item is i'm very pleased, and probably already heard, that mayor london breed appointed bland to serve as mental health reform. in this new role, which was created by the mayor, dr. bland will be responsible for reviewing how san francisco provides mental health and substance use services to homeless individuals, people at risk for ending up on the street and other vulnerable populations. this will help us not to improve our system that already ser