and ultimately forced cpmc sutter to keep the day beds. right now, that's the only city and county. we were pushing really hard. we've been working to and work with our remaining hospital facilities to provide that. this today is about ensuring a reporting system tracking how people are getting care. many of the families come from very low income backgrounds. don't have the ability to travel to see their family members that need care and they're being transferred out of county. we wanted to be able to track that. we wanted to hold the accountable. so today this ordinance is a critical piece of transparency for individual care for individuals who need that skilled nursing. since the last hearing, we've talked about this before. we have a series of amendments to expanded scope of the legislation so we get a better look at the system overall. i want to talked the amendments. generally, we're going to expand the facilities from hospitals and include skilled nursing programs. we'll also expand the facilities that we transfer out to to include skilled nursing facilities and at the request

and ultimately forced cpmc sutter to keep the day beds. right now, that's the only city and county. we were pushing really hard. we've been working to and work with our remaining hospital facilities to provide that. this today is about ensuring a reporting system tracking how people are getting care. many of the families come from very low income backgrounds. don't have the ability to travel to see their family members that need care and they're being transferred out of county. we wanted to be able to track that. we wanted to hold the accountable. so today this ordinance is a critical piece of transparency for individual care for individuals who need that skilled nursing. since the last hearing, we've talked about this before. we have a series of amendments to expanded scope of the legislation so we get a better look at the system overall. i want to talked the amendments. generally, we're going to expand the facilities from hospitals and include skilled nursing programs. we'll also expand the facilities that we transfer out to to include skilled nursing facilities and at the request

very special week for me personally because our second native san franciscan child was born here in cpmcian lochlan o'driscoll. he will ask me one day, where am i from? where am i people from? and i will say, you are from san francisco. you are from the city by the bay, with one of the greatest irish communities in the entire world. [applause] >> and you can be proud of that community. that community, from its earliest day, has served the city. today, i want to reflect on mary baptist russell, from the county of cork. she came here in 1856, and served the convent in the city and hospital in the city. the irish government spent $400,000 in grants in the last year on the bay area to irish organizations because you recognize the good work that you do, and the good work that we all saw you do during the pandemic, looking for food provisions, making sure people less fortunate than ourselves are looked after. i was so impressed with the irish cork society added $1 million of their money. [applause] >> may i just say, we, ireland, and san francisco also have an enormous relationship. we've had

over the past couple of years, we have seen people getting into p.e.s., getting transferred into cpmc, and the number is continuing to dwindle. we should have 50 beds for every 100,000 people in san francisco. currently, we have 150, vastly below the 400 needed -- >> clerk: thank you for your comments. i apologize for cutting you off, but we are providing everybody two minutes today. operations, could you put the next caller forward, please. >> so supervisors, i've been monitoring this jail for the mentally challenged for the last 40 years, and every time i listen to the budget makings, and especially during the pandemic, i see those who are presenting are newcomers. prepandemic, we couldn't have the mentally challenged. do you think we can have them during the pandemic? no. the beds we fought for 25 years ago, those beds are not given to those that most need them. i think the time has come to take a different type of position. have an institution in the country side where we can give wraparound services. i'm going to address the new presenters that come. most of them haven't lived in