they come back to us from government looking at the evidence and cross referencing with the director of public health to actually goes to the. the senate committee itself and to make sure that everything is in time and then we found their insights back to the bones of the site so we've got a process that is very rigorous very robust and is around insurance on its plea when they're back and that's close to calling these things thank you very. much is in those very difficult doesn't this you're sitting here reassuring members of congress not to worry we're here we've got two members of the poll there always and by suspected knowledge this is a failure your attempts to trade off of goods knowledge. gone conducted you know i think the working assumption which i mentioned is that these gifts come in terms of becoming ill be poisoned with it was not associated with any of the sites or removes best patients so that's why the investigation is targeting all the sites and trying to move we have to let that fester cation run its course but i think very clearly both sides that have been feeling awfully and remai

of supervisors. and then, there was an ordinance amending the health code to allow the director of the public health, excuse me, to extend, and the director, office of cannabis, to extend the 90-day period to allow a 90-day extension because they were having problems ensuring that inspections were happening in a period of time. and so not to penalize the business, it offered the health department and the office of cannabis just to do a 90-day extension on the permit application. and then, there was a charter amendment that was introduced, again, to create a cannabis commission. this was heard at the ruled committee on 6-20, and it's being continued to the call of the chair, which means at this point that that particular thing is not going to be moving forward whatsoever. i do want -- and that was introduced by supervisor fewer's office. so we will see if she decides to move forward anything. again, this is her second time for introducing legislation to create a cannabis commission. and then, still, to be scheduled is the cannabis retail and medical cannabis dispensaries in chinatown, basically, to ba

. >> supervisor sheehy: we had the director of public health here, couple of months ago describing a situation where single individual have been 51, 50 over hundred times before they had that individual conserved. you do a little math. $3000 a night, three nights, 100 times plus and pretty close to a million dollars. this comes back to kind of the arc i was -- argument i was making about law enforcement. another data point. we had an individual who was unsuccessful by an attorney. district attorney is not enough. this individual there was an attempt top conserve. it failed. year ago he shot his mom to death in my district. we need to start looking at this scale on a little different way. is this a place with might be willing to overshoot with expectations that we'll have a law in place at the state that will dramatically increase the case load and facilitate conservativeship. i see people walking everyday that need to be conserved. it's mystery to me why they're still on the streets. i think two attorneys is the bear minimum myself. when you look at the case load, you look at the soc

let's here from paul cox but, medical director of public health england. giving some highly precautionary advice to people who we re precautionary advice to people who were in the areas of concern from ten o'clock on friday night onwards, to take the simple precaution of washing the clothes you were wearing at the time. and of course we should all remember not to pick up any items we don't know what they are. some advice from public health england. now the joining me now is dr patricia lewis, a research director for international security at chatham house. the think tank in london. thank you for being with us. what are your thoughts on the suspicion by the authorities here that it was residue from that novichok attack in salisbury back in march that this couple from amesbury have exposed to? that is a reasonable assumption to? that is a reasonable assumption to make, i think, given the location and the fact that we know very little about novichoks, but we know asa little about novichoks, but we know as a nerve little about novichoks, but we know as a nerve

director of public health. id would make up a new crisis intervention specialist team. she made that announcement december 2016. she is supposed to be ready to respond around the clock, with calls from police to help de- escalate situations. this is all part of a series of reforms by the late mirror after the shooting in san francisco back in 2015. workers spent the night repairing a water leak in san francisco to force the closure of one of the lanes on mission street near the department of public works. 230, wednesday afternoon the leak created a small hole in the pavement. this led to concerns that it could turn into a sinkhole. they blamed the leak on fire service equipment. >> >>> new york congressman may open the door to the house of representatives for east bay congressman barbara lee. she joined us here on mornings on tupac in the past hour to talk about the possibility for seeking the position where she talks about her past struggles and how they would make her a great candidate. >> i think my leadershi

of public works to say a few words. i just wanted to goat the opinion of the department. >> deputy director of the department of health and i want to echo the courage and the amazing ability to come into a public setting and share your story, it was very moving socker than, sothank you for that. in terms of where this should live director garcia is amenable either way and have been working if this does come in how it would work if it goes to hrc we are amenable to that too, so for us it is just about improving our work so that survivors get the correct treatment at the right time at the right place, so we are working towards that and with our rape treatment center and our trauma recovery center as well. >> supervisor safai: if it did sit in the department of public health, where would it sit. >> i think operationally we would figure that out. it wouldn't sit in the clinical site obviously because it is overseeing those clinical areas so would be reporting somewhere to the executive staff. >> supervisor safai: from what i have heard today and i'm learning and i know there is people in the room for versed with this because

of public health. thank you. >> good afternoon. barbara garcia, director of health. i want to thank mayor farrell for all his support in the last many months of expanding services for us. many of those services will help individuals who people are concerned with who are seeing open drug use and mental health issues. i also want to thank the san francisco department of -- the san francisco police department and the bart police. we've been working for many months with both of these agencies to identify individuals who they have been concerned with for many years at times. we have those individuals in our hands in terms of their names and we are identifying them and trying to get to them and trying to provide support. so we really are doing an individualized approach to this and we are also looking at the issue of ensuring that today we have our homeless out reach team from our homeless department as well as our street medicine team and they will work together to make sure that we are working with individuals as they come across them in bart, leaving bart or in the surr

of public service, anne will be retiring from d.e.m. on august 10th. starting in 1997, anne served as department of public health deputy director for public health emergency preparedness, responsible for disaster preparedness and planning for emergency medical services. and after 15 years, with san francisco department of public health, in january of 2011 became the executive director of the department of emergency management. and during her time as the e.d. of, i'm going to step into city jargon, she directed upgrades to the 911 dispatch center and also executed major hiring initiatives to increase the 911 dispatchers. anne has also secured funding for city-wide emergency operation watch center. and this center will enhance san francisco's ability to gather situational awareness of evolving incidents and address immediate needs of the community. she spearheaded efforts to redefine emergency preparedness education that in 2014, d.e.m. launched s.f.72.org, not only explains how residents can be prepared for any type of emergency, but also promotes a critical component of emergency preparedness and community connection. are you all prepared to live on your

. >> clerk: item 30 is an ordinance to amend the health code to allow the director of the department of public health to extend for multiple 90-day periods rather than a single 90-day period, the 120 day operation for cannabis dispensaries to sell adult use cannabis. >> president breed: same house, same call? without objection the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. next item. >> clerk: item 31 resolution to urge the sheriff's department and department of public health to conduct a baseline assessment of existing food vendors to evaluate vendor alignment with the good food purchasing standards. >> president breed: same house, same call? without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. next item. >> clerk: item 32 motion to reappoint sandra fewer to the reentry council. >> president breed: is there a motion to excuse supervisor fewer. moved by kim, seconded by peskin. without objection, supervisor fewer is excused. >> president breed: madam clerk, on the item call the roll. >> clerk: yee aye. breed aye cohen aye kim aye peskin aye ronen aye safai aye sheehy aye stefani a

referencing with from government of looking at the evidence, cross—referencing with our director of public healthichok. this is a failure of your clean—ups to clean up after the first incident, or is it? no, the working assumption is that this couple, terms of becoming ill, being poisoned, was not associated with any of the size of the previous investigation. that is why the investigation is targeting other sites and tracking their movements. we have to let that investigation run its course. very clearly, those sites that have been cleaned cleaned and remain clean. are looking at the investigation, piecing together where those people went, how they got ill. we do except that there is a member of the public, it is almost irrelevant that it is not connected to the first set of sites? it was in the public... to people with families, desperately ill in hospital. isn't it a relevant vibrators connected to the previous one or not? the fact is it has occurred. it has, it is usually regrettable. this incident is unprecedented in terms of the targeting of sergei skripal and his daughter initially. we can

of fraud, misrepresentation or false claim in a permit application, and that's located in section 4(c) 2(a) 1. furthermore, the director has the authority to revoke a permit where the permit's operation negatively impacted public health, safety, convenience, or welfare. in section 4(c) 2(a) 4. they also touched on a permit being transferrable. the transfer of a permit requires the explicit consent of the director of public works. in conclusion it is clear that the appellants are frustrated with the m.f.f. legislation. however we should be be penalized for their frustration or the acts committed by others. we complied with what was put before us by the city, and we reasonably relied on following the legislation that has been on the books now for five years. there's been no abuse, error or fraud in the issuance of this permit. therefore, we respectfully ask that you do not overturn it. it would be an honor and a privilege to participate in the union square business community. we ask that we be evaluated on who we are and the specific proposal we have put forward, not on wild speculation, inaccurate information, and nonsensical hypotheticals. thank you. and i believe my brother would like to say a few words, so i'll let

of public health. we heard last week from supervisor ronan who requested that it not be held in the department of public health, but be moved into the human rights commission. director garcia, good morning. >> good morning. barbara garcia, director of health. good morning to the board and supervisors of this committee. >> oh, that's it? your opening remarks. [laughter] ok. >> well, let me just talk a little bit. >> yeah, please. >> i didn't know if there was a question coming. >> please. >> puting this in the department was to look at improving the overall response of sexual harassment and assaults and to protect survivors in san francisco county. we believe that the department can do this and can do a good job of this. but we really have to coordinate with all the other departments. many of the departments have their own charters, have their own processes, protections and we have to work through that. the department works on an ongoing basis with the police department, with the district attorney's office. we have a lot of experience with the court systems and also with the other departments, the department of the status of women, h.r.c., etc.. so, our overall goal

of public health. thank you. >> good afternoon. barbara garcia, director of health. i want to thank mayor farrell for all his support in the last many months of expanding services for us. many of those services will help individuals who people are concerned with who are seeing open drug use and mental health issues. i also want to thank the san francisco department of -- the san francisco police department and the bart police. we've been working for many months with both of these agencies to identify individuals who they have been concerned with for many years at times. we have those individuals in our hands in terms of their names and we are identifying them and trying to get to them and trying to provide support.

have a measurement of how it affects the broader society and public health but also individual health as well and in june of this year alexander woodward who's a digital organizing director for action organizing for action remarked on the effect social change use has on our real communities let's take a listen if we're thinking connection on line and we're finding shallower connections there are loneliness rates are going up it's now considered a health epidemic and we need to have a conversation not just about what's happening on social media but whether we're actually being wise with the tools that we have. we're getting smart but can we also get wise so time to tell me you know is do you think the problem with social media influence can be solved on this user and when it's now becoming is being seen as a public health crisis it's a threat to democracy it's all of these things or are censorship advocates in some way right in saying we have to ban some people from the public square i don't believe that you ban people from the public square unless they're actively threatening someone which is the you know which you know that breaks the first amendment me here in the us i

struck the city of san francisco is falling short on the promise to hire crisis workers to help avoid shootings by poljury report director public health garcia has only hired three out of the five clinicians and psychologists that she said would make up a new crisis intervention specialist team. she made the announcement in december 2016. the team is supposed to be ready to respond around the clock to calls from police to help de-escalate situations. this is part of a series of reforms by late mayor adley after the marwood shooting in 2015. >>> worker crews spent the night repairing a water leak in san francisco that forced the closure of one lane of mission street. the department of public works responded to 14th and mission at 2:30 wednesday afternoon. you can see the leak that created a small hole in the pavement. that led to concerns it could turn into a big sinkhole. the public works department blames at the lake on fire service equipment. >>> former rustlers at ohio state university accused the teams former dr. of sexual abuse. the allegations are against dr. richard strauss who committed suicide in 2005. the former rustlers als

of public health. so we would expect to hear back the results as the director said once those reports are completed.ve onto our next item, please. >> there was no public comment requests for that item. item 4 is general public comment. i have not received any requests. so we can move onto item 5, which is a report back from today's community and public health meeting. >> good afternoon, colleagues and members of the audience. i'm going to give a report in the community public health meeting. we had two presentations today. one from the in for learning an innovation. they have specific activities which i'll articulate at this point. they do internal capacity building, needs assessment training and technical assistance, workforce development and they have a summer hiv/aids research program which recruiting college students from around the country, particularly college students of colors and introduces them to a model of research so they can make decisions about whether or not they want to engage in there. they have a future program, which is a program designed to deal with people of color and help the

have a measurement of how it affects the broader society and public health but also individual health as well and in june of this year alexander woodward who's a digital organizing director for organizing for action remarked on the effect social change use has on our real communities let's take a listen if we are seeking connection on line and we're finding shallower connections there are loneliness rates are going up it's now considered a health epidemic and we need to have a conversation not just about what's happening on social media but whether we're actually being wise with the tool that we have. we're getting smart but can we also get wise so time to tell me you know is do you think the problem with social media influence can be solved on this user and when it's now becoming is being seen as a public health crisis it's a threat to democracy it's all of these things or are censorship advocates in some way right in saying we have to ban some people from the public square i don't believe that you ban people from the public square unless they're actively threatening someone which is the you know which you know that breaks the first amendment me here in the us in the fi

have a measurement of how it affects the broader society and public health but also individual health as well and in june of this year alexander woodward who's a digital organizing director for organizing for action remarked on the effect social change use has on our real communities let's take a listen. if we are seeking connection on line and we're finding shallower connections there are loneliness rates are going up it's now considered a health epidemic and we need to have a conversation not just about what's happening on social media but whether we're actually being wise with the tool that we have. we're getting smart but can we also get wise so time to tell me you know is do you think the problem with social media influence can be solved on this user and when it's now becoming is being seen as a public health crisis it's a threat to democracy it's all of these things or are censorship advocates in some way right in saying we have to ban some people from the public square i don't believe that you ban people from the public square unless they're actively threatening someone which is the you know which you know that breaks the first amendment me here in the us in the f

of public health. mr. patrick fosdahl. >> thank you. good evening, board members, my name is patrick fosdahl. i'm the assistant director of the environmental health branch. the third time you're hearing this case before you. just as a quick reminder, san francisco health code s-h states that retail tobacco permits are location specific and can't be transferred or assigned to a new person or location. so when the tobacco permit issued for 4500 third street was issued it couldn't be moved to the new location at 4522 third street which triggered this whole thing that you have before you this evening. the health code does have a provision which we -- you kind of just all went over here regarding the exemptions to the -- the health code. specifically, and i'll read it here for you, an owner of a retail food store or tobacco shop holding a valid permit was relocate under the building code may -- [inaudible] >> -- so if the department of building inspection is saying that this relocation was the result of a seismic upgrade under that provision of chapter 34(b), then, the health department's position would be to grant the exem

director of the office of research and science. charles? >> thank you, blaise. it's a real pleasure to be here this morning and given the range of diplomatic and public health as well as security concerns and issues that we've talked about already, we really couldn't ask for a better panel here today. i won't go into bios but i will introduce of course ambassador birx, general wald and ambassador storella. i have had the great honor of working with both ambassador storella and ambassador birx in various settings over the years so this is really a special occasion. i'd like to start with you, general wald. as referenced earlier, prior to pepfar societies as we've heard about, particularly those hardest hit in sub saharan africa were being truly ravaged by the hiv epidemic, with sharp declines with life expectancy, rapid rises in orphanhood and faltering economies. the new report finds that pepfar has been successful and other health aids investments have been successful in impacting health, socioeconomic development and also reducing fragility. because of these effects we've heard about parallels between the pepfar program and the marshall plan. given your become gr

campaign, which we did, but also mode shift, the word director raphael introduced at the beginning of tonight's meeting. so the department of public health is the agency that currently conducts all the evaluation for the safe routes to school partnership in this work. they are the lead agency. so in the summer, as we currently are, that's when they go through all of the data that they've collected to do the evaluation from the previous year? so my understanding is that that evaluation is currently in progress, and we hope to have a better sense of what our numbers are before we start the fall. margaret mccarthy, seat belt i don't remember transportation marketing -- senior transportation marketing seenist. >> thank you. commissionero commissioner ahn? >> buses seem to be getting a lot of play in terms of how they're going to reshape our public transportation system. i know that the board of supervisors has already approved a program to begin piloting -- [inaudible] >> yeah, thank you for that question. m.t.a. has been a pioneer in using low carbon fuels for decades now. most of our fleet is powered by renewable diesel which is much clean

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of gets frustrating and becomes a little more complicated." butted to:cheryl parkinson, living room executive director "there's health hazards, there's trash, it becomes a real publicrn.">( robin ) the city and other social service groups say they are working to find housing for the (robin)also in the north bay... the sonoma county board of supervisors has decided against putting a half- cent housing recovery sales tax on the november ballot. the tax measure was intended to motivate new housing projects. the unincorporated area lost more then 22-hundred homes in the october wildfires. the measure is estimated to generate 7-point-3 million dollars annually. if approved by governor jerry brown it could provide 12 million dollars in one time funding. ( robin )federal agents served search and arrest warrants at multiple locations in san mateo wednesday morning. officials say several people were taken into custody but the reason for the raids - is unclear. one suspect says he was awakened by the raids and saw officers with guns drawn when he looked outside his window. the man was released from jail tuesday and believes that could have played a factor in his family's apa