colfax was talks about deaths of dph employeesism i want to make you aware there is a dph employee name of michael (inaudible) a gay white male, a older guy who was harassed so bad he had a stroke. (inaudible) recovered from the stroke, came back to work and the managers double down on the harassment and saturday died of a massive stroke. i really think that all these things need to be (inaudible) a human resource person was-i was working with him recollect they tried to help him and he was working with to try to get him the training he need. he was denied training and they were riding him about what he didn't know. i just had to say that when i heard him talk about deaths of city employees, because that was a death that did not need to happen. the department had a role in this man's death. >> thanks for your comment. next caller, please let us know you are there. >> yes. can you hear me okay? >> yes, please begin. >> thank you. so, my name is alice active member of senior disability action. i want to support for the testimony given at the last meeting by members and others for covid an

where is treatment on demand dph? you have a mandate to provide that. >> i apologize for interrupting the speaker. >> are thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> (inaudible) first permanent supporting housing provider to have narcan available at the sites as we partnered with the (inaudible) secure narcan and training for all the staff. i applaud the commitment on the board and department of public health to address the crisis but i want to emphasize the need to investm in meaningful overdose prevention driven by the expert (inaudible) we lose residents to overdose every month sometimes every week. we have narcan available 24/7 including dispensers throughout the building. as you may remember from the budget process we have a pilot program that alex mentioned we look to expand to other sites. it was not funded fully so i want to tell you about the (inaudible) a partnership with national harm reduction coalition, dph funded one portion which was training for our residents-we want to see narcan satchuation not jus

i appreciate this is made explicit in dph plan. i want to emphasize that the significance of the department of public health building up the team, opening the new office to compile and are release this first comprehensive overdose plan and i urge everyone to read it if you haven't already members of the public. it includes not just many things described but complete inventory of the programs identification of existing gaps in the services in the city and forward thinking goals and i know there is certainly room to grow and scale up this plan and for those who are frustrated by some of the numbers that is 15 percent, not 30 percent, there are many things we can do, many things outside of strictly the confines of this plan including being bold and aggressive about housing people and getting folks off the streets that can dramatically increase that number. i know there's-we will continue working with dph and advocates and be as aggressive as possible scaling up the plan but i think the plan is a very strong starting point for the city

next up, anna (inaudible) government affairs dph. [applause] so, anna doesn't know but was this initiative chief lobbyist within the labyrinth that is dph. just kidding grant. internal advocate and interfaced with all the medical policy decisions that needed to be made to make sure this could all happen and without you anna it would not have. there is no question about that and anna is also responsible since shawn brought it up earlier for pickleball because that also required a heck of a lot of lobbying. she worked day and night just to help schools physically reopener their doors but get the hubs open and teachers and student back to get tested and to get our kids back to normal as quickly as possible. thank you anna so so so so much. [applause] and this really was a team effort. next up joseph john, deputy of public safety. [applause] without technology since this was as we know a very virtual environment can caring mentors but the learning was virtual we were toast without it. joseph part nered with city officials and school dist

i appreciate this is made explicit in dph plan. i want to emphasize that the significance of the department of public health building up the team, opening the new office to compile and are release this first comprehensive overdose plan and i urge everyone to read it if you haven't already members of the public. it includes not just many things described but complete inventory of the programs identification of existing gaps in the services in the city and forward thinking goals and i know there is certainly room to grow and scale up this plan and for those who are frustrated by some of the numbers that is 15 percent, not 30 percent, there are many things we can do, many things outside of strictly the confines of this plan including being bold and aggressive about housing people and getting folks off the streets that can dramatically increase that number. i know there's-we will continue working with dph and advocates and be as aggressive as possible scaling up the plan but i think the plan is a very strong starting point for the city

they can ask to dph. each individual is allowed one opportunity to speak and individuals may not return more than once on one statement for those unable to attend the meeting. your comment should relate to the item we're on and i'll be a bit original on this for each of the items moving forward just to make sure that everyone has time to make comments on the topic. so, i'm going to go person by person. >> can you clarify something for the public, mr. morewitz >> we have covid-19 and monkeypox update. should comments on that be held until item five is completed and just focus on the other aspects. director's report? >> thank you for that, commissioner. because director colfax mentioned both topic in the director's reports, than anything mentioned in the director's report can be commented on so the public is welcomed to comment on the topics here and the next because that was a part of director colfax's report. thank you for the question. >> first person. let us know you're there. caller, are you there? i'm

dph-it is the way to the top at dph going along with the interest of real estate developers and the navy we need you to do is to direct the health department to support the efforts that are going on by dr. (inaudible) and others in the bayview hunters point to do the health studies because those are being done. we need to also do health studies on treasure island and most importantly, the studies are not incorporated by department of public health so we need the studies incorporated. the other thing important with the recommendations- >> all public comments are limited to two minutes today. thank you for your comments. next caller, please. >> hello supervisors. my name is elainea ingle with 350 san francisco and san francisco climate emergency coalition. i want to thank you supervisors for trying to hold accountable the epa, navy, the state agencies and the mayor's office. if hunters point contamination is a priority for the ernest statements of the speakers from the various agencies, i would really hate to see a site that is not a priority. also the nice fuzzy talk about racial and envi

dph-it is the way to the top at dph going along with the interest of real estate developers and the navy we need you to do is to direct the health department to support the efforts that are going on by dr. (inaudible) and others in the bayview hunters point to do the health studies because those are being done. we need to also do health studies on treasure island and most importantly, the studies are not incorporated by department of public health so we need the studies incorporated. the other thing important with the recommendations- >> all public comments are limited to two minutes today. thank you for your comments. next caller, please. >> hello supervisors. my name is elainea ingle with 350 san francisco and san francisco climate emergency coalition. i want to thank you supervisors for trying to hold accountable the epa, navy, the state agencies and the mayor's office. if hunters point contamination is a priority for the ernest statements of the speakers from the various agencies, i would really hate to see a site that is not a priority. also the nice fuzzy talk about racial and envi

and item 15, this is retroactive authorization to the dph to accept a grant in the amount of 791,000m the united states department of education through the california department of rehabilitation for participation in the program through july 1, 202 through july 30, 2025. >> items 14 and 15, supervisor chan? >> aye. >> supervisor dorsey? >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman? >> aye. >> supervisor mar? >> aye. >> supervisor milgard? >> aye. >> supervisor peskin? >> aye. >> supervisor preston? >> aye. >> supervisor ronen? >> aye. >> supervisor safai? >> aye. >> supervisor stefani? >> aye. >> and supervisor walt ton is this >> aye. >> there are 11 ayes. >> thank you, wut objection, these resolutions are adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call 16 and 17. >> 16 and 17 are two resolutions that have accept fund allocation request to the department housing and community development. item 16, resolution reauthorizing the human services agency to apply for and accept a county child welfare agency allocation for an amount up to $183,775 from the california department of housing and community de

is that being structured and formalized with dph and is there a mechanism being rolled out to be able to capture when we're having that positive impact? because it's great to promote when the linkages happen. >> yeah. there's a couple of things and first i think the officers ready not a lot of people are service ready. it's not service resistant. we don't believe in that. it's the multiple engagement for finally somebody is ready to get the help they need and that's what we try to. do we try to encourage them. our partnership with public health is important but we're also mindful of hipaa so as much as we want say what happened to john smith? are they getting help? are they connected with the family? did we make a difference? we can't ask the question because it's hipaa and can't tell you what is happening with the person and a lot of times the communication is one way and what we need to get a little better at is really providing names and more information to public health. i talked to the chief about that just today how to get better at it and the chief has ideas as well, so the wor

good afternoon commissioners, dph staff san franciscans. welcome to health commission meeting of tuesday september 6, 2022. secretary morewitz would you please call the roll? >> before i do so i will read the script the mayor's office mandated. good afternoon and welcome to the september 6 health commission meeting. this is (inaudible) broadcast live on sfgovtv tv or calli

good afternoon commissioners, dph staff san franciscans.me to health commission meeting of tuesday september 6, 2022. secretary morewitz would you please call the roll? >> before i do so i will read the script the mayor's office mandated. good afternoon and welcome to the september 6 health commission meeting. this is (inaudible) broadcast live on sfgovtv tv or calling 1-415-655-0003. before we begin i like to remind all individuals present and attending the meeting in person today all helt and safety protocols and building rules must adhere to at all times. this includes wearing a mask covering nose and mouth at all times during the meeting including any time you speak. fa

madam chair. >> thank you, we have (inaudible) from dph to present. >> good afternoon supervisors. thanks for having me. chief operating officer for san francisco health network and currently laguna honda commander for instant command . this is temporary staffic service contract focusing on the needs for dieticians, (inaudible) and possible needs for res pertore therapist and (inaudible) happy to take questions. >> we hear from the bla? >> sure. item 4 is a resolution retroactively approving emergency contract between department of public health and tryfacta inc. they provide temporary staffing and we show on page 16 of the report this resolution has a not to exceed amount of $3.5 million. the department was able to provide a staffing budget of $2 million but could not provide scopes of work for some of the positions noted in that budget and we noted the department had only spent $200 thousand and the contract only goes to december, mid-december, so on those basis we are recommending a reduction in the not to exceed amount from 3.5 to $1 million, which i understand the department a

my first question is about the dph piece of this specifically around behavioral health, and thinking about-some of the housing options have been moved from dph to the homeless department, there is still a housing that primarily serves unhoused people in coops and some of the boarding cares and housing that is more geared towards folks with higher aquity and there is also the transitional housing-we also got this behavioral health treatment system and guess wondering if that will be factored in because it feels like a very important piece of the puzzle. >> thank you for offering that. one of the things that we certainly will talk about doing that-one of the things that we are hoping to do is after we have the baseline model to present it to a variety of groups, including you all i would suspect, and get input on the things that we would need to include and this is absolutely the kind of feedback we look for so we can start talking about that right now. >> okay, great. and then my second question is around the population stuff. so, on the slide before on the line i was like really exci

this is not just the dph issue or labor issue. this is a san francisco issue, this is more of a crisis, thank you supervisor melgar for always supporting us and asking for the closure of laguna honda does not happen. thank you. >> thank you. >> speaker: hem owe i'm melony grossman and i'm a retired social worker. i'm also the president of old every women's league. i thought it was helpful that we have until november 13th to resubmit our recertification process application. and also that we have a really great shot. so actually, i'm just going to talk about the reduction of beds but now i do have a question and that is whether or not we have going to still have the have the flow projects where laguna honda automatically had to take that patients from san francisco general, and i think it's important that the hospital, laguna honda's ability to and if they have facility to keep their patients safe. i think that would be a very important step. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. welcome. >> good afternoon, i moved as a staff n

. >> it's difficult and have to work with the building owner and dph, elderly division, everything to try to get that abated. >> my hats off for all that coordination, really. thank you. >> thank you. >> i agree with you president feinstein because i walk by the building on 16th street for years and every time i walk by and i thought any minute it will go up and there you have it. thank you so much chief postel. >> yeah. i will try -- >> commissioner morgan. >> thank you for your courtesy. >> yeah. i was curious and reading about some of the fires that you guys dealt with and the one that was sticking out was the -- i guess that's the one president feinstein was talking about -- >> 16th street? >> yeah. i was trying to figure out what the term meant and protect the bravo exposure building? >> as we look from a building from the front somebody along the way in the fire service decided instead of calling for left, right, front back. they use the alphabet so the front side is the a side and work clockwise b is bravo. c is charlie. d is delta. >> i thought i heard it before. >> so the nex

is that being structured and formalized with dph and is there a mechanism being rolled out to be able to capture when we're having that positive impact? because it's great to promote when the linkages happen. >> yeah. there's a couple of things and first i think the officers ready not a lot of people are service ready. it's not service resistant. we don't believe in that. it's the multiple engagement for finally somebody is ready to get the help they need and that's what we try to. do we try to encourage them. our partnership with public health is important but we're also mindful of hipaa so as much as we want say what happened to john smith? are they getting help? are they connected with the family? did we make a difference? we can't ask the question because it's hipaa and can't tell you what is happening with the person and a lot of times the communication is one way and what we need to get a little better at is really providing names and more information to public health. i talked to the chief about that just today how to get better at it and the chief has ideas as well, so the wor

my first question is about the dph piece of this specifically around behavioral health, and thinking about-some of the housing options have been moved from dph to the homeless department, there is still a housing that primarily serves unhoused people in coops and some of the boarding cares and housing that is more geared towards folks with higher aquity and there is also the transitional housing-we also got this behavioral health treatment system and guess wondering if that will be factored in because it feels like a very important piece of the puzzle. >> thank you for offering that. one of the things that we certainly will talk about doing that-one of the things that we are hoping to do is after we have the baseline model to present it to a variety of groups, including you all i would suspect, and get input on the things that we would need to include and this is absolutely the kind of feedback we look for so we can start talking about that right now. >> okay, great. and then my second question is around the population stuff. so, on the slide before on the line i was like really exci

this is not just the dph issue or labor issue. this is a san francisco issue, this is more of a crisis, thank you supervisor melgar for always supporting us and asking for the closure of laguna honda does not happen. thank you. >> thank you. >> speaker: hem owe i'm melony grossman and i'm a retired social worker. i'm also the president of old every women's league. i thought it was helpful that we have until november 13th to resubmit our recertification process application. and also that we have a really great shot. so actually, i'm just going to talk about the reduction of beds but now i do have a question and that is whether or not we have going to still have the have the flow projects where laguna honda automatically had to take that patients from san francisco general, and i think it's important that the hospital, laguna honda's ability to and if they have facility to keep their patients safe. i think that would be a very important step. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. welcome. >> good afternoon, i moved as a staff n

we'll begin to have discussion with public health dph and other city department with the goal of improve collaboration on effort. and on this point i'm proud to say that our technical advisory meeting next week will be on a controlled topic and we have a speaker to present on mosquito management. for number 3, of the pesticides use. for number 4, we've been continuing to hold our ipm committee meeting on microsoft teams this year but i would like to transition to a format so that folks can have that option. and i would like to begin to make some updates on the website. so less talk about the list which involves the different meeting that directors describe earlier. and this shows you a summary, a fun side called reliance. and this product has used limitations. including those that cause sudden soak death. the product currently on list for the purpose is no longer sold. we removed two tier 2 product from the list, one of those product iscanbus. but we now have a more frequent pruning contract in place so they don't need to depend on this option to use canbusstate. what we learned from the

. >> it's difficult and have to work with the building owner and dph, elderly division, everything to try to get that abated. >> my hats off for all that coordination, really. thank you. >> thank you. >> i agree with you president feinstein because i walk by the building on 16th street for years and every time i walk by and i thought any minute it will go up and there you have it. thank you so much chief postel. >> yeah. i will try -- >> commissioner morgan. >> thank you for your courtesy. >> yeah. i was curious and reading about some of the fires that you guys dealt with and the one that was sticking out was the -- i guess that's the one president feinstein was talking about -- >> 16th street? >> yeah. i was trying to figure out what the term meant and protect the bravo exposure building? >> as we look from a building from the front somebody along the way in the fire service decided instead of calling for left, right, front back. they use the alphabet so the front side is the a side and work clockwise b is bravo. c is charlie. d is delta. >> i thought i heard it before. >> so the nex

when the police mess up, we have to clean up, when we have rules that we have to legislate, when dph messes up, we have to clean it up. that's what we do. to say they have a quorum, the president now supervisor just said it would be hard for them to go to the bathroom. we need a functioning planning commission. there is no reason why the resignation letter issue takes away from the qualities of these individuals that the rules committee unanimously approved. so in my opinion, we do have an obligation to make sure that the planning commission is functioning, that other commissions are functioning and i think that this is just a little bit more of the political theatre and we absolutely have an obligation to vote on behalf of all san franciscans and make sure that we are delivering on a function will planning commission and other commissions, thank you. >> thank you, supervisor stefan. seeing no one on the roster, do we need a motion to do something different or voting on items 32-37? seeing none. madam clerk, please call items 33-37. >>clerk: [roll call] >> mr. president, given the fa

when the police mess up, we have to clean up, when we have rules that we have to legislate, when dph messes up, we have to clean it up. that's what we do. to say they have a quorum, the president now supervisor just said it would be hard for them to go to the bathroom. we need a functioning planning commission. there is no reason why the resignation letter issue takes away from the qualities of these individuals that the rules committee unanimously approved. so in my opinion, we do have an obligation to make sure that the planning commission is functioning, that other commissions are functioning and i think that this is just a little bit more of the political theatre and we absolutely have an obligation to vote on behalf of all san franciscans and make sure that we are delivering on a function will planning commission and other commissions, thank you. >> thank you, supervisor stefan. seeing no one on the roster, do we need a motion to do something different or voting on items 32-37? seeing none. madam clerk, please call items 33-37. >>clerk: [roll call] >> mr. president, given the fa

as we build them we need to look into the issue of toxic contamination in our neighborhoods and like dphvide full remediation and clean up at these sites. again i'm proud to support not just 25 irving but the other projects supported by this resolution and also would like to sponsor it. >> thank you, supervisor mar. >> supervisor peskin? >>supervisor aaron peskin: thank you for including me in this great affordable housing site. >> thank you. >> colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection this item is approved. >> madam clerk, can you please call item 21. >> >>clerk: 21. 220921 [emergency contract - retroactive - tryfacta, inc. - temporary staffing services - not to exceed $1,000,000] resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to award an emergency contract to tryfacta, inc., as authorized under section 21.15 of the administrative code, for the purpose of providing temporary staffing services, in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for a term of six months, from june 17, 2022, through december 17, 2022; and to authorize the departmen

as we build them we need to look into the issue of toxic contamination in our neighborhoods and like dphvide full remediation and clean up at these sites. again i'm proud to support not just 25 irving but the other projects supported by this resolution and also would like to sponsor it. >> thank you, supervisor mar. >> supervisor peskin? >>supervisor aaron peskin: thank you for including me in this great affordable housing site. >> thank you. >> colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection this item is approved. >> madam clerk, can you please call item 21. >> >>clerk: 21. 220921 [emergency contract - retroactive - tryfacta, inc. - temporary staffing services - not to exceed $1,000,000] resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to award an emergency contract to tryfacta, inc., as authorized under section 21.15 of the administrative code, for the purpose of providing temporary staffing services, in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for a term of six months, from june 17, 2022, through december 17, 2022; and to authorize the departmen

good afternoon commissioners, dph staff san franciscans.alth commission meeting of tuesday september 6, 2022. secretary morewitz would you please call the roll? >> before i do so i will read the script the mayor's office mandated. good afternoon and welcome to the september 6 health commission meeting. this is (inaudible) broadcast live on sfgovtv tv or calling 1-415-655-0003. before we begin i like to remind all individuals present and attending the meeting in person today all helt and safety protocols and building rules must adhere to at all times. this includes wearing a mask covering nose and mouth at all times during the meeting including any time you speak. failure to adhere to the rules and requirements may result in the removal from the room. we appreciate your cooperation. please also note the hand sanitizer station at the front of the room and masks are available upon request to me. we welcome the public participation during public comment periods. there will be a opportunity for general public comment towards the beginning of the