i'm a part of different mom groups and golden gate mothers group, hpp, homeless prenatal program, maineet mamas. the number one issue all of us moms in the city talk about before anybody here in city hall was talking about it is childcare. childcare and leave. those are the two issues. i've seen numerous postings on facebook of moms saying they have to leave the city because of childcare is too high. they can't afford it. there's no opening for them for their childcare subsidy voucher they can find. no one wants to take it because the pay is too low and that comes with the subsidy. i urge you today to think with the moms and think about the women of this city have been asking for. we've been talking about over and over and over again. it's about childcare, childcare, childcare. myself, my story is i'm a professional. i have been working in the educational sfusd for as long as i know. i have two degrees. i gave birth to this baby on my back. when i gave birth to the baby i was not able to go back. not because of housing. i found us a two-bedroom apartment in the mission and moved out bu

s hospital preparedness program which we know by hpp, the pennsylvania department of health and regional health care -- and a regional health care coalition had long been working together to prepare local health care systems for emergencies that could cause a surge in patients. when the train derailed, hpp funded systems were tracking bed availability in local hospitals and providing that information in realtime to emergency responders, who were at the scene helping them to effectively triage patients, send them to hospitals that had the capacity to accept additional patients so they could begin to receive the care they needed. because these systems were in place, before the train derailed, they were ready to protect both health and to save lives when seconds, literally seconds, counted. yet security, health security threats, are increasing in threats, are increasing in frequency and intensity due to a combination of factors including newly emerging infectious diseases, extreme weather events and our aging infrastructure. so now more than ever, we must continue to build our nation's resi