we met with kunal modi two weeks ago to give them a high level overview of our department and to discuss some of our pain points. i will say it was a really successful meeting. he was happy with all of the information we we provided to him and was pretty impressed with all of the data we are able to speak to. and so i think it was a very successful meeting. we don't yet know what the cadence will be meeting with him regularly but likely once or twice a month. >> but i think so far we have a good partnership and we're hoping that continues so so you all know that san francisco is currently in a hiring freeze until the end of the fiscal year. so we are making do and hoping that we can meet all of our needs with the current staff that we have who are of course working overwhelmingly hard to make sure we meet, you know, all of our deadlines. >> so there the mayor did put in place an opportunity once a month for departments to say wait, i really need these people hired now and then they're reviewing that and letting us know. so. but at the moment there's just an overall hiring freeze and but

my name is kunal mody i'm mayor lori's chief of health homelessness and family services. thank you for joining us here today for this very exciting moment for our city. so without further ado i'd like to introduce mayor lori. >> thank you all. thank you all for being here. >> supervisors, thank you for being here. >> i appreciate it. i want to welcome although i don't see him so i'm not going to welcome our board president rafael mandolin. but if he was here, i would welcome him. uh, supervisor melgar. supervisor chan. supervisor chen. supervisor jackie fielder. supervisor matt dorsey. one month in. >> thank you all for being here. this is a really, really important day for san francisco. about a month ago i was walking down sixth street when a group of police officers and firefighters arrived to respond to a corner with heavy drug use. one man named terry had been using fentanyl. when they arrived the officers instructed terry and the other men to gather their belongings and they offered a range of services. it seemed likely in that moment that terry might enter a treatm

kunal mody will be the chief over our department. we also had a really good meeting and he was very pleased with what we're doing and looks forward to working with us. the last couple of things i have first i want to introduce you all to alan cooper. >> alan cooper is the new president of our advisory council. he replaces diane lawrence who remains on the council but he will be the new president. so we will be hearing from him moving forward. he does not have a report to present today but i wanted to make sure we put a face to the name. >> welcome. and lastly, i want to introduce eli gilmartin. >> as you know, the current mayor's office on disability will be transitioning to das this spring. it will be a distinct office within the community services side of das and eli will report up to sandy kaufmann. eli was recently hired. he was the executive director with the marin center for independent living for over 17 years. he also co-founded the marin aging and disability institute . he is a very strong advocate for disability rights and

my name is kunal mody i'm mayor lori's chief of health homelessness and family services.or joining us here today for this very exciting moment for our city. so without further ado i'd like to introduce mayor lori. >> thank you all. thank you all for being here. >> supervisors, thank you for being here. >> i appreciate it. i want to welcome although i don't see him so i'm not going to welcome our board president rafael mandolin. but if he was here, i would welcome him. uh, supervisor melgar. supervisor chan. supervisor chen. supervisor jackie fielder. supervisor matt dorsey. one month in. >> thank you all for being here. this is a really, really important day for san francisco. about a month ago i was walking down sixth street when a group of police officers and firefighters arrived to respond to a corner with heavy drug use. one man named terry had been using fentanyl. when they arrived the officers instructed terry and the other men to gather their belongings and they offered a range of services. it seemed likely in that moment that terry might enter a treatment program.

really allie bondy and as well who is the policy advisor to mayor lori but also the policy chief kunal mody i'm still learning everyone's name so my apologies but really both are coming to the table. you know talking in earnest, discussing in earnest about what is it that we're trying to accomplish collectively through this legislation and so i am i think that we have come to a space what i would call a sweet spot of both making sure that the administration have the opportunity to address the things that as what we're seeing with a sense of urgency on our streets but at the same time allowing the legislative branch to still have oversight. so i just want to express optimism and i will quote mayor lori it is a new day. >> so with that vice chair dorsey thank you. thank you. chair chan i am a co-sponsor of this and i have expressed my appreciation to mayor lurie but i want to express it here to council mody and ali bondy as well for the work that you have done on this i asked to be the first co-sponsor on this and i have talked about why this is personally important to me as somebody who is i