i just wanted to inform the council that michael rojas and tony rucker who were mentioned earlier, they work closely with myself personally and donna atkins and they've attended our ada coordinator training academies and they reach out to us for technical assistance on a regular basis. i know that ada, access for people with disabilities in general, is a high priority for them and their department. we continue to work with them. they have a lot of ideas how to improve the access even more. just wanted to thank them for their work on this as well. >> thank you very much. >> co-chair senhaux: thank you. any other questions or comments for staff? we're going to go ahead and open up this information item for public comment. are there any speaker cards? does anyone wish to come to the podium to make a comment or question? on this information item? anyone on the bridge line? okay. we're going to go ahead and take a 15-minute break. it's 2:15. please come back in 15 minutes so we can start our next presentation. thank you, everyone. passion, along with tony, dan and vince and tim, they were al

today by edwin batongbacal, he is the director of adult and older adult services and joined by michael rojashe is with the competency and social justice. i'm going to speak to the larger picture and then edwin and michael can speak to the specifics pertaining to our day-to-day operations when providing wellness and recovery to people in san francisco. the department of public health is a very big department. the three of us work for one division, behavioral health services. we operate and fund a system of care in san francisco that consists of various modalities of treatment. everything from prevention to inpatient hospitalization. it's a broad, competent system of care. it's a system of care we're very proud of. it's a system of care that serves roughly 25,000 people every year. 25,000 residents of the city and county of san francisco. there is three basic we could identify as portals of entry into the system of care. one is from the hospitals. so individuals who are inpatient, individuals who are presenting at psychiatric emergency services, can gain entry into our system of care to be tre