ms. martinez, dr. hammer, i would like to associate myself with the comments made by fellow commissioners about your excellent presentation. thank you. since you're nimble going back and forth on slides, i had questions on three of them starting with this slide here. i know our focus is on behavioural health and substance use disorders now, but noticing on the slide that 74% have a serious medical condition, 12% h.i.v./aids, 35% hypertension, 4% renal failure. skipping forward three slides to this slide here and looking at the coordinated entry assessment, i'm wondering at what point do these factors enter into prioritizing people for housing and other things? because as we know, housing stability contributes to better health outcomes, whether it's someone with h.i.v. and adhering to their regimen, blood pressure monitoring, sticking to a diet, those things are very important. does that come into the assessment tool at all? >> yes. >> and also skipping forward a few more slides to the outcomes, is ther

ms. martinez mentioned in the presentation a while back. i want to bring to light the implicit biases in the government and also officials, the sfpd as well as local security guards, their attitudes they may have towards a subset of our population and those afflicted with mental health conditions. i'm wondering what kind of steps the condition plans to take in order to mold the attitudes of our city to humanize attitudes to be more empathetic when interacting with the subset of homeless individuals, perhaps less likely to incarcerate them and more so aiding them and escorting them to hospitals, social support systems, as well as shelters. if we start with the city employees, we can expand on that towards the population of our residents. so they will no longer see someone on the streets and think they are crazy, because that's really not the case. but it's just that they're not intentionally being disruptive. it's just some underlying mental illness that's not been resolved. >> thank you. >> hello. my name is jane. i'm also a pharmacy studen

ms. martinez, dr. hammer, and the whole team who has been working on this whole person care for years.'ve met with you and asked lots of questions and whatever. a slide presentation is not everything, so i do have some questions. i'm going to leave that for another pay perhaps to understand it better. thank you very much because from our perspective, from taxpayers for public safety, this is not trying to better an old way that isn't working anymore, no matter how successful it was in the past, but on a new pathway and taking evidence to bring to a new opportunity which always has a cautionary risk to it, but with monitoring and evaluation inside and out. so we want to thank you for that. we want to thank you for the leadership. we want to thank you for all the teams at the management level and at the frontline. i would just like to add that we would love you to also do public forums so we don't get so agitated because we don't know what's going on. we want to be a part of it because we are a part of it. we are a part of it as advocates, we are a part of it as past policy people, past

ms. martinez-prather, i'd like you to answer and mr. what's the next step after what are deemed to be pretty good next steps? pretty good solutions already. >> the first thing that we're lacking is at the end of october that website is going to go live. so there's going to be a lot of great resources on that website. it's very interactive so schools will be able to go on there, answer a series of questions to see where they are in the process of making their school safe and then that website will walk you through the process and tell you where your gaps are, where your deficiencies are, and then will actually direct you to grant dollars. to give you an example, one of the deficiencies that we have currently is that a lot of our grant programs, they're not implementing best practices, so what i would like to see is that once we have these best practices, once the website goes live, tie those best practices to the grant dollars. we want to make sure that schools are implementing the most effective measures to make school safe. we don't wa

ms. martinez prather to summarize her statement for five minutes. >> chairman payne, ranking member king and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to testify on the topic of school safety and your leadership and making school safety a priority. i'm the director of the texas school safety center at texas state university, and i'm here to discuss the efforts of the center to support schools and effectively carrying out mandates and best practices in texas. the importance of prevention efforts in developing a comprehensive approach to school safety, and the impact that community violence also has in our schools. as you're aware, every day our schools face challenges that have the potential to impede the learning process for our students. these challenges can range from human caused acts of violence, to natural disasters, to more frequent safety issues our schools deal with. the events in santa fe, texas, and parkland, florida that have impacted our nation's schools continue to remind us we have work to do and we need to continue to work to make sure our students have a saf

ms. martinez, her statements for five minutes. >> chairman payne, ranking member came in members of the committee, a cue for the opportunity to testify today on the topic of school safety and for your leadership and making school safety a priority in a critical part of the educational agenda for all of our schools across the country. i am the director of the texas school safety center, at texas state university and i'm here to discuss the efforts of the center to support schools in effectively carrying out school safety mandates and best practices in texas, the importance of efforts in developing the copperheads of approach to school safety and the impact that community violence also have in our schools. as you know aware, our schools face challenges and have the potential to hit heat the learning process for our students. these challenges can range from human caused acts of violence, natural disasters, to more frequent safety issues that our schools deal with every single day. the tragic events in santa fe, texas and parkland, florida and countless others, and impacted our nation school continue