the office of public health conducts large studies of the health of american veterans covert if the studies produce results that did not support the office of public health and written policy they don't release them. this applies to data regarding adverse health consequences of environmental exposures such as burn pits in iraq and afghanistan and toxics exposures in the gulf or on the rare occasions when embarrassing study results are released or manipulated to make them unintelligible so there seems to be an ongoing struggle between the truth seekers and the government when it comes to. sort of getting to the bottom of the exposure. health a fact that veterans are now experiencing. been a hopeful terrible experience for. the for the claim itself to the v.a. to. either compensated or to get medical treatment. is going to home. they. are not there no matter what the city. most of their employees are angry and certainly nasty. i don't want to go in there i always thought that they would have the best care and the realities. down it depends on who you get is a provider but the bureaucracy at t

i want to thank the director of the office tof cannabis, nicol elliott, and israel nieves from the department of public health to answer some of the questions, so again, just as a reminder, our application fees, our fees have to be cost recovery, and since we are establishing a new office of cannabis not really knowing exactly what's absolutely going to be involved, the best estimate -- guesstimate or estimate of what these application fees and annual fees will be, but it is noted in the legislation that after the first year, the director can adjust those fees, so if again -- they're over -- the fees are too high, they'll be adjusted down. if it's determined that the fees need to be adjusted up, then, the fees can be adjusted up. so on page 3 of the legislative review, just a quick review, so interests there's a one-time nonrefundable application fee for $2,000 with the office of cannabis. the office of cannabis is going to be -- again, a refresher -- going to be the department that issues the license to operate for this industry, so the -- so it has the -- it does the application fees. it is -- it is the pri

of dbi, plan, p.u.c., public works. tax and treasurers office. department of public health ande of small business has a small sn there as well. we're looking at the opening das sometime in 2020. so this is really exciting to bo have all these permitting agencr one roof. so now for any business that hal with the police department, theo go down to third street so now t have is going to be contained is one building. and on the second floor. i'll send you a layout that have following this meeting. also i remind that are the heale security ordinance rates are gop this january. so for businesses with over 100 employees, it's $238 an hour. for businesses between 20 and 9s $1.89 and hour. we have seen an uptick of busins contacting our office due to dry lawsuits for the ada. i am -- the only thing i can sus that because of the mandatory ey ordinance, there might be a more concerted effort for these indis to do their lawsuits while they. so, i'll be notifying the merch' association to give them a heado make sure they notify their memd provide some recommendations ont they should do.

this also enables us to cost recovery to the office of cannabis and the department of public health for this regulatory investigations. so my amendment simply waives those foes in the first year, so they include a couple of things. i'll read them into the record. first, the up front any objection flee of $2,000, second, the hourly consulting fee of $110 perhour for processing. the department of public health inspection fees, which vary from $750,000 to $3,700 based on the type and the size of the business. the first year operational license of $3,000, and -- and so that concludes the -- the suggested fee waivers. as the equity program is designed to give a competitive equity to those who are disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs, we must also take every step to ensure that the program is not ham strung by errors that attacks broader entrepreneurship in low income communities. the equity report published by the san francisco human rights commission found significant barriers to the cannabis industry along with a few well worn lines: access to real estate, access to capital, and a

of the gary augustine, executive americandisabled veterans. dana atkins president military officers association of america. president air force sergeants association. board chair commissioned officers association of the states public healthommander polish liege usa.erican veterans not with us today is paul warner, national commander from jewish war veterans as they theot attend cemetery on shabbat. they will celebrate veterans day andhe vietnam wall world war ii memorial. the associate members of the committee are located in the to my left. i would like to ask the presidents and national that compromise our associate membership to stand and be recognized. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in recognizing our veterans national leadership applause. [applause] is now my pleasure to introduce our veterans service for 2017.on host the korean war veterans association of the usa. the korean war veterans association of the united states of america or kwva is honored to host organization for the 2017 veterans day commemoration at arlington national cemetery. kwva is incorporated as a nonprofit corporation that meets the requirements for a veterans service organization under section 501-c-19 of the internal revenue code of 1986

of public health as well? or just the police captain and your office. >> under the existing language on page 88 it would be the department of public health enforcement. i would defer to the city attorneys if you could include my office. >> i want the office of cannibis to have that review. we're trying to shift a lot of the responsibility to the office, right? we want them to be the ones to review the final management and security plan. >> my question is, are you recommending a process that is similar to the permitting of alcohol licences where it comes to a committee, it goes through, we have a formal report on it. >> not necessarily. there is review. not in terms of having it go to the public service and neighborhood safety. this is more of on the administrative side, we're having it be the process where the office of cannibis -- and essentially what i'm reiterating, the process currently happens, the police captain in the past has given recommendations or reviewed the management security plan, so that's not anything new. and the good neighbor policy is something that they're familiar with, that's not new. w

of the gary augustine, executive americandisabled veterans. dana atkins president military officers association of america. president air force sergeants association. board chair commissioned officers association of the states public healthommander polish liege usa.erican veterans not with us today is paul warner, national commander from jewish war veterans as they theot attend cemetery on shabbat. they will celebrate veterans day andhe vietnam wall world war ii memorial. the associate members of the committee are located in the to my left. i would like to ask the presidents and national that compromise our associate membership to stand and be recognized. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in recognizing our veterans national leadership applause. [applause] is now my pleasure to introduce our veterans service for 2017.on host the korean war veterans association of the usa. the korean war veterans association of the united states of america or kwva is honored to host organization for the 2017 veterans day commemoration at arlington national cemetery. kwva is incorporated as a nonprofit corporation that meets the requirements for a veterans service organization under section 501-c-19 of the internal revenue code of 1986

office of cannabis as applicable. ordinance out of rules committee designated the department of public health rather than the office of cannabis will be regulating smoking and consumption. >> president breed: which is currently the case as it is, right? >> i believe so, yes. so -- the amendment would be to add a reference to authorization by the department of public health to conform to the amendments made in the other ordinance. >> president breed: ok. is there a motion to do, move by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor cohen, take that without objection? without objection that amendment passes unanimously. >> the second amendment is on page 73 and 74 of the ordinance. the -- controls, this is relating to table, sorry, 803.2, i believe. and this is use is permitted in chinese town mixed use district. cannabis retail uses actually -- oh, i'm sorry, i thought these were stricken. so, i'm going to set that one aside. the third one is an amendment to the planning code section 102, the definition of retail sales and service uses. should be amended to include cannabis retail as a retail sales and service use just as

greg wagner, chief financial officer, department of public health. this has been our plan to get this going for the last several years. we rely on the public health system to bill medi-cal and medi-cal and public health insurance, so when people are receiving services in our facilities, we document that, and then it gets sent a bill to draw do you know reimbursement, so in any given year, we are relying on this to draw or bill any direct costs that are in excess of $650 million peryear. so the biggest item is we do not want to put ourselves as risk for deterioration in our ability to draw that reimbursement. this also -- the new program and the integrated ehr should allow us to expand our ability to drawdown funding. the reason is it gives us tools to better capture services that we're providing into the billing system and more efficient tools to monitor our billing and our financial performance, so this is definitely at the top of our list for priorities for our long-term financial sustainability. the cost is high, but the cost of not doing it is si

of thatmmander, usa national president, the retired enlisted association agent ton, d.c., executive director, disabled american veterans president, military officers association of america sergeants air force association board chair, commissioned officers association of the united states public healthander, polish legion of american veterans, usa not with us today as paul warner, national commander from the jewish war veterans. they do not attend a cemetery on the shabbat. they will celebrate thursday at the vietnam wall and the world war ii memorial. members of the committee are located to the box of my left. i would like to ask the president sent national commanders that comprise our membership to stand and be recognized. ladies and gentlemen, please recognize our veterans national leadership with your applause. [applause] >> it is now my pleasure to introduce our veterans organization host for 2017. the korean war veteran association of the usa. the korean war veterans association of the united states of america is honored to serve as the host organization for the 2017 veterans day national commemoration at arlington national cemetery. v.a. is incorporated as a nonprofit urbanization that meets the requirements under 510 c-19 of the internal revenue code of 1986 and that is orga

i'm going to introduce the first one, doctor daniel, deputy director and chief medical officer of the public health preparedness and response or php are at the center for disease control and prevention. in this role he is the lead science advisor it provides scientific representation for preparedness on behalf of php are in cdc. he served in the external partners for cdc and the sears strategy and program coordination for php are in the medical and public health preparedness response. daniel, welcome. >> thank you, paul. it's an honor to be here had to represent the cdc scientists and staff who are more than 60 years have worked to address this threat of influenza and ways the public health response to health crises. you have heard how the 1918 influenza pandemic was an unprecedented public health crisis and nearly 100 years later the world has made major advances in the science of influenza prevention and control. influenza virus, however, continue to pose one of the world's greatest infectious disease challenges and risk of pandemic influenza remains. our vulnerability in a pandemic relate to the

of people who are sick and how health care systems in different ventures fund. we have two speakers. actor daniel sosin at deputy director and chief medical officer of the public health preparedness and response or php are at the centers for disease control and prevention. in this role he is the lead science adviser and provide scientific representation of preparedness on behalf of php are, in cdc. serves as a liaison to the cdc programs and external partners and ensure strategy and program coordination for php are in the medical and public health and prepared his response. daniel, welcome. .. of influenza prevention and patrol. influenza virus continue to pose one of the world's greatest infectious disease challenges and risk of pandemic influenza remains. our vulnerabilities relate to the virus, the susceptibility of the population, and the environmental factors that spread the disease. by definition, the pandemic virus is one for which lack immunity and is capable of transmission from person to person and to cause severe disease. in addition to the naÏve systems come up significant numbers of people today are more susceptible to the infectious diseases beca

would they have to go through te procedure of submitting to the g department of public health, yor officerough the se approvals. it wouldn't be anything differem the process that anyone would gh to be approved to locate in tha. the only thing that we're doingh this amendment is saying you cae more than one licensee in the se address. ?a the way i understand it? >> i believe so. i believe this is not subjectinl in the same parcel to the same anticlusterring goals. there was a lot to be developedw that would work to house retailn one location on the same premis. and whether or not the state wiw that. so we'll learn more as the stats their emergency regulations. >> the only other thing, what at non-retail? we talked about that this mornih regard to accessory use for manufacturers and so we're prepo take that up as part of trailing conversation in terms of trailig legislation. but does this amendment allow fr non-retail to collocate? >> this amendment seeks only to, supervisor. as you know, the state has defid premises very specifically and e seeking more state guidance foru can locate very -

wehrum's previous work on the office of air and radiation, it's clear that he made dismantling the clean air act and all of the air pollution safeguards and public health protections guaranteed by it one of his top priorities. in that office, he actively fought to roll back commonsense safeguards against lead, fine particulate pollution and ozone smog. but he didn't stop there. he even led efforts to weaken standards designed to reduce emissions of mercury, one of the most deadly toxic pollutants in the world, from coal-fired power plants. bill wehrum wasn't looking out for us. he was looking out for the fossil fuel industry. when mr. wehrum was originally nominated for this position under the bush administration, the senate had good sense to reject his nomination. he was never confirmed, and i hope we do not confirm him now. again, i urge all my colleagues to oppose mr. wehrum's nomination and instead support our farmers, our children, and our families. thank you. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. mr. franken: thank you, mr. president. like the senator from illinois, i rise to voice my opposition to the nomin

of health youth and their families, the police department, department of child support services, department of public health, department of homelessness and support of housing, human services agency, juvenile protection, offices of economic and workforce development, the san francisco police department and other public officials include representatives from the california department of corrections and rehabilitation parole operations division and u.s. probation office, and they all voted unanimously on this resolution. i hope i have your support today. >> thank you, and supervisor fewer, can you specifically talk a little bit more about the -- the funded organizations and specifically maybe what they do, and what is the challenge with the competitive process and why are for-profit agencies able to obtain these contracts over nonprofits? >>supervisor fewer: so the -- many of the ones that are operating in san francisco and also throughout the state of california are state contracts, so we have no control over them. today, we heard some representatives from geo, and geois the geo group, which is a private prison business, and actually it's the second largest most profitable prison business in the united states,

of the sheriff's office is one of education, revention, and enforcement. we educate through town hall meetings, pound discussions -- panel discussions and resources. the dare program is taught in our schools. through public service announcements, our health officer, states attorney emphasize treatment and resource availability. we have to educate our officers and first responders. we prevent through dropbox programs to ensure there is no diversion of drugs. the use of noxalone. this is a pathway to recovery. we enforce through short-term and long-term investigations nd investigate every fatal overdose like a homicide with the intent to identify the supplier for potential prosecution. our challenges are simple. funding, training and personnel are our challenges. mr. surgeon general, these are not strangers in this room. e have been working together on this epidemic since 2007, hich began with pain pills. thank you very much. >> i appreciate what you do and your leadership. >> do you have someone from the health department at all of your town halls? >> [inaudible] >> that is a great way to educate the public at large. the congressman -- the constituents need to be educated also. those are great opportunities that you are taking the time to

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council is made up of the heads of all of the criminal justice departments, the public defender department, offices, workforce development, the department of hub health. goes on and on. voted unanimously to bring item number 43, the resolution that supervisor fewer is bring before you. the idea of the resolution is to provide a method of giving incentives to people to nonprofit organizations who are providing re-entry services. i'm here to support item 43. just a little history on how this came about. when obama rescinded the directive of the policy of prisons, the contract they had with private prisons, that scared private prison companies and they got into the re-entry business. they pushed to provide re-entry services. i know there is conflict of interest with that. any person with commonsense will tell you how are we charging with with you providing entry services if it's in your interest to keep people in the cycle of incarceration. that is inherent interest, conflict of interest, so me personally, i grew up in san francisco's tenderloin district, i can tell you every day when i walk to work, there is a private prison operating in the tenderloin

with talk with a health public officer about how they are lower the rate of prescriptions written andow they are helping people face addiction. one is not a choice. choose your mattress with tulo. everything you want in a bed, in a box. i can't believe it comes in... how great this tastes! vegaaaan. and organiiiic. enjoy i can't believe it's not butter! in it's vegan! and it's organic! >> here in the bay area, two of marin county's health centers will receive $175,000 from the federal government to fight opioid abuse. since 2014, there has been a 30% decrease in the prescription of opioid painkillers but more people are transitioning to street drugs such as heroin and fentanyl. to continue the fight, there will be a meeting tomorrow to address addiction and treatment. we are joined by dr. willis in the studio. thank you for joining us. >> what are you doing right in that county to decrease the opioid use. >> we have several strategies that are working. safe prescribing. we have a 30% reduction of the amount of prescriptions written from 2012 to 2016. that is working with our commissio

stick i was thinking of becoming a national health officer and then to take the of this meant and then being a public information officer because then i would third have to write. >> raging spirit is the of book please go ahead. >> and i gave you a shout out. this climate we are presently and also to tell rachel zero little the the who is seven years old. >> rachel and i are good friends a great person individually. i know that she knows that it is through the roof. >> mission give good afternoon. >> caller: mr. matthews mr. matthews, it seems to be the conspiracy theorists' to go away last night i saw a canadian television broadcast of more evidence of people talking about president kennedy's assassination. of the of conspiracy. >> guest: was body part of the conspiracy to kill his brother. >> caller: it is silly. >> guest: it is awful to even repeat. >> caller: i do not believe it. >>>> host: ken you wrap this up to make your last point so mr. matthews can respond?. >> caller: is there any way that can end all of the conspiracy stuff. >> guest: here is what i think. there are to a sentence for cons

the creep show parade of nominees to the offices responsible for protecting the public's health at e.p.a. is nothing short of astounding. it is an array of cranks, charlatans, hacks, lobbyists, toadies, in really unprecedented measure in the history of our country. it seems that at this point the key and only credential for appointment to the environmental protection agency is that you are reliably pro-industry and reliably anti-public health. we are facing a nomination for one of these characters. his name is william wehrum. he was previously nominated to the e.p.a. office of air and radiation in 2006. but even back then, his record was such a scandal that the white house withdrew his nomination. now, that was 2006. that was before citizens united. that was before the flood of political power to the big polluting industries, and now on this new political field, he's back, he's just as bad, and there is no hint that the trump administration has any indication of withdrawing his nomination. he has a real problem dealing with environmental issues. and it relates, i think, to his record. mr

pre-dates the adoption of vision zero and prior we had a pedestrian safety task force which the mayor's office on disability was a key member. and san francisco department of public health, sorry, i'm just want -- my brain is not thinking -- apologies. and the san francisco department of public health launched last year this safe streets for seniors initiative and i wanted to share that today because we know that a number of seniors also have disabilities and the focus is on educating seniors and service providers about vision zero as well as getting input to bring back to the city departments. so this includes multilingual presentations to seniors and senior service providers and our program has reached over 730 seniors and staff at 25 locations. and also the program and administers many grants to engage locally more around these issues and address the specific concerns. last year seven organizations were funded and funding was just announced for eight community-based organizations this year. and in addition to co-chairing, i lead work on evaluation and this map depicts the high energy network and the network comprises of 13% of the streets in san francisco where 75% o

family for safe streets worked with the department of public health and medical examiner's office and district attorney's office to create a new streamline communication process with the departments and with families. unimaginable experience formed a new process that is now adopted and implemented in the city. starting last year and continuing this year, they are working to change the state law to allow automatic speed enforcement. this -- the data in the 140 other jurisdictions that have these what we call ases undenybly slow, show a reduction in collisions and fatalities. i want to be clear that when i say they are working to improve the safety of our streets, they are actually volunteering, taking time off work, they are travelling to sacramento, they are reliving the trauma by telling, and retelling the experience of having -- family members killed or severely injured themselves. we must do better as a city because one death or injury is too many. we need to raise awareness. sorry. i'm just going to -- ok. this sunday is the world day of remembrance. san francisco bay area familie