i'm joined by supervisor walton and raphael mandelman. clerk, do you have any

i'm joined by supervisor walton and raphael mandelman. clerk, do you have any announcements. [announcements] >> chair fewer: thank you very much. colleagues may i have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani from this meeting? without objection, thank you very much. please call item number one. [agenda item read] >> chair fewer: thank you very much. we have the director of d.p.h. business office. >> we're here for this contract. this is a check-writing contract for the purpose of purchasing items that fall into categories which aren't feasible. set up contracts or issue timely reimbursements for items that are client need. approximately around 12 to 15 million payments annualing and over the past five years about 50,000 of that total is for the cost of the check fees. hr360 vendor received $22 per check. it's quite a small portion of the amount we're paying for. of the funding category bucket, the main bucket is for residential care facilities it's about $11 million annually. what that pays for is a patch woman who live in the residential board and care hom homes. we pay about

i am joined by supervisors catherine stefani and raphael mandelman. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? [agenda item read]. >> chair fewer: thank you very much, madam clerk. can you please call items 1 through 4 together? >> clerk: yes. item one is a resolution approving the community development block grant program and authorizing the mayor to apply for, accept and expend the cdbc for a combined total of $23.9 million. item 2 is a resolution authorizing the emergency -- [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. and today, we have brian chiu from the mayor's office of housing and community development. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm here to ask for your approval for the accept and expend resolution as we do each we are. we come to you, requesting to expend and apply funds that come from hud. as you see before you, we have four separate funding streams. the community block development fund is our largest funding stream. a portion goes for funding housing facilities. another portion goes to community-based fa

i've partnered with supervisor raphael mandelman on conservatorship legislation because when people can't have to do better, and we have to care for them. [applause] >> we have to revamp our entire approach to mental health. to bring together all of our mental health programs under one focus, i am creating a director of mental health reform. [applause] >> this person will be responsible for better coordination of mental health care for those suffering in our city, this person will strengthen the program we have that are working, nts, cut cut the ineffective program because clearly there are things in this city that just aren't working, and shouldn't continue to be funded. [applause] >> we need to build people's lives, not shuffle them from emergency room to emergency room , from jail cell, to jail cell. our criminal justice system is not a mental health solution. [applause] >> to do all this, we need a vision and leadership, so today, i am announcing that i have hired a new director of the department of public health, dr grant kovacs. [applause] >> the doctor is one of our own, trained at

i am joined by supervisors catherine stefani and raphael mandelman. madam clerk, do you have any no