The people of south dakota listening and viewing this, please welcome the honorable governor dennis daugaard. [applause] applause continues ] [ applause] governor daugaard thank you. Thank you, very much. Thank you, Lieutenant Governor. Youre outstanding. Thank you all for being here today. To begin, i would like to recognize two new legislators, first, doug bartel. I appointed doug to replace don hager. Doug spent his career in Law Enforcement, including 12 years as due pauls chief of police. He was sworn in last month. Lets welcome him again. , where are you . There he is. Welcome. [applause] second is mike diedrich. I appointed mike last month following the loss of our friend, craig teasen. Mike has served three terms in the 1980s and 1990s. I appreciate his willingness to serve, especially on short notice. Please join me in welcoming mike diedrich. [applause] today, i would like to look back at some of the things weve accomplished together over the past seven years, and update you
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To go to and nobody to really hear our stories. I think instead of just floundering around, we really have to sit down and ask the community to step forward and be participants and not to be controlling. Thats the same thing that patients feel, that they are controlled. You cant do that to human beings. Thats true. I agree. So to step away from that, i would love to be a part of that. Im hopeful. I feel the winds of change are blowing where they will take us, anyone knows but i agree. As a nurse, i think that was the problem that essentially what we are dealing is the history of when Behavioral Health was created years ago nobody had ever done it. All they did was unbundle the state health services. We are still dealing with the effect of that because in the State Hospital services nobody talked about vocational rehab. Nobody talked about this. All they talked about high level Emergency Care and the case management. It never got beyond that. The other part of that is where the funding
Wheel and lose track. Services wide, there is a lot we can do but more we can do to make it easier. Thank you. Tactful honesty. Thank you. Council member at that time kostanian has a question. Thank you, we were facing issues not only from people Offering Services but the community. They were totally floored that there was no place to go to and nobody to really hear our stories. I think instead of just floundering around, we really have to sit down and ask the community to step forward and be participants and not to be controlling. Thats the same thing that patients feel, that they are controlled. You cant do that to human beings. Thats true. I agree. So to step away from that, i would love to be a part of that. Im hopeful. I feel the winds of change are blowing where they will take us, anyone knows but i agree. As a nurse, i think that was the problem that essentially what we are dealing is the history of when Behavioral Health was created years ago nobody had ever done it. All they d
Never be clean again. Since then shes had one of the best programs that exist in the city. I know for a fact having worked for the city and county, if it had been a county agency which crossed so many areas, wed still be talking about it. My belief, my hope is that in this community we have a grand desire to do better particularly with the homeless situation with people who are mentally ill, with all of this. What would support Law Enforcement would be if they had more recourse. If there was in every community in the city, a place during the day where someone can walk in and sit down and without filling out a mountain of paperwork and just talk to someone. It would have an enormous benefit. It would be cheap, it could be well managed and incredibly effective. That kind of solution, i feel like on the side of where i come from which is the over here with we have to bill medical and we are becoming more and more convoluted with all of our it systems. An emergency room dr. At San Francisc