Staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements. To protect the public, Board Members and City Employees the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is taken pursuant to all various local, state orders and directive. Committee members are participating in Video Conference. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda. Sfgovtv has the calling number on the screen. Provide comments by phone calling 4156550001. Once connected into the meeting id is 146 6994959. When prompted press pound twice to be connected to the meeting. When connected you will hear the meeting discussions but your line will be in his senning need only. When your item comes up dial star three to be added to the speaker line. The speaker prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. When you are unmuted you may begin. Best practices call from quiet location and speak clearly and turndown television or radio or streaming device. Behind full of potential ti
Made up of folks that have fulltime day jobs. You know, theres limited staff availability to the committee. So maybe just standardize that external audit process as opposed to having it to be something that the committee itself needs to organize every few years. Chair ronen that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for that. Maybe you can help to make that happen in the short time that you have left. That would be wonderful. Let us finish w know if you cann any way. And i wanted to make sure that our colleagues didnt have any questions or comments . Nope. Then if you have no more remarks we can open this up for Public Comment. Clerk yes, the members of the public who want to provide Public Comment on this item should call 1 415 6550001. And the meeting i. D. Is 1469652968. And then press pound and pound again. If you havent already done so, press star, 3, to line up to speak. The system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates that you have been u
Announcements . Clerk to protect the Board Members and the City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, the members will participate in the meeting remotely. The Committee Members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the numbers across the screen. And Public Comment is an opportunity to speak via phone by calling 1 415 6550001. And, again, thats 1 415 6550001. And the meeting i. D. Is 1469652968. Again, that is 1469652968. Excuse me 1469652968. And then press pound and pound again. And when connecting you will hear the meeting discussion but youll be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star, 3, to be added to the speaker line. The best practices is to call from a quiet location, speak c
The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 19th, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me is the vicechair Catherine Stefani and gordon mar. Our clerk today is victor young and i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk to protect the Board Members and the City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, the members will participate in the meeting remotely. The Committee Members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the numbers across the screen. And Public Comment is an opportunity to speak via phone by calling 1 415 6550001. And, again, thats 1 415 6550001. And the meeting i. D. Is 1469652968. Agai
We are looking forward to a year of trying to make more progress on an issue that is of great concern to all of us. Just a recap of last year briefly. Last year the comprehensive addiction and recovery act was passed by the house and senate and passed into law. It provided with resources to address the opiod and heroin epidemic. We passed the act at the very end of the 114th congress. It added an additional 1 billion of funding to combat this epidemic. The house rolled out in the course of one week 18 bills last year that really became the foundation and much of the detail of what ultimately was passed into law. There is still a lot of work to be done. Last year over 52,000 americans died of a dress overdose, 52,000. 33,000 of them were opiod related deaths. Thats hundreds of people on any given day that are dying. This week is just beginning and we lost people already. First we educate members of congress and issue of affordable and effective treatment, Law Enforcement issues, etceter