I own i own i own my recovery from addiction and depression. Join the voices for recovery. Its worth it. For information on mental and Substance Use disorders, including prevention and treatment referral, call 1800662help. Brought to you by the u. S. Department of health and human services. [music] the mission of the Penn North Recovery Center is to improve the quality of life, wellbeing of individuals and communities struggling to overcome substance abuse, poverty, homelessness, and crime, as well as health inequalities. After 20 years, we see on average 400 people a day come into the building to partake in some form of service, whether thats our housing program, our ged program, our job readiness program, treatment, peer support, or 12 step meetings. Penn north happens to be in the center of baltimore city. Theres a lot of history because im a native baltimorean, and what it means to me is, i have the opportunity to come in one of the most historic communities and help it get better,
They go through, and its ok. Its ok to feel bad. Its ok for you to wake up that day and not feel as good as you did the day before. And thats ok, and ill be there for you. And in turn, they do the same for me. When im going through tough times, the clients know that, and theyll call me, how you doin . You know, you teach them that its ok to feel. Its ok. And the only way that you can do that is to show them that you feel, too. Now that im in school, to get my ged, i eventually want to go to school and be in some kind of peer support like you do. Ok. Now that ive come through the pain and the anguish on the other side, ive grown because of it. Now its like its important to me to help someone else. Its important to me because helping you helps me. Helping someone else makes me feel good, and its part of my recovery. To help someone else keeps me right where i need to be cause i learn from your experiences, and you learn from mine. Leah, im coming back to you with the question of where do
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Recommended by your staff. I know in your packet, you received 379 signatures from San Francisco residents through our action alert from this weekend, but i went back and made sure to compile a list for each of you, of everyone who has ever signed an actual alert from clean power and wanting it to move forward through our system in the last two years and i have for you 1700 signatures from San Francisco residents, five copy, sorry, hell l helen, i didnt make one for you, theyre double sided, i promise. Have you kept all the names to make sure you didnt repeat them . Yes, absolutely, and i made sure theres no duplicates, thats 1700 san pra ns resident, not just the people that i represent. I thought you said you represent 6 thousand . I do. Thank you for doing this. Ing yes, of course, i wanted to make this proposal as easy as possible for you and we have all the information, so thank you for giving me time to speak today and i hope that you arao uf the rates of 11. 5 cents. Thank you f
Welcome. Good afternoon, commissioners, im sue von, you called me earlier, im with the sierra club what happened to jay . In line. I am with the sierra club, and we as john rizzo testified earlier and as michelle testified earlier, we do support these not to exceed rate and is we urge you to adopt them. And get this program off the ground. This is historic in nature, im a student of history, used to teach history, this is the kind of thing that should go down in history and first one of the major American City adopting this and getting this program off the ground and your names will be attached to this so you should do this with pride. Your children will be grateful, your grandchildren will be grateful and im peeling to sentiment here, and i would be grateful also. And as a member of the sierra club, we look forward to working with you and i also want to say, i hear some hissing in the background and i want to say we look forward to working with labor because this is going to create jo