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The other is one time savings. This would allow an increase of 3,239 or 7. 2 percent in the department our total is 639, 963 in 1516 and of that amount, 574 are ongoing savings. These reductions would allow an increase of 4 million. Or 2. 3 percent in the department 1516 budget. Were work with the sheriff and well report back to the committee next week. Okay. Thank you. Supervisor breed. I do have a question. Sheriff, do you can you tell me whats happened since last year. I know there was a need...

Department our total is 639, 963 in 1516 and of that amount, 574 are ongoing savings. These reductions would allow an increase of 4 million. Or 2. 3 percent in the department 1516 budget. Were work with the sheriff and well report back to the committee next week. Okay. Thank you. Supervisor breed. I do have a question. Sheriff, do you can you tell me whats happened since last year. I know there was a need for Mental Health services before the ma population and the jail, and can you explain to me...

This would allow an increase of 3,239 or 7. 2 percent in the department our total is 639, 963 in 1516 and of that amount, 574 are ongoing savings. These reductions would allow an increase of 4 million. Or 2. 3 percent in the department 1516 budget. Were work with the sheriff and well report back to the committee next week. Okay. Thank you. Supervisor breed. I do have a question. Sheriff, do you can you tell me whats happened since last year. I know there was a need for Mental Health services bef...

Sides and i appreciate his openness to understanding our concerns here. And i specifically am happy about two amendments that supervisor farrell, the department of Public Health and my office have developed. The first would require the department of Public Health to create a team of advocates to work with an individual to attempt to convince him or her to accept voluntary Services Every time a petition for assisted outpatient treatment is requested. This team would consist of a forensic psycholo...

It does require the courts involvement, which for some individuals can be a traumatic thing. Overall it provides crucial treatment for patients whose Mental Illness itself prevents them from recognizing that they in fact need treatment and will be able to benefit from it. I want to underscore that in the department of Public Health there are over 30,000 individuals each year who are treated in a voluntary way. The overwhelming majority of individuals who receive treatment do so in a completely v...

Doing what were doing here, while this, i think, is a Noble Initiative for us right now, i just want to for warn the fact that were cutting against what funds programs so that the general funds does not have to so we can lower inmate phone rates. And the money from that program is generated from these commissions. Those who are in custody programs. In our overtime slide, thank you were sort of on par, even better than years before, but it increases because of our obligation now for something tha...

The psychiatrists in San Francisco and it is resulted in the unnecessary stigma of the individuals by the association with the temporary conserver ship label, and implementation will allow these crucial resources to be corrected to patient care and supervisor vision, and it was supported and encouraged by the mayor care task force and it will also allow a more appropriate application of the short, Mental Health law, in the spirit in which it was originally intended. And i urge you to support thi...

That is the committee, fiveplus three equals eight. And you have to have half of eight people is four plus one. And that is your quorum and makes five and we had five people and we had three legislative people and two from the advisory board. And that is five people, that makes up the committee. And that is the quorum. Okay . I ruling on that today, that was a quorum. Do you understand that . I will go over it again. We have the committee consists of 8 people. Five from the advisory board, and t...

Review the case, and decide to hold the individuals, and the attorney it is represented. There are situations when the 14 day hold is not sufficient to complete a thorough assessment and achieve the patient stabilization and determine the future treatment option and investigate the family and or Community Resources that can support the individual in the community. If there is insufficient time for a thorough investigation, a patient is likely to be conserved by the office of the public conserve ...

And so the council met on thursday september 11th and there were three major items on the agenda, and the first was the care task force, and which is about looking at the needs in the community and identifying resources and needs. And the council heard the recommendations from the four work groups. And over all, recommendation is to have a care advisory board, and that would operate under the long term coordinating council and one of the cochairs of the task force is our very own anne hinton and...