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Speemac. [background sounds] subcommittee on Oversight Committee will now here comes the order. It is hauling hearing in china and the public help emergencies, to curb the Opioid Crisis. The premise of todays hearing is to examine states efforts and successes and adjusting the Opioid Epidemics as well as opportunities for future federal support. And just to let everybody know, doctor alexander, the reason why we are Getting Started a little late. The plane was delayed. But now the dr. Is on our ...

You have the report in front of you. Just a couple of things. One is we are continuing our covid19 preparations and actions. Ive asked dr. Aragon to provide more details after my report, so he will be doing that in just a minute. We are continuing with our ongoing daily work, and that includes Behavioral Health options for people in the city as part of our Behavioral Health reform as part of health s. F. We are currently establishing a health center, to be established at 180 jones, with a partic...

Good morning. Thank you for joining us on cspan. I am really pleased to be here today. To introduce the admiral who is the assistant secretary for health. He is our 16th assistant secretary of health and the department of health and human services. It is his twoyear anniversary in the role. He serves as the secretary Principal Public Health and science advisor and is responsible for coordinating hhss efforts across the administration to fight americas opioid crisis. He also oversees the office o...

Good afternoon, commissioners. Grant colfax, director of health. Happy new year. Of aofi have a few things to highlight. Very exciting news with regard to medy cal expanding coverage to undocumented immigrants up to age 26. This is an expansion that Governor Newsom authorized as part of the states 2019 to 20 budget, including full scope medical to eligible adults ages 19 to 25 regardless of immigration status. Statewide this is expected to have a wide impact, covering 90,000 people, and enrollme...

Officials, such as assessor howard chu, and ta collector, ad norman yee and supervisor stefani and supervisor fewer, we are so excited to get this done together. Every 10 years the federal government puts together a census to count everyone and to make critical decisions about our future. Yet the hard work happens in our local communities right here on the ground. This time we know that it will be harder because the census is digital. And so we must bridge that digital divide. Some people discru...

When he throws it up jump up and hands on 3, 2, 1 please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. President , i would like to take roll call. [ roll call ]. Clerk you have a quorum. Thank you, all. Welcome to the february 12, 2020, meeting. We have a long presentation regarding the budget tonight, so we will have two minutes for Public Comment....

This eventss season at wharf, look the way the legal world unfairly treats countrys disenfranchised he targets his own profession at public defender. The book titled, usual cruelty. Comes from alec karakatanis, an organization designed to advocate for Racial Justice and bring systemic civil rights cases on behalf of impoverished people. Especially known for combating unconstitutionality of money bail. Karakatanis was named 2016 trial lawyer of the year by public justice. Was awarded Steven Wrigh...

Lotus tonight, one after testin for coronavirus this patient was under quarantine on the diamond princess cruise ship and flew from japan to Travis Air Force base and Solano County on monday. Before arriving at queen the Valley Medical Center kron fours michelle kingston joins us live tonight in the newsroom with more michelle are there more patients. There is a second patient at queen of the Valley Medical Center but they tested negative for the virus in japan but are experiencing symptoms. Bot...

Stone trailhead at Big Rock Ridge. This comes as the srch continues for a couple from palo alto kron fours taylor has the latest on both search efforts. Deputies say their resources are being stretched thin with 2 large searches in moraine county they say they dont believe that either of these cases are related but they do say its unusual to have this much seah activity going on at the same time the marine county Sheriffs Office and other agencies are now searching for 3 missing people in 2 unre...

Conviction. Businesses that have otherwise been good actors can lose all of their investments and jobs at the whim of their landlords. As the city rolls out its article 16 license and moving away from article 33 we wanted to make sure we provided protection where possible especially for equity business applicants without providing openings for predator tee big money cannabis operators to push out Small Businesses or further incentivizing landlords to inconvict their tenants to turn a bigger prof...