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Pharmacist students, lift your hands so we can wave at you. Also our members of our drug usage union are here today to testify so i want to acknowledge all of you. And many advocates from the community so well have a very Great Commission meeting today. And just on that note, well let you know President Trump announced he is helping Human Services agency to declare a Opioid Crisis a publichealth emergency. This does not provide us new dollars. There are a couple of things i think are worth notin...

English because the it doesnt necessarily mean fatal overdoses. And a lot of people overdose. Thank got they dont fatally. If we had supervised Consumption Services it would reduce those fatal and nonfatal. Commissioner chow we have norman tanner, shawn laura and dr. Alex crowell. Hi, im clara nichols. Im a pharmacy student at ucsf. I have a comment and then question. My first is my comment. I wanted to thank everyone for coming up today and sharing their story. It gave me a more humanistic pers...

Some of this can reach over to the other side of 6th street. Park and rec in this plan, i frankly have more faith elsewhere than the soma plan. The rec center has not had hand towels since may. So there are issues when we talk about renovating the rec center and creating parks, what it means for now . How can we creep eight new when we dont take care of what we have . And i feel theres disproportionate investment in structures, not people. There are people in crisis that need the support and put...

Park and rec in this plan, i frankly have more faith elsewhere than the soma plan. The rec center has not had hand towels since may. So there are issues when we talk about renovating the rec center and creating parks, what it means for now . How can we creep eight new when we dont take care of what we have . And i feel theres disproportionate investment in structures, not people. There are people in crisis that need the support and putting it into a building or a set of activities doesnt meet th...

Be conscious of time. And if you would like to talk about public benefits, i have a slide on that. Or if you want to see the context for phase two and three, i can flip to that. In general, thats the program of phase one. We are looking at demolition starting first quarter, maybe Second Quarter. Well be doing grading and Building Infrastructure probably Second Quarter and hopefully well be opening the new and rehabilitated buildings in late 2020, early 2021. And are those intended to be historic...

Thank you for sfgov tv. Can we have a roll call please. Commissioner bleiman commissioner perez Vice President thomas. And well note president tan is excused. Great. The first item of business is general Public Comment for items not on the agenda. I have one card for general Public Comment from michael noltey. Theres my mic. You have two minutes. Can i have overhead . It actually says five. Anyway, i wanted to point out that the guidelines for mentioning neighborhood outreach, i was at one of th...

Very sad to hear this news and hope that bryant is back with us soon. We will let people know about donations and Memorial Services and stuff like that. Our condolences. Can we have a roll call . roll call Vice President thomas the first item of business is general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on items not on our agenda today. Is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. The second item, approval of meeting min...

Items before us today . That completes the agenda for today. Thank you. This meeting is adjourne laura thomas sitting in for our president bryant tan. So welcome, it looks like were up and running. First of all, please make sure any cell phones, pagers noise making devices are set to silent and thank you to sfgov tv for broadcasti broadcasting this to the community. We wanted to start with expressing condolences to bryant tan, the Commission President on behalf of the commissioners and staff for...

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That completes the agenda for today. Thank you. This meeting is adjourne laura thomas sitting in for our president bryant tan. So welcome, it looks like were up and running. First of all, please make sure any cell phones, pagers noise making devices are set to silent and thank you to sfgov tv for broadcasti broadcasting this to the community. We wanted to start with expressing condolences to bryant tan, the Commission President on behalf of the commissioners and staff for the loss of his partner...