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Social services can trace your roots back to the late 1800s. Many immigrants that came at that time with their own faith traditions First Services were taken care of widows and or fans and later seniors that is what churches and faith communities still do today. Our official starting date in San Francisco in the later days we did Refugee Resettlement after the viet nam war. Since that time weve been serving people who have been homeless, formerly homeless. Serving people with hiv and aids. And t...

Behalf of the commissioners and staff for the loss of his partner nick, we know that he and his partner really love the Entertainment Industry and night life and celebration, so we are 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...

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...

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 the hearings some time ago...

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 nick, we know that he and his partner really love the Entertainment Indu...

And thats exactly what he wants to do for the eagles. Coming up were looking into nick foles play and his thoughts on tom brady. Thomas. Cant wait to hear what he has to say kristen. Oh yeah. As we cher on the eagles still reminded we have one more game ahead of us. A great reason to come together at Philadelphia City hall this afternoon to say prayer for the city and the birds. Dozens of people decked out in eagles gear coming together to cheer on and ask a higher power to watch over the eagles...

Were supposed to measure those things, set those goals and have people hold us accountable. Not run away from bad news, not cherry pick for the press, hey, i reduced crime by 1 , isnt that amazing . Its better than zero, but own the bad news, fix it, and share the good things that are happening together. And in los angeles, my philosophy has been a very simple one, to get back to the basics. To do those things that people depend on government to do. To pave streets, to help businesses create job...

Decades or more and the policy has failed. We ought to try Something Else not just continue applying that same model to new substances. Thats just me. Mr. Wooldridge. In talking about alcohol in the period of alcohol prohibition, bootleg dhol was adulterated with methyl alcohol and other compounds and drinkers were blinded and people were paralyzed and there was a term called jake leg which was a kind of paralysis in which people were perm nentsly injured from their use of alcohol and that, of c...

California synthetics for drugs like heroin has alr been done. Eady we will be awash in a florida chief and deadly synthetic drug substitutes. It is important that the drugs we are talking about are quite harmful in contrast to drugs like marijuana and heroin. Heroin legally obtained, safely injected does not lead to crime, it does not cause tissue damage, it does not lead to insanity. Nursing is addicted to and have to manage constipation. Heroin users survive and can live Productive Lives with...

We have no chance. What do we do, ignore the problem . There are things we can do. Thethe goal should be to channel the trade every substance as well as other current illicit drugs and illegal channels come into the hands of reputable businesses which means requiring standards for labeling and dosage so that customers no what there getting. And then as citizens of a free society they get to make there own decisions. People see a percentage of the population has a great desire to get high one way...