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Mark, john, and the mayor all talked about the improvements that have happened in this really, really important piece of open space. Its a dense neighborhoodv. Its in a transit corridor. And thanks to partnership and thanks to Community Support and thanks to the leadership of our elected officials weve made some incredible improvements here in the last few years. Behind us, our new playground thanks to the support of the trust for public land. Behind all of you is an incredible new Skateboard Pa...

Thousands of patients. There are potential medications that may offer promise for managing. Managing chronic alcoholism. I know the cities are pursuing some of the those medications. They are expensive but at the same time if i can offer someone an injection that perhaps may not be as drunk anymore, most people will think about giving it a try. There are various types of treatment protocols coming up and those show promises as well. In the end it has to do with time and effort. Those are the thi...

Discretionary funding has often gone in to support efforts here and, of course, across the street with the challenges of the both the bart and the muni station. But it is all about our neighborhoods. And i go back to what supervisor farrell said, and i want to again thank and appreciate supervisor farrell, his staff margo kelly, another great effort. This is what innovation does in the city. It gets everybody to actually work at even higher levels in government in a Publicprivate Partnership wit...

End up in the revolving courts, they have trauma, bad thing that have happened to them and they have no support and they have gotten no lover to support them, no livelihood to live for. What you need to do is provide an adequate amount of support to help them achieve the goals they want. Notice i didnt say sobriety. Im a Substance Abuse expert that doesnt believe in sobriety. The goal is to say what are we going to work on here . I want to is stop being arrested by the cops . Okay. Thats a goal....

Diego. Tell us about the program. Is it working . Let me tell you what the program is about. Its a program where people are convicted for drink in public 5 or more times or arrested and held and if they are convicted for the crime in public. If you see it like a drug court model, thats how it works. So if we want to talk about is it successful, we can throw out a number of definitions for that. We know that drunk in public arrest are down 77 percent in san diego. Thats good for you and we can ta...

Was an entry to getting them locked up for 6 months and whether or not you think that People Living on the streets were you consider that a life, those people do consider it their life. So we feel that there absolutely needs to be more services for all levels. We do not feel that we need a coneject ral and problematic extra involuntary process in california and certainly not in San Francisco. Thank you. [ applause ]. I know we are going to be this hearing and discussing a lot more about Outpatie...

Their clients. Im a huge fan and knowing what we need to do is to make sure those people that need help get the help they want. Our clients are offered treatment and across the board every Single Person arrested for that are offered services an they all get help. Everyone of them gets help. And my outcomes show that they benefit from that. Thank you. [ applause ] you were a substance treatment expert for the medical center. I understand there is some promising new treatments about alcohol that m...

Commissioner olague and commissioner pimentel. This is a joint committee so i will pass on the mic on our chair from the Public Utilities commission. Yes, art torres member of puc and other members. Thank you very much for being here. We make a very legionary and strong quorum on this rainy day. Okay. And of course our general manager is here as well, har an kelly and the staff of the puc. Thank you. I want to thank sfgtv for their work broadcasting this meeting, and madam clerk if you could cha...

San francisco has been a leader in our Technology Community and our Technology Economy across our country and now we get to continue to play a role in being a leader bringing Technology Solutions to improve the lives of our residents here in our city. Its been a privilege to work on this project and to lead this effort the last two years and look forward to bringing the Broader Vision of free wifi across San Francisco in the next few years with all the partners behind me today. This has been a s...

If i were brought to a conference for the police, wed have a very different point of view. If i was at a conference for the District Attorney we might have a different point of view. The nice thing about this program is we are going to have a job. The police are going to arrest these. The attorneys are going to prosecute their cases and the public defenders is going to defend their client and everybody gets to do their job. They are going to do it legally, ethically, but we ask more that they do...