And commissioner wynns. I am notified that we dont have a quorum today to take actions today but have a quorum from the board of education members. I would like to apologize to the members of the city family that worked so hard to prepare for the meeting today but given everyone has taken the time to come out and present on the issue before us also to speak on this i worked with the clerks and we are going to call the item so that any members of the public that have presentations can still do so and then we can have Public Comment and that we will have to reagendize this item for next months joint select Committee Meeting in order to take action on this item. Committee members who does make it here will be sure to ask questions during Public Comment to extend your time period and of course any members of the public can speak after that so this hearing oh i guess we should take roll call first. On the call of the roll. Supervisor kim. Here. Kim present. Supervisor avalos. Avalos absent.
Boundaries and that we were coordinated and i should say that Health Commission passed an ordinance supporting this effort. We have developed a draft resource guide that allows us to understand all of the Resources Available for the young people and their families. The Behavioral Health has come together, the treatment providers have come together to meet and talk about what best practices are culturally specifically identifying leads who could provide the services and where they could access the services so we knew when they came to us we had the best appropriate services. We have developed a First Encounter check list. This is a very important item that we didnt really have before because we know that a lot of folks will be visiting homes, School Districts, nurses, others and what we discussed we wanted to have a common set of questions so as we visited homes we can get data around risk and trauma scprt questions so we developed a check list with maternal child and adolescent health
Jurys findings that this should be readily available and were working on this with the departments. And relative to the languages that should appear on city websites. So the lao specifies which languages are required for support by authorizing our office to determine whether 10,000 residents share a language and there are three now, chinese, including cantonese and mandarin and tagalog and korean and these are the languages used by the department of elections in their materials, but the voters guide does not determine which languages should be mandated. It is the Language Access ordinance that was implemented and passed by the board of supervisors and initiated by the board of supervisors that determines that. That concludes everything that i wanted to say. I wanted to add that we have been working with city departments, particularly with the Mayors Office on disability. They have been fantastic in really working with us to make sure that were not only ensuring accessibility from the a
The moment, to charles, the prince of wales, to william the duke of cambridge, and after william it will be the child. Now, heres the interesting thing. Whoever or whatever sex is born, the law that is are now being prom you will gated come to fruition, which it will, whether its a girl or a boy, they will become monarch. The current rule is, of course, the males first. Even if a female is born, if a male is born, knocks the female out of the line of succession. That is going to change. Now, all this is a long way in the future, but it does mean that this is not only the first there are so many statistics. I can bore on for britain about this. The last time we had three people in line of succession was 120 years ago with queen victoria. Of course, we have king george and then edward xii. We now have the queen, charles, william, and whoever is born to the duchess of cambridge. One images, richard, you know, in your neck of the woods the media is not known for holding back, especially wh
House for that. Also, as the city grieves over an nfl players tragic breaking point, new debates today about gun control and Domestic Violence. Youll hear both. But first, the u. S. Has long believed syria has a huge stockpile of chemical weapons. Now new concerns that chemical arsenal is on the move. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton today issuing another stern warning against syria, using these weapons. The Syrian Foreign Ministry quick to respond here saying it would not use chemical weapons against its people if it had any, but this announcement as turkey is sending warplanes to its border with syria after the Syrian Military bombed a nearby town of ras alain. You can hear that and see the smoke. This is the turkish side of the border. This is fueling more fears that more of syrias violence will spill into its neighbor to the north, being turkey. Security concerns are prompting the u. N. To announce it is pulling nonessential personnel out of syria. Want to bring in fran townsend,