Any comments no nope ill call for a vote. All in favor, say i. Thank you. Ill note no Public Comment for the item. The audience this is the first time ive chaired ill not get it right so. You have a skilled secretary here to help you laughter so we move on to item 3 the directors report. Good afternoon wanted to lead the issue on the waiver because we do have a couple of is to have staff people to address this so ill leave that alone and move on to the next item and right after my report well have a couple of Staff Members to report on that the San Francisco Health Commission has worked with the San Francisco Police Department the dope project for the current overdose just to let you know San Francisco has the largest number of over disposes in california weve work hard to curve those Overdose Deaths on thursday august 27th the Police Department said a Police Officer o Police Officer said saved the life of that person the june incident marked the first time the Police Department office
Well call the meeting to order role commissioner pating ill note to here commissioner singer commissioner chung commissioner sanchez and sxhashgs the second item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes for august 418, 2015. There a motion. Missouri any comments no nope ill call for a vote. All in favor, say i. Thank you. Ill note no Public Comment for the item. The audience this is the first time ive chaired ill not get it right so. You have a skilled secretary here to help you laughter so we move on to item 3 the directors report. Good afternoon wanted to lead the issue on the waiver because we do have a couple of is to have staff people to address this so ill leave that alone and move on to the next item and right after my report well have a couple of Staff Members to report on that the San Francisco Health Commission has worked with the San Francisco Police Department the dope project for the current overdose just to let you know San Francisco has the largest number of over dis
There a motion. Missouri any comments no nope ill call for a vote. All in favor, say i. Thank you. Ill note no Public Comment for the item. The audience this is the first time ive chaired ill not get it right so. You have a skilled secretary here to help you laughter so we move on to item 3 the directors report. Good afternoon wanted to lead the issue on the waiver because we do have a couple of is to have staff people to address this so ill leave that alone and move on to the next item and right after my report well have a couple of Staff Members to report on that the San Francisco Health Commission has worked with the San Francisco Police Department the dope project for the current overdose just to let you know San Francisco has the largest number of over disposes in california weve work hard to curve those Overdose Deaths on thursday august 27th the Police Department said a Police Officer o Police Officer said saved the life of that person the june incident marked the first time the
Like the Substance Abuse medical is the bridge to reform waiver as of 13 it is a demonstration waiver 1115 waiver called the organized Delivery System of medical waiver so the state amended the state plan and made a parole to cms approved this august to show it if they increased the Services Covered by drug medical that they could by organizing the system and having smooth trisz from levels of care and using evidence based practices they could improve the care and overall costs of medicaid would not go up you can opt in or not opt the community likes a demonstration waiver they should we we already do so were coming in and the bay area was chosen as phase one so there are several tasks for Substance Abuse services im in charge of one to have the implement plan with the timelines for everything and another one to set rates we negotiate with the state and make a new contract we want the rates to be realistic because if you compare grants the drug medal there is a huge increase in account
Their income, and how that relates as a percentage of area income and so right now, we are limited to 35 or 30 percent of the Median Income and a lot of the families who need our help are in the 40, 50 and 60 percent range and the resources are not sufficient to be able to handle that. And so, and at the end, in conclusion, i would like to say our goal is for families to be securely and safely housed with a stable source of income and a rent payment that is appropriate to the income and i think that if we are working together and can come together on those out comes we have a good list of options to pick from, as we continue this dialogue and i want to thank you for allowing us, and i would also just like to mention, that the Community Home came up and we are funded for another year. And so, we are going to keep doing that, thank you. Actually, what happens after the funding runs out . I am just curious, are there plans to seek funding from other sources . Or, you know, what are the pl