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The Salvation Army San Francisco center is a state licensed [speaker not understood] recovery program. At any given time upwards of 200 people are here onsite, go through the program and get their life back together. Our residential capacity is 106 single adults with up to 30 families and up to 52 kids with those families. Youre not likely to find many treatment programs with Child Care Program and also a licensed detox facility, but we have them here. We are truly a place for new beginnings and we have been that place at this location for 40 years. All those years weve been celebrating thanks...

One of our biggest pin points or struggles has been with the legislation and the old models of the [inaudible] the regulations and laws which are being slowly worked on through the legal departments and the San Franciscos legal department. But essentially we found the experience through Innovation Office has been driving the initiatives through and helping us develop and the data sets have bon become cleaner. They have become easier for us to use and the process has become a lot more efficient. School. Cool. I was told if you have a question you should line up at that microphone right there. I...

Fund the position from my salary savings for this current yearv, placing the full salary in the draft budget, for the board then to determine the efficacy of the position in june with some measurements and we will show you in advance to get your approval on. And then come june if the position does not hold as much value as you would expected it to, that salary could be removed from the departments budget. That is a problem i see. Once you hire someone, it is very hard and very difficult to actually not to say that youre going to terminate that position. We can hire them with the expectation th...

All of our wonderful bureaucracy to help open us up even more. Thats, of course, our director of the red cross. Harold. Come on up, harold. applause now that i know im a city employee, im hoping for a big pay raise. [laughter] you know, any time youre in a room with ed lee, you know that there are going things going on. What a wonderful leader he is for the city of San Francisco and the entire bay area. Were so very fortunate to have in this the best place on the planet, some of the best leaders on the planet, without any question. I got a call from Joaquin Torres saying ed lee wanted me to be...

Well, thank you, everybody. And welcome. Happy thanksgiving and happy season of sharing and caring for each other. I just spent a wonderful morning with the Interfaith Council and their 15th anniversary of breakfast with quite a host of wonderful, wonderful people who care about the city and about the world. And while the theme was articulated as a very rich greening theme, i think we found out from many, if not all of the speakers, that the way we care about our earth is reflected in the way we care for each other first and foremost. And thats really important. And, so, today im standing with...