This destruction is vast and what these people are living through right now is brutal. Im Sandra Smith in New York and this is America Reports and it was a short time ago that Hurricane Helene marked the grim milestone as the number of deaths we now know has surpassed 200. Emergencies crews are still on the ground and they are still searching for people who may be stuck in their homes. John be mild those in Florida And Georgia still reeling from power outages. They stress they are not getting enough help. It is like nothing weve ever seen before. We had michael which is terrible. This hurricane is a bomb blast. This is the worst we have been hit in 30 years good when you have children and you cant provide any food for them to eat or even a hot meal without driving three hours and risking losing gas, that is a worse nightmare. Unable to feed your children. John live on the ground in hardhit nashville carolina. Hows it looking there . It is raw and rough. You are pete seen people come in
There are four of you and there is quorum, i will text the commissioner to see if she needs help. President bernal with the quorum present, we move on to the next item. The approval of the meetings of the minute of september 1st. Wrong date, im looking at the minutes. The minutes of the meeting of september 15. Upon reviewing the minutes and without amendment, do we have a motion to approve or any amendments from the commissioners . So moved. Second. Before you all vote there is nobody on the Public Comment line, so there is no need to take Public Comment. I can take a roll call vote, commissioner. President bernal yes. Commissioner green yes. Commissioner chung yes. Commissioner chow yes. And lets see if okay, i will call her as we move into the next item. That looks like the minutes passed. The next item is the directors report. Director colfax. Good afternoon. The director report, grant cocolfax. One item of note, september 30, state department of Public Health released details rega
Commissioner to see if she needs help. President bernal with the quorum present, we move on to the next item. The approval of the meetings of the minute of september 1st. Wrong date, im looking at the minutes. The minutes of the meeting of september 15. Upon reviewing the minutes and without amendment, do we have a motion to approve or any amendments from the commissioners . So moved. Second. Before you all vote there is nobody on the Public Comment line, so there is no need to take Public Comment. I can take a roll call vote, commissioner. President bernal yes. Commissioner green yes. Commissioner chung yes. Commissioner chow yes. And lets see if okay, i will call her as we move into the next item. That looks like the minutes passed. The next item is the directors report. Director colfax. Good afternoon. The director report, grant cocolfax. One item of note, september 30, state department of Public Health released details regarding a Health Equity metric to help continuing efforts to
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The Prevention Services in particular qualified as essential services under health quarters. It was really an effort to clarify and provide clear guidance to the c. B. O. And other prevention providers in particular around how to provide services safely and develop resources for home testing, for example, options for people to minimize clinic visits and looking at low barrier approaches to delivering some of the services. Zoom doesnt work for everyone, but are there other ways to continue to provide services in a safeway. Next slide. And then off on policies side, there has been, when the shelter in place occurred, all the clinics closed due to activation many of the people were activated for covid response. And also in response to ensuring that staff are safely in these clinical settings. But as a shelter in place has been lifted, there is a need, in particular because of the Prevention Services that have been declining, to reopen and provide care for young people particularly and so