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Every single day is something thats admirable and i want us to really appreciate the folks who are part of, you know, our mental teams and our nonprofit organizations and our homeless out reach workers and even Law Enforcement and the work that were out there doing to help change and save peoples lives. This is the first of many steps that we plan to take and, again, this is, i know, a very complex issue. Its not wraped in the usual political package that the press, i know, wants to see it wrapped in. But this is actually what we need to do. Get into the nuts and bolts, make the right decision...

Memorial building and this building and all around. We want to make that part of the discussion that happens there. We talk about the work we have to do. We want to say thanks to the citizens that we have been able to get the funding to make it all happen. Thank you. Probably the most common question i have been asked over the last six weeks. This happens before the earthquake anniversary how much better prepared are we than we were 30 years ago . The answer is much better prepared. That is in great part to the folks here but also the people of San Francisco who have supported all of this work...

Cheryl is very traumatized by this. She is not feeling good. She is in the condition i havent personally seen her in before, and she believes like i did that if we had treatment on demand, this never would have happened. Treatment on demand if it was implemented years ago, the Mental Health of the people in the tenderloin would be better and this never would happen. Cheryl isnt here because of the trauma she is facing. We talked before this so i can tell her story. This is something we can fix if we get some Mental Health services. Please join the community with us and enact this and help us p...

Okay. We are here to get the job done. Good morning. Is it morning still . Ive been up since 5 00 i think. Im trying to keep ive been to so many places throughout the day. This is probably the fifth or sixth, but whos counting . Thank you all so much for joining us here today. With me i have dr. Grant colfax, who is the director of the department of Public Health, as well as dr. Anton nagusablan who is the director of Mental Health reform. Daniel leary, the c. E. O. And founder of Tipping Point community, and matthew state, the chair of u. C. F. Department of psychiatry here in San Francisco. ...

We will actually put out a request for proposal for an expert to actually come in, do an assessment of laguna and help inform in terms of its current state, and perhaps where it needs to go in terms of being a worldclass, longterm care and rehab facility. In focusing on both short and intermediate and longterm, and we actually internally have documents that break out what those things are. They are just not in what you received today. Thank you. Yes, thank you for your report and thank you for the draft. It was a very good summary of the findings, and the work that you have thus far done. That...