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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisor meeting and happy st. Patricks day. Please call the roll. Supervisor avalos. Avalos present. President breed. Breed present. Campos present. Supervisor christensen. Present. Supervisor cohen. Present. Supervisor farrell. Present. Supervisor kim . Top of the morning. [laughter ] kim present. Supervisor mar. Mar present. Supervisor tang. Tang present. Supervisor wiener not present. Supervisor yee . Present. Yee present madame president , you have aquorum. Okay. Would everyone please join me in the pledge of allegiance....

Board of supervisor meeting and happy st. Patricks day. Please call the roll. Supervisor avalos. Avalos present. President breed. Breed present. Campos present. Supervisor christensen. Present. Supervisor cohen. Present. Supervisor farrell. Present. Supervisor kim . Top of the morning. [laughter ] kim present. Supervisor mar. Mar present. Supervisor tang. Tang present. Supervisor wiener not present. Supervisor yee . Present. Yee present madame president , you have aquorum. Okay. Would everyone please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of a...

Function well. If that can be helped by the committee, that will be very helpful to mostly young patients. I would want to second that. I agree. I think if there could be because the specific needs of dialysis patients, it is such they are so unique to their disease in comparison to other disabilities. Also because its often so misunderstood by folks in the general public who again look at a person and they dont look like anything is wrong with them. Employment is a very big issue. I dont know if there could be a special department or some sort of support for folks who were on dialysis and eit...

Home Supportive Services program an longterm care. That is about the resource and asset limit. Thats really important for people who are either get into expansion medical and healthy when they came in and are going to have a need for services and maybe they werent eligible for traditional medical and because they are over the resource and asset limit and the income is over the threshold. Now they are going to be able to benefit from the Longterm Services and support that are going to be available under the medical expansion program. A note under the ihs program, recently the state and working ...

Yes. Thank you. I just wanted to thank our councilman kostanian for bringing this to council today. Your leadership and showing us not only the personal side of this issue but also the medical and social side has really helped us all understand a little bit more about your experience and also more about what we as a department and the council might be able to do to support you and others. So thank you. I would also like to mention that there are pamphlets and booklets and sheets of information about Kidney Disease on dialysis on the table. Please help yourself. Do we have any Public Comment . ...