- also a mental health advocate within kaiser permanente and other hats and collaborations with the steinberg institute all while trying to further change the change in the state of california how we do the business of mental health care. while i agree access is a serious issue, i assure you as well as everyone else kaiser permanente it's not just their irish but throughout the country. as policy makers i hope you consider this as you grapple with the critical decision. and the crisis is to appear to be used as a political football. i also have a short story i'd like to share with you. usually when i give these talks i'm around the country and speak about one of my children and we decided a long time good if telling our story would save a life we'd tell it often and this somebody youngest and i'll be brief. she turned 17 recently and immune disorders hit her and her hair fell out and couldn't go to school for a month and a half and i walked in her bathroom as she was trying to take her life. >> clerk: thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. >> president yee, supervisors, john avalos

effort is trying to change the trend and get the dots on a decent healthcare >>sacramento mayor darrell steinberg and other members of the city council there announced another homeless shelter will be opening up soon this time in downtown sacramento. the city is working with mercy housing in the sacramento housing redevelopment agency to renovate capitol park hotel. once renovations are complete city leaders say it will have a 180 rooms including some with tree oz facilities. the city says the project could begin within the next year. >>and so this is big and it's exciting. and it gets says another 180 beds towards the of 800 >>it is not lost on my residents, our businesses are the people come to visit or work downtown that homelessness is a serious problem and our central city core. one of the biggest and most meaningful steps to resolving that problem. >>there are 90 people who currently live at the hotel, the city says it will help them find a new place to live. >>there are 4 zone forecast take a live look outside at san francisco's embarcadero looking good the bay bridge much clearer isn't th