Local Ordinance will help City Recover $17.7 Million in Alcohol-Related Health Care Costs
What: News Conference and Rally
When: August 4, 2010, 10:00 a.m.
Where: San Francisco City Hall (Polk Street steps)
Who (partial list of invited participants):
Why:
To advocate for the passage of California’s first Charge for Harm local ordinance to assess alcohol wholesalers, distributors and others for a portion of San Francisco’s alcohol-related harm. Introduced by Supervisor John Avalos and cosponsored by Supervisors Sophie Maxwell and Russ Mirkarimi, the measure is supported by a San Francisco Controller’s “nexus” study that detailed over $17 million in costs to city funded services like treatment, prevention, medical transport and hospitalization for alcohol related illness. The fee ordinance will be discussed in a SF Board of Supervisors Finance Committee hearing at 11 a.m. in the Board’s main chambers.
To help the public understand the astronomical annual cost of alcohol-related harm in San Francisco, and the effects on a chronically under-funded health care system.
To elevate visibility of the Charge for Harm movement – a rapidly growing, diverse, statewide constituency of concerned individuals, treatment and prevention service providers, cities, counties, public health officials, enforcement, labor, community, youth and faith-based groups determined to pass fair and meaningful alcohol-harm mitigation fees in California.
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