Prohibited at this meeting. Are prohibited at this meeting. Phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing electronic devices. Board replacing asks all cell phones to be turned off. Next item. Item 4 approval of the minutes of the july 7th regular meeting oar a motion a second and second. Any further discussion all in favor, say i. I. Item 5 communication dproshgz please be advised of no anticipated litigation in closed session an agenda it read the metropolitan transportation an agency it should have read municipal Transportation Agency and that correction has been made Unfinished Business by the Board Members. Thank you its been so long two things i wanted to bring up one i know we had asked staff to perhaps go back and take into account the bike lane continue california and pine my understanding at any point some of the merchant had reconsidered is the right word ive hearing the supervisor in that district commissioner christensen maybe interested in looking at that block. Upgrading
Bridges of hiv and does a lot of training and support and we have arches applied research and Community Health which holds all the data and surveillance. All the people served by the network are also recipients of the work that our colleagues there do around Sexual Health and to support and work with the measures around work and Technical Assistance facilitating around the work on std and hiv prevention and screening. We are working with all Health Systems to optimize care for the individual. I wanted to briefly show you. I was asked to show you the budgets. San francisco is one of seven directly cities for disease prevention in the united states. Our std grant from cdc is in red. Its been declining over time. We have a new grant cycle started in 2014 and we are told there will be a 25 decrease. This is due to different funding formulas that cdc has brought into play. What you can appreciate and we are very happy and supportive of is the department with reference to std general fund an
A collective impact model utilizing different organizations and we are joining in with many others in the goal of reaching this point of zero hiv infection, zero hiv deaths and zero as hiv stigma in the city. We have this great goal that is within our reach of getting to zero for hiv, stds are increasing at the same time. We have the same numbers available for 2014. They are finalized. You see gonorrhea in blue, chlamydia in black and syphilis in red primarily because people are choosing are Prevention Strategies that are only for hiv. People are choosing safer sex practices based on knowledge of zero status but not using condoms for every sexual act. People who are hiv infected and being on treatment have viral load the chances of transmitting hiv to a partner. All of these are being utilized throughout the city and we have the data to support that and i will show you somg some of those data. As we look historically we have some examples in the past that std rates are secondary to beh
Black shutdown. In a hair in accusation when you talk about disparities they hear an accusation when you talk about disparities. I am arguing for a discourse where we look at how all people are affected by this economy. I think the number one issue for most black people is economic security, fairness, incarceration is a huge issue it is the case, including for a person like myself who comes from a well educated family, there are only two degrees of separation. They know of a relative caught up in this system. The war on drugs has ravaged black communities and harmed taxpayers. Those are the top issues. Also, education the ability to have access to a high quality, Free Education with excellent teachers and school books. Those issues hit home. Host the latest numbers show among africanamericans the in employment rate is almost 12 . Guest higher than that if you put those numbers into some context. I agree. Two issues strike me as huge Going Forward for black communities. One is the wealt
Confirm its appropriations limit under the gan provisions. In this calculation we have done, it reflects through calculations allowed by the state code that we have a 3. 77 local Income Growth and an 0. 4 0. 47 population growth and this allows for combined growth in the gam limit from the amount that you established last year of 2. 53 billion to a new level of 2. 63 billion for fiscal year 1213. Under the allowable calculations, we have shown that the budget for appropriations that are covered by this is at currently 2. 47 billion, so this reflects a level still 168 million below the gam limit. If the city were to collect so much revenue that it was above the gam limit, the law would require us to either change the rates to return or some other way return that excess revenue to tax payers or go to voters to ask voters to approve an increase in the limit, but we have not reached that point yet. A couple of other points you might be interested in, we did look back at fiscal year 1112 wi