Involves stages. We know there are great unmet needs in the area of housing, Mental Health and Substance Use and will take cares to ramp up to meet the unmet need so thank you and we look forward to the conversation. Great. Supervisor campos. Thank you supervisor wiener. Just going back to the issue that i raised with the consortium. What are you doing to address this specific needs of some of the most vulnerable communities where you see infection rates continuing to be high . Can you talk a little more about sort of the work that providers are doing around that . Sure. There are a number of providers here that work with specific communities. We have folks here from api wellness and those folks have been part of the consortium, both as individual organizations and as representatives from happen. There have been representation from the hiv Health Services planning council, so there has been a pretty inclusive nature in the effort to get Community Voices and to hear from people who are
Country to teach other people what were doing. Now we will hear from the department of Public Health. Greg wagner is here to present, and i hope you have really good news for us about the money. I will do my best. Good morning supervisors. Greg wagner chief Financial Officer with the department of Public Health. I dont have good news for you, but i dont have the bad news that we have had in some years past. Unfortunately as you pointed out at the beginning of this hearing it has been an annual ritual for many years for us to have this discussion in the board chambers about what the funding picture for our programs looks like and the change in the grants that we received from the state and federal governments for these programs. We are early in our budget cycle. Were still in our deliberations and awaiting information about what the funding picture will look like for this year, so we dont have as much information as we often do when we hold this discussion a little bit later, but i will
Group as we have gone and right now i think [inaudible] we have you know, we have engaged the folks from the hiv Providers Network so they have been participating. We have several folks from the department of Public Health, from ucsf, San Francisco aids foundation. The fabulous folks from [inaudible] joining us. Thanks ted and matt. Ms. Chung is participating, the Health Commissioner. We also brought in kaiser. What is important is that 2 3 of the patients are seen in the private sector for hiv and most by kaiser in San Francisco. Having brad here the director of hiv services at kaiser has been critical. We have genie to bring in the private docks. We had their voices at the table but its been bringing people in. We had adam taylor from scotts office, laura lane from your office has been participating and its very open, and just everybody has been very enthusiastic about moving forward. We meet about every two months and focus on working collaboratively to come up with some ideas to ac
We are concerned that the budget as anticipated will impact about a Million Dollars in cuts for the next fiscal year, and we need to make sure that the city includes all of those cuts when we say that there will be no cuts. We are also committed to working with the partners in the community to ensure there is an expansion of capacity and we prevent homelessness in every instance in our community and were very dedicated to working in collaboration with our sister agencies to make that happen, so were excited about the opportunity to talk about expanding services. Before we can talk about that we have to make sure that we dont experience any cuts, and this plan is exciting and once again positions San Francisco to show the world how things should get done, but this is a plan that involves stages. We know there are great unmet needs in the area of housing, Mental Health and Substance Use and will take cares to ramp up to meet the unmet need so thank you and we look forward to the conversa
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