Our Respite Program that are needed. It means making some investments in some of our Population Health programs that are really focused on populations that youve heard a lot about at this commission that are disproportionately impacted by Health Issues in the city including our africanamerican Health Initiative which is a focus, and also continuing our work on our getting to zero initiative to eliminate new hiv infections in San Francisco. The third category of general direction that was communicated both in the mayors budget instruction and again as a top priority for us is using this moment of relative financial stability, not just to coast but to really prepare for the future, and make some investments that are going to protect us in the two, three, five, 10 time horizon and in my mind there are a couple of categories, but one of the big ones is Information Technology and its something that we have talked a lot about here, but this is a chance for us to build on a lot of the work th
That were laying fiber to connect many of the locations so we can have a faster system in the future. The challenge is we have over 30 million in it infrastructure in dph. If they had a life of five years which they typically do that translates to 6 million a year that we have to continuously invest in in order to keep the infrastructure uptodate so we have to make a commitment as an organization that we will do invest in keeping our systems up to speed. Strategy really is not to invest 30 million immediately because that would actually exacerbate the situation because it creates peaks and valleys of investments, so what is proposed is Going Forward to stabilize the spend cycle to move to a five year refresh so its indeed 6 million every year instead of 30 million every five years. The risk of that is obviously this effort will lag behind the current lead but eventually caught up and everything will be refreshd and stabilized. It is my hope before the emr is rolled out that we will act
Please silence and cell phones and any documents should be submitted to the clerk. Supervisor john avalos i would like to thank secretary fgtv. First item. Approval of lafco minutes from june 27, 2014, regular meeting. Supervisor john avalos colleagues, any questions . I just have a couple changes to the minutes. I just wanted to make some corrections in terms of the names of persons you spoke on my behalf. Commissioners those were clerical changes. Weve already made them. Thank you. Supervisor john avalos okay. Sorry about that. If there are no other comments or questions we can go on to Public Comment for this item. Public comment is open on the minutes for lafco. Seeing no one come forward, Public Comment is closed. Can we have a motion to approve these minutes . Supervisor eric mar so moved. Supervisor john avalos next item. Actually lets go to item no. 5, supervisor tang the here. Lets going to item no. 5. City clerk study on implementation and opportunities for undergrounding of
Secretary fgtv. First item. Approval of lafco minutes from june 27, 2014, regular meeting. Supervisor john avalos colleagues, any questions . I just have a couple changes to the minutes. I just wanted to make some corrections in terms of the names of persons you spoke on my behalf. Commissioners those were clerical changes. Weve already made them. Thank you. Supervisor john avalos okay. Sorry about that. If there are no other comments or questions we can go on to Public Comment for this item. Public comment is open on the minutes for lafco. Seeing no one come forward, Public Comment is closed. Can we have a motion to approve these minutes . Supervisor eric mar so moved. Supervisor john avalos next item. Actually lets go to item no. 5, supervisor tang the here. Lets going to item no. 5. City clerk study on implementation and opportunities for undergrounding of wires in San Francisco. From lafco staff. Supervisor tangs office came to us and asked if there is a way to do an a study of the