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 directly impacted from the disease. Great. Thank you very much mr. Her ish. Okay at this point were going to move to Public Comment or im sorry. Yes com
Item and id be happy to answer any questions or dr. Chow our commissioner singer if youve anything to add to that. I think i would add for commissioners to be aware that the committee is rewriting the process for the review of contracts that currently [inaudible] at 500,000 will cover 90 percent of our contacts at cost. It actually would then allow us to really look at a lower number of contracts themselves and can do better. And im courage you all look at what will be the draft proposal that will come to the finance committee and hopefully den we will then at the finance committee at next months meeting bring it to the commission for its approval so that it can be put into place for 2015. We are looking at a half year period of time for assessment to see what other additional parameters might be used to make this a more effective review and a more collaborative review with the department. So the 1 million special that was proposed we are currently speaking about using a 500,000 thresh
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
Sometime in january or february so everyone can contribute to that discussion before we approve the new policy. Then, other things that we looked at today, its on your consent calendar including the new site approval for house [inaudible] they are going to move from their Current Location that is been [inaudible] for over 20 years for a new location on Howard Street and also on the consent calendar you have order court contracts that need your approval as well as 2014 december contract reports. And then one other thing that i think is worth mentioning is about collective action plans. We have not heard about corrective action plans on many contractors and so this is relatively new to some of us who have been on the commission for less than three years. So, there were two contract contractors that have been put on the corrective action plan and it sounds like they are pretty good outcomes. We also want to be able to really look at this as a more preemptive effort mike rather than reacti