Before we begin like to reminds all present and attends nothing person all health and safety protocols add hered to. This includes wearing a mask covering your nose and mouth any time you speak. Failure may result in removal from the room. We appreciate your cooperation with requirements in the interests of health and safety. Note that there is a hand sanitize are station at the front of the room. I have a Motor Vehicle in case you need temperature we welcome the public during comment period. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at the beginning and on each item on the agenda each comment is limited to 3 minutes. If you like to comment on the line call in and listen or you use the web ex link they are real time the sfgovtv link sometime there is is a delay to make sure you get your hand up in time use web ex or call inform Public Comment will be in person and call in. The commission will take comment first from people in person and then from people remote. Those in p
Before we begin like to reminds all present and attends nothing person all health and safety protocols add hered to. This includes wearing a mask covering your nose and mouth any time you speak. Failure may result in removal from the room. We appreciate your cooperation with requirements in the interests of health and safety. Note that there is a hand sanitize are station at the front of the room. I have a Motor Vehicle in case you need temperature we welcome the public during comment period. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at the beginning and on each item on the agenda each comment is limited to 3 minutes. If you like to comment on the line call in and listen or you use the web ex link they are real time the sfgovtv link sometime there is is a delay to make sure you get your hand up in time use web ex or call inform Public Comment will be in person and call in. The commission will take comment first from people in person and then from people remote. Those in p
Present. Joy have script to read and we can move forward. Welcome at this time october fourth San Francisco Healing Commission meeting it is being held in hybrid foradmit in person room 300 broadcast live on sfgovtv and available to the via web ex call 4156550001. Before we begin like to reminds all present and attends nothing person all health and safety protocols add hered to. This includes wearing a mask covering your nose and mouth any time you speak. Failure may result in removal from the room. We appreciate your cooperation with requirements in the interests of health and safety. Note that there is a hand sanitize are station at the front of the room. I have a Motor Vehicle in case you need temperature we welcome the public during comment period. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at the beginning and on each item on the agenda each comment is limited to 3 minutes. If you like to comment on the line call in and listen or you use the web ex link they are real
We have on the expenditure side we are living within budget. Youll see that we have a projected 16. 6 million favorable variance in salary and Fringe Benefits so were coming in below budget by 16. 6 millions. That is due to a couple of things. We have a couple units that are under their budgeted agent census so weve incurred some savings there and we also have some savings from our delays in hiring. I wanted to point this out because this is something thats come up at a couple of the last commissioner meetings and its also come up extensively in our meetings with our Nursing Union as weve talked about their contract. We have despite the salary savings, that is not coming from our inability to fill our clinical positions, although that is a very serious issue for us. We have about 80 nursing positions at San Francisco general that are unfilled and we are working overtime to fill those positions, however, from a financial perspective we are back filling those shifts with per diem and reg
Census so weve incurred some savings there and we also have some savings from our delays in hiring. I wanted to point this out because this is something thats come up at a couple of the last commissioner meetings and its also come up extensively in our meetings with our Nursing Union as weve talked about their contract. We have despite the salary savings, that is not coming from our inability to fill our clinical positions, although that is a very serious issue for us. We have about 80 nursing positions at San Francisco general that are unfilled and we are working overtime to fill those positions, however, from a financial perspective we are back filling those shifts with per diem and registry, so thats not whats driving these savings. Its the units below census and the other positions we are having trouble back filling, which are things like our information technology, weve had a hard time hiring there, clerical positions, interpreters, etc. I want to point that out in particular beca