Commissioner pating noted federal and state mandates dont match local needs. Fine i had further corrections two paragraphs further down it should say that commissioner chow commended dr. Arrest going gone rather commended the other explanation on page 5 for the inspection of the third paragraph on that page has to do with with the comments on how the counties organized their Emergency Services and the last comment on any part was that you the minutes note that the San Francisco dpw managed the Services Including ambulances and pharmacies i thought we should add this is transferred to the Fire Department many years ago following a national trend. I will make that change. Are any other corrections or additions . If not ill accept those as editorial clarifying statement of a motion for acceptance. Move for acceptance and a second any mother Public Comment. Ive not received requests. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . And the minutes have been approved amazing. Item 3 the directors report.
Hearing on our proposed budget for fiscal year the next two fiscal years fiscal 1 5 1 5 16 15, 16. We introduced a number of proposals which Commission Voted to forward the Mayors Office at the time. However we had not fully plushed out what the proposal will be for our i. T. Program. We did leave some allocated balance, and the specific program was not called out in those prior hearings. We committed it . Back to you this month to finalize that proposal. As we had discussed previously at prior hearings the budget that we have proposed complies with the instructions from the Mayors Office. We have met the instructions. We have covered a year to general fund savings target. We funded our increases internally within the budget. We have restored significant plan reduction to Community Programs that was adopted in previous budget. What we are moving forward with today is a set of some minor adjustments to previous initiatives. Then some Additional Savings proposals that would increase pot
Deficit forecast and in the five year financial plan. Weve been working really closely with uc over the last several months. Its been a really Great Partnership with them. Weve come to a place where we dont think well need to add that additional general fund for the second year. We really happy about that and grateful to uc for their went. I know theyve been very focused trying to figure out how to fund this i. T. Program. They really kind of stepped up and worked with us to make this happen. Thats an 8. 7 million avoided general fund cost increase in the second year, which can then preprogram internally within our budget. With those additional initiatives that are before you today, that leads to 22. 7 million available funding for us to reprogram within the budget. Added to the 19. 3 that was set aside at the maymarch hearing of the commission. That gives us 47 million that we can Program Towards the Electronic Medical records project. That will basically allow us to get the first two
Proposals that would increase pot of Funds Available for Electronic Medical records project. Just as a reminder at the last budget hearing, this is where we had arrived with the two year total balance available of 19. 3 million. Allocated to the i. T. Program. In the initiatives in the packet that went you to today which will be requesting your approval for at this hearing, is another list of initiatives. Ill go through those briefly. I know you have a more detailed write ups in your packet. Weve made some adjustments downward to revenues in the Public Health division based on some audit findings that weve received on some of those programs. So thats basically a correction of the budget. The second item is an issue a process that weve been going through with department of resources and labor of organization. Through that process, weve agreed to convert a number of positions that are currently on temporary status and Permanent Civil Service status. That agreement is pending with the dep
I know theyve been very focused trying to figure out how to fund this i. T. Program. They really kind of stepped up and worked with us to make this happen. Thats an 8. 7 million avoided general fund cost increase in the second year, which can then preprogram internally within our budget. With those additional initiatives that are before you today, that leads to 22. 7 million available funding for us to reprogram within the budget. Added to the 19. 3 that was set aside at the maymarch hearing of the commission. That gives us 47 million that we can Program Towards the Electronic Medical records project. That will basically allow us to get the first two years of the program funded and then we can start working on that the third year which has the highest level of implementation costs. At a very high level kind of give an overview of this and then cio bill kim will come up and discuss in more detail what the planned program for the emr project is. As you can see, weve got projected costs o