bsupervisor chu: the afternoon, and welcome to the budget and finance meeting for february 15. i am connie chu. with me, we have supervisors kim and avalos, and we have people from sfgtv and clerk young. clerk young: --

supervisor chu: please call item number 1. clerk young: do except and expend a grant for the kindergarten to college program participant incentive funds. supervisor chu: we have someone with us. kreskin afternoon. i am with the office of treasurer-tax collector. the i come before you is for a grant in the amount of $190,000 for the students to participate in the kindergarten to college program. there are currently two programs. one is a $100 bonus to the students and their families if they set up a direct deposit into the account and have acted for at least six months. these are privately raised funds

that are matched by $50 war all students and an additional $50 for those students who are participating in the free and reduced lunch program, and i am happy to take any questions. supervisor chu: i am wondering if you can share with us at the experience so far. >> there are a lot of exciting results from families the participating in the amount of funds that they have contributed so far. supervisor chu: thank you. i think that would give is a good idea of how successful the program is. there is no additional funding, correct? >> correct. supervisor chu: there is no budget analyst report on this. supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: just to go to the question from chair chu --

>> we had 1200 students in the first year of the program. we are currently in the second year of the program with the additional students, and next year, we plan to have a full rollout to all the kindergarten's throughout the city, and it will be approximately 4800 students in kindergarten next year. supervisor chu: thank you very much, and, again, if you could follow up with some of the statistics, that would be helpful. >> thank you very much. supervisor chu: thank you. why do we not open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item number one? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will send this without objection. thank you. item two, please. clerk young: item two, to accept and expend a grant in the

amount of $1,352,141, to participate in an incentive. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we have a dph representative on this item. >> good afternoon, or risers. my name is dr. joanie -- and i am with community programs at the san francisco department of public health. before you today, i am to see your approval and support for the initiative collaborative grant that we have with partners across community programs in dph. this is an effort that is a very integrated across our health system, and it is an effort to really address the need for health and behavioral health needs of our clients who are at risk for hiv or diagnosed with hiv.

this is a unique opportunity to have integrated care in settings that may have been more isolated in terms of the types of services they deliver. this grant provides the opportunity to provide mental health, substance abuse, and preventive services in areas such as primary care and drug treatment and prevention programs and others. these funds allow us to increase the staffing and really integrate some cutting edge evidence-based practices in these studies, so this is an opportunity to really address the population, the transgendered and reentry populations in general, because there you have a really high prevalence of hiv or those at risk for hiv, and this is an opportunity with the collaboration with the health department, which the city clinic, which is our std clinic, with the southeast health center and with others, like where we have the black women coe's and

others. mental health, substance abuse, and prevention, for a very high- risk population. supervisor chu: thank you. can you speak more about how the $1.30 million would be spent? >> sure. these funds would be allocated to increase staffing. here we have the opportunity to provide services on the side, the funds will be before providing licensed mental health clinicians. they already have high primary care as well as some other services. this is an opportunity to expand on that effort. they will also be a addressing some of a complicated issues that our clients may be addressing, so it is primarily for staffing and all of those sites for the funds for this initiative. supervisor chu: thank you.

and this does not require any matching city funds or staff? >> that is correct. supervisor chu: supervisor kim? supervisor kim: for the tenderloin, where are the service locations? >> city clinic, which is the std clinic that we have. supervisor kim: that is the only one? >> yes. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor kim. this item does not of a budget analyst report with it. why do we not open it up to members of the public? either any members of the public wish to speak on item number two? please, . >> good morning. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is -- i have lived in san francisco's 60 years. i would like to speak in support of this resolution, but, as

usual, i have a cautionary note. since we're dealing with the department of public health and mental health services, given to clients, i am kinda wondering out why they have not been suspicious of a system that is being put up by the mental services unit. it was covered in three articles in "the bases and," and "the examiner" and another decided to not mention anything about it. -- it was covered in articles in "the bay citizen" and others.

thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. are there any other members of the public wish to speak on item number two? seeing none, it is closed. colleagues, been in motion? we have a motion to send it fourth and second, and we will do that without objection. item three. clerk young: and number three, to extend and expand a grand in the amount of $256,846 from the university of san francisco to participate in a program entitled center for disease control and prevention kenya monitoring and evaluation. supervisor chu: thank you. we also have a representative

from the department of public health. >> good afternoon, i am dr. sandy schwartz. this is for their surveillance section. the money that we receive from the university of california is used to support some of our staff, myself included, to provide technical assistance, for the capacity of the canyon ministry of health to conduct the sorts of activities that we here in san francisco have been doing so well for so many years, things like case reporting, conducting -- we are in the process of helping the ministry of helped develop -- help develop and conduct a door-to- door sort -- survey, starting at age 18 months and above regarding risk factors for hiv, hiv prevalence, canceling those who are affected, and looking at recent infections.

we are also in the process of assisting them through conducting surveys, including commercial sex workers. the population's beyond the general population in that country that have a higher burden of disease and carry risk factors for that. is there anything else i can answer for you? supervisor chu: just to confirm, this does not require any new positions? >> that is correct. >> ok, just another question. i think as people would take a look like this, the grant would allow us to provide technical assistance for training for the partners. when we think about our department, where we think the primary objective is to really take a look at this in san francisco and the neighboring

areas, could you just explain why it is important. >> absolutely. i have been doing surveillance for over 20 years, so i am both knowledgeable and biased and that san francisco conducts surveillance on all of the activities pertaining to the epidemic, better than anyplace, i would say, in the world, and it is why, in fact, the university of california provides so much of the technical assistance to kenya turns to us specifically for assistance in this arena, because in order to really understand, people with infectious diseases, that process, understanding the epidemic in that way is to relieve the function of a local

public health department, and that is why the university does not have that expertise, but we do. we really know how to do it, the hands on, ins and outs of it. it does not impact our ability to conduct our work here in the city. i think we do a really good job here in the city, and i personally, and i know the rest of us that work on this field is beneficial to help others understand how we do things, and also, it lets the world know what a great job we do here in san francisco. supervisor chu: thank you. this item does not have a budget analyst report, so why do we not open it up to members of the public? is there any member of the public to wishes to speak on item number three? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is -- i would like to speak out in favor of this.

during college, i took courses in african history, and even though there are black politicians running south africa and zimbabwe, i want to point out for the record that they do have a noticeable aids program there, and we should not limit our consideration just to kenya, and we should look at the current situation in south africa and zimbabwe, and then, unfortunately, it is not getting too much better, and i will not bother to say the rest of my comments that i have already said earlier today. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. are there any other members of the comet -- public to wish to speak on item 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have a motion to send the item forward with a recommendation and a second, and we will do that without objection. item four. clerk young: item four, to

accept from the mayor's office of housing to enter into a standard agreement with the state department of housing and community development to accept and expand $4.70 million of transit-oriented development infrastructure funds, associated with 1180-4th street. supervisor chu: thank you. this was brought by the mayor and supervisor kim. supervisor kim, would you like to make any comments? supervisor kim: thank you, chair chu. supervisor kim: the infrastructure grant program, a very long and, in association with the affordable housing project in mission bay as part of the regal and the plant there. the infrastructure costs include design and utility improvements, and the projects include 150 residential units for very low and low-income families, of

which 25 units will be reserved for formerly homeless households. given the increasing needs, this grant is coming to us at an opportune time to help us complete this project. it will include one, two, and three-room bedrooms, and a common area, and i know that john mcnamara is year from the office on housing to answer any questions. -- is here from the office on housing. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor jim. is there a representative from moh for the presentation? >> good afternoon. i do not have anything additional to act. supervisor kim, you did a wonderful job of summarizing it, so if you have any questions, i am available, and we also have mercy housing here, the sponsor

of the housing, and we also have the sponsor for the infrastructure grant. supervisor chu: great. it sounds like there is a matching fund that is required but that it is funded. can you speak to that? can you speak to the matching funds and the sources we are using to me to that? >> -- jimmy to that? -- to meet that? >> i can ask jennifer to come up, but we have previously funded the project with tax increment, and a number of other former of redevelopment agency funding sources, so -- supervisor chu: it looks like this is being paid for primarily through funds as well as transit oriented development. >> that is correct. supervisor chu: