show you the product, psa. [laughter] >> california founders understood the importance of citizen oversight of local government. our writing into the state constitution requirement that each county will convene a civil grand jury with the express purpose of investigating local government activity. each year your county court, it's citizens just like you that serve as watchdogs over the government the jury has powers and local government is required to provide information the jury needs to conduct this investigation. the result of investigative reports can improve how local government does its job. reports also form the public about the performance of their government. serving on a civil grand jury is not only an experience you'll never forget, but you'll also learn extraordinary amount about how your local government carries out its responsibilities. *

i encourage you, encourage you to do your civic duty and hold your local government accountable by contacting the california grand jurors association to learn more about your county's civil grad jury and how you can apply to serve. (applause) >> i believe there are some presentations to be made. paul henderson, representing mayor ed lee's office. >> thank you, guys, having been here, it is an honor to be in front of the civil grand jury. i actually grew up with a lot of familiarity with the civil grand jury. i grew up here, fourth generation here in the bayview. my grandmother who raised me after she finished college, she went to school late. after she finished college she served on the civil grand jury. and she told us as we were growing up, you can't get to it

till after you go to college. i grew up thinking, oh, if i do enroll in school, i can go to college and i can get to the civil grand jury. i don't know why -- [laughter] >> did she carry the card for the civil grand jury with her in her purse actually until she passed. it was one of the things she was most proud of for working in the city. and, so, i've always paid special attention to what the civil grand jury did as like a magical entity that served and was committed to public service. unfortunately i've always worked in public service myself. i was never able to get to the civil grand jury, but i'm intimately familiar with the work that they do. so, we're all very grateful for your work and contributionses. so, my name is paul henderson. i'm the deputy chief of staff for our mayor ed lee. we are here today and i am here today to present this certificate of honor to the san

francisco civil grand jury association. and, so, i have a certificate here that i'd like to present and thank you all so much for the work that you've been doing and the contributions to the city. you know, people don't say it enough, but the work that you do actually does matter and the work that you do, people pay attention to. it creates changes that ripple all throughout our local government. so, i thank you all for your work and i look forward to working with you in the future. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. and then [speaker not understood] representing state senator mark leno.

>> good morning, everyone. and i'm here, as keith said, on behalf of state senator leno. and i just want to say how proud i am to be here because, you know, most of us seek ways to make government better. usually, you know, we have something that we don't like about our government, our local government. we want to change things. we have a disagreement. but you're here and you're actually doing something about it. you're taking your time, you're taking time out of your lives and putting energy into changing how government can serve the people of our county. and that's very impressive and i for one as a citizen of san francisco am very grateful to each and every one of you for doing that.

for watching out for me, because that's what you are, each and every one of you, watching out for me and my well-being as well as everyone else in the city. and around the state, thanks to the california civil grand jury association, we have 58 groups that do the same and help people experience government at a higher level and have government work for them. so, thanks to the california civil grand jury association for doing that, for making that work for us. and on behalf of state senator leno, i have the privilege of presenting the certificate of recognition to the california civil grand jury association. and with our thanks and great appreciation. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. (applause)

>> as absolved a group as we may be, we cannot forget that this gathering is primarily to recognize that we're all but citizens of this great state, and that we all bear some responsibility for our own governance. and, so, regardless of our political leaningses, we all are good government to be as responsive and effective and efficient as it possibly can be. and that is the role of our nearly 1 100 volunteers who serve each year in the 58 counties in california. * i didn't thank the governor on his way in. so, i don't mean to pass on you. would you like to say a few words? >> no, thank you. i'm in politics after all. [laughter] >> thank you, chief.

>> i do want to thank all of you very much for making it. thank you for your leadership and stewardship. thank you all so much for your hard work, paul, and for taking time or here. unlike the office of mayor said, it has budgets for certificates of honor. the lieutenant governor's office unfortunately did not. [laughter] >> [speaker not understood]. i do want to pick up on the theme and pick up on a little bit of what has been said already. i think it was justice brandeis who said it better than anyone. in democracy, the highest office is the office of citizen. and it's actually true. [speaker not understood] in many ways, sometimes amateurs. we're limited in what i could best describe an age of amateurs. i say that in a very enlightened sense. they are getting small. small is getting big. hierarchy as we know it is

[speaker not understood]. you think about the institutions that have served us so well over the last half century. they are dramatically changing. you see it certainly in media. you've seen it in the financial service industry now increasingly serving the music industry. and you see it in city government. you are a big participant in that dramatic evolution or what i would argue, the dramatic punctuation point in terms of the world we live in. i don't think it's cyclical. i think something dramatic is taking shape here as it relates to particularly the impact of technology is having on the world we're living in. we're living in a fish bowl. the whole idea of holding back information and keeping that information for those [speaker not understood] those in power, those days are over. age of amateurs, big is getting small, small is getting big. this democracy of voices, new contours of a new society, truly i think is being shaped.

and, so, you are a big part of that. and i hope the spirit of engagement, civil grand jurors across the state, is respected in that light. as a supervisor, i was a big champion of you. as a marry was a little more cautious because -- [laughter] >> [speaker not understood]. but increasingly, i hope people understand that the roilof a civil grand jury is not gotcha. it's not about taking shots, it's not about exposing people or systems. just for the purpose of an expose. it's about an improvement it's about transparency, about accountability, and ultimately it's about trust. one thing i think we all can agree on is trust in government is not where it needs to be. so, in the spirit of trust,

that spirit of openness, in this fish bowl we're living in, in the spirit of the age of amateurs and citizenship, i'm grateful for your hard work and i'm grateful for your stewardship, a remarkable democracy. not only here in san francisco, throughout the state and of course you represent to the rest of the country. so, thank you all very much. (applause) >> thank you, lieutenant government. -- governor. appreciate your presence and your message. it is important we recognize everybody mixes us up with the criminal grand jury. now we know what the civil grand jury is. thank you. i do have a message of thanks from theedthv the president of the california grand jurors association. unfortunately because of health reasons i cannot attend the grand jury public service announcement narrated by the

lieutenant governor gavin newsome. so i cannot be here personally to thank you, i use this message to relay my appreciation and thanks as the president of the california grand jurors association to all those involved in the creation, production and ultimate distribution of the psa. i hope you liked it by the way, when you watched it. >> they did a great job. it was great. [laughter] >> first and foremost we thank the lieutenant governor, the star of the production, for lending his presence, prestige, and stature and or -- or ratory to the project. ken mali, script writer, director and producer brought this idea to reality. * we also acknowledge and thank the man behind the camera, richard. and who edited and filmed the psa. and finally my thanks to my tga partner and our vice president bolting house and to my

colleague and predecessor keith north for their leadership in moving the psa to the fruition and launch today and to all others that were involved. on behalf of the california grand jurors association, i cannot emphasize strongly enough how this effort and the resulting product advanced preservation and the promotion of the grand jury institution which our constitutional forefather's thought so important to democracy in california. from william e. trout man, california grand jurors association, president. (applause) >> well, finally, i want to thank all of you for being here for this event and for helping to shine light on what i've begun to call california's best kept secret. so, from the bottom of my heart and on behalf of the california grand jurors association, thank you for all your help.

and please, on your way out, take advantage of some of the literature, the san francisco gazette from your past jury is available. and other brochures and information about the california grand jurors association and the works we do. our support doesn't stop with just the preliminary training for grand juries, but provide resource he throughout the year on the website. the information is there in the packets. thanks again for being here. >> thank you, too. (applause) >> i do want to just acknowledge ken malley. you mentioned, bill mentioned everything he did. he did mention that he picked me up and drove me -- called me 10 times and make sure -- [laughter] >> so, i did want to express my appreciation. (applause)

>> thank you. adjourned.

>> good afternoon everyone welcome to the budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday march 27th. we're going to be joined by several supervisors. i would like to thank the members of the tv. >> please silence phones and electronic. item will be on the next agenda

if otherwise dates my item one. on the state of hiv services and 2013 and 2014 and the committee organizations will report open the federal and state cuts to the hiv services and how the city can respond for making up the cuts on a local level >> this meeting was called by supervisor wiener. i wish we didn't have to have this hearing another year of abandonment by the majority of the house of representatives will cause us to experience a

significant cut to our hiv funding for services and - and our city will and can respond to it. by a preponderance of all the evidence in the earlier 1980s when the aids first hit san francisco and our country san francisco had to go it alone. the federal government was not a help and, in fact, as we recall the president, president reagan didn't utter the words until late 1980s and we in san francisco built a system of care so that we could take care of our own or the many people who suffered and suffered for many

years with the disease the federal government started to support our efforts and the state that was incredibly helpful and we've seen over the years when we had a partner in providing care to people and phil protection strategies and we continued to be a leader and the rest of the world looks to san francisco for the models we've developed but but unfortunately, the craziness has gotten worse and worse and more short sighted over time we have seen significant reductions in support and particularly from the federal government in terms of ryan white and as well as cvc

prevention care. new injections in san francisco continue to fall. we are winning the war on aids in san francisco but those cuts from the federal government continue to challenge us and specifically threaten to derail the progress we maid make. so today, we're going to hear from our department of the public health and community organizations about the strategist the endesk about the cuts we're about to experience yet again from the federal government and about how we locally in san francisco,

california renew and continue to move forward on our own commitment with those living with the disease and frisks the disease. so we'll start with the public health and dr. garcia >> to the chair and the boards members first i want to let the audience know we provide direct services in the county of los angeles with all our partners. as many of you know, we continue to see reductions in our hiv and aids funding. there has been more - the fact that health care reform is being mrementdz many people who dooptdz on our program for the

medical care they'll have the opportunity to be covered under medicaid but to note that the population at large is not covered but we'll continue to cover some of those services. san francisco has create an incredible system of care and some are here because they're afraid we're losing our health care in the community. as you will see in the portions of hiv and aids area you'll hear from our department we're losing more costs to other programs. and we're in constant contact with our providers

>> thank you. good afternoon supervisors and chief financial officer. i will go through the presentation in front of you relate quickly i know it's a long afternoon and a lot of people waiting to speak. in the packet i handed you go to the back we have at our front the general budget update but if you turn to page 7 we start the information on this presentation. so as you know and as supervisor

wiener state we have a couple of significant funding issues the first is we face the continued reductions both for hiv services and prevention that went into effect those are reductions in federal reductions and we have additional reductions in the coming year so we have both those challenges to deal with and we still have little information about what the impact of the federal sequesterer b mr. mean in the streams. i won't dwell too much but just a current overview of where we

are about 15 though 5 hundred people living with aids as of the end of not that i'm aware of. as barb said it had peeked and declined as we have had some impact on the total numbers in the city and we see some trends continue downward in new cases on a it's not significantly to be continued but we have some progress with new therapies. on the rhine white as you know, the biggest part of our funding is ryan white aid that comes from