this is really about synergy and what we can provide what we continue to provide these services, even without having this building. for over 39 years, the developers have been a staple in this community providing quality education and self-sufficiency services. over the years, we have been responsible for preparing thousands of individuals, thousands said that they can gain employment in construction, retail, hospitality, technology, and various sectors of employment and start helping careers. today in 2012, that is no different. over the last 18 months and all of you commissioners have a copy of our year end report for the past year, ycf continued to provide services through job training, solar training, utilizing evidence based curricula to make sure our participants have the highest quality of training so they can go compete with everyone in this job sector. the job sector and employment game is about competition. we have been continuing to provide services to our youth, to the mairs implementation program through our school your academic and summer academic programs. we're providi

it may contract with the health care provider only if such provider has mechanisms as the secretary made by regulation require. are you prepared to exclude providers from the exchange? are you developing that criteria? are providers soon to see the day that they are prohibited in the exchange if they don't comply with all of the things you don't set for the? >> mr. burgess, we see that issue as one that at the state level will be decided between the board of the exchange and the issuers. >> how about a state that doesn't do an exchange? my state is not, as you know. there will be a federal exchange if we can get through the problems. >> we will make decisions at the federal level of issuers have programs of their own based on the quality performance. >> the congress said that you would decide. not the state. >> i'm telling you for the federal exchange, we will be making decisions about issuers. we do not intend to reach in to a state exchange. they will be making the determinations at the state level. >> are you asking us for a change in the language to allow you the freedom to do that?

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and yet we were still providing services for over -- ended up basically continuing to provide medical services. and then as people -- food banks came back up, we were able to stop our food service. as the salvation army began doing some more of the services, we were able to drop some of the services we were doing but that was after coordinated efforts wall of the community-based organizations. and any of the time i have been talking in san francisco about disaster preparedness and what we saw in watsonville was that the first night of the -- after the earthquake we found over 3,000 people in parks and open space and we ended up with thousands of people continuing to be in parks and open space for months ahead -- after the earthquake. and so in a concentrated place like san francisco with the housing shortage i'm always pressed to tell people to learn how to shelter people for a long period of time, how to deal with the fact that -- especially in san francisco, at least in watsonville people were living in their back yards and front yards for months at a time. here in san francisco we

with the resources to provide the necessary personnel. and my assumption is my answer will be similar to what you told senator tester and the same one i here from the folks in kansas is. it's not really a resource issue. we can pay sufficient amounts of money to attract medical professionals, but we're struggling like everyone else to attract the professionals. i've heard that answer for a long time. you said it again today, dr. petzel. in some fashion that can't be the final answer. just because everyone else is struggling to attract professionals to take care of patients, we can't allow the is v.a. -- i understand the problem. i don't want to be critical in that sense. there has to be a path to the solution. >> i would say, senator, we -- in the rural areas in particular are challenged because of the availability. dr. petzel said that. and our tools are really reaching out to -- we want highly qualified. we want talent. and our tools are what we're able to compensate, what we're able to award, recognize and performance of good people do

he had glowing things to say about his health care providers once he got in. in order to address the issues, va has to have enough resources to keep up with the veterans who are seeking that mental health care. over the course of the last fiscal year, the number of iraq and afghanistan veterans looking for mental health end up by 18%. i wanted to ask you this morning if you believe the increase in the funding budget request is sufficient to accomplish the goals and keep up with this increasing demand? >> i believe that the budget, if you look at the '13 budget request, it is adequate for us to meet what we understand our requirements are in '13. are there issues out there that will discover between now and execution of the budget? i would say if we do, madam chairman, i would be the first to tell you. you asked us to do a survey and we did. it was hastily done. senator bird referred to the output in the survey. out of 20,000 of our mental health providers, 319 were surveyed. the results were as described. my question of vha was did you go to the places there w

however, it is 50% before you provide a discount or after you provide a discount. if we were to throw in these discounts, the question is what comes first. it has an impact on some evaluations. we have not run into it very often. >> thank you. >> we have an amended version that supervisor chui has indicated. >> i have circulated an amendment as a whole that lays out all of the amendments that we discussed, many of which our budget analysts had already incorporated. there is language that would insure that no benefit corporation would insurreceive d discount. we did hear public comment today from an organization that represents nonprofits statewide and we had heard feedback from local nonprofit providers, specifically through the human services that work and they were concerned about benefit corporations bump in local nonprofits. our amended version would insurer that benefit corporations don't get it discount and they would somehow thought the nonprofits. the nonprofits get that status and this would apply to contracts under $10 million which is similar to the maxi

the city of philadelphia provided trap -- provided tax breaks and now philadelphia is a place for benefit corporations are starting to flock. these are the kind of companies we want to encourage in the bay area and given the questions around twitter and stock options last year, if we went down this route like philadelphia, it would create a lot of questions but i was hoping to avoid the large controversy we had by focusing on contracts. >> why don't we open this item up for public comment? are there members of the public who wish to speak? if there are other members who would like to speak, please line up on the center aisle. >> this is a very interesting conversation. i had a nonprofit and so we analyzed our situation because of the various opportunities in this city and our nonprofit got an addition to our name to do professional services and i see here where there is no real empirical data and this is how i want to address it. i want to know the number of primes that do business and san francisco and what their profit is. there are a number oflbes that do business in san francisco and

we have to provide best efforts to get that information. common sense says that any small businesses that are often providing relatively low-wage jobs, that these people taking the jobs are probably low to moderate-income individuals. however, we have some of he

we have to provide best efforts to get that information. common sense says that any small businesses that are often providing relatively low-wage jobs, that these people taking the jobs are probably low to moderate-income individuals. however, we have some of the seventh five jobs that have been created through this loan fund, we have received back 22 forms. of. 22, we have received 85% of the jobs have been low or moderate income individuals. we're going to redouble our efforts and the figure out ways to continue to get that information and we will be providing that to you on an annual basis. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor avalos and jennifer. are there members of the public who wish to speak on item number five? >> thank you. i am sharon miller from renaissance entrepreneurship center, a small-business development center. we work with clients throughout san francisco. we have worked with working solutions for many years. approximately 25% of the loans and working solutions'

they provide information. when people need those new skills they're coming back to us and they're coming back to the community college. because unlike the uc and csu systems, it is easier for us to get new courses through and into the curriculum. you might not believe it, considering how large we are but we're much more able to adapt and to change our curriculum than to update it more quickly which we do. supervisor olague: i would like to see the demographics. of people participating. >> absolutely. we have that information. again, it is clearly -- our students are reflective. it is very representative of san francisco and the communities we are talking about. we can get you that. supervisor olague: i would like to see that. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you very much for the presentation. unless there is anything else to add on the part of the school district or city college. unless -- thank you, supervisor delonte -- olague, we will open it up to public comment. any member of the public who would like

rather than a health care provider? and we never should get close to that line. on a lighter note, thank you earlier this week, i guess today's wednesday. on monday was the first day. and i was lucky enough to be there at the parma community-based outpatient clinic. when the va for reasons that i -- with which i disagreed but probably needed to do shut down the va hospital in rexville. part of the deal was that they would put this cbock in parma. it's terrific. it was crowded the first day. people will use it. it serves an important population. and i thank you for that. >> thank you very much. senator brown, massachusetts. >> thank you, madam chair. i want to hear the testimony of the folks. so i'll be very brief. i agree with senator burr on the job and the fact you're going to be spending a lot of money. also important we see if there's any duplication, overlap. there seems to be a lot of things happening in that field. and when we have these types of issues, we usually throw everything against the wall, see what stic

in each area, we will invest in supporting our service providers, to provide technical assistance and capacity building services. with the end goal of making sure they are reaching high quality time. next is y-lead, a youth leadership. this reaches high school youth to transitional age youth, 15 to 24 facing significant barriers. what we have learned is that young people do not really want to go to out of school time programming, after school programming. summer to learn skills in a project-based learning environment. culminating projects showcasing success. and also in career exploration and. so we are shifting our resources into youth and workforce development. items one and two are specialized team at programming, allowing young people to do project-based learning. at the same time, item 3 is where we further develop our youth and workforce development for but at risk youth, high risk youth, and youth engaged in multiple systems, such as the justice system or the welfare system to reincarnate we do have our youth empowerment fund. leadership development and to give us some guidance

to provide region the applicant was specific they did not want to provide brew coffee. the continued argument was that we did not follow the process. the department continues to maintain we did evaluate what they were proposing selling, and there are many similar foods being sold at a burger king and various locations. the applicant says coffee is being sold. they are selling sweets, and she is suggesting coffee beans, which were not part of this permit, so i am not sure of the nature of her objection. have the department known the applicant was planning on selling coffee and tea bags, we would not have approved a permit, and we would have sent her away at this point. >> thank you, sir. good >> do you have that? >> you have to speak up here, if you would. >> i apologize. they had me take everything off my computer. i would have to take it off my computer to get it to you. it is a card with a canopy, so it is basically a block, and it has a hand washing station, a fridge, a small area for the display or the counter top, and that is pretty much all there is to it. we do n

support that they provide as well. their rates are superb. and certainly the clients we work with our 80% at low to moderate income. when they agreed businesses, they are creating at least one job, which is full employment for the business owner themselves. with this additional funds, i think it is really the best way to get more capital into the hands of business owners who are either starting are growing their businesses. thank you. supervisor chu: next speaker, please. >> hello. i am is small business owner and have a small company. we're based in the mission. we sell to about 400 stores throughout the country. mostly made in the usa but it is also an immigrant and have lived here for 10 years. i first reached out to renaissance and got business education through them. through their amazing helping, and managed to get to know working solutions. they gave me a loan for $2,500 from the city's revolving fund, which really helped my business greatly. dizziness secret that -- it is no secret that the business needs money

the plan was seeking to provide this balance. part of the balance was providing a means for this existing property owners of nonconforming uses to legitimize their businesses. the benefits of this legitimization period iis that t provides the city with an opportunity where property owners who have been illegally operating could have an avenue to acquire the proper permits. this program also provides an exception to allow use this that would not otherwise be permitted. the city is seeking to ensure that in the future, office uses are located in the most appropriate areas. where there is infrastructure. under this program, property owners are paying large fees. there has been some misunderstanding about this. these fees are not only from the current eastern neighborhoods, there are also lower than what they would've had to pay if they were properly permitted at the time the established their uses. property owners are being exempted from meeting the other code requirements. including parking, street trees, all of these requirements

you obviously represent major provider

there are now making linkages and providing contracts with rural providers. secondly, we want to encourage more physicians and nurses to practice in rural areas. and we want to do that through increasing the opportunities for them to pay back their loans and for having loan forgiveness if they will go into rural areas. thirdly, we want to improve the technology between rural areas and urban medical care. i've seen some extraordinary examples of that where we now have some programs in an experimental stage where you can be 400 miles from the medical school in a state like texas out in west texas and you literally can hold up an x-ray to a screen which then can be read in the medical school 400 miles away so that the specialists can be right there on the spot helping the rural hospital or the rural physician take care of that patient. and finally, i would say that part of what we believe is necessary is identifying community hospitals and clinics, community health centers as essential providers. because we know that during this transition, unless we protect the

va-provided services. l -- and where we can't, to make arrangements where if quality services exist in those areas, making arrangements for veterans to be able to participate in those local opportunities. um, we are i think you know working and have been now for some time on signing an mou with the indian health service so that wherever he was facilities and we have vested interests that a veteran, eligible veteran going to an indian health service facility will be covered by va's payments. and we're in stages of trying to bring that mou to conclusion. we've, we intend to do that. and where tribes approach us prior to the signing of that mou and want to establish from a tribal nation with va a direct relationship because they have a medical facility and would like us to provide the same coverage, we're willing to do that. but that would be on a case-by-case basis. >> thank you. secretary shin shinseki -- shin, staffing shortages continue to be a problem although there's been progress. some clinics are seei

is a need over conversation, over time, if there is a need for it, we will look at continuing to provide that service. supervisor wiener: please do not speak from the audience. you have had your chance to speak. thank you for the clarification. supervisor cohen: >if it were going to continue to be on site, the board would be in the community center? and there is no set program. if there were going to be a substation, that is where it would be located. we do not have a specific plan. supervisor wiener: are repositioning these projects in mixed income scenarios? in most of these, there has not been a need for communities on site. the surrounding strategies that support part of this will be connecting them into the mainstream community and there likely will not be a need for it. but if there is, the housing authority is paired and willing to continue that conversation. >>supervisor wiener: are you saying it is there until there is a plan to remove it? >> exactly. you said a better than i could have said it. supervisor mar: did you have other comments? supervisor cohen: i just want to say he

as i understand it, this budget does not provide those states with any funds to provide the job training that would be required as a condition of receiving food stamps? >> within food stamps, that would be addressed by virtue of the block grant. there are a host of other conditions to consolidate those programs to better target and get better results from job training at the federal level. >> that's what i want to get into. the answer is, you have the block grant and a work requirement or the job training requirement and another provision. we propose to consolidate the various job training programs. we have a job-training proposal in another part of the budget to streamline federal job-training programs to go to individuals for career scholarships other is a job training program in this budget. let's not forget the fact as a result of 19 90s welfare reform, new job training programs were begun and they are still in place. >> thank you. ms. schwartz. >> i want to ask one other question on health care. one of the aspects of the budget is a fairly dramatic cut in medicaid. this has been exp

i'll ask secretary hickey to provide some detail. but i, like you, i think when a veteran picks up a phone and calls v.a. there ought to be someone there that answers or if he or she chooses to come in on line that it ought to have information that's useful to them. that's easily discovered so they don't have to run through a series of traps to find what they're looking for. we owe them and that's the first step of any service organization. that's our intent here. so let me call on secretary hickey. >> senator johans, thank you for your question, and i appreciate your question earlier about e benefits. that is part and parcel of our multipronged approach in our capability about being able to converse with that veteran and the time and the method they choose. we have surveyed our veterans and 73% of them want to meet us onion li on line and that's part of that. let me tell you about the two new pieces of functionality that we have measured outcomes from our j.d. powers voice of the veterans survey. the first is virtual hold. that mean

i will provide an overview of key activities that have taken place throughout the month and provide an update in terms of legislation the commission has hureard. any policy matters before the commission are ongoing policies and then have updates, so just to let you know, last month i mentioned the office along with a commission of small business california posted a workshop to educate businesses, and commissioner reilly attended, so i am going to let you provide a much more detailed report, but it was well attended and lots of fun. small business week is coming up. this year we are not going to be promoting the area because of low participation. we are still going to be providing the sidewalk encroachment fee for those who want to do this. their deadline to get information into our office is on the 23rd of march, so just like supervisor chiu being with us, for departments to be able to waive fees, they need direction and approval from the board of supervisors, so waiving the fee requires a legislative process, so that will be before you. another update now i would like to provide you i

we're eager to provide that support. it's mutually beneficial to both the agencies and the soldiers and sailors and marines training. we look for every opportunity to meet their requirements. >> maybe for you and general frazier, we have identified a lot of the cartels and their leaders, guzman's name and others are very familiar to us. according to your -- to the assessment released by the justice department, the car tell us now have presence in over 1,000 u.s. cities. why don't we know those names? maybe that's kind of an elementary question, or maybe ask general frazier and know the names of the cartel leaders and don't know the names of the people running the drug rings in over 1,000 cities, or do we know them? >> senator, my estimation would be that we know to some leveled the members of the cartels that are operating within the united states, i have spoken to several agencies within the united states about this issue, and i think that we have loose connections with some of the cartels in mexico. i know we have our

what are your thoughts on providing feedback as to go forward? >> i have already had several meetings with some of you, and we will continue to do that. we will set goes up again. i am sure after the presentations you may have questions we could answer. >supervisor campos: thank you. a question on the ryan white funding, we note the amount of a cut that the federal government has made, but one of the things i am wondering, do we have a sense of what the fiscal impact would be if the funding is not restored? in other words, what would be the impact if for some reason this funding was not restored and these services were not being provided to these patients, what is the impact on the system? i imagine if you will have an increase cost anyway. >> we know testing is an important part of the prevention area. we know that needle exchange is an important part of our prevention. clearly we could have an increase of hepatitis c. -- impact on hepatitis c. we know if people are not regularly taking medications. in the department we would have a pretty diffi

they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more womenancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol or their hepatitis b. we actually pro

all travelers with the most effective security provided in a most efficient way. we will always retain the ability to incorporate random security measures throughout the airport and no individual is ever guaranteed expedited screening women appreciate the cooperation of the aviation industry and the traveling public as we strive to strengthen transportation security andmp possible the travel experience for all americans. there significant economic jen mitts and mostcurity and the ab facilitate the movement of goods. the interdependence requires each chain be as strong as possible. the freedom to travel from place to place is fundamental to our way of life. it's a goal to which every one of tsa is fully committed. thank you for inviting me here today and i look forward to taking whatever questions you may have. thank you. >> you mentioned overed it's day how many knives were found and guns. what happens to the people go getting on to airports and how many have malicious intent? >> we believe very few if any if you are talking from a terrorist depends on the local j

we provide coverage for the api community. we provide a continuum of care for the entire transgendered population of eight san francisco. -- of san francisco. all these programs and services are funded by federal hiv dollars. san francisco has been a national leader with respect to our response to the hiv epidemic. this has included medical intervention, a research, treatment, testing, educational and prevention efforts. this comprehensive and integrated approach to hiv is resulting in a stronger and healthier city and a city where new hiv infections are fewer. just as we are about to reinvent our health care system, along with the department of public health, and as we look ahead to 2014, just as we are seeing success with the potential end of the hiv epidemic, cuts at the $7.8 million level will mean a dismantling of hiv prevention and care services. it will be devastating for all clients that we serve. $7.8 million worth of cuts will translate into whole groups of clients who are the most of the honorable and fragile, who w

as the force provider for those capabilities, u.s. socom will ensure they have the human capital, the capability, and the expertise to meet the gcc's requirements. another important aspect is our ability to partner with other international soft units. since the development of service special operations forces in the 1960s and u.s. socom in 1987, our relationship with our partner around the world has strengthened each nation's ability to deal with their own problems. we must continue to build these relationships wherever possible. to win the current fight and strengthen our support to the geographic combatant commanders, it will be necessary to ensure our force and their families remain strong. my predecessor, admiral eric olson, developed a task force to analyze the frame around the enls in our soft community. we confirm that a decade of war coupled with a high demand has exerted a physical and emotional stress on our force and families. i am committed to taking care of our people with the best support that we can provide. i have put

it will be automatically provided. that has been worked out and negotiated and there's a simple reason for it. they say well now, some of you and by the way, i liked ronald reagan. i knew him well. he was a hell of a guy. i see your sweater there. it looks better on you than it would on me too, but look. the problem is that it's real simple here. is that we're in a position that no matter how anybody tries to make it that the vast majority of american women are entitled to, entitled to access to contraception. if they choose. and we believe they should not be denied that access and that every insurance policy should have that coverage if the woman wants that coverage. so that's we've done both. we've guaranteed that women who cannot afford contraceptive coverage which is expensive on a monthly basis will now have it in any policy provided and that no religious institution will have to pay if it vi lays their conscience for that coverage. okay. >> the comments of vice president joe biden. he was in iowa today taking que

>> that security is provided by our own contract guards. >> what level of security for the iraqis providelly to the embassy? >> in that zone if you go there, sir, you see check points are set up some blocks away. they have patrols that go by. it's not just for embassy. it's other embassies in town as well as they provide the diplomatic security that is expected around the world here washington d.c. some policemen provided because the threat is very low. in a place like baghdad, prudent measures require iraqi army, iraqi police to do the external security and a much more visual, obvious way. >> turning back to iran, as we all know the threat in iran is 30, you have discussed the relationship of iran to syria, to hezbollah, on 60 minutes, secretary pineda said there was a red line for us. and i know in the discussions between mr. knight and yahoo! and the president in the last several days, there seems to be some closing of the gap on our different ideas about dealing with iran and the growing concern. but actions, military or otherwise should we be considering in connection with air and? i

-- with the iraqis provide externally to the embassy? >> in that zone when you go there, sir, you see there are checkpoints are set up, some blocks away. they have contropatrol that's g. it's for other embassies as they provide the diplomatic security that is expected around the world. here in washington, d.c., some policemen can provide it because the threat is very low. in a place like baghdad, prudent measures require iraqi army, iraqi police to do the external security in a much more visual, obvious way. >> okay. turning back to iran. if we all know the threat in iran is real, would you discuss the relationship of iran to syria, to hezbollah? and on 60 minutes, secretary panetta said there was a red line for us. i know in the discussions between mr. netanyahu and the president and the last several days there seems to be some closing of the gap on our different ideas about dealing with iran and the growing concern. what actions, military or otherwise, should we be considering in connection with iran? i don't mean to put you in a class

to those providing the care. that's only fair. people still can bring action but there will be federal liability protection as there should be because this care is being required under federal law. i think it's completely reasonable. at this time i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from michigan. mr. conyers: but what we are doing in the amendment is to provide immunity to all hospitals and physicians. and requires the federal government to pay for medical errors committed by them. look, we have 98,000 patients dying every year cure to preventable medical errors. i'm not slamming the dogs and the hospitals. i'm saying -- the docs and the hospitals. i'm saying that we don't want to provide complete immunity. this dent amendment, madam speaker, does just that. it provides complete immunity and so i'm asking my colleagues to please slow down and realize that irreparable harm due to negligence in the emergency room, and we've got pages and pages of examples, would be not

are the largest number of providers for family members. but i would share your interest and we look forward to working with you on what is the long-term strategy, how fast can we get there, as you know, timetables were set for the first time in the national alzheimer's plan. there's a lot of agreement that we probably need to move ahead of the pace, at least we have pa -- we have a pace, we look forward to getting the research, and funding and care strategies in place. >> a program for home could save billions of dollars a year. if we can just verify what the va has accomplished. thank you for your great work. >> recognize dr. burdgess for a follow-up for five minutes. >> i'll point out, this is one of the rare instances of bipartisanship in the affordable care act where we worked with yours of on getting the independence of home language refined and included. so, perhaps there's hope down the road. but, actually, going back to state exchanges for a moment. some states are concerned that without the final rules on the exchanges they are bu

provide. -- we ask that you consider what 8 washington will provide. i received virtually zero benefits from the site. it has an out of date jim. it cost $200 per month. this is not the ymca. this is a private club that i cannot afford. there are two parking lots and the infamous blocking of our view and prevents it public access to the waterfront. contrast that to what 8 washington provides. i think the 99% will benefit from this project. we will take down that horrible greenwald, which is necessary, by the way, for it tennis players to play in the background. it will provide new housing in the number of other benefits that you of offered. >> i think it fits perfectly in character of the neighborhood. i realize it is concerning to many of you, but this project site would be distinguished from any future development down the waterfront because of some of the proximity. the slippery slope argument is not a strong argument. in addition, the fact that these are market raise -- market rate houses,

rather than health care provider? and we never should get close to that line. on a lighter note, thank you. earlier this week monday was the first day and i was lucky enough to be there at the parma out based clinic when the va for the reasons which i disagree, but probably needed to do shut down the va hospital part of the deal was that they would put this community and parma is terrific. it was crowded the first day. people would use it. it serves an important population, and i think you for that. >> thank you. senator nunn of massachusetts. >> thank you, madame chair. i want to hear the testimony of the folks and i will be very brief. i agree with senator burr that we are going to be spending a lot of money. i have happy to do it, but also important to see if there is any implication overlap there seems to be a lot of things happening in that field, and when we have these types of issues we threw everything against the wall and see what sticks and i want to make sure we do it efficiently, but that we have programs

when housing is providing to students who have demonstrated some financial need. when that was considered, it directed staff to develop a comprehensive definition of student housing that could be used throughout planning code for clarity. this effort came out of that ordinance. the planning commission recommends creating a definition where there would be occupancy, ownership or control. student housing could take the form of dwelling units, a group housing, but it must be owned, operated, or controlled by an accredited post-secondary educational institution. that means individual landlords can continue to rent to students and it only becomes technically student housing when it is owned or controlled by the post-secondary institution. supervisor weaner has outlined the changes. most significantly, the ordinance would prohibit conversions from housing to student housing. it the ordinance would reduce the open space requirements for dwelling units less than 350 square feet plus a bathroom, it would remove the unit makes requirement for student housing projects and a

there is no fallback provider. thank you for the opportunity to speak today. >> thank you, supervisors. i know you have heard from a lot of us today. i work with allison. as alice in mentioned, we are extremely affected by the reduction to the general funds in these contracts. some small programs are exempted, those with $600,000 or less we are just slightly over. we are facing a cut of 25%. i want to underscore -- this is really affecting folks that are falling for the cracks. these are not the folks already accessing primary-care clinics. the nature of their disabilities prevents them from knowing they even have a disability. they are not willing or able to apply for sources of funding that would help us to meet their needs. case management services and community services save the city money. we are helping people avoid unnecessary hospitalization and remain stable in the community. an investment in our program will save the city money. you have to look at a slightly longer term view. i believe we have a great de