Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to our first full budget and finance Committee Meeting for 2014. On wednesday march 5th and im supervisor mark farrell and im joined by mar, and Supervisor John Avalos and london breed and supervisor wiener. I want to thank the members of sfgtv covering this meeting, jennifer and the clerk of the committee, ms. Linda wong. Madam clerk do we have announcement. Silence Electronic Devices and complete speaker cards and items will appear on the board of supervisor agenda unless otherwise stated. Madam clerk, call items 1 and 2 together. Item is a resolution approving a performance contract Behavior Health services and the department of Health Care Services incorporating the Mental Health act in transition for homelessness and Health Services grants, program for the period of july 1, 2013 through scombrun 30, 2014 and authorizing the Behavioral Service so sign at greement ed agreements. Resolution authorizing adoption of the fy20142014 annual update to m
Her vision. When she whacks the traffic at the capita the traffic parts as if missouris was in the building laughter and she reminded me in putting the financing together one of the loose pieces was 20 million that redevelopment agencies in the past recollection is dollars we had to go to the difgdz those were owed and due and the governor was not going to use them to use for other purposes but to use on this project so contacting thank you for a carrying on the vision and keeping up the fight and doing it with a spirit and style of elegance ive never seen so from the state to you dr. Georges memory clapping. okay. We want to get to groundbreaking and nancy pelosi has to get somewhere else. Do you have time of course, i have time i want to recognize supervisor William Kennedys work. Okay clapping. i can relax a little bit. While we thank supervisor dr. Kennedy are in the house and she was our fourth president clapping. okay. All right. So i want to bring up unknown but before i do i wa
Of notoriety and brought out in some circumstances and it was a group of folks, advocates in our office, to deal with these challenges and we need a place to come and meet and talk about it and give each other peer support. That is really a testament to the amazing advocacy of people who have worked on this, who have directly experienced challenges with hoarding over the years. So we ran a support group for many years. We still run it on a weekly basis, dropin, peer support group. And then we kind of branched into had a conference. So we have had the biggest conference on hoarding for the last 15 years, in the united states, and quite possibly the world. We just had it back in may. One of our specialtis that we see yourselves doing is really bringing together advocates and people directly affected by hoarding and cluttering challenges and stakeholders such as researchers and clinicians and throughout the world, really acting as a hub of resources here in San Francisco. So i would say t
Hoarding and cluttering challenges and stakeholders such as researchers and clinicians and throughout the world, really acting as a hub of resources here in San Francisco. So i would say that as far as specific resources that are offered around hoarding and cluttering challenges San Francisco, we have, i think, through mha and our colleagues we have more to offer than other locations in the country. As an example, we have the conference that attracts around 400500 each year and a Weekly Support Group that anyone in San Francisco can come to, if they are identify as someone who has experienced challenges with hoarding and cluttering and i should back up, when they talk more about language and why that is so important, when we talk about Mental Health conditions. So well use the word hoarding and cluttering now, but there is quite a bit of thinking on our end and other National Leaders how to change that, because hoarding and cluttering is not the nicest term and loaded with stigma itsel
Clinicians and throughout the world, really acting as a hub of resources here in San Francisco. So i would say that as far as specific resources that are offered around hoarding and cluttering challenges San Francisco, we have, i think, through mha and our colleagues we have more to offer than other locations in the country. As an example, we have the conference that attracts around 400500 each year and a Weekly Support Group that anyone in San Francisco can come to, if they are identify as someone who has experienced challenges with hoarding and cluttering and i should back up, when they talk more about language and why that is so important, when we talk about Mental Health conditions. So well use the word hoarding and cluttering now, but there is quite a bit of thinking on our end and other National Leaders how to change that, because hoarding and cluttering is not the nicest term and loaded with stigma itself and we would like to look at a different way to phrase that and maybe its