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the entire amount there because they are serving fewer people. but with respect to the mental- health and substance-abuse contracts, because they would have to be annualized, those contracts would obviously be higher. supervisor mirkarimi: okay. >> just a follow-up question, could you explain when it is appropriate to do it and advance? -- when it is appropriate to do in advance? when is it that dph feels or analyzes and determines is appropriate to do the advance? >> the first thing i...

today, to ask that you, supervisors, not turn your backs on the clinic, that you not turn your back on the committee that is in such critical need -- on the community that is in such critical need. i think that we as a city are better than that. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please? >> hello, supervisors. thank you for your public service and leadership on this issue. i am brian, the executive director of housing and san francisco, and hopefully i speak for ...

i am asking for support to keep lyon-martin from two places. as a low-end, transgendered gay man, i find it difficult to receive competent medical care without simultaneously giving an education to my provider. at lyon-martin when i sought medical care, the things that make me medically interesting or not of interest to my provider. my doctors treated my body as it was, not my identity, and i got a diagnoses, treated, and i can move on with my life. transgendered people, will not alway...

the clinic -- and with the clinic then be renewed as a candidate in the fiscal year in july? should all the corrective actions that have been mentioned here take place, then the renewed amounts starts all over again with the new fiscal year? >> certainly if in fact lyon- martin is able to fulfill all components of the action plan, and raise the additional $500,000 they believe they need by march 31, there would be no reason for the department to contract with -- there would be no reaso...

it was ok, i will go to that clinic. i had no idea. i had lost my last job. i had been almost two years on unemployment. i am talking about $100 per week, living in san francisco. i lost my housing. i was unbelievably depressed. there were days when my arthritis prevented me from time in my shoes and i stayed home and did not get out of bed. once in a while i would go to the library. in going to lyon-martin, i found credible, comprehensive, kindness, care, and ability. mental and emoti...