Transcripts For SFGTV Mayors Press Availability 20240713 : v

Call. Actually, first you take Public Comment. Moderator, any Public Comment . Any Public Comment, moderator . No. No, so i will do a role call, commissioners. I will show my face so we can look at that. [role call vote] commissioner, if you want to end this item gore to see if the commissioners have any more comments or do any personally thanking. I would like to offer the opportunity for commissioners to offer comments. First, i would like to begin in addition to acknowledging the people of San Francisco for the sacrifices they have made in order to comply with the orders that have been placed, that are literally saving lives every day. We cannot express in an appropriate depth of gratitude that we feel to the employees of the San Francisco department of Public Health, so many of whom are working 24 hours seven days a week in order to protect all of the people of San Francisco, particularly those who are most vulnerabled a at risk nor pandemic. All the way from director colfax throughout the entire department and Outreach Teams on the street, we are inspired every day by your leadershy and commitment. And the behavior that we can only hope to model as commissioners in upholding our role to support you and your fantastic work. Words cannot express the gratitude that i personally feel for you and like to offer an opportunity for my colleagues on the commission to add their words. Commissioner, please raise your hand if you would like to speak. Commissioner chow. Yes, thank you. I also wanted to express beyond the former resolution and gratitude and absolute joy. This has been perhaps the most horrendous Public Health event that we have faced as a city maybe in at least certainly within my time on the commission, and probably extends all the way back to 1918 if we were to read the history. I can only be astonished at how well our department has responded. I have not seen the department as unified as it is today in trying to answer our great public need. This resolution doesnt really do justice to the work that the 8,000 members of our Health Department does and how the citys other departments as dr. Colfax has noted, have stepped up and really responded to understand the health needs and need for us to protect our community as such. So unselfishly. I wanted to say that i was very proud that i was able to actually be a part of this commission during the time and this is the First Quarter that we are at least ahead in the First Quarter. Thank you. Other commissioners . Commissioner chung. Yes, thank you for directtors and dr. Aragon for your work and leadership. Personally i dont think anybody should have to have the experience of going through two deadly pandemics and unfortunately it seems to be the burden of our generation. With that said, i am so glad that i live in San Francisco, a city that provides not only Compassionate Care but also voial support to the most impacted and the vital support to the most impacted and the most vulnerable to the virus. It is not just gratitude. I think that for me there is a sense of pride to be able to brag to other colleagues about how well we are doing. And i express my deep appreciation to all of you. Thank you, commissioner. And a unified force, there is nothing we have ever seen. My only reference is my dear grandmother was here in the 1918 spanish flu. And she had given me some of the Horror Stories but how at that time in 1918 that the city of San Francisco did really come together as we are doing now. Thank you to all of you for your wonderful efforts. Thank you. I just want to reinforce what everybody else has shared on my colleagues. I cant express enough how much respect i have for the whole department. Also knowing that you are at the start of this short of executive staff and short of resources to need in a normal time to have responded to quickly and to work so closely in coordinating with all of the different departments under the leadership of mayor breed. And i think across the country of all of the different places and the tragedies that many of our vulnerable population and community are experiencing, i just wish that there was a way to transport the kind of leadership in community and sense of common good that we have here in San Francisco. Even with all the questions and all the kind of wanting to be better sentiments that are expressed by many of our advocates. I do feel that San Francisco is most fortunate. Words cant quite express, but again, justice want to express thanks and gratitude, respect, and i know that we have a lot more to go. A lot more road to go and we will be there. We are all in this together. A commissioner green. Yes. It was said so eloquently by all of you. I am on the front line. I am in the hospital every day. And the example that this department has set and our mayor and our staff has set for how to be compassionate and how to Work Together as a Cohesive Community has been so reassuring for those of us who are potentially exposed to the disease on a daily basis. I am so impressed and incredibly grateful for the speed with this which this department has acted, for the speed with which the mayor identified this problem, and in the face of potentially a lot of controversy and question from national sources. I think its resulted in so many lives saved. I think every person in this community and particularly everyone at the d. P. H. And mayor and department of supervisors and Mayors Office can take credit for keeping citizens alive and healthy. I feel that deeply and personally as someone who is an age that could potentially make me vulnerable. I just cant say enough about how proud and humble and grateful i am for everything thats been done. Thank you for your comments, commissioners. Mark, shall we move on . Item 8, actually, and give me one second to post try to post there we go. See if that is going to work. I want to post the Public Comment info for you all. Were going to move on to item 8 which is the contracts report. Mark . Yes. An i would just like to thank the commission. Thank you, director colfax. Please, feel free to say more if you would like. I just want to thank you for the kind words, the recognition, and really reinforce that the team has been has been working very hard. And the people that they are caring for every day will continue to need our help and support and one of the things that is so inspiring to me and the rest of the executive team are the people on the front lines who are caring for people in the hospital, going to the people who need to be interviewed and cared for in a supportive way, meeting peoples Behavioral Health needs and the concern of individuals and families and the communities. Going to places like the mse south shelter outbreak and people on the Street Medicine Team that worked all night to ensure that the guests and the staff of that shelter got the care they need. I just think every day im inspired by the work that the team is going and inspired by the work the city is doing across the various departments and collaborating like never before. I am grateful and honored to be able to support the department and thank you for your kind worted and recognition on behalf of all members of the department. Thank you, director colfax. That was beautifully said and the entire commission stands with you in gratitude and pride. Okay. Hard not to cry hearing all those lovely words. I am going to post the Public Comment information again as we move on to item 8 which is the monthly contracts report. There will be several contracts here with several presenters. Eeveryone on the line, only nine people can be on camera at a time and for instance, dr. Colfax, if you wouldnt mind taking the video off at this point, and dr. Aragon as well, if you could take your video off and i dont think we will need you for the contracts. Thank you. And put miss ruggles and on there we go. This will take a second. Some are on audio. The microphone is off. Thank you. D. H. P. , business office. This feels like the old world and there is a series of contracts and i will group them where they are groupable and go through them, but this first one is with the San Francisco Public Health edition and it is a new contract that has services that are ongoing and management of management, Program Administration of existing subcontractors and is an Ongoing Service that is the Public Health foundation has provided and continues to provide for many of our services. So this previously had been provided with the particular subcontractors under the San Francisco study center and moved to the San Francisco Public Health foundation as the result of slis sayings. And o solicitation. And the services in this contract are through the Public Health division and are providing several Community Capacity building and promotion work and this contract will be for a term of four and hah half years with a total contract amount of 3,610,930 and the annual amount is 665,383. I realize normally we include the prior annual amount so you have something to compare it to, which we did not. And missed that this time. So i added it to the ones where dr. Chow has specific questions, but if you have any programmatic questions and i believe and i believe that Patricia Irwin is on the phone if you do have questions. Commissioner, any questions about this contract . This is dr. Chow. The question really is, is this the same as selena health . Or why are we using two different titles for these things . That is a great point, which i didnt even the Public Health Foundation Actually now you have tote that is different. San francisco Public Health foundation is the Public Health foundation and Heluna Health is different and used to be Public Health foundation copolymer prizes. Foundation copolym enterpri. The first one is the San Francisco Public Health foundation. The Public Health foundation and started several years ago when dr. Mitch cass was director. And so that is separate than the Public Health Enterprise Foundation which was something completely different. So we are on the Public Health foundation contract right now. Commissioner that is different from the Public Health foundation. Yeah. Commissioner all right. Any other questions . We can move on to the next. The next one is Heluna Health, formally Public Health Foundation Enterprises inc. Now its doing business as Heluna Health. So contract is an amendment adding 1,027,708 and we are extending the current term by 18 months through june 30, 2024. You actually previously approved this contract on june 5, 2018. This contract provides i shouldnt gotten water. Program administration and support services to the Community Health equity and Promotion Section and so in this one they do have Heluna Health provides Administrative Services for the continuum of h. I. V. Prevention and care and treatment program, San Francisco ending the epidemic, and then hepatitis c virus Public Health services program. And the department has brought this contract back and received additional Grant Funding and so we just are increasing the not to exceed amount to include these additional funds and extending the term. A commissioner, any questions . If none, we can move on to the next one. We had three contracts with the San Francisco Health Authority that we also refer to as the San Francisco health plan. The first is the payment to private providers and the next two are Third Party Administrative contracts. You approved these are all been pretty recently approved. August 2019 and in one of them in november, but what were doing now because from the last years presentation and also the one in november you might recall that we reconfigured some contracts and consolidated them and started up new programming with the deactivated fund. You can hear me because i am on the phone. Awe it is fine. So anyway, these three contracts and what we are doing is extending them to multiyear instead of one year contracts because everything is in place and are going to the board of supervisors and back to approve the now new contract which were doing for four years. From reimbursement on nonhealth network care provideers and participating in the healthy San Francisco private provider network. And also payment to Ambulance Companies proprovide answer transport, pharmacy benefits for specific healthy San Francisco medical homes and reimbursement for providers providing gender confirming surgeries to the gender health San Francisco program. I can go through all three and you can ask questions and with the representation on the phone or maybe in a picture. Would you like to go one by one or all three . I would like to hear them all. And to start july 217 and this is providing that and language enrollment assistance and customer Third Party Administration for the healthy pedestrian program. The last contract is the Third Party Administrator city option. This contract also is a new contract multiyear going to the board of supervisors. With that, i would probably turn it over to alice if you have specific program. Commissioner, are there any questions . Seeing none, we can move on. The next question is Harm Reduction Therapy Center and is a Behavioral Health apt and extending the term by one year. The reason that the amount is bigger and we brought the contract to you in december 2018, you approved it as a new contract for the homeless treatment. Right after that, the mentally ill homeless treatment and funding was added to the contract and i think we brought the grant maybe separately as part of a broader discussion. But anyway, it got added into this contract and more recently some homeless outpatient treatment funding. The homeless mentally ill Outreach Team provides street medicine through the healthy streets operations center. And they have a mobile van, and then the Outpatient Treatment Services are to outreach and engage people who use drugs on the street. They have Harm Reduction model. It is an ongoing contact and realigning it and bringing it back because of the additional funding and extending the term to align this with the same end date. And i believe if you have questions, Marla Simmons is on the line. Any questions, commissioners . All right. Seeing none, we can continue. Okay. The next there are six contracts that are actually related to that power point that you have. Were not going over the power point today, but dean goodwin is on the line. We have tried throughout the last couple of years to Group Contracts when it was possible coming off as a solicitation so we could ground the explanation in a broader look at the program. So dean put together super comprehensive power point presentation about h. I. V. Health services and within that he set very specific contracts. So you have a group of five contracts that are part of the center of excellence on slides 8 through 15. It is all the next side except west side. West side is part of the Home Health Care and Home Community based Health Care Services on slides 20 through 22. They are all Ongoing Services providing the same doing the same thing essentially. I dont have this slide deck open, but slide 8 through 15, you can see what the center of excellence is. If you have specific questions about any of these contra