HIV Health Services Planning Council
Community Outreach & Advocacy Committee DRAFT Agenda
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
25 Van Ness Avenue Room 330B
5:30-7:30pm

1. Welcome and Introductions
   Co-Chairs 5:30
2. Review/Approve Agenda
   Group 5:33
3. Review/Approve November 8 and January 10, 2007 Minutes
   Group 5:35
4. Announcements
   Group 5:37
5. Public Comment
   Public 5:40
6. Steering Committee Update
   Co-Chairs 5:45
7. Review and Discussion of the January 26th Steering Committee Annual Retreat
   Council Support/Group 5:50

• Review draft retreat minutes
• Review Work Plan

8. Advocacy Project Report
Joe Lynn 6:00

• The Committee will receive the monthly report from the Consumer Rights Advocacy Project and discuss policy issues regarding reporting
• Review proposed policy - VOTE

9. Discussion of Guidelines and Procedures and Evaluation of 2006 Community Forums
Group 6:05

• Defining What are Community Forums, Focus Groups, and Community Meetings
• Creating Script for March Forum
• Review of the 2006 Evaluation of the Community Forum

10. Discussion Regarding the Priority Populations for 2007 Forums
Group 6:15

• Client Action Panels (CAP’s)

11. Discussion of Community Meetings and Locations
Group 6:40

• July 2007
• October 2007

12. Next Meeting Date and Agenda Items
Group 6:55

Committee will identify potential agenda items for the Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 meeting. The location will be determined.

13. Adjourn
7:00

Mission Statement: To ensure that the voice of the community
and consumers are part of the work of the Council

The committee will ensure that consumers and other community members have the opportunity to give input to the Council, be educated on the issues that affect the HIV/AIDS community, and are empowered to be a voice for the needs of the HIV/AIDS community that can affect positive change and ensure public policies that enhance the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS.

Note: Agenda items are subject to change, postponement, or removal. Meeting agendas are considered to be in DRAFT form until reviewed and approved by Committee attendees.

HIV Health Services Planning Council
730 Polk Street , 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94109
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San Francisco Department of Public Health, AIDS Office
25 Van Ness Avenue , 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94102

The meeting facility is handicap accessible. The closest accessible BART Station is Civic Center, three blocks from City Hall. Accessible MUNI lines serving this location are: #47 Van Ness, and the #71 Haight/Noriega and the F Line to Market and Van Ness and the Metro stations at Van Ness and Market and at Civic Center.
For more information about MUNI accessible services, call 923-6142.

There is accessible parking in the vicinity of City Hall at Civic Center Plaza
and adjacent to Davies Hall and the War Memorial Complex.

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contact (415) 674-4768.

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Government's duty is to serve the public, reaching its decisions in full view of the public. Commissions, boards, councils and other agencies of the City and County exist to conduct the people's business. The Sunshine Ordinance assures that deliberations are conducted before the people and that City operations are open to the people's review. For information on your rights under the Sunshine Ordinance (Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code) or to report a violation of the ordinance, contact Frank Darby; by mail to Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 409, by phone at (415) 554-7724, by fax at (415) 554-7854 or by email at Frank.Darby@sfgov.org Citizens may obtain a free copy of the Sunshine Ordinance by contacting Mr. Darby or by printing Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code on the Internet, at http://www.sfgov.org/bdsupvrs/sunshine.htm

 The Planning Council has several standing Committees where Council business and creation of motions for full-Council action occur, and members of the public are urged to attend. Council procedures do not permit: 1) persons in the audience at Council meeting to vocally express support or opposition to statements by Council members or by other persons testifying, outside of public comment; 2) ringing and use of cell phones, pagers, and similar sound-producing electronic devices; 3) signs to be brought into the meeting or displayed in the room; 4) standing in the meeting room. Citizens are encouraged to testify at Committee meetings and to write letters to the co-chairs of a Committee or to Council members, c/o HIV Health Services Planning Council, 730 Polk Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94109.
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