Committee Members Present: Charlene Pugh, Charles Siron, Elyse Graham, Laura
Thomas, Ayisha Benham
Other Council Members Present: Joe McMurray, Brad Hume, Jorge Rodriguez, George
Simmons, Margot Antonetty, Anita Booker, Darnell Durio
Council Support Present: Leah Crask, Kari Orvik
Others Present: Michelle Long Dixon (AIDS Office), Russ Zellers (AIDS Office),
Mark Cloutier (Continuum), Molly Stafford (ALRP), Carla Wilson (QuanYin Clinic),
Robert Whirny (consultant to AIDS Office), Shane Lamberston, Robert Goergen,
Patrick Monette-Shaw
1. Introductions
2. Review/Approve Agenda
The agenda was reviewed and approved by consensus.
3. Review/Approve Minutes
The minutes for the June 2, 2004 meeting were reviewed and approved by consensus.
4. Announcements
CM Siron announced the 2nd Community Forum at MCC at 150 Eureka Street in the
Castro, on June 29th from 5-8pm.
5. Public Comment
Molly Stafford, a staffing attorney at ALRP, asked the Council to help restore
funds for legal services for PLWH, which are critical to maintaining housing
for PLWH, especially those who are facing eviction.
6. Severe Need Definition-VOTE
The Committee reviewed the revised Severe Need Definition and discussed changing
the income eligibly level. CM Thomas proposed amending the revised Severe
Need Definition by changing the eligible income from 100% of the Federal
Poverty Level to 150% of the FPL in order to include people on SSI/SSD. CM
Hume made a motion to approve the Severe Need Definition with this change.
CM McMurray seconded the motion. The motion was approved.
7. Rollover Funds- VOTE
Michelle Long Dixon (AIDS Office) presented the information about rollover dollar amounts from the prior fiscal year. Ms. Dixon also presented the amounts that would be needed to continue already defunded services and programs from May 2004 through August 31,2004. See handouts. The Committee discussed the rollover funds and response to the letter to the Council from Dr. Katz (DPH). CM Hume clarified Dr. Katz’s request to get a recommendation from the Council on how to spend the rollover dollars and whether the Council wants to backfill services that were defunded. In addition, Dr. Katz wanted a recommendation form the Council about its priority on spending the $500,000 of General Fund money.
CM Hume recommended that the Council spend $21K on out-of-care services. Michelle Long Dixon stated that this money does not necessarily have to come out of CARE funds, as it is currently not budgeted anywhere for this year. CM Hume stated that $10K of that $21K could come from Needs Assessment money from Council Support, so that only $11K would come out of rollover money.
CM Thomas spoke in favor of continuing defunded services to support the financial stability of the agency and to serve clients that would otherwise not be served. CM Thomas stated her conflict of interest that this proposal would directly benefit her agency.
CM Durio suggested that $21K should fund out-of-care analysis and the remainder of the rollover funds go to the category with highest priority, rather than to fund programs for 3 or 4 months. CM Durio stated he had a conflict of interest as his agency would benefit from this method.
CM Hume made a motion to use rollover dollars to fund the continuation of
out-of-care analysis for 11K, then use $59,410 for vouchers and MUNI tokens,
and use $285,077 to backfill defunded programs in priority order.
Cm McMurray seconded the motion.
Cm Simmons opposed to motion.
Michelle Long Dixon and Russ Zellers listed the backfill priorities:
Op/Sa $28,709
Legal/immigration status $112,102
Complementary therapies $162, 663
Integrated case management $270,829
Adult day health $84,171
Congregate meals $26,463
CM Hume amended his motion to include the $500K in General Funds. The amendment
was as follows: the Council recommends (to Dr. Katz) that the $500K in General
Funds be added to the remaining services and programs that did not get backfilled
using rollover dollars, in the amount of $100,140.
CM Durio opposed the motion, stating that he saw more of a benefit to fully
funding programs for a year, which had already been prioritized, rather than
funding already cut programs for 3-4 months and hoping that the city would
rescue them.
CM Graham stated that she had attended Board of Supervisory meetings and understood that if currently defunded programs were funded through August, they would stand more of a chance of getting General Funds money in the coming year.
CM Simmons expressed concern that defunded agencies would have already found alternate means to continue services. CM Simmons stated his conflict of interest as his agency was in this position, but he was in favor of the motion in order to continue relations with the Board of Supervisors.
Believes it is valuable to a program that is already funded instead of being defunded. And there is value that the council would fund the program if it had money.
CM Pugh stated an amendment to the previous motion to give $21K to out-of-care
services instead of $11K, which would leave $90,140 after rollover dollars
and General Fund money was spent.
CM Booker seconded the amendment to the motion.
Public comment on this motion:
Patrick Monette Shaw spoke against the amendment, as Michelle Long Dixon had commented that DPH would come up with alternatives to pay for the out-of-care services. Mr. Monette Shaw made the following comments: the Council should not be making decisions about funding knowing the names of the agencies; the Council members with conflict of interest to recuse themselves from voting; the amounts given by the AIDS Office seemed higher than those required to fund 3 months of programs; when the Council makes their recommendation to Dr. Katz, they should courtesy copy the Board of Supervisors.
Mark Cloutier (Continuum) stated that his agency had borrowed against itself in order to survive budget cuts. The rollover money would assist his agency in finding new revenue sources to sustain its programs.
The Council voted on the amendment with a Roll Call vote. (see voting record
below-1)
The Amendment passed.
CM Hume addressed the issue of conflict of interest, stating that in the past the Council has had an unofficial policy that each Council member use his/her best judgment on whether or not to abstain from voting. CM Hume suggested that the Infrastructure and Policy Committee put this issue on their agenda, to be discussed in the next two months.
Public comment on this issue:
Patrick Monette-Shaw stated that postponing a decision on conflict of interest was unethical.
CM Hume restated the motion to use rollover dollars to fund the continuation
of out-of-care analysis for $21,000, then use $59,410 for vouchers and MUNI
tokens, and use $275,077 to backfill defunded programs in priority order. The
Council recommends (to Dr. Katz) that the $500K in General Funds be added to
the remaining services and programs that did not get backfilled using rollover
dollars, in the amount of $90,140.
CM Antonetty clarified that the dollar amounts should be verified.
CM McMurray seconded the motion.
The motion was approved by roll call vote. (see voting record below-2)
CM Thomas made a motion to use the remaining $90,140 to fund therapeutic monitoring
programs.
CM Graham seconded the motion.
Public comment on this issue:
Patrick Monette-Shaw thanked Council members with a conflict of interest who
abstained from voting.
The motion was approved by roll call vote. (see voting record below-3)
The Committee will forward these recommendations to the Steering Committee.
9. Next meeting date & agenda items
The meeting adjourned at 6:00pm.
Votes [1-3]: Y=Yes; N=No; B=Abstain
[1] [2] [3]
1. Margot Antonetty Y Y Y
2. Ayisha Benham Y Y Y
3. Anita Booker Y Y Y
4. Darnell Durio Y N N
5. Elyse Graham Y A Y
6. Brad Hume Y Y Y
7. Joe McMurray Y Y Y
8. Charlene Pugh Y Y Y
9. Jorge Rodriguez Y Y Y
10. George Simmons Y A N
11. Charles Siron Y Y Y
12. Laura Thomas Y A Y
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