Committee Members Present: Charlene Pugh, Charles Siron, Elyse Graham,
Council Members Present: Laura Thomas, Randy Allgaier
Council Staff: Leah Crask, Kari Orvik,
1. Introductions
2. Review/Approve Agenda
Items 9 and 10 were postponed until the next meeting. With these changes the
agenda was approved.
3. Review/Approve Minutes April 21, 2003
The minutes were approved.
4. Announcements
CM Siron announced a meeting to discuss a 10-year plan for the Mayor’s
Office on homelessness on Friday, May 7, from 3-5pm, May 7, room 201 in City
Hall. CM Siron will send an announcement out to the Yahoo e-mail group.
5. Public Comment
There was no public comment.
6. Review Un-Obligated and Rollover Funds Policy-VOTE
The Committee reviewed the revised Un-obligated and Rollover Funds Policy and
voted to forward the document to the full Council.
7. Review Revised Draft Co-chair Job Descriptions-VOTE
The Committee reviewed the changes to the draft Co-chair job description and
a motion was made to forward the description to the Steering Committee. All
voted in favor of this motion. The Committee then discussed changes to the
attached Media Public Policy and proposed to take out 3-D under the “General
Information” section. Under the same section, CM Pugh proposed to change
3-E to say, “The San Francisco Department of Public Health, the grantee,
will respond to all inquiries….”
The following proposals were made concerning the position of Media Contact:
the person should conduct himself/herself with professionalism and have media
training, he/she should be able to draft press releases and talking points
at the request of the Co-chairs, and copies of the releases should go out to
all Council members in a timely manner. The press releases should be on website.
CM Thomas proposed to cross out articles 2,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,15,16.
Under the “Media Contacts” section, article 14 was discussed and
the Committee proposed that if Committee members should identify which role
they are speaking from if it is not on behalf of the Planning Council. The
Committee proposed that no one else is required to publicly disclose their
HIV status, other than the PLWH co-chair.
The Committee proposed that the Sunshine Ordinance be mentioned in the media
policy document. The Committee decided to postpone voting on the media policy
document until the next meeting.
8. Review Council By-laws-VOTE
The Committee reviewed changes to the By-laws. CM Graham made a motion to approve
the changes in the by-laws and forward these changes to the Steering Committee
in May and give notice at the Full Council meeting in May, and bring forward
for a vote at the June Full Council meeting.
11. Next meeting date & agenda items
The Committee discussed the letter sent to CARE-funded providers and made
a recommendation to the co-chairs to hold an emergency or have extra time at
the next scheduled Steering Committee meeting to discuss this issue.
The meeting adjourned at 6:18pm.
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