4. Announcements

• Update on meetings with San Francisco Board of Supervisors

Discuss any issues coming up at the different Committees, communication between Committee Co-chairs, and ensure linkage of Committee activities to the Full Council.

• I&P(Infrastructure and Policy) Committee – Update(next meeting April 20th)
• COA(Community Outreach and Advocacy) Committee – Update to include HOPWA, Housing & SRO Task Force; March 8th Tenderloin Community Meeting
• Planning Committee – Update; FY 06 – 07 Priority Setting and Allocations Schedule
• Housing Work Group – Update
• Membership Committee: resignation of Council Member Anita Booker; announce March applicants for recommendation to Full Council; announce possible May renewal; committee reassignments
• Evaluation Committee – Update
• PwP (Prevention with Positives) and POI(Points of Integration) - Update

7. Discussion of Policies and Procedures - VOTE

The Committee will have a discussion and a possible VOTE for inclusion in the Council Policy & Procedure Manual:

• Advocacy Project Reporting Policies
• Supervision of Director of HIV Health Services Planning Council
• Amendment Members of the Public attending Council Meetings, COA policy, Consumer Rights and Responsibilities

The Committee will discuss this year’s Ryan White CARE Act fund reduction.

Review and finalize next Full Council meeting agenda - Monday, March 27th, 2006 and will be located at the Milton Marks Convention Center, 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Lower Level, Benicia Rooms A & B.

• Scheduling Full Council March presentation(s)
• Prioritization and Allocation Timeline for August Summit Meetings
• Council Support Evaluation Report, Gilda Mansour and Evaluation Co-Chairs
• If approved, forward Steering Committee recommendation to merge the Infrastructure and Policy Committee with the Evaluation Committee
• Membership Committee new applicant names forwarded from March

The next Steering Committee meeting will be Monday, April 17th, same location, Room B. Determine February agenda items.

The Steering Committee of the HIV Health Services Planning Council is made up primarily of the co-chairs of the Council's other committees. The primary responsibility of the Steering Committee is to oversee the work of all of the Council's active committees and ad hoc committees, as well as interface with representatives from the Department of Public Health HIV Health Services office; it is also responsible for creating and finalizing the agenda for the upcoming Council meeting.

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 San Francisco, CA 94109
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San Francisco Department of Public Health, AIDS Office
25 Van Ness Avenue, 5th floor, San Francisco, CA 94102

The meeting facikity is wheelchair 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.
The following services are available when requested by Noon of the Friday before the Council meeting:
For American Sign Language interpreters, use of a reader during a meeting, or sound enhancement system, contact our office at (415) 674-4768.
For a large print copy of agenda or minutes in alternative formats, contact our office at (415) 674-4768.

In order to accommodate persons with severe allergies, environmental illness, multiple chemical sensitivity or related disabilities, attendees at public meetings are reminded that other attendees may be sensitive to various chemical based products.

Know Your Rights Under the Sunshine Ordinance

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 Donna Hall; 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 Donna.Hall@sfgov.org Citizens may obtain a free copy of the Sunshine Ordinance by contacting Ms. Hall 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. Agendas are available on the Internet at http://www.dph.sf.ca.us/Meetings/meetings.htm. THE AGENDA PACKET IS AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW AT HIV Health Services Planning Council, 730 Polk Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94109 RECEPTION DESK.