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DESCRIPTION:Extremely Important Supervisors Meeting Tuesday\non Saving SF Public Health 
 and Human Services\n\nTuesday, January 27th, 2009 \n1:00 – rally on, City 
 Hall steps\n2:00 Hearing Before Full Board of Supervisors\nCity Hall, Room 
 250\n\n \nThe Coalition to Save Public Health and Human Services is 
 pressing SF Supervisors to approve measures (1) re-directing cuts in this 
 year's budget to less vital services and (2) placing revenue-generating 
 measures on the June ballot to prevent even worse cuts next year.  The 
 current year's cuts are set to take place in February, so this Board 
 meeting is our last chance to stave them off. This may also be the last 
 chance to raise revenues for next year's budget. \n \nTuesday's meeting 
 will be a hearing where patients, providers, and advocates testify about 
 the devastating effects of the cuts, followed by Supervisors debate and 
 vote on the two measures.  After hearing this testimony, it  should be a 
 moral no-brainer for the Supervisors to pass these measures, but powerful 
 business forces like the Mayor, the Committee on Jobs and the Chamber of 
 Commerce would  let seniors, the poor, and working families fall from the 
 trees like dead leaves. If you cannot attend the meeting, please contact 
 the Supervisors and press them to pass these measures. You can use  
 http://home.comcast.net/~mlyon01/publichealth/contactcity.htm for your 
 convenience.\n \nSan Francisco is cutting $112 million in spending from 
 this year's budget, and for the fiscal year beginning in July, the City’s 
 shortfall is half its disposable income.  Newsom is determined to cut 
 public health and human services for seniors, the mentally ill, people with 
 substance disorders, and poor working families, while opposing raising 
 revenues.  \n \nExamples of cuts from this year's budget:  (1) Healthy San 
 Francisco, the City’s barely-started universal healthcare program, will 
 be gutted. (2) SF General will compromise care by eliminating RNs, 
 replacing certified with non-certified staff, and moving clerks with some 
 clinical training to non-patient areas. (3) New Leaf will cut therapy for 
 50 gay clients with both mental health and addictive disorders. (4)  
 Hundreds of non-English-speakers in Chinatown and Richmond will lose 
 services and General Hospital may lose competency for half of its Asian 
 languages. (5) Half our acute diversion units, empowering alternatives to 
 confinement for 1,400 mentally ill patients, will close. (6) Health and 
 hygene supplies will not be supplied to shelters. The impacts of these cuts 
 are deep, and the real impact on human lives is not even known yet, as 
 community based organizations struggle to figure out what they will have to 
 close to make up for lost funds.\n \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/25/18565740.php
SUMMARY:Important Supervisors Meeting Tuesday on Saving SF Public Health and Human Services
LOCATION:City Hall Steps, and Room 250
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/25/18565740.php
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