From: Pro-SF [home@prosf.org]
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 7:52 AM
To: home@prosf.org
Subject: SF Sunshine IDR: Tenderloin Housing Clinic Invoices: Tenderloin Housing
Clinic Publications Related to HSA Grant

Address: 250 Ashbury St. SF 94117: E home@prosf.org: Supporting Freedom of Information, Government Transparancy & Accountability. Providing Public Informa tion To The Taxpayers/Residents of the City and County of San Francisco

From: Rita August O'Flynn [mailto:rita_august@msn.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 3:53 PM
To: pamela.tebo@sfgov.org; cityattorney@sfgov.org
Cc: auweia1@gmail.com; home@prosf.org; jack.song@sfgov.org; Mark O'Flynn;

Pursuant to section 16.21 of a grant agreement between the Human Services Agency and the Tenderloin Housing Clinic( dated 1 July 2008 to "provide eviction prevention to the elderly and disabled)" which states, " SERVICES PROVIDED BY A TTORNEYS any services to be provided by a law firm or attorney must be reviewed and approved in advance by the City Attorney. No invoices

for services provided by law firms or attorney, including, without limitat ion, as subcontractors of Contractor, will be paid unless the provide received a dvanced written approval.

According to the e-mails received from your respective offices, neither HS
A nor the City Attorney can document that THC obtained pre-approval from the Cit
y Attorney prior to providing legal services under this. Furthermore,while the
Tenderloin Housing Clinic has implied use of HSA funds in the matter of O'Flynn
vs Suval (see BeyondChron article, Newsom Administration Seeks to End Funding fo
r Ellis Act Eviction Defense by Randy Shaw Feb. 03 2009), HSA is unable to produce
any invoices for any matters concerning THC's legal services as they attempted
to prevent the eviction of Susan Suval, (CUD-08-626772, O'Flynn vs Suval). This
raises serious questions regarding the use of this funding.

Surely this alarming lack of records on the part of HSA and the City Attor ney regarding THC's complaince with grant agreements warrants investigation, how ever the e-mails below received from your respective departments offer no plans for follow up or reasons for not doing so.

Therefore, I kindly ask what the are the intentions of your departments re garding THC's potential violation of their grant agreements with the City outlin ed in this and other e-mail I have provided to you and, if no action is planned, please provide the reasons why.

rloin Housing Clinic Approval of Services
From: Pamela.Tebo@sfgov.org
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:28:37 -0800

Thank you for your public records request received on 2/17/10 in which you seek the following information pertaining to the grant agreement between the Hu man Services Agency and the Tenderloin Housing Clinic (dated 1 July 2008 to "pro vide eviction prevention to the elderly and disabled"):

"... copies of any and all approval letters from the City Attorney's Offic e for any and all legal services provided by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic under the grant agreement referred to herein and for any other HSA City Grant with th e Tenderloin Housing Clinic for the performance of legal services from 2005 to t he present."

Pamela Tebo
Office of the Executive Director
SF Human Services Agency
P.O. Box 7988
San Francisco, CA 94120
(415) 557-6540 - Phone
(415) 431-9270 - Fax

Pursuant to section 16.21 of a grant agreement between the Human Services > Agency and the Tenderloin Housing Clinic( dated 1 July 2008 to "provide > eviction prevention to the elderly and disabled)" which states, " SERVIC

es
> for services provided by law firms or attorney, including, without
> limitation, as subcontractors of Contractor, will be paid unless the
> provide received advanced written approval. The grant referred to here i

s
> a continuation of a grant initially awarded to the Tenderloin Housing
> Clinic in 2005
>> Thus, please provide, within the next three business days, copies of any

> and all approval letters from the City Attorney's Office for any and all > legal services provided by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic under the grant > agreement referred to herein and for any other HSA City Grant with the > Tenderloin Housing Clinic for the performance of legal services from 200

> to the present.
Rita O'Flynn 415-386-8224 Cell: 415-260-7608
> Subject: Re: Sunshine Ordinance Request for Immediate Disclosure re: Ten

derloin Housing Clinic Approval of Services
> To: rita_august@msn.com
> CC: pamela.tebo@sfgov.org
> From: Matt.Dorsey@sfgov.org
> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:32:13 -0800
>> Ms. O'Flynn,

0,
> which sought the following:
>> Copies of "any and all approval letters from the City Attorney's Office

> for any and all legal services provided by the Tenderloin Housing
> Clinic" under its 2005 grant agreement from the S.F. Human Services
> Agency from 2005 to the present.
>