No. 7-02
WHEREAS, the Department of Public Health, San Francisco General Hospital, will be the recipient of a gift of a comprehensive breast center donated by the Avon Foundation, through the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, to be used for the benefit of patients at San Francisco General Hospital; and,
WHEREAS, the Avon Foundation has granted $3,598,000 to the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation for the cost of building a comprehensive breast center, including costs for design, construction, construction management, equipment and furnishings; and,
WHEREAS, the donated funds will be accepted and expended by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation to build and equip the center, and once completed in the year 2003, the building and its equipment will be granted to the Department of Public Health, San Francisco General Hospital; and,
WHEREAS, the Avon Foundation requires as a condition of the granting of the gift, that the center be named "The Avon Foundation Comprehensive Breast Center", for a minimum of 20 years; and,
WHEREAS, the Department wishes to obtain approval from the Health Commission and the Board of Supervisors to accept the center prior to its construction and naming; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the Department of Public Health, San Francisco General Hospital, is hereby authorized to accept a gift of a comprehensive breast center, with a value of $3,598,000 from the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, which built and equipped the center with funding donated by the Avon Foundation, for the benefit of patients at San Francisco General Hospital.
I hereby certify that the Health Commission at its meeting of May 21, 2002 adopted the foregoing resolution.
Michele M. Olson, Secretary to the Health Commission