>> good morning and welcome to the regularly-scheduled meeting of the city operations and

neighborhood services committee. our clark today is gale johnson. can you please read item number two? >> hearing with the san francisco public utilities commission public services agency, the department of public works, planning department, san francisco municipal planning transportation, to participate and provide an update on the street light plan and review the city's policies and practices relating to the public right of way including streetlight maintenance and reliability, the system of responding to and addressing street light outages, ways to improve the system, and best practices for lighting. "thank you, madam clerk. -- >> thank you, madam clerk. due to the large turnout on item

one, we will continue this item. >> this hearing had been called for quite some time on the state of the street lights and the challenges that we have and what the puc, pg&e, are doing to resolve the situation. none of us anticipated that we would have hundreds of folks come out for the first item, so i cannot ask everyone to wait. i would request that the item be continued to monday, june 4th, at 10:00 a.m. and request that it be placed first on the agenda. >> that would be a special meeting but we will do that. that is the motion. before we take a vote, i would like to open it up to public comment on the item.

just this item, not the street lights. >> supervisors, street lighting affects everyone including the seniors. since the seniors are here, maybe they should hear a little bit about street lighting. really, we do not know who maintains the polls. we do know in a general way, but we do not know in a precise way. the hearing will be continued i would suggest that the board of supervisors to some focus outreach and do some outreach to the seniors off so that they know more about these lights, what will be done about these lights, how the puc and pg&e,

how are they going to fix the problem, especially in the areas where the seniors walk and it is very dark. so, continue this item but make sure that you have focused our reach. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment? i would like to make a motion to continue this to a special meeting, june 4th, as the first item on the agenda. any objection? >> know. -- no. >> are there any departments that are here, could you please check again. >> please read item number one. >> hearing to determine how the department of aging and adult services and other city departments are preparing for the projected surge in the senior population in san francisco. >> this is a hearing brought to

us by our colleague, supervisor olague. this is your hearing, your show. >> we do have a lot of people who are here to speak so i will keep these very brief. basically, i just wanted to assess the situation that is going on out there as it relates to the issues that affect seniors that persons living with disabilities. issues affect seniors and a task force came out of that. we also have had hearings in the past year, the senior that chick network participating in and the issues that affect seniors that live in single room occupancy

hotels. now, finally, there is an assessment of the needs of san francisco seniors and adults with disabilities that the department of aging and adult services published this year. it is time to assess the information out there and find ways that we might collaborate on a deeper level. funding is a constant issue. some folks mentioned that we could come up with a policy statement that had to do with the rights of seniors and persons living with disabilities here in san francisco. this is a conversation that is ongoing and one, given the fact that san francisco will be the most populous city in the next 10 years. there will be more seniors living in san francisco than any other city in california.

hopefully this will not just be a conversation about will lead to action and we have great partners here, the part of aging and adult services, human services agencies. also, bringing people here, along with community services, the senior action network. i am planning -- happy to be part of the conversation and will look for a solution. since we have the commission, i don't see the need to establish a task force. we should certainly look for some ways of how we can all collaborate better beyond what we already do. so, that being said, i would like to open the hearing with -- from a coalition of agencies services.

>> good morning and thank you. i'm here representing the coalition of agencies serving the elderly. we're looking at the changing demographics of the city's population of seniors. the collaboration focuses on serving this population. members consider themselves real partners with the city and county of san francisco. we were closely on city departments to see what their plans are for serving the growing population. this is not as they want department program, all departments will have to look at this growing need.

finally, because we consider ourselves real partners with the city and county of san francisco, we would like to look at the struggles that they go through to continue funding these services that we provide and the cost of doing business. think you very much and i look forward to hearing from the other constituents. >> thank you. next, we will hear from the human agencies department. >> i will set up a power point, just one moment. i oversee planning and human services agency which is the

umbrella agency. every four years, the department aging and adult services is required to conduct the needs assessment of seniors in san francisco. we just recently completed it and at the end of this, we will have a link to our website where it can be found in its entirety and it is well over 100 pages. the second drills down to specific needs. today, i will talked mainly about the demographics of seniors in san francisco and how they're changing. i need to talk about the economic context. on this is the growth with persons of college education as we have transitioned to a

knowledge economy. of course, as more people with education come into the city, they make up more money and they drive up the prices of housing. we spoke about families in san francisco. this shows the migration by age in san francisco between 1990 and 2010. the bars on the left. we can see where we have lost a number of our children and we have the lowest number of children of any nation. that has enormous consequences. people have raised their children here and their adult children cannot afford to live here and raise our own families

and this has a tremendous sense of isolation. you will find in san francisco, the numbers of seniors to have a relative living within 20 minutes time as about half of that the other thing we will see is the increase of young adults, particularly persons between the ages of 45-64. this is not the time when people are particularly raising children. we also have a loss starting at age 65. when people retire, that often move to more affordable to be spent when we talk about the tsunami, it is important to remember there are undercurrents there.

this is likely to be the population that will be public services. >> and i just ask one question, it seems to strike me and we are getting to it. one of the things that they have to resolve, talking about the san franciscans to have been able to stay here but the children are not. "if they have had to leave, that puts a greater strain on the social that work -- safety net we're trying to provide. >> absolutely. i will show a sign that will reinforce that. this is where seniors in san francisco live base in the 2010

census. they are really spread all over the city. particularly the chinatown area. one of the things i want to point out is this issue of isolation which is not confined to one demographic or one in income growth. off -- if this was to show the proportion of seniors, then west portal. it is not these issues of isolation. these are not just confined to low income persons, they affect all seniors in san francisco. this is the slide that addresses your concerns.

you will see that san francisco has twice the number of recipients. this goes to the issue of requiring public sector support. >> in your age immigration, he spoke of the 20 years with the growth and reduction different populations have been. will we see the same growth in these areas? >> well, if your demographics are somewhat fluid. if i had put it this 2000 census

up there, it would have been at the height of the dot com bauble. we typically see increases among older adults. weatherpersons are now in their 50's will continue to live here once they retire is a different question. many of them may leave the city for a more affordable area. >> right, but for our planning purposes, going out into 2012. what do you anticipate in terms of the population? would grow at this pace? what are you assuming in your estimates? >> so, san francisco is quite limited geographically, so we are talking about absolutely zero some changes in population. i would expect to continue to see people of middle-age coming into the city and city and leade ti