there w not a reservation list for us to sign up for tomorrow. it was all full already. had aood meal, though. without tt place. i cannot affordto go to trader joe's and purchase everything i needto eat ymore. am also a clit of the trans thrive division of the asian pacific wlness cent. i can lunch tre three or four days a week. thank you for calling the meeting. i am disabled and i have quite a few in visible disabilities -- isible disabilities and i'm also a senior. i am concerned about city

government the services they seniors.ses disa and you neeto retrain a lot of the programs, suchasolicing neighrhood -- neighborhood policing. and some of our programs need to be rrain o they concerning disabilities and concerning seniors. besides that, am concerne abt the greatest illness in our community. anth greatest illness in the senior community depression. that depression is goi to ctie to exist a long as they're going to eat their next meal, how they are goin to stay out of thern, and w they wille able to get the medications they need. i would like to suggest that the board come up with some ght -- so way of managing n for profits who service seniors.

duplicated programs and programs thatre not doing what they are being paid to do. it is to you to monitor that whe it is supposed to go, to e seniors will need it, and that those seniors aregivenhe best that they canh the amount of money that the city has. thank you for your time. >> good evening. my name is charles douglas mclean and i'm from north maet. i hea they're going to cut e ogram. need it. noneed it. nyy, you guys do i wish you wld com by and look at it and let everybody know. thank you very much.

>> fellow. my name is gail switzer and at a board memb for xt village, san francisc it is a nonprofit community organization providing ridents of san francisc'nohet corridor with e practical means to live safely and practically live in their we cover telegraph russian hill, polka and the waterway. our first goal is to for fell 80% of requests for services with the work of our volunteerc. according the budgeanalys report of 2011, 25% of residents surveyed in the zip code 94133, neiborhood, were 60 years of age or older with a medium

annual iome of 48,700 cpared $,0 o avere. an ince below $40,000 does not allowfor the additional -- the additional expenses one needs to adapt their home. it is difficultoleave and find other neighborhoods that ght be more itab to a senior, such as not being on a hi, havingno, we provide services to help this opulation. we provide traportio to doctors, dentists, writes for ahrens, a grocery shopping, etc. errrands course

ianted to ask the supervisors that if we are targeting that ma roup - that little group that anne in and spoke about -- >> thank you. i uld like ask that next time you be a part of e presentation. you should get to know a lot of the groups here today. i hope you start workingit of a particular group that needs attention here in san francisco. i want you to be parof the bigger dision instd of an outsider, which i do not think you are. -- outlyer, which i do not i'm ngou can get together with the senior action network

so that you can be includedin in the discussion. gregg's we have been working in a lot of the neighborhoods. >> that is an integral part of it. >> thanks. >> good afternoon, superviss. my name is marilyn, and i'm a social manager case orker with meals on wheels. i'm here to represent one of our clients, "c"we will call her. mrs. c cannot be here herself. she is homebound and blind and she currently rides in public housing. mrs. capproached me with a problem that suddenly manifest in recent years that seems to be an ongoing fitfor our seors and disabled americans.

she clearly needs in home support services to assist her with babying -- abating, grooming, the basic activities of daily living. however, ecause her income became $1,600 per month since the death of her husband, her new share is $1,050. this would only leave her $550 out of her income. her rent $618 per month in public housing. this means that she would not be and other necessities. as a social worker, the opportity see and witness the plight of our seniors as they struggle to develop withou the help of support services is but its could ive them theby --

opportunity to thri and enjoyed their twilight years. cracks -- >> madam chair, i ama enior, and a senior mou has dedicatehis life -- who has dedicates life wking n behalf of otherseniors who are not as fortunate. many years ago i used to work -- seni action network. started working to advocate for affordable housingand

seniors however,e were not tt fortunate. i am here today to tell you tha if you a thinkingabout the money for the social program for seniors, please do all you can to put more money than what is given already. i attend a senior center. and in my humble opinion, it is the best senior center in this area.

the south is very considerate, and especially the director. she really turned that center around. >> thank you. is there addional plic comment? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is lovely to and i'm the ofector of senior services the san franci in doing business in is cit for the last five years we have not had one. you have heard that the seniors and disabled populati is fa increasing in numb, d wiout increase doing buness with the city cannot

-- with the city, imagine what could haen. we are here to work with youto fi solutions in this city. thank you. >> thank you. >> good aftern i actually had not anned to testify today. just came to support the services, but i feel moved to speak on behalf of the homebound seniors who cannot be here i am the director of social wk have been tre for more than 15 years and i did home visits with the seniors for their ne and a hf years, so i've seen many homebound seniors. we currently have over 1800 that just rely on the services that they are provided, a ome

delivedmeals, the senior sites r the re mobile seniors. i wanted to plead with you on behalf of the homebound seniors who cannot get out to speak for their ds ho important the services are for th. thank you for listening to all of us. >> may i have the overhead, >> my name is james and i'm a case manage mayor -- case manager at cannon case seniors and their. -- seniors center. we need to turn toreative ways of problem-solving that to not require higher costs.

i submit the following. there disabled and frail who tral as much as eight byatt's -- 8 mi. to access shelters in the city, setimes standing 1ho day and carry their earthly possessionswh them. ysabel costffective ayf solving this would be to provide -- a simple, cost- effective way of solving th would be to rodeus tokens provided by the source centers when all of eir beds reserved at that center have been committed and retry -- and require seniors to travel o e next center. often, seniors arrequired to ge to carry their luggage and a have more -- and they he

emergency sheers, resuing in them at the mine them entran. y not use the vacant places in the city to provide additional storage to g seniors a bad. siors a often evicted without an ansitional plan. why not restore for five senior bed? lastly, i encourageyou to thin creatively and as humanitarian spirit thank you. >> -- humanitarians.

thank you. >> thank you. >> i have a long list of things i would like to talk about, but i want to ankyou fo holdi this hearing and making it is -- a suggestion. agencies are always willing to come to the board of supervisors any time, but seniors, iis health and their transportation and their lch schedule. i think we would have heard from more seniors and not so much from agencies. but i want to encourage you to invite the agency's back. you have some unusual things going on that you might not know about. there is only one nonprofit choice for an alzheimer's residential program.

the citizenship was provided b a supervisor, mabel tang, when clinton cut assistance to immigrants, mabel tang designated money for the elderly to become citizens. and it worked. these are things that would be helpful for supervisors to know more about. there used to be senior shelters, and that makes a lot of sense. there are no senior shelters now. seniors who are homeless do not need. and also, the issue of people not having enough and they have not gotten a cost-of-living increase, what that does ishey will have to reduce service. unless you are calling to shut them down or get federal funds

for those meals, then you've got to. you cannot serve as many people. some ofthe questions that we raised coulde looked at. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment? seeing none -- seeinne blic comment is close i want to thank everyone for staying out and testifying. i would like to ask that we continue this item to the call of the cha and have a second conversation that focuses more on some solutions. i think there has en plenty prevented that identifies some of the issues and some of the problems. we've had senior sro hearings, hearings on t lgbt community spirit i am becoming more familiar with the issues --and e

of those sues. we have meals on wheels and planning for elders, st. antho's, so i thk russian of some in between conversations and then comeback with some solutions and really maybe put those solutions out for discussion for servic providers, case managers, and others. another issue that has been brought my attention over the past few years is the issue of those who really are notable to remain aging in place or living in their homes, and we are seeing a lot of reductions in those types of services and other accommodations, so i think might be interested in understandinghow we are loong at that issue. from a city's perspective. so, again, i want to thank all

of you for being here, and i i am not sure if it is here or. else, but as was mentioned, let's focus on some solution, upefore, and maybe they could spend some time looking at it, but i think oordination of services, i think there are a lot of services out there. i do not know if there are people who could not necessarily benefit from those services, so we can talk about that. maybe we can have the inbetween meeting and come back here and discuss some solutions, shelter beds or whatever. supervisor elsbernd: thk you, and all who came out here. we will continue this.

is there anything else? clerk johnson: no, mr. chair. chair elsbernd: ok, with that, this meeting is adjourned. ♪

because we have a great waste water system here in san francisco, we do about 80 million gallons of waste water here in san francisco, which means we basically fill up 120 olympic sized swimming pools each and every day here in the city. we protect public health and safety and environment because we are discharging into the bay and into the ocean. this is essentially the first treatment here at our waste water treatment facility. what we do is slow down the water so that things either settle to the bottom or float to the top. you see we have a nice selection of things floating around there, things from bubble gum wrappers, toilet paper, whatever you dump down the toilet, whatever gets into our storm drains, that's what gets into our waste water treatment and we have to clean. >> see these chains here, this keeps scum from building up.

>> on this end in the liquid end basically we're just trying to produce a good water product that doesn't negatively impact the receiving water so that we have recreation and no bad impact on fish and aquatic life. solids is what's happening. . >> by sludge, what exactly do you mean? is that the actual technical term? . >> it's a technical term and it's used in a lot of different ways, but this is organic sewage sludge. basically what it is is, oh, maybe things that come out of your garbage disposal, things that are fecal in nature. it's sludge left in the water after the primary treatment, then we blend those two over

and send them over to digestion. this building is built to replace tanks here that were so odoriferous they would curl your hair. we built this as an interim process. >> is there a coagulant introduced somewhere in the middle of this? . >> this coagulant brings solids together and lets the water run through. that gives us more time in the digestion process, more time to reduce the amount of solids. these are the biggest ones in the world, like we always like to do in san francisco. they are 4 meter, there's none like it in the world. >> really? wow. >> three meters, usually. we got the biggest, if not the best. so here we are. look at that baby hum. river of sludge. >> one of the things is we use bacteria that's common in our

own guts to create this reduction. it's like an extra digestion. one of the things we have to do to facilitate that is heat that sludge up and keep it at the temperature our body likes, 98.6 degrees. >> so what we have here is the heat exchanger for digester no. 6. these clog up with debris and we're coming in to -- next wet weather season so we always come through here, clean them out, make sure that we get maximum heat exchange during the colder wet weather. sludge season. >> rubber glove. >> right here. >> rubber glove, excellent. all right, guys. >> thank you. >> good luck. >> this is the full on hazmat.

. >> residual liquid. we're taking it time to let it drain. we don't want to get sludge on it necessarily. take your time. stand on the side of it. . >> should we let it release for a while? . >> let it release. >> is that the technical term? . >> this is the most important bolt on the whole thing. this is the locking bolt. it locks this thing right in place. so now. >> take your hammer and what we want to do, we get rag build up right in here. the hot water recirculates right in here, the sludge recirculates in here. the sludge sometimes has rags in it. all we want to do is go around the clean the rags. let me show you how.

take the slide hammer, go all the way through the back, go around. >> got you. >> during the real rainy season, how does that change the way dealing with this job? is it a lot more stuff in there? . >> what we do, charles, we do this quarterly. every four months we go around and clean all the heat exchangers so we don't have a large build up. . >> go around? . >> yeah. (sound of hammering). >> what i'm trying to do, charles, is always pull it out on the low stroke.

>> right. so you are not, like, flying out. now talk about clean up. . >> then where does this stuff get deposited? . >> we're going to dump it in a debris box and it will go back to the plant. >> if you think back, the romans came up with a system of plumbing that allowed us it use water to transport waste away from the hub of civilization, which enabled cities to grow. . >> you have a large bowl, a drive motor and another motor with a planetary gearbox with differential pressure inside there. the large mass up there spinning separating the solids from the liquid. we have to prevent about once a

month, we go in there grease those, change the oil, check the vibration levels. the operators can tell just by the hum of that machine that it's a harmonic noise emitted that it's out of balance and the machine needs to be cleaned. it will start vibrating and we have vibration analysis machines that will come over here and check the levels. so it's kind of an on-going thing that you have to stay on top of on a daily basis. >> handled properly, you take organic residuals, as we call them, that are leftovers of our society and turn them back into some energy. and we have another ability to take that sludge and get a nutrient value for crops there.

we actually are running a kind of composting energy recovery system. >> well, this is a dirty job. we try to do it safely and we try to do it without imposing too much on the public. people want to flush their toilets and have things go away and not be bothersome again. we do a lot to try to accomplish that. i'd like to invite you to come back any time you want. once you got this in your blood, you are not going to be able to stay away. the raging waters are fun and when we do digester cleaning i really hope you can come back. that's quite a sight. >> yeah, that sounds interesting. >> i really appreciate you coming by and it was a