i said -- even considering moving this forward is because we did consider seat 4. we listened to a laundry list of candidates earlier this year. and we made a selection at that time, and i for one would like to see mr. bowden continue in that seat and i don't want to waste anyone's time by allowing other members to believe that there is a possibility, if there isn't. i just want to basically take that one off the table so i then give everyone else a fair shake in terms of some of the other seats listed here. that's my reasoning and i respect your decision, but i really definitely want to be able to move that particular seat forward. >> your reasons are well taken. [speaker not understood]. >> okay. >> i just want to note that for the record.

so, let's have a vote. >> supervisor breed? >> aye. >> aye. supervisor cohen? >> aye. >> supervisor yee? >> no. >> the motion was to not proceed? >> it was to support robert bowden for seat 4, so, it passes. >> it passes. >> right. that means that now the seats that are in play are seats 1, 2 and 3. >> yes. >> correct. so, now i ask my colleagues for a motion to continue seats 1, 2 and 3. >> second. >> mr. chair, would you like to continue to the call of the chair or to our next rules committee meeting? >> to the call of the chair. >> thank you. >> okay. so, it by consensus passes. so moved. [gavel] >> okay. can you please call item number 5? >> item number 5, hearing to consider appointing eight members, for indefinite terms, to the food security task force.

there are 8 seats and 8 applicants. >> so, we now want to invite paula joan to the podium to share more about the food security task force. hello, ms. jones. >> hello, good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for taking this item. again, my name is paula jones. i'm with department of public health and i'm director of food [speaker not understood] there. the item before you is nominations to the task force for the community members. and i just wanted to go through some of the raoxctionv that we have with task force. first of all, food security, according to our definition was that all of our residents will have [speaker not understood] at all times through the local nonemergency sources. and then i want to go through just what does food insecurity mean. that means not having enough money for food, skipping meals buying cheaper, less nutritious

food, worrying your food will run out, not having a healthy place to buy food, not having a kitchen to prepare food and being hungry. these are some of the manifestations we know we have food insecure residents in every neighborhood in san francisco. certain populations have a higher food insecurity. lower households, seniors with disabilities, children, the unhoused. the food security task force was created and currently creates a plan for addressing food insecurity in san francisco, and we do this through tracking and publishing data on food program use and food need. we develop recommendations for policy program and funding. we also work together to develop pilot initiatives to improve food security. we also reach out to other groups and inform them of food security and also gather their information. i am currently a member oswald staff to the task force. it is also represented to the california food policy council.

which is a council created comprised of local foot. we are reporting on food security. we'll be providing [speaker not understood], and we are working on organizing a hearing. the task force is comprised of city agencies and community representatives as well as a school district representative is invited. so, today [speaker not understood], all of the nominees are actively involved in food security work in san francisco and they regularly attend task force meetings. many of the nominees have previously been numbers for the task force and have been renominated. so, i'm going to take any questions and thank you for your support. >> okay. supervisor, are there any questions? no. thank you very much. okay, we will now hear from the applicants in the order they

are listed on the agenda. so, let's see. first is karen gruneisen. hi, supervisors. i am not karen gruneisen, i am representing her today. i am liz [speaker not understood] at episcopal community services where karen is our associate director. and she apologizes for not being here today, but she's out of town at her nephew's wedding. karen just wanted -- >> she's missing this for a wedding? [laughter] i know. just a few points. karen previously was appointed to the food security task force in 2010 and has attended meetings for over three years. she seeks another appointment because she finds the work of the task force so beneficial to san franciscans who are food insecure, especially people who are poor and homeless. karen has coauthored the food security task force reports and

chairs one of the subcommittees on the needs of seniors, people who are homeless and who live in s-r-os. and as you know, ecs serves over 14,000 homeless [speaker not understood] annually. karen brings the experience of ecs's clients to the food security task force table. and i'm happy to answer any questions about karen. [laughter] >> thank you, liz. any questions? seeing none, thank you. okay. >> anne quaintance. good afternoon, supervisors breed, yee, and cohen. i am currently being renominated to the food security task force. i am the chief operations officer of meals ask on wheels of san francisco. i know you know what we do there. we serve over 2,500 seniors with two meals a day. we served [speaker not understood] in addition to

social services. our client needs and visitor services as well. [speaker not understood]. and the contracts unit as well as nine years at the san francisco food bank, five years running a food cooperative before that. i'm also the long term [speaker not understood] and the jewish community regulations council. i've been bringing work to the task force as well as the work we're doing there is critical. i think there is a lot we're doing right. there is more we need to do to address those needs. [speaker not understood]. i really guarantee and ensure all san franciscans have access to food security. i think one of our opportunities i'd like to bring this year's [speaker not understood] is an opportunity to present hospitalization and readmission by partnering and contracting with health plans and hospitals to bring more nutrition services to folks and i think that will help the city overall. and i do believe that a public

private partnership like the food security task force ha done work over the years and we look forward to making a presentation at a hearing in november to really tell us all about city-wide and by board of supervisors district as well, the needs that are there. so, any questions? >> seeing none, thank you very much. next on the agenda is theresa olle. good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for having me. i'm terry olle. i'm the associate director of policy and advocacy at the san francisco and marin food banks. i'm being nominated as a community member to the food security task force. in my role at the food bank i work on policies and programs at the local and state level to make sure that low-income and food insecure residents of san francisco and marin counties are having access to the food

that they need. as you well know, the food bank's main role is to bring in and distribute 45 million pounds of good every single year through a vast network of organizations that rely on us for food for their programs as well as pantries that operate in neighborhoods and schoo, to brick food to people who need it most. i have the luckiest job of being able to leverage that amazing work by taking a bit of a step back and thinking what are the policies that we have in place locally and at the state level that effect people in a way before they get to the point of meeting the services we provide in the majority of our i wouldctiontion. and in that role being part of the security task force has been a really incredible experience because i think what we're doing in san francisco is not unique, at least very high level of having the kind of public-private meetings where we are discussing how we each

are providing a role and having a collective impact on food insecure residents of our local area. one of the main issues that i work on at the state level is actually cal fresh, a food stamp program which as you may know is functioning at a very low level statewide. we're the worst performing program in the entire country and that creates in and of itself a real gap in the access that our residents in san francisco have to getting resources in their hands that they can turn around and use immediately to buy healthy and nutritious food and to live healthy lives. so, that's something that a number of us at the task force are focused on and one of our main goals is making sure we as a local city and as a community are bringing in -- taking advantage of all of the programs that are out there that are federally funded, that are funded so that we are not only lifting up those who really need those resources, but also that we at the city are thinking of the larger system of food and helping people have access to it. thank you.

>> supervisor breed? >> thank you. and i just want to personally thank you for the work that you do at the food bank when i was the director of the african-american and art culture complex, it's the place where we got healthy food for our program, where we got free snacks and fruit and other things that really has helped to deliver great services and making sure our children eat healthy more consistently. so, it's really a vital program not only to the african-american art and culture complex, but also to many of the programs that serve low-income children around san francisco. so, i just want to mention that and thank you. thank you. i'll take that back to our program staff. >> thank you. next is bruce mcken i. ~ mc kinney. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is bruce mc kinney and i'm the free meals program

manager at the glide foundation, glide memorial. you know, we're serving right now about 2,500 meals every day 7 days a week, 365 -- 364 days a year and as i said, three meals a day. besides being program manager of the meals program, i'm also responsible for nutritional [speaker not understood] in the ad drive and in our community. responsible from really changing what glide has been doing in the past from a caloric meals program to a meal oriented program and really working with our community and with other agencies to work on areas especially in the tenderloin in our community to really be able to give them access to food besides just at glide.

and, so, truly for the past four years i've been attending the meetings [speaker not understood] who was a voting member of the task force. i have been working on the subcommittees in dealing with a disaster planning and food procurement and dealing also with the s-r-os and with the seniors. i believe what i can bring and what glide brings is really a voice of the community, a voice of the tenderloin and being able to -- because hunger in san francisco is varied and as people said, it's in each community, and the tenderloin is a very unique community. and that's it. thank you. >> thank you. next up would be deloris mc gee.

good afternoon, supervisors. my name is deloris mc gee and i work for community living campaign. i am a community connector for oceanview, merced heights and ingleside. our connectors are strategically located throughout the city. but i am in the omi. what i basically do is provide services and resources for seniors so that they can age in place in their homes. and what we found out is that the seniors in our community were not able to take advantage of the food that was distributed through the pantry. so, we developed with the community, community living campaign developed a food delivery program and we delivered the food twice a month to seniors and people who are disabled so that they can have nutrition -- not just

food, but nutritional food. we wanted to make sure that they had fruit and vegetables because we feel that just because you're old you do not have to be unhealthy. so, we want a healthy aging population. once we got our food program up and running, other neighborhoods decided that they would like to take advantage of what we were doing. we developed a food program in park merced and university park. as of june 21st, we started our first program in the bayview district and we already have a waiting list because the need is so great. we also are working with the richmond district. we've been contacted by the hispanic community and visitacion valley. because of the health conditions of the samoan communities with chronic

illnesses, we will be moving into that community. so, what we are doing is city-wide. and i have been serving on this committee for the last four years. the work that we're doing on this committee, we are able to connect with other agencies, which we weren't able to do that before. my community does not have a supermarket. so, this is why it's so important that we provide food for the seniors. also, i heard on the news that south of market in the bayview district will be closing soon so the seniors there would definitely need the food. so, i'm happy to serve on this committee. especially i get a chance to find out about all the politics.

you know, when a person thinks of food, they don't think of the politics that's associated with it. so, since i've been sitting on this board, i got a chance to really understand more about food insecurity because of politics and it should not be that hard to feed people. thank you. any questions? >> seeing none, thank you very much. >> thank you. next up is hilary seligman. hi, my name is hilary seligman. i'm a primary care doctor at san francisco general hospital and i'm also a faculty member at the center for vulnerable populations there. i spend about a third of my time doing outpatient and inpatient primary care in hospital medicine at san francisco general and the rest of my time i spend on research advocacy and policy around food insecurity issues and education

around medical students, residents and other faculty members about the [speaker not understood] and food insecurity and health. i have been attending the task force meetings for the last five years or so and have assisted in a number of projects. the first of which was looking at the prevalence of food insecurity and at san francisco general hospital, something that had not been done before. and the other is doing a very basic nature and analysis of the free and low cost -- the free meals available in san francisco. there is in the list of seats here the requests that we have, the representation of health and health care on the food security task force. i think that is a unique position as the food security world has come to understand the implications of food insecurity on health and i think that is the role that i have been able to play at the task force over the last couple years, bringing that unique perspective. thank you. >> okay, thank you very much.

next up is charles sommer. good afternoon, supervisors. charles sommer. i'm the manager at the dining room at st. anthony foundation where i've been the last 14 years. as you know st. anthony's serves 2,500 meals a day, we're approaching [speaker not understood] meals served since 1950. i am relatively new to the task force though i have been attending the last year. but i have been working for over 10 years in collaboration with project open hand, glide, san francisco food bank and many other organizations, meals on wheels better to [speaker not understood] food service in the tenderloin and the city. it is important to me to serve not only be a voice for st. anthony's on this, but also to look at food access and nutrition for our seniors and our poorest of the poor that are being served from all over the city and the tenderloin and to help be a part of creating

better access for them. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you very much. i guess the last one will be simon pitchford. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is simon pitchford. i am currently the director of [speaker not understood] project open hand. as many of you know, project open hand has been one of the main aids provider in san francisco, close to 30 years. we serve over 3,000 meals to people with hiv and other critical chronic illnesses in the city of san francisco. and complement the work that meals on wheels by providing [speaker not understood] meals at 19 sites around the city of san francisco to seniors. roughly serving over 2800 seniors every day. my interest, i'm a scientist by background so i'm particularly interested in the link between food insecurity and health care.

so, i've been responsible at project open hands for bringing collaboration with colleagues [speaker not understood] to understand the outcomes of the services we provide in a quantitative fashion. and currently like many of us are trying to come up to speed on the affordable care act since that is going to have specific implications for basically meals that we provide, third-party reimbursements. as the affordable care act gets implemented, particularly in its relationship to ryan white. i'm fairly new to the task force ~. i also served on the tenderloin hunger task force, the steering committee, a number of subcommittees [speaker not understood]. like many, obviously the community relationships are critically important at the food security task force in addition to having connection to many of the city agencies because there's a lot of interaction between [speaker not understood] and the city agencies. and that's proven invaluable in the generation of data that will go into the various reports that you'll be seeing

in the near future. so, thank you for your consideration. >> thank you very much. i guess that's the -- end of the 8 applicants. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, any thoughts? would you like to -- would anybody like to make a motion to forward these appointments to the food board with recommendations? >> [speaker not understood] speak a little bit to the work that the eight candidates are doing. what's interesting, if you don't know, i represent the bayview community and certainly the last week-and-a-half has sent our office [speaker not understood] with the news the fresh and easy grocery store is closing. and it was a really low blow, frankly, and it really took the wind out of our sails.

the community members were very excited to have fresh and easy in the neighborhood when opening up. but what is very refreshing is that there seems to be at least there's 8 folks here that are applying to help what i consider to be continuing to lead the charge, to help me to bring healthy food options to what we call a food desert. and i just want to say thank you for your service whether you're working at a nonprofit, whether you're working for a for profit agency or even if you're volunteering your time. this is something that you're interested in. the need is so great that we have a desire to have everyone at the table. so, just wanted to say thank you and recognize you for that. so very grateful from everyone that's doing everything, from working with seniors down to supporting nonprofit and youth organizations. absolutely critical. also want to acknowledge the exciting work we've been doing, even bringing liquor stores in

bayview into introducing the owners, showing them that there's a way they can make a profit by selling more than just beer, wine, liquor, chips, cup of noodles and all the other stuff that is sold at the other store, the convenience store. and we've had some really great partners, the department of public health as well as our friends from kaiser and a few other nonprofit organizations that are on the ground. and just on behalf of the southeastern neighborhoods, i just want to say thank you for your help and that it is recognized and very, very greatly appreciated. and i may be calling on you if we begin to rally to figure out what we're going to do now that fresh and easy has left a huge hole in the neighborhood. also may need a rallying -- have another rallying cry when i think about visitacion valley community that also has no grocery store. so, it's very interesting how we can live in such a wealthy country, such a wealthy city and still parts of our city not have access to healthy food

options. to highlight an even further level of irony, we've got the produce market in the bayview district and we also have the -- oh, shoot, terry? the food bank, thank you. and the food bank. we have these two amazing assets but yet no grocery store. it's just amazing. so, but those two aspects have been phenomenal partners in stepping up and filling the gaps and providing particularly produce and vegetables to the neighborhood [speaker not understood]. so, i just wanted to go on record and say thank you. >> it's actually quite amazing. as i'm listening to who you represent and so forth, just individual need from your

organizations, all the great work they do individually. it just goes to show you how important this particular task force is to have such a collection of organizations and individuals that care about these issues. i've worked for several of the organizations that you represent including st. anthony's, two child care centers in the tenderloin. and i took it over, my organization took it over years ago from another organization that was going to give it up and part of it was that the state wasn't giving us enough funding to feed our kids and i turned around and asked st. anthony's can you help with this? this is serving the community here, we're going to lose it. so, to the credit of organizations like st. anthony's stepped up, sent the kid a good 7 or 8 years free of charge until my organization was able to raise enough

funding to turn things around so that we were able to get the type of food that's a little more appropriate for little kids, but -- it was a life safer and i want to commend all your work. so, once again, i'd like to ask for a motion to forward the recommendations. ~ saver >> i'd like to second that motion. is that a motion? >> i make that motion to forward the 8 names that have been brought to us to the full board. >> madam clerk, do we need to assign the seat numbers for each of the individuals? >> okay, all right. well, i'd like to make a motion to assign karen gruneisen to seat number 1 and anne quaintance to seat number 2. theresa olle to seat number 3.

bruce mc kinney to seat number 4. deloris mc gee to seat number 5. hilary seligman to seat number 6. charles sommer to seat number 7 and simon pitchford to seat number 15. >> is there a second? >> second. >> very good. by consensus, the motion passes. [gavel] >> congratulations. >> thank you very much. items 6 and 7 are coming up. what i'd like to ask for an indulgence of my colleagues to allow me to switch the order of them. it seems a little more logical to me that we hear what the shelter monitoring committee actually does and then reports. then go ahead and look at the appointees, okay? so, is that okay with my colleagues? >> sure. >> item number 7 first. >> item number 7, hearing to consider the quarterly reports

of the shelter monitoring committee. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is keith deniz, i'm the vice-chair of the shelter monitoring committee and i'm here to review the materials sent to you on monday, 9 september. the shelter monitor committee is an independent vehicle charged with monitoring the shelters and resource centers in the city and we are made up of 13 members consisting of homeless or formerly homeless individuals and who also are employed or nominated by service providers. our seats are filled by the mayor's office with three seats, the board of supervisors with six seats, the local homeless coordinating board with four seats. the officers, the chairs and vice-chairs and staff meet regularly with [speaker not understood] dph to have an open line of communication and improve effectiveness. [speaker not understood] due to

only having one staff member and made up entirely of committee members, we did 34 of the 38 assigned visits. during these visits we found 89 violations most of which sites corrected within 7 days. i would also like to note that st. joseph's family shelter was inspected twice during this period and no violations were found at all. there were 157 standard of care complaint forms filed. 32 by committee members, 58 by clients. most complaints were discharged or satisfied by the site or the committee with only 17 having to be forwarded to dph. in march and april of 2013 the committee visited mission neighborhood resource center, nnrc, multi-center south [speaker not understood]. there were a combined total of 261 people seeking reservations,