not i, but the interview panel will interview the top 3 test takers and so, i'm hoping to get the name of those at least for jane's position this week. then for the commission secretary position, there is a second questionnaire that we send out either friday or today by hr to the top 3. and then it's somewhat of a process. >> a process and after your interview of the three finalist, usually how long does it take? >> then it can take another, i mean you have to talk to people about when they are able to start right away or their needs to be a little bit of a transition and then dhr's process is about 2-3 weeks. >> okay. thank you.

>> okay. next item, please. >> next item is item no. 8. president's report. >> i don't have anything to report at this time. thank you. next item. >> item no. 9. vice-president's report. >> i don't have anything to report either. >> next item. >> item no. 10. commissioner's report? >> commissioner reilly? >> yes. i have been communicating with the in term florence lou. we met last meeting and he submitted to me an action plan. i will be meeting with frances chen on wednesday to go over the plan. let's see how i can help. >> okay. thank you. commissioner dooley? >> i participated last week at

a discussion at qad forum on chain stores. that included myself, eric mar, john ram and day workman from the chamber of commerce. >> good. when does that air? >> it aired already. >> was it radio? >> it was radio on forum on 9 am show. you can hear it online. >> would you like for me to send the link, commissioners? >> yes. that would be great. any other commissioner reports? okay. next item. >> we have item no. 11. general public comment. >> do we have any members of the public who would like to make any comment on any future small business commission meetings? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> next item.

>> item no. 12, new business. this allows members to introduce new agenda items for future business. >> do we have any future business? >> seeing none. next item. >> item 13 is adjournment. >> do we have a motion to adjourn. >> i move. >> second. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >>

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>> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our

community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good.

i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed porcelain. he transfers images onto and spoils the surface a fragile shes of clay. each one, only one-tenth of an inch thick. >> it took about two years to get it down. i would say i lose 30% of the pieces that i made. something happens to them. they cracked, the break during the process. it is very complex. they fall apart. but it is worth it to me. there are photographs i took 1 hours 99 the former soviet union. these are blown up to a gigantic images. they lose resolution. i do not mind that, because my images are about the images, but they're also about the idea, which is why there is text all

over the entire surface. >> marie in moved into the mansion on powell street just five years ago. its galleries are housed in one of the very rare single family residences around union square. for the 100th anniversary of the mansion, meridian hosted a series of special events, including a world premiere reading by lawrence ferlinghetti. >> the birth of an american corporate fascism, the next to last free states radio, the next-to-last independent newspaper raising hell, the next-to-last independent bookstore with a mind of its own, the next to last leftie looking for obama nirvana. [laughter] the first day of the wall street occupation set forth upon this

continent a new revolutionary nation. [applause] >> in addition to its own programming as -- of artist talks, meridian has been a downtown host for san francisco states well-known port trees center. recent luminaries have included david meltzer, steve dixon, and jack hirsch man. >> you can black as out of the press, blog and arrest us, tear gas, mace, and shoot us, as we know very well, you will, but this time we're not turning back. we know you are finished. desperate, near the end. hysterical in your flabbergastlyness. amen. >> after the readings, the crowd headed to a reception upstairs by wandering through

the other gallery rooms in the historic home. the third floor is not usually reserved for just parties, however. it is the stage for live performances. ♪ under the guidance of musical curators, these three, meridian has maintained a strong commitment to new music, compositions that are innovative, experimental, and sometimes challenging. sound art is an artistic and event that usually receives short shrift from most galleries because san francisco is musicians have responded by showing strong support for the programming. ♪

looking into meridian's future, she says she wants to keep doing the same thing that she has been doing since 1989. to enlighten and disturbed. >> i really believe that all the arts have a serious function and that it helps us find out who we are in a much wider sense than we were before we experienced that work of art. ♪ >> good morning, everyone, and welcome to the thursday, july 10th, meeting of the neighborhood services and safety councilmember frye.

my name is david campos. we are joined today by supervisor eric mar, the vice-chair of the committee. and i know that supervisor yee is also here. i want to begin by apologizing, folks, for making you wait. i actually had a family emergency to deal with this before this. everything is fine, but i apologize. i know that, you know, the last thing you want is to make people wait on something like this, so, my apologies. i want to acknowledge the clerk of the committee, derek evans. and also the following members of s.f.g. tv staff who are covering the meeting jesse larsen and jennifer low. with that, mr. clerk, if you can please call item number 1. >> item number 1 is a hearing regarding the closure of the university mound ladies home, specifically how the university mound ladies home board intends to ensure that none of the remaining residents will be without caron july 10, 2014.

>> great, thank you very much. i know that we have a number of members of the community that are here and we're going to have a brief presentation from a number of folks. but i want to just say that the reason that i called for this hearing is that i believe that what's happening with this institution, with the university mount ladies home, and the fact that the board of directors has given eviction notices and that there are dozens of retirees, many of them, most of them women, that are facing eviction at ages of 80, 90. the fact that that's happening, to me, is symbolic of the larger issue that's happening here in san francisco, which is that our city is changing to

the point that i believe we are forgetting what we are about as a city. and the fact that we can evict dozens of elderly women and men, and in so doing, for many of them it's essentially a death sentence to be relocated at that point in your life. the fact that we're doing that, to me, goes against everything that san francisco is supposed to be about. and i think that we in city government have a responsibility to make sure that we do everything we possibly can to prevent this closure and to prevent these evictions. and, so, i want to begin, before we hear from university mount ladies home, i want to just ask lonnie from the

mayor's office, the mayor's office and my office have been working hard in the last few weeks so that the city can do everything it possibly can to give this board of directors options other than closing this home and evicting these people. so, with that i'll turn it over to the mayor's office. i know that they have been doing a lot of work, and i greatly appreciate the work and the leadership, lonnie, of yourself and mayor lee. and i also want to acknowledge the work of laura ling in my office who has been spending a lot of time. so, with that, thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisors. thank you for having me. my name is lonnie kent, i'm with the mayor's office [speaker not understood]. we have been working on this very closely for the last couple months and just to give you a little bit of background we were notified in early may that residents at university mount ladies home have received eviction notices.

we immediately got on the phone with our city partners and tried to leverage our resource he around the city to see what we can do to stave off the closure and to keep these residents in place. our health department, our human services agency, the ombudsman, were all involved and we are checking in with long with laura ling to make sure that we are understanding -- understanding kind of what we were dealing with and what were our available options. human services agency and department of public health is here today to provide better details about the specifics, but i can provide you sort of the high level. we have been available throughout the process and indicated that we can provide assistance toward any efforts that would keep this facility open and the residents in place. we weren't granted access to the actual proposal coming in for, you know, reasons, contractual reasons, but we did

make it clear that we would provide that assistance once we were able to see what the ask was. we did -- throughout the process, we did encourage and directly support all proposals sent to umlh board. that would maintain the facility and allow the residents to stay in place. our health department worked very hard, too, to make sure that we were rounding up proposals that very specifically addressed our very specific concerns and they were able to produce them to the board. so, that was the last several months. we are very, very disappointed that despite these proposals that were sent to the board they have decided to go in a different direction. we agree losing the facility is a great loss to the city on multiple fronts. it's not just the displacement of these individuals residents, but it's also the loss of beds that are critical to our if infrastructure, and that lends itself to other questions we need to start looking at, but

that's another conversation ~. so, once we learned that umlh decided to go in a different direction, we shifted gears. and instead of working so hard to try to get the facility to remain open, we're trying to make sure that the residents that were evicted have the best possible outcome. we've, again, made it clear that we're able to provide some type of assistance to ensure that. it's just unclear what that assistance will be. so, we have asked that umlh provide us with their transition plan and their path moving forward so we can understand what -- what it is they're trying to accomplish and understand, you know, how they work within that framework to make sure the residents are burdened to the least possible level. we want to make sure that they're safe, that they get the same level of caron an ongoing basis. so, as of last night we received proposal and i haven't been able to look at it more closely and vet it to see what is actually -- what the plan is moving forward.

>> again, thank you very much. i really appreciate all of your efforts. and i know that in addition to those proposals that the mayor's office and the mayor's department have presented to this board of directors, we have even talked about -- my office has proposed and consider doing a supplemental appropriation as part of our budget to provide, you know, money for this board or to this entity to stay afloat until we figure out a long-term solution. do you have -- did you get a response as to why they did not accept -- i know we're going to hear from them, but from the city's perspective, did they tell you why, you know, even though all these different options to remain open and to not evict people, the percentage of them, why they chose to go forward with it? >> that's a real guide question, and i've asked it to -- i actually haven't seen a proposal, but i can say that they believe that the current

business model is not an effective one and that they need to do something differently. and that some of the proposals that were put forward did not offer a big enough difference in what they were doing and what these new buyers might plan to do moving forward. so, i haven't -- i haven't read it so i can't verify it, but that's what i've been led to understand. >> great, thank you very much. i know that we have here our deputy director of public health, collene [speaker not understood]. and if i can ask her to please come up and she has a brief presentation. and i know the department of public health has been working very hard with the mayor's office on this. so, thank you very much for being here, and, again, thank you for your work. >> thank you, supervisors. collene [speaker not understood], deputy director of health. thank you for calling this hearing, and i'm pleased to be able to tell you today about our history, which is a long

one with university mount ladies home. in 2008, dph responded to assist university mount ladies home, which was in danger of closure at that time. the building was in need of repair and the census had diminished. we don't have direct authority over umlh. we are, we are in contract with them to provide services, but they are licensed by the state and the state is their regulatory body. so, the way that we worked to assist them in their financial deficit was to place patients, dph patients at umlh with a patch to a $50 a day to supplement affordability for our clients and to help university mount ladies home address their financial concerns. we placed our first client there in september of 2008 and have maintained ever since an average of 15 clients per year at umlh. to date we have provided the

university mount ladies home with over $1.5 million in supplemental payments. our patients, as the board knows already, are low-income. the patients that we place there are aged or disabled and often medically complex or with behavioral health issue. because they require a high level of care that university mount was providing, we worked with the state and federal regulatory authorities to have umlh certified to participate in a special program that will provide higher reimbursement and recognition of the higher cost of care, higher level of care that the patients were needing. we worked closely with the state and federal government and with umlh to have umlh certified to participate in this program. post certification, however, umlh declined further participation. in light of this recent closure upon our notice to us in may of

2014, dph staff identified two potential buyers for umlh. we worked closely with other residential care facilities for the elderly that we have strong relationships with and that we know are god providers. and one of those two ended up submitting a letter of interest. that letter of interest would have maintained umlh as a residential care facility for the elderly, made the necessary repairs, and continued serving residents during this time. at the time of umlh's closure announcement, 7 clients resided at this facility. -- at the time of their closure announcement, that is. so, this is just a short timeline about what we have done and what we have known since the time of the closure announcement. so, we were provided with the 60-day closure notice in may of 2014. as i mentioned, the facility is overseen by the state regulatory agency called the community care license division

of the state department of public health. the state department of public health contacted us and contacted the human services agency to establish ongoing communications to support patient transitions and to ensure in the event patients br left on the closure date there was a plan in place to care for those patients. in june of 2014, dph reached out, as i mentioned, to potential buyers for umlh. the formal letter of the one was submited in that month, and we also began securing alternative placements for our clients that we placed in that facility. and in this month the city was just asked to assist with placement of non-dph clients and as the board is aware unction the facility is scheduled to close on july 31st, 2014. ~ so, our role in the placement of residents, 27 residents as of our last count, 27 residents

remain at university mount. five of those are dph clients. i mentioned that we had 7 upon the notice of closure, we've already placed two of our clients in alternative placements, five remain, and placements for all five of these clients has been secured. so, all five of our clients have alternative placement. our staff has made themselves available to consult with university mount ladies home on appropriate placements for the remaining 22 residents, but it is important to note that because of hip a patient confidentiality laws, we cannot actively assist without having the authority to do so, the authorization to have medical information communicated to the department ~. so, we've made ourselves available to assist university mount in whatever way we can. and then finally, as the supervisor mentioned, the supervisor, supervisor campos sponsored an add back in dph's

budget of $250,000 in the current fiscal year to help place residents in university mount to other appropriate placements. it is important to note that we think that though we pay a $50 patch per person per day, it is likely that a larger patch would be required, something along the lines of $80 per person per day in order to find appropriate placementses for all patients. ~ this would result in about $29,200 a year per person placed in an alternative location. we are committed to ensuring that the remaining residents of university mount are placed in appropriate facilities and we'll do what we can to help the organization as it goes out of business to place patients safely. >> thank you very much. i really appreciate the very thorough presentation and all the work that dph has done. and just one thing about the add back, just want to be very clear that none of that money is designated for the board of