community now for a number of years. we're in a stall pattern now because of hipaa and plan privilege and all those kind of things but we'll get back to it once the city folks figure out how we can share data and make it okay. that's not all. of course dos is filled with many programs and we've got adult protective services, joe in the back there nodding her head. and we have jason in our intake and screening and consultation unit. across the department we're looking at how do we provide the best outcomes and you do that i have think, through qa. i remember when you first came you tried to give me a tutorial on it. i still have those pieces of paper. i read them really well today i'm not quite sure about the difference between the two, but i know we're better for it. we've struggled with this.

this has not be easy because all our programs -- all of us are used to problem solving within our program when a consumer is dissas dissatisfied or whatever. and frankly, sometimes we can have a better outcome for the family because it's usually the family who we're working with. i can't -- anybody who's worked with ria, could you stand up please? okay so it's really an -- you see that? okay. down. down. i know ria has family here so if her family could stand.

[applause] thank you for teaching us a lot, thank you for your quiet way of teaching us. she didn't pound your head on the desk around it she just quietly and quietly moves it forward and makes sure we are doing what we need to do. i've always got questions so she's always willing to take my questions and we always get back to where she started, which is interesting for me. i just can't thank you enough. i think the department's pet better for the work and i'm very sure that the individual people you worked with are as well. now, who brought the flowers? who was the person with the flowers? now it's time to bring the

flowers. ria's just -- oh we've got more flowers. this is ronny. very nice, there you go. [applause] we're just doing whatever we're going to do here this morning. let's get a picture. [applause]

>> >>thank you very much. the next item on the agenda is the advisory council report. >>good morning commissioners, i'm filling in for president schmidt. the advisor committee didn't meet in december and will be reconvening on january 21. >>the next item on the agenda is the joint legislative committee report. >>we did not meet in december so in february we'll have a full report >>long term coordinating council report. >>the long term coordinating

council didn't meet in december. our next meeting is tomorrow afternoon. >>thank you. you're making this meeting very efficient. [laughter] next item on the agenda is the tack report. kathy russo. >>good evening, tack did meet in december. [laughter] well what we came out with was in 2015 we are going to have a white house conference on ageing. this should be a year for celebration, it's the 80th anniversary of the social security act and the 50th anniversary of the older americans act, medicare and medical. nora super has been named the director at the white house on ageing and they plan to launch an official site. white house conference on ageing.gov. well, after a year in which

seniors have had to fight to keep the benefits we have the conference already appears underfunded. there has to be some funding, it's part of the old american's act, but they haven't really rushed to do that but there's some mandatory funding. but with this conference we need represent -- the idea is that representatives come in from all over the united states and meet and discuss and bring up issues and come out with things. well it costs money for people to make this trip and stay there so as it become underfunded there is less representation across the seniors and their programs in the united states and there would be possibly a small select group we've had on

others discussing this but nothing really exciting or different is expected to come out of the conference. so the message that comes to us from this is to be on the alert to what is happening with funding for the white house conference and to -- hopefully see that our representatives are supportive of this group going across the nation for this. what's going to happen? we're fortunate to have ann hin hinton here. she can keep us up on what's going on and what's happening. if they don't get the funding there is less representation and guess what then they come to the local ones and say they want a written report to be sent in. they'll be looking to different groups here to send in written

reports for suggestions, questions and things like that. the message that seemed to come out about this was be alert, watch what's happening. end of my report. >>thank you kathy. did the announcement about the conference state the purpose of the conference? did it indicate any high level goals that it hopes the conference would achieve or attain or was it just a conference? >>it was a conference. they did say there were things they were looking at a theme: retirement security they figured was a vitally important issue, they wanted to come out with that; listening term services and supports is a priority; and healthy ageing they consider very important because the baby boomers are ageing.

they didn't pay attention to us but the baby boomers are ageing; and they're also concerned about the older americans who are vulnerable to financial exploitation abuse and neglect. those are the issues. >>worthwhile themes indeed. any other questions or comments? >>i've attended a couple of white house conferences and i'm just wondering they would have them in three different parts of the country, like, one in san francisco, maybe one in philadelphia and maybe one down south rather than one -- so i'm just wondering what are they planning? just to have one and one time and have it simultaneously broadcast whether they planning on three separate ones? >>they did not -- the meeting i was at, no one went into detail on how this would be handled.

the main concern was finance, that what was going to happen and how they did it depended so much on how it was financed but i hate to do this to you ann, but any questions on what's going to be ann will be our expert, or she is our expert. >>i thank kathy for reminding me. nora attended our board meeting in dc and though she was unwilling at that point to say, we now know there will be five. there will be the white house conference at the white house. there will be five sessions throughout the country. in florida, in oregon another in arizona and another in ohio. one of them will not be in

california. and also aarp has put money towards the conference. you asked earlier about the consequence of not having the act. the white house has put in money and so has aarp but it's nowhere the money that would be needed. thus we're having the five and six probably in the fall. >>any comments or questions from kathy? any comments or questions from the public? thank you. the next item on the agenda is the case report. hello patty and valerie. >>good morning. i'm here with some of my colleagues, we have a presentation we're going to do and you have it sitting at your desks now. we met in december we had a

holiday party and our white elephant is becoming quite famous and getting some interesting gifts and a lot of fun was had by all. our board also met in december and we finalized our advocacy platform. this is what we feel is needed in our community. i'll just read it so the public know what is you're looking at also. thank you all for -- that you do for all of san francisco especially our senior citizens an adults with disabilities. as you are aware, the number of older adults in living in san francisco increased by 18,000 between the year 2000 and 2010. the california department of finance projects that the demographics will increase in san francisco by another 30,000 individuals by the year 2020.

even if the senior population increases by only a portion of those projections, there is a clear need to expand the capacity of senior services beyond historical levels. as the chair and cochair of the coalition of agencies serving the elderly, we represent vital nutrition, financial, social and daily support for elderly san francisco citizens. we write today to bring your attention to the issues important to san francisco seniors and adults with disabilities. the following issues have been vetted and voted on by cases board of directors and its memberships. commissioners, director hinton i my name is linda murly, i'm the director of the richmond senior senior center. a work group has identified the

following strategies to safeguard the viability and relevance to san francisco senior centers. strategy one, address staffing at senior centers. they all need additional support, be it translation, outreach or social service staff. strategy two transition recent years, community services funding to baseline funding for future years. add back funding has provening to strengthening services and promote consumer satisfaction.strategy three, focus on long term advantages of building community. building public awareness can galvanize the community during budget and election season. through community building we engage volunteers community partners donors advocates and policymakers. for the 2015 '16 budget

request, case urges dos to promote these goals for the following funding, an average of $50,000 for approximately 1 $1,250,000, which would help a lot of contractors. >>good morning director of studio street senior center. while the majority of service contractors agree with locating adrc staff in in major hubs throughout the community, it was our understanding when we applied that one resource center and one person would be available in each district. many agencies were disappointed to learn that after we submitted our proposal that there would only be enough funding for one 32 hour information and

assistant specialist per district and in two cases we were asked to take on who districts. this funding and staffing configuration are not adequate to meet the growing needs for services and also to conduct a very important outreach which we have talked about being very important. in our cases advocating for the 2015, '16 budget to increase each of the specialists currently funded from 32 hours to 40 or whatever full-time is in their respective agency and to ensure those other two districts that were not assigned somebody would also have access to a worker so that would be two different agencies. the project costs that we roughly calculated is $229,927. >>good morning commissioners,

my name is karen garison. i'm here today to talk about case management and services here in san francisco. many agencies struggle with the ability to recruit and retain qualified case managers with limited contract dollars provided by dos and their own fund raising efforts. agentcyies are competing against county funded positions that are paid at a much higher rate. along with the stringent hiring requirements it has become increasingly difficult to identify and employ qualified candidates. in order to provide a high standard of care for our san francisco's community of seniors and adults with disabilities contractors need increases in funding to be able to adequately fund these vital positions. 2015, '16 budget requests requests dos to allow agencies to pay a more equity salary

level for caseworker positions. . the cost would be approximately $200,000. my next point is for [inaudible]. while the final decision is delayed until later this month, we want to make sure this issue stays among your priorities. [inaudible]. group van and ada transportation are most vital to disability population and consumers shouldn't have to pay additional fees for this critically needed service. thank youm. >>and our final platform item is the cost of doing business. as not for profit providers we urge you to consider across the board cost of doing business for all non profits. this has been a long standing problem and weapon just want to continue to bring it to your attention. we'd love to see an established

annual cost of doing business for all contractors. maybe consider doing a cost of doing business increase of 4% for the year 2015 2016. we will follow up with your and you staff with a meeting. we're also willing to organize nietz an opportunity for community round table with the case membership and partners. we want to thank you in advance for your time and look forward to discussing these issues with you soon. this was a letter sent to ann hinton and commissioners also got a copy. our meeting for case is are there any questions?

y >>if we can see how we get to those goals that funding sources be identified given the continuing limited resources the city maintains it has something is going to have to get less money if we are to get more money so identifying funding strategies will help the department in getting the additional monies we need but i think this is an excellent start, a very good framework and very rational and clearly thought out. thank you very much. >>thank you. just so you know we plan on taking this up to the mayor and board of supervisors as well. we'll meet with all the supervisors on the same topic because as their population grows the need for services is growing and we'll have to put more money into the kitty to make these services available to all people in need in the community. >>any other questions or

comments. >>this letter is directed to you and generally the second. are you going to respond to this letter? i just wonder. >>i meet with the cochairs of case on a monthly basis and i also meet with the membership at least once if not twice a year so i've already had one meeting with folks who worked on this document prior to its coming to the commission and we'll obviously be meeting with them again. >>commissioner james. >>i just want to say is i looked at this and i thought about the increase for non profit. i think we'll have to think about other departments who might have non 3r069 profits in them. they will want increases too and

this will affect the whole city budget. just keep that in mind. groups an other commissions, they have non profits too and that can affect the whole city budget if we start increasing so i just remember advocating as a new commissioner out there with gary newson when he said i was supposed to be on his side. i want you to keep that in mind as we advocate for all these non profits. >>thank you commissioner. any comments or questions from the public? commissioner loo. >>you're requesting the budget request, 1,215,000 and each

community is 50,000 and if i add up 37 service members it should come up with a million 800 something. >>it's a rough estimate. we got the providers together and they all had different amounts, but to make it simple we tried to put an average in there and some of them were actually okay. it's the best you can do when you bring all 37 together and get the quantified number. >>thank you. >>any other questions or comments from the public? thank you very much. we were now at general public comment. there any general public comment? hearing none item number 8 old business. i'm sorry, i didn't see you. thank you.

>>good morning and happen my new year commissioners.jessica lemon with senior and disability action. i always have announcements about up coming events i wanted to let everyone know about. the state budget was mentioned and we and a lot of other folks around the city and state are working hard to make sure we prevent cuts but now that the state has more money coming in that that money goes back into human services. there's an action this friday which will coincide with the governor proposing his budget for the year so that action is going to be friday at 12:30 in front of the state building on the mcallister side. some of the programs we're looking at bringing more funding into back are in home services, medical, child care a lot of other similar services.

the other thing is we are working hard to secure free muni for low and moderate income seniors and people with disabilities. people may have seen the recent news articles it's looking very positive. it looks likely to be approved by the mta on january 20. we want to invite everyone to come out to that meeting. we'll do a rally on the steps of city hall on that day, tuesday, january 20 and the hearing will be at 1:00. again, we expect it to go well. it should be an exciting time for the community really to come out and to see this major change happen to benefit seniors and people with disabilities. thank you. >>thank you. any other public comment. item number 8, old business presentation, free muni for seniors and people with disabilities diana hammond, san francisco transportation agency. >>good morning, i'm happy to be

here to be able to provide you with this presentation as a proposal that you just heard about that our board will be considering on january 20. i was reminded by the chairman of our board who just left tom nolan, that the item will be called at the beginning of the agenda so regardless of where it may fall on that he will be calling it at the beginning to be able to hear from all the folks who are supportive of this program at the beginning of this meeting. at this point i want to turn the presentation over to emmet nelson who is our project coordinator. thank you. >>good morning, commissioners, i'm the program manager for free muni at sfmta.

i'm here to present to you the free muni for seniors and people with disabilities. as we've heard today the sfmta board of directors is set to review this program to seniors on january 20. this program will provide free muni to low and median seniors. is there will be a one time pass that will be loaded on to an existing clipper cards. that just means that once the free pass is loaded on to the clipper card it's a one time pass. the customers will not need to reload every month. it will be sitting on their card for use. one thing we want to stress is that this program, much like

muni for youth program, is only for available for san francisco residents and the income levels are 100% of the bay area median income which are shown on the slide here for households of one through six and there's a slight increase as households get bigger that we have back at the office. if approved we will begin accepting applications immediately at mta. we'll have the website ready to go that afternoon. if the program is approved with applications ready on the website. the free pass will be loaded on to the existing senior clipper cards. it's about five weeks to get the pass loaded on to applicant's cards. the processing timeline will vary depending upon the customer's status with the clipper card. it will take about three weeks for customers who have an

existing clipper card four weeks for a senior who doesn't have a clipper card. the extra week for that is because we need to create a clipper card for those new applicants and seven weeks for customers with disabilities who don't have their clipper card. it's because there's a separate application for the rtc card that i'll speak in and about a bit. for existing clipper card holders the process will be pretty streamlined. they can come mrooet an application online by mail or by calling 311 if they request assistance. 311 representative can help them fill out a paper form and send it to them. a card holder needs to have a card registered to them biy showing their proof of age to

get the card. the pass will be created in three weeks and they'll get notification in the mail saying their pass is active and they can ride. for current cash customers, for those who don't have a clipper card the customers can obtain an application online or in person. we're working with regional group to have applications available at different outlets where seniors are regular customers. there's also an option online where a customer can request multiple applications be mailed to their home if they don't have access to a printer. from there the customer will submit the application and a copy of proof of age via mail or dropping it off at the sfmta