be looking at charging for larger signs maybe if the tenant wanted you know something much larger we'll exposure. >> we've looked pier identity and saying how much is a pier would you cupping occupy before you'll qualify for that we haven't looked at a pricing instructor but certainly expand this at the commissions interest to place it so we have that tenant so it's ton site not general advertising fits within that tenant that tenant is within the facility it goes on. >> so thank you i think it understand the commissioner commission has an interest in the sign program

once we get something set. >> not necessarily (laughter). >> i was just saying like the small bloomberg sign outside the door but if bloomberg minded their name on the outside of the pier 53 we should charge of they're not a tenant. >> like having on major buildings put their name on the top of building they pay a fee for that. >> as dan alluded to there's co-recollections to the amount of space look at the amount of space they occupy. >> i think we're him or her one the issues we have being waterborne tours most of the piers are transit shut they're not putting in the back, if you

will, it will behove us to have no more identification from the waterside we're explorer that the only tenant is pier 72 hour 39 through the use of flags in the back that's on the docket we're not as evolved in our thinking as you are. >> i had is a a couple of specific questions that occurred to me i appreciate the effort to standard device this i know it's easier for the guidelines for staff and the tenants this is also a hot bottom issue or hornet nest a couple of questions on the temporary signages and the bartenders just a wording in section 3 maybe predicament up to two temporary signs is that at a time per month this is the timing needs

to be specified. >> what's included in the staff report of the current sign. >> we keep editing those but thank you. >> (laughter). >> we will be describing to you the draft we'll look at very differently and have a completely different format and everything we've discussed here today. >> and awning i think one of the parts we want to particularly focus on the projection out from the building i notice several of the works are in violation of the current guidelines or at least if their sienlz on is that counted on the building didn't it meet the two inch or the 6 inch or the cause of the banners projecting out. >> the proposed guidelines will have the - the canopies are 5 or

6 feet out from the building a chance to provide that commercial identity and specify metal or glass for the canopies we do that with our experience working with the historic preservation officer how we can add signage and identity to a building in a light weigh so it will give specific materials how to do that including the banners we'll be proposing a 3 foot width or 12 or 15 foot width to match the scale of the arc area. >> it's important to mention the guidelines that are quote/unquote guidelines were not adapted by the planning commission; is that correct

they've been a guidance we've used in discussions with our tenants and through the various projects over the past couple of years we've tried to apply those uniformly so to speak the written guidelines needs to catch with the guidelines do you want to add something to that bryan the question are we ought in front of the commissioned approvals or not we adapted the current guidelines. >> the commission did. >> i know the draft report contains the draft number but we've learned so much since that at this point in time about the historic district it's time to take a fresh look at those and not tweak the existing whops but a complete rewrite.

>> okay if i could add diane i know from the planning and development the ideas of canopies are new elements as part of the historic preservation this highlights the need to update our sign guidelines we worked with ship and trying to find a way to have that formerly recognized in our guidelines. >> thank you that's exciting i know its people are looking for ways to put up signage it's important we have improved and clear guidelines and restrictions some uniformity thank you. i'm looking forward to seeing what you're coming up with.

>> new business. >> a number of the items on an informational basis that will come back for actions navigation i think there are 3 follow-up items another update on the south beach harbor the tier bertha rates we've discussed at length and second i'll definitely commissioner ho explorer the cyber security i assure you there's something going on i don't know when i'm allowed to say i apologize and the third item i have was when we lock in a performer for the place making phase of 337 we call the pop up event space to bring it back for your consideration or your review. >> so those are the 3-d i

mission anything. >> commissioners. >> the commissioners commissioner president katz and commissioner brandon they've been here a lot longer than can you beef us on sinbad i want to know the history i'm to be briefed if there's anything we can be doing under the executive session thank you. >> certainly. >> okay. commissioner spoken. >> oh outlook i had the same one. >> that maybe need to be coming into the executive cigarettes that pertains to some settlement. >> we'll certainly take a look at that the best formats for bringing it back to be discussed. >> i think that.

>> i move to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i meeting is adjourned thank you, everyone. >> thank you happy new year >> hi, in san francisco we're doing a special series called stay safe, about staying in your home after an earthquake. and today we're going to be talking about the neighborhood support center to help people find new resources when they stay in their home.

♪ ♪ >> we're here at the urban center in san francisco with sarah karlewski, deputy director of spur. we're talking about the shelter, a safe place to stay, exhibition at their center. and part of being able to shelter in place in your home is to be able to find a place nearby where you can get the services that you might not have in your home. and that's what this little neighborhood support center is for. >> that's right. >> what are some of the services that might be provided in a neighborhood center like this? >> yeah. so, we think of the neighborhood support centers as really being homes away from home. so, after a major earthquake there is going to be a lot of confusion. people are going to need to try to meet up with other people. they're going to need a lot of

information. so, a lot of what the neighborhood support center is going to provide is that information. basically we're going to be like a hub where people can come to get services, help, information, et cetera. what you see here on this table are a whole variety of did you ever rent things from tools, some walki-talkies. this helps people know what is going on in their neighborhood. over here you have a whole variety of water and canned goods. we're really hoping that people will stock up for themselves at least for the first 72 hours if not more. i know that i have a ton of canned food and other sorts of things such as water within my own home. and everybody should, but there's going to come a time where people are going to end up running out and needing more. so, that's what we've got right here. >> so, this neighborhood support center, this doesn't

look to be a major city sponsored fully stocked space. it can be a small commercial space, even somebody's garage as long as they have the information, a guide of information, who to call for what, communications equipment, some power, have a generator. >> that's right. >> thinking of lights and charge your cell phones and so on. and probably be operated by volunteers. >> volunteers, maybe members of nert could help out, people who live in the neighborhood that have some building skill could be helpful. so, if there is a structural engineer living nearby or even an architect, they could really help people kind of understand what has happened to their homes and what sort of repairs might be needed. >> here we are with some of the things that you might find in a neighborhood support center. one thing we learned from hurricane katrina, people really rely on their portable electronics and their phone. we say here's a charging station tied up to the

generation. the essential coffeepot. >> yes. >> maybe a computer, you can check your e-mail with. >> yes. we have our charging station here. and then over here you can see we've got a whole variety of things, including the all-important different tags. so, lawrence, do you want to talk a little about the tags? >> sure. people want to know what do these tags mean. is my building safe or unsafe. these are the city owe initial tags. staying in your home doesn't require that you get a tag. it just means that you use common sense and maybe get help from people who might be around who can help you evaluate whether it's a safe place to stay. >> you might want to know because regular city services are disrupted, you might want to know when trash pick up is, if you need to get clean water, et cetera. also in the neighborhood support center, that kind of information would be available and we've got a little of that up here. >> trash pick up resumes regular schedule on wednesday. >> that's right.

>> please mark your human waste. >> that's right. >> so, this is kind of an information center, communication center, also a center that hopefully will show people how to relate to their neighboring communities, what else is happening city-wide. and, of course, this is sort of the ubiquitous form of communication. my cat is missing, call me. >> exactly, because a lot of times, even if you do have a cell phone, and people do if you're really trying to save some of your precious energy minutes, et cetera, or it's not working as well as it normally does, it is helpful to have a message board that you can get information to other people. and, so, that's what we're showing here. you can see people are going to be looking for their pets. they're going to be looking for rides. people are going to need to be sharing resources a much as they possibly can. another thing that you can see here is they're going to need to be fair tools and some of the things that people are going to need in order to be

able to stay safer within their homes. so, we're just showing sort of a gesture to that with all these different tools here. but then also tarps, people are going to need to cover their windows if their windows are cracked, if their roofs are broken. so, ideally, the city would be able to know where all these neighborhood centers are and help deliver some of these supplies. >> they could come from a neighbor, maybe not. thank you so much for allowing us to come in and share this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for present.

>> >>at this time i'm going to turn the meeting over to my vice president because i have asthma and i think he can carry through. thank you. >>thank you. richard, would you announce some changes to the treatment of the agenda, please? >>if you all look at page three on the agenda please note that vice president seriina will not be calling the agenda items in that order. >>thank you. >>the items will be called in the following order: item e, item i item j item f item h and item g.

with that modification i ask for a vote to approve the agenda. >>approve. seconded. >>all in favor, any opposed. thank you, the motion carries. >>i would like to also make a slight change in the agenda and move the employee recognition of after my report if that's possible. >>absolutely. any objection to changing the agenda? thank you. item number 3 approval of a consent agenda. >>so moved. >>second. >>thank you. any discussions? any comments from the public? all in favor? >>i. >>any opposed? thank you, the motion carries. item number 4 approval of the december 23, 2014 meeting minutes. any modifications or changes to

the minutes? any comments or changes from the public. hearing none motion to approve. >>approve. >>second. >>any opposed. thank you, the motion carries. . now item number 5 director's report, ann hinton. >>good morning president james, seriina and commissioners, just a few things to report. first of all i want to thank deputy mcfadden for taking responsibility in replacing me of december in washington dc at a board meeting and having visits on the hill and that's where i want to start with my report in terms of things that have been happening since i saw you. you know that congress was able to reach a budget agreement so

we are not having a continuing resolution at this point, we actually have the budget in place and that budget although not having all the things that we were certainly advocating for when the board was in dc in early december it had one thing in it that was a very pleasant surprise and that was that for the very first time congress has provided $4 million for the elder justice act initiative and this is something that's been in place for years but has never been funded and there was a lot of concern that if there wasn't funding put into the budget at this point the act itself might go away and have to start all over with that. the president has, in his budget, asked for more money for this, in which wasn't funded to the full amount he asked for, but to have 4 million in first time funding i think is

significant in the funding itself not so much in the dollar amount. 4 million for the entire country won't go very far, but will give the administration of community living additional dollars to build on the platform that they have become which is to direct data from across the country so they can start looking at what does elder abuse look like across the state and provide information to us so i think that was just really great news. some of the disappointing news was that money for the adult and disability resource centers 10 million of the 16 million that funds that program for across the country, 10 million of that was in play since early fall. and that 10 million was not refunded so $16 million program has now gone to 6 million. it was something that wasn't funded at its maximum anyway so

we're waiting to see now what fallout there will be. san francisco has been implementing an adult with disability resource model with very little of this kind of funding anyway so i think we're going to be find but i think watching what happens in the rest of the state will be important as we were really hoping for sites across the state, so no matter where an older adult or family would be they would be able to access that site and move from county to county as they needed to be. we'll have to see what happens. i think there will be more advocacy on this issue from now until the spring so we'll have to see on that. we also -- if you remember a couple of years ago we had legislation in congress that's requiring reductions for the next ten years we're in our third year now. those cuts are still in place.

we were hoping to get back to the 2010 2012 funding levels but that was not to be. but i think we had been expect that would be the case. there was a little flurry of excitement on the hill one of the day i was there. we thought that the older americans act was going to move. it looked like both senators in deep conversation over this and over the funding formula had reached a come promietdz compromise, but things have not happened. it's interesting to be there when things are flying and fast and furious and then at the end of the day you're back to where you were. i think that's most of the life lights on the budget. the state budget we're still

waiting to see what comes from that what the governor will suggest. we know our city and county budget is in better shape than it's opinion for a number of years so the mayor has issued directions tomorrow afternoon i feel think at 3:00. somebody's going to nod to me. 3:00 tomorrow there is a budget meeting, everyone's invited to that so if you want to hear more details, but at the january -- at our next meeting you will be getting all the details around it but safe to say we won't be doing any program reductions like we have done in previous years and we're looking forward to a much better time in this year's budget. i have two other things i have wanted to report on. one is that the sheriff has convened a group of people to discuss the older adult population that's in custody and this is a meeting that he's been trying to pull people together

to for a while now. kathy davis, day view hunters point, senior services was at the table. and of course members of his own team were there and i think this is one of what's going to be probably many meetings moving toward a much larger convening of people to really look at what's happening to the population there. and i say old earler adults bewe're really talking about people in their 50s and up because many of the people coming into custody now in that age range have cognitive impairment so i think it will be a very interesting conversation with not such easy solutions, both to -- is resolutions to things while people are in custody may be easier to reach than to do when people are released but it's going to be interesting. and the last thing i wanted to

talk about today is that linda lau, our nutritionist is going to join me for this part of my report. i'm going to send this around because i want you to have a chance to look at it. this was a gift from a group that was here from america samoa a couple months ago. i wanted linda to share with you what she has -- what she has been doing with this group of folks. some time ago the regional office, the federal regional office here in san francisco asked linda if she would provide support and resource and some direction to a group of people in america samoa. the idea was that there were no nutrition programs there, no nutrition sites and how to get things up and running. and so not only did linda do that but on the recent visit

that they had here to the city, they got around to visit some of our sites. as linda will tell you they now have more than one site. it is really an exciting program and i just really -- kudos to linda, but it was great to have of course, the feds ask the san francisco triple a to be part of this initiative so linda, i'm going to turn it over to you. >>good morning commissioners. just a little background the american samoa had asked us to share some best practices and resources with them. as was mentioned, they don't have any home deliver meal programs, but they were receiving title 3c federal money for these programs and what they

were doing for over 20 years was providing a food voucher which they can use in any grocery stores for anything they want so there was little control over what kind of food but in essence it didn't meet the guidelines for the older americans act. and so in july 2013 they asked and we were fortunate to have our department agree to provide that support to them and they basically -- we share best practices. they made a visit to san francisco in january, 2014 to visit a few of our centers, including third street senior center santon latino and the samoan community development center which we offer samoan hawaiian style meals. that was one of the impetus was

on how to provide that and activities for the seniors. so we did. it took them a little over a year-and-a-half to get everything together so i wanted to show you some brief slide shows that they had shared with us and a little bit of highlights of what happened during the visit. so this is the american samoa and their mission is to provide the best services with the utmost respect in order to be perpetuate and maximize the happiness and well being of american samoan senior citizens. this is -- you probably can't see the organizational chart here but i thought it was very interesting because their organization's very different. on the very top is the governor for the american samoan

government and right below that is their director and we met with him. they were the administrators and they wanted to see how it happens because there was a lot of resistance from the seniors who were very vocal. they didn't want to change the food voucher program because they were used to that for over 20 years. anyway, in may, 2014, they had a procurement meeting with all the different vendors. they look at different models how they can implement this because resources are pretty scarce and they didn't have the type of infrastructure that we have, but they have restaurants and they have schools, they looked at schools. but finely they -- nothing that i have went with was working with caterers and having the restaurants be able to provide the food for the different senters that they will offer the

new program. there are 15 new sites where they started this program in different parts of the island. interestingly they wanted to start out with a few pilot programs, but nobody wanted to start so they said oh the heck with it. this is a sample of the meals they provide, home delivered meals and they are using the menu that we have approved for the samoan community development center. this is another sample of the meals. of course this is very common and culturally well accepted. now, this is a picture of the seniors at graduation and what they did was that because they couldn't volunteer -- getting volunteers was different in the