at this time commissioner seriina will take over. >> thank you. now we're up to action items. action item a requesting authorization to modify the grant with northern california presbyterian homes and services san francisco senior center for case management during the period of july 1, 2014 through june 30, 2017 in the additional amount of $114,450 for a revised total grant amount not to exceed $557,568. carrie wong will present but i see that shireen mcspadden here. >> yes. shireen mcspadden and i am here for carrie because she couldn't be here this morning.

this is for the purchase of services for those returning from acute hospitals and those in the san francisco tr transitional care program and northern california presbyterian homes is the lead against for the transitional care program and intervention for people to kind of meet people's immediate need when is they come out of the hospital and it incorporates coaching and coordination for people coming out of the hospitals and one thing that we realized would be helpful for the transitional care specialists to have is a little bit of funds to provide services for people that they need, so just like with the regular community living fund how the case managers have funds that they can use for specific services that people need when

they go out. this is similar. it's the same purpose, so they use those funds for rental assistance, for food, maybe a little home care, equipment, other supports that they need to put in place so they can stay safely at home when they get out of the hospital so this is not new. this is something that the transitional care specialists have had access to for a long time but we're moving from one service category to another so we're putting it under our case management category, but they have had access to it all along so this is really just a contract modification. >> thank you. do i have a motion for approve for discussion? >> [inaudible] >> thank you. any comments, questions from the commission? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none call the question. all in favor. >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you.

the motion carries. the second item is item b is requesting authorization to modify the grant with institute on aging for community living fund during the period of april 1, 2015 through june 30, 2015 in the additional amount of $40,500 for a revised grant amount not to exceed $16,941,577. shirreen. >> yes. this is a one time only request that we have before you. the city works with a number of organizations with these cfci's and provide houses with people living with hiv/aids and these organizations are facing some real difficultly -- real financial difficultly partly because of the cut in ryan white funds and partly

because it's a model that's really hard to sustain so they're looking at the people that live in those units and saying okay are their needs specific to hiv/aids or are there issues related to aging? do they need to stay in these units? do we need to look at this whole thing differently? and some of the organizations came to the city and asked can you help pay for this and use general fund to pay for people to live in these units and the stay came back and let's look and do an assessment and figure out if people really need that and make recommendations on what to do, so we don't have an agenda here, but it's said we had one time funding that we could provide for the process so this is kind of a joint effort between daas, the human services agency, and the mayor's office of housing work together on it

and we want to very much support the organizations that provide this housing. it's really important but we also want to make sure that the models are sustainable. that the organizations are efficient as possible and people living there are really the ones that need that specific housing and care, so we looked around. we had offered to find one time funding for this quite a while back and took a while to find an organization with someone with the skills to do the assessments and that is ioa and it's $40,500 and $300 per assessment and a one time request. >> thank you. may have a motion and seconds for discussion? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. any questions or comments from the commission? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none call the question. all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you.

the motion carries. item number c -- item c requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with aids housing alliance san francisco for the period of april 1, 2015 through june 30, 2018 in the amount not to exceed $2,631,330 . the purpose of this grant is to provide housing subsidy for seniors and adults with disabilities. this grant will be funded entirely through the county general funds. mike zaugg will do the presentation. >> good morning commissioners, executive director hinton. i am mike zaugg and a program analyst with daas. the contract is a new program and housing related program. i am sure you're away this is one of the big challenges in san francisco that

we face. census data shows us that the housing challenge affects seniors those with disabilities disproportionately and this program hopes to alleviate the situation through a subsidy payment and identify seniors and younger adults with disabilities that had a recent decrease in income and but for the assistance from the program would be evicted and the rental subsidy the eviction would be avoided and stabilized and could remain in home. the range of residents in san francisco that will benefit from the program varies but in particular it is to focus on the aging disabled. these are residents currently on long-term disability policies and are aging off of that policy, so when someone reaches the age of 65 that long-term

disability policy ends and they are then moved on to social security and /ssi and see a decline in income at this point. in particular this is thought to have a huge impact in the community of people living with hiv/aids. there are studies that show that the population in san francisco between 400 and 1200 individuals in san francisco that will fall into this aging disability situation. clients participating in the program are going to be asked to meet strict variability and reporting requirements to participate. >> >> the program as designed right now will serve 61 unduplicated clients on an annual basis. i believe this is a new program for daas moving into the housing realm and subsidy realm and we're excited about. the aids housing alliance and the contractor that we select side a new daas

contractor but we're excited to work with. certainly in the initial interaction with them i have been impressed with the knowledge of the current housing situation in san francisco and their passion for working to advocate around that. >> thank you mike. may i have a motion to approve and discuss for this purpose. >> so moved. >> thank you. commissioner loo. >> isn't there is a time area and 16, 17, and 18 -- the first page, the cover page. >> the annual amount. >> the annual amount. physical year. >> no, i believe that's correct. so fiscal year is essentially -- we're within 14-15 now. this contract will start as of today. it's currently budgeted for april, may, june -- that amount. >> since the fiscal year '16 and 17 is repeated. >> oh i'm sorry. that is

incorrect. so that would be 17-18. >> right. okay. >> thank you. >> and another question is this is a four years project? >> it's the three months plus the three years. >> okay. whenever -- okay. what happened if the need is still there will there be money to continue the program? >> you know honesty our budgeting is all done -- at this point we're entering into a contract for this length of time, but -- >> these dollars are in the department's baseline budget. >> okay. >> so unless we have another upheaval in the economy these dollars will stay with us but we will go back out to bid just like we do for all of the contracts in the three, four year cycle. >> thank you. >> i have a question mike. obviously this is a very important program but in

reading through the details it does not -- and listening to the presentation recipients don't have to be living with aids. is that correct? it's much more general? >> right. the intrierments are senior, younger adults with disabilities and meeting financial and other requirements. >> and given the housing crisis that is affecting people with aids, particularly seniors and low income people, was any thought given to targeting these fundings exclusively for people living with those conditions? >> i don't know. i know that this is -- that particular group is a priority within the target population which makes it unique from other daas programs but it's not exclusive. >> and one final question. how will that priority -- the success in meeting that priority be measured? >> it will be done through

collection of data and as this program is developing we're upon developing a matrix for various clients. >> i think it might be very helpful if after six or nine months you would come back to the commission and show the demographics that are being served because i think that is very important that we cannot exclusively give the funds to people with hiv/aids we can make sure that priority need is being met. any other questions? commissioner sims. >> not so much a question but a request. since aids housing alliance is a new contractor to daas i am looking for an excuse to introduce brian basin ger and say a few words to us and introduce the agency. i am pleased we're doing this and have the partnership establish and i had would love the commission to hear a word from

brian and hear about the history of aids housing alliance and his personal conviction to the commission. >> thank you. i am the director of aids housing alliance and i look forward to the support of this contract. these are 61 subsidies out of an estimated need -- there is a hearing downstairs right now between 400 and 1200 long-term survivors of hiv/aids who are receiving a employer sponsored disability and expected to transfer off of that income when they turn 65. there's an average 40% decrease in income so we are planning for hundreds of people a year who will be at risk of losing their housing over the next 15 years and so this is a start towards hoping to be able to address a portion of that need. we have 12 agencies who are going to be

collaborative partners. we built an online screening and referral data base that hopefully what we can do is capture information, so all these different case case managers can put them into our system and we have the estimated date of when they're losing their income so we can model out into the future how much money we need every year that we have 171 people identified this year going to be losing their money, so i think it's a very new approach, and it's been informed by working very closely in the housing world over the last 11 years and we provide a variety of eviction and homeless prevention services and in a lot of ways this is everything i have dreamed of and like if we only did it this way it would be better and we're at that place right now and i am super excited and i hope to make you proud of us. >> thank you. any other

comments? commissioner james. >> yes, could you tell me a little bit about the foundation? are you on the board, members from the alliance on the board of the foundation? ? how does that work? >> go ahead. >> so yes we are incorporated as the foundation and we -- our mission is provide safety net services for the hiv/aids and lgbt communities. aids housing alliance is a program of the q foundation. we're known as the aids housing alliance. we also have a cafe on campus at uc hastings and a job training program and called a hot cafe and we have another program simply sandwiches that delivers 10,000 organic brown bag sandwiches a year to all of our partner agencies, and then over

the last couple of years we started doing what we call qhrp and the lgbt and homeless prevention and rapid rehousing. >> thank you. any other questions commissioner james? >> no. i am trying to get the relationship. are they operating under the same 501(c)(3) oar whatever corporation? >> yes, there is one 501(c)(3) and i'm the executive director and on the board. >> okay. >> any questions or comments from the commission? any questions or comments from the public? hearing none call the question. all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you the motion carries. next item is b requesting authorization to modify the grant for in home

supportive services consortium for ihss contract mode and provider skills development training and support during the period of july 1, 2014 through june 30, 2015 in the additional amount of $714,695 for a revised total grant amount not to exceed $83,038,398. shirreen welcome back. >> thank you. i just want like quickly point out and it was mentioned earlier but in home supportive services consortium has changed its name to home bridge inc. and that didn't get reflected on the agenda there but it is correct on the memo, so just a reminder for those -- because i think ihss doesn't come before the commission as much as other programs and you know it's the biggest program by far and drives the budget of daas. one of the things that we have is

whey have the contract mode in san francisco and that is when people are unable to manage their own worker we can refer them to home bridge and home bridge has its own very, very well trained work force that can provide provider services to the clients that cannot manage their own person so it's a really important resource for us in san francisco, and in this case we're asking for an increase in this year's budget for $714,695. the main purpose is off set the grantee expenses for the increase in home care provider wages and benefits associated with the minimum wage ordinance. in addition to that we're adding 5,000 service hours to the contract and there are over

charges in the home care provider wages, and then increase to the direct staff and direct operating costs so i wanted to point out if you're looking at the budget. commissioner loo i am looking at you and you're detailed oriented and that is great. we're focusing on this year and if you look at subsequent years we have to come back with the requests for those years and this year looks bigger than the subsequent years and the years after that and that's why. we're just dealing with this year and we will come back for authorization from you for next year's budget and we're still working on that piece. >> thank you. may i have a motion and a second for discussion? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. any questions or comments? commissioner loo. >> yeah, i am looking at the benefit detail and seems like

it's awful high cared to the other programs. >> >> it's 41% compared to others i have seen and 15, 17 and the highest i have seen is 30 and this one is 41%. >> so we have mark burns here who is the deputy director of home bridge and maybe he can give specific information about that but i want to say we support our organization giving good benefits so he can probably give detail. >> good morning. i am mark burns and the dep director of home bridge, the ihss consortium. there are several reasons why it's high on the page. the first reason they're workers making in this fiscal year from 1175 to 1225 so benefits as a percentage of the base salary are higher than people making 15 to $25 an

hour. the second reason is that these are all seiu [inaudible] members and they have a red line pension and the pension is currently at 48% above the minimum consideration and that is adding to the rate as well and going up to 63% next year. the pension continues to be red lined. the workers have full health care through us and that's a good benefit carrying as part of the passion that we have a well compensated work force. >> thank you. any other questions or comments from the commission? >> maybe i will ask a question from anne. what is the average french benefit that you amount and the agency that we fund? >> >> so there is a wide range of benefit of benefits to salary

across the community providers. by in large and [inaudible] is correct and we strongly support a good benefit package and the city's policy for all of the providers but it ranges somewhere between probably eight, nine, 10% to probably 30%. i do think that mr. burns comment here is really what is worth noting. these are very low wage earners and therefore for someone making $10 an hour at 50% -- if the benefit is 50% that's $5 so if you look at the few things they receive which is health care, dental and retirement -- mark, is that what what you said? and those are the benefits and it's less than

that but it's really about the math on the low wage work force and i bet in any of the contracts we see something very similar. the city requires under ordinance that organizations with more than 10 staff provide those benefits to their employees so again it's just about the wage being so low that the percentage looks so high, but it's a normal package. >> and also the benefits are fixed amount. they're not tied to the salary so it's a higher percentage. >> absolutely. >> of the salary. >> so the same organization if someone is making $40,000 the percentage is lower because they're getting the same benefit package but it's a smaller percentage of their wages. >> any other comments or questions from the commission? any comments or questions from the public? >> i have one. >> commissioner. >> this is kind of out of -- [inaudible] maybe but i am curious about the name change

and what the rational was for it, just a little bit of context ? >> [inaudible] executive director. the name change. so when we started the agency 20 years ago we were made up of 12 community based agencies in the city as a consortium. comoachy and bayview hunters point and senior center and catholic charities and independent living -- there was a lot of us and we were a consortium. about five years after that we were no longer a consortium. we were just an agency, stand alone agency. at this point we probably should have changed our name because we were no longer a consortium but we did not so we continued with the ihss and as a lot of you know there is confusion at times between the ihss public authority, between the ihss department at daas and

the ihss consortium. it's very confusing so since we weren't a consortium and the name has been confusing we decided to change our name to home bridge which is a much better reflection of the agency as well as some of the expansion of the work that we're doing. we recently got the contract in san mateo county with the contractor and we're no longer just ihss in san francisco so the name is a better reflection, and we changed it march 1, something like that. >> thank you. >> your r. -- you're welcome. >> any other questions or comments? commissioner. >> yeah. i asked this before but what is the difference between ihss and home bridge? >> i'm sorry. >> what's the difference

between the ihss and the new name home bridge what kind of job, what kind of function is different? ihss. >> there is no difference. >> ihssue mean the public authority, commissioner? >> yes. >> so the ihss public authority does not employ the home care workers. the consumers hire directly their home care workers and home bridge, formerly the consortium as was said we actually have the responsibility of serving clients. we hire the work force. they're our employees. we superrize them and we have a training operation that the public authority uses but that's the

real difference. >> if i may add to that. the home bridge clients are unable to manage their own care workers where the public authority clients can manage and choose to do so, and that's another very important difference. >> thank you. i understand more now. >> thank you. >> okay. any other comments from the commission? comments or questions from the public? hearing none call the question. all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you the motion carries. item e requesting authorization to modify the grant with bayview hunters point multipurpose senior service inc. for community services during the period of march 1, 2015 through august 31, 2015 in the additional amount of $76,815 for a revised total grant amount

not to exceed $1,736,567. linda lau. welcome linda. >> good morning commissioners. president james, commissioners and director hinton. i will be printing an overview of the item that relates to agenda item e and f. you have the commission memo. this is the snap-ed grant that we're asking for authorization to modify for two contractors. snap-ed stands for supplemental nutrition assistance program education. this is a federal grant that we're getting for the first time this year. the purpose is to -- with this request is modify the funds from the snap-ed plus $5,000 from the board of supervisors for district

project for thai chi. this in addition to the community services program for the two contractors. bayview hunters point, multi-purpose senior services and self-help for the elderly. the main purpose of this program to improve the health and well being at seniors in the senior centers. if you look at page two of the memo, the table, it highlights the three different projects that we are recommending funding for. first under bayview hunters point multi-purpose senior services for this fiscal year 14-15 for the gardening project is for a total of $50,000 and for education is the total is listed. if you add the two projects it comes out to

$76,815 which we're asking authorization to modify and add to the existing contract. self-help for the elderly we're recommending thai chi program for total of $46,321. just a little background the california department of aging received snap-ed funding and we have an amount of that funding that was actually presented to the commission and it was approved several months ago. i believe it was in november. these contract modification is for us to be able to work with these two contractors to help us implement the three snap-ed projects. the goal is to target low income seniors below 185% federal poverty level and by impl