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a two-year part. it would help us to support the centers in the new work that they have undertaken. even though we have had a downturn for many years, and unable to expand in many ways, we have had growth in the arena of volunteers, technology, we certainly are in heaven demanding more data from the folks that we contract with. so this would help with those items. the fourth bullet is dollars though be targeted towards a technology council those form just this past year. the council is comprised of people who work in the world of technology, businesses who are serving older adults may be use technology. committee providers,
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number of city departments, and you have really been looking at how can san francisco address the needs of older adults and younger adults with disabilities so that there included in this digital world that were all part of and not be excluded. it certainly looked that our counterparts in other parts of the country, but i think one poorly, and other parts of the world, the things they are doing there i did say yesterday i was at the innovation summit and i listen to a gentleman from a major city in japan talk about the use of technology as they have this ever-growing baby boomer population and a shrinking younger adult population. it was quite interesting. then, the last is really very pleased to talk about. this fits with not only are alzheimer's disease and dementia strategic plan benefits with the lgbt senior policy recommendations grant that was just him out about a year ago. this is support for lgbt dementia care project which would not only create a
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curriculum for this particular population and their families, and friends, but also, to do an outreach massive outreach programs to people to let them know that only about the disease but what is possible. with that, i would take comments i guess i should say here that we are still in conversation with a budget analyst about his recommendations are not in agreement at this point. shift >> thank you for all your hard work i do think some of special those i think that is really exciting with you to be able to be happening here in the next year. supervisor yee >> thank you. great working with you and your staff. on these issues. and your responsiveness to their needs and your sensitivity in terms of even knowing what their needs are. a lot of times we provide services and wonder why
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nobody shows up. i guess, the best example of what i have seen needs met or at least beginning to recognize there is a greater need out there than services is the partnership that we create in district 7 to open up the place over at the westport playground. i do not know if you have had a chance. it is open it has been open from us a year. i was there recently. was totally packed probably were people there then should be. in fact, it was only written about two or three weeks for the word to get out. it was already packed. a couple things though. the services there are great and it seems
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like one of the more popular programs that they have there is your computer type, how to use the computer. i should be taking these classes. i mention this to other seniors in the district. we need more of those. so, i am glad were putting some money in there. also, i want to say that it is really a good thing that is lacking and i recognize it with a program that there is no referral piece in there. seniors just, their issues and their provided the services but there is no staff there to actually give referrals to do that health issues were housing issues were any of these things. i just it is a great companion piece. again, i am glad you recognize that i hope that we can expand our services
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not only in district 7, but i just see the need or the city. thank you i must. >> supervisor mar >> thank you for the great news about the budget. and the enhancements. i want to thank you and your staff for the great leadership,, but also the coalition serving the elderly senior and disability action network. as you mentioned the conversations on the innovation summit the japanese cities i think realizing that the baby boomers are shipping supervisor yee and i are baby boomers and -- data report in san francisco that one purpose of the city that are baby boomers were aging gracefully many of us, some with severe needs, and our city is really doing our best to
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address that. but i fear that we are not planning for the huge boom as -- national domestic the elder boom, wherein san francisco will see our population grow from one in five seniors to one in three by 2040, 2050. it is one of those things where i see the budget having about a quarter of the resources for dos which i think is really great, but i fear not planning for the boom that is before us. i want to say that some of those senior activists are working with a number of supervisors on a potential dignity funds. as national domestic workers alliance calls it, as we age we need to age with dignity. that means caring not just for housing and shelter but it is also congregate or social interaction and also dancing to get things working, but it is
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also housing as rebuild the city, build build build, there needs to be much more senior affordable housing as well. i want to say on the food security issues they raise for my things really great the home delivered meals has been increased really appreciate that. i know the food security task force and the tenderloin securities passports howitzers huge gaps. another supervisor be looking at it there still waitlist of three and 40 individuals that have not been met by the budget and illuminating that three and 40 person waitlist is really critical as well as another 4400 individuals, but i know how much that will cost. as the budget analyst analyzed food security we found that one in four people in san francisco young and old right risk of food insecurity. so, the board's commitment to reducing
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fast agree and ending food is dirty and hunger by 2020, i feel that we have to do much more dumb appreciative of what was done in the budget. i also wanted to just acknowledge, too, that the digital divide is hallowed by the budget analyst report of over 100,000 people not having access to broadband in a think the definition of what high-speed to the home is really different than what our city's technology department is looking at. we need to do much more that seniors have access to technology. that is where the technology council with seniors from many neighborhoods is so critical and really appreciative of marie -- and the community living for camping and their activism on closing the digital divide and really fighting for a city that aging family, that promotes digital inclusion for everyone. i have think commissioner farrell for calling a -- top of
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the technology committees but it is for the 85-year-old person they need some advice and is isolated in her home with the children that do not have access to do their homework . we call that the homework gap. onto safer senior activism, acknowledge marie and then those folks that are working on a dignity funds, as well but i want to just say that i think are still come gaps with food security, and as a couple of other ones the coalition of aging -- serving the elderly identifies in terms of the growing numbers of people in san francisco senior centers that especially the staffing at the aging and disability resource centers. it is not just the aging population. it is also people with disabilities. lastly, case managers at the various centers in our city that are doing with seniors, some who are aging
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differently than previous generations, but still with tremendous needs and case management critical that seniors do with everything from criminals trying to abuse them to many other needs in our communities. as the board was forward, i think they are number of staff gaps to address. i think for the right presentation as well. >> apex shifted supervisor tank >> alannah i want >> i want to comment -- the program seniors can actually obtain the cards and actually eat a meal for free. in their own communities and so i know we have 19 avenue and -- is been very very successful and i they pop up. when i talked to the restaurant owner he says that at least 100 seniors coming each day to get their meal and allows them to really interact with each other but those who are able to be mobile
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and go out to the community. i think it has been a wonderful program and i hope that they will consider continuing to expand that into other districts and neighborhoods and i think it is a great win-win situation to take advantage job for restaurants that have kitchen to you do not have to go and use resources to staff it and build it out and allow seniors to integrate in the community so i thank you for your work on that. >> collies, any other questions or colleagues will move to mr. rose's report, please? >> i am sorry. i apologize. >> i will be quick. tomorrow i am barbara carlson director of the opposite early care and education. just a few quick highlights. on the last night i received a conference presentation from a deputy director, shell rutherford back in april. which was able to watch to the miracle of the internet blogs in an airport in san diego. the first thing is
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as you know with the advent of proposition see we have a transfer of the public education and return funding dedicated for preschoolers the bfa program. from the first five commission to our office at 40 women do not. it is very large increase in the budget this year. we are working very very closely with the staff of the first five to plan for this transition. as you may know, from this expenditure plan earlier this month we are work ordering over the bulk of those funds to first five for the first year of the two-year budget cycle to administer the program so that we have minimal disruption in terms of program delivery. and get this adequate time to work with the senior staff there in the senior staff in our office as well as with the community to figure out what is the best way for those funds to be administered moving forward. as a process that i think is going very well and you hear that from ms. -- later today. secondly, we have
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recently the appointment of our citizens advisory committee, our new advisory committee, and we are charged at the office, as you know, that abutment of the citywide plan for early care and education to be presented to you in early 2016. we have had a thank you for the great appointments. we have had two meetings. we have got a group that is required to meet four times a year but is been willing to commit to meeting monthly and even more frequently during this year so we can present the most robust complete plan possible to you with adequate opportunities for further community input. so, thank you for the apartment of that committee. in terms of our budget, we will have some new funds for facilities this year they will be generated through the québec plan. the developers
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fee there is 1.4 million available to new and existing providers to increase the number of early care and education slots in the to designated areas market octavia, and the eastern neighborhood. those funds are ministered through our contractor, left, and the decisions about those made to the interagency facilities fund. then, finally, we have an augmentation of $500,000 to continue to align childcare rate the state regional market rate levels. as you all know, we have a good challenge in early childhood educator we reduction the high cost of living and you for this time many times you forget we the history of cuts at the state level. we build our city programs on those states and federal funds. so
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with the cuts over time, and the state budget, our providers, both are contractor providers they might hear referred to as our title five group, and all are providers who accept children who are using vouchers whether those vouchers are funded with state funds, federal funds, or city funds, are struggling. so we are likely to see slow increases at the state level in terms of increases both in the standard reimbursement rate for contractor providers. read 5% last year. we learned. another 5% this year and also increases the voucher rate. we are committed to keeping our city funded subsidies at the same level of those increases in the voucher area so for our axis program for homeless families, for our city childcare program, which funds subsidies for infants and toddlers and for subsidies directed to our families who are in the child welfare system. we want to keep those vouchers at the same rate of increase as the state vouchers. so, with that, i will take comments.. i also want to say that we received a budget analyst
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report that we are not in agreement at this time with the finance. >> thank you. supervisor yee >> thank you. i am glad you brought up the issue of state system. the majority -- the biggest piece of revenue that comes into serve those families either working or going to school, and are low income i am a comes from the state. some of it of course comes through kenneth but those are more voucher orientated. the state funding, a lot of it goes right directly to our childcare centers. the issue that they face for the last 10 years seems like forever, the reimbursement that they get is
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pretty limited, or has been cut, while they have no other way to reduce expenditures because he restricted in terms of your ratios of how many adults you need from a children. so, you cannot just cut staff like some other services appeal to serve the same number.. they are struggling -- the city has stepped up in the last two years while the state has struggled and trying to figure out how to do things right. they have not figured it out yet. this year were not too sure. though for getting close the advocates out there on getting close to getting the state to understand its needs. so, i know that the support that is needed these
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last two years continues to be needed for this year. what are we doing about that? gleefully supporting a piece or not? that is the first question. >> in terms of the title five contractor provider supervisor yee? >> correct. >> historical we have had problems on both sides of the house with childcare state cuts. two years ago the providers came to us and to first five, we work with the mayors budgets office to reallocate some are bad backfill money that a been allocated previously which could not be earned because of the complex weight the contractors need to earn their money and i think you heard about some of that from ms. rutherford in april. to reallocate some of that to augment with these contractors get from the state, and to augment some of our other funny sources, like weight supplement program the wages, at 12% for
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two years. the agreement was that would be a two-year program , and we ask the providers to continue to advocate at the state level. they have successfully along with her colleagues around the state for the past two years been able to get a 10% increase, 5% last year to look site as of last night.5% again this year. we propose the 6%. we felt that to do the program for two years without knowing woes could happen at the state level, and also, without knowing what our planning process would result in in san francisco over the year, it made sense to do another 6%,, and we did ask for that. it is included in the mayors budget it is a relocation of the backfill dollars. >> the other issue, then, as you are aware of is the need to support those families that have children that are zone
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three. of course -- san francisco does much better than most places but it is serving a small percentage of those in need. what is a strategy around that intuitive trying to do as well as we have with the preschool-aged? >> i think we have not completed our fiscal analysis yet, nor are planning process, but i think i can fairly safely predict they will need more money to meet the need. we do fund imprint top of their subsidies and to the sum of the state money that comes through first five, but will be discontinued, the child signature program. some augmentation to infant toddler programs to bring them up to the level of quality the leasing developed in the preschool for all program. the
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child signature program funding is coming to an end, so it is very apropos that were going to be engaged in this planning process because we need to look at what we have and then how to address the quality of the needs across the spectrum without in any way wondering on the quality we been able to establish for our four year old. i think it is going to be a challenge. >> it is going to be tough. but we need to do it. as mr. -- stated earlier, love in terms of homeless families and it really is about income we do not have that income. as you know, as a lot of people know, if you try to put your -- to pay for infant care was people -- it is hard on most college tuitions for people that are low income, we really need to step up a little bit because there is no way. thomas like a cycle where they can get out of
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it unless we somehow interject those solutions. i believe having subset is care is a primary solution. >> yes. the office would agree. i think a thing for this body to keep in mind is that we are seeing wide increases in subsidy availability at the state level, but those are distributed along a formula that will continue to favor san francisco less overtime, given the fact actors of the formula, which look at income of the city and the number of children. so, yes, we still have a very significant population of children under three who cannot access the subsidy currently. >> you did not mention anything about the facilities at all. i know that your office -- about it. >> yes.
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>> i been pushing the holds of elements of childcare facilities and looking not just what we know about but what we anticipate in eating in the future with 20,000 more people. there has got to be more 0-5 in your population. yet, it seems we need to start talking about it now and planning for that instead of getting caught off guard. a few years ago, oh my god, i would get with where we are but these extra 5000 [inaudible]. what is your thinking about that? how can we sort of move that agenda? >> i mean, we know we do not have enough infant toddler facilities. that -- currently. if there is any growth in that age group will be significant challenge. i mean, the developers of these and the
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impact these have worked very well in terms of our ability to be able to do some both construction and renovation. i mean san francisco was in the lead on that many years ago, and that continues to be a resource, but for really good to be able to fund the need for facilities even assessing family child care providers, with facility needs for a growing population, would have to come up with funds to do that. we do not have currently in our budget. >> thank you for your work and i know it is going to be a challenge. the people have to realize that, unlike school-age or most of these there in school and even though poorly supported by the state, the lease their support for that whereas the 0-5 population there is no such mechanism. one of the things about this the beauty of the cities they do care about art 0-5. it will continue to fight for those
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issues with you. >> x >> supervisor mar >> i want say i agree with supervisor yee. the moment ops spread throughout the neighborhoods that provide quality care for our youngest infants and toddlers and children i want to say also i totally agree with left of the wages of childcare workers. the wages plus program dealing with the state challenges which are so critical to treat the childcare staff and teachers with professional as professionals because i do think they do tremendous power over every day. i also just want to say to that, mr. the transfer of the public education enrichment funding or prop proposition eight funding from first type to the office of early care and education as a former first five commissioner and also school board president to, i see how the oc to office is the right
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place for an sound like is a good transition with the senior staff for the first year and also the second year. so, it is a seamless hopefully transition but i see how critical as mayors come here tomorrow from all over the city, universal preschool system that we created here such a great model for many many other cities. in addition to all the other great things that you and the staff michelle rutherford and others are doing. i am really excited about the citizens advisory committee for -- in the development of a citywide plan building off of what tom amiens of the author of proposition eight that establish for preschool for all -- 20,000,004 preschool for all, k-12 and sports musical arts and other thing. but escaped tremendous pops to our former a summary man and president of the board tom amiens oaks for his vision
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with a lot of the early education care and activism is a good thing for the great visitation, two. >> thank you to >> colleagues know the questions, when we moved your port mr. roosevelt took a? >> yes mr. chairman members of the committee, page 61 of our report i recommend reductions for the proposed budget total 9,000,001 at $20,000 and 1516 oh 4000,008 ongoing savings and 4 million [inaudible] one-time savings the reduction still allow an increase of 52 million or 6% in the apartments picking-60 budget. a recommended reduction to the proposed budget total 7 million in 16-70 bit of that amount 7 million are ongoing savings and 90,000 are one-time savings. these reductions would still allow an increase of 3 million
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or 4/10 of a percent in the department 16-something by spirit was still working with the department and will report back to you next week. checked it thank you. colleagues any questions for budget analyst? okay. thank you to everyone for making -- item number seven. 200 speak separately on that? >> item 7 is the reauthorization of the which we authorize every year. funding opposition. the funding stays the same day were fighting over 1300 units in supportive housing by redirecting savings from the care funding implementation >> got it. thank you very much. colleagues at this point will move onto public comment for item number seven. anybody was to comment on item number seven? >> good morning. [inaudible]
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>> sir, do comments on item number seven? thank you. and when else? seeing none, public comment is closed, >>[gavel] >> motion by supervisor mar and second by supervisor yee and we can take that without objection >>[gavel] >> that we have our asian art museum. >> good morning supervisors. on behalf of the board and staff of asian art museum, like to thank you for your hard work, your leadership of our city, and your support of the asian arts museum. the me go to the first slide. i would like
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to show in this life some highlights of our accomplishments in fy 2014 and 2015. particularly i like to highlight our service to the school students in our communities. as you can tell, in the last fiscal year we served 32,000 san francisco school district youth. also a museum was for the arts festival serving approximately 10,000 students and families and teachers from over 90 san francisco schools. at the same time, i museum enjoys a very diverse audience. with a large number of local organizations arts education across the bay area. including many gr