official mission childcare t 37 t-shirt. [applause] one at a time. one for the mayor. and one for our community advocates asha, who has been working hard. [applause] it is amazing how much children learn and we also learn every day. i want to thank everybody who has been a part of making today possible. it is a dream come true. thank you. [applause]

-------------------------------. >> shop and dine the 49 promotes local businesses and changes san franciscans to do their shopping and dooipg within the 49 square miles by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant so where will you shop and dine the 49

hi in my mind a ms. medina .

>> we all know a major earthquake will eventually hit san francisco are reproerl presented san francisco is making sure we are with the public safety buildings. >> this consists of 4 consultants the police headquarters with the from 850

with a brand new fire station number 4 to serve mission bay swimming pools at office of economic workforce development in the fire station thirty. >> is the the hall of justice on bryant the new home for 2 hundred and 50 uniform and voiven compresses we all it was opened in 19 so sociothat is a 50-year improvement as far as structure and work environment had that will be a great place to work. >> when construction began in 2011 this was with an clear goal to make sure with the big one heights the resident will will have a function police department those are the highly seismic standards it is up to operate up to 96 hours from the

police department perspective that building is self-sufficient for a main made arrest in all disastrous zake ever after we will run our operational from here no matter what happens this building and the people that serve the businesses will continue to function building is designed to meet lead goal certification and also to art installations on the campus that was designed and constructed to better sense of ability so for example, we're using solar water heaters we're also urging gray water for reuse inform flush water and rainwater for the cooling and irrigation locked on third street and mission rock is it serves the motorbike neighborhood and motorbike i moiks is a growing neighborhood and the intent of

the bond to have please and fire serves to serve the community. >> hemming helping to keep the building and the stay safe was the not the only opportunity it creates many jobs with 82 bleb businesses overall san franciscans contributed one hundred and 87 thousand hours to help to complete the project it shows the city of san francisco the elected officials and police officers and more importantly the voters that paid for the building this is what we can do with when we wrorpt this is a beacon when we need to build new extra we can trust them with the money and the plan they did a good job the san francisco public is a reminder of the importance of being presented

and will continue to serve the residents for decades to co (clapping). >> when you cast our vote in an election in san francisco you might kaflt your vote at city hall or choose to vote by mail ever wonder what happens after you cast our vote what's the process for tal vote in san francisco and how is your vote counted let's follow our ballot when you tall a certified by the department of elections first, we'll look at what happens to our vote another a polling place when you cast your vote it is set into a system

called on in sight it read our ballot and the data is soared on a memory cartridge it is based in denver, colorado provides san francisco with high sail balance scared and software to count the votes when the poll is closed the memory card is removed by the inspector cartridge is sponsored are stored in a anti static bag and a san francisco parking control officer takes official custody to deliver to city hall the custody of the actual completed ballot is transferred to deputy sheriff it verifies delivers them to pier 48 managed i the election on election night pier 48 is a hub of activity bringing the ballots to poll line up audits to delivery to

the team it's a long night for those election employees staffer unpack and sort of all the ballot bags and i account for the ballots and dropped off at polling places and from the machines the inside ballots a counted to verify the total ballet for the polling places more to do with the ballots and we'll get back to them a little bit later meanwhile at systematically city hall the department of elections sets up a gone night only

uploading center staffed by the employees and to transfer the memory cards by the parking 0 offices. >> on election night that he set up austin at city hall to process the votes and completely and accurately as possible in the bag it was placed on a reader that records the summary next the carriages are unpacked and checked in by our staff then the carriages with a vote so for etch print are fed to into the right sideers by the memory software is he see the vote by a line that is in the

department rooms tabulations back at the polling place on election day you might cast our veto using the edge voting machine a bilingual that allows the voters with limited vision or other disabilities to have access to the ballot their recorded on a paper printout and stored in the edge machine. >> i also need the edge printer. >> at the end of the election day a deputy sheriff take custody of the field container from each edge machine. >> you on have one edge printer; right? >> those deputies transfer the container with the plastic bottles and the departments warehouse on pier 48. >> the department of election

staff opens the sealed container into every edge machine and reviews the printed record. >> here at the department warehouse teams of two people roach the edge printer material and check and recheck if the votes are recorded a team have to people puts it onto a blank perspective and two different people confirm the votes and correct any errors all the edge printer are hyphenated their transferred to the deputy sheriff and the department employees transfer those ballots to city hall and feed into the machine for counting that way all the votes cast on the edge machine are included in the

election tally. >> voters are encouraged to vote at they're assigned voting place people that cast in other marathon their ballet place their plaid in a special envelope to be verified verification is checking to see if the voter is registered in san francisco if they are their votes are count for where their registered more than 60 percent of san franciscans cast their vote by mail ballets cast at city hall have also process as vote by mail process brother you receive our ballot in the mail it has to be received and sort of by the u.s. post office the largest may progressing facility in san francisco

though it is get i quite a large operation about 5 hundred employees throughout 3 shifts that runs 24/7365 today what we have all the day when the city of chicago have arrived and they'll be processed for delivery so over here a truck that has come in we're expecting about 2 hundred and 48 thousand ballots to come into the plant on 6 different trucks so for we've received 3 of the trucks as you can see there's a lot of mail here right now, we're getting ready to run the mail on a bar code softer and we but u put it into a sequence it is good for the ballot constituents.

>> voters drop off 25 percent of the ballets at poll places at the end of the day custody is transferred to 0 deputy sheriff that transfers them to pier 48 at the pier battles are a collected the number of rushes is needed and quickly transported by two deputy sheriff's to city hall for process before any counting of any vote by mail can happen the voters signatures must be verified so first, the unopened vote by mail is run through scanner that takes a picture of the bar code and signatures the bar code identifies the voter and this information along with the voters signature is sent electronically to the voters place for verification while here in voter services we

check the signature on the ballet envelope with the signature on the voters fill the name predict and name is entered into 9 election system the staff reviews the information on file and visually compares the signature and we challenge the valid of the ballot if it is severed they've voted in this election and the official stamping of the ballots sent electronically back through the scanner envelopes radio run introduce the scanner again to sort of out any unverified ballets on the second scanner their sort of by predict voter services staff we proclaims every ballot to make sure that the voters are

contract and their vote is counted. >> though accepted vote by mail used to be opened by hand now opened by a rapid extract machine it helped on the envelope on two sides and the machine that opens the flaps are recorded you can reach in and pick up the ballot it is probably twice as fast as a manual process and the wlalts is then scanned by a 4 hundred high-speed scanner that counts the votes on each ballot sadder at the same time employees schek the dominion sheet and compare it the scanner sometimes cannot read a ballot due to damage or

light parking garages by vote their transferred by hand by a go person team those new ballets is run through the ascertain sea the votes are add to the final tabulation wonders where your ballet is you can consortium our battle ballot was received and check the constitutes and conform our vote better to be safe than sorry was ultimate counted using the tool at sfgov ballot.org. >> then we transfer the data from the skarnlz into this laptop and tabulate using the do night time software. >> on the severe those are transferred into the memory cartridges once the data is loaded on the laptop the service tabulates the

vote we generate the veto and put 12 on the website and the report also includes a predict by predict breakdown of the polling places and by mail a one neighborhood district of votes and the neighborhood turn out report. >> we can take a lot of information about the election including one of the most popular broke down by party and continue to look forward to improvements. >> you'd think that is the ends of the story but still more work at pier 48 that needs to be done california election code requires one percent of the predicts that are chosen added random by an elected official the one percent manual tallied it their counted by hand here to

the department of the warehouse 4 employees count them there are 3 steps first in each team won person called the vote and two people tall the votes that are called second to the tall people have the same results and finally the tallest are compared with the electronic vote. >> this one percent manual tall is one of the last steps in declaring the official result of the election from your home or neighborhood polling place to city hall by memory cartridge high speed up scanner or manually our vote is tab laid and the results end up printed and posted and declared certified by the department of election services one of the m

was asked to do is water system improvement program and one thing i looked at is about the 4.8 billion dollars wurthd of work and a lot of the work was regional. we looked at how can we make sure that we provide opportunities for san franciscan's and people in the region and so we looked at ways we can expand our local san francisco lb program. so, we

thought about it and worked with general manager at the time to form an advizry committee to talk about how to include local businesses in the region. >> i was on the first committee back about 10 years ago and the job changed over time. in the beginning, we just wanted people to know about it. we wanted to attract contractors to come into the system which is a bidding system and bid on some of these projects. our second job was to help the sfpuc to try to make themselves more user frndly. >> i like that they go out of their way, have contractors trying to teach and outreach to small businesses and lots of creative ways. help the community as well. there is so much infrastructure going on

and repair, new construction that i think is helping to get construction back on its feet. >> my faiv rlt part of the committee has been that we have played a opportunity for many small businesses. [inaudible] women owned business to come in and [inaudible] sfpuc. it is a great opportunity because some are so small they have been able to grow their companies and move up and bid other projects with the sfpuc. >> everyone i was talking about with any contractor [inaudible] and super markets and things like that and i realize the transition was on the sfpuc.

he got that first job and knows about the paperwork qu schedule and still works on this type of job, but he works with general contractors that also did other things. pretty soon it is like he did that one and that one. it completely changed his business. >> my name is nancy [inaudible] the office manager and bid coordinator for [inaudible] construction. worked on 10 plus puc, lbe contracts. today we are doing site maintenance on the [inaudible] chr site and currently the gentlemen behind me are working on every moving and basic specs of plants. in order to be success you need to work hard, bid low and keep a look at the sfpuc website for future bidding opportunity.

>> this is a successful program because it provides opportunities to regional communities that might not have opportunities to work for large scale projects. the sfpuc is a fortunate agency we have a lot of capital program that span over 7 counties who also to see how some businesses like [inaudible] and bio mass started as small micro businesses grow and expand and stay in the program and work on several projects before they graduate from the program. that is what warms my heart. >> my name is college willkerson, the principle for bio mass. bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. small businesses

fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of san francisco we can also perform services. >> this program had tremendous impact to the region. in fact, the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. this has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded $50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. and, i significantly helped the business. it is one of the major contributors to our success. >> the office of controllers

whistle blower program is how city employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address wait in city government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of city government that. >> you can below the what if anything, by assess though the club program website arrest call 4147 or 311 and stating you wishing to file and complaint point controller's office the charitable program also accepts complaints by e-mail or 0 folk you can file a complaint or provide contact information seen by whistle blower investigates some examples of issues to be recorded to the whistle blower

program face of misuse of city government money equipment supplies or materials exposure activities by city clez deficiencies the quality and delivery of city government services waste and inefficient government practices when you submit a complaint to the charitable online complaint form you'll receive a unique tracking number that inturgz to detector or determine in investigators need additional information by law the city employee that provide information to the whistle blower program are protected and an employer may not retaliate against an employee that is a whistle blower any employee that retaliates against another that employee is subjected up to including submittal employees that retaliate will personal be liable please visit

the sf ethics.org and information on reporting retaliation that when fraud is loudly to continue it jeopardizes the level of service that city government can provide in you hear or see any dishelicopter behavior boy an employee please report it to say whistle blower program more information and the whistle blower protections please seek ww (shouting.). >> more and more city's high san francisco is committing to

dislocate to end all traffic death that means improving safety for people walking and driving and safety on our streets is everyone's responsibility people can make mistakes but not result in injury or death all traffic collisions are preventable as drivers you play a large role that will give you the tools to drive safely on streets a recent survey asks hundreds of drivers about save city introduce driving what did they say watch for distracted behavior and slow down and be patient and check for people before you turn the facts about city driving shows how important to be alert most collisions happen in good

weather allowance even at 25 mile-per-hour it takes a vehicle 85 feet to stop this is almost 7 car lengths slowing down makes collisions less savior when a person is hit by a passerby vehicle 25 minor the chance of death is 25 percent 40 percent that increases inform 85 percent slowing down didn't cost much time driving behind a person takes 9 extra semiautomatic and stopping at the yellow light takes only 30 seconds by hitting someone costs you hours and weeks of our time and maybe a life take a deep breath and take you're time

cities cross america are being safely for walking and driving some streets are confusing here's what you need to know all intersection kroukz of novelist marked some are marked to make them more visible other crosswalks and intersections are raised to the level of sidewalk to actress as speed bump and people are maybe crossing be cautious and watch for people when you approach any intersection advanced limit lines and pedestrian yield signs show drivers where people walk and stop behind the lines at stop signs and for people crossing bulb outs where the sidewalks extends into the street make that tease easy to see

pedestrians and remember to slow down whether making reasons and watch for people on sidewalk estimations extensions that maybe closer than you expect and bicyclists may motive to the left to get around bulb outs this gives people a head start allowing pedestrians to enter the crosswalk before transfer starts moving makes them more visible pedestrian scrimmage and stop the vehicles in all directions allow people to cross including department of building inspection scrambles are paired with no light restriction and rapid beacons you turn bright whether the pedestrians are there or the center is activated precede slowly as you approach the beacons especially, if their

activated a pedestrian crossing light turns yellow before turning sold red back to flash red procedure after making a full stop as long as the sidewalk is empty and, of course, stop whenever the light is red traffic circles reduce conflicts you must stop at the strewn and precede around the raise your right hand of the circle watch for people in crosswalks and people in bikes coming around the circle arrows indicate where people with bikes share the intersections and people have ride to people on bikes have the right to use the lane whether or

not in the sharing bike lanes are for people protected by parks e.r. parked cars and stay out of separated bike lanes unless an emergency dashed bike lanes are a shared zone four for vehicles to change lanes slow bike lanes allow the circles their unusually sprayed before me from other traffic some bike lanes are built to the level higher than the street but lower than the sidewalk they provide a safe separated space sponsor cyclists are around vehicles the box areas are marked with the stencil at intersections act as advanced limit lines for people to garter at a red light this increases the 1r0ir7b9 to

drivers people will ride past stopped vehicles at the fronltd of the intersection give them room and stop short of limit line behind the bike without objection and cross only after the green light and people cleared the bike box bicycle traffic lights allow people on bikes to proceed while vehicles are stopped be unaware aware of those bike san francisco general hospital but stay alert and only skrans when the vehicle is cleared the intersection let's take a quiz to see what all of learned here we go number one when do month collisions happen did you say in daytime you're correct question two if an intersection is not marched is it still a crosswalk

yes did you get it right great job one more before we go on what's one of the best things to do to avoid collisions? you can it take a breath pay attention and slow down city streets are crowded and chaotic so seeing everyone every single everything is difficult here's a test how many times did the white team pass the ball? if you answered 11 you're correct but did you notice anything else also be aware ever you're surrounded and remember that is easy 0 miss something if you're

not looking for it here's some basic principles driving near peep e people from you're driver's seat it is difficult address our mirrors to reduce blind spots people on bicycles maybe be in our blind spot give yourselves plenty of time to react look out stay on the road from building to building not just curve to curve check driveways and behind parked vehicles for people that enter our path turning vehicles are especially dangerous important people walking and collisions often occur when vehicles are making tunnels when you turn remember check for people using the crosswalk

before starting you're turn watch for people on bikes traveling in the ongoing direction always check our mirrors and blind spots patience pays off take a moment to make sure you're clear while it might feel you'll save time by driving fast or turning without checking you won't save driving only adds a few semiautomatic to our trip a collision can cost you, your job or someone's live here's important things to remember all crosswalks are legal and pedestrian have the right-of-way people cross the street anywhere children and seniors and people with disabilities are the most vulnerable think city strits give buses and streetcars a lot of the space or people returning to catch a train don't block the

box this creates dangerous situation for people walking how are forced into moving traffic and people bicycling out of the bike lane and people on bikes most city streets are legal for bicyclists even without signs people biking can fall in front of you provide a safe amount of space when passing someone on a bike a minimum of 3 feet is required by law in california and people on bikes prefer to be in the bike lane in for the this is often to avoid accidents give them room people on bikes will stay away from the traffic or watch out for open doors whoops that was a

close one expect people to go to the front of the light and pass on the right a tap of the horn maybe useful to make you're preservation known but avoid using the horn it may saturday night be someone vehicles anybody right turns are especially dangerous important biking always approach right turns properly signal early and wait for people biking through the intersection move as far to the right to people on bikes can pass on the left let's try a few more questions who are the most vulnerable people on city streets? children? seniors, and people with disabilities why do people on bikes ride

close to travel there to avoid car doors what is one of the most dangerous situations for people walking and riding bikes? turning vehicles and what can you do to make sure that everyone is safe in any situation? thartsz stay patient and alert and, of course, slow down parking and loading a vehicle on accredit city streets is a challenge weather parking and unloading always check for people in our mirrors and blind spots and on the driver's side with our right turn right hand this causes you to look 40 on your left for

bicyclists when passersby exiting the vehicle make sure about opening the door know where loading zones are if not loading zones available use side streets never stop in bike lanes or traffic lanes. >> bad weathering and visible rain and fog or low lighting make it hard to see you're vehicle is likely to slide or loss control in eye i didn't controls and create issues for people walking and biking they tried try to avoid pulled and umbrellas and construction get slippery for people the safety thing to do in conditions

whether wet or icy or dark slow down and drive more carefully remember going fast may on this save you a few semiautomatic but speeding may cause you a life or you're job people walking and biking are vulnerable people can be distracted or make unsafe decisions as a driver the responsibility for safety lies with you a collision could mean the loss of our life or you're job and dealing with the legal implementations could take years or an emotional toll if someone is killed in a crash help us achieve vision zero and everyone can use the streets safely. >> thank you for watch and following the important driving tests your remember we're counting on you

(clapping.) the airport it where i know to mind visions of traffic romance and excitement and gourmet can

you limousine we're at san francisco inspirational airport to discover the award-winning concession that conspiracies us around the world. sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry there's many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe that's right even the airport is a diane designation. so tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special >> well, we have a we have food and beverage program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring in the best food of

san francisco for our passengers. >> i like this it's is (inaudible) i thank my parents for bringing me here. >> this the definitely better than the la airport one thousand times better than. >> i have a double knees burger with bacon. >> i realize i'm on a diet but i'm hoping this will be good. >> it total is san francisco experience because there's so many people and nationalities in this town to come to the airport especially everyone what have what they wanted. >> are repioneering or is this a model. >> we're definitely pioneers

and in airport commemoration at least nationally if not intvrl we have many folks asking our our process and how we select our great operators. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the food option in san francisco airport are phenomenal that's if it a lot of the airports >> yeah. >> you don't have the choice. >> some airports are all about food this is not many and this particular airport are amazing especially at the tirnl indicating and corey is my favorite i come one or two hours before my flight this is the

life. >> we definitely try to use as many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. >> wow. >> have you taken up anything unique or odd here. >> i've picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates there's a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. >> now this is a given right there. >> i'm curious about the

customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities you've put together not only of san francisco food in san francisco but food across the bay area. >> this type of market with the local savors the high-end products is great. >> i know people can't believe they're in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i don't have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. >> how long has this been operating in san francisco and

the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. >> we have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. >> so let's talk sandwiches. >> uh-huh. >> can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. >> our broadened is we're going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to

incubate our jogger art if scratch people appreciate our work here. >> so you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. >> this is its own the city the airline crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and we've established relationships it feels good. >> when i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like i'm not city. i was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true >> we have a lot of regulars we didn't think we'd find that here

at the airport. >> people come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. >> the food is great in san francisco it's a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. >> i'm impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. >> this is a little bit of things for everybody there's plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. >> tell me about the future food. >> we're hoping to bring newer

concepts out in san francisco and what our passengers want. >> i look forward to see what your cooking up (laughter) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> today we've shown you the only restaurant in san francisco from the comfortableing old stand but you don't have to be hungry sfo has changed what it is like to eat another an airport check out our oblige at tumbler dating.com

>> good afternoon and welcome everyone to the mayor's disability council here in room 400 here at city hall. excuse me, hold on, please. control

room i need to caption. there we go, thank you, donna. let's start again. welcome everyone to the mayor's disability council meeting here at city hall friday, september 16 in room 400. from one-4 pm so welcome to our audience and anyone are ridgeline and watching at home. i would like to turn over the introduction to our cochair chip supanich councilmember supanich, thank you >> good afternoon and welcome. city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. wheelchair access is provided at the grove van ness and mcallister streets bob via ramps. wheelchair access at the polk st., carlton b goodland entrance is provided via a wheelchair lift. assistive listening devices are available in our meeting is open

captioned and sign language interpreted. our agenda are also available in large print and braille. please ask staff for any additional assistance. to prevent electronic interference with this rooms sound system, and to respect everyone's ability to focus on the presentations, please sounds all mobile phones and devices. your cooperation is appreciated. we welcome the public's participation during public comment. you may complete a speaker's card available in the front of the room on the table or call our bridge line at 1415 554 9632. we are a stock person will handle requests and speak at the appropriate time. the mayor's disability council meetings are generally held on the third friday of the month.

our next regular meeting will be on friday, october 21 2016 from one-4 pm. here at san francisco city hall in room 400. please: mayor's office on disability for further information or to request accommodations at 1-415 554 6789. voice or by e-mail, at mod at sfgov tv got work. i reminder to all of our guests today to speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captures and interpreters. we thank you for joining us. >> thank you cochairmen supanich good will move onto action item number two meeting of the agenda. >> i believe the next action item through the chair is-

>> my apologies. >> we need to know who was there. please take roll call then reading of the agenda >> trends supanich, present. penzvalto, present. kostanian, present. >> thank you could now move onto action item 2 meeting of the agenda. thank you >> agenda item number one, welcome introduction and roll call. agenda item number two, action item reading and approval of the agenda. agenda item number three, public comments. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 min. agenda item number four, information item should cochair reports. agenda item number

five, information item. san francisco department of aging and adult services. the san francisco department of aging and adult services provides social services for seniors and adults with disabilities through programs operated directly by the department and also via partnerships with community-based organizations. the das executive director will highlight key services and provide an overview of future directions for the department. presentation by serena mcspadden executive director san francisco department of aging and adult services. public comment is welcome. agenda item number six. information item. the san francisco public authority today. the current state of the public authority, our programs, resources, and efforts to connect low income seniors and people with disabilities to

qualified ihss providers so that they may live healthier happier and safer lives at home engaged in their community. presentation by kelly dearman, executive director, san francisco in-home support services public authority. public comment is welcome. break. the council will take a 15 min. break. agenda item number seven. information item. san francisco police crisis intervention team, cit, this presentation will provide an update on the cit curriculum. it will also highlight the efforts of cmdr. robert moser, metro division, and his ongoing work with ascend on creating a training video for patrol officers responding to crisis calls involving community members on the autism spectrum. presentations by the tenant mariel molina and sgt. laura

collen. public comment is welcome. agenda item number eight, information item. the office of citizen complaints and its work with the community advocates and san francisco police department to respond to crisis calls. the presentation will provide an overview of the office of citizen complaints, its complaint and investigative process, and it's roles in making recommendations to the police commission and the police department to improve police community relations. the almost complete san francisco police department gen. order on crisis intervention team response to individuals in crisis will also be highlighted. as envisioned by sandra marion policy attorney for the office of citizen complaints. public comment is welcome. agenda item number nine. information item. collaboration in the mental health and criminal justice system. the success of the san francisco cit program is an

example of how criminal justice partners can step outside of their traditional roles to better serve people with mental health disabilities in our community. presentation by jennifer johnson, deputy public defender be haverhill health courts. public comment is welcome. agenda item number 10, information item. we poured from the disability disaster preparedness committee. agenda item number 11. information item. report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. public comment is welcome. agenda item number 12. information item. introducing sign all, the first automated assignment which interpreting

software that signed-all developers automated sign language interpreting software that translates american sign language into english and will launch its services in the us at the end of next year. the budapest-based company is a computer vision-based research and development start up having received funding this year from a consortium of international venture capitalist. presentation by--cofounder and ceo sign all got us and nora zealous cmo sign alt.us. public comment is welcome. agenda item number 13. information item. zero-said small would share toler platform. now technologies has developed the first commercially available smart wheelchair controller integrating a number of assistive listening functions from navigation through environmental control to speech synthesis as well as featuring the-giro set wireless headset for wheelchair and computer control. cairo-set enables to

users with high levels of injury to work create and move again. presentation by mark is then founder and ceo and martin july's founder and cto. public comment is welcome. agenda item number 14, public comment. items not on today's agenda within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 min. agenda item number 15. information item. correspondence. agenda item number 16, discussion item. councilmember comments and announcements. agenda item number 17, adjournment. >> thank you, don. before we move on to public comment number three, i like to read this brief announcement. you may have noticed that during the reading of the agenda some of the administrative items have been moved. we have done

so in order to accommodate two presentations that will occur at the end of the agenda due to time constraints. thank you now we will move on to public comment.. item 3, items not on today's agenda within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 min. transparent supanich will read the speaker cards. thank you cochair commissioner supanich. >> >>[calling public comment cards] >> we will share. so i am camillo drexler cochair of ascend. >> on matthew mcintyre [inaudible] on the autism spectrum

>> we are here today to update you could we have not been here for a while. to update you on our organization and upcoming conference and will do our very best to finish in 3 min. so, ascend and it's aa ascend is an adult autism group for advocacy and really action should we want to get things done. we were pleased to hear about the work with san francisco police department because we've been working very closely with them to educate them about our members to keep our community say. so what does this do? were all volunteer organization. we are adults on the spectrum friends and family educators and professionals and we need needs as peers to help see how we can help each other. r board is on the spectrum. we have our regular meetings. we run a job club. we do social events. we have a television show on public access tv show that matt is point to tell you about in a minute. our big

thing that's coming up is october 8 we are having eight conference, there'll diversity leaders 2016 and we are doing a conference in partnership with the san francisco state autism spectrum studies department and the conference will be at 7 hills conference ctr. we want to get the word out and we hope the council will help us get the word out. half of the presenters will be adults on the autism spectrum. one of our morning keynotes is a woman who do not speak until she was 13 years old and has really a remarkable story of coming from not having language, being abused, and now being in her almost 50 being a national speaker and leader in the autism community. so we are very excited about this. we have a very generous sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay. so, we

would like people to know about the conference and register, and join us. join us there. matt, do you want to tell us about our tv show? >> ascend tv tv is basically about people who are on the spectrum with their lives within the spectrum and we just talk about different things such as housing issues, support for them and whatever is under the sun. it's on wednesday 7:30 pm if you have comcast is channel 29 a tdd is [inaudible] on sf comments and were available on youtube.com present sf with two a's. he was our producer is on the spectrum in our interviewer on the spectrum. so we invite you to watch. thank you so much >> thank you.

>> if you go to a ascend.org all the conference information is a good i forgot to say that paulette is going to be on two panels at the conference. so, one about this amazing autistic greenland track and another one where you're going to be representing community organizations to seek we can find common ground. >> thank you. thank you very much. we will close public comment and we will go on to information item number for a report from cochair supanich. cochair supanich >> one item today. that is the dignity from. for those of you who don't know anything about it, it's going to be on billions of dollars of year in additional funding for services for people with disabilities

and seniors. it is ballot measure i on the san francisco ballot. it sets aside a certain percentage of property taxes for services and increases over time. as the burgeoning population of seniors and adults with disabilities grows as well. there is-they are having a dignity day on september 23, which will help promote the ballot measure and includes public understanding of the needs of these populations. mayor ed lee will be there as long as community leaders. they will be visiting seniors and community sites all across the city talking about that proposition and educating voters. so, it's on friday,

september 23 from three-5 pm. it'll be at the western addition senior center at 1390 turks st. at fillmore. that's dignity day. if you would like to join-there's 45 organizations in the dignity fun coalitions it if you would like to help by all means, or to rsvp to dignity day, we may call 415 543 62 22, extension 1106 or e-mail at fifan at [inaudible] dot org. one last

thing. election day this year is on november 8. please, vote on opposition nine. that's it. >> thank you cochair supanich. we will now move on to information item number five. presentation on san francisco department of aging and adult services in our like to welcome shearing mcspadden. >> good afternoon commissioners. good afternoon interim director. thank you for so much for inviting me to come today to present. i think it's been a couple of years actually stuck him to present but i know some of my staff have been here talking about various programs. i want to start out today by saying that one of the things that we do at the department is we do and needs assessment every four years. and we do

that needs assessment really because we are what's called the aaa. were the area agency on aging and the federal designation that we have. federal and state designation. so, we are required as part of that designation to do-to look at the senior population every four years and then kind of plan accordingly around what we find. so we look at demographics. all of that stuff. one of the things that we do know in our plan when we do the needs assessment is we also include a look at adults with disabilities week because we serve people 18 and older, we look at, take a look at the overall population of adults with disabilities and then we look at adults were 60 plus. sometimes those things are different and sometimes the same. i want to just talk to you a little bit about some of the needs assessment could finance we had about because i think san francisco there gets relevant to what you're talking about obviously, but hope six plane house we decide how to

focus our funding how to focus our advocacy efforts or work with advocacy groups around things and also, how a lot of our community groups focus themselves and organize themselves the population size . in i just want to point out this is like census data basically. the census asked people to identify if they have difficulty in key areas such as bathing or dressing, walking were connoisseurs are making decisions are concentrating. there's some data from that and there some data from other sources that we gathered and we have a really good planning team and they pulled all the information they came together but of course, it's not always don't always have as accurate data as we would like. i'm sure we may be under representing when certain areas or whatever but we use this as a planning tool for us. about 87,000 adults

age 18 and older in san francisco report disabilities. it's about 11% of the city's population. most of the group is seniors, age 60, plus good about 52,000 people of that overall number are 60, plus. there are about 35,000 adults between 18 and 59 that report disabilities. so, just separating out the 60, plus population, those 52,000 people , they represent about a third of the overall senior population. so it's a pretty sizable number of the overall 60, plus population. most commonly, that particular group reports the following. they report, if they report a disability they are saying basically, there generally is a ambulatory difficult. walking or climbing stairs is reported about about 21% of the

population. independent living which is defined by the census specifically as difficulty doing errands alone due to a physical or mental or emotional condition. it's reported about 80% of that senior group. self-care and hearing difficulties are reported by about 11%, of the 60+ population. disability rates increase significantly with age in the which is probably not surprising to anyone. among younger seniors, which i know is not a great term, age 60-64 the disability rate is about 20% self-reported disability rate. among older seniors, age 85, plus it's about 74%. so, then, there's disparities and distilled rates like key demographic factors. gender, although women tend to have higher life expectancy than men, in general, they are also more likely to experience disability in older age

compared to men. this disparities especially apparent is seniors reach old age could 62% of female seniors 85, plus, report independent living difficulty compared to 42% of men in that same age group. ethnicity about one third of san francisco seniors report disability. however the disco the rate is much higher among african american and that tino seniors. perhaps of african american seniors to dq, plus and 36% of latinos seniors report disabilities. so again that's all from the census data and we did very much think about doing a deeper dive and looking at some of the kind of why some of these things are the way they are and think about funding but i want to give you an overall idea of some of the things we looked at. adults with disabilities, 18-59, -35,000 adults like i said before, it's about 6% of the total population of city adults. the most commonly

reported types of disability in this group are cognitive difficulties. that's reported by about half the group that self-reported. inventory difficulties reported by about 39% of the population of that group and then independent living difficulty reported by 36%. again, i say the word difficulty, and this is how the census is using this, so i just want make sure that is clear. that's how it's put in there unfortunately. then, demographic gender mostly male i'm a 50% of that 18-59% population is male and ethnicity, most commonly, white. 36% of the population. although, i minorities are overrepresented among those with disabilities in particular, african-americans are 17% of adults with disabilities in that age group

which is 5% of the overall adult population. latinos are 20% at 50% of the overall adult population. then, white and asian-pacific islander adults are very much underrepresented among males with disabilities compared to the overall numbers in the larger population of adults. so, that's just information that we then use to figure out how do we best serve people. one of the other things we know about this population is that-and this is the senior population, two. the senior population and the adult with disabilities age 18-59, tend to be lower income than the general population for ever idea reasons and they also are very likely to live alone as our older adults. compared with a regular-the larger population of adults. so, thinking about things like isolation and what that does to people and think about things about what to people with disabilities need

if they don't have the money to get the things they need? how do we plan for that? how do we think about that? i come here to a few times and talked about all of the things we do in dos i don't want to do that again. but i do want to talk about a couple different things that were focusing on right now. really, to kind of better serve the population of adults with disabilities. i think the first thing is really thinking about employment and so, we kind of made this little foray into employment service at good it certainly not what we do by ourselves am a but we know that when we-woodworking about employment at aging and adult services working about employment specifically the dolls disabilities and older adult. that little bit of a different book than say what-i forget i'm sorry it's an

academic i can remember what it stands for the workforce development or our own human services agency workforce development program which is really focused on the medicaid that account population. so birth really think about what do seniors need for-they only full-time employment made. they need the part-time employment. they may need different things. whether they have a disability or not i might need to get younger adults with this book as many different support. so, we are really starting to look at that and i think it something that at least for me is the new director in that apartment, it's part of my vision over the next five years is to figure out how do we provide more and more supports. one of the things were doing this here that's very exciting is mayor lee put in his budget program money for a program called reserved. we serve is essentially program that's been used to provide older adults employment in places like new york and boston and other cities. were going to be watching it in san francisco but our focus is not just going to be older adult could it

would be older adults and adults with disabilities it's basically, a program where we will contract with a nonprofit organization will go out and build relationships with potential employers did the program tends to focus on nonprofit employment in government employment. for some reason. i'm not exactly sure why the model has not gone out. why it has not worked or created relationships with business. there may be a reason., but that is how it was set up and so we can kind of look at that and see that something we want to do a kind of extended beyond what the way it's been done before. but, creating those relationships, finding if there are good job, i guess, jobs where people can go and get training but also offer their expertise. then, there is a the caret is there so little bit of a subsidy to bring that person in and we hope that after a while, that

employer will keep that in cooley on as a regular employee. so, were excited to get out launched and will be doing a request for proposal for that in the next couple of months. the other thing that we recently did, and i think it is-i was excited about because i think it fits better in dos, we took over the contract with the art for supplemental waste services and recycling services, which is a service that art clients do. we took that over from the department of human services and i was under the part of aging and adult services that is a good fit for us because it's something as we start think about employment, they fit really well together and we can then take that and learn from that and ranch out. try to figure out what other programs fit really well into that. so, we will be looking to work with the community and stakeholders to figure out as more funding comes down, then, are there

ways we can kind of bolster those programs are at to those programs or add new programs that are going to better serve the community. the other program that i want to touch on is a pilot, and mayor lee and the board of supervisors mike together, put in money for program that we are going to port it home. it's very much a pilot. if you think about in-home support services, in san francisco, we have 22,000 in-home supportive services clients. right? we have 19,000 providers. it's a huge program right. it's $180 million. so, that's just the part that's in the dos budget. it's huge. we got i think it's about 1.5 or $1.7 million for each of two years to really look at, is there a way that home care can

help a different population? a population of people who don't maybe you don't qualify for in-home support services but who could probably use home care is a way of helping them stay at home or having him state employed. we know when supervisor mar had a hearing a number of months ago, and people came forward and talked about their challenges, i guess they kind of fall into different buckets but one of the challenges that we heard was people needing homecare and going to work and having to spend half their paycheck on their home care. so, that's one population that we want to look at. the other population is really older adults who may not need as much. they might have super conflict medical needs but they may need some hours homecare to release days safe at home and we think that can keep them from ending up in hospital or needing more

expensive care and also care that they should i need it have the right amount of homecare. it's really exciting to launch this. we are really grappling with what it's when to look like bigots not a huge amount of money. so, we are talking about a pretty small numbers to study. we are talking about 50 people, maybe or it small. it's very small. but it should really inform us, and again, if we get really good data from this in really good lessons learned from this, then, in a year or two in a couple of years, with this pilot is over, we can go back to funding sources, whatever they be. in may not be the city. it may be other funding sources come up [inaudible] they want to see why that makes sense for us to pay for that because were not going to see the expenses on the other end that are much higher. because that's usually how payers think it it's not like they think about just the goodness of the well-being of the person, but thinking about where we could go with that.

so, i think those are two new things we are doing. i'm very excited about. i know i don't have a huge amount of time but i want to talk a little bit about another process that we are doing called aging and disability friendly san francisco. so, one of the things that-there's a concept called age friendly cities and it was put out by the world health organization, and there is a way that cities can apply to the world world health organization to say that they're interested in becoming a age friendly city and they can take-they can go through a number of steps and get a designation as an age friendly city. so, in san francisco we got a number of years ago there was a group of-there was a workgroup long-term coordinating council thought this is a great idea. we need

to have we need to be an age friendly city. not only do we need to be an age friendly city, we need to be in age and disability friendly city. so, mayor lee apply for-we applied to the world health organization to kind of start this process. we had a workgroup that some great work for a couple of years, we started thinking maybe it would be nice to speed this up a little bit and make it a bit of a formal process so that we can get department heads and we can get business leaders and we can get nonprofit leaders together to kind of like, one, assess our sons of the city with perspective disabilities and aging, and the other is to make recommendations on where we can improve. so, we are going to be launching this task force in the task force is going to meet for less than a year and are grabbed very specific meetings on very different areas that we

need to focus on and they're going to come up with a plan that we can start implements a good kelly dearman, who is there is then a talk to you later is actually one of the cochairs of that group which we are excited about. so, kelly and annika chaudry who works in the mayor's office argument cochair it and were still working out the rest of the membership but basically, the city, it is business leaders. nonprofit leaders and consumers will sit on that task force and as all of our meetings are, they will also be open to the public so people can come in specific meetings or specific topics they are interested in and we will also be doing a lot of stakeholder engagement during this year. i think really, this whole plan is about a lot of it is about the built environment and so we are always worried about that. think about that and how can we

do better. i know the mayor's office on disability does a whole lot of work around that. something you will be very interested in how this walls out and will be a part of it. i think it's also about thinking just every zero time we do a big plan in the city, thinking about doing things with an aging disability friendly lands which we should be doing because it for think about it, that means it's friendly for outing is friendly for children. it's friendly for people whatever a disability. people who have ongoing disabilities. people with chronic illness. people who don't have any of those things. it's like it's really about being inclusive and thinking about community as a whole and it's exciting to me because i also think it starts to help us get rid of some of the isms we often appeared able as him,

ageism, those things. i think it's a fantastic framework especially for me as a new director and it's a fantastic thing to be able to talk about. these are things we need to convert and this is one way to help develop a framework around that. so, we will be coming-i mean i or somebody else be happy to come back and talk to you about that,, but hopefully, not hopefully. there will be you guys will be involved in some way and probably in many ways. so, you might just be coming back and reporting on your own. i want to-i just want to throw that out there and say i'm excited were going to get this-there has been a lot of great work done but were really can move forward with developing a plan. so, i think that is all unless anybody had specific questions for me? >> thank you. i'm an open the questions up to the counselor. cochairman supanich >> thank you for your presentation at you mentioned ageism at the end of your talk. specifically around employment

services. ageism is rampant and people look at anyone with a wide space and figure they can't they're washed up. too old to do the job. will you have specific programs reaching out and to combat that? also, the issue of underemployment for people with disabilities is big. we know that there are several factors contribute into that, but one is the restrictive income requirement. if you get social security disability you can only make the minimum of the money. without losing their benefits and eventually losing medicare. but there's other reasons, too. discrimination and inability for people to be accommodated in the workplace. refusal to accommodate people in the workplace. so, those are two issues i just want to make sure are on your mind and have you specifically thought about strategies for them?

>> yes. we had talked about that now so i don't know if i can answer that completely, but those are two things that we are certainly think about and we have also gathered some information about those and what other cities are done around some of those things. it's-i think a lot of it is about-this white talk about changing the framework because i think the average person doesn't think about these things. right. we don't want to talk about aging. nobody-we have this thing about not wanting to talk about being afraid of it. we need to really change that. i think we do the same thing with people disabilities. we don't want to think about it unless, as i think everyone here knows, most people don't have a disability at some point in their life. at some point whether temporary, whether it's ongoing, whatever. so, there is a tagline that the state is using this as aging is all about living. it's a the same with disabilities. so,

it's about life and how do we get to that. i mean that's not answering your question specifically, good but the reason i'm saying that way is because is very very very hard to make a case for each dissemination in employment. it's very hard to do with disabilities. so, i think yes, we are talking about that in ways that we can partner with organizations that are open to ringing people in because of their expertise and we are also wanting to have this bigger conversation as a city about how we talk about aging and how we talk about disabilities. he was the thanks >> >> thank you >> thank you so much for being here. i'll [inaudible] important mission finding meaningful and impactful work for older adults with disabilities. i'm really interested in this reserve

program. also sort of what is the general age range of individuals who are interested in our good i think chip made an interesting point about the challenges around income maintaining a certain level of income, to have access to resources. stuart do you address that in any way were additional benefits? then, i also want to mention-i don't know if you're aware-in terms of home care resources i note you are city office on aging has on sharing program which allows older adults to age in place and it allows for an individual may be of lower income to come and assist in some of those home care responsibilities. just a thought. something i saw worked very well there. but, yes, in general i'd love to hear your thoughts, and also i love to note if you plan to work towards opening up towards the corporate world. i work in the corporate world. something that's interesting interesting to me is the reserve program. i'd love to hear your thoughts on that.

>> sure. i think were still figuring out how-i mean the people who advocated for that reserve program are really thing about older adults. think about ageism in the workplace. think about part-time employment because people may need can work full-time because of their benefits and so it's very similar to what a lot of younger people with disabilities are doing with if they [inaudible] can make certain amount. i think there are ways that we can try out because i think again, this is not a pilot. his ongoing money but it is in time it's not a huge amount. so i am guessing at some point we are going to-this can be a way to expand that that we find it's working really well. we'll be asking ourselves those questions like how do we continue serving a larger population. how do we serve people with different needs? the home share program. san francisco just launched a home share program and it was

supervisor tang and it was really supervisor tang's advocacy that got it going but supervisor tang and the mayors office, and mayors office on housing in this case, is administering this program. it's exactly what you're talking about. so, it's people with homes with space in their homes can rent to somebody else if they have an excerpt room or whatever, and they can-the people who are renting will pay but there is a way to exchange for services. so, is written into get it might even be a good idea for you to have somebody from the mayors office of housing or their contracting with episcopal senior service senior community episcopal senior community in northern california presbyterian health services for the program. so, it may be a good idea for you to have, if you want to have

somebody come present on that. >> thank you >> they just launched last month. so they're just getting off the ground. this is the issue. they modeled it on one of that's been done in san mateo for a while called, i think it's called hip. of course, there are more people seeking housing than there are people seeking people to live in houston. so that's going to be an ongoing issue, but if it's successful, even for a few people, it provides housing stability. >> absolutely. thank you >> thank you. i don't have a question. i pretty much have a comments. when you are talking about this employment program and it was brought up about accommodation and discriminations for older adults with disabilities, one of the things we discussed is how and when to disclose to

employer with regards to reasonable accommodation that can be uncomfortable. back and tie into the discrimination because, i'm not saying for all employers, but some you might be a hardship or burdened cost association that may contribute to that factor. so, itin this program also a clients are going through this is there to be training on how to interact with employer when you disclose what they may need around the accommodation? >> that's a great idea. take that back. i'm hoping that it is but if it isn't all make sure that we discuss it. that's a really good point. >> okay. i know you talk about older adults but i'm sure people would still want to, especially talking about a corporate environment whatever their age aye will climb up the ladder. how can they do that if

they have the skill set and can do the essential functions, how they can move on to different positions or higher positions if a qualified and not just a entry level. >> thank you >> i'm also curious to know if there's resources or support from individuals for forced early retirement with their current employers and the transition into part-time or some sort of a transition into another role? >> yes. i think again, that's a small amount of money. were to try something we need to have a bigger conversation about it. i think your points are all good. excellent. i think we need to think about if this works were able to start this with the next step. what questions what expertise do we need to be able to negotiate well with employers potential employers and how to help educate them around some of these things. i would say that's probably the next step were excited to get the money

to get started and it's new for us. and i think will make sure that when we when we think about for future programs expansion that will find a way to bring in community to start talking about that because we don't want to create those things in a vacuum at all. >> sounds like we are moving in the right direction. thank you i like to open up to public comment. anybody like to come up? i'm going to quest if you have any questions for the presenters to talk to them at break time or whatever. excuse me for that. staff them at you have any questions? >> just a quick question and comment and charlene, thank you for staying because i know your time schedule and kelly is waiting but you mentioned the

assessment earlier. how do you go about doing outreach for the assessment? other people you find this? are they of a certain demographic? are they in a certain neighborhood? one of the things we talk about in a couple our communities is that some seniors and people with disbelief that are not connected to services so they fall through the cracks. i'm just here is how you go about doing that type of outreach? >> yes. that's an issue for us and always has been genetically of a limited capacity to do that. we do stakeholder meetings and we work with various organizers through the. we also we try to find people who are less connected but usually were finding whenever organizations of their connected to [inaudible]. i think if commissioner supanich mentioned that they gave him. if the dignity fund passes one of the things it requires is that we do a really extensive a

needs assessment and gap analysis, and it would be a different level of stakeholder engagement with that process. i think that's one we would be resourced if that were to happen that one would be resourced to do something much different than i think we would go out and really try to figure out, really work with everyone's best thoughts about how to engage in people who are not engaged in a normal way. as we've tried to work it >> i just have one comment and i'll join has a question. so, i'm on my way actually next week to go see my parents and my dad is actually getting sort of the new mexico version of home care. it comes in tears and he just started just the person i need somebody to check his vitals a couple times a week. what's critical about that it frees up my mom. it really dares-there's the caregiver aspect of that. she does not worry about taking care of her and taking care of him. it's one of those things to keep in mind that's going

along it's equally as beneficial to the person that is living with a person trying to [inaudible] as the person actually getting the care. >> right >> thank you so much for this presentation. it's always exciting to have that apartment come up with the new initiatives because really, the direction of dos has taken over the last pew years is really more about a community integration approach rather than keeping things as they are. taking care of people but allowing people to give them the tools to thrive with this revolutionary approach [inaudible] and the question i had for the or suggestion i have for you, whether there's going to be a job resident program associated with employment at first. specifically targeted to seniors with disabilities. so,

issues like disclosure is an issue that many other employment programs don't deal with or learning computers for the older generation. not a technologically advanced. so, whether you contact with an agency i would urge you to get the job readiness skills to a very targeted way as part of your program. finally, the other question i have for you is where do you see mdc's role in partnering with the department and also the council's role in partnering with the department on bringing for some of those amazing initiatives, whether the home share program, employment initiatives, or supportive home? >> well, i see a great role for the mayor's office on disability to be involved with us. he working on all this and

i think as i said, earlier, some of these things come up and we don't get them we get them and their gives for not really ready to having you know how it happened we get money and wow this is great. we need to get it out the door. i also think though were starting to really think more strategically in these areas about how we i guess how we want to spend a dollar. how we want to study with the results are and so i see us working much more closely with your office. up front around some of this planning. again, we have this to enter and $50,000, for example for employment but that's a cd. as far as i'm thinking, is a seed. what are the other needs? we need to work very closely with your office to plan for the next phase of that. so i'm willing to do whatever that means. whether means having regular

meetings, certainly, in thinking about the aging and disability family landing process we need to be very involved. so, but, yes i would like to see about a very close relationship. >> well, thank you we look forward to working with you. i would like to open up now to public comment. >> will go to information items six. the san francisco public authority today. i'd like to welcome our presenter kelly dearman. thank you for waiting, for your patience. thank you >> good afternoon. thank you

councilmember's for inviting me and the thank you interim director khambatta. b my name is kelly dearman [inaudible] and i also love eileen orman who is our new deputy director is also here. so we thank you very much. i'm going to tell you a d public authority and i can answer whatever questions you might have. first, the public authority we are staff

of 17 and that includes six counselors and mentorship programs and administrative staff as well as our benefits and fingerprinting project could also you a little bit about that. first of all, we were created over 20 years ago to connect though income seniors and people with disabilities to qualified in-home supportive services providers. so that everyone can stay at home and live happier, healthier, lives without having to move into institutional lifecare. so, the way we do that is through these following programs which i will discuss. first, we have the fingerprinting project. this is for our providers could all providers have to be screened and they have to follow a criminal background check, and to our fingerprinting project,

we make sure that they do that and that they pass and that everything is fine. next, we are benefits in san francisco we are lucky that we are able to provide benefits to all of the independent providers and as you heard that about 20,000 folks. they receive medical and dental benefits as long as they meet the requirements. they just have to work a certain number of hours in a month, 25, and then they can receive benefits through healthy workers . next, we have our registry. the registry is where we connect consumers with providers. we currently have 250 providers on the registry. those providers of all received 48 hours of training including cpr and how to be a homecare provider. our providers are

very diverse, speak many languages, most of them are women. we find that it takes about eight days from the time that somebody calls and receives the list of consumer calls, receives the list of potential providers get once they receive that with it takes them a day to actually hire a provider. to be clear, of the 22,000 or so consumers in san francisco, we do with about 1500-2000. the rest of those consumers have friends or family members who actually provide-who are there providers. we work without consumers who do not have a friend or family member or cannot find it friend or family member who are willing to do it. we also been on call program. this is our emergency services. san francisco is unlike most counties throughout california, that if your provider does not

show up, or if you are being discharged from the hospital, and do not have a provider we will provide emergency services for you on a temporary basis until you can find a permanent provider. so, just as i already mentioned in terms of the on-call provider and the independent providers, our on-call providers are separate employees of the public authority. the independent providers are contract workers. those on the registry are contract workers. they're not our employees. everybody, as i said, has been trained and interviewed and has a tb test. lastly, we have a mentorship program. this is-we are proud of our mentorship program. these are current or past consumers, who work with

current consumers to show them the ropes basically. we do this through several ways. one, we have a one-stop resource center so you can come to our office. we offer trainings and workshops and resources for our consumers, and we have mentors there were also there to talk to you. then, we also do direct one-on-one mentoring.. so, for example, if a consumer calls the registry and says, i want to hire a provider, we talk to them and said have you ever done this before? no. great. we want you up with a mentorship or him and a mentor will help them sift through this list of names they have received. we will sit with them through the interview prospect we will help them call to set up these interviews and really talk to them about being in employer because what's important for us is the

sustainability of those relationships. we find that through the mentorship program in this one-on-one connection, that's happening. the other thing that we have is at laguna honda, we have mentors who are at laguna honda work with ihss consumers were eligible ihss as consumers were being discharged. we make that connection with them and talk to them about hiring a provider. how to work with their provider. keeping the communication open. how to take care of yourself so that you're able to better show someone how to do care of you. the goal being if we work with them before they are discharged and we keep up with them for at least six months after discharge, the rates of them returning to laguna honda goes down significantly. so, those are the major programs. we also do a fair amount of advocacy in sacramento and around town in i also want to