i think the set-asides exactly represent our values. i don't believe any voter in the city would have voted for healthcare rights after five years of unemployment. there's a lot of decisions made in the government that citizens don't support and the set-asides are our way of what we do support and i think we should look at big government. i think people would be more willing to have conversations about growth if we're responsive. i would be happy to get paid in three to six months. i'm happy to get paid nine months later. if the board looks at good government practices and what it took to be a nonprofit in the city and provide the necessary services, they might be willing to make sacrifices that we're not seeing you willing to do on other places. i hope you give it more thought and consideration before you put this on the ballot in june.

>> next speaker. yes. >> thank you. hello supervisors. i'm with senior and disability action. i just want to say, i agree that set-asides are not a perfect policy mechanism but the reality is we work within the flawed system we have. one of the only tools for poor and marginalized communities right now is set-asides to get resources for the services that have been historically underfunded. the dignity fund helps fund among other things for seniors to stay in homes and not be evicted and not displaced and

end up far away from san francisco and the communities we know. we're doing a needs assessment for the dignity fund right now. it takes time to figure out how to spend the money in a way that's responsible and best for our communities. the claw back provision would hurt seniors and people with disabilities. we certainly all agree we need a better budget process, one that involves and really hears community members, and meets people's needs and this is not that. please oppose this legislation. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm going to echo a lot of the sentiments that people have said. i'll keep it short. i'm an organizer, i work with the teachers union at city college of san francisco. aft is a member of the budget justice coalition. our union has concerns about this measure. the $200 million trigger point,

we believe whether it's six budget cycles or 20 out of 20 it can insert a new level of instability into the already flawed budget process and regardless of other points and complexities at this time, we don't see it as workable. without knowing what would replace set-asides, we're concerned the measure will leave a gap for the most vulnerable communities including students who need the resources. programs that we have to serve, students like these are already struggling to meet our city and community member's needs and have long waiting lists. our students often cannot afford to wait any longer. we understand that this is complex and we hope that you can include our community further in solving this. please don't move forward too quickly. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> hi coalition of homelessness. good afternoon supervisors. we have a huge crisis in particular around homeless families in san francisco. you have seen us come year after year, draw attention to the issue. we've pushed frank jordan. we pushed willy brown, ed lee, london breed. still today we have an average of 111 day wait to get shelter for families with children in san francisco. 111 days. what has san francisco done in response? well, they created a task force, that's what gavin did, shrunk down the eligibility, instituted an unworkable requirement.

that's happened under the current government. we're primarily sending families out of town is what we're doing. we have situations like what happened recently in san francisco because we shrunk down eligibility and turning families away from help, we just had a young mother, very young mother who was forced to double up in a situation with very violent person, she went to try to get shelter, she was turned down, she was told she wasn't a priority because she was doubled up. and she was killed. sorry this stuff -- we have to go to the ballot. we have to get a set-aside. we don't have a choice.

with these situations -- >> can you add a bit of time, please? >> it's really messed up that there is not a collective process on trying to figure out how to address set-aside reform collectively without hurting communities. it's too fast and loose, it's not thoughtful. it's not engaging. there's a lot of ideas out there for set-aside reform that wouldn't hurt people. there's a lot of messed up things, having a set number of employees without look at effectiveness, you could tie funding to effectiveness of program and having some evaluation measurements. there's a lot of stuff we can do around set-asides but the random caps are not going to work. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon.

todd david on behalf of san francisco parent pack. we as an organization have been supportive of the set-asides on the books. they make life a little easier for families in san francisco and children in san francisco. i know that both supervisor tang and peskin know that and they're not questioning the value of what it is the set-asides are providing. i want to talk a bit about a couple of ideas around set-aside reform. one of the things, the $200 million as the trigger, if that's based on today's budget, that's a $10 billion budget, that's basically 2%. 2% budget deficit of the overall budget. i believe supervisor tang said it was 2 over the past number of years, i would be curious to know what was the total number budget that it was a part of, a $5 billion, $6 billion, you're

talking 3.5 or 4% of the budget is $200 million. if there's going to be a conversation around setting a trigger, i would encourage perhaps to switch to a percentage as opposed to a flat rate. we know the budget continues to grow. and i want to say i agree with supervisor peskin to look at new revenue measures to offset some of the set-asides. i think now if we collect signatures and it's a 50% plus one threshold for new revenues, i think there's an opportunity to build coalitions especially with people in this room, we can protect set-asides by having offsetting revenue measures. i think there's ways to work it out being fiscally responsible and providing the services that we value. i hope to continue the conversation. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello supervisors.

district 11 youth commissioner. i'm here to speak on the legislation. it came as deferred to the full and i voted against the legislation because it touched money set aside for youth, it is much harder duties to look into things that affect youth and being a native of san francisco since i was born, i have lived through things from budget deficits to recessions and i know for a fact it is not a happy thing for a kid to go home and see his parents fight tooth and nail because they can't find a job. and it was after school programs that kept a lot of us youth sane. my fear is that touching things set aside for youth is going to set in motion another catastrophe that affected my generation during '04 and '08.

destroyed our mental health and took away our potential. i am open to discussion at the same time. i believe we need solutions to deficits and recessions. i don't want to go through the same thing i went through when i was younger and i saw my parents fight because there were issues around money. we are all open to discussion, i think everyone in the room is open to discussion and we want a democratic process around this, something we all deserve and i'm sure that none of us want to fight and none of us want to argue. what we want is a better future for san francisco, something we can all agree on and something i truly look forward to with all of you. and as youth commissioner, i will continue to stand by what i believe in and what i believe is best for my district and the youth within it as that is my charter duties to do. thank you so much and have a great day. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> good afternoon supervisors and chair safai. i come before you today to sharon behalf of the commission, the position on this piece of legislation, under charter section, the commission is charged with advising the mayor and board on legislative policies and in this case budgets concerning children and youth in san francisco. the commission heard the legislation before you today and after careful and robust deliberation, the commission voted to oppose the legislation. from their discussion, commissioners shared a number of concerns as a whole but overwhelmingly the concerns were about the programs and services for our children and youth and our most vulnerable communities and they should be protected always. you know, people -- children and youth and people with disabilities and the most vulnerability are usually at the chopping block and that's

especially true in years with a budget deficit as we consider the legislation before you today. it came out of the children's fund in 1991 and the commission advocated along side many of the folks who came and spoke in public comment today for the expansion of the children's fund in 2014 to include young people who are under served and so to consider, you know, a cap on the growth and a lot of the growth funds for children and youth fund would go to transitional age youth, it's something commission took to heart. should the board move forward with the charter amendment today, the commission would recommend first to oppose it, but they would recommend the removal of some funds and set-aside from consideration, the children and youth fund, the children and pay baseline, the public education and enrichment fund and housing trust fund, a full reflection of their

comments is in your packets and while i can't speak to the dignity fund, i would note the commission in past has stood in solidarity with seniors and people with disabilities on other issues before the board, such as funds for seniors and such. thank you for your time. thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public wish to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor yee. >> yeah, i want to thank the public for coming out here and sharing their opinions. i really appreciate supervisor tang and peskin in their intent to look at these set-asides. and i was supporting the notion of this. there were -- before i walked into the chamber today, there

were basically two things i thought i needed to have addressed in the legislation where i could support it. one of them -- i'll state them. one of them being that why are some set-asides on the list and why are some not on the list. and it becomes almost the same discussion, almost redundant to why we have the set-asides because somebody is going to choose priorities over other priorities. that's why i supported the children's fund and dignity fund because i knew it was difficult to get some of these issues to float closer to the top where it becomes something that can't be chopped off, we don't have enough money this time around.

the other issue i was hoping to get addressed would be this 2 million -- the projection and for whatever reason i guess i was hearing it was a real deficit and not just projections and i thought that would be an easy fix. if that's the amount we're looking at, then i think any growth funding that is associated with any particular set-aside should be put on reserves until the end of the year, where if there wasn't really a deficit -- a lot of times we project a large deficit and it shrinks to the point where i guess we really didn't have to worry.

being on a budget committee, i understand why we project more on the conservative side, you don't want to end up with a budget where you can't pay for it. but at the same time, i think it's only fair you don't just put it back in the general funds just because you project it. we can play games with the projection. that was the other thing i wanted to fix. but after listening to today's public comments, all the issues that came up that i wasn't questioning now i'm beginning to question. i think part of it was -- i think it started with supervisor tang saying there's explanations about the baseline, children's fund, it's different in how we're going to look at it. i want to understand that better. each baseline seems to be a little different yet we're kind of lumping everything into one

category. and i think supervisor tang was addressing multi year contracts but i wasn't sure. and the ones with dedicated funds. there's many issues and i -- at this point -- i walked in with two issues and rather than having clarity around that or making amendments around that, there's more questions now where i'm at the point that i can't support this. >> supervisor tang. >> i'll defer to supervisor fewer before i answer some questions. >> i cannot support this legislation in its current form. i am not opposed to set-aside reform but i think it should include all set-asides, this

does not include police and fire, which i think should be included and i think every set-aside should have a sunset date that's not included in the legislation and it should be revenue-driven and have built-in accountability and mechanisms. i'm concerned about the trigger increases in the amount of set-asides is the projected budget deficit and this is not completely scientific and not the best mechanism for a trigger. today i will not be able to support the legislation. >> i'm happy to defer to supervisor tang. >> you can't vote on it today. i do appreciate the questions, we'll have to continue the item anyhow. but i did want to address and really thank a lot of the members of the public.

i wish they were here to hear this dialogue at this moment. but like i said at the beginning, there are so many set-aside provisions we want to make. there are many people who are much smarter who came up with much better ideas, we had to pair it down to these provisions not to cut any of the baselines. we started from probably 10 plus ideas and went down to the two with the least amount of impact. i heard from nonprofits and so forth saying we're going to cut funding and you're going to hurt critical services. this measure does not cut the funding. we are saying that in the years where there's a projected deficit of $200 million at the point of a joint report. it's not just at the beginning of the year when we're starting off the budget process, it's tagged to the joint report that we would suspend the growth.

so the baseline is not touched, it's the growth part that would be frozen. however, i am interested in looking at what supervisor yee was talking about putting it on reserve until the end of the year to figure out if the 200 million deficit -- by law we have to balance the budget every fiscal year, so of course we balance it but there are trade-offs in the conversation but i will look into that idea. there was a question that came up or some concerns around the fact that the city doesn't pay nonprofits fast enough. and multi year contracts and how does that work. so i don't know if the city attorney's office wants to answer this, but in terms is that my understanding as long as you're in contract -- i'll take dcys as an example, they contract and provide funding with many nonprofits. as long as they're in contract

and contracted with organizations and have multi-year contracts they're incumbent. it wouldn't be clawed back unless they voluntarily closed them out, but they're the ones -- the department has the flexibility to figure out if those funds by the nonprofit grantees would be clawed back to the fund. they're the clearest example i can offer because they provide so many grant funds to nonprofits opposed to capital improvements. if the controller's office wants to share or elaborate further, let me know. >> just to confirm that your description of it is accurate. typically grant or contract once

entered into the whole amount in the budget. >> so i hope that eases a lot of the fears i heard during public comment and from supervisor yee in that respect -- >> can you reiterate that again? i want you to reiterate it one more time for the record and everybody. once a budget is submitted, it's -- >> once a grant or contract is agreed, the whole amount is encumbered even if it's going to be paid overtime by monthly a lotment. >> so for instance, excuse me supervisor tang -- okay. one of the individuals talked about the dignity fund and how there were individual subsidies for seniors and it's done on an annual basis, they're submitting a contract for specific subsidies for a particular provider on an annual basis,

that then marks the money as encumbered for the year and happens on an annual basis? >> in general, yes. i don't know a lot about the mechanics of the dignity fund but as a general rule, once the grant or contract is agreed to, the whole amount is encumbered regardless of how it's paid out over time or other circumstances. >> okay, great, thank you. >> thank you for the clarification and question. so, again, i felt like a lot of the concern stemmed from this sort of uncertainty around the payment and so forth and multi year contracts but really that is not supposed to be impacted because the language in the charter measure says as long as the funds are encumbered or spoken for, they will not have to be returned to the general fund. and even if the nonprofit doesn't spend down the funds by the end of the year, really the department is not obligated to go and return the funds back to

the city's general fund. one thing i want to mention with the 19 set-asides that doesn't include fire in here, only police minimum staffing is, the controller's report explored three different types of uniform kind of measures that each should contain that we consider good policy. one is that they should all include an expiration date, a return and suspension trigger. out of the 19 set-asides only the latest rec park one contains all three of these. i heard from some of the public comment and from supervisor fewer that all should have a sunset date. we thought about the idea and if you look at when the latest would expire it's in 2045/2046. when do we make the sunset date,

after that or beforehand. if we do it beforehand, we're cutting and impacting the baselines. if we do it afterwards, we have a major problem on our hands in the future and i'm not going to be here at this point but future boards will and it's convenient for me to leave them with that problem. that's why we didn't put a sunset date in here. it's not because we didn't want to. we don't want to cut the baselines. i agree that all of them should be backed by new revenues and that's the only fact i supported the street tree one because it was backed by new revenues at that time. i hear the concern around police officers and minimum staffing. i know that's a conversation as a member of the budget committee we do have. when i was staffing budget economy and it was bad economic times we certainly were not hiring police officers and we heard from many colleagues we should have had more officers on the street to do neighborhood

policing. that's the conversation we have in the budget process regardless of the charter measure. so, again, we started this process, the controller's office issued the report in april 2017, it was no secret we were looking into it, we're not trying to do this in closed doors. if you have comments, suggestions, questions about how the mechanics of all this works, i really do invite you to contact my office, e-mail me is the best way and i'm very happy to sit down and chat with you to figure out further concerns and questions. and i wanted to say, i know there are some folks here speaking about homeless services and so forth, although we don't have a baseline that call out homeless services since mayor lee's administration at least, i tried to research this, the city budget for homeless services has nearly doubled to approximately

$300 million and in terms of family homeless spending it has been increased since 2011 by 44%. all i have to say is despite not having a specific baseline for it, i know all of us when we have priorities around health and human services, we really do actually support these budget priorities when it comes budget season. so i could say a lot more but i do want to make sure that everyone knows what we have here are very conservative in terms of set-aside reform and it does not cut your existing baseline whatsoever. with that i'll defer to my co-sponsor supervisor peskin. >> thank you chair safai and supervisor tang to listen to this unpopular piece of important public policy. first of all, i want to thank the people who came to public

comment today. i hear a willingness to have this conversation. i agree with supervisor tang that we actually started in what i think is a pretty reasonable place to start that discussion. but look, we're not politically naive. we're going to have to have some level of agreement or acceptance, a, for us to get it on the ballot with this board and b, for us to pass it on the ballot. the services provided for under the 19 different set-asides are provided by members of the community who we all know and trust and like and we value the services. but -- this is not an easy or fun conversation to have. as supervisor tang said, we don't have to have this conversation, and somebody else will solve this problem. i didn't really enjoy having the conversation particularly as a

progressive in the late 2000s, 2007 when -- with municipal labor unions who provide incredible services to the people of san francisco when we had a tough conversation about the fact that vesting in our health service system and retirement was in those days five years, which we elongated to 10. it wasn't an easy conversation to have but ultimately it was the right conversation to have. i want to have the conversation and i want to thank supervisor tang who has done the heavy lifting and hard working and she's right, we started with a host of ideas, the conversation has to start somewhere. i know even though in supervisor tang, in my mind, we have been having the conversation for over a year and yes, we've had public hearings and the controller came and showed us all the scary graphs and what have you, but at some point the conversation has to happen somewhere. so that conversation is starting today and i genuinely hope that

we're able to sit down and struggle through it in the same way that 10 or 11 years ago we had to do that with the service employees international union and 50 other units of labor in order to come to an easy peace about vesting in our health and retirement. so with that, i really want to thank supervisor tang and her staff for their bravery and policy work. and i hope colleagues on the panel you'll at least adopt the amendments that are before you today so we can continue to have this conversation. >> any other members of the committee wish to comment on the item? okay. great. so can we have a motion to accept the amendments and then we'll continue the item to the next meeting on the 24th. is that what you all are looking for? supervisor tang? >> i don't know if you're planning to schedule a special meeting -- >> next week is kind of a

special meeting. >> whenever the next meeting is. >> the 24th. >> and the amendments for return to the general fund, in addition to encumbered the funds and identified what you're going to spend it for, if it's for capital, you will not return it to the general fund it eliminates for the children's baselines and it specifies how the controller's office calculates how much of the budget that would be returned to the baseline in proportion to what they received from the baseline. >> great. i make a motion to adopt the amendments. >> without objection those amendments are adopted -- deputy city attorney john gibbner. >> just to clarify one additional amendment in the draft circulated to you, section

16.106 with the charter with a bunch of departments that the board is required to fund every year, funding of services but not a particular amount, not a property base tax set-aside. not a baseline. they were originally included in the charter amendment and the amendments proposed by supervisor tang will remove them from the charter amendment. that's the war memorial, fine arts, and academy of sciences. >> great. so -- that's just a point of clarification or do we need to read it into the record saying they're part of the amendments. >> just a point of clarification for the members of the public who are here. >> we have a motion on the floor to accept the amendments as proposed and to this charter amendment overall. and to continue the item to the next meeting on january 24th.

>> yeah. >> okay. seconded? without objection, the item is ordered. clerk, any other items before us today. >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned. thank you everyone. ♪ >> they tend to come up here and drive right up to the vehicle and in and out of their car and into the victim's vehicle, i

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6, 2017 meeting minutes, motion to approve? any comments or questions? to the public? hearing none, all in favor? any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item 4, reports, the director report, thank you, shireen. >> director mcspadden: thank you, commissioner, and i want to extend a special welcome to commissioner papas very happy to have you working with us. i was at the national association on aging board meeting. i mentioned before, but for those of you who haven't heard, i'm one of two representatives from california to this national association. and it's a great organization, they're focused on building the capacity of aaa so we can help

older adults. it supports initiatives such as livable communities and dementia-friendly america. they advocate for funding for services for adults and adults with disabilities and provide tools such as the elder care locater. they're a great organization to belong to. very supportive of the aaa, the area agencies on aging across the country. at the meeting we heard from cms officials talking about feature initiatives and opportunities for aaa and our cbo partners. they promised that they're moving into an era of innovation, for those of you familiar with cms, you may wonder what that means, but they've pointed out they loosened up the reg from 10 or

15 years ago. so we'll see, i'll be reporting back on that in the coming months. we also heard from lance robertson, the newly confirmed secretary for aging and a >> adaad administrator. one of the things that we do at this meeting that i find interesting is we go region by region, so each region across the country kind of reports in about what the challenges are that they're seeing and how they're dealing with the challenges. but one of the biggest things to emerge, obviously was housing. nobody would be surprised by that. but the second biggest thing to emerge was really challenges with respect to foworkforce. i see those as two different

things, one being the workforce that supports people to live in community safely. and the other is just making sure there are opportunities for employment and employment opportunities for older adults and adults with disabilities. that's one of the things we came up with across region 9 as a challenge and something we need to figure out. so did other regions. it was a big issue this year. i haven't heard it mentioned at this level yet. i wanted to talk next about the reframing aging initiative in san francisco. i guess i think all of you should have received an invitation to an event we're having on january 23rd. it's at the koret room of the library. if you haven't, let bridget know. if you didn't, it's not because we left you out on purpose, it's

because something happened to the invite. that's the meta fund and department of aging and adult services are cosponsoring the event. and there is organization called frame works institute that has done work on reframing policy conversations across the country and across the world. one of the things they took on is aging. we know that ageism is rampant in your society and they kind of wanted to look at what people would respond to with respect to aging. how do we reframe the conversation around aging, so that people care about it differently. this is a database approach to reframing the conversation about aging in the united states. and so we thought it would be a really good thing to do in san francisco and we're having a big event january 23rd, the library,

from 2:30 to 4:00. i hope all of you can there. this will be a level setting conversation, where we can all come to the conversation from the same framework. the second day, we're going to have workshop by invite only, because we have limited capacity. that is 35-40 people meeting at meta fund all day to figure out, how do we carry the conversation farther? what should we do as a city? i think it's a real opportunity. i want to say that one thing that is great is people who are communications experts be there. so we're asking the nonprofit partners who we've also invited to bring communications, their communications specialists if they can. i think it's going to be a great opportunity. and i'm really very happy that the meta fund has reached out to work with us on this.

bridgett also sent out a notice, hopefully everybody got it, but we have changes in terms of meeting times. just general meeting, wanted to make sure everybody knows. on january -- obviously today is a meeting. you guys are all here. got that memo. on january 8th, from 3:30 to 5:00 at the borne auditorium, they'll hold a budget forum, community budget forum with the public. and what we do, trent comes in and gives overview. dan kaplan, deputy administrator for administration will talk more specifically about the mayor's budget instructions and then trent and jarrett who is the head of the administration, will talk about the plans for the department. so it's kind of -- it's really focused on what the budget instructions are. there is not a lot of detail in

the budget at this point, because we haven't gotten there yet, but if you're interested please join us. on january 23rd, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., it's here in this room, the finance committee will meet and we'll be presented with the daas budget. and the initial planning efforts. and then the regular scheduled february 7 daas commission dating date was changed to tuesday, february 13th, 2018, that will take place in this same room, beginning at 1:00 p.m. at this that meeting the second reading of the daas budget will take place and they'll vote to accept the staff budget proposal. and obviously all meetings are public. and public is welcome to attend, but we're hoping, not sure yet, if we're going to have them

televised. we hope we are, because we generally televise our meetings. i think that's it. i wanted to end by saying, i think all of us as mayoral appointees were shocked and saddened to learn of mayor lee's death. we've each worked with him in different ways. i know many of you were very, very close to him, so this has been a really difficult time. so we just wanted to acknowledge that. and i also wanted to say that we're right now here to support acting mayor breed in whatever way we can and i know that all of you take that very seriously. and i thought maybe, i don't know commissioner papas, but maybe we want to end the meeting -- i'm looking at you -- maybe end the meeting with a moment of silence for mayor lee. >> thank you. any comments or questions.

for shireen? any comments or questions from the public? seeing none, moving on. employee recognition. the department of aging and adult services commission and executive director shireen mcspadden recognize joseph formentos from the daas office of long term care and operations. [applause] >> director mcspadden: joseph, congratulations. >> thank you. >> director mcspadden: we're here to recognize joseph formentos today. did i pronounce your name right? great, just checking. what i'd like to do today, and we don't do this often, but i'd like the people who support the daas stand. because joseph is among some

fantastic people. so the daas administrative folks do all kinds of things. they do -- they check on building supplies for us, when we have complaints about the building itself, which are pretty frequent. probably daily. they handle those. they handle the front desk. they do copying, they make sure that -- what else do you do? you guys do everything. they decorate the building when we have things happen. they make sure rooms are cleaned. they just kind of are the backbone of the organization when it comes to our building use in particular. so then, we also have people from the cqa unit who are part of the administration and they help with safety manuals and making sure staff are trained well and going out and seeing clients when there is a problem. it's a bit of a mix, but they're really a great group of people and joseph is a star.

and he's our star for january, 2018. our first one of 2018. so i got a chance to ask a couple of people this morning, what is one word that represents joseph for you? and i got a couple of different ones. one is dependable and that is certainly true, joseph is on time, he's here, willing to step in and help, very dependable. one is he's very genuine. he's a genuine person. and he is -- what you see is what you get with joseph. he's a wonderful person, very friendly, very outgoing and caring. the third is flexible. so he has to do a lot of different things. he's been asked to back up the front desk, take minutes, make copies, decorate, building issues and a number of other things and he does it with a smile. so, that's why his coworkers wanted him to be employee of the month for daas. so i'm going to read what your

coworkers have said about you, joseph. since joining long term operations in 2015, joseph formentos has been implemental in supporting the daas family. he has a variety of duties to support the clinical and quality assurance unit, daas reception and administration. his attention to detail, responsiveness and accuracy lends confidence in performance measures and reports. from ordering supplies, providing coverage, he is able to work with effectively with people from all different background and executes tasks independently and on time. when daas needed community support, joseph stepped up to the challenge and supports several work groups,. joseph approaches all tasks with openness and humility to support daas's goals.

nothing is above or beneath him as he embodies team work, professionalism. his desire to learn, thoughtfulness and patience make him an essential component of what makes daas successful. his kindness and generosity is what makes daas shine. so, joseph, on behalf of the department of aging and adult services, i present you with this plaque and congratulations on being employee of the month for january. [cheering] [applause] >> president serina: i normally stream these commission meetings, so i understand there is a lot to cover and presenters are anxious, but i wanted to thank the people that i love, starting with my parents who were supposed to be here. i hope they're dvr'ing this, but my beautiful wife camille.

she completes me, my better half. next, my work family. everyone on the fifth floor, including the ooa crew, thank you, ooa. melissa, tom nolan, he's like a mentor to me. bridgett, thanks, bridgett. where is valerie? valerie, i've worked closely with her recently and she's taught me so much, i've learned so much from valerie, she's amazing and i'm trying to learn as much as i can before she goes on maternity leave. thank you to the deputy cindy and jill. i don't know a better duo. they're like baumgartner and posey of the fifth floor. and thank you, shireen, thank you so much, shireen for your support. i have the deepest respect for you. this vision for the department, i'm here every step of the way

for you. now to my long-term care, i first want to thank adriana, when i first was on board, she taught me everything in the beginning, she was there when i was answering the phone, nervous. and she told me it will be ok. and it's ok. thank you to rea, she's on vacation right now. duane and larry. my nurses, i love my nurses, angela, luba, sue. i run down three flights of stairs and run up, i deliver one folder, and i just -- i'm dedicated to them. it's all the exercise i get for the day. the next two people i want to thank. i'm going to use a sport analogy. i like sports. but, fanny, thank you so much. fanny is like klay thompson. you know him of the golden state warriors, he can rebound, shoot,

he does it quitely and efficiently and that's fanny. when you need a bucket you pass it to clay. here's my mom. [applause] my mom made it in time. you know, with clay, you have the splash brothers, but this case, it's the splash sisters. carrie is steph curry of daas. she is mvp, makes me better. and she's the best program manager in the city. thank you, carrie. that's steph carrie right there. last but not least, i want to thank my direct supervisor. i had no office experience when i first started, but she gambled on me, put all her chips in and

it paid off, right ophelia? the reason why is because she allows me to fail, i learn from my mistakes and that's how i improve. for january 2018, i'm the employee of the month, but ophelia is my employee of the month every month. i'm humbled and thank you very much, i appreciate it. [applause] >> president serina: the advisory council report is the next item on the agenda. leon-schm

leon-schmid . >> happy new year to all of you, we'll have a report next month. thank you. >> president serina: thank you, leon. diane lawrence, joint legislative committee report. >> happy new year, we didn't have a meeting, but i worked with cindy kaufmann and we've begun planning what is happening coming forward and so i do have a bit of a report to kind of lay out where things are. i reached out to the senior, who is our representative from california senior legislature so i have their top 10 for the year, plus their three federal and i'll provide those to bridgett. but i wanted to go over a couple of things that are coming up. and level sets since there are new commissioners.

17 bills were signed of the ones we were tracking last year, signed by the governor and chapterered by the secretary of state. two were vetoed, i'll get back to those and 15 had no action taken at the end of the session. many of those can come up again. the two that were vetoed elder and dependent adult abuse and care, which would have added preponderance of evidence, that was vetoed by the governor, but the legislature has 60 days to possibly bring that up over the govern's veto and put that into law. we'll be looking at that. the second was the registration of home care aides, which would have required registered home care aides to opt out of allowing their names and phone numbers to be shared with labor organizations. this again was vetoed and there is the 60-day time frame,