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, so

we'll be reporting out on those. the bills where there was no action, they could come up again, but today is the first day to the legislature reconvenes. so we don't know what bills they're going to bring up or what new ones they may add. senator weiner has a bill, sb 1103, on bicycle yielding, similar to the legislation we have here in san francisco where you can yield the right-of-way. you can yield and don't have to come to a full stop. the joint ledge committee has been opposed to that and that's in suspense at the moment, so we'll see what happens there. today is the first day of the legislative session. next monday, the budget has to be submitted by the governor. one of the things i've added to my report is what the legislative calendar is by quarter to kind of level-set what needs to be done up in sacramento. the 12th is the last day for the

policy committees to hear and report to the fiscal committees and vice versa on anything that came up in the odd numbered years, so that's in the regs. and the 19th is the last day for any committee to hear and report on floor bills that were in the house last year. they have a tight time frame over the next couple of days. the 19th is also the last day to submit requests to the office of legislative council. and the end the month is the last day to pass bills introduced in the house last year. and february 16th is the last day for bills to be introduced at all. so we'll see a flurry of activities over the next 6-7 weeks. so the senior legislature met in november, they've issued a press release. they have two bills that are --

two areas they're supporting that have come up before and we talked about over the last couple of years. one is on prescription drug labelling and this measure would require physicians and surgeons to indicate why the medication is being given and what it's for. so that easy to -- and then the second one is to increase the medi-cal needs allowance. that would be things like, personal supplies that someone on medi-cal may need to pick up. most of the others are around housing, tax contributions, a lot on housing, hunger. elderly financial abuse, grab bars in public rest rooms and toilet heights. there is three bills. one is fall prevention and grab bars.

adopt regulations to the medicare program and the third is california chinese railroad workers memorial day, memorializing the congress and president to enact legislation that would recognize may 10 as a federal holiday of remembrance to honor chinese railroad workers who labored from 1865 to 1869. so i'm sure there will be more than these 13, but we'll report on those in coming months. >> president serina: thank you, diane. >> a quick question, i'm asking this question out of naivety. it's the joint legislative committee, do they deal with regulations or strictly legislation? >> strictly legislation. >> i was concerned a little bit when i heard that the current administration, federal administration scaled back an

obama era policy on levies fines against residents in nursing homes. i didn't know where that fits. >> we can take a look. a thank you. >> president serina: did the governor explain his reason for vetoing the elder abuse bill? >> i don't remember, but i'll check that out. i can put an addendum when i send my report to bridgett. >> president serina: thank you. any other comments? >> commissioner lang: question, on all the bills that you're presenting, is the joint council in support of all of them? >> not necessarily. we will -- i will usually report if we've sent -- so we have in the case of senator weiner's bill, we've sent a letter i believe of opposition and one of our council members, dr. marcy edelman has spoken with the senator staff about why we're

opposed. in terms of safety. to the bill. but if we take -- if we write a letter, we usually tell the commission that we have in fact. >> commissioner lang: i appreciate that, it's just good to know which ones you guys -- >> yes, and we can probably add that in the spreadsheet. >> commissioner lang: thank you. >> president serina: any other comments or questions to the commission? any comments or questions to the public? thank you very much, diane. long-term coordinating council report. >> good morning, marie representing the long term care council. we did meet in december on the 14th and we, like you, have a real interest in the progress on the dignity fund, so we got a report letting us know that the survey piece was done, 1300 surveys submitted. that the focus groups were

halfway done, probably completed by this point. daas was working on the equity analysis, looking forward to seeing that. and there are important meetings coming up over the oversight and advisory committee. one on january 22 and the second february 12. those will be opportunities to really learn what we all heard from this process and figure out how it impacts policy and funding decisions going forward. the melissa also provided an update on the funding that has come as a result of the dignity fund. you're seeing the fruits of some of that today, which is the community service pilots will be i proved on the agenda and there are a few more to come, but it looks like things have rolled out nicely in terms of moving the funding out into the community to do good. the next meeting, if you want more than the cliff notes, is the oac meeting on january 22 from 3-5. commissioner is the

representative to that body and the long-term council has representatives there. the long-term care council benefits from funding from the scan foundation, so we approved renewal grant from them to continue the work with them and other communities around the state. the nomination committee was busy. we learned at the end of last year, that tracy was stepping down as co-chair of the long-term care council and the nominating committee didn't have a hard choice, they suggested and recommended shireen mcspadden to be the co-chair. it was a hotly contested race there, but she was enthusiastically and unanimously approved. so she will be the new co-chair serving with continuing co-chair ann. the long-term care council plays a role in the budget process and has refined that activity over

the last few years with the finance and policy work group, helping shape proposals that come to the council. there were two, one that was approved by the group, focussing on housing. housing subsidies and legal defense. there was a second which was a holdover from the previous year. that didn't go through the policy group, but folks felt strongly should be considered. the original vote scheduled for december is now to happen on january 11 and it will be on all of those proposals, but in the meantime, all of the council members have been asked to set up meetings with supervisors, so we have those meetings proceeding as scheduled now after the 11th of the month. those proposals and all the information goes on the long-term care website. you can go there.

and again, our next meeting of the long-term care council is january 11. >> president serina: thank you, marie. any comments? >> i just wanted to let you know that on december 19th, grace cathedral, the chapter room, the interfaith council convened, we had ten people there from different faith traditions and different aspects of our work and we exceeded the time limit they gave us, which is not surprising for religious folk. >> how much over? >> it wasn't substantial, we'll protect the staff, but it was a very engaging conversation and i'm looking forward to seeing the results of their synopsis. >> president serina: any other comments or questions to the commission? any questions or comments from the public? thank you very much. the tacc report. cathy russo.

and case report. no case report. thank you, valerie. any general public comments? any old business? moving onto new business. 7 a. requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with project open hand for the provision of nutrition and supportive services during the period of january 1, 2018, through june 30, 2020, in the amount of 1,333,001 plus a 10% contingency for a total grant amount not to exceed $1,466,301. thank you, tiffany. >> good morning, president, commissioners and executive director. i am presenting to the

commission this morning for approval this new grant agreement with project open hand to provide nutrition support through meals, groceries, counseling, education, that is tailored to an individual's chronic disease. this grant agreement is the result of rsp 772, nutrition and supportive services for healthy outcomes that was released in the fall of 2017. and was issued in response to the dignity fund allocation plan for fiscal year 17-18, that included funding for nutrition and wellness. food and security is closely connected to poor health and negative health outcomes. healthy food is one of the best things that can be done for long-term health and when tailored to a person's needs as it relates to their chronic disease, it can contribute to improved wellness and positive health outcomes. the chronic diseases included in project open hands new nutrition

program are type ii diabetes, heart disease, and congestive heart failure. if a consumer has one or more of these chronic diseases confirmed by their medical care provider and is food insecure, they're eligible to be enrolled in the new program. a project open hand case worker and outreach coordinator will work with clinics and health care providers that work with older adult to engage eligible consumers. consumers will be enrolled in the new program for a one-year term. they will be required to recertify with their medical care provider at a 6-month mark. we will evaluate the consumer participation to ensure they're accessing services, monitor individual's progress and address issues and concerns at the 6-month mark as well. the meals and groceries will consist of one-third of a consumer's daily nutrition needs

tailored to their specific chronic disease. meals can be in the form of hot or frozen meals and grocery provided will be enough for the enrolled consumer to prepare daily meals. the type of food assistance will be appropriate for the consumer's ability and safety level. nutrition counseling and education will be provided in a variety of ways, including one to one nutrition counseling, nutrition education classes, cooking demonstrations and education material. all enrolled consumers will meet with the registered dietician to assess their needs related to food insecurity, medication, mental health symptoms and diet. they'll be able to schedule follow-up sessions as many times as they like and dieticians will hold drop-in hours. nutrition classes will be held once a month, rotating between

diabetes and heart healthy education and cooking demonstrations will be held multiple times during the month. nutrition education material, of course, will be available ongoing. project open hand will serve at least 250 consumers and provide over 103,000 meals tailored to an individual's chronic disease. in addition to the goal of increasing food security for the enrolled consumer, project open hand will be evaluating the impact of the program on chronic disease specific outcomes. because consumers will be assessed at the time of the enrollment and reassessed six months, project open hand will be able to measure the success of the program. for the enrolled diabetic, they'll look at the impact of the program on glycemic control,

weight. and with those with congestive heart failure, they will track the number of hospitalizations. the department is excited about the new program and is anticipating very positive results. thank you, and i'm happy to answer any questions the commission may have. >> president serina: thank you, tiffany. i have a couple of questions. is this program in addition to any nutritional meals that the individual may be getting at a senior center for example? is it complementary? does it complement those meals? >> i think they can be enrolled in both programs if need be. >> president serina: and will there be something so that the individual knows at the community meal what they should be eating or should not be meeting, will there be instructions and will that information be made available at the center, so the individual doesn't fall off the wagon as it

were? >> i think that would be part of the project open hand counseling. that they would receive from a dietician. >> president serina: thank you. any other -- >> commissioner loo: this program is for the whole city, is that right? >> yes. >> do you get the referral? >> project open hand will be doing their case workers and outreach coordinators will be doing outreach to medical care providers throughout the city. >> commissioner loo: since it's city-wide, so you know the ethnicity of the city, so will they speak different languages, like japanese or chinese? and the material also bilingual? >> yes, yes, project open hand, i think in their -- we can double check -- but they have

cantonese speaking, spanish speaking staff to serve a diverse population. i don't know about japanese, though. >> i'm the c.e.o. of project open hand, good morning. we certainly have cantonese, english and spanish materials printed and people who can speak it live available all the time. for other languages it's difficult for us. so we use the city translation services or other translation services to supplement that. >> commissioner loo: maybe you can subcontract with those individual agencies, because i think it's important that you have the counseling, but also the material that they can understand what you're talking about. >> we do that across the city.

>> commissioner loo: thank you. >> president serina: any other comments or questions from the commission. >> commissioner lang: will these be new clients to project open hand? >> yes, they can be, yeah. >> commissioner lang: well -- will they all be new? >> what they will be for sure is clients that are food insecure. that's their primary -- they could -- they very well could be a client that has used their services for a congregate meal, but not necessarily. the criteria is a chronic disease confirmed by a medical care provider and to be screened as food insecure. those are the two things. so people that access project open hand at a congregate meal site may or may not be food insecure, or they may or may not

have a chronic disease, or one of these diseases. >> commissioner lang: i'm following you. i guess my only concern is that i would like to begin to see us reach more people that aren't using the services currently. and i know for example, there are a number of folks in the bayview, et cetera, that are not part of the mix. so i want to make sure that we're not just substituting one funding source for something else. >> yeah, i hear you and i understand that point. i think most likely someone, a project open hand client that is accessing a -- or people accessing services, a lot of them won't be food insecure. so again, going back to what the criteria is, is to be food insecure. so i think there will be some crossover. i don't anticipate there being a lot, because it's reaching out

to a very different population. >> commissioner lang: i'll live with that for now. >> if i could interject, commissioner lang, that's a good question and one of the things we could ask is that they track new clients and look at this later and see if they're serving completely new individuals or whether it's ending up being they're providing more services to people who need the services and it would be interesting to look and bring it back for discussion. >> commissioner lang: i'd appreciate that, because i know i was at a recent meeting where they were surveying churches churches in the bayview and many of them, half of the congregation said they were food insecure. one of my aims is to make sure that population is receiving services. because they're taking the federal survey on food insecurity and they don't have many options in that neighborhood. >> right, and one of the great things with this program and all

the other nutrition programs, and all programs for that matter, the clients that access services we do know who they are, so we're able to run reports to see who is accessing what and how many times, if they're in multiple programs. >> commissioner lang: thank you, tiffany, i appreciate it. >> president serina: to follow up, i think it is very important we track this, because some of the existing clients may meet the criteria just because they're existing clients should not mean they're not eligible. but there is a substantial amount of people that have not been served, so we would be broadening, especially because it's funded through the dignity fund. it's a supplementary program and a new program, so i think it's a good point that commissioner lang raised.

>> commissioner loo: to follow up on that, since this is a few years program, i'm wondering when six months is starting, ok, maybe after a year's service, we can get a report? >> ok. sure. >> president serina: thank you. any other comments or questions from the commission or the public? please step forward. >> good morning, chairman and the commissioners, i appreciate you taking the time, thank you for describing it. and i just want to remind the commission that we begun in the era of a medical crisis, that's how we started our work in the aids crisis 34 years ago and been part of the medical model. we have never been about hunger specifically, but a medical condition. what this visionary program

seeks to do is give -- not only expensive to the system, but terribly sick. what we know, because of our intervention, we were able to reduce hospitalizations by 63%, increase medication by 50%. those are tangible effects of the system. they're improvement of the individual's health. what this program does because of daas, it allows that service to those who are critically ill. we use service mobile advance. we don't think clients should have to come to us every day. we're reaching out to the community that are critically ill. it's to create a service for people who don't have access or eligibility right now and measure that improvement. to us, this is a significant opportunity, because you have for the first time in the state of california, you've launched a medical nutrition program addressing critically ill

individuals. we will take this and build it. the program funds half of what we do. to your point, we're in this with all of our skin as well, so we're grateful for it and we think we'll make you proud of it. >> president serina: i would like to add, thank you very much, but in terms of the medical model, that is very innovative, but again, the bayview hunter point has a disproportionate number of adults, aging and seniors who have chronic health conditions. so we should be able to see a significant increase in services being provided to that community through this program. >> commissioner lang: i have a different follow-up, based on what you were just saying, in terms of the educational opportunities and nutrition, i forget what you called it, counseling? so the question becomes, where will these people go for the

counseling session? will they come to your site or will there be sites in other parts of the city? >> every single way we can figure out so they can get it. that will be mobile vans, digital opportunities if they have that access, we recognize that is not available to everyone, so we'll have classes onsite in the mobile structure, we'll have classes in the grocery center on polk street and engage with other partners in the community to provide the nutrition class. it is about trying to identify the barriers. i don't think we know them all yet, but we've proven we will cross over them as soon as we find them. so the goal is to get everybody engaged in this, because the food doesn't do it by itself. if we don't teach behavior

change, it won't change. >> commissioner lang: i agree, i'm just concerned if we reach this new population, are these folks that are dealing with chronic illnesses going to have to travel --? >> i agree with you, no, that's why we bought the vans and we can go out in the communities and bluetooth so we can bring stuff up on screens. i don't know what that means really. and we can't be everywhere, so we're trying to figure it out. >> president serina: thank you. yes, thank you. welcome. >> meals on wheels, coordinating council and chair of the food security task force. i wanted to thank you for bringing up the discussion. i think seeing the funding for food security and wanting to integrate health care makes sense. i think there was a limited amount of funding available. i think there was more agencies or actually interested in seeing

how do we really integrate it. i did want to mention we're working on assessment of food security. for the first time we're able to, by district, it was always done, but looking at ethnicity, looking at health disparities, and looking across the city at the programs that we're offering and making recommendations by program. so we'll have a really robust assessment that we'll look forward to sharing with commissioners, officials, and consumers, vendors, stakeholders, so we look forward to coming back and making a presentation and making sure we all together are working on ending hunger in san francisco. thank you. >> president serina: thank you. any other comments or questions to the commission. any from the public? hearing none, call the question, all in favor? any opposed? thank you, the motion carries. 7 b. requesting authorization to enters into a new grant

agreement with lighthouse for the blind and visually impaired for the provision of community services program pilot during the time period beginning january 1, 2018 and ending on june 30, 2020, in an amount of $250,000 plus 10% contingency of $25,000 for a total amount not to exceed $275,000. tiffany, welcome back. >> thank you. first i want to say that the next seven grant agreements are for the new community service activity programming. these grants agreements are the result of rfp 767, the community service program pilot released in the fall of 2017 and was also in response to the dignity fund allocation plan for fiscal year 17-18. the goal of the new community service program pilot is to

provide new community service program that appeals to and reaches older adults and adults with disability that are not accessing existing community service programming. and would benefit from having access. additionally rsp 767 specifically allocated funding for a standalone community service program pilot for the adult with disability population. community service program aims to maintain the well-being of adults by providing activity programming, social services and enhanced outreach. all of the community service program pilots presented this morning provide activity programming that is new and designed with the intent of reaching both older adults and adults with disability that are not accessing services and to address their needs. the new programs offer new

activities as well as extended hours of operation to include evenings and weekends to reach an unserved population. all of the grantees have included an outreach component in the service design to ensure the intended population is reached. between the 7 grantees it is projected that over 6300 consumers will be served throughout the city, with the piloting of 40 new programs and nearly 25,000 hours of community service during the term of the grant agreements. if there aren't any general questions, i'll go ahead and start with lighthouse. >> president serina: any general questions? from the commission? >> commissioner lang: yes, first of all, thank you for taking the time to answer my questions before. the larger piece that i'm more concerned about here is the sort of swing -- >> commissioner can you speak to the mic?

>> i apologize is the swing in the numbers. when i look at the self-help for the elderly, and their scheduled to reach 3700 and they're getting about $334,000 and then when i look at steppingstone, if i read this correctly, they're looking to reach 36, i'm concerned about this large disparity. >> right, that's a very good question. and i will say steppingstone in particular is a very unique model and i'll talk about that more as we go through it. steppingstone is actually an adult day -- it is community service within a adult day health care setting which is different from traditional community service programming. and a lot of the -- with self-help for the elderly, they have a very large sort of reach with their specific programming because they're reaching out to

champ's clients that are not -- they have a large population of outreach, too. so every provider sort of has a different population that they're reaching -- that they're outreaching to. >> commissioner lang: i raise this, in that we want the programs to be successful in reaching these numbers. so not understanding the details of the self-help in terms of their population, but when i look at the bayview group as well, i'm concerned about the -- i think it's 1100 people that they're going to reach, compared to some of the others? it's just a concern. i'm not -- i would hope that these folks can reach these numbers, but i don't want to set them up with unrealistic expectations. >> right, and i think, again, these are pilots. so i think that is the whole nature of what a pilot is, we're

going to see how they do. we're going to see if the new programs are successful. one of the questions commissioner loo asked me, in the bayview contract in particular, was that in total they were piloting 15 programs in fiscal year 18-19, and 6 in the first year, but that again was kind of just making sure, because they do in that first half year, have to start up. we didn't want for them to overshoot and not make those -- make that number. and certainly, at the end of the six-month period, which is going to be my primary job with the contracts, is so closely -- to closely track how they're doing. if it looks like they're going to make it, great. and if not, we're going to have to look and see. if it's of value or not. these are going to be things,

not just me, things the department will look at, much higher than myself, but i'll be providing the data so we can look at that. >> a couple of observations, those with critical mass should do more outreach, because they have an established network. self-help for the elderly for example is a well established agency that raises a great deal of money privately and provides a tremendous number of services as well as getting funding from the city, so it's reasonable to expect them to be able to do -- reach higher numbers where a smaller agency would have a harder task to match that. the second observation is that one of the things that has come up in the dignity fund meetings, is that we wanted to do a better job in reaching adults with disabilities who are not

necessarily seniors. so again, i'm hoping that is one of the criteria that you're going to be using in terms of assessing the success of these programs. >> thank you, yes. we will be looking at all the sort of population that is reached and all the appendix a, there is different requirements, there is requirement in terms of true new unduplicated consumers which commissioner lang you were alluding to with project open hand. there is also criteria for retention, because we don't want to serve one person come once and that's it. that's not what we're looking to do as the department. so the criteria and in the appendix a are a little more robust than they have historically been to try to serve people better. >> president serina: i think -- thank you, tiffany, i think it's

important to remember these are innovative programs, so not everything is going to be as successful, but we should learn from what doesn't succeed and build on that. this is an exciting thing for the city. >> commissioner lang: it is. >> president serina: again, it's coming quickly given how recently the dignity fund was established, so again i commend melissa and her team for moving ahead to swiftly. >> i have a question, since these are new grant agreements, the frequency of reporting on the results, is it at the end of the grant term or is it midway through? >> well, i mean, again, that's going to be what -- they actually report out on a monthly basis, so i'll be looking at their reporting, because they have -- when they report for billing, they have to submit reports. and those are things that i review on a monthly basis. >> dashboard? >> yeah, they do it on get care and carbon.

those are the things i'll be looking at. >> president serina: thank you. >> commissioner wallenberg: thank you, i just wanted to get a sense, maybe in the future, maybe now is not the best setting to see the examples of the knew innovative programming. that's the first question. the second one, piggy back what has been said before, to get a sense of essentially what the enhanced outreach plan looks like for each of the target populations to meet the needs and get through the barriers we're looking at for both ethnic and agree graphic communities in -- geographic communities in the city. >> i'll talk about that in each of the separate proposals, but i can provide detailed information also after, or during. >> commissioner wallenberg: sure. >> president serina: thank you. good questions, all. any other comments or questions from the commission before we begin? >> commissioner lang: i have one more quick question and perhaps

this is my naivety, way tonight get -- i want to get a sense why we use the federal poverty line, instead of the elder index. my understanding is the elder index is more closely associated with the realities of economic disparity in san francisco in particular. >> i think i'm going -- i might want to defer to -- i mean, i would give you an answer, but i would mumble through it. >> good morning, commissioners. you are correct, we -- well, the short answer is that the federal poverty level is easier measure to just line up client data to. we see something like aging over 34,000 clients a year, so the elder index, you're right, i think can get perhaps more

precise, but there are like a number of measures you have to use like the size of the household, owner, renter. and all of this is self-reported information, so using just fpl is our line. >> i think for ours, we're using 300 of the spl, versus not 100. having been a provider myself, the elder index, it is a complicated form to use. especially as mike said, because it is self-reported. this is a much more straight forward -- it's easier quite frankly, for people that are doing the intake form to kind of indicate. and more often than not, a lot of the clients served do fall within that sort of range anyway. >> sure, it's definitely not lost through the contracts, that

we are look agent 200, 300%. thank you. >> president serina: any other questions regarding 7-b? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, call the question, all in favor? any opposed? thank you, the motion carries. 7-c. requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with bayview hunter's point multipurpose senior services for the provision of community services program pilot during the time period beginning january 1, 2018 and ending on june 30, 2020 in an amount of $526,075, plus a 10% contingency of $52,608 for a total amount not to exceed $578,683. thank you, tiffany. >> ok, can i do lighthouse

first? i think we skipped over that one. sorry, that was my fault, because i side tracked everyone. >> president serina: yes, of course. >> commissioner lang: very good. >> i wanted to set the stage [laughter]. ok. the first grant agreement presented for approval is the standalone adult with disability pilot and it is for lighthouse for the blind and visually impaired. their programming includes the start of three new weekly classes, quarterly wellness retreats and outdoor excursions on weekends all designed to appeal to an adult with disability population that is not currently accessing programming. the funding through the grant agreement will allow lighthouse to dedicate resources and

coordinate the new classes and weekend activities. their outreach will be conducted in a variety of ways, including collaboration with other disability organizations, use of their own extensive database and promotion of the new program on appropriate websites. they will serve at least 100 consumers annually and provide over 1400 hours of service during the term of their grant agreement. i request approval for this grant agreement and happy to address any questions from the commission. >> president serina: so protocol, bridgett, do we need to vote again? yes, ok. so we'll do this again. any further comments or questions from the commission? from the public? ok, all in favor, call the question, all in favor? any opposed? for the second time, the motion carries. [laughter]. all right, i'll read item c for clarity.

requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with bayview hunter's point multipurpose senior services for the provision of community services program pilot during the time period beginning january 1, 2018 and ending on june 30, 2020 in an amount of $526,075, plus a 10% contingency of $52608, for a totalment in not to exceed 578,683. thank you, tiffany. >> ok, the second grant agreement presented for the commission's approval this morning is bayview hunter's point multipurpose senior services. they are increasing the hours of operation to include evenings and saturday programming with their new activity programming that is targeted toward older adults and adults with disability who are not accessing

services because they cannot go during typical hours. for a variety of reasons, including work commitments, caring for grandchildren, spouses or other family members. their extended hours of operation in the evening and on the weekends also sets the stage for intergenerational programming which is included in the array of new programming that will be provided by bayview. bayview's new community service activity programming will take place at their three senior sentences. bayview outreach will include the housing buildings and low-income residential sites located near two of the senior centers, both with older adult and adult with disability population that are not currently participating in services because the programming is limited. bayview will serve at least 500 consumers annually and provide 7,000 hours of service during the term of the grant agreement.

i request approval for the grant and am happy to answer any questions about bayview's grant. >> president serina: i have one comment or observation. i think focusing on those residential neighborhoods that are close to the existing community centers is a very good idea, about there is a -- but there is a great deal of difficulty with transportation in the bayview hunter's point area. the target population is often challenged with mobility programs. will there be any kind of van service that might be able to bring people to the programs that they are developed, or some way to have getting people there and bringing them home? >> well, specifically for rosa parks and western addition, those are the housing sites that they're going to access and they don't quite have those same issues in that neighborhood.

i do think for bayview, my guess would be -- and kathy is here and she can answer that -- this is something that was asked and i think at this point they don't have a bus service, sort of thinking about that. but -- maybe we do. [laughter] but i know that it becomes needed, i know that either bayview or the office on aging will probably help out in that way. and also, in bayview senior center, dr. davis, they've had a trial run at this because they have had experience in doing programming in the evening and that hasn't been a barrier as of yet, for that particular center. so -- but i think there is more information about transportation. >> hello again, wanted to add, as part of the initial dignity fund allocation, we did set aside funding for increased daas

group van service, so with all the contracts, we ill step back in and have funding to provide door-to-door shuttle service for participants. >> president serina: great, that's very important. >> i also want to -- hi -- >> state your name, please. >> kathy, bay services. we run a program called bay view move that helps gets seniors and disabled people around the city and we're working with the program to get a van to help the clients get out in the community and we do access para transit a lot to get group van service for the clients to get places. in bayview, they do get out and about pretty well. >> president serina: that's great, because it has been an issue for years. >> well, it's really an issue in the hope sf sites to get people to get out of their -- the environment they've been in for so long and with all the renovation and stuff they're

doing in the hope sf sites. a lot of the people are still used to just staying in their communities, so we've been really aggressive about trying to figure out ways and we have an outreach worker through hope sf that is working with the seniors to get them out. but that's a one by one, a lot of work to get one person to get out of the projects and come into the neighborhood. but we're working on that. >> president serina: but having the vans available is huge. >> we don't have it yet, but we're working on it. >> president serina: commissioner loo? >> commissioner loo: i'm just wondering, you have the evening services, what are the hours for the evening service? >> well, we -- dr. davis center, they go until midnight. we leave them there and they lock up for us. we're thinking 4-8, because most senior centers shut down around 2:00, 3:00, so we want to have our senior centers open into the

evening, until at least 8:00 and we're going to see how it goes. if we have a trust worthy senior who lives in the building, we allow them to keep going, at least at the dr. davis site. we want to bring some of what we learned at dr. davis over to the western edition, because they close down early and dr. davis can keep going forever. we're hoping to bring more energy to that and see if evening programming works in those two sites as well. >> commissioner loo: the reason i asked is because transportation will be crucial. for safety. >> they can walk. we may do escorting or figuring out if people need help getting -- but in western edition, we have a lot of people living in the buildings that don't get out. you can walk to rosa parks senior center and there are a lot of senior buildings and the seniors they go inside and hideout.

they need to come down stairs and walk across the street. i mean, we're not talking a long distance for a lot of the people we're trying to get out in the western edition, we're hoping by really being aggressive about the outreach and offering something in the evenings, they'll be willing to part pates. but we have to see how they'll do with that. >> president serina: thank you very much. >> commissioner lang: i applaud the intergeneration aspect of the program and even the young kids should be able to walk the seniors back home. so thank you. >> exactly. >> president serina: any other comments or questions. any comments or questions of the public? hearing none, call the question, all in favor? any opposed? thank you, the motion carries. item c. excuse me. requesting authorization to enter into a new agreement with bayview hunter's point

multipurpose senior services for the provision of community services program pilot during the period january 1, 2018 and -- no, i'm sorry. >> item d. >> president serina: rocky start to the new year. sorry. i didn't even celebrate. item d., requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with the community living campaign for the provision of community services program pilot during the time period beginning january 1, 2018 and entering june 30, 2020 in an amount of $384,000, plus a 10% contingency of $38,400 for a total amount not to exceed $422,400. again, tiffany. >> community living campaign will launch two new programs. the triangle and park. neither neighborhood has a

senior center or libraries within walking distance and both have a population of older adults and adults with disability not accessing community services. community living campaign will also expand their existing cayuga community by offering new programming that is tailored to the needs of younger seniors and adults in the community. targeting a younger population in the community connector model is beneficial in two ways. the first and foremost is that this younger group of -- as this younger group of seniors age, they will have created and have in place a community and supportive network they can lean on and that can help them to remain in their homes happily and safely. secondly and equally as vital, this age group can strengthen the community connector network by increasing the number of available neighborhood volunteers, which will contribute to the sustainability

of the connector model. because the community model is rooted in neighborhoods, outreach will take place in a variety of ways, such as the community living campaign staff connecting with consumers and providing information at neighborhood events, neighborhood centers, information in neighborhood news letters, and social media such as next door. community living campaign will serve over 500 consumers during this grant agreement, and provide 1500 hours of service. i request approval for this grant agreement and am happy to answer any questions the commission may have at this time. >> president serina: thank you, any comments or questions of the commission. >> just curious, the volunteers you made mention of, do you know where they come from? >> the neighborhood. >> the neighborhood. congregations? >> i'm thinking of a variety of ways, but i know marie is here

and she probably could answer a little more eloquently than i can, but my understanding is they come from within the neighborhood. >> that would be helpful, thank you, marie. >> i think the value of doing this with the neighborhood taps into existing neighborhoods, so within congregations, within employee groups that continue to meet, neighborhood associations have been an important partner in the efforts, but they've been a good partner in the sense that this adds a new dimension to what is possible in the neighborhood, handling the social and community issues, the neighborhood associations. >> that's helpful, thank you. >> commissioner loo: don't go away yet, marie. i have a question to ask. tell me why the range is so high after switch months, from $1,000 to $4,000? >> you're talking about the rent -- yeah, in our office or? >> commissioner loo: i don't know, it's in your budget.

>> well, let me just say, i would say it later in the meeting, to me the living campaign has just moved to a new office which is at 1663 mission street starting yesterday and that space is much bigger, allows for a hub for all of the programming, and it includes the computer lab and training sent. we hope to be able to do leadership training and help develop the model of community connectors by adding guidance to other communities that would like to do what is being done in cayuga or other places. she's pointing out where this is in the budget. the other thing, in the churches, we do offer a contribution to the various congregations for the use of their space, the electricity and that sort of thing. >> so as the programs expand, it will be higher because of the contribution and now the move to the new space?

>> right and we have three neighborhoods instead of one. >> commissioner loo: thank you. >> president serina: thank you. >> mer set triangle, mere loma park and cayuga. >> president serina: any other comments? from the public? hearing none, call the question, all in favor? any opposed? thank you, the motion carries. item e. requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with curry senior center for the provision of community services program pilot during the time period beginning january 1, 2018 and ending on june 30, 2020, in an amount of $291,947, plus a 10% contingency of $29,195 for a totalment in not to exceed $321,142. thank you, tiffany.

>> for the next grant agreement with curry senior center, targets three different populations of unserved older adults and adults with disability. the first is the filipino population that identifies ta gallon as their primary language and indicates they do not speak english nor do they participate in curry service programming. curry will hire a ta gallon speaking program assistant and eliminate the language barrier and make programming more accessible to the population. curry will also increase their hours of operation to include saturday programming that is targeted toward older adults and adults with disability who are not accessing services because they're not able to attend during typical community service days, which are normally monday through friday. for a variety of reasons,

including work and family commitments. curry will launch a new exercise class on saturday to appeal to the population of older adults and adult with disability. lastly, curry will also expand its lgbtq focus programming that is currently at capacity. curry will conduct outreach to housing properties and senior apartment buildings where it provides health and wellness services, they will outreach within their own health clinic and to other service and neighborhood providers. curry will serve at least 125 consumers annually and provide over 2300 hours of service during this grant agreement. i request approval for this grant agreement and am happy to answer any questions the commission may have? >> president serina: thank you. any comments or questions? >> commissioner loo: i'm curious what will the silver sneakers do to provide the service to the

center? >> the silver sneakers is the exercise program on saturday. >> silver sneakers -- >> can you state your name? >> toby. it's an exercise program that contracts with instructors in the area, so it depends on who is available at the time. we'll be starting with chair yoga, for lower mobility clients and working up to zumba and more high energy programs. >> commissioner loo: so they have someone come to the center? >> correct -- >> commissioner loo: and need exercises? >> yes. >> president serina: thank you. any other comments. >> commissioner loo: they c