place of entertainment permit. >> is that your goal in the future to -- >> we're not sure. we're hoping to have music as an implementation and supplementation to our venue. we don't see having entertainment as the most important part of our business. it's a complement to our brand and sort of the mission we set out to endeavor ourselves with, but in terms of it being a limited live performance, i think right now we're interested in seeing how it goes and seeing if we want to continue to pursue, if we have to, to get a conditional use permit from the planning department to then apply for that, or if it will be ruled to be in the zone where places of entertainment are principlely allowed. >> and the limited live performance permit only goes until 10:00.

what are your plans to do from 10:00 to 2:00? >> my understanding is several times a year we would be able to get in life entertainment. the primary aim what we want to do is to showcase local talent. >> and that would -- in that ten -- and assuming you'll still keep the doors open after that? >> yeah. the bar will be open until 2:00. we have a liquor license. we have a restaurant, and we plan to keep the bar and kitchen open until 2:00, but yeah, we know the music has to end at 10:00. >> okay. i think the amount of work you're putting into it, hopefully the planning department does i is a you can have an actual place of entertainment there, because it's good work that you're putting into it, and i hate to cheapen what you're trying to do just because of the regulatory challenges that -- >> it's okay.

i completely understand. it's actually been quite interesting to me, i think just on a personal level to understand the ins and outs of how the city works and particularly around entertainment. >> great. you can write a book about it. [ please stand by for captioner switch ]

>> facility or customers standing out street side doing what they do, that becomes an issue. my concern is about accountability. who am i supposed to call? am i supposed to come back to the commission? do i call the police who have never shown up? contact an owner or manager who does little? we did have a chance to speak tonight and while there are acoustic testing i've not been contacted by this team.

here's a copy of me complaint to the department in regards to the license. thank you for your time. >> commissioner: thank you. [inaudible] >> commissioner: no, you may not at this time. is it to clarify something? >> was there a permit for live? and the previous -- >> there's no public comment on this.

>> good evening, commissioners. i'm a registered lobbyist but not here as a paid consultant. this is a limited live entertainment permit to 10:00. i would like to say these folks have taken some necessary proactive steps and hiring charlie halter is serious and something where you'll get data back and the good opportunity for the hearings is for the project sponsor and the neighbors to get together. it looks like a great opportunity but it should be passed and knows it's a prior history with someone else and operated not in the best interest and have adverse impacts. from the work these guys are doing, it gives me an early

indication if they were carpenters they'd be measuring twice and cutting once and it's an accessory not a primary use for the restaurant or their bar. so i am happy to say it looks like a good operation. commissioner -- >> commissioner: is there additional comment. what is your name? >> trent barry. i want to approach this from a slightly different angle. as the head of the hayes valley facebook page and hayes valley is the only place i've lived in san francisco and a person who lives on the block where the establishment exists. i want to give them props there was an article where they talked

about hayes incessantly and where to shop and eat and dine and the list they didn't give is the neighborhood list. when i travel to work and come back to san francisco and thank god i have a return ticket, i think where do i want to go in my neighborhood where i feel it's home and who's generally contributing beyond core commercialism. they've done outstanding job making this a neighborhood repository and they should be championed, and licensed, no pun intended, to continue their good works. and as the owner of a recording studio not too far from here i understand from a technical perspective the work they've done and give it my bona fide approval and it's solid. this is the kind of people we need in this neighborhood and hope we can encourage these guys

from a neighborhood perspective. thank you for your time. >> >> commissioner: any other public comment? seeing none, public comment's closed. the matter's now with the commission. would anyone like to make an additional comment before a motion? >> i just want to address the neighbor who was here. thank you for coming and you mentioned the accountable and you can call our commission if have you a complaint and you should be able to call them directly and they should part of their permit is they have to have the cell phone number ready and address the complaints of the neighbors. if they do not respond to you let us know and we'll take care of it. >> commissioner: you can also file complaints through 311.org

or call directly to our staff. i can tell you we've seen lots of instance where's there are business are bad actors or not great nightlife owners and operators that unfortunately give a site a bad rep and a particular place a bad rep and the new owner comes in and cleans it up and does the right improvements on it and runs the business in a professional and responsible manner and that has made all the difference for some neighbors. i'm hopeful this is going to be the case with foen o phone -- phonobar and i'm curious and interested in seeing what this can turn out to be. i did appreciate you've already done front-end work with sound at

aten ation and i'm willing to support this with the additional condition of a sound check from our staff to set a time limit. any other commissioners? >> so it's very obvious -- a limited live was set up that restaurants can do spotlight entertainment to promote happy hours and things. i appreciate the documentation here. i love documentation. it's obvious the previous owner took advantage of what the limited live is supposed to be. all your recordings are a lot of after 10:00. i don't think were aware you can call 3-1-1-and filed a complaint and now that they've

spent the money for a sound test, to hire this company is very expensive and most people for a limited live would do that and it shows some responsibility on the owner they want to get started correctly. now, beyond that it's a good test to see if they're going to be good neighbors. i think now that you know and you're here and now that they know there's a registered complaint you can monitor them and there's ways to get ahold of us and there is on our website the good neighbor policy and that should be abided by by all parties. with that it'd be more responsive if there's more issues and i'd like to support this permit to 10:00. >> would you like to turn that into a motion? >> commissioner: i can motion that.

to approve the permit limited live to 10:00 with the sound check and sound test from our inspector. >> commissioner: great. so let me rephrase it. you are moving to approve phonobar for their limited live performance permit and is stated at 10:00 so we don't need to reiterate that but with an additional sound check from our staff to set a sound limit, correct? >> correct. >> commissioner: is there a second. >> second. >> commissioner: thank you. any other discussions? if not, we'll take a vote. >> the clerk: commissioner lee. aye. commissioner perez, aye. >> the motion passes. good luck. i'm glad you have numbers but please keep that live. all right. we'll move on to item number 9 which i believe there is no item

number nine. >> the clerk: it's to the noise atenuatetion for the noise and commissioner lee wanted to add a particular condition. i hope you see it in your binder. these are the basic conditions on a residential review whether it's consent agenda or regular agenda. if you want to add anything to that for every time there's a place within 300 feet of a residential development now's the opportunity. >> the design consideration, i'd like to add a number three like

a lighting plan for the sidewalk to protect the residents and the patrons of the club. that would be my own addition to that is a lighting plan of some sort. so we'll phrase it in a way that the other sub conditions are phrased during the design please consider adding an outdoor lighting plan to protect residents and patrons. >> public safety considerations. >> the clerk: okay. was there anything else? take a minute to review it, if you want. >> commissioner: it seems when there's a sound test we don't approve of the time and date. is there a way to give more

clarity on what we're looking for? >> the clerk: this comes afterwards. they always arg and now you want to add that. sometimes they'll go on a wednesday night when it's not very much notice. >> the clerk: how do you want to phrase that because it could in based on reaching out to the places of entertainment within 300 feet to -- >> commissioner: to conduct a test that best represents a

quote, unquote busy evening both during the event and eventually following. >> we want to follow the peak. >> and after. >> the clerk: do you want to put a day on it because when i'm talking to these folks i'm always saying it should be a friday or saturday. >> we can say friday or saturday nights or when the next available show is coming. it could be just a concert hall not really a club.

you could say or. >> and commissioner tan pointed it out already because it's not happening consistently. maybe 90% of the event come or people that come up haven't done this correctly. i'm wondering if there's a way to clarify more. >> the clerk: there's public comment but maybe if we should capture peak sound from the place of entertainment or -- >> commissioner: do you want to give samples -- like as an example when the place opens -- >> the clerk: the place of entertainment. >> commissioner: i like that but it's up to you guys.

>> i think it would be really appropriate to mention recommending it on a friday or saturday evening. that's basically my first impression is looking up the day of the week. i never think it will be okay to do it on a tuesday, wednesday, thursday. >> my only question about that is they can pick a friday or saturday where there isn't an event. not everybody -- like the armory doesn't have an event every friday and saturday. you want to do friday and saturday and coordinate with the venues. >> commissioner: or contact the

venue when there's an event. >> the time most likely to generate complaints to us. [laughter] >> is that enough. >> totally. >> commissioner: this does come after the fact. i know when we were drafting these in the first place it was at a time when there were projects already in the pipeline basically ready for planning the seed and they were far enough along where they didn't have a sound requirement and i think that's partly why we built that in and over time we now have projects just starting as a concept and coming to us early enough where we can introduce it so it's not -- i think that

particular condition isn't as necessary and they kel us to do it at a certain date and time. >> commissioner: they come with -- >> commissioner: it's on the website. >> commissioner: but it's just wrong time. >> commissioner: part is just communicating with the wonderful people at salter and company. i told them, pro tip, next time you come before us, measure it on a saturday night. it may just be a good thing to communicate back to them. okay. >> commissioner: and to communicate that to be sure they're talking to their folks about that before it comes to us.

>> the clerk: so did you guys want to make a motion to add the changes or see a draft form of the changes and vote on a future date? >> commissioner: i think seeing the draft will be fine. i think you'll capture the gist of the words. >> the clerk: okay. >> commissioner: great. thank you for bringing this up. i know it's been something we've bookmarked for a while. all right. is there public comment on our amendments to our noise at atennuation? >> some clubs are clustered next to each other. you have not just that particular venue but other venues nearby or people talking outside. in order to overcome the most adverse impacts you want the

worst-case scenario. by giving people guidelines to when to do the testing that way it's more realistic and you don't have to keep sending the sound guy back which is costly. i think being specific gives the project sponsor the guidelines they need to address their issues. >> commissioner: thank you. any additional public comment? >> andrew mckeith again. these are all excellent ideas, i think. ultimately we want the guidelines to only do it once. i mean, internally we have now decided we're going to do surveys on friday and saturday nights because too many times we did it on a wednesday night, largely because it's not

terribly popular to ask somebody to go out friday or saturday night at 2:00 in the morning to do the surveys and nobody really wants to do them but if that's what needs to be done, that the what needs to be done. i'm being honest here. also, at the same time the last speaker was saying we'll have a bar or a club closing at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning when there's still other clubs open from 2:00 to 4:00 so sometimes that 2:30 to 3:00 in the morning is the noisiest part of the night but has nothing to do with the venue so sometimes we can false positive readings but has nol -- nothing to do with the venue in question. it's difficult when the residential development is close to a number of different clubs because it's very difficult to isolate which is the noise source in question. but also as you were saying before about the need for the

survey we're seeing clients getting ahead. >> thank you for your perspective. there's no one to give public comment so i'll close public comment. we'll see if we can add it to the agenda the next time around and we can vote on it then. item 10 is commissioner comments and questions. anything from anyone up here? sometimes it's great to have the extra protection.

they're talking about people con gret -- congregating and with everybody coming out hanging out for ubers and they're talking and if you can take an extra step to protect the residents we don't have conflicts and phone calls later. that's why we want to take a sample of what it is like that when everybody's leaving. >> it's not the developer's job but the best way to combat false p positive is to communicate and when is a busy time to come.

>> commissioner: great. any other comments or questions? all right. doesn't seem like there's any. i'll go ahead and adjourn this meeting at 7:00. have a good night, everyone. welcome to the commission on aging and adult services meeting. please call the order, the roll call and call us to order. >> [roll call]

commissioner tedi vriheas is excuseded. at this time, we ask that you silence all sound-producing devices for the duration of this meeting. >> thank you. may i have a motion to approve the march 7 -- the agenda. >> so moved. >> second? second, thank you. any discussion? all in favour -- >> aye. >> aye. >> any opposed? motion carries. may i have a motion for approval of the february 13, 2018 meeting minutes? >> so moved. >> thank you. >> second. >> any corrections? any changes or comments? hearing none, all in favour -- >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item four. report. >> good morning, commissioners. i wanted to talk about the schedule that related to the community needs assessment and i think you know that we're

about to unveil the community needs assessment, the dosz stap -- the dosz team have been making changes in going back and forth a little bit with them to get the final draft out. so what we're hoping for is to have it e-mailed out march 15. and the commission. ok. so, we're hoping to have it -- the final draft, in draft form, which of course is not final until after it has been approved. but to get it out to you the 13th or 14th of march because we want you to have plenty of time to review it before the joint hearing that we'll have next month. so, what's going to happen is we're going to have it. we'll get it out to you via e-mail and then as soon as bridget can get our reproduction team to put it together in paper form, we'll also messenger it to you that way.

so, it will go out to you and to the oversight and advisory team at the same time so you have plenty of time to see it. they will be meeting on march 19 to do their final review and then april 4, which is normally a regular commission meeting, will be a little different. we'll start with the hearing at 9:30 and do the hearing from 9:30 to 11:00, which will be a joint hearing between you and the oversight advisory committee and then at 11:00, we'll go into commission. we don't have a huge number of items for commission. we've been working hard not to overwhelm you that day. but we thought it might be easier to do both things in one day than to ask you to come back twice. in addition to that, when we do go into commission, the other thing that we'll be doing is reviewing the area plan update, which is related to the area plan that we send -- the up dhait we send every year to the state. so we'll be going through that with you as well. and we don't expect that that will take a long time.

but just wanted to let you know that you might want to think about extending your -- the meeting time a little bit that day because we may go a little bit past 12:00. so, just to let you know that that's what we're doing. the second thing i wanted to talk about is that we've had some follow-up from the interfaith forum that we had. back in november. commissioner pappass and tom nolan and i met with some people who were interested in working with us and doing some follow-up and we reviewed the suggestions and recommendations that came from the break out groups at the forum and we have some really good ideas from that and i think we'll be able to follow up on some of the ones that are really easy for us to do. the first thing that people said, and we hear a lot, we've heard a lot through the community needs assessment process as well, is that people don't know about services that exist. and so, you know, we're trying really hard to figure out good ways to follow up on that. we want to do a campaign as i mentioned a couple of times.

but also we're working with the interfaith council so they can have the information so they can share it with their members. the other thing that we're park on is reimagine, reimagine end of life which i mentioned. also reimagine end of life is a week-long series of events from april 16 through april 22. i think at this point it is 8 0-plus events. it is enormous. there are events all over the city. and this is an intersection of art, culture, science, social services and health to really focus on people -- really to get people to talk about end of life, how they like to care for others at end of life, thinking about things that are very important, like advanced care planning, talking with family members,etc. and so there's some really exciting events going on. some of it is theatre. there's bands coming into town who will play and i think it is

going to be a really good opportunity for the commissioners and for the public to be involved. so, we're doing that. and one of the pieces of that is something called conversation sabbath. and commissioner papas has been working closely with reimagine on that and we've been asking -- or the group that's work on this has asked interfaith council members if they would do a focused service on end of life issues and getting people to talk about them and think about advanced care planning. so, it is very exciting. a good partnership. and we're looking forward to that week. i also wanted to talk a little bit about the state things. as i mentioned, i think the last time we met was february 21 and it was right before cindy kauffman and i went up to the state for capital day and so we got a chance to meet with senator weiner and assembly member chiu, both of whom were

great to talk to because they are supportive of older people and people with disabilities and both of them were very on board with supporting some of the legislation that we're hoping gets passed. one of which is home safe, which would help adult protective services programmes access housing-related tomes for people who need help. at risk of being homeless or need a different level of housing or who need things related to housing. we're hoping that gets passed and would be the first legislation of its kind to really support people who are accessing a.p.s. services. and there is an increased request for dollars for meals which looks like it has a good chance of passing last year. hopefully we'll get money for nutrition programmes that will help us serve more people at the county level.

i think in particular, assembly member chiu was excited in anything related to older adults. he wanted to co-author some thing and he was enthusiastic and we got to talk a little bit more about some of the other things that the state could take on potentially in the future. mabel when we have a new governor. you know, things like really relooking at in-home supportive services and support that the state gives to in-home supportive services, but also things like re-examining coordinated care and whether it makes sense to do something like that and try that again. at a more expanded rate. i think the other thing that is happening at the state level, there are a lot of advocates, including the board of the california association of area agencies on aging, which i'm on. it's really asking the state legislature to take a look at the older california i -- californians act and modernize

it and broaden so it it has the capacity for more funding and more funding categories so that in the future, if we get more money for some of these services, there would be a really good, nice fit for it and it could be administered by the california department of aging. so, there is a lot of work around modernizing that act, not necessarily getting money in it right now. but just saying let's have this as a vehicle that's ready. so that as people start to realise that we need to find ways to fund more services for older adults and people with disabilities, there is a place for it to go. i think that is what we got out of that visit. and i think that is it. it's a short report this morning. >> thank you. any comments or questions? commissioner loo. >> when you're talking about end of life conference, which is on april 16 through 22nd? >> correct. >> how are you going to

publicizing this? >> we're work on publicizing it. reimagine end of life -- sorry, it is going to be reimagine end of life. right now it is called the end of life collective, a separate nonprofit organization and then the palliative care work group, which is a work group of the long-term caughter council that i'm co-chair of. i'm co-chair of the palliative worker. we're work on how we'll advertise all of this stuff. and some of the events, there is a charge and some of the events are free. we're trying to make sure that people we work with can get to events free. we're also working on transportation. we're working out all those details soon. as soon as we have that, we'll get it out and i'll ask bridgette in particular to make sure that all the commissioners have that information in the schedule. >> and also when you send out the flyers, it will be in multilanguages? >> yeah. we're work on that, too. thank you for the reminder, but we are working on that. >> thank you. >> any other comments or questions? thank you, shirren.

next item is employee recognition. the departments of aging and adult service's commission and xods shireen mcspadden will recognize elizabeth london from the daas office of integrated intake. [applause] >> come on up, liz. liz, how are you doing? >> good morning. congratulations. so, i just wanted to start by saying a couple of things. not just about liz, but about her team and that is, because as you know, i always like to point out the team that somebody's working with because people don't work in a vacuum. they work with a whole team. so if i could ask people from intake to stand. [applause]

so you have a lot of supporters here today, liz. daas intake. daas intake is at our resource hub, which is at 2 goff and i know we talked, commissioners, we've talked a lot about how daas intake t entriway into the department of aging and adult services and somebody out here can tell you the phone number because we always like to cite the phone number. but you can walk -- people can walk in and get service. they can call in and get service. they can get online and access people. but we've got this fantastic team of people who are here to help people access adult protective services, in-home supportive service, home delivered meals, case management, information referral and assistance and veterans services among other things. and so i think we're really fortunate. we've grown this team. we have people who speak multiple languages. we have people who have really, really good clinical skills. we have people who have all sorts of experience. and so i just wanted to thank

all of you for the great work that you do and martha for your leadership with this team. and today we're here to celebrate liz. but i also just wanted to point out, liz is a social worker, a licensed clinical social worker and this is social work month. [applause] not only is it -- not son-in-law it liz london day, but also social work month. so, liz, i'm going to read what somebody wrote about you when they submitted it. but liz london has worked for daas for almost six years. she started as a social worker in ihhs and moved to daas integrated intake in 2015. in less than a yielder she was promoted to supervisor. liz has been an integral part of the daas integrated team and daas hub 259 goff. she is the main liaison for communication and she works tirelessly through the conversion from acts to leaps

to ensure the transition for staff was as seamless and as successful as possible. ok. nobody know what is this means exempt that this whole team. [laughter] but it was a big deal. ton on of her duties, liz volunteered to be the health champion through the san francisco health services system department. she carried out the health campaign in 2017 diligently and in such a fun way to involve all of the daas integrated intake staff to think about and embody healthy habits and living. the campaign won a high-impact programme spotlight winner award through health services. her work on the daas integrated intake retreat also won an award. liz is a leader who generally cares about her staff and the whole team 259 goff as well as the rest of the staff. her next goal to spread the campaign to all of daas and to get other champions involved so she is not doing this all on her own. and for daas to win more awards while increasing our health and wellness as a department. and i got to go and hear the presentation at health services. and it really is -- and also i

got go over to an event that liz had put on, i think it was a salad event. and, you know, it is really inspiring to know that we have staff who are really concerned about wellness and are helping to champion that and get other people very excite about it. so, in addition to your regular work, liz, thank you for extending yourself and doing other things that help bring joy to your co-workers' lives. so, thank you so much. [applause] on behalf of the department of aging and adult service, you are employee of the month for march. >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you. and i just want to point out that -- well, thank you for talking about my team. because it really is teamwork and i love every one of you. you mean so much to me. and my manager martha. my supervising staff and then carrie from health services is here that has helped with so much. i mean, she is such a resource and has helped us get speakers

and presentations for our retreats and helps with a lot of the health activities that we're doing at work. so, she has been very instrumental and thank you for coming today. thank you all. [applause] thank you. >> the next item on the agenda is the advisory council report. but it won't be leanne schmidt this morning. >> oh, leon is in los angeles. >> can i please -- >> yes. >> ok. leon is in los angeles for a great family occasion. his uncle is at least 90 and the whole family has gathered to celebrate. so he's asked me to present the

report. so, the greater part of our -- >> i'm sorry. can you please state your name first? >> oh, sorry. >> i'm eleanor lorrie first vice president to the commission council on aging. the greater part of our last meeting was taken up with reviewing the preliminary draft of the daas 2018-2019 plan area update. this is a portion of daas's activities funded with older americans act funds which comes through the state of california so it does not represent all of daas programmes and activities. nor all of daas's funding sources such as the general fund or many other sources of funding that daas has. many of the area's plants goals and projected units of service

were established in earlier years and continue through the present year. and others are dependent upon available and projected funding. and for fiscal year 2020, daas will be goming another multi-year plan. i think i'm going to begin by saying that it is almost overwhelming to someone outside daas on the advisory council to see the number of activities that daas engages ins in funding justs with area aging funding. so, i'll try to summarize. but i'm sure i left some out. at the beginning of this report, there are very impressive and very concerning statistics demonstrating the high cost of living in san francisco and how especially difficult it is for limited income. for 2018-2019, the area plan proposes four general goals of

improving quality of life, establishing better coordination of services, increation access to services and improving service quality. under title 2b and 7a, improving ombudsman services and elder abuse prevention services with a new initiative for veterans, which detail on projected units of service to be delivered. these are detailed as well for june with elder abuse. the next serious covered are health insurance counseling and advocacy group or legals twans projected units of service. legal assistance has recently uncovered employee turnover because of low wages so general fund money will be used to supplement a.a.a. money to increase staff. quality of life objections include health promotion, employment support and issues

for lgbt elders, which a new programme to provide care navigation and peer volunteer support will be established. the dementia care excellence oversight committee is working with daas and the san francisco alzheimer's disease initiative to develop specialized board of services and screening tools as well in conjunction with university of californiale-san francisco. daas is expanding supportive services to public housing and provides housing counseling. the i.h.s. care transitions programme continues and there are also activities in the area of quality assurance, food security, care management, support of high-risk clients, workforce development, supportive services to those in public housing and increasing access to information about services where available. we just heard a little bit

about that. all services and projected units of services, funded with administration on aging money and with the money that comes through the state, are described in detail. d.d.s. will provide a separate report on lgbt issues and other activities, not a.a.a. funded. daas also provides staff support to the long-term care kaord nating council, aging and disability resource centres, coordination with contractors, work with other agencies dealing with older people and those with disabilities, developing screening tools in conjunction with university of california-san francisco and very extensive information and referral services and we've already seen many of the people involved in that. and these are not all the activitis in which daas is engaged, presented in the

administration on aging funded service plan. the number and complexity of activities is impressive. the advisory council asks questions about the lgbt information t contracting process and monitoring. advisory council also suggests that the final draft improved a glossary of some of these terms. they were suggested on a one or two-page abstract or table of contends at the beginning or summary might be helpful as an overview guide to this very detailed plan. the final area plan will be presented at the next meeting, which is wednesday, march 21, 2018. other issues discussed at the february advisory council included the january 23rd event sponsored by a.e.s. on reframing aging called changing

language, changing lines, reframing san francisco's narrative on aging. there was also mention of president trump's 2019 envisioning budget document which proposes a steep decrease in funding of social programmes. although this document at present does provide a slight increase for nutritional aid, there would be major changes to medicare, medicaid, snap and elimination of senior employment and foster grand parent programmes. other programmes would probably be cut as well. of course, we will have our eye on social security and what may happen to that. i'd like to give many thanks to shireen mcspadden for their plan and the excellent summary to my fellow advisory plan

council members. >> thank you, eleanor. any comments or questions from the commission? commissioner? >> thank you. may i get a copy of your remarks? >> sure. >> thank you. the details i just want to go over. that's all. thank you. >> thank you. the long-term care kaord nating council -- sorry, joint legislative committee report, dianne lawrence. >> good morning, commissioners, director mcspadden. we met, the joint leg committee met on the 21st of february. we did not have a quorum as we are still awaiting commission appointments to the committee and we have one outstanding member from the advisory council, but we discussed legislation anyway, although we made no recommendations because we were concerned that, as time is moving on, we needed to get some legislation in front of you.

so, as i mentioned before, we tracked 34 bills in the first year of the two-year session, 16 of those haven't moved forward. or seven of those did not move forward. a number were vetoed last year by the governor. but we've added some, too, with the help of -- under the leadership of the department, we have a total of 33 bills right now and i thought what i would do this morning, very briefly, is give you a summary of the areas that they cover, rather than go into great detail. i will mention that the home safe programme that director mcspadden just spoke about, not sure which bill that is, but i'll find it out and make sure it's in the report and highlight it for you. so, the topicks that are being covered basically are housing bills, one that -- one specific one that we'll probably watch closely is one to prevent evictions. there are three emergency services bills and those pretty much come out of the fires and

some of the floods. areas where we need to look at this so that we're prepared next time. there are five health care bills, three on mental health, one on medi-cal, one on health savings plans. there's one on the lgbt communityinger two on ihsf, two on long-term care, one on caregivers, two on consumer reporting and this would be how you treat seniors when there is either an abuse in their reporting or when we need to go get a copy of our credit reports, what we're charged and all of those things. so, that's all being looked at. a personal service contract, there is a bill along those lines. there are four policy statements, they're just a bill that is making a statement. one is on alzheimer's awareness. two are on national caregiver's day, creating february 16 as national caregiver's day, one's in the assembly and one in the senate and one on senior volunteerism. one on alzheimer's.

two on conservatorship, one that we'll be watching because of the work that senator weiner's doing in that area, both within the city and the state. one on fall prevention. protection of addresses. this is d.m.v. legislation to protect the addresses of social workers and staff that are involved in abuse cases and investigations so their identity is protected. a couple of legal criminal bills about hiring staff with convictions. sometimes staff in senior care or long-term care facilities may have a record and so looking at how you prevent that, some sexual abuse increasing the fines and penalties there. and then financial information that needs to appear on internet sites. >> thank you, dianne. commissioner pappas.

>> you made mention of the north bay fires. i was very involved with that because i'm appreciating the regional nature of that because ieng that the red cross and salvation army and r.d.m. are headquartered here. but they were deploying folk up north and i was helping facility -- facilitate those deployments. on the front page of the chronicle, there was an article about disaster prepared ness and elders not being able to get out of facilities. >> there is legislation to address that. >> ok. and if we can learn from the mits takes of what happened, that would be beneficial. >> there is a specific piece of legislation and i'll highlight that number for you. basically says this is how you move people and this comes out of the florida floods as well. >> great. thank you. >> any other comments or questions? dianne, how likely do you think -- do we know yet of senator

weiner's propose told give counties and cities more flexibility with conservative -- conserve -- conservative issues for seniors and others who may not be able to handle their own affairs? >> i know he is doing a bit of work on that with citile of education work. in fact, i saw another stiep interview with him the other day on that. i'll highlight in the report which -- where it is at that point in time and then have another update for you next month. >> thank you. shirren? >> yeah. i also had a chance to talk to him last week about it. and the draft language came out this morning, or yesterday. there's still a lot of work to be done on it. he's reached out to a lot of stakeholder groups but is still getting feedback from them and i think he is commited to hearing from a variety of sources, including district

attorneys and public defenders and mental health advocates, the conservatorship association, hospital, . so he's really trying to gather as much information as he can that will help inform further drafts of the legislation. so i think it looks one way now and will probably look differencely by the time it is finished and we'll see. >> ok. thank you. it will be interesting at some point, you know, what the opposition or the concerns are. so that we could all learn from that. earlier this week, i think the "chronicle" had an article that st. mary's hospital would be opening up more beds, to double the number of beds for people who need to be institutionalized for severe psychiatric problems who happen to be the most chronically homeless, but they are called the frequent flyers who -- so, that is a step in the right direction to address, give them a safe place to be. but it all is a package. it all has to work together and the laws need to be -- to give us mor