and now i do. >> all right, hello, everybody! >> hello! >> you know, there are days like this when being mayor is absolutely amazing. this is exactly why myself and our aseptemberably man phil tang, this is why we do this work, to make a difference in the lives of people who need us to make sure that we make the right investments. thank you all for being here. i'm glad to be here to announce the grand opening of the division circle navigation center. clear cheer [applause] [cheering]

this navigation center will help so many people transition off the streets into this place, into permanent housing. the opening today is a result of a collaborative effort between the city, the state partners like our assembly member phil tang and cal trans. we are working together to help address this homeless crisis. many of you know my top priority as mayor is to make sure that we're moving our homeless population out of tents, off the streets and into permanent housing. navigation centers go beyond the traditional shelters by allowing individuals to bring their partners, their pets, their belongings with them, which are often barriers to getting into our shelters. once they are there, the centers provide the care and

services that people need. health care. services around social workers and possibly, hopefully permanent housing. this particular navigation center will serve up to 125 individuals at a time. the opening today is the result, as i said, of a collaborative effort and there are a number of difference people who made this possible. and it is a reflection of what we can accomplish when we work together for a common goal. phil tang helped to secure $10 million last year in the state budget to help with two navigation centers in san francisco. [applause] [cheering] and that is not all he did. his legislation, aba-57, allows the city to lease underutilized property that is owned by cal trans at a very reduced rate. we wouldn't be able to national

-- to make this happen without his leadership and we're so grateful for what he has done to lead the charge in just a minute toe. -- in sacramento. cal trans worked in partnership with our state and local representatives to involve the hurdles in leasing the land and i want to thank laura berman from the cal trans director here today. ams want to thank the departments of public works who helped move this project forward quickly. jeff kaczynski from the department of homelessness and the city real estate division, countless other folks who made it possible and especially our homeless outreach team who consistently are out there on the front lines trying to identify folks who are in need and bring them into our navigation centers to get them the help and the support that we know they need. i'm commited to addressing this humanitarian crises that we see in san francisco and all over

our state. it is going to take a consistent and sane effort to open navigation centers like this one all over our city. together, we know we can bring noticeable changes. i have met some of the people personally who have been in our navigation centers, who are now permanently housed. but i also met people who have been in our navigation centers and who have come back time and time and time again. what i appreciate about the work of so many of the city employees and nonprofit agencis that work to help folks who are struggling on our streets that we have not given up on folks. and we won't give up on the people that we know need support and services the most. that is why navigation centers like thiss are critical. they change and they save lives. and that is what we're committed to doing. one person at a time. and with that, i'd like the introduce our leader in this

effort, assembliman phil tang. [applause] >> thank you so much, mayor breed, for your leadership on this issue of homelessness. i know that we had an opportunity to work together when you were president of the board and i have no doubt that you're going to be working on this issue every single day as mayor. i also wanted to thank supervisor hillary ronen who had approached my early on to talk about how we can fund navigation centers in her district and also in san francisco. and i would be remissed not to thank late mayor ed lee who brought me aba-57. it was really a team effort where the citied that idea of we need to work together to solve this problem. this is a state-wide problem. we have 134,000 homeless people in the state. it is a state of crisis. we have 7500 people here in san

francisco. but these people aren't numbers. they're lives. they're lives that missed different paths, that have taken very challenging directions. but we as a city have not given up on them. we as a state have not given up on them and only by working together and solving this problem together can we really move this issue forward. cal trans has been great because cal trans told me they spent, i believe, almost $10 million last year or the year before to just move homeless people off their property. homeless encampments up and down the state were under freeways. everywhere. i would drive under the 101 and the chavez interchange and drop off my daughter at school every day and you would see a line of tents. so, cal trans said, hey, instead of us using all this money to move people off, figure out another way to be part of the solution.

it doesn't help when you move people off the lot and they come back three days later and we have to move them off. it doesn't get them any closer to housing. by cal trans, myself and the legislature, appropriating $10 million for two navigation centers, working together with mayor breed, with mayor lee, with supervisor ronen and the city family to really solve this issue, we have moved one step closer. and other people are taking notice. because navigation centers aren't just happening here in san francisco. they're happening in santa rosa. they're happening in seattle and happening in austin. because it is not about housing. it's about people. it's about making sure that people are getting help with their addictions. with their mental health. s with helping with their job training. it's all about how we are assisting each individual, each one of those 7500 people that have families. they come from somewhere. they are going somewhere. and this city and this state is not going to let them fail. so w that, again, i want to

thank mayor breed for her leadership on this issue. so excited to see this navigation center up and running. i want to thanks, again, supervisor ronen, late mayor ed lee and it is my pleasure to bring up the new director of cal trans, larry berman. because their agency played a critical role at making sure that this happened by working with me on aba-57, cal trans has worked out a deal with the city and county of san francisco to lease up to 10 properties at far below market rate. this being one of them. and they again have stepped up to the plate. not being part of the problem, being part of the solution. so thank you, laurie and thank you to cal trans. [applause] >> thank you. good morning. i want to start by saying congratulationss to our new mayor of san francisco. mayor london breed. [applause] >> yeah! >> i am really honored for this opportunity to speak on behalf

of the california department of transportation. to express our appreciation for the collaboration with the city of san francisco, with homeless advocates, with private donors and community members to address one of the greatest crises of our day and that is homelessness. cal trans and the city of san francisco share a commitment to public sthafs predates all of us here today. but it is good when we can continue to work together to solve big problems. we are really proud to work with the city of san francisco for today's ribbon cutting of the division circlele, navigation center which is also dedicated to the memory of homeless advocate brian quinn who passed away in april. we are proud of our commitment to develop sustainable transportation solutions in san francisco and we appreciate our great partnership with the city of san francisco to sustain vibrant communities. in the next few year, cal trans has many repaving jobs that will be delivered through dedicated transportation funds from senate bill 1, the road

repair and accountable act of 2017 and this year, senate bill 1 is paying for projects that are revamp several bridges and overcrossings along highway 101, including wider six-inch striping to increase visibility and safety. the department of transportation is planning for the growths of california's population, economy and emerging technologies that will be used on the state highway system to transport people, goods and services. we are also working with our local partners throughout california to help address an issue facing many californians and that is homelessness. this project, the san francisco navigation center, along with the site at 5th and bryants, represents a step in the right direction. the van nuys center is an innovative approach to help address the homelessness crisis. this project required commitment from local and state governments, private donor, grassroots organizations and

countless volunteers. we must all think outside the box to address california's homeless epidemic and that is exactly what this project has delivered -- a fresh approach. we are commited to helping in every way that we can and we are proud of what we have achieved with today's project and i want to particularly thank the innovative thinkers in the city of san francisco and cal trans who worked together to address the challenges of delivering this project on state right-of-way. and i also want to really thank cal tran staff who worked very hard on this project. this is not what cal trans normally does with our right-of-way. but i wanted to especially thank our senior right-of-way agent who was our point person on this project. and thank you to the staff at san francisco department of housing and public works and san francisco's department of homelessness and supportive housing. i look forward to our quonlted -- continued partnership with the city of san francisco to xraet a transportation system that enhances california's

economy while also working with communities throughout our state to make every california city a better place to live. working together, we can solve big problems. thank you. [applause] >> good morning. i'm the executive director of st. vincent depaul. we have been a long-standing, nonprofit in the city and county of san francisco since 1860. our mission is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to the break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence. we want to thank our partners today for the beautiful navigation center and what we are able to accomplish with 125 clients that are with us. at this time, i want to introduce representative ronen's representative from her office, carolina morales, considered a bridge builder and

political organizer, advancing domestic si. she has over a decade of experience in community health, services and community organizing nicker tiffs. she has built and managed programs, wrote and managed grants and restructured an organization. she has been our key person from the supervisor ronen's office. [applause] >> hi, everybody. good morning. i'm catalina morales with hillary ronen. so, six years ago, when the district nine office began our work to build this first ever navigation center in san francisco, we immediately recognized the division circle site as a perfect place for another navigation center. last year, when the supervisor took office, and our tent encampment crisis was at its worst, we have about 250 tents concentrated in the mission as ground zero for our crisis, we knew that we had to do a lot more.

we started work with the neighbors to ensure that we could open a navigation center. we worked with ed lee very closely to ensure that all of the partners were really working together. and in that partnership, another very important department was the san francisco police department. our chief, chief scott, our commander lazhar, and our captain have been important partners in ensuring that those homeless residents and house residents feel safe as we share spaceing to and make sure that everybody gets dignify housing. so i want to repeat the words that mayor breed and assembly member tang have repeated. this has been unprecedented collaboration that has been very, very effective. we think supervisor tang for partnering with us and granting

us this massive amount of money to ensure that we are serving our most vulnerable people in the mission in ground zero for the tent encampment crisis and with that, i want to once again honor the memory of ed lee and his commitment to building more navigation center, those in the mission and in our city. this is our way forward. this is the way that we will solve the tent encampment cry theys we? -- that we have in san francisco and make even california. thank you for your time. [applause] >> so, we've had many successful stories from those who have visited with us at the navigation center. so, i'd like the introduce you to anna. she has been a long-time member, resident of san francisco. and due to her life experiences, she recently became homeless and we just worked with her and she is now housed. [cheering] [applause] >> good morning, everyone. and thank you all for coming

out here. i want to thank the navigation center and mayor ed lee and now our present mayor. thank you to staff. i -- i'm an ex-postal employee and i never thought i'd become homeless. it's sad, but thanks to the navigation center, i'm now housed and i'm living at 6th street. i'm very happy. i was there 35 years ago. and so i feel that i've made a complete circle. i'm back and it is a good feeling because i know that i'm where i'm supposed to be. thank you all. [applause] >> are you going to do the robin?

>> and now we'll cut the rick bonn. -- ribbon. >> ok. now we're going to cut the ribbon. afterwards, if anyone is interested in a tour, let me know and we'll do a nice quick little tour through the navigation center. >> here we go! five, four, three, two, one! as a society we've basically

failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure i'm david one of the co-founder so about four year ago we worked

with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didn't know how to cook. >> i heard about the cooking school through the larkin academy a. >> their noting no way to feed themselves so they're eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. >> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is charity foundation i ran into my friend

we were talking about this this do you want to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and i've been here about a year.

>> we want to be sure to serve as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief

in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. >> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them

something they can't use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the

cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. >> we'll have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand

out of the san francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for >> right before the game starts, if i'm still on the field, i look around, and i just take a deep breath because

it is so exciting and magical, not knowing what the season holds holds is very, very exciting. it was fast-paced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. there was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. i continued working for the grizzlies for the 2012-2013 season, and out of happenstance, the same job opened up for the san francisco giants. i applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didn't apply. i was so nervous, i never lived anywhere outside of fridays

know, andfridays -- fresno, and i got an interview. and then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fresno and my family and friends was scary, but this opportunity was on the other side. but i had to try, and lo and behold, i got the job, and my first day was january 14, 2014. every game day was a puzzle, and i have to figure out how to put the pieces together. i have two features that are 30 seconds long or a minute and a 30 feature. it's fun to put that altogetl r together and then lay that out in a way that is entertaining for the fans. a lucky seat there and there, and then, some lucky games that include players. and then i'll talk to lucille, can you take the shirt gun to the bleachers.

i just organize it from top to bottom, and it's just fun for me. something, we don't know how it's going to go, and it can be a huge hit, but you've got to try it. or if it fails, you just won't do it again. or you tweak it. when that all pans out, you go oh, we did that. we did that as a team. i have a great team. we all gel well together. it keeps the show going. the fans are here to see the teams, but also to be entertained, and that's our job. i have wonderful female role models that i look up to here at the giants, and they've been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day. renelle is the best. she's all about women in the workforce, she's always in our

corner. [applause] >> i enjoy how progressive the giants are. we have had the longer running until they secure day. we've been doing lgbt night longer than most teams. i enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that and is all inclusive. that means a lot to me, and i wouldn't have it any other way. i wasn't sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series even if we hadn't have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. i've grown more in the past four years professionally than i think i've grown in my entire adult life, so it's been eye opening and a wonderful

learning >> president serina: good afternoon and welcome to the matinee addition on aging and adult services. will they please take the call of both? [roll call] >> at this time we ask that you silence all electronics. >> president serina: made a -- may i have a motion to approve

the agenda? >> moved. >> president serina: thank you. all in favour? thank you. motion carried. may i have a motion to approve the june 20th, 2018 meeting minutes? >> so moved. >> second. >> president serina: any comments or questions. >> can we note that we have another director here. >> president serina: thank you. ok. all in favour of approval of the minutes? >> president serina: thank you. motion carried. and now the director's report. >> good afternoon commissioners. i wanted to start off by talking about the representation of the national association of area agencies on aging aging, the meeting in july in chicago. we were fortunate to have 11 people there, people from the management team as well as

people from the planning team representing which was great. it was really nice to be able to spread out and go to different workshops and bring back different information back to our team. one of the things that we heard there that we continue to hear is that there is a lot of concern about what will happen in the federal budget in the next year. there's a lot of conversation about cutting the services that we work very hard to protect and we worry about a lot. there's also a lot of talk about the older americans act reauthorization and what the strategy around that should be with respect to getting it reauthorized. before those of you -- for those of you who are on the commission, you can remember that the act was just reauthorized a few years ago. it is already up again if i thought reauthorization. and it is really hard to think of it strategically what the best approach to that should be. is it time now to open up the conversation? or is it best to weight until

the political situation looks a little bit more favourable to older people? so it will be interesting to see what happens with that i think we will be looking -- we will be meeting the commission on the advisory council to weigh in and support the older americans act and the programs that are related to it in this next year, as we look at the budget. a lot of our programs continue to be at risk. that was one of the big takeaways from that meeting. in addition, we had a lot of chance to hear from other aaa's and they're related partners and hear about some really fantastic ideas. things that we could implement here. we had a follow-up meeting last week when we came back with our internal team to talk about some of the things that we might talk about implementing in san francisco. as usual, we often are reminded

-- once again we are reminded we have great programs here and we have great support from having fantastic commissioners, to have a great advisory council members and really, you know, really strong advocates in the community. that carries us if either then a lot of our colleagues are able to be carried. we certainly have a lot more money in this program than most people do. the california association of area agencies is having its annual board retreat in september and we will be focusing this year on a couple of different years. one is behavioural health and making sure that older adults are included in mental health services act programs. one is thinking about housing and trying to figure out if there is a partnership that we can have between the sea four a and the california directory to come up with a intentionally new

housing legislation that helps support people staying at home safely. at all so we are looking there at reframing aging as we are in san francisco. so that is exciting. it is my contribution to the board. to bring in people from frameworks to talk to the directors about to reframing the aging and how we might do some statewide campaigning around ageism. moving on to reframing aging, i am really excited that we have actually launched our reframing aging campaign work last week. commissioner wallenberg is involved in that group. it's exciting to have him and have the commission represented their. we are looking at building a two prong campaign. one to talk about reframing the aging in san francisco and combating ageism at able -ism, but also making sure that people really know how to access our

services. as you remember we found out from the community assessment and also other places that people do not know how to access services often when they need them. so it is exciting to embark on this. it will be a lot of work. hired a woman who many of you may know but many of the people in the community know who will be our project manager. is. it will help to have her with us. it's a lot of work. we need someone to move us in the right direction. i'm excited about that. we had our first meeting august 8th and we will continue to meet monthly. we will have some committees working alongside that bigger workgroup. we also just launched residential care for at the elderly group. this is something that the coordinating council has taken on, in part at the request of supervisor he who is really interested in ensuring that there are residential care

facility beds in san francisco. as we know a lot of them have disappeared and there is just a whale in the city to make sure that we maintain what we have and hopefully for entice people to grow the number of beds that they have that they're contracting the city for. this is something that we have announced we are very interesting and. we put $1 million into really helping to support the rcf be in san francisco and we are hoping that this council and workgroup can find some recommendations and good solutions for keeping residential care facilities in the community, particularly when we think about the people who need the most. who which is the people who are in the behavioural health system, people who are clients of adult protective services and people with advanced dementia. we will be working on that. again, there are a number of people in this room who are

involved in this process. in that group. and the last thing i wanted to talk about today, is the mayor's office sent out a bunch of policy recommendations. you may have read in the paper or heard that right after mayor breed was elected, she had a lot of policy advisors and broke them out into different interest areas to come up with certain policy and recommendations for her and things they would like her to work on. i think she was trying to find a diverse group of people. meeting people from all walks of life, regular san francisco residents who work in or go to school here, people with disabilities, older people, children and, you know, who will represent those groups. and business et cetera. people came together on a saturday and really started to hammer out a recommendations.

she has asked departments to take a look at those recommendations and respond with a short memo about where our interests fit in with the recommendations and what we're doing about some of those recommendations if we are already working on those. we are in the process as a department of -- in preparing that memo. we as a human services agency will combine our memos and sends them back as an agency. that is something we are working on and it is due at the end of the month. i think that's what i have for today unless you have -- that is what i have for questions today. >> vice president loo: i am just wondering, do we have the final budget yet thought about that apartment? >> we do have the final budget for the department, but, yes. the mayor signed the budget on august 1st, so we have our final budget, yes. >> vice president loo: what is the month? >> i don't remember exactly what it is. where is alex?

$334 million. >> president serina: question. you mentioned the reauthorization for the older americans act and the thinking and discussion about the political strategy to see that that is done. how widespread is familiarity with the elder americans act? how much does the public know about it and what it entails and how it benefits people? >> i think a lot of people do not know about it. there are a lot of communities that have really focused on talking about it and getting information out about it and there are counties within california that have been a pretty good job of that. particularly, i think people take the opportunity when they are doing their area plan to do public education around the older americans act, and they put out infographics and things like that that really describe how the older americans act works and how it really works

within communities. that is not something that we have done yet. but we certainly could. i would say, if you ask the average american about the older americans act, probably there's not a lot of knowledge about its me when i don't see much about it in publications. i think, given it's significance, if there is a written reason -- way we can raise the profile, it may generate more political support. >> i agree. it is a good point. that is something i can bring up as a board member at the national association of agencies on aging. i can bring it up with them and i have a close association with people above aarp and american society on aging. they have a group that meets, you know, aging association organization where they can certainly be talking about that more. >> president serina: aarp would be a great advocate. finally, on the policy recommendations and the information that mayor breed has

requested, was there anything in those taskforces that was a surprise to us? different from what we are doing? a variation on a theme? >> not so much. i think there's a lot of opportunity to talk in our short memo. there's a lot of opportunity to talk about how the work we are doing fits in with the policy recommendations. whether it be focused on, you know, there was a group that was looking at children and families and older adults. there was -- certainly we fit there. even within homelessness, when we think about the homeless prevention work that we do, you know, or the number of homeless individuals that we work with in our various programs, when we think about housing some of the work we do with housing subsidies, we think about workforce and employment, you know, we are certainly doing work there. i think there are a number of -- and even in equity as a whole. there was a section therapeutic the work that we do brings a

different lens to the equity conversation when we start talking about older people and people with disabilities. there's an opportunity to say, you know, these are areas where we are doing these things. they may not match exactly who the people came up with the recommendations were thinking, but they add to the conversation and to the great work the city is doing. >> president serina: maybe we can use them to help advocate thought that more money for at some of the programs. [laughter] >> president serina: thank you. any other comments or questions? any comments or questions from the public? thank you. employee recognition. the department of aging and adult services commission and executive director shereen will be recognized -- will be recognizing sanchez from the d.a. ss office for her hard work -- for her hard work and dedication. [applause] [cheering]

[laughter] >> ok. can everyone hear me? ok. congratulations. i want to start off by talking about the great work that the eligibility unit within the

organization does. they do very special work. one of the things that we -- i can't talk like this. i will talk like this. [laughter] >> can you hear me? 's perfect. one of the things we are really excited about today is that she does fantastic work within her unit. i also wanted to talk about what the eligibility organization does. they are the benefits and resource hub. and what the eligibility workers do is they help people access and medicate benefits. [laughter] [indiscernible] >> the human services agency and

the work that it does -- >> our mics are not working. the wireless mics are not working. they said they were going to come up and take a look. ok, thanks. [indiscernible] [laughter] [indiscernible]

>> she displayed good leadership and displaying good skills. she has become our unofficial in-house i.t. expert due to her vast computer knowledge. she has always lent a helping hand when staff has had technical issues and she has taken the lead in developing our sharepoint website. she is a great spent -- fan of disneyland and star wars and she is a dog owner. [laughter] i think one of the things that is great if she has brought her experience from another unit to this unit to pick one of the things we have really noticed in building this particular site is

that we have needed the expertise of people who are willing to come over from other programs and work with us and teach us about what they know about eligibility and the world of medicaid and medic health. thank you so much. on behalf of -- on behalf of the department of aging and adult services, i want to say that you are our employee of the month for august. [cheers and applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. i just wanted to say thank you file for this award. it is an honour to be employee of the month and i want to thank my fellow coworkers, supervisors and the leadership thought by the continued support. thank you. [applause]

>> was going before the board of supervisors. we had two site visits. one to the south sunset senior center and also one to the george davis senior center in the bayview. lastly, mrs. karen kinsick reports from the rebuilding reported that they would do a project in the bay view on september 15th. >> any comments or questions? thank you, leon. >> what are your findings on the two site visits? >> the site visits were positive. the one from the sunset -- south

sunset senior center, it's a very small site with it being utilized quite a bit. there are issues that mainly a chinese community with 70 lunches per day. the food is brought in by a self-help for the elderly and it's utilized quite a bit. from the george davis senior center, also that site is really being utilized and that the number of food clients have increased at that senior daily. so it's really utilizing there in the bay view. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any other comments or questions? any comments or questions from the public? thank you, very much, leon. >> thank you. >> next dianne lawrence with the joint legislative committee report. >> good afternoon,

commissioners. i've been prag that so i didn't say good morning. and director mcspadden. my printer ran out of paper and i turned it off before i ran the last two pages. a couple of the key bills i wanted to discuss are here and you will all the details in your minutes. as you know, we've been tracking 33 bills this year. we're coming down to the end of this two-year session. one of the bills that we had been talking about was prevention of not having convicted -- anyone convicted of a crime working at residential care facilities. at health fair facilities. that bill was gutted in the last couple of weeks so so it is off the table and it is starting in january and the next session. we've had one bill signed by the

governor and chaptered. that was on ex panning the defense of what a dependent adult is, whether they live alone or not. the rest of the bills are moving through. there was a lot of activity from the last time i reported to you back in may. we've had two meetings in june and july. a number of the bills, the one i want to point out because it ties into our discussion of the older americans act that is ab-2719 by assembly member irwin. that is to look at the -- the department of aging is responsible to administer the olders act in california. there are various functions and duties on the department with respect to the development of programs. this bill revising the social

needs in our current legislation. the california part of the bill to include cultural and social isolation caused by sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. that bill was ordered to the assembly august 6th. there was a lot of action. we've been talking about the bill for grab bars in public rest rooms. that bill has been modified. it's hard to determine whether or not the grab bars will be there. the language was changed from public rest rooms grab bars to ab bue latorre com part to rest room stalls disabilities act and it was sent to appropriations. a number of these bills are for the third hearing. that is also of the legislation that has been pending on emergency services.

senator wiener's bill on conservatorship is modified. it's been amended and moved to the next group to look at it. i apologize for some of the others that are missing. there's been a lot of activity. we're still waiting for more things to be signed and finalized. >> thank you, dianne. any comments or questions? >> yes, i have a quick question. on the grab bar legislation, the change in language, does that also change therefore the content of? >> i'm not sure. i need to look at that a little further. as i was reading that, that definitely is a question. i think there was a concern with the advisory council and c.s.l. which is sponsoring that bill, that the grab bars are important beyond just the a. d.a. stalls so i'll check on that for you. >> dianne, the bill, regarding

employing people with records. why was it gutted? what is the opposition's argument to the bill? >> i don't know. sometimes what will happen is say bill will be gutted because they need that bill number to put something else in. so it's a way -- i used to see that what i was working. you would be tracking a bill and all of a sudden -- we've seen that with at least one other one this year. it may even be a few more. it's something we're tracking. and then all of a sudden it is something entirely different the next time we meet. they're using that. i can take a look at that and report next time on that one. >> thank you. >> any other comments or questions? any from the public? yes -- >> one i wanted to check in with

is ab1881 passed -- >> i'm meals on wheels san francisco. nice to see you. >> ab81881 is cash out reversal so that passed. it sounds ridiculous because i think we've all been trying to work on that for who knows -- 30 or 40 years. that reversed. that means starting next summer, 2019, people on s.s.i. will be eligible for cal fish. fresh. there's a lot of work and the state is taking a lead. the rest of us will benefit and make sure our county really has the highest rate of people getting on cal fresh that we can see. it will be tough. there's a lot of mess there. >> we'll add that to our tracking. it wasn't one we had been tracking. >> thank you both. next is the long-term care coordinating council report.

>> good afternoon commissioners, director mcspadden. my name is valerie coleman. i'm a program annalist with dos. i will give the council updates. they met july 12th. there was an update on the dignity fund from melissa mcgee. they had a retreat in june. the second item was discussing retreat next steps and what they want to do with that information. it was focused on looking on the mission, the vision, policy goals and strategies moving forward. so they're continuing to digest that and figure out the next steps. the next stop i can was around, we got a budget update. we got a city wide budget update and analysis from dan kaplan, as well as a dos-specific update from shireen mcspadden. we had a presentation from michael blecker around the challenges we know the v.a. system and how that effects

older adults. the presentation, and all the information, is available on the long-term care coordinating council's website. including minutes, agenda, other things like that. so if folks would like to review you can look at that and contact me directly. do you have any questions? >> thank you, valerie. any comments or questions? >> any comments or questions of the public? thank you, again. >> thank you. >> the case report. no case report. the nominating committee is recommending the commission to reappoint the following advisory council members who are incumbent. william marota, kay parek, and beverly taylor. because this is coming from the nominating committee we don't need a second. do we have any discussion? any comments or questions from