>> good morning everyone. you guys sound as excited as i am. i am so happy to be here today. this is a project that so many people, who came together to make it happen, the masonic street scape improvement. how about a hand for the beautiful plaza. this project is a transformational redesign of what most of our streets in san francisco will be looking like. so many beautiful amenities. you can see the plaza back the nice stonework. you will hear about that today. you can see the new cycle track which is raised for cyclists. you know, it is beautiful. the street design itself. all the landscaping. all the beautiful things that our city is evolving into. this is a model street. we have been doing these projects all around the city. a few weeks ago we were on

broadway. we have done in the mission and we have many more of these projects to come. all of the agencies involved, you will hear from them. the beautiful art behind me. how about some applause for the san francisco arts commission. all that beautiful work. we will hear from the m.t.a. and we will hear from planning, you will hear from p.u.c. at all of us. this is a way that a project should be done. all of the agencies working together, along with the community and the community, most important, on behalf of all of us, i want to say thank you for all the patients. all of those phone calls, all those concerns that we went through, you know, today all that is over and we will be enjoying this beautiful street. i can also tell you that the leadership has always been

involved. sometimes when you call me or you call one of the agency heads, when you don't get the answer you want to, you always go to the top person. and the person i am about to introduce to someone who is very familiar with this project. someone who was the supervisor of district 51 this project was active. and now our mayor, london breed. welcome her. [applause] >> mayor breed: thank you, mohammed. first of all, let's give it up for the sombre band which is led by public works employees. thank you so much for being here. they don't just deal with infrastructure and clean the streets, they are artist too. how cool is that optically let me just tell you. when i was supervisor for district five, and i first started in 2013, i got so many complaints from my constituents, probably throughout my entire career, more complaints about

this masonic boulevard street than any other place else. and i am so -- i am probably more happy than anyone else besides the people who live on this block that it is finally, finally done. how exciting is that? i want to be clear. this project is about safety. we no kak sadly, this was one, and probably still is, we are hoping these improvements will change that, one of the most dangerous streets in san francisco. and part of getting to vision zero, where we don't have any fatalities as a result of the conditions of our roads, is making the hard decisions to make the changes necessary to make our streets safe. this is about making sure people who are walking the streets feel safe. this is about making sure people who are bicycling feel safe. this is about making sure people

who are driving and being safer. this is about bringing the community together for the purposes of creating a road that hopefully will lead to less problems than before. the number of challenges, the number of complaints, we hope that this will lead to the kind of results that will make this a safer and better street for all to use throughout san francisco. throughout the process, i want to thank so many people who have been actively engaged and patients. especially the people who live here. the people who have businesses along masonic. those are the people who have had to endure many of the challenges that existed. i also want to apologize to many of the drivers who consistently complained about their wheel alignments to me. this smooth road with clear

direction will make it possible to avoid that on this particular street, at least. this project includes separated bike lanes along the corridor. i know there are some concerns about protected bike lanes and it is something that we will address. newly paved roads, sidewalks and curb ramps. leiter sidewalks and pedestrian lighting. which is absolutely amazing. but this project also included much-needed infrastructure improvement. a new water main. on both sides. now, sometimes it is the things we do not see that are the most exciting thing is to complete a project and make a city where it could. a new sewer line that now runs on both sides as well. also, this new and beautiful public plaza. applause for everyone to enjoy.

i want to thank so many people who made this possible, and clearly, you see that there are so many trees. more trees than we probably need. but i want to thank the public works department for the work that they did in doing this project but also the future work that they will do in maintaining those many trees along masonic. i want to thank the public utilities commission, the san francisco m.t.a., the san francisco planning department, the county transportation authority, and when i was on the board and the county transportation authority, i hope to leave the efforts to secure the additional funding we needed to get this project on. i want to thank the san francisco arts commission and so many that have made it possible. this project, overall, improves public safety, creates new open space for our community, and strengthens our infrastructure

for years to come. when i was supervisor, high, michael, one of the leaders who basically helped move this project forward, thank you so much for being here and your advocacy of getting this project done. when i was on the board of supervisors, one of the persons in my office to help deal with many of those complaints and challenges from the folks who lived here and work here was, at the time, my legislative aide, vallie brown. she is now the supervisor to represent this district. ladies and gentlemen, district five supervisor, vallie brown. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. i was told by someone, when i am riding my bike and i have photos, to put my helmet up front so everyone knows that yes, i too wear a helmet when i'm out there. kids, where your helmets. i just want to thank everyone for coming today.

this is amazing. i started working on this masonic boulevard at the issues that we were having, to safety issues we were having, in 2005. there was a group of us, michael, dug, a bunch of us who came out at night when it was rainy and cold. we had our signs up to reduce the speed to 25 miles. because if you remember before then, it was a lot faster. it was our little mini freeway. we were out here it, day and night, going across the street, up and down masonic and working on the state level to reduce it to 25 miles an hour. and then that happened. we are excited about it. we knew we needed to do more. and then we had the tragedy of a bicyclist getting killed. he was riding riding his bike in 2010 and he was killed by a car. it made everyone sad, furious,

and also, gave us the power to keep moving. we needed to make sure that we needed to change masonic. needed to be changed not only for people who rode their bikes on masonic, not only for the kids that are at san francisco day school that walk around masonic, and the people who live here. they were also complaining that the noise and the pollution of the way masonic was was across a freeway. so we worked on that and we have these amazing community meetings. and michael and doug and tim and the others were at these meetings. we had 80-100 people at a planning meeting for masonic. we had m.t.a. who would lead to them. they were amazing meetings. we were there, probably, we had 6-8 meetings that we had the community, everyone coming together to work on what will make masonic safe and what we

felt good on whether we are walking, biking, driving or coming out of your home. and then back the next phase was funding it. and then mayor breed, who was supervisor breed at the time, puts the funding funding through t.a. so we could get realization that we have this beautiful boulevard. but we are not done. if you are a cyclist, we have a few blocks that need some work. as mayor breed said, we are going to do that. i was at first, a little bit where each. we will be celebrating a boulevard that we are still working on? and then i realized, and i actually called my og, michael and others, to say why kate do we support this as it is now? and we really do. we support it because it is absolutely beautiful. when we first did -- name to the bike lanes on bell and oak, we

had to change those. at first we put the bike lanes and nsa move forward we realized we have to tweak it this way and we have to tweak it this way to be safe. that is the way i look at masonic now. i want to thank everybody who has been here for the last 15 years, really working to change this. at all the departments that are involved. d.p.w., m.t.a., p.u.c., that came together and said, we will change this boulevard, not only for the people who live here, but for the people who walk, visit and bike here. thank you and i will bring up my colleague, supervisor catherine stefani because this area, we have three different districts that intersect. we cross all the time. i would like to bring up catherine stefani. supervisor stefani? >> thank you supervisor brown. it is so great to be here today. i love that we shared this area.

san francisco faces many challenges but we know that we can solve the dangers of the roadways and the city vision zero mission to eliminate all traffic deaths by 2024 is a vital one to every resident. i don't think many people notice about me, but before i was appointed supervisor, i was training for a triathlon. i was training for the escape for -- from alcatraz and i biked all over the city. one of the scariest moments on my bike was on ocean avenue, or actually, on the grey highway. i was riding my bike, at the car started to come into the lane as they were turning bright and i had to pound on the side of the fan so as not to get run over. i understand how important bicycle safety is and how important it is to make sure we are implementing changes in our roadways a cyclist feel safe and pedestrians feel safe so that our kids are safe. so to see this unravel today, to

see all of this today is a very -- it is a long time coming. we have to do more of this all over the city. this project enhanced safety for pedestrians, cyclist, motorist and transit riders and it made it more beautiful. we have a newly planted -- wanted median and street trees in a public plaza which will be great to. especially for the target shoppers over there. and i think residents will also be able to walk safely down the streets and enjoy this new area. i just want to say that the collaboration of all the departments has always said we are all of the table. i want to thank public works planning, the sfmta and of course, all the residents and businesses that endured. in the end, everyone is truly proud of what has become here and we want to thank everyone for participating and creating this beautiful new space. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. now we will hear from our m.t.a.

director, director risk in. he is responsible for making sure that all the walkways and bicycle lanes and transit works around here. all right. welcome. >> that's right. thank you, mohammed to be a good morning, everyone. it is so great to be here at this point in time. i think the mayor and the supervisors said it well. this has been a long time coming. but do very well worth it. it is really a great success story from my standpoint. you heard from the mayor and supervisor brown. this really started from the community. before the city adopted vision zero on before we identified the high injury network, we had people from this community come forward and say this street is not working for us. it is not working for people who drive on it and not working for people who ride a bike and for people who walk, for people who are getting on and off transit and driving the bus is. the street wasn't working well for anyone. we were having close to 20

traffic crashes a year just on masonic avenue alone. we had two fatalities and we came together as a community, with the community and city agencies and said we can do better than this. we can redesign the street to make it work better and make it safer and make it more inviting and that is what we have here today. we have taken what used to be a mini freeway as someone said that was really dividing the two neighborhoods in our city. at dividing the neighborhood in the city and replaced it with a beautiful safe, inviting street, that mixes together the community, and as the mayor said, we will make it much much less likely that anyone would be hurt or killed on the street. it is now truly a neighborhood street. that happened because we had leaders like michael and others in the community that work with the then it supervisor aids,

vallie brown, and with the support of the den supervisor breed tact to bring forward this planning process at -- it culminated in a recommendation for a project that we brought to the board of directors in 2012. i want to acknowledge the great leadership of the vice chair of the board and now chair of the board of the sfmta who has been a staunch advocate for safety improvements in the city. with their approval, in 2012, we got to work with public works and planning and with public utilities and with the arts commission. all working together to design and build and implement this project. i think it is a great transformation of a city street and as mohammed said, is one of many that we have seen and will be seeing in the coming months and years. it is a great day for this neighborhood. for everybody who uses this street. whether they live here or travel

through here, they walk or bike or take the bus or drive here. is a much better street and a great lesson for all of us on how to do things. we need to figure out how to do it a whole lot faster. i will acknowledge, we have heard from supervisor brown some concerns. this project is not perfect. we will continue as we do with every project to evaluate how it is performing at identify ways to make it even better. we will work with supervisor brown and the community to make sure that we make the street work as well as it was intended from those first days of protest back in 2005 and 2006. thank you to everybody. the leadership and support we have had from the mayor and the supervisors, pass supervisors, by particularly the leadership from the community to make this happen, in partnership with the city agencies. it brings us to where we are today. congratulations to the community on making this happen and getting this done.

>> thank you, edge. we will now hear from the public utilities commission, as the mayor said, some of the important things that go and a project that a lot of us don't see, but have to be part of a project are water, our power and our sewer. come on up. >> so, mohammed, i want to thank you for inviting us. as you say, out of site, out of mind. we actually have about 70% of our infrastructure is 70 years or older, especially the sewer and water mains. we are trying to prioritize them based on joint projects. so this was a prime project where we can come together and work with other departments to get into an area one time, dig one time so that we can invest in our infrastructure. so this was a great opportunity to work with mohammed. we actually have watch what

water mains and two sewer mains running down the street. so that is something that we want to make sure that we really invest in new infrastructure. we can provide vital service to everyone. we worked on the streetlights as well. so you can see the beautiful pedestrian lighting here, i don't other projects were looking at investing in green infrastructure. one theme i want to make sure, when mohammed asked me to participate in a project where we have aging infrastructure, we are definitely there. thank you for inviting me to say a few words about my hidden infrastructure. thank you. >> thank you. you all know it takes a village. we will talk here a little bit. i know you are not on the program, but this is so beautiful and i want you to talk about this art. thank you. >> thank you, mohammed. it is great to be here today on

this incredible community projects. the artist here that was selected through the competition is scott oliveira. he is originally from reading and what is incredible is he spent over three weeks on the plaza interviewing many of you, three questions. where are you headed right now? where were you born? and where would you like to go? i think for a transit hub like this, it makes a perfect conceptual concept to share this incredible story of the people that use and inhabit the space here and what is really exciting as all of the arrows point to the real place to. they are actually directional signage if you ever need to find yourself at the corner store. or to lands end, or the department of motor vehicles. we want to congratulate scott oliver. there will be a little celebration here on saturday night. we encourage you to come back

and celebrate this great work of art. congratulations to all of our colleagues in the city and for the committee champions who made this possible. >> thank you. thank you. and it takes a lot of people to do these projects. the community, all the city agencies, all the nonprofits pick one of the nonprofits that we work with very closely, we meet regularly, we really advocate for cycling in the city. we really advocate for making the city a better place. the san francisco bicycle coalition. speaking on their behalf is brian. come and say a few words. >> thank you. i want to thank the city partners that are here. special thanks to supervisor brown and supervisor stefani for your support of this project and your support of vision zero across our city. i want to say a very special thank you to mayor london breed for your support in securing funding for this project during your time on the board of

supervisors. we wouldn't be standing here if it weren't for that leadership. this project exists for a reason. it exists because of the leadership of folks sitting up here in the hard work of our city staff. but it is also the grassroots energy of every day san franciscans who would not settle for less, that brought us here. four too many years, masonic avenue was a speedway. cutting through the heart of our city. for some of the most storied neighborhoods. for too long, it has been a place for cars and not for people. i want to thank the city and our members for their dedication over the last decade to make masonic avenue a friendlier place for people. in particular, i want to thank the folks at six masonic and some of the members who have been mentioned.

their energy under tireless advocacy and years and years of patients have made this day possible. it is also important to honor those who have been injured or worse on this street. in particular, i would also like to mention a man who was hit and killed by a drunk driver on masonic a few blocks from where we stand in 2010. he was 22 when he was killed. he would be 30 years old today if he was still with us. i think of the years of lost life that will never be given back to his family and friends and i particularly think about his mother and his sister who are in germany and who wanted to be here today, but couldn't. so there is no doubt that these improvements that we are celebrating today on masonic will make it a safer place for people biking and walking. but our work is not done here. like many new projects of this scale there be a period of adjustment as people get used to

the new street designs. these designs, let's not forget to, what they are first planned in 2007 and 2008 to, and in 2010, they were considered revolutionary. it is now 2018 and we have some other ideas about what makes a great street to bike and walk on. so we look forward to working with supervisor vallie brown and the sfmta and our members to address those problem spots, particularly as masonic approaches other streets. we know for people biking, if they are not very confident, that can be a stressful spot. let's get to work quickly to fix that. as we celebrate a decade of effort that brought us here today, we need to remember people who have died on our city streets. of san francisco and streets like masonic avenue and streets across our city are going to be transformed, we are going to achieve vision zero and make this city i just avenue's a place for people, we don't have

another decade to wait. let's finish fixing masonic and get to work on the rest of the city. thank you to everyone for your leadership. i am really excited to ride my bike on these new bike lanes when i we leave today. thank you. >> thank you, thank you. so we will cut the ribbon. before we do that, i want to thank everyone for coming and especially the team from public works. our city engineers sitting right here. the project manager, our communications department to, all the engineers who worked with the rest of the city agencies to make this project possible, and of course, the team that looks after the city every day, the street cleaner said everybody. thank you for everything that you do and thank you for coming. let's get ready and cut the ribbon of this great project. and another one down. come on up.

>> doug, come on up. come on. should we say hop on up. [laughter] >> maurice, come on in. they want you in the picture. [laughter] >> it is multiple cuts. make sure you cut on zero. come on up. >> ok. we will go. countdown. five, there you go. all right. five, four, three, two, one.

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>> 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.

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>> 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