know, too many opinions. so i would power down more, would be my advice and good luck. thank you. >> clerk: thank you so much, sir. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors, chris schulman. i would like to thank supervisor fewer for bringing this forward and the co-sponsors. when it was a proposal for a commission and the new regulatory agency, we had some hesitation and, frankly, some opposition, but we recognized that there was a need for oversight and public input and input from the agencies and we would like to thank the supervisor for bringing this forward in its current form. we're very supportive and we're looking forward to participating and making sure that it's a success. thank you so much. and we're going to look forward to seeing this through. thank you.

>> clerk: great, any other members of the public wish to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor fewer? >> if i may address some of the public comments. so this position will not be paid for by this, and we are paying it through the general fund. i know that was a big concern. and also there's a seat for a cannabis patient and the seat is described as "a person who has been a medical cannabis patient or a medical cannabis consumer for at least five years with an extensive history advocating for medical cannabis patients or involvement in the implementing and running a cannabis compassion use program in comcomplaint with the act of 1996." and we have another comment that i heard was -- i wrote it down -- we did add an equity applicant there. we are open actually to adding

seats if we find that we're missing expertise at the table. and then it is not going to be housing d.p.h. i think that we just heard earlier before the public comment that this will be housed in the city administrator's office. and that we actually -- i would like to ask our city attorney about the san francisco residency requirement because it is my understanding that under article 5 that it's required that they are san francisco residences until it is waiver is granted by the board. >> deputy city attorney. that's right, under the charter the default rule is that all -- all members of the advisory bodies must be san francisco residents and registered voters unless the appointing authority, the board in this case, waives that requirement for an individual or the ordinance itself. this ordinance says that you

don't have to be a san francisco resident. but right now the rule is that you must be a resident unless the board waives. >> thank you, mr. gibnor. and every person on this committee will be a san francisco resident as per required by article 5, unless waived by the board. and so i want to thank everyone for coming today and giving us your comments and i think that we first thought about having a commission and you're right, we got a lot of pushback on it. so we heard from the community and we think that this oversight committee is so needed now. i will not say that this might be needed in five years but right now when we are rolling out a program and i think that the supervisor knows that when we wrote this ordinance that we were both on the rules committee together and a lot of ideas came forward and a lot of thought. and, quite frankly, that we did not have the expertise on the

board. but we made that legislation and that ordinance anyway and created it. but now we really want to hear on the ground, is it working? does it need amendment? how should we amend it? how should we meet the needs of our equity applicants? , quite frankly, that the board of supervisors 100% agreed on with an equity program. i have received letters from the san francisco equity group that gives us many suggestions and i'm glad that we have representation from them on the board and we will have a representation on this committee. i would encourage people to apply. we will send notices out and once this is passed i would hope to have this in place by january 1st. and so i am encouraging people to apply or your networks to apply also because we're looking for people to actively serve on this committee. the commitment is five meetings a year. i would like to leave it at nine

members because i think that there has been an issue with quorum. i'm open up to any questions that my colleagues may have. >> i have no -- i asked questions and i have supervisor stefani, do you have any questions? >> i think that as you said, supervisors, i think that it's important to more formalize this oversight committee as we're moving forward and there's still a lot of unanswered questions. i think that i in particular receive a lot of inquiries, concerns, and feedback from equity applicants and those in the equity world, also patient advocates in the patient world. so having a more formalized body as well as those that we're working on a piece of legislation right now. as you know that deals with

stabilizing and coordinating the workforce that we call "city grow" and working with organized labor. to have those seats represented here is really important. so i think that the time is right. so we appreciate it. i wouldn't necessarily restrict where the funding comes from. because, i mean, there will be new revenue generators at some point that will go to the general fund. i understand that the industry is feeling squeezed by fees and so on. so we'll definitely have to work that out moving forward based on if there's any additional revenue. but other than that i don't have any other comment. >> great. did you want to make a motion? >> i would like to make a motion to move it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> vote on the amendments first? >> yes, we have to vote on the amendments and for clarity, are you accepting of deputy city attorney -- >> yes, i am. >> to strike the second part -- so the committee will not have the ability to fire or hire in

the office of cannabis, period? >> i'm fine with that. >> so all of the amendments, can we accept those without objection? so moved. great. and then on the final piece of legislation. can we send that to the full board with positive recommendation without objection? so moved. great. >> thank you very much, colleagues. thank you, everyone. >> thank you so much. okay. what item are we on? >> clerk: item 5. >> can we -- hold on a second. can we just do -- hold on one second.

can we do item 7 first please. are the folks here for item 7? >> clerk: item 7 to appoint two members, term ending march 1, 2021, to the in home supportive services public authority. >> hi. >> item number 7? >> yes. i'm the executive assistant at the public authority. >> you want to say a few word? >> so, unfortunately, tessie was unable to appear today and i'm working to reschedule her hearing. but i am here today to speak on behalf of kenzie robey and he was unable to attend because he has a very serious medical condition and he's recovering from surgery. we have a letter of recommendation. >> you can keep that for a minute that would be great. >> absolutely. so i'm here on behalf of the san francisco public authority to state that we support the

appointment of kenzi robi. he's committed to improving the lives of low-income older adults and people with disabilities. and as a long-time wheelchair user himself he understands the challenges that many adults with disabilities face. he has worked with the public mentorship team in helping residents to transition so we feel that he's very important to our p.a. governing body. >> great. and i understand too that due to a noticing error that it cannot be heard today. that's the second person. so for that purpose we won't -- we won't make a decision on seat number eight today. okay, great. any questions from the committee? okay. seeing none, can we have public comment on item number 7? public comment is one minute.

>> wow, you have knocked it down to one minute. when i came to city hall it was three minutes and then after we came, you knocked it down to two minutes. after a while you will knock it down to 30 seconds and get up here and say hi and goodbye. i think that is really unfair. but let me speak on this issue in this one minute. all of these appointees, whomever, i don't care what administration it is, i think that these appointees when they affect the homeless people there should be a vetting system that they and before the homeless and find out what they're about. whatever this is about. so 30 seconds, i'm not going to break my brains on trying to make a comment. all i'm going to say right now is that my name is ace and i'm on the case, and the case means community, assistance, service, enterprise. i think that is what is needed, community reform. because these procedures here are very unfair to the homeless and everybody else. here i'm a well-abled body coming up here and talking but i

am a victim, and i think that it's really unfair. you don't see no homeless people and nobody coming up here for community reform. >> any other members of the public wish to comment on this item? public comment is closed. so just for clarity, this is in-home supportive services, okay. did you want to say one last thing? >> no. >> okay, great. thank you very much, i appreciate you coming to speak on kenzi's behalf. any other questions? so can we entertain a motion to accept of kenzi robi to the public authority and continue seat eight to the call of the chair? great. we can do that without objection. okay. hold on one second. can you call item number 6. >> clerk: a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending march 19, 2021 to

the child care planning and advisory council. there are two seats and two applicants. >> great. so first person that we're going to see here and hear from is ester. are you here? easter, sorry. easter calvit. >> yes. >> you have three minutes left. >> i am easter calvit and i'm the program director for headstart within san francisco. and i have been working in the area of early care and education for over 13 years. and i had a headstart agency, and for the last 3 1/2 years in san francisco i have been attending the meetings continuously since i have been working in san francisco. and i oversee eight headstart

agencies within san francisco fowrks of them within the chinatown area. -- four of them being within the chinatown area. so i'm looking forward to this appointment if you see that i can serve in this capacity. thank you. >> thank you so much. i'm sorry for mispronouncing your name. >> that's okay. >> it happens to me all the time. [laughter]. >> it's okay, thank you. >> and i just note for the record that mr. graham dobson is unable to be here. he is an employee of the office of the early childhood education but sent an email to the committee to tell me that he was unable to attend but he was looking forward to reappointment. any other -- okay, can we do public comment? any members of the public that wish to comment on this item come forward? seeing none, public comment is closed. any comments or questions from the committee? okay, great.

so i'm going to make a motion to accept the residency waiver and nomination of easter calvit for seat three and the reappointment of graham dobson on seat 12 of. >> clerk: to confirm miss calvit, a written waiver requirement has been provided and you are recommending -- also recommending graham dobson to seat 12? >> yes, that's what i said. >> clerk: thank you. >> great. all right. so let's do go back to item number 5. >> clerk: item number 5 is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending february 23, 2020, to the citizens' committee on community development. we have two seats and four applicants. >> great, thank you, and we'll start with graciela hernandez. each applicant has three minutes to speak. thank you. >> thank you. and you pronounced graciela very

well, thank you. good morning, thank you for giving me the opportunity to come before you and for considering me for the application of citizen -- on citizens committee on community development. i was born and raised in the bay area and i have been a resident of san francisco for the past five years. and i currently live in district 7. i would be honored to serve on the committee to advance the needs and the concerns of low-income community members in the city as i know firsthand the challenges of low-income families as a daughter of immigrant family who moved here with low social and economic resources. i believe that both my professional and personal experiences have helped me tow represent the needs of diverse community members in san francisco. i have dedicated my professional career for the past 13 years to develop and to implement programs that increase educational, work development in business opportunities for low-income communities and diverse communities. and i worked for the office of economic as a analyst and a

program officer for the office of -- i'm sorry, for the tech initiative. to increase the access of technology training and employment to local san francisco residents who were unemployed. in this role i helped to implement technology training that was provided at multiple organizations, including ccsf, the bay area, and bay view hunter for the arts and technology. with my support the program successfully met all outcomes and we were able to place over 300 san francisco residents into employment within a period of two years. and for the past couple years i have also been volunteering for not-for-profit agencies as a tenderloin mission district, including ccsf, mission economic development agency, meta, and the vietnamese youth development center in the tenderloin. i work as a principal analyst at bart. and i work with the advocacy

department and i represent bart on transit regional transportation planning committees. i have seen an influx of former san francisco residents who are moving east and north because they are no longer able to live and to work in san francisco. i recently even heard colleagues who were conducting a survey on first morning riders at the station who were conducting surveys and the riders said that coming -- the first riders in the morning were coming to work in san francisco because they have moved away and they have to get to the station around 4:00 in the morning to be able to get to work here. and i believe that the community members like them should have adequate and equitable access to affordable housing, community and economic development, and rental assistance and supportive housing programs. because these programs create a bridge for low-income communities to benefit from the growth of our city. these community members are, in

fact, the backbone of our city and our everyday society. for this reason i would be honored to serve on the committee. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much. and now let's hear from our second applicant miss marilyn murrillo here? she is not. okay. third applicant is azalea renfeld. >> said it correctly. hi, thank you so much for -- i'm sorry? >> no, go ahead. >> thank you for having me. i would like to express my interest in serving on the committee. i was born and raised here in san francisco and i currently live in the sunset district and i have seen my share of displacement and i would like to be able to give back. a little bit about my background... i have been working in housing for a long time. i started on the san francisco human rights commission as the equity advisory committee for two years. and i have worked for cal works for 2 1/2 years, helping

specifically in the area of housing. i have served on different housing boards, the san francisco rent board, helping with rent control ordinance because i worked for palo alto currently on the program. and i have served on the housing advocates in northern california, affirming fair housing. and a couple of private organizations as relate to development. my hope is that i would like to be able to mobilize the communities in a way that makes sense, in a way that finds the common story. so that we could figure out new ways to actually translate that to tangible achievable and measurable outcomes. and it would be such an honor to do this in this capacity and to really give back. and i really wanted to say that when we try to figure out ways to find the story that we all share, that is where the community development really begins. for example, the fact that supervisor yee and i, we both went to hubert hub ard middle

school. and supervisor steafa nirch, we both attended the school of law. and supervisors safai and we both have a passion and a love for helping families and children. and supervisor fewer, i didn't know that you would be here, the fact that we both went to city college in san francisco and golden gate university. that's the part that engages people because we're now both focused and we want to give back and that's a good basis to start to develop in the community. so it would be my honor and pleasure to give back to this wonderful city and to do great things. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much. all right. and now let's hear from our fourth applicant, maurice robinson. not here? okay. any questions for the applicants? supervisors? that said, i think that a lot of times that showing up is 80% of

the job, but even on top of that both of you had a wonderful presentations and i think that your background and skills and passions having been former deputy director of the office of community development and working with the citizens' advisory committee over years, i think that you guys -- both of you -- would make wonderful contributions to this committee. so thank you for coming here today. any members of the public wish to comment on this item, please come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. all right. let's see. we... i guess that i'll make a motion to accept the nominations of graciela hernandez to serve on seat three and azalea reffeld to serve on seat 3 and 4.

congratulations, ladies. without objection. call item 8. >> clerk: a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending april 10, 2019 and one member, term ending march 11, 2020, to the graffiti advisory board. >> great. is mike petricca -- >> petricca. >> okay, great. please proceed. you have three minutes or less. >> i won't take up all of your time. you have my application and i'm replacing rebecca delgado who served on the graffiti board and did a great job and supported them. she retired and so for the last few weeks i have been working with the graffiti board and we currently are doing some public service announcements for the graffiti board. we will have that ready for the huddle on the 17th of this

month. but i'm real excited about replacing rebecca and i hope that i can do as good a job as she did. and i look forward to having more students involved in helping the city with graffiti abatement. thank you. >> real quick, what do you currently do? >> i'm the vice president of campus safety at the academy of art. >> you work there? >> i do. >> is this an academy of art seat? >> i believe so. >> seat 16, employee or office of a private school or an art school that operates in san francisco. okay. great. any questions from the committee? okay. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> let's hear from our second applicant, is miss margeaux casillas here? uh-oh. and i know that our third applicant for seat number 8 gregory dillon, is unable to attend today.

today's hearing, and so the request of the graffiti advisory staff -- ma'am, are you with the graffiti advisory staff? okay. got it. i just wanted to make sure. so we'll hear from seat number 18 at a later date and it looks like we'll have to hear seat number 17 at a later date as well. okay. i don't have any questions. i would just say comment-wise that having been a former employee of the department of public works and also someone in our new capacity as supervisors, all of us have a significant amount of complaints about graffiti and trash and the overall cleanliness of the city so this is an important advisory body. i appreciate the fact that you're taking time to be involved in that and we take this seriously and i take graffiti and these issues very seriously. so the fact that you have shown up here today and have you attended any of the advisory committee -- in the past, mr. --

>> yes, i have worked with them for the last couple months while i have waited to get before the commission. and like i said we have been helping them with getting our students to do some public service announcements and hopefully we're asking the mayor to be part of those announcements that the school is putting together for the graffiti board. the academy of art. >> at their cost? >> yes. >> great. all right. so no other questions? would you like to make a motion supervisors? oh, public comment on this item, seeing none, public comment is closed. okay. go ahead. yes? i'll just make a motion. motion to accept the appointment in residency waiver of mr. mike petricca to seat 16 and to continue seat 17 and 18 to the call of the chair. can we do that without objection? without objection, thank you. any other items before us today?

>> clerk: that completes the agenda for today. >> we are adjourned. thank you.

>> this is commission on aging and adult services. secretary, please do the roll call. it is gustavo serina is excused. vice president loo. >> vice president loo:. here. commissioner jerry wallenberg. >> commissioner wallenberg: here. >> silence all electronics and sound producing devices.

>> vice president loo: before we start the meeting, i would like to introduce our newest commissioner, commissioner martha. would you like to say a few words about yourself? two minutes. >> commissioner knutzen: sure. thank you very much. my name is martha knutzen. i'm the new commissioner. i was honored to be appointed by mayor london breed. i have been so interested in these issues ever since i was on the human rights commission when we had a hearing on lgbt senior issues. those were very unique issues at the time. from that moment, that hearing which was conducted in about 2003, led to the task force on lgbt issues in the senior community and then that in turn led to some really ground breaking legislation. and i was so great identified and it was so ironic to see that

these items we had advocated for so many years, three of them are on the agenda today. i feel like i have done a full circle here in terms of the interest that i have. i bring to this commission anything that i have. it's a real honor for me to work for the city. i retired a couple of years ago from the district attorney's office where i was a manager doing legal technology and i will bring that to it, if that's good. otherwise, i bring the education i have. i have a law degree and degrees in government and politics. and then i have been an active participant in the lgbt and democratic policy. i look forward to learning -- i have a steep learning curve here. so, upgoing to be lerng -- learning a lot of issues.

so, i look forward to that and thank you to the director and all the commissioners who have been so well coming and i look forward to my service. >> vice president loo: thank you and welcome on board. unfortunately, i have a piece of sad news to announce. commissioner wallenberg is leaving us. >> commissioner wallenberg: i will be. >> vice president loo: we give you two minutes to say parting -- [laughter] >> commissioner wallenberg: thank you. advice chair loo pointed out, it is with a heavy heart i will be resigning my post on this commission due to various personal and professional considerations. i want you to know it has been an absolute honor to serve with each and every one of you. i have learned a lot on this commission. i will continue to in my professional capacity and personal life work on these issues and i care deeply about the population that we serve on this commission and i will carry

that forth and everything i have learned here. having been appointed by the late mayor lee also was something that was extremely special to me and i will never forget as well. so, it's been an honor to serve and i thank you very much. >> vice president loo: thank you and good luck with whatever you are doing. [applause] >> vice president loo: all right. item number two, approve of the october 3, 2018, agenda. do i have a moeths -- motion to approve? >> commissioner wallenberg: so moved. >> vice president loo: second. approve. approval of the september 5, 2018, meeting minutes. >> commissioner wallenberg: second. >> vice president loo: okay. now we come to the reports. the director's report. >> yes. good morning, commissioners. i want to start by welcoming

commissioner knutzen. it was nice to get to meet and talk with you last week and i'm very much looking forward to working with you on the commission and congratulations. and i also -- commissioner wallenberg, it is really sad to see you go. we certainly understand that you have other things that you have to deal with and you're really busy. but i think what i want to say is we're holding you to your commitment to serve people with disabilities. i know from many e-mails and texts i have gotten from you all hours of the day you are really committed and you are energetic and we need that in the movement. we will be calling on you and asking you to help us. good luck. >> commissioner wallenberg: thank you. >> i just watched to start today by talking about a couple of things. i don't have a lot to report on. i know that diane will be talking about legislation.

she will be talking about what the governor signed and vetoed, i'm assuming. i can help round that out. i will let her do that. but i want to talk about a couple of things. national celebrations that we had and are having. the first is in september we celebrated national employ older worker's week. october is national disability employment awareness month. it gives us an opportunity to think about how we are serving older people and people with disabilities with respect to employment. i think over the past few years, we have really started -- as a department, we have started paying attention to employment issues because we have some fantastic advocates in the community who said these are really important issues and partly because the dignity fund has really helped us be able to think more broadly beyond some of the programs that we used to have that didn't focus as much on employment and we had the

cesep program. we have been delving into that. i want to give you some employment stats to think about. over a quarter of older adults participate in the labor force in the united states. seen kwors -- seniors are more likely to remain active which i'm sure doesn't surprise anyone. it is the increased age threshold for social vice president retirement benefits. and older adults experience fewer years of disabled years. reflect better health of younger, older adults today. and then there's the high cost of living. in addition to that as we often hear from people, there's really also that people want to remain engaged in the community and employment is often a way for people to do that. so, as we're thinking about funding programs and what that looks like in the community, it's really helpful i think for you as commissioners when you

are the eyes and ears of the community. like what would that look like? what new kinds of ideas can we come up with? and then adults with disabilities under age 65 participate in the work force. but adults with disabilities are twice as likely to be unemployed as those without disabilities. this is something we need to continue tackling as well. we need to figure out benefits and how to really embrace people in the work force and still have them get benefits that help them. even adults with disabilities who are employed are twice as likely to be in poverty as those without disabilities. we fund at dafn the reserve program which will serve 100 clients this year. we have smaller programs. we have a contract with the arc for janitorial services which is

a great work force program for clients at the arc. we have a senior companion program and we have a daas community liaison which is two positions. this year we are going to be starting a daas em bas der -- m ambassador program. that is my report. thank you. >> vice president loo: thank you. any questions for shireen from the commission? any questions from the public? speak up. okay. then we move on. employee recognition. the department of aging and adult service commission director shireen will recognize elvira from veterans service for

her hard work and dedication. [applause] >> good morning everyone. i want to start off first, elvi, by talking about the fantastic group of people you work with and we will get into what you are doing with the county veterans service office. we are fortunate at daas to have

the county veterans services office. it is a small office and we don't talk about what you guys do very often. the county veterans services office sits within the daas benefits and resource hub. and martha huddle is the director there. at least the intake side of it. and the county veterans services office really does a huge service to veterans. part of the issue and the reason the county veterans services office exists is because the va has benefits for veterans but doesn't do a good job making sure they get it. so the office helps to make sure veterans who obviously served the united states very well and who deserve their benefits because that's what they were promised, they help them get those benefits.

that means sometimes veterans who otherwise would be getting benefits from the city can get off those benefits. so, rather than be on g.a. and things like that, they can get more money in their pockets. they can spend more money in san francisco as san franciscans which is better for the economic, better for san francisco and certainly better for the veterans. i think one of the other things that happens with the office is all of you who are working with veterans have to have a lot of patience and have to have a lot of understanding and empathy. and i know from martha and from dorian, who unfortunately didn't get to be here today because he is in a training in los angeles, that you guys have that. you have that empathy and that's what it takes to work with veterans who have seen a lot. often have ptsd and just often don't feel understood in san francisco. so, i want to thank all the county veterans services office staff for what they do. elvi, today is your day.

and i think dorian recommended you, but i think he also said to me that really anybody in county veterans services office could get this. you get to be representatived today because of the work you -- representative today because of the work you do. i know you worked in the philippines before you came to the united states and you had experience working with the u.s. department of veterans affairs in manila. that's an interesting background that you brought to our office and we know that you came having a lot of veterans administration experience. since december 2013, you have been here and you used your 26 years of dedicated service and experience for our office and we really appreciate that. you have maintained a distinct active case load of over 1,600 cases for veterans and their families and this represents approximately 33% of the total active veterans cases that we have. you're the lead for the san francisco medical cost avoidance

program, prevention and service fund program, all of which reimburse the county for workload units reported. these programs in just six months have generated a total of $1 million. and this is what i was talking about awarded to veterans that help them come off the city benefits. we want to thank you for your dedication to veterans and to the office and to really just celebrate you today and thank you for your service. [applause] >> this is not just for me but for everybody. for dorian, john, lisa and the

veterans serving in the armed forces. they are the future veterans we are going to serve. [applause] >> on behalf of daas and the daas commission, we present you with the employee of the month award for october 2018. [applause] >> vice president loo: now we have the advisory report by leon schmidt. >> good morning vice president loo, commissioners, executive director mcspadden. the advisory council met on

wednesday, september 19th. at that meeting, ms. mcspadden came and spoke to us about the work she was doing with the dignity fund and advisory council oversight committee and how funds will be rolling out for the next four years. the monies will include going to the nutrition program, senior centers and other community services and transportation. there's an emphasis on distributing funds to all the community, through the needs assessment including the lgbt data and also to the communities of color and communities of adults with disabilities. we have a new member who will be coming on board from district seven, supervisor yee and he will be coming in our october meeting. also we had a presentation from ms. linda lao, daas staff person and she gave a presentation on

the five types of nutrition programs funded by daas including home delivered meals, food assistant pantry program and the snap program and daas also supports the senior farmer's market nutrition program. also, the education committee had a program in convention with san francisco state university on friday, september 28th, it was called daas community training and san francisco state silver lining election committee. it was called aging health and wellness in san francisco. the keynote speaker was california state senator scott weiner. presentations were given by san francisco state university professor darlene welltar, ms.

gwen harris and a very great presentation by daas staff person, ms. valerie coleman. i would like to thank daas staff person melissa mcgee more really making this happen. she was -- for really making this happen. she was bringing that together and our commission person, our council person, dr. marcia element. thank you. that's report. any questions? >> vice president loo: any questions from the commission? i have a question. who is a new member from district seven? >> rick johnson. his name is rick johnson. >> vice president loo: thank you. >> yes. any other questions? >> vice president loo: any other questions? any questions from the public? >> i did leave something out. our new taccc person is ms. diane lawrence and she will be

giving her report. thank you. >> vice president loo: okay. thank you. all right. the taccc report. diane lawrence. >> good morning, commissioners. director mcspadden. i have two reports. we will start with the joint legislative which i had a lead-in for a few minutes ago. we met on september 19th. deputy director jill nielsen give us a report on conserve tor ship and the impacts, what those would be if the governor signed sb-1045. as of that meeting date, the governor had not but he had since. that was very helpful. the governor had until sunday -- deputy director nielsen's report on conservetorship was good and

helped us understand how narrow the focus of 1085 really is and set the stage in understanding all the codes that have been modified as a result of that bill. there were quite a number of bills to sign. my report right now will only be on what we did through the 19th and then at our next meeting i will have the final wrap-up for the year. the senior legislature will be meeting in november, very early part, to come up with their top ten for next year. they are already starting to work on their proposals and gaining support from various legislators beginning to move. one of the issues that came up by the committee and we will talk more about as we move forward is keeping the board of

supervisors informed of the bills we're tracking. that was commissioner pappas' suggestion and we discussed it. i think we probably need to put in place how because that was at the end of the meeting. but we all thought that was a very good idea because what are they interested in, especially since we'll have additional new board members coming in, in january after the election next month. so, as of -- on the bills that we were tracking, one of the bills had been vetoed and that bill was on the managed care plans and informational materials. what we will be doing moving forward and that was having the materials available at least to sixth grade reading level. what you will be seeing in my report that bridge -- bridgette includes is a statement of what the bill -- how the existing law is and just a summary giving you all the detail on all the

changes gets a little couple ber? and -- cumbersome and lengthy. we decided to save a few trees. that's what you will see. deputy commissioner kauffman and valerie coleman have been helping getting that done. so, situation bills were signed by the governor and that was definition of dependent persons, domestic violence. these were all bills that we had been tracking. the funding and administering of the older americans act and that bill includes expanded definition of cultural and social isolation. registered care facilities for the elderly. that passed. revenue and expenditure reports

and that would provide reimbursement for agencies. department and care abuse. if there are state mandated monies, those have to be included and the bill would require local law enforcement agencies and long term care ombudsman programs to include in their manuals, specified information regarding dependent abuse. and also victim confidentiality. those are all been signed. waiting is the communication notifications from the department of emergency services. in home support of services and translations that would provide translation of written content that ties in with the other. the medical assisted living waiver program.

that bill would be to get waiver of amendments on obtaining necessary federal approvals and on the federal financial participation. information on managed care plans. same as grabar bill is still pending and that language has changed significantly and the bill would basically require that the state architect would review standards for public restrooms and propose to the commission updated standards on the required ambulatory accessible stalls and making them more easier to use and having grab bars to a reporting function. emergency notification and county jurisdiction.

senator's weiner's bill had not been and his bill on prevention and early intervention and mental health, bills on prescription drugs and sexual harassment training is still pending. and then also a bill on also halftimers -- alzheimer's and kwaubtd fi -- quantify at risk and the transportation companies and accessibility for people with disabilities. that was a bill that came in at the end. were there any questions? >> vice president loo: any questions from the commission? any questions from the public? thank you, diane, for that

report. >> and now my second report. so, i have been asked or i volunteered kind of a combination. i'm the new representative for our planning and service area or psa as they are referred to in all the literature for the aaa council of california. what i thought i would do is level set since we have new commissioners as to what the aaa is because we use acronyms quite often. it is made up of one -- this all off their website. made up of one representative from 33 planning and service areas or psas. they range in size from five or six counties that we might see -- if you look at a map of the state of california in the upper

left-hand corner to the city and county of san francisco being it's own psa. typically they are county size. but as we move into some of the other areas throughout the state where there are less dense population you see cluster of counties together. so i will give bridgette a map to include. the california older americans act, the older californians act which came into effect after the older americans act, established aging advisory councils and that is what the aaa council of california represents. it's mission is to communicate and collaborate among the local advisory councils for education, advocacy. we meet quarterly.

so, i think sometimes in the past there was a thought that perhaps we met more frequently. so, my next report would be in january. we meet quarterly and the group is administered by the commission on aging. and the group is funded by the check off box 400 on your tax forms and that for people over 65 and older can contribute. and then also the california foundation on ageing. so, this being my first meeting, there was a lot to learn. so, there were representatives of probably 25 of the 33 agencies. psas each had submitted a report to the -- to taccc representing what had been done in the last quarter. so, for example, the representative from the lake county, you kie yeah area talked about there had been 11 evacuations during the fires

this summer and the impact and some of the challenges on seniors. and then voted on new officers, bylaw changes, meetings scheduled for next year. our next meeting is in december. the second day of the program was the california summit on long term services and support. this is the eighth annual conference and it is sponsored by the scan foundation. it's focus was on elections and voter views on the need in california for long term master plan on aging. so, we had video statemented by the two gubernatorial candidates and also by ash kora from the south bay and some reports on the recommendations from the california task force on family care giving and workshops on

aging in the media. we are coming out with that and there will be more information on the california task force on family care giving. we also had a presentation on the home safe program, which we have been talking about. so, that was very good. they will be looking to get their rsps out fairly quickly and to start putting money in place for that program. to make sure that we can help people stay in place. and then the director of the commission on aging, sandra fitzpatrick, give a report on the older americans act overview. >> vice president loo: any questions from the commission for diane? from the public? thank you, diane. >> you're welcome.