>> just a quick question. what measures are being taken to -- it is a terrific exhibit, i can't wait to see it, it will be very moving, but what steps are being taken against vandalism, security? >> currently we do have security , and dana knows more about the added security there, just based on the new playground i will let dennis speak to that, they will have security around them. the pieces of art can actually withstand a lot. they have had them in numerous places, so obviously those things can happen. if there is an issue, it will get addressed immediately. >> a little something to add is that the artist will be in residents in san francisco during the display. any damage or vandalism and graffiti will be fixed immediately. the artist will be on hand. >> thank you. >> this will be a terrific exhibit.

it will be very moving as well. i moved to approve. >> second. >> moved and seconded. >> all those in favor? >> aye. >> we are now on item 14. the capital expenditure plan. >> good afternoon, commissioners the item before you today is a discussion and possible action to approve and to recommend that

the board of supervisors approved the annual capital expenditure plan as required by charter section 1.6, charter section 16 and one '07. the charter language itself provides guidance on what the plan should address, including the plan and the renovation of capital assets, the acquisition plan, and equity analysis using the equity metrics and was created with the passage of prop b. the proposed capital expenditure plan covers two fiscal years. consistent with the operations plan, presented to the commission in december, and the two year budget cycle.

the plan is comprised of three tables, which you have in your package, all the tables were provided and stay include our capital initiatives, our acquisition summary, and all of our capital projects. in summary, we are currently working on 70 active capital projects. with over $380 million, which is funded mostly through our bonds, summit general fund, and philanthropy and grants. seventeen of those projects are in construction. forty-nine in planning and design. highlighted in packet -- type a

of the package, some of the equity related improvements that we are currently embarking upon. it is prior to my presentation today, you approved four projects from the let's play program itself. we had to bring in about 14 million to be able to implement all these projects by 2020. and the southeastern section of the city, we are commencing on work in india basin, on the remediation and activation also. we continue to maximize active recreation amenities in collaboration with other companies at the shipyard. at treasure island, and at the balboa reservoir.

this next slide also shows some of our other initiatives. the san francisco reservoir is one of them, which came before you last year, with detailed design. anticipate that project will go into construction later this year. we are working with our capital and operations staff and developing a project standard. we are working on a new preventative measure with the operations staff to address some of our needs. we will continue to work on developing our engagement with stakeholders for the next parks bond. we are currently also scoping out our first net zero building in our portfolio. we are also working on ocean

beach master plan, we are currently completing detailed designs for a new trail from slope to skyland by 2020. this next slide shows highlights , some of our acquisitions and the past, and the ones we are working right now. as you are aware, we completed projects at 17 and folsom. we finished saint mary's extension last year, the town square is another one that is currently complete. and design, we have a park. and 900 and us. it is in construction now and that project should be complete by spring of this year.

our newest acquisition is in a toma, and has been approved and is currently in the preplanning stage. >> can i interrupt you just for one second, can you bring that forward so everyone can see from the commission, it looks like a powerful piece of art. >> sure. >> it looks like a threatening piece. >> if you are going to speak, i need you to speak into the microphone. >> hello. sorry we missed the presentation on this item, but it is an image of one of the 86 photographs that will be part of the

holocaust memorial exhibition this spring, assuming you had voted to approve it. we thought it would be helpful to see it in person. >> it is very impressive. we are looking forward to it and it was approved unanimously. >> thank you very much. i don't know if the presenters mentioned, but they will also be including local holocaust survivors as well. >> terrific. great. thank you very much. >> i appreciate you going to that effort for us. >> all right. top that. [laughter] >> you can, go ahead. >> i will try. the next slide shows us and some of our recent openings. the playground is part of the let's play program that opened about two weeks ago. i was speaking to about their accolades. the civic centre is one of our achievements and it is a passion

we are deeply proud about. we are actually building community. we are proud of that. the next slide highlight some of our work and some of our equity zones. some of the projects have come before you, we hope that project will be complete in early 2020. sergeant mccauley mcauley which you just approved, excelsior, coronado, it comes out of some of our efforts through the deferred maintenance. that project is complete. we will be coming to you next month and he will talk. >> this slide shows some of our current projects that are in construction.

potrero hill improvements,, also slated to be completed in the spring of 2019. over the past three years, the department department has dedicated general funds dollars to deferred maintenance and improvements throughout the city we continue to implement projects using the baseline funding for the original control , irrigation paving, boiler replacements as part of our lifecycle, fencing, and a.d.a. general fund dollars have gone to fund resurfacing and repainting of over 30 quarts,

including basketball, tennis, volleyball in the past 20 years alone. the completion of our lifecycle condition assessment of our recreation and park assets, later this spring will allow the department to proactively address and prioritize our deferred maintenance obligations and plan for the next bond, including our annual capital expenditures. we have assessed through that program over 59 million square feet of linear and voter goal assets. this is one of the most important initiatives that we are undertaking in the planning department, and we hope that this will be a legacy database that our successors can build upon.

the capital and planning committee just released about two weeks ago a draft of the ten year capital plan, which anticipates it must have a parks and recreation bond of $255 million in 2020, and a 200 million-dollar in 2028. it is being considered for inclusion for 2019. the draft capital plan will be going before the board of supervisors in march. they have until may 1st to approve it. after which, we believe we will start some level of community engagement. building on the success of the

2008 and 2009 bond process, we believe project selection will be an iterative process with the community, with the commission, and stakeholders. the criteria that we intend to follow will be the condition's assessment, the seismic conditions of the facilities, paying attention to needs and growth areas, and all of our multi use. the general manager in the capital planning division will provide updates to you. that ends my presentation and i will be able to answer any questions you have. >> is there any public comment on this item? public comment is closed. >> commissioners? >> i just have one question if i may. excuse me.

i am just curious if there is any word in the grand scheme of capital planning and how it connects to efforts of the school district to open a school in mission bay, as just one example. how did that come into the evolution of other parts of the city infrastructure? >> can you repeat the piece about mission bay? >> the district is designed for building a school in mission bay , and i was just curious, that is just one example of city efforts around infrastructure buildout and how that intersects with the capital. >> i do think our planning staff --dash we participated in a couple of citywide agency convening processes. there is a little bit of long-term infrastructure planning that is thought about, and discussed, and then

obviously the planning department does its area plans, and participates in the long term planning processes. its primary job is to think through the infrastructure that is needed. the topic comes up from time to time, particularly in mission bay. it is already a pretty robust and mature planning process, but where it comes up is along the southern waterfront, and whether this is another bid or another recreation centre senior centre. the planning department takes the lead and works our planning staff. they are pretty long-term policy decisions that do touch upon our capital plan is one of the reasons that we made the acquisition and it is one of the reasons that they referenced in being involved with the conversations. there is nothing in that regard on the immediate horizon other than some general discussion

about potentially additional infrastructure needed in certain neighborhoods. >> thank you. >> seeing no other questions, the chair would entertain a motion. mr ginsburg? >> i wanted to take a second and think toques and the entire capital planning division for their work on the presentation you saw today. it is almost more work than is possibly conceivable, and i think this is one of the things that this commission and the department and advocates everywhere should be proud of. we do do an enormous amount of planning. we have been blessed with bonds and public involvement. you can see the thoughtfulness and deliberateness that have gone into our capital program. i am proud of two things. one is the decision that was made when property was on the ballot in the past for us to make a commitment to preserve a

certain amount of money every year. we take advantage of a very healthy economic year, and the baseline this year, and now each and every year, we have in excess of $50 million a general fund money to make decisions, to make deferred maintenance decisions that happen every year you are seeing more court resurfacing, new fencing, new pathways, new a.d.a. accessibility work. these are happening every single year, and the second thing is a project life cycle. it is a work in progress and we are anxious to share with this commission. it is an incredibly powerful tool. those of you have been around in the commission for a while and we are able to inventory every single capital asset that we have and make an assessment of its condition, and expectation about his lifecycle. essentially score it and make it

really data-driven. these are just a couple of tools that we have in the toolbox. but mostly, all of the project managers, the planners, it is an extraordinary -- the finance staff, it is an extraordinary capital division and i am very grateful for his leadership. >> thank you to the general manager. would you entertain a motion? >> so moved. all those in favor? >> aye. >> we are now on hm 15. the geneva car barn contract amendment. >> good afternoon commissioners. i am with the capital division. i am here to present the darling design contract motive for kate --dash modification. a little background, in april 2014, the board of supervisors waived the competitive requirement for design and construction documentation for the powerhouse

project. in july 2014, as we entered into the professional services agreement for the amount of approximately $830,000. because of the difficulty and raising sufficient funds to implement the master plan for the development of the project, they moved forward with a two phase approach to developing the building. the phase approach allowed the city to propose a proposal of a separate set of documentation for the project. in august of 2015, the commission approved a full award to darling under administrated code section 6.73 preconstruction for the phase i project. the commission approved money to the project bringing the contract value to approximately $1.2 million. the commissioner approved an

award to darling under admin code 6.734 construction administration services, and approved approximately 360,000 increase for the contract bringing it to 1.3 -- $1.537 million. at this time, the department wishes to amend the contract for additional construction documentation as follows. the first is construction documents for improvements. the department is partnering with the performing arts workshop to deliver programming on the department's behalf which provided $3.4 million of the project's construction cost. it has been determined that the performing arts workshop needs additional price to deliver these services. they will allow them to have -- the second is construction administration related to additional geotechnical work.

it is part of its construction administration work, it has a geotech consultant. the contract amendment would allow them to continue the work as a propose to the micro piles and enlarged 14, utilities and plans, flatware installation. services include site visits that the conditions are consistent with the actual conditions, and two, the geotechnical aspects of construction conform to the intent of the recommendation in the geotechnical report of the plan. the value of the service is required is $93,636, for the contract only requires an increase of $73,000 given credits received for work but not necessary. this will bring the total contract value to 1.6. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment on these items?

being none, public comment is closed. >> motion to approve? >> i approve. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> thank you. >> we are on recreation and park department budget for fiscal year 2019, and fiscal year 2020, 21, in commissioners, this is discussion only. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm the general manager. i am the director of finance. i'm excited to be the closing acts today, although it feels more like the opening act on a sunday morning at the panhandle. i will try and keep it to the goodies. >> just keep the noise down. [laughter] >> last month, as before you, i engage a synopsis of the mirror

's budget and constructions where he asked the department citywide to cut 2% from each of the next two years budgets. as you know, due to the recreation and park department, it is not requiring you to make those cuts a, and we do receive a general fund subsidy of $3 million, and we will continue to support a general fund support for capital and deferred maintenance, as well as we will continue to look to raising new revenue to support and cover our costs going forward. with prompt be, we are required to cover all of our cost increases. we get $3 million of general fund subsidy. and next year, in the budget, we are looking at a potential two-point 5% increase per salaries, and a potential 6% increase in mandatory benefits.

it will probably cover that $3 million subsidy that we get. to give you a sense of the framework, our current year budget is just over $230 million the operating budget is just under $174 million, and our capital budget is just over $57 million. you have -- we have a budget of 947 budgeted and funding positions. our three main sources of funding continue to be the open space fund allocation, general fund subsidy from the city and earned income from our properties and assets. our last source of funds come from annually, various bond funds and bequests.

a little bit of detail on the earned income funds, we do receive money for garages, paid parking, recreation program fees , concessions, and citywide rentals, permits and facility rentals, golf and our marine aquatic services. i am happy to report that in the prior year of 17 and 18, we met revenue targets and exceeded them by several million dollars, and in our current year, several of our revenue line items are looking very positive. there are some weaknesses in some areas that we are looking at and analysing at this point. our hope is that we will continue to increase our revenues in this -- in these areas help support cover our costs going forward. again, looking at the overall budget bike program, for a

majority of our funding is in park maintenance and over two thirds which includes costs for gardeners, custodians, urban foresters, integrated pest management, capital projects and planning, and our next biggest pots go to recreation and aquatics and structural maintenance. by account, our $240 million, close to 50% goes toward staffing and fringe benefits and that makes sense giving that the majority of our services are in our field, whether in it be in the parts of the recreation centres. as we discussed before, our budget is guided by our strategic plan, our operational and capital plans, and our equity metrics looking through the lens of equity, and we will

continue to do that going forward. his overbudget solutions, as we know, the $3 million subsidy we are receiving will mostly be spent on salary and fringe. we will be looking at revenue enhancements, both in their program services area, will be looking at how we can maximize our open spaces and allocation, and we will be looking at our property management leases and concessions. in addition, will be looking at program efficiencies,, utility savings, and conservation. in the area of budget outreach, we will be holding two community meetings. one on january 30th,, one on february 4th, we will have a staff brown bag lunch on february 5th, we will be presenting to the prozac committee, as well as to other advocacy groups as requested.

so i will be coming back to you at the operations committee on february 7th with a much more detailed plan as we work through the next several weeks, and i will come back again on february 21st to the full commission for proposing your your review and budgets. i want to take a moment to introduce tiffany wong who is our new budget manager for the department. >> welcome. >> everyone knows her. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. [please stand by]

>> as -- at least as far as new positions goes, yes. >> thank you. >> commissioner bonilla? >> yes. i had a question about the park safety budget allocation. it seems to me considering the responsibilities that the department has in terms of keeping our parks well maintained and safe, the percentage -- percentage allocation that you have there, which is only 3% of the budget, is -- is that way under what is really truly required to maintain our -- our park safe,

and if so, could you speak to how that budget was realized -- i mean, how that subject was determined and what actually could be done in the future to make it more realistic. >> so the budget is -- >> if needed. >> yeah. so when you look at the budget from that perspective at 3%, or 7 or $8 million, it doesn't look like a lot of money, but when you look at it in context, we have been growing the park ranger division over the past five to ten years. many years ago, i believe there were only about 15 park rangers. we're up to over 40 at this point in time. we're still looking at how we can make the case to continue to increase staffing in that area, up to what we're projecting our need to be of 80

positions. >> 80 positions. >> but it's an incremental process that we go too. there's directives not just from this mayor, but from other mayors, so we need to be strategic. but in addition to just park rangers, there are other areas where our services are, in essence, providing public safety for clean parks, clean facilities. that's through the work that we're doing with our custodians, facilities management, and gardeners. we're looking at working with a nonprofit at park rest room monitoring. we're also looking at how we activate spaces like civic center, so it's not just going to be park rangers that deter or prevent problems, but just our overall -- how our -- what our overall facility --

concepts that we're putting into place at our facilities. >> so when would we realize that goal of ultimately 80 park rangers and given that, is there a plan in place? >> yeah, there's a plan in place. just in this current year, we put two additional positions in the budget for park rangers. i believe in the year prior, we took for, b put four, but it's going to be an incremental process. >> okay. >> commissioner mazzola. >> sorry, derek, can you tell why recreation and parks isn't required to do the cut? >> we're a baseline, so we receive a general fund baseline, and part of the proposition stated that unless due to dramatic budgetary

problems that would be triggered at a citywide level, the department would not need to make those cuts. >> that was just rec and park only. >> other departments who are baseline departments have similar types -- >> okay. >> similar type departments generally don't submit general fund cut targets. baseline departments do not. i do need to be mindful, while proposition b does provide us with some budgetary responsibility, it also puts a lot of pressure on us to solve or own problems and fix our -- address our own cost increases, so it's certainly not a windfall. >> that's correct. >> seeing no other questions, i know that was information only, thank you. very informative. >> clerk: okay. we're now on item 18, general public comment continued. is there anyone here who would like to make general public

comment that did not comment under item four? okay. being none, this item is closed. we're on item 19, closed session. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner, i need a motion, second, and vote whether to go into closed session. >> so moved. >> second. >> second. >> all those in favor? [voting] >> now in executive session. >> not quite. >> like i said, we're not >> clerk: okay. we are now reconvening from closed session. so commissioners, we need a motion and a second and a vote whether to report actions in closed session, and i need a second one whether to disclose any and all discussions. >> move to not disclose.

>> clerk: okay. second? >> second. >> and seconded. all in favor? [voting] >> so moved. >> clerk: and the second is a motion whether to disclose any and all discussions. >> so moved. >> not to. >> clerk: not to? >> yes. >> second. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor? [voting] >> so moved. >> clerk: we are now on item 20. new business by commissioners. any public comment? seeing none, this item is closed. item 21, public agenda setting. public comment? being none, this item is closed. item 22, communications. any public comment? seeing none, this item is closed. and item 23 is adjournment. >> so moved. >> second. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor? [voting] >> thank you so much. happy new year.

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♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful,

brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong and arts can crafts. >> you can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, community members and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪

>> my name is amanda [inaudible] over see the girls sports program. when i came to san francisco and studied recreation and parks and towerism and after i graduated i moved to candlestick park and grain r gain adlot of experience work with the san francisco 49 and [inaudible] be agfemale in a vore sports dynamic facility. i coached volo ball on the side and as candle stick closed down the city had me move in92 too

[inaudible] >> immediate interaction and response when you work with kids. i think that is what drives other people to do this. what drew me to come to [inaudible] to begin with for me to stay. i use today work in advertising as a media buyer and it wasn't fulfilling enough and i found a opportunity to be a writing coach. the moment [inaudible] you to take advantage of how you change and inspire a child by the words you say and actions you do. >> you have a 30 different programs for girls through rec and park and fast ball, soft ball and volley ball. i started the first volley ball league and very proud what i have done with that. being a leader for girls is passion and showing to be confident and

being ambiggish and strong person. [inaudible] for about 5 years. programs offered thraw thirty-three rec and park and oversee thg prms about a year. other than the programs we offer we offer summer camp squz do [inaudible] during the summer and that is something i wherei have been able to shine in my role. >> couple years we started the civic center socking league and what an amazing opportunity it was and is it for kid in the neighborhood who come together every friday in the civic center plaza on green grass to run and play. you otonly see soccer and poetry but also see books t. is a really promoting literacy to our kid and giving them to tools to make it work at home. real fortunate to see the [inaudible] grow.

>> girls get pressureed with society and i know that is obvious, but we see it every day, magazines, commercials the idea what a woman should look like but i like to be a strong female role for it goals that play sports because a lot of times they don't see someone strong in a female role with something connected with sports and athleticism and i love i can bring that to the table. >> soccer, poetry, community service. we now have field of dreams. we are [inaudible] all over the bay area and excited to be share our mission with other schools across the bay to really build the confidence and character of kids when they go out to play and close their eyes and think, why was [inaudible] we want to make sure-i want to make sure they remember me and remember the other folks who [inaudible] >> get out there and do it. who cares about what anybody

else says. there will be poopal people that come up and want to wreck your ideas. that happen today eme when i went to candle stick part and wanted to [inaudible] people told me no left and right. whether you go out for something you are passionate about our something you want to grow in and feel people will say no. go out and get it done. i can be the strong leader female and i love that. welcome to the dignity fo

coalition continuing conversation with the mayor on topics of older adults and disabilities. i'm the executive director and member of the dignity fund coalition. i want to welcome our audience and welcome all of you who are joining us by live stream or may be watching the live stream in post production. today, we are offering accessibility to this event through american sign language, live in the auditorium and live stream. we have simultaneous translation occurring and will be captioning the post production version and will be available on monday on the dignity fund website and the sfgovtv channel. we'll always welcoming more

members who want to engage. the format today will be that i'm going to introduce the dignity fund co-chairs who will speak the fund itself, the formation and the future of the dignity fund coalition. they'll be introducing you to ms. mcspadden. and she will speak to you about the implementation of the dignity fund. following that, i will be introducing you to our moderator who will introduce mayor breed and they'll have an extensive conversation on a set of questions from the april, 2018 dignity fund coalition event with the mayoral candidates. that, we expect the mayor to arrive at 2:00. we will be concluding the event no longer than 2:45. so i ask that everyone try to stay in your seats so we do not

have heads floating through the live stream presentation. there will be no q&a. i'm missing my prop, which is a giant stack of questions about this thick that we gathered. i just want to say not a short lest, but a rather long list of thanks, starting with the mayor and the mayor's staff. so the executive director of daas and marie and fiona. i'll like to thank the board of supervisors and their aides, including and congratulations to supervisor and now board president norman yee. thank you for -- [applause] >> congratulations. we'd like to thank obviously all the city department heads and

staff who have come today, including daas commissioners. i forgot my paper that had my note on it. i would like to thank the board and the staff who have been great supporters and are underwriting this event today partially. the dignity fund coalition members who are helping pay for the event and helped organize this. and obviously to the event committee. if you're in the room and part of the event committee, please raise your hand. thank you to andrew adams who has been the life blood of putting this event together. [applause] >> thanks to our friends and coworkers at the san francisco long-term care coordinating council, the oversight advisory committee. to the many volunteers in the room who helped this event

happen today and most of all, to you, our audience and those on the live stream. with that, it's my pleasure to introduce to you the co-chairs of the dignity fund coalition. [applause] >> hi there. so i'm going to start by taking you on a short walk down memory lane. the dignity fund was the result of two years of very hard work to craft the charter amendment, to get support from the board of supervisors and finally to place the measure on the november 2016 ballot as proposition i. again, we have to thank supervisor yee for his leadership in that process. and to all of you here today and who are listening through the live stream, who helped secure endorsements and helped to raise money for this campaign. the measure passed with

two-thirds support here in san francisco. and i want you to know that means 246,000 people said yes. [applause] not bad for the first campaign. so, yes, we all deserve a round of applause for that. so many you know already, but the dignity fund is a charter amendment. it does three things. it guarantees that additional funds be dedicated every year to the department of aging and adult services for senior and disability services and protects those funds in the event of a budget down turn. that's good, right? so that was $6 million in the first year and about $3 million a year for the next 19 years. it's worth noting this is not a ceiling -- is that right -- it's not a ceiling, but it's a floor. thank you. have to get it right. and so that with continued

budget advocacy with the mayor and the board, that fund has grown beyond the initial dedicated amount and we're excited and pleased about that as well. we want to continue to keep growing it over the coming years as the number of older adults, people with as abilities and their hands-on caregivers grow. the other thing it requires robust and inclusive needs assessment and planning process to provide more services in a way that guarantees equity and to make sure that all of the city's diverse communities are served well. and thirdly, it creates an oversight and advisory committee to shepherd the process and assure that the community and providers have a way to give input. members of that group have worked very hard for the last two years and we thank you those in attendance and watching online for their dedicated service. for that, i want to turn it over

to fiona. >> so we're doing right now is we're trying -- my mic is giving me feedback. sorry about that. our goal is to really maintain transparency in what can be a very complicated process that mar marmry described. we maintain a website. it's sf dignity fund.org. you can sign up for the e-mail list. we distributes notes, but events like our monthly meeting. you can e-mail our -- you can

also subscribe to our e-mail list via that website to get all of our information. we also, one of our main tasks going forward, is going to be to increase the visibility of seniors and people with disabilities in public life. and being physically engaged. so to do that, we're going to try to ensure that we get qualified seniors, people with disabilities, to apply for commission and boards throughout the city, so that we can have a voice in not just issues that people think of physically affecting seniors and people with disabilities, but all issues that are important to the city.

so with that, it is now my honor to introduce ms. mcspadden, who is the executive director of daas in the department of aging and adult services and has been a key partner of the implementation of the dignity fund. and she will speak to you about the real implementation as far as the nuts and bolts of the program, and creating daas, and where the funding might go in the future. [applause] >> thank you fiona and marie. it is a pleasure to be up here today and see many of my favorite faces out there. this is a great turnout. i just feel -- i think i have to say before i get started talking

about the department and talking about the dignity fund, that it is such a pleasure to work in san francisco with all of you. i think san francisco rocks. especially when we think -- [applause] -- yeah. and we know this already, but i think when we think about people with disabilities and older people. when i talk to colleagues across the country and they're like, oh, we can't get traction, nobody cares. here we care. whether we care at the same degree is sometimes what wie argue about, but we're so fortunate to have a board of supervisors, a mayor, advocates, the people that started this, which is people with disabilities and older people, who are willing to sacrifice and fight for their rights, we're fortunate to have that all come together hao here. i wanted to say that before i

talk about the department and the dignity fund and what the department is doing with the dignity fund. the reason i was talked about the department because what we realized in doing some of the work since the dignity fund was approved by the voters, we realized no matter how hard we try, people don't really understand what the department does or how to access services for older people and people with disabilities in san francisco. so we're trying to take every opportunity and say, hey, this is what the department does. what the department does, the department is charged with planning for the needs of people with disabilities 18 and older. and people -- older adults, which we define as 60, sometimes 65, and charged with planning for the needs of that group of people and thinking about how best to provide social services to that group of people. which of course is many

different subgroups, right? so it gets complicated. our department is about a $340 million department. and we have about 375 internal staff. but we do a lot of our work through community contracts. and a lot of you out there are representing those contracts, or getting services from people who provide those contracts. so we can't -- definitely can't do it without our community partners. so what we do externally through our community partners, we provide services such as case management and community services like senior centres and centres for people with disabilities. we provide transportation and legal services and naturalization services. and meals, home-delivered meals, congregate meals, restaurant meals. we provide home-delivered groceries. a whole cadre of meals we provide. we think about the different

cultures of san francisco and the different languages and the things that people need to really feel like they're getting the services they would get from their own family. which of course is a big challenge, right? the other thing we do is a lot of services through our own staff, through our internal kind of city services staff. the biggest ones that we do is in-home supportive services, which is our biggest program and of course that's a medi-cal program that need home care to stay at home. that's we investigate abuse and neglect and try it get people into a better place if they're victims. we're the public administrator, guardian and conservator. so if people can no longer take care of their own affairs, we're able to step. in the county through this department does a lot of different things that are very

important. it's great place to work. i think one of of the things that we're so -- i don't know, so fortunate to have, is just these different groups of people that come together, whether they're staff, consumers, whether they're leaders in other ways, they come together to figure out how to do the best job we can. and i firmly believe we have the best department of aging in the country. i really do believe that. [applause] >> so to talk about the dignity fund. the dignity fund is one of those things, i think, it's like having this money falling into your lap was exciting. from a city perspective, they take away the discretion of the city to think about how to handle emergencies and things like that. that said, the other side of it, when people come together to fight for something like that,