when we heard about a business that needs support, we put them in touch with the office of economic and workforce development. the businesses are invited to participate in a program to assist them. of the businesses that we found out that have been -- are having trouble and have participated in the program, only one of those has closed. there's four other businesses that has closed along the corridor since construction started. two of them, we're -- we know closed for reasons other than construction, and the other two, we are ascertaining what the situation was.

>> chair peskin: so out of these businesses, it sounds like three of them arguably has closed because of construction impacts. is that a fair statement? >> the three where we cannot rule out the construction impacts as contributing to their closing. >> chair peskin: and then, would it be fair to say there are ten others that are extremely stressed? >> there are ten other businesses along the corridor that have come to us with concern that we have referred to the office of economic and workforce development to see what kind of support we can provide and what we can do to minimize any impacts on them. >> chair peskin: so i'll make sure that this is something that all of us on this commission and everyone is engaged in. we did appropriate $5 million of the m.t.a.'s $38 million

eraf shift for severely impacted businesses from city work of which holy moly, it would seem like these businesses qualify for. so let's not take too long in analyzing how we are going to get that money out the door and help those folks. commissioner fewer? >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, chair. >> supervisor fewer: so i think the chart of what you just showed us is really inadequate of we need to get an idea of what's happening along the corridor. i would like a report on the status of the small businesses along the corridor where the construction work is being done. what i would like to see is an estimated loss of revenue due to the construction. also, the estimated cost --

loss of revenue they think they might be projected since this project now is two years -- or is it 500 and something days that you just said delayed in the project? so for us to look at a chart that is so simplistic, i actually think it doesn't give us enough information about what is the state of business along the vanness retire corridor. we can outreach and say, hey, how are your businesses, but perhaps if we dig deeper and we talk to all the small businesses along that corridor, and we tell them that this is going to happen for another two years, what that response might be? i actually think $5 million is not going to be enough to keep these small businesses afloat. and then, also, these small

businesses will have to deal with also possible rent increases every time there is a transit upgrade, there is always a rental increase that is involved, too. so these people are getting a double whammy. so i am requested through the chair that the next meeting we be brought a report on the small businesses, their economic viability, not just what's projected now, but for the next two years since it's anticipated we'll be in construction the next two years. thank you very much. >> chair peskin: mr. chang, our next meeting is april the 10. does that seem like a period of time that you can, maybe in conjunction with oewd -- miss mccarthy, come on forward. >> we'll have to work with oewd

to define exactly what is a small business and so on and so forth, so it will take a little bit of legwork. i hope that we'll be able to meet the april 10. perhaps a little more time will be helpful, but we'll do our best. we're already aggressively working on addressing this issue, so we appreciate your concern, supervisor, and commissioner, in this role. we're working on developing metrics with oewd currently, so this is in support of that effort, so we'll work on getting that to you as soon as possible. thanks. >> chair peskin: thank you, kate, and maybe one thing we can do is just continue this item to the next meeting, and if not, we'll continue it to after that. commissioner fewer, are you finished? >> supervisor fewer: well, i also would like just to add

about the budget schedule and funding plan, but if that's not up yet, i will keep my comments until we open up a discussion about that category. thank you. >> chair peskin: commissioner safai? >> supervisor safai: yes. thank you.

. >> these are the ten that came forward and said we would like some help, we would like to participate in this program. >> supervisor safai: so one of the things that could be helpful is every business in the city is required to put their gross receipts forward, and maybe one of the things is to look back over the last five years of gross receipts of these businesses and then look at the two years that the construction's been happening. when i was working with the p.u.c. on a project that they replaced the sewer in sunnydale, that was what we asked the small businesses to do. we asked them to come forward with their gross receipts and their overall revenue, and they were able to demonstrate with certainty how many impact the construction project had on their business. supervisor's fewer is correct

that that's not enough for all the projects that we're having over the city, but the impact that it can have to help keep some of these businesses afloat in the short run might be something that we have to come back and revisit. that's why i think we pushed so forward for this first initial step. this project is significant in its scope and length and its size, and it's been extended significantly because of the underground was not what was anticipated. i think there needs to be an opportunity for some of the small businesses to come forward here in this chamber at a particular item. if the chair wanted to entertain that just for the businesses that are impacted along the corridor to come in and talk about the impact the project has had on their businesses. i think ten is a standard, but

i would have to imagine that there's a lot more than ten businesses on that corridor that have been impacted adversely on that project. thank you. >> chair peskin: commissioner brown? >> supervisor brown: thank you. one side of that corridor is my district. i think the communication with the district supervisors, myself, and supervisor haney on vanness is to give us that information with, you know, who these businesses are, because i have to tell you, i started the walk to talk to them, i didn't even get two blocks in two hours with the complaints. so you know, everyone's complaining, everyone is saying their business is down. so i also talked to them about opening their books, if they would be willing to open up

their books to really demonstrate to the city that their business has been down in this construction, and there wasn't one person that said yeah, i won't do that. so i definitely feel that this is impacting. for us to go longer, i'm afraid that a lot of those are going to disappear, and what happens with those sites, they're going to be a lot more expensive for the rentals. so we're kind of wiping out a lot of small businesses by these projects. i know we have to do these infrastructure projects. i understand that, but right now, i am under siege in my district, and i definitely feel the money we put aside is not going to be enough. i also have haight street that is under going a several-year

project. so when i'm going out to all of, you know, my commercial corridors, talking about legislation that we're doing, all the legislation for small business, they're like, well, what is happening now for the construction project? most merchants are very willing to open up their books to show the impacts that it's having on their businesses. i feel like advisory

committee. we're actually accepting applications for those through march 29. and those applications are available at sfmta.com/vanness, and we have our business advisory committee meeting this thursday at sfmta at 1 south vanness on the third floor. and i encourage businesses who are looking for support to attend that meeting.

the businesses are representative of other businesses on the corridor. and we work proactively every month. >> chair peskin: and miss mccarthy, you have a physical location. >> yes. and that's in addition to our 24-7 hotline that we have. >> chair peskin: and if it is the will of this body, which i think it will be to have this hearing on april 23, we would be delighted if you would let the 250-plus businesses as well as any residents who are interested, if you could inform them that we'll have that hearing and we would very much like to hear from that directly. >> very good. thank you so much. >> chair peskin: thank you. commissioner fewer? >> supervisor fewer: i just had some questions about the budget and funding plan.

i was reading here the original 2018 start date has been revised to late 2021, but i am looking at the shortfall, and it looks as though we have a shortfall of 9.8 million in funding need, is that correct? what is the total shortfall for this project? >> let me go back -- is this the slide you're talking about? >> supervisor fewer: you know, i'm so sorry that i arrived late, yeah. so can you just explain to me the total? i'm just worried about the total shortfall of the entire program. >> at this time, i don't believe we have a shortfall on this project. >> supervisor fewer: so then, i have a question about in the report, and i'm looking at page 104 here, and it just says that

funding plan is unchanged, sfmta intends to address this funding gap during its next capital improvement plan update, meanwhile, they're seeking additional sources of funds and considering deferring unanticipated projects until towards the end of the construction. after the vanness b.r.t. done, the geary b.r.t. project is next in the cue, is that correct? >> yes. >> supervisor fewer: so everything we've mentioned today is really terrifying every one of my small business merchants along the geary corridor. they're holding regular meetings about this and

freaking on, and rightly so. what i'm concerns about is that if there is an additional funding need for the vanness b.r.t., i would not like it to be taken from the project they will be anticipating doing in 2021, which is starting the geary b.r.t. i just want to put that on the record. and -- and thank you very much. >> chair peskin: thank you, commissioner. commissioner mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, mr. chair. i am -- having heard all of the conversations about the vanness b.r.t. project, i will say of all the things that make san franciscans worry about their local government, the mess on vanness is not on the top of their list, but it's probably three or four. and you know, thinking about a

two-year delay in a project that was already very long -- and i guess i'm -- and i may just need this refresher because i am new here, but it seems as though the way that project is laid out, extending from end to end for the entire duration of the project maximizes disruption for everyone along the corridor for the entire period of the project. and so i'm wondering if you can just educate me a little bit about why it was necessary to do it in this way, where we have shut -- sort of impacted the entire corridor all at the same time, rather than breaking it up into phases -- there are phases, but they're not visible either to the users or the users trying to get around on

vanness. why was that not feasible in the hindsight, would it have made sense to break this project up into only portions of vanness at a time? >> during the planning stages of the project, we looked at a lot of different ways to sequence the construction. this plan that we're currently implementing where we have different construction headings staggered along the length of the corridor, it was meant to maximize the speed of the construction while minimizing or distributing the impact. we looked at having more concentrated construction in specific areas of the corridor, but for example, now, regardless of where we are and just for the example of parking, regardless of where we are in construction, we're

maintaining some street parking at every location along the corridor. we have significant impacts on the sidewalks and the parking on both sides of the street for -- for weeks at a time or months at a time, the idea of the sequence that we ended up using was that it was a lower level of pain spread out over the entire area. we looked at some radical approaches to the construction, but the wall we kept hitting is vanness is a really busy corridor. it's part of state highway 101, and it's a major connector between the two bridges in the city, and we simply couldn't figure out where to put the traffic. if we ended up shutting down a

lane or diverting traffic for those three or four blocks, we had nowhere to put the traffic. so we worked with the contractor to develop this approach where we could maintain two lanes of mixed-flow traffic and on one side or the other, we'd have an unimpacted sidewalk and an unimpacted parking lane. >> chair peskin: so further, to commissioner mandelman's line of questioning and your response, i gueet that. what's frustrating is a notice to proceed is issued -- and peter, i know this is not your fault, and we've already discuss this before, but i have to say it again, which is, we completely changed the traffic patterns, and then, for the better part of a half a year,

not one shovel full of dirt gets turned. if you had done all of that on a monday, and everyone who was going up and down that corridor saw work on tuesday, we, i say that as the people of san francisco, would not be frustrated. maybe it's too much to ask, but i just got a tour of the new warriors arena, and there are 1400 construction workers doing every conceivable thing at the same time. so it's frustrating for me when i'm on the 47 or the 49. you go past massive stretches where nothing is happening, and then, there's a concentrated area where something is happening. and you think to yourself -- look, i don't do construction. why can't we just do a martial plan and do everything at once

because it's all cordoned off? that's the thing that we as citizens are experiencing. it would be so neat if you could see all of the sewers being ripped up on 20 contiguous blocks at the same time -- i don't know that there's the infrastructure in san francisco to do that. but i just had to get that off your chest. i don't know if you can respond. >> i share your frustration. if we rip up three blocks to put in sewer lines, then we need to stack up three blocks of sewer lines somewhere along vanness area. that prevents us from working in the staarea that we're stag

at. by the time we issued notice to proceed, they had active construction on them. our contractor has had to do a fair amount of dancing to proper stage the work, to have a place to store materials while they're working on other blocks. having said that, yes, that's why we are pushing to get crews out there on saturdays and sundays when the traffic level drops somewhat, we can work more efficiently, and we're working with the contractor to bring on more crews. >> chair peskin: thank you, meter. just one thing now that i've noticed on a number of occasions, and it just scares the daylights out of me. so you have a series of red -- i don't know what you call them -- barriers north of broadway that protect two lanes, and there are bicyclists who hug that thing.

and i'm just petrified that one of them is going to get wiped out. insofar as has concrete has been laid on the inside, i know it's still a terrible surface, if we could lay down a strip of asphalt that we could pull out later so the bicycles can ride on the inside. there's buses, there's trucks, and there's literally -- i mean, there's no space. so just food for thought. we had -- in commissioner brown's district, that masonic mess that went on forever and forever. we finally said to director nuru, you're going to have to lay down some asphalt and then rip it out. >> we can look into doing that. >> chair peskin: any comments or questions from commissioners? any public comment? i really appreciate you

bringing this to the attention of the board. mr. pendergrass, and if there are any additional speakers, you'll lineup to my left, your right. >> my name is paul pendergrass, i'm the current chair of public policy for the golden gate business association. commissioners, thank you for standing up for the voice of small business as it related not just to the -- relates not just to the vanness small business, but all businesses as these construction projects go on and on and on beyond their extended life. the department does have specific databased on sales tax. i request you all take a look at that, there's some great data as to when the castro street merchants about the streetscape projects. they have some great details about the impact on sales tax. that will show you from your perspective how hard this is on

small businesses. when oewd, sfmta, sfcta, and sfpuc did the majority of their projects, they cooked it up in private. when the $5 million figure came out, we as a small business community came out and said that was woefully inadequate. small businesses are the ones hiring people in restaurants and retail making $15 an hour. these are people that are not making $200 million a year. these are people that we really need to support. so please consider increasing that 5 million because that's woefully inadequate.

>> chair peskin: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. go eat at the helmond restaurant. we will have a hearing on the economic impacts and questions that we all posed on april the 23rd. that will be a separate item. is there any introduction of new items? seeing none, is there any general public comment? thank you, mr. gabancho and miss mccarthy. seeing none, are adjourned. don't go away. we are about to reconvene as the treasure island mobility agency.

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>> we can't hear you, is your microphone on? >> again, welcome to the commission on ageing and adult services. we have a new commissioner, and i would like her to introduce herself and just give us a few comments about her background. >> good morning, and i'm very happy to be here.

i've always introduced my name is i am felicia elizondo. i am a historyian, a 32 year survivor of aids and a viet nam war veteran, and i'm very happy to be here. [applause] >> okay. will the secretary please take the roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: please note that deputy director cindy kaufman is present. at this time, the committee asks that you silence all mobile phones and sound-producing devices.

>> president serina: thank you. may i have a motion to approve the agenda and a second? thank you. any discussion? all in favor? any opposed? motion carries. may i have a motion to approve the januafebruary 19, 2019 min? thank you. any discussion? all in favor? any opposed? motion carries. next item, reports. >> i just have a few updates since last commission meeting. as many of you know, commissioner mcspadden is in washington d.c. for a briefing with the n4a.

this is for legislator to hear and provide feedback on areas of policy focus as well as provides members with thoughts and ideas. the older americans act expires at the end of 2019. they will work with policy makers and stakeholders to update the policy authorization. i'm not sure everyone is familiar with it. it was first signed into law in 1965 as president johnson as part of an initiative aimed at eliminating poverty and injustice among the country's population. it remains critical, given our growing demographic. in a nutshell, it allows ageing in place through a variety of support. it provides for local flexibility which is vital for

providing needed services, and it helps older caregivers. for the reauthorization an4a i structured around the following principle principles. one, to meet the public where they're at. one, by growing investments to bring it to a baseline of $2.5 billion. they're also looking to foster innovations in service delivery with expand of title six, enhancing the act's ability to address various populations and innovations to expand access to consumers. and finally, they're looking to ease the administrative

barriers in order to increase access to services. they want congress to allow additional flexibilities to address administrative burdens and enable them to better address the needs of their local service areas. i am sure director mcspadden will provide updates when she returns. -- for that day, he had many bills, but they focused on three of his bills. one is ab-36 which establishes the department of community

living. this bill creates a new department that will be more stream lined with a coordinated delivery care system. it will also be able to work across state agencies on behalf of older people with disabilities. the second bill is ab 1137 which is legislation to modernize the older californiians act. this act focuses on age demographics as opposed to solely on need, and there's some archaic language that they want to cleanup there in, as well, ab 1237 establishes the master plan of an ageing california that implements a no wrong door system to assist ageing persons and older persons with disabilities.

the chief deputy director of budget was also there, along with the fiscal and policy analyst for the legislative analyst's office, and the office of the president pro tem, and deputy cabinet secretary in the governor's office. almost all of the speakers emphasized the governor's commitment to a master plan on ageing, which was really good to hear. they acknowledged there was no funding right now, but the focus was on getting the right people in the room so they can have a robust stakeholder input. they recognize the need for it to be person centered with better consolidated services. they stated multiple times that it is the beginning of the process, then, they can look at recommendations that come forward and then, they can develop a budget based on the

needs of the recommendations. there was also mention. alzheimer's preparation task force, which maria shriver will lead. there's more to come in all of these areas, and you will get updates from diane lawrence who's in charge of our joint legislative committee, so more to come as the dates go forward. next, a draft of the service and allocation plan, which is part of the dignity plan four-year planning cycle was posted last friday. it is posted on our website. if any of you care to see it, we can also send you copies, if you'd like a copy. i have to give thanks to staff for pulling this together. last, but not least, we are at the five year mark for the publication of the report and recommendations from the lgbt task force. march is literally the

five-year mark. saturday, march 9, i think 10:00 to 12:00, we will have celebration highlighting the accomplishments. the mayor will be there, as well as supervisor mandelman, and senator wiener, who championed the cause at the beginning. i think that does it. >> president serina: thank you, cindy. regarding the older americans act, how do you think the -- likely to you think the current administration is to reup it and add the money? >> i think -- the money is its own question. i think there is a will to do it. it is -- of many things that are, it is bipartisan. many people are seeing the social indicators of health,

and that's the type of services that the older americans act funds. i think they see that, and there's a lot of advocacy around it. >> will this department be involved in the advocacy for it? >> well, that's part of -- we get highlights around it's time to write your senators, and i will send this out to everybody. that is one of the things that director mcspadden is doing right now, is meeting with the le legislators. as we get the call to action,

we will share it with everybody. >> thank you very much. >> president serina: thank you very much. any comments or questions from the commission? any comments or questions from the public? thank you very much, cindy. [gavel]. >> president serina: next is the advisory council report. eleanor lury is here. thank you, eleanor. >> diane lawrence is in sacramento today, so she asked me to present. so we spent quite a lot of time discussing some of the issues that the joint legislative committee discussed but took no action on them. these include -- let's see -- i'm sorry. medi-cal assisted living waivers, accessory dwelling units, speeding up the process for approval of those, masking

of identification of service providers for i.h.s. conservator legislation, transportation legislation, federal act getting people out of institutions. concerns that if you sign up incorrectly for medicare, you are penalized for a month. that would be federal legislation. so no action was taken. you've probably heard this but in the governor's state of the state, he called on the graying of california and the need for

that. he mentioned right sizing in-home support services because local costs have increased dramatically over the last few years, and apparently, there's a bill to trail that, but apparently, it hasn't been introduced. let's see. today, the association of area agencies on ageing in california are meeting in sacramento, which is where diane is, and they'll be visiting their representatives. on march 9, there's a celebration of the fifth year of the lgbt task force, which 11 of 13 recommendations have been implemented. and april 14 through 19 is national health care decisions week, which includes workshops on advanced planning.

director mcspadden and rose johnck presented the 2019-2020 update to the area plan. the council raced questions about it, which were answered, and approved the plan. these included area of transportation nutrition, daas, and food security which will be made better through the calfresh s.s.i. program. this year, the department will have a presentation to get ready for the next four year. the pedestrians safety committee, which i chaired, is working to contact various agencies and interest groups connected with pedestrian safety and to see what they're doing and if they actually work

together, and what are the requirements for independent contractors who work on major street and sidewalk projects. for example, vanness avenue which specifically has been quite a mess for a long time. and work is starting on geary boulevard up where i live. diane was going to ask bridget to have a calfresh flier available for commissioners. were you able to do that or did she not ask? >> she did not ask. >> okay. okay. very good. so that's my presentation. i'll be glad to answer questions if i can. >> president serina: thank you, eleanor. any comments or questions from the commission? >> yes. which are the two nutrition

sites you people visited? >> i don't know because i never -- we ran out of time. they were not presented. >> president serina: any other comments or questions? any comments or questions from the public? all right. thank you very much, eleanor. >> you're welcome. >> president serina: and earlier, going cam to cindy kaufman's presentation, i want to echo her warm praise for the allocation plan on the dignity fund. i've been on the board since its inception. i know the work that's gone into it, what an exceptional attempt is being made to rectify equity issues and to get as much data for underserved populations as available. it's a commendable result, and i think those of us who have read it and those of us who will read it will be surprised at the work that's been done.

okay. no tack report, ltcc -- long-term coordinating council. kelly dearman. welcome back. it's a long time since you've graced us with your presence. >> i'm happy to come back any time you want me. >> president serina: well, that's always. >> good morning, deputy serina and commissioners. i am kelly dearman, and i am a very proud member of the long-term care coordinating council, and i'm here today to give you just a little bit of an update as to what we did last month. so the long-term care coordinating council met on february 14, and we talked about the dignity fund, which department director kaufman has already mentioned. we talked about that. then, we spent sometime talking

about san francisco ageing and disability friendly. you all know that san francisco has been designated an ageing and availability friendly se we talked about community supports and services. we have done ablism and ageism training for health care professionals. we are now working on getting more funding for that.

it has proven to be really successful, and we talked about the resilience and disaster preparedness domain. and in particular, we talked about an alert sf targeted outreach campaign. and i'm hopeful that all of you are clear on alert sf, which notifies you if there are any disasters or issues that we should be aware of. so in the coming months, the ltccc has talked about a really big youch reach push to encourage the people within our networks to sign up. so there'll be trainings, there'll be people signing up. we believe that's going to happen in april, but don't hold me to that.

then, we broke up in small groups to find out where we can have impact and i just want to say that our cochairs are working hard with us and make sure we think at the policy level and what's the impact that our body can