call? [roll call] please note that executive director shireen mcspaden is present. at this time we ask that you silence all cell phones and sound-producing devices. >> thank you. before asking for approval of the agenda, i need to make an amendment.

item g.g. requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreement with self-help for the elderly for the provision of the s.f. connected computer training program during the period of july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2020 for an additional amount of $104,481. plus 10% contingency not to exceed in the correct amount is $311,837. so with that amendment, may i ask for a motion to approve the agenda? >> so moved. >> do i have a second? >> second. >> any discussion? all in favor? thank you. the motion carries. may i have a motion to approve the minutes from the may 1, 2019 meeting? >> so moved. >> second. >> any discussion? all in favor -- >> aye. >> any opposed in thank you. the motion carries. thank you, shireen. >> you're welcome. good morning, commissioners. so, i'm going to start with the

federal level and just wanted to -- there is very little on that front at this point, except to say that the current older americans act authorization, which was signed into law in 2016, expires at the end of september which means that congress will have to once again re-authorization the law to keep the programs up to date. so there have been recent hearings in the senate and house that have formally kicked off the process to develop a comprehensive older americans act re-authorization proposal and it is going to be really important for congress to learn about the act and also to really hear from local vax and so we'll be working closely with the joint leg committee to figure out what that looks like. the national association of area agencies on aging has put together tool kits for local a.a.a.s and made a lot of templates so it should be fairly easy for us to use those tools and hopefully really educate our leaders in washington about the older americans act and its

importance. at the state level, theres a lot of advocacy going on right now and a lot of legislation forming. you'll mostly hear about that report out from the joint leg committee report. i did want to point out that -- and this is kind of a state thing in that homebridge, on behalf of the long-term care coordinating council has the coordinating council sponing soer an event called what a master plan means for san francisco. the coordinating council is hoping to hold this in september or october. and their plan is to invite mayor breed, california commissioner on aging marcy adelman, senator scott weaner, assembly member david chiu to be on a panel to talk about how they see this playing in and out san francisco. homebridge and the coordinating

council are hoping that this will be a big swrenls a large live stream audience. so, we'll look for that and get more information out as the plans form. and then at the local level, most of you probably know that the mayor announced her budgets to the public on friday of last week which is the first day that she needs to give it over to the board. and it is an unprecedented size, $12.3 billion, which is exciting for those of us who work for the city and want to provide good services. the budget was balanced with additional revenue and cost savings and the cost savings include i.h.f. cost relief from the state and additional educational funding. and i guess the highlights at the large level is that the mayor is really focusing on things that we know that are very important to her and very importants to the city housing, focusing on homelessness, thinking about public safety,

clean streets, strengthening the social safety net, which includes really funding expansion for cal fresh staff to really handle the activity. -- the cal fresh extension and then thinking about equity. things like early care and education and supporting free city college. you can look on the website about the details of the budget. it's an expansive budget and exciting to know that we're going to be able to tackle a lot of the city's problems with this budget and it's exciting. and then at the more granular level with doss, there are certain things that we know are funded in her budget, additionally to our base budget that we had. and that is two housing conservatorship positions. if you followed the housing conservatorship conversation at the board, there was an

ordinance passed yesterday to adopt the application of sb-1045 into city policy, which means that we will be developing a new program called housing conservatorship which will broaden the powers of the conservator to be able to serve people with substance abuse as well as severe mental illness. so, it is the beginning of probably some changes. there is another bill coming down the pike probably that we assume will add to the conservator's powers next year. we really needed those positions in order to respond to the need that we think we're going to get and to really be able to do outreach about conservatorship and respond to questions. and then in addition to that, there's 23,000 for ongoing exercise programs for seniors in cole valley at sunset heights. $200,000 ongoing for mayor staffing needs which is really to create a position for --

focused on aging and disability within the mayor's administration. and then $25,000 ongoing for transportation for group van. so, those are the things that are added to what we currently had in our budgets or what we had in our budget before. so it's pretty exciting for us. and then just wanded to talk a little bit about the cal fresh expansion. we were supposed to have noelle simmons, the deputy director for economic sufficiency from the department of human services. but she was -- we had a little glitch in communication and she wasn't able to come today. so, she is going to -- hopefully we'll have somebody from d.h.s. or from h.s.a. come in august and give us more robust report about where we are with the cal fresh expansion but i'm going to give you a few highlights. during the month of may, which was the first month s.s.i. recipients could apply for cal fresh, over 9,000 of them did. this represents 22% of the

41,000 enrollees in san francisco. we attribute this outstanding early response to the robust outreach effort that s.h.a. organized in close partnership with doss and the community partners. starting in june, social workers will be screening s.s.i. resip cipients during their home visits to see if they're interested in cal fresh. those who are will receive a follow-up call to take their application. so, pretty exciting. we predicted large numbers, but this has been -- our predictions have been validated by the large numbers of people who have come out and really it is due to the great outreach efforts on, you know, on our -- outreach efforts of ours staff and outreach efforts of our community partners. so pretty exciting there. i'm just going to use the word "exciting" a lot today, obviously. [laughter] and then the last thing i wanted to mention is that i believe it was about three

weeks ago president yie announced the idea of having a name change for the departments of aging and adult services and you may have seen that. that it was introduced. and that he's hoping to get that name change on the ballot. one of the things that's a little complicated about our name is that's actually in charter, which means it would have -- there would have to be a charter amendment in order to change the name. and so that means that it needs to go to the ballot. and one of the things that we're doing right now, as an agency, is we're about to launch -- we've been doing a lot of background work and about to launch a rebrand. we're rebranding the agencies as a whole and the departmentses and really trying to, you know, communicate better with the public about who we are as an agency and what our components are. so, it seems like a really good idea to use this opportunity to think about the name of the department. one of the -- one of the criticisms that we've had for

many years is that we serve people with disabilities and people with disabilities don't know that because they don't see themselves in our name. and i was struck a few years ago when i was asked to work with a couple of other departments on something, on a hearing for the board and realized other departments didn't know that we served people with disabilities and we do. so, the proposed name change is the departments of disability and aging services. i've worked closely with the mayor's administration and also with the -- with president yie to talk about what that name change should look like. i've gone out and met with a lot of our advocacy groups and partners in the community, just to test name change out and see what people thought about it and people seem very supportive. you know, so we'll keep you up to date on where that is. the other thing that would happen with that legislation is that there would be slotted commission seats. one of the things that we have

been good at, i think, over the years there have been people -- we've had older adults on the commission. but we also serve people with disabilities and we haven't had a person who identifies as a person with disabilitieses since, i don't know, 12 years ago or something. and we also have not been -- have been interested in having veterans on the committee and we'll fill some slots so we would have one of each of those represented on the commission. so you'll hear more about that. once it gets much further along, the department can't be involved in it, but the community obviously will be. and i think that concludes my report, unless there are any questions. >> thank you, shireen. any questions? >> just a quick question on the bunltz. you mentioned additions which is great. from the budget that we looked at, were there any significant subtractions or anything that we should know about that?

>> no. no. there were no subtractions, just additions. >> ok. that's great news. >> thank you. any other comments? >> what is the final known total budget for the department? >> $375? >> [inaudible]. >> $372.6 million. >> any other comments or questions? thank you very much, shireen. next item -- employee recognition. the doss commission and executive director shireen mcspadden will honor linda lau on the office of the aging. >> ok. so, i'm going to say this morning that it's really fitting that our agenda goes

to l.l. because that is linda -- [laughter] lau's initials. we did this long, lengthy agenda just in your honor, linda. so, i also want to say, at least to my knowledge, and sometimes i'm proven wrong. so i'm just going to say, to my knowledge, linda is our longest-serving daas employee. how many years? 35. 35 years. [applause] linda has seen a lot of changes, right? she started working when we were the commission on aging. and we didn't serve all these other populations. we didn't serve people with disabilities and didn't haves such a robust staff. we focused on the work in our community with our community partners and linda has been doing that work ever since and she's really brought the knowledge that she's developed over the years and helped share all of that with us and she has

all the history. right? and she knows of all the innovation and i think she knows that a lot of times when we create new things, they're not really new. they're things that we probably did like 25 years ago. so linda, this is really exciting. linda -- the other thing i can say about her is she is so active in the community. she dances. every time we go to a conference, she finds the dances, the lindy hop or whatever and she goes on her own and goes out and gets involved. she is also really politically aware and really speaks out about equity and inclusion issues and to me that is really important. so getting to know her a little bit and her life outside of daas has been really kind of interesting for me and i've been very impressed with her. but also she brings those values to work every day. and that is what we -- you know, we have a staff like that. and it is really nice to know that we have a staff like that. but linda embodies those values. linda, i'm going to talk about -- i'm going to read what staff

wrote about you. so o.o.a. staff have been able to learn so much from linda and try to absorb as much knowledge as possible in our time working with her. her passion for her work is what inspires many of the staff the most. linda shows up to work every day with excitement and determination to get things done. she always wants the best results ands will devote all of her energy to making that happen. her cube is testament to that. [laughter] she always wants the best result -- sorry, her knowledge and enthusiasm will be greatly missed among the team. she has been an integral part in helping create or groetz the conjugate home delivery peoples, champs and health promotion programs to where what they are today. she is an inspiration to all of us and deserves a wonderful retirement filled with travel and dancing. linda lau has beens a synonym for healthy eating and active leaving. -- living. not just in the community but among daas staff as welch she

is passionate to lead as an example and encourages colleagues to make wiser, healthier choices. anytime there is an event involving food, she offers healthy alternatives. a great example is her signature salad bar extravaganza. [laughter] which she has done annually for the past few years as part of her larger fundraising efforts for alzheimer's walk. she shopped, chopped, washed and prepaider over 25 different items for the salad bar. it is a huge hit amongst staff and has been standing-room-only at times. just our nutrition performance levels and this is really to share about not just linda's work, but the work of the nutrition team in partnership team with all of the community partners who provide nutrition services. in 17-18, this is performance

levels, home delivered meals 5500-plus. unduplicated. ok. over $2.2 million meals delivered. over 15,000 unduplicated. almost one million meals served. 50-plus conjugate meal sites funded and monitored by daas and o.o.a. and delivery grocery and grocery pantry. 5700 unduplicated. so, linda, this is such great work. [applause] and we wish you all the best and thank you so much for all you've done for us and for the city. >> i wanted to say a few words. thank you so much for honoring me on the last month i'm with the departments of aging and

adult services. it has been my pleasure coming to work these 35 years. there is always something different and exciting that is going on and i love the teams i work with, the management, they're very supportive and has enabled me and my team to create different programs or innovatives that addresses the community's needs and so that's not a chore. i love coming to work. but life is short and there is many things, other things that i love to do and want time for including globe trotting around the world, dancing. [laughter] and one of the things that george bernard shaw says, we didn't stop playing when we grow old.

we grow old because we stop playing. so it is important to do things that hem us enrich our life and be creative and learn new things. and love what you do, whether it is family, community, your friend, all of those are important to have a happier life. i'm getting a little emotional here. [laughter] but i'm so excited to hear the new changes that are coming to daas and i'll be following it and i will be volunteering with different thing and continuing with the food security task force, attending those meetings. doing things on [inaudible]. and one of the things on my bucket list is be a little more politically active. >> whew! >> and continue to make some positive changes for community and take advantage of my experience and put those to work because that's how we can stay young. thank you. [applause]

>> because you've been here 35 years, you get the big one. this is a plaque presented to linda lau in appreciation of 35 years of your loyal and outstanding service to the community of san francisco june 5, 2019. [applause]

>> amazing that you could work for the city for 35 years and look no older than 30. [laughter] the advisory council. i don't see dianne. >> she just did a review. i submitted her report. >> ok. joint legislative. >> that was also submitted. both reports. >> ok. i'm sorry? >> both reports were submitted to the commission. >> ok. all right. l.t., long-term care [inaudible]. ah. welcome, jessica. >> hello, commissioners. i'm jessica layman with senior

and disability action. i didn't expect it to come up so fast. let me get myself ready here. so, at our meeting in -- what month are we in -- in may, it has been quite a month -- we approved a new member, jacqueline reuters who's a critical care nurse so she fills a health and hospital system seat and the nominations committee announced that they're kind of improving the process to bring new people in. we had an update on the california collaborative for long-term services and supports and they are developing a pang nel event along with the dignity fund coalition focused on the master plan for aging that governor newsome has announced he wantss to work on and that event will be held in the fall. if folks are interested in work on that, they can contact mark burns from homebridge. the dignity fund update, i apologize, i missed the beginning of director's report so i don't know if that was included. but it was announced that

daases working on the dignify fund allocation program and getting money out through education or r.f.p.s. a small group of long-term care coordinating council members met with the mayor and share ad lib about what is the council and what are the priorities currently. and then we had a discussion, the council has a new policy agenda that's out and hopefully you have seen that. members are encouraged to engage in three difference ways now. so, temporary work groups as opposed to the kind of long-standing work groups we've had. and collaborating with partners and bringing back that novembersing the council so that not all of the work has to happen on the council, but we are all pluged in with what's happening around the community. and then we voted on projects for the council so that we can decide what to focus on.

and the two projects that have the top votes -- i'm going to pull this up. one was a behavioral health promise and we said that would assess referral elgability and enrollment for persons within the long-term care system, ensure access to those currently ineligible, including people with organic brain disorders people considered se veeser and isolated in the long-term care project. the other project is the social engagement promise, which is to identify and advocate for social engagement opportunities for those who are socially isolated due to long-term care needs and/or placement. and then there was a question about including a housing project about people who are trying to get out of long-term care facilities but who need housing so we'll be talk about that at the next meeting. so our next meeting is on thursday, june 13 at 1:00. and that is at 1 south van ness

on the second floor. thank you. >> thank you. any comments or questions? thank you very much. case report. >> good morning, commissioners and director mcspadden. greg moore, co-chair of case. i'd like the apologize on behalf of my co-chair and myself for not being here the previous few months. we've had between illness our advocacy work and life in general have been unable to be here. since our last report, we've been quite busy with our annual budget advocacy work, meeting with all the city supervisors as well as the mayor's budget director. we are also active in budget justice coalition advocacy efforts so n some cases, making two visits to the supervisors,

which can only be a good thing. the last two months, we've had some really outstanding presentations at our monthly membership meetings in april. we had a technical representatives from uber health, imencia and embodied labs so presenting on new resources and -- yeah, they're all relatively new resources. with more of a tech focus for our senior population. very interesting. and then this past month, chris flannery presented on a relatively new program, which was kicked off by san francisco last summer. on health homes program. this offers an additional layer of support to seniors that

qualify and some of those qualifications include mental health issues as well as homeless. an informative presentation because his presentation usually runs two hours. we've asked him to come back in the fall so that we can give more ample time for the presentation as well as promote the event. so, and then finally, we are very excited to announce that in collaboration with livable city, sunday streets, we will be hosting september 8, sunday september 8, the first in what we intend to become an annual getting there together, a celebration of all ages and abilities event. a city-wide event that we just continue to get more and more excited about. shireen and daas have been

wonderful in becoming a supporting partner. we are finishing up our sponsorship packet and we will get that information to you within the next week. i think that is all i'll say about that. we'll get full information on that. and i know it's a long agenda, so i'll end there and ask for any questions. >> thank you. my comments or questions? thank you very much. >> thank you. >> item number five. old business. is there any old business? item number six, new business. a, requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with self-help for the elderly for the provision of health insurance, counseling and advocacy group icap. during the period of july 1, 2019 to june 30, 2020 in the amount of $368,928 plus a 10%

contingency for a total grant amount not to exceed $405,820. thank you, michael. >> good morning, commissioners. i'm mike zaugg. letting you know that we will be keeping our presentations a little bit shorter today but we're always open for my questions or to fill any knowledge gaps we might have missed. item a right out the gate is our hicap. this is a medicare-focused program providing community education, one-to-one counseling and advocacy services from medicare beneficiaries and those soon to be medicare eligible. the counseling services delivered through trained certified councilors. currently they have 24 councilors in hicap with four in training. out of the 24, 18 are volunteers with the other six being the program staff.

councilors, staff, 11 locations throughout the city when these counseling sessions take place. a language capacity is currently in spanish. filipino, russian, korean and chinese. to give you a quick idea of the measure of how many -- the amount of services being provided in the current fiscal year. so running july 1 through june 30 this year, the hicap has already counciled over 1900 clients. this is a new contract with self-help for the elderly. they have been our hicap contractor for a number of years now. we've skinltzly been very satisfied with their performance. >> thank you. any comments or questions? commissioner? >> just one question. it said in the performance report that some findings resolve. what were the findings? >> yes. so, it was -- actually, it was

that every one of their councilors have to go through a security awareness training and the completion of that training, they must sign a certificate and have that in their file. the state of california visited the hicap with us this year and they found that two councilors did not have that certificate in their file. i would note that they completed the training. there was evidence of that. but the state had to have a finding that the certificate was not in the file. so we put that certificate in the file and the finding was resolved. >> how many units of service are they contracted to do? >> so, they -- what is unique about this is that the benchmark amounts are set by the state of california every year. it's based on a formula set by the amount of medicare beneficiaries city of san francisco. the with -- the state has not set the ones for next year.

our contract is set so that they have to meet whatever the state issues. in the current year, the number is, for example, counseling is 1939, which they will exceed. 106 public and media events, they're currently at 115. client contacts, so this is just an interaction that is less than a counseling session. 54407, they have exceeded that. they're at 5800 right now. there are a lot of these. and then there are targets within those numbers of how many to reach within each group such as medicare beneficiaries opportunitieder age of 65 of those considered low-income. and actually rural is one. but there are no rural areas of san francisco. so, that's all it is. >> any other comment or questions? >> yeah. quick one.

i noticed the designated community focal points -- >> yes. >> are there new ones? and i was interested in knowing whether or not open houses are a new focal point or is that always -- and these presumably would be the areas of outreach and -- >> right. this is something that's new to our schoches of service for our older americans act funded programs and so when we do our area plan, every four years with annual updates, we identify foe kl points in the community and these are place where is they can connect to services. these kor responsibilitied with our aging and disability resource centers. they are located in the city. what this means that the state of california would like us to list these in our contracts and make sure that our contractors are aware of them so that they can then choose to have that as a resource available or make

themselves known to the adrc. >> so, do people go to these particular places for the service or is this just used as a way of perhaps outreach or -- what are the focal points? >> age and disabilities resource centers stoefsh provide first as information about services available and connects folks out to them. and they provide some limited services at the site. the idea here is that a contractor would see this and say, hmm. i should make sure our adrcs know about us and then the adrc should make sure they know about them. that way if someone comes in and says i have these medicare questions that someone would be knowledgeable. yep. i can tell you we put this in here as part of a requirement from our state funders. but wes are -- our adrcs and our community partners are quite knowledgeable of one another.

so i would think this information is being provided through other mechanisms than just this contract. >> ok. thank you. >> thank you. any other comments or questions from the commission? any comment or questions from the public? do i have a motion to approve? >> so move. >> do we have a second? >> second. >> any discussion? all in favor? any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item b, requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreement with the lighthouse for the blind and visually impaired for transportation services through june 30, 2020 for an additional amount of $23843, plus a 10% contingency for a total amount not to exceed $103,006. welcome rick appleby. >> good morning.

i'm pleased to be able to talk about this program this morning. lighthouse for the blind, as you read, as part of their transportation services provides one-way taxi vouchers to folks who can't access other types of transportation or public transportation. some of those folks are newly visually impaired. they haven't quite adjusted. they haven't gone through some of the training programs at lighthouse. so, it's particularly difficult for them to just go out and gos to muni or take the bus. some folks have to go much further than muni might take them so the taxi vouchers are helpful and some folks have multiple disabilities and are particularly frail. so, the taxi vouchers are really important for them to get to medical appointments. you read counseling services, access benefits. so, we're pleased to work with lighthouse on this.

there is an eligibility requirement and information from a doctor, documenting the person's disabilities and need for this service and lighthouse staff and information works with the consumers staff. also works with taxi companies to make sure the program runs smoothly and invoices are paid. so thank you for considering this. >> thank you, rick. is it limited to taxis or cans the program fund ride share like lyft or uber which is sometimes more available and sometimes cheaper? >> right. right now this is taxis. it was an addition -- i'm sorry, supervisor add-backs specifically for taxi vouchers. i know many agencies including lighthouse are looking at these ride share. but this particular program is taxis and i think since they have a relationship with these companies that works pretty well. >> thank you. any other comments? commissioner pappas? >> thank you for asking that

question? is fly wheel considered a taxi? a lot of older adults are taking fly wheel as well. >> you know, i don't know for the purposes of this program. what fly wheel's status is. and i'm drawing a blank on the taxi programs that taxi companies that they use. i don't believe that's one of them. and so [inaudible] is fly wheel taxi. >> thank you. any other questions from the commission? >> yeah. i noticed that it serves about 50 people and is that about what they need or is there more of a need for this program? it seems like a small number to me. but -- >> they serve more people than that. every year. i would say lighthouse would say there is more of a need. but, again, this was started with a certain amount of funding and we have maintained it. they do serve more people. taxi prices are rising so there

is conversation about that issue. and there is more of a demand. >> so because it is an add-back, we're adding the ability to fund 50 more people, for example. >> if there were more funds? >> yeah. >> yeah, i think that could be helpful. >> ok. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. thank you, rick. any other comments or questions from the commission? any comments or questions for the public? hearing none, may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> do i have a second? >> i'll second. >> thank you. any further discussion? all the question all in favor -- >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. thank you, rick. >> thank you. >> item c. requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreement with mission neighborhood centers for the provision of community services program pilot during the period of july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2020 for an additional amount of $53,570 pluss a 10% contingency for a total amount

not to exceed $350,427. welcome tiffany. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners. president serina and commissioners and executive director mcspadden. i wanted to point out that on the budget page, two and four, there are some subtotaling errors. however, the grand total of the grant and the totals on those pages are correct. so, thank you. so to get started. last september, grant agreement with mission neighborhood center for a community service program pilot in district nine was presented and approved by the commission. as you may recall, district nine was one of the districts identified in the community needs assessment as having a gap in service engagement. also noted in the needs assessment was that daas

consumers in d-9 wanted more multicultural and creative art programming. mission neighborhood's pilot program addressed both of these needs by, one, providing programming in d-9 and, two, by offering participatory art and cultural activities. i am happy to report that they have been very successful in their first fiscal year of programming. client enrollment has exceeded expectations by a healthy margin and continues to grow. program appeal to new clients is also very strong. at the end of february, roughly two thinkser of the consumers enrolled in the program were new to daas programming at mission neighborhood center and over half of those new clients went on to enroll in other daas-funded program at mission neighborhood center. demand for the pilot program, which includes art, guitar and salsa classes has been so strong.

that the center has expanded programing to a new site in the district. the additional funding requested in this modification will allow mission neighborhood center to support and further expand its pilot program to meet the needs of daas consumers in d-9. thank you. and i would be happy to answer any questions you might have at this time. >> thank you. any comments or questions for the commission? any comments ors questions for public? hearing none, may i have a motion to approve? >> so move. >> thank you. second? >> second. >> thank you. any further discussion? all the question, all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? thank you. the motion carries. thank you, tiffany. >> linda should know about the salsa classes out there. [laughter] >> item d. requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreement with mental health association of san francisco

for the provision of social support services for hording disorder during the period of july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2020 for an additional amount of $290,089 plus a 10% contingency for a total amount not to exceed $956,001. welcome, monte country, mino. >> good morning, commissioners. executive director mcspadden. today we're here to seek your approval for mental health association's social support services for hoarding disorder. this helps individuals manage their impulses around hoarding through a range of supports that include peer-led support groups and for information and referral. these interventions and support groups also seek to reduce the risks of eviction to those living with hoarding disorder. the program also provides community training for professionals working with hoarding disorder as well as

family and friend support groups for those who have loved ones suffering from the disorder. finally the program organizes and facile -- facilitates a hoarding disorder task force. thank you and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you very much, monte. any comments or questions from the sdmition just one question. what kind of relationship have we established with landlords and particularly small property owners around this issue? because, as you point out, it does prevent eviction, but at the same time, we need cooperation from the property owners and how does that work? >> that is a great question. in regards to this program, there's the program-specific groups and interventions that are available for individuals who have hoarding disorder. but the program also does outreach to those facilities.

they also have very close relationships with other providers that also go into s.r.o.s or smaller housing sites to work with folks. additionally, mental health association, i think about three years ago got some funding to develop a comprehensive website that is a wonderful linker to all services available in san francisco. i don't have the website wl*ing me but i can get it to you. it is one of the clearest, most concise, user-friendly websites i'ves seen for nonprofit commute services. for the peer-support groups or commission-lead groups, they are given access to this website so they can quekts virtually any type of service in the city. when i get back to the office, i can forward its to bridge it so she can get it to you. >> i have a question. do the clients self-identify or are they referred by social services? >> great question. it is both.

one does not need to be diagnosed with hoarding disorder for access to these service. some individuals self-refer. they know there is something going onment they feel any sort of help. a lot of those individuals go to the peer support group initially. and it is a very low threshold. people come and go from that group as needed. there's also referrals from community agencies from maybe individuals that have more of an issue but aren't at the point where they want to self-refer. so, people from all over the community can refer individuals to the program. for individuals who have a more serious desire to look at the hoarding issues, there is clinician-led group which is c.b.t. based where individuals develop a plan to reduce their hoarding and cluttering. >> i might have missed it in the packet. what is the outreach like in terms of getting people information that this even exists? >> there is an i&r, mental health association that works closely with community partners. so, social service program,

community service programs know the mental health association has a mental disorder program that they can refer folks to. yeah. >> i just wanted to add that adult protective services works and very often assists on these cases and works with landlords and code enforcement to ensure that we can prevent eviction for people who are really at risk. >> thank you. commissioner? >> has the funding for this program existed since 2007 when the task force started or how long has this program -- and i had just -- you can answer it at the same time, but is this a significant expansion with this dollar amount or sort of -- >> this is a renewal for this dollar amount for this year. as far as daas-related funding, i don't have that answer off the top of my head. i do recall when it started. i wasn't working with the domestic, but it has grown over time and the mental health association has done a great

job of staying on top of the needs of this particular population and have shifted their services ofst over time to make sure they get that need met, which is part of the reason why the website came into existence. yeah. yeah. >> thank you very much, monte. >> one quick question. do they also do some outreach to professionals like the doctor's office, etc.? >> they are able to attend the outreach trainings and things of that nature. and they -- to my understanding, mental health association does do advertising for their community trainings. i don't have hard numbers on how many medical providers go, but they're certainly welcome to attend. >> any other comments or questions? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> a second? >> second. >> thank you. any further discussion? call to question, in all favor? any opposed?

the motion carries. mike is going do an introduction for agenda items e through m. thank you, mike. >> hello again, commissioners. before we get into individual contracts i wanted to give you an overview of the legal services programs and field any overarounding questions before we get into each individual contracts. they share a program model in that our clients with a legal issue can go to a provider and have us go through a screening process where their legal issues are examined. depending on the results of that screening, services provided may freezing raining a short consultation in preparation of a letter or document up through a full scope representation by an attorney. >> in the group today, we

actually have two new contractors joining the ranks of our providers. we have open door legal as well as u.c. hastings college of the law, medical partnership for seniors. i'll have more info about each of them as we get to their individual contracts but i will say that we're excited to add these new contractors as it increases the range of legal services as wells a accessability to services for clients. our legal services, what types of issues do we see, housing continues to be the largest area of demand for services. following that, public benefits and income maintenance issues as well as elder abuse prevention are the next sort of big topics. as well as some other areas. we provide assistance with employment and workers' rights, consumer and debt protection issues as well as immigration assistance.

[please stand by] [please stand by] i think -- i would mention historically, our services focus on older adults, but in the past few years we've been able to expand legal services with younger adults with disabilities. part of this was a benefit of the introduction of the dignity fund and using some of the funds

for that. as recently as 14-15, we only had one local provider providing services for younger adults with disabilities, now we have four providers providing that service. any overarching questions? >> one quick question, drilling down on the housing portion. what percentage of that do you think is on eviction issues and what are the other issues in housing that they're addressing? >> yeah, so... let's see. i have 44% of our cases in the previous year were housing related. i don't have actual eviction numbers. i can tell you that looking forward, that is going to shift a little bit, because with the introduction of right to counsel -- previously we were representing folks through the eviction proceedings, providing

counsel in actual legal eviction proceedings. with the introduction of right to counsel, we're seeing increased resources coming into our many same providers and those cases will move over to that area. in talking with our legal providers, they continue to say that housing is predicted to still be one of our big issues. now the focus, there will be increased capacity to work on issues that are pre-eviction, so things that are happening prior to the landlord officially starting a legal proceeding. these might be habit ability issues, accessibility. ada accommodation issues. unfortunately, issues with landlord harassment and informal e-vices going on -- evictions going on will be covered under the grant. as well as ellis act items. >> commissioner loo: on the

immigration, we really need more people have immigration problems, so i'm just wondering whether there will be money given to provide that kind of services? >> so, we -- our funding is right now is generalized and providers are able to practice in a number of areas and some have an immigration expertise and we'll put their clients on this. i will -- i'm continuing to work with our providers to get feedback whether we need to dedicate funding to immigration services. i can say that there is a lot of attention to immigration legal services coming from other departments and other funding organizations through the city. so we are seeing increased services in that area, just not under these grants thus far. >> thank you. any other comments or questions. any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, may have a motion

to approve? i'm sorry, no, we have to get to the actual contracts. moving right along here [laughter]. item e, requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreement with asian pacific islander legal outreach for the provision of legal services for younger adults with disabilities during the period of july 1, 2019, through june 30, 2020, in the amount of $142,994, plus a 10% contingency for a total amount not to exceed $314,586. and here's mike. >> so a.p.i. legal outreach, they're located in the south of market neighborhood, on mission, between 7th and 8th streets. language capacity is extensive, including multiple chinese dialects, vietnamese, spanish. happy to answer questions. >> president serina: any

specific questions about this grant? any from the public? hearing none, now, may have a notion approve? >> so moved. >> president serina: a second? >> second. >> president serina: any further discussion? all in favor? thank you, the motion carries. item f. requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreement with independent living resource center for the provision of legal services for younger adults with disabilities. plus a 10% contingency for a total amount not to exceed $312,441. again, it's mike. >> the independent living resource center of san francisco, what is unique about them, they're independent living centre. so while we have -- they have built out just since 2015, their

own legal service unit within the larger site. so i think what is unique about that, of course, folks coming in, there are variety of resources available to adults with disabilities at that location. in fact, more so than the legal services. it's just a small component of the services offered there. they're in the south of market neighborhood, 4th and mission. in-house language capacity spanish, cantonese and mandarin and they have access to language line services so they do not turn anyone away based on language issues. their work in previous years has focused on income maintenance and public benefits, although, they're now working to expand into other areas, including housing assistance. >> president serina: thank you. any comments or questions from the commission? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, may have a motion to approve? do i have a second? thank you. any further discussion?

all in favor? any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item g, request authorization to modify the existing grant agreement with la razza central legal for the provision of legal services for younger adults with disabilities during the period of july 1, 2019 through june to, 2020, in the amount of 41,640 plus a 10% contingency for a total amount not to exceed $91,608. once again, it is mike. >> so they're located in the mission district on valencia between 15th and 16th streets. their language capacity is spanish. >> president serina: thank you. any comments or questions from the commission? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, may have /* may i

have a motion to approve? all in favor? any opposed? thank you, the motion carries. item h. requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreement with legal assistance for the elderly for the provision of legal services for younger adults with disabilities during the period july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2020, in the amount of $41,640 plus a 10% contingency for a total amount not to exceed $91,608. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is reanna albert. legal assistance to the elderly is located in nob hill, but they will be moving to a new location, mission street and south van ness. while the agency's name is legal assistance to the elderly, they

have historically served younger adults with disabilities. languages available are english, mandarin, cantonese, spanish and korean. i'm happy to answer questions. >> president serina: any comments or questions from the commission? any comments from the public? may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> president serina: thank you, a second? >> second. >> president serina: any further discussion? all in favor? any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item i. requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with asian americans advancing justice. asian law caucus for the provision of legal services for older adults during the period of july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2020 in the amount of $186,391 plus a