then, case management services. and also just a note that as i've talked about a number of times in the past, around the kne need for transportation for seniors and disabled, i'm taking part in the a.d.s. committee, which does a lot of advocacy work in transportation. we are pleased to welcome a new board member, dan gallagher, with stepping stone. he joined stepping stone in the last year. he's already been incredibly active in advocacy work, and we look forward to having his expertise in that along with

stepping stone working with us. we continued presenting outstanding programs to our case membership. july's presentation was a panel on creative ageing which features laura mason of engage, and jessica mccracken. they gave a wonderful presentation on programs that their agencies are currently offering as well as led us in a discussion about perspectives on ageing which will continue as we try to truly reframe ageing and move to the forefront of those efforts. our august meeting will be focused on advocacy efforts for the upcoming year. we do an annual brainstorming session where members give

their input on areas where funding is needed, so that's always an important kick off, if you will. and then finally, very excited to present you with the flier for our getting there together event. we are furiously planning and still fund raising, i'll admit, for the september 8 event, which is a -- both a celebration of ageing and people with disabilities, but please know that it is for all ages and all abilities. it is not just a celebration, it is a resource fair. we have somewhere around 30 130 sponsors and vendors that will be exhibiting. it is an open-air gym, where we hope to have a powerball soccer

demonstration, soccer played by people in motorized whi wheelchairs. we'll do taichi, xi gong, and a group of 350 to 400 singers will lead a sing along. we're hoping for a guinness book of world records for senior sing along. so great social media campaign, and what questions may i answer for you? >> thank you. commissioner pappas. >> as the representative of this body to the in-home supportive services groups, i just wanted to say thank you for the presentation, greg, on

july 16. it was informative, and it was inspiring. thank you. >> thank you. any other comments or questions? [gavel]. >> thank you very much. next on the agenda is old business, and there is none on the agenda. new business, item number 6. presentation on the expansion of cal fresh benefits to s.s.i.-s.s.d. recipients. staff to present. >> good morning, commissioners, and executive director. my name is ana marie lara. i'm a director with cal services net, which is cal fresh and medi-cal. i'm here to do a presentation,

and this is going to be a powerpoint presentation, so let's see...okay. terrific. okay. okay. so i want to start off with a -- with a statistic here. it's estimated that one in four san franciscans are food insecure. >> consume. can you speak into the mic? >> oh, sure, sorry about that. can you hear me now? >> yes. >> you want the microphone? >> yeah, could i? it's kind of dropping. okay. so it's estimated that one in four san franciscans are food insecure, which means that they don't make enough money to pay for three meals a day for themselves or for their families. cal fresh, which is formerly known as food stamps is a

federally funded nutritional benefit known as snap, s-n-a-p. it accesses better nutrition for low-income households. it issues an e.b.t. card is a lot like a debit card in that it can be used at farmers markets, grocery stores, and restaurants. starting this summer, more than 1 million new californians are eligible for cal fresh. and any new recipients who apply and receive for cal fresh will receive no reduction to

their s.s.i. or s.s.p. grants. so who will benefit? again, s.s.i. and s.s.p. recipients, and this slide just gives sort of a definition of what s.s.i. and s.s.p. are. okay. so california was the only state that did not allow s.s.i. recipients to receive cal fresh, but assembly bill 1811 reversed this policy, so really awesome, positive news there. we want to thank all the hard work for food and nutrition advocates for making this happen. yes, round of applause. okay. so this slide just gives a brief overview of who is eligible -- or what the eligibility criteria is for cal fresh. eventually, it's any household or individual in san francisco

with low to no income who's within the income eligibilities, and that limit sort of changes from time to time, so what we do is we include that in a chart on the san francisco h.s.a. website. and if you just do a keyword search for cal fresh eligibility, it should pop up there. who else is eligible? s.s.i./s.s.p. recitizenshpient starting june 1, 2019. the benefits, they range from $80 to $250, and it's based on household size and your expenses. if you don't spend your cal fresh benefits in one month, it actually rolls over to the next month, which is amazing. some other pretty amazing perks for cal fresh and e.b.t., we have something called the restaurant meals program where,

you know, folks can use their e.b.t. cards at certain parting restaurants in san francisco. they can also get up to $10 in free produce at farmers markets, free and discounted admission at various events, and discounted muni passes. [inaudible] >> sorry. a technical glitch here. we're back. okay. okay. so -- so this slide just gives a bit of demographic information. according to the california

cdss, california department of social services, there's about 130,000 s.s.i.-s.s.d. recipients in san francisco, and there's a breakdown of recipients. more demographic information. you know, so based on those who receive s.s.i. in san francisco, 50% were eligible due to a disability, 46% are due to their age. and again, some more data there about ethnic breakdowns. so this is a really cool slide. it showes sort of the zip code

in san francisco and where these people live. if you look at the key there, sort of the darker color concentrations show the higher number of s.s.d. recipients. 92124, that's the hunters point bayview area, a lot of recipients there. as well as the bayview, and the tenderloin neighborhood. so what we've done is to help sort of handle the influx of work that will come with, you know, meeting the demand of all these new clients, h.s.a. has hired some new staff. we've hired a total of 33 new f.t.e.s, and this slide provides a breakdown of those classifications. so for instance, 10923, manager

two, three clerks, five senior clerks, and so on. so in a nutshell, this slide explains if there's an existing cal fresh household with an s.s.i. number who was previously -- who was previously ineligible for cal fresh, the s.s.i. member does not need to submit an application for cal fresh. they just need to wait until their annual recertification comes around, and then, the county will automatically add them to the caseload, so, you know, just want to make that point. and also, that once we do add the member to the caseload, there's a very small chance that benefits may decrease. so i guess -- there was another

slide prior to this. i guess it didn't make it on, but there are other slides called the s.n.b. and t.n.b. which may offset any decrease that may happen to the caseload figure. so if their allotment goes down for whatever reason, then f.n.b. and t.n.b. will kick in and bring them back up to their original benefit amount. i hope that makes sense. so this slide here just shows a little bit of the media coverage around the expansion of the s.s.i.-s.s.d. recipients. kc-26 as well as kcbs radio. a lot of good press out there about this positive change. community outreach. okay. so -- so this gives you a calendar sort of of event that

we've taken on -- sorry. let's get to the right page here. bear with me. okay. this is a calendar of activities through the fall. the state of california is conducting paid outreach that will benefit san francisco. if you look on the far left, the may column, you'll see that h.s.a. copartnered with daas on holding two community forums where over 200 food security organizations and daas providers attended, so it is really -- really a -- it was really -- really a great turnout, and thanks to daas for partnering with us on those two

events. and then, if we skip to august, you'll see that we launched the two-in-one san diego campaign. so two-in-one san diego, the vendor that we work with, and what they do is an outbound phone campaign to those, you know, 41,000 s.s.i. recipients in san francisco to help them apply for cal fresh via telephone. so the first priority group that they're calling is actually the ihss clients, so that's amazing. and they started calling august 1. and then, third, actually also this week, we found five new outpatients sprinkled around san francisco. if you guys remember that slide on the zip codes, daas, they were really instrumental in helping us with our research to

finding ageing and disability resources around san francisco that we could partner with and have an out station.

what we do is we bring or eligibility workers out for a -- our eligibility workers out for a one-day event and they just help all the workers in the building apply for cal fresh. okay. so big thanks to our outreach partners, again, cdss, the food bank, daas, 211 san diego, getcalfresh.org. we just want to ask our awesome partners in the community to help us spread the word about this policy shift. help educate your clients about this, and we at h.s.a. developed a toolkit. it's a partner toolkit, and i can share a copy with you all. i can give out to bridget to

handout, and please get the word out to apply. it takes ten minutes on calfresh.org. this is just a picture of what the partner toolkit with me. i have a few copies with me i can pass out today, and ways to apply. we -- this is our mantra -- click, call, come in. so please, you know, to help sort of keep the lines workable in our county offices, we encourage people to go on to getcalfresh.org, or call our 800 number or come in to our offices. so that's all.

>> thank you. any comments or questions from the commission? hearing none, any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, thank you. >> thank you. >> item 8, review and approval of the california department of ageing cal fresh expansion project cf 192006 associated budget and all amendments. [please stand by]

>> that is pretty incredible, but i remember this. my question is, it sounded as if she was saying there was approximately 40,000 new individuals for cal fresh, and so is this effort supposed to help with that? is that part of this contract?

>> correct, this is seen as just one part of a larger effort. the county department of social services sent some money over to the department of aging saying, how about you help with targeting folks 60 and over. and do an allocation base throughout the state and come up with $66,000 which comes down to us, which is to be used to target older adults, 60 and over , solely recognizing that six a $6,000, and the grand scheme, is not the largest amount of money, but we hope to at least cover some staff time to support the much larger coordinated effort. >> one other question, what would you see as being successful at the end of the day if we were able to in role tenth

out -- able to unroll 10,000? >> they are asking us to meet a couple of targets with these funds, and their two categories. there is an outreach category, how many people do we send this information to? that is usually calculated as an estimate. the numbers are asking us to meet on that level within the thousands. there's also someone asking us to actually track the amount of applications which are submitted , that is actually not approved, but submission and there is a mechanism to do that. i do not have this exact numbers to me, i will send them through budget to you. those are probably good targets for us to reach.

>> any other comments or questions? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> do i have a second? thank you. any further comments for discussion? all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. motion carries. item b., requesting authorization to motto -- modify the contract with central communications inc. for provision of hotline answering services for adult protective services and family and children's services for the time period of september first, 2019 to august 31st, 2021 in the additional amount of $50,000 plus a 10% contingency for a total amount not to exceed $110,000. welcome, carrie wong. do i have a motion to discuss? thank you.

carry? >> good morning, commissioners. i am pleased to present to you the central communications contract for your approval. we are requesting for the contract lot to extend two years of $50,000. i do want to note a typo that was kindly pointed out this morning that the annual amount is for fiscal year 19-20, not 18 -19 for 25,000, and fiscal year 19-20 is actually 2021, so it is a total $50,000 modification moving forward. so per state regulation, both adult protective services and family and children's services are mandated to accept and respond to reports of abuse and neglect on children, older adults and adults with disabilities. this is on a 24-hour basis and

we have been providing the services for a number of years. we are adding to the scope of services for the next two years to extend to hotlines for the public guardian and public conservatorship. this will also be for evenings and weekends, issues range from medical decisions to psychiatric issues that may arise after hours. sometimes individuals are sick or require cold -- code org palliative or palliative care decisions, or if they passed away. this will allow the public guardian and public conservator to be more responsive to the care needs of providers such as hospitals, skilled nursing homes , and boarding cares. we will also provide care only 24-hour basis for individuals who are under conservatorship. there will be a pilot phase this first fiscal year for three months in the fall, during the pilot phase, there will be no direct impact on the contract.

workers will contact the public guardian or public conservator staff directly based on internal costs. the contractor will be contacted after the after hours program is ready to launch and we will arrange for the numbers and have a market and strategy and be able to do presentations to community hardware his. the call volumes are 2504 abs and family and children's services respectively. abs tends to average more of these calls. we are not adding new dollars because the contract itself, there tends to be contract savings and we understand a little bit. and then whatever we develop in terms of the points, we will establish the trends and reset the amount for future needs if needed. >> thank you very much. are there any comments or questions? >> i want to add that carrie graciously moved over from her previous role of long-term-care

director to the public administrative public right-hand role. she has currently -- is currently the manager. i wanted to point that out because we have seen her in a different role before. >> congratulations. that is a significant challenge, but i'm sure you are up for it. any other comments or questions? >> i have a question. >> this program was established in 2017. how do you measure that it is working? >> this contract is for the after hours contract itself, and so family and children services have had this contract continuously since 2009, and then four abs, it is one -- and then for a.p.s., they reached

all the targets every year. we haven't received any complaints or issues from the public regarding any dropped calls or any problems with the hotline. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> you mentioned the number of calls, i thank you said 250 -- i thank you said 250. the particular contract, the extra hours. what are the usual number of calls that you get. >> we get monthly reports and then every time there is a call, we also get actual daily reports of the calls. so we average about 250 per program, per month.

family and children services of his about 250. a.p.s. tends to have more of them. >> and this contract will include more -- you are seeing it expands into the conservatory of the public guardian. >> so during the pilot phase, it will probably be around september to december, so about three months for us to work out the processes internally, and the training staff, and that sort of thing, so there's no direct -- we are not launching any marketing campaign. the public doesn't know, so there is nothing -- there will not be an influx of calls. we will just go through the normal cause of calling -- because of calling adult protective services. we just deal with it internally. really, there is no direct impact on the contract, at

earliest, springs. >> that expands a lot. they give very much. >> thank you. any other comments or questions? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, i have a motion to approve. >> so moved. >> do i have a second? >> any other comment? all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. motion carries. item c., requesting authorization to enter into a new contract with thomson reuters for the provision of firm central case management and westlaw online legal research tools during the period of july first -- september 1st, 2019 through june 30th, 2022 in the amount of $100,495 plus a 10% contingency for a total grant amount not to exceed $110,544. welcome to janet for the discussion. do i have a motion to discuss?

>> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. janet? >> good morning, commissioners. i am the head attorney for the public administrator and the public guardian, which are two offices housed in dawes -- housed in daas. the office is currently using both products, however, it is my understanding that in the prior year, we are able to enter into this arrangement through our i.t. department and procurement. due to a change in process, even that there is a ppi and a baa, it needs to be an interest gated contract, and that requires

commission approval. that is why i am here. i'm happy to answer any questions about the contract if you have them, but i think it is somewhat self-explanatory. >> thank you, very much. >> my question is, i looked at the budget every year and there is a 5% increase. i am just asking this question. >> that is my understanding if you approve it, it will be allowed. >> any other comments or questions from the commission? >> also, when i look at the last page, someone should read out the number because the number is a little bit off. it is still not the correct number. >> okay. >> thank you, commissioner. any other comments or questions? any comments or questions from the public? may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> any further comments or questions? all in favor?

>> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. thank you very much. item d., requesting authorization to enter into a new contract agreement with net smart technologies inc. for access to home health electronic record system during the period of september first, 2019 through june 30th, 2022 in the amount of $45,000 plus a 10% contingency for total amount not to exceed $49,500. may i have a motion to discuss? >> so moved. >> second? >> second. >> thank you. >> good morning, commission. my name is rhea and i am the nurse manager for the clinical quality assurance unit here at daas. we started leading nurses into

the function of adult protective services and in-home supportive services while our social workers are doing their hard work investigating abuse or allegations of abuse. our community based nurses and public health nurses are focusing on the clinical needs of the clients. client. clients with complex functional needs and clinical needs. we partner with a.p.s. chi , i hs with addressing the needs of the clients. to document or chart the medical records, our assessments, medication records, we use net smart and that is the software that we use to not only document our clinical findings, but also

we want to report so you better know or understand our client population and also address the risk involved with the population we are serving. the commission is requesting we continue to use the software that allows us to document client records and allows us to prioritize what we need to see when we are partnering with our programs. >> thank you very much. any comments or questions on the commission? just one.

are we confident and comfortable with the confidentiality? >> i am. >> thank you. >> thank you. any other questions from the commission? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, i have a motion to approve. >> so moved. >> second. >> second. >> thank you. all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. motion carries. >> thank you. now the item on the agenda is general public comment. hello, jessica. >> good morning, commissioners and welcome to the new commissioners. i am with senior and disability action. i wanted to comment on the conversation earlier about pedestrian safety. thank you so much for your interest and attention to this

topic. one thing, commissioner asked us about the electric vehicles on the street. that has been a great concern to a lot of us with electric scooters and delivery robots. folks most likely know it, but we let scooters run wild in the streets and then fortunately, we really clamped down and put a lot of limits on it. it has been a lot better. we are concerned that once the pilot concludes that, it may change. we will need to be on top of making sure there are serious limits because even with things being better than they were, they are still not perfect, and we still should not have any scooters on the street. we know it is dangerous for everyone, especially seniors with disabilities. similarly, we do need to advocate for the m.t.a. to have clear guidelines about delivery robots, and it is also part of the bigger question of what is happening to public spaces, that

are public sidewalks being shrunk and taken over by private companies that are using them to make money? instead of really being spaces at the public can get around freely. it was mentioned about bus shelters and that has been a concern as well that a lot of but shelters have been removed, which makes it difficult for seniors and people with disabilities to wait for the bus , whether it is about not having a place to sit, and not being able to be protected. it looks like the transit system is very closely linked to people being able to leave their house and get around the neighborhood and community. as far as the m.t.a., it has been an interesting challenge that we have worked for a lot of engineers, but there are different engineers working on all these different projects. it is a matter of educating all of them to be thinking about accessibility concerns, and we have seen with the parking protected bike lanes, they have

been pushed for good reason to make it safer for bicyclists, and it is not good solutions that we don't restate -- restrict accessibility for seniors and people with disabilities. we have been trying to work on coming up with solutions. and educating m.t.a. engineers about how they can think about it and coming up with some new ideas. so, i would invite any of you are interested to come up and participate in senior and disability action's transit justice group at least once a month. is a community group putting together seniors and people with disabilities to work on these issues. and tyra is the head of that. there is also a vision zero senior and disability pedestrian safety group that is coordinated by walk s.f. and we also meet once a month and meet representatives of different coalitions. i spoke -- i also want to ask

people to save the date at the annual celebration on thursday, october 3rd, and we will have invitations at the next meeting. i hope some of you can attend. thank you. >> thank you. any other comments? thank you. may i have a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> second? >> second. >> by rising vote, we are adjourned. thank you. [music]

>> san francisco city clinic provides a broad range of sexual health services from stephanie tran medical director at san francisco city clinic. we are here to provide easy access to conference of low-cost culturally sensitive sexual health services and to everyone who walks through our door. so we providestd checkups, diagnosis and treatment. we also provide hiv screening we provide hiv

treatment for people living with hiv and are uninsured and then we hope them health benefits and rage into conference of primary care. we also provide both pre-nd post exposure prophylactics for hiv prevention we also provide a range of women's reproductive health services including contraception, emergency contraception. sometimes known as plan b. pap smears and [inaudible]. we are was entirely [inaudible]people will come as soon as were open even a little before opening. weight buries a lip it could be the first person here at your in and out within a few minutes. there are some days we do have a pretty considerable weight. in general, people can just walk right in and register with her front desk seen that day. >> my name is yvonne piper on the nurse practitioner here at sf city clinic. he was the first time i came to city clinic was a little intimidated. the first time i got treated for [inaudible]. i

walked up to the redline and was greeted with a warm welcome i'm chad redden and anna client of city clinic >> even has had an std clinic since all the way back to 1911. at that time, the clinic was founded to provide std diagnosis treatment for sex workers. there's been a big increase in std rates after the earthquake and the fire a lot of people were homeless and there were more sex work and were homeless sex workers. there were some public health experts who are pretty progressive for their time thought that by providing std diagnosis and treatmentsex workers that we might be able to get a handle on std rates in san francisco. >> when you're at the clinic you're going to wait with whoever else is able to register at the front desk first. after you register your seat in the waiting room and wait to be seen. after you are called you come to the back and meet with a healthcare provider can we determine what kind of testing to do, what samples to collect what medication somebody might need. plus

prophylactics is an hiv prevention method highly effective it involves folks taking a daily pill to prevent hiv. recommended both by the cdc, center for disease control and prevention, as well as fight sf dph, two individuals clients were elevated risk for hiv. >> i actually was in the project here when i first started here it was in trials. i'm currently on prep. i do prep through city clinic. you know i get my tests read here regularly and i highly recommend prep >> a lot of patients inclined to think that there's no way they could afford to pay for prep. we really encourage people to come in and talk to one of our prep navigators. we find that we can help almost everyone find a way to access prep so it's affordable for them. >> if you times we do have opponents would be on thursday

morning. we have two different clinics going on at that time. when is women's health services. people can make an appointment either by calling them a dropping in or emailing us for that. we also have an hiv care clinic that happens on that morning as well also by appointment only. he was city clinic has been like home to me. i been coming here since 2011. my name iskim troy, client of city clinic. when i first learned i was hiv positive i do not know what it was. i felt my life would be just ending there but all the support they gave me and all the information i need to know was very helpful. so i [inaudible] hiv care with their health >> about a quarter of our patients are women. the rest, 75% are men and about half of the men who come here are gay men or other men who have sex

with men. a small percent about 1% of our clients, identify as transgender. >> we ask at the front for $25 fee for services but we don't turn anyone away for funds. we also work with outside it's going out so any amount people can pay we will be happy to accept. >> i get casted for a pap smear and i also informed the contraceptive method. accessibility to the clinic was very easy. you can just walk in and talk to a registration staff. i feel i'm taken care of and i'm been supportive. >> all the information were collecting here is kept confidential. so this means we can't release your information without your explicit permission get a lot of folks are concerned especially come to a sexual health clinic unless you have signed a document that told us exactly who can receive your information, we can give it to anybody outside of our clinic. >> trance men and women face

really significant levels of discrimination and stigma in their daily lives. and in healthcare. hiv and std rates in san francisco are particularly and strikingly high were trans women. so we really try to make city clinic a place that strands-friendly trance competent and trans-welcoming >> everyone from the front desk to behind our amazement there are completely knowledgeable. they are friendly good for me being a sex worker, i've gone through a lot of difficult different different medical practice and sometimes they weren't competent and were not friendly good they kind of made me feel like they slapped me on the hands but living the sex life that i do. i have been coming here for seven years. when i come here i know they my services are going to be met. to be confidential but i don't have to worry about anyone looking at me or making me feel less >> a visit with a clinician come take anywhere from 10

minutes if you have a straightforward concern, to over an hour if something goes on that needs a little bit more help. we have some testing with you on site. so all of our samples we collect here. including blood draws. we sent to the lab from here so people will need to go elsewhere to get their specimens collect. then we have a few test we do run on site. so those would be pregnancy test, hiv rapid test, and hepatitis b rapid test. people get those results the same day of their visit. >> i think it's important for transgender, gender neutral people to understand this is the most confidence, the most comfortable and the most knowledgeable place that you can come to. >> on-site we have condoms as well as depo-provera which is also known as [inaudible] shot. we can prescribe other forms of contraception. pills, a patch and rain. we provide pap smears to women who are uninsured in san francisco residents or, to

women who are enrolled in a state-funded program called family pack. pap smears are the recommendation-recommended screening test for monitoring for early signs of cervical cancer. we do have a fair amount of our own stuff the day of his we can try to get answers for folks while they are here. whenever we have that as an option we like to do that obviously to get some diagnosed and treated on the same day as we can. >> in terms of how many people were able to see in a day, we say roughly 100 people.if people are very brief and straightforward visits, we can sternly see 100, maybe a little more. we might be understaffed that they would have a little complicated visits we might not see as many folks. so if we reach our target number of 100 patients early in the day we may close our doors early for droppings. to my best advice to be senior is get here early.we do have a website but it's sf

city clinic.working there's a wealth of information on the website but our hours and our location. as well as a kind of kind of information about stds, hiv,there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for 15, 40 75500. the phones answered during hours for clients to questions. >> >> >> san francisco recreation and parks department offers classes

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that offered me a chance safe house will forever be a part of the who i've become and you made that possible life didn't get any better than that. >> who've would know this look of this girl grown up in atlanta will be working with produced women in san francisco part of the system that has abused and expedited and obtain identified and degraded women for century around the world and still do at the embody the spirits of women that just know they deserve respect and intend to get it. >> i don't want to just so women younger women become a part of the the current system we need to change the system

we don't need to go up the ladder we need to change the corporations we need more women like that and they're out there. >> we get have to get to help them. >> i had a team of four people including myself responsible for the technical side of the business. anything having to do with the tabling in the workstation -- cabling in the workstation. victor is the team lead for the enterprise applications and architecture group. they do vice the strategy.

they take on special projects and implementation of the technology. victor and his team are on the cutting edge. >> they deal within from structure. they make everything work. i am fortunate to have the guys there dedicated and have my back. if it weren't for this group of guys, a lot of things would not be as reliable as they are. >> we surrounded victor with a team, and he is mentoring these folks and giving them the benefit of his sploshes, the way he approach -- of his process and challenging them to force them to go in their skill set. what we are trying to do in a couple years time we will have four victors. >> it is important to teach the younger generation if you are going to learn a technology today it is more important to

learn to adapt. >> victor brings technical excellence, commitment to quality. he has all of the things you need to be successful. >> he is so committed to building relationships within the team in terms of his organizing the annual barbecue and the work going into that is not well understood, weeks and weeks of planning and buying food and cooking. he is an anchor for the rest of the team. >> we have a responsibility to the city for being effective and making sure we are as efficient as we can be. that is important. >> victor deserves the golden pride award for dedication and commitment and the quality of work that he does every day. it is important we acknowledge

that and recognize it publicly. >> i am the principal information systems engineer.... [ gavel ]. systems engineer.... >> good afternoon. i'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. this day is tuesday, july 23, 2019. roll call, please. [ roll call ]