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>> yes, mr. president. we have one offered by supervisor walton. >> can we come back to this item? i believe our honourees are taking pictures with the mayor at this point. >> no problem. just let us know. i'll go ahead and submit my stuff here. and so colleagues, today i am introducing a hearing request and a motion to hold this hearing as a committee of the whole. the topic of our city's police staffing and an expert analysis of the san francisco police department's current strategies around staffing with recommendations regarding changes for us to consider. the analysis was performed by matrix along with the police commission and the san francisco police department and will be presented in detail at this hearing. as many of you know, i have been
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raising the issue of adequate police staffing for several years. in june of 2018, the budget and legislative analysts provided this board with a performance audit of the san francisco police department so we could better understand, number one, how the police are deploying police staff that is funded by the general fund and number two, how uniform staff is allocated to administrative versus patrol duties. the recommendations of that audit was that in light of an increase in property crime in our city, accompanying the public demand for more officers in the street, the sanfrancisco police department should civilianize as many administrative positions as possible. this is the best practise recognized by major law enforcement, including the international association of
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chiefs of police and adopted by most major law enforcement departments in the country. but san francisco's racial of swoossworn officers to civilianf remains higher than the national average or peers. this is why i ask the controllers' office to provide us with an analysis of the effort to date in which we heard a couple months ago at the public safety and neighborhood committee. at the same time, i also tasked the department to work with experts in the field such as matrix to provide the board and public with a report about their staffing needs and the manner by which san francisco police department determines its staffing levels throughout its different positions. i have asked in this report and
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these details to be presented individually to each supervisor beforehand to ensure that questions that any of my colleagues have can be addressed in a final report and hearing itself. every year during budget time, this board is asked to support departmental budgets and we rely on the department to tell us what they need to carry out their assigned responsibilities. this is important when it comes to the nuts and bolts to running the city smoothly. for example, public works doesn't have enough resources, that impacts the level and quality of service that we are providing to our residents, businesses and visitors. at the same time, we have to be vigilant that we are being efficient with our taxpayer dollars and making the very best use of these resources to get the most value possible for our
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residents, businesses and visitors. with the financial projections that ar our controller publishe, indicating a slower economy here, it would be more important to have a reliable and complete information when it comes to our upcoming budget discussions. sfpd should have a civilization plan in place as a key component to maximize the full manufactury officers providing public safety services and give us a basis to determine if we need to adjust the charters' mandate of 1,971 full-duty officers. ultimately, in analysis from matrix should provide us with information that we can then use
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as policy makers to make the determination, including whether the charter needs to be amended to reflect a more realistic number of police staff necessary for effectively safeguarding the security of our city and all who live, work and visit here. this topic is important and i ask my colleagues' support to have this hearing before us as a committee of the whole on january 28th and again, i urge you to sit down and meet with the folks at matrix and the sfpd before that date so that we are able to have a robust discussion at that time. the rest i submit. >> thank you, mr. president. >> supervisor furer. >> thank you. colleagues, today i am introducing several hearings on the city budget process and related issues, including the mayor's budget instructions, the joint report update to the
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[cheers and applause] >> so colleagues, today i would love to honor the middle-school owls for their city-wide championship victory. the academic athletic association was held on decembee pavilion with every middle school slipping pass the trojans 38-37. the lead see-sawed back and forth and it was tied with 12 seconds left when the owls, paul antoine, jr., stole inbound pass and subsequently fouled while driving for a lay-up. he stepped to the line and after
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missing the first free throw, he calmly nailed the second, giving his squad a one-point lead. the trojans had one final shot under pressure and defense that was off the mark giving everette the title and their first since 1987 and second overall. oftentimes we highlight the negatives around our young people. today we chose to highlight the positive accomplishments of some of our mid-school students. and although every middle-school is not located in district 10, it's in district 8, we do have a number of students that reside in district 10 and attend the school and i love to highlight the accomplishments of our young people. so today, and i want to read off the members of the team, some of the coaches and school personnel. team members, darion craney,
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christopher jackson, paul antoine, raley dozzle, kadere jewels, michael ray, kamari mclaughlin, tyro loez, angel perry, deshawn landry, gicon z gicon zuniga, jaymon ison, and, of course, some of the school personnel, the athletic director, rubin arbina, their coach, known as mr. c. and corey monroe, who is school district personnel, and also my uncle, i must say.
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laugh glamp .[ laughter ] >> congratulations to the young man for your accomplishments and let's make sure our accomplishments on the court are equal in the classroom, as well, and mr. c., i don't know if you want to say a few words but congratulations to the evert school for your championship win. [cheers and applause] >> first of all, i'm very gracious to be here and very thankful. i would like to thank shamot, mr. monroe. first of all, i've been doing this since 11 years od years oly block. so i finally get recognised for certain things i've been doing in the community. today is my birthday and it feels good. [cheers and applause] >> it feels good. [cheers and applause] >> this is a good group of youngsters and they've got a good future ahead of them, so you have to stay tuned. evert will be back here again
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and we have a lot more positive things we'll be doing for the community and a lot more positive things i'll be doing for these youngsters and i appreciate it. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> i wanted to say something real quick. our school social worker, her son, desmond's birthday is today and he's a young owl himself. happy birthday, desmond! cheer cheer.
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so i have three items today. i'm going to start with a resolution. this resolution is particularly personal to me and calling on the united states congress to vote on the warpower of donald trump's military actions in iran and to mandate the notification sent by president trump to members of congress delineating the legal grounds for drone strikes as required by the war's powers act to be declassified and shared with the american public. as many of you know, the president made a very strong military move, talking out one of the highest ranking members in the military regardless of their position since world war ii, since the japanese general was taken out in a plane in world war ii. this act, seen by many as
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illicit, many have called it an assassination, whatever position you take on it, there's no question that it has fanned the flames in an area of the world that does not need a lot of fanning. it has put american lives at risk. it has put american citizens at risk and it has escalated a situation to a point where we're not exactly clear what our president is doing. then after that move -- and let's be clear, the person that was taken out was also in many ways a war criminal himself and had blood on his hands. so there's no sympathy for that individual. but the act itself is not something i think many of the people of our country support and particularly the people that are in that region are also feeling very unsafe and scared. after that, the president followed up by saying if there's any retaliation, he's pushed out
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52 cultural sites in iran that he would target if retaliated against. that in and of itself is an illegal war act, it is barbaric and ruled the last group of people to deface and destroy cultural monuments where isis. so this president is following in the footsteps of isis by making statements like that. so our speaker of the house has put forward and has talked about announcing, voting on limiting war powers' resolution that would put constraints on this president and force him to come to the united states' congress before he made any more military actions. so i submit that today and, again, i do that with the hope that we will not escalate that
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area of the world and drag our military personnel and innocent people into war. and so, anyway, thank you. secondly, on a more local note, which i think is extremely important, i'm introducing a resolution today. i've working on that resolution with frontline nurses and some are here in the audience today. and this resolution is urging the administrative staff of the department of public health, particularly at sf general to include a frontline registered nurses and resident physicians in their decision-making process to implement to the extent possible an expedited hiring process to 90 days or less. once an application is received, and to cease supplementing staffing requirements with a contract of registered nurses and putting a ceiling on that,
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to provide annual violence prevention, training, disaster training and to support bilingual staff. the basis of this is not my idea. we heard those nurses come into this chamber and they asked for help. they've been asking for help for quite a long time. and they are at a dangerous staffing level at our most important institution in the city and county of san francisco. i was receiving texts during the holidays of staffing that had fallen far below what they believe was a safe environment. staffing being asked and frontline nurses are asked to do mandatory overtime. they're working 16 and 20-hour shifts and this is not what the city and county of san francisco should be supporting in any way, shape or form. so this resolution is straightforward and i want to think my cosponsor, supervisor
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walton. i hope all of my colleagues will support this resolution and i know that we had previously a resolution on the resident physicians. this is in partnership with that, but very specific to the staffing levels, the hiring, the understaffing, the chronic use of outside registered nurses for contract purposes, but the idea that we would take 200, sometimes 300 days to hire someone in a position that is very much in need. i'm sure many of you have visited the emergency room, usually on sad reasons, called in or notified of things that happened in our district. i visited -- i had the fortune of visiting the emergency room recently and also being given a tour of the facility and so we've gotten a commitment from the leadership of the hospital
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they're willing to work with the nurses and that's why to ensure that that actually happens, we're putting this resolution forward and we're putting it in paper and setting parameters around that. secondly, and in pup wit pip pa, we're calling for a hearing today to learn more about the staffing, to learn more about the safety training, bilingual services, temporary staffing protocols of registered nurses at the department of public help and specifically at sf general, because we want to zero in on this issue. we want to invite the nurses that have been talking about this for some time to be a part of the solution and be a part of the ways in which we can get this hospital back up to the appropriate level and make sure that it's safe for many years to come. and after that, the rest, i submit. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor. mr. president, that concludes the introduction of new business.
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>> let's go tbefore we go to tht item, i would like to be added as a cosponsor for the first two resolutions. >> thank you. and madam clerk, i know i said i submit, one last sentence, if that's ok. i want to make sure that i call out specifically 1021 and the nurses themselves, but also julie, krista, jason, kirsten, heather, for all of your time and effort over the holidays. as i said, this was not my idea. this was coming directly from the nurses themselves. thank you, and the rest if i submit. >> ok, so i believe we're not ready for item number 2 so let's go to public 14, public comment. >> at this time, we would appreciate the public comment.
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if you would line up on the right-hand side, you'll have up to two minutes to share your comments on the board meeting minutes and reference to the committee calendar. please note that public comment is not allowed on those items which have already had the public comment requirement satisfied at a committee. please direct remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual members, nor to the audience. if you're utilizing interpretation, you'll be allowed twice the amount of time to testify and if you would like to use the projector to display a document, just say outloud to sf gov tv. first speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm krista duran. i am a san francisco general hospital emergency department nurse and shop steward for
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sciu 1021. i'm actually here at public comment after working a 12-hour shift last night. and i live in the east bay and i thought it was really important to come today to hear supervisor safaye to announce this resolution. we've been working in close -- a lot during the holidays and also with sue ha, his chief legislative staff, i believe, is the correct title. didn'i just want to say it's a h of fresh air to be listened to. i just want to give a brief synopsis, a little more detail about how our weekend was on friday, the 27th. all of the contract nurses, their contracts ended at the same time and left all permanent staff alone and it was skeleton crew. so on a friday night during flu
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season, during the holidays, we are supposed to have at minimum per the census of 2016, which you all know has increased by 20% since then, we're supposed to have at least 28 nurses and that night we had 16. i walked in to my shift through the front entrances and there were patients lined up in the hallways, getting breathing treatments and iv fluids in the hall, in the waiting room. there were l 45 patients in the waiting room. we were so short-staffed, we're a 58-bed er and we closed 29 bed. we're a level-one trauma center. so it's real. it's scarry and there was a day they had to call in and this is because they were just really, really --
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>> thank you, next speaker, please. >> my name is mike him. hill. i'm a nurse in er and i worked last night, as well. i'm here in support of my colleagues and thank you so much for listening to us. >> sir, please speak directly into the microphone. >> i'm sorry. for listening to us and the resolution that i hope you all uphold. last night was a typical night. although, it's getting worse every week. we had, again, patients lined up in the hallway. if it weren't for the fact that some of the day-shift nurses who had worked 12 hours stayed over 16, i don't know what we would have done. we had, in our recess area, where our sickest patients will arrive, and we have six recess rooms, we had 14 patients. and this has been a daily
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struggle for us and we haven't been listened to, despite multiple attempts to get these needs addressed by the hospital admission. so i think the fact that we are here today and you're listening to us will make a difference for us and thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker. >> thank you again for listening to us and being concerned, you should be. this is the map of the emergency room and so you can have an idea. it's massive. the 45 people that krista was talking about were just right here. this is the trauma area that mike was talking about, and these are just little tiny rooms and there are six of them. there are ten to 20 people end up here now. pes is on condition red, which means they get shut down and they shut documen down to everyg
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because they're full and all patients end up right here. all end up in the hallway here and these are severe psychiatric people with suicidal or psychosis issues. this is the other area they end up in. the area that was closed down this weekend and is often closed down due to admissions is here. this whole area, this is pod c, a third of the department. so, basically, what this means is your level-one trauma center is, like, full to the brim of back-up. and so, when people keep coming in, as they do, because they don't know this is happening, they pile up and that's when they end up in this waiting room sitting forever because we don't have through-put out the other end, basically. they've been cited by the state, and just so you know, there are
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several state agencies coming through the hospital because of safety issues. so there are serious things going on there, but we had to stop some care that was illegal in the waiting room, as well, because there's just no through-put, basically. but i'm glad that you guys are listening to us. hopefully thank you for the future and coming into the resolution that the supervisors put forth. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hello, i'm maria and i'm here today because i have a concern about my neighborhood. i live in the southeast corner of bayview hunter's point and i've been there about 15 years, worked, teach, raised my family there. but it's my only perspective on this whole city and so i don't know what's going on in other neighborhoods but when it comes to the homelessness crisis, that's the only thing i spend my extra time on, like,
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>> these individuals receive support from our agencies as they transition their lives in america in the greater bay area, which is often the place where they only know one other person who actually lives in the country. in the past three years, it has been a small number of of refugees and small visa numbers and individuals who have served with u.s. forces who actually are resettled within san francisco city or county, although our agencies have also assisted several hundred others through immigration services to obtain citizenship. however, for every single one of
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those individuals who is allowed to come and join family, this opportunity is lifesaving. we have provided the gamut of new arrival services supporting those newcomers and finding housing, enrolling their children in schools, connecting to a medical home, in obtaining employment. as your settlement agencies are deeply committed to the commitment of this city and county in supporting all newcomers, establishing homes here. we think the city and county of san francisco for your support in this consent to continue settling refugees and we believe that in this process, we strongly affirm with you the commitment to welcoming refugees to our community. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> linda chapman from nob hill. i saw in the paper today the article about the abigail.
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probably none of you know the extent to which it was the symbol of saving the residential hotels. i got a call back in the day from gordon chen telling me that chinatown and tenderloin and south of market were organizing to save residential hotels and they asked if i would join. and of course,, we joined. and then i met diana who was a vista organizer here and you had made the abigail the symbol. the supervisors would talk about the elderly ladies who took tea in the lobby and so forth. i have to let you know more about that. i am hoping that, you know, wherever she is she knows this and if you have some kind of celebration that she should be invited, the way i was invited to the cadillac hotel along with the people who passed the residential hotel ordinance in the first place. i think that would be very fitting.
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having supportive housing is so much the way to go. it is absolutely important as opposed to having people in shelters forever, totally inappropriate. we -- emergency soldiers are needed, but supportive housing -- i'm so glad you are doing this. it's so distressing when i see how little people know about what has happened in the past. i see them ingratiating -- claiming that he is helping homeless people. he made them homeless. after i put all that work into saving residential hotels, that man eliminated three in nob hill that i know of including one at my corner where ladies, not all asian, many, many more have a place to live. the whole time i lived there from 1969 until somehow he got hold of it along with the one on bush street and the one on -- >> thank you. next speaker, please.
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>> good afternoon. my name is joshua and i'm a third-year student at san francisco state university majoring in political science and minoring in urban studies. i'm here today to discuss the issue of parking, which turns out to be a major expense with students at san francisco state. in my position in student government, i have had the unique opportunity to learn more about academic institutions and on our campus, as well as the underlying problems that students experience during their times s.f. state. the issue of parking, is especially problematic at s.f. state do to the fact our campus is over 60% commuter and many of our students come from various parts of san francisco, the east bay, and down the peninsula. our campus only has 1700 parking spots each semester. because it is required to be self funding through the system, we have the highest prices in the entire straight with a
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five-day parking pass costing $640 a semester plus tax compared to the second highest which is $338 at san marcos. the fact of the matter is, students already pay their fair share of taxes, which is $180 a semester on our campus each semester, which gives universal access to all students through munimobile. with thousands of students studying full time and more than one job, 17% of our students are housing and secure and 48% are food insecure.
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i hope we have financial -- we have financial issues to deal with. we look forward to working with the board of supervisors -- >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> san francisco government tv? >> it gives life. the flesh profits nothing. the word that i speak under you are spirit and life. the lord said unto my lord, sit down my right hand and i make my enemies my footstool. the lord shall send the strength to you and rule in the mist of thine enemies. thy people should be willing in the day of thy power and the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning. it is the due of our youth. the lord is sworn and will not
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repent. a priest forever after the order the lord shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. he shall judge among the heathens. he should fill the places with the dead bodies. he shall wound the heads over many countries. he shall drink of the brook in the way. therefore, shall he lift up the head. these scriptures have to do with the kingdom of kingdom of god and the kingdom of men and i have the official petition here to recall gavin newsom as our governor. i don't think in all of our history we have ever had as audacious of a governor as we have here in california, the nephew of pelosi. he took trumpet's name off the ballot and it took our supreme court to say no, you have the right to vote even if you are a citizen who was born here and pays taxes. you do have the right to vote.
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when we consider these words from the lord jesus christ in the gospel according to john, it is the spirit that gives life, the flesh profits nothing. the words that i speak under the are spirit and life. we should consider -- >> thank you. next speaker, please. if there is any other speaker after this one, please line up, otherwise you will be the last. >> thank you.
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>> the overhead, please. what i would like to say is if you know what these letters mean , you are ahead of the game and i believe there are enough people here in this room to know what these letters mean, but the reason i put that on his because i wanted to show the people at home generosity. the clerk of the board here allows me the time to park this wagon and allow myself to reach and place a piece of paper there the clerk of the board also is generous to the margins of topics that public comment is allowed here. i'm saying this because i missed the december -- the 1st week of december when we had a celebration of the office of the clerk of the board.
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there is a gentle repair activity that comes when you are here and you were on this side of the fence and you are at this side of the microphone and our clerk has a lot to do with that. it also affects the workers and her staff. i believe nice is nice and they are lucky to have a nice person there. they are helpful, and they have given me a footstool to put my swollen ankles up while i am sitting here waiting. we are privileged, all of us in the room and in the office, to have this clerk for this time. years ago, i don't know how long ago, there was a painful discussion of words, condemnation that became torturous, self-righteousness, a
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book in hand by a public speaker here. i will always remember that time when we were saved by the bell. in the recognition of commendations, there used to be a bell that would ring, and under this clerk when people are presented a commendation and an award and they have a few minutes to speak with their friends here, their workers here , there is no more bell that signifies your time is up. i hope that is a tradition that continues on under new presidents and other clerks. that is about all i would like to say, except that, again, the overhead. there is enough people here to
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know that certified nursing assistants is what that means. and on november 26th, two days before thanksgiving, i suffered a stroke. i got to meet a bunch of these people and the nurses. we are very thankful. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is owen cooper i am a physician and a member of the oversight council for the senior and disability aging commission. i am here to discuss about the decision to defund mother brown 's kitchen. no reason has been given yet that i am aware of. that has been a community institution for 30 years.
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gwendolyn who runs it now knows the people and many of them are elderly and many are disabled. they are comfortable there. it is a community resource. the new group coming in is from los angeles when looking at their board and at their management. we are going to replace, apparently, a long-established institution in a fairly close community in the bayview neighborhood where somebody who has cared for them for years and years is going to lose that. it is going to destabilize a lot of these people. it's hard for older adults to adapt sometimes. they have been going there for years. i really hope that this board will try and find out the basis for proposing it.
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thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> on december 11th of last year, the northern district u.s. attorney made a public appeal for san francisco police officers to rejoin the joint terrorism task force. this requires the police commission and the board of supervisors to approve the commitment with the police union consensus. over the past year of the northern district, they have charged individuals in criminal cases involving 187 firearms violations additionally on the docket are 220 violent crime cases and 230 drug offences. it's worth remembering with regards to narcotic cases that unlike retail merchants, the seller does not require proof of age prior to the completion of purchase.
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a toddler died after being exposed to fentanyl. it is remembered in san francisco that parents avoid changing the diapers of their babies in public facilities intended for that purpose, owing to their fear of potential risk of surface contamination. a federal initiative for the tenderloin has been established. it is composed of 15 participating agencies, the d.a. , a.t.f. and the u.s. attorney's office chief among them. all of them whom request that local law enforcement available will be selling their services in coordination with federal agencies to develop capacity to engage effective policing. it's suited, tailored and fit to the task. the recent success of this commendation of law enforcement agencies is shutting down the market of local stolen items and
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has deprived drug dealers of unlawful drug steel -- drug sales. >> thank you. any other speakers? this is the last speaker. come on up. >> mr. president, in about a week, it will be the women's march. i have come up. before saying that i would need some help with impeachment. i said that a few times. i think the resolution about the war powers act that will be synergistic towards it. we don't know what the president is doing. he himself doesn't know what he is doing. so it has come to pass for me for the past for years that i have become a visitor to several of the emergency rooms in the immediate area. that is my lifestyle in the tenderloin.
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the one -- the old when a general hospital and the new one , and the new one at general hospital really is aspirational and what it attempts to achieve. i see the number of problems that you are addressing today and how far you have to stretch the money. more power to you. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. madame clerk, let's go back to item number two. >> the ordinance to approve the developed agreement between the city and the san francisco flower marked. >> supervisor peskin? >> thank you. colleagues, this is a banner day between the academy of art and the flower marked. and those two players are inextricably linked because it was about a decade ago that the academy of art actually attempted to buy part of the flower marked.
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it is appropriate to be rising to item number 1212. i want to start by saying a few things about the flower market. it's the second wholesale flower market in the united states of america. it employees many, many people. it is one of the most colorful people -- places in san francisco and if you have not been there at the crack of dawn, i suggest that you go while it is currently in his second are arguably third funky spot in san francisco, you can take it back to the fountain. you can take it back to his first place in the south of market, which i think is on howard street before they ended up -- where they have been for over a century at six and brannon at the entrance to highway 280. there are over 50 different vendors there, but it employees people not only up and down the
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state of california, but to nevada and southern oregon. i want to salute the vendors and the staff who have stuck with that intergenerational he at the flower market. many of them in their third and even in one case, fourth generations at the flower market we have all, are almost all of us accept for supervisor preston voted for the ever-changing south of market legislation that was the central soma plan that originated under supervisor kim and then was inherited by supervisor haney who is the lead sponsor of both items number one , as well as item number two. the world is changing in the south of south of market and the flower market needs to be accommodated into the dawn of
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the 21st century. i really want to thank the kilroy corporation, john kilroy who i have met with personally a number of times is -- his counsellors, and his staff, and particularly the office of economic and workforce development and can rich for stewarding what is this development agreement that is before us today on its second reading. since we last voted on this before we went dark for the recess, there have been a number of changes to the development agreement and i want to thank the parties and their respective council for figuring out those changes, which i think i was very clear would be forthcoming. i would like to ask you to speak to those. colleagues, i want to be clear, pursuant to what is in the
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ordinance, these changes to the development agreement do not materially increase the city's obligations or liabilities, and with that, i will turn it over to her and she will speak to those changes in the development agreement. >> thank you. i just have a couple of changes that i want to read into the record related to the agreement. in section 3.8 of the development agreement, we are striking language that refers to a judicial challenge. we are striking the language of any vendor of the existing flower market, challenging the permit outside approvals, striking that language from the agreement and extending 3.8.1,
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and again in section 3.8.2. striking the language related to vendors filing a challenge to any future approvals. and then in section 6.9. to, which -- 6.9.2 which is the legacy business fund component of the document, we are adding language that, in its sole discretion and subject all approvals, the city may consider contributing additional funds to the central soma legacy business and p.d.r. support fund. so those are the changes. i will make sure to get a copy to the clerk this afternoon. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor peskin, would you like to make any motion? >> i don't think any motion is required. it is all set forth in the ordinance and staff from oewd has elicited the changes in the development agreement. colleagues, i would commend this to you on second reading.
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>> okay. we will accept those changes onto the agreement. without objections. can we take this item, -- same item, same house, same call? this ordinance is finally passed madame clerk, let's go to our last item, number 15. >> fifteen is a resolution to support the resettlement of refugees within the city and concur in the mayor's consent to accept refugees in the city under the united states department, department, states reception and replacement program. >> colleagues, the item before us today reaffirms san francisco 's support to the resettlement of refugees within san francisco. i find it ridiculous that we even have to pass such a resolution, but on september 19 th, 2019, the trump
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administration signed an executive order that tried to require state and local government to consent to receive refugees under the reception and placement program before the federal government will resettle refugees. san francisco will always be a sanctuary city and one that welcomes refugees. now more than ever we stand firmly in our belief that anyone fleeing violence, war, and discrimination deserves a right to find a safe, humane heaven. executive order 13888 likely violates federal law and is contrary to everything our nation should be standing for. this would be a challenge in the courts and in no way does san francisco concede that executive order places any lawful condition upon us. we are here to stand in our
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values that refugees will always be welcome and accepted here. before we take a vote on this, i would love to invite any of my colleagues to be cosponsors of this. supervisor ronen? >> i would love -- >> supervisors? everybody? it's unanimous. can we take this item same house , same call? okay. without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madame clerk, please read the in memoriam. >> the meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of supervisor walton, for the late willie may ficus, on behalf of supervisor peskin, for the late mr. michael lenard, esther prichard, and dena boyer.
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year. january meeting of the commission for the department of disability and aging services. will the secretary please call the role. [roll call] please note that executive director shireen mcspadden is present. we ask you silence all cell phones and sound-producing devices. >> thank you. may i have a motion to approve the january 10 agenda? >> so moved. >> second. >> any discussion? all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. may i have a motion to approve the december 4, 2019, meeting minutes? >> so moved. >> do i have a second? >> second. >> thank you.
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any discussion? call the question, all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? the motion carryies. now item number 4, the director's report, executive director shireen mcspadden. >> good morning and happy new year. is this mic on? so i feel like we just met because the holidays kind of sucked up much of december, so i don't have a huge amount to report. i was in washington dc the second week of december which was actually after we met last month. and i was there for the meetings and they are the national association of area agencies on aging. the december meeting is when we put together the policy priorities for the next year. so we spent quite a bit of time working on that and the issues that came up were the ones that you would expect. things like aging and
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homelessness, food insecurity, the big kind of big ticket items and basic needs issues that are kind of hitting older adults across the country. so i think everybody was really saying we are experiencing the same issues. there also continues to be a lot of focus on workforce, both for the workforce issues we have around care giving and gerontology and things like that, but also there was a big focus on the need for jobs for older adults and the need for support for jobs for older adults and advocacy and all of that. so it's always interesting to be there and hear from other people across the country and also kind of sobering to realize that these issues are really so widespread and nobody is surprised by that, but really just the stories are really sobering about what people are dealing with. and i think the fact that older
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adults get overlooked in big conversations so often. so there's a lot of need for advocacy like what we have in san francisco, across country. the second thing was i think the big thing that happened in december and into january was that i think all of you read about city college, and i believe we actually spoke about it at the last meeting because it had just happened, city college announced they were cutting back on a number of courses. one of the big cutbacks was the older adult learning program. and there were 50 of the 58 existing classes were slashed in the budget that city college put out. and of course that meant that a number of classes that were going to start in january for the spring semester were immediately cut and people were told those classes wouldn't exist. and so the city was really very interested, the mayor's office, the board was really interested in figuring out how to preserve
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some of those classes for older adults. and fortunately because of the fund, we had some one-time only dollars available that we were able to work with the mayor's office to structure over three years, so we can use one-time only money over three years to preserve some classes. and it's only 17 of the 50 that were cut. and the reason we were able to do the 17 is because they happen to be in senior centers that we already fund or in centers that we already fund. so we already had a relationship with these sites. we fund them directly. and what this means is we will be able to fund them directly to continue the classes in those sites for three years. and i think it's really great that the city was able to step in and do that.
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it's a little complicated, because moving it from the city college, part of the city college budget and that structure into a structure where it's run by these various senior centers is a little complicated for people to figure out. so we are working through the details right now as to what that will look like. but generally speaking, people in the senior centers were really excited that their classes will continue. i think in my 17 years with the department i've never gotten so many letters and phone calls about something. it was clearly striking a cord with the population that we serve in san francisco. people were very upset about the loss of these classes and continue to be upset about the loss of the classes that are not preserved right now. and i know many of you are involved in the advocacy around that. but for right now we were able to preserve those classes. and i also want to say i think
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that for the senior centers that we partner with, this is a big piece of the programming. and to lose that would have been really hurtful. and those classes are a way that people come in the door, and then they are able to access other services at the senior center and also maybe services later on down the line on our spectrum of services when they need them. and so preserving that seemed to be very important. the other thing i'm going to do in my report today is to give you the six-month update on our action plan when we met back in september, august, whenever -- i think it was august or september, and we met in closed session, you asked me to present you six months in and give you an update as to where we are with our annual action plan. so i'm going to do that today. and i'm thankful to rose who helped me put it together but also who is going to change over
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the slides. can we get this on the -- does everybody have it up on their screen? okay. so our strategic plan goals, if you go to the -- well, never mind. our strategic plan goals are in front of you so maintain a robust network of community-based services for older people and adults with disabilities, protect older people and adults with disabilities from abuse, neglect and financial exploitation, provide and support
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consumer-centered programming to best address client needs, expand planning and evaluation efforts to ensure best use of resources and maximize client outcomes and then support and develop and engage professional workforce that is prepared to work with older people and adults with disabilities. so our progress to date, so our progress to date is that we have started 48 actions that are currently in progress, and we have 14 actions remaining that will be started in the second half of the fiscal year. so basically we have 62 actions that we said that we would complete during this fiscal year, and we are well into that. and one of the things that i'm not going to go through every single action, because that would take all morning, and
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president serina would not appreciate that. [laughter] >> it's difficult to contain my enthusiasm. >> right? but i did want to talk about a few highlights. and so i'm going to go goal by goal and just kind of highlight one or two things in each goal. so goal one, strategy c if you have your plan in front of you, strategy c is to strengthen san francisco's caregiver network, including enhanced support for informal caregivers and supporting a robust provider workforce. our action was to strengthen processes to enroll and support ihss independent providers. previously the service center was operating in a small office with really inadequate space and we used to have lines down the street, even in the rain and things like that. so this is really better. and it's also better because our service center, being able to
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serve providers as well as clients is really exciting and having everybody in one place really makes sense, so providers can learn about other services. often providers are people who might need our services in other ways. and so it's helpful to have that. we have completed the transition to group orientation which provides a much more efficient process. we used to do it one by one, and we really didn't need to do that. and we are currently working with i.t. to build a texting system so that we can text people messages and things like that. we are aiming to have the system functional by the end of the fiscal year. and the texting system we have started using with some of our medical programs and it's proven to be popular. so while not everybody appreciates texts or gets their news or information that way, we find that it's really helpful for a lot of our providers. and goal two, develop
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specialized resources or strategies to develop specialized resources to address specific client needs and resolve complex cases including high-risk conditions, self-neglect behaviors and financial abuse. our action was to launch the san francisco home safe program. so home safe launched in july 1 with $773,000 in funds from the state. it's a partnership of adult protective services, the homeless department and the institute on aging. a.p.s. and the institute on aging provide case management and purchase of services for clients who are at risk. bay they focus on people at risk of homelessness due to self neglect, particularly those coming through the homeless department. quarterly meetings to support this implementation and to help build and expand upon the partnership. in the first six months, 25 individuals were enrolled and
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were on track with our proposal to the state. our anticipated service levels for the two-year pilot are 120 clients. and so the program's going smoothly so far. then goal three is to strategy c is to ensure programs are culturally appropriate for the diverse low-income adults and adults with disabilities, including the first lgbtq aging out of the closet. and action was in partnership with the office of transgender initiatives to identify and fund services to support transgender older adults and people with disabilities. so d.a.s. and the office of transgender initiatives held stakeholder meetings to discuss potential services, which i think was really valuable for us.
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and this is a community that we are really learning about and of course a community that has very, very diverse needs. and also is a community that is extremely at risk as probably many of you know and read about or you have friends who experience what it's like to be transgender in san francisco or anywhere, and so we really wanted to learn what do people need, how do people feel safe, how can we really help this population, especially the population of older adults. the focus on services and resources that support connection and engagement, because that's what people really wanted. we put out an r.f.p., the process has been completed, and we have two contracts coming to you later this morning. we are excited about that. while we are going to continue figuring out what the needs of this community are, we feel like this is a really great start. and from our understanding, this is the first of this type of
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initiative in the country. and then goal four, strategy c, was to facilitate planning processes and implementation of efforts to promote inclusion of older adults and people with disabilities within the broader city community. action two, launch a san francisco reframing aging campaign to reframe public perception of aging. many of you were involved in this with us, so it's been great. i think the community has really taken up the cause of reframing the campaign ran from october through december with public messaging and advertisements and hopefully all of you saw them through the the city. i think our media people did a great job of distributing the wall scapes and the light poles and all the things across the city. but we also had a robust social media piece too. we are now reflecting on the
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campaign and really thinking about what the next steps are. we had 3700 people so far take the pledge to end ageism online. we still have more coming in. i talked to people this week who said they were going to take the pledge. i'm not sure if they have, but that's continuing to build momentum. we will be reconvening a stakeholder group to discuss phase 2, focused on increasing public awareness of services. if you remember our first phase was to reach out to the general public and say ageism exists, let's think about this together. and then the next phase is to say hey, atmosphere there are services here that are -- also there are services here that are really great that an older adult could use, all of that. and that's where we are now. and then the goal five was to --
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sorry, strategy b was to explore strategies to develop and operationallize an equity framework. our action in this case that we are highlighting is train adult protective services on principles of trauma-informed systems and create a staff-driven committee to create a plan for applying principles and practice. so staff have been trained on trauma-informed systems and d.a.s. has two certified trainers on staff. a.p.s. started a trauma-informed system staff group to implement the principles. the real reason we did this, and this is a movement across the country, but in san francisco, it's being rolled out across the department of public health, and we want to do this in the same way with our direct services staff. and staff are working with people who experienced much trauma and are reexperiencing that trauma. and staff experience secondary
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trauma. some of them have experienced trauma in their life as well and they are dealing with people in trauma all the time. and it's like how do we give staff the tools to really handle that in the way that it's healthy for them and where they are taking care of themselves and where we are helping to take care of each other. so it's been really -- i think staff have had really -- i think positive reaction to the training, and we are working through how to really bring some of these principles into practice, because it's complicated, and people are really businessy and -- busy, but it's important to maintain a healthy climate with our staff. and so in our areas of focus january to june, so we are always using the community needs assessment to help inform where we need to move.
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we have thought a lot about equity issues in san francisco and how we serve people who are serving, who we are not. so one of the things that we learned from the community needs assessment is that latino caregivers, adults with disabilities and lgbtq and communities of color are not using our services -- sometimes not using our services in the same way. so we want to convene community leaders to discuss service utilizeation and equity concerns and really get good strategies from the community about how to do better outreach and maybe how to either design new programs or at least make our programs more accessible for the broader community, and we really have good information. and i want to thank rose and her team for doing the deep dives they did so we have the information and we can say now we know who we need to talk to, and we are going to convene those groups. we have a focus on strengthening outcome object is in partnership with our community partners.
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just had a conversation about this this morning. i think it's complicated because we are asking people to collect data. we want to know, of course, that our programs are impacting people in the deepest and in the best way possible, and yet we are asking our community partners sometimes to collect more data or use the systems. how do we balance all of those things together and to get to the best understanding of what impact our programs are having out there. deep dive reports, we have had some great information, but we will be looking at legal services trends in asian-pacific islander populations specifically, establish the community-based conservatorship unit to implement the program we have been talking about and you have been reading about in the paper, and conduct public information campaign and develop enhanced outreach path for the community to increase awareness of services, which i just
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mentioned. so that's kind of the big to do in our second half of our year. >> thank you. any comments or questions for shireen? martha? >> especially around -- first of all, thank you for the work you did around trying to save as many classes as you could. it seemed like the most appropriate things to do was save the ones that have to do with our senior centers. will the goal of trying to get more of these classes back or that be incorporated into our overall goals? and they sort of are. so i get that they fit into many of our objectives, but i'm just wondering if there will be a strategy for that to try and identify ones that might be good for our new model, that kind of thing, and try to bring more into the senior centers? i'm not asking for a specific answer today but just kind of in
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this context will there be some work on that? >> i think there are going to have to be conversations around what fits best into our community services bucket. so right now, we have preserved these classes for three years. and i'm sure there will be many discussions in the community about what the best approach is and all of those things. right now -- and we didn't do actually any research about where classes should be. we just said right now we are going to preserve the classes where they are. and there has to be a lot more conversation, but it's a good question. >> i imagine so. so thank you for that work. >> thank you. the issue of secondary trauma is a huge one. and i'm just wondering, the training program, is that coming out of the department of public health? what resources are we drawing on? >> yeah, the department of public health took the lead on it and continue to. there are other resources they have brought in. they have brought in consultants
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to work with them but initially the money was from them, but we can also support it and will continue to. >> thank you. >> shireen, thank you, that was very comprehensive and a great deal has been done. i have a few comments or questions. regarding a.p.s., have we developed -- we have some programs, and have we been able to enhance the programs that reach out to banks and neighbors and law enforcement if they spot any potential signs of abuse? because often they see them first before they become apparent to other people. >> so, yes, and i'm going to ask joel, deputy director who oversees a.p.s. and ihss and the guardianship programs to answer that question >> thank you. >> i did not see you. our a.p.s. director. >> good morning. adult protective services.
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we provide training on reporting to them. we also have a financial abuse unit, and we work with law enforcement. and we are also participating in a pilot where we are engaging, interacting with banks so they can report directly to us, some of these concerns, so we can take immediate action on those reports. >> thank you. it's very important. and as i said, often the last to know are the people who are immediately affected or most concerned. and often the abuser is a relative. so it's very challenging. but thank you. a couple of other questions. while we were -- just last week, the mayor's office announced budget cuts. and we have a very ambitious slate of programs, many of which
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are new or expanded. and do we have any sense yet of how the suggested budget cuts or recommended budget cuts will affect us? >> so i think as you know, commissioner, usually because we are h.s.a., and we have a large agency budget, we have those conversations across the three departments of the agency. so we have not yet had that conversation. part of it is i have not had that conversation and part of it is because i was out sick when we were meeting. but we will definitely be thinking strategically about how we do that. one of the things when we think about the expansion of programs is because of the growth of the dignity fund, and at this point the dignity fund is not touched by those cuts. it could be at some point, but right now that's not on the
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table. and so we can continue working with the money that we have. and so we are doing that. >> i know the dignity fund at the moment looks like it's going to be preserved. but it can change. there's always wiggle room. okay. well, thank you. any other comments? commissioner loo. >> i read in the paper that the city is asking for funds to help with the community college classes. is that true? and also would there be a continuation? >> that's what i was referring to as the money we used one-time only money, and we are spending it over three years. but it's one-time only money. so it's not money that is allocated into the future. we already had an allocation plan that has already been approved. the four-year allocation plan that we brought before you. so this is money that didn't get
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spent in this fiscal year that we are able to structure over three years. so it's the $216,000 per year over three years. yes. it's for the classes that are specifically at the senior centers that we fund. that's what that is. >> okay. and in the future, if the city can't come up with the money, and they will ask us to use -- to get the dignity fund to help out -- i'm just asking a question. >> a very good question. it's an ongoing conversation. >> thank you. >> thank you very much, shireen. thank you, commissioners. the next item on the agenda is employee recognition, the daas commission. thank you, rose. the daas commission and executive director shireen mcspadden about honor maria morabe from the d.a.s. office of in-home support services.
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>> come on, maria. >> you look so excited. [laughter] so excited to be honored today. come on up. >> thank you. >> it's all good. so, all right. so maria is from in-home supportive services. and i would love for all the in-home supportive services staff to stand if possible. [applause] so ihss is d.a.s.'s biggest program. and it's literally over half of our staff. and one of the things i've learned about ihss over the years i've been here is that things are never static, right?
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you think you have caring, or you are doing intake or you are doing reception or you are doing clerical work, and that's your job, but actually what happens is there's change constantly. the state is always saying now do it this way, now do it this way. so one of the big things we are doing this year is electronic verification and that is a huge change. because i know i'm preaching to the choir but i'm actually saying this for the public, and that's that electronic verification is a huge change for providers and for clients. and it means that people who hadn't used electronic devices before have to learn to use them. and in san francisco, we know that a lot of older people and people with disabilities are victims of the digital divide and they didn't get brought along when the rest of us did. and there are a lot of people in
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the community doing a lot of work around that, but we are suddenly hit with this need to put 45,000 people onto this new system. and so i want to thank all the ihss staff and also our contractors who work with ihss like the public authority and home bridge, for coming together and working on this. it's a huge lift. but we are going to get there. so with crista's leadership, we are definitely going to get there. so, maria, i wanted to say that first because i know that you have been honored and you are being honored this month in the midst of all this work that is happening around you. and you have risen to the top. so i'm going to read what your coworkers have said about you. okay? so maria morabe is a very exemplary and professional employee who is worthy of being recognized as employee of the month. she knows her job well, is
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highly organized and managing her time effectively and consistently performs a large volume of work accurately and in a timely manner. she works very well with her peers and takes interest in learning and shares her learning with her peers. you have a great attitude and treat providers and recipients with compassion, dignity and respect, providing them high-quality customer services while addressing their unique individual needs. in addition, she has been designated by the ipac supervisor to train existing and new. what does it stand for? >> independent provider assistance >> how to process moment verification. she has coached her peers and equipped them with how to process different kinds of employment verifications. so you are highly regarded by your peers and your supervisor and you are a great resource and
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support to the rest of ihss and to clients and providers. so thank you so much. [applause] on more of d.a.s., you are our employee for the month. >> thank you. may i say a few words? >> of course you may. >> i have the copy in my hand. i don't want to miss anyone. so first and foremost, thank you to my heavenly father, my family and friends for being here today, a special thank you to the special someone who nominated me, my direct supervisor for endorsing the nomination, our management team, the executive director, of course, and our deputy directors, program manager, program director, thank you for your selection. thank you to the commissioners for allowing us this time to present the employee of the
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month, 11 months of the year, and the manager of the year in december. and to all of my supervisors past and present, i have four, one direct and three. and our temporary staff and the clerk and lastly but certainly not least, my fellow human services technicians, because we have been through a lot in the four years that i've been with ipac, and we have helped thousands of independent providers and recipients transition to the electronic verification process, the electronic time sheet system. we have mastered the employment verification process, we successfully conducted the group orientation at 77otis. we have adjusted to our new service center, and of course our new schedules, because we rotate various tasks every day.
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i'm blessed to be part of a team that's made up of smart, caring, hard-working and generous people who support one another and enable coworkers like myself to volunteer at various committees and promote inclusion and self care. since it's still early in the year, i want to wish everyone a healthy, happy and productive prosperous new year. thank you all for your kind attention. thank you. [applause]
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[applause] >> thank you. the next item on the agenda is the advisory council report. welcome, diane lawrence. >> a little bit different mic. good morning, commissioner, president, commissioners, director mcspadden. happy new year. last month i was at the meeting which why i was not here, so i will give you a report on that tac meeting. since the council didn't meet in december, i thought it might be advantageous to just kind of sum up what we had done in 2019, because the council worked hard, and i think we have accomplished some things that i hope you will be pleased with. so our first -- we will get to
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legislation in a minute. but we basically -- we began tracking over 50 bills at the beginning of the year, and we settled into 46 by the end. 19 of those bills were signed by the governor, six were vetoed and i'll give a report to bridgette, i listed all the veto messages which i promised you back in october. there were 11 bills where no action was taken, and i think we may see those come back, and we'll know more when we meet next week. and then there are ten under submission that could also come back. the legislators released their priorities for the coming year. and so we'll see where that goes. we'll have a better idea when i report in february. we filled one commission vacancy. we still have two openings. two board of supervisors seats were filled by the year end with
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a third pending. so that leaves us -- and there are four commission seats and five board of supervisor reappointments to be made in 2020. so we are hoping to get the commission group together as one package, and then see if we can work with the board of supervisors and rules committee to present all of those at one time so we are not dribbling and then we are reaching out to the two supervisors where we have no representation yet. so that's kind of the plan. so keep your fingers cross. we completed ten site visits last year. so i wanted to make sure that when we do it month by month, it doesn't come out quite as large. and i was kind of amazed at how well we had done. the nutrition sites that hadn't been visited in the recent past have all been assigned and prioritized for this year. we'll begin reporting on those in february. pedestrian safety committee, as
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i was in my november report, i was on vacation then. provided a preliminary report, and council decided to continue this work in 2020. and we are going to add paratransit, and we'll get oar transportation issues as well. and we have focused right now on five topics for the year. like we did last year. the first is census 2020. we are inviting a speaker for january. the master plan for aging and the alzheimer's subcommittee, which dr. ailman who is on the council and on the state commission, is a part of continuing our pedestrian safety, looking at housing, and then the whole issue of isolation. so those are our targets for 2020. >> thank you very much. that was very comprehensive. any comments or questions for diane? thank you.
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the joint legislative -- >> you will have one next month. i think we have our first advisory council meeting next wednesday. >> and you are back for tac? >> i am. so we had a robust meeting in sacramento on december 3 and 4. we have the meeting dates for the coming year. they will be in late february. and they will coincide with the advocacy day or capitol day with the legislature. we will meet in may to coincide with senior rally day on may 11. the october dates, we think that should be close to when master plan for aging comes out. so and then in december we always meet the first week. so we talked about the master plan for aging on the engaged california website there's a way to sign up for updates on the master plan and that url is in my report. the department of aging at the state level is launching
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wednesday webinars that anyone can sign up to discuss the high-priority topics for the master plan. and one can sign up for the webinars on the website. the commission on aging's website has linked to the stakeholder advisory committee and subcommittees, and the subcommittee reports are due at various times during 2020 and then will be consolidated into the master plan. there was an elder economic forum which commission spears participated in, and there was a white paper presented, if i read my notes correctly, on elder economic issues. the p.s.a.s all have to report and then there's some general reports and i'm not going to go into details. but what basically came out in those of us that were there, the focuses have been on the census.
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wildfire safety and emergency planning. the master plan, there are some big changes coming in l.a. county and l.a. city because we know how massive it is and how they structure their p.s.a.s and -- and seeing how the county and cities can work together. and then there's focusing also on homelessness, shared housing. future topics that we'll be talking about are shelf-stable foods, adult protective services, public benefit and care giving. we had a presentation on the california healthy aging initiative from the california department of public health. and this is to align resources with focused leadership. it's a program within the department to coordinate and develop a healthy framework for california. they are looking at the healthy brain initiative and there were
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two in rural counties, three in urban counties. they are also looking at a way to set up a unit just for addictions, not just opioid but alcohol, gamble, any kind of addictive behavior and handle it as one. the goal is to launch this in october. we also had a presentation on creating a welcoming environment for all. and it was presented by the friendly visitor coordinator for the laven darr senior center in east day. this was formed in the mid- '90s. it addresses some of the issues that shireen just spoke about with the lgbtq community. and they have two major programs, friendly visitor program, working with community volunteers to visit isolated seniors with the goal of visiting the isolated seniors at least once a week and safe and visible design for healthcare workers to make the community more comfortable and speaking
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appropriately with lgbtq seniors. this program and their training is posted on their website and available to anyone. we also had a very thorough presentation on census 2020. it is well-funded by the legislature as commissioner pappas knows. i want to say april 1 is camp day, so you'll be hearing more about that. complete count is very important. the other issue that is -- there's a lot of concern, i think, around two things, one is citizenship questions, and there are none. there are nine questions which are already available online. and there's a lot of worry about cyber security and hacking, and the census bureau is taking that seriously and is working
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diligently to make sure the data is secure. i want to say there was over $20 million. there was a lot of money the governor put in the budget. our last presentation was by helping communities prepare for natural disasters. it's a program that started in june last year in collaboration between the state and community-based organizations with $50 million in funding. and the goals were to include a socially-diverse and isolated communities to bolster resilience and empower selfs for safety. 24 counties were given grants and catholic charities made the presentation had contracted with eight. one of them was san diego county, and we had a representative from san diego county speak to us. they have done things like alert san francisco, much like we have with 311 where they can alert
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folks with text messages. a reverse 911 where there's emergency call and then go-to bags, what do you need? they have put together door fliers for contact information and what the presenter spoke about has allowed people to begin to think about those issues and have conversations within their families. they have put together training curriculum and the types of emergencies talked a lot about smoke detecters, especially in wildfire areas, earthquake preparedness. they are very specific, and they are trying to make them culturally specific as well. they have completed the top ten tips have been completed in san diego, and they have modified it from imperial county because imperial county is more rural. our next meeting is at the end of february. >> thank you. you have certainly been business. thank you very much.
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any questions? >> any questions or follow-ups i need to do? okay. thank you. >> next up is the long-term care coordinating council. kelly dearman. welcome. >> good morning, commissioners, president serina, happy new year, everyone. i am going to give the report from the december long-term care coordinating council meeting. the big news is that we have a new ltccc member who will serve as the second department of public health representative. it is alex jackson, and he is the deputy director of adult systems of care at the public health behavioral health services. and because we like to put people to work immediately, he will also serve as the co-chair of the behavioral health workgroup. so at the last meeting in december, of course, we had updates on the master plan
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efforts and master plan on aging, and in particular we had a robust discussion about how we can encourage the consumer perspective and stakeholder input throughout the whole process. so many people that we want to make sure can participate so that voice doesn't get lost. we had a discussion about census 2020, in particular since so much is being done online, we want to make sure our older adults and people with disabilities are count. we talked about the dignity fund. and we had a presentation on accessible transportation services, and i understand you are going to hear that. so i won't give it away. and we had a meeting yesterday, but i'm not ready to report on that. thank you. >> thank you, kelly. any questions or comments for kelly? thank you very much. the case report.
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>> good morning, commissioners. happy new year to all of you. case members enjoyed a very festive annual holiday party last month. it was actually the largest turnout that any of us could remember, all enjoying fine food and beverage, good philip and a shall we say very spirited white elephant gift ex change. a good end to the calendar year. last month we submitted our formal funding request to director mcspadden for budget year 2021. it will be the letter itself will be included in the report that you will receive from bridgette. the total of the request is
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$1,468,956, which is somewhat higher than the previous amounts that i spoke of last month in summary. that was due to as we were preparing the final draft and reviewing the realities of the cost of doing business in san francisco were looked at as well as wanting to aim to achieve optimum results for our seniors and people with disabilities. just to summarize the ask includes five categories, aging and disability resource center salary equity in the amount of $213,000, outreach campaign, which would include funds for individual agencies to do their own outreach as well some funding for our getting there
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together event 2.0, which is scheduled for september 13. the total for that item was $400,000. isolated lgbtq seniors, efforts to reach and engage this marginalized population, $295,000. trainings for agency staff, to better equip them to do the work that we do, topics that were suggested, this is not finalized by any means but include ableism, compassion fatigue, budgeting, et cetera. and that was for $60,000. behavioral health support, this is an area where most of that increase from the amounts in my report last month were, to include two clinical staff, so two psychologists to rotate
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among service centers, not only assessing and dealing with individuals but also training for staff to better equip them to do their work on a daily basis. the total for that is $500,000. at this month's meeting, which is monday, this coming monday, particularly note worthy for two reasons, one is that our featured presenter is louise aaron erinson, professor of geriatrics and author of the new york times best-seller elder hood, which i highly recommend. we are really excited to have her joining us. the other reason of note is that this will be the first, the case meeting will be followed by the first dignity fund service provider workgroup meeting under the new leadership model which will have
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