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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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