>> good evening, everybody. the chair has called the meeting to order. please silence all electronic devices, and please rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> vice president would like to take roll call. president hirsch is excusessed. excusessed -- excuseed. [roll call] you have a quorum.

also president are chief scott of the san francisco police department. we also have a cantonese translator in the back for those that need it. >> good evening, everyone. this is the february 19th meeting of the san francisco police commission. we have a special meeting in the ingleside district, this is my police station so i'm really happy to be here. we don't have too full of an agenda tonight, so we'll allow three minutes for public comment. with that, let's get started. call the first item. >> line item 1a.

chief's report will be limited to a brief description of the significant incidents. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the incidents in the chief describes for a future commission meeting. >> thanks for welcoming me to ingleside. i'm going to be brief in my report today. and i'll open it up for questions from the commission. basically i will discuss our crime trends for the week and for those of the folks in the audience who have not attended a police meeting weekly, i report the crime trends to the commission and then they ask questions, depending on what is reported, they ask questions from there. so i'll start with the crime trends. overall, part one crime, it is defined as a serious crime such as homicides, rape, robberies, aggravated assaults, motor

vehicle theft, arson and larceny. those are all part one crimes. and this is what i report to every week. our part one crime overall is up 1%. it's still early in the year. but this trend is something that we take very seriously, and we are going to try to wrap our arms around it and make sure that we continue the trend we've had over the last several years of crime reduction. the breakdown of our part one crime is broken into violent crimes and property crimes, our total property crimes are actually down 1%. and property crimes make up the biggest percentage of our overall crimes in terms of part one crimes. when we break down our top property crimes, it breaks down as follows: burglaries are down 1%, motor vehicle thefts are up 7%, and just to put it in context, our burglaries, we have

had 638 reported burglaries year to date, compared to 646 year to date in 2019. so that's a 1% reduction. our motor vehicle theft, cars that were stolen, we have 551 year to date compared to 516 this time last year for a 7% increase. and that is the majority of our property crime increase, our motor vehicle theft. our arsons are up by five. we have 26 year to date compared to 21 this time last year and that's a 24% increase. in our larceny or theft, they were 4,884 reported this time last year and 4,882 this year. so it's a reduction of or increase of 2. our total property crimes, we had 6,099 this year, and 6,065

last year, so 34 crimes above this time last year for a 1% increase in property crimes. in terms of our violent crimes, good news on our homicides, we had three homicides year to date, this time last year we had sick sixth so that's a 50% reduction. our rapes are down. we had 65 reported this time last year and we had a 58% reduction. our robberies are up. we have 397 reported year to date compared to 354 this time last year for an increase of 43 robberies, that's a 12% increase. our assaults are up. we have 266 year to date compared to 239 last year for an 11% increase in our human trafficking are down, it's a very small number to begin with but we have had three reported human trafficking cases year to

date compared to five this time last year for a 40% reduction. so overall, it's a 1% increase in crime year to date. captain woon actually will speak directly about ingleside, your home station. but that concludes that portion of my chief's report. i want to just add one thing with our major vehicle traffic collisions, we had three major injury vehicles this past week. the most significant one was at 23rd and mission where a vehicle was traveling westbound on 23rd street, turned northbound onto mission and struck two pedestrians before continuing along mission street. the vehicle drove into the sidewalk and struck a muni bus and a passenger who was on the bus. the driver and passenger initially fled from the scene

butted to the but -- but returned to the sustain and were retained. one was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and bus passenger complained of pain and was released and detained. the investigation is ongoing but luckily we didn't have any fatalities. year to date on traffic fatalities we have had four-year to date and none for this past week. so that actually is it for crime and traffic. i wanted to speak a little bit about what's been happening around the country in terms of homeland security and mainly i.c.e. agents. there was a news article that agents would be assigned to san francisco. from what we know, the agents have been assigned to the bay area, not just the city of san francisco.

as always sfpd will stand behind the city's sanctuary city ordinances and we will not assist on civil immigration issues at all. we are not a part of any of those operations. so we just want to make it clear to the public that we want people to call us when they need it. we don't inquire about immigration status, we don't enforce immigration status, and we don't enforce that, and we want to let the public know the sfpd is not a part of the federal actions and immigration enforcement. the mayor and i put out a joint statement today which will probably air on the news tonight but it's a big teal for our city and we want the public -- a big deal for the city and we want the public to feel safe to call sfpd and not worry about immigration enforcement. that concludes my report. >> thank you, chief. i don't know if any of my fellow commissioners have questions, but i have questions about the crime statistics. so we are used to sitting here

and getting news to you about general crime reduction when it comes to part one crimes. and tonight we are here, and we have motor vehicle theft up, arson is up, and robberies are up, assaults are up. it would be interesting to know if this continue, i hope it doesn't continue, but what you attribute this to and what you are doing to stop it. and by you i mean the department. >> yes. and that is the discussion that we have daily about number one, stopping this trend. robberies are very concerning. some districts are up more than others. what we believe at this point, some of it are people that have been the criminal justice involved or people that we have arrested. that's another issue. we had a very good meeting, our command staff with the d.a.'s top leadership team on how we are going to work together. some of it is enforcement, some of it is what we do in the back

end after we make the arrest. but we will work with the d.a.'s office and our officers to get a handle on it. robbery is a significant concerning. our shootings and homicides are down but robberies and car thefts are going up and we need to turn that around. >> when you say motor vehicle theft, you are talking about stealing cars? >> actually stealing cars. our car break-ins are down, we are down 2% on car break-ins, they are down for the year. but we haven't been up in motor vehicle thefts in a few years so we need to get a handle on that. >> thank you. commissioner dejesus. >> i didn't see your statements on the i.c.e. raids, potential i.c.e. raids, but thank you for putting that out. two questions on that. they talk about bringing in extra forces, tactical people.

i had two questions. one of them is do they notify the department when they come to do a raid. and secondly, when they did do raids a few years ago they wore a big jacket that said police, which misled the public, and the public was very upset that the police were participating in these raids. we had talked about how to do it, but they are not police, they have a different title. i want to know how you can handle that or what you can do about that. >> yes, ma'am. to the first question, when they are doing an enforcement action, they don't always notify us. if there are issues concerned with deconfliction, in other words they don't want to come in and do an enforcement action and us not know about it, and it has the potential of blue on blue as it is called, type of conflict.

so we have in the past gotten basically notifications right when these actions were taken, but not advance notification. when we've had instances in the past, some of them have -- these things get in the community, and people get very anxious about them. we have asked for notification. it's up to them to honor that. and they have in the past, but it's usually right before something actually happens in terms of an enforcement action. as far as the jackets, the raid jackets as they are called, with police on the back. we did voice that concern with leadership that was there at the time. they changed leadership too. they have a different special agent in charge now than they had. what we did see is the lettering on the jacket, although it said police, it did say i.c.e. or customs enforcement. so that helps because they were

able to distinguish from municipal police department. i need to revisit that with the current staff. that person just got into place, so we will revisit that so we can have an understanding. but we did get a little bit of traction on that. >> commissioner hamasaki >> thank you. whoa, too close. good evening. i had a question or a follow-up question to commissioner taylor's, regarding the -- it's a little bit early in the year to draw any conclusions about a statistical bump in certain crimes and what it means. but can you -- and again, i think my view is that there's only so much the department can do with certain types of crimes to prevent them. however, on the back end of that, closure, how is the department's closure rate on the more serious part one crimes? >> well, i can quote homicides,

they were 68 percent clearance rate on homicides. i have to follow up with you on the robberies and assaults. that's going to be a lower number usually but i'll follow up with you and have that for the next commission meeting. in terms of closure property crimes, your car break in is very difficult. still hovering in the single digits, about 2% in terms of arrest and closure on those cases. auto theft is higher than that. but i'll follow up with more specific clearance rate numbers for across the part one crimes. >> right. okay. i do understand the challenge with investigating a pile of broken glass outside of a car window. the other question i had was relating -- and i saw a headline today about immigration enforcement raids in the bay area in the courthouse. are you familiar with that? >> yes. >> and obviously for all the --

anybody that works in the criminal justice system, the impact of immigration enforcement in the courthouse tends to deter victims, witnesses, basically can potentially shut down the criminal justice system. do you have any concerns or in what way can we ensure that our courts are kept safe so that victims and witnesses and defendants can attend court without fear of immigration enforcement? >> well, i saw the sheriff put out a statement yesterday similar to what i'm telling our public tonight, the sheriff's office will not assist in those civil immigration issues as well. i don't know of anything that happened in our court, which is a good thing, but i know the sheriffs are prepared. and again, they are just like the rest of us in terms of their values of this city. they don't plan to assist.

can't guarantee what they will do. >> that's a different branch of government >> yes. but they will definitely not assist. and the sheriff has been very vocal about that. can't guarantee, but we are going to do what we can to make sure our folks are, as much as anxiety as we can relieve, at least reassuring people that we are not participating. >> thank you, chief. >> i want to second commissioner hamasaki's call for hopefully this won't continue, but if it does, what follow up we can provide. so the city clears what happens with those pieces so they go forward with the d.a.'s office. >> yes. >> just to follow-up, we can take a look by district. i think there's a trend that would be good for the public to know the trends we see in terms of vehicles that are being

stolen, where are they being stolen from so we can alert folks in those areas to be more vigilant so we can have our eyes open as well. >> thank you. >> next line item. >> line item 1b, dpa director's report. report on recent dpa activities and announcements. the d.p.a.'s report will be limited to a brief description of d.p.a. activities and announcements. commission discussions will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission. we welcome paul henderson from the department of police accountability. >> good evening, director henderson. >> good evening. i made it. i don't want to tell you how long i was at the front door ringing the doorbell because i didn't see the sign up here and walked that way, but that's okay. i have a couple updates for you on what the department is working on and where we are with our numbers. so right now at the department of police accountability, we

have opened 102 cases so far this year, and that's up from 80 cases which is where we were this time last year. in terms of cases closed, we have closed a record number, 169 cases so far this year, and that is up from 83 cases this time last year that we had closed. in terms of the cases we have pending, there's still that uptick in cases we have experienced over the past 18 months. so we are at 366 cases that are pending right now. this time last year, we were at 278 cases. in terms of sustained cases so far this year we have at seven. this time last year we were at 12. in terms of cases that have ongoing investigations beyond the nine-month mark, we are at 29 cases. and this time last year there

were 25 cases that were taking longer than nine months. of those 29 cases that we have going on, 14 of those cases are told, meaning that they are not -- the time deadline isn't running out for 3304 deadlines. in terms of cases mediated, we have done seven cases that have been mediated this year versus three the same time last year. the biggest news i wanted to talk about today was our move that is coming up. we have been talking about it for a while now, but now it's actually about on to happen. so the department is moving its location. i say going kitty corner from the current location. the restrictionses on -- restrictions about the public

going to our location so there weren't a lot of places in the city real estate areas where we could just pick up and go when we are moving. our location is being taken over by d.p.h. they are taking over the current property and bumping us into this other property. relocation is more easily accessible by public transportation. it's 240 feet away from the van ness muni station. so the new location will have a big welcoming, both for the public and for the commissioners and everyone else as well, the whole whole city family. the new space has four interview suites equipped with video conferencing equipment finally, and this is going to help us with our various groups, so

complaints that are unable to easily travel to our office and expansion for folks that are multilingual. the rooms will have a.s.l. translation services so we can continue to reach folks that don't speak english. and the lobby will have a computer terminal built in so people can fill out complaint forms and review some of the public reports. all of that is being built into the new space. another couple things just in terms of overview, we'll all have the same phone number so no one has to change the phone numbers. only the mailing address will be changing. the new address is 1 south van ness avenue, the eight floor, those of you familiar with the e city family may remember that was the old executive level for s fm ta. so we will be in that space. the move is taking place the

last saturday of this month. yes, the last saturday of this month. anybody wants to come and help and carry some boxes, just let me know, after you sign a waiver. [laughter] no one is carrying boxes without signing waivers. we are also updating our brochures and signage. we are going to be getting the word out including contacting our community partners and online announcements through twitter and our website. but it's happening pretty quickly now. it's been delayed two or three times during the construction and the update of the new space. so that's my update so far? i also wanted to say the 18th we participated in the tar very --l community meeting.

we also participated in the black history month celebration which had delicious food. here in the audience is senior investigator steve if any issues come up and someone wants to talk to my investigator. one of our new attorneys is here and my assistant mary ann mccormick is here. so that's it. that's my update. >> thank you. i see no questions from commissioners. >> really quick. thanks for that, paul. as you know, i'm the liaison for the d.p.a., we didn't get an opportunity to speak today. i want to apologize for that. i want to see what your thoughts are around our uptick. we had 102 cases versus 83 from last year. what do you attest that to? do you think it's human capital? technology? process? >> i think it's all three of those things. over the past 18 months or since

i came into the position, more and more people are learning about the agency and hearing and seeing what it can do? and i think many of the restrictions that people had in coming to the offices, those barriers have been removed. and so now even easier to access the agency through the website on your phone, by calling in, the technology has drastically improved so we can receive that information from outside an external sources in ways that were not possible in the past. i will say another big transition, i think, has been having access to the language lines and having our information redistributed and printed in various languages throughout the city. so having the seven languages, the principal languages identified in san francisco, for folks to be able to get that information is a big deal, and having that information is a bigger deal, compounded by the personnel that are focused on

doing outreach work, both to identify how the agency works, the voice that we represent for various communities and passing out information. i think that's what led to it. and i think that it's still growing, there's a groundswell that isn't reinflictive of an uptick in more bad behavior or something happening. it's just more people understanding how to use agency and coming to the agency for help questions or input about things that they are seeing, experiencing day-to-day. >> thank you. any other questions from commissioners? i see none. next line item. >> line item 1d, commission reports. commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting.

commission president's report, commissioner's reports, report from each commissioner on status of assigned projects. >> any reports? all right. i'm excited to see the presentation today. so unless there's objection, i want to dive right into captain woon's presentation. >> one second. >> sorry. captain woon, i'm being interrupted. don't want to ruin the surprise. >> scratch that >> the next police commission meeting is wednesday, march 4 at 5:30 at city hall room 400. the public is invited to comment on line items 1a through 1c. >> i guess i'm just -- if you have comments on any of the line items we have discussed thus far, the podium is yours. all right. no one is rushing to the podium.

public comment is coming. >> line item 2 is captain christopher woon, commanding officer of ingleside station to address the commission on police activities and the ingleside district staffing, community policing and ingleside station demographics, discussion. >> good evening, everyone. vice president koppel. commissioners, chief scott, the command staff, director henderson, members of the community, welcome. i would like to thank the principal of visitacion valley elementary school for allowing us to have this opportunity to have this presentation here today and also for her support. i would like to thank the members of my team for this support as well. in addition to my staff,

sergeant, officer brandt, officers for helping me organize this presentation today. not that i'm counting but this is my fourth month, 24th day, 18th three quarters of an hour being a captain at ingleside station. [applause] now, the reason i bring this up is because i want to give a big thank you and shoutout to my predecessor captain jack hart for his dedication to the job. it's under his leadership that most of these programs i'm going to discuss came into play and are very successful. so thank you to captain hart. before i move forward with today's presentation, i want to give an instruction of myself. i was born and raised in ingleside district not too far away from here. i went to public schools in the neighborhood, attended san francisco state university as well. this is my fourth time at

ingleside station, started here as an officer, came back a few times, came back as lieutenant, 25 years later, i'm back now as the captain at ingleside station. i'm so honored and grateful, and i want to thank command staff for giving me the opportunity to serve as the captain here where i was born and raised. i don't think too many people can say that. i have a variety of assignments during my career at the ingleside station. i was doing patrols, investigations, doing administrative work as well. i was a robbery decoy. that was very interesting and also i was a canine handler. so my favorite partner of all time is my canine friend. i brought my canine home every night. that was very nice. however, the one bad thing was my wife was very jealous because it was a female dog, and i think my dog saw me more than my life. but that's another discussion later on that we'll have.

[laughter] but i'm very grateful for the position. let's move forward with the presentation. and tonight i'll be talking about the overview of the district facts of ingleside, crime trends, strategies, traffic enforcement, community partnerships and what we stand for at ingleside. the next slide, please for district overview. and one more slide, please? and one more after that. moving forward, district overview. the ingleside district has six car sectors. the boundaries extend from the north side, cesar shaves street, the south, the daly city border, the east east shore boulevard and the west, saxon avenue. i'm fortunate to have five supervisors from the district. yee, district 8, supervisor mandelman which includes the glen park and diamond heights area, and also district 9,

supervisor ronen, district 10, supervisor walton from the visitacion valley and sunnydale area and the largest district 11, supervisor safai, which includes excelsior and outer mission areas. i have 34 schools in the district which include balboa high school, leadership, reardon, city college. the population is roughly 139,000. desk grams are african-americans 4.2 percent, asians, 21 percent, latin, 25 percent, other is 12.s 31.3 percent. on to the next slide. staffing overview. i have 128 in my personnel of which 120 are sworn, five are p.s.a., police service aids and three civilians.

i have five lieutenants, 20 sergeants, 90 officers, four recruits. currently i have one s.r.o., a school resource officer, i have two foot beat officers, one on the mission geneva corridor and one on leeland street corridor. i have hopes of increasing one more foot beat to the cortland area in the next cycle. i have two officers assigned to homeless outreach. and for investigations i have one lieutenant, lieutenant kevin, an amazing leader. i'm grateful to have him. he has four investigators assigned to him. i have a plain clothes team led by sergeant lopez. he's a great resource. he's very knowledgeable. and essentially a plain clothes team is a problem-solving team for me so that i can send to address specific concerns of the area. primarily, there are plain clothes. however they can be in uniform

depending upon the assignment. i have 19 field training officers, they train the new recruits. i have nine field training sergeants which oversee the officers in the program. in addition i have 72 crisis intervention trained officers which are approximately 80 percent of the officers at the station. and other officers are in line to be trained as well. i have four specialists at the station, they are utilized for training for active shooters, a great resource for incidents and demonstrations. i have one hostage negotiation-trained officer, officer francisco, he is also my school resource officer. he is a bright, young officer. i'm grateful to have him as well especially when time is of essence. as far as certified languages, i have eight cantonese, one

togalo, two mandarin, ten spanish and i'm grateful to have officer johnny wong who is also my foot beat officer on the leaden street corridor. he speaks two dialects of chinese, portuguese and spanish. very fortunate to have him. staffing overview. i have 26 supervisors. four percent are african-american. 65 percent are white. 12 percent are latin, 15 percent are asian, and four percent are other. of which 88% are male and 12% are female. moving onto officers. 10% are african-american, 18% are white. 22% are latin. 28% are asian. 12% are other. 81% of those are male and 19% are female which is generally reflective of the community that

we serve. moving onto next slide regarding crime trends and these are our top concerns and strategies. oftentimes we get concerns of increased crime in the area. how do we address that? in ingleside? we are very proactive. we have enforcement operations. officers are in uniform. they are in plain clothes. they do surveillance. we have operations with our motorcyclist traffic unit as well so that they can conduct traffic enforcement at certain locations that increase our visibility in the area. in addition we have officers in unmarked cars dependent upon the time of incident that we have to try to provide extra patrols in the area. in addition, we have foot beat as well, that we could have officers go out there to provide increased visibility in the area and also increase calls for having officers go to certain locations to increase our visibility. and we conduct data-driven

enforcement. we look at crime trends, we look at patterns, we look at the crime mapping. we see what's out there so we can effectively put our personnel where they need to be to address those crime issues. in addition, we utilize the copier theory. that is a community policing strategy where we have random, 10 to 15-minute patrols in a certain location once every two hours, and pretty much what it comes down to is we address this by putting officers at the hot spots. it optimizes deterrence of criminal activity. studies have shown crime has decreased to as low as 4% when we implement this strategy. we are utilizing that as well. we have an outreach, san francisco safe is a great resource for us. and we appreciate them very much. i want to give a big thank you to worthy from s.f. state who helps us with the crime

prevention strategies to help us with the public safety seminars as well. it's much appreciated. and also with our fliers. what we use in the diamond heights area. we had an increase in auto burglaries. we passed out park smart fliers to inform the public about whatnot to do. don't leave items in view so that they could decrease their probability of being a victim. in addition, we outreached to the public through community meetings, public safety meetings, neighborhood watches, to inform them what is going on so that they are empowered to know what is going on and to become less vulnerable to crime. in addition, we post things onto twitter next door and our ingleside newsletter regarding how to prevent themselves from being a victim. moving on to the next issue. quality of life. oftentimes we get issues regarding increased quality of

life issues in the area. i'm fortunate to have two officers, officer lou and chris, they are great people persons. so they go out there, they are assigned to increase the quality of life issues. they have great rapport with the people who need services and the organizations that provide the services to individuals in need. we work collaboratively with the operations center, the hot teams, d.p.a., public works, parks and rec. traffic safety. oftentimes we get issues regarding increased traffic safety, people running stop signs, red lights, that's a common theme, and we focus on the five violations. we know the folks are very important because they are contributing factors to the traffic collisions that happen on the street. in addition, oftentimes we have a traffic car, which is

specifically assigned to make traffic enforcement stops at certain locations to increase our efforts on the streets, in addition we worked with the traffic solo companies which conduct pedestrian sting operations. it's pretty much officers in plain clothes going into the field and other officers that are nearby waiting to see if there are going to be any violations. they act appropriately and make the enforcement stop appropriately. for the educational component with that, we outreach to social media, we go to the community meetings, neighborhood watches regarding public safety meetings like we had at diamond heights regarding auto thefts. we had a public safety meeting there, a group of people went out and we had a great discussion regarding how to empower themselves and not be a victim. so that was very informative. in addition we use our radar trailer.

depending on the traffic conditions area, we placed it out there to inform the public of how fast they may be going. oftentimes we find out people are not aware, not paying attention and thinking about going to school, going to work, and they don't know if they are going past the speed limit. so that's helpful as well. in addition, with the traffic stops, when the officers make the traffic stops, they don't cite people necessarily, they have conversation with them to educate them about what traffic concerns that we have to have a better understanding of what they can do better in the future to prevent incidents as well. collaboration with the m.t.a., we work with them regarding common measures, regarding speed, volume and traffic conditions as well. so the next area of concern, the areas of focus we have which are working collaboration with different agencies, working with city attorneys office, the

district attorney's office, the department of public health, fire department, in an effort to compel owners as much as as much as possible to comply with law and ordinance. that's very effective. we meet once a month with ingleside station with different organizations so we can strategize as much as we can to see what we can do in a collaborative effort. moving on to the next slide with part one crime statistics. going through the chart, we see homicide part one, violent crimes, 2018 toll 2019 down 60 percent, rapes down 24 percent, robbery is down 14 percent, assault is down 14 percent, human trafficking to zero percent. total violent crimes a change of negative 15 percent. property crimes, burglary, 2018 to 2019 down 29 percent.

vehicle theft down 7%, arson down 44%, larsen and theft, up 12%, auto burglaries up 20%, and total property crimes pretty much 0% change. part one crimes total negative 3%. so ingleside is not immune from auto burglaries. the number of of organized teams do their research, they were well organized, very quick to go in, they go out. it's definitely a challenge. it's no big secret that it's a change for the police department especially for the ingleside district. however we are very proactive. we have a plan, we have an operation, we work with the community collaboratively whether it be through educational effort, informing them like the park smart and also working with s.f. safe to provide them crime prevention strategies. we work with our stations

lieutenant, lieutenant kevin noble and we are looking forward, we are trying to anticipate as much as possible, looking at the trends, looking at the crime mapping, looking at the patterns so that we could sufficiently and effectively address these crime issues as much as possible to get the resources out there. the next slide, our traffic enforcement. one of my favorite duties as an officer was conducting traffic enforcement, and i feel that's important, because it provides dividends, we are out there providing high visibility in the public but also making enforcement. we are talking to people regarding traffic needs in the area. ingleside station, we are committed to traffic enforcement. the focus on five violations, you see that red light

violations were up 36%, 66% for stop signs, pedestrian right of way, 23%, negative and speeding negative 88%, failure to yield with turning, negative 16%. the focus on five violations, 5e for those five violations which are significant violations that contribute to collisions in san francisco. you see that with pedestrian right of way, we have a negative 23% and my vision for the future is to increase our pedestrian sting operations so we can increase our enforcement for stings. and also for speeding is negative 88%. so with that, my plan is to increase with our training of officers to have more officers trained so they can conduct the speed enforcement. we have two officers in line to have that training in the near

future. next slide, community partnerships. community partnership is so, so important. and i'm a big believer in that. i went to acknowledge members of my team for their dedication and hard work. i don't know how they spend the time doing what they do, but i appreciate them very much. my co-chair, please stand up. where are you at? thank you very much. give her a big hand. [applause] she is my co-chair and president of the outer mission merchants association. she is an amazing woman. i don't know how she has the time to do what she does and other members are sharon, chris, debra, jennifer, drew, kerry, marlene, rex, megan and adam.

thank you very much for your support and your help. partnerships of the community, i named a few here, but there's quite a few that we are working with. the boys and girls club, we have two boys and girls clubs in the district, one is in excelsior, one in sunnydale. two of the directors are in my team, ms. jennifer snyder and matthew henry. matthew is here. thank you very much for that. next partnership is sunnydale crisis intervention team. so under reverend brunswick we work to help the community provide extra resources to sunnydale area. also for asian pacific american community center under rex, thank you very much. we provide extra resources to the asian community, and that is very grateful for that. in addition we have office hours at that location which i will discuss shortly.

monthly meetings are on the third tuesday of every month. it's at 5:30 and the current projects we are working on are national night out and officer appreciation day. our community meetings are on the same day at 6:30. our office hours are times and places are officers reach out to the public and get in conversation with the public and community members to engage them and see what kind of concerns they may have in that specific neighborhood. for ingleside district, we have three-years. we have visitacion valley, here, and also in the excelsior. so for example, in the visitacion valley, we have office hours although community centers and senior centers. primarily the speakers in visitacion valley are cantonese

speakers. i'm very fortunate like i was saying, i have foot beat officer johnny wong who is bilingual. he reaches out to the public, speaks to them in cantonese, sees what their concerns are and how he can help in the community. he also, if needed, completes incident reports out in the field regarding the individuals' needs. he also reaches out by providing public safety seminars and crime prevention strategies with s.f. state so i'm grateful for that. it's a great program. in addition, we have the visitacion valley elementary school reading with the kids program. so this is right here. visitacion valley, we establish this new program here with officer brittney lewis, gordon brown and cal, great partners in the community. they read to the kids there. it's a great program like i said. it's getting better. very nice program.

another program we just started up, which is the kids horses and cops program. program at the ranch in the peninsula that essentially what that comes down to is we get kids off the streets and onto horse lessons and horse management. so kids, they exchange good grades and good behavior for the opportunity to go out into the ranch to ride a horse and learn about horse management. when i was growing up, i don't think i had that opportunity or remember that anyway. but great program, very happy with that. coffee with a cop program. i think we are pretty familiar with that program. a great event where we go out to the community and reach out to the community members over a cup of coffee and just speak about everything and anything and then there's no agenda. so it's a great program that we are reaching out to different communities in ingleside. the boys and girls club basketball with kids, cops program. again, this is another program that we recently developed.

the boys and girls club at the excelsior boys and girls club under jennifer snyder, a team member and with my sergeant jake, under their inspiration and dedication that we developed this program. so essentially what this comes down to is that where we have the interaction with the kids, we have the interaction with the officers over a competitive game of basketball, very competitive i might say. a big shoutout to jennifer and jake for establishing that program. the jackson family day and parade, a great family event in the sunnydale here hosted by mercy housing and my team member drew to bring community together and have that barbecue, that car show, have those games out there for the kids to interact with. it's a great engagement for everyone.

you see photos of some of that activity. next slide, please. crime reduction. we know from the statistics i reviewed earlier the part one crimes are down 15 percent. but what does that really mean? what it comes down to is if crime happens to you, it's 1 puckers percent, because it happened -- 100 percent, because it happened to you and you feel vulnerable. even though our crime statistics for last year compared to this for for last year is low. we still have to understand that we have to be conscious and aware, we have to look at our surroundings and just be conscious of that fact, and we note that it's not just a number. it's a person that's involved.

and we have to do better to reduce crime. quality of life. two officers are signed to the issues in the ingleside district. i spoke to the officers not long ago how it's coming regarding getting individuals off the street and into the navigation centers and more permanent housing. and one case that he did mention to me was that it's very notable, he got a pregnant woman off the street. she was unsheltered, and he helped her into permanent housing. so that's really, i'm very grateful that happened. it takes a special person. it takes the rapport to talk to

people, to help with the resources, to get out there and provide that and for them to accept it as well. so i'm very grateful for that. community engagement, very important, rewarding. my vision is to continue this with the public to reach out as much as possible with our reading programs with our kids, outreach to office hours and to have that with the public to engage at the senior centers, the community centers so we can have that conversation and then discussion regarding what we can do better, what we could improve on, how we can help find out regarding what's going on in your specific community. resources, as you know with any major organization, we note that we scrutinize our resources as much as possible. at ingleside we try to do that as well. what i try to do is look as much as possible the data-driven

enforcement. we look at our data, look at the crime mapping, the trends, look at our patterns and see and try to anticipate as much as possible so that we could move forward in a positive direction to delegate and deploy our resources as much as possible to make an effective response to an issue. in addition, to utilize crime prevention substantials like i mention -- strategies like i mentioned where we try to maximize deterrents of crime in a certain area. traffic collision, moving forward, i want to increase pedestrian sting operations in collaboration with traffic companies, motorcycle units and also as the officers become trained with speed enforcement, we are going to increase our enforcement on that end as well and continue our outreach to the public, informing them through social media, fliers, traffic stops, informing them of the

safety need we have as a city. in closing, i'm a strong believer in developing the partnerships with the community. as we increase public safety, you must know that we must feel safe as we walk down the street. that's what it comes down to. so that's my objective. and i want to thank principal bridgette for allowing us to have this presentation here today and for the support of the police department. i want to thank the members of the police department at ingleside station, because they are the ones that are doing the work on the streets. also would like to thank chief scott and the command staff for giving me the opportunity to come back to ingleside where i was born and raised to service the captain. not too much people -- to serve as the captain. not too many people can say that. i want to thank you for the

opportunity. >> thank you very much, [applause] >> commissioner elias. >> i'm so excited to be here as a district 10 resident. this is one of the things i was most looking forward to aside from the bayview district meeting that we had. but i wanted to tell you, excellent presentation. i thoroughly enjoyed it. it's evident you have a knack for public speaking and are great at presenting things. so congratulations. i also wanted to congratulate you on being captain of this station, because it's very rare to have a native come and sort of lead the district in the station. and so it's evident just from listening to you and seeing you and speaking to you that your love and passion for this job and community that you were born and raised in and grew up in is so clear. i want to commend you for that and i want to commend the chief

and command staff for recognizing that. because it shows that your passion and love for this community really does benefit the members on a level that's sort of, it's sort of just -- i want to give you congratulations and keep up the great work. >> thank you. >> there were three questions i had, and i want to keep it brief. [laughter] i promise. on page five, you show the foot beat. am i understanding this correctly that those are sort of the areas where the foot beat patrol? if yes, do you have foot beats on san bruno avenue? because i frequent san bruno avenue a lot, and i don't usually see a lot of foot beats there, so i don't know if that's an area that -- >> our foot beats are mission geneva, that's one, the other is on the leeland street corridor. i hope to have very shortly a

cortland street corridor. san bruno avenue is not a corridor within ingleside. i believe it's in the bayview. >> oh, okay. >> there are. >> there are? okay. [laughter] >> [off mic] >> i was trying to look at the map but it was so tiny, and i'm going blind so i think it's on here. >> i need my glasses. >> okay. so that eliminates two of my questions. so third and final question, the captain's policy advisory board is so great to see sort of the diverse group of people coming together and sort of providing input. the one thing that i was wanted to know if there was sort of, if there was room for additional sort of community members, because i think the public defender's office would be a great asset to your board. i know they do a lot of community events, the magic

program, the backpack giveaway, all the programs that are actually in this district. so they may be sort of a resource that could probably be added to your board and be really beneficial to you and the rest of the board. so i think that's -- >> we were just talking about not that specifically but i was trying to take toll of who attends my meeting, who is active, not active, and i was talking to joel about possibly seeing we can do with that and depending on the attendance, if they are holding a spot and not doing anything, don't show up, then that's a possibility regarding that. i think that would be a great idea, a great resource as well for everyone else. >> thank you so much for your presentation, again, congratulations, it's clear that the community is very fond of you and your long tenure. >> thank you very much. >> any other questions from commissioners? >> i just have one. i'm also -- i grew up in vernal

heights. so welcome. you did a great pentation. i'm glad you are here. one of the things on the language access they talked about is there's a couple different chinese languages. i can't remember. and there's hindu or arabic? i'm wondering if you're seeing a rise or a need for interpreters in those particular dialects. [please stand by] [please stand by]

i look at it. >> that's the other thing too. >> it's what it looks like. [laughter] >> that's the other thing too, when i go off to the community meetings, that's what i like to do and how to prevent t. right, because, after the fact, it's a way to do what we need to do to prevent things and prevent being a victim and so fourth many of that's important. the community does appreciate that and i go out there to community meetings and reach out to them. often times we do this. we see it all the time but the public does not. if you are a surgeon, you do taughdo itall the time. we see the crime and the strategies that criminal use, more often than not, they're very savvy and they're very resourceful and we need to be

the same. >> absolutely. i want to congratulate you on being the captain and i think it's been very rare that we get to hear someone who was born and raised here in the city is actually serving in the district. kudos to you and to your team. >> thank you. >> any other commissioners? >> all right. >> next line item, class. >> the public is now welcome to comment online item 2. >> public comment. should they lineup over there? >> if you have a question or comment. >> this is just on the captain's presentation if you have comments. any public comment o comment one captain's presentation. do you want to go to the podium? >> thank you.

>> good evening, my name is jennifer hanlynn and i'm a resident. it's an honor to be here this evening. i'd lick to acknowledge the captain, thank you for your presentation. it was enlightening. i have brought this concern before the captain as our past cam tin, captain jack heart, who we miss dearly and i just wanted to acknowledge the stuff being taken inform keep our community safe and protected, to the best of sfpd's ability and as a community and as a very strong community. it has been for a very long time. one of the concerns that i wanted to bring to the attention is in regards to public safety on the roadways. it has been mildly but it is still a significant concern that

on a daily basis, as i am self-employed and i work from home, sometimes i am on leland two or three times a week and i've observed where cars are being very laxed with the laws of the stop signs. we have a very busy corridor where kids, seniors, adults, all ages, sizes are in harm's way because cars are disregarding stop signs and they're flipping people off so i want to know where the standing is in regards to keeping our communities safe as well as upholding the agreement that the speed bumps are required -- should be required on leland avenue and as far as i'm concerned, rutland could use it as well due to the

fact that cars keep on disregarding others. there's been multiple accidents in the past six months as well as i've been witness to several harm's way because cars disregard the stop sign. i just wanted to ask if something is being done about that. we were told we were next slated for those speed bumps but have not heard anything since then. thank you. >> thank you. >> >> good evening, my name is gina and i live in the neighborhood object peabody. i've had a number of experiences seeing homeless people on leland and since captain mentioned there were two homeless outreach officers, how are they utilized

because it's not clear and if this isn't the right forum is it explained on the website? >> we have a list of questions for the captain. >> is the question inappropriate at this time? >> it's your time for public comment. i'm just not sure how the homeless outreach officers differ from any of the other officers that come out to attend to a homeless concern? >> if the captain has answers to these questions, yes. >> i'm sorry. the homeless outreach officers are speak duties are to on the issues to help individuals on

the streets that may not have a place to live so they have that repour with the individuals so i'm not sure regarding your situation specifically, we can talk about that afterwards to address those specific concerns and get what is needed out there. also, chris anderson, they're assigned to handle those types of situations specifically. all the other officers they do handle as well and this is their particular duty that they focus on and they have the repower and the connections regarding specific organizations and have the direct line to those people to talk to them and often that you have that network of the individuals and things come a little bit's year and people might be a little bit receptive to take a extra step to the next level for that transition. we'll talk about that.

>> my name is fran and i'm with the green way. i don't know if this is -- i should wait until general but anyway, here i am. this is the follow-up to what gina was asking about. i want to be a little more specific on the green way, there's homeless person who has been arrested many times. he is threatened us, he has come after me with a stick, threatened me with fire. he has done this to other women here. i know throw o three or four ins room that have reported him. just recently, we're an outdoor classroom and one of the teachers was bringing a group of kids from the boys and girls' club and he accosted them ex frightened the children. so now they don't go through our plaza anymore because they're frightened of him and just recently the same teacher was accosted by this same guy and had to run to a male walking by.

he has chased me. so, it's like a revolving door. the poor man is mentally unstable. when we call the police they come and take him and he comes back. it's like a hopeless situation. we're kind of being told that we have to be laying on the ground bloodbloody before anyone will o anything. i know it's complex and it's not necessarily a police situation. something needs to be done. i don't know what else to do. anyway, we were being held held hostage and we can't go into our park and feel safe. >> i'm going to ask the captain to talk to you after this or during this session.

obviously, someone threatening our women in our district say problem. is there more public comments? online item 2. >> good evening. my name is hazel lee. all the commissioners and the chief scott, i'm your neighbor. before actually a long, long time ago belongs to district 10 but now san bruno avenue belongs to district 9. so nice today i can see a lot of commissioners here. mostly the commissioners must be in the city hall. this is the first time meeting here. so i would say something, i am

asian, i'm association president. because everyone is talking about highly filing a more chinese-speaking officers to cyst community. what we also need to promote more chinese and bilingual officers to the decision-making positions so all the stations can have a different strategies and the solution to stop the violent crimes all over the city. i hope one day we can do hire more chinese bilingual speak to go do the strategy things. decision-making. thank you, very much. >> thank you. next line item. >> loin item 3, general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commissioner regarding items not on tonight's agenda but

within the subject matter. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners. under police commission rules of order during public comment the commissioners are not required to respond to questions presented about the public but may provide a brief response. commissioners and police shall row frank from entering into debates or discussions with speakers during public comment. >> general public comment. >> >> good evening, welcome everybody. i'm marlene tran. over 3030 years ago and maybe of any non english student speaking and neighbors were victims of crime but could not make police

reports. unfortunately, tonight asian participation is relatively low because of concerns with the coronavirus. the beating and death of grandma wong from our own community has brought a lot of fears especially to the seniors. accidentally, years ago, grandma wong was my citizenship student. her daughter was my esl student and one of our granddaughters were our elementary students. this shocking crime was especially hurtful to us. in the interest of time, let me briefly mention a few asks. even though i retired from over 35 years of teaching adults and students at san francisco city college as well as the unified school districts. i am really very concerned about help for our youth.

so, one of my asks is that we have to work closely with the school district and our youth. last night at my meeting, the commander said most of the push snatchings are by 11 to 16-year-olds and the balboa station has the highest incidents. we want to see an increase of chinese bilingual officers. however, promotion system must be uniform for all ethnic groups. our community is very appreciative of our wonderful officer johnny wong who speaks five language and working in the san francisco for 30 years. our community homes he will be promoted soon. another thing that is of grave concern as to bring a better communication between police and residents, is to initiate radio

and services to keep more asians timely informed and to solicit the input. right now, the news letters are english only. so what good is it to the residents if they can read it online. i know some of them can be printed but this is a big gap. we have to do something to really outreach to -- so that everybody is informed. in the interest of time i think that empower people through education. i worked with many, many victims before, especially the non english speaking. i brought a note book from october 29th 2019 i was the witness of another grandma who was, as you know -- >> that's three minutes. >> i'm just saying that you know, she needs services as well as the other victims as well.

thank you for coming and i hope to improve our communication so everybody can be eyes and ears of officers and keep our san franciscans safe. thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> yeah, absolutely. >> hi, everybody, my name is danielle harris and i'm with the public defenders' office. as you all know, by way of introduction the public

defenders' office represents over 20 to you people a year from all parts of san francisco including of course, from this district. and we are very, very vigilant about protecting the rights of those we represent, some of whom are innocent and some of whom are never charged with a crime and some of whom are acquitted or see the charges against them dismissed. this specific thing i want to talk about in this regard is a few weeks ago, it was mentioned, i believe by commissioner hamaski the commission look into sfpd should stop posting mugshots on the internet and otherwise releasing mugshots. my office wholeheartedly supports such a move. we think the privacy consideration this is this early phase when think person hasn't even charged there hasn't been a determination whether there's a

basis to charge a person outweigh any public interest in those mugshots and of course times have change so significantly in this regard. to quote a 2018 paper on the subject, the internet has transformed mugshots of ordinary citizens into commodities posted for entertainment and commercial gain. this com odd indication of government data is rent-seeking behavior that adds little social value. on the other hand, this is enormous and charges our society core belief because someone can be a wrongly arrested. the mugshots on the internet and they can end up not charged or vindicated, exonerated and that mug shot is there forever when they apply for a job and just

any scenario. several states see mugshots can if den shall. a 2016 study found 60% of a sample of news outlets were not publishing mugshots and perhaps most interesting, the united states marshals will not release mugshots. they will even by written policy also on the internet, they will not release mugshots and they'll even move to quash subpoenas. we wholeheartedly support the commission to look at that and join the sfpd to join the us marshals by adopting a policy prohibiting members from releasing mugshots. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello, good evening. i'm the translator english only a little bit.

thank you. >> we can use a translator. >> my name is -- >> her name is janice. >> it's a community and organization she's involved very much. >> she lives in visitation for over 30 years. she knows that it can take a long time to develop the visitation fairly early on.

>> right now, visiontation area is more peace of th peaceful th. it's not enough cops. i'm sure not everyone knows it's our country and it's saving however in golden mountain we just in san francisco there's a lot of speaking people especially they really node help in their community because the most vulnerable group in the community. it's a tying language so no one speaks it. and even the new chinese like myself, don't really understand it but we try.

>> and 66 raymond they usually have a regular gatherings, all the old folks gather together and have fun, dancing, eating, communicating, socializing. >> it's almost 80 seniors participating every time. >> unfortunately, there's a lot of people who want to come because of the crime and all the robberies and stabbings, all

these kinds of things so they're very hesitant to participate. >> she grows with the earlier speakers regarding the homeless problem. they're a threat to the older people, like what they're talking about and they are very moody and they can spit on you and say something bad to you and they're extremely disturbing.

>> they are always in a dire straits situation because by the time anything happens, you can't find no one. i always said when you need the police they're never there. when you don't node them they're always there. so, the thing is, they do need some police men around the neighborhood. >> so again she wish the community would take a serious lock at this situation and highehiremore people and speak e language.

>> there was an accident almost 10 years ago that was a shooting and someone died. there was an asian and that really bothered her for a number of years, trauma and sleep and depression. what happened is really stirred up the old wounds and she is really disturbed about that. she don't want that. she has to be the next person the next victim. >> thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> next speaker.

>> >> good evening, commissioners, chief. assistant chief redmond. thank you for coming to our neighborhood here in visitation valley. i want to acknowledge the captain's amazing work here. he made it seem less. we're worried because the transition happened so quickly but he was up and running right away and either he mentioned earlier the office hours, the officer at 66 raymond at our community center and i can't express how important it is for our community as you heard today, many of my community members only speak one language, maybe two dialect. cantonese and it's really important to have those folks here because in the past, what they've done is when they're victimized they usually come to our office and we try to encourage them to call or go to

visitation up to ingleside police station but if can you imagine, for folks who lis doesn't really speak english and to make the trek from here, it may not seem really far for us but to them, it's quite a trek for them. by having the officers here in visitation valley, it really makes it convenient for our community, as you can see, 26% are asian and many of them do speak english i would be row miss not to thank captain heart for starting up the officer hours and again i want to applaud the chief for supporting our captain here. that's all i want to say, thank you. by the way, captain, thank you for translating our fly ner chinese because it made it really easy for our community and i believe that it was

officer phillips that did the translation. is that correct? [laughter] >> thank you, very much. i see no one else online for public comment. they're end particular for you. before we adjourn from that, i want to say as commissioners we enjoy coming out to the district stations. as a couple of you have mentioned we're kind of trapped at city hall most weeks and i know that it's a hard trek for people to get there and so we appreciate coming out and meet you and hear your concerns and it's a treat when we have these nights. so, with that the next loin item is plan four -- >> adjournment. >> all right, do we have a motion. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> thank you, everyone.

disabilities and adult services meeting. may i have the secretary take the roll. [ roll call ] >> executive director mcfadden is present. at this time, we ask you silence all sound producing devices and cell phones. >> may i have a motion to approve the agenda. >> so moved. >> do we have a second? any discuss in all in favor. any opposed? motion carries. may i have a motion to approve the february 5th, 2020,

meeting minutes? thank you. do i have a second. >> second. >> any discussion? all in favor. any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. now i would like to introduce our newest commissioner, nelson lum, who'll tell us about his background. >> thank you. mr. chair, fellow commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, good morning, my name is nelson lum, and i'm the newly appointed member of this commission. i've been a resident since 1961, and i went to school here. upon graduation from george washington high school, in 1966, i was soon notified by uncle sam that he had a special interest in me. i was inducted in the army where i volunteers to be a member of the paratrooper unit, and after training, i was assigned to kentucky with 101st airborne division. in 1967, my division was

deployed to vietnam. luckily, i returned in november 1968, with all my fingers and my toes. i took advantage of the gi bill and completed a degree in criminology. i then joined the san francisco police department where i served for 30 years until my retirement in 2005 with a rank of sergeant of police. since retired, i've been devoting most of my time with "american legion" where i participated with assisting veterans. it's thage laest veteran organization in our country with 2.5 million members. the main mission of the legion is to assist veterans with benefit claims along with providing generations of veterans. there are ten posts in san francisco. with the exception of one, they are at the veterans building across from city one.

there's post 384 that was formed exclusively by chinese-american veterans back in 1931. the membership exclusiveness was not by choice. confronted with discrimination against asian and chinese americans in particular, such as chinese exclusion act, the chinese-american veterans were not welcome to join the post at that time. thus, the formation of their own post in 1948, the members of the post voted and contributed to the purchase of the building located at 1524 powell street. i have been honored to serve as the post commander for four years. i am currently representing the district which covers all ten "american legion" posts at the state level. that's enough about me. i must confess that even though i have been doing a lot of reading about this commission since my a appointment, i'm nowhere near caught up with all

the information necessary to render myself in the effective overseer. i will do my best to learn more about this commission and the responsibilities that encompasses. when i sat in to observe last month's meeting, i heard references to how the budget of this commission has grown over the years. my thought was and is, well, it is a blessing to have a larger budget. it is far more important to measure our success by how effectively that money was being utilized to help those who are in need. so that will be my guideline as i join my fellow commissioners to implement the goals of this commission. thank you. >> thank you very much, commissioner lum. i'm sure you're going to be a worth while addition to our commission and help with the services we perform. the next item on the agenda is the director's report.

>> good morning, commissioners. welcome commissioner lum. looking forward to working with you. as usual, i will start with the federal level. last month, i said that by this time, we would probably see that the senate had re-authorized on its side the older americans act. however, that has not quite happened yet. what did happen is they -- there was a long awaited reauthorization of the national caregiver bill which provides residence busines -- respite se, so that was exciting, but we're working to advocate for the older americans act to pass. it's really focused on that. i will be assuming that it happens. i will be going to washington, d.c. in two weeks for the national association meeting and

also for the policy briefing that i go to each year and bridget is working to schedule visits with our representatives in washington. so it's always a good opportunity to talk about the great work we're doing in san francisco and in california, rally along with other california triple-a directors, you know, at the capital. so looking forward to that visit. at the state level, there are a couple of budget items that have been introduced and are being advocated for that would really help our services and help put some more money into some of our services. the first is there's a big budget ask for an enhancement to adult protective services. it would increase the adult protective services budget in california by 100 million. it would provide for different things. one of them would be that it would enhance the home safe

program which is, as you know, we're doing in san francisco, and it's a way of really preventing homelessness for older adults who need extra services, who need intensive case management or who need to move into assisted living. it's really a partnership with homeless services. it would also enhance the training opportunities and it would also allow for adult protective services to be able to keep cases a little bit longer. so they're seeing more complex cases. they need a longer intervention. it would allow for that. i'm going to sacramento tomorrow to testify on behalf of the california welfare director's association and as, of course, the director in san francisco to talk about how important this is. it will be before the senate budget subcommittee tomorrow. also at the state level, there is a request from the california

association of area agencies on aging to enhance the aging and disability resource center connection funding. that is a model that we use in san francisco, and we've been lauded for our hub model that we have here. the aging and disability resource connection really integrates aging and disability by providing information, referral, and assistance for services that are for people with disabilities and older adults. we have done that here. we have an effective relationship between our area agency on aging that sits within our department and the independent living resource center. paragraph paragrapthere's a lota connection in every county or at least in every triple-a across the state. this big ask -- i'm not exactly sure what the dollar amount is. we're still working on the dollar amounts on that ask. it would be a substantial

infusion of money for that program so that it can really effectively work throughout the state. one of the biggest things that we know is that, you know, older people and people with disabilities don't know how to access services. this is a statewide problem, and developing the hub model in every triple-a would really help with that problem. it allows us to work as a network across the state to, you know, use best practices for information, referral, and assistance and outreach and be sure californians know about the services that they need. then at the local level, i think the big conversation -- this is actually -- should be at the knowledge level, too, but at the local level right now, we're really doing a lot of work around covid-19. the coronavirus is most dangerous to older people, people with diabetes and asthma, and as people get older, it's people 55 and older most at risk, but of course as people

get older, in their 80s and 90s, they are more at risk. there are issues around people living in congregate living. san francisco just received testing kits on monday and has the ability to test now, and so the assumption is that we may have a positive case sometime soon. i think mayor breed is -- has been proactive in declaring a state of emergency so that it puts us in a position where we can activate the emergency response system. we have people at the emergency operations center every day. we have two staff there who are going to be there on a two-week

stent. they are there every day getting information, bringing information back to the department, and helping to inform practices around, you know, how do we think about ensuring that older adults are safe? how do we ensure our staff in communities are safe, out in homes, all of those things. so it's a rapidly changing environment, and so the main -- i think the main messaging is, if you're sick, stay at home. wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands. don't shake hands. it's simple messaging because just like any flu or any virus, we need to treat it seriously. so that's been a lot of the energy over the past week or so. a couple of other things coming up. one is this year is the 30th anniversary of the americans with disabilities act. the das will not working with

the mayor's office, senior disability action, and a number of other disability groups on disability pride event. it's very exciting that we're going to be part of that. april 14th is national health care decisions day, and just like last year, das is involved along with the palliative care work group in supporting a number of events throughout the city through the libraries to really create conversations and discussions around advanced care planning. we, again, have had some people back out of that, of some of those events muc. we're going forward. if we need to cancel them, we will, and we'll think about another way. maybe, you know, a webinar or something that we can do if we have to cancel those events. but right now, we're moving forward with that april 14th national health care decisions day group of events. then one other thing that we are

involved in is our city put out a grant opportunity for cities to apply for funding to really look at financial empowerment for people with disabilities, and so mayor's office of disability and thriving in place, nonprofit thriving in place, and d aos came together and said this is something we should really look at and we decided it would be great to do a road map of financial empowerment opportunities in san francisco, kind of an asset mapping exercise so we know what do we have here and what are our gaps. so it's an initial grant that allows us to look at those services, kind of identify what we need to do next and then hopefully go back for a bigger grant so that we can actually make some headway in providing

financial services for folks with disabilities. that's a really exciting partnership that we're embarking on. i think -- unless there are questions, i think that's all i have for today. >> thank you. i have a couple of observations, questions. i think the potentially increased funding for the adult protective services is good news. i hope it's realized, but it triggered another thought. how is the city implementing the increased conservatorship options for people who are severely troubled? many of whom are on our sheets. >> the housing conservatorship bill passed, and the city is working very hard to get it in place to implement it. so, you know, it seems like it would be very simple to just enact that, but there are a number of steps that have to be taken when you change law.

so it comes down sometimes to the forms that you're using. so the court has been involved in working on the forms. the city attorney has to agree to the forms. the public defender has to agree to those forms. our staff and the department of public health staff have worked really hard to come together to move this forward and it's frustrating a little bit because the legal ease piece takes time. we're moving forward, and looking forward to being able to have our first test case really soon. >> thank you. and then on the coronavirus, it's wonderful that the city is being as proactive as it can. but i'm sure everyone is aware of the impact on tourism in the city of the canceled flights and foreign visitors and so forth as well as domestic travel. has any assessment been made of the potential impact on the budget and our revenues from the

coronavirus and what that may do to our department and their budget? >> i believe the mayor's budget office and the controller's office are looking at that closely, certainly have mentioned it, and i know that they probably have gathered a lot of information already. i am not privy yet to what those projections are. >> thank you. any other comments or questions from the commission? okay. thank you very much. the next item is employee recognition. the das commission and executive director will honor from the public conservator. [ applause ]

>> how are you doing? you're popular. you have a huge following here today. so we just talked about conservatorship. it's a great segue much the public conservator's office works with people who are unable to care for their own needs due to serious mental illness. one of the things that is true about them is they have so much skill, so many people skills. right? they work with people who are very, very hard to serve, and i've talked to a lot of them. they actually have such good connections with the people they work with and they care very much about their clients. i know it's really not easy -- it's a work i would find hard to do. i'm always really impressed with the work of social workers that we have in the public conservator's office as well as the people who support them in the management. so it's a great group of people. it's a really diverse group of people, and at the same time that they are doing the hard work they're doing -- they're on the same floor as i am.

and so i get to see them enjoying each other's company and really supporting each other, and they are really strong group. i think, you know, it takes that. when you're doing the hard work that you're doing and you come back and you can be joyful and laugh and have fun and eat together, that's what makes a really good strong group of social workers. i just want to thank all of you for the work that you do. it's a changing environment and there's a lot of pressure on the conservator to be the answer. right? and so i just think that all of you have extreme grace under pressure, and i just want to thank you for what you do. today we're talking about mike in particular. mike, not only -- not just one person wrote about you, but two people did. i get to read what two people wrote. i've known mike since i came in to the public guardian. what of the things he did immediately is he wanted to become a licensed clinical

social worker, and he worked really hard at it. he didn't just say, well, i'll wait and think about it. he jumped right in, got the consultation, did the work he needed to do, and then moved over to the you can public conservator. but he was great when i was in the public guardian. all of his coworkers enjoyed working with him and felt supported by him, felt his professionalism and he's carried that into this job. so i'm going to talk about -- i won't call them out, but i'm going to -- you'll see because i'm going to hand this to you. from one of your colleagues, why he should be the employee of the month. i'm nominating mike because of his body of work over the past decade, working for the city, including time at the public guardian. in his current role, he has taken on a leadership role and not a critical source of stability and support to allful our coworkers. he takes difficult situations in stride, works to develop understanding and better communication within the office, and regularly supplies our team meetings with sugar to keep us

going. [ laughter ] personally, i've appreciated he's willing to contain situations escalated by other providers and remain a firm defender of the role and values. then from another colleague of yours, mike is a true team player who works to ensure that his clients and colleagues are succeeding. during a period of transition, mike has stepped up and provided leadership and guidance to the team all the while successfully managing a heavy workload. he exemplifies the das core of value and inclusion. it's noteworthy that despite many stressors, he remains calm while keeping the needs of our clients as a top priority. he's passionate about protecting vulnerable people and driven by the work he carries out. mike is an excellent role model for others at das and he is absolutely deserving of the employee of the month recognition.

[ applause ] >> congratulations on being employee of the month for march. >> i just want to say that this was very unexpected, and i just really do appreciate it and i'm very honored to be employee of the month. i also want to say a big thank you to the lps team. they are a very resilient, dedicated team, and i'm really happy to be working with them. i just want to say thank you to jill who has been a great leader and support as well as kerry, cassandra and jason. the work that we do is challenging. the impact is ever lasting. i just want to say thank you. it's very heartfelt.

[ applause ] >> the next item is the advisory council report. diane lawrence. welcome, diane. >> good morning, commissioners. welcome commissioner lum. because this is a long agenda, i'm going to make this as brief as possible since i have three reports to give. then i'll detail it that you'll get in the minutes as i've done in the past. so the advisory council met on a regular meeting in february. we had a representative from the community living campaign who made a quick presentation on their cracked sidewalks and we'll have a full presentation in march.

based on the recommendation from this commission's meeting in february, we drafted letters to our -- the joint legislation committee agreed. we presented it to the advisory council to prepare letters -- to send letters to our representatives, congresswoman pelosi and spear and then senators feinstein and harris. the reports focused on the data and evaluation report which included ethnic breakdowns on meal programs and i'll include the details later. we had our second review which took up the area plan on aging, which took up most of our meeting and was quite a lively discussion. you'll have that report later. so i won't go into those

details. dr. edelman for the lgbt updates discussed the master plan for aging for which she is participating adds a commission on aging at the state level member. she's discussing the equity work group and the group's purpose is to examine the development and implementation of the plan, looking at social -- health and social disparity issues with the focus on the equity lens and dr. edelman is on that work group. and then we were -- she announced she had been -- she announced she had been awarded the woman of the year award for district 17. so we were quite excited about that. there were no site visits given our time was taken up with an area plan and robust discussion. >> thank you very much. any comments or questions? okay. joint legislative committee. >> the joint leg met prior to

our meeting. it's a committee that's jointly -- it's a joint committee between commission members and the advisory council members. so a number of the bills that we looked at last year and that are included are sitting with budget, in appropriations. the governor has asked the bills with possible expenditures have to be looked at in light of the budget and make sure that there's money to go with them. so we'll probably see a lot of bills sitting with budget asks. there are a couple new bills that were just coming out, and there probably will be additional bills next month because we've just passed the last day to introduce a bill. we spent some time reviewing the details of the older americans act, but i'll detail the bills so that you have them in your minutes.

>> thank you. and last but not least. >> quarterly meeting last wednesday and thursday, and i will add it's a group of representatives from the 33 psas. i'll give you background for the new commissioner so you understand. we typically meet two days, a day and a half, four times a year. oftentimes the meetings are in line with -- scheduled so that they back up against another event. so this time, the second day of our meeting was the c4as capital day. we focused a lot on business. we had an update on the commission on -- from the california commission on aging, spent a lot of time talking about the master plan, obviously. the first deliverable of the master plan was posted last wednesday. so that's progress and that's on the long-term support and

services stakeholder reports. it's a high level report with a bold vision and looks at long-term care workforce. we were reminded that the minutes and webinar meeting information was posted on the engage website so that all of the information is available for people to look at. we established an ad hoc plan committee, and that was to align our work with that of the commission to look at venues, revenue, and that work will begin in the summer, and i volunteered to be part of that. we had a presentation on elder abuse and mandated reporting, which dovetails in elder care and the variations around the state. so the point of increasing the funding is important. one of the things that came up twice in the meeting is the fact there were discrepancies between

federal, state, and the department of labor definitions of older adult. so the federal law says 60. the state says 65 as does medicare. the department of labor says 50. so this does make for -- i didn't realize there were that many discrepancies. the bar association has addressed -- has a national american bar association has expanded their rules to allow attorneys to report without the client's consent in cases of elder abuse, to report -- the california bar association has not adopted those new rules. one thing i thought that was important in the dovetails with director mcfadden's report is that one-third of the reports of abuse are repeat. so keeping accounts, keeping the cases longer might make a difference. that's on a statewide level. we had reports from the various

ps as. who were asked to make a quarterly report. areas are looking at planning events. they are surveying seniors, disaster preparedness continually comes up as i've mentioned before. some tax preparation activities in the communities. thought we would begin talking about coronavirus. one of the psas is looking to get a program which dove taled into our last presentation of the first day which was on workforce and aging. we also have a quick presentation on the ombudsman program and how it dovetails in increased funding so more visits can be made. the other thing that struck me

is the assisted living facility licensing is annual, and then the -- we talked about the presentation from the c4a executive director on the area agencies in the master plan. this was something that director mcfadden spoke about and also the increased funding that she mentioned earlier. then employment communities, senior community employment program, older workers training. these are programs to get older adults either continuing in the workforce or find jobs much like we did with the workforce job fair last year. employers that have been surveyed found they were more loyal. they also had greater

institutional knowledge which many organizations are finding. so there are a number of programs throughout the state with some money and more details. our next meeting is in may, and that will start with senior rally day on may 11th. then on day two, we meet on the capitol, and i went to visit some of our local legislators with director mcfadden and cindy kaufman. >> thank you very much, diane. any comments or questions? thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> next item is long-term care coordinating council report. welcome. >> good morning, commissioners. i don't know some of the new commissioners. i will say i'm the program director of the long-term care ombudsman program in san francisco.

it's a contract through das and hsa. thank you. we met on the 13th of february, and let me start with the action items first because that's kind of crucial for future planning. there were two action items. dr. julie leshae is going to okay identify the hiv aids seat, and she's presently the director of housing, aging, and retention and care department at the sf aids foundation. she's focused on design, implementation, and expansion of programs. she's a worthy nominee to occupy that eat on the long-term care coordinatetion council and we all look forward to her input and her spreading our involvement from the council to individuals that she's working with. the second action item is that the council will only meet six

times a year, every other month, and following recommendations from retreat i think we had in 2017, '18, around there, the work groups are going to fulfill a dominant role in reporting out to the long-term care coordinator and council when it does meet. those work groups are behavioral health, housing, nutrition, social engagement, transportation, and workforce. each one will be focusing on certain issues that are really important, and it's sort of -- i would urge that commissioners go online and look at some of their reports. for instance, the report from the behavioral health group is rather detailed in terms of working with the deaf community, in terms of behavioral health, and having a position in terms of discussing future planning

for unmet behavioral health needs and gap analysis. they have members that are both from the council and also from outside of the council. that's a very robust work group. the main work group is going to be what's called the steering committee, and that's going to meet once a month. i think the next meeting is on the 13th of march, this month, and it's an incarnation to earlier work groups, policy and finance and the old steering committee which were merged. they will look at issues such as financing, policy recommendations, and, of course, all of their recommendations will go into the agenda setting for the long-term care coordinating council as well as other presentations. so those are the two action items. there was a dignity report made, and there's an rfp going to be

released, probably has already, for case management evaluation. there's also an open bid, nine providers applied by supervisor district. that will focus on needs assessment and those particular districts, there's a disparity between services in some districts and not in other districts. so this will be raising all the votes with this rfp and neighborhood services. then there's some rfps on what's called collectivity or connection which will focus on applicants to extend connection to isolated persons with disability who are aging and focus on loneliness and social isolation. there's been some work by medical doctors at ucsf about the effects of social isolation

and loneliness on the sense of personal wellness because of the lack of connection. there's great literature on that. finally, our funds for transgender were released to build up the services, open house and one other served some money to outreach and provide services to transgender individuals who are, perhaps, the most isolated of the lgbt community in terms of their political leverage. there was a presentation by dr. laura wagner on the workforce, and it was a rather interesting powerpoint. i wish the supervisors could actually review it. i don't really want to summarize all the slides. she did an evaluation of where

the shortages are in certain key positions, rn, lvn, housekeeping as it relates to long-term care. but she also, very interestingly, came up with new kinds of categories of care. for instance, a dementia care coordinating specialist, which would be either additional job for someone who has an msw or rn as well as other care coordination. so her recommendations are in terms of the future as the informal care giving by family members is diminishing over time, she had a graph going into 2050 about the loss of family caregivers. that's a nationwide statistic she presented in the powerpoint. family caregivers are not available anymore. she's projecting a need for all these specialized caregivers for

long-term care. she did talk about cnas and individuals in skilled nursing and how they are also -- there's also a labor shortage there. part of it is because of low wages and the fact that it's a pretty difficult job for such low wages. some of us in the group raised questions that were raised by -- there's a famous writer about home care workers, care workers in the community who are not part of the professional class of workers and whether or not she had looked into that. her study was limited to the professionals basically. so that's an as needed thing. there's been a lot of work on increasing the labor force for ihss and the parameters of scarcity are they can't afford to live in the bay area. it's a long commute.

what incentives will be needed? that hopefully will be a future study. so that was a really interesting and germane focus on the workforce. the other committees didn't have much to report at this juncture. but the idea is with the two -- with the one action item, that they will meet monthly and actually report out. so all the members of the council are going to be busy going to workshops and tackling social isolation for behavioral health. some of us will be on the steering committee, and i think that's it. if i missed anything, okay. thank you. >> thank you for that comprehensive report. any comments or questions? thank you. next item is the case report,

craig moore. >> good morning, commissioners and executive director mcfadden. i'm not craig moore. i'm the director of san francisco senior center. i thought i retired, but i'm still here. so i will be as brief as possible. i'll be reading, i apologize, because this is greg's report. he's not feeling well. so in february, case advisory committee met and continued planning in preparation of phase two of our advocacy campaign. it consists of a petition that will be online and in hard copy with our budget funding request that we took to das in december. we'll be meeting with city supervisors. the bucket office, and hopefully the mayor's office. we'll be asking our member agencies to collect signatures

as they did last year. we have versions in english, spanish, chinese, vietnamese, russian, and tagalog. last year, collected over 3,000 petitions. this year we're hoping for 5,000. phase three will be our annual rally at city hall, and repeat visits to supervisors in conjunction with the budget justice coalition. our february meeting, we had a very informative transportation panel with sfmta's accessibility services. we also are in deep preparation and planning and discussion of our 2020 getting there together event. i don't know if all of you were there, but i'm sure most of you are aware that we held this last year with all of our organizations and city organizations, park and recreation. we all came together and we'll

be doing that again on sunday, september 13th, celebrating adults with disability and those of us working in aging. we're right now finalizing the response or report from last year and the packet looking for sponsors for this year. i am stepping down as cochair in part of my semi retirement and dan gallagher of steppingstone is stepping up. so greg and dan will be cochairs of case and patty, the treasurer, christina irving, the secretary. this was the part where greg was going to loud me, but because he's not here, i get to loud him. so let me just say because it's a public forum, that greg moore is one of the finest advocates and person of service in san francisco working with adults with disabilities and those who are over 60.

he's tireless. he's ever present, and i want to thank him for what he does. and then this next meeting that we have, our membership meeting will have mason smith, public affairs manager for cruz, which is a vehicle company. they're going to talk to us about what they want to do in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you very much. any comments or questions? thank you again. item number five, any old business? item number six, new business. and we will begin with a presentation and review of the fiscal year 2021-2024 area plan for the california department of aging. thank you. welcome. >> good morning, commissioners.

i'm rose johns. i'm a planning analyst with the human services agency. today i'm before you with director mcfadden to present an overview of the area plan. you should have received a copy of that in the mail early last week. hopefully you've had a chance to look. our presentation is informational. we want to share information, get your input, and then we will return next month seeking your approval of the final plan. today our presentation will begin with an overview of the purpose of this plan. i will share some highlights from the large 22-section report. then director mcfadden will touch on our goals and objectives. so the area plan is required by the older americans act. it's submitted to the state department of aging every four years. the purpose of the plan is to outline how the department will use older americans act funding

to support seniors in the community and how the department will be working to coordinate the service system in san francisco. in the interim years between the four-year plan, we provide an annual update. we present that here to the advisory council and then send it up to the state. i want to also note this plan is focused primarily on senior services, the older population, but much of what we talk about also does extend to the younger population of adults are disabilities that the department serves. i wanted to share just a time line that represents where we're at in the process. we're currently in the last year of the current area plan. we are working on the area plan that will cover 2021 through '24 and that's due to the state on may 1st. we also wanted to put this plan in context for you. as both an area agency on aging and a city department, das

undertakes three planning efforts. it's sometimes confusing to see how they fit together. as a city department, das participates in the city's planning process. every five years there's a strategic plan and we also prepare annual action plans. director mcfadden presented that to you earlier in the fall and provided an update a couple months ago. that plan covers all of the department's work, all of its programs. we also have a four-year planning cycle that was established by the dignity fund. this includes community needs assessment and four-year funding plan. that process covers all services eligible to serve funds from the dignity fund. it's looking at about $70 million. and then the area plan we're talking about today is similarly focused on mostly community based services. we get $7 million from the state

for those services. that's about 10% of the budget for the office of community partnerships. as much as possible, we try to align these efforts, and an example of that is the needs assessment from the dignity fund is the primary needs assessment informing this area plan. similarly, the department's strategic plan goals are used as our guiding goals within this area plan. we recognize this report, which i mentioned is a 22-section template we get from the state -- is confusing especially for those that are newer. i want to share how i conceptualize these sections coming together. we're doing six things with this report. we are describing our local area. we are outlining our planning process. we are identifying our priorities and goals. we're providing an overview of our organizational structure,

including oversight bodies like this commission. there are a handful of specific program focused sections and then some very technical components of tables and and check boxes. if you have questions about specific content i don't cover, we're happy to discuss that when we open it up. i'm going to start with some demographic points. first is older adults are the fastest growing age group in the city. since 2000, the senior population has grown by 42,000 people. it's a growth of 30%. over that same time period, the city's overall population has grown by 11%. this growth adds urgency and significance to our work in the department. the older population is diverse. seniors in san francisco -- our senior population has been changing over the last 20 years.

about 10 years ago, asian pacific islander seniors became the most populous group. however, we've also seen a decline in the african-american population mirroring overall citywide trends. i'm sure you're familiar with this. and it's really important for the department, as we design services and put resources into the community, that we're making sure we're serving all of these groups and that we are working to preserve the city's diversity. we look at, in addition to the overall population, those with low income. what we have here are two pie charts. on the left is the whole senior population. on the right, those in poverty below the federal poverty level. we see low income seniors are likely from communities of color. what really stands out to me when i look at this is african-americans are 6% of the

senior population but 11% of those in poverty. this really underscores for us the importance of providing culturally appropriate services. section 5 in the area plan is the needs assessment. a big change with us is that we've really streamlined this section at the request of the california department of aging. what we're drawing on here is the dignity fund community needs assessment and other needs assessment work that we've done since then. so we highlight 7 major findings that directly impact the department's work. for example, finding barriers impacting people's act to access service. one of the major barriers is lack of awareness of what services are available and how to access them. and so as you'll see in the narrative goals section. das has an outreach program to address this issue.

in the area plan, we identify our priority populations. we're required to serve those with the greatest economic and social needs. but we're given some latitude to identify what that means in our local community. for das, the priority populations are the equity analysis we did for the community needs assessment. they are those who are socially isolated, those are low income, seniors with limited english speaking proficiency, those who identify as lgbtq, and those at risk of institutionalization. section 10 of the area plan is where we highlight anticipated service levels next year. this is a key piece of our annual update that we bring back before you. overall looking at last year's report and this report, we're seeing service levels will stay

the same or increase in most areas. i want to highlight in particular in legal services, we're seeing a 30% increase in service units, and that's largely driven by additional dignity fund revenue that das put into the legal services. there's a slight decrease you see in nutrition education. that is relatively minor. it's about a 2% decrease. then this is -- my last slide before i get to turn it over, i need to highlight our allocation of title 3b funding. we get $900,000 from the state. these funds support access in home and legal assistance services. given the additional local revenue that we have, the specifics of this allocation are a little bit less significant for us, but it is a requirement of the state that we put this before you. so as i said, about $900,000 in

title 3b funds, but das is closer to $6 million on these services. das anticipates retaining the same allocation of the title 3b funds that we've had for many years, which is 45% to access services. that's information and assistance provided by das as well as transportation. 45% to legal services, and then 5% to a short-term home care program. i will turn it over to you, director mcfadden, to share goals and objectives. >> thank you, rose. hopefully you'll be able to flip the slides for me. >> i got you. >> okay. so yes. goals and objectives, so we have five goals and we have objectives for each. i know we went over this last month. we've done some changes since then. so i just wanted to reiterate that the goals in the area plan come directly from the das strategic plan which seems

obvious, but it actually isn't. it's great that our planning team, rose, and her team, have worked with our office of community partnerships to ensure these are aligned, that we're not recreating something with the area plan because in the past we would -- we didn't always have them aligned as well as we do now. it's hard to do different plans. it's really great that they've worked so hard to make sure that this rolls up into our das strategic plan. in each area plan updates, we have an area plan update each year. we will be providing an update on progress toward each of the objectives in these goals. so today, i'm going to review each goal with you and i will talk about the rationale for each goal and then i will highlight an objective for each. at the end, if you want to talk about the other objectives or have questions, you're welcome to ask those questions at that time. so goal one, maintain a robust network of community based

services for older people and adults with disabilities. our rationale really was that quality community based long-term care goes beyond what people need. what services people need. it's really more fundamental issue of what it means to have a good life. working with our community based organizations, we can facilitate diverse opportunities for social engagement, nutrition support, and many other resources that enhance well-being. so today, we wanted to focus on objective a, which is to promote expansion of employment resources that support older people and adults with disabilities in the workforce. so the work matters collaborative is an effort to support older people and adults with disabilities to participate in the workforce. it's led by the community living campaign. i think they are here today. the collaborative host quarterly meetings to bring together

employment related programs until the city, including traditional public force programs like jobs now and some of the programs run by the office of economic and workforce environment, to develop a system that works for older people and disabled residents who want to work. it's real leadership from community living campaign and herding cats a little bit because sometimes our public programs don't talk to each other or the community as well as they should. this is really a great collaborative. additionally, the program will support 125 individuals to prepare for and participate in the workforce. that program has really taken off and we've been supporting it with funding over the past few years, but i know there was advocacy for it even before that. again, community living campaign has provided great leadership in the city for this work. goal two is to protect older people from abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation. the rationale for that goal is

while older people and people with disabilities have many strengths and are increasingly able to live independently without assistance, some obviously experience heightened risks related to health, housing, and safety. by helping to address critical issues and facilitating connections to resources, we can support consumers to meet their basic needs and regain or maintain stability in the community. we wanted to highlight today objective c, which is to develop strategies to prevent eviction or homelessness. i mentioned home safe. we're focusing on home safe which is a state funded pilot to stabilize low income, older and disabled adults at risk of homelessness. this is a partnership between adult protective services, the homeless department, and community partners, and the program will serve 60 clients in fiscal year 2021.

goal three is to provide and support. we serve unique individuals who come from diverse individuals and have different preferences for how to engage. we have to take a whole person perspective and approach in serving consumers and support systems in integration to the community to streamline access to resources. as we work with consumers, we must be findful of all resources. we talk about this a lot not just answering the question for somebody, but really thinking more broadly about what that person needs, what they might access, thinking about things they don't even know to ask for, all of that. so we picked today objective a, which is the streamline access to resources across the department and community to promote timely access of needed resources. so we're planning to establish

an online resource directory that will serve as a centralized source of information about resources that support seniors to safely age in the community. we're launching in fiscal year 2021 hopefully with support from two foundations and we will be developing a plan for ongoing sustainability. we're grateful to the foundations we're working with because they are really -- they are really supporting this process many part of the reason is that there are a number of advocates within the community and certainly at these foundations that not only want us to he can inform us on our services but think broadly about the needs of people with dementia and their caregivers. think about palliative care needs for caregivers, and people who need advanced care plans and things like that. so it's thinking, you know, about how we involve the health communities, health services, what else is out there for people with disabilities and older adults. so over the next four years,

we'll continue to monitor and adjust the directory to ensure it's an effective tool for the public as well as service professionals. and then goal four is to expand planning and evaluation efforts to ensure the best use of resources and maximize client outcomes. so the rationale for four is to effective will he serve older people and adults in san francisco. we need to is up useful information that allows us to identify and understand unmet needs. we need to formulate strategies to fill those gaps. we're committed to measuring the impact of our services, commissioner lum thank you for mentioning how important impact is because we think about this all the time. we're always trying to do better at not only measuring impact but then being able to make changes in our programming that meets the gaps that we find. we are committed to -- we're working with other agencies and community partners to support data informed process for

services. so in this one, we picked d encourage and support collaboration across providers, government agencies, and other partners. so through informal and formal partnerships, we will seek to leverage expertise and reduce duplication to best serve client populations. this includes supporting our contractors, to develop new collaborations as well as supporting other fields and service systems to work with older people and adults with disabilities. some examples are the home safe program that i just talked about as well as community based collaborations like the alzheimer's association, working with open house to develop the dementia care training. goal five is to support and develop and engage professional workforce prepared to work with older people and adults with disabilities. the rationale for goal five is that for older people and people with disabilities to live in engaging community is critical that san francisco has a robust

professional workforce trained in these issues and trained to provide the necessary supports and services. we picked d in this one. so as part of an agency wide effort to promote racial equity, staff will participate in training on the framework and convene staff driven work group to develop equity initiatives. additionally, within our adult protective services programs das has and will continue to train staff on trauma informed systems, conduct a baseline health assessment, and develop and implement a plan for adopting trauma-informed practices. so i will turn it back over to rose for next steps. >> i just wanted to share our next steps, which is that we're here presenting today. we will return to the advisory

council in a couple weeks to share our final draft of the plan that integrates any feedback that you have for us. hopefully the advisory council will approve it, and then we will return to you next month with the final plan seeking your approval as well. we need to get the final approved plan to the state by may 1st, including a hard copy signed piece of paper. so that's why we're going with this time line. with that, i'm ready to open it up for discussion. >> thank you very much. any comments or questions from the commission? commissioner. >> i wanted to say thank you for the report. i don't have any specific questions. what i would say about this report in particular. thank you for providing that big overview. if someone were to ask me what one document they could read about what the commission is doing or how does it plan or what are the goals and objectives, i'm probably going to point to this one because of

that. i just wanted to say i really appreciate the work that's gone into this and just really helps us when, as we're evaluating everything we vote on, i can begin to see how it all fits into this big plan. so i don't have any specific questions, but i just wanted to note that and say how much we appreciate this kind of a document. >> thank you. i would like to echo commissioner's comments and commend the department for taking the extensive needs assessment results from the dignity fund oversight committee which we focused on and incorporating it into other documents that kind of working comprehensively -- often appears we work in a fragmented manner, but that -- a great deal of time was spent in the dignity fund to get a sense of the needs. it's great to see that incorporated here. so thank you very much. >> i just want to thank you all.

as a new commissioner, this is my second meeting. the plan is a really good document. the foundation for learning about the vast activities and employees and future and funding. i thank you very much for making such a nice, clean, clear understandable user friendly document. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. all right. commissioner lum. >> i understand the amount of work that it takes to put together a presentation as such, and i thank the staff for having done so. what's more important to me, as a city employee for 30 years, i recognize the word streamline. that is something that is the most frustrating when you're an employee, for that matter, the general public dealing with the city. so i really appreciate the fact

that you guys putting the emphasis on streamlining the process. thank you. >> thank you very much, commissioner. >> i would like to go on record as saying this is probably my 5th or 6th meeting and that has brought everything full circle for me in understanding. so i think -- i thank you and your department. i have a question regarding the racial equity framework. is that happening at the entire city level and then each department, or how does that -- how is that coming to fruition and how are you looking at that given the demographics and all that you spoke about earlier? >> yes. this framework is part of a citywide strategy. mayor breed put out an executive order saying that every department should focus on racial equity and work to achieve racial equity within staffing and think about it within the communities that we

serve and come up with strategies to ensure we have racial equity in the communities we serve as well. one of the things that the human services agency has done recently is to hire a new manager over -- manager of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. that person sits within the hr kind of division of human services. they will work really closely with each of the departments and with the agency as a whole and really work to build a work group that's kind of across departments and involved at different levels of staff. we'll use those citywide framework and the office of racial equity, which is a citywide one which sits within the human services commission, and we'll take some of the direction from that director around kind of how to build the

framework within our agency. we will also be doing work within our own department to ensure that staff are engaged at the department level to the extent that people want to do stuff within our own department. we've had one meeting about that last week and started the conversation. then i think what we also know is, thanks to the equity deep dive that we've been able to do on our own data, we know where we have some gaps and we're reaching out to new communities and thinking about ways to engage communities that don't engage as well. one good example is the lgbtq community. we know we have really good engagement in the programs that are specifically designed for the lgbtq communities, but not always in the kind of more mainstream communities, broader -- sorry -- kind of the broader programs that serve everyone.

so we're working -- we're planning to reach out to those communities, also figure out ways to engage the bigger organizations to say, okay. how can we make sure that we can move the needle on this? but since we have the data, we will be able to do that. it may take us a few different times to figure out what the right strategies are, but we have the data to do that. >> and then just one other comment. i'm very pleased to see that the social isolation has made a prominent role in the report going forward. is this an area that my foundation works on so it is one that we recognize is so extremely important to our overall health. >> just to follow up, there was another aspect of the dignity fund that was really focusing on equity, and that information, again, has been informing everything else that the department has been doing. that's a specific goal of the

dignity fund. we have a lot of information in developing strategies to reach out to those communities, as the director mentioned. some are more accessible than others. but that doesn't mean we stop trying. so thank you very much. next item on the agenda, another presentation, informational view of the fiscal year 2019-2020 funding break down and alex will make this presentation. welcome, alex. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners, executive director mcfadden. i'm a budget analyst with the human services agency. my main focus is on the das budget. i'm before you today to review additional funding allocated to das through the california department on aging's amendment to the area plan for the current

year 19-20. a thanks to rose and director mcfadden for adding so much context to the whole area plan process and time line since normally when i come before you twice a year with these area plan updates, they can be a little bit abstract. each year, federal and state funding provided in support of older americans act programs is granted to california's area agencies on aging through an initial allocation in the spring when and then a further amendment al owe case made in the fall or early spring of the same fiscal area. to tie this back to the broader picture, the amendment allocation we are viewing today represents the final funding installment in the final year of our current area plan. as detailed in the accompanying memo, this year das received a total of $846,235 in additional funding for the current year as part of this amendment.

this amount increased total cda funding for fiscal 19 doctor 20 from $6,017,593 to $6,863,828. as also detailed in the memo and touched upon, cda area plan funds are designated for particular program areas and required to be spent on those services. they include title 3b supportive services, such as in-home support, transportation, and legal assistance as well as funding for ombudsman programs, nutrition, home delivered meals, disease prevention, family caregiver, and elder abuse prevention. i'm happy to answer any questions you might have. >> thank you. any comments or questions for alex? there are none. thank you very much, alex. >> thank you.

>> item a, requesting authorization to modify an existing grant agreement with catholic charities for the provision of neighborhood older adults with disabilities during the period of july 1st, 2019, through february 29th, 2020, for an additional amount of $160,000 plus 10% contingent fee for an amount not to exceed $1,336,623. welcome michael. >> good morning, commissioners, executive director mcfadden. welcome commissioner lum. i want to address the next two items, a and b, as they are intertwined. i want to take you through how we have them set up as presented in today's agenda. first off, i guess, the idea of why are there two items related here? that stems from essentially we are transitioning the choirs from being an indirected funded

program to a directly contracted and funded program with the department. historically, this is about the third year we have funded the choir programs as part of the das programs usually within our community service centers. in previous years, they have been a patchwork of one time and small amounts of board of supervisor as well as das savings or funding that we have available. because of that, we typically funded those through a subcontract, usually with a community service center who was hosting that choir or a larger community service organization who might be able to provide the physical support to handle those funds on behalf of multiple choir sites. so this year is the year that we were able to dedicate on going funding to support our robust choir network. it takes a little while for us to get from our july 1 program date through our procurement

process, get everything set up, and get into that new contract. in order to continue services as they are in place and not disrupt services during that process, we do have some funding here that we are going to modify with catholic charities in order for them to subcontract with the choir provider to cover that period up until now. our procurement process through the rfp requires us to provide contracts going forward. so with our new contract, we can officially award one to community music center going from march 1st forward. the catholic charities item before you today, while it is a full scope and a full budget, really the item that you are focused on today is just that one subcontract item, that $160,000 subcontract to community music center. there's a small 3%

administrative fee being charged by community music center to handle the processing of those funds on behalf of the subcontractor. the remaining items in that budget, that community service budget, are items which have come before the commission in the past and been approved. kind of -- hopefully you're still with me. okay. okay. now let's get to the good stuff. why are we funding the choir? i think everyone is familiar with the concept of a choir. but i think over the past few years, through the efforts of agencies like community music center and coupled with the recent ucsf study, the choir voices study, we've looked at the impact of choirs as well as sort of in the context of arts-based programs and the impact they can have on older adults and adults with disabilities. as i stated in the memo, we saw this ucsf choir voices study,

which i encourage people to take a look at. it's readily available through a google search or i can send that link through bridget. among the findings was a reduced feeling of loneliness and increased interest in life. choirs provided meaningful opportunities for participants to meet new people, build social network and have an increased sense of belonging to choir participation. i think building on that, from the das perspective, the choir program model is additionally of interest to us because we see it as a flexible, easy replicatable model that can be started without a lot of need for -- it can be piggy backed on existing spaces. the program model can be adjusted at each site so that it's culturally relevant to the community that it's attempting to develop a choir in.

it also works to engage members in the process by helping them -- by having them engage to shape the choir direction including music selections and things like that. we're looking at the choirs as a way to bring new participants into das services. so the idea here is simply that someone is recruitedded, finds out with the choir through friends or flyers, comes in , becomes part of a choir and says what's going on also at this community center? the idea is there are many things going on, including many das funded services. that might mean getting involved in a congregate meal program, receiving assistance through our center. seeing a counselor, getting linked in to case management services, joining into educational or exercise programs that might be going on. so that's something that we also really are interested in from the departmental perspective and

something that we're going to be tracking in this process with these programs. okay. last kind of thing i wanted to make sure i covered. we're going to go back into more technical stuff, i guess, less fun stuff, but i wanted to note that the choir programs, they currently have three bilingual -- out of the 12 current choirs operating as listed in the scope of service, there are three buyling cal spanish choirs with one -- and one filipino spanish choir. there are plans to grow the choirs, adding two more next year with one more in each of the subsequent years. at the end of this contract, we would have 16 in place. there are two bilingual chinese choirs, actually in the piloting stage right now, and those are being looked at to be brought

online as part of this program as soon as july of this year. i want to highlight -- in the budget, you'll see on the front page of the budget, under the other revenue section, that the community music sister is going to be bringing a significant amount of their own revenue to leverage and help support costs of that. they are matching our dollars provided in this at almost a 90% rate for every das dollar to help the ongoing function of these. if anyone wants to get into it, as far as the personnel page on the budget, the choir director and choir accompany didn't fit well into our template. if you're wondering how that works, that number, that $5,600

dollars for choir director and that $5,200 amount for choir accompanist, that's the total cost for each of those persons per choir. so then you see it multiplied out times budgeted for 14 choirs. then you see it at only half of that. you see that .7. that's telling us that they are only billing half of those folks time to this contract. that is where we're seeing the largest contribution from community music center to help defray the costs of this program. okay. i just talked a lot. i'm happy to turn it back to you guys. >> thank you very much, michael. may i have a motion to discuss? thank you. seconded? thank you. any comments or questions? >> we've others, but first of all, this sounds so wonderful, and i completely agree that it's a great way to have people -- a

new way to have people access the important community centers. i was going to ask, are you anticipating having more of these, and you said you are. >> yes. >> do you happen to know where we're going to be? has that been formulated yet? >> i think we have two pilots going on right now. i believe one is the bilingual chinese choirs. i don't know if i can reveal, but i think one may be at the bethany center with another at, i think, a supportive housing placement in district 3. those are still formulating and look to be the candidates right now to be the next ones to join. >> anyone that's interested, as we would tell people about them, there's no entrance requirements, i'm assuming or -- people are encouraged to do this. >> it's free to join. >> yeah. >> and no income requirements or

particular skill level or anything like that. >> just an interest in engaging and sticking with it. >> it's about singing. >> i think 36-session sort of semesters or years, each year, so i think just be ready for that. >> okay. and will we be advertising this through all of our wonderful outreach efforts and websites and things like that so someone that might hear about it or something like that and punches in choir into some of our search vehicles will be aimed towards getting that word out that way as well as the other ways. >> of course. no specific detail on that, but it is something we'll work into our documentation. >> great. i can anticipate that people hearing about it and wanting to get involved and just we want to make that as accessible as possible. i think it's going to be very -- as we're increasing this, it's become more and more popular. >> thank you, commissioner.

commissioner lum. >> good morning. being the new kid on the block, it seems to me there is, based on this request, it's a retroactive request. >> correct. >> do we normally fund something prior to the program's initiation? >> so what we're doing is the contract with catholic charities is an already existing contract. so we are not creating a retroactive contract there. many we're just modifying this year's contract so that can cover the costs already incurred. >> thank you. >> thank you. any other comments or questions? is just one observation. in addition to helping draw more people to community centers where they can participate in the many programs that we offer, one of the things i noticed at the castro community center is that regulars began to exchange phone numbers and check with each other every day to make sure they were all right. those who drove would offer to take the neighbors to the

supermarket or doctor's appointment. so it engendered a feeling of community independent of the programs that they were attending. anything we can do to draw people to those centers can broaden their social networks. >> yep. >> before we vote, any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, call the question all in favor. i'm sorry. did somebody want to speak? >> go for it. >> thank you, mike. hello commissioners. thank you so much for your consideration. >> state your name, please. >> i'm sylvia sherman, and i'm the program director at community music center. we're so thrilled to be able to speak with you about the older adult choir program. this is something that community music center started in 2011 with our partner down the street, mission neighborhood center, to create a culturally

responsive choir that could meet the needs of our community in an accessible space. on the basis of that partnership, we're very happy that we've been able to replicate the model as part of an evidence based study, the community voices study that mike referred to, and has really been a proud partner with das when we joined forces with ucsf. 7 years later or 9 years later at this point, we have 13 choirs around the city. 14th at the hospital which is funded separately by the department of health, but we are proud to partner with das on the 13 choirs in the community at different senior centers and neighborhood centers. i really appreciate the comments about how accessible are they because they are extraordinarily accessible. you can simply come to the senior center or the neighborhood center and join, just speak to the choir director. they are tuition-free.

they are 36 weeks a year. the tenant of the program since the very beginning was that they be culturally responsive, and i believe that's been one of the most important things for choir members to be attracted to join a choir and to stay with a choir. as mike mentioned, we run choirs in four different languages, english, spanish, tagalog, and cantonese. what we're seeing -- this is in part because all of us want to be a good partner to das. what we saw with the needs assessment was that, you know, how wonderful a job our partner sites are doing when people get to the partner site and learn about services. but how can the choirs be -- one of the things we've learned is that the choirs draw people in. that's in part because they are out in the community performing, probably doing close to 60 or more performances a year in many different kinds of forms, whether they are arts, aging, or other kinds of neighborhood events.

that draws people in and is an opportunity to publicize services at our partner sites. so in terms of the benefits, we really have heard from our partners about bringing in new folks who learn about services and from the choir members themselves exactly what the study found in an evidence based manner over 90% every year of our choir members talk about how the choirs have connected them to other people and how their spirits have been lifted. we thank you for your consideration of this request and really proud to be doing this work. >> thank you. >> i would just -- i would just like to add that i just came here from the arts commission, which i had served on for over 30 years, and there's no question in my mind what art does for people. to know this music program is going on, i'm delighted to hear about it and hear we're supporting it and hope whatever we can do to make it -- to make it more available, i'm right on

top of that. thank you. >> thank you. >> bloo good morning. i'm here as one of the faces of the many choirs. as living proof that you don't to have a skill level to be involved in choir. i walked in to the mission neighborhood center, one of the original choirs. i walked in and said to our director, a friend said i should come. i don't sing. i don't speak spanish. she said, welcome. i've been there for two and a half years now, our choir is under the directorship of two professional musicians from the community music center. i'm going to name them because i think it's important that there be a face to them. martha rodriguez salazar and jennifer who are renouned

musicians who come each and every week and devote their time, their love, and professional demands upon us. so we're not a sing along group. people say that's nice. you get together and sing. we consider ourselves a professional choir. we rehearse and perform throughout the city. manile of our members -- many of our members take advantage of the services at the mission neighborhood center. what's important for me, i think, is what the choir has done for me is it's helped me to get to know people i wouldn't have otherwise, perhaps, gotten to know. my friends in the choir help me with my spanish and my tagalog because that's what we sing in that choir. many of us have become friends. as the commissioner mentioned, we call each other. if someone doesn't show up, we call each other. we provide transportation for each other, both to our rehearsals and performances. many of us now go together to

the open performances at the community music center, a place that some people maybe historically said i don't know if that's for me. now we all go together and enjoy that. i just want to say thank you to all of you for seeing us, for respecting us as contributing members of san francisco's community, and for helping us to sustain this social engagement that's so vital to all of us and knowing that it will be able to move forward now without the threat of losing funding and maybe our choir's going away. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. any other comments or questions from the public. hearing none, call the question. all in favor. any opposed? the motion carries. thank you. item b, requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with community music center for the provision of

neighborhood choir to older adults and adults with disabilities during the period of march 1st, 2020, through june 30th, 2023 in an amount of $800,000 plus a 10% contingency for a total amount not to exceed $880,000. welcome back michael. >> hello, again. no additional information. i'm here for questions. >> may i have a motion to discuss? >> so moved. >> seconded. >> second. >> any comments or questions from the commission? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, call the question all in favor. any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. thank you very much, michael. item c, requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with m and m hauling and heavy cleaning assistance company for provision of heavy

cleaning and pest treatment preparation services during the period of july 1st, 2020, through june 30th, 2023 in the amount of $870,000. is there a contingency amount for this? >> 10%, i believe. >> no contingency. okay. >> no contingency. >> thank you. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners, director mcfadden. i'm the program director. we are requesting authorization to enter into a new contract with m and m hauling and heavy cleaning to provide one time heavy clean-ups and if necessary, to prepare the environment for pest control services on behalf of older adults and adults are disabilities who are victims of abuse, neglect, self-neglect, and exploitation.

the purpose of the contract is to meet our state mandate to provide tangible support services to remedy and prevent further health and safety hazards. through this contract, we'll be able to serve 140 to 150 older adults and adults with disabilities per year. thank you. >> thank you. may i have a motion to discuss? >> so moved. >> second? any comments or questions from the commission? >> i just had one. in looking at this contract over three years, i was just -- it was brought to my attention that the cost annual amount is the same year-over-year. is there no thought that there will be an increase needed to cover services over this three-year period? >> we factored that in to that amount in that projection. right now, we're meeting those

costs, but the amount that we're projecting, i think, it may increase over time. so maybe fiscal year will be a little bit less and then so forth. >> okay. >> so it may not come out exactly at 290 per year. >> correct. yes. >> this is over the three-year period? >> yes. >> thank you. any other comments or questions from the commission? commissioner lum. >> sir, i realize the money you are asking for is based on the projection of number of cleaning that you will be performing. what if the number falls far short of your projection? >> that is unlikely even the trend. last fiscal year, we went from about 75 to is 15 clean -- 115 clean-ups. with the current effort to help older adults and adults with disabilities and our efforts to assist them with these clean-ups, we haven't -- we don't anticipate that happening.

it's -- the demand has been consistent over the last year. that's what we expect. >> thank you. >> commissioner lum, i would add that when we do see something like that happen, we are able to often make adjustments within a contract to modify a contract if the numbers bear that out. if we noticed, you know, even though we're not expecting it, if we noticed that we had to serve a lot more people than we expected, then we would be able to kind of hopefully go back to our budget team and see if we have some funds that we could put into the contract and modify it mid- contract. >> thank you. >> thank you. any other comments or questions from the commission? >> good morning. steve kim, contract manager of human services agency. one thing i wanted to put out is we have tried several times of -- >> speak into the microphone. >> sorry. usually loudness is not my problem.

here you go. we have tried with different vendors and scenarios to accomplish the goal. it's to avoid an eviction of our clients. we found the perception of heavy cleaning had evolved the last couple years to solidify the requirement and the pricing structure. it could be the volumes and the pricing could increase moving forward if there is any indication we haven't experience the last several years. this is kind of evolved through trial of the different providers and scenarios and this is the scenario that we feel good with. >> thank you. any comments or questions from -- comments or questions of the commission? hearing none, any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, call the question. all in favor. any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. thank you. item d, requesting authorization to enter into a new grant

agreement with the heights neighborhood center for the provision of mobile senior services program to june of 2023 in the amount of $483,732 plus a 10% contingency for a total grand amount of to exceed $532,105. welcome. >> good morning, commissioners, executive director mcfadden. welcome commissioner lum. i'm the program analyst for the office of community partnerships and i will be presenting on the next 8 agenda items before you today. we are requesting authorization to enter into new grants with the next 8 organizations for the provision of a neighborhood based pilot program. since there are many organizations that i have to present, i'll be brief and give you an overall description of what the programs will be. i do want to say that although

each of these 8 grants have distinct and unique programming, they all have the same purpose, and that is to provide opportunities for older adults and adults with disabilities to socialize, build community, and participate in a meaningful way in their neighborhoods. these neighborhoods are within districts that have been identified in the dignity fund community needs assessment as having less participation than the citywide service participation rate. the target districts include districts 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 11. however, you will notice we have programs for almost all of the target districts with the exception of 4 and 8 as we did not receive any proposal for those specific districts. these neighborhood based pilot programs fall under the service area of community connection and engagement. they will be measured for impact

related to inclusion and community building as well as improving access to services. these programs are aimed to increase social engagement and provide ways for individuals to be involved in their neighborhood or community. in addition, all the programs are required to have an advisory board that must consist of neighborhood stakeholders who'll provide input to help guide and design or shape the programs to meet the needs of the target population living in the neighborhood. so the first one i'm going to present on is the heights neighborhood center, bhnc. they will provide the mobile senior services. they will provide services to residents in five different affordable housing sites which will include park homes, quartz housing, and others. through a social services

coordinating, going between the sites and also by enlisting instructors and facilitators, and also using the nursing students, bhnc will provide program activities that will include exercise programs, cultural and art activities, wellness presentations and learning activities. they will also provide resource and service connection through the social services coordinator. the program services will be available monday through friday, 9:00 to 3:00 p.m. that's bhnc. >> thank you very much. may i have a motion to discuss? thank you. any comments or questions from the commission? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, call the question all in favor. any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item e, requesting authorization to enter into a new grant

agreement with booker t. washington community center for the provision of a senior wellness program during the period january 1st, 2020, through june 30th, 2023 in the amount of $367,406 plus a 10% no --10% contingency fee. welcome back. >> this next organization, booker t. washington community center. residents will be coming to participate in the wellness activities and those will include nutritional services such as food pantry and healthy meals three times a week, educational and social events to foster community engagement and prevent isolation and also fitness programming. transportation will also be

provided by booker t. washington for participants to be able to attend the site and for other activities such as excursions throughout the city. resource and service connection will be provided through the success center located at booker t. washington and they will be available 9:00 to 6:00 p.m. >> thank you. may i have a motion to discuss? a second? any comments or questions? >> question. so if there's transportation available, is that just available to somebody in district 5? i'm just asking a logistical question. is that sort of how it works, od in a particular program there, they're outside the district -- >> the focus is district 5 residents or anybody living in district 5. but, of course, we're not going to limit services just because they are right outside district 5. we do want to provide services to them still.

>> okay. great. that's kind of almost a general question i had about all of these because it seems like different community centers might provide something unique. if someone did learn about that through our increased ability to do outreach, are they going to be able to access that even if they don't live in the district? is. >> yes, for sure. the eligibility is just that they are older adults, 60 and above or adults with disabilities, 18 plus and also that they are residents of san francisco. >> okay. thanks. >> thank you. >> thank you. any other comments or questions from the commission? hearing none, any comments or questions from the public. call the question. all in favor? any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item f, requesting authorization to entered into a new grant agreement with community living campaign for the provision of a community connectors program during the period of january 1st, 2020, to june 30th,

2023, in the amount of $340,530 plus a 10% contingency for a grant amount not to exceed $374,880. >> i do want to just make a correction to the total, not to exceed amount. it should be $374,583. i think there was a switch of a number there for the contingency. but it should be $374,583. >> thank you. >> community living campaign will provide the community connectors program in district 10 as the name implies, the program will establish a local resident to serve as a paid community connector to work with residents in the area in planning and coordinating a range of activities. this model is really similar to

what we already have in other neighborhoods, the community connectors. and the activities that will be provided will range in exercise programs, some educational workshops and activities, creative activities, social activities, as well as transportation and mobility trainings. clc will recruit and train volunteers to be what they call mobility ambassadors to help program participants understand and access the transportation options available to them especially in the neighborhood where it could be difficult. clc will provide disability and aging resources and information to the participants through their community connector and they will be available between 9:00 and 4:00. >> thank you very much. may i have a motion to discuss the request amended for the

total grand amount not to exceed $374,583? do i have a motion to discuss? >> yes. >> second. >> and seconded. thank you. any comments or questions from the commission? >> i just want to make one comment. i'm very familiar with this program, the community connector program in district 11, in which i live in, and it's been -- my y partner is 60 plus and they attends it it. they do a wonderful job bringing out the community. i hope ther -- they are as effee in district 10. >> any other comments or questions from the commission? >> any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, call the question. all in favor. any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item g, requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with next village for

the provision of a district two university program during the period of march 1st, 2020, to june 30th, 2023, in the amounted of $400,642 plus 10% not to exceed $440,706. welcome back. >> thank you. the next village sf will be working within their current framework for the village model to provide the district 2 university, which remade available to older adults and adults with disabilities living anywhere within district two. next village will enlist facilitators or instructors to provide courses on topics that will include nutrition, travel for older adults, the arts on demand transportation, fitness, as well as public resources.

next village will also provide school volunteer opportunities for help with homework and support as needed and the majority of their services will be made available monday through friday 9:00 to 5:00. >> thank you. may i have a motion to discuss? >> so moved. >> do i have a second? >> second. >> thank you. any comments or questions from the public -- from commission? fanny, can you just help us, district 2 includes the marina and -- >> presidio. >> thank you. any other comments or questions? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, call the question. all in favor. any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item h, requesting authorization to enter into a new grant for

self-help for social connections from january 1st, 2020, to june 30th, 2023, in the amount of $347,500 plus a 10% contingency for a total grant amount not to exceed $382,250. again, it's fanny. >> great. self-help for the elderly will provide a social connections program in district 11. currently the program will operate at the excel spot on geneva avenue, and they will offer a number of activities including workshops on social and public benefits, visits to community providers, city hall, even das benefits and resource hub, volunteer opportunities to help the program participant stay active and connected with the city and services they utilize. there will be some support

groups, debate groups, online groups, a safe neighborhood watch group as well as basic model device class. the services are available monday through friday, 9:00 to 5:00. >> thank you. may i have a motion to discuss? >> so moved. >> thank you. do i have a second. >> second. >> any comments or questions from the commission? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, all in favor? any opposed? the motion carries. thank you. item i, requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with sequoia living for the provision of a program during the period of january 1st, 2020, to june 30th, 2023, in the amount of $361,778 plus a 10% contingency for a total grant amount not to exceed

$397,956 and, again, it's fanny. thank you. >> thank you. sequoia living will be providing services for the aquatic park community connector's program to those living in district 2, similar to other community connector programs, sequoia living will provide a wide range of activities that will be led and planned by participants with the assistance of the connector. activities will include writing, poetry, use of technology resources at the libraries that they have partnered with. there will be fitness classes and the always active program that provide group exercises through a partnership with the presidio community ymca and then they will also have activities designed by the participants that can be conducted at the aquatic park center which has a computer lab, an art studio,

fitness room, recording studio and many other classrooms. the aquatic park center is going to be exclusively available for this program on weekends. there will be, of course, resource and service connection there. we also have the aging and disability resource center representative there to help with those connections, if needed. like i mentioned, the program services besides monday through friday, there are additional hours on saturday and sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. >> thank you very much. may you have a motion to discuss? >> so moved. >> thank you. do i have a second. >> second. >> thank you. any comments or questions from the commission? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, call the question. all in favor. any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item j, requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with ucsf for the

provision of a community arts for brain health initiative during january 1st, 2020, through june 30th, 2023, in the amount of $276,656 plus a 10% contingency for not to exceed $304,322. again, thank you, fanny. >> thank you. this one is very unique. ucsf memory and aging center will be providing the community arts for brain health initiative in districts 9 and 10. they have partnered with mission neighborhood center and bayview hunter points senior services to provide -- a number of unique art based activities that support community engagement as well as brain health. ucsf will be enlisting multiple fellows annually during each academic calendar year to leaded activities, and each fellow will

have that unique approach to the types of programming available to the participants. but the programs will always be centered on cognitive brain health and the arts. this fiscal year, ucsf will have distinct activities, the first one is mixed media arts engagement program. the second one is the relive theater experience on homelessness, and the third one is brain friendly home and self-care products workshops. additionally, ucsf will continue to provide also resource and service connection for the participants through their memory and aging center. >> thank you very much. may i have a motion to discuss? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. any comments or questions from the commission? >> i just have one. will there be an evaluation component of the memory care work? >> yes. annually, as each fellow -- i