safety and accessibility for everyone, so we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf dot gov slash shared spaces. good good morning and i call the san francisco department of disability and aging services commission meeting of wednesday february 5th, 2025 to order i am the dallas commission president janet spears. this commission meeting is being conducted pursuant to the provisions of the brown act as noted on the agenda. members of the public may observe this meeting via s.f. gov tv.org or s.f. gov tv channel 78 and they may offer public comment by calling the

public public public comment phone number. i'd like to welcome the members of the public and staff who are watching us on s.f. gov tv to eliminate background interference all panelists and presenters that are presenting via the webex are asked to mute themselves when not speaking or waiting to present the san francisco hsa dos commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the rahmatullah aloni who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions the ramah to colony have never ceded loss nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory as guests we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the choose aloni community in affirming their sovereign

rights as first people. mr. secretary, please take the role. >> good morning commissioners and thank you president spears commissioners please respond with present when i call your name president janet weiss spears present vice president nelson lund present commissioner sasha bidder i see you on there. commissioner, can you hear me? >> there you are you good then. good morning, commissioner one to young present commissioner martha knudsen present commissioner barbara sklar is excused and commissioner linda parker pennington present and us executive director kelly deering present. thank you president spears. we have a quorum. commissioners the next item is item three communications. we'd like to provide further instructions for the public comment process. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda and during general public comment. both channel 78 and s.f. gov tv dot org are streaming the number across the screen. each speaker will be allowed three minutes to speak comments

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are there any other communications from the das commission members? >> >> okay we can move on. >> commissioners your next item is agenda item four approving the minutes of wednesday, january 8th, 2025 das commission meeting minutes. are there any comments or questions from the commission regarding the wednesday, january 8th, 2025 das commission meeting minutes. >> do we have anyone from the public? >> jordyn one for the public who wishes to comment. moderator please over the phone line for public comment. >> will allow some time for callers to submit their requests. >> >> there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you very much. you're no further request to speak on this item. is there a motion to approve the wednesday, january 8th, 2025 das commission meeting minutes. >> so moved again. so it's been moved in separate second. mr. secretary, will you please

take a roll call vote to approve the wednesday, january 8th, 2025 das commission minutes. >> yes president general weiss peers how do you vote? yes vice president nelson lom how do you vote yes commissioner martha commission how do you vote yes commissioner sasha bittner how do you vote yes commissioner wanda young how do you vote yes and commissioner linda parker pennington and you vote yes thanks. >> we have a unanimous vote. thank you. commissioners item five is the executive directors report presented by da executive director kelly dearman. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners. first i'd like to wish everyone a happy black history month and happy lunar new year. i have a few things i want to report on. first, we continue our efforts to serve the disability community. first we added the a for accessibility to our office of diversity equity inclusion and belonging transforming it into dba. since then daas has been collaborating with dba to incorporate accessibility and disability programing for

our employees. to that end we will be rolling out a two part disability awareness training this spring. part one will be a virtual disability awareness and etiquette training offered by the california department of rehabilitation and following that training part two will be structured conversations at the program level to discuss how we can integrate the lessons learned into our daily work. this two part training will be mandatory for the whole department. we are starting with the leadership team as they will be instrumental in helping to promote cultural culture change within our agency. so our larger leadership group will participate as the first training cohort and these trainings are scheduled for the middle of april. this is yet another step in our efforts to serve both older adults and people with disabilities. secondly, as you know we've completed the dignity fund cycle end report which was presented to you all last month. we're now socializing this

report with members of the board of supervisors and with the mayor's new policy chief kunal modi along with my deputy directors. we met with kunal modi two weeks ago to give them a high level overview of our department and to discuss some of our pain points. i will say it was a really successful meeting. he was happy with all of the information we we provided to him and was pretty impressed with all of the data we are able to speak to. and so i think it was a very successful meeting. we don't yet know what the cadence will be meeting with him regularly but likely once or twice a month. >> but i think so far we have a good partnership and we're hoping that continues so so you all know that san francisco is currently in a hiring freeze until the end of the fiscal year. so we are making do and hoping that we can meet all of our needs with the current staff that we have who are of course

working overwhelmingly hard to make sure we meet, you know, all of our deadlines. >> so there the mayor did put in place an opportunity once a month for departments to say wait, i really need these people hired now and then they're reviewing that and letting us know. so. but at the moment there's just an overall hiring freeze and but we we do have places where we need more employees but we'll see what happens. let's see the transition of the mayor's office on disability to to das continues to move along in that transition will be complete in april. so we continue to have meetings and cindy kaufman, our deputy director works very closely with eli gilmartin who is the new director of mayor's office on disability. so that is all going smoothly. >> lastly and i really should

end on this note. on a federal level we're hearing from some members of the community about some federal contracts and the impact not being able to have these contracts will have on their services. and that's for cbos who have contracts directly with the federal government. >> so i can't really say anything more about this as we're trying to work out what this all means and what contracts have been. it's just very complicated at the moment. we are working with our city attorney's office. >> we are working closely with the with cwa, dia and i am hoping to have more information in the coming weeks. but for now we're all just trying to figure out what what it all means and i think that's all i have unless there are any questions. >> i just have one question. the cdos that have direct

contracts. can you give us an idea of the order of magnitude or is that being figured out like how many of them have direct contracts? is it 10%? is it 50% that are being like i'm just and if we don't have it now that's fine. but i think it's something that this body would like to understand given that we don't think that what's happening at the federal level is going to it's going to continue in some form. >> yes. and so it would be nice for us to have an understanding of the impact. >> so we don't know that at the moment. i think that's part of the information we're trying to gather. okay. >> thank you. other questions? a related question a different is are we starting to analyze the impact to the older americans act and because that is such a part of our fund the way we fund many of our programs and how has that analysis started? >> so yes b etc.. yeah. so yes, all of that has

started. >> we're really lucky here in san francisco that we get a lot of general fund money for our for a lot of our programing and the. so so we should be able to be fine but obviously will be an impact if something happens with that older americans act funding. >> am i welcome? yes please commissioner bittner . >> i'm with the deal. the terms. yeah. and the connected to defer to government and yeah. okay so the question is about diy and what's happening on a federal level with that some. >> yes. is that correct? no, no. i move came boom boom boom

boom. you would the number two. yes. and then within grade one when we know we're not using for any federal money for our dba programing. >> okay. good. yeah, that's right. do you donate to a deal with the. >> yes. thank you. sure. thank you for asking that. >> any other questions from the commissioners? no, bobbie. all right. you're up. >> all right, commissioners. item six of the dot's employee recognition executive director dearman president speirs and the dot's commission will honor the day's february 2025 employee of the month. michelle miller, who is a deputy conservator at the office of the public conservatory team.

>> so the office of the public conservator team at das is thrilled to announce that michelle miller has been recognized as the february 2025 das employee of the month. >> the pc team operates in a dynamic high pressure environment delivering critical services to individuals deemed gravely disabled by the court. with the recent implementation of sb 43 introducing significant changes to our program, the pc team demonstrated unwavering cohesion to ensure exceptional service delivery among this incredible group. one individual stood out for her extraordinary contributions and unwavering commitment and that is deputy conservator michelle miller. michelle joined the pc team in 2022, bringing a wealth of experience from her work in family court child protective services and as a mental health clinician in both community and private practice settings. as a licensed marriage and family therapist with a graduate degree from san francisco state university, michelle has been an invaluable

asset to our team. a consummate professional. >> michelle excuse me exemplifies intelligence, warmth and charisma. she excels at building trust and rapport with clients, colleagues and service providers. fostering collaboration and shared success. despite managing a large volume of high priority tasks, michelle remains calm under pressure skillfully prioritizing and navigating challenges with grace and precision. her exceptional efforts have earned her widespread admiration from colleagues and community partners alike. michelle's dedication to advocacy her deep cultural competence and her fluency in spanish have made her an indispensable resource for spanish speaking community. her ability to balance a demanding and diverse caseload while consistent achieving equitable outcomes reflects her commitment to excellence and her compassion for those we serve. thank you, michele, for your

outstanding dedication. exemplary exemplary professionalism and the positive impact you make every day. the office of the public conservator and all of us at dos are very proud to have you as part of our team. >> thank you, kelly, for those kind words and it really is an honor and a surprise. i did not expect to be granted this award. i want to extend a thank you to my manager sandra to shada and my supervisor ers mike nguyen and kazuko takahashi and eric wang who create an environment for myself and my entire team to do the best work that we can do to support very

vulnerable population of folks. i'm grateful for the decision i made a couple of years ago to change pivot in my professional career to this new position. it's been rewarding for me in so many ways. i've learned so much and i know i will continue to learn and grow professionally and personally. it is my honor to serve this very vulnerable population and i want to thank also all of our partners in the community who are equally there to support our efforts as the teams at the hospitals that the jails that the facilities those who work on this ground levels, case managers, the placement team who provide us with all

the support weeed in order to honor our clients. >> and lastly i just want to thank the city leaders for bringing to us additional hospital beds, new programs especially for the dually diagnosed as well as case manager who are so desperately needed and who support us in the work that we do. >> thank you. and you can just drag it through.

>> thank you, commissioners. item seven is the advisory council report presented by advisory council president alan cooper. >> good morning. i'm sorry i can't fill the shoes of my predecessor. okay. i'm going to do the best i can . what i was told was to make this report brief but at a high level that's going to be hard certainly donoel. brief and so i'm happy to take any criticisms and comments because i need it. >> the meeting opened in

january with director dumas and then the you cannot hear. yeah, sasha i know sasha. commissioner bittner, can you hear it now? >> yeah, actually just put it closer to the like if you could. closer. is that better, sasha? okay. sasha and i used to do stuff together during covid. i don't know if she remembers. >> so the director difference report was notable for us when she talked about her meeting with mayor elect loury who told her that the us was one of the best run departments. we knew that and thus congratulations to her. are and to the commission are an order i've worked for for 5 or 6 years and i heartily agree with the mayor who probably

didn't even know it existed before he was elected. >> after the department head meeting however, the freeze was raised and we asked her if this would affect providers and we were reassured to learn that the job provider jobs in ihs which i asked about specifically as well as in conservatorships would probably not be frozen but it would rather be at the level of social workers and people who work directly for the department that that was reassuring but nonetheless conserving big concern concerning to us. >> then i talked about our plans since i was new and we're going to begin to get organized or have begun getting organized and soliciting suggestions from the council about what kinds of topics we want to work on for

the next year and ways that we can make contributions. the 2020 2526 area aging plan update was present timeline was presented. i am sure you have as as well received that information and we expect that we will see the update in two weeks. according to their timeline took up a fair bit of the the rest of the meeting is small us a small give a site visit report having visited ken and kip center which is in the soma area and is run by episcopal and community services. she was impressed by the overall quality of the center. there was some discussion about space utilization. it was small. there was a large kitchen area

that wasn't being a commercial kitchen that wasn't being used and that might be areas to be looked at in the future. in addition and this has become as you've probably heard a chronic issue which is getting getting the websites to have language support ken and keep serves a large filipino population and the filipino centers right there, the filipino schools there and so the website could be improved by having language support. i don't want to gress who are also in the process then of i think we've gone through many of these site visits and so my example is helping us put together a list of site visits

. all site all sites could be visited and then i'm going to ask him to start giving us some priorities so that we can continue this program in an efficient way. lastly, marcy 800 announced that the long awaited remote area lgbt report has now been published and made public. >> happy to answer any questions. commissioners are there any questions regarding the advisory report? >> hey, it's. excuse me. sure. so make one comment. i just want to be clear that when it comes to the hiring freeze, the only people who are exempt from the hiring freeze are first responders. and so while none of our providers. so no one is losing their positions right now we do not have we are not able to continue the hiring of them. okay. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> key commissioners item eight

is a case report presented by jillian dancer but will be presented by fiona lindsay this month who is currently on a oh good morning commissioners. as your clerk said my name is fiona he's usually here for judy but she is out this morning so you'll be hearing from me. i good to be before you we have a very brief report with just some updates from my new heard mostly last month and as always we start by letting you know what happened at our last membership meeting and what to expect at our next one. >> we had a continuation of spotlighting seven of our member agencies that are going to be wearing meetings. we did this in november to

great success so we have a few more. we had we spotlighted cody from town high and joined care and presented about the bionic hand. according to center they presented about their programs etc. it's it was sort of like hearing from your your employee of the month and your previous item where we kind of spotlighted their work at our next february meeting we have the center from work who are there going to be presenting on their services and sort of what services they can offer providers and who our i think we'd like to thank mike for this this referral and and encourage staff to keep referring puzzle presenters to us for our membership membership meetings and next we

have every january we have our officer a slate of officers that will be voted on by our membership next month but first they are approved by our board of directors so i'm just going to go over our slate of officers for you. you have our co-chairs that will be judith again and myself . so you'll be hearing for another year you'll be hearing the same people give these reports i will be transitioning out of the co chair all by the end of the year. i am the i'm the co chair for this year. i'm primarily primarily to help out with getting year one of our our medford combat units capacity building and started so so it will begin as an eye

for the co-chairs christina irving from family caregiver alliance will be our secretary will be our secretary and again collectively how will be our toronto hi will be our treasurer so we thank our board officers and board of directors for their service. i'm glad next is the matter the marathon grant the marathon group last month we were able to announce that we received $300,000 over three year capacity building grants for the matter fund oh $100,000 and for each year and was wiring and then the current activities on that i'd like to

express my thanks to the marathon and specifically to present speirs and her other other role as the ceo of the marathon and to your very capable staff. brennan catherine for assisting us and really collaborating on the proposal. >> so activity we've done on the grant recently and we're now we are now focusing on getting the positions down and drafted for for the positions that we have associated with the group at this point we are looking at a pro project manager, a strategic planner and then administrator although a couple of those positions may be combined depending on our work

pool. so we are really we're in the middle of writing those job descriptions right now and hope to be posting at some point early in the spring soon thereafter then we'll be having a potentially a board and strategic planning retreat. again we are very excited for this opportunity opportunity and we will and you'll be hearing monthly updates from us on our progress and yeah and we'll be having opportunities for the community and our membership to weigh in on it so that that is i believe all of our items for today. i am here to take questions and the other thing i will add in light of your previous items is as we we had like with the

does relate back to case but we had mike come to our daily coalition meeting and last year you heard you heard about our support circles and i realized for our case that we after months and months of getting all rfp work on that that is mike mcgowan had indicated that that is part of the the frozen new contract freeze at the moment that the mayor and put input based input along with his hiring freeze that director gelman alluded to. so we are currently waiting to work with her and it's hard to see how that night like

director dimon mentioned things being in flux right now. so we are working with your team and my guy from his office in waiting for updates is as to sort of see how that's going to shake out so that might be something that you care for life going forward but i did just what i did. just want to let you know that also but that is my thank you very much. >> are there any questions from the commission and fiona thank you very much for the shout out for metaphor and i know my staff has worked really hard with a case to make that a reality so thank you for that shout out. >> appreciate it. no problem. >> all right, commissioners item nine is general public comment an opportunity for members of the public to address the commission on matters that are not on today's calendar? are there any members of the

public that would like to address the commission today? a moderator please open the phone line for public comment will allow some time for college to submit their request . >> moderator do we have any callers in the queue? there are no callers. >> thank you very much and commissioners your next item is item ten all business commissioners please indicate by raising your hand if there's any old business that you'd like to discuss or business. >> okay, you move to item 11. item 11 on the agenda is a consent calendar. do any of the commissioners want to remove any items from the individual discussion? >> mr. secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to comment on item 11? >> are there any members of the public that would like to comment on agenda item 11 our moderator please open the phone line for public comment on item

11 we allow some time for callers to submit their requests. >> there are no callers. thank you very much. >> so hearing no further requests to speak on item 11, we will close public comment. is there a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved or so it's been moved and seconded? >> mr. secretary, will you please take a roll call vote to approve item 11 the consent calendar. >> president jan spears how do you vote yes vice president nelson how do you vote? yes commissioner martha knudsen how do you vote yes commissioner sasha bittner how do you vote? is commissioner one too young? how do you vote yes and commissioner linda parker pennington and you vote yes thanks. we have a unanimous vote. >> thank you very much commissioners. your next item agenda item is item 12 new business item 12 a is informational only items and items that do not require the commission's vote. item 12 a is the fiscal year

2425 area plan budget amendments presented by genevieve pereira morning commissioners director do your men i'm genevieve senior budget analyst with the human services agency supporting community services and i'm here to update you on some additional funding that has been allocated to san francisco under the area plan for older american act programs we have a net increase of $6,778 that comes with a consists of a 602,000 increase in funds for state and federal funds across various programs combined with a reduction of $595,000 for nutrition services

. if you look through the memo that accompanies this presentation you'll see the breakdown of the different allocations and i will keep this brief. these funds will be used to support one time only activities. >> i'm happy to answer any questions you might have. commissioners are there any questions? thank you for that update. >> it is a non-voting item so i guess we asked for public comment though, right? >> yes. are there any members of the public that would like to comment on agenda item 12 a moderator please open the phone line for public comment on agenda item 12 we will allow some time for callers to submit their requests.

a moderator are there any callers in the queue? >> there are no callers. thank you very much. moving right along so we close public comment on that item. commissioners item 12 b as in boy through item 12 is an edward our action items that require a vote by the commission item 12 b review and approve review and approval of the fiscal year 2526 and 2627 das budget. this will be presented by kelly dearman and hsa deputy director of finance and administration dan kaplan. thank you president spears commissioners a month ago i was here and we talked about the budget situation we're in just to review that as most key points in november the comptroller's office forecasts what the five year fiscal

outlook for the city is and those forecasts are used to establish a funding gap or a funding surplus for the upcoming biennium in this november's forecast they established an $876 million biennial funding gap. the mayor based on that gap asked directed departments to propose budgets that included 15% cuts in discretionary general funds when i was here last month we talked a little bit about what was discretionary and what was not discretionary. so for hsa that is does the rfs and hsa administration a relatively small portion of local funds are in fact discretionary but if we multiply through our 15% of our discretionary general funds we get to a reduction target of

$8.2 million across dice debriefs and hsa administration and so the budget team working with program directors department deputy directors, department directors have been working out a plan to develop a budget that reduces general fund spending by $8.2 million from the amount that was passed last fiscal year. so each year we pass a biennial budget. the second year of the budget becomes the next budget cycle first year or a budget year. and so we are reducing $8.2 million of general funds from the amount of general funds that was in the previous year's budget. >> okay. so what we're really back here

today to share where our thinking is at this moment and to ask you for your support and in submitting a budget that will be within the parameters we describe and we will be submitting a budget on february 21st. so it is coming up and our budget team really has to hammer down details between now and the 21st. >> we will be just so you know we will be presenting to the human services commission next week and and that will be the other half of this. >> so we go to the slide to great as i said before, there was a two year budget. the budget is different in the

two fiscal years of the upcoming biennium for the first year the deficit is projected to be $253 million and i should sa tt 80% of that gap is due to slower than previously anticipated revenue growth the second year of the biennium and that's where the bigger deficit is. the deficit is projected to be $623 million and 56% of that gap is really due to salary increases that are in current labor agreements and benefit cost estimate increases and the rest is is a scattering of inflation other departmental increases. so one of the things in the last budget that always goes into the other department increases is the growth of the ihs asset moey which is a significant growth but but

there are things like that from throughout the city so they all go into a bucket that is labeled that way and then the gap is parceled out in a fairly even way to to all of the agencies in the city. >> so as i said revenue growth is slower than was previously anticipated. and the other thing that is worth noting is that the forecasting process is not a static process. the city updates its forecasts on a regular basis and the next forecast is going to be updated in march and that will be the one that we will be using to finalize the budget. so the way the process works we get mayoral instructions agencies work to propose a budget. then there is a subsequent forecast in march and then the

mayor will take over the process of completing the budget proposal and will submit a budget to the board on june 1st. >> okay. other things that affect us state budget is of course very important to us. if you look at hsa as a whole about a third of the hsa revenue is state revenue. that budget is pretty stable at the moment. there have been revenue improvements at the state level relatively recently and the governor has has proposed pretty much a status quo budget. now what the governor said when he was proposing this is we have a new administration coming in in d.c. we don't know exactly where the trump administration will be going with specific items that that will affect our budget. and so, you know, we're not

we're not certain how much this budget is going to stay steady when we get to the may revise so the state revises its budget proposal in may but as of now it's a very status quo budget. okay. and i guess as i just said, the federal budget is it's a little bit more of a wild card at the moment. so okay, so if we look at budget reductions they play through all of the parts of hsa and as i said a moment ago, the agency wide target is $8.2 million. what we've got here on this table is a dice amount of $2 million an and in the work that dice management and our budget team has done we've pretty much decided that that will come out of cbo contracting and we're

going through a process now of evaluating existing and proposed contracts and we are looking at what's core and what's not core. we are looking at where we may have overcapacity in the budget and where things are reaching an actual sunsetting point. so that work is still happening and what i guess i want to say to you here is the amount that will come out of cbo contracting and dice will be a number of 2 million or possibly a little bit less by the time we're finished with this process and the other 6.2 million is going to come from the debriefs side of the house . we are looking at contracting

there. >> we are looking at program structure there and then we are looking at revenue there as well and it looks to us like there's enough new revenue on the dbf side that will offset a little bit of the court need. but you know so 2 million or maybe a little bit less on the dice side 6.2 on the dbf side. okay. so let's talk about where this leaves the dance budget. as you can see the dice budget grows by $39 million between the current fiscal year and the budget year. and so how does that happen? well, it happens without growing general fund revenue obviously. >> so so the the big growth or

actually all of the growth 40 million of the 39 million is in the ihs program and and this really has three major pieces the ihs employee is growing i'll come back to that in a moment. ihs says health and dental costs are growing and the contract mode budget is is growing as well. >> so the employee grows each year grows 4% each year. whether we do anything different or not that's the way the state law is written. it also grows when we implement wage increases for independent and providers and we do that where there's a slide later on which will come to on that. so that's a big piece of growth. health and dental is the health

and dental services we pay for for independent providers of whom there are now about 30,000 ish and they don't all take the health and dental but but a large number do and what's going on there is more people are taking advantage of the benefit and the costs of the benefit are going up and in contract mode is growing and we call it contract mode here. that's the official name of the program. it's delivered by home bridge in san francisco and this is an ihs program where we don't use independent providers. we use providers who are hired, trained and managed by by in this case holmbridge and that's going to holmbridge has built up its staff and is providing

services to more clients and is providing more hours. >> it's a good thing but that's growing. i should say a little bit about the movie which is $206 million of this $369 million. so the biggest piece the elmo a does not grow based on additional clients coming in. so for example, if our caseload in ihs s grows as it has been that does not cause the movie to grow. what causes the employee to grow as i've said before is the basic inflation and and any wage increases we provide and on the contract mode side it's analogous what causes the employee to grow is when we change the hourly rate we pay

to holmbridge but not not the fact that it's serving more clients. >> okay that's i just which i wanted to speak to a little bit you'll note that apps costs go down a little bit so a lot of the slices of this pie are in fact mainly staff related but they have other things in them as well. so on the apps side staff costs do go up a little bit because of the labor contracts i mentioned previously and because of growth in health benefit costs for city workers . >> but some other costs come out of that budget and most importantly what comes out of that is the home safe program. so home safe was a program that was funded with a large chunk of one time money at the sort

of at the height of the pandemic. remember there was a state surplus that was very large and about $12 billion of money went into one time expenses in homeless related programs of various sorts. there were four social services homeless related programs. the one that's in dallas is home safe and that was administered through the apps program. so the funding for that has dried up this year and that's the big reduction there. otherwise the change is are small except for the office of community partnerships where in the scheme of things they're small too but but you can see a reduction there and that is where the reduction that i talked about just a few minutes ago plays through. that's the reduction in the cbo contracting amount. okay. thank you.

so when we look at revenue, do you can see that federal revenue grows, state revenue grows those are heavily associated with the ihs program . local revenue declined slightly not not quite $2 million because there are some growth in other areas in the us but it's close to that. so general fund is down a little bit little less than 2 million dignity fund stays the same. we talked about this a little bit a month ago. the dignity fund legislation calls for the dignity fund to grow by $3 million a year except when the deficit gets beyond that certain amount under the november forecast we

are beyond that that amount the deficit is big enough to stop growth in the dignity fund. we will ultimately know whether there's growth in the dignity fund or not when the march forecast comes through, kelly the chairman we'll talk a little bit about that a few slides down from here. so i think those are the big things on sources. let's look at type of expenses . >> okay. again, when we look at type of expenses where we see this this largest slice of this pie, a little more than two thirds of the the size of the pie is a payments and aid payments again is is main is ihs so it's made up of the employee pension payments the contract mode budget health and dental public authority administration those those are the the big pieces of

that when we look at cbo grants the reduction is the $2 million reduction that that i talked about before the end of home save which i talked about before and the end of the aps covered allocation and and then there are increases due to salary and fringe in the labor contracts and then there's a small increase in employee costs due to the new office of disability which becomes part of das in april. and my budgetary point of view is in the current year funded for one quarter of the year and then next fiscal year will be funded for a full year. so there's a little bit of cost increase associated with that change. >> okay. so because ihs is such a big

piece of this we just want to always shine a light on what's going on with ihs as wages and the employee payments. so as you can see we are currently at $22 an hour in wages and in july we will be going to 20 to 50 and then over the course of the rest of this biennium we'll be going to 23 and then 25 and as you may remember we're under a four year ihs labor agreement. so this september 26 increase is actually not the last increase but the last it increases in january and it'll be another $0.50 on top of that. >> but but these are the big increases that the city will pay substantial increases to

the to the ihs and maui in order to implement and so i think we've talked about this before but in negotiating the agreement with with seiu 2015 a great goal was for the union was to get to $25 an hour by the end of the contract. mayor we agreed that that was a good thing although it's backloaded to the end of the contract as you can see. so so the wages do get there before the end of the contract period. then in january there will be an additional increase in january of 27 there'll be an additional increase that will be largely funded by growth in the state minimum wage to the way the ihs wage works is when the state minimum wage grows

it, it pushes up the wage of of ihs as independent providers in san francisco so the state will pay for the amount of the increase that is due to the minimum wage growth and then if if the wage doesn't cover the full $0.50 an hour then the city will pick up the rest of the cost. that's the last increase in this contract. so so those are the major pieces of that play into the budget that we'll be proposing . and when i cut over to kelly to talk a little bit about the dignity fund and then we'll answer any questions. >> okay. thank you so much, dan so as he already mentioned, we are assuming that there will be no $3 million dignity fund growth

allocation this year. but of course we will wait to see what the the march budget forecast shows. but for now it's looking like no growth had there been growth there, if there is growth that would be focused on programs to support nutrition and wellness self-care and safety which is right in line of how we do that didn't need the four year plan so and what we also know is that we will have to make some cuts to some of our programing but that's all we can say at this point because we're still working out the details. next slide in terms of other dos community services, we are going to repurpose some of our 2324 savings for nutrition programs specifically we have over three people i think who are on the the home delivered

meals waitlist and those are mostly for cultural appropriate food and our chinese and japanese communities. so we will be working on that also as you all know, the community needs assessment is happening this year. we are starting early this time and you all know that we are required to do this every four years and the release of this report is scheduled for spring of 2026. so right now we're working on procurements and how we're going to go about it but expect to hear more in the coming months. >> and then lastly for the disability cultural center, the brick and mortar part of the disability cultural center is set to open this july and that is still moving forward. so that is one exciting piece of news. >> back to you. dan.

>> okay. and then the last thing we always do is talk about schedule. but i think you know this by now so we are here today asking for your approval to submit the budget within the parameters we've laid out i think the big you know the big item there is a a reduction in cbo expenses not to exceed $2 million. and as kelly said and i said before, you know, we're still working on the particulars but the analysis will be around what's core to the mission, what's not core and where the capacity the extra capacity is . and then we will obviously have some discussion with the mayor's office about the particulars and then we will report back to this commission at a later meeting as to to what will comprise is that reduction where specifically?

so we will be making our proposal on february 21st. there will be a lot of back and forth between the mayor's office and and us and an hsa but but also within every agency this will be a tough budget year and so the mayor's office will try and be judicious about making reductions that do obviously the least damage and and then the mayor will submit his budget on june 1st and then we'll go into the legislative phase. so may we answer any questions ? >> commissioners, are there any questions regarding the budget ? i might add one please go had commissioner bittner you and i did a one little bold to move the and you do the new de novo

then you can do the the if everything go live delivered for you then defer to. i'm doing to think about how do they did implementing the so commissioner bittner i want to make sure that i got this right i think you asked about what are the contingencies and all the if i know you you i give the developer permission to work with with the two of you. >> right. okay. so the question is around if the federal government withdraws.

>> who knows what they're going to withdraw? what is the contingency what is our contingency plan? and then there yeah, yeah. >> okay. well so that that is a profound and unfortunately i think at the moment unanswerable question the you know i mean we've gone through sort of a shot across the bow over the last couple of weeks with the omb letter and its removal and i think that the the bottom line on that effort by the by the new federal administration was to hold up a great deal of spending and then they they came back and they said well no, not really benefits to people not to individual people . and then people started saying so what exactly does that mean? i mean if you're if you're a

medicaid beneficiary, you know the payments are on behalf of care that you're receiving but they're not to you. they're to your doctor or to a hospital or to a nursing facility or a community based care facility. and i don't think those questions ever really got answered. i think that that basically a number of states including california and other localities have moved for a temporary restraining order right away and judges said yeah yeah there's there's federal law here supporting these programs there's budgets supporting this one. so so my point to this is i don't think we've learned yet what what the administration may or may not want to propose reducing and i think at this point it's very hard for us to say how we would step into the breach.

i think it's also a conversation that's going to be happening between localities and the state because obviously the vast amount of the money flows through the state it doesn't flow direct lee to counties. so i think we all have to just wait and say yes, it's a risk but we don't know what form it's going to take yet. >> i mean the medicaid and the medicaid will be in the ability to move care every day from the day they didn't know what we're going to build a picture book to the polling and there may be the local in doing big thank you for will continue trying to do thank you commissioner bittner and i know it is a

really it is a scary time and i imagine that day was brutal so i thank you for sharing that and we will of course keep you as surprised as we can and i commissioner linda parker pilkington thank you. >> i was just going to go lpi but you know that's that works too. >> thank you. thank you for the report. it's really helpful and you know i love the visuals and pie charts and i just had a question because of the salary freeze through the end of the fiscal year and what impact that would have had on the budget or did you resize the salary salary projection based on the hiring freeze because that would have i would assume then reduced the budget. so there was a little bit of conversation before about hiring freezes. >> so there is a hiring freeze

in effect. there is also a process for requesting exceptions to the freeze. so kelly dearman mentioned before that there are some blanket exceptions for nurses and public safety folks. so we don't obviously qualify for those but there is a monthly process of bringing to the mayor's office requests to move forward on positions and we're in the first month of that so we're all kind of learning how that that will work. but but we as an agency will move forward and bring to the mayor's office's attention position things that we believe are very high priority to fill in the short run. so that's not exactly your question but it's sort of the

context in which we are trying to answer the question. the longer term is really around looking at the way we will have to spend money on salaries next year and we have actually assumed a slight reduction from what our salary needs would have been because as previously we were on a track to fill positions more aggressively. the hiring freeze will although it won't totally stop our our filling of positions it will slow it down. certainly that's the purpose of it. and so we will be starting the next fiscal year with a lower headcount by somewhat than we would have otherwise. so we we have taken that into account. i should also say that the hsa budget assumes a certain amount of vacancy in every year

and that amount of vacancy goes up and down and that's really one of the areas where there's adjustment in our budget. so during the years of the pandemic when we had a lot of trouble filling positions, we built into our budget more of what we call salary attrition. it's really a higher vacancy rate or an imputed vacancy rate and we and we've been we've reached the point where without a freeze it would be time to start adding money back in because we'd be filling a higher percentage of positions and we know that that will slow down a little bit here. certainly. so i hope that answers that. it's a little bit oh thank you for the insights also it's helpful. >> any other questions? i just have comments. thank you. deputy director kaplan as far as setting the stage for us

last month, we basically are very prepare to hear the information you share with us today. i mean giving what we have the the the mayor's budget instructions uncertain funding especially from the federal level and the citywide deficit . i think what you propose and what you presented here is totally in line. what i'm very pleased to hear is that we are continuing to be able to maintain core services. i know the plan to take a close look at our bills and our contracts to be more efficient. it's going to be a tough row ahead of us and i say no thank you in advance for collaboration and working with the community partners to make sure that we can do that well so we will not impact services to our population. so thank you. i just want to say to you and to executive director

dearman and to staff for all the hard work and hard work ahead of us to make sure that we are again able to maintain our core services. i just have a small program question which wasn't brought up but it has to do with in-home support services in the budget memo under initiative and katzman there was mention of ihs says telehealth reassessments can we talk a little bit about that a little too early about potential impact and do we see that as a as a way to be able to be more efficient in terms of how we serve in-home support services clients? >> yeah. thanks dan. i'm looking at jill and do we think it's too early to talk about whether or not telehealth is going to be part of what we do doing with ihs as nurse jill

nielsen deputy director programs so the questions regarding the telehealth waiver are that the the state has worked really hard to actually move forward with the federal government. this was actually you might remember many years ago a proposal that san francisco initiated and the goal was really to try to streamline ihs services and help us to manage the just the higher workload and also to focus in on clients who who really need more more services and may have more complex situations for that require social work services and so it's taken a long time for the department of social services to move that initiative forward with the federal government, the administration for community living finally agreed to the state's plan and there's also been a lot of stakeholder

feedback. there's been opportunities for counties to weigh in and we are at this time waiting for the updates to the state database see mips so there have to be some updates to the system and we are planning right now with our team also gathering feedback from our staff on how to roll it forward. but it's like most initiatives and ages that's very structured so we will not have a ton of discretion about how we roll it out. i did want to highlight though that all ages us consumers will maintain the ability to request an in-service reassessment if they prefer and it's only going to be for clients who meet stability criteria and only for clients who've had an initial intake as well as one in person reassessed meant so it'll be you know a work process, a

business process that we roll out more on the exceptional side i don't see it unfortunately as being the answer to managing our growing growing caseload but we're we're happy to have the new tool and it should be available by july if not sooner than that. >> thank you. thank you. >> and the budget at and analogy that i want to just mention is we did not reduce the size of the ihs staffing as a result of this at all. >> right. the clients keep growing yes it's death doesn't write no reductions but no growth. >> commissioner elam, as usual commissioner jenkins stole my thunder jazz all a question that i was going to ask. but on the other hand, you know, i've noticed that we pretty much you know, using a football analogy we keep anticipating the other side's

going to run. >> we know i mean what if they start passing? in other words, what if the budget actually gets completely cut? as you know as they be indicating at the federal level should we not base our budget on the on on on a more realistic forecast? so in other words, i personally i'm not and believe me i'm often wrong i personally would would want to set up a budget based on not having the federal income and then when we do get it we can always increase it. it's much harder to cut the other way around. commissioner, i'm going to respectfully disagree with you. yeah, that's is an ongoing concern and it is built on

assumptions of federal revenue that are in law and and i, i it's not the case that they couldn't be changed. it would take a legislative process to change them which is a slow process and frankly a you know, a process where individual legislator is will have to wrestle with the impact on their constituencies. >> the medicaid program which accounts for a great deal of the federal revenue in the dollars budget has constituents in every congressional district and lots of them. so whereas there may be changes i it seems unlikely that there will be wholesale changes very fast. i hope not to eat my words on this but we have an ongoing

concern. >> we have clients who are receiving service at this point i feel like we should be building a budget that continues to serve them based on the law of the land at this point in time. if it changes we will have to adapt and we may have to adapt quickly. but i would much rather be doing that than cutting services in in a wholesale manner to people who are getting them now. so that that's my position on that. thank you. >> well all my thunder has been taken by the commissioners so i'm just going to say thank you for the second presentation of the budget and all the work that goes into it. >> this is we're in interesting times now and i believe that they will continue as we seek to navigate the changing

administration and the lack of resources locally so services are really important to our constituents and we have to continue to advocate for those and educate folks about what is needed. so thank you for your work. so i think we need to got so engrossed in listening. are there any public comments regarding the budget? >> are there any members of the public that would like to comment on agenda item 12 b moderator please over the phone line for public comment an agenda item 12 b will allow some time for callers to submit their request. >> >> moderator is in, callers in the queue. >> there are no callers. thank you very much hearing no for the request to speak on this item i'll close public comment.

is there a motion to approve? i forgot what item we're on i i move to approve and i'll second 1212 b and boy so it's been moved and seconded. mr. secretary, will you please take a roll call vote for item 12 b president general i spears how do you vote yes vice president nelson how do you vote? yes commissioner martha knutson how do you vote yes commissioner sasha bittner how do you vote yes? commissioner one two young how do you vote yes and commissioner linda parker pennington how do you vote? >> yes, thanks. we have a unanimous vote. thank you very much. item 12 c commissioners is a request to authorize a requested an authorization to modify the existing grant with little brothers friends of the elderly san francisco for a period of february 1st 2025 to june 30th 2027 in the additional amount of $136,152

plus a 10% contingency for a revised total amount not to exceed $481,329 for the provision of volunteer visitor program. >> erica mabel will present this item. >> hi good morning president is vice president executive director dear men and commissioners my name is erica may be a program analyst at the office of community partnership. that last presentation of from dan kaplan was pretty heavy i hope mind brings a little bit of levity. i'm here today to ask for your approval to modify the grant agreement between four little brothers friends of the elderly for their volunteer visitor program. i'm excited to present this relatively small modification because of the significant and measurable impact that the funding will have on the program and a client served the volunteer visitor program recruits volunteers to meet with older adults and adults with disabilities who are

socially, socially isolated or at risk of isolation. volunteers meet with the clients at least twice a month for at least an hour. each visit visits can include helping with tasks such as shopping, exercising, going to community events or medical appointments or even enjoying time at home or walks in the community. those outings and visits are agreed upon between the volunteer and the client pair for the remaining fiscal 2425 the request is for an additional $75,355 and then through the end of their grant fiscal year 2627 a little over $125,000 annually. a small portion of this funding will help support a volunteer client enrichment activity such as going to museums or the opera or sporting events.

a majority of this funding will go towards hiring a bilingual coordinator to conduct marketing and outreach to identify monolingual chinese speaking older adults and adults with disabilities to be matched with a volunteer. in addition to the outreach, the bilingual coordinator will conduct assessments to ensure that the monolingual clients are matched with a volunteer that has aligned interests. i'm happy to report that little brothers friends of the elderly has a really extensive outreach and marketing plan to identify and hopefully quickly onboard new participant clients to this program. they're going to leverage existing partnerships that they already have with self-help for the elderly. the pace program open house next village for example. or they're also going to do outreach to citywide programs and services such as identifying older adults and adults with disabilities that participate in the food

and nutrition programs that live in senior and low income housing outreach at libraries and community centers. there's going to be some direct marketing creating fliers and posters to be distributed as senior centers, laundromats, grocery stores, other areas where there's high traffic older adults and adults with disabilities is they have plans for some social media such as through next door and facebook in-person community events such as setting up booths, senior focused events to connect not only with seniors but potentially caregivers little brothers, friends of the elderly also recognizes the importance of the referral process being really easy so individuals, caregivers, family members or professionals can submit referrals by calling little brothers friends of the elderly on their website or in-person applications is also

an option including in your packet. are they expected increased deliverables but really briefly in addition to the baseline deliverables which were fiscal year 2324 they will for the remaining of this fiscal year if approved they're planning on i identifying 3030 additional and duplicated clients and in subsequent years adding an additional 45 which makes it 120 for the out years increasing the visitors who were recruited screened and trained by 25 this year and 40 on the out years and matching an additional ten volunteers connected to client participants this year and in the out years an additional to each fiscal year 50 more visits and 480 more visits and out years.

i'm excited to share this with you and happy to answer any questions you may have. >> sure i'm pleased a partial thank you for this excellent description because it really did answer most of my questions just to get a frame on this particular organization. does it operate currently in a particular geographic area or in and so is this outreach effort to make sure that it's more comprehensive or kind of that one thing i wasn't quite sure was where where they are i guess and where they current currently or historically have operated so i can get what they do operate city wide but i can get you more details on how many in each district but their outreach is really, you know, citywide and what their data is showing is that that is their, you know, greatest need is their monolingual chinese speaking. >> okay. okay. and i guess where are they

located? just like where does the office where their office is on the lower hill bush and bush and sansom i believe oh in since yeah yeah yeah yeah it was just there their breakdown downtown okay all right so it's just ahat's where it is but it really is a small but mighty team. yeah it really doesn't operate particularly in a geographic area but it's it really because the the volunteers are paired with the clients in the community. okay so most yeah most of things don't happen actually at their office at all in the community and the volunteer goes to their house or might meet them at a community center somewhere. >> okay thank you that then i just always like to have a picture of this so thank you for that. everything else thank you for the description. thank you. yeah i, i just have comment and just kind of a minor question also first of all i just want to thank you very much for your comprehensive report and i'm really impressed

by the outreach program that they have in place and i'm very pleased to see that there's this extra effort to reach out to the monolingual chinese speaking population. i think that's really important just to to piggyback on commissioner cousens question and i had the same question regarding location what i noticed that in the in in the appendix it refers to a site chart but there was a one attached would that help us kind location and where services are provided typically the site chart is you know where where their office is located and a fee to provide that but most most of the volunteer pairs are out in the community and like in their home the office wouldn't ov i mean i could probably provide general areas but wouldn't provide now i had the same question where are they? and i didn't find that and i

didn't see the site chart that was that was reference independence. >> okay thank you. thank you. yeah what i do know is that they are citywide they they pare folks citywide and they are a very small team but they have a pretty extensive volunteer program. yeah right. yeah. thanks. >> any other questions? okay. are there any public comments, mr. secretary are there any members of the public that would like to comment on agenda item 12? see moderator please open the phone lines for agenda item 12. >> see we'll wait for some callers. >> thank you. moderator there's no callers here in no further requests to speak on item 12 c may i have a motion so moved so it's been moved and seconded mr. secretary, will you please take a roll call vote for item 12 c

president general i spirits how do you vote yes vice president nelson lum how do you vote? yes commissioner martha knutson how do you vote yes commissioner sasha bittner how do you vote yes commissioner wanda young how do you vote yes and commercial linda parker pennington i vote yes thanks. >> we have a unanimous vote thank you very much commissioners. our next item is requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreements with multiple providers for the provision of nutrition services during the period of february 1st 2025 through june 30th 2025 in the additional amount of $1,081,771 plus a 10% contingency to revise for a total not to exceed $18,000,692 and 40 808,000,692 and $47. >> tiffany dang will present this item.

>> thank you. good morning commissioners president spears and executive director dear man my name is tiffany dang and i'm a nutritionist for dos. i'm seeking the commission's approval for four grant modifications across four community partners. three of the modifications are for congregate nutrition programs and one is for a home delivered meal program. dos would like to utilize dignity funds savings from fiscal year 24 to support community partners who are providing services above their current contracted service levels. this year's 2.5% cost of doing business adjustment is also included in the modifications. the allocation of available funding is based on the nutrition partners service level projections for the remainder of this fiscal year. the first grant modification is for bayview senior services. bayview has four congregate meal sites and focuses on providing culturally responsive nutrition services in districts five and ten. they are especially below for their fish fridays. >> bayview has seen a

significant increase in demand for nutrition support services since the onset of the pandemic and that increased need remains. i am seeking to modify baby as congregate nutrition services for adults with disabilities program by adding about $99,600 to support approximately 10,000 meals through this fiscal year. >> the second grant modification is with central latino day san francisco for their congregate nutrition services for adults with disabilities program. central latino has seven sites located in districts two, six and nine. they are notable for scratch cooking latin meals using minimally processed ingredients . the additional funding will address the increased demand for meals in district six. >> the total modification adds a little over $149,000 to support approximately 14,000 additional lunch and or dinner meals in this fiscal year. additionally, the modification will support essential one time only purchases such as

equipment that's crucial for ensuring compliance with food safety and other regulations. >> the third modification is with unlocked services for their congregate nutrition program for older adults. >> unlike us serving congregate meal sites throughout district seven, eight, nine and 11. they have a rotating menu that provides multicultural meals such as chicken teriyaki meatballs with marinara sauce and chicken moley. they have experience of substantial rise in demand for a nutritious nutrition support services. since the onset of the pandemic and this increased need remains the total modification is a little over $368,000 to support approximate 38,000 more meals through this fiscal year. the final modification is for self-help for the elderly home delivered meal program. they focus on providing culturally responsive services to the asian communities throughout the city. the high demand for culturally appropriate nutrition support

remains consistent. the total modification amount is about $460,000. the funding will support about 9000 more meals through this fiscal year. additionally, the modification will support increase operational costs due to expansion to citywide services. the transition to biodegradable packaging and essential one time only purchases of equipment that are essential for ensuring compliance with food safety and other regulation chains. in summary the for modification will fund over 73,000 more meals this fiscal year an estimated 670 additional consumers will be served. doss nutrition partners ensure that their services are culturally appropriate and meet national nutrition standards to prevent malnutrition and poor health status. services also include nutrition screenings, education and create a pathway to other supportive services. thank you for your time and consideration. if you have any questions i'll do my best to answer them.

>> commissioners any questions regarding the need for food? >> not that the descriptions made us hungry. >> yes. thank you for all those details are very helpful. mr. secretary, are there any comments from the public? >> other any members of the public that would like to comment an agenda item 12 d. moderator please open the phone line for public comments and agenda item 12 d. >> allow some time for callers to submit their requests. >> moderator are there any callers in the queue? there's no callers. thank you very much. >> harry no further requests to speak on the item will close public comment. >> is there a motion to approve item 12 d so moved second so it's been moved and seconded. >> mr. secretary please take a roll call vote. president general my spears how do you vote? yes. vice president nelson lamb how do you vote? yes. commissioner martha knutson how do you vote yes. commissioner sasha bittner how do you vote?

>> guard yes. commissioner one young how do you vote yes? commissioner linda parker pennington that you vote yes. >> thanks. we have a unanimous vote. thank you very much mr. king commissioners. item 12 e is requesting authorization to extend an existing contract with jump technology services for the period of july 1st 2025 to june 30th 2028 in the additional amount of $555,382 plus a 10% contingency for revised total amount not to exceed 1,000,550 $571,633 for the provision of leap's data management and reporting system. ben how do i say let us say it's status. and ria mercado will present this item. >> thank you. commissioners director dearman so will be both discussing the

different elements. i'll be talking about the component for adult protective services and then rhea will follow up with elements for secure. so we are requesting authorization to modify this existing contract with jump technology services for the principal vision of leap's client management software used by adult protective services and for ii. this modification extends the contract from july 1st to 2025 to june 30th 2028 and the additional amount of $555,382 plus a 10% contingency for revised total not to exceed $1,571,633. as for the aps component leaves is the name of the tool for the aps operations providing intake

management and compliance tracking to meet state and federal reporting requirements. jump technology has supported us since 2017 by offering secure web based platform that ensures real time data access and comprehensive case management solutions. the system is currently used by adult protective service programs in over 50 counties in california allowing aps to efficiently manage sensitive client information and support receipt and intake of reports from the public and design workflows for protective service workers and supervisors. under the extension jump technology will continue to provide hosting and licensing for our users. expanded level demographic data ensuring 24 seven access and enhanced intake and reporting functionalities. these capabilities are crucial for aps to fulfill its mandate to protect vulnerable seniors and adults with disabilities

across san francisco. >> good morning. honorable commissioners executive chairman director diamond. my name is raya mercado. i am a public health nurse and a clinical and quality improvement director. we are requesting extension and the use of heels which is a version of jump technology that's been developed for the use of public health nurses within dallas. we have four public health nurses this that served up to 70 clients a month referred to us by adult protective services in-home supportive services public guardian public conservator a ship we serve not only to clients who are being served by these programs but

also the clients that they are monitoring in the community and we engage with the client when our protective social worker are called upon on to serve the most vulnerable in the community such as individuals who are not doing well by leaving the hospital against medical advice, frequent rehab, rehospitalization and complex medical needs and not engaging with medical providers by having this contract we are going to be able to store our data securely and privately we will be able to adhere to the state, federal and local mandates regarding hipaa as well as confirm client confidence, chirality and privacy. >> we will also be able to securely manage the system so

that we can triage the referrals and respond accordingly and be able to use the analysis and the outcomes from our use of evidence based assessments such as risk for false rate and scale. many cog ada and other things this time we are also going to be using this platform to manage some internal grievances from the public so that we can communicate and also produce the data that our cbo would require so that they can address grievances at the earliest level possible while making sure that our client's rights are protected and without retaliation. >> so we are our amount is minimal. however, it does a lot in terms

of what we do in the community. thank you. >> commissioners, are there any questions hearing no questions. >> are there any public comments, mr. secretary? >> are there any members of the public that would like to comment on agenda item 12. >> moderator please open the phone line for public comments on agenda item 12 we will allow some time for callers to submit their requests. moderator and any callers in the queue? there are no callers. thank you very much. >> here are no further requests to speak on this item. may i have a motion to approve item 12 e so moved second so it's been moved and seconded. mr. secretary, will you please take a roll call vote. >> president janice pierce how do you vote? yes. vice president nelson lom how do you vote yes. commissioner martha knutson how do you vote yes. commissioner sasha bittner how do you vote yes. commissioner wanda young how do you vote yes?

commissioner barbara sklar okay. commissioner linda parker pennington how do you vote? >> yes. thanks. we have a unanimous vote. thank you so much, mr. secretary. >> commissioners, are there any announcements from the commissioners? >> okay. hearing no announcements. we adjourn the commission meeting at 1110. >> all right. than

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center is an exciting place for dialogue and engage with the actor right now have a exhibition present tense playground that looks the development of chinatown and also with the vast asian with taiwan and honk con. >> welcome to the square a new culture hub celebrating chinatown a gateway tell stories of chinatown the people here the culture and the history and past, present, and future all through arts and culture. that is a 35 community there is so many to see shopping and buy food and suv inferiors and we welcome, everyone to come in and see what is going on here. >> so whether or not you're a

history buff foodie an art person or simply looking for a night of excitement san francisco chinatown has something for you come and explore and experience the heart and the i soil of the private >> [music] you are watching golden gate inventions with michael. this is episode exploring the excelsior. >> hi i'm michael you are watching golden gate inventions

highlighting urban out doors we are in the excelsior. pickleball. let's play pickleball! pickleball is an incredited low popular sport growing nationwide. pickleball combines tennis, bad mitton and ping pong. playod a bad mitton sized court with paddle and i plasticic ball. starting out is easy. you can pick up paddle and balls for 20 buck and it is suitable for everyone in all skill levels you see here. the gim is played by 2 or 4 players. the ball must be served diagnoty and other rules theory easy to pick up. the game ends when i player or team reaches a set score 11 or 21 point bunkham win bright 2

pickleball courts are available across the city some are and others require booking ahead and a fee. information about the courts found at sf recpark. org if you are interested in playing. now i know why people are playing pickleball. it is so much fun you play all ages. all skill levels and pop on a court and you are red to g. a lot of fun i'm glad i did it. all right. let's go! time for a hike! there is i ton of hike nothing excelsior. 312 acres mc clarin the second largest p in san francisco. there are 7 miles of tris including the there was fer's way this spreads over foresxeft field and prosecute voids hill side views of the city.

and well is a meditative quiet place in mc clarin p you will siendz labyrinth made of rock:now we are at glen eagle golf course special try out disk golf >> now disk golf! so disk golf is like traditional golf but with noticing disks. credit as the sport's pioneer establishing the disk ballsorption and the first standardized target the disk ball hole. the game involves throwing from key areas toward i metal basket. players use different disks for long distances driver, immediateerate. mid range and precise shot,

putters. players begin at the t area. throw disks toward the basket thnd winseowest the fare disk golf at glen eagle cost 14 dollars if you pay■w the clubhouse. there is an 18 hole course this is free. du see that shot? i won! am i was not very good now i have a huge respect for disk ball player its is difficult but fun. thank you for joining me in the celsior this is goldenate adventures.

>> i am iris long. we are a family business that started in san francisco chinatown by my parents who started the business in the mid 1980s. today we follow the same footsteps of my parents. crng variety. we specialize in premium tea. we source the teas by the today i still visit many of the farms we work wit harvest season and style of multigenerational farms tha produce premium teas with its own natural flavors. it iser much■í like grapes for wine. what we do is mspzed itkfs more natal.ancisco i used to come and help my parents after school whether in middle school or high school and throughout college. i went to san francisco state

university. i did stay home and i helped my parents work throughout t summers to learn what it is that makes our community so special. after graduating i worked for an investment bank in hong kong for a few years before returning when my dad said he was retiring. he passed away a few years ago. after taking over the business we made this a little more accessible for visitors as well as residents of san francisco to visit. many of our teas were traditionally labeled only in chfor he older generation. today of our tea drinkkers are quite young. it is easy to look on the website to view all of our products and fun to come in and

look at the different varieties. they are able to explore what we source, premium teas from the providence and the delicious flavors. san francisco is a beautiful city to me as well as many of the residents and businesses here in chinatown. it i great for tourists to visitse how our community rived through the years. this retail location is open daily. we have minimal hours becuse of our small team during covid. we do welcome visitors to come in and browse through our products. also, visit us online. we have minimal hours. it is nice to set up viewings of these products here.■q

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fro d thana control, i know there would be thousands of animals every year who just wouldn't get that ns going home with a family, being released in the wild without this concerted thoughtful group focused on all these animals. the big picture view and daily care. so many animals would be lost. >> but i don't think people understand what goes on. they don't know how hard the staff works taking care of animals. >> it is just two people. one upstairs and one downstairs and the cleaning is total, 6, 7ish. one side starts off doing chemical, i close these all off so the dogs can't come in the back, and then i'm going to

spray the back, (indiscernible) >> all the magic to rehome and work with a rescue network and all the medical care and behavioral and enrichment, socialization enrichment, volunteers e amazing. so, i think if i had a waish wish, i wish that san francisco knew more about what we do. >> san francisco animal care and control is a vital part of making sureim in this community are protected and are cared for. we deal with those domestic and wildlife. one of timary suction is serve as a shelter. when animals have no where else to go, here is where they come. we take in about 9,000 animals a yeand the care they receive here and the ability to move

from here if domestic on to permanent homes somewhere else, or if you are wildlife you come here and we figure which wildlife rehitator to send to. that is the shelter aspect. we also have animal control officers who are available from 6 a.m. to midnight. >> ask them to give us a call, that would be great. the number is 415-554-9400, and you can just ask for rebecca. thank you so much. bye. >> we receive approximately 20 thousand calls a year for assistance, so a lot is wildle ■óreuelost dogs, dangerous situations. also investigate animal abuse, animal neglect. got a lot going on here. >> without us, there would be a lot more

(indiscernible) a lot more animals suffering. who would people call? the police? fire? they have their own jobs and don't have resources or knowledge. they don't know how to help animals. so much hoar suffering. >> we took■ 2800 animals last year. without a shelter where do the animals go? i think the community would suffer if we were not here. >> whether living street important to people, so we helping humans also, and we are alleviating a lot of suffering by doing our jobs.

. >> good afternoon everyone. this meeting will come to order . welcome to the february 10th 2025 regular meeting of the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco