we're able to accomplish these by educating and by providing direct nutrition education and providing support to the participants with increased access to healthy foods, reducing the consumption of beverages that are high in sugar content, so healthier beverages and also increasing physical activity, and also improving the food resource management skills of these participants. so based on the state's and also the county's profile for snap-ed participants as well as staff needs assessment and also the providers identifying needs and interests we were able to identify two contractors that we recommend to you to help us implement these three projects. again the first project is snap-ed nutrition education and i will provide more details about that. the second project is the snap-ed early gardening project and i will introduce my colleague soon and she will give you details about that project and the third one is the thai chi program. all of the programs are evidence based which means they have been proven to be effective in achieving the impact that we want. all these programs have to be

or is it to provide additional services? and there is tension there. the city in the last three budget cycles the mayor and the board authorized 5% cumulative cola over those three years for non-profit organizations to address organizational cost increases whether wages, benefits or non salary increases so the difference between the 13% growth that you see here over this six year period and the 5% cola -- one way to think about it that increased investment represents increased services that the city is asked of them during the period. as i indicated earlier this is a very diverse group of providers of course, not just the services they provide and not just the departments they contract with, but also just in terms of the makeup of the organizations. one of the variances is the size of the different non-profit organizations so we often talk about them in one breath but they're a varied group. this chart is showing the bars here reflect total spending by the city on contracts in these different tiers so you can see we spend $102 million on contracts of l

the profile of the providers veryies. some provide preschool only and some have larger operations and some get rent from the city in terms of where they are loidated so it is very different but we are aware of all the profiles of how the providers are trying to survooiv. for most of them they can't clarj enough to pay for the cost of infant care, they pay for 234fants are preschool enrollment and sometimes they have school age care and pay for preschoolers infants with school age enrollment >> supervisor yee. >> 1573 is pretty much market rate? >> in 2011 >> yeah. >> it is 85 percent of the market >> if people were to get that we probably can actually meet-we will probably need help with minimum wage in these centers if these centers operate state funded or get 1500 per child. i guess in converse as we move further along and the state isn't giving much of a increase and still giving pretty much about 800 dollars per month per child, and some of this you may or may not know, regardless of the rate you get unlike other fiel

we are a diverse group of non-profit providers that provide an array of services and i think having both some mechanism for looking at how best to do that over time while addressing the immediate need for this budget upcoming year and the year following it to have some stability for the non-profit sector, so to have a cost-of-doing business increase -- i will go with john and 5% and api and have a process that actually addressing all of the issues that come up when we try to have this dialogue and i support and appreciate this opportunity and look forward to continued dialogue. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. i am jonathan vernic and the executive director of baker places. i want to thank you again for having this hearing this afternoon and better than june 20 something and at that point normally this room is filled with people and there is a human cry and decisions are made, not really in the light of day but in the rush of too many need and too little time. i have worked for baker for over 30 years and baker places has been around for 50 years and

providing the services. >> it also states qualified health care provider under distinction two as defined. >> i think that language might be taken out with a new version it says of barer or cosmetologist for instance a massage of our face not considered a massage for a dpw permit for . >> so i guess when the commission heard the legislation the last meeting i think it was under the understanding that on page 19 line 191 states the permit shall be required under the services provide by a health care provider that is defined under the definitions of on page 7 line one as under the regulations of division two of the california business code so i just - so is it how i read this is it those liquor an acupuncture it is an accessory use not required by the depending upon to get a establishment permit but not listed in the planning code as one the exempted entities they'll be required to go through the conditional use even though they'll be seen from the planning code as a massage establishment. >> correct. >> okay. >> but we in terms of the that health care provider piece i believe this is likel

those are a total of 5 providers. one of the things in terms of the policy issues kw response strategies that we are working on, we manage san francisco pilot that allows us to have a higher state reimbursement rate. the state has a single rate throughout the state which is a problem for us because our cost of care and i have a sloyd to show the rate disparity for title 5 contractors. it is our number 1 policy problem because as we try to support those providers if the state isn't paying their fair share it is a problem. it is a problem for them to keep their doors open let alone provide quality care. that is a big challenge. we have this pilot that allows us to pay a slightly higher state rate and that pilot is due to sunset. it also allows us for families to stay in eligibility for subsidy longer. the state medium income ceiling for eligibility is 43.200 and the pilot rate allows them to stay in the subsidy for 53 thousand. that is for a family of 3 and it changes depend on the size of the family. we also are workin

we provided drop in services for the parents in the community at the community center. the coordination of services were with -- we had a meeting with city agencies facilitied by dcyf to figure out the next strategies in support of the children we also had a mental health provider conference where we asked and invited treatment providers across the city to see how we could support and provide mental health services to these children and their families and as a department met with the principals and the wellness coordinators to talk about what had happened over the summer and identify signs and symptoms they should look for and as we all know the children were probably going to seek the services through the school district and the follow up services and provided since then there has been coordination with park and rec and they sent over 80 people up to the camp and provided individual trauma focussed counselor and there has also been two groups for those kids that witnessed the homicide. we also have offered a grief group at our wellness center and increased our behavior

we provide -- our staff helped child care providers establish their businesses, we provide basic and ongoing training in child development, health and safety, business management and other topics and provide coaching and technical assistance and the city's quality network which is designed to design quality options for low-income children. in my four years at children's council, i have become a strong advocate for public investment in child care and early education so all children will have the opportunity to succeed. i've developed deep knowledge of the system, the support for families and people carrying for and educating their children as well as the gaps. for the past three years, i've been ak timely involved in the community coalition that helped with the prop c ledge slaix, i played a legislative role with cpac, i'm excited about the work that oece will be leading this year in collaboration with first five and the ece community that will serve as a road map toward our collective goal, a system of quality ece for all san francisco children. thank you for your leadership and cons

and how will those service providers tv capacity to provide that one on one service needed and a conventions of possibilities and different places all over town where people go and get some of this assistance. part of that is having some conversation starting now about what does that look like and how to get it in place so people are ready to go to get the kind of help they need. i know there have been some good workshops and discussion about an application and how to make that really useful and i hope that would be a similar workshop in bringing together stakeholders to talk about how are we really making this usable for folks. thank you. >> thank you. >> mam, would you like to make a public comment? >> my name is elizabeth griffin. about accessibility usage. you can go on the website and how accessible it is. accessible the apartments are. i mean to say this to the board what you guys call accessible may not really be accessible. it takes somebody with a disability to come out and really see something that's accessible. so i encourage you guys to really have somebody that uses a wheelchair

the plan at this time doesn't provide providing access to all residents of the city and chair mar you identified chat anooga municipal broadband networks there's 150 throughout the country they offer tremendous benefits and the municipalities themselves have control of the network and can design policies and set prices and cover their costs of course but control that most cities don't have now because of the services provided through the private sector and it can also stimulate local economic development and chat anooga really used it to bring in in businesses who were dependent on high speed access for their core business and have had some success doing that. there's a lot of things to consider. it's very expensive. the cities that have done it tend to be smaller and many have their own electric utility and had control over that to begin with and the cities that have gone this route have faced extensive litigation and had to take on all of that in the process of constructing their network and it requires the city under taking a new business enterprise if it's operated by the city and

and non-profit providers are all continuously engaged for how we provide the back end support for potential victims, how it is we really address some of the cases that do arise. again, dph is only given a set of tools to work with. >> if i can add, i know the process of getting a permit and i'm all for going through permitting process if that's in line with the similar industries in the profession. the only thing we all know that small business conditional use is a killer. >> what is that called? >> cb 3p. >> if that qualifies for the expedited conditional use process. for me that would be the biggest thing. the fee is part of the cost of doing business special fully san francisco. but with cu and the rents rising and the landlords having the opportunity to rent to so many people, the c u is a place for business. i know supervisor tang you have done an amazing job on your outreach. i wonder if we can explore that further. >>

over a hundred smaller providers around the country. our companies offer internet access on a fixed and mobile bases. and we serve urban areas, rural areas, and companies that are publically and privately held. >> when it comes to mobile is this going to be a strong argument in your lawsuit? >> i think it is a strong argument. the argument is this: congress never intended to treat mobile broadband as a common carrier service. it was quite explicit. internet access service was an information service and that is why i said the fcc is having great difficulty keep in mind the standards we all agree with can be written in a sentence no blocking throttling or paid private. but they had to issue over 300 pages in order to achieve a simple objective. so i think it is important to go back to the court. i am quite confidant the court is going to say what is clear on the face of the statute. there is no authority for the fcc to be regulating the internet. and then i hope that we can get congress to expand the fcc's authority to be able to address

they're not providing access to the internet, and these rules are just about the companies that provide that access. >> i want to go back to the lawsuit, because i think that's interesting as it's evolved within a couple of months. the fcc tom wheeler has said they have long expected the big dogs to sue, as he said. i mean, how confident are you that there are lawyers at the commission who are ready to go and have these long cases ready to go? are you confident that there is a strong legal defense behind these rules? >> guest: well, as a nonlawyer -- [laughter] but having worked at the commission, i know they have very talented attorneys, and we trust that the -- based off of the verizon court decision that they have gone down the right path, that they're as the chairman said, the court painted a path for them towards title ii, and we believe that they have the power to make that decision. they certainly have classified broadband in the past, have changed the classification. they did so in the early 2000s, so the court's been very clear that they have the power to do that now. >> host:

we have service provider by the name of san francisco clean city that provides systematic cleaning on a monthly weekly and daily basis. >> i'm sorry. you have it? okay. would you rather i just go through it? okay. sf govtv, overhead, please. i will go ahead and read through it, i'm sorry. included in these cleaning services are clean sweeping out of property frontages and twice a month sidewalk scrubbing. 10-20 hours a week of graffiti removal and abatement. hypodermic needle removal and power washing. >> included in our agreement with the serves provider is a sample of equipment that we purchase from year to year, sidewalk scrubers and cleaning equipment. you will see in the photo here this is a sidewalk scrubber we purchased for the fiscal year year 2012-2013. we wanted to take note that our service provider does more than just keep the sidewalk in the neighborhood clean. they also provide a terrific service to individuals that are employed with their program and they provide transitional employment opportunities to individuals that might otherwise have a hard time getting back into

for our providers there is no where to go to get the money and they are coming to us. we have done estimates on the impact of the minimum wage, but that is really for just the staff that would be impacted by the minimum-lifting the minimum wage and it increases ovthe years as we move toward 15 dollars. the non c sites their choice to increase fees for fmlies which is contrary to the goalotches having care be affordable for families, but those are some of the challenges, jrfxz i want to thank you for presentation and make one more comment. on the first slide of page 2 of the presentation, the pie chart, the first pie chart, we have be careful how you represent where it says early childhood work force and subsidies because if someone who isn't familiar with the field were to look at this they would think only services are at 55 percent. people familiar in the field know this early childhood work force, the funding going to that is to provide the services >> right we need the teachers [inaudi that is a twebl.7 million dollar investment and it is meaningful, but not enough

we provide cleaning and safety services primarily. this is a sell brutory moment after the giant won the world series [inaudible] taggers that take away graffiti and grime. they are in the green vests and not pictureed is the sfpd office rb that provides surface 10 hours a day 7 daysachy woompt we have governed by a [inaudible] we have property owners and merchants on the board and sthai are very committed, active and engaged. we also have a flb of committees that represent the core services that we provide. we could not do all the work we do without our partner organizations primarily the city departments we work with. we work with oawd, mta planning and also a number of non profits that share or vision for clean safe and slibeerant uniunion scare and city. we have augmented 3.3 million budget with a number of grants. year 1 we got a million forado to extend theide walk [inaudible] we also got grants from [inaudible] a gate way to the district to make it a vibrant and welcomeing area. finally, we raised additional money 3 sponsorship

care provider for over 25 years in san jose, so my knowledge and understanding of family care providers goes way back, i am the daughter of someone who did this work for a number of years and i am very inspired by all the work that she and her colleagues have done. we as a site are very proud participants of preschool for all, we started our involvement for preschool for all a few years ago, we were recognized from preschool for all as having a high rate of families giving back their tuition credit in the form of scholarships so we aes a small program are able to this year and last year all of a sudden have 20 thousand dollars in on a need base scholarships for our families which is amazing. we also this year and may 7th will be reck needed by preschool for all, our whole team for excellence in teaching and we are proud and honored to receive that award from preschool for all, it has been an amazing opportunity for us to access a bunch of resources for our families, for our staff and for our students. we are involved in see wages which helps us not only to help raise the quality of our

billion in guarantees already provided. in my view, this is a worthy investment, and it needs to be matched by continued reforms by the ukrainians. we need to take a more strategic approach. we need to reinvigorate the institutions that have for so long contributed to the transatlantic relationship and peace and stability. we need to sharpen our arsenal of response options and that means nato and eu integration and adapting them to today's realities. in my view, the attention on europe's east in confronting the threat from russia has been necessary. we also need to focus on the south, also vulnerable to undue russian influence. we need to strengthen and secure economic relationships in the balkans, especially in serbia, montenegro, bulgaria and bosnia. second, our intelligence community also needs to reprioritize the russian threat, not only by addressing the threat in ukraine but across the board in europe. third, communications. i understand the administration is working with a broadcasting board of governors to commit a

and especially if they're providing the same service and better to provide a narrative and make it clear and concise that way so we tend to cluster services that are the same and provided by multiple vendors so and it's been my experience in serving the commission in the past and serving the dhs commission as well and one less paper to read is to your overall benefit unless you think otherwise and the purpose is eliminate the amount of paper you have to read when approving multiple contracts for essentially the same service and we leave it up to the staff and anne as well to explain to you the nuisances or differences between the vendors and they're collective approach, but essentially it's to make it easier and minimize the reading you have to do in order to prepare for the job you have to do. >> thank you. >> thank you for that. i guess my only follow up question. in this case these are two stellar providers with tremendous reputations to the community and to daas but one of the concerns from my point of view is accountability and the metrics and if we're approving one program budget a

family center present wg the coalition of homeless and rebecca is here on behalf of google that provided this grant to kick start the initiative in our schools so before i have presenters come forward would any members of committee like to make any opening comments? seeing none we will have ms. crum and commissioner you're welcoming to join us at the dais . >> good afternoon. i am from the homeless and housing program and manager of family and prevention services. i think you have a handout that describe the programs that we have for rapid re-housing service. they're listed by service type, a description the services, the agencies that we contract with to provide the services and the number of households that are served annually. hhs has been -- h.d sa has been funding these programs before it became a nationally recognized best practice and along with our partners we provide services to house people who are homeless and maintain housing for people at risk for homelessness and one time grants for deposits and back rent and need and outreach and a variety of issues regarding tenant rights

the purpose of this grant is to provide housing subsidy for seniors and adults with disabilities. this grant will be funded entirely through the county general funds. mike zaugg will do the presentation. >> good morning commissioners, executive director hinton. i am mike zaugg and a program analyst with daas. the contract is a new program and housing related program. i am sure you're away this is one of the big challenges in san francisco that we face. census data shows us that the housing challenge affects seniors those with disabilities disproportionately and this program hopes to alleviate the situation through a subsidy payment and identify seniors and younger adults with disabilities that had a recent decrease in income and but for the assistance from the program would be evicted and the rental subsidy the eviction would be avoided and stabilized and could remain in home. the range of residents in san francisco that will benefit from the program varies but in particular it is to focus on the aging disabled. these are residents currently on long-term disability policies and ar

i'm stacy degoir, a small business owner as a sole provider in the city. i was very happy and thank you supervisor tang for that layout of the different establishments. part of what's been mentioned is this is a very complex issue. i had a handout describing the four different establishments. the first one being general, the second one is this category of declaration of exemption group and then we have the sole fix or out call establishment and out call only establishment. this currently exist in the code right now. what i would like to propose so that this regulation will not just address human trafficking but will address compliance of massage therapist who are being treated as professionals. this category the declaration exemption group become certified establishment category. they will be zoned as medical and only for those that are camtc owners and providers. this is what other cities are doing and it creates that, takes care of some of the zoning issues, a lot of what impedes massage professionals from wanting to step forward. right now the group of

are educated and having the competencies to provide and offer good palliative care services and those services are across the continuum and not limited to hos -- hospice alone but wherever they're experiencing the service and around the state legislation that is encouraging providers to be more explicit when someone has a terminal illness and know what their treatment options are including palliative care. that has become particularly relevant around the issue of dementia and alzheimer's disease and when they are diagnosed with alzheimer's disease aren't told it's a progressive condition and i think there are opportunities when we get into the nitty-gritty supporting our legislature to more thoughtfully integrate palliative care services into the health care community, and then finally i think there are opportunities from the standpoint of reimbursement to encourage inter-professional care in a way that currently isn't supported in most spheres and they're in a different world and only certain providers can bill for services and others can not and i don't know anne if you want to add

. >> two things commissioner president is mou with $687,000 provides we pay them for a host of services including the marketing and counseling within each the project budget so part of acceptable uses we allocate so the dollars whether their coming from bond procedures or new tax increment requests or new bonds for each housing project refund the nonprofits enter into loan agreement we provide for a marketing budget within it so it is typically about $15,000 or so sometimes more to make sure it compiles with is policy derivatives of the citywide goals. >> if we want to talk about the certificate of preference and other issues to make sure that people know the opportunities are present we'll have a reoccurring uneasy about those efforts have been or effective as they could be. >> we can certainly look at the marketing budget overall and review that in time for the mexico meeting for feedback. >> okay. and then the other my farther is you know tracking our local hire and small business participation on is payment side my recollection reis have you know on is workforce side my understandin

been able to make through our title iii grants the purpose of those federal grants to target and provide interventions for the ms. most at risk we'll have having had a surgery ever investments from the private foundation that supported us we have a very great collaboration with expended learning through college and career folks can talk about that but for the last couple of summers we've had the english learn vinyl that is designed for newcomer students during the sunday morning we report the provision of work this year to balboa and galileo for students to catch up and get intensify english learn development and fill in any crediting credit recovery they may need at the same time interest it is a unique stunt bus it provides not only course offering but provides a unique opportunity for the teachers to be able to work together to roll collaborate and to develop lessons to address the needs of those children it is very there are if you district in the country that real specialize and provide strategic actions to support this reat risk population of the english. >> thank you very much any

we had a group get together in little rock to discuss reimbursement to providers that have provided outside care. you'll have situations that arise, now with this 40-mile rule that the v.a. owes this money, it appears the v.a. owes a lot of people in arkansas a lot of money. and has not been very forthcoming in paying those bills. it's another thing that makes it such that the trust issue that we talk about. the other problem is, if you don't pay your bills, they're going to quit dealing with you. and then, that's the greatest thing. and that really is going to affect quality of care. can you quickly mention that? >> i will, and maybe i'll ask carolyn to comment. i talked about the five strategies from my v.a. one of them i talked about was improving our internal support services. and going to assured services model where we centralize the bill paying. so that's all the people do is something that we're in the process of doing. we're not done yet. we have more work to do. carolyn? >> yes, i would just add that we are tracking this rates of payments and how old the claims are on a weekly bas

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it also provides statutory authorization for the center the president has created to provide comprehensive assessments of cyberdelets. while the protections are narrow could be important to understand that information sharing is not a silver bullet. it will be important work to be done to improve our nation's cyberdefenses. passing an information-sharing bill will get us significantly closer to being much more secure in cyber space than where we are right now. particularly when it comes to protecting critical infrastructure. after careful study for better part of a decade, i can firmly say that this bill marks a meaningful step forward. let me congratulate the chairman and ranking member of continuing with this bipartisan spirit that has shown the cyber >> the house returns for legislative business tuesday. they will consider a series of bills. on wednesday, the chamber hears from japanese prime minister shinzo abe in a joint meeting of congress. it is also possible this week that members will consider the 2016 budget resolution reached between house and senate negotiators. the senate meet

did code all the students combine 49 percent of the student population if we are planning about providing more think about that area okay. so move into the next slide okay. so we wanted to look at the english learners clarification matt haney their proficient in english now so in the years 2013-2014 based the program we're able to look at them with the what is their percentage compared you know to the entire english population and at outline levels we're talking about 18.6 percent of english learners are clarified this is a pretty good you number providing our annual goal is 70 percent let's move on to the next slide okay. so sorry about that that so many numbers here the idea we are trying to look at the years take for english learners to clarify as proficient in english and we take the district data up to e lack and look at the data they first become mrimd limited in english language they also have clarified as proficient in english and we had an average so it is determined it takes 5 years for an english learn to be fully reach english proficiency and this is actually a really good num