. >> hearing to determine how the department of aging and adult services and other city departments are preparing for the projected surge in the senior population in san francisco. >> this is a hearing brought to us by our colleague, supervisor olague. this is your hearing, your show. >> we do have a lot of people who are here to speak so i will keep these very brief. basically, i just wanted to assess the situation that is going on out there as it relates to the issues that affect seniors that persons living with disabilities. issues affect seniors and a task force came out of that. we also have had hearings in the past year, the senior that chick network participating in and the issues that affect seniors that live in single room occupancy hotels. now, finally, there is an assessment of the needs of san francisco seniors and adults with disabilities that the department of aging and adult services published this year. it is time to assess the information out there and find ways that we might collaborate on a deeper level. funding is a constant issue. some folks mentioned that we could

last year, mayor lee added money back to the department of aging. i appreciate and am grateful for this. for this upcoming budget, the human services agency and the department of a bold an aging services have submitted a budget to mayor lee with no cuts to service providers. i urge you to accept their budget. at the same time, the cost of doing business for nonprofit contractors, like golden gate senior services, has gone up year after year. over the last five years, our health care costs have risen on an average of 7.5% a year. that is about 30% over the last five years. it is now costing us on an average of $858 a month for each employee. this is just one example of the rising cost that we have just to keep our doors open. this responsibility for our staff and seniors sometimes seems like a heavy weight on my shoulders. if at all possible, i would urge you all to give city contractors the cost of doing business increase. it would send an important message to all of us, that the city, indeed, values our work. thank you so much. [applause] >> now we

commissioners for taking care of these properties, for filling a long time promise for joining with the department of aging and adult services along with their housing authority, along with our other partners. our director of hope is taking care of business with our children youth and families divisions, all working together to make sure the quality of life has improved for everyone. you know, i has been very lucky to be the mayor of this great city. i want you to know that everyone has an opportunity to share in the wealth. you're heading in a better direction. every time a turnaround, the state and feds are cutting something. i am going to work really hard with their agencies to insulate that hurt. our success is if you and also work together. -- and us work together. when the door opens, we have a lot more friends to work with. we have to depend upon ourselves. we will not lead each other go if we know that we are part of each other's family. that is why i want to be here and i want to be at every single one of our senior centers to welcome into the family of everything that we do. everybody in this cit

[applause] i am the director of the book -- the department of aging and adult services. it is with great pleasure that i welcome all of the san francisco's aging and disability technology summit, the first one that we have held in san francisco. and what a day this is going to be. if you have looked at the program, you know it is full of speakers and interactive devices and all kinds of things to make this day actually pretty magical. #zmkqrçosv37çw&?çç intrg our interpreters, so could those folks raise their hands so folks know where they are in the room? we have got translation going on for anyone who needs it, and there are folks outside that can hook you up in the most appropriate way for that. i was also asked to ask all of you if you could move towards the center, because as you can tell, we have got a lot of folks coming into the room from outside, and we want them to be able to not have to climb over everyone so they can take a seat. today's event is about connectivity, a connection through technology. and in order for that to happen, it is really essential that c

[laughter] i think nick covered what i wanted to say about the department of aging and adult services, but i want to give you an overview of exactly how many seniors there are. there are 154,700 for seniors in san francisco, and that is 19.2% of the population. 45,000 of them are on ssi. that is a program for low-income elderly and disabled. then we have about 27% of the population -- has an income less than 50% of poverty. so we do have rich seniors in town, but the majority are on fixed incomes and are struggling to get by. they notice everything that you do that affects them. i go to meals programs in the western addition, and the richmond, and i would like to talk to seniors. i know that every time you raise something, it affects them, and a notice. one thing that they will notice is the $2 a month increase that muni is going to have, which they call part of indexing. well, that will be hard, and we will hear about it. i have said this to muni, but they show no signs of knowing about any way to change that, so i'm hoping somebody will help do that. we are also exploring the 5 fult

through which recommendations for the office came forth to be housed under hsa, one after the department of aging and adult services. thank you. supervisor chu: are there other members of the public the wish to speak on item 12? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor avalos: thank you. i want to call in the mayor's education and family services adviser. ms. mendoza, thank you for being here. i also want to thank members of the public for commenting today and your patience over these past many years. your patience in working with my office over the past two years as well. i think we could have moved more quickly along at times. i know there is a lot of anxiety about how to create this office, moving forward. i think we're in a good spot right now. the stress of an independent office attached to one of these departments is the way to go. i believe the stakeholders, in carrying out these services at the department had level, within the department, have a lot to offer. in this process of coming together to create this office, i really believe strong dialogue, listening, and meaningful inpu

i want to thank ann and the department of aging for everything that you guys are doing to make sure that all of san francisco is connected. the mayor talked about all the things that can happen once people get online. you can get information about health care, which can make sure that it saves your lives or the lives of those you love. you can get information about how to better use your money, how to invest your money, how to save your money. you can get information about how to learn another language, how to make sure that you're continuing to grow at every stage of your life. and, as the mayor said, you can also learn how to play games with your children and your grandchildren. it took me about five times to get my mother on e-mail, but now that she is on e-mail, she can tell me what to do from 3,000 miles away. [laughter] and that is a good thing. and i think one of the most exciting things about this technology revolution is how it changes constantly. when i was here 13 years ago, i did not have this, nor did i have this. and yet, we know every single year there are new gadgets, new

out to you supervisors, a brief description of the department, but for the audience purposes, i would like to talk a little bit about that. department of aging and adult services is what i refer to as an integrated department. many years ago the comptroller's office did a report and found things might be better in san francisco if we were to poll the various programs together and departments together that serve younker adults with disabilities and older adults, so we became an integrated department. we're made essentially of four divisions. we have ihhs, the largest single program areas serving over 22,000 older adults and young adults with disabilities by providing home care in people's homes. local government shares in the cost of the program, and this is one of the ones the governor has targeted for reductions in the coming year's budget. there is also 18,000 workers and that program. some of those are the folks that dan talked-about better over 65- years-old. the next division is protective services. this is where we have an adult protective services, which is there to focus. these programs are there to serve people, regardless of their

the next year or so we can look at establishing some sort of a planning effort with the city planning department to look at where people are aging and what the department of public health has done with community health impact assessments, which looks at how you create healthier communities. i think there is some movement in the different departments bringing that conversation to the senior and disabled community. to the community. >> i should mention that the planning department has joined with the long term council in network group. one of the really interesting things about that is that it has attracted people that we do not normally come into contact with. we got a couple of architects interested in this issue. people from different parts of the city. yes, we need all of those people involved. " supervisor olague: i will save my comments for later, but i have become more familiar with seniors in public housing and how they have been exposed to those nuances. i am sorry, supervisor chu? of supervisor chu: taking a look at the report earlier and the demographics of where seniors are living, there is a dark green in the district

the next year or so we can look at establishing some sort of a planning effort with the city planning department to look at where people are aging and what the department of public health has done with community health impact asses

the department of aging and adult services. we have a commission hearing meetings, the budget town hall meetings with many of you the last number of months, he can see the rest of the bullets, a lot of issue-specific meetings around the homeless shelter system and early childhood education. in terms of our target, the target we received from the mayor, as you know, it was a contingency for our department that translates to $2.5 million. and $5 million in the general fund. this comes off of the discretionary general fund pot. for the current year, we're able to achieve that. we have over 200 vacant positions which is over and above our normal rate of attrition, so should the contingency be needed, who would simply move money or save money from the salary line-item. i am really pleased to say that at this point we're projecting to meet our targets, largely through revenue. which translates to know service cuts or reductions internally. the largest share of that is coming from the community first choice option. this is a component

for taking care of these properties for fulfilling a long time promise for joining with our department of aging and adult services along with our housing authority along with all of our other partners the bevan dufty back there he is our director of hope and he's there taking care of business with our children youth and family as well divisions to all working together to make sure the quality of life is improved for everyone. you know i have been very lucky to be the mayor of this great city and i want you to know that. everyone has an opportunity here to share in the wealth and we're heading in a better direction and every time i turn around the state and feds they're cut in something to do and something to us and i'm going to work really hard with our agencies to insulate that her from ever hurt any of us because our success is if you and us work together and that we don't we don't cry every time something happens to us we get mad we close the door maybe we cry a little bit but when the door opens we have a lot more friends to work with because we have to ultimately depend upon ourselves and