we may have an opportunity to hear from jessica layman from the senior and disability action. and then paula jones and i think anne q -- >> quitenze. >> supervisor cohen: for the food security task force. it is the way we provide services in the first year of proposition i. we got $6 million in new funding to distribute throughout the community. we did it by thinking a little bit about kind of by looking at the existing needs assessments and crafting within put from the community and advisory bodies. it included multiple compoments. the support for veterans. they were highlighted in the campaign. within this we were able to have service connection programs. $100,000 for congregate males. that is one way we use the funding to reach out to the population. our guiding strategy or policy was two fold. to support and strengthen the existing network that we know exists in san francisco and is fantastic at providing services in the community. we know that people are providingness and important services. our dignity fund needs assessment found evidence of this. we want to be sure prov

seeing there are no other questions, i think we will go to jessica layman at this time. >> thank you. before you run away i have one question. my understanding is that organizations are a requirement of the r.f.p. are being asked to charge membership for the services where they previously had not done so. can you explain the reasoning behind this? >> we have -- when you are referring to is the village model. the village model started in boston and it is a membership model about communities coming together to create their own programming and create a network of support for themselves. one of the reasons that we started funding that program several years ago was really that it came to our attention that lower to middle income people weren't getting the services that people on medicaid can get or weren't using our other services. in our minds that was always a membership model. when we put the r.f.p. out we created three categories. one is the village model where we asked programs to charge members 120 per year for the service that is the traditional model. we have another model where pe

we may have an opportunity to hear from jessica layman from the senior and disability action. and then paula jones and i think anne q -- >> quitenze. >> supervisor cohen: for the food security task force. [please stand by]

. >> jessica layman, zero coalition. >> and cathy deluca, group of 40 community-based organizations that work together to advocate for vision zero and we have a senior and visibility work group. we have our presentation coming up for you. >> we want to act knowledge and appreciate the board of supervisors that are making vision zero a priority. as we pointed out, chair cohen, we've seen progress that fewer people are getting hit and killed. we have momentum and it's important to keep that going. we are working toward zero deaths. a reminder of the problem that 800 to 1,000 pedestrians are injured every year in san francisco. and most of the people killed in traffic crashes are pedestrians. seniors make up 50% of the pedestrians killed. and we know that's as far as seniors being out and using walking around as a mode of transportation and likely to be injured severely and unable to recover. 69% of people with disabilities injured in crashes were hit while walking. we're going to keep moving. our biggest recommendation ask is for funding for a program called safe streets for people with di

jessica layman with senior and disability action. you've heard a lot of great comments today. i wanted to thank you for taking the time to hear from us and think about it and to continue and figure out what we can do as a city. i really want to highlight i think we're at an exciting time where the way we talk about aging and the way we talk about disability is starting to shift from this negative idea that oh my gosh, people are going to take over and what are we going to do so people are a resource and seniors and people with disabilities bring such amazing experience and perspective to our community. and i think marie job ling took credit to say you know, we have people who can do amazing work and with programs like reserve and csep so i hope you build them, as well as looking at how we can train businesses and non profits to understandablism and ageism and at the city level, right, what we can do to provide incentives to make sure people are in jobs where they will contribute so much. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon. my name is ricardo perez. i

i just -- jessica layman, director of the senior and disability action had to leave earlier, but she asked me to announce there are pamphlets on senior rally day over there, and again, it's on may 8th. thank you. >> okay. thank you. motion to adjourn, the motion welcome words in the english language. >> so moved. >> thank you. by rising vote, we are adjourned. >> the meeting will come to order. this is may 2, 2018. special meeting of the san francisco local agency formation commission. i am chair of the commission and i'm joined by commissioner singh. on my -- on my right. [laughter] and commissioner hillary ronan on the left. the clerk of the commission is alicia somara and i'd like to thank the staff at stgov tv. do you have any announcements? >> yes. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be submitted to the clerk. >> madame clerk, please call item number two. >> approval of the contract with brian global for executive officer services. >> i believe that we have a presentation for an intern adm

i just -- jessica layman, director of the senior and disability action had to leave earlier, but she asked me to announce there are pamphlets on senior rally day over there, and again, it's on may 8th. thank you. >> okay. thank you. motion to adjourn, the motion welcome words in the english language. >> so moved. >> thank you. by rising vote, we are adjourned. >> hi. i'm shana longhorn with the san francisco league of women voters. i'm here to discuss proposition c. the city collects a gross receipts tax from many businesses which receive revenue from the lease of commercial property, such as office buildings, warehouses and retail spaces. the current tax rate ranges from.825% to 3%. businesses with $1 million or less in san francisco are generally exempt from the gross receipt tax. several other businesses are also exempt including some banks, and nonprofits. proposition c would impose an additional gross receipts tax of 1% on the revenues of business received from the lease of warehouse space in the city, and 3.5% on the revenue the business receives on additional leases in the cit