and thank you, shireen, thank you so much, shireen for your support. i have the deepest respect for you. this vision for the department, i'm here every step of the way for you. now to my long-term care, i first want to thank adriana, when i first was on board, she taught me everything in the beginning, she was there when i was answering the phone, nervous. and she told me it will be ok. and it's ok. thank you to rea, she's on vacation right now. duane and larry. my nurses, i love my nurses, angela, luba, sue. i run down three flights of stairs and run up, i deliver one folder, and i just -- i'm dedicated to them. it's all the exercise i get for the day. the next two people i want to thank. i'm going to use a sport analogy. i like sports. but, fanny, thank you so much. fanny is like klay thompson. you know him of the golden state warriors, he can rebound, shoot, he does it quitely and efficiently and that's fanny. when you need a bucket you pass it to clay. here's my mom. [applause] my mom made it in time. you know, with clay, you have the splash brothe

and we haven't come to terms with that as a society. >> question for shireen. since you opened the golf street veterans hub, or whatever it is called, do you see increase of clients going there? >> i think it's about the same as it was. i mean, what i think we're doing better is linking them to other services and we continue to work on making that even better. so before hand, our office was really stuck out there by itself and one of the issue we had was that the staff didn't feel like they were part of the organization. we made a lot of improvement just by moving them in with other programs that are part of daas. so i mean, i think that's where we've seen the biggest improvement. we have about, i guess, under 30,000 veterans in the city, not all of them qualify for the services. it's pretty specific. and so the numbers even when they shift may not shift a huge amount. one of of the other things that happened, though, is that we used to do quite a bit of outreach in that program and we had outstations at fort miley, the v.a. hospital, and we had outstations la

for shireen? any comments or questions from the public? seeing none, moving on. employee recognition. the department of aging and adult services commission and executive director shireen mcspadden recognize joseph formentos from the daas office of long term care and operations. [applause] >> director mcspadden: joseph, congratulations. >> thank you. >> director mcspadden: we're here to recognize joseph formentos today. did i pronounce your name right? great, just checking. what i'd like to do today, and we don't do this often, but i'd like the people who support the daas stand. because joseph is among some fantastic people. so the daas administrative folks do all kinds of things. they do -- they check on building supplies for us, when we have complaints about the building itself, which are pretty frequent. probably daily. they handle those. they handle the front desk. they do copying, they make sure that -- what else do you do? you guys do everything. they decorate the building when we have things happen. they make sure rooms are cleaned. they just kind of are th

i want to turn this over to shireen to talk about program changes and program accomplishments. and then we can take questions and talk a little bit about schedule going forward. ok, that's better, thanks. good morning chair loo and members of the finance committee. so one of the things that we don't have usually in the first hearing is all of the level of detail in the budget that is going to go to the mayor. so it's a good opportunity to hear about some of the things that dan and his team are working on and get the level of detail they have so far, but it's also a good opportunity to talk about what we're doing with the dollars in the daas budget. so i wanted to take a little bit of time to talk through a few things, just to give you an overview of what we're doing in the various programs, what the case loads look like and other initiatives we're working on. the first slide is daas case loads. so, i just want to start and go through the programs here. but i want to start by saying that daas serves close to 60,000 clients annually. which is about a quarter of the city's older a

care council and the nominating committee didn't have a hard choice, they suggested and recommended shireen mcspadden to be the co-chair. it was a hotly contested race there, but she was enthusiastically and unanimously approved. so she will be the new co-chair serving with continuing co-chair ann. the long-term care council plays a role in the budget process and has refined that activity over the last few years with the finance and policy work group, helping shape proposals that come to the council. there were two, one that was approved by the group, focussing on housing. housing subsidies and legal defense. there was a second which was a holdover from the previous year. that didn't go through the policy group, but folks felt strongly should be considered. the original vote scheduled for december is now to happen on january 11 and it will be on all of those proposals, but in the meantime, all of the council members have been asked to set up meetings with supervisors, so we have those meetings proceeding as scheduled now after the 11th of the month. those proposals and all the information g