shireen. >> director mcspadden: thank you, commissioner, and i want to extend a special welcome to commissioner papas very happy to have you working with us. i was at the national association on aging board meeting. i mentioned before, but for those of you who haven't heard, i'm one of two representatives from california to this national association. and it's a great organization, they're focused on building the capacity of aaa so we can help older adults. it supports initiatives such as livable communities and dementia-friendly america. they advocate for funding for services for adults and adults with disabilities and provide tools such as the elder care locater. they're a great organization to belong to. very supportive of the aaa, the area agencies on aging across the country. at the meeting we heard from cms officials talking about feature initiatives and opportunities for aaa and our cbo partners. they promised that they're moving into an era of innovation, for those of you familiar with cms, you may wonder what that means, but they've pointed out they loosened up the reg from 10 or 15 yea

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 the backbone of the organization when it comes to our building use in particular. so then, we also have people from the cqa unit

things we do is we develop the budget for the agency, of course, we do that in cooperation with shireen mcspadden and deputy directors like cindy and joe, and program directors throughout the agency. and we do it with a budget staff and emily gibb and tiffany wong are two of the members who have worked on the daa is budget this year. we reach out to the program offices throughout the agency to ask them to identify areas of new need, changing regulation, changing law. changes in the patterns of consumption of services. and then potentially innovations to make in program areas. and we collect all of that. we begin to analyze it, we begin to cost things out. and then we do this in the late autumn typically. we start then. and then in december, right at the beginning of december typically, the mayor's office provides budget instructions and the mayor's budget instructions typically are based on forecasts of city revenues and city expenses. and they are sometimes based on special areas of focus that the mayor wants agencies to take. those agencies, those areas of focus often tend to be at the instruct

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 goes on the