is less than that >> you're still poor even though you get ssi not everybody know about ssi it's called supplemental security income for low income people it has its needs i've been told we should talk about the joys of seniors i get fixated on how many people get a government pension like you will or the contact agencies the snvrz won't have government pensions but we think it's important to keep the people active in the community. >> thank you, ms. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. hi, fwj. we're representing stepping stone adult health care. one of the issues we're concerned is the folks that actually, you haven't talked about the people who can't use muni. that's the folks who need to use paratransit to remain independent in the community. we'll be talking about under 10 thousands a year. we're adult health care center we're supporting the physical and mental health so they can live dpint if they don't they'll go into is an institution or have a low quality of life. so some of the issues we've if you do it is the transit transit wants to rais

is less than that >> you're still poor even though you get ssi not everybody know about ssi it's called supplemental security income for low income people it has its needs i've been told we should talk about the joys of seniors

is less than that >> you're still poor even though you get ssi not everybody know about ssi it's called supplemental security income for

is less than that >> you're still poor even though you get ssi not everybody know about ssi it's called supplemental security income for low income people it has its needs i've been told we should talk about the joys of seniors i get fixated on how many people get a government pension like you will or the contact agencies the snvrz won't have government pensions but we think it's important to keep the people active in the community. >> thank you, ms. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. hi, fwj.

we're going to cease an ssi advocacy program. this is especially important for parents who are disabled and therefore unable to work but who are not yet on federal disability. so what the ssi advocacy program will do is help parents who are disabled, as well as children who are disabled, navigate that process to apply for federal cash benefits which is a much higher cash allotment than is the cal works program. we will be able to add between 70 and 100 private sector subsidized employment slots and then we're going to leepbten public sector trainee slots from 6 months to a year and this is especially important because one of the exit strategies for the public sector subsidized employment program is actually entrance into city employment. we have been very successful, for example, in the human services agency, folks who have been in the subsector program being hired out of public assistance and into an agency that's helping folks navigate the public assistance system. so it's a great way to get sort of a peer to peer type employme

serve over 30,000s a week and the majority of the pantry participants are older adults and whom receive ssi and ineligible for benefits. many are frail and disabled and struggle to attend food pant reese regularly. when the burden is too great they stop coming and some don't even try to show up so with the projected aging supervisor mar you talked about if san francisco's population coupled with rising costs the numbers meeting but unable to access food assistance will continue to grow without a concerted effort to expand services so we believe that recruiting community volunteers to deliver healthy groceries and social connection is the lowest cost and effective way to maintain health of this vulnerable population and continue living and enrich the communities and in collaboration with home delivered meals when things evolve and thank you for the support and other initiatives presented today. >> thank you mr. brooks. next speaker. >> i am barbara and i come from senior and disability action group. today we actually had a meeting of senior disability action and -- okay. we had a meeting and

since our students are over 18 the primary benefits for them is ssi. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon i'm going to be be wearing two hats i'm here 0 represent the one hundred and 50 students are there in the special education i've heard from many people the goal for freeing e freeing muni to youth they can get to and from school 0, however, if the program is only for 18 many of the special education programs won't benefit those programs are servicing the 22-year-old i want to encourage the board to offer any student for a pass so you'll students can benefit in the program. i'm going to switch hats and speak at the chair of the advisory committee i'm sure you're aware of the committee recently expressed their support to make sure that the p d d helps with the acquisition of new vehicles to help with the sizeable population growth and training staff and street inspectors and other front line operators so we can achieve our improvements in the city. thank you for making those items happen in the future >> than

seniors rely on government for ssi and assistance. we have a fixed income. for example in china town a room cost upwards of $500. this is over rent for example is over 50 percent of seniors income. it's a great hardship. as we get older a lot of seniors health declines and this comes from frequency of doctors visits and rely on muni and go out to get groceries. muni is our primary mode. a lot of seniors who want to be socially active, muni is the way to go. muni does take a large portion of our budget. so we ask that supervisors and the mta in the budget give what you can to seniors for people with disabilities so they can have good lives in san francisco. we know there are models out there like in cities that provide transportation to seniors. we hope to see that you make an investment towards seniors to support us soon. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> [ hi, my name is mr. quack. i'm a represent ative from chinatown. i want to draw attention today to pedestrian safety and to the well being of pedestrians. i want to see an investm

individual, housing the referrals for the individuals and last, it improves the employment, and the ssi disability, benefits, out comes. and because, now you are housed, and you are stable, and you are looking at, whether or not you qualify for ssi, or if there is some type of employment, that is available for you, so that you are stable in the job and you don't have to worry about carrying around your belongings. >> the cost expended for the supportive houses and versing the shelter housing. not just the money that is expended but the money throughout the city which is an important point. >> we have been working through to supplement the out reach and i think that they have been involved in and part of the dialogue was originally was, and you know, let's increase the number of stabilization beds, in addition, you know, to allow our homeless out reach team to have something to offer individual on the street if we are going to have more people. >> that is right. >> and that i think is the one topic, that the stabilization beds where the people that i think that have had the different opi

you can't be on ssi. you can't have a drug felony or undocumented, so we're targeting the lowest income and the benefit -- thank you, the benefit is not that much. $5 a day doesn't get you very far but it's a good deal for san francisco in general for the san francisco economy. san francisco currently contributes from our general fund only 3.6 million dollars. with that we get 97 million from the feds and that's for the actual benefit itself and 20 million from the feds and the state combined to assist in administration, so it's a total of $121 million to provide calfresh for 51,000 people but we're only paying 3.6 million dollars here in san francisco. so not only are we bringing the money into the city and the 21 at ad min, and the benefit itself, but these dollars and a study showing that $5 of the calfresh benefit actually generates $9 of activity. if we were to increase it by 25% we would generate as much as $43 million additional in economic activity. i don't you had to be convinced that it's worth

what we're proposing today we reach into the ssi population because they're not eligible for calfresh. obviously not eligible for school meals, meals for seniors in many cases so they're difficult to reach with other programs. but the other beauty is once you have a voucher program up and running you can distributed them to anybody you and want anybody's needs you're prioritizing and this supports local vendors. the money gets spent in the low income neighborhoods where people live. we know that a dollar of snap benefits genigates more economic activity and we expect this will do the same thing and the vendors like the program and they can stock more nutritious foods and other people in the neighborhood can take advantage of it and we know that low income populations have difficulty affording fruits and vegetables and anything we can do to help that will help people stay healthy. there are similar programs to this in many communities in the united states now and wide vaility and scope ask cost and the this report is helping us so we know what the best practices of rolling out the cost

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i understand g ac is not a continual income but both my wife and i were seeing ssi but i lost my grant and subsequentially the details are good much i've been separated from my family since january. i'm at the end of my rope i'm at the last resort. i'm back on the street without the support. i don't know what else to do so i - thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> tom from the beach parents. teamwork. teams when i was a young boy my first team was little league i stopped to catch everything a little bit wild on the flow and high school i played football and started 4 years and with the same coach. in this building you have a team the mayors team they brought tax freedom for twitter and gave away st. luke's to get cathedral hill and saw 10 thousand units on treasure island glad that it was not invested in. and opposed the baseball place on the pier and said the new future for the city was 8 washington while they were having tsunamis. the team at the mayor's office now wants to initiate thirty thousand more units they lack the vision and the sensitivity to lead the communities

seniors and people with disabilities rely on ssi and food stamps to make their way. it's a reality that rent alone consumes over 50 percent of our income. with the increase in cost of transit over the fact that seniors can't afford it, it's okay quality of life issue. if seniors want to have an active life, they use transit. if there is free transit, seniors will have a much better quality of life and access to more resources. not only if there is free transit for seniors will it assist -- seniors but will improve as a whole. we hope that with free transit for seniors it makes it so san francisco has a better economy and a more vibrant city. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is eric wu and member of the academy. i want to thank this board for the youth program. because of your support more than 31,000 youth now have accessible and affordable transportation. because the population and economy is abounding, we need to think about the future. the future will require a shift from depending on cars to muni and bikes and making it saf

we know that seniors on ssi and folks with disabilities have a extremely hard time making end meet and giving them a break on transportation by making free muni available is going to really free up the little money they do have. one of the things we're about is, you know, fighting isolation and to give folks more an a ability to go see families and friends is better for their physical and mental health. every cent helps. i ask you for the commitment to the er8dz. the hotel i advocated inform have rebuilt it was for the concerned seniors on the quality of life for seniors and what better way to show seniors and people with disabilities in san francisco that they're really cared for and are made a priority. what on uplifting spirit because the people we talked to when we mentions the free muni for seniors it is an uplifting thing so i urge you to do like wise >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon mark you want to mention that occasions like this are role terrific if a number of ways and everybody realize in addition to the issues thi

we know that seniors on ssi and folks with disabilities have a extremely hard time making end meet and giving them a break on transportation by making free muni available is going to really free up the little money they do have. one of the things we're about is, you know, fighting isolation and to give folks more an a ability to go see families and friends is better for their

we know that seniors on ssi and folks with disabilities have a extremely hard time making end meet and giving them a break on transportation by making free muni available is going to really free up the little money they do have. one of the things we're about is, you know, fighting isolation and to give folks more an a ability to go see families and friends is better for their physical and mental health. every cent helps. i ask you for the commitment to the er8dz. the hotel i advocated inform have rebuilt it was for the concerned seniors on the quality of life for seniors and what better way to show seniors and people with disabilities in san francisco that they're really cared for and are made a priority.

. >> good afternoon emile crews while the lion share the phase one of our ssi p is happening in the southeast community clearly the sewer system will operates sfrarl to there are technical groups broke up by areas one is the mroont where there's a lot of work in the community other efforts like green infrastructure spread throughout the city that's critical for two thing one is that the representatives the entirety of the city because we're looking at having green infrastructure structures in each of the watershed by second of a tech ground we're having an green fray to compliment our sewer system more than any other utility in the country we're studying the effectness of those programs before we make a larger investment in the neighborhood of $400 million in the green infrastructure so the purpose of this committee it needs to be citywide and it needs to have a technical background from a technical prospective there are as mccain showed on her last slide we've had multiple website outreach and we'll continue those throughout the program this committee needs to be technical in nature for us t

. >> reporter: ask this martinez mom who children got pertu ssi n, commonly called whooping cough. >> i have not slept properly in about a month. >> reporter: it's something she didn't expect her family to get. >> we all had dtap, all had the booster and all still got the whooping cough. >> reporter: we hid the family's identity their request. they're speaking out because they want others to know their vaccinations weren't enough. >> there's no one to blame. what needs to be done is get a different immunization vaccine, you know, ready that is effective now, so that nobody has to go through this, ever. >> reporter: in the 1990s, the vaccine changed in an effort to lessen side effects in children. research shows that also lessened the vaccine's effectiveness. doctors studying vaccines saying the prevention of future outbreaks may be best achieved by developing new vaccines or reformulating current vaccines to provide long-lasting immunity. >> it is not effective, not very effective. >> reporter: the family is past the contagious stage. they urge parents whose kids have lingering costs

seniors rely on government for ssi and assistance. we have a fixed income. for example in china town a room cost upwards of $500. this is over rent for example is over 50 percent of seniors income. it's a great hardship. as we get older a lot of seniors health declines and this comes from frequency of doctors visits and rely on muni and go out to get groceries. muni is

that we do not have sufficient board and care placement that meet the lower income threshold for our ssi medi-cal population. i'm sure this is not new to the council. aps, we are trying to expand our emergency placement resources, but we have to work within the resources that are available here in this city and even though i currently have support for my department to be funding potential contracts for emergency place a. placements. it's challenging to find someone to work with you because when we have a challenging rate, there is not much of an incentive for vendors to be working with us. really it's a challenge. we are trying to be creative. we work in collaboration with the hot team most generally when there is a case that involves abuse by others. so, should i stop at this point and see if there are questions. i know i have been talking for a long time. >> sure, do councilmembers have questions or comments from ms. nielsen? go ahead. >> thank you ms. nielsen for your very interesting topic. you mentioned that aps will knock on doors, so these are doors of families, i assume. i guess

seniors the cost of transpourization is something we struggle with because most of us rely on a fixed ssi income. the cost of muni went from $10 to $23 this year. $23 is not a lot to many people, but on fixed income every cent counts. the city is getting increasingly unaffordable for low-income residents. a couple would take turns using a pass to run errands and going to doctor visits. if we can help alleviate burdens seniors and those with disabilities face we can really help improve the quality of life. we urge you to [speaker not understood] today so they can remain active and mobile in our city. thank you. (applause) >> next speaker, please. >> mr. chair, we do have some members of the public whose names i called earlier so i'm going to go back and reread some of them. rosie balderon, is she here? >> not here yet. >>> [inaudible]. >> and alejandra? >>> yes. >> jimmy dean? okay. violet vazquez? >>> [inaudible]. >> okay, jane martin? darnell boyd? anna lee padilla. jeron brown. >> good afternoon, ms. [speaker not understood]. >>> good afternoon. it's good to be here with all of you. i j

for example the current calfresh policy where if you're on ssi you're not qualified -- seniors are not qualified. well that's something i think needs to be -- there are some legislation looking to change that, and another important recommendation is to report out to the food security task force the average wait for food service on a quarterly basis so we can see how we're doing over time, and the last recommendation is really to do a more indepth analysis to more accurately identify the extent of the home delivery meal needs and this is in conjunction looking at home delivery grocery which we will talk about. if someone is able to still prepare some meals at home but they can't travel out the home delivery grocery could be an option that is less expensive, and here's -- before i talk about the home delivery grocery what is the cost to serve another 231 unduplicated high risk clients? based on our cost and nutrition budgets it's going to be 1.3 million and this averages out to $3,663 annually per consumer. well it might seem high but if the look at the alternative how much are we saving