. >> commissioner wallenberg: i did have one other question. services will be requested by e-mail. i would assume that there is a provision if there is a crisis situation when somebody needs to be reached faster, that it would be by phone or through other means of communication. is that correct? >> that is correct. we discussed that in the event there is something more urgent, they would be willing to help us. they have a rather large fleet's. >> commissioner wallenberg: thanks. >> president serina: thank you. any other comments or questions? and eat from the public? hearing none, called the question. all in favor? every commissioner should say yes. thank you. any opposed. thank you. the motion carries. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> president serina: any general public comment or any announcements. >> clerk: commissioner, we have to vote on a. did weekly. >> president serina: we did. we voted on both. a and b. >> clerk: my apologies. >> president serina: >> president serina: any announcements. patty? >> good afternoon commissioners and deputy director. i wanted to announce

a junior at wallenberg and a senior admission, a public relations officer at wallenberg high school at a junior at bird in high school. >> they have been engaged in leadership training with outward bound. we met at baker beach and did teambuilding exercises. special congratulations for winning the dance off. [cheers and applause] >> this weekend, we are going to bikini and reservation in sonoma for conclusion of our leadership training. >> for our next meeting, it will be on september 10th at 5:00 pm. anyone is welcome to attend the meeting. if you like to attend, make a presentation or come talk to us yourself. thank you. >> thank you both very much. welcome. our next item is item for. recognitions and resolutions of commendation. we have none tonight. item five is recognition -- recognizing all valuable employees. we have an awards this evening. superintendent? >> yes, we do. this evening, their special service award is going to be awarded to alma. she's a secretary at an early education school. presenting this award will be her principal. >> good evening. thank you for inviting us.

once he added the war refugee board to his duties among other things he recruited wallenberg, the nowfamous swedish businessman who travel to budapest, funded by american jewish organization through the war refugee board and as most of you know, issued letters of protection saving thousands of lives in budapest. to get the book for that. for much of the summer of 1944, olson is focused on the hazardous plan to rescue refugees from latvia, lithuania and estonia by water. he would need the most skillfully organized type of underground operations because the baltic countries are now virtually sealed to everything. he thought that they might be able to rescue 500 to 700 racial, religious or political refugees from each country. they were paid for this project directly out of funds from roosevelt. but they realized such a large deposit in a swedish bank would be sufficient and they wanted to avoid any impression that the u.s. was funding rivals and sweden. even the swedish jews are very interested in rescue operations so long as they don't involve bringing them to sweden. so john paley, an

commissioner wallenberg is involved in that group. it's exciting to have him and have the commission represented their. we are looking at building a two prong campaign. one to talk about reframing the aging in san francisco and combating ageism at able -ism, but also making sure that people really know how to access our services. as you remember we found out from the community assessment and also other places that people do not know how to access services often when they need them. so it is exciting to embark on this. it will be a lot of work. hired a woman who many of you may know but many of the people in the community know who will be our project manager. is. it will help to have her with us. it's a lot of work. we need someone to move us in the right direction. i'm excited about that. we had our first meeting august 8th and we will continue to meet monthly. we will have some committees working alongside that bigger workgroup. we also just launched residential care for at the elderly group. this is something that the coordinating c

also, on the first day of school , i attended wallenberg high school and another elementary school. i would like to thank them for welcoming me. the last thing is i'm a proud member of the san francisco mentor for success program. and my student is in the western indigestion. i got him a fortnight backpack to start the school year. apparently it grows in the dark which i did not know until he told me. if you are not into the program, i encourage you to participate. >> any others? i too want to thank hillcrest and francisco even though the superintendent sounded like he went by himself like he was generous to let me join him. i want to thank both of those school communities for allowing us to be there on the first day of school. i also just wanted to welcome our new deputy superintendent two has disappeared. see how special she is. i just want to welcome her to our group and -- there she is. [laughter] you have cheesecake in your teeth? yeah. [applause] >> welcome and congratulations on your new role. i'm looking forward to working with you. any other announcements by board members?

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