Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city thats on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. Our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. After all, were at the meeting of land and sea. Our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and worldclass style. Its the birthplace of blue jeans, and where the rock holds court over the largest natural harbor on the west coast. Our 28,000 city and county employees play an Important Role in making San Francisco what it is today. We provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. Our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. But most importantly, working for the city and county of San Francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the citys future. Thank you for considering a career with the city and county of San Francisco. Shop and dine the 49 promotes local businesses and changes san franciscans to do their shopping and dooipg within the 49 square miles by supporting local Services Within the neighborhood we help San Francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant so where will you shop and dine the 49 hi in my mind a ms. Medina 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe Neighbors Park Fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that Public Investment has transformed our neighborhood. The playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the childrens play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features. The playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. We want kids to be here. We want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. We are given a real responsibility to insure that the publics money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. We generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. And it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. We have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp and we are sending a strong message that San Francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. This park is open. Good morning, everyone. My name is todd rufto of the Workforce Development program. Its great to be here at the San Francisco museum of ice cream. I want to thank the entire team here for hosting us for this event. This is a special day. We are doing the Fourth Annual launch of the mayors shop and dine in the 49 local shopping campaign. This is a really big deal because it is a partnership between a great many members of the Small Business community and the neighborhood throughout the city focused on helping san franciscans spend more money in our local commercial corridors and at Small Businesses in San Francisco. But it is also an opportunity to celebrate the entrepreneurs that are making that keep San Francisco strong, that are keeping the city thriving and vie brand. One of the things that im really excited about and want to focus on today is the incredible partnership of all the members of the Small Business community that are here today. Where are you, jason . Raise your hand. Hi, jason from shop small saturday. Thank you very much for your partnership and continued klb ration. Collaboration. We have mark quite thesing, regina dickendreezy, the council of district merchants has been a critical partner of ours as well. We have the Council District of merchants here as well. Juan of the things that were really proud of and really inspired by is our mayor, ed lee. The mayor came to us four years ago, the office of economic Workforce Development and said i challenge you to create a program and campaign that gets more shopping done in our local neighborhoods. Increase the amount of spending to support jobs and Small Businesses and also support taxes and the vitality of our neighborhoods. And we, through the incredible work of Mariane Thompson and gloria chan, Joaquin Torres in the office of economic Workforce Development launched this program to do exactly that. To encourage and challenge san franciscans to do more in our Small Business community. Mayor lee has done more than any mayor that i know to invest and support in Small Businesses, directing more money and investing more money than any administration in the citys history to support Small Businesses through the invested neighborhoods program, by launching a Small Business portal, by meeting constantly with our Small Business leaders and as a tireless advocate for the issues that they care about most. It is my honor and privilege to introduce mayor lee. [applause] thank you. Thank you, todd. Good morning, everybody. Let me correct todd because i want to make sure you understood the challenge. I challenged him to find me more ice cream. That was the real challenge. And im really happy to be here. At the Ice Cream Museum. This is one of those innovative ideas, very unique to the city and, of course, theyre getting booked up like crazy and were in the heart of our shopping and union square and, of course, the chief and i already have enough chants. We need some opportunities to smile and, of course, were about to jump into this speckle pool. Forgive us if we have too much fun. The holidays are beginning. Were going to have lots of fun. I want people to not just come to the city but take advantage of really supporting the backbone of our Business Community and Small Businesses and people here, karen fled knows union square is at the heart of a lot of things that we do during the holidays. You have jeffries toys, my favorites. Theyre a legacy business in the city. And keep supporting them. [shouting] well have all of the different Business Associations that are working together with us. But the experience is all about fun. Safe fun. And that is why the chief and i will be doing a lot of things over the holidays to make safe shopper programs, to provide the safety level that people have. Reduce the Harm Reduction program on our streets. Make sure people, as many people can get off of our streets. While work on those hard things. In between those difficult, challenging things, we want to work with our Business Community to provide safe fun for the kids that will be here. Thousands of kids over the holidays, families. People from all over the world that are taking advantage of this wonderful city that we have. And were doing this with programs, yes, that we funded but we want to make sure that Everything Else is working for folks on the longterm. Small businesss are so important to cities like San Francisco. More than the backbone, they provide the innovative, the Cultural Diversity all over our neighborhoods. This is one big area. But listen, shop and dine in the 49 is about shopping in all of our neighborhoods. Allow them to give you cultural innovation, Small Business innovations, shopping small innovation because when people put their entire lives behind their Small Businesses, you should see the innovation that comes out of their ideas, their service, their good patronages of products and designs that are locally sensitive and culturally rich. Wanted to say thank you to this museum for starting out their innovation. I think kids already have ice cream in them because they are jumping up and down before they come in. To our restaurants, our Golden Gate Restaurant Association will be very full this year. Probably hard to get reservations. But persevere. Use every app that you can or, like i do, walk in with a 5 bill or something and hand somebody. Then they will give you a seat. The oldfashioned way. But i know mark is excited because Small Businesses really are our engine and creating even more and they not only love our support, we love supporting them. But i want to emphasize shop and dine in the 49. Go to that app. If you really want to have a lot of information about those stores. And well be on the streets to make sure everybody is safe and enjoying themselves. Of course, this is thanksgiving. So, were going to, just after this, well be handing out a lot of turkeys to people if their need. We have fire victims up north that are in need. We have people on the streets that are in need. I want to make sure that the spirit, the principles that we operate on, are right in front of us. Right in the front of everything that we do, that we support, everybody that needs that help and thats why these this is so wonderful because they are often the untold, unknown heroes that come out and do a lot of gift donations and support that never gets covered and i want the media to cover them. Cover all of our Small Businesses as they really are the help that we want to have. So thank you very much, everybody. And shop and dine in 49. Happy holidays. [applause] thank you, mayor. As the mayor said, this Holiday Season is about shopping local and shoppinging safe. It is my honor to welcome our fantastic chief of police, chief scott. Thank you. [applause] good morning, everybody. I couldnt have said it better than mayor lee. [kids shouting] and this place is fun in here. Im not a big ice cream eater, but my entire family is. Im sure i will be here many times during the holidays. This is my favorite time of year and it is my favorite time of year because the Holiday Season, thanksgiving, the Holiday Season, it brings out the best in communities. It is a time where were selfless, we give, we come together as a community. And definitely shop and dine in the 49 is, i think, the way to go. This time last year, even before i got hired by mayor lee to be the chief here, we were here during this period last years and i remember Walking Around, basically Walking Around this area and just going to the different businesses and it was an experience. For those of you who have lived here all your lives, when you come here from another city and experience this great city, it is really something to behold. So, we want to make sure that that experience is shared and that people can do that safely. I have a couple of tips that i want to share with you. I have a long list. But im going to be very quick in reading rattling off this list of safety tips. First of all, cell phones. We all have em. We all use them. And sometimes im as guilty of it as anybody else. Im walking and texting and on the phone and im not paying attention to what im doing. Take a minnesota Pay Attention to your surroundings. I know were a cell phone generation. We live on these things but they can be distracting. It is really important when you are shopping, particularly going to the bank and the a. T. M. , buying things for your family and loved ones, Pay Attention to your surroundings. There is nothing more important than vigilance. If we are to be a resilient city, there is some basic things that we can do. If youre using your a. T. M. , block your p. I. N. Number so it is not visible. Really basic thing. But unfortunately we still have people if our society that will make a living and make a profit off of stealing p. I. N. Numbers and then getting into your bank account and taking your funds. Block your p. I. N. Numbers. Make sure you look at your surroundings when you are at the a. T. M. No matter what you are, look at your surroundings. If you are driving to your location, number one, Public Transportation is great here. Take advantage of Public Transportation. But if you are driving, make sure you lock your car, first of all. Make sure that you put things away that are visible. If you have a trunk, put it in the trunk. Dont leave valuables if your car. We have a program were calling park smart. It has been very successful. But that means to park smart. Dont leave your valuables if your car for somebody else to take them away. The last thing you want to do have your hold day season ruined by somebody else breaking your car window and taking out the things that you work hard to provide your family and friends and loved ones. So park smart. The next thing, if you are shoppinging, make sure when you some people will shop and theyll go and load up their car and then go and shop. There are things you can do to prevent being an easy victim for that. If you are shopping, if you are going to load your car, take the time to move your car to another location. Because people that are going to prey on innocent people, they do watch what you do. So move your car around. I know it is a little bit of an inconvenience, but it does help. If youre Walking Around with packages and loaded up on the arm, again Pay Attention to your surroundings because you dont want to become easy prey. Our city overall is a very safe city. But there are things that we can do to be resilient and individual lends and some of these things may sound like common sense. When you are caught in the moment of the day sometimes you lose track of what you are doing and you get distracted. The main thing is to Pay Attention. Pay attention to what you are doing. If you do that your resiliency goes up and your vigilance goes up. The last thing is look out for your neighbors. If you see something, say something. The cell phones that i just mentioned, be safe in doing so. But if you have a situation where you need to call 311 or 911, do that. 911 is an emergency situation. Somebody is getting a, thated f you see a crime in progress, thats a 911 call. If your car gets broken into and there is no danger, that is a 311 call. Well get there and take a report. Or you can do that report online. I want to end this on a positive note. I started this with this season is all about giving, sharing and taking care of each other. I think if we do that, that is a resilient San Francisco that we all know we can be. Lets take care of each other and be a community and enjoy your Holiday Season. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, chief. As i mentioned earlier, the shop and dine the 49 campaign is a partnership with the Small Business community but also with other government leaders. It is my honor to introduce and recognize our s. B. A. District representive, fewly appointed just a couple of months ago. Come on up, julie. [applause] good morning. First of all, mayor lee and chief scott for your great support of the Small Business community. S. B. A. Is really proud to cosponsor, again, Small Business saturday with American Express and women impacting public policy. They have been tremendous supporters of this initiative across the country. And i know jason and lynn are here today and we have a representative from American Express. Thank you for your dedication and your support of the Small Business community. We have been part of this or the Small Business saturday has been around since 2010 and its really been exciting to watch this initiative grow year after year. Last year was a recordbreaking year with about 112 Million Consumers out shopping small and dining small across the country. They saw 68 increase in the neighborhood champions can. I know this year with all this momentum and excitement, maybe fueled by a little sugar from the ice cream, that we can even beat those numbers. Im looking forward to seeing everyone out and about on saturday. In your various communities. So why Small Business . I mean, we all know Small Businesses create jobs, they fuel the local economy, spark innovation. Thats all true. But Small Businesses are more than that. They are actually what makes our communities unique. It helps us define our neighborhoods. So, when you support a Small Business, you are supporting your friends and neighbors. They tend to hire from a local community. They tend to support local initiatives. Philanthropic events. So when these Small Businesses thrive, we all benefit. So, at s. B. A. , of course, were here to be your Small Business resource. So any Small Business loaners out there today, know that you have the skills and talent and ambition, but if you ever need a little bit of help, s. B. A. Is here to help you as well, where you need counseling, training, financial assistance, or youre looking for new opportunities such as exporting or government contracting. Please remember to call upon us. But the message for the takeaway today is saturday. Please go out, take your friends and neighbors and remind them it is Small Business saturday. Go shop at your Favorite Local merchants, go dine at your favourite local restaurant and if you have out of town guests, this is the perfect time to show off all those fun places that you love and adore to patronize on a daily basis. So i encourage everyone to amplify this message and encourage all of your friends and neighbors to shop small and dine small. [applause] thank you, julie. As you all know, what this ultimately is about is about the Small Businesses and were doing this to support them, to support their vitality in the city. It is an honor to be able to welcome up matthew lunn whos the owner of jefferys toys. Now jefferys toys was nominated by mayor lee as a legacy business. They have been around since 1938 in San Francisco. And that is a really long time. I know matthew is going to explain a little more action their story. But i want to welcome you up there to tell that story for all of us. [applause] thank you. First up i want to say that my dad and my step mom are the owners of jefferys toys. Im here as one of the supporters of jefferys toys. You know, when i was born, it was not it was pretty unusual that my parents owned the most familyrun toy stores in the bay area. Find that as a normal way to grow up as a kid. Prison awesome when it is your birthday or a holiday, right . But my parents didnt start the toy stores, jeffery toys. My grandparents operated it before them and then my great grand parents are really the ones that started the toy stores. Wow. What a great way to grow up. All that creativety and play and uniqueness made me want to continue to live a life where i could play and be creative. And i ended up working at pixar at the very beginning when the studio began. On toy story. No coincidence, right . [applause] [laughter] and you Better Believe when we needed to give reference on what toys would be in that film, you know the toy store we went to, we went to jefferys toys toy story one, two, and three. I spends over half my life at pixar, which has been awesome. When i hear that the toy store was being closed down on market street, it broke my heart. I was like this cannot be possible in a city that is all about creativity and play and uniqueness. We cant lose jefferys toys. That is when i came in and said to my dad and stepmom, there is no way were letting this happen. And then with the support of the city, support of the mayor and the legacy program, we were able to just open up our toy store once again in the city, just a couple of months ago. So, we think we think we can still safely say weve been here since 1966. But, you know, in a world of amazon and walmart and all this, people still want an experience. People still want to come in and be able to touch the toys, be able to touch the productses, to be able to have an experience. The same kind of experience you get when you see a film. Right . People still want that. And in the city that is the most, in my opinion, the most creative, unique city in the world, we gotta have a toy store. We gotta have shopping and dining experiences that are one of a kind. So were so happy to be part of this shop and dine in the 49 and, once again, since 1966, creating a fun place, a creative place for people to come and buy their toys. So, thank you. [applause] in closing, i think matthew hit on a good point which isnt just about shopping or dining, this is about experiencing in the 49. I obviously believe there is no better place to spend the holidays, but also year round than here in San Francisco. And on that note, on the note of experience, i think with the closing of this event, i think you are going to take us on a tour of the Ice Cream Museum here and maybe the chief and everybody here can join the mayor and maybe we go and check out the sprinkle pole just down the way [laughter] and see everything that the Ice Cream Museum has to offer. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you to all of our partners for your support. Have a wonderful and safe Holiday Season. Thank you. [applause] good afternoon everybody. And welcome to the december 7th, 2017, special meeting of the Public Safety and neighborhood committee. Im hillary ronen, the chair of the committee and to my right is superior sheehy and to my left, superior fewer. Mr. Clerk, do you have announcements . Clerk please turnoff all cell phones. Items be will appear on the january 9th board of agenda unless otherwise stated. I forgot to say thank you john Carroll Carol for staffing the meeting and mayor and jim smith. Can you call item one. Clerk motion verifying a careless match, llc doing business under the dark horse. The issuance of type 87 general Liquor Licence. I dont see is there anyone from the Police Department that is going to present on this item . No. We have someone from oawd . Please feel free to come forward, yes. Well here from superior safai. I wanted to be here for this licence because its the first time in our citys history were issuing this type of licence, it was created in the past year, this is called a type 87 licence, its very similar, you have heard me at the board of superiors talk about the maximum of five right now, one is pretty accessible and real because people are able to go out to dinner and have full alcohol and wine. The type 47 licences, its a restaurant that has the ability to have a full alcohol menu. And in a lot of businesses, particularly restaurants, it is a life saver to have that ability. It helps with the margins and with the success and often is an indicator of a strong restaurant. Many of the economically depressed parts of San Francisco are not served by type 47 licences and often what happens, type 47 are a commodity and sold on the often market for 3 or 400,000. As a starting Small Business restaurant owner, its usually a barrier to access that. And even if they are located in an area they can move and theyre mobile. If you look at a map of San Francisco, the vast majority of type 47 licences are located in the downtown area or closer to hotels, more of the tourist locations in the city. But when you go to the commercial quarters like the Excelsior Outer Mission or ocean avenue, areas with less restaurants, you see less of these if any at all. This program was developed to be an economic generator and they have to remain in the commercial corridors theyre designated for. Over the next six years there will be five transferrable type 87 licences that will be sold for only 13,000. So think 400,000 to 13,000 for an existing restaurant or someone trying to get into the business, its like hitting the lottery. So today im proud to say one of our restaurants out in the Excelsior Outer Mission, the dark horse is going to be accepting this licence. We have been encouraging them and supporting them and were really excited about the opportunity. So we ask for your full support of this and we have a neighbor to come talk about this from the office of work force development. Thank you. Good afternoon chair ronen and members of the committee. Thank you superior safai for really fully listing the policy goals behind the program. Im going to talk briefly about the specific structure of the state resolution in front of you. Under the state law before an applicant can submit a full application for a type 87 neighborhood restricted Liquor Licence, they have to do preapplication community outreach. That is unique to this licence and all the stakeholders thought it was important since they are for neighborhood serving businesses, they though have the extra touch with the neighborhood itself. Prior to submitting a full application to the abc, the applicant needs to sign off on an additional form that they have done the outreach. They have to hold at least one Community Meeting at their premises or within a mile of the premises, 14 days before, they have to send out a mailer to all residents within 500 feet of the establishment and neighborhood groups on the Department List and Police Department as well. Following the completion of the outreach it has to be certified by the board of supervisors, thats whats in front of you. If this resolution moves forward, the dark horse will sign off and submit their full application. Thats all i have unless there are technical questions. What department is in charge of the permits for that, is it planning . Is it cph . All Liquor Licence regulation is done by the California Department of alcoholic beverage control. Should this move forward, it would get referred to planning and through the regular process. But liquor licencing is done at the state level, that is one of the challenges in adopting reforms, needing to go to the state to make it happen. So the type 87 licence, is it a licence that has to be renewed annually, every five years. Tell me a little about that. Sure. Theres an annual fee. Its not like theres an annual renewal, formal renewal process. But the idea of the licences being non transferrable, part of that means should a business go out of business with the licence, it will get cancelled but then abc can issue a new one that qualifies under the existing program. Thats the renewable part of the program. Thank you. Chair, i want to add one more thing, im really excited about not just the business itself but the proprietors, they have been active in the Community Since opening the business, this is an enhancement to the business, they have formed the excelsior outer Merchants Association and our movie night that we funded last year. Widely successful. They have engaged in fundraisers supporting our schools and our local free clinic. Theyre active members of the community. I couldnt think of a better group or business to be one of the first recipients of this. Theyre available in your district, supervisor yee in yours. Sorry it doesnt say gary. Well have to talk to okay. Thank you. And would you like to present from the business . Good afternoon. Im one of the owners of the dark horse inn. 942 geneva avenue. We did complete the required steps of sending out the letter. It was sent out november 9th. Excuse me. The meeting was held november 24th. Attendance, which is unfortunately typical for the neighborhood was small, but fully supportive of our plan. We had a subsequent meeting with sfpd, i believe it was inspector i just have forgotten her name. The permitting department and they were supportive as well once we presented our plan. We plan to continue running our business the way we have run it for the past six years. We serve largely locally sourced food, all housemade. Our beer is local craft beer, our wines are Small Vineyards from california and a few from france and we plan to do the same with the liquor. We plan to start with a small selection and cocktails that are kind of geared toward pairing with our foods. Price points will remain the same for the neighborhood. Accessible but not so low that it inspires any kind of abuse. Meaning pretty much we dont want 3 shots of cheap liquor. We have a family environment and we want to keep it that way. So basically this is just to serve as an extension of our Current Business plan. There would be no major changes as far as that. And thus far everybody has been incredibly supportive and we dont have any negative feedback to date. Knock on wood. We ask for your support in this as well. Thank you. Is there any public item on this Public Comment on this item . If there is, now is the time. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. If theres no more comment, i wanted to thank those work ing with the business to take advantage of the opportunity, its a very unique one. I know its not easy to get all the items in on time. I want to say congratulations for getting the application on time. I know were going to have a meeting first thing in january to consider the other businesses that are going to take advantage of the unique opportunity. I know you have been advocating for this for quite some time. I wanted to say congratulations for seeing it through and i believe it will really help with revitalization of some of the corridors that need a little help. Im excited about it. And colleagues, i wanted to ask if we can entertain a motion to refer this item to the full board as a Committee Report for the january 12th meeting if thats okay december 12th . Yes. I have one question chair if you dont mind. Normally when we see the Liquor Licence come before the committee, we have a report from the Police Department and i think we asked for Sergeant George today, with this type of licence, will that not be necessary anymore . This is a preapplication process today. I think youre referring to the public convenience necessity process, which for restaurant licences, for type 47 licences, those dont come to the board, theyre handled by abc. Similar to that, the process would be addressed by the abc. The public needs for necessity is a type 48 before the board, the 21 liquor stores, bars, other things. Yeah, so the answer is you wouldnt hear the public convenience necessity for this licence consistent with the other licences but theres more process after this to make sure sfpd and everybody is involved. Yeah. Okay. Great. So ill make the motion to refer this to the full board for consideration on december 12, 2017. I second that. Without objection that motion passes. Can i receive a motion to send this item with a positive recommendation. I make the motion. Without objection that motion passes. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, can you call item two . Clerk a hearing to consider the state of institutional housing, particularly assisted living with small beds for seniors in the city and county of San Francisco. Supervisor would you like to make some opening comments. Thank you for joining me today in this important topic affecting our citys seniors. The critical shortage of board and care homes, that is not meaning the housing deeds of our increasing population of San Francisco. As we are all familiar, the issue of housing in general and specifically Affordable Housing is a hot button topic in San Francisco in the bay area. However, the topic of housing for seniors is often side lined. I just want to give you some basic stats and what i have seen and why this issue is such a crucial issue. According to a 2016 report, city wide seniors comprise 20 of our population and over 40 of those seniors live alone. As of june 2017 when compared to neighboring counties, San Francisco had the lowest ratio of what we call residential chair facilities, beds for seniors. For every thousand people over the age of 65 in San Francisco we only have 29 beds of this sort. The counties with the highest ratios for every thousand seniors over 65, they have 48 beds in their counties. Its not quite double but it certainly is getting close to that. The lack of longterm care facilities for seniors is not just a San Francisco issue. Its regional and statewide issue. To demonstrate the gap between the average available income of seniors compared to cost of longterm care, according to a 2016 data, 16 are over 25,000 of our city seniors live below the poverty line. An income of less than 981 per month. About half of San Francisco seniors live on less than 2943 per month, about 300 of federal poverty level. Yet the average cost of what we call the rcfes, is about 45,000 per month. The Social Security reimbursement rate has not kept up with rising costs of longterm care. Unfortunately the Social Security income special benefits rate as of january 1st, 2017, is only 1,158 for an individual and in 2017, ssi facility rate is 1026 for an individual. You can see that what people are getting is way short of whats needed to house them in these rcfes. So, the unfortunately for so many people today, especially what we call the Sandwich Generation. Which i used to be part of and now im probably one of the breads on the end. Do you know what i mean by a Sandwich Generation . Youre basically in care of not only your babies and children, but youre caring for elder parents or other members of your family. Those its a hardship and i found that out 15 years ago personally. Like childcare, Senior Services are at the top of my personal priorities. Last year i cosponsored supervisor cohens proposition i, the dignity fund that passed with two thirds vote, increased funding for Senior Services. This march i held a hearing on the needs of the gaps in Senior Services city wide and how the dignity funds would be administered. Despite the steps to increased and enhanced services, San Francisco is still falling way behind when it comes to senior Residential Care. Housing is a healthcare issue. Our seniors have contributed so much to our citys rich political cultural and economic development. We cant forget our seniors when it comes to discussing housing needs. We are standing on the shoulders of our elders and their contributions and they deserve our respect and attention. I want to thank my colleague supervisor safai and ronen for their hearing last week and their continued advocacy on behalf of the families and workers in light of the closing of saint lukes subacute units. The closing of those and the alzheimers center are stark examples of how each point in the whole continuum of care affects each other. The longterm care crisis is further because of the cost of living and fixed incomes of seniors. So while we may not be able to discuss each of the issues at length today, given my conversations with many experts, stakeholders and community members, there are Feasible Solutions we can take action on. As written in the hospital counsels post acute Care Collaborative 2017 draft report, obtaining and expanding Residential Care facilities for the elderly, also known as board and home cares or assisted living is identified as one of three major recommended solutions. These are often familyrun businesses, six bed facilities that provide assistance for tasks such as dressing, bathing and eating. Rcfes are a type of institutional housing in the community. In the past two years, nine of these facilities have already closed. And unless we find ways to help retain and incentive these facilities to operate, the shortage will continue to get worse. Due to the shortage of facilities and beds, too many seniors are being sent out of the counties. I dont know if you know this, its one of the things i have personally felt it, 20 years ago when my mother couldnt live in the home again in her home and needed more assistance, i was able to find something in the city. She was on ssi and then about 10 years ago, this is only a 10year gap. I was taking care of my aunt which was the same issue, trying to take care of her as long as we could in the home which is the best thing for seniors but you realize you cant do it at some point. When we tried to find something for her, there was nothing in the city for her. She had to go out of the county. She was fortunate that people like myself and my other family members are mobile enough or have cars and transportation and could get to her and make sure we kept on supporting her, whereas a lot of these individuals, their family members might not be around for one thing. If they are, they may not have resources. Most of their support network are people who are generally other seniors in the neighborhood and theyre not going to be able to go out of town to give her the right support. So this is such an important topic. Im so glad that the what is it the Hospital Foundation started thinking about this many years ago and have come up with the draft report. It was timely for me, for someone who didnt understand the system, i read the report, it was very educational. If you havent seen the report, when it gets into the final report, i hope everyone gets a chance to read it. All of us in the Community Need to really join hands and find solutions for this population. So i wants to theres going to be a few presenters in this, in the report and they will be Senior HealthProgram Planner from the department of Public Health and sydney cofman, department of aging. And Current CouncilVice President of hospitals. Would you like to come