Year. January meeting of the commission for the department of disability and aging services. Will the secretary please call the role. [roll call] please note that executive director Shireen Mcspadden is present. We ask you silence all cell phones and soundproducing devices. Thank you. May i have a motion to approve the january 10 agenda . So moved. Second. Any discussion . All in favor . Aye. Any opposed . Thank you. The motion carries. May i have a motion to approve the december 4, 2019, Meeting Minutes . So moved. Do i have a second . Second. Thank you. Any discussion . Call the question, all in favor . Aye. Any opposed . The motion carryies. Now item number 4, the directors report, executive director Shireen Mcspadden. Good morning and happy new year. Is this mic on . So i feel like we just met because the holidays kind of sucked up much of december, so i dont have a huge amount to report. I was in washington dc the second week of december which was actually after we met last month.
Raising the issue of Adequate Police staffing for several years. In june of 2018, the budget and legislative analysts provided this board with a performance audit of the San Francisco Police Department so we could better understand, number one, how the police are deploying police staff that is funded by the general fund and number two, how uniform staff is allocated to administrative versus patrol duties. The recommendations of that audit was that in light of an increase in property crime in our city, accompanying the public demand for more officers in the street, the sanfrancisco Police Department should civilianize as many administrative positions as possible. This is the best practise recognized by major Law Enforcement, including the International Association of chiefs of police and adopted by most major Law Enforcement departments in the country. But San Franciscos racial of swoossworn officers to civilianf remains higher than the National Average or peers. This is why i ask the C
Any discussion . Call the question, all in favor . Aye. Any opposed . The motion carryies. Now item number 4, the directors report, executive director Shireen Mcspadden. Good morning and happy new year. Is this mic on . So i feel like we just met because the holidays kind of sucked up much of december, so i dont have a huge amount to report. I was in washington dc the second week of december which was actually after we met last month. And i was there for the meetings and they are the National Association of area agencies on aging. The december meeting is when we put together the policy priorities for the next year. So we spent quite a bit of time working on that and the issues that came up were the ones that you would expect. Things like aging and homelessness, food insecurity, the big kind of big ticket items and basic needs issues that are kind of hitting older adults across the country. So i think everybody was really saying we are experiencing the same issues. There also continues
Will you please call the roll call . [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you. Please call the first item. Item one is a hearing on how the cuts of over 300 classes will affect low income in communities of color and to take in High School Students who take city college of San Francisco classes to meet college and requirements, and any proposed cuts need to be heard by the students in communities most impacted. Thank you, mr. Clerk. This is a hearing that was called by supervisor walton. I will turn it over to you to make an introductory remarks. You can feel free to run the hearing. Thank you. First i want to thank all of my colleagues on the board of education and also city College Trustees, as well as faculty from city college for coming out to have this important conversation. There is a rally going on outside to talk about some of the concerns about the college, so im pretty sure we will have a bigger crowd joining us in a minute, but i do want to open up with a statement. On decemb
Include reinstatement of the disproportionately deleted senior classes in particular, although i support a reinstatement of all of them. Its often said these days that sitting is the new smoking, and if so we all have done damage to our health over the past hour and a half. But there is new research that shows that another aspect of modern living is detrimental which is loneliness. Although it doesnt affect seniors only, it does affect them because of a loss of a partner or friend, because of more people being childless. The effect is so great that it is more dangerous to our health than obesity. Loneliness is the same as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. While i dont suggest restoring these classes will cure the issue of loneliness in our city, it is something that should be considered in addition to the benefits of lifelong learning. Speaking personally, when i returned to the sculpture class i had started just a couple of months before my husband died, i found the focus of turning a lump