Senate special aging committee. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon. It is my great pleasure to call to order the very first hearing of the Senate Special committee on aging. In the 114th congress i have had the honor of being a member of this committee since my very first days in the United States senate and i am delighted to now assume the chairmanship. This is the first time that a maine senator has chaired the committee since the mid1990s when my predecessor and good friend senator bill cohen for whom i worked for 12 years served as the committees chair. Im also pleased to welcome new and returning members to this committee and onto about delighted that my good friend and colleague senator Claire Mccaskill of missouri will service the committees Ranking Member. Senator bill nelson, the former committee chairman, has also chosen to remain a member of this committee and he will continue to share his expertise with us. Throughout its history, the aging committee has spurred con
With the clients financial records which aps must have to substantiate substantiate. Are permed under statutory acceptance to prevent fraud and authorized investigation. A revised federal guidance clarifying the client records may be shared with aps in a timely manner would mean Financial Abuse could be stopped much earlier. I believe financial snugs would welcome this clarification. Secondly, Financial Institutions should be granted authority to temporarily freeze accounts when theres evidence the owner is being defrauded, for example, sending money to a jamaican lottery scam in time to contact affirm ps or take other measures. I hope this committee and congress will look at their own decades of research into elder abuse, some of which are on evidence here. This is a partial stack of all the many reports from the many, many hearings that go back almost five decades now, will would at own research in elder abuse to stop and prevent incidents can be reduced as they have for other victim
Welcome this clarification. Secondly Financial Institutions should be granted the authority to temporarily freeze accounts when theres evidence the owners being deprived of. For examples example sending money to a jamaica lottery scam to provide time to contact aps or take other measures. Some of which are on evidence here. This is a partial stack of all the many reports for the many hearings that go back almost five decades. This not only will protect assets over the longterm but to reduce demands on Medicare Medicaid and publicly funded programs. We hope this will be the first of a series of hearings and actions to address elder abuse and financial exportation we stand ready to work with you to strengthen our ability to protect our parents and grandparents. Thank you for your your testimony had no senator collins has introduced you but we would love to hear your opening comments. Thank you mr. Chairman. Im a prosecutor with the King County Prosecutors Office in seattle washington. 14
Toilet our staff is cleaning the blocks were a whole component and i hear the presence of that person in having additional people out there has really been a addressed bonus of the Promissory Note Program thank you for bringing this to the board of supervisors its been long overdue and look forward to moving this along in the community we have structural changes weve been cleaning for 10 years and now time to take 9 next steps and look at the structural issues and providing things that are needed we have services in the tenderloin it is something about Human Dignity so thank you, again. Thank you, ms. Grant and thank you supervisor mar i have a number of speakers that i want to call up for Public Comment so im going to call up the first 10 speaker cards calling names . Good morning members find board and supervisors my name is jordan louis a Small Business owner in the selma area fulsome street foundry i was alerted to this program 55 supervisor kims office and it sounds very exciting
Collection from the staff on site you actually dumping the needles we have well over 2 thousand needs the average use is one hundred and 70 since the beginning of the pilot it escalates every month and from dpw prospective. Can i say one thing for 7 hours per day sits one hundred and 67 uses per toilet thats really heavy use it sounds like. It is heavy use we have the folks the rule is 5 minutes you get a courtesy knock thats also enough and each unit has two toilets theres not like a line forming or anything like that people can come up and use it we yeah, over 15 thousand uses thats a lot of off the street works on both fronts as far as dpws initial concern with the streaming requests as you can see the before this intervention before our various you ways we were averaging 27 citizen requests from the tenderloin on every business day now were down to 15 thats an overall average in october we averaged 11 so as you can see here on the chapter on the right this is meant you know good st