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Islands than here. They train the seniors, theyre able to use them as food service aids helping with the new service. These are just some very few highlights of the visit back in january of last year. On the very top is the chief ali and he met with the seniors at the Samoan Community Development Center to get their insights and also get their feedback of what works for them here in the city and they took a lot of the ideas back. And we visited several new sites, including 30th street. This is a...

The Ombudsman Program is currently operated by the fell ton institute, formerly known as Family Service agency. The funding were looking at today, 148,000 will be going to this fiscal year. The greatest need is for increased staffing so the majority of this money will be going towards that. With this new money well see a slight increase in current staff and the hiring of five new parttime sub contractors. As a result of this increased staffing the ombudsman will be better able to respond and str...

Generally are lower too so the size of the operation, all those things take into consideration. And, you know, we do have a cap that we kind of look at, at what point will we, you know, not sort of cap, basically. So when you look at the, even with the costs that we have recommended it still doesnt cover 100 percent of all the operates costs for the meal provider. All of them do fund raising. All of them actually they require a suggested meal donation and some of the seniors cant donate. So when...

So they had a floor at which their budgets couldnt go underneath and that meant 10 states had to take a little bit more of a dive. This compromise means that the slow growth states will be giving up 1 percent of their budget each year for the next 3 years and then everything will be stabilized at that point and the 10 states, which california is one of, will be receiving additional funds over that time. Having looked at the spreadsheets its under a Million Dollars at its height so, you know, spr...

The commonwealth were required to start issuing marriage licenses to all couples, including samesex couples. And it wasnt long before two young women from centerville arrived here, determined to take advantage of this historic opportunity. 26yearold jennifer and erika turner spent 20 minutes inside the courthouse filling out their marriage license paperwork. They emerged to find a reverend from the Arlington Unitarian Universalist Church ready to perform their ceremony and decided to go ahead wi...

Pamphlets like these before although with a much more mature crowd. We didnt, um, scrutinize it closely and we should have and that was an oversight. Reporter today father joseph ilo apologized to parents the school offended and as soon as the staff realized the content they pulled the pamphlets. It was a mistake and i wouldnt repeat it to pass those out to children. Theres no excuse so far as im concerned. Reporter christie says this is the latest misstep by star of the sea leaders as they make...

And director hinton. They are, as you can see, the total amount modified is, the current is 25 million, a little over that, then the modification is 5,096, 484 and the total new contract is 30 million and change as you can see from the memo. And the funding sources, majority is local county funds, 95. 3 percent, then a small percentage, 1. 8 percent is from state funding and almost 3 percent is federal funds. That gives us the total of 5,096,000. In terms of the funding and where it came from an...

Moved and second. You are on. Good morning, commissioners and director hinton. They are, as you can see, the total amount modified is, the current is 25 million, a little over that, then the modification is 5,096, 484 and the total new contract is 30 million and change as you can see from the memo. And the funding sources, majority is local county funds, 95. 3 percent, then a small percentage, 1. 8 percent is from state funding and almost 3 percent is federal funds. That gives us the total of 5,...

In negotiating the rate based on, you know, the type of meal that will be provided, the organization structure, what type of meal, what the meal preparation situation is, are they getting it through a caterer because not all the centers have their own kitchen. Like project open hand has their own central kitchen and when they have a much higher volume of meals those costs generally are lower too so the size of the operation, all those things take into consideration. And, you know, we do have a c...

Uhhuh. So we are adding additional funds to be able to hopefully accommodate more of the seniors. Is that in the sunset area . Champs. The second site. The second site is not identified yet but, yes, we are targeting sunset because currently we only have one congregate meal site that falls into that supervisor district. Yeah, its one of the lowest resource in terms of what we fund. Does this amount of funds provide a chance to rotate the menu, or is it the same menu over . Do they have. There is...