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Agentcyies are competing against county funded positions that are paid at a much higher rate. Along with the stringent hiring requirements it has become increasingly difficult to identify and employ qualified candidates. In order to provide a High Standard of care for our San Franciscos community of seniors and adults with disabilities contractors need increases in funding to be able to adequately fund these vital positions. 2015, 16 budget requests requests dos to allow agencies to pay a more e...

My next point is for [inaudible]. While the final decision is delayed until later this month, we want to make sure this issue stays among your priorities. [inaudible]. Group van and ada transportation are most vital to disability population and consumers shouldnt have to pay additional fees for this critically needed service. Thank youm. And our final platform item is the cost of doing business. As not for profit providers we urge you to consider across the board cost of doing business for all n...

Customer service center. We need to establish this is in fact a senior so we can give them the right card and pass. And then the new clipper card will be sent to that customer in the mail with a litter stating this is their free pass and how to use that pass on a daily basis. For the rtc card for the riders with disabilities those with existing rtc cards the process will be similar to the senior cards. They will just complete an Application Online or by mail or through 311 and the rtc number is ...

There. One of the issues talks about the proposal thats already in place regarding youth fares and the sunday parking changes and according to the editorial all these programs combined will reduce munis operating revenue by about 20 million a year at a time when ridership is at an all time high. It also refers to voter approved propositions a and b which authorized additional spending for muni but that spending is limited to capital improvements. The concern raised is ridership continues, but th...

Standard of care for our San Franciscos community of seniors and adults with disabilities contractors need increases in funding to be able to adequately fund these vital positions. 2015, 16 budget requests requests dos to allow agencies to pay a more equity salary level for caseworker positions. The cost would be approximately 200,000. My next point is for [inaudible]. While the final decision is delayed until later this month, we want to make sure this issue stays among your priorities. [inaudi...

200,000. My next point is for [inaudible]. While the final decision is delayed until later this month, we want to make sure this issue stays among your priorities. [inaudible]. Group van and ada transportation are most vital to disability population and consumers shouldnt have to pay additional fees for this critically needed service. Thank youm. And our final platform item is the cost of doing business. As not for profit providers we urge you to consider across the board cost of doing business ...

Once the customer is approved for their card theyll get an application at the office or get one online and apply for the free program. Theres a list of our outreach calendar. We met with the department of aging and Adult Services staff yesterday to receive feedback. Were here this morning to present to you our process and receive any feedback and for the next two weeks, including the mt action board of directors meeting, will be meeting with different groups to make sure were doing the proper am...

Services and also to conduct a very important outreach which we have talked about being very important. In our cases advocating for the 2015, 16 budget to increase each of the specialists currently funded from 32 hours to 40 or whatever fulltime is in their Respective Agency and to ensure those other two districts that were not assigned somebody would also have access to a worker so that would be two different agencies. The project costs that we roughly calculated is 229,927. Good morning commis...

Were doing the proper amount of outreach and if were missing anything we fill in the holeses. Besides additional outreach besides those meetings current sf registered rtc customers will be direct mail letting them know the program is approved. And the application will be on the back of that letter. Applications and fact sheets we made available at different communities and stakeholder groups. Well have newspaper ads. The advertisements will be the banners inside the bus as well in the front of t...

Banners inside the bus as well in the front of the bus behind the drivers and also the standard digital message distribution. Hoping for any comments or questions. Thank you very much. Thorough presentation. Couple of questions. How will the means testing be administered . How will the application confirm that the seniors meet the means test . So its just the means is Self Reporting. Self reporting. Okay. Secondly, have you had an opportunity to read the editorial in todays chronicle . I have no...