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Myself, who have major disabilities but otherwise capable of producing something in society. We have a political problem in this country, not an economic problem. That political problem has created a debt, federal debt, approaching 20 trillion because of the wars primarily. We have a problem in this city with the hospital industry, deciding if they want to throw out the people that are too ill to be taken care of unless its 24hour care and they dont want to pay for that. And this hospital indust...

Ihss moe going up. The the Health Benefits piece is fairly oh, excuse me, ive jumped to the wrong one. Pardon me. So if we look at this one, what well see is weve got a large growth of the maintenance of effort, there we go, from 94. 6 to 117. 8, and then, we have a small increase in the office of ageing. This is due to additional dignity fund. We have a fairly stable ihss Public Authority payment. This is the Health Benefits payment, which has stayed fairly steady. And then, the other areas of ...

Approval. Again, mippa sounds for medicare improvements for patients and providers act. There are two main things, increase lowincome subsidy, and thats subsidizing part d plans for drug copays and premiums. And also to sign people up for medicare Savings Programs. It happens to cover the cost of Medicare Part a and part b premiums. We passed these dollars through to our high cap, selfhelp for the elderly. Theyre uniquely positioned with their expertise and infrastructure to administer this prog...

So those have increased significantly, and thats really due to the to the ihss moe going up. The the Health Benefits piece is fairly oh, excuse me, ive jumped to the wrong one. Pardon me. So if we look at this one, what well see is weve got a large growth of the maintenance of effort, there we go, from 94. 6 to 117. 8, and then, we have a small increase in the office of ageing. This is due to additional dignity fund. We have a fairly stable ihss Public Authority payment. This is the Health Benef...

Shes looking at extending the initial compliance deadline for the checklist on that just to make sure that theres ample time for this program to get upcoming we think this program is going to run out by the next 8 to 10 years we want to get those initial Foundation Infrastructure pieces into place and on the maneuvered soft story implementation we mentioned that tooerp two were down to have 35 noncompliant buildings out of 5 hundred and 50 so were at 93 or 94 compliance rate those buildings out ...

And note that neil sims is present. I would like to approval of the agenda with changes and Meeting Minutes and under reports no report from the nominating committee. Can i have a motion . So moved. Second. Its approved that we approve the agenda with the following changes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes . Ayes have it and the motion carries. The next item is approval of the january 4 Meeting Minutes. Could i have a motion. So moved. Second. Okay. It has been moved and second that we approve...

About the just to remind you that the Oversight Advisory Committee of the dignity fund is going to have its first meeting on the 24th and i know you have representation there so youre probably well aware of it already but i wanted to remind you of that, and were getting that kicked off, and then i just kind of wanted to say give a kudos to some of the staff. There was a major fire in chinatown this past week, about a week and a half ago i guess and we had great response from our staff and our ca...

Present. I would like to approval of the agenda with changes and Meeting Minutes and under reports no report from the nominating committee. Can i have a motion . So moved. Second. Its approved that we approve the agenda with the following changes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes . Ayes have it and the motion carries. The next item is approval of the january 4 Meeting Minutes. Could i have a motion. So moved. Second. Okay. It has been moved and second that we approve the january 4 commission M...

So moved. Second. Its approved that we approve the agenda with the following changes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes . Ayes have it and the motion carries. The next item is approval of the january 4 meeting minutes. Could i have a motion. So moved. Second. Okay. It has been moved and second that we approve the january 4 Commission Meeting minutes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes. Aye it is have it and the motion carries. Item 4 approval of the february 1 meeting minutes. So moved. Can i h...

What our advocacy is going to be at the state legislature and again very much like the past years the main focus for most of the directors is attrition and for us in San Francisco were so fortunate that we way over match in terms of dollars for nutrition but we know theres still a lot of food insecurities. A lot of triple as in california dont have over match. San diego makes do with what they have from them and its important for the directors to advocate for peoples basic needs and nutrition is...