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Introduction by daas executive director anne hinton. Good afternoon, Council Members. And director johnson. I am actually shareen micspanneden, the assistant executive director of department of aging and Adult Services. I apologize on believe of anne hinton who really wanted to be here, but was ill all week and wanted to be here with you today. I will do my best to channel her and do as close to a good job as she would have been if she were here. You are familiar with the fact that california is...

Result of Domestic Violence. That is really something to take note of. I dont think that that has occurred by happenstance; it is not a statistical anomaly. I think it is because we are gearing our work more as preventative. Preventative the collaborative effort that we are working with, the various departments, the police department, the various Partner Agencies is in and of itself becoming more defined preventative. A lot we heard this evening is interventive; as we go forward the fruits of th...

She were here. You are familiar with the fact that california is moving to a managed care model for health care deliveriy and in San Francisco, that means that health care for people on medical, and for people on medical and medicare will be managed care. In San Francisco there are two plans that are responsible for providing that health care delivery. One is San Francisco health plan and one is anthem bluecross. San Francisco Health plan is the nonprofit provider and anthem bluecross is the for...

Largely what will happen. The can time sheet processing facility is much more sensitive than our staff are in terms of things that it doesnt like. For example, you cant write in any other kind of pen besides black ink. And you cant stick a sticky note onto the time sheet. And you cant fold the time sheet. Various, little persnickety things that are bad design in my opinion. [ laughter ] a lot of those rejected time sheets will all come to us, but they come back to us quickly and electronically. ...

Moments. Again well move on to item no. 7, which is a public hearing, services and programs for adults with disabilities and seniors in San Francisco. What is working . What isnt . What is missing . Department of aging and Adult Services, daas and the date of birtheding date of birtheding have invited public testimony on access to services that help people to live independently in the community, this includes transportation, housing, personal assistance services,cess to health care, hospital tra...

And allow us to preserve what we love about the city, so going to the slides im going to speak a little bit to where we are and what some of the needs are but i think you alluded to this in the opening remarks, so in terms of opportunities within the Transportation System here in San Francisco when you look at transit what we have going for us is that we have a very dense system with high ridership, High Percentage of trips again in San Francisco are taken on transit. I think its Something Like ...

World bank, others, obviously china, but the u. S. Government can have a major, major impact in this sector, supporting those countries and businesses. I can emphasize supporting the countrys own strategies is that or it that as word has to start. Figuring out a way to plug into thoses participating. And there are a number of plans that have come forward on this. So power africa in our view is a fantastic start. Fantastic start. Able to announcement, but also what can only be a start. So it is v...

Paying any transit impact fees potentially. We also saw when the renewal of the Impact Development came to the board of supervisors lasted year the board sort of partially eviscerated it in terms of reducing its ability to generate meaningful revenue for the Transit System to reflect development impacts. What can we do to make sure that development is consistently paying to mitigate transit impacts that support the Transit System . I think as my understanding that the main vehicle across the boa...

Will happen. These are areas that we have produced plans over the last 1015 years. As i said the next 25 years we will see 1 3 increase in jobs and you could see the numbers here. Primarily in the town down Downtown Mission bay Hunters Point and produces the 1 3 increase in jobs and the same with the housing side and the plans note you see the notes here in terms of the actual numbers that are expected in each of those planned areas and i will say one of the things that i am particularly proud o...

Own automobile so i think we have a lot of opportunities as we look to address the lack of investment as well as the growth that is coming. But the flip side is that there are challenges associated with our system, and i think you enumerated these somewhat, but theres a lot that we need to do in terms of reallocating the space on the public rightofway and prioritize transscpit it provides a better option. To capture some of that latent demand. In terms of the pedestrian environment i know all th...