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Underlying theme in all of our recommendations that it is something that all of us on the task force became aware of as we gathered data. And that is, a lot of us who are aging now, the boomer generation, and we really wanted to stay in our own homes. And as long as possible. And out of the home, that our parents might be in now, and it is a generational thing, i think. And so, a lot of our recommendations actually attempted to begin to instead of look at how you do that, how do you allow people...

And community advocate, longtime advocate. And i believe that commissioner chans exemplary record speaks for itself. And this is why a Diverse Group of over 40 public official and organizations from Law Enforcement to education to civil rights support her reappointment. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hello, supervisors. Thank you so much for taking me out of turn. I was visiting school today. I cut it short because this is such an important issue. Not only for me as a San Francisco an, but also...

Discussion of some kind of citywide initiative, citywide activities about this. Maybe we think about announcing it as a very special day. Maybe its a very special week. Theres a lot to talk about. I think all ages would be interested in this, as cathy mentioned, a lot of us dont know about this. Even people who are living here in spite of how high profile all the activities were. We were thinking that we can involve many other, you know, activists and artists in the community, access dance and b...

Feedback from him. And, you know, at first i even made a mistake. We were so used to in high school to learning that these young people are called special education, and derek, you know, corrected me. I was so happy he did because we want to make sure were making everything correct in our draft once we present it to the board of supervisors that we have everything correct. And i have some copies. I dont know if i handed to you guys yet. So, it really is just a draft and its just talking about ho...

Purge, that is the Housing Authoritys word on purging the list and a lot of the people on the list have impairments in terms of maybe not a permanent address but of a friends address and they may not go there to check their mail or be in what impaired by bad choices of lifestyle. And to be waiting on a list and be eliminated is just seems in congress with the whole idea with the Housing Authority is supposed to do. And i would like to see more moneys spent rather than someone leaving a legacy of...

For support but the families of choice are not friends similar in age who may have relocated passed away or in need of services themselves. This difficult as it is, there are chronic illnesses that a person can manage at home on their own such as asthma. The older adults with alzheimers who are without benefits of the formal support system are vulnerable to receiving little or no care to assist them to remain in their homes, if you dont have a place and a plan and some understanding of the disea...

Closed process is around providing benefits. I noted or website for faq for immigrants for all programs. Then well continue working with hsa and compass on cal works and how that would work whether it be fulltime, parttime, make it more easy for families to navigate our system. Cal works is not a barrier, but a positive and benefit for families. With that ill conclude. How long does it take approximately for a family or individual if theyre on cal works in another county to get their cal works t...

Third speaker i will call three more names, you will have two minutes and you want to explain how you will be using the timer. Yes, speakers i will be holding a timer, when the beep goes off, know that is your time to stop speaking. Good evening, commissioners. This is not george, it is david inaudible and my handwriting was bad but i didnt realize it was that bad. Okay. It is not george, my name is david and i am the San Francisco director for fcis local one and i want to give you the context o...

Certainly have learned a lot. And i think that another things that i really appreciate and it is a practice that i actually did as well, and during my years and it is shared leadership and it is often encouraged and so, it is not like we have elected one commissioner that is going to like stay on the leadership positions forever, i think that has been rotating and it has been rotating process, and i say that that is something that public should know as well. And so, this way we can really meet t...

We look forward to collaborating on this effort. For many years, kaiser has been involved in sharing successful clinical practices, quality transparency. We know that by doing that, we get the best clinical outcomes for our patients. For example, if youre a kaiser member in northern california, you have a 30 percent lower risk of dying from Heart Disease as compared to someone who is not. We have outcomes like that and we know thats not enough. We know we have more work to do. We also acknowledg...