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 program. The Social Security administration estimates that the the extra help provided by the programs can be worth up to 4,000 a year in savings for participants. We have had this program for a couple of years now. Last year selfhelp had over 166 folks they helped with one of these either the lowincome subsidy or medical Savings Program applications. Its a small amount of money, but one that has a great impact. Happen to answer any questions the commission has. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions, commission . Any comments or questions from the public . Hearing none. Call the question. May i have a motion to approve . So moved. A second . Second. All in favor . Any opposed. Thank you. Motion carries. Item b. Requesting authorization to sent enter into a Grant Agreement with Curry Senior Center through the period of january 1, 2018, to june 30, 2020. In the amount of 631,608, plus 10 contingency for a total not to exceed 694,769. Tiffany will present. Thank you, tiffany. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners and executive director. The plan for 17 18 included funding for Wellness Program that blends socialization, technology and health. Older adults and adults with disability have circumstances that can place them at higher risk for isolation and evidencebased Research Links isolation to poor health and unfavorable health outcomes. Research suggests that Human Connection can be a meaningful factor, contributing to a persons wellbeing. R. P. F. 773, technology and connections at home, was issued to precure communitybased program that uses Technology Devices in combination with concentrated programming intended to reduce isolation and encourage social engagement. Curry Senior Center will provide consumers with Technology Devices on loan, coupled with teaching and coaching for an enrollment term of one year. Curry will help consumers who complete the oneyear program and desire their own device to obtain one through Fundraising Efforts. Consumers who have completed the program are also invited to participate in monthly classes and to be peer mentors. The postprogramming option helps consumers to maintain their skills and supports ongoing socialization. During the 2 1 2 year grant period, curry will reach 150 consumers and provide 2,800 hours of Technical Support and consumer training and Health Coaching on an annual basis. Curry Senior Center will begin its outreach by targeting older daughters and adults with disability living in the civic center south of market and western neighborhoods and older adults and adults with disabilities living in these neighborhoods have a High Percentage of one or more isolating risk factors and during the term of the enrollment term, the following will be ergs valiateed to assess impact. Acquire technology skills, level of loneliness and the health care ethicity and the changes in physical activity, the number of steps and the degree of success with selfdirected health goals. And were anticipating very positive result and looking forward to working with Curry Senior Center and im happy to answer any questions that the commissioners may have at this time. Thank you. Thank you. Any comments or questions from the commissioner. How many do you have to try to get on. Two. Who is the other one, you remember . I want to say that i can double check it was little brothers, yeah. Because they have a track record of doing this . No, they were picked because they had the highest score. Thank you. Any other comments or questions . Tiffany, you mentioned that at the end of the year that th the equipment is returned to curry and those working with ipads will be helped in obtaining th that. Is any thought given to working with organizations that repurpose ipads and iphones so individuals that dont need the latest ipad and iphone trade them in or sell them or whatever and theyre repurposed and reusable and cleaned up of any previous information and they become much more affordable for people who dont need the latest, is curry working with any organizations like that . I think so but theyre here as well and they can probably speak more to that about the repurposing, but that is definitely something that im sure that they would be doing. Go ahead. Hi, good afternoon, commissioners and director, im angela demartino, from Curry Senior Center. With equipment well start off with refurbished ipads which are a lot more affordable than the ones newly out in the market and working with a Technology Company that is going to be in charge of repurposing them at the end of the year, a shift of the program, and then turning them and cleaning them up for the next cohort. Were also working with our Technology Partners in the civic center, central city area, for Fundraising Efforts for after the year programs that we can find sources to help to support the people who want to keep using the equipment but cant afford to buy it on their own. Thank you very much. Thanks. Any comments or questions from the public . Can i have a motion to approve . So moved. A second . Second. Thank you. All in favor . Aye. Aye. Any opposed . Thank you. The motion carries. And finally requesting authorization to modify the existing Grant Agreement with shanti project for the time period beginning july 1, 2017, and ending june 30th,2018, in the additional amount of 75,000 plus a 10 contingency for a total amount not to exceed 412,500. Thank you. Rick applebee. Good afternoon, commissioners and director and bridget. Before Getting Started i wanted to point out a small correction on the face sheet of the Commission Packet memo, very small point about the Contingency Fund and in one spot it says 375 and underneath that its 275, 337,500 is the corret figure so if anyone had noticed that and wanted to point that out. Thank you. Sure. Im here to request authorization for that 75,000 modification to the grant to shanti. The moneys are being provided by the Community Living fund and will increase animal Bonding Services to isolated gay, lesbian and bisexual and trans seniors, especially those at risk for institutionalization. With the moneys the Community Living fund expresses its support of the programs that address isolation in the lgbt older adult and disabled community. As part of the growing awareness of isolation and loneliness for seniors and people with disabilities in the Lgbt Community and given the 2014 recommendations of the aging policy task force, shanti developed two programs targeting the unmet needs of senior Lgbt Community. In this case the animal Bonding Program or paws as it has historically been known is for isolated and lgbt seniors and shanti and the rest of us believe that the healing impact of the human animal bond is one of the most valuable supports available for vulnerable individuals and that that bond can yield valuable outcomes for wellbeing, health and socialization. Its even more important because of a lack of family and social discrimination or ostracization and the distrust of social systems as many lgbt older adults and people with disabilities experience. Sorry. And it should be noted that this animal Bonding Program introduces services to many isolated seniors and people with disabilities who arent currently accessing those services. Its another important aspect. The additional moneys will go to lgbt consumers enrolled in the shanty program that meet eligibility for the Community Living fund. That criteria primarily is risk of institutionalization, though in the packet it shows the full eligibility criteria. Shanty will have purchases to support these clients to stay in the community. Clients determined to be c. L. F. Eligible may be referred to the full c. L. F. Program if theyre in need of the more intensive services. The number of clients served will increase from 150 to a projected of 185 and the services will go up from 1,100 to 1,200. Mike and i met with the shanti staff for a contract monitoring visit last may in 2017, there were no significant findings and the shanti Bonding Program exceeded all required contract objectives. Ongoing work with shanti this year shows they will meet or exceed the contract expectations again and another monitoring visit will occur this spring. Thank you so much and any questions . Thank you, any comments yes, you know, requesting 75,000 modification which is 25 of the original budget, okay. And why is it such a great need only for a short period of time . Does that mean that when they submit a budget they underestimated or what . Im just asking a question. The Community Living fund would be noticing their budget and whether they had moneys to help this program and the people who are c. L. F. Eligible within this program so its a budget decision for the Community Living fund. Okay, you mentioned the number of clients will increase very much from 150 to 185 but that does not sound like justified for 25 increase of the budget. Im just asking questions. 25 of the 375,000 total budget yeah, the original budget was 300,000 and 75,000, which is 25 more than the original budget. Its because most of the money is going to the operating expenses of buying the Veterinary Services and the pet related services and boarding, those kind of services. Its not its to reach more people and theres no staff added, etc. And this is a number that we decided with shanti, that its existing clients, were not expecting them to take on new clients with this amount of money. I feel that im answering the question well. No, im just looking at the budget sheet, the last page. The last page of the budget . It seems a lot of money is really kind of added to the other program, the 75,000, because the total is 68,000, okay, so im you mean for 35 additional clients, is that your question is that its 35 additional clients . No, no, my question is im just saying that the 75,000 increase, most of the money already goes to the operating budget. Right. Okay. And so one of the questions that i have asked, im going to ask is, what is the client services, boarding, you mean the owner is taking a vacation or what . Not a vacation, but if the owner perhaps was not getting im sorry, im going to look up the in the scope of service, the appendix a theres a list of the Services Available for folks and i have that here as well somewhere. And so the range of services would be pet food bank, which could include Home Delivery and vet prescribed food and veterinariy services and Emergency Services and diagnostics and exams and vaccinations and including dog walking and homecare and transportation to the vet and emergency foster care. And so if a client, for example, is not going for their medical appointments and they dont have anyone to take care of that, shanti would pay that pet sitter and making sure that the person gets to the medical appointment and back. So its a range of services that someone might get. Due to the increase of the client and the need of the clients . Yes. Thank you. Any other wees or comments or for the public . Hearing none i have a motion to approve. So moved and i would just say that i have the utmost respect for shanti and their history and i have direct knowledge of this program and i think that its a great program. So its with great pleasure that i move this. Thank you. The staff are here so thank you. May i have a second . Second. Call the question, all in favor . Aye. Any opposed . Thank you. Motion carries. [gavel]carries. Welcome, everyone, to our Land Use Committee meeting of february 12, 2018, monday. I am katie tang, chair of this committee, and were joined by supervisor safai and supervisor aaron peskin is filling in today. Were joined by supervisor catherine stefani. Any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 27 board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. Is thank you very much. Can you please call item one . Item number one, ordinance amending the planning dozed establish the gearymasonic special use district in the area generally bounded by geary boulevard to the south, masonic avenue to the east and assessors parcels block number 1071, lots one and four to the north and west respectively. Thank you. I will defer to supervisor stefani first since this is in her district. Thank you. You heard this project last week. Most important, it allows the number of Affordable Housing units in the project to go from three to 22. That is more affordable units than the total number of units in the original project. Again, these amendments raised the inclusionary from 18 to 23 and broken down as 10 at 55 of the a. M. I. , 4 at 80 a. M. I. , 4 at 110 a. M. I. And 5 at 120 of a. M. I. And the appropriate a. M. I. Bans will apply. The second recommendation is around car share spaces and the Commission Recommended four of the spaces be reserved for car share. On the advice of the City Attorney, the amendments increased the findings requiring car share and the 16 spaces to be reserved for car share use. Again, i want to thank the Laurel HeightsImprovement Association for being forwardthinking and the Developers Working so well with the neighbours. This project in a neighbourhood that hasnt seen any new housing is very welcomed. And i just want to thank everyone for their hard work on seeing this across the finish line. I was aid to supervisor farrell when this started over two years ago and to see it now is just incredible. So im happy to bring this uniquely dense neighbourhood and project forward. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor. Any other colleagues . Supervisor safai . No. Ill reserve. All right. And if we dont have any questions for planning staff as well, then i will open this item up to Public Comment. I have two speaker cards. Kathy and richard and anyone else who would like to come up to speak. Please line up. Good afternoon, supervisors tang, safai, stefani and peskin. Im from the Laurel HeightsImprovement Association and im very happy to support the project before you today. Because this project is on a small 12,000foot irregular sized lot, the density increase through the special use district would allow the Housing Units to be increased from 21 to 95 units. Which would serve the citys need for more housing. I think this density accommodation is reasonable because the building would conform with the applicable height limb and this would strike a reasonable balance. And the 95 Housing Units would be better than commercial use in the majority of the building that was the first it ration proposed. Although we sorted that out, too. Long time residents there were commission ago shadow study before the project was revised. And we worked with them and we appreciate that the developers worked with the neighbours on the issues of the project design in the height and the nature of the roof screenings and this is not talls case. But we had a free flow of information with these developers because they were willing to work with the neighbourhood so we thanked them for that. We support the building, its within the height limit and the Affordable Housing increase because it will provide 5 more for the middle income group, which is so needed because were losing the middle class in San Francisco. The developers responded to our information in a timely fashion and agreed to our request for a condition of approval that, to the extent allowed by [inaudible], that any roof screen be transparent in order to minimize impacts on the neighbourhood so we had a collaborative process and we thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisor and staff. Im richard frisbee, Laurel HeightsImprovement Association. I would just like to thank the four parties involved in this planning department. Christopher may, the developers, supervisors past and present now supervisor stefani. And also the neighbourhoods of people who got involved in that. I think that the open, transparent process worked well. We didnt always agree but we always agreed to discuss and have an open dialogue and from that came what we believe is a produc