I moved into my wonderful, beautiful, Affordable Housing march 7th. I have lived in San Francisco since i was twoyearsold. Ive lived in hunters view for 23 to 24 years now. My name is vlady. I use titus and i am the resident commissioner for the San Francisco housing facility. From the very beginning, this whole transition of Public Housing and Affordable Housing was a good idea. But many, many residents didnt think it would ever actually happen. Its been a life changing experience. And im truly grateful for the whole initiative and all those that work on the whole sf initiative. Theyve done a wonderful job accommodating the residents, who for many years have lived in delap tated housing. Now they have quality housing. I was on a street where the living room and the kitchen and stairs. It wasnt large enough to accommodate. The children are grown. I had the accomplish of having a dishwasher in my home. I really like that. [laughter] i really like not having to wash dishes by hand. We still do it from time to time. The Mayors Office has been a real friend to us, a partner. We know that our city supports us. I love San Francisco. Just to be able to stay in my community and continue to help the residents who live here and continue to see my neighborhoods move into new housing, its been a real joy. Its been a real joy. Francisco. My name is fwlend hope i would say on at largescale what all passionate about is peace in the world. It never outdoor 0 me that note everyone will think that is a good i know to be a paefrt. One man said ill upsetting the order of universe i want to do since a good idea not the order of universe but his offered of the universe but the ministry sgan in the room chairing sha harry and grew to be 5 we wanted to preach and teach and act gods love 40 years later i retired having been in the tenderloin most of that 7, 8, 9 some have god drew us into the someplace we became the Network Ministries for homeless women escaping prostitution if the months period before i performed Memorial Services store produced women that were murdered on the streets of San Francisco so i went back to the board and said we say to do something the number one be a safe place for them to live while he worked on changing 4 months later we were given the building in january of 1998 we opened it as a safe house for women escaping prostitution ive seen those counselors women find their strength and their beauty and their wisdom and come to be able to affirmative as the daughters of god and they accepted me and made me, be a part of the their lives. Special things to the women that offered me a chance safe house will forever be a part of the who ive become and you made that possible life didnt get any better than that. Whove would know this look of this girl grown up in atlanta will be working with produced women in San Francisco part of the system that has abused and expedited and obtain identified and degraded women for century around the world and still do at the embody the spirits of women that just know they deserve respect and intend to get it. I dont want to just so women younger women become a part of the the Current System we need to change the system we dont need to go up the ladder we need to change the corporations we need more women like that and theyre out there. We get have to get to help them. Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the july 8th, 2019 meeting of the rules committee. I am supervisor hillary ronen, seated to my rule is supervisor Shamann Walton and seated to my left is rules Committee Member supervisor gordon mar. And we are joined by board president norman yee. There is translation for this meeting. [speaking spanish] supervisor yee. Supervisor yee speaking alternate language] okay. Supervisor ronen one correction. Only translation for item 2. [speaking spanish] supervisor yee . [speaking alternate language] our clerk today is victor young. And id also like to thank jason and leo from sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, complete speaker cards and copies of any document to be included as part of the file, should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the july 16th supervisors meeting. You can please read item number one. Clerk reading item number one. Change the name of the aging and Adult ServicesCommunity Living fund to the disability and aging service Community Living fund. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. President yee, did you have any opening comments . Supervisor yee sure. Well, as everybody knows, we have a department in the city that helps to support our resident, as they age. Our society in general glorifies and capitalizes on the idea of youth, when the reality is growing older is really a part of life. And every single one of us will experience age going, if were lucky. We have a special department that helps us, age with dignity. This department helps more than 1 in 4 san franciscans who need support, as they grow older. What most people dont know is this department does much more. It is also the home for services and resources for individuals who experience disability as well. In in 10 an san franciscans experience disabilities. In 2010, over 4,000 san franciscans who experience disabilities. The department of aging and Adult Services is the primary agency tasked with providing social Safety Net Services to adult with disabilities in San Francisco. However, the Department Current name does not effectively communicate this role in our community. This it is unclear that the term adult is intended to refer to adult with disabilities. This was a very this has a very real impact on our Community Members, who live with disabilities. They dont know that this department and all of its resources exist to help them. Changing the departments name to include the Term Disability will more accurately reflect its role and guide Community Members to reach out to the department for support. Therefore, i introduced a Charter Amendment that will accomplish the following. It would change the official name of the aging and Adult Services commission to the disability and aging services commission. It will change the official name of the department of aging and Adult Services to the department of disability and aging services. And it will add qualifications to three more commission seats, so that one commissioner would be a person who is 60 years old or older, one would be a person with disability, and the last would be a person who has served in the u. S. Military. I want to thank my colleagues for their support, especially supervisors haney and fewer, for their early cosponsorship and i look forward to getting this on the ballot and to the people in november for them to vote on this really something that needed to be changed a long time ago. The departments directorship sheree is here to answer any questions that this committee might have and perhaps we have we could give her a couple of minutes to speak on this topic, as her department was instrumental in bringing this needed change to my attention. Thank you. Miss masan. Good morning, chair ronen, supervisors and president yee. President yee, i want to thank you so much for introducing this item. Really appreciate it so much, that i actually came in off vacation today to address you. Its a really important issue for our department. The department was founded in 2000. And essentially programs were brought together to serve people with disabilities and older adults, without really getting any funding to serve people with disabilities. Before that we were the commission on aging. And all of the funding was really focused on older adults. And its been really hard over the number of years that i have worked in this department to really make people understand that people with disabilities actually are served by our department and its also been hard to figure out how to fund some of these programs, until the dignity fund came around. So weve heard for years from disability communities that people dont know that they get services from us and that they can. And when we did the Dignity Fund Community Needs Assessment a few years ago, we had all of these forms and focus groups and we did a citywide survey and we really heard from communities that they dont understand this and that they think of this always as serving older adults. So we did a Little Research to find out what people really want to hear in the title and how they how they will know that we serve them. And using the Term Disability in San Francisco really seems the best way to go and what people resonate with. So thats why were bringing this forward. It unfortunately has to go on the ballot, in order to change it. And theres really no other option to do it correctly. So its also really important to us right now, because the Human Services agency is going through a rebrand. And were really thinking about our communications, were thinking about collateral materials that were going to put out, our business cards and all of that. And its really good timing for us to think about the name change and how the department fits within the overall Human Services agency. And then the last thing i think is this acronym essentially allows us to allow ourselves to call ourselves doss, which is what we call ourselves. It just makings it easier in terms of staff and thinking about the community and how people refer to us. So well lose an a, it wont exactly be doss, but well continue to call it that. If i i can answer any questions for you. Row wonderful. Thank you so much for coming in from your vacation to be here and share this with us. I have to admit, when i first saw this, i didnt realize the importance and and i thought, wow, to put this on the ballot for a name change. Really, are we going to do that . I completely understand it now. It does seem very, very important. And if i can be added as a cosponsor, i would love to be. And really grateful to you for all of your work. Thanks. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton one, thank you for your statement and presentation and coming in. Supervisors yee, haney and fewer for bringing this forward. If you look at the site on the department of aging, it says our Agency Delivers a safety net of services and Public Benefits that are designed to meet the unique needs of lowincome individuals, children and families, older adults and adults with disabilities. And i think its important for the mission and the vision to match also what the title is and what the name is. So i appreciate that. This is an Important Community we serve. And to your point about being able to fundraise and also support programs that focus on providing services for our older population and population with disabilities. I think that piece is important, too. So again for a while i was always concerned about having to go to charter, but definitely understand why we would do this. I would love to be added, too, as well, supervisor yee. Supervisor yee thank you. Row wonderful. Thank you so much. Thank you. Supervisor ronen we will open this item up for Public Comment. If any member of the public would like to speak, please feel free to line up to your right, my left, and mr. Wright, if you want to start us off. Its a good program. But theres some confusion as far as your announcement about the program. You need to highlight that if theres an age requirement and you talk about people with disabilities, you say 1 per 1,000 people have disabilities. I object to that. You have approximately 8,011 Homeless People out in the street. A lot of those people dont know they have disability, they have nowhere to go, they have to adjust to living on the street. Thats called an adjustment disorder. They have anxiety because theyre living in transit out in the street and cant get into the shelters. Thats called anxiety disorder. A lot of them are suffering and going through a lot of emotional distress, thats called intentional infliction of emotional distress. All of these are requirements of violations and requirements of the disabilities act. And also a demonstration where you should not only include the age requirement to let people know that you dont have to be a senior in order to get these type of services, because you have the same type of anxiety and disability as the senior. If you take care of the problem, not at the senior age, when they become a senior citizen, they wont be as harmed as well. [bell ringing] supervisor ronen thank you. Next speaker. Good morning, supervisors. Marie jobling here representing the Dignity Fund Coalition today. I just wanted to let you know that executive director mick spadden made a presentation. We had a good healthy discussion. We voted to endorse. So i just came to let you know that today. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you, marie. Thank you for all your work. Next speaker. Good morning. Theresa with senior and disability action. Just to let you know that we are, indeed, in support of this, as well as we changed our name from the Senior Action Network to senior and disability action. So thank you so much for hearing this. Thank you so much again, president yee, board. So would like your support. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you, theresa, for all your work. Next speaker. Good morning, supervisors. Greg moore representing Case Coalition of agencies serving elders. Would also like to inform you that director mcspadden came and presented to our coalition about this proposed name change. We did not have such a healthy discussion, because we were already pretty much aligned in thinking and we ask you to approve this. Thank you. Supervisor ronen fantastic. Thank you so much. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] go ahead. President yee. Supervisor yee i want to thank you both for cosponsoring as well. Appreciate it. And im sure this is something that the voters will support. And i want to make sure that we understand that when we say people with disabilities, adults with disabilities, there is no age requirement for that. You dont have to be 60 and have disabilities, is that correct . Yeah. Thats what i thought. Yeah. So just want to make it clear that its this is about serving adults that are aging, seniors and people with disabilities. Not necessarily have to be seniors. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Thank you very much. Supervisor ronen wonderful. Im happy to make a motion to recommend is that the right language. Okay, right. Seeing no objection, that motion passes unanimously. [gavel] president yee thank you. Supervisor fewer can you please read item number two. Clerk item 2 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the senior operating and subsidyies program to be used to lower rents in Housing Developments occupied by lowincome senior citizens. Supervisor ronen president yee. President yee colleagues, the legislation before you today is the result of many conversations we have had throughout the year about how we are going to deal with Affordable Housing crisis, that is impacting seniors. I want to thank supervisors ronen, peskin and mar for their cosponsorship on this. As probably weve weve heard over and over again, by 2030, 26 of our population will be seniors. With our aging population, we will need to increase our level of attention and thoughtful investment to ensure that the older adults can age in place and with dignity. Seniors 60 years and older make it up 24 of our population, almost one quarter currently of all persons in the city, who are under the poverty line. The housing crisis is difficult for seniors in a different way. There is a spectrum of challenges that our aging population is facing. I want to acknowledge that this people at various income levels, even middleincome household levels. Many seniors are living in situations that no longer suit them. They are unable to move because they simply cannot afford marketrate units. In terms of level of care, the reality is that at some point aging adults will need some level of assistance. And there are very ewe forgets out there few options out there. As a city, we need to develop solutions to address this range of issues. Today is on affordable, Senior Housing that the city helps to subsidize. During the housing bond discussion, we learned that our citys pipeline of planned Affordable Housing units, only 12 are being designated for affordable Senior Housing. This upcoming housing bond is trying to change that with 150 million, dedicated to affordable Senior Housing projects. This is the first and it came about because of the working group that focused on Senior Housing. However, the other piece that we were not able to address in the bond is that when we build affordable Senior Housing, the units are still not affordable to many seniors on fixed incomes. Many s