Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

One part of a larger effort. The county department of social services sent some money over to the department of aging saying, how about you help with targeting folks 60 and over. And do an allocation base throughout the state and come up with 66,000 which comes down to us, which is to be used to target older adults, 60 and over , solely recognizing that six a 6,000, and the grand scheme, is not the largest amount of money, but we hope to at least cover some staff time to support the much larger coordinated effort. One other question, what would you see as being successful at the end of the day if we were able to in role tenth out able to unroll 10,000 . They are asking us to meet a couple of targets with these funds, and their two categories. There is an outreach category, how many people do we send this information to . That is usually calculated as an estimate. The numbers are asking us to meet on that level within the thousands. Theres also someone asking us to actually track the amount of applications which are submitted , that is actually not approved, but submission and there is a mechanism to do that. I do not have this exact numbers to me, i will send them through budget to you. Those are probably good targets for us to reach. Any other comments or questions . Any comments or questions from the public . Hearing none, may i have a motion to approve . So moved. Do i have a second . Thank you. Any further comments for discussion . All in favor . Aye. Any opposed . Thank you. Motion carries. Item b. , requesting authorization to motto modify the contract with Central Communications inc. For provision of hotline Answering Services for Adult Protective Services and family and Childrens Services for the time period of september first, 2019 to august 31st, 2021 in the additional amount of 50,000 plus a 10 contingency for a total amount not to exceed 110,000. Welcome, carrie wong. Do i have a motion to discuss . Thank you. Carry . Good morning, commissioners. I am pleased to present to you the Central Communications contract for your approval. We are requesting for the contract lot to extend two years of 50,000. I do want to note a typo that was kindly pointed out this morning that the annual amount is for fiscal year 1920, not 18 19 for 25,000, and fiscal year 1920 is actually 2021, so it is a total 50,000 modification moving forward. So per state regulation, both Adult Protective Services and family and Childrens Services are mandated to accept and respond to reports of abuse and neglect on children, older adults and adults with disabilities. This is on a 24hour basis and we have been providing the services for a number of years. We are adding to the scope of services for the next two years to extend to hotlines for the Public Guardian and public conservatorship. This will also be for evenings and weekends, issues range from medical decisions to psychiatric issues that may arise after hours. Sometimes individuals are sick or require cold code org palliative or Palliative Care decisions, or if they passed away. This will allow the Public Guardian and public conservator to be more responsive to the care needs of providers such as hospitals, Skilled Nursing homes , and boarding cares. We will also provide care only 24hour basis for individuals who are under conservatorship. There will be a pilot phase this first fiscal year for three months in the fall, during the pilot phase, there will be no direct impact on the contract. Workers will contact the Public Guardian or public conservator staff directly based on internal costs. The contractor will be contacted after the after Hours Program is ready to launch and we will arrange for the numbers and have a market and strategy and be able to do presentations to Community Hardware his. The call volumes are 2504 abs and family and Childrens Services respectively. Abs tends to average more of these calls. We are not adding new dollars because the contract itself, there tends to be contract savings and we understand a little bit. And then whatever we develop in terms of the points, we will establish the trends and reset the amount for future needs if needed. Thank you very much. Are there any comments or questions . I want to add that carrie graciously moved over from her previous role of longtermcare director to the public administrative public righthand role. She has currently is currently the manager. I wanted to point that out because we have seen her in a different role before. Congratulations. That is a significant challenge, but im sure you are up for it. Any other comments or questions . I have a question. This program was established in 2017. How do you measure that it is working . This contract is for the after hours contract itself, and so family and Children Services have had this contract continuously since 2009, and then four abs, it is one and then for a. P. S. , they reached all the targets every year. We havent received any complaints or issues from the public regarding any dropped calls or any problems with the hotline. Thank you. Thank you. You mentioned the number of calls, i thank you said 250 i thank you said 250. The particular contract, the extra hours. What are the usual number of calls that you get. We get monthly reports and then every time there is a call, we also get actual daily reports of the calls. So we average about 250 per program, per month. Family and Children Services of his about 250. A. P. S. Tends to have more of them. And this contract will include more you are seeing it expands into the conservatory of the Public Guardian. So during the pilot phase, it will probably be around september to december, so about three months for us to work out the processes internally, and the training staff, and that sort of thing, so theres no direct we are not launching any marketing campaign. The public doesnt know, so there is nothing there will not be an influx of calls. We will just go through the normal cause of calling because of calling Adult Protective Services. We just deal with it internally. Really, there is no direct impact on the contract, at earliest, springs. That expands a lot. They give very much. Thank you. Any other comments or questions . Any comments or questions from the public . Hearing none, i have a motion to approve. So moved. Do i have a second . Any other comment . All in favor . Aye. Any opposed . Thank you. Motion carries. Item c. , requesting authorization to enter into a new contract with Thomson Reuters for the provision of firm central Case Management and westlaw Online Legal Research tools during the period of july first september 1st, 2019 through june 30th, 2022 in the amount of 100,495 plus a 10 contingency for a total grant amount not to exceed 110,544. Welcome to janet for the discussion. Do i have a motion to discuss . So moved. Second. Thank you. Janet . Good morning, commissioners. I am the head attorney for the public administrator and the Public Guardian, which are two offices housed in dawes housed in daas. The office is currently using both products, however, it is my understanding that in the prior year, we are able to enter into this arrangement through our i. T. Department and procurement. Due to a change in process, even that there is a ppi and a baa, it needs to be an interest gated contract, and that requires commission approval. That is why i am here. Im happy to answer any questions about the contract if you have them, but i think it is somewhat selfexplanatory. Thank you, very much. My question is, i looked at the budget every year and there is a 5 increase. I am just asking this question. That is my understanding if you approve it, it will be allowed. Any other comments or questions from the commission . Also, when i look at the last page, someone should read out the number because the number is a little bit off. It is still not the correct number. Okay. Thank you, commissioner. Any other comments or questions . Any comments or questions from the public . May i have a motion to approve . So moved. Second. Any further comments or questions . All in favor . Aye. Any opposed . Thank you. The motion carries. Thank you very much. Item d. , requesting authorization to enter into a new contract agreement with net Smart Technologies inc. For access to home Health Electronic record system during the period of september first, 2019 through june 30th, 2022 in the amount of 45,000 plus a 10 contingency for total amount not to exceed 49,500. May i have a motion to discuss . So moved. Second . Second. Thank you. Good morning, commission. My name is rhea and i am the nurse manager for the clinical Quality Assurance unit here at daas. We started leading nurses into the function of Adult Protective Services and Inhome Supportive Services while our social workers are doing their hard work investigating abuse or allegations of abuse. Our Community Based nurses and Public Health nurses are focusing on the clinical needs of the clients. Client. Clients with complex functional needs and clinical needs. We partner with a. P. S. Chi , i hs with addressing the needs of the clients. To document or chart the medical records, our assessments, medication records, we use net smart and that is the software that we use to not only document our clinical findings, but also we want to report so you better know or understand our client population and also address the risk involved with the population we are serving. The commission is requesting we continue to use the software that allows us to document client records and allows us to prioritize what we need to see when we are partnering with our programs. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions on the commission . Just one. Are we confident and comfortable with the confidentiality . I am. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions from the commission . Any comments or questions from the public . Hearing none, i have a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Second. Thank you. All in favor . Aye. Any opposed . Thank you. Motion carries. Thank you. Now the item on the agenda is general public comment. Hello, jessica. Good morning, commissioners and welcome to the new commissioners. I am with senior and disability action. I wanted to comment on the conversation earlier about Pedestrian Safety. Thank you so much for your interest and attention to this topic. One thing, commissioner asked us about the electric vehicles on the street. That has been a great concern to a lot of us with electric scooters and delivery robots. Folks most likely know it, but we let scooters run wild in the streets and then fortunately, we really clamped down and put a lot of limits on it. It has been a lot better. We are concerned that once the pilot concludes that, it may change. We will need to be on top of making sure there are serious limits because even with things being better than they were, they are still not perfect, and we still should not have any scooters on the street. We know it is dangerous for everyone, especially seniors with disabilities. Similarly, we do need to advocate for the m. T. A. To have clear guidelines about delivery robots, and it is also part of the bigger question of what is happening to public spaces, that are public sidewalks being shrunk and taken over by private companies that are using them to make money . Instead of really being spaces at the public can get around freely. It was mentioned about bus shelters and that has been a concern as well that a lot of but shelters have been removed, which makes it difficult for seniors and people with disabilities to wait for the bus , whether it is about not having a place to sit, and not being able to be protected. It looks like the Transit System is very closely linked to people being able to leave their house and get around the neighborhood and community. As far as the m. T. A. , it has been an interesting challenge that we have worked for a lot of engineers, but there are different engineers working on all these different projects. It is a matter of educating all of them to be thinking about accessibility concerns, and we have seen with the parking protected bike lanes, they have been pushed for good reason to make it safer for bicyclists, and it is not Good Solutions that we dont restate restrict accessibility for seniors and people with disabilities. We have been trying to work on coming up with solutions. And educating m. T. A. Engineers about how they can think about it and coming up with some new ideas. So, i would invite any of you are interested to come up and participate in senior and disability actions transit Justice Group at least once a month. Is a Community Group putting together seniors and people with disabilities to work on these issues. And tyra is the head of that. There is also a vision zero senior and disability Pedestrian Safety group that is coordinated by walk s. F. And we also meet once a month and meet representatives of different coalitions. I spoke i also want to ask people to save the date at the annual celebration on thursday, october 3rd, and we will have invitations at the next meeting. I hope some of you can attend. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments . Thank you. May i have a motion to adjourn . So moved. Second . Second. By rising vote, we are adjourned. Thank you. This is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your San Francisco history used to be. We hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. Even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. And they tell us that. Youre going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something thats very, very good. The legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by San Francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. It really provides for San Franciscos unique character. And that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. Im Michael Cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. The bakery started in 191. My grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. It is a small operation. Its not big. So everything is kind of quality that way. So i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. Im leslie ciroccomitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. So we get up pretty early in the morning. I usually start baking around 5 00. And then you just start doing rounds of dough. Loaves. My mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. After that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. You know, i dont really think about it. But then when i sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and weve been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. You know, that geez, weve been here a long time. [applause] a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. We all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. Our lineage and ill use one example of tommys joint. Tommys joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and hes a fourth generation san franciscan. Its a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was San Francisco like back in the 1950s. Im the general manager at tommys joint. People mostly recognize tommys joint for its murals on the outside of the building. Very bright blue. You drive down and see what it is. They know the building. Tommys is a San Francisco hoffa, which is a germanstyle presenting food. We have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. You prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. You want your pastrami to be very lean. You can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. Tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. San franciscos a place thats changing restaurants, except for tommys joint. Tommys joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. San francisco in general that we dont lose a grip of what San Franciscos came from. Tommys is a place that youll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. Youll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. Thats important. The service that San Francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in San Francisco. So well help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of San Francisco. But i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in San Francisco that has history and that is uni

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