What im trying to describe are those committees that meet regularly, and they hear from staff from daas, and they hear from staff you know, its an m. T. A. Person who then takes it back. So im saying all this stuff gets integrated, but it takes a while to figure out where does that voice matter. But all of these source of design ideas, and i think really, were becoming knowledgeable about them, and red lights, what an idea. And stopping a little bit and giving the pedestrian time to get across before the car starts coming into the intersection, what a concept. Well, now, something thats pretty much accepted, and were starting to do that in San Francisco more. So im saying that yeah, yeah. Thank you. Any other comments or questions for diane . So were continuing to monitor about 43 bills. Again, i didnt even include the june update. I just went right to july. The legislatures been on recess, and theyre on recess until next monday, and then, next monday, theres a whole slew of hearings for the majority of these bills. 20 had no action taken between june and july. So basically the bills are signed and chapters so theyre part of california law. One is the elders and abuse abandonment that was sponsored by state senator cdodd, and tht basically enables a case for a senior thats abandoned. And then, the second one is by assembly man chow, and its on Emergency Medical Services training. And this requires e. M. T. And standards to be established that would include a training component on how to interact on persons with dementia and their caregivers, and it would be consulting with Community Organizations on behalf of california residents with dementia or alzheimers, so this is a big win. Thank you. Thank you. Any comments or questions . Thank you very much, diane. Next, the longterm care coordinating council report. [inaudible] it was exciting to see in the governors first budget, a lot of items in Longterm Services and supports, which have gone unfunded or unimproved over the past administration are getting attention. We think theres a lot of room to grow, but we think its important that the governor is paying attention to funding some of these items which have been short budgeted for so long. For the past several months, the Steering Committee have been hard at work on organizing the councils effort, moving us from sort of stagnant longterm work groups so more topical, positivedriven work groups. Were going to be starting three off right away, and as they finish their policies, theyre going to be wrapping up. So we look forward to sharing you some of our policy and recommendations that come out of this new work group structure. Lastly, im very excited to share with you that the council in collaboration with the Dignity Fund Coalition will be orring what is to be the largest statewide Public Policy forum on the statewide Master Program for ageing on september 20, from 1 30 to 3 30 in the afternoon. We are targeting having more than 1,000 people in person and over 1,000 on a life stream, which is going to be produced by sfgov tv. We are going to have opening remarks by commissioner spears. Thank you, and congratulations on your appointment. Our panel is going to be moderated by the c. E. O. Of the scan foundation. The scan foundation has been a major sponsor of the concept in the past few years. On our panel, well have senator wiener, Assembly Member chiu, board president yee, board supervisor fewer, leading age california president , and our executive director. We have a request out to Assembly Member tings office but have not heard back, and registration will go out in about two weeks. Thank you. Any comments or questions . Thank you. The case report was submitted in writing, and i think everyone should have received a copy this morning, but we have a spokesman, nonetheless. Good morning. Good morning, commissioner spears. Its great to have you on board, and may i address my remarks to say its truly wonderful to see a full commission. We have had a busy summer through july both in finishing up our budget advocacy work for the 201920 budget. We have added a new board member, and we have been continuing our planning and Fund Raising Efforts for septembers getting there together event. Regarding our budget advocacy work, were very pleased with the efforts with daas, both that daas and city hall have had resulted in new additional funding for the senior Choir Program that you heard about earlier. Technology infrastructure and support, dementia daycare programs, some of the most frail of our senior and disabled population. Group transportation for our services clients, a long troubling need that ill speak about here in a minute, and then, Case Management services. And also just a note that as ive talked about a number of times in the past, around the kne need for transportation for seniors and disabled, im taking part in the a. D. S. Committee, which does a lot of advocacy work in transportation. We are pleased to welcome a new board member, dan gallagher, with stepping stone. He joined stepping stone in the last year. Hes already been incredibly active in advocacy work, and we look forward to having his expertise in that along with stepping stone working with us. We continued presenting outstanding programs to our case membership. Julys presentation was a panel on creative ageing which features laura mason of engage, and jessica mccracken. They gave a wonderful presentation on programs that their agencies are currently offering as well as led us in a discussion about perspectives on ageing which will continue as we try to truly reframe ageing and move to the forefront of those efforts. Our august meeting will be focused on advocacy efforts for the upcoming year. We do an annual brainstorming session where members give their input on areas where funding is needed, so thats always an important kick off, if you will. And then finally, very excited to present you with the flier for our getting there together event. We are furiously planning and still fund raising, ill admit, for the september 8 event, which is a both a celebration of ageing and people with disabilities, but please know that it is for all ages and all abilities. It is not just a celebration, it is a resource fair. We have somewhere around 30 130 sponsors and vendors that will be exhibiting. It is an openair gym, where we hope to have a powerball soccer demonstration, soccer played by people in motorized whi wheelchairs. Well do taichi, xi gong, and a group of 350 to 400 singers will lead a sing along. Were hoping for a guinness book of World Records for senior sing along. So great social media campaign, and what questions may i answer for you . Thank you. Commissioner pappas. As the representative of this body to the Inhome Supportive Services groups, i just wanted to say thank you for the presentation, greg, on july 16. It was informative, and it was inspiring. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments or questions . [gavel]. Thank you very much. Next on the agenda is old business, and there is none on the agenda. New business, item number 6. Presentation on the expansion of cal fresh benefits to s. S. I. S. S. D. Recipients. Staff to present. Good morning, commissioners, and executive director. My name is ana marie lara. Im a director with cal services net, which is cal fresh and medical. Im here to do a presentation, and this is going to be a powerpoint presentation, so lets see. Okay. Terrific. Okay. Okay. So i want to start off with a with a statistic here. Its estimated that one in four san franciscans are food insecure. Consume. Can you speak into the mic . Oh, sure, sorry about that. Can you hear me now . Yes. You want the microphone . Yeah, could i . Its kind of dropping. Okay. So its estimated that one in four san franciscans are food insecure, which means that they dont make enough money to pay for three meals a day for themselves or for their families. Cal fresh, which is formerly known as food stamps is a federally funded nutritional benefit known as snap, snap. It accesses better nutrition for lowincome households. It issues an e. B. T. Card is a lot like a debit card in that it can be used at farmers markets, grocery stores, and restaurants. Starting this summer, more than 1 million new californians are eligible for cal fresh. And any new recipients who apply and receive for cal fresh will receive no reduction to their s. S. I. Or s. S. P. Grants. So who will benefit . Again, s. S. I. And s. S. P. Recipients, and this slide just gives sort of a definition of what s. S. I. And s. S. P. Are. Okay. So california was the only state that did not allow s. S. I. Recipients to receive cal fresh, but Assembly Bill 1811 reversed this policy, so really awesome, positive news there. We want to thank all the hard work for food and nutrition advocates for making this happen. Yes, round of applause. Okay. So this slide just gives a brief overview of who is eligible or what the Eligibility Criteria is for cal fresh. Eventually, its any household or individual in San Francisco with low to no income whos within the income eligibilities, and that limit sort of changes from time to time, so what we do is we include that in a chart on the San Francisco h. S. A. Website. And if you just do a keyword search for cal fresh eligibility, it should pop up there. Who else is eligible . S. S. I. s. S. P. Recitizenshpient starting june 1, 2019. The benefits, they range from 80 to 250, and its based on household size and your expenses. If you dont spend your cal fresh benefits in one month, it actually rolls over to the next month, which is amazing. Some other Pretty Amazing perks for cal fresh and e. B. T. , we have something called the Restaurant Meals Program where, you know, folks can use their e. B. T. Cards at certain parting restaurants in San Francisco. They can also get up to 10 in free produce at farmers markets, free and discounted admission at various events, and discounted muni passes. [inaudible] sorry. A Technical Glitch here. Were back. Okay. Okay. So so this slide just gives a bit of demographic information. According to the california cdss, California Department of social services, theres about 130,000 s. S. I. S. S. D. Recipients in San Francisco, and theres a breakdown of recipients. More demographic information. You know, so based on those who receive s. S. I. In San Francisco, 50 were eligible due to a disability, 46 are due to their age. And again, some more data there about ethnic breakdowns. So this is a really cool slide. It showes sort of the zip code in San Francisco and where these people live. If you look at the key there, sort of the darker color concentrations show the higher number of s. S. D. Recipients. 92124, thats the Hunters Point bayview area, a lot of recipients there. As well as the bayview, and the tenderloin neighborhood. So what weve done is to help sort of handle the influx of work that will come with, you know, meeting the demand of all these new clients, h. S. A. Has hired some new staff. Weve hired a total of 33 new f. T. E. S, and this slide provides a breakdown of those classifications. So for instance, 10923, manager two, three clerks, five senior clerks, and so on. So in a nutshell, this slide explains if theres an existing cal fresh household with an s. S. I. Number who was previously who was previously ineligible for cal fresh, the s. S. I. Member does not need to submit an application for cal fresh. They just need to wait until their annual recertification comes around, and then, the county will automatically add them to the caseload, so, you know, just want to make that point. And also, that once we do add the member to the caseload, theres a very small chance that benefits may decrease. So i guess there was another slide prior to this. I guess it didnt make it on, but there are other slides called the s. N. B. And t. N. B. Which may offset any decrease that may happen to the caseload figure. So if their allotment goes down for whatever reason, then f. N. B. And t. N. B. Will kick in and bring them back up to their original benefit amount. I hope that makes sense. So this slide here just shows a little bit of the Media Coverage around the expansion of the s. S. I. S. S. D. Recipients. Kc26 as well as kcbs radio. A lot of good press out there about this positive change. Community outreach. Okay. So so this gives you a calendar sort of of event that weve taken on sorry. Lets get to the right page here. Bear with me. Okay. This is a calendar of activities through the fall. The state of california is conducting paid outreach that will benefit San Francisco. If you look on the far left, the may column, youll see that h. S. A. Copartnered with daas on holding two Community Forums where over 200 Food Security organizations and daas providers attended, so it is really really a it was really really a great turnout, and thanks to daas for partnering with us on those two events. And then, if we skip to august, youll see that we launched the twoinone san diego campaign. So twoinone san diego, the vendor that we work with, and what they do is an outbound phone campaign to those, you know, 41,000 s. S. I. Recipients in San Francisco to help them apply for cal fresh via telephone. So the First Priority group that theyre calling is actually the ihss clients, so thats amazing. And they started calling august 1. And then, third, actually also this week, we found five new outpatients sprinkled around San Francisco. If you guys remember that slide on the zip codes, daas, they were really instrumental in helping us with our research to finding ageing and disability resources around San Francisco that we could partner with and have an out station. What we do is we bring or eligibility workers out for a our eligibility workers out for a oneday event and they just help all the workers in the building apply for cal fresh. Okay. So big thanks to our outreach partners, again, cdss, the food bank, daas, 211 san diego, getcalfresh. Org. We just want to ask our awesome partners in the community to help us spread the word about this policy shift. Help educate your clients about this, and we at h. S. A. Developed a toolkit. Its a partner toolkit, and i can share a copy with you all. I can give out to bridget to handout, and please get the word out to apply. It takes ten minutes on calfresh. Org. This is just a picture of what the partner toolkit with me. I have a few copies with me i can pass out today, and ways to apply. We this is our mantra click, call, come in. So please, you know, to help sort of keep the lines workable in our county offices, we encourage people to go on to getcalfresh. Org, or call our 800 number or come in to our offices. So thats all. Thank you. Any comments or questions from the commission . Hearing none, any comments or questions from the public . Hearing none, thank you. Thank you. Item 8, review and approval of the California Department of ageing cal fresh expansion project cf 192006 associated budget and all amendments. [please stand by] that is pretty incredible, but i remember this. My question is, it sounded as if she was saying there was approximately 40,000 new individuals for cal fresh, and so is this effort supposed to help with that . Is that part of this contract . Correct, this is seen as just 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