Underground fiberoptic cable which we can all appreciate. Im wondering then if at t and pg e require that Field Operation employees verify their identities in the employment document and whether both agencies promptly comply with state and federal investigators on request, particularly given the laxity of rules regarding membership adopted by trade unions over the past decade. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. No other speakers. Public comment is now closed. Chair . Supervisor walton any more comments from colleagues . Supervisor fewer i think we learned a lot today. I want to thank colleagues for holding this hearing. I think public speakers bring up good points about the overhanging of wires and i look forward to calling for an additional hearing about the study, but actually i think there are still some open issues about what is on those poles. And now i am being alerted that the pole heights have been extended, which is something i didnt know about. So, chair, im respectfully asking to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. The motion has been heard. Let me check in. I want to briefly say i appreciate all the folks that came out today. I know that theres a lot of people that have been pushing this conversation. Its interesting when you leave San Francisco and you look at other areas all around its not as i want to use the word polluted the wires everywhere in our city. The argument about not being able to do it, transmission lines, these are factual in some ways, but in other ways you can argue theyre not. If you go around the bay area you dont see the same level of congestion and wires and other localities. The other frustration i have for our part of town is we essentially have no undergrounding. So same in the richmond. So theres just not much as all or any in our part of town. Then when you do, people will get messages or get a letter from a utility saying if youd like to do this, you can pay 30,000 or 15,000 to have this done on your street. Each individual household our part of town are working families, they dont have that money. I know in the past 170 million was spent to do this. It was through a grant process. The communities organized were able to get it done, but it was not in the southern parts of the city or the southwestern part of the city. So we want to do this. I think its important. I think that scientific studies have shown that Energy Efficiency is increased when you put it underground. Safety is increased when you put it underground. Overall, quality of life is enjoyed when its put underground. So i think theres some good points made today. I think we should further in conversation and bring folks back, but i want to voice that today supervisor fewer i think its exploring our jurisdiction of the lines, not so much the poles, but the lines also. Supervisor walton i think its interesting that cpuc hasnt conducted a study of whether or not underground is safer. But yet we have new developments that are required to use underground utilities. Its interesting and we will have further conversations of course to understand how that could be the case in this point. To your point, supervisor, i want to thank you and supervisor stefani for calling this hearing today. This is happening in other cities. Its definitely happening on new developments right here in San Francisco. So were going to continue to work hard to make this a reality, and you have a commitment from us to do that, which is why were here having this hearing today. With that said, theres been a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. I dont think we have any objecti objection. Without seeing any objection, well move this item to continue to the call of the chair and we seal take this with no objection. With that said, clerk, is there anything else that we have . Clerk theres no further business. Supervisor walton seeing as theres no further business, this hearing and this meeting is adjourned. [adjournment] i have been living in San Francisco since 1957. I live in this area for 42 years. My name is shirley jackson, and i am a retirement teacher for San Francisco unified school district, and i work with Early Childhood education and after school programs. I have light upstairs and down stairs. Its been remodelled and i like it. Some of my floors upstairs was there from the time i built the place, so they were very horrible and dark. But weve got lighting. The room seems lighter. They painted the place, they cemented my back yard, so i wont be worried about landscaping too much. We have central heating, and i like the new countertops they put in. Up to date oh, and we have venetian blinds. We never had venetian blinds before, and its just cozy for me. It meant a lot to me because i didnt drive, and i wanted to be in the area where i can do my shopping, go to work, take the kids to school. I like the way they introduced the movein. I went to quite a bit of the meetings. They showed us blueprints of the materials that they were going to use in here, and they gave us the opportunity to choose where we would like to stay while they was renovating. It means a lot. Its just that ive been here so long. Most people that enjoyed their life would love to always retain that life and keep that lifestyle, so it was a peaceful neighborhood. The park was always peaceful, and i dont know. I just loved it. I wanted to be here, and i stayed. In this San Francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. And theyre working in roughly 400,000 square feet. We were especially pleased that cleanpowersf offers the super green 100 clean energy, not only for commercial entities like ours, but also for residents of the city of San Francisco. We were pleased with the package of services they offered and were now encouraging our employees who have residence in San Francisco to sign on as well. We didnt have any interruption of service or any problems with the switch over to cleanpowersf. This clean power opportunity reflects that. I would encourage any Large Business in San Francisco to seriously consider converting and upgrading to the cleanpowersf service. Its good for the environment, its good for business and its good for the community. Any comments, questions, or corrections . Hearing none, call the question. All in favor . Any opposed . I abstain since i was not here. Yes, the motion carries. And now, item 4, the directors report. Good morning, commissioners, and welcome, commissioner spears. It is great to have you here and its also great to have a full commission. I think its been several years, so very excited to work with all of you. I think i want to start with kind of the National Level stuff. I just came back from the National Association of area agencies conference on ageing and board meeting, im a california representative for n4a. It was in new orleans, and you know that meeting in new orleans in the summer was a little harsh. I was talking about our approach to ageing in San Francisco. In addition, we had Katrina Williams who works in the Human Resources division who came and did a training on implicit bias and equity and inclusion, and it was really well received by participants in that workshop. The other news, and i may have mentioned this early because we knew about it earlier is we were the recipients of an award because of the partnership that we have with Community Center and with Senior Centers with the older adult Choir Program. So Community Music center was with us to receive the award. It was really exciting for them, and theres been some press in San Francisco about this. But its really its such a great intervention, and the people who are involved in the choirs report regularly that they feel more healthy and more engaged and all the things that we hope for when they are involved in a choir. At the state level, i think we talked a little bit about this earlier on when we met in june about what the budget was shaping up to be, but we did ageing and Disability Services did well in the budget, and there were in addition to, you know, some of the medical enhancements, some of the things we focus on are our community services. We did very well on nutrition at the state level. A. D. L. Got funding for the first time ever. This is really a way for ageing Services Providers and the independent living providers to Work Together to really think about how we serve people with disabilities and older adults together, so we have an adrc in San Francisco, and there are seven others across california. And hopefully what this means is well actually get some state funding for the first time instead of funding this solely with local funds. Ombudsman also got some much needed funding, which was really excited. When you think about what the ombudsman does is go out and look at the quality and the care in Skilled Nursing and assisted living facilities and theyre much understaffed and underresourced, and so this was really exciting. And then, we also got, for the first time, some money for falls prevention, we all know that falls are so hazardous and quite often put people in the hospital and they often dont come out. So falls are bad. This is the first time that the state has put money into this. Locally, we had, on monday, something really exciting happen, and that was we had an older adult and disability work fair. And the office of economic and Workforce Development along with the Community Living campaign and the anything any time Fund Coalition put this together. We also had some Funding Partners who were really helpful in making it happen. But we had i dont know what the final count was, but it was really successful, and i think it showed to some people what the need and the appetite is for work for older people and adults with disabilities. It was, i hope the beginning of a much stronger relationship with us along with our Community Partners and funders to think about, you know, what does this look like moving forward . How do we ensure that were continuing to advocate for people with disabilities and people in the workforce . And also including diverse age and ability when what that does to the workforce and how that enhances it, and i think we just need to keep hammering that home. We are, through the Community Living campaign, our community partner, are continuing to work with a creative agency, and theyve come up with some ideas for us. And our work group has looked at all of them and weve kind of gotten down to one idea, and so now, the agency is talking about how to get the reframing ageing campaign out into the community. So hopefully in the next few months, well be seeing the fruit of that labor out and about town. Im hoping when people see those things, they can photograph things that they see in town. For those of you that use social media, i think its going to be really exciting, and i think theres going to be community engagement, and i think thats going to be really crucial. And then, im going on and on. Ill take any questions if you have any. Thank you, shireen. Any comments or questions . Not a question, but a comment. I was able to attend the workshop on monday. It was great to see so many different departments working together on this effort. It was crowded. It was the folks there were enthusiastic, both on the job seekers side, but also the employers who were there, they were doing onsite interviews, and you could just feel the excitement in the room, so l congratulations for the effort. Thank you. And i do have one thing on my list, and i just skipped over it. I talked a little bit about the name change for the Department Early on, and i just wanted to give you an update as to where that is right now. So president yee introduced the name change to the full board. It then, the proposed name change went to rules committee and passed out of rules committee and then was signed on by the full board. So the board is in the process of putting the proponents argument on to the ballot . And so then, theres some activity that needs to happen after that, but then, well see what happens. One of the things is it does is it changes the name to department of disability and ageing services . So the fact that the department serves people with disabilities clearly, clearly in the name. And the second thing it does is it specifies the makeup of the commission to ensure that theres a person with a disability on the commission and that theres a veteran on the commission, and older adult, which having an older adult on the commission has never been an issue, and weve always had that, but it specifies the other two, as well. So thank you. Any other questions or comments for shireen . Thank you. The next item is the employee recognition. The daas department and shireen will honor people from the department of adult protective and ageing services. [applause] so i dont think weve honored anyone from Adult Protective Services, so could everyone from Adult Protective Services stand . [applause] so we all know Adult Protective Services is such a Critical Service in counties and San Francisco is no exception. Our Adult Protective Services program is particularly wonderful. I hear this all the time when im going around the state how well established our Adult Protective Services program is, how weve really started using our data as to what the best practices are. I always tell the Adult Protective Services people are when i see them, what you do is really hard works. It takes putting your education into practice and figuring out ways to take care of yourselves, so we are so pleased to have you as are the people that youre working for all the time. So sayer,. Sarah, this is so well written, im going to read what they wrote about it. Sarah has served as a protective Services Worker for the past 12 years. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and has extensive experience with and knowledge of developmental stages and how the ageing process can affect ones ability to maintain ones independence, safety and protect oneself from abuse and neglect while living in the community. She utilizes her skills to set boundaries while working with complex family dynamics, and she recognizes a persons ability to engage while accepting services. Shes a strong advocate for her clients and applies during her years at Adult Protective Services, sarah has mentored two interns from u. C. Berkeley. This allowed her to further devel develop her leadership skills when helping many adults and elders resolve abuse and neglect issues. Under her tutoring, the individuals gained skills to become important social workers in the community. She has participated in two aps retreat committees. Sarah worked tirelessly on scheduling the monthly officer of the day schedule for the last three to four years. These are just a few of sarahs attributes for making her an asset to the aps team. We commend her for protecting our ageing and adults in San Francisco. [applause] s so sarah, on behalf of the department of ageing and adult services, you are the employee for the month of august. Thank you. Thank you. Here. I think you should take this. Thank you. Next is diane lauren with the Advisory Council report. Good morning, diane. Good morning. Welcome. Thank you. Commissioners, the Advisory Council met in june and again in july. We did not take a summer break. Well take that in december, and that was a decision of the council because we discussed whether we wanted to take july off, and they felt that the momentum was moving well, so why take a break. So my report is a june and july report. So basically, what one of the changes is the dignity fund and Advisory Oversight Committee meets six times a year, so we have them on the agenda after the meeting rather than put them on the agenda and say theres nothing to report. Theres nothing to report in june, but in july, they reported that the additional 3 million thats allocated in the dignity Fund Legislation has been allocated. And at their september meeting, the dignity Fund Coalition will have a special discussion on the master plan on ageing. We had senior plan on action speaking to us at the june meeting regarding the Pedestrian Safety committee, and im not going to go into a lot of detail, but basically, he gave us a bit of history on vision zero, the goal of achieving a no death by 2024. Doesnt look like were on target to do that. Things started out well, but over time, theres much more of a collaborative effort amongst the various groups in San Francisco. While there was a decrease initially in these, this has not been substantive over time. The coalition was a result of some of his collaborative work in the early 2000s, and it meets quarterly, and its led by the sfmta, the department of safe streets for seniors, and people with disabilities program. And there were problem that still exists, a topdown approach, a high risk ab