Its 72 hours requirement. As a result, we will have presentation on the action items , but there will be no voting. All the other presentation schedule will take place. Those were not action items. The voting on the action items will be voted on next month. We will not have a closed session and we will not have a presentation for item c. We will have a busy october meeting, but september should be a little bit different from what we had anticipated. With those changes, may i have a motion to approve the agenda . There is no motion to approve the agenda. Thats right. We will just go ahead without it we cant approve the minutes so we are moving right along at record speed. Executive directors report. Good morning, commissioners. I wanted to start by talking about some of the things that are happening at the national level. Along with a number of Human Services staff, was able to attend the National Association of area agencies on aging conference. At the very end of july and at the end of august. It was a really good conference. I mentioned before we went that we were recipients of a of an award again, but to remind you, it was a Community Choir program that won the award and that was really exciting for us and for our community partners, the commute it a Community Music centre that oversees the program along with a lot of senior centres. We learned a lot of good things. One of the things that is happening, we talked a little bit about it is that the Older Americans act is going through the reauthorization process. A technically sends us at the end of september, so there was a lot of push to get legislatures to come together and reauthorize the act. Unfortunately, congress has gotten held up on the funding formula for the Older Americans act and that and how it gets portioned out across states. It hasnt gotten passed yet and it will probably drag onto the fall and maybe into winter before it is past. There is bipartisan support for it and so i am sure it will get past at some point, but probably not before it sunsets. That said, the process is separate so the money will continue to flow for these programs, it is just that there is a chance to get some new dollars into it and theres a lot of advocacy happening. I will keep you posted and what happens with that. At the state level, im sure most of you read this. The governor called for a task force on the master plan on aging and asked the secretary of public Human Services to put together a task force. That task force has been announced. The members have been announced. They are going to start their work immediately because the master plan process needs to be done by 2020. So theres a lot of meetings that have to happen with this group. There will also be a lot of committees and there will be various ways that counties can be involved, so i know that you will hear from a longterm care coordinating council about an event on september 20th, but that is one way that we, as a city, can be involved in getting the word up to the state about what we would like to see in a master plan on aging. Please think about attending that event. Hopefully we will have lots of people there and commissioner spears is actually going to be giving the keynote. The introduction. [laughter]. Okay. [laughter] sorry. Anyway, it will be exciting. We have a number of great panels the council will announce that today for the Dignity Fund Coalition. At the local level, i wanted to talk about changes in operational structure that we have going on in the department. On our Community Services side, we are combining some functions and so one of them is our dos benefits and resource hub, we had an eligibility unit that is there but was under inhome supportive services. It is now going to come over and be under intake, under the resource hub along with the intake unit, which may not make sense to you right now, but basically what it means is we are putting all the functions for eligibility and intake under one roof. We are doing that because we just hired a new program director. She most recently comes from she was at home bridge before that. She has a lot of background in working with older adults, serving people with disabilities , transitional aged youth and mental health, so we are excited she is here and that she is going to take over that function. We will get to meet her at some point. And then what we used to call office on the aging and longterm care operations is now going to be under a new name called the office of Community Partnerships. We have wanted, for a long time, to get away from office on the aging because obviously we serve people with disabilities as well as people with older as well as people who are older adults. Cindy coffman, our deputy director, has some really Brilliant Ideas about how to restructure, so we now have the office of Community Partnerships run by michaels dog, and Melissa Mcgee is one of the managers who will be still continuing to work with dignity fund, that will ultimately be the under be under the office of Community Partnerships. We will be hiring another Program Manager to oversee another piece of that work. That will be very exciting for us. I think it will make a lot more sense structurally for our department. The Department Name change is on the ballot as you all know, so if that passes, them that will actually align well with our new name of the office of Community Partnerships. And then i want to Just Announced that the Adult Protective Services program one a very prestigious award, which is the national National Association on Adult Protective Services association, and they won the june auto distinguished service award. They won it because seven cisco has been an integrative force in the field in the implementation of new standardized tools to assess outcomes for all types of abuse cases. It is really breaking ground. I want to give credit to some people. Jill really brought this perspective to our Adult Protective Services program and change the way we do business. And of course, we should use data driven approaches when we can and she has really pushed to do that here and pushed for thinking about a National Database and statewide database for Adult Protective Services programs and i want to thank her , but achilles has really carried that as well, and he shows great leadership. It was just really a fantastic thing to hear that the Adult Protective Services program in San Francisco had won this award i think jill told me that it is really rare goes to the whole program. It often goes to a person. It is really kudos to the Adult Protective Services team and the work that they do and the excellence that they bring to this department. Thank you. [applause] im going to go ahead and answer any questions if you have any for me. That is the end of my report. Thank you. On the Governors Commission for aging in california, what are the objectives, and will they also identify Funding Sources . The objectives are really to think about what the elements are, what people need to age in california. It is also thinking about data systems and how we collect information and making that a little bit more streamlined because right now it is not in any way, shape, or form. It is also thinking about how to bring together programs that should go together, rather than the silent system that we currently have for everything is under a slightly different department, what would be the framework for a really good longterm care system, and how would you move the pieces around to make it happen in a coordinated way, and i think also, yeah, it is what funding will be needed and how do you project that into the future given we have a growing population of older adults in california. You know, it is very exciting to people in aging services because across the nation because california, as far as we know, is the first state to say, hey, lets have a plan. There are states doing some things around aging, but not in the same way that the governor had said that he wants to do. Even though theyre calling it a master plan on aging, one of the first things that they really need to think about is the name because the intent is to also really think about the needs of people with disabilities, so it is kind of too bad it took on that name. Hopefully that will get changed quickly. There is action that could be taken right away. Todays chronicle has a story about living care facilities in San Francisco that are closing. One specifically takes care of seniors and adults with disabilities. And recent sighting for the closure is low reimbursement rates from the state and an inability to attract and retain staff. Those could be addressed very quickly. I dont know how weissberg widespread that is but it is part of a longterm trend in San Francisco. Right and we are hoping from some help for some help from the state in the form of the assisted living waiver, but also there are some other legislative ideas that are coming up right now that hopefully will not make their way through. It is becoming a real issue. We are seeing this weekly. We are seeing a lot of closures. That is really cant concerning. Thank you. Any other questions . You said that some changes in operation, will you be sending us a new chart . We will definitely do that. Thank you for asking. Also, once you get everything straightened out with the new framework for ihss, maybe we could have a presentation on ihss because we have many new commissioners who are probably not as familiar with how it works as they would like to be. That is a great idea. Perhaps what we could do is think about if you wanted to hear about different programs, we could probably schedule something throughout the year so we get a little bit more indepth view of programs and actually get to hear from the Program Directors themselves. Would that be helpful . Yes. We will work on scheduling that with bridget. Thank you. Anything else . Thank you. Employee recognition. The commission and executive director will honor adithi vellore, rosa ortiz, dan kelly, kelly bryant, alexis cobbins, laura duenas, cassandra james, rhonda johnson, van luong, dr. Roxanne manning, brenda mcgregor, phyllis pettus, priscilla prado, paulo salta and armando zapote from the Human Services agency Racial Equity work group. [applause] you all get to come up. This is a really [laughter] im really excited today to honor everyone here and we know the commission is, as well. One of the things that weve struggled with for a long time at h. S. A. , given we are such a large agency is how do we think about things like Racial Equity, and how do we handle such a big topic and really make sure that we are giving it Due Diligence and really thinking about the fact that Racial Equity issues follow people through life. They follow people through generations. There are things that are really hard to think about and we often say, we are not going to do this , or we are going to do it in little bits and bytes. I think that, i know that Human Services agency has a real commitment to thinking about equity and really making sure that we are an equitable place to work. One of the things that i can say that we have been fortunate to do at the department of aging and Adult Services is think about what equity looks like in a community. Are we serving people equitably . Do the people we are serving match the populations, and all that stuff. We have had a chance to do that, looking externally and how are we serving the populations of San Francisco equitably. One of the things that is exciting about the work that all of you are doing along with all of us is that we are now really thinking internally about how do our staff measure up to the people we are serving in terms of, you know, the diversity, how are we thinking about ensuring that we have opportunities for all to advance, and that takes a lot of work and it takes a lot of introspection. I am pleased that Human Services agency are very committed to making sure we are committed to working this out. With out all the work that you have done. I want to specifically want to call out d. C. And rosie. [applause] they have regular jobs that they do. They were both super committed to the process of the Government Alliance and really thinking about being representatives on that body and being the leaders for us and pulling together this work. It was hours and hours and hours of work and revision i just know how much you put into that. I probably dont know, but im super impressed that you did your work and you also did this. One of the things that they did and needed to do was to pull together a group of people across the agency who were committed to thinking about Racial Equity and he really wanted to see h. S. A. Do better than we currently do all of you have really done that work. I know it is hard work. I know you feel like it was not supported in the way it should be and i think that you have all struggled through that because you know that this is such an important process and we know it is an important process. Were just at the beginning. We now have all of the work that you have put together, serving staff. Looking at a classification as an example of a, you know, where we see, you know, whether we are matching the population that we are serving, and also looking at the fact that, at the leadership level, we are not as diverse as we should be. Were not reflecting the community the way we should be. We had really good information. Our next steps are really to think about the a limitation of this, putting it into a way that we can make sure that were keeping ourselves in check and really moving forward in a way that we need to be. We could absolutely not have done that without the work of each of you, as well as the people who couldnt be here today. One of the reasons i wanted to make sure that we were honouring you with the aging Adult Services commission, even though theres also Human Services commission, is because this is really serious work for our agency and it is also serious work for our commissioners to think about ensuring that our department is always thinking about equity. Thank you so much. I really appreciate everything that youve done and i know that you will continue to do it with us. Thank you. [applause] im just going to hand these because theres so many people to handle these two. [calling names] [applause] [calling names] [applause] [calling names] [applause] thank you all again. Would be great if we could get a quick picture it would be great if we could get a quick picture. Thank you to everyone who turned out to support your colleagues. This is really fantastic. [applause] [applause] next up is the Advisory Council. Dianne lawrence . Good morning, commissioners. The Advisory Council met on the 201st of august and i wanted to point out that we had all of our members, with the exception of two excused. That was one of the largest turnouts all year. We wanted to point that out. We still have some gaps in membership, which we are working on. The director gave a report, much of which i think she has talked about both in her august report to all of you and in todays report. We had a presentation by michaels dog and rose johns on the area plan on aging in 2021, 2024 process because it is time for them to rewrite a whole new plan, so we asked them to come and give us a heads up so we were aware, especially since we have some new councilmembers, they were new to the process and could get our questions answered so we could hopefully streamline things when it comes crunch time to get it read and approved. She outlined the plan for us, its requirements, his limitations, and where the council maybe able to provide input on the goals and objectives section. As a result, we had a much better understanding of where this fits into the departments work. This company, the Older Americans act, which director mcfadden just noted, is all up for reauthorization. It is reporting on that funding. We will get it updated at the november Council Meeting. We will get a draft to review in february with the goal being that in march, we approve it so when it comes to the commission for final approval, it is already signed by me and ready to go so we meet the deadline. Our goal is to make sure we meet the may deadline. But one thing i wanted to point out is that the team making the presentation has listen to the councilmembers concerns over the past few years when we get to this point about having more time to read the report, and having a better insight into where we move. Dr. Marcy eight oh, men gave an lgbtq update and pointed out there may be some delays in opening laguna with the lgbt senior housing. Dr. A doman has also been appointed to the Governments Task force on alzheimers and dementia. She pointed out that the task force will meet in september and october and that its recommendations will be incorporated into the master plan that with the director. 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