Second. Any comments or changes . All in favor . Aye. The motion carries. Item four, directors report. Good morning, commissioners. I just want to start with the Older Americans act. I usually start with the federal level and i wanted to give you a report that the Older Americans the Congress Passed a shortterm continuation of the Older Americans act. As i mentioned before, it was some set it on september 30th so they passed a shortterm resolution to keep it going until november 21st. In the meantime, we are hoping to work out the appropriation differences that they have, so we had really news on the house side that there were actually they were proposing some increases for the Older Americans act and on the senate side, it was much less impressive. So theres still a lot of advocacy to be done, and hopefully our advocates from San Francisco will be thinking about how we can reach out and make sure that the Older Americans act gets funded at hopefully better levels than it currently looks like on the senate guide. We will keep you abreast of that situation, but it might be that the department can send something on behalf of the commission. That would be helpful. The other thing that makes a difference is our leaders in congress and pushing for their advocacy. As you know, we are lucky that we have people who really care about these issues but we want to remind them that we need their support and advocacy. If anyone gets a chance to do that, that would be great. To move onto the state level, the state has gone full force and thinking about the master plan on aging. I mentioned last month that the oversight body, the task force, sorry, for the natural plan on aging has been put into effect. We had the first meeting on september 17th. There are also a lot of other opportunities to be involved. There are a number of set groups and committees that will be meeting to cover different areas of the master plan on aging and theres also, i have been assured by the state that they will be reaching out to counties like ours to find out what we think about the master plan on aging. That leads me to the events that we have onset we had on september 20th, 19th, 20 th. [laughter] at the hyatt regency. Many of you got to be there so that is really great. There was a fantastic turnout. This was an event put on by the luncheon care coordinating council. They did a good job of pulling it together. Janet got to give opening remarks and commissioner spears gave opening remarks, and then there was it was moderated and Assembly Members and commissioners were on the panel it seems like we had a very good we had a really interesting audience. It wasnt just people in this room. People who are always advocates for older people and people with disabilities, but there were people from the Health Department there, there were people from foundations, there were people from ucsf, et cetera, just hearing from a lot of different sectors, and that is really great. Part of the whole point of this is to get awareness to san franciscans, build awareness about the coming plan on and the opportunities to have input following that, marie from the Community Living campaign and i coauthored an oped over the weekend. If you havent seen that, we can bring that to the commission, but we are really trying to find opportunities to get the word out and really talk about the great work that San Francisco doesnt how we can be a model for some of the elements of the plan at the state level. Then i just wanted to i feel like we met very recently, maybe we didnt, it feels like we were just here. I also just wanted to take the opportunity to introduce kate. I mentioned her. Kate, if you could stand. Welcome. Kate is the newest member of our leadership team. I did introduce her last month, but didnt realize she wasnt in the room. I wanted to put a name to the face. She is our new director of the benefits and resource hub and we are really happy to have her it has given us the chance to put together our eligibility side with our intake information referral side and county Veterans Service office. Also, we were able to move our independent provider System Centre from one building into this building so that all of the services were centred in that building. It is really becoming more of a onestop, which is great. We are looking forward to working with kate. She has a great background and came from some of our partner agencies. She has worked with a number of other businesses, as well. I want to end on something that is very exciting and i have been talking about for a year now with you, and that is that we are about to launch an organization. The launch date is october 15 th. We have a number of things happening on that launch date. I want to think marie and kate at Community Living campaign for being such great partners and the meta fund for being a great partner as well. Even though we have consultants working with us and we have really creative people working with us, they are giving us great advice. Theres nothing like having people internally, and then our partners who really know our work to make the message correct. It has been a huge amount of effort on everyones part to pull this off. So you should hopefully, on october 14th, especially for the commissioners who like to walk around the city a lot and take stock of things, we are going to have wall scapes, we have a couple of walls gave areas purchased. One right near the meta fund near the washington battery, and then we will have bus tales , we have a caltrans sign bridge. Those are some of the outward facing physical things that you might see out in the community, but in addition to that, we will have a robust social Media Campaign going along with this. We have five people from the older adult communities in San Francisco who are represented as models in this so you will get to p. See people that maybe you will know. That is really exciting. Also we will have posters and buttons and postcards that we are going to be distributing to be part of this campaign. We are very excited. This is the first phase. The second phase is to make people aware of our services. It is about building awareness is of the aging population in San Francisco and thinking about ageism and combating ageism and then moving on to sing, hey, we have services for people that you should use. I think the other thing is that on all of the materials, there will be a u. R. L. That will lead right next to a landing page were people can learn about ageism, they can learn about the models, as i said in their stories, they can learn about they can read some articles about ageism and the intersection of ageism and some other things within San Francisco. They can take a pledge to end ageism. I am very excited about that. We will do our best to communicate as much as i can. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions . Just going back to our support for the Older Americans act, when we go about writing a letter, is that something that a staff person could help us by drafting . What i is a commission will be looking for is to something very specific around what are we trying to get the senate to vote for . That was probably in the house. It is a very specific advocacy piece. Is that something that will get drafted by staff and we can approve . We will talk about that and we will come back to you. There is a right way to go about it. In my mind, that would be the kind of letter that would be very helpful. I would like to support that. Right. Thank you. Shereen, i have a question for the separate 20th meeting [indiscernible] i believe it is on youtube and you can access it through the Dignity Fund Coalitions website and probably Community Living campaigns website, as well. I looked it up last night and i saw it on there. If you need the information, bridget can show you the website. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments or questions thank you very much. The next item on the agenda is employee recognition. We will honor ashley rise from the San Francisco services office. [applause] come on up here. All right, everyone. This is a really exciting day. We get to honor ashley as the employee of the month for october 2019, which is fantastic. Ashley, i have not had a chance to work with you as much as i have with some people, so i will read what people wrote about you because it is really in the process. And you have only been with us since 2017 so you have really managed to distinguish yourself amongst your staff and your peers, and that is fantastic. Ashley joined Inhome Supportive Services in 2017. She always cares greatly for ihss clients. She constantly looks for opportunities to expand her knowledge regarding Resources Available to clients and herself as a professional. Often times, she makes sure she is connected with agencies in the bay area and is always on the lookout for trainings and workshops that will help her serve clients better. She shares this knowledge with the rest of the program. For many years, Inhome Supportive Services has been collaborating with laguna honda hospital to provide services to some of our most wanted will clients in the city and helping to have them come out of laguna honda and get ready to return home. Recently we saw the need to strengthen that collaboration by streamlining processes and improving communications between the two agencies. Therefore, ihss decided to dedicate one social worker who will specialize in the needs of laguna honda hospital clients and provide more focused resources. We needed someone who has great communication skills, no such interact with clients who are facing challenges, and is able to follow through with service delivery. Ashley was a perfect social worker for this job but she took on this unique opportunity without any hesitation. She was able to coordinate Services Delivery to ensure that the clients will have a safe discharge home. Ever since we have seen an improvement in services and positive feedback about the dedicated care we provide to our clients who are coming out of laguna honda. Thank you, ashley, for all your wonderful work and your dedication, and thank you so much for being part of our ihss team. Congratulations. [applause] i am just looking forward to a long career here and continuing to help serve the clients that we are serving in San Francisco. Thank you and congratulations. [applause] the next item on the agenda is the Advisory Council report. Good morning, commissioners. The Advisory Council met on wednesday, september 19th and all of our members were present, so that is a big accomplishment, and including josh who is up for confirmation this morning. We still have some vacancies, but it does mean that we our meetings tend to go a little bit longer. We had report by rose jones on the departments 2019, 2020 action plan, that was the report that was given to you earlier in the month. We focus on the key deliverables under each goal and it was very similar to the report you heard on the early part of the month. The joint Legislation Committee made a recommendation that the council send a letter urging the governor to sign the Senior Legislature sponsored bill 970, which is to provide grants for transportation, and these are primarily in rural areas where, is much as we have challenges here with transportation, we have transportation in the Rural Communities and there are none to get seniors and persons with disabilities to medical appointments, grocery stores, or if they get there, it is ours long driving and food can be limited. We had a quick report on the assistedliving report that had been done earlier in the year and that just brought the council uptodate on some other work that is being done by other groups in the city. The dignity fund an oversight committee, we had an update. There was the update on the year and budget, targets have been achieved, and things are going well, but there are some questions about the lgbtq population being underrepresented. Some transgender engagement has been conducted into public forums. That led into dr. Alemans presentation on the lgbtq update, and again, mentioning a delay in the 7595 laguna, which is in lgbtq centred Senior Housing site. And then she discussed the challenges of Data Collection in other city departments beyond daas on Data Collection from lgbt on that that is not being pushed. The dr. The doctor and supervisor mandelman are discussing ways to get that data. There was a brainstorming session in june, and work is being done with the Mayors Office on transgender issues to see if there is a way to push that data for demographic collection. There is a similar problem with the state level. Because we had such robust discussions with everybody there, we ran out of time for sight visits. And since the joint Legislation Committee and the legislation is over, the joint legislation voted not to meet in october, november, and december. We will have our sight visits report completed. That is the number one goal. When we talked, there were a number of announcements talking about the doctor gave an update on the scan Foundation Form on the master plan, together which occurred on monday the 16th, and then also on the first meeting of the master plan for aging. And then there were a number of activities through the rest of the month. On the 19th there was a cessation of Disability Advocates that met addressing the master plan with state senator weiner and Assembly Members. And then, also, one of our councilmembers in district four has a program called senior power and she reached out to the groups, to our merchants in the sunset parkside area about hiring seniors, so she will be talking at the next meeting, so we will have an update soon that came from discussions at council. Thank you. Any comments or questions from the commission . Dianne, county vacancies do you have on the advisory at this point . I think we have one from the commission and three from the supervisors. I would have to double check. And we have reached out to all the supervisors, i think maybe four from the supervisors. We will be working to get back to the supervisors. With commission appointments, and supervisorial appointments, we should really have every district coverage. We have two districts with no coverage, so the person working on membership, i was thinking about that this morning, we have one pending. Supervisor yi has someone pending. Sometimes with a supervisorial appointments, it takes the rules committee to get on the board of supervisors ofs addenda agenda, but well be reaching out. And if need be, we will go to their offices and sit down and talk with them. Any other comments or questions . The next item on the agenda is the joint legislative committee and here is dianne again. So we have had a pretty robust year. I will give you summary numbers one of the reasons the joint Legislation Committee opted not to meet again is because the legislative session is over so there will be no changes to what will go through will go through. I will give you a written report of what got past and passed and what didnt and all of that. Right now, four bills of the over 50 plus have been signed and chaptered. Those are on emergency preparedness, Residential Care facilities, Emergency Services training and elder and dependent adults abandonment. Right now there are 20 sitting on the governors desk to be signed. I havent checked if anything has occurred, but i think that is a pretty good record for the year. Six are held under suspension, and in our discussions, we think many of those are masterplanned potential issues , so they may come back next year. Some will definitely be two year bills. We will know more when we report in february. There will not be much done in january. And then there were four there were six held under submission. Four that have already been targeted for possible two year bills, and there are 13 that are just sitting there. We dont know what will happen with those. They could die. Those numbers could reappear if something with Something Else next year. We will have to wait and see. Thank you. Any comments or questions . Thank you very much. I have been busy. So we met in september 23rd, 24th in sacramento. There are new councilmembers, new commission members. I wanted to give you a brief update on the package. They were introductions of the New California commission on aging and executive director carol who has a very broad background in aging and adult services, a broad background with the department of health and has worked internationally on womens issues. So i think she will she is very lively and engaged in our conversation. Every p. S. A. Has to submit a report prior, so we submit a report but i wanted to point out a couple of things that i thought stood out. The county is doing a finger fare in october to focus on the census. We talk a lot about census 2020 and the importance for seniors, and particularly adults and persons with disabilities, making sure they are counted. One p. S. A. Also had a master plan for aging summits similar to what we did on the seventh. Los angeles has been focusing on purposeful aging and the county is in aging and disability friendly city. The San Bernardino county has been looki