Support to the rest of ihss and to clients and providers. So thank you so much. [applause] on more of d. A. S. , you are our employee for the month. Thank you. May i say a few words . Of course you may. I have the copy in my hand. I dont want to miss anyone. So first and foremost, thank you to my heavenly father, my family and friends for being here today, a special thank you to the special someone who nominated me, my direct supervisor for endorsing the nomination, our management team, the executive director, of course, and our Deputy Directors, program manager, program director, thank you for your selection. Thank you to the commissioners for allowing us this time to present the employee of the month, 11 months of the year, and the manager of the year in december. And to all of my supervisors past and present, i have four, one direct and three. And our temporary staff and the clerk and lastly but certainly not least, my fellow Human Services technicians, because we have been through a lot in the four years that ive been with ipac, and we have helped thousands of independent providers and recipients transition to the electronic verification process, the electronic time sheet system. We have mastered the employment verification process, we successfully conducted the Group Orientation at 77otis. We have adjusted to our new service center, and of course our new schedules, because we rotate various tasks every day. Im blessed to be part of a team thats made up of smart, caring, hardworking and generous people who support one another and enable coworkers like myself to volunteer at various committees and promote inclusion and self care. Since its still early in the year, i want to wish everyone a healthy, happy and productive prosperous new year. Thank you all for your kind attention. Thank you. [applause] [applause] thank you. The next item on the agenda is the Advisory Council report. Welcome, diane lawrence. A little bit different mic. Good morning, commissioner, president , commissioners, director mcspadden. Happy new year. Last month i was at the meeting which why i was not here, so i will give you a report on that tac meeting. Since the council didnt meet in december, i thought it might be advantageous to just kind of sum up what we had done in 2019, because the council worked hard, and i think we have accomplished some things that i hope you will be pleased with. So our first we will get to legislation in a minute. But we basically we began tracking over 50 bills at the beginning of the year, and we settled into 46 by the end. 19 of those bills were signed by the governor, six were vetoed and ill give a report to bridgette, i listed all the veto messages which i promised you back in october. There were 11 bills where no action was taken, and i think we may see those come back, and well know more when we meet next week. And then there are ten under submission that could also come back. The legislators released their priorities for the coming year. And so well see where that goes. Well have a better idea when i report in february. We filled one commission vacancy. We still have two openings. Two board of supervisors seats were filled by the year end with a third pending. So that leaves us and there are four Commission Seats and five board of supervisor reappointments to be made in 2020. So we are hoping to get the Commission Group together as one package, and then see if we can work with the board of supervisors and rules committee to present all of those at one time so we are not dribbling and then we are reaching out to the two supervisors where we have no representation yet. So thats kind of the plan. So keep your fingers cross. We completed ten site visits last year. So i wanted to make sure that when we do it month by month, it doesnt come out quite as large. And i was kind of amazed at how well we had done. The nutrition sites that hadnt been visited in the recent past have all been assigned and prioritized for this year. Well begin reporting on those in february. Pedestrian safety committee, as i was in my november report, i was on vacation then. Provided a preliminary report, and council decided to continue this work in 2020. And we are going to add paratransit, and well get oar transportation issues as well. And we have focused right now on five topics for the year. Like we did last year. The first is census 2020. We are inviting a speaker for january. The master plan for aging and the alzheimers subcommittee, which dr. Ailman who is on the council and on the state commission, is a part of continuing our pedestrian safety, looking at housing, and then the whole issue of isolation. So those are our targets for 2020. Thank you very much. That was very comprehensive. Any comments or questions for diane . Thank you. The joint legislative you will have one next month. I think we have our first Advisory Council meeting next wednesday. And you are back for tac . I am. So we had a robust meeting in sacramento on december 3 and 4. We have the meeting dates for the coming year. They will be in late february. And they will coincide with the advocacy day or capitol day with the legislature. We will meet in may to coincide with senior rally day on may 11. The october dates, we think that should be close to when master plan for aging comes out. So and then in december we always meet the first week. So we talked about the master plan for aging on the engaged california website theres a way to sign up for updates on the master plan and that url is in my report. The department of aging at the state level is launching wednesday webinars that anyone can sign up to discuss the highpriority topics for the master plan. And one can sign up for the webinars on the website. The commission on agings website has linked to the Stakeholder Advisory Committee and subcommittees, and the subcommittee reports are due at various times during 2020 and then will be consolidated into the master plan. There was an Elder Economic forum which commission spears participated in, and there was a white paper presented, if i read my notes correctly, on Elder Economic issues. The p. S. A. S all have to report and then theres some general reports and im not going to go into details. But what basically came out in those of us that were there, the focuses have been on the census. Wildfire safety and emergency planning. The master plan, there are some big changes coming in l. A. County and l. A. City because we know how massive it is and how they structure their p. S. A. S and and seeing how the county and cities can work together. And then theres focusing also on homelessness, shared housing. Future topics that well be talking about are shelfstable foods, adult protective services, Public Benefit and care giving. We had a presentation on the California Healthy aging initiative from the California Department of Public Health. And this is to align resources with focused leadership. Its a Program Within the department to coordinate and develop a healthy framework for california. They are looking at the Healthy Brain Initiative and there were two in rural counties, three in urban counties. They are also looking at a way to set up a unit just for addictions, not just opioid but alcohol, gamble, any kind of addictive behavior and handle it as one. The goal is to launch this in october. We also had a presentation on creating a welcoming environment for all. And it was presented by the friendly visitor coordinator for the laven darr Senior Center in east day. This was formed in the mid 90s. It addresses some of the issues that shireen just spoke about with the Lgbtq Community. And they have two major programs, friendly visitor program, working with Community Volunteers to visit isolated seniors with the goal of visiting the isolated seniors at least once a week and safe and visible design for healthcare workers to make the community more comfortable and speaking appropriately with lgbtq seniors. This program and their training is posted on their website and available to anyone. We also had a very thorough presentation on census 2020. It is wellfunded by the legislature as commissioner pappas knows. I want to say april 1 is camp day, so youll be hearing more about that. Complete count is very important. The other issue that is theres a lot of concern, i think, around two things, one is citizenship questions, and there are none. There are nine questions which are already available online. And theres a lot of worry about Cyber Security and hacking, and the Census Bureau is taking that seriously and is working diligently to make sure the data is secure. I want to say there was over 20 million. There was a lot of money the governor put in the budget. Our last presentation was by helping communities prepare for natural disasters. Its a program that started in june last year in collaboration between the state and communitybased organizations with 50 million in funding. And the goals were to include a sociallydiverse and isolated communities to bolster resilience and empower selfs for safety. 24 counties were given grants and Catholic Charities made the presentation had contracted with eight. One of them was San Diego County, and we had a representative from San Diego County speak to us. They have done things like alert San Francisco, much like we have with 311 where they can alert folks with text messages. A reverse 911 where theres emergency call and then goto bags, what do you need . They have put together door fliers for Contact Information and what the presenter spoke about has allowed people to begin to think about those issues and have conversations within their families. They have put together training curriculum and the types of emergencies talked a lot about smoke detecters, especially in wildfire areas, earthquake preparedness. They are very specific, and they are trying to make them culturally specific as well. They have completed the top ten tips have been completed in san diego, and they have modified it from Imperial County because Imperial County is more rural. Our next meeting is at the end of february. Thank you. You have certainly been business. Thank you very much. Any questions . Any questions or followups i need to do . Okay. Thank you. Next up is the longterm care coordinating council. Kelly dearman. Welcome. Good morning, commissioners, president serina, happy new year, everyone. I am going to give the report from the december longterm care coordinating council meeting. The big news is that we have a new ltccc member who will serve as the Second Department of Public Health representative. It is alex jackson, and he is the Deputy Director of adult systems of care at the Public HealthBehavioral Health services. And because we like to put people to work immediately, he will also serve as the cochair of the Behavioral Health workgroup. So at the last meeting in december, of course, we had updates on the master plan efforts and master plan on aging, and in particular we had a robust discussion about how we can encourage the consumer perspective and Stakeholder Input throughout the whole process. So many people that we want to make sure can participate so that voice doesnt get lost. We had a discussion about census 2020, in particular since so much is being done online, we want to make sure our older adults and people with disabilities are count. We talked about the dignity fund. And we had a presentation on accessible Transportation Services, and i understand you are going to hear that. So i wont give it away. And we had a meeting yesterday, but im not ready to report on that. Thank you. Thank you, kelly. Any questions or comments for kelly . Thank you very much. The case report. Good morning, commissioners. Happy new year to all of you. Case members enjoyed a very Festive Annual Holiday Party last month. It was actually the largest turnout that any of us could remember, all enjoying fine food and beverage, good philip and a shall we say very spirited White Elephant gift ex change. A good end to the calendar year. Last month we submitted our formal funding request to director mcspadden for budget year 2021. It will be the letter itself will be included in the report that you will receive from bridgette. The total of the request is 1,468,956, which is somewhat higher than the previous amounts that i spoke of last month in summary. That was due to as we were preparing the final draft and reviewing the realities of the cost of doing business in San Francisco were looked at as well as wanting to aim to achieve optimum results for our seniors and people with disabilities. Just to summarize the ask includes five categories, aging and Disability Resource CenterSalary Equity in the amount of 213,000, outreach campaign, which would include funds for individual agencies to do their own outreach as well some funding for our getting there together event 2. 0, which is scheduled for september 13. The total for that item was 400,000. Isolated lgbtq seniors, efforts to reach and engage this marginalized population, 295,000. Trainings for agency staff, to better equip them to do the work that we do, topics that were suggested, this is not finalized by any means but include ableism, compassion fatigue, budgeting, et cetera. And that was for 60,000. Behavioral health support, this is an area where most of that increase from the amounts in my report last month were, to include two clinical staff, so two psychologists to rotate among service centers, not only assessing and dealing with individuals but also training for staff to better equip them to do their work on a daily basis. The total for that is 500,000. At this months meeting, which is monday, this coming monday, particularly note worthy for two reasons, one is that our featured presenter is louise aaron erinson, professor of geriatrics and author of the New York Times bestseller elder hood, which i highly recommend. We are really excited to have her joining us. The other reason of note is that this will be the first, the case meeting will be followed by the first dignity Fund Service Provider workgroup meeting under the new leadership model which will have Dignity Fund Coalition coleading the four annual meetings. At this meeting, Melissa Mcgee from the office of Community Partnerships will be presenting on the dignity fund data and evaluation report. And then we hope to have time for a significant conversation discussion with attendees on what they want to see on the agenda for these meetings Going Forward as well as envisioning what they see this group being and becoming. So we look forward to that very much. Next month, we will have a Transportation Panel presentation with representatives from s fm ta and transit riders talking about current Transportation Resources for seniors and people with disability as well as efforts, advocacy efforts Going Forward. We are looking forward to this quite a lot as transportation has been and remains one of our primary areas of concern and effort. And in march, we will have someone from the census back again just prior to that, because we agreed it is quite important. And also we are looking forward our board is looking forward to next month a board retreat. Its been a couple years since we had one, and we are finally able to schedule most of a day to really get down and do some looking at Strategic Planning as we go forward. I want to close with a sincere thank you to director mcspadden and the commissioners and everyone that was involved in helping restore the elder Adult Classes that we were able to maintain. This will remain one of our areas of attention. We will be working with Dignity Fund Coalition about advocacy efforts towards the other classes and looking in the future. So we look forward to working with you on this very, very important topic. And that is it. Any questions i may answer . Thank you. Any comments or questions . Thank you very much. Item number 5, any old business . New business. The San Francisco municipal transportation agency, paratransit presentation, erin mcauliff. Hello, commissioners. Erin mcauliff is under the weather so i will be giving the presentation in her place. And you are . My name is jonathan chang, im a paratransit planner and i work in the Accessible Services department at San Francisco municipal transportation agency. Sorry. So it is a part of the Taxi Services division at m. T. A. We help manage several programs, including the Paratransit Program as well as the discount office, an