Services. So in this one, we picked d encourage and support collaboration across providers, government agencies, and other partners. So through informal and formal partnerships, we will seek to leverage expertise and reduce duplication to best serve client populations. This includes supporting our contractors, to develop new collaborations as well as supporting other fields and Service Systems to work with older people and adults with disabilities. Some examples are the Home Safe Program that i just talked about as well as Community Based collaborations like the alzheimers association, working with open house to develop the Dementia Care training. Goal five is to support and develop and engage professional workforce prepared to work with older people and adults with disabilities. The rationale for goal five is that for older people and people with disabilities to live in Engaging Community is critical that San Francisco has a robust professional workforce trained in these issues and trained to provide the necessary supports and services. We picked d in this one. So as part of an agency wide effort to promote Racial Equity, staff will participate in training on the framework and convene staff driven work group to develop equity initiatives. Additionally, within our Adult Protective Services programs das has and will continue to train staff on trauma informed systems, conduct a Baseline Health assessment, and develop and implement a plan for adopting traumainformed practices. So i will turn it back over to rose for next steps. I just wanted to share our next steps, which is that were here presenting today. We will return to the Advisory Council in a couple weeks to share our final draft of the plan that integrates any feedback that you have for us. Hopefully the Advisory Council will approve it, and then we will return to you next month with the final plan seeking your approval as well. We need to get the final approved plan to the state by may 1st, including a hard copy signed piece of paper. So thats why were going with this time line. With that, im ready to open it up for discussion. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions from the commission . Commissioner. I wanted to say thank you for the report. I dont have any specific questions. What i would say about this report in particular. Thank you for providing that big overview. If someone were to ask me what one document they could read about what the commission is doing or how does it plan or what are the goals and objectives, im probably going to point to this one because of that. I just wanted to say i really appreciate the work thats gone into this and just really helps us when, as were evaluating everything we vote on, i can begin to see how it all fits into this big plan. So i dont have any specific questions, but i just wanted to note that and say how much we appreciate this kind of a document. Thank you. I would like to echo commissioners comments and commend the department for taking the extensive Needs Assessment results from the Dignity Fund Oversight committee which we focused on and incorporating it into other documents that kind of working comprehensively often appears we work in a fragmented manner, but that a great deal of time was spent in the dignity fund to get a sense of the needs. Its great to see that incorporated here. So thank you very much. I just want to thank you all. As a new commissioner, this is my second meeting. The plan is a really good document. The foundation for learning about the vast activities and employees and future and funding. I thank you very much for making such a nice, clean, clear understandable user friendly document. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Commissioner lum. I understand the amount of work that it takes to put together a presentation as such, and i thank the staff for having done so. Whats more important to me, as a City Employee for 30 years, i recognize the word streamline. That is something that is the most frustrating when youre an employee, for that matter, the general public dealing with the city. So i really appreciate the fact that you guys putting the emphasis on streamlining the process. Thank you. Thank you very much, commissioner. I would like to go on record as saying this is probably my 5th or 6th meeting and that has brought everything full circle for me in understanding. So i think i thank you and your department. I have a question regarding the Racial Equity framework. Is that happening at the entire city level and then each department, or how does that how is that coming to fruition and how are you looking at that given the demographics and all that you spoke about earlier . Yes. This framework is part of a citywide strategy. Mayor breed put out an executive order saying that every department should focus on Racial Equity and work to achieve Racial Equity within staffing and think about it within the communities that we serve and come up with strategies to ensure we have Racial Equity in the communities we serve as well. One of the things that the Human Services agency has done recently is to hire a new manager over manager of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. That person sits within the hr kind of division of Human Services. They will work really closely with each of the departments and with the agency as a whole and really work to build a work group thats kind of across departments and involved at Different Levels of staff. Well use those citywide framework and the office of Racial Equity, which is a citywide one which sits within the Human Services commission, and well take some of the direction from that director around kind of how to build the framework within our agency. We will also be doing work within our own department to ensure that staff are engaged at the Department Level to the extent that people want to do stuff within our own department. Weve had one meeting about that last week and started the conversation. Then i think what we also know is, thanks to the equity deep dive that weve been able to do on our own data, we know where we have some gaps and were reaching out to new communities and thinking about ways to engage communities that dont engage as well. One good example is the lgbtq community. We know we have really good engagement in the programs that are specifically designed for the lgbtq communities, but not always in the kind of more mainstream communities, broader sorry kind of the broader programs that serve everyone. So were working were planning to reach out to those communities, also figure out ways to engage the bigger organizations to say, okay. How can we make sure that we can move the needle on this . But since we have the data, we will be able to do that. It may take us a few different times to figure out what the right strategies are, but we have the data to do that. And then just one other comment. Im very pleased to see that the social isolation has made a prominent role in the report Going Forward. Is this an area that my Foundation Works on so it is one that we recognize is so extremely important to our overall health. Just to follow up, there was another aspect of the dignity fund that was really focusing on equity, and that information, again, has been informing Everything Else that the department has been doing. Thats a specific goal of the dignity fund. We have a lot of information in developing strategies to reach out to those communities, as the director mentioned. Some are more accessible than others. But that doesnt mean we stop trying. So thank you very much. Next item on the agenda, another presentation, informational view of the fiscal year 20192020 funding break down and alex will make this presentation. Welcome, alex. Thank you. Good morning, commissioners, executive director mcfadden. Im a budget analyst with the Human Services agency. My main focus is on the das budget. Im before you today to review additional funding allocated to das through the California Department on agings amendment to the area plan for the current year 1920. A thanks to rose and director mcfadden for adding so much context to the whole area plan process and time line since normally when i come before you twice a year with these area plan updates, they can be a little bit abstract. Each year, federal and state funding provided in support of Older Americans act programs is granted to californias area agencies on aging through an initial allocation in the spring when and then a further amendment al owe case made in the fall or early spring of the same fiscal area. To tie this back to the broader picture, the amendment allocation we are viewing today represents the final funding installment in the final year of our current area plan. As detailed in the accompanying memo, this year das received a total of 846,235 in additional funding for the current year as part of this amendment. This amount increased total cda funding for fiscal 19 doctor 20 from 6,017,593 to 6,863,828. As also detailed in the memo and touched upon, cda area plan funds are designated for particular Program Areas and required to be spent on those services. They include title 3b supportive services, such as inhome support, transportation, and Legal Assistance as well as funding for ombudsman programs, nutrition, home delivered meals, disease prevention, family caregiver, and elder abuse prevention. Im happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. Any comments or questions for alex . There are none. Thank you very much, alex. Thank you. Item a, requesting authorization to modify an existing Grant Agreement with Catholic Charities for the provision of neighborhood older adults with disabilities during the period of july 1st, 2019, through february 29th, 2020, for an additional amount of 160,000 plus 10 contingent fee for an amount not to exceed 1,336,623. Welcome michael. Good morning, commissioners, executive director mcfadden. Welcome commissioner lum. I want to address the next two items, a and b, as they are intertwined. I want to take you through how we have them set up as presented in todays agenda. First off, i guess, the idea of why are there two items related here . That stems from essentially we are transitioning the choirs from being an indirected funded program to a directly contracted and funded program with the department. Historically, this is about the third year we have funded the Choir Programs as part of the das programs usually within our Community Service centers. In previous years, they have been a patchwork of one time and small amounts of board of supervisor as well as das savings or funding that we have available. Because of that, we typically funded those through a subcontract, usually with a Community Service center who was hosting that choir or a larger Community Service organization who might be able to provide the physical support to handle those funds on behalf of multiple choir sites. So this year is the year that we were able to dedicate on going funding to support our robust choir network. It takes a little while for us to get from our july 1 program date through our procurement process, get everything set up, and get into that new contract. In order to continue services as they are in place and not disrupt services during that process, we do have some funding here that we are going to modify with Catholic Charities in order for them to subcontract with the choir provider to cover that period up until now. Our procurement process through the rfp requires us to provide contracts Going Forward. So with our new contract, we can officially award one to Community Music center going from march 1st forward. The Catholic Charities item before you today, while it is a full scope and a full budget, really the item that you are focused on today is just that one subcontract item, that 160,000 subcontract to Community Music center. Theres a small 3 administrative fee being charged by Community Music center to handle the processing of those funds on behalf of the subcontractor. The remaining items in that budget, that Community Service budget, are items which have come before the commission in the past and been approved. Kind of hopefully youre still with me. Okay. Okay. Now lets get to the good stuff. Why are we funding the choir . I think everyone is familiar with the concept of a choir. But i think over the past few years, through the efforts of agencies like Community Music center and coupled with the recent ucsf study, the choir voices study, weve looked at the impact of choirs as well as sort of in the context of artsbased programs and the impact they can have on older adults and adults with disabilities. As i stated in the memo, we saw this ucsf choir voices study, which i encourage people to take a look at. Its readily available through a Google Search or i can send that link through bridget. Among the findings was a reduced feeling of loneliness and increased interest in life. Choirs provided meaningful opportunities for participants to meet new people, build social network and have an increased sense of belonging to choir participation. I think building on that, from the das perspective, the Choir Program model is additionally of interest to us because we see it as a flexible, easy replicatable model that can be started without a lot of need for it can be piggy backed on existing spaces. The Program Model can be adjusted at each site so that its culturally relevant to the community that its attempting to develop a choir in. It also works to engage members in the process by helping them by having them engage to shape the choir direction including music selections and things like that. Were looking at the choirs as a way to bring new participants into das services. So the idea here is simply that someone is recruitedded, finds out with the choir through friends or flyers, comes in , becomes part of a choir and says whats going on also at this Community Center . The idea is there are many things going on, including many das funded services. That might mean getting involved in a congregate meal program, receiving assistance through our center. Seeing a counselor, getting linked in to Case Management services, joining into educational or exercise programs that might be going on. So thats something that we also really are interested in from the departmental perspective and something that were going to be tracking in this process with these programs. Okay. Last kind of thing i wanted to make sure i covered. Were going to go back into more technical stuff, i guess, less fun stuff, but i wanted to note that the Choir Programs, they currently have three bilingual out of the 12 current choirs operating as listed in the scope of service, there are three buyling cal spanish choirs with one and one filipino spanish choir. There are plans to grow the choirs, adding two more next year with one more in each of the subsequent years. At the end of this contract, we would have 16 in place. There are two bilingual chinese choirs, actually in the piloting stage right now, and those are being looked at to be brought online as part of this program as soon as july of this year. I want to highlight in the budget, youll see on the front page of the budget, under the other revenue section, that the Community Music sister is going to be bringing a significant amount of their own revenue to leverage and help support costs of that. They are matching our dollars provided in this at almost a 90 rate for every das dollar to help the ongoing function of these. If anyone wants to get into it, as far as the personnel page on the budget, the choir director and choir accompany didnt fit well into our template. If youre wondering how that works, that number, that 5,600 dollars for choir director and that 5,200 amount for choir accompanist, thats the total cost for each of those persons per choir. So then you see it multiplied out times budgeted for 14 choirs. Then you see it at only half of that. You see that. 7. Thats telling us that they are only billing half of those folks time to this contract. That is where were seeing the largest contribution from Community Music center to help defray the costs of this program. Okay. I just talked a lot. Im happy to turn it back to you guys. Thank you very much, michael. May i have a motion to discuss . Thank you. Seconded . Thank you. Any comments or questions . Weve others, but first of all, this sounds so wonderful, and i completely agree that its a great way to have people a new way to have people access the important Community Centers. I was going to ask, are you anticipating having more of these, and you said you are. Yes. Do you happen to know where were going to be . Has that been formulated yet . I think we have two pilots going on rig