During these unprecedented times. We ask the public to have patience. To eliminate background interference all are asked to mute when not speaking or waiting to present. The San Francisco hsa dos commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Secretary, please take the roll. Good morning. Thank you president spears. Please respond with present when i call your name. [roll call] we have quorum. Thank you. Commissioners, the next iletm is communications. We like to provide instructions for Public Comment. Public comment will be available each time on the agenda and are during general Public Comment. Channel 78 and sf govern are streaming. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone call. During each Public Comment viewers and callers will be structed to call, 14156550001. Using access code, 26620295937, pound and then pound again. When connected you hear meeting discussion and muted in and listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practice are to call from quite location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You have three minutes to speak. You will be informed when you have 30 seconds left. After 30 seconds you will be muted and placed in listening mode. Public comment can be submitted by email tob rava. Durbeej sfgov. Org. Any communications from the dos Commission Members . No . Yep. I would like to say one thing. Okay. In honor of senator Diane Feinstein i like to offer a moment of silence before we continue with this meeting. [moment of silence] thank you. Commissioners, your next item is item 4. Approval of inminutes of september 6, 2023. Any comments or questions from the Commission Regarding the wednesday september 6 Meeting Minutes . Do we have anyone from the public that wish to comment . Moderator, open the phone line, well allow time for callers to submit their request. Moderator, do we have callers in queue . No callers. Thank you very much. No request to speak, motion to approve wednesday september 6 Commission Meeting . I move. We have a motion and second. Mr. Secretary, please take a roll call vote to approve the minutes. [roll call] we have unanimous vote. Thank you. Commissioners, item 5 is executive directors report. Presented by our dos executive director kelly dearman. Thank you. Good morning everyone. I just have a few things to report on. First, the administration for Community Living, acl has published its first ever proposed federal rule for Adult Protective Services. So, we are currently in the comment period, but this is great because it will build more infrastructure across the country, helps states build up their aps programs. Cwda and our own jill nielsen and [indiscernible] are working hard to read the rule and make sure it meets all our needs or making comments where necessary, but this is a exciting time and we are happy this is happening. Second, care court started on monday. Care cort started monday. It hasnt had a huge impact to us as of yet. We are waiting and seeing, but we should just all be aware that it has started and there is all kinds of rules and it is complicated. But it is happening and it should be a good thing. Alright. Last week i attended c4a Strategic Planning meeting, and for the First Time Ever we adopted a set of policy priorities for this year, which include maintaining a sustainable and robust aaa network, no wrong door coordinated systems, housing security. Doesnt mean building housing, but means we need to be in the conversation when ever we are talking about housing. Same with Economic Security and recognizing that many older adults would like to work and also people with disabilities are active and able to work and should be working. Affordable and sustainable transportation, which is beyond cars, but making more accessible transportation. Care giver support and emergency preparedness. Out of that, we had our legislative priorities for this year, which are going to be very sim lar to last year because we didnt get much traction, but it is around adding more funding for adrcs and caregiver support. One of the great things that happened is that susan damorris, the director of cdasorry, i get confusedshe said it is really important for us to ask for what we want, and start with the big numbers. Start with whatever it is you want and we can widdle down from there. So, we feel like we have a Great Partnership with cda and will work really hard and see if we can get some members in our legislature to work with us to recognize that our population is continuing to age and grow and that we are not ready. Lastly, i just want to give a shout out to maria mucardo. She and her team are administering flu shots at housing sites and also working with the Outreach Team so more folks know who we are, what we do and why we do it. And i also want to thank all my staff who were so great and gracious while i was on vacation and i did not get one call. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any questions . Do we offer flu shots . The commissioner is trying to get hers and pharmacies arentdo not have them available. Do any of you have any ideas . So, commissioner, the focus of what we are doing right now is for people who are homeless and we were going into those sites. Sorryhomebound, not homeless. Thank you. If i come up with anything, ill let you know. Also im interested to okay. Maybe we can do it offline. Thank you. Sure. Ill schedule time with you commissioner so we can talk about it in more detail. Thank you. Sure. Executive director dearman, is the new Strategic Plan for all c4a . Yes, for all c4a. Thats great to hear. And it pretty much mirrors what they are trying to do at cda so our policies seem to be very much in accord with what they are trying to do. I will say these policies are not in the final final because we all recognize that there is nothing in here that talks about equity and so we are going to put it in thewho we are and what our focus is, so it is overarching Mission Statement for us. Any other commissioner comments . Commissioners, item 6 is the das employee recognition. Executive director dearman and i will present and honor jiaqi liu. Thank you. [applause] so jiaqi is social worker in das who empathy and understanding for all her clients and colleagues alike shines far and bright. Jiaqi is compassionate and caring and serves case load with unending patience and respect for everyone she works with. She has been with ihss since september 2021 and prior to joining ihss was a eligibility worker who worked with clients coming from diverse backgrounds and all sectors of life, which allowed her to transition seamlessly to ihss. Amazing communication skills with everyone she works with has made a stand out and role model in the department. As a ihss social worker, she continually displayed kindness and compassion for all of her clients and goes above and beyond powers making sure all the clients needs are met. Combined with thoughtfulness, she is diligent and never appears overwhelmed even when juggling a multitude of tasks and finds the time to help colleagues. She has exceptional Organizational Skills and High Performer and quick learner at ihss who can work independently and think outside the box. One of her best qualities is that she is a team player who welcomes the opportunity to develop new staff by allowing them to shadow her during home visits. She enjoys learning new processes and recently took the opportunity to accept an acting position with the Quality Assurance team to grow and develop new skills. Jiaqi hard work and dedication is greatly appreciated and we here at das and everyone at ihss would like to thank for all her hard work and dedication and how fortunate we are to commitment to clients and colleagues. Thank you again jiaqi and congratulations being the dos october 2023 employee of the month. [applause] thank you kelly. Thank you das for giving me this opportunity and i thank everyone in my department. They give me so much support. They give me a lot of opportunity to learn and grow, so i really want to thank my department. If it wasnt for them i wouldnt be here today so thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] on behalf of the commission and commissioners, thank you so much for your work. Ihss and the fact you are handling 350 clients is amazing and we appreciate everything you are doing for all of the Community Members that you serve. Thank you. Thank you all. [applause] commissioners, item 7 is the Advisory Council report presented by diane lawrence. Good morning commissioners rchl Deputy Director dearman. I have three reports combined here, but i think it was pretty detailed so ill give the highlights. I hope it was detailed. Just give the highlights. There was a action item from last months meeting on when i talked about the site visits and how we get more information out. So we are still working on that, but we did have discussion at the meeting and mike zogg brought the postcards in multilanguages for the hub and one of our members handed them out at a Farmer Market and grand parents day celebration, so what we are talking about is how to make the hubpeople know about it, so either some kind of card or whatever. Well continue to have those discussions and brainstorm. I did as i just told mike, give out the hub number the other day Assembly Member phil tings town hall. Somebody had questions so i carry it on my phone and hand it out. And the major piece of business at our last meeting, we had a lot of discussion was on the proposal to change the process for joint leg and i outlined the final priorities and i want to thank commissioners lum and bittner for their input, and support of that decision. It was both unanimous at the joint leg and with the Advisory Council. But what we will be doing over the next couple of months as we get ready for january is looking at executive director dearman just spoke on, c4a priorities, California Commission on aging priority, see how we can align so we as aaa are moving all in the same direction, so ill have more updates on that after the first of the year. We had a update on the disability Cultural Center. There was discussion around funding and the purpose and i think we got clarity, so i think we are in pretty good shape there. It was nice to see the rebar going up as i came up van ness this morning. Lgbtq updates, open house is building a 15 story lgbtq housing, which will be the largest in the city and that will be on market around the corner from the laguna street site. We are excited about that and will get continued updates. Our membership we still struggle. Our bord of supervisors vacancies continue and i want to thank executive director dearman for her efforts with some of the supervisors. We have senti did do a update at the Dignity Fund Coalition meeting to ask for suggestions if they know both for Commission Vacancies and supervisorial vacancies. We did send supervisor chan a resume, and we also a member offrom district 5. Someone was recommended from the tenderloin Development Network and lisa came, so he sent her resume on and she came to the last meeting and would love to have her as a council. She comes as a client so provides really wonderful insight. We still are workingwe have five Commission Openings and we may look if we dontdepending what happens with the supervisors may possibly ask the two people we have resumes on to serve to present them to your nominating committee for approval, because they would add a lot to the council. We got a couple updates as outlined here on legislation. The one i wanted to stress is one of our members, stephanie dignum works with arch and will be holding affordable connectivity programs, so our guest who has one of those programs and stephanie were able to connect and do additional work and we referred her to senior and disability action for their at t program, so well get updates on that. As i mentioned before, and not in here, one of our council members, her group senior power sponsored a grand parents day at the outer sunset Farmer Market on september 10 and handed out information on the hub, information on sidewalk repair, information on being prepared in emergencies and had a lot ofi happen to be there, a lot of Cross Generational interactions, so it was really i think very successful, plus a nice day in the sunset. You want to me to go ahead ravi or call the joint leg piece . Eel polk call it. Thank you president lawrence and commissioners. Any questions from the commissioners on the Advisory Council report . I just had one and it is more of a thank you to commissioner lum and jung for working through the joint leg new structure and getting that past. Appreciate that and think it will allow to operate more effective and provide more time to do advocacy work which is priority. Having been on that group for quite a while, i think it is a exciting change as we work through the process over the next year. Especially with a brand new session starting with brand new bills, so thank you. Good morning. Thanks for your report. I wanted to ask, you said you have 5 openings . Which districts are you still needing because im actively recruiting . 1, 5, 7, 9 and 10. Okay. Thank you. And we sent two resumes to two supervisors. Thank you. Our members are looking also, so we keepwe are doing our best. Priority of mine for next year. Any other comments from commissioners . Thank you commissioners. Commissioners, item 8 is joint legislative report presented by diane lawrence. There isi dont think there is much here to point out. We summarized the bills we focused on. I will have a thorough report next month when well meet after the governor has met the deadline, so he has until october 14. I put some definitions at the bottom. Mainly for me, because i keep reading these terms and wanted to make sure i was clear, so i thought i would just add them to the report. And then again, we did the first round of the action item to change how we meet going forward. So, our first in person meeting for the joint leg is march next year, but we will be in communication as we get the bills and if we need to call a meeting sooner or need to add a meeting during the year, thats all part of this and we are pretty sure we dont need to make any changes to ourcouncil bylaws, and there is nothing really formally written about joint leg we would need to change in your bylaws or charter piece either. We looked at that years ago. Thank you president lawrence. Any comments or questions from the Commission Regarding the joint leg tacc report . I want to thank you for the new format. The summary of bills that was really helpful and i needed the terms too. Thank you. As i come across them, ill keep adding. My history major comes in handy with footnoting. I want to thank you for coming up with thank you. I want to thank you and commissioner lum for your help. Great insight and been a real addition. Well be ready to go in march. Meet in march. Anymore questions . Commissioners, thank you president lawrence. Commissioners, item 9 is the case report. Presented by Dan Gallagher. Morning commissioners. Executive director dearman, pleasure to see you all today. Ill first start with the case programming. In september we had kathleen sullivan, executive director of open house and the out Reach Coalition manager of open house present the plans on a research that they are doing in collaboration with citrus at uc berkeley. The university of california San Francisco, and the California Department of aging that aims to [indiscernible] the aging experience of lgbtq plus californian sism the purpose of the study is develop baseline information of economic wellbeing of older lgbtq plus resident of california throughout a statewide survey. The study aims to provide state wide data to support the master plan on aging, and goals and objectives and inform California Public policy positions and improve the care and service of the lgbtq plus older adults and give attention to all state regions and the population diversity. Jupiter plans to promote the need for Community Members of the case affiliated agencies to complete assessment regarding the lgbtq plus older adults and person with disabilities to include those findings into this research project. So, we are happy to oblige and do that. In october, susan stadler, the executive director of [indiscernible] with growing older and shes an architect is giving a presentation on the aging 360 workshop which is de