All panelalist and presenters are asked to mute themselves. The Das 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 the Das 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 commissioners. Commissioners please respond when i call your name, spears, present. Lum, present. Bittner is excused absence today. Commissioner jung, present. Knutzen, present. Commissioner linda parker pennington, present. Kelly dearman, present. Thank you, we have a quorum. Commissioners, the next item 3 is communications. We like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. Public comment will be available in each item on the agenda and during general Public Comment. Channel 78 and sfgovtv. Org is streaming across the screen. Opportunities to speak during Public Comment are available during phone call. Viewers and callers will be instructed to call 4156550001, access code 26605077357 pound and pound again. When connected you will hear the meeting discussion and muted and in listening mode. Dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Call from a quite location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down the 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 back to listening mode. Public comment can be submitted to rava. Durbeej sfgov. Org. Are there or communications from the Das Commission members . Okay. We can move to item 4. Commission haders, your next item is item 4. Approving the minutes of wednesday february 7, 2024. Das Commission Meeting minutes. Any comments or questions from the Commission Regarding the wednesday february 7, 2024 Das CommissionMeeting Minutes . We have anyone from the public who wishes to comment . Moderator, please open the phone lines for Public Comment. Well allow time for caller to submit their request. Moderator, do we have call rs . No callers . Thank you. Hearing no comments to speak, is there a motion to approve wednesday february 7, Meeting Minutes . So moved. Second. Please take the roll call to approve the february 7 Commission Meeting minutes. [roll call] we have unanimous vote. Item 5 is executive director report. Thank you prez spnt spears, commissioners, good morning. I just have a few things to report on. It feels we were just here. Next month will be busy. Every month is busy, am i right, staff . Okay, first march is National Social workers month so i want to give a shout out to all the social workers work they do. It is also National Nutrition month a annual campaign to learn back and make informed decisions around food habits and exercise habits. I imagine there will be some events or something happening and if i find out anything ill let you know, but just know for this month, Pay Attention to what you are eating and how much you exercise. Just this month. Okay. Also, a couple thengs. I dont have up aidates on the budget. Ill have more updates next month. There is or at the end of this month ill have more information. I can only report that we continue to go back and forth with the Mayors Office to make sure we are maintaining as much staffing as possible and so that we can continue to provide the services that we provide. The outlook continues to looki dont want to say dire, but the word before dire is probably good. But, i am confidence that we will be able to maintain all our staff and the services we provide, but as i said for the last few months, it does mean that we likely will not be able to start any new programming. Also, we are in month three of the implementation of sb 43, which is the new law that expanded the definition of grave disability when we are looking at conservatorship laws and roles and how you can conserve people. I will say, it feels we are getting into a rhythm now and a lot of hard work by many people, but it has been a great opportunity to break down silos between department jz there is much more communication and collaboration between das, dph, police, fire, sheriff, everyone in a effort to really help those who really need some assistance and living their lives. Thats happening. The last thing ithink it is the last thing, is the asa conference is happening at the end of this month, and it will be here in San Francisco and im happy to report that we have two presentations coming from das. One is our ihss team is presenting on the very successful ccst model which is Collaborative Caregiver Support Team that provided enhanced ihss services and permanent Supportive Housing sites and secondly, our aps team is presenting with the institute on aging Elder Abuse Prevention Program on the multidisciplinary teams to cordinate response to abuse, neglect and selfneglect. That is all i have for now. Thank you. Any questions or comments for kelly . Thank you very much. Commissioners, item 6 is das employee recognition. Executive director dearman, president spears and Das Commission will honor the das march 2024 employee month. The team of the Legal Division of the public administrator Public Guardian team here at das. [applause] for the month of march das will honor the entire Legal Division of the public administrator Public Guardian office comprised ota dedicate team of secretarys, clerks, paralegals attorney and Office Manager for all their hard work and dedication to the people that they provide services to. The public administrator handles the estates of deceased san franciscans without family willing or able to do so. The Public Guardian as a Court Appointed probate conservator provides Critical Services to individuals who are unable to protect themselves from abuse or exploitation or provide for their basic needs due to Cognitive Impairment often caused by dementia, traumatic brain injuries or other conditions. With case load of approximately 750 cases, the Legal Division works closely with the public administrator and the Public Guardian staff to insure all legal deadlines are met and that their exceptional work is effectively communicated orally and in writing to the Probate Court. As the public administrator and Public Guardian take on some of the most difficult probate and conservatorship caishs the Legal Commission is tasked navigating the legal challenges whether examineing genealogy records, selling property of all shapes and sizes, evaluating creditor claims, addressing issue, comparing [indiscernible] meeting hundreds of compliance deadlines each year, the Legal Division insures that the legal obigations of the public administrator and Public Guardian carry out effectively and efficiently. In carrying out the role, have proven time and again to be jealous advocates for their clients. They are recognized by the San FranciscoProbate Court and probate Legal Community for their expertise in probate and conservatorship law and effective representation. The Legal Division teams dedication to their work expertise and Effective Team work are exalismary. Congratulation to each and every one of you for the well deserved recognition. Please join celebrating the march 2024 das employees of the month to janet [indiscernible] evan [calling out names] for all their dedication, hard work and being Outstanding Team members. [applause] [applause] ill say a few words. I wanted to thank the Das Commission for recognizing the legal team today. We really appreciate being acknowledged for our work, and i would be remiss to not point out our good work is reflective of the good work the Public Guardian and public administrator deputies perform and they are the ones we represent. A big thank you to my team for showing up every day and being invested in your work. You truly make it [indiscernible] [applause] hello, my name is briana [indiscernible] a attorney who does work for public administrator and i also want to thank the Das CommissionKelly Dearman, this award means a lot as you can see. We roll pretty deep. We are a big team, that does a lot of big work, and i dont think the attorneyshopefully i can speak on your behalf can do a iota of the work we do on a regular basis without the support of each of the team members here and the ones not here as well. From the clerk lourdes and rich out now, but works tirelessly day in and day out. To the legal secretary, the right hand people for the attorneys. We cant do the filing and mailing out thousands of petitions to across the World Without their help. Our paralegals have help dive deeper into complex issues and we really need your help and appreciate it. And then my colleagues, fellow attorneys doing hard work day in and day out and our Office Manager who is an excellent resource, always there to help. There to collect lots of absentee awards, but im honored to receive this award. Thank you to who ever nominated us. A little bird may have nominated us on this team, but it really means a lot. We do a lot of unseen work as das legal, but it is really important. It is human work. We all age, we all die and we just hope to help people do so with dignity, so thank you for seeing us Das Commission. [applause] item 7 is Advisory Council report presented by the Council President , Diane Lawrence. Commissioners, president spears, executive director dearman, take a minute to collect myself. Always a tear in the eye after the presentations. We all agree the best part of the meeting. The Advisory Council met wednesday february 21. We welcomed three new members. One appointed by you and one appointed bytwo representing the board of supervisors in district 5 and district 1. They will be wonderful members. They already contributed in the two meetings they attended and one actually started coming last year. And then the board approved yesterday little birdy the district 4 representative told me she was being reaopponented yesterday by the board, so pretty sure that went through. So, we arethey received their handboorks and we are looking how to do orientation training to bring them on bord and we have a couple from years past so we have ideas how well get everybody level set so the group can begin working together. We still have vacancies, but we are making progress. And each time the Community LivingCampaign Goes out to meet with the supervisor on the dignity fund, 3 million annual allocation if there is a vacancy they are plugging to the advisey council so we are down to 2 or 3 supervisors. Commissioner bittner asked last year if the council received training on ableism. I couldnt find anything, nor did my members who had been around a while so i reached out the Training Unit in das to see if there is any training available for us, but i havewill continue to followup. Deputy director Cindy Kaufman presented the update on the Department Activities and we approved the first draft of the area plan on aging from which you will have a presentation on today, so weour goal at this months meeting is to approve it and then it will come to you at the april meeting. Im not going over the key point changes. We had a presentation by the Dignity Fund Coalition talking about the 3 million annual allocation providing talking points to our members and discussion about their forget me not campaign, but also how they we can reach out and left us with talking points knowing our district, each of the districts over 60 populations, the percentage of the total in each of the districts, so well have more updates on that as we move forward. We went over the consumer grievance, the updated consumer grievance process. Everybody was in agreement and director mike will go over that later. We had a site visit on the Mission Neighborhood center which we had seen before. Excellent report. The difference between the website and real site, and so that seems to be a constant theme, so a plus of the pandemic is that we started looking at the websites so well look more at that Going Forward. So, there were a lot of good information there. A couple things i thought were interesting is they have anot only have food banks, weekly therapy group, there is a lot of intergenerational activities, which is really lovely, and at thanksgiving they provide food kits for the neighborhood for clients and there is a nurse available and they do zoom meetings in mandarin on how to use ones phone, so there a lot of activity going on there. Site is beautiful and it is a old old building on cap street. It is a beautiful building and we have more site visits there. Any questions . I started out badly the state of the website. I was glad to read later the center itself sounds wonderful. Is something done to push improving the web site . Ill let mike zaugg answer that question. Yeah. President lawrence and i agreed we would officially respond back at their next meeting which is in a couple weeks. Okay. Thanks. I always know that happens from the site visits, but following up and how critical that is becoming. That is always a point of discussion when the Council Representative sits with the executive director at the sites because they already looked ahead of time, and i know in previous ones we have seen that as i mentioned to mike that we have seen things where the siteto find the specific site is difficult because there is a umbrella organization, and language has come up numerous times. The inability to change languages. Some are very static and as we all know, keeping websites updated is a expensive proposition and what do you put on the website, versus what will feed people. There is discussion there. Yeah. [indiscernible] thats the website. It is on the website even though it looks multicultural on the website itself. But you cantwe have seen that in a number where there is no waysome websites you can change the language. We havent seen that here. Okay. Thank you. Quick question. Congratulations on filling those openings and which you said you still have maybe two or three open positions. Which districts are those . I know it is 9 and 10. Okay. Still 10, okay. I know clc is meeting with supervisor walton soon. Great. Ile ill reinforce executive director dearman has been a great ally reaching out to all of them. I think a few of them in my neighborhood are tired of seeing me at meetings. When they start recognizing you, you come up to remind them it is a little nervewracking. There is constant approval at the board meeting, so i hope that is helpful too. Any other comments . Thank you so much. Youre welcome. For the report and thank you for the updates. Im very familiar with Mission Neighborhood center. Most of their correspondence that come out inviting you to event are multilingual so i hope they c