Should have. We sent a letter indicating our concerns and input. At the meeting, we also had ann hintton give update about the scan grant that we received. Which was about 10,000. The purpose of that grant was to have our staff mentor three other counties to develop their Long Term Care integration plans. Bill haskell who was our former staff person along with ann hintton worked together with three different counties in california. Specifically ventura, stanislaus and yolo counties to put together their Long Term Care integration plan. Theyve done that and now theyre going to be submitting to to the scan foundation. We completed the work that we were given the money to do. In the meantime, our department is submitting another grant with scan and so scan will consider our grant proposal to continue the work. The other item we had on the agenda would highlight the event that we had to commemorate our tenth anniversary of the down sill. That was on october 23rd. Maureen took a lot of photos and presented a slide show. It was a very successful event with about 300 people in attendance. As you recall, the event was called a party with a purpose. Because we felt it was important to highlight the work of the council for the last 10 years. We also had on our agenda a presentation of your transitional care programs that your department actually providing to the public. I know that you had presentations on this, i wont go into a lot of details. That is the program that initially started back in 2008 with San FranciscoSenior Center along with other Community Based organizations. And funded by the c ms with a special demonstration project. Now is taken over by your department and is being implemented by your staff. We also had a very comprehensive legislative update by your staff person, rick appleby. Again, once we start the budget process again, the councilmembers will be making our annual report excuse me. To the board oboard of supervisors about the up upcoming budget. I do have a question. Thank you very much. Commissioner ow. Two questions, you expect to what to look for our next the Commission Member may ask to express some opinions. If you make it available to the commissioner, we will follow your guidelines. I will be happy to do that commissioner ow. Can you give us the secretary and the secretary can report to us . The second is that you are requesting for grants. If this grants given to you, do you have the full authority or exercise to extend the money the way that you intended to . The grants that i was referring to is a grant that the department is submitting to the scan foundation. Its your department thats submitting the grant on behalf of the council. We has a council cannot directly get funding directly. It goes through your department. Thats the mechanism for the funding. Thank you for clarifying the question. Youre welcome. Any other comments or questions . Questions from the public . Thank you very much sandy. Next item on the agenda is the tacc report. Finally, k report. Good morning, cochair are not available. I get the honors giving our report. We also have drafted a letter with our interest in terms of the qualifications of the new department head. We will also be submitting that if we havent already. We are also planning to present to you probably in the january meeting, our 20162017 advocacy platform. We looked at the agenda and thought, we wont. We will do it probably in january. In the meantime, were also ending a very an interesting time period. We like to wish all of you a very happy holiday and to join us in our annual case holiday party. That will be on monday the 14th of december from 4 30 to 6 00 at the sugar lounge. I think you were there last time. Really great opportunity to network and to give collegiate support to all of us who are fighting really hard to maintain and expand services to people older adults and people with disabilities. We hope youll join us. There is a flier, but i dont have it. I dont know if my colleagues have it. If you wanted to go to sugar lounge case party on monday december 14th. Any comments or questions . Whats the location . [indiscernible] near gohf. Thank you. Any other comments . No business on the agenda. New business, the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development. Helen hail. Good morning commissioners. Deputy director. First, my name it helen hail. Im the director of residential and Community Service for the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development. I would first like to thank the staff for all the assistance theyve given us and pulling together these contracts if our properties. Theyve been super helpful and wonderful resource for us. Its wonderful to do collaborative work. Im here today to go through the presentation that was submitted in your packet to give a little bit more background to the rental assistance demonstration project. Some of you have may have received the mayors notice because we did close the first 14 properties about a week ago. There was some information that has been posted in the paper, there had been numerous articles. The rental assistance demonstration project is a federal program under hud. It allows housing authorities to draw down additional and different types of funding to be able to better support their Public Housing properties. The Housing Authority background includes that theyre housing subsidies for almost 28,000 residents in San Francisco. Currently there are about 5400 Public Housing units and the average income is in the middle of 14,500. The average rent is about 312. The problem in San Francisco is that we have a aging building stock. Its in vast need of repair. Back in 2012, it was determined that we had about 270 million. Theres about 15 million that come in annually. The capital fund that comes only meet about 3. 5 of those needs. They have about 5 million to meet the needs on an annual basis. Doesnt matter whether or not youre really good in math at any time in your life, we will never be able to catch up. Housing stock will be lost in San Francisco. In december of 2012, Housing Authority was deemed troubled, mayor lee introduced a process for Public Housing. This involved numerous organizations, residents, Service Providers, multiple city agencies, the director from the mayors housing was one of the cochairs of that process. Basically, the consequences of doing nothing due to the troubled status would be that the buildings will continue to decline. They would fail inspections from hud and therefore, units will be taken out of service. We will lose our hud subsidy. That would impact end up losing Public Housing in San Francisco. Basically doing nothing was not an option. The central premise between parental assistance demonstration project is to provide a more stable operating subsidy for the housing. Allows folks to take a private Development Partner and leverage those folks so that it is no longer just a federal program. Theres a cap on rad currently at 60,000 units. Some people apply there are many more applications. There has been an effort to try and lift that cap over the years. What i can tell you is that rad is challenging and a high cost area. Where rad rents are well below what the fmr is or any kind of payment standard. San francisco took a very innovative approach. We have very high quality Affordable Housing developers here in San Francisco. Together, with our Affordable Housing developers, i didnt touch it. The idea here in San Francisco was to take our model for Affordable Housing where we take tax credits and loans to our Affordable Housing and put together with the rad subsidy. We apply for portfolio of 4584 units and we were approved in january 2014. We were approved for the largest rad portfolio in the country. I want to also say that our mechanisms for how were putting together Affordable Housing developer and the tax credits and the section 18 is very unique nationally. A lot of folks are catching 46 to see whether or not were able to make this work well. In the spring of 2014, we put out an rfq and selected our Developer Team for 29 buildings which are divided into two phases. The reason weve divided it is to convert 29 properties all at once will be more than anyone can do. Converting 14 and 15 is also very labor intensive. But the Positive Side to that is that we have buildings in each of the clusters that we are converting for two different phases. I believe you were given a list of building buildings. In addition, so the combination, theres the rad and theres the section 18. Some of our buildings in San Francisco qualify for section 18. Which means the buildings are in a much more desperate shape. Theyre not in the condition to be torn down. They will allow us to draw in a higher subsidy. Together with the rad voucher and the section 18, were leveraging tax credit equity in the amount of 720 million for tax credit this allows us to pull together an operating budget that allow us to do repair and rehab on all the buildings at a much higher rate. It will allows to keep ahead of the repairs operate a much staff. In addition, the exciting part of rad and part of the reason were here today, there is a Services Component that is required under rad. There is an on Sight Services mod model at all of these buildings. That is not something thats been in place for the Housing Authority. They will occasionally get small grants or theres a city contract or provider that want to do work. There hasnt been an on Sight Services model. The excitement for us around this is the ability to Bring Community building and some leverage Service Connection to link folks to the vast network of services we have in the city. It will allow to reduce the isolation these buildings experienced for a long time. What you need to understand, these buildings will be own and operated by these Affordable Housing developers. Land under the building will continue to have a ground lease to the Housing Authority. This is not a model where the new owners can come in and tear down the buildings and put the tenants out and build their own market rate. These are for current tenants. The entire model is in place for the current tenants to live in better and more Affordable Housing. In addition, tenant protections has been established. Weve listed the different rights. Theres no rescreening, theres no change in the rent calculation. They continue to pay 30 of their income. It is not demolition. Its just rehab and repair. Theres no displacement. Tenants will be temporarily relocated in order to do the repair and rehab. We dont want tenants living in a building where theyre doing any kind of work on it. There are health and safety codes around that. Any kind of eviction protections have been in place have been preserved and moved over under rad. In addition, they reserve the right to have tenant associations. There will be resident voices in these buildings. All of the buildings will have an on sight Resident Council that will be democratically elected. They will have their own operating funds. I gave you a copy of sort of the model in general. I want to be clear, this is not intended as a high Case Management model. It is really meant around community engagement, Community Building and linkage. Its important to do that. Our experience in the past is in Public Housing building folks that need Case Management that are resistent. There are trust issues. Theres a lot of isolation. We really want to create vibrant communities in these buildings and have neighbors start to get to know each other, many of them speak different languages and cultures. We want to create access and create better trust with the owners and with the Service Providers that will be on site. You saw the buckets that we provided. Its housing, house, economic, mobility and Public Safety. None of that will be a surprised. Original model that was in place was one to 100 staffing ratio. The reason we have Services Contracts coming from the city, we are leveraging in the operating budget. There is 81,000 that provides for a full time staff person. What we have done through our collaboration with city departments is to reduce the staffing model to one to 75 ratio. So that your Services Contracts carry with it Program Operating support. Sort of the kinds of fun things you want to have for food or activities and supervision for staff and reduce it down to 175. I gave you some examples of activities. I wont bore you with those things. In closing, what i can say is that, having worked in Public Housing for many years in San Francisco, residents have long lived in conditions that have been extremely poor. The hope was we are placing what was Public Housing on the front end of the Affordable Housing continuum. We are using project found through the federal government with tax credit and debt to operate these buildings so they have a vibrant ownership and we keep up with the repairs, the housing is in good condition. We no longer have a difference for very low income folks in the quality of housing that they have in the city. We value these tenants that are currently in the building. Are there any questions . Thank you very much. Any comments or questions from the commissioner . Commissioner james . Let commissioner ow go ahead. You put the package together and its the National Guideline and lots of other entity the one you model. Give us the details, the component of for San Francisco to successfully get most of these . We plead t applied to the federal government rental assistance demonstration project. There are two aspects of hud for low income. There is the Public Housing wing and then theres the section eight or housing choice voucher side. The Public Housing wing in the federal government under hud has been very poorly funded. Theres been a reduced amount, which is why we have gotten into the trouble weve gotten into. Theres less money to sustain Public Housing. The rental assistance allow us to switch from Public Housing over to the housing choice voucher and to use project based vouchers as the subsidy. Which is a very strong don component of the federal government. That has been increased. They are reducing the amount of money. It also allows us to take the Capital Dollar, rather than it coming in one lurch lump sum it comes to the building itself. They have the subsidy and the Capital Dollar plus they have tacks credit dollars. They are able to apply for those to use those equity. Plus they have debt and loan. They now have a much more vibrant Funding Source to operate these buildings. Which the Housing Authority didnt have access to. Thats the premise behind the rental assistance demonstration program. Its so switch over the way youre financing this, to give a more vibrant budget. You must be able to make repairs to the buildings. Or the buildings are not eligible to apply. Is that helpful . I have another question. Just like to remind the commissioner, we have a full agenda. You say the current residents will not be affected. The current residents of these housing generally are elders, seniors, many housing, you do have Young Children. The Young Children it could be a couple of years old or teenagers. You know, they are currently residing with their mothers. Are you covering those Young Children too when they get older. When they currently, under the 29 properties, seven of them are designated as family buildings. Hump designate family . Seven. Thats just the designation meaning that if you to apply to get in there, you will be applying to those children. There are grandparents that are taking care of their children. I understand that. Thats the designation per hud. Basically if you are on lease on the property, then you are part this program. You are eligible for the temporary relocation for being on lease. We did run a huge ad Family Member campaign for the last couple of months where we got 250 folks who h