Director anne hinton is present. Thank you, could we have approval of the august 5, 2015 agenda . So moved. Second. Been moved and second that we approve the agenda for august 5, 2015. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Ayes have it, so the motion is carried. Could we have approval of the august 5 Consent Agenda. Could i have a motion to approve . So moved. Second. Moved and seconded that we approve the Consent Agenda for august 5, 2015. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Ayes have it and so the motion is carried. I need a motion to approve the june 24, 2015 meeting minutes, any corrections . Motion to approve. Second. Its been moved and second that we approve the minutes of june 24, 2015. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes . Ayes have it and so the motion is carried. Item 5, general Public Comment. We have three in the general Public Comment any general Public Comment at this time . Hearing none, we will move the agenda. We have the employee of the month, and recognize lisa leui. From the office of adult protective services. Come forth. [applause] so sorry, so lisa, you are being honored today from your colleagues in adult protective services. But the truth is that i had the privilege of working with lisa on the fifth floor sharing space with adriana, and making sure that the folks that came through the door were welcomed. But in addition to this, this is what i remember, lisa would come to me and she would say, is there anything i can do for you. Are you sure there isnt something i can do for you. You know, i actually like the fax machine because i can make it work. And i would head to the fax and no, i can do that for you. It was extended yourself to me, who is busy but not as busy as some other people in this room. To make sure that i had the tools and the things that i needed to make that particular day to go as well as it could go. In addition to that, and i think what everyone knows and it was written by the aps staff as well, you always have a great smile on your face. We always have a team shirt, i dont know, who are those teams . I dont know if i recognize this one today. But always keeping us on our toes what is going on, what is important in the world. Making the office and the people around her, providing support and just sharing, i think, your wonderful personality with us, which i think is pretty terrific. I want to thank you, and the folks from the Adult Services want to thank you. I suspect that if anyone that walked through on the fifth floor, would want to thank you as well. Here we go. There you go, unless the flowers are me, i am thinking they are for her, and you all should bring those flowers up here now. [applause] a fifth floor colleague. And they will get a picture; right . [applause] at this time we will have the directors report. Good morning. Is this on . Its on okay. All right. So you know it feels like its a long time since we have been together. And since i last saw you, i got an invitation from the white house to go to the white house conference on aging. So my report today is going to be about the conference itself. First of all, i want to say it was, bridgette can attest to this, one Late Afternoon an invitation from the white house, and i had no sense this would happen. It was a welcome surprise and i was totally excited about this opportunity. As you know, i am on the all aaa directors in the state of california are on the California Association of aging board as directors. That makes us members. So i was voted through an election process to represent california as one of two Board Members on the national board. So every region, there is 12 regions, has four. So we have one from hawaii, and one from arizona, and two from california, being the bigger state. For a number of years i was the alternate, and recently became the board took the board seat. So what had happened the staff for nfra was asked for the names of people of potential invitees, and gave the president and two of the Vice President s names, and i am one of the Vice President s, and that is how, they took all three of them, thank you very much. It was somewhat difficult because the conference was right in the middle of the National Association conference which is held in philadelphia. So but, thats when the president was available. So thats what we did. So we were, a number of staff and myself were in philadelphia for the conference, where we did win an award. And i think at our next meeting we will talk about that. And staff did several presentations. And in the middle of that i got on a train and went to d. C. , and spent a night and the next day at the white house. This white house conference would have been the sixth. The first one was back i think in 61 or so. They havent been exactly every 10 years but the last three have been 10year difference in time. And all the previous ones have been, and i think i mentioned this to you before, have all been delegates elected from their various states. And anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 delegates would come to washington, d. C. , they didnt meet at the white house, too small for that. But they would come and be there for a couple of days debating potential policies that they wanted congress and the president to pick up and move forward with. Its also how a number of things have become part of the old americans act. Though they dont have funding, but found their way into the act. Through the white house conferences over the years, different concerns brought up and found their way into the document. So this year, in the past the way this always worked. The congress allocated dollars to the white house to put this event on. This year the congress didnt do that. And so the white house was faced with whatever budget they could come up with themselves. At that point aarp stepped in to work with the white house on some financial support. And it was determined than instead of bringing many, many people to so instead of bringing many people to washington, d. C. , they would have five regional forums throughout the country. And then they would invite people from surrounding states to attend those. So the folks in california were invited to one in arizona, for example. Those were very well attended. I know from hearing reports about what went on in the forums. They were a little different in each one. But again it was gathering information from professionals in the field and older adults themselves about what is important to them. Reports were created out of all four of those. And those reports are actually on the white house conference and aging website. So you can look at what came out of the five forums. L. A. Just happened they were doing something similar. So they kind of flipped the event they had planned and turned it into a forum. But it wasnt one of the five that had been proposed by the white house. And then on the day that we went, and then the white house conference was announced, the date was announced just two or three weeks before. And the invitations went out about two weeks before the event. It was all very, very tight. The white house conference itself, though being very different. There were between 160 to 200 of us. Really what the white house, what the east room can hold. So it was a very different conference. There wasnt this opportunity on that day to debate big issues of the day. That had actually happened in the regional forums. But what we did have is a series of panels who focused on, i would say what we would determine to be key issues of the day. So one of the panelists one of the first panelists was on care giving. You had alzheimer and dementia on that and work issues. There were members on the panel, there were family members and people that were workers and cabinet secretary. And it was this diverse and i believe someone from the Business Community who works in the world of care giving. Or had a national company. So it was really this kind of crosstheboard examination of care giving and what were the important elements you would want to discuss. Cabinet secretaries participated throughout the day. And there was someone i believe on each one of the panels. Either a secretary or a cabinet member and an assistant secretary. There was a lot of highlevel participation. As there had been in the regional forums and the other discussions. The president spoke right after that panel. And of course to a lot of applause throughout his speech, he talked about and i would just say, although he was relaxed and used humor, he was very focused, and very intentional in his comments about continued support in Social Security and medicare, issues around workers. Issues around understanding that people want to be at home. They want to live their lives in the least restrictive environment that they can, not his words, mine. And then he announced some initiatives that would support that kind of work. So there is going to be dollars available for training around alzheimers and dementia for folks in nursing homes, for example. And he also spoke to economic security. And so there will be a pushing out to the states of rules that would allow the states to create Retirement Funds for workers who dont have access to any kind of retirement. It was one of the themes of the conference, so many people do not have access to any kind of retirement other than Social Security, and thats not enough in todays world. So initiative there. There will be funding made available related to elder abuse prevention training for district attorneys. So we can see a greater push across the country. Anyway, at some point we will make available to you all the many initiatives that came out of the president s speech. And also came out through the day. The president ended on a high note, i was in the eighth row, i couldnt see that well at that point. I think he was shaking hands with people on the front row. And left the room to a standing ovation. We then had a panel on economic security. And there were people there who really working in the field. Helping individuals get out of debt. And trying to sustain that. I think often i was thinking that day of cathy davis and the work she has done and her staff has done in the bayview to get in housing. In order to qualify for certain things you have to have a pretty clean sheet when it comes to debt and those things. There was conversation about that and conversation about worker wages. It was an interesting panel. The afternoon was held, the sessions were all held in the Dwight Eisenhower building, not the white house campus but a different space. Again it was panels of people who were speaking specifically to various issues. So cathy greenly, the assistant secretary was on a Panel Related to elder abuse. And people on that panel were both from the Business Community, government, nonprofits, who talked about experience and what they were doing in this world. She mentioned she had been to california recently and i believe jill you were one of the people that she talked to when she was here. She talked about her experience. She talked about the people she met that had been abused. And used those as stories in her comments. There was a small panel that talked about innovation. Another panel that got much more indepth into technology. But you know as the day getting to the end of it, everyone was taking a little more time. I have to say that the technology, which one of the things i was most interested in had to be shortened up. Because there wasnt the kind of time available. At the end labor secretary perez gave an outstanding speech. I had never heard him before. And he in many ways was like a calltoaction, i think. He talked about the five he described it as the five pillars of the middle class. And reminded and talked about what those were. And reminded everyone in the audience, were from the middle class. And a whole lot of folks out there wanting to join that group of people. And what could we do, what would we do to make that possible. It was a speech where you felt kind of much like the president s, where you wanted to be clapping every other word. But you knew that wasnt going to work. I would say that the day was there wasnt a lot of time for questions. Although at the end of every panel there was an opportunity for that. And one of the things that i remember very well was in the caregiver panel, the moderator asked, had gotten questions through twitter and the audience. And was reading them. And one of the questions was, what can aaa agencies do related to caregivers. And really the response from all the panelists pretty conclusi conclusively was to help find them. It was conclusive to me because we work in San Francisco for a place in the department and venues in the community for people to access for information and assistance and counseling. And the young woman on the panel, 31 yearold scientists raising a two yearold and has a father with dementia at 90. Said that one of the most difficult things for her was finding services. As much work as we all do in this area, its clear and she didnt come from San Francisco, another place. But more work needs to be done. People suffer unduly if they cant get access to good, solid information. And she said, i wished i had known about all the programs that the panelists had talked about in the beginning of my care giving as opposed to this point. I thought that was a meaningful conversation and for us to think about, what are the things that we do. And what are the things we are not doing and where do we want to go with that. For those of you that know, the organization ido, they do space one of you can probably explain better than i. Its all about individuals and space design. And one of their key people in the organization is in her 90s. She was one of the persons that spoke. I have always wanted to, i have read about them and never heard them speak. It was quite an opportunity in that regard. There is a is maria still here . The author that has shes an author and activist in terms of caregiving was there. And she got up and gave me her seat in the afternoon. I felt very privileged. I got to spend time with Fernando Torres gills, one of the leading experts in aging in disabilities in the country. I heard him speak but never had a chance to sit and talk. It was this enormous opportunity for me to think about new things. But also see San Francisco in the context of what i heard people talking about from across the country. So i know that much of the press talked about the disappointment, that it wasnt 2,000 people again. I have to wonder if it will ever be that again. If that technology hit the point where we can do things more locally. And still bring that information forward. But we will have to see. There will be another one we hope in 10 years. I guess the other thing i would announce right after that, as soon as we got back from the conference. The Senate Passed the olders american act, out of the senate and now in the house. We are waiting to see what happens. That was a nice bookend to having the conference and then the white house conference and then to hear that as well. So was really an honor to be there and it was just a great day. Are you finished . Okay. I had a question, i missed, you talked about the four panels. One was on caregiving and technology and what was the other . Elder abuse. Anybody else . So all of this happened in one day . All of these panels . Yes. One day . One day. And then you hop on a train and go back to philadelphia, and are very, very tired and like this all of this information. Going through your head. I would add there were over 600 watch parties across the country. So they were streaming the event all day. Because i got Text Messages from people who were watching. And commenting on the day. So i think that adds another piece to this, why we may not see a huge group in d. C. Next document for Community Living fund. For the year 1516 annual plan, executive director. You have this report in your packets. And i am not going through the whole thing. As a reminder and background. The Community Living fund was put together and funded about eight years ago. I am thinking, nine years ago now, is that right, linda . And this fund came about because there was Strong Community interest in seeing that kind of back to living in the least restrictive environment; right. Making sure that people who could live at home, lived at home. And at the same time we had a controller who had a personal partner had a personal interest in this subject. They had a family situation and another part of the state had tried to find services and had a hard time doing that. And came back really wanting to look at what was the nature of things in San Francisco. So the stars kind of aligned in that sense. Initially it was thought that this was also during the time that the rebuild of rio hondo was taking place. And initially a thought that the rebuild wont cost as much money. Some money could be set aside. And a large enough fund to draw on the interest of the fund and help people stay at home or come out of lagunda honda that didnt need to be there. And that idea was soon given up instead under mayor newsom, they decided to create a Community Living fund. It was 3 million strong. And the money from that fund would rollover, if you didnt spend it all in one year, it would roll forward. For those of you heard this report before, you know that for the first few years money was rolling forward and we had greater dollars to spend. This was a locally designed program. We were able to bring staff on to help us determine what kind of program would be the best for us to implement to achieve the goals that the Community LivingFund Language had set out for us. We soon determined that a program in philadelphia was a model that we liked a lot. It was not so dissimilar from the mmsp and the linkages Case Management and Services Program that we had in the state of california. We went with a model that was case manager