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Members of the public and staff watching on sf govern. The Commission Asks and thanks during the unprecedented times. We ask the public to have patience and select delays during the meeting particularly in Public Comment. To eliminate backglound interference, all panelalist and presenters presenting via webex 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. Thank you president spears. President spears, present. Vice president nelson lum, present. Commissioner bittner, present. Commissioner jung, present. Commissioner knutzen, present. Commissioner barbara is excused and commissioner parking pennington is excused and dos executive director Kelly Dearman, present. President spears, we have a quorum. Commissioners, the next item, item 3 is communication. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda and during general Public Comment. Both channel 78 and sfgovtv are streaming the numbers across the screen. Each speaker is allowed three minutes to speak. Comments are opportunity to speak during the ubplic Comment Period are available via phone call. During each public Comment Period, viewers and callers will be structed to call 14156550001 access code, 26629513414 and again. When connected you will hear meeting discussion but muted and listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up dial star 3. Best practice is call from a quite location. You have 3 minutes to speak. You will be informed by the moderator when you have 30 seconds left and after placed in listening mode. Public comment could be submitted to ravi. Durbeej sfgov. Org. Are there any other communications from dos Commission Members . Okay. We can move to the next item. Commissioners, next item is agenda item 4, approving the minutes of wednesday july 19, 2023. Dos Commission Meeting. Any comments or questions regarding the wednesday july 19, 2023 dos Commission Minutes . No comment. Okay. Do we have anyone from the public who wishes to comment . Moderator, please open the phone line for Public Comment. This is time for callers to submit their comment. Moderator, do we have callers in the queue . No callers. Thank you. Hearing no further request to speak, is there a motion to approve wednesday july 19, 2023 dos Commission Minutes . I move. Ill second. After moved and second, mr. Secretary, please take a roll vote to approve july 19, 2023 meeting minutes. Do i have to obstain . You can vote. Lum, yes. Knutzen, yes. Bittner, yes. Jung, yes. Thanks, we have unanimous vote. Awesome. Commissioners, item 5 is the executive director report. Thank you. Presented by the das executive director Kelly Dearman. Now you can go. Thank you. Good morning everyone. Goodern moing president spears, and all the commissioners. Really happy to be here. I just have a few comments to make with regard to my report. First, everyone has seen the news and heard but im just not sounding the alarm but cautioning everyone around the budget coming up for next year. It is not looking fantastic, it isnt even looking great. What that means for all of us is that we will hopefully continue toi know we will continue to provide the services, the Amazing Services that staff provides each and every day, and there might be some tightening of our belts. We dont know what it will look like yet, but we do know that if we have grandiose ideas about new programming or new things we want to do, thats probably not going to happen in the coming year. So, now to good news. Last week i was fortunate enough to be able to attend the National Adult protective Service Association conference, and it was in boston and i went with i think we had six people from aps who was there, lead by our fearless leader. It was amazing to be among all the aps workers, das staff in particular. Reminded every day how hard they work, flexible and empathic they are. There were great workshops achilles presented at one and [indiscernible] im just really heartened by the work we do here, how innovative we are and i just appreciate all you and just want to send a special shout out to the aps team who i got it know better, so thank you for that. Also, a few weeks ago i was asked to attend a round table with speaker emeritus pelosi who i kept referring to as my forever speaker, and it was at the dr. Davis Senior Center and it was really addressing issues facing older adults and it was really wonderful. It was livestreamed and she had it on her social media. She had it all over social media and just say that thehere im in boston Walking Around not with a conference. I was walking downtown going to get lunch and minding my own business, and this guy stops me and says, hey, dont you run something in San Francisco . Im like, what . First i said no, because i dont know you and i dont want you talking to me. I was like, why . He said, something to have to do with seniors. You were on a program with nancy pelosi. Im like, what and he said, yeah, i saw it. Anyway, im a celebrity now, and i told my whole family they had to treat me with that respect. Anyway, it is fantastic the work we do and it is being seen all over the country, so look out, people. So, thats all i have. I have another presentation later, but that is all i have for right now. Thats a awesome presentation. Commissioners, item 6 is the das Employee Recognition executive director dearman president spears and the Das Commission honor lessee barryearby a ihss social worker. [applause] so, leslie barryearby is a ihss social worker who has been with dos and Inhome Supportive Services since april 2007. For the past 16 years leslie dedication and come both colleagues and clients has been a shining example and inspiration to us all. Leslie is warm, positive attitude, commitment and drive are what makes her the goto person in our program. Both clients and coworkers alike gravitate to leslie as she treats everyone she encounters with a big smile, warm wave and happy hello. Despite all daily duties and demand, leslie always finds the time to give clients and das coworkers her undide divided attention. Also the goto person because of her team orientsed approach, professionalism and passion to help every situation in any way as possible. As new projeths arise and need for staff feedback is critical developing and implementing change, leslie is one of the first social workers we reach out to. Her feedback is invaluable because of her insightfulness and ability to provide years of front line experience that is both honest and constructive. Sometimes due to the time sensitive nature of projects, leslie is approached without much notification or detail and without hesitation she immediately agrees to take part and lend us her knowledge. For all the big and small things leslie has done for our clients, coworkers and the program in general, we here at das and i had rks ihss are proud and grateful to honor leslie barryearby with the das september employee of the month award. Thank you again leslie and congratulation s on being the das september 2023 employee of the month. [applause] i am so honored. Im just beside myself. Im humbled. Im always humbled, okay . This is a great great honor. I have been here 16 years and no matter if i receive this honor or not, i will continue to be the person that i am. Thank you for making this happen. I appreciate it. Thank you everyone who has came today to see me receive my clock [laughter] thank you, thank you, thank you. Have a good day. [applause] [applause] alright. Thank you leslie. Thank you commission. Commissioner, item 7 is Advisory Council report presented by das council prez dependent Diane Lawrence joining us via webex. President lawrence, can you hear us . President lawrence, i dont see you or we dont hear you right now as well. Can you hear us now . We can hear you now. Im having problems unmuting and cant figure where my camera is this morning. Thats okay. You will just have to listen. Or not. So, i combined as you know from my report this reporttwo meetings just to bring things up to date. It was exciting in july. We had absolutely everybody in attendance and i cant tell you how emotional that was, especially since we have new members that we had not ever seen in person. We only see them on zoom, so that was really exciting. And then, we had a update on the isolation project by Deputy Director kaufman and again, i detailed that in my report. And then, we have been discussing the Dignity Fund Coalition advocacy for the funding. As you all know, the dignity fund will not get its additional 3 million this year, so that is also a concern at the council as i know it is with you. The july we were told the lgbtq Mental Health program was close to starting at the august meeting were told it has begun and that means that we have clients who are receiving Telehealth Service from 15 therapist, fee free and online and seems to be going well. We also celebrated at our august meeting the departments winning of a u. S. Aging invasion award, and we actually got to see it and pass it around, so that was pretty exciting. Excited when the Department Wins awards, which they frequently daand that was the cultural appropriate Grocery Program through central [indiscernible] we walked past the area where the awards are and that was impressive. There were two site visits, the curry Senior Center and revisit to Russian Community center. Curry is one of the first times anyone visited that in a very long time. We are focus just on those sites where there has not been a visit recently. I think those are pretty well detailed, but the curry does dothey stayed open throughout the whole pandemic, so that is a little different then many others. They have a wonderful case manager to client ratio, and right now they are serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week with about 150250 clients per day. There are extensive onsite services. Multiple buildings and there is a new one that probably has opened by now at turk and larkin, it is a old tire sales office. They also have a clinic and housing across three buildings. The clinic grew out of the tb work dr. Francis curry the City Health Director many many years ago and whom the site is named. The Russian Community center, two members went out and visited it and it is a small site in the innerrichmond. I have driven by it is a few time and very tiny. It is a pretty selfcontained group that knows what it wants and services are driven by the client. Majority of their clients receive home deliveredthose receiving Nutrition Service receive home delivered meals. There are about 30 people that meet in person. There is one social worker, so most everything happens in russian and what the two Council Members noticed in the discussion is the director was not familiar with all the services that were available. They tried to educate on what was available to the clients. There will be a senior power wellness and grand parent Day Celebration in district 4, and as many know, California Commission on aging is having their fall meeting here in San Francisco next monday. That open house. So, thats our report. Anybody have any questions . Yes, are there questions from commission . Can you hear me . Any questions from the commissioners regarding the Advisory Council report . Commissioner lum. Sorry, commissioner jung. Looking this way and [laughter] thank you for the comprehensive report. I just reallyi dont know why, but this one miner point jumped out at me and i wanted to ask you to clarify. In your report the curry center commissioner jung, can you speak or move the mic a little, please . That better . Yes. President lawrence, at the curry Senior Center, in terms of the availability of meals, i notice on point 4 it is noted that when the lgbtq men meet at the center they get free lunch, but the women do not. This was something that Advisory Council member thought was quite interesting. The men meet at lunch time in their support group and women meet later in the afternoon. I justlunch is available, it is just the timing of the meeting is such that men meet at lunch time and the women do not. It was something that was a point of interest, and i think allen cooper who did the site kind ofhe brought it up. It was a little like, thats interesting. Okay. I want to make sure and their website was very very well developed. Everything is in english and so allen and the director discussed the availability of other languages, which we said before is problematic with many of the sites. Not always easyeasy to navigate, but not necessarily in multiple languages. I are assume they are moving forward to take keps to address this . Yes. Great. Thank you. We point that out frequently both in the reports and to the directors when the Council Member meets with them. Okay, thank you. I have one question. Thank you for that one. That was one of my questions. On the site visit for Russian Community center, can you elaborate on number 9 of whats planned regarding the lack of knowledge that is available regarding the services . I know outreach is one of the focal points of what we seek to do here and can you just elaborate on what the plan is there . I dont know if there is a plan at the moment commissioners, president spears. I think part of the challenge is the community is a very tight Nit Community and previous site visits over the years is something always stressed by the Council Members that have visited. I think that we can do a followup early next year if you would like. It is makingbeginning to make the clients aware. Dont know any action plan was put in place, but ill follow up with the two Council Members that responded, that went out to the site, but i know they were verythey wanted to make sure that the director knew about the wealth of Services Available in the city. Yes, okay. Thank you. No problem. I guess go ahead. On that point in particular, isnt there a staff member at das that helps monitor for that center . Some person in our system that could also followup . Yes. Trying to clarify. Usually after those site visits there is a staff person that is also made aware of what they discovered. Yes. Okay. I thought so. Thank you. They actually are getting our reports and mike told us they are finding a way we added the information on the virtual sites has been very helpful to them. Okay. When i followup with chris and ava ill also followup with mike. Great. Thank you. No other questions . Commissioners, item 8 is joint legislative tac report presented by Advisory Council president , Diane Lawrence. Have to finish my notes. Again, i put two reports together. Im not going into all the details of the plan. The proposed plan for the changes to the joint Leg Committee. What i did wantwhat we have discussed just to levelset, back in june the question of what was the purpose of the joint legislative committee, and what do we do . What should we be doing . So, we did research and we had two discussions now. We had a lively discussion about august 16 at the joint Leg Committee meeting and at the Advisory Council. So, i sent my report received the details and we will vote on that on the 20th at the joint leg and Advisory Council on where we go. If you have any comments, please let us know. We will be commissioners bittner and lum have both graciously agreed and volunteered to help us keep track of any bills that would impact persons with disabilities or the veterans, so if we want to do advocacy or look into them further, we will have that ahead of time. But, you will get thisif this is approved, you will still get the monthy update of the reports of where the bills are. We are spending a lot of time reviewing the bills and had no time to discuss advocacy and impact. President lawrence are you still there . Im here. Okay. A cohost unmuted me. Got it. Okay. I wont take it personally. Are there any questions or comments from the commissioners . Just on the legislativebecause i also served on a leg

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