Public comment phone number. Id like to welcome the members of the public and staff who are watching us on sf gov tv to eliminate background interference. All panelists and presenters that are presenting via webex are asked to mute themselves when not speaking or waiting to present. Additionally, the San Francisco hsa Das Commission acknowledged that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land , and in accordance with their traditions, the ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in this traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homelands. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first people secretary , please take the roll. Good morning, and thank you, president spears. Commissioners please respond with present when i call your name president jen spears, present. Vice president nelson lum, present. Commissioner sasha bitner by then commissioner wanda young, present. Commissioner martha knudson, present. Commissioner Barbara Sklar not present. And commissioner linda parker pennington, present and kim doss, executive director kelly darren. Thanks. President spears, we have a quorum. Commissioner the next item is item three. Communications wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda and during general Public Comment. Both channel 78 and sf tv are streaming the numbers across the screen. 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Are there any other communications from Das Commission members . No okay. We can move on to the next item. Commissioners, your next item is item agenda for approving the minutes of wednesday, january 10th, 2024. Das Commission Meeting minutes. Are there any comments or questions from the Commission Regarding the wednesday, january 10th, 2024 Das Commission meeting . Minutes. Nope. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment at moderator please open the phone line for Public Comment. Moderator are there any callers in the queue . No callers. Thank you very much. Hearing no further requests to speak on the item. Is there a motion to approve the wednesday, january 10th, 2024. So Commission Meeting minutes. So moved second. All right, mr. Secretary, will you please take the roll call . Vote for the Commission Meeting. Minutes of the 10th president , jan spears. How do you vote . Yes. Vice president nelson lum, how do you vote . Yes, commissioner martha knutson, how do you vote . Yes, commissioner sasha bitner, how do you vote . Yes commissioner wanda young, how do you vote . Yes. And commissioner parker pennington, how do you vote . Yes. Thanks. We have a unanimous vote. Thank you. Commissioners. Item five is the executive directors report presented by the das executive director Kelly Dearman. Thank you so much. President spears. Good morning, everyone. Um, so i just have a few updates. First, i want to say happy new Lunar New Year to everyone. Happy black history month. And, um, were happy here at dos and at hsa, we will have several celebrations to commemorate these events on the federal level. The breaking news is that just yesterday, the first substantial update to most Older Americans act program um, regulations, um, was finally finished. These are the first this is the First Time Since 1988 and the Older Americans act. Final rule aligns with regular ations to the current statute, addresses issues that have emerged since the last update, and clarifies the number of requirements the point is to better support the National Aging network that delivers Older Americans act services and improve Program Implementation with the ultimate goal of ensuring that the nations growing population of older adults can continue to receive the services and supports they need to live and thrive in their own homes and communities. So the final rule came out yesterday. Its some 400 pages. I havent had a chance to read it or go through it, but once i do, ill have more updates. And so at a state level, we are also, um, trying to align and modernize the older californias act, which was passed in 1980 and amended in 1997. So the older californians act augments the Older Americans act in important respects, providing funding for programs that build on the Older Americans act. Um, so there are many programs that have evolved or been discontinued and new programs have been established that are not included in the older californians act. So so, um, with my partners at c for a, were working to have legislation introduced that amends the act to reflect current and potential programing. So i will have more on that as, um, it develops locally. Um okay. And im not talking about the budget either on a state level or the local level, because thats coming up. Im just doing happy stuff today. Um, so, so this past month, our special projects manager, maceo pierson person, and alexis cobbins, the director of our dib office, partnered with the San Francisco lgbt center trans employment program, um, to host a workshop regarding the application process to city employment for transgender, nonconforming and gender Nonbinary Community members. The workshop was followed by a panel led by maceo person, with four additional City Employees from various departments to discuss their experiences serving our communities by working at the city, trans and gender nonconforming people have a rich history here in San Francisco and play an integral role in ensuring that the city serves our community to the best of our capacity. We are proud to have supported this effort to encourage more diversity in our workforce. S i next wanted to provide an update on the status of repairs at 6221 geary, a building owned by the Felton Institute and home for multiple dos services, including the Richmond Senior center. Just as some background, the building at 6221 geary. Its between 26 and 20 seventh avenue. Staff did repairs for asbestos remedial action in november 2022. It was expected to last 6 to 8 weeks. Work has taken far longer than that, with major impacts on services for the Richmond Center through the spring of 2023, while services have resumed at the Richmond Senior center, work is still not complete, with some remaining construction on a small portion of the center. Dos funded Community Centers are expected to be welcoming and inclusive spaces, and of course, not construction zones, so everyone, most particularly the Richmond Senior center staff and clients, are frustrated with the process. The landlord, Felton Institute, is committed to completion of the work, but its been bogged down and delays due to construction and the building inspection processes. So our office of Community Partnerships has an analyst assigned to this matter and is talking weekly with Richmond Senior center leadership. Felton leadership and property management. The plan is to continue to facilitate conversations among the parties and push for progress towards completion. District. District one. Supervisor connie chan is aware of this situation and is frustrated as well, and called for a hearing on the matter before the budget and finance committee. This took place last week on wednesday, january 31st, during the hearing, there were presentations and questions for representatives from das City Building inspection, Richmond Senior center and the Felton Institute. There is agreement among all parties that the work needs to be completed as a result of the hearing. Das will now receive weekly updates from the contractor doing the repairs. Das staff will continue to work on this situation and hope for resolution in the coming 2 to 3 months. Last only through her role on the board of the california state association, representing public administrators, Public Guardians and public conservators, jill nielsen has been asked to join a statewide committee that will support counties implementation of sb 43 through through the development of best practices and sample policies, procedures and protocols. This committee represents a collaboration between um, the public administrators, Public Guardian and public conservator and the county Behavioral Health directors association, and it will be composed of county public conservators and Behavioral Health professionals from across the state. And you all will remember that sb 43 is the new law that expands the definition of grave disability when it comes to, um, conservatorship. So congratulations to jill. I know that will be a lot of work and that is all i have. Thank you. Thank you, commissioners, are there any follow up questions for kelly . Okay, okay. Hearing none. We will continue. Commissioners item six is the dos Employee Recognition and presented by Committee Executive director dearman. To honor this month february employee of the month christina teboe, who is a social worker specialist in the dos collaborative caregiving support team. I have like tongue tied this morning. Christina teboe started her career with ihss as a social worker in march of 2021, overseeing a nonlanguage caseload of 270 clients. Christina quickly earned a reputation as an energetic, responsive and compassionate professional who was always willing to go the extra mile to serve her clients and offer support of any kind to her coworkers. With her Boundless Energy and drive, she quickly excelled in providing her clients and coworkers alike with exemplary care and customer services. In august of 2023, christina made the transition to the collaborate of Caregiver Support Team cst at dos and was promoted to a social worker specialist specialist position. Ccst is a highly intensive unit that works with applicants and clients who struggle with i dont know whats happening, who struggle with Mental Health and Substance Abuse challenges with the majority of the ccst recipients transitioning, transitioning from houselessness to permanent Supportive Housing as the ccst social worker specialist christina was tasked with the responsibility of connecting to her clients, and she excelled at building trusting relationships that helped facilitate services for them. She always prioritized the safety and trust of her clients first when placing them in their new homes. From the very start, christina has displayed the highest levels of compassion, patience, and unwavering dedication toward her clients and her team. One particular situation stands out where christina visited a client who was unsafely discharged from a facility and had not eaten since the previous day. Upon arriving at the clients home, she found the client laying on the floor. He had fallen out of his wheelchair the night before, while at the same time christina was calling Adult Protective Services to report the clients imminent danger. She helped him to transfer into his bed, provided him with his necessary supplies, and proceeded to cook the client a meal and made sure he was taking care of, comforted and supported, christina acted without hesitation and compassion, so that the client could remain safely in his home until a responded and provided further support. Christinas willingness and desire to help those in need goes far and beyond any of her job duties and expectations. She is at heart the true definition of a social worker for focused on improving the lives of the clients that she serves and her coworkers alike. Because of all of these reasons and many more, we would like to congratulate christina teboe on being the dos. February 24, 2024 employee of the month. Im very appreciative of this recognition. Um, and to be able to serve a community that i love with coworkers that i really respect, um, our clients are a part of our ecosystem. Were all connected, and they deserve dignity, respect and empathy. Um, im equally appreciative of my department and the leadership because i have really amazing leadership. And to my direct supervisor, toshio westlund, who champions me, affirms me and empowers me, it allows me to learn and evolve and be the best social worker i can be. So thank you very much for this recognition. Youre not done. Congratulations. Thank you. Okay, thats the best part of the meeting. Just so everybody knows, um, i, i am, uh, filling in for our secretary at this point. Um, commissioners, item seven is the Advisory Council, uh, presentation presented by president diane lawrence. Good morning, commissioners. Executive director dearman. Thats always a hard act to follow. I know. Sorry for you. Its okay that i agree. Its the best part of the meeting. Um, and i love telling those stories to my friends so people know what a great job everybody does. Um, so at our february, at our january meeting, um, we Deputy Director sidney said, i do this all the time. Cindy kaufman gave the council an update on the budget process and, um, was absolutely superb. Uh, we went over the first draft of the new 2025, 2028 area plan on aging was reviewed. Uh, we will at our next meeting, review the first draft so we can stay on track and get it approved. We reviewed and revised the grievance procedure last fall. The Council Members had some questions. Um, one of the attorneys on our on our group had some questions. And we also were concerned about whether it was our authority. So at our next meeting, well go back, take a look at it and vote it. Um, and then i believe, uh, mike zogg will bring it back. Um we have some site visits in the queue, but our agendas are a bit full this First Quarter with the area plan and a few other things, but we will have some coming. I think we have three and a half ready to go. So thats thats really good. Um, doctor juliet rothman, whos been on the council for quite a while, has been offering three sessions with the Community Living campaign on loss for the inner sunset connector program. And i just wanted to do a shout out there. Um the district one. This is good news. The district one and district five candidates, applications for, uh, have been moved by the supervisors to the board of supervisors, rules committee. Um im sure my name is on a list somewhere. Um, and ravi has been following us up with us on the with the rules Committee Secretary to see where they are in the queue. We know that one of the candidates had to. It um, fill out an additional application. But we did invite the three candidates to our last meeting. Our thought was the area plans. Nothing is worse than to come in in the spring and have to vote on it and not know anything about it. Having done that, um, and were just excited that hopefully they all get passed, um, rapid alley, the, um, we did have some sad news just our district two representative, uh, will not be seeking reappointment. Unfortunately for personal reasons. So well be reaching out to she was going to allow she was going to contact supervisor stephanie, and then well reach out and let her know theres an opening. Um, the application for the Commission Membership has been forward to the nominating committee, and i. A