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Know, in march they will be able to get a second restaurant, champs site going. So the bulk of the funding is for that with a little bit of one time only for startup costs for the new center. Are there any questions . Any questions . Commissioner katie loo. How many meals have they served here, do you know . More recently our data seems to be they are serving about 50 people a day on some days. Other days its higher. I think staff from self help for the elderly might be able to give us more accurate information. I was there actually this monday after the grand opening at west portal, the senio...

Any questions . Commissioner katie loo. How many meals have they served here, do you know . More recently our data seems to be they are serving about 50 people a day on some days. Other days its higher. I think staff from self help for the elderly might be able to give us more accurate information. I was there actually this monday after the grand opening at west portal, the senior center, our colleagues went to lunch there and we saw during an hour 25 seniors already there having lunch. But the program is definitely growing. I went there and eat myself too, okay, and i was asking the highest n...

Any questions . Commissioner katie loo. How many meals have they served here, do you know . More recently our data seems to be they are serving about 50 people a day on some days. Other days its higher. I think staff from self help for the elderly might be able to give us more accurate information. I was there actually this monday after the grand opening at west portal, the senior center, our colleagues went to lunch there and we saw during an hour 25 seniors already there having lunch. But the program is definitely growing. I went there and eat myself too, okay, and i was asking the highest n...

Ann quinton with meals on wheels. We were able to hire a new rd and she actually speaks chinese as well shes bilingual, then we hired another rd that speaks french and a tiny bit of spanish so well see what happens with that. On staff we certainly have people that are speaking spanish and chinese and russian as well and our social work staff and drivers. So you do counseling, do you have materials in different languages that you give to the clients also . We do translate that into the languages that i mentioned. Thank you. You are welcome. Any other questions . Hearing none, i will call for th...

To funding that will come forward for the recommendations that that committee has looked at. Advocacy work is also underway to adjust the ssi levels to maintain qualifying seniors, qualifying participants, above the poverty level. This is an area thats been cut back in california over the last couple of years so this will be a budget ask moving forward. We also discussed assembly man david chus legislation regarding sro upgrades and that funding, according to his web site, is for 40 million in tax credits. This is statewide money, its to fill a gap that doesnt exist in rehab so again well be t...