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Any comments, questions, or corrections . Hearing none, call the question. All in favor . Any opposed . I abstain since i was not here. Yes, the motion carries. And now, item 4, the directors report. Good morning, commissioners, and welcome, commissioner spears. It is great to have you here and its also great to have a full commission. I think its been several years, so very excited to work with all of you. I think i want to start with kind of the National Level stuff. I just came back from the National Association of area agencies conference on ageing and board meeting, im a california repres...

What im trying to describe are those committees that meet regularly, and they hear from staff from daas, and they hear from staff you know, its an m. T. A. Person who then takes it back. So im saying all this stuff gets integrated, but it takes a while to figure out where does that voice matter. But all of these source of design ideas, and i think really, were becoming knowledgeable about them, and red lights, what an idea. And stopping a little bit and giving the pedestrian time to get across before the car starts coming into the intersection, what a concept. Well, now, something thats pretty...

Any comments, questions, or corrections . Hearing none, call the question. All in favor . Any opposed . I abstain since i was not here. Yes, the motion carries. And now, item 4, the directors report. Good morning, commissioners, and welcome, commissioner spears. It is great to have you here and its also great to have a full commission. I think its been several years, so very excited to work with all of you. I think i want to start with kind of the National Level stuff. I just came back from the National Association of area agencies conference on ageing and board meeting, im a california repres...

To have sorry. Im having problems going over my words. Im i want to say this right and honor this community because it is about what what what what affects them and how theyre treated in the world. So i think this was going to go to the heart and the intent of the different mandates and incentives that we do have, which is to promote equity in health disparities. I just want to walk you through this on the left. So a lot of our focusing on outcomes, a lot of our metrics are actually gendered. Chlamydia screening is one of our gendered metrics. You can see that in the light blue, so young women...

Stepping stone working with us. We continued presenting outstanding programs to our case membership. Julys presentation was a panel on creative ageing which features laura mason of engage, and jessica mccracken. They gave a wonderful presentation on programs that their agencies are currently offering as well as led us in a discussion about perspectives on ageing which will continue as we try to truly reframe ageing and move to the forefront of those efforts. Our august meeting will be focused on advocacy efforts for the upcoming year. We do an annual brainstorming session where members give th...