Knutzen. This Commission Meeting is being conducted pursuant to the provisions of the bryant act and recent executive orders issued by the governor to facilitate teleconferencing to reduce the risk of covid19 transmission at public meetingful ordinarily, the brown act has strict rules for teleconferencing. The governors executive order has descended those rules. It requires that we continue to notice meetings in advance. The department has met all of the applicable notice requirements. As noted on the agenda, members of the public may observe this teleconference meeting via sfgov tv and may offer Public Comment by calling the published comment phone number. Id like to welcome the members of the public and staff who are watching us live on sfgov tv. The Commission Asks and thanks you for your patience during these unprecedented times. Conducting the meeting through teleconferencing has only happened once last month in our history. That being said, we hope the public has patience. We are working diligently to learn and become familiar with this new system as this may be the way we conduct future Commission Meetings. Madame secretary, will you please call the role . Thank you, commissioner knutzen. [roll call] and please note that Deputy Director [inaudible] is present. Commissioner kutzen, we have a quorum. Wed like to provide instruction for Public Comment. Callers can dial in to the tollfree number and listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comments to be announced. Members of the public have up up to three minutes to provide comments on each agenda item. I will announce that Public Comment is open on each item for the general Public Comment. During each Public Comment period, viewers and callers will be ininstructed to call 8882512949 access code 685870 pound pound. Once in the conference, press 2 to enter the queue. You will hear a notification when your line sun muted. They will remove you again from the question queue. It is best to call from a quiet location, speak slowly and turn down any electronics in the background. Are there any communications . Hearing none, commissioners ok. Commissioners, your next item is agenda item 4, approving the minutes of the may 6, 2020 meeting. Are there any comments or questions regarding the wednesday, may 6 Commission Meeting . All right. Hearing no do we have a motion to approve the minutes . Commissioner spears . I move. Ok. It has been moved by commissioner spears. Seconded by commissioner lum. And can we have a roll call to approve the may 6 das Commission Meeting minutes. [roll call] hello . Hello . [roll call] the vote is unanimous. Great. Thank you. Commissioners, item 5 is the executive directors report. Good morning, commissioners. Hope everyone is doing well. I just wanted to cover a few things since we did get to meet not that long ago. But we have some new things happening. The first is that we did launch the governors great Flight Program about i guess it is going into the beginning of its third week and we have served 1300 people with this program in this very short time. I know that is Pretty Amazing that the staff was able to pull together intake staff in particular were able to ramp up and take lot of calls on we had a few kinks. But the fact that were serving this many people is absolutely amazing. It shows the great need we have t Food Insecurity that we have in San Francisco. And then in addition to that, we have served 54,000 meals in that program. Were using two different vendors and in order to try to get as many restaurants involved as possible. We used two vendors that are kind of an umbrella model where they have a lot of different people working with them. A lot of different restaurants and they provide the back end support and infrastructure. So, it seems to be working well. The confusing thing about that program is its a fema Reimbursement Program and fema approves it on a monthtomonth basis and right now its slated to end tomorrow and we have not yet heard whether it is going to be expended or not. So, were a little bit on pins and needles trying to find out trying to wait to hear what it will be extended. Every indication says it will be. But they have waited an awful long time to let us know that. As of the end of may, we have referred 620 clients to shanti for volunteer support. This is one way that we managed to get food to people. Mostly food but other items as well and its helped take the strain off our meals Home Delivered Program because those programs are operating at capacity. Were referring right now about 30 clients to shanti per week and right now we only have 90 people on our home delivers wait list, which is unheard of. Our wait list in regular times a lot higher than that. And i want to mention that were going to be bringing the area plan to commission for final approval at your next meeting and this got caught up in the whole covid thing. We were just about done with the area plan before the shelter in place hit and so we were given an extension to finish the area plan. We were almost done and were not really going to make many changes to it. We might have changes in service, but in general were going with the plan that we had. And the area plan will go to the Advisory Council for their approval first as you probably remember, it goes to the Advisory Council. They approve it and then it goes on to you for final approval. We have done a number of wellness checks. Weve done over 29600 calls completed by das programs and our communitybased organizations and thats resulted in 265 referrals to the hub. And then were doing an walesing of the data that weve captured. Amazingly enough, that for the most part, people we have called have not needed a lot of thing outside of what theyre getting. It is good to know. It means that people in our system for the most part, in getting what they need and that means our staff have done a really good job in assessing those needs with people. In addition to just moving on, thinking about our Quality Management service team, in addition to providing fit testing of n95 masks for das, c. Q. A. , which is our quality clinical and Quality Assurance unit, nurses are assisting in fit testing for family and Children Service staff so its nice that theyre using their expertise to help across the agency. Theyll be working with h. R. With the need to [inaudible] field based staff. One of things about this is now that were finally getting the correct personal protective equipment that we need, were able to really do a better job of serving our clients because, without that, we werent really able to pair some staff out and we were really having to prioritize both of our own staff and our community providers. Now that the personal protective equipment is flowing much better, were able to really make sure that people have what they need to serve. In terms of our shelter in place sites, were continuing to provide support for vulnerable clients with Home Care Services as well as Case Management. Currently were serving over 70 clients on an ongoing basis in that program. And then c. L. F. Is serving 17 clients with Case Management and a. P. S. Continues to respond to clients in need of that service needed that service. And then for conservatorship, were working with the City Attorney to legalize our processes for conservatorship program. This is something that we talked about precovid and probablying havent heard about since but were trying to march forward with that program and get it in place. And then i just wanted to shift and talk about the state budget for a moment. As you probably hopefully have been following the state budget process, and the governors [inaudible] there were a number of cuts to Older Adult Services and there was an outcry among advocates and heard from a number of adults across california, not just aging services, but really older adults themselvess who really said, you know, this is not good time to do this and the legislature has responded by not accepting the majority of those cuts. And i know that dan is going to go into more detail about specific items and our local budget and some of those state impacts from the state budget. But at this point, looking much more positive than it did a few weeks ago and were hoping that those reductions will not take place and that the programs that were at risk will stay. And then i just want to i dont have anything specifically from the federal level at this point. There is, you know, theres still the heroes act in play. But, you know, you have to wait well have to wait and see what happens with that. There is money in there for Senior Services at a variety of levels but there is not that much point in talking about it unless they start to see this, the thing happen. And i just want to end by saying june is elder independent and adult abuse Awareness Month in california. We have two webinars planned to recognize this month and also in support of world elder abuse awareness day. So webinars we have some webinars planned in conjunction with the institute of aging. Today we have one that is in the process right now, focused on educating the community about covid scams that target older people and adults with disabilities. The i. O. A. Has developed a fact sheet on scams and Legal Resources for fighting back and we can actually send that out to all of you. And then next week on the 16th, were going to host a second webinar and that will be a Panel Presentation that will cover elder abuse in longterm care facilities and it will explore the Critical Role of the ombudsman and also policy efforts that are focused on protecting the rights of vulnerable longterm care residents and so with that, i will end and take any questions that you have. Thank you very much, director mcfadden. On behalf of all the commissioners, i want to say and to you and owl of your staff, thank you again for another unprecedented, unimaginable month of work. We just really appreciate what youre doing and i want to say thank you for everything that you dont do. Do i have any other comments from other commissioners . Im not seeing anything there. So, ill turn it back to our secretary. Thank you. Commissioners, item 6 is Public Comment an opportunity for members of the public to address the commission on matters that are not on todays calendar. Moderator, please open the phone line for Public Comment. Members of the public already dialed in and wish to provide Public Comment thurnld item, press pound 2. If members of the public wish to provide comment, call 8883512549 and access code 6858700 poundpound. Well wait 30 seconds. Do we have any callers in the queue . Operator there are currently no callers in the queue. Thank you. Seeing none, ill call the next item. Commission kerr knutzen and members of commission, the next item is item 8, new business. At this time, the department of Human Services Agency Budget director dan caplan will present the das fiscal year 20212022 and 2122 amed budge. This is an informational presentation only. This does not require a vote by the commission. Go ahead, dan. Ok. There we go. Can we move to the next slide . Or do i do that . Yes, i do. Ok. No . If your controls arent working, press anywhere ton presentation before trying again. Thank you. Ok. One of the thing thats interesting about this moment is im coming to appreciate how many different Video Conferencing programs there are out there and each one handles things like moving slides forward slightly differently. So, im pleased to be here today. This is an extraordinary year for the development and redevelopment of budgets. And what we are bringing to you today is really an update. Over the last several weeks, we have been working on a rebalancing of the budget and the thing that necessitates this is that we have a very Strong Economy three or four months ago. To an economy that is now officially in recession. And its happened very quickly and people throughout the cities are scrambling to deal with it. So in the city of San Francisco, we went from a december shortfall projection of 419 million gap to a march projection of 1. 1 to 1. 7 billion. And then in may, we settled on a 1. 7 billion shortfall. Thats what the city is trying to balance around. This is a shortfall that covers the current fiscal year and then covers the budget year and the budget year plus one. The second year. And, you know, its an extraordinary situation. Obviously for things to have changed that quickly. So, in making this 1. 7 billion projection, the Key Assumptions that were made by the Mayors Office and Controllers Office budget and legislative Analysts Office is that wage increases, which would have gone into effect on july 1 are delayed six months. That e. P. I. Assumptions, which really guide the budgeting for materials are revised. That we made no assumptions about the extraordinary costs related to covid19. [talking in background] and as she mentioned before, on the feeding side, there are clearly extraordinary costs which we are still working on. On the side of the alternative Housing Program which h. S. A. Working for das has taken the lead on. We are looking at a program that will have annual costs in the low hundreds of millions of dollars. Very substantial federal funds for reimbursements for those cost. But we are still trying to parse out what the general impacts of that are. The other key thing about the may projection is it assumes no Additional Support from federal or state, but it also assumes no loss. And as we know, the Governors Office has rejected a 54 billion loss in may revenue and has proposed a may revised budget that comes to address that and also mention the legislature has received that a revised is budget and is in the process of modifying its own budget. Paying for programs like the das program. The good news is that both the governor and the legislature have acknowledged that this is the time of extraordinary need for the sorts of services that the [inaudible] agency provides. And there is some luck in revenues in our programs. But on balance, we [inaudible] goes up during this period. So, moving forward to the next slide, this breaks out the [inaudible] estimates a little bit more. Ill just draw your attention to the line at the bottom, which is cumulative shortfall lines. [talking in background] the estimates are compared to our budget in the current fiscal year. We will have a general fund. In terms of general funds, a quarter of a billion worse off than people would have been four months ago. And then in each of the next two years, well be about three quarters of a billion dollars worse off than we anticipated. If you add those all together, you get to the 1. 7 billion. There is a lot of uncertainty, as you would expect at this time. The federal money that has been [inaudible] through the cares act that has been allocated will be gone quickly. As i said before, we have not fully come to terms with estimated [inaudible]. [talking in background getting louder] of the covid19 response of program. And we have a lot of other uncertainty, some of it financial and just very operational. That is the situation that were in. And all of this is becoming clear, but very slowly. We are, of course, moving forward and build a budget to continue operation. We have been assuming that programs like the d. A. S. Program will be running in remote load for the most part during the next fiscal year. Were still teasing apart what that means for an agency like the [inaudible]. Theyre assuming that the lions share of workers will be telecommuting or working as mobile workers. So, folks who are social workers and and clients will continue to do so after those are, for the most par, oneonone meetings at clients homes. Our offices will be largely unopened and both the buildings will, in fact, be open on some level. The city has laid out guidelines for reopening buildings which basically suggests a fewer than 20 of the workforce should be in the building at any given time. I think we will probably be able to get a lower rate than that. But what that means that we will be retooling a lot of the [inaudible]. So, that is [inaudible]. And then, as i said before, the state is facing significant revenue drops. And a significant portion of our funding comes from the state, we the city will [inaudible] within h. S. A. And well feel that a little bit less. As part of rebalancing, the Mayors Office has given additional reduction targets to agencies. As you see at the top of this slide, our targets for next fiscal year will be 6. 2 million with another 3. 2 millionish of contingency reduction to be aware of. And then 9. 4 million in the subsequent year. Remember that in february, we proposed the budget with reduction targets met and 2. 2 and 4. 4 million. So, those count to the total. So, what we are coming up with now is an additional reduction of 4 million. In the budget 5 million. [mumbling] the Mayors Office has also directed agencies to a hiring freeze and nonessential capital projects, [inaudible] any programs. When we look at the state budget and its impacts on h. S. A. And d. A. S. , we see really the big impacts of our what we call realignment revenue and realignment revenue is i think an obscure area of funding but it is very important for essential services agencies. In both 1991 and in 2011, the state transitioned responsibility for large pieces of social Services Funding to counties and, in both instances, they created a a dedicated stream of revenue that would go to counties and would help. Thats not the cost of these additional responsibilities. And what happens in our budget situation is that i should say, excuse me, that the Funding Sources are actually driven by the state sales tax and state vehicle licensing. So, what happens in good years, as there is more wages and people spend, our revenues from 1991 and 2007 realignment go up. In bad years, in recession years, they go down. And the challenges we have as a Services Agency is to some extent it is a cyclical business. So, this may be a little bit less the case in d. A. S. Than our economic support and selfsufficiency division. But during recessions, many more people qualify for medical and calworks and individual income [inaudible]. And so demand for service is at a time when revenue is going down. In San Francisco, and every county does this a little differently. But in San Francisco, theres been a tradition that 1991 realignment revenue is treated as if it were a general fund. So, its just another source of money that flows in and, during good years, the Human Services agency and d. A. S. Dont especially benefit from the fact that more money is flowing in through 1991 realign. Alignment. In bad year, they dont benefit from the fact that the rate of growth or total [inaudible] is the error. Flattening and declining. 2011 realignment is more recent and this is our First Experience with a define in 2011 realign. We had been in february anticipating a little bit more than 4 million in 2011 realignment that growth has evaporated and in addition to that, we are looking at a decline in the base of about 8 million. So this is a pretty substantial reduction. Its around [inaudible] percent. So, that is a large additional issue over and above our target reduction. And we have been discussing with the Mayors Office how to handle that and the uncertainty and ask them to help us max out the growth. Excuse me, not growth. But the loss of space. What else are we facing at the state level . Were facing flat funding in the administrative presence of the ihss and medical programs. We had been assuming several millions of dollars of growth in those program budgets. We are seeing substantial growth in the calfresh and especially in the calworks case loads with administrative revenue coming [inaudible] with those. And then the governor had cuts in child care rates. So, we havent seen the final numbers from the legislative process yet. But the preliminary analysis weve done on the legislative proposals suggest that there will be some back filling of realignment revenue, the child care rate cuts will be reversed and that some programs, especially calworks will see even more growth. Which helps throughout the Agency Budget. We are assuming at this point that we will be able to back fill the losses with some growth in the Calworks Program. [mumbling [ during this time because one of the things that we do fund through the Calworks Program is the Employment Services program. But we are working on a significant position through our well, the subsidizing program. For calfresh money, we are thinking that in the budget year, we will need the entire growth for overtime for our workers in our s. F. Benefits area and in the second year of the biennial, well get savings from calfresh allocation that will allow us [inaudible] the other losses. The reason were accepting such a large overtime need in the first year is that one of the responses that they have made to the covid19 incident has been to direct the county to stop doing the determination of calfresh. And as you know, many people have just been [inaudible] on the calfresh program. That is a good thing at this moment. But we havent done the redetermination work. And when the moratorium on redetermination work ends in another three or four months, then well have a large [inaudible]. Bhu but there will be a period of time [inaudible]. And we have also decided to remove substitutions. They are reclassifications of positions and over time, as needs change within our agency, we propose reclassification or substitutions. We do that in two ways, one is through the budget process and the other is [inaudible] mid year process where we go to the department we resources and propose this specific change in the classification of the position. And when we get into the budget process, we clean that up financially. Well continue to propose to do this financial cleanup. But we will remove many [inaudible] from our budget. Were also going to do a certain amount of space consolidation. Were going to come up three leases and were going to consolidate the [inaudible], three leases at our 6050 mission building. We are going to have about 50,000 square feet of space that the Planning Department currently occupies. Thats what well ewe. Were doing the work of consolidation had already been in process but we are going to speed up any kind of leases. And then we are going to, in some cases, identify some specific funds that are multiyear funds that we can [inaudible]. And that will help us back phil a little of the lost revenue. So without going into too much detail, give you a bit of background. Like i said, we are working on a program to increase subsidized employment. We are assuming that will cost in the neighborhood of 5 million. The additional calworks revenue is a little bit higher than that. With rars to calfresh, were assuming an increase in revenue of 2 million which will be needed in the budget in the budget year plus one. The family of Children Services division, which is the division most heavily [inaudible] by 2011 realignment will have some reductions. We have been involved in finetuning the f. C. S. Budget for a while now as the case loads have come down substantially and funding has been change over the last couple of years. So this accelerates a situation that already existed. And then within the h. S. A. Administration group, we are looking at shifting a lot of money around to be able to allow us to support an organization working largely remotely. Were also doing some spending down of [inaudible] to help us with the transition to our new state automated welfare software. That is a process that started a couple of years ago and will not be completed until [inaudible]. On the d. A. S. Side, probably the big policies impact is around ihss wages. As you probably remember, the ihss wages are, at this point in time divided [banging] and that was passed a couple of years ago. There were a set of specific increases that were laid out that is reflected in the [inaudible]. And it indicates that the wage increases will be suspended in the event [banging] of an economic shortfall of greater certain. We are still working with the Mayors Office on whether the wage increase which was supposed to have [inaudible] july 1 will go into effect during the fiscal year. The increase does go into effect and would have cost slightly less than 5 million for the city. So as we try to balance around 1. 7 billion [inaudible] debt, it would be [inaudible]. The other key item for d. A. S. Is the dignity fund also has a trigger for bad Economic Times and what that trigger does is it eliminates the increase in the dignity fund announced which is 3 million a year. The dignity fund will be [inaudible]. And then certain money were repurposing [inaudible] and there are dignity Fund Balances built up [inaudible]. And then as we work within d. A. S. On the Office Community partnership, some may be shifted or repurposed slightly to help build the [inaudible] that well be working remotely [inaudible] just to mention oece. This is an area where there are substantial changes in the rules of providing early care or child care. There are new spacing requirements and Child Care Centers need to be able to [inaudible] the costs will go down. And the other thing that is important for early care in education is that it is partly funded by the Education Enrichment fund which is a dedicated fund which is 7 million less this year than anticipated. So, well [inaudible]. Well need to draw down on some educational Enrichment Fund reserves to be able to maintain both the number of kids who are in the program in care in one sort or another and maintain the child care system. So where are we in time . We have written down on this sheet that june 12, which is friday, we will be submitting reduction plans to the mayor. Maybe it is a little bit less of a hard submission date that we have [inaudible] budget. And likely the Mayors Office very much acknowledged that this is a work in progress and that we will be working with the Mayors Office and across agency lines to come up with a budget that allows us to go forward. So, emily gibbs, our budget director, laid out a number of these concepts. We will be submitting an interim set of initial set of numbers to them for the rest of this week. In a way that is whats behind the introduction of this talk. We are not asking for you to take a vote on this. It is not specific enough for you to take a vote on it. But what we are doing is updating you on the situation that we find ourselves in and approaches to it and well continue to update you as we go. So, with that, annemarie and i will take questions if you have any. Thank you so much, mr. Caplan. And on behalf of the commission, i want to say i recognize how much work has gone into creating and assessing this situation and providing us with as detailed a come as you did. This is a tremendous thing you have to do, and your staff. I want to they thank you for that. I know well Work Together to maintain as Many Services as we possibly can and appreciate the innovation and creativity that i think that staff has become known for during this time. So, well just wait until and hope that better numbers will come our way. That the point, we certainly trust that youre doing everything you can on behalf of the commission to thank your staff for all the work that is going into assessing the situation. And doing the best we can under the circumstances. Commissioners, did you have any other comments or questions for mr. Caplan at this time . And im seeing all commissioners at this point, which is a good thing. If anybody wants to make a comment, please let me know. Commissioner spears. Thank you so much for this detailed presentation. You said the timeline is a work in progress. Will the are we to assume, though, that the final date of october 1 is solid and there is a lot of work between now and october 1, but october 1 will be the solid date . I think that is a fair assumption. The Mayors Office indicated they wanted a signed budget by october 1, so everyone has geared up around that. We will be operating under an interim budget of the first three months of fiscal year. The interim budget will be based on the second year of the biennial budget that the board aed last july. Approved last july and then well be making significant adjustments as we go into the final project of the upcoming fiscal [inaudible]. Thank you. Any other commissioners . Commissioner lum. Good morning. At the midst of being overly simplistic, what were asking [inaudible] a situation where there is a huge demand, yet we already know that our budget is going to be a much lower than previously anticipated. I understand that you got through a tremendous amount of work trying to juggle all the numbers. But ultimately youre going to be looking at a shortfall. So, are you going to be able to provide us with the anticipated cuts and where those cuts will be made . Yeah. I would say that, overall, the city will be facing a substantial shortfall. A shortfall is less within social Services Programs represented by d. A. S. And d. H. S. And oece. And that is for a couple of reasons. One is that, at the state level, there is acknowledgment that in a recession, people who are [inaudible] essential service agencis are even more in need than they would be in normal times. But that these times hit lower income folks hardest. So that is one thing. When you look at the state budget, what you see is that totally not the case that were unscathed. But we do tend to have less in the way of reductions and [inaudible] way of additional money [inaudible]. I think that the city is also acknowledging that as well. And so, you know, as we kind of feel our way through this, i think there is a lot of consciousness that that is a reality that were going to face and stays at the municipal level. So, there are ways that we will be doing things differently that maybe some services you arent able to offer, they are more driven by covid19 than the fiscal situation. So, i would say that [inaudible] a nocuts budget by [inaudible] the budget where we have worked hard to patch together funding for the existing Service Array and growth in some areas. You know, and. As we mentioned earlier, i think there is going to be a growth in our [inaudible] partly because its such a huge demand [inaudible]. There may be impacts or slowing of [inaudible] and here the biggest example is the ihss [inaudible]. So we are not really contemplating providing less service. In the governors budget, he proposed a reduction of hours for the ihss program [inaudible] that notion. [inaudible]. Oh, ok. You know, but the big impact in that program, and it is a big impact, is that workers would have [inaudible] for hour wage on july 1 and [inaudible] as i said, we are still trying to figure out whens a way [inaudible] could go into effect. [inaudible]. So, you know, that is a big impact. Its not something that cuts services to clients. As we look at staffing, we dont think there is at all a need for layoffs at this point. We will be hiring more slowly than we have in the past. But, on the other hand, were anticipating that under the economic conditions, well lose fewer workers than we have in the past. Simply because there are fewer jobs. So, you know, i dont mean to sugar coat this at all. Its a very tough situation. But it is not one where i think as a social Services Agency [inaudible] well be in disasterous [inaudible]. Well be doing more [inaudible] because the need will be greater. And commissioner lum, i would like to echo that, you know, because we are a social Services Organization and because of all the things dan mentioned, better than we would under normal circumstances, but were also really doing the exercise, i am with my team, to really think about what our priorities are in the event that we do have to make some hard decisions. And so i dont want to be caught un you know, unready for that. But it is, you know, it looks good for us right now. But we are doing that just so that we can come back to you and say this is our thought process if we need to use that. Thank you. Ok. Thank you very much. Are there any other comments or questions from commissioners . No. Ok. Ok, commissioners, the next four agenda items are action items that require a vote by the commission. Ok. Thank you, bridgette. Commissioners, your first agenda item is a, requesting requesting authorization to be in a new Grant Agreement with homebridge inc. For inhome supportive services, ihss contract mode during the period of july 1, 2020 through june 30, 2025. In the amount of 129 million plus a 10 contingency for a total grant amount not to exceed 132,265,270. Please present the item. Great. Good morning, commissioners. And executive officer mcfadden. Im the director of inhome supportive services. Today im pleased to present two contracts for ihss homebridge. The first one, as said, is for the provision of contract mode ihss first 2020 and ending june [inaudible] 25. As you all know well, i [inaudible] important Entitlement Program [inaudible] for low income adults and those with disabilities. In San Francisco, our ihss program serves nearly 23,000 consumers to live safely in the community with over 21,000 independent providers delivering that care. To support all San Francisco [inaudible] and utilizing the ihss program, we offer a robust range of supports designed to meet the needs of the ihss consumers. We call this the continuum of choice and support. Contract mode ihss is an essential part of this continuum and its services help some of our [inaudible] to live safely in the community. Typically homebridge provides supported and supervised [inaudible]. Your audio is cutting in and out quite a bit. Am i . Im so sorry. Can you hear me better now . Yeah. Just go back 30 seconds or so. Ok. Sorry. [laughter] so, ok. Ill start here. So contract mode [inaudible]. Help support is it still bad . Yeah. Its cutting in and out. You know, hold on one second. Let me try something new. Somebody had to have technical difficulties. But that is how these things go. Let me try. All right. Is this better . Yeah . Good . Ok. This is how were going do it. All right. Let me go back again. So, to support all San Francisco ihss consumers and utilizing the i. H. Program, we offer a robust range of supports that are designed to meet the tiered needs of consumers. We it the San Francisco ihss continuum of choice and support. Contract mode ihss is an essential part of this continuum and its supports help our most vulnerable residents to live safely in the community. Specifically homebridge provides supportive and nonmedical out of home care to roughly 4 of ihss consumers who cannot direct their own care, which is often due to mental illness, positive impairment and substances disor. They often dont have any other support systems in their lives and without services from homebridge [inaudible] hospitalization and longterm institutionalization. Homebridge projects to serve 450,000 hours of [inaudible] care annually to nearly 850 recipients through their specialty trained [inaudible]. I wanted to share a series [inaudible] really further to demonstrate in their value [inaudible] San Francisco safety nets through the implication [inaudible] response team. They safe home care, consumers who are covidpositive and covid [inaudible]. The team requires flexibility and collaboration to ensure worker and consumer safety and the projected provisions of services in an ever evolving landscape. Their duties freezing raining supporting [inaudible], wellness khe, emergency oncall care and [inaudible] home care support and we appreciated all the work that they have done to make it a successful project. Im happy sorry about that. Before i let you go. Hold your phone a little bit closer. Were getting a little bit of popping. Ok. Sorry. Sure. Im happy along with contract and a budget staff to answer any of your questions. And thank you for your consideration. Ok. Well, thank you very much. I did hear you. So, we are fine. [laughter] ok. Good. And thank you for your excellent description of the program and also its particular [inaudible] during the covid crisis. It is very helpful to understand how it is all intersecting. Do i have any other comments or questions from other commissioners . About this item . I dont see anyone. Ok. Moderator, please open sorry. Moderator, please open the phones. Im sorry. I did see a question from commissioner spears. Hi. Thank you very much for the presentation. I just have a question just trying to connect the dots between the budget that we just talked about that will be approved later. And this starting on 71. Is this something that we would then modify if there are cuts made in the future for this year and the year plus one going forward. Is that how this would be done and go back to the chising at this point in time . I know that my fellow contacts and budgets are on the line. I do know that all contracts do leave that open. Im not sure if my counterparts have anything more to add to that. Is david or emily available . Ok. Maybe theyre not there. That is my best hi. Can you hear ne . Yeah. Now we can. Yeah. Ok. This is emily goode, director for Senior Services agency. That is correct. I think in the case of the homebridge contract, since this is a part of our ihss program and where the hours are mandated, this is not an area where we would be anticipating, you know, reductions. Because we are going to continue to provide the hours of service to clients that it. That need it. In general, if there are reductions in contracts that we renewed, we would those could happen. Sort of after the approval. This is a followon question. Does this mean that if the state cuts the hours of ihss at the state level, we would still hold true to the hours within projected in this contract . Im just trying to connect those dots. More than likely, yes. Many of homebridges clients do not accept full amount of hours that were authorized. Even more so than the 7 that they are looking to cut. They wont have any appreciable impact on that. Thank you so much. Any other comments or questions from commissioners about this budget item . All right. Then madame secretary, anyone from the public who wishs to comment on this item . Madame secretary, i think your line is muted. Sorry. Please open the phone lines to Public Comment. Members of public are who are already dialed in and wish to provide Public Comment under this item, please press 2 to enter the question queue. Well wait 30 seconds for callers to submit their requests. Moderator, do we have any callers in the queue . Operator there are currently no questions in the queue. Thank you. Already then. Hearing no further requests to speak on the item, well close Public Comment. Is there a motion . On this agenda item. So move. Moved by commissioner spears. Do we have a second . Sklar. Seconded by commissioner sklar. Its been moved and seconded for this agenda item. Madame secretary, can you please take a roll call. [roll call] the vote is unanimous. Great. Thank you very much. [phone ringing] commissioners, your next item is agenda item b, requesting authorization to enter into a new Grant Agreement with homebridge inc. For the provision of provider Skill Development training and support. During the period july 1, 2020, the june 3, 2025 in the amount of 3,750,000, plus a 10 contingency for a total grant amount not to exceed 4,425,000. Please rent the item. Great. Thank you. So as i said previously, the ihss program has about 21,000 independent providers delivering care to our 23,000 recipients. Theyre a very critical workforce in ensuring that residents or recipients of care can remain safely in our home and part of that is to receive really good training and support in order to do this really valuable work. Also im happy to present the provider Skill Development training and supports contract which provides opportunities for all ihss providers for these basic and Skill Development training that will enable them to provide safe, efficient and appropriate Home Care Services. Homebridge will provide basic and advanced training to all i. P. S with the expectation that 5 of the over 21,000 eligiblism p. S will take at least one of the trainings. Given the covid19 crisis, homebridge has been given the task of shifting its inperson model to an online format. And i am happy to report that, in just the last several months, homebridge has transitioned their universal precaution trader, provider orientation training and cycle educational groups to online modules and formats and were committed, along with homebridge, to work with them and find new ways to train and support their independent providers during this unprecedented pan democrat soik that they can continue to provide safe care. So, again, i thank you for your time and consideration. And im happy to answer any of your questions. Ok, great. Thank you very much. Again, on behalf of all the commissioners, i cant imagine the enormous work that went that was involved in all that converting to all that Online Training so i want to convey our appreciation for that to our other staff that were involved. It must have been a tremendous effort. Any other comments or questions from commissioners on this item . Ok. Seeing none, then madame secretary, do you have anyone from the public who wishs to comment on this item . Moderator, please open up the lines of Public Comment. Members of public that are already dialed in and wish to provide Public Comment under this item, please press 2 to enter the question queue. Then well give the callers 30 seconds. Moderator, do we have any callers in the queue . Operator there are no callers in the queue. Thank you. Thats great. Hearing no requests to speak on the item, well close Public Comment. Is there a motion from our commissioners . Do i have a i see commissioner lum as moving it. Do i have commissioner spears seconding it . Madame secretary, will you take a roll call on agenda item b . [roll call] the vote is unanimous. Thank you, commissioners. Your next item is agenda item c, requesting authorization to m. O. D. Motor vehicle the existing contract with r. T. Z. Associates inincome a position of development, access and support for the sfgov care system during the period of july 1, 2020 through june 30, 2021 for an additional amount of 1,170,140, a 10 contingency for a few total amount not to exceed 3,848,302 and can you present the item for us . Hi. [inaudible]. Melissa mcgee. Great. Thank you. Ok. So, good morning, commissioners and executive director mcfadden. My name is melissa mcgee. Im a Program Manager with the office of Community Partnership and im actually filling in for mike who all right. [laughter] so anyway, im here today to ask your approval to enter into contract with r. T. Z. Associates to provide access, development, support, maintenance and training of the s. F. Get care system. D. A. S. Has been working with r. T. Z. Since 1999, beginning w n a Information System to track services and with a number of additional applications and potions beginning in 2003 to the present has evolved into a comprehensive Information System, the s. F. Get care system, which coordinates and manages Adult Services throughout San Francisco programs. R. T. Z. Will provide access to the Information System for tracking, coordinating, management, reporting of services and in addition r. T. Z. Provides development, technical support, data integration, data analysis, reporting updates and staff training in the s. F. Get care system. Your memo outlines the history, but i wanted to mention that, until 2018, d. P. H. Directly managed the contract, and at that time made a decision to go develop a new system and ask h. S. A. To take over management of the theres been a delay in d. P. H. s transition so they asked us to extend this for one year while they work on their new system. So with that, i request your approval to enter into this question. We do have a question from commissioner spears. Im just talkative today. [laughter] just one quick question. So, it sounds like the longterm plan is to move to the system that is being developed by d. P. H. Im sorry. The longterm plan is we would manage this directly. We would continue with r. T. Z. D. P. H. Would development their own system. But we would continue. Yeah. Ok. And youll probably see this again next year. Got it. That is what i wanted yeah. Yeah. Ok. Any other questions or comments from the commissioners . All right then. Madame secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to comment on this item . Moderator, please open the phone lines to Public Comment. Members of naubl are already dialed in and wish to provide Public Comment under this item, please press pound 2 to enter the question queue. Well wait 30 seconds for our callers. Operator, do we have any callers in the queue . Operator there are currently no callers in the queue. Thank you. Ok. Then hear nothing further request to speak on the item, im going to close Public Comment. Is there a motion from the commissioner oner this agenda item . So moved. Great. Thank you, commissioner sklar as moved and commissioner spears has second. Madame secretary, will you take a roll call vote for agenda item c. [roll call] the vote is unanimous. All right. Thank you very much. Ok. Commissioners, your next item is agenda item d, requesting authorization to modify the Grant Agreement with meals on wheels for provision of emergency home delivered meals during the period of july 2019 through june 30, 2020 in the additional amount of 87,097, a 10 con intin contingency. And i think we are ready for the agenda item. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning, commissioners. Im tiffany kearny, the lead nutritionist. Im seeking the commissions approval to modify one of wheels on wheels Grant Agreements. Meals on wheels our largest home delivered meal provider. Their Services Include an Emergency Meal Program that delivers meals to clients in urgent need of nutrition support within a few days after contacting our Intake Department. The Intake Department screens these individuals over the phone to determine their eligibility for the program. The covid19 pandemic and the rapid change in how our clients take care of their general nutrition needs has resulted in an increased demand for the delivery of food and meal nos tear home, which includes emergency meal services. This modification will help meals on wheels meet the increased demand for emergency meals. It will also allow them to provide a third meal in the form of a breakfast to those who need extra support. With your approval, for this modification, meals on wheels will be able to provide an additional 18027 meals and enable them to serve at least 104 new clients. Thank you. And i would be happy to answer any questions you may have at this time. Thank you, ms. Kearny. Any questions or comments . All right. Madame secretary, do you have anyone from the public who wishs to comment on the item . Moderator, please open the phone lines to Public Comment. Members of the public that are already dialed in and twoish provide Public Comment under this item, please press pound 2 to enter the question queue. Well wait 30 seconds for our callers to submit their request. Moderator, do we have any callers in the queue . Operator there are currently no callers in the queue. Thank you. Thank you very much. Hearing no further requests to speak on the item, we will close Public Comment. And get a motion from commissioners for agenda item d. Commissioner lum has moved to approve s. Do we have a second . Commissioner sklar. Please take a roll call vote for agenda item d. [roll call] vote is unanimous. Thank you. I think we have completed the agenda. Thats correct . Correct. Do we call for announcements . Yeah. Are there any announcements . [inaudible]. Any idea how we schedule the next meeting or when . [muffled] just a question from commissioner sklar about future meetings and how we get how soon we be notified about that, i think. Ill notify you this week. Great. That would be helpful. For the august meeting. Ok. Great. And then i think there is a point that we need a motion to adjourn the meeting. We have a motion from the commissioner spears and a second from commission kerr lum. I thought i saw that hand go up. On behalf of the commission, i adjourn the meeting. Thank you very much for everyones participation and, again, all the hard work. Please convey to every staff member of d. A. S. Department how grateful we are for their work this month. And continued work. Thank you, commissioners. We will do that. And be safe. Ok. Thank you. When i look at an old neon sign thats working or not working, i feel the Family Business that was in there. Since 2009, citywide, sf shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. You know, sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of San Francisco. Sf shines is such an amazing program, and i cant think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if theyve got a neon sign, theyve really got a great way to advertise their business. This is a continuation of the sf shines program. Focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. Of the seven neon signs, weve invested about 145,000. A good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. As opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. In San Francisco, the majority of neon signs are for momandpop businesses. In order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community. Part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on their current signs, and base on the history. In the time that weve been here, weve seen a number of signs restored just on eddy street. There are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. I have worked with randall and al, and weve mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. That information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going to rank it. So if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, were going to pick these five, and theyre putting together clusters, so they build on top of whats already there. A cluster of neon signs is sort of, i guess, like a cluster of grapes. When you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. If you havy got two of three of them, youve created an atmosphere thats almost like a movie set. Some of the hotel, weve already invested in to get those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some weve done in chinatown, as well as the citys portal neighborhood. We got the fund to restore it. It took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. Once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. Neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration. You would go downtown and see the most recent Humphrey Bogart film filled with neon in the background. And youd see that on Market Street, and as Market Street got seedier and seedier and fewer people continued to go down, that was what happened to all the neon strips of light. The film nori might start with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few letters. One of my favorite scenes, orson welles is chasing ririt Rita Hayworth with neon signs in the background. I think what the office of economic and Workforce Development is very excited with is that well be able to see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most especially residents. The first coin laundry, the elm hotel, the Western Hotel are ones that we want to focus on in the year ahead. Neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara, like the nightcap. We want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs in San Francisco, and so do they. We bring the expertise, and they bring the means to actually get the job done. People in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit. As youre driving through the tenderloin or the city, it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. Knee an was created to make the night more friendly and advertise businesses. Its a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. Theres so many ways to improve public safety. The standard way is having more eyes on the street, but theres other culturally significant ways to do that, and one those ways is lighting up the streets. But what better way and special way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. When i see things coming back to life, its like remembering how things were. Its remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise their money or to provide a service, and it just it just it just welcome to the San Francisco Planning Commission Remote Commission hearing on june 11, 2020. I would like to enter the following into the record, since we began the remoment market. On february 25th, the mayor declared a state of emergency. That was due to the health emergency, the commission, chamber and city hall is closed. Furthermore, the mayor and governor have issued emergency orders suspending select laws applicable to boards and commissions, making it possible to hold hearings randomly. On april 3rd, 2020, the Planning Commission received authorization to recould be convenient remotely through the end of the shelterinplace. The authorization directs
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