A tour about six months ago, really exquisite office space in terms of openness and the ability of staff to work together. So we are now in the throes, going to be moving medical, cal fresh which we would call the old food stamps program, our information and assistance program, part of our ihhs, together into that building. This will become a Public Access building for us. Weve always made the opportunity for people to come in and discuss with staff any issues that they might have in the building that were in, but we believe that this building with the kind of access it has and its visibility will provide more of that and well be doing more outreach into the community to let people know that thats where we are. Veterans will be going into that building as well. We had hoped that would happen right after the first of the year but its looking like spring, april or may, and well keep you updated on that. Also wanted to mention in ihhs, one of the biggest issues there is the overtime issue
Thanks to all aps workers for coming. Thank you, you do a good job. Next, reports. Directors report, anne hinton. Good morning, president james and commissioners. Just a few things to report today. One, we keep bringing, i keep bringing up, others bring up the Older Americans aktd and the push we were having in congress to try to move that forward. Its looking now like nothing is going to happen in the lame duck session. I was on a Conference Call yesterday and its sounding like it may not come back up in a real solid bill until 2017, so well update you on that and let you see. The white house conference on aging, though, is still going forward. They are still speculating that the convening of people, which will be a very small convening, will happen in july. We will keep an eye on that. Clearly we want to do a San Francisco response to that event and will be engaging you thinking about how we might be doing that and getting you all involved in that as well. I also wanted to mention we
Nurturing place. Good morning, we are about to start the department of aging and Adult Service Commission Meeting today. Thank you for coming. Secretary, could we have roll call. President james. Present. Vice president seriina, here. Commissioner itani, here. Commissioner loo, here. Commissioner ow, here. Commissioner roy, here. Please note executive secretary ann hinton is present . Oo . A we have the agenda and i have been informed that item c under new business will be taken off the, has been requested to be taken off the agenda. Could i have a motion to approve the agenda with that change . So moved. Second. Its been moved and seconded that we approve the agenda removing item b under new business. All in favor, aye. Opposed . Ayes have it so the motion is carried. Thank you. Next we have approval of the Consent Agenda with all items. So moved. Seconded. It has been moved and seconded that we have approval of the Consent Agenda. All in favor . Opposed . The ayes have it so the moti
Coordinating council can be better communicated to the city and the county, public and the mayor and the supervisors and there is a lot of work done by the council over the years, and the message needs to be gotten out, and this effort from the communication plan, which is voted as an action plan, i hope that you, and the commission can have a copy or see a copy it is going to dove tail in the project in terms of the town hall forms, as well as you know, the external scan and this is going to lead in the parallel way, to the Long Term Care integration plan that is moving some what concurrently with the efforts of the Long Term Care coordinating council, and cindy, can organizing, the work group or the Oversight Committee for the long term integrating project and so it is like two trains going parallel and they will converge in the future, and i want the communication plan, because this city, needs integrated Long Term Care service plan. And one of the big discussion items and i will th
Coordinating council can be better communicated to the city and the county, public and the mayor and the supervisors and there is a lot of work done by the council over the years, and the message needs to be gotten out, and this effort from the communication plan, which is voted as an action plan, i hope that you, and the commission can have a copy or see a copy it is going to dove tail in the project in terms of the town hall forms, as well as you know, the external scan and this is going to lead in the parallel way, to the Long Term Care integration plan that is moving some what concurrently with the efforts of the Long Term Care coordinating council, and cindy, can organizing, the work group or the Oversight Committee for the long term integrating project and so it is like two trains going parallel and they will converge in the future, and i want the communication plan, because this city, needs integrated Long Term Care service plan. And one of the big discussion items and i will th