Its great to be in city hall during the holidays season. I i love to see the tree at the top of the stairs, its a festive time here. Welcome all. So, lets begin. For the record this is the december 11th, 2019 Treasure Island Development Authority board meeting. Item number 1 call to order. [roll call] we have a quorum clerk general Public Comment. This item is to allow members of the public to address the Treasure Island Development Authority board on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Authority Board and that do not appear on todays agenda. In addition, Public Comment will be held during each item on the agenda. Members of the public may address the board for up to throw minutes and you will hear a single chime when there are 30 seconds remaining, prior to making your comments, state your name and the organization you represent, if any, for the record. Please come up, hello. Thank you, very much. My name is and im the c. E. O. For Health Rights 360. The las
Happy new year. Of aofi have a few things to highlight. Very exciting news with regard to medy cal expanding coverage to undocumented immigrants up to age 26. This is an expansion that Governor Newsom authorized as part of the states 2019 to 20 budget, including full scope medical to eligible adults ages 19 to 25 regardless of immigration status. Statewide this is expected to have a wide impact, covering 90,000 people, and enrollment started the first of the year. We have to make that expansion will apply to about 1,000 to 2,000 individuals in San Francisco. And we have been working with the Human Services agency to notify eligible san franciscans, including transitioning those who qualify from healthy San Francisco to medical. This is also an important opportunity to remind residents about the available of medical, that immigrants are not pen liesed when they apply for a green card, and there are no changes to the public charge rule as the courts issued an injunction and the federal g
Health. Happy new year. Of aofi have a few things to highlight. Very exciting news with regard to medy cal expanding coverage to undocumented immigrants up to age 26. This is an expansion that Governor Newsom authorized as part of the states 2019 to 20 budget, including full scope medical to eligible adults ages 19 to 25 regardless of immigration status. Statewide this is expected to have a wide impact, covering 90,000 people, and enrollment started the first of the year. We have to make that expansion will apply to about 1,000 to 2,000 individuals in San Francisco. And we have been working with the Human Services agency to notify eligible san franciscans, including transitioning those who qualify from healthy San Francisco to medical. This is also an important opportunity to remind residents about the available of medical, that immigrants are not pen liesed when they apply for a green card, and there are no changes to the public charge rule as the courts issued an injunction and the f
Agenda. Members of the public may address the board for up to throw minutes and you will hear a single chime when there are 30 seconds remaining, prior to making your comments, state your name and the organization you represent, if any, for the record. Please come up, hello. Thank you, very much. My name is and im the c. E. O. For Health Rights 360. The last time i spoke with you was a meeting on Treasure Island and you were about to turn the keys over to us for the Additional Units on marner street. And so, weve now opened those units. I just want to thank you so much for allowing us to mak use of te units. I dont think theres a program when we operate with the largest substance provider in the city and county of San Francisco and i dont think theres a Single Program we offer that has more of an impact on our clients than these services we provide in these units. Its amazing. People who come to us for substance treatment are 94 of them are unsheltered and they have no homes at all. Th
Having spouses and children and so fourth and so then the replacement unit obligation that were trying to plan for for that household changes accordingly with those household changes. Another part of the counseling that i dont think we had anticipated or envisioned, well, i think we anticipated it somewhat, but what is really been driven through the conversations is theres a need to engage with households as theyre making longterm plans for themselves about retirement or other things that could affect their ability to qualify for an Affordable Housing unit. Someone may be in a position today where they might not be eligible for an Affordable Housing unit but if they make a decision to cut back on their hours or to retire, that they might fall no a category where they would qualify. So its a very dynamic picture and theres a level of on going consultation with households as they continue to value wait these choices. Just to answer that question, we reached 189 pre dda and well look to w