Support letters for several pieces of that legislation, so i have a relatively short report today. Thank you. Any questions . Thank you. Thank you. Next we have the tacc report. Is cathy here . No report. Okay. Case report. Good morning commissioners, director hinton. I am linda and from the Richmond District and i will give the report today. In march dave came and spoke about contracts to case. It was a very interesting meeting. Shirr rein will be visiting them in april and the big work that case is doing right now is on the advocacy campaign. We started this in many ways last spring so about a year ago now. We started it with convening the Community Services contractors and getting them together to build consensus as to what god i am sorry. I am nervous to what we need to support senior cities and contractors in the city. We hosted a Postcard Campaign with 5,000 cards out in the community right now and i brought some copies that i can give to bride get if anyone would like to see the
Next is the nominating Committee Report and commissioner itani [inaudible] no. Just the one item. We have the reappointment of the advisory committee, those two items. So its done by commissioner katie loo. Good morning. The committee met on march 23 at 9 00 oclock on mission, fifth floor [inaudible] office. Without her permission. And we talk about in the meeting the three of us, president james, itani and myself. We met and we talk about the new offices for the coming year, and president james graciously said she would accept the nomination as the president , and commissioner seriina as the Vice President so put this together today for your vote, Commission Vote on that. Why dont you go back to the first item, reappointment of the Advisory Council. Certainly. I am not used to this kind of thing. Thats okay. Yeah, reappointment on Advisory Council members which are listed in the agenda. Okay. [inaudible] yeah, i want to approve the motion the motion is appoint edna james no, the Advis
This is for the purchase of services for those returning from acute hospitals and those in the San Francisco tr Transitional Care Program and Northern California presbyterian homes is the lead against for the Transitional Care Program and intervention for people to kind of meet peoples immediate need when is they come out of the hospital and it incorporates coaching and coordination for people coming out of the hospitals and one thing that we realized would be helpful for the transitional care specialists to have is a little bit of funds to provide services for people that they need, so just like with the regular Community Living fund how the case managers have funds that they can use for specific services that people need when they go out. This is similar. Its the same purpose, so they use those funds for rental assistance, for food, maybe a little home care, equipment, other supports that they need to put in place so they can stay safely at home when they get out of the hospital so t
The commission has authority to do so many and each board member has the authority to do one. These are yes, so how many all together there are 11 from the board of supervisors; right . Correct. And more besides this 11. I believe that we can have up to 22 or 24 is the total we can have. Its [inaudible] but we can have under that and we have under that at this point. Yes. So i think commissioner ow you heard in the report and commissioner smith and last month there were vacancies so you can ask the secretary for the applications. We have formal applications and you can ask the secretary for the application if you want to recommend somebody, but we still have several openings and looking for recruitment. Thank you. I have a clear understanding now. The one that appoint by the supervisors didnt go through this processing. No. Thank you. [inaudible] no. We have a motion on the floor which requires a second to nominate approve the people that the nominating committee recommended. I second
Unanimous requests. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection, so ordered. n mr. Cruz so the first unanimous consent request i would promulgate, mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h. J. Res. 72, making continuing appropriations for Veterans Benefits for the fiscal year 2014, which was received from the house. I ask further consent that the measure be read three times and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The presiding officer is there objection . Mrs. Murray mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from washington. Mrs. Murray mr. President , as the presiding officer knows and our colleagues know, i have spoken often of my own father who was a world war ii veteran who spent most of his life in a wheelchair, earned a purple heart. I know the sacrifices that our veterans make. As chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee before this, i fought