With him. They were the administrators and they wanted to see how it happens because there was a lot of resistance from the seniors who were very vocal. They didnt want to change the Food Voucher Program because they were used to that for over 20 years. Anyway, in may, 2014, they had a procurement meeting with all the different vendors. They look at different models how they can implement this because resources are pretty scarce and they didnt have the type of infrastructure that we have, but they have restaurants and they have schools, they looked at schools. But finely they nothing that i have went with was working with caterers and having the restaurants be able to provide the food for the different senters that they will offer the new program. There are 15 new sites where they started this program in different parts of the island. Interestingly they wanted to start out with a few pilot programs, but nobody wanted to start so they said oh the heck with it. This is a sample of the me
Volunteers was different in the islands than here. They train the seniors, theyre able to use them as food service aids helping with the new service. These are just some very few highlights of the visit back in january of last year. On the very top is the chief ali and he met with the seniors at the Samoan Community Development Center to get their insights and also get their feedback of what works for them here in the city and they took a lot of the ideas back. And we visited several new sites, including 30th street. This is a sample of the meals served there. Also this Senior Center so they have an idea, the meals can be very appealing. In San Francisco we offer very diverse type of meals because we have a very diverse population. This is a recent visit in december just right outside the japan tone. This is a group of the seniors at the Samoan Community Development Center along with the representatives from the ataoa. Derrick lamb has been going to a lot of meetings with u. S. And hes
Programs, but nobody wanted to start so they said oh the heck with it. This is a sample of the meals they provide, home delivered meals and they are using the menu that we have approved for the Samoan Community Development Center. This is another sample of the meals. Of course this is very common and culturally well accepted. Now, this is a picture of the seniors at graduation and what they did was that because they couldnt volunteer getting volunteers was different in the islands than here. They train the seniors, theyre able to use them as food service aids helping with the new service. These are just some very few highlights of the visit back in january of last year. On the very top is the chief ali and he met with the seniors at the Samoan Community Development Center to get their insights and also get their feedback of what works for them here in the city and they took a lot of the ideas back. And we visited several new sites, including 30th street. This is a sample of the meals s
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Meeting is adjourned. Present. At this time im going to turn the meeting over to my Vice President because i have asthma and i think he can carry through. Thank you. Thank you. Richard, would you announce some changes to the treatment of the agenda, please . If you all look at page three on the agenda please note that Vice President seriina will not be calling the agenda items in that order. Thank you. The items will be called in the following order item e, item i item j item f item h and item g. With that modification i ask for a vote to approve the agenda. Approve. Seconded. All in favor, any opposed. Thank you, the motion carries. I would like to also make a slight change in the agenda and move the Employee Recognition of after my report if thats possible. Absolutely. Any objection to changing the agenda . Thank you. Item number 3 approval of a consent agenda. So moved. Second. Thank you. Any discussions . Any comments from the public . All in favor . I. Any opposed . Thank you, the