With the clients financial records which aps must have to substantiate substantiate. Are permed under statutory acceptance to prevent fraud and authorized investigation. A revised federal guidance clarifying the client records may be shared with aps in a timely manner would mean Financial Abuse could be stopped much earlier. I believe financial snugs would welcome this clarification. Secondly, Financial Institutions should be granted authority to temporarily freeze accounts when theres evidence the owner is being defrauded, for example, sending money to a jamaican lottery scam in time to contact affirm ps or take other measures. I hope this committee and congress will look at their own decades of research into elder abuse, some of which are on evidence here. This is a partial stack of all the many reports from the many, many hearings that go back almost five decades now, will would at own research in elder abuse to stop and prevent incidents can be reduced as they have for other victim
Welcome this clarification. Secondly Financial Institutions should be granted the authority to temporarily freeze accounts when theres evidence the owners being deprived of. For examples example sending money to a jamaica lottery scam to provide time to contact aps or take other measures. Some of which are on evidence here. This is a partial stack of all the many reports for the many hearings that go back almost five decades. This not only will protect assets over the longterm but to reduce demands on Medicare Medicaid and publicly funded programs. We hope this will be the first of a series of hearings and actions to address elder abuse and financial exportation we stand ready to work with you to strengthen our ability to protect our parents and grandparents. Thank you for your your testimony had no senator collins has introduced you but we would love to hear your opening comments. Thank you mr. Chairman. Im a prosecutor with the King County Prosecutors Office in seattle washington. 14
The businesses that are already there, whether visually or just sort of you know, just because theres stuff going on thats distracting om the general business thats established in the corridor. That said, i think its probably more likely that you create excitement, which brings people into the corridor that might not be inclined to visit, provides more excitement. And after all, retail malls exist because its presumably capote heates excitement around the proximity of other retailers. And, so, you know, i think my general proclivity is to side to err on the side of the nature of it being exciting and encouraging and growing business, that it doesnt detract from existing retail. So, thats just kind of as i have heard some of these presentations individually and now as we hear them today. Any other commissioner comment . Commissioner dooley. I was really excited to hear about you guys going into neighborhoods that are not quite as well served with what you offer. And i think thats a Grea
Works. Were still having conversations about how to construct this. So, we still i would say we probably have a good four significant steps to go through before we kind of bring back everything up. And do we have sponsors for this . Not yet because i think the questions that they may have for us, we may not because its not completely baked. So, but we will soon be looking for one. And the hope is to have a single discussion a single proposal that the supervisors can a griefgrape on. ~ agree on. I know theres a lost things floating around the different offices. [speaker not understood]. Right. Our goal is actually really because i think sometimes things get massaged or changed because of advocacy from outside. So, our goal is to try to make sure that when we go to propose this, weve really kind of come to a good agreement with our the council of district merchants and the Merchants Association and the mobile Retail Association as well. So that while maybe not everybody is completely hap
A closer look at that and not be sweeping such a large area and because the hours proposed are when all the businesses and restaurants are getting deliveries, theyre all going to be having to pay surcharges. Its a heavily residential area also, so, you know, residence are not going to be real happy that theyre going to have to, you know, pay a toll to go in and out of their own home areas. I really you know, i understand the congestion pricing and i think its a good idea, but i really would urge you to kind of go back to looking at perhaps points that commuters that come into our city during the day, say from marin, oakland, somewhere on the southern border, could be captured more accurately and not catching so many people in such a large corridor. I think that that would be something that we would all in that Northeast Area would be interested in working with you on to make sure that it really achieved its purpose and does not penalize a broad group of business and residents. Thank yo