Commissioner roy. Commissioner neal sims and please note [inaudible] could i have a motion to approve the agenda for september 2. So moved second. It has been moved and second that we approve the agenda of september 2. All in favor . Opposes . The motion is carried. Could we have approval of the september 2, 2015 Consent Agenda so move. Second it is moved and second that approve the Consent Agenda. All in favor . Aye. Opposed . Ayes carries next is approval of the august 5 meeting minutes. There is a typo on the second page. The sentdance is incomplete and that will be amended the second page under tact the last paragraph. Okay. Could i have a motion to approve the minutes as amended . Moved and second that we approve the minutes as amended. All in favor . Opposed . Is so the motion is carried. Our next item on the agenda reports. Employee of the month. Great. We are having the department of aging will recognize[inaudible] come forward. So, tin is wonderful to be able to honor you today. Um, we vahuge crowd today and our crowds turn out when we honor somebody so i expect the room will be many less people after we are done honoring you, but you have to know it is a testament to your work that people have come today for this and taken time out of their regular work day. I know you and your colleagues are very busy. It is a place like the rest of the department where no moment is still. The thing that caught me about you what i read and not sure who wrote this but it was really how much you know and i may be wrong, but it strikes me because you have been a lee aiz onin so many different areas you have this opportunity and seized it to learn more and more about what is possible and how to problem solve and how tatake that information and help other colleague with it. For those that dont know tin, he has been a liaison in the heblth care Legal Service group, medical, medical eligibility system. He is a secure representative which i dont know what it is and you can explain it to everyone later and part of the enter county transfer coordinator. I bet you have had a opportunity to work with people and learn now things helps you now day to day. When you read what people have wreed that comes out that he is very knowledgeable and shares his knowledge and you dont come across that you know everything and people should bow down, you come across as someone who is willing to share and part of the team. Tin was part of the income eligibility unit you have been in come eligibility supervisor for the last few wreer squz worked in the quality assureance. He is part of the Service Center project. The Service Center project we talked about. This is what i refer to as the hub but it isnt the hub. What is it called . What does gip stand for . Here are these opportunities that you have been part of again and you have seized those. The other thing is that tin has beenthere has been Community Organizations that have spoken of your good work as well and it is always great if all of us within our team and outside our team recognize us so there was a note here that home bridge and the communey Center Living folks on institute on aging have spoken highly of you and also [inaudible] i cant thank you enough. Clearly the people thank you as well and think now it is time for pictures, right . [applause] here is the camera. [applause] they didnt leave. Wow, they are staying. Good morning and thank you. Okay, next is directors report. Executive director ann hinten good morning president james and commissioners. Wanted to highlight a few things today and make a introduction of a new staff person head of contracts mpt just a couple things, we had major events this month. We had 2 events with self help for the elderly, one offense the opening of a new kitchen in xhine e china town. It is a beautiful and what makeatize more fwulf is a business person came in and totally redid the kitchen at their own expense. It is a kitchen we would like to work in if we were putting out thousands of meals a day. It was a wonderful event so that was great. Last week we had a event at [inaudible] in the sun set which is another restaurant that we are using for our Champs Program which is a way for us to put meals into a community when we cant find a building to rent or partners cant find a building to rent. That opened in june and did the Ribbon Cutting friday. The big event was the announcement from comcast that they will offer 995. 9. 95 you get high speed internet, a free router and people will have access to the had internet. It turns out this is a program offered around the country to kids and families that use the School Lunch Program as a way to identify kids, but the Vice President from comcast mentioned that is how they started but thoferb years they center gone away from that identification and if the school has 70 percenti will say this wrongif the school has 50 percent of the kids in the School Lunch Program you just get it so there is no individual. They havent worked out the details of how this will roll ininto the community but they will work with Community Living campaign and self help for the elderly. This is only one of 2 pilots, the other is in florida. It is very exciting news. It was hard to get the smile off my face when [inaudible] called from comcast to tell me this news. It is one of the major pieces of the work that we knew needed to be done in the community that is this ability for people to access the internet at a low cost. Pretty interesting news. I know folks in the community are comping at the bit to get this rolling and get the product out the door. The seniors have already started calling to organizations to see when this will be available. It will not be available toyounger adults with disabilities at this time. As they explained to us this is more they are trying to do some type of small pilot recognizing that it wont be that small but 2 small pilots to help them get the experiences they need and look at other populations and it is clear they are look at other populations, people with disabilities and college kids and a number of folks they feel can use thisb. But at this point they are only 3 or 4 years with kids and low income families say they are feeling their way about this but pretty ix exciting news i think. The other thing i wanted to do is take a moment and introduce john [inaudible] maybe john you can come up and tell the commission a little about yourself. John just for your reference, dave [inaudible] you remember because he has been before the Commission Many many times, head of contracts now has another position within the agency and john is our new head of contracts. John i thought it would be grade if you can share your background with the Commission Good morning. Im john [inaudible] the new director of contracts for hsa. As ann was saying dave [inaudible] has been covering contracts and facilities which is a trumending job. At this point because there is so much work and the decision to split the new positions into 2 director positions and davis is taking over facilities and renovation and development we do as department is and im stepping in as contract. For my background i worked with hsa about 22 years at this point. About 7 in a contracts role, but most of my work is in Child Protective Services and i have been a manager on that side for the last 8 years. I have a strong interest in returning to contracts and being in a administrative role so i was glad when the opportunity came to shift. I look forward work wg you all and learning more about the services you have for seniors and other adults and so see you over the next several months. Thank you, john. And then the last part of my report is just to say i have spoken to all the commissioners now is that made public my announcement to retire early december. I wont be here fl december Commission Meeting, i will be out of town at that opinion on business actually. Serene will be the beginning her interroom director position at that time, so more to come. My last Commission Meeting will be in november. Thank you. Any questions from theyes just one. With the Comcast Program is there a point person on the dos or hsa side that should be a Clearing House point for information from agencies . So, until we have a deeper sconversation with comcast but what is going to happen and what is rolled out and how it will work, at this point we havent designated anybody but errhine low has been involved in the conversations with comcast since this information was available to us. I know that marie and camy and annie have all had contacts as well and i think i saw heads knauding from other agencies in the audience a minute ago that they know the news and are probably in contact as well. As soon as we know more well get more information out but at that point it is probably errhine low but he probably doesnt know much either. He knows a lot, this is the one thing he doesnt have a lot of detail on. Sorry aaron. Thank you for that report. Now, could we have the Advisory Council report . Good morning. First i would like to say im very saddened to hear you are leaving. You is been a colleague and friend and you will be missed by everyone. The Advisory Council met august 19 and that meeting we reiterated our commitment to the commission, our commitment to work harder to bring in speakers for the Advisory Council we. We are very fortunate to have speakers from california puc. Mr. [inaudible] came in and reported on what the california puc is doing and also had mr. Mitchell from the Mental HealthAssociation Come in so we are asking the council to if they know folks to bring those folks in so we can educate ourselves what is going on in the community and we can share that information with our constituents in the community. Also at that meeting we continue to do site visits. That was a ask of the council folks to step our commitment because we have made a commitment to the commissioners and want to live up to that so working on that. The education committee, we are going to have a presentation in september, however, due to some external and internal situations we are not able to have [inaudible] we are looking forward to doing something in october. That is my report for now. Any questions . Any questions . Thank you. Yes, i wasi had a question is how are we doing with the vacancy . We are working to fill those. We have some folks who are asked, we are just waiting for those folks to respond. I dont like to speak out of school so i would wait to hear a yes or no but we are working on that. Thank you. Any any other questions . Thank you next will be the jaunt legislative committee report. Mrs. Diane lawrence. Good morning commissioners. As was noted in the minutes, the joint legislative committee didnt meet in august but i do have a few updates that i got from ann warren from the Senior Legislature and wanted to bring you up toidate what we discussed in july. To that what i would like to start with is nbc news on channel 3 did a report a few months ago on the Senior Legislature and um, so we thought you might like to see it. We played it for both the joint Legislation Committee and Advisory Council especially since some of us missed it on the news. It tells what the Senior Legislature does and the plight they are in that will effect the joint legislative committee moving forward. It is about a 2 minute presentation. We also have the Old Fashioned paper version of [inaudible] for those of us precomputer age. It our voice when they feel they dont have one. A spelshz group that protectathize interest of senior citizens. [inaudible] that group is now in danger of disappearing itself. We need more housing for seniors. [inaudible] over the age of 60 will fall each year there are plenty of laws only the books, some have meaning to us, some dont we hear [inaudible] there ought to be a law. A lot affpeople dont know how to go about it for the past 35 years when it come toozing law impacting california seniors a special group has taken up the charge. That group is california Senior Legislature. It is a all volunteer non partisan group of 120 people from all over the state the group serves as a state watch dog [inaudible] proposal to state legislatures that will help out seniors we are [inaudible] that benefits seniors. There are 198 bills over 35 years that csl had signed into the law the Group Tackles eltder abuse to Senior Health issues. A pro posal to use amer alert [inaudible] the first year it was put into place it was activated 189 times. Member evelyn tom is pushing for senior notification system following the 2010 fire and explosion in san brun ow [inaudible] currently right to die legislation proposed by the group is making its way through sacramento i dont feel i have the right to prevent someone else from doing it we are have a tsunami now [inaudible] every october the [inaudible] widdle down dozens of proposal to 10. The idea is pitch to slate ledgeilators job [inaudible] home to a quickly aging group of seniors. This aublt for had first time the Senior Legislature wont show up in sacramento because the group can no longer afford to for the last 4 yearatize is waning and had fewer donation the Senior Legislature is supported through donations but with a drop in funding the group may be reaching its sun set the Senior Legislature will probably go away. It will be a shame because it is a time when it is needed more than ever the group is hope tg can sur vive by raising awareness to doughination line on state tax forms because if all is one thing they learned through 3 decades of legislative battle [inaudible] so, this is the third time i have seen this and what is always strikes me is how with the silver alert which i reported on, how many people were helped and how often it was used in a short period of time which i dont think we often know. What will basically happen is instead of meeting in sacramento theyll do things locally and knhunty wide but the interaction and whatever is done in a very different manner. I anticipate that the kind of information that will be reporting on may be different in the year to come, so we just wanted to give you a heads up on that. I know i rely a lot on ann warren who is our representative to Senior Legislature for keeping us aprized of what they are watching and what the updates are and can always count on aupdate or follow up on your questions mptd we have been discussing over the course of a couple meetings reaching out to supervisor wieners office talking about the long term resiptiant and bill of rights the Supervisors Office but together and Daniel Redman will [inaudible] well give you a update next month. Much of what imuch of our discussion in july were around budgets and dont think those things have changed so we are still moving through and there have been some bumps up and some nos so we foin to move forward. There has been a special session focused on medical and funding issues so one thing that has come back and referenced in the videoicize the death are dying act. That isnt the property title but it has been reintroduced. It was pulled by the sponsor squz now reintroduced so well continue to watch that over time. Um, the um, a couple bills have been updateed as recently as last week and one is a non probate transfer. That continues to move forward and this will be a bill where if it is within a death deed or the trust it wouldnt go into probate so that continues to move forward. The again the end of life option bill has a new number. It is abx 215. New sponsors, so it is repackaged and looks like there is regulations demanded, a lot more meat to it and it continues to move forward. We willback to Senior Legislature very briefly and then im finished, is they pointed out years ago they had a sponsor. I cant remember the legislators name bit every time a bill went through he made sure that he asked the question how this impacts seniors and when he was negotiateating with the partners in the legislature he would give a little to get a little and the gets were usually on behalf of senior jz that changed over time. We asked about doing web exand open meeting act they are limited in some of the things they can do so again, illi wanted to make that point about the sponsor. I think [inaudible] is probably a good example of that moving forward. Are there any questions . Yes, i have a question. My concern would be the question was, whether the donations had gone done so low or are these votes because we dont have a advocate up there or a combination of both . Would say yes to both. They changed the name of the check off on the tax forms last year. They had bunwhen i first came on the council they were in that process. I think they have a very small staff in sacramento, i think they have one person so they were hoping to check off by making it much more clearer but they didnt appear to go up this first year and getting the word out that they exist and what they do and i think this is part of the purpose of this broadcast on nbc news. Thank you. Any other questions . Thank you. Youre welcome next to report is Long Term Care coordinating council good morning. [inaudible] facilitator to the council. There was no august meeting so no report but i want to take the opportunity to see we have 2 slots on the council one in hiv aid system and consumer advocates in older adults. If you