Got the captioning. Okay. This is the mayors disability counsel of San Francisco meeting on friday, november 15th at one oclock. Welcome to all. Roll call. Councilmember harriet shoe cochair. Here. Councilmember derek sar zarda. Present. Councilmember rolland wong. Present. Thank you now star will read the introduction. Good afternoon and welcome to the mayors disability counsel meeting in room 400 San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheel chairs and wheelchair access is provided at polk street is provided via wheel chair lift. Our meeting is open and sign language interpreted. Also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for any additional assistance. To respect everyones ability to focus on the presentations please silence all mobile phones and pdas. You may complete a speakers card available in the front of the room or call our bridge line. Where a staff person will handle requests to speak at the appropriate time. The mayors disability c
Apartments and especially created as part of the chambers lawsuit Settlement Agreement a rent subsubsidy program and well talk a little bit more about that as well. And Residential Care for folks not quite ready to live in a residential setting. Board and care both for adults and for elderly and the city has agreements with various programs throughout the city and some folks from laguna have stepped to board and care as they skill build they will actually be able to step down again to a lower level of care so we continue to monitor them once they leave. So the program was established as part of a response to the chambers lawsuit and in order to access it you must be a resident of laguna honda and theres a maximum subsubsidy that the city can provide up to a thousand dollars a month. Ria will talk a little bit more about the buildings currently in use. The increasing rents in the city of San Francisco which everyone is encountering you know when this program started rolling it was viabl
Community. Its a very good point and i dont think we would not entertain that as a possibility , no resident exiting laguna has requested to leave the county the majority are the reverse they would much prefer to stay. All right. Well move onto Public Comment on this item. Mr. Shaw . Thank you as you may know i used to work at laguna honda hospital secretary for a decade and when the Justice Department proposed this program i opposed it and i attended many longterm care counsel meetings excessing my frustrations with it they were ordered to cut 420 beds from laguna honda and now were hearing that theres only 98 placements what happened to the patients and they cant get Skilled Nursing care anywhere between eureka and bakersfield because theres no Skilled Nursing for longterm care. When i was the secret secret ary at laguna honda wrote a proposal when we wrote that proposal, shortterm rehab was defined as ninety days. Why was it cut to 30 . Could that explain why my friend was stuck in
Got the captioning. Okay. This is the mayors disability counsel of San Francisco meeting on friday, november 15th at one oclock. Welcome to all. Roll call. Councilmember harriet shoe cochair. Here. Councilmember derek sar zarda. Present. Councilmember rolland wong. Present. Thank you now star will read the introduction. Good afternoon and welcome to the mayors disability counsel meeting in room 400 San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheel chairs and wheelchair access is provided at polk street is provided via wheel chair lift. Our meeting is open and sign language interpreted. Also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for any additional assistance. To respect everyones ability to focus on the presentations please silence all mobile phones and pdas. You may complete a speakers card available in the front of the room or call our bridge line. Where a staff person will handle requests to speak at the appropriate time. The mayors disability c
Need we actually match up. How do people get involved in that peer mentoring. The social worker can make the request and the match is made and that peer usually follows you all the way from the beginning to the end and theres adjustments made if the fit isnt exactly right. They can apply to the Public Authority and if they are interested they can call ria and call us at the department of health. It would be great if we can get more peer mentors we like to have a broad array of folks to have good matches. Thank you for that. Staff. Yes, car la . Thank you for the chair. Thank you so much for your presentation today you might have covered these points but i didnt quite grasp them how many people from laguna honda have left laguna honda since the agreement began and were you able to meet the Settlement Agreement number and see what is the plan moving forward now that the agreement time has concluded . Will thereby there be the same level of commitment to this program as there was previous