december of two thousand and eight charitable to go back and look through my records it's been amazing to see this forward grow over time to become more active participants when i started to think it was a little bit more disorganized meeting has grown to just an outstanding thing from the time that i've been here some want to welcome the new members and thank you for giving your time to the board you all for being such an active and vocal board and that way people can you guys may want to get have from your seat and and you many many years ago thirty years ago how important simple things like personal care either basic needs like food meals very important housekeeping or services one of those things  mike my question mostly is i understand you know being polite and waiting but from you know from seeing how the speed of it were to to even start negotiations tomorrow most of the people who are hoping for housing would be long guard before it's even even close to finished i mean unless something in the medical world comes along extends life you know but i'm just wondering what can be done to expedite that because every time i talk to people on their one number slightly different location and we did our due diligence and it was a really conducive to senior house that we would have to build i forget what it was two or three bridges on the parcel deputations and i thought we direct in home services for seniors are aging and disability resource center which is the operational the way we do work it's our  supports not only the compound but also the printing and distribution i mean that is share was very involved in gathering all of the care giver story that you'll see throughout the will make sure that all of our county council members receive a copy next week when i go to d c fourteen national association of very agencies on aging on the policy briefing i would change a copy to all all of our legislature this year from it they're always very willing to support c hearers however this year the message we keep getting is there's no money there's no money there's no money because of be on the funded mandate to for the employee retirement system the good news however is that always in the past we've had about four point eight million dollars worth of the care in the governor's base budget and then we have riley thank you slater's and we've received about four point two million additional because that means i think in february of this year we finally got that four point two million that statewide by the way now just now a county it took until february for us to see any of that money so it made it very difficult for us to release we couldn't release any money to service providers we didn't have the money so it kind of puts a stop on services we can't spend all of our money at th we get that in additional money released right so by putting it all in the base budget it's really going to help ensure that services occur throughout the year in a consistent and uninterrupted passion for seniors they're also putting on the eighty or c and the base friendship this year as well which will be very very helpful so we are thrilled about those two things on the house bill five one really clear on the somewhere oh is that our website or maybe that's a whiting i'm not sure but you know what we could probably have is really not only for patients who have chronic diseases or long term conditions but also for their caregivers so we want the community to know that we have these programs we have been campaigning for these cried those are very important because we really that's one of our goals this year is to increase classes in those areas so word there's really not a lot of resources as you all know healthcare is now shifting hina we do have classes upcoming classes can lock high now we do want to have classes and key here of course we will always have classes in the way local area our goal instead have more classes and work than what we have in the previous ya'll and she's one of our board meters very wonderful we do want to have more facility here so that we can offer more classes this morning we were actually a cool hospital because that's one of our target areas where it's cool the hospital talking to their administrator and their medical director and they are so very positive they want to have these programs so we'll talk more with them about these programs so we have other things that we would like to continue that way to do this presentation is i mean i give you all that information if you want more information about these programs my phone number is actually at the bottom of that page but i want you from lot of the seniors when they get in they don't want to live really that there's like a i'm going to be here i'm one of your you know one of your students so we do have a lot we do list we would love to have more process but we really you know want to make it actually have at st anthony we are using their cafeteria how the union trench we're using their big hall and we just you know go around if you will be exercised around the big tables and that's actually what will be doing at the hospital needs to be ten pages long it his report you can see it's kind of what we have to do what we have to do is put it in a rather detailed format so that anyone who looks at this agenda can say oh i have something to school we just can't graduate enough students and the other thing that's happening right now are younger physicians by the time they're reach the fifth year of medicine  interstices this is what i signed up for this isn't the mission i'm gone and they go into either law or consultancy or financial services interesting like that for example the first time society it's a it's a real challenge for us so what i have recommended to do create a federal and state level recruiting specialist positions for maori i said go to the military and the reason is this if a person is served twenty or thirty years in the military the medical corps or nurse corps they're more likely to come to maui because they're used to traveling number one spouse provided by and that spouses travel where the officer corps of the scenery and c e o that spouse is more likely to say be a great place to retire and settle down like that because center for that and then the moral day the twenty fifth observed monday we'll have our memorial ceremony at the victory cemetery korean war commemoration days twenty  access and assistance branch she was promoted to case manager as of april first we have a no good recruitment for her previous position we are doing that know who or why for about a month we are in the process of wiring position numbers are aging our access and assistance branches kind of day so we're going to be having an operations assistant and their aging disability specialist so we're going through the process of getting permissions to fill those two brand new position difficult to sell out and we wanted to send a copy home with you guys to see if you could come back maybe with some input for us for june so that we might be able to make this process a little bit more user friendly for next year you don't have to wait till june to give us your feedback if you want to look over this in the next day or two where we can to read if you have any idea of how we might  have been provided this from a health care provider that kind of information could be utilized and then this information to go to demonstrate or honor her or emphasize the importance of what they y white house conference on aging every ten years the white house hold a conference on aging to help set up policies and priorities for the years to come and in that e mail they asked and i also submitted it to julian redounds name from our department had it turned out that there were four people from hawaii at the white house  the form itself was very interesting it everywhere there's ten regions in america so every region is having like the day long or in the morning  assigned a different group it worked out wonderful i'm going to do it for me priorities that the white house has identified that they're looking for our input on and you can google white house conference on the aging there are you can see where you can click and click your own column you can provide your own input to this process by submitting an online but the former specific areas of concentration are in elder justice retirement security long term supports and services and healthy aging so that was kind of the focus of the day w are the how do we need to move forward as an aging network to be sure that we age as hopefully as possible that we have the support in place that we curb as much abuse and neglect and exploitation as possible oh and that they retire we have financial security which that's probably the one that is you know exciting in the summer they will be holding an actual event in d c and no one knows who will be invited so it's going to be interesting come on i heard only one hundred to two hundred people nationwide will be included in that or in d c so it will be interesting to see who they are but it was a very very exciting day  president obama was not there probably that's why i was invited throughout the end of their life generally those people that are in the healthiest require maybe one to two months of in home services where as someone who has chronic illnesses gets the average time in home service is around twelve years so we're really making up for just we believe our best hope for being able to to effectively serve people  three people in the age of sixty so we really believe that the best thing we can do is is not only provide the opportunity but make it by just the journey before yeah it's it's very very intense this year but she is actually a participant in our heads fitness classes hopefully that's ok for me to say publicly but that's a lot that's where we're going to be having more and more it is try to find ways to put evidence based programs plates so that we can help people stay healthier longer the council would have an opportunity to get some budget information for the coming year no because by that time the budget issues come to freeze up so that's what we discuss