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the roll call? >> yes. i'm going to call to do th roll call now. council member alex madrid, here. cochair sheri albers council member sassouni, here, present. council member denise senhaux, presen council member patricia arack, present. thank you. go ahead cochair alex. >> could you earead the agenda? >> yes. this time, members of t public--i'm sorry, sorry about that.

number one, is welcome and roll call. two, is action item, reading and approval of agenda.■d number three, general public comment. mbinformation item, cochair report. number five, information item. report from the mayor's office on disability. number six, discussion item, integrating disability access and functional needs into the emergency planning. then we will have a break, 15 minutes break and we'll number seven, discussion item, next step implementation of leckric wheelchair charging station report. and number eight will be formio

item cor spawnance. correspondence. e, general public comment. 10, information item. council membcomments and announcements. number 11 will action item, adjournment. >> thank you. >> cochair madrid, if i might-- >> yes. it is on. >>miht have a slight change in the agenda. ñ- [difficulty hearing speaker. microphone appear to be on] move their presentation

[indiscernible] right after cochair report, and [indiscernible] after that. >> alright. any objection? seeing none, go ahead. so, at this time, we e to action number 3, general public comment. se read the instructio item number 3. >> at this time, members of e public may address the council on items of interest to the public within subject matter jurisdiction of

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members and mod staff have been actively --we encourage any membersthe public to contact us if ines mdc@sfgov.org, or by calling, 415-554-0670.

give me one second. the mdc sentletter of pp recommending that the new public park located at--might be named-hf -disability advocates san francisco. the mdc also sent a letter to department ,nof public health

--toward a resolution to protect everyone from covid exposure at --to insure no population is left behind. the mdc also sent a letter to the board of supervisors strongly recommend keeping the annual dignity ted

budget. continues to focus on-hf-do inspections from the department of building inspection. now, we are going to item number 5.

>> alright. the next item is tegrating our presenters andrea and jenny, you may we are going to have th presentation on the topic, access and functional needs into the city emergency planning and it will be presented-copresented by andrea jorgensen and jenny. >> thank you. i think ese are working. okay. thank you. that working better? me? great. wonderful. thank you to mayor's office on dislt inviting us here. we are pleased brief overview of how we integrate access and functional needs into our city emergency planning efforts.

we will do sort of a general overview of what means to be setting up for planning and training and jenny has just finished our w emergency operation's plan. we are excited about so she'll talat bit. first, i wanted to-- really briefly give people a idea of some of the efforts that weare doing in our department. we have the responsibility of watching over and drills, our credentialing efforts and then of course, our plans. there are many kinds of plans that are efforts done across the city. this is to emergency response plans, so just to keep that in mind. training does provide knowledge and abilities that are helpful for us to understand d perform tasks

as we are developing our capabilities us a risk tunity to work in a low environment, so we can become familiar with those plans, and it also helps to validate the plans, so we know >> sorry. >> there we go. so we have written them in such a way that people understthem and can execute the operations we documented. we do a credentialing program, which helps us train ople to be qualified to respond to our emergency opioand perform the tasks at hand, and the will imp response, and the concept of operations. so, i will pass this to jenny to talk aboinem. >> next slide, please. alright.

so, andrea introduced about the emergency plan we have in the city. talk today specifically about our emergency operations plan or eop, which serves our the core base plan for emgeme as coordinated by department of emergency management in partnership withl our city departments and other partners across the whole co attached to the eop we also have some emergency support fun plans, esf that will also speak to a bit. for the eop in particular, so we did t tolay the groundwork about what it is. it is our core base plan that speaks to how the city responds to any incident or event that may happen, either a no notice incident, rom what you think about flooding to earthquakesto other of hazards to pre-planned events like the pride parade even or any

city wide event. that eop described very broadly who was involved in the city and the structure we use to coordinate actiti and actions across our city departments and our whole community partners. . it isn't meant to be a super detailed exactly how something ll happen, but it does describe all the ac different city departments take to include a big piece of it, about this as well, but a large piece of it is kinghow we activate the city emergency operation center, eoc, our central coordination point for multi-agency response operations in the city. and we do activate that when there is any sort incident or event that may have city wide impacts so we'll to that a bit later in the presentation, but pin a nutshell, that is what the eop describes is how we might respond to sort of

incident in the city. and then, as i mentioned, we have these esf attached to the base plan described discipline specific concept of operation. while the eop broadly describes the who, how what of response operation e gointo more detail different disciplines. we'll go through of them as well in a bit that really describe more detail about different aspects of response operations. so, i will run through these reesrather quickly. i don't expect anybody to capture this in memory, but because the emergency operation plan is detailed about authority and other things that are important to of response, but there's so much information in a citysize

that we use a method breaking it out ote emergency support functions,b which is also a guide that fema gives us, which is federal emergency management agency. esf1 is around transportation, esf2 communication, esf3 is public works and fighting.ng and esf4 is to continue on, we got esf8, which is our public heal and medical annex. the urban search and rescue is esf9. i also will mention that esf8 and should have said esf5 are the next plans we will working carefully on, because a lot of these plans have been because of response to the pandemic, so are trying diligently to catch up and get all the plans refre we learned a lot from our response to covid. esf10 is oil spells.

11 is animal response, 12, and utilities and 13, law enforcement. a lot i should mention, many these annexes, we write with our partners who are the mater exserts so we don't do this in a vacuum and that what we wanted to talk about today is how we inrporate other agencies and particularly the community. and just to continue on, esf--did i miss? esf14 is recovery annex. 15 is joint information system, which is really plan because getting messaging to everyone is critical so thatis community at large understands what the ci is doing. esf16, community support. 17 is volunteer nation management and 18 there are jurisdictions in the country e ate that do this a little

differently and have added other annexes to their eop, but for us these have been very importato add. i ipass over to jenny. this is why you are here. we want to talk we involve the whole community. >> thanks a so, to-as we talked about the emergency plans, like andrea mentionedwe involve partners. it is a joint collaborative effort to update plto also train and evaluate and exercise when it comes to involving our part toinclude our disability access and functional need partners we do this in a couple fferent ways. we engage trusted community partners specific to the development of our recent update to the emergency operations an

dem are advisory groups to provide targeted input. we stood up disability access and advisory committee with partners at mod so thank you debbibeing on that and also being able to bring other into the group as well. we stood up a community advisory group that ou representatives from different community based organizations together as well. so, we have worked with those two groups, the last couplefew months to look at the draeop together and provide and just collaboratare really prtito the needs of our most vulnerable populations in a as a city thad would be is our first priority because we understand great of people can rt of--would be able to respond to a

incident and they would be able to sort of figure resources next steps with on hand and we want to make sure we are prioritizing communities or individuals that may face additional challenges in responin recovery. we set up the two advisory committees to insure our ans are inclusive of all these different diercommity needs. we are also meeting some califoaia requirements with tha inclusion as well. the next we engaged our whole community partners is city wide efforts, so whole community also means all our different city departments that come together in a emergency. the has a disaster preparedness coordinator prraat identify individuals in various city departments to regularly meet and engaon emergency planning efforts.

we also ha city lead work groups that target and focus on specissues to include evacuationthare working on now. on how we we wanted to touch activate our emergency operations center, eoc. as we mentioned, we activate ouc there is a incident or event that may have city wide impact. either no notice events, the severe atheevents like major-li the winter stoms we had in last year or extreme heat days. we also activate for the pre-planned event like the pride parade coming up. we activate for apec that was a major activation for us as a within our eoc organizational

structure, we do include a couple really critical positions. one equity officer in our eoc management section as well a disability access and functional needs advisor. those twsithat management cell of the eoc to insure those issues are prioritized and considered across all th of emergency response activities going on we also have stood up a community branch the intention of the community branch is to have a team that really focuses establishing two y communication when there is ergcy. one was the esf16 for community support annex and that is to san francisco, something i think that the city is really prou because it prioritizes and pushing to fo front that communication and engage ment with

oucommunity members. >> grailt. lastly i want to talk about improvement planning and one things we discovered and while jenny was talking about engaging commnersunity th are things when we do action improvement work, we discover we missed things and that's the work that needs to be done, so correct those gaps the next time we have to reonof those things we know still need improvement. think we have done a good job in progress towards like language access for instance. understanding debbie and r am h been working really hard to get us to understand that durable di equipment is priority for people if they have to evacuate. do they taketh them or leave it behind and the city helps find oresource? these are things we are having

constant t,because we do this after action or improvement planning activation, whether it is a event or like planned, or no known event we have a after action meeting when all involved in the response can talk about things that went well, because we also need to document the things that go well so we do this, but the things inapec, we obviously noted l. there were some fencing issues that hago u and the people that needed to access their rides ancefo paratransit or something like that were not necessarily able to do so or know they wouldn't be able to get an appointment they had scheduled, e things we can help with through the community branch and also through the gaps that exist. we try to be very with those and not white wash them and make

sure theout to the policy groups or the departments to have some sort of authoritmake change. that's really important to us. and that is called the corrective action. we document those, try to assign to a particular departme make those changes and we try to assign a d those changes to be made. our plans are really living documents, even though we complete them, we just compleis about 150 pages without the attachments. it is very and it is going to be going through the process now, but even that document, once the stamp is on there and the our department, mary ellen carol says it is tago and mayor says it is good to go, even still make adjustments, so why we want to make sure we constantly do entaon and adding to our plans or making changes as i think that is everything for us now. i don't know if you want to do

questions? >> yes, we have someone in-- on one sec. thank you. do a pu comment right now. please read the instructions for public comment. >> so, we argoing to unmute now. one othe blic. control, e. mrs. sheila gunn, go ahead. >> is this me? >> yes. >> okay, hi. i amnot well versed at webexat all. my one experience with it was horrible this.ears ago and i i never tried it on a computer though.

i'm sheila gunn, the emergency preparedness coordinator at nt independent living in berkeley. i'm workfrom home in my office on fruitvale avenue and i came to say hello and i came to learn about san o'semergency preparedness planning as regards folks disabilities and access and functional needs, and older adults and other folks who fall into the cate assuming nothing. i didn't know where this wain the process or if it had been seen by mayor's disability council or not. by the hello debbie. debbie and i worked in

emergency preparedness context regarding r outages, so haven't seen you in a while, but good to at least hear your voice. but, i stand ready to assist. ving is a sister org to the ent center of san francisco, which i'm sure you all are aware of. i'm not interested in taking over or any that. i feel that we can all learn from each other and maybe san francisco is doing stuff that cities in alameda county should be doing that aren't and maybe we are at you aren't and i just think that sharing ideas and thoughts is never a bad thing.

the one thing the at the emergency preparedness departments probably already know is folkit disabilities and access and functional needs can be a resource in many ways during emergencies. we know a lot of resources, we know a lot about mutual aid- >> mrs. sheila, you have 30 seconds left. >> i just will put my e-mail and number in the chat and i will also it to the e-mail recommended.[i to reach out. i'm done. >> thank you for your comment. do we have anotic comment at this time? >> no more comments council member.

now we're going to ask council me >> hello everyone. o council members. thank you so much for your presentation today. i know that this is a new area d i have seen the content grow. one thing i stilconcerns with is related with electrical power especially for deaf individuals dependent on technology d cannot hear any radio or communication that way would not be able to hear a siren and who not might know if this is order to evacuate or have that information, so it can be a real challenging

for deaf the community who are not hearing for either of those contexts. i am concerned that we don't have enough informatiocontext, education around this, and i also feel that it might be true that it's part of and equity for all for us to have something set up. something as on earth day we didn't have any access and that was because it was a very public event put on the police department, the fire er but we didn't have any kind of access for a one thing i have a concern for. r the residents here in san francisco, and another partis i am a city employee, the daw does require me to have that part of job, so i'm hoping-they have not been able provide access either, so there

is nothing we can do and we are kind a spot where working with the city and-hf- [audio cut out] or training and i feel the deaf individuals have been left behind and how can we eliminate that and at this point it is murky but we need to start thinking how we can catch up and what choices we have. for example, some people are physically unable to work w, so what do we do with that part and what will requirements look like for that? it is becoming a little convoluted for whisd what we can do versus what we are told we can't do. so, i think that might effect policy and we might need to m2d

revamping, but i think dsw does not have all that infoioand management might need to be taken more in depth then we loaring as far as how we break down those categories, so if we have a dsw in one and the residents in a separate context, how are we making sure that th and we are getting that access? because, in honesty, they said, i'm sorry, just don't have that so it feels we are still in the dark ages an i wanted to put that information out there for you for thought. >> do you have a comment? >> for we work with the department of human services, but i would like to bring that back and have more conversatwi i'm not sure that the dsw

training is directly ineel house, but i can connect to the people who are there and orkid, i believe that you and i worked some totthe pandemic and you taught me so much, e were things i did not know that i learned by in with you, so these are the kind of relationships that make progress. so, i will bring it back to our leadership and i ifer, you and i can have futher conversation about this and sothis is really important information for me to hear and to bring back tothe conversation, so thank you. so much. >> the next one >> thank you cochair madrid.is historical around training and outreach. years ago, pre-vid, the mayor's

disability council had a subcommittee in dealing with disaster preparedness, and on the suommittee, we had key advocates for different agencies that provide programs and services for a variety of clients disabilities, and at that time we were working on a communication plan. naturally depending on the disaster and where it is happening and what's going at that time it wa completed by the time i leftthe committee, but they were putting a key communicatio plan around training and how to deal h on ■ñthe nature of the disaster how to deal with clients not only in the eltes, but the community who are deaf and hard of hearing for them to get information. i thin timethere was a national and sorry, cant remember the name, database, heople could sign up to receive text alerts or an of any emergency that was one

of the people register.looking at to i said this all changed. arago. and some of the things we dealt th on the plans you have drills and exercises. we had different drills for fire, earthquake, i hate to say it, shooter and participation because i was a part that. we kind covered drills around what disasters l or otherwise. we also dealt with the advocates in th would have to be placed in the training around dealing with different people with different types of dibi ranging from vision impaired to mental health issues and if they had service animals support animals, et cetera. i don't know if that is helpful. we also dealt with city all having evacuation chairs for people to be evacuated where at

that time, wheelchair wasn't working or they didn't have access depending ere ey are in the bui we had evacuation chairs. i don't know if that is helpful but i appreciate you revisiting this and council and if we can help and give input more then happy to out. thank you for your time and listening. >> you are absolutely welcome. it really is good to know we ha a resource. debbie has brought this to light and same withli i think our efforts improved greatly over theest layear. some things you are talking about pre-dated my work in this particular area of emergency work, but i am familiar with it. i know thcarla johnson years ago worked on the evacuation chairs and i say for the lifts like to be-the a problem, because they change so rap idwe can't necessarily count on coe up ut the discussion does

periodically. pg&e has some records of people who have rely on electricity, but honesty, with pg&e i'm not always sure we'll get that list. there ot there are legal efforts that have to be gone through. usually in the lead for those type of efforts, of health information et cetera, et cetera. ngyou all as a resource and be able to work as closely as we starte to do over the last year or 2, it does help us, so if you lo at our population, i think i was looking at the census data, i are want to is like a 10th of people. in the e city and that is just the people that live here, because we have and commuters who have issues we may not have any familiarity with but

still need to su a emergency, so let's continue the conversation and the more you speak ouand we'll try to be good listeners and carry that througth would be my commitment to you at this moment. >>--do you have any questions or >> yeah. i-this is my first introduction ever to emergency planning, so i guess my question would be on a very simple practical level. let's say osabled and live in a house and they havea stair lift and all is a emergency, a storm or tsuni or whatever, and they are k thre. they can't get out of the house and

they have no to contact anyone. could you talk situation like that in terms of your emergency preparedness plans? >> what that we really do need to continue to make re effort to have people prepared for themselves-there is self-preparedness we expect from our residents know as a city-for instance city workers could also be fe don't know how quickly or how many will be . there are things in place win services agency and disability adult services that will do so wellness checks with people they are already engaged with, as far as day to day services, but i think our preparedness poant. as many people as we can

prepared in small ways to have a cash of some water ane fo. your prescriptions, to have numbers of contacts you need, those efforts will make a big difference, but you are right, going to be people who are stuck in their home and without help. the fipartment is usually our primary go-to as they are every day if we haansomeone needs rescue, and it is a at that we can't hundred percent prepare for, so the more that you can prepare for the tter. but we also recognize not everybody can do that, and that even you are prepared, like i mentioned durable medical equipment, if you e prepared but you have to leave like you may not be able to carry heavy battery or get your wheelchair down the stairs, so therare efforts that need to be done to determine how we respond. this will happen in th moment, depending on the incident.

that other thing, incidents are ervadifferent. a earthquake is different from very different from a potential cyber-incident that might cut off electricity, so there is still wots ofk to do and the good thi is san francisco as a whole is making efforts towards that. we no it, we keep working with it. i would offer we can ta again or have smaller group talks to determine how to fix some of these things. >> so, just to someone is disabled wants to touch with your office? >> we wote you to probably talk through the mayor's office on disability and then work groups that might be appropriate for that individual to jfor instance. you could reach out to me and our contt information i think is being shared and we can talk about work

groups are open to input. ten e work groups are mad up rather then individuals, they are made of organizations, so connecting with a organization is usually a good way to connect to e ty. >> okay, thank you. >> before i go the staff, i have a lot of questions. i'to do one by one. question i you both is, with a emergencas you know, shelters are ha

accessibility to the city, so how do the plan toure that those places th supposed to be emergency-- are accessible? >> so, we service ag celt up a shelter and that is a requirement is they have been checked for ss we are working on a new project that identifies all kinds of locations within our city that might be or other things, like commodity points distribution, or when we had vaccine locations, that typeof thing, and that list we are devephave check lists on it so we can quickly go and see

they have initially been checked with accessibility. but before hsa sets up a shelter they will do oo just in time check for accessibility. it is very much on their list. they use a red cross training when they are setting up a shelter we are lock step with the red cross. >> so you don't do it--someone does it for you? >> to check the facility? >> yes. >> someone better understanding of accessibility will check >> your department-- >> our department does not do that.is the department that will check accessibility. >> okay. the second oni have is, i'm you guys-you mentioned that

there is no individual--there is only organizations thatsits on working groups. how many--just curious on all kinds of people with disabilities, or all kind of types of i will say, abilities? the last thing is, i am just curious ofthose-- that involves people with

disability to identifythose-- like you mentioned covid a minute ago. there is always gaps.■l i think it would beto identify --correct? >> yes. your first question was a individual, so i'll go there first. >> yes. >> we did work e mayor's office on disability to identify organizations that represented a wide of people, so we invited-i can't say invited joined us, but we invited those who are deaf or a. we had invited people who were from the senior community. we invited people from you know, vulnerapoons at have different language access and that type of thing. we trieto grab a-everybody is

very busy now ul to have a number of people. >>-- >> well, debbie he i think we had a group that represents disability as well. we had independent living cen >> [indiscernible] >> okay. >> yeah, and we have been working closely with debbie too to try sure we have a broad range of people. there is always open-a open door to increase that group and the advisory should be an ongoing group, so we are p talk who else you think should be reenthat and then the second question i think you had was about gaps and whether we've found some gaps? >> during exercise.

>> during exercises? >> yeah. we have. >> how many exercises do you do? >> do we do? >> yeah. >>do many many exercises. right now we are focused on san francisco fleet week, which coming up. that is a exercise we work with the military and the departmentof defense to understand when we are overwhelmed and is overwhelmed and even the federal government, when they need to reach outo department of defense to send the things you see at fleet d that sort of thing. we are doing that now, but rly exercise the plans we developed, so the emergency operation plan is the new o at some point next year we will probably stadoing exercises to test the plan to make sure the things we put rate and yes, there is a opportunity to invite people who have disability to be a part that. >> going back to my question, have you

guys identified gaps? >> we identified them during the response or ex so, we go through the process thxercise and exercise is based on a scenario, so generally we use a storm, something that is ke to happen, and we have what we call, players who are the wh practice the exercise, and then meing i ds, that after action talked about, that's when maybe a week later or two welater we gather those same players sit them down in or virtual meeting and talk about, id this work? how did this other thing work? what did you see that was problem and we keep them together in a maassign to departments. let's say they set up a shelter that was not accessible, then in the

after action meeting, we wou say, look, hsa, that shelter you set up did not have access for wheelchair users and so then we would assign them to corrmake tions the next time. that is a very simplified way to explain atkind of what happens. >> thank you for that explanation. next we can-- my question is-- you guys haveplan in place. i just curious, is there any information saying that if you have issue or any questions any type

of disability, you to call x, y or z? >> i'm not sure i follow the question. >> you meanthe city activates the eoc to respond to incident? >> no. let me repeat the question. for example, next week is pride parade, and you mentioned that you guys work with those events just in case if an ise anything like that, right? s,are there any place that says if like myself, don't know about how to accessibility or--let's say i'm

new to the city and have only flier, are there any information that i found that i can contact? >> yes. what we do with special events this is, generally not our department, but another department with the event-there is generally a event planner that is co■c all of those activities. so, there is an event planner, and our city representative requires that event planner to put out messaging and put out information. generally it is website. i can't speak every event, but generally there is a website that has those sort of access information that information you are looking for. that would be my answer.

to make sure and i know on the site on our city site, there are guides for special events, like what you need to set up, you need to keep clear, our that type of thing, so our city directs those event planners to follow those directions, thert isn't our department. >> thank you. 7 any follow-up questions? >> yes. just short. i think my input suggestion, i don't know if your policy would apply to this, i feel like after considering it, maybe the emergency depenwant to consider another priority e for if the housing--perhaps we need to think abouseniors if we are concerned about the housing not able to come doth emergency, so it is hard to know without a

specific number, but important we think me kind of priority who comes first and i xoe know that would be a challenge, and i don't know how you might be able to strategy that, but prove to be difficult, but for me it cross. i tend to be resisant. i know they are good and provide a lot of things, but at the ther are other things happening. i hear other people who do use cross and it caused a lot of complication with the plan or. for example, if there is a housing fire and where do i go? i'm totally stuck. that's one good thinthink about or have prepared on the back-end to have that counity involvement with. and i think it would be good to the community involvement to give you the feedbacks for your plan. just putting it out ther thin■pk it is good to invite others and i think for fleet week, n't have any access, so it it is just

last minute thing. how are you going do do something like that? >> okay. so that's a lot of things. i think you are right, we need to continue conversation, and this-jenny and i can bring back . for fleet week there should be acceild shld be information on the web site and because we are planning with them, i be told there is not. i will make sure to bring that back in our next planning meeting to talk to fleet week. so, those again, these kind of connections are great for that. >> thank you. i answer the question? >> yes. now we are going to go to staff questions. >> i don't have any. >> okay. thank you andrea and jenny for coming.

reach out tous for any support r at we might do something you. >> this has been a really good you all, because again, our interaction with each wi really make this work and so, we'll talk to rejohnston and get more stuff going down the pipeline. >> thank you so much. ■b> >> thank you. >> now we'll going to item, 6. the mod director's report. before i introduce, i li to introduce the council members. you have a opportunity to meet with us.

i'm going to start with patricia, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? so the directors can know a little bit about you and why you joined the council? >> controyou please ia. >> i'm ic arack and been a member of council since last september. i joined the council because i'm concerned about disability access for disabled people in san francisco and i felt there was a lot of things t needed to be done. i am retired and i spent 43 years as a teacher, the last 25 as a esl teacher

at of san and that's about it. >> thank you patricia. now, i'm going to--just tell us a little abouus, briefly. >> hello everyone. council member. council member orouni here i'm joined because i am involved with the city board and the only one that is deaf, so i am a resident of san francisco san francisco for many years now, and i joined because i believe that to make some serious improvements and city wide for r services for individuals with disabilities and i'm a continuous advocate for that and i believe we can the changes and those changes will have a huge impact down the chain d for good

reason. i'm happy we are making changes to the city for better and not for nothing and once we are able to the city be able to see and hear our voices, we will this better and we will do better. that was the reason i in the board. >> thank we are going to denise now. >> thank you cochair madrid. nce i had o make it short, the pleasure meeting the new interim director. basically i'm semiretired. i have been on the u plus years . my disability advocacy the private sector. i dealt with policy es, ada implementation issues in private sector. i was a lead steward. i rkeon disability poliy,

reasonable accommodation, education and sensitivity aware people with disabilities and on the board of a non profit i started representing employees with disabilities in the workplace and addressing those issues. the issues i'm interested on council is disaster preparedness, employment-it is a whole list and won't re you. glad to be work wg people on the council and mar office on disability and addressing issues and concerns important to and what we can do to help make in the city for those populations. i to achieve that goal. thank you for your time. >> thank you denise. i am alex madrid. i'm--since 2017 and i have been

self-advocwas in college uc berkeley and now i work as a housing specialist in the non profit of saancisco. acssibility aspect of and the prmm accessibility. --any type of events and involving people with d--

the city does a lot of--issue among s that doesn't understand that is a issue i'm interested in. i'm so excited to work u and make a change r the better for the people with disabilities. maybe if you don't mind, can

i-- this is jennifer jensen and she's the new mayor's disability interim . >> thank you very much and thank you all for ion. so, little about myself. i worked for over 20 years. during that time, the first of it i was a chief of policy for the department of maresources and then i spent a few years as dictor of the civil service commission. i ryowwell the city's employment processes and systems. and then for the last 10 years i have been deputy city administrator and to educate you on what the city administrator does, city administrator oversees about 25 to 30 depending you count them, agency programs. my carmen chui is the city

administrator and has been a few years now she reorganized the office to have for the deputies overseeing particular functions. my function i oversee public facing primarily public facing offices includes, 311, animal care and col, medical examiner office, county clerk, treasure island, a number of them and mayor's of on disability. and i have oversee the mayor's office on disabilityduring my entire time with the ty administrator office so little over last 10 years so familiar wi office and the staff. did you have any questions so far? okay. as you noted, i'm the interim direct, which means i'm the permanent director. i focus on undertaking the sear it will be very difficult to find a unicorn like nicole bohn wh

was wonderful, so with that in mind, it is very large focus for me. in the meantime though, i am really committed to continuing to the office towards change and to make sure accessibility is incorporated into thndal abric of the city and how we approach resides, visitors, employees. so, with that, i guess i can go out of order. one clarification for the agenda that was relayed earlier. i think thjuly is going to be canceled, but so we can have a strategic planning with the council to really talk about you know, the focus -do's the n, the list of to council already identify and o adding new things to the list

to drive towards the 35th anniversy the ada next july. so, i really want focus on using this opportunity to put like i id, new things on our list, and then also talking to the council about how your tican be used more effectively, more ly that you know, you can really help drive the we are talking about and drive what initiatives we drive.sorr, that. we will be reaching out to to schedule those kind of more impactful and focused meetings soon. this is all to say, the regular meeting of the mwill be resume in september, but in the meantime, we will have a lot k to together. and just additional administrative logistical housekeeping for the public information the mod office

location we are on market street. the permanent office will be 1455 market street but we are in the swing space. it isn't ideal for productivity, so we are doing both virtual work, in person work in the office. this is to say that we are currently having drop-ins for members of the r anybody on tuesday when everybody will be the office and individuals wishing to come to the office during other can certainly call, e-mail to make an apointment and we'll happily meet with them. t's see-- i think that does for logistical administrative items. any questions? >> no. >> okay. yes? >> [unable to hear speaker]

>> soad. >> sorry, quick question. normally the mod has the public video phone service t up in the office, but now it seems it been removed, is that correct? so that means the person who is deaf nevideo call would not be able to go to that aufsh. office. >> i have to refer that question to deputy ctlan. i don't know how to answer that. >> we still have the equipment. [audio cutting in and out] [unable to hear speaker] so, let's talk together with

john and figure out how we can do that, orkid. >> thank you. >> that thank you. i should say, as ca space presents challenges. my hope is to--to at t be out of there before december at the latest, so really focused on driving that project. >>have a question. the director search coming up. -- people who are stf members that ulewing the

perspective candidates, are there any publ or any council members participation on that selecting that individual by having a --? >> that is a good question. i have nothe opportunity to discuss thocess with the mayor or the city administrator yet. we are focused closing out the budget, which is another part of my presentation, and that's a good question. we do not ever allow public participation in the process, because matter.onfidenti obviously, people who are candidates

don't want to ted to their employer that they are looki for other employment. i appreciate that and ink certainly what we can have additional conversations about, at le bringing you in and at least keeping you informed, absolutely. >> thank you. >> thank you. yeah. okay. let's see-- next on my for everybody's information--sorry, mong on about the mdc. as you indicated earlier, focused on filling the mdc vacant positions is r of my goals and so i will really be trying ll. there is just a lot happening and erody has been focused figuring how tosolve the massive budget devset. deficit. i renewed focused on that and will be

pushing that. okay. o, policy issues on which mod active or focused. we are currently in review of recent federal rule-making on disability rights, so that includes digital accessibility, that includes access to healthcare and accessibility as medical diagnostic equipment and--insuring access to sit a ehall for persons with mobility disabilities while the lift at the plaza entrance is replaced. we are focusing on updating our grievance program and that includes the creation of a new database enable better tracking of complaints and resolution. are focused on upda informational form consistent with t update to the california building usedon nd we are also really updating our website, which is i think

oof date, but also i like to focus with the council onand assistance on making it more useful to individuals. let's see--and alicia currently is working on updating our listof sites for prioritizing plan reviews and future ing. okay. let's see-- leshappy news. the san francisco budget and impact on disabissues. as you noted earlier, the council sent a letter to the board supervisors advocating for the dignity fund to include the full $3 million in this year's budget for 24-25. the mayor did include that in the budget and so that has been clud. i unfortunately have to report that won't necessarily result in expanded

servicesas retaining servicess. yeah. so it would be nice, is to make up fofalls that we are dealing with. no-i will say where we the process for your information as i said we are going through the mayor submitted her budget. we are in the middle of negotiation board of supervisors to make sure they don't cu from what we have submitted. fuy. but, so as of now, the $3 miiohas been included. to the extent individuals want to provide in on the process this ay at monday is public comment the budget appropriation committee, and wishing to provide input, i beliit city room 250 starting at 10 a.m., ther a overflow

room city tairs in the light hall. for more information you are certainly welcome to reach out to th clerk's office or to our office and we'll get you that informatio and of course, it is always televised on s fgovtv. okay, other announcements. f happier things. let's see, so july is disability pr you know. july 11th, ther disability pride celebration event from 11 a.m. 2 p.m. hosted by the community living campaign. for more information you can reach out to staff. do we have information about that on the webs >> [indiscernible] out a public announcement about it. >> great. thank you. okay. another happy news, so thank

you mrs. kaplan. k off of disability cultural center will be july 12. now it is just virtu next year they aim to coordinate to have the physical center unveiled the 35th anniversary of the ada so exciting news. there is nu of activities happening, so i believe the link is be-it isn't active yet but believe it is disabilityculturalcenter.org. we will put the information on the website. make a note that. a number of virtual program scheduled, there ni t of disability culture, the actual day the july 12. f disability portrait day july and super fest family showcase, sounds fun, august 10. we will put some of the information on inrested te for individua

in learning more. let's see, the community alliance for disability advocates is beginning to plan for the anniversary of the ada next july. as is as i indicated i will be foyour advice and council and support inginitiatives we want to drive leading up to the 35 anniversary. more to come on that. does anybody have any questions? i think i feel i went through a lohay to answer questions and go over anything again if you like. okay, great. and that concludes the director's portion of the report. >> thank you director. now we are taking a 15 minute break. it is 2:22 exactly.

please come back at 15 minutes. in 15 minut >> welcome back everybody. my name alex madrid, the cochair for the mayor's disability council. friday. we are going to item 7, discussion item. next steps in implementation of electric wheelchair charging stations report. presented by kaplan,

city and county of francisco, mayor's office on disability. >> so, as you may recall, in the april mdc meeting, you heard from the san francisco fellows, whodone a asibility of ng into the wheelchair charging stations in the city. they have done research and i havefew a lides for you to rev what you heard from them april, and they made sevel mmentions and presented options that were directed at t

mayor's disability co determine what the next steps should be. so, what i've done is taken some of their slides to justreview and remind you of what d and what their recommendations are and en wind up with some specific questions your consideration, hoping that by the end of this part of the agenda, we'll have some direction of where we ne go next to bring isconcept closer to reality. as you recall, several community members itrequests, say

it would really make a big difference their lives and the options that they haable to be out in the community to havepublicly accessible wheelchair charging stations. d, i think for those of us who use mobility devices, it's no surprise that the devices don't always take you where you to go and leave you enough electricity to get back to where came from. battery life can be unpredictable and sometimes i had this happen to o go out and only then you realize, oh, it didn't fully charge last night. or, the charge is lower then i gh so, in order to meet need and

provide for better safety for with mobility disabilities, this concept under consideration. there is one producer of wheelchair charging stations, and it includes charger and other equipment in order to make it useful for public use, and costs roughly $750 per charging station. doing case study research, fellows found there have been successful eelcir charging stat programs in

new oregon, bellevue washington smaller jurisdictions then ours, but his idea definitely has proof concept behind it. so, the fellows conducted outreach to many different san francisco departments. thlist includes, mta, the port, puic utility commission, library, department of erncy management, department of homelessness and supportive housing, recrti and parks, department of public heal also the fellows talked with the office of supervisor melgar. there was a great deal of interest. they also met with the alliance of disability

advocates and they conducted a survey of the public and received 82 responses, including 45 people who are electric wheelchair or mobility device u and what they found from their research is, people reinterested in both indoor an9coutdoor proposed locations. there is support for the initiative widespread throughout the city, and more community outreach would for making sure that all the possible locations are in alignment the goals of particular projects.

keway from the fellows research are that, because of th interest from several different city departments, it would lly be ideal to have a lead agency resolve ov llenges regarding ownership instillation and maintenance, and to turn it into cohesive program, rather then just instillations across the city without somebody carefully coordinating and monitoring how it is going. there is interest in pursuing legisle action and looking for support from the board of

supervisors. [indce broader platform for city departments to participate in. and there is a funding gap, especially during this time when the energy people are putting into budgets is to find money to cut,looking for ways to add new ecseveral of the programs that exist in smaller jurisdictions made use of grants and funding for their programs, so that a possibility. and then as i said earlier, indoor locations are preferred due to

concerns user safety, better abt to deter vandalism, and higher potential to have f nearby to provide assistance. outdoor locations are less feasible, however, there are want outdoor locbecause they might have a ne for charging for recreation where it is an outdoor location or not during business hours. are concerns that were raised by several people about and vandalism as something that needs to be designing the eventual program. the recommendations that came y from the fellows arto either

have individual agency implementation, or multiple ion. individual agencies that ed interest in the program and taking it on were the mta, recreation and parks and the public library, and individual agency leadership would allow more discretion and control of the project without having to take into account different ways of doing things and different departments and faste implementation if it isjust one entity involved in mang, but if it is individual department running a project, there is k

city wide approach, and some reinventing the wheel by individual agci doing the same project themselves, rather then a coordinated way. a multiple agency implementation strategy would include more and establish the possibility re departments in order to network more readily. but it would need a lead agency to overoject in terms of

funng a weakness of this approach is, there be more meetings involved basically and need re coordination and communca and then, there were so slides that were in the presentationabout the different commitment of specificts. the mta is strongly committed to project and has ve potential locations to place wheelchair charging stations. recreation and parks is interested and has several locations at different parks would be suitable. and the public library, particularly interested in having

at the main branch. , one interesting aspect of the research that was newas, the bellevue washington implemof the project. they imions and it was done by their office of emergency management for disaster preparedness wheelchair users. and similarly, the francisco department of emergency could be involved, possibly as a agency, but certainly for the emergency management ascta project like some of thedepartments that are interested in the project , lik

the library, are also as emergency shelters during emergencies. pursuing multi-agency implementation could ocunder the auspices of the board of supervisors. a public hearing could provide an incentive for collaboration between the different entities involved in the project, and ordinance or legislation would insure longevity and structure for a project. it is not likely during the cur funding season that funds would be d om the current budget.

all though, since the cost of the individual units is not very high, it would be worth looking into the possibility of finding money from existingro so, the recommendation from the fellows looking her research in into additional tion to understand the feasibility, continuing outreach with city agencies, community based organizations and looking at whether there are any other jurisdictions that have projects or projects like this. and then putting together a plan with predicted maintenance needs and costdeveloping a funding

strategy. so, questions for you. which approach do you prefer? the individual agency multiple agency implementation? should the board of supervisors be asked to hold a hearing, an what steps do you recommend being next convening a meeting of all interested departments, development of a ific project proposal, research into teial funding sources, or other research or other next steps? and that's where we.

>> are you looking for-- looking for discussion. >> for me, i think-- multiple agency-- so there is no confusion who is doing what when it comes to i think multiple agencies would be beneficial. --i think i'm very interested in

--public library sit down together and when we sit down with mod to discuss some kind of ■3short-term and long-term ideas, implementation. i think i want take this ng a-- city administrator, i think it would be beneficial to see

what the city might do --i think what will be beneficial. denise. >> thank y drid. thank you for the presentation, debbie. after reviewing the different and endaons i was trying to find a happy medium with all three because i'm look ing at a legislative perspective getting buy om city agencies and i know funding is grant resources from agencies

that may have access to alternative funding. so, i guess if i have to pick one, i would probably think of the agency buy-in, where you get city departments, ot speaking for them, just off the top of my head, having eation and probably already done so, with the department of emergency management and working with those agencies and? taking your remeatn into forming a partnership with them en gislative wise to bring in the board of supervisors or any of the departments from city who interested in this so you have resource because you said this is worst po e budget to ask for money, but since the agencies might have other avenues getting some sort of funding, because that will be

the key thbesides getting legislative buy-in is where the money comes from and who will provide it,b and the agencies can maybe come to agreement with department heads who says who wants to spearheaonce we give input and have a plan in place. meater. that is as much as i can think about it at this time. ll have more thought later, but thank you. >> patricia. you have any though >> thank you alex. i i think this should bea multi-agency pursuit. if individual agencies are reoneyare in their own little silo and there should be uniformity to this project, so i would

definitely go with the multi-agency plan it might take a lire time, but sense there is not a highly expensive ojgo a little faster and might be easier to y wh you have all these agencies working together. thank you. >> -- >> say again? wh's your next steps and suggesti to the questions? what to do next? >> i think-i understand what you said alex. i interpret it as, making sure

that there's adagency, and that there's one deme overseeing and managing the wh and, i think that's possi with a-and it essential with a ltip agency approach. it is really encouraging that there are o many departments th to be involved and want to figure ou how to do this, and i think you know, another remultiple agency approach is, that the way that the charging stations operate from a user perspective should be uniform it is highly confusing if you went to one site and it worked this way and these were th, and you go to another one, and it is a

entirely different way to and so, i think that's just not factor to take into account. i think this is also a kind of project because it is really low cost, it might toimplement a very small pilot one department and work it into a rgerproject while that's going on in order not to wait until everything is all set in stone. >> is it possible to have a

to be the lead and have those three agencies part of planning? >> i differ to the interim director. >> i'll speak to that. thank you mrs. kaplan. and thank you cochair for raising that. 2i i do think at the very least mod does gether pull the information with respect to how much it cost, how it is installed, because i don't have enough information to that, but it may be simple a spreadsheet understanding where these have been deployed, where the policies shed be and setting uniform kind of guidance and then if encies like the library, understanding where lr installed and having regular maintenance and expectation. given the fact they are so low

in cost i think itis manageable iltry program. absolutely, and we are happy pull together some resources, because frankly, the agencies are not going to beto implement either unless they have a better you install them, but what does this all mean. i think that ismaageable and something we can try to focus on. >> thank you. thank you. >> are there--so, back to presentation. do you have anymore discussiono >> no. we n'public comment on this and there may be some, and i thin it would be very interesting to hear what people think. >> if can read that information. >> be happy to. if people joined recently to

make a comment, if you jo webinar using your tablet or smart lickon the 3 horizontal dot icons and click on, raise hand. the clerk will recognize you whit is your turn. you may also use the q & a feature in webex webinar to make a comment. cated on the top part of the video after touching the screen. are using a desktop or laptop compu and question and answer icons are located at the boofthe video screen. if you joined by phone, please dial star 3 to indicate you like to a comment. the clerk will let you know when it is your turn and now wehave one person waiting her turn. control, please unmute mrs.

sheila gunn. i assume [indiscernible] is rrect and you have three >> i was laughing very hard when debbie said that bellevue had connected funding to ems. the dertment, because i was going to say, i raised my hand to say before she said th the office of emergency services, oes has a program called, [indiscernible] that's the spanish word for ready, and they work with cbo's who reach folks adversely impacted in

emergencies. basically folkwithaccess and functional needs sabities. this funding, it is pretty open or can be, anrecommend two cbo's to start with thatabout, but i'm not ancisco.sed in all things i would recommend the senior disability action network and i uldalso recommend, ilrcsf. i don't know much about [indiscernible], but it would be a ally i'm certain. i think that other d orgs could get the funding and or

fema related funding, possibly dhs funding state and federal, but i don' know all the iand and buts about all those things so i guess studying would have ne, but i would recommend that. i want to actually add public comment at the end of everything, because i agree webex is not accessible. that is for anmeetg. that's all for now. >> thank you for your comment. e there any public comment at this time? >> there is another caller. control, please unmute mrs. lee. >> hi. are you all able to hear me okay? >> s, we can. >> great. my name is allisoand working for department of aging and adult services

and very fascinated with this topic here. i am attending as e in the presentation it was menon that there are three agencies that were interested in implementing the implementation, which was municipal agen, [indiscernible] san francisco public library. i am curious, have any of these agencies started next steps or plnganything to get this implementation started? not yet. >> okay. is ththe plan for that of [iiscernible] next steps are? >> this is debbie kaplan. llmod will be working on

wewill definitely make sure bring das into the loop. >> [indiscernible] >> i did-i was on the review panel r a project that received funding that went to the independent living urfor emergency ha repair, and is also somethingto think about, and ta das about whether there is any synergy there. >> thanks so much for the update, debbie. anyoh >> thank you for your comment. do we have anymore comment at this time? >> no more callers i don't

see any other persons. in q & a? >> nope. >> thank you, debbie. please keep us p >> definitely. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> now, we are going to item number 8. d correspondence. do we have any correspondence atthis time? >> we do not. thank you. now, item number 9, general public comment. >> let me double chec i'm waiting for clarification. apparently there is one more cannot see here. d confirm or

rson? the person went away. oka >> thank you. >> should we have a general public comment at this time? >> i'm sorry, there is another person. >> okay. >> ntplease unmute the person. >> me again. i'm sheila gunn and i'll say my contact info, it is public anyway, here because i trin the chat and i could not figure t the box was. webex is not asi it is not accessible onhe computer as it was my android, but there

are much better meeting platforms then this, and i am not a accessibility trained expert or certified in anything, have just been using the web 1995 and ppen, matic access needs to especially at places where folks may not be able to get here physically and they want to come virtually and one question i like to know at some point is, how you guys got people comment virtually, because [indiscernible] hasn't figured how to do that, w anyway. so, i tion in the q & and had to figure how to choose one person because i wanted to send to all catalyst, but apparently couldn't, or maybe i misunderstood the way

webex wobecause it is a long paragraph my screen reerhas to read, so maybe i n' the paragraph is about a minute long. so, sheela gunn, and i'm the emergency preparedness coordinator at the center for independent lingin berkeley, and my e-mail is sgunn@thecil.org. my phone number 5would have ha the chat so everyone can e,t tried and couldn't.

so, --i heard a lot and glad i was here and maybe more collabor in the future, or thoughts or brainstormsr. >> thank you for your comment. >> [indiscernible] >> we will be--oh.like to say thank you sheila and we will be in touch with you, particularly about your specific issues that you had with we because hopefully we can pass that ■ñon to cisco, and because have been communicating with cessibility and so thk you for your y useful participation in the

meeting. >> now, we are going toitem 10. information item. comments and announcements from the council. ime. thank you. >> do you have any comments? patricia? >> control. >> sorry. i do, but sorry, i have to agree with particularly user ot friendly online, and especially for disabled people and older people who are usually thpeople who are not computer internet natives.

yeah. beengreat help with me today to ring out a prjust for the general public, it is t easier. >> thk you, patricia. for me, i don'have any announcements or comments. now i am going to do the last thing. adjournment. before i do that, i want to give thanks to the interpreter, thpublic, the staff, and-- i hope we will

work and with , without any objections, we are going to call it adjournment. again, thanu =j and see you [gavel] [meeting adjourned]

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and it's something that i've been incredibly grateful for. [♪♪♪] >> i started working for the city in 2005. at the time, my kids were pretty started school. i was offered a temporarily position as an analyst to work on some of the pros were funded through homeland security. i ultimat spent almost five years at the health department coordinating emergency programs. enjoyed and turned out i was pretty good thinking about glass ceiling, to being a mother and relate self-supposed in some ways that not feel that i could myself responsibility; that i accepte

when my kids were and as they got older, i felt more abl i suppose, moving forward. in my career, i have been asked to step forwar. i wish that i earlier stepped forward myself, and i fe really strongly, like i am 100% the right person for this job. i cannot imagine a harder time to be in this role. i'm humbl privileged but also very confident. so here at mosconenter, this is the covid command center, or the c.c.c. here is what we calledun -- call unified command. this is where we ha physically been since march, and then, in july, we developed this unified stru it's the de emergency management, the department of public health,

and our human services hughesing partners, so primarily the department of housing and human services agency. so it's sort of tee-headed command in which we are codina everything related to covid response. and now,course, in this final phase, it's mass vaccination. the first year was before the pandemic was extremely busy. thefires, obviously, that both we were ablerovide mutual support but also the impact of airuality. we had, in 2018,he worst air quality ten or 11 days here int i'm sure you all remember it, and then, finally, the the sun didn't come out in san francisco, which was in

the orange skies, it felt apocalyptic, super scary for people. you know, all of thos