so this operations plan is required by the state and specifically applies to areas delineated by the map compaq about 5000 linear together. -- delineated by the map, about 5000 linear altogether. >> can you point out what that might be? >> that is the point. it covers 5000 linear feet of sewer. we will have more sanitary

systems in the future, but we are required by the state, since we do have some, and the whole plan is of these on the map. >> 5000 linear feet, a couple in the presidio, lake merced. >> that is correct. the registry is i actually on the border -- is actually on the border. you're exactly right, those are the areas. >> f.a.q, tom. he highlighted it. all right. -- president crowley: colleagues, anything on item 11? ok, any public comment? clerk: we have no speaker

comments. president crowley: seeing none, and will entertain a motion. all in favor, say aye. clerk: mr. president, item 12, a discussion and possible action to authorize the general manager of san francisco public utilities commission to execute on behalf of the city and county of san francisco a memorandum of agreement with the united states department of the interior, national park service, in yosemite national park, for an amount not to exceed $30 million in with a duration of five years to provide for watershed protection, collaborative environment and stewardship studies, and security for the yosemite national park watersheds that supply water to the san francisco regional water system. >> there are a couple of things that are different about this agreement. this was reconstructed around

the filtration. this time, there are actually more things that we do. it is still absolutely essential. there is also the environmental stewardship component, so it is threefold. when the original agreement was signed, that was about $2.75 million per year, which was about $3.50 billion over the last several years, plus special studies. the security agreement, there was the first one from 2007- 20008. and then we have come to vot-- 5 million has grown to about $5.20

million per year, so the $30 million per year over the next five years, which assumes inflation and growth in those programs over the next five years, so that is when we get to the cumulative $30 million, and there is a relationship with these other areas. president crowley: ok, colleagues? second. before we vote on this, any public comment? >> just one comment, commissioners. at times, we are criticized >> $30,000.

a lot of things happen there, including the environment and stewardship, and that is more like $5 million per year, and that is not categorized as rent, it is categorized as mou. >> i have participated in an annual meeting with park staff, and there was a roomful of people, about 30 parks of, and about 30 puc -- about 30 parks staff. >> i was at yosemite a few weeks ago, and i had dinner. the park superintendent for the last 15 years was in charge of a seashore, and before that, he was a deputy, so he knows a lot about the city and is very

comfortable in the interaction that seems foreign to some people, but he is comfortable . president crawly: colleagues, that has been moved and seconded. all of those in favor, please signify by saying aye. opposed? clerk: mr. president, item 13, a discussion and possible action to approve the amendment number two to watch the enterprise, water system improvement program funded agreement no. cs-8578, for a total amount of 160 dozen dollars with a time extension of two years, nine months, for a total duration of five years, three months. president crowley: colleagues,

anything on 13? ok, any public comment? hearing none and seeing none, i will take a demotion. all in favor, please signify by saying aye. no. 14. clerk: a discussion of possible action to approve the amendment number one to waste water and apprises cip funding agreementcs cs-860, tunnel engineering services for the sunnyvaldale a soleil-sur proje, with jacobs associates. president crowley: but colleagues, anything on 14?

ok, any public comment? hearing in seeing none, i will entertain a motion. so moved. and seconded. those in favor of item 14, please signify by saying aye. opposed? clerk: mr. president, item 15, a discussion and possible action to approve the plans and specifications and award wastewater enterprises the amount of $37 million plus to the lowest qualified responsible and responsive bidder for installation of approximately 4,000 feet of 8 feet by 11 feet interior diameter secret tunnel -- sewer tunnel. president crowley: colleagues, and, it? any public comment?

harry and seeing none, i will entertain a motion. moved and seconded korea all of those in favor, please signify by saying aye. -- moved and seconded. all of those in favor, please signify by saying aye. item 16. clerk: mr. president, item 16, a discussion and possible action to approve the plans and specifications and a warm water and apprises water system improvement program funded contract number2607 for modifications of existing chlorination facilityd -- echloraminagtiotion facility. president crowley: commissioners, any questions? clerk: we have no speaker cards.

president crowley: any public comment? hearing and seeing none, a will entertain a motion. moved and seconded. clerk: mr. president, the next item on the closed session items, and would you like to call for public comment on any item in closed session? president crowley: any public comment on any item in closed session? hearing and seeing none, it has been moved to assert attorney- client privilege. moved and seconded. all of those in favor, please signify by saying aye. clerk: mr. president, if you allow me to read the items. a consultation.

we will now move into closed session. >> we are back. commissioner crowley: ok, commissioners, we are back in session. item 19, there was no action. item 20, there was no action. so with that, i will make -- i will entertain a motion regarding whether to disclose discussion during closed session. it has been moved and seconded not to disclose. all those in favor? opposed? ayes have it. any public comment? ok, item 23. i really commissioner moran -- i believe commissioner moran has

something to say. and then with edgerton with a moment of silence for ann schneider. -- we adjourn with a moment of silence. that will conclude our moment of silence. colleagues, any other new business before us today? >> yes, i think we should wish mike a happy birthday. commissioner crowley: our secretary, michael house's birthday? 21? happy birthday, michael. >> thank you. commissioner crowley: we do have a notice of canceled meeting. do you want to read that into the record, or do we need to? >> that is true. the regular meeting of tuesday

august 24 has been canceled,u the notice has been posted since july 23, so there is an awareness, so our next regular meeting will be the regular meeting of september 14. commissioner crowley: thank you. >> as was mentioned a couple times earlier, we have a lot of environmental review for the planning commission this fall. we may end up under the special sessions. but we do not know the dates yet. you. adjourn. ok, we have moved and seconded. all those in favor to adjourn? >> aye. >> aye. commissioner crowley: thank you.

>> thank you, everybody. happy anniversary. first and foremost, i want to acknowledge susan's outstanding leadership, her stewardship. it is interesting, every couple of weeks we get together, all of the city department heads. every week, we get together in smaller groups, but as a group, 60, 70 of us get together, and it does not matter what the topic is.

susan will chime in and make sure she raises her hand and say, "wait a second. did you consider the rights of mobility issues, the rights of those that are impaired? did you consider your responsibilities, your obligations, moral, ethical, legal as well to include this, to include that?" i just want to give a big round of applause to susan for her stewardship and leadership. i want to acknowledge the number of department heads here that have been doing great work and trying to lead the way and lead by example in terms of fulfilling our mandate to fulfil our promises that we made some 20 years ago. it is extraordinary how far we have come, but it is equally extraordinary how far we need to go, and i want to underscore

that we understand that. we understand that we are not there yet. we understand there's still discrimination in the workplace. we still recognize there is still accessibility issues on our own streets and sidewalks. there's even accessibility issues in our own board of supervisors chambers, which still have not been made completely accessible. we recognize our rights. we also recognize our responsibilities, so i want to just began by making that point. i also want to make a few points about ed roberts because it is absolutely right to remember that in 190062, he was out here -- in 1962, he was out here in the bay area leading the way, and so much of the progress that has been made, not only around the state, but this nation, and around the world, can go back to the work he initiated and the

leadership he displayed in the 1960's. do not forget -- it was extraordinary. the headlines of the day -- these were the headlines of the day when he was accepted to uc berkeley. the headlines read, "a cripple is accepted into berkeley." that was acceptable nomenclature. that was acceptable headline writing by the editors of local newspapers. that is how people were referred to. but it is because of his commitment, his constancy, his faith, his devotion to the cause of true equality that others started to come out and others started to join and others started to organize, leading to 1977, and many of you may have been there, in un plaza, and how appropriate. remember, the birthplace of the united nations, and the full promise of the united nations -- it all began here in san

francisco, and there, many of you were. 100-plus-wrong with the largest demonstration this nation had ever seen at the time of people saying enough is enough, and we are going to demonstrate our right to demand that our rights are extended, and people paid attention. in so many ways, that was the cataclysmic moment in time that really will people of so that some 13 years later, we woke up the nation when 3000 people strong came out in washington, d.c. democrats, republicans, independents, and we got the americans with disabilities act signed by then-president bush at the white house lawn 20 years ago today. so it is remarkable, those origins. is remarkable progress. it is remarkable the work that all of you have done.

if you have ever watched, and maybe you do not want to, or maybe you had to -- i never good with notes. i have my own learning disability called dyslexia, so i cannot be very well, but i thought it was important to make susan's point, and then doing something that i never do, and that as i wrote some things down because i wanted to get some things right because i wanted to underscore what susan said about the last six-plus years. when i first became supervisor, some of you may know, i've posted -- hosted a little reception across the street, and i wanted to celebrate the fact that i had the privilege of a lifetime to represent the people of san francisco, and i was told i could not do it because i was at the green room across the street, and apparently, it was not accessible, which is rather remarkable to me. because as a small business person, this same city hall major, appropriately, that when i open my small business, that

it was accessible, only to find out when i came here that the same people that were telling, appropriately, small businessmen and women like myself what to do, they were not doing it themselves. i remember coming together and cobbling up a few bucks, and i said that it was ridiculous because the city came in and said it would take years. it's an historic structure, all kinds of issues. i said that's the same thing i hear business people say all the time, but we make them do the right thing. so if you cannot do it, city hall, i will do it myself. so i wrote a check, and we put that temporary ramp, which has been made a permanent ramp, that is still there today, and made that chamber accessible. that is not to impress you but to impress upon you that i recognize that when we got here as a supervisor, we had a lot more to do that i could ever

imagine. we worked to get more van taxis. we worked to focus on making sure the decision was made real. we worked to make sure there were more buses, signals, and the like, but when i became mayor, i had a little more leverage. here is just some of the things we have done just to highlight the point. we started with boating because there's no more principled thing there. in 2004, we made some progress, but just north of half of our polling places were accessible with accessible boating equipment. today, i'm proud to say, we are not 100%, but 95% of all the polling places now are accessible with voting machines that people can use in private, which is good. [applause] we then stop at the war memorial building because in 2004, we had this great transition plan you

all worked on. it looked good in writing, but we have not implemented that plan. there was only a negligible amount of progress. today, six years later, 80% of that plan is now complete. all city offices that provide services are now made accessible. all museums are now accessible. 9% of our community health clinics are now accessible. 14 brand new branch libraries accessible. nine more that are in progress will be made accessible appeared most modern accessibility of any new library system i know of in this country. i remember when willie brown went out there -- i will never forget. we had a big celebration. we had our first playground that was made accessible, and that was big national news. now, we have over 80 playgrounds that are fully accessible. 28 clubhouses, 19 rec centers.

that is real progress compared to where we were just a few years ago. still not good. we talked about olmstead, and susan was right to bring it up. it is appropriate. ihss and home support services at what is going on in the governor's budget. i do not want to get too partisan or political, but it is pretty unconscionable that it is even on the table, these kind of cuts, but then again, not surprising with all the other cuts that are on the table. but you do not have to worry about those ihss cuts locally. they were not even part of the discussion, and now with the budget for all our shortfalls and challenges, we did not even begin to enter into that process to make sure we are providing the quality of care that people deserve with quality wages and quality benefits, so i just want to thank everyone for all their great work and stewardship and allowing people to live in places, live in dignity, which

are the principles that bring us all here together, and it was the principle that brought us together to create that community living fund a few years ago. not everybody needs to be in an institution. as proud as we are of laguna honda, not everybody needs to be ad -- at laguna honda. we need to provide alternatives to skilled nursing services, but we had no funding and no framework. now, five years in a row, $3 million a year, we have been putting into this community living fund to allow people to transition back into the community or to stay in the community to live in dignity and live in place. i want to thank all of you for that community living fund. it is a national model today. [applause] people forget emergency planning. susan never did. i remember we updated all our

emergency operations plans. we have not met in eight years, and the emergency operations plan have not been updated in eight years, but there she was saying is great to update it, but make sure it is accessible. at the time, only three of them were accessible. that is a challenge. today, we have more than 75 accessible emergency disaster shelters, and 37 of them can be adapted and made acceptable. that is real progress. we had only one audible alert system. today, we now have an audible and visual alert system to alert sf. if you have not signed up for the text messaging and the benefits of alert sf, please, if nothing else today, up. call 3114 information. again, national model. real progress has been made. this is good. it is all of their in real time. i want to thank everyone.

two final things -- public right of way. i know we have had to be sued over and over again -- amen. sometimes you are happy to be sued because it gets you focused, realigns your values, so i'm acting like we were real leaders. you were the leaders holding our feet to the fire, but here's the good news -- 5100 new curb ramps in the last 100 years have been done, and we have all but doubled them. over 12,000 curve rams. i have to tell you -- seems like we're really fast tracking because i do not know if there is a corner in the city where we do not have some construction on a new curve ramp. i hope real progress is here, and bevan dufty is here, and i know how committed he is. if we could acknowledge him and thank him for making us honest

in all this. final three points because i know you are sick of me and we have a lot of speakers, but it is important to talk about because you are important to talk about. in addition to curb ramps, we only have one intersection that was accessible with those pedestrian signals. now, we can confidently say that we lead the nation with 116 intersections and growing every single day. please give yourselves a round of applause for that. it is always good to lead the way. we have more work to do, but we are making progress. transportation. i know it is still not -- i get it. [laughter] man. i did that taxi task force. remember that one? a lot of you serve on that. i'm looking out here. we have increased by 20% the

number of ramp taxis, and we went from a system of accessible buses a few years ago where there were only 409, and we have close to now doubled the number of accessible buses in our system, and that is good progress. again, we still have a lot more work to do. we had no digital voice announcements a few years ago. now, every single one -- they may not always be working, but every single one of our buses are now equipped with that technology, so good progress has been made there as well, and i hope you acknowledge that because we love to beat up that mta thatnat ford and the folks over there at muni -- mta and nat ford. round of applause to those who get beaten up all the time. [applause]

the final point. housing. it is a big issue. it is the toughest issue of all, affordable housing in the city. we build more affordable housing than any time in our history. last 24 months, things have slowed down. because of your work, we've modernized the codes and our requirements. or 3100 units -- over 3100 units are fully accessible or adaptable. we have more under construction. this is an order of magnitude increase from where we were a decade of code -- ago. we have not forgotten our obligations on housing, transportation, right of