work. now it's just geriatics. i have been on the board for about 15 years. first it was sand and now it's sda and it's really an important part of my life. the main focus for most of my time on the board and with the organization was on seniors, and now there's an equal focus on those with disabilities and jessica is leading us into that work. i participate with the housing collaborative. that group has taken action on issues such as the [inaudible] evictions, a tax on rent control and lead the work of a collaboration that created a survey for sro residents on the needs of the seniors and those with disabilities in those buildings since for many sro's will be the homes where they age and place.

that survey resulted in legislation introduced by supervisor eric mar to require both grab bars and working phone jacks for residents. it just passed unanimously in its first reading at the board of supervisors. we are very proud of that. sda also runs several sessions a year, sda university. participants are taught how to advocate for themselves and their community by letter, by phone calls, by speaking in public, by visiting legislators, and by turning out to public actions. i'm proud to be a member. jessica mentioned the general meeting? a. the next general meeting will be a town hall. i hope you call could come. i will leave you a flier. it's on saving social security, medicaid and medicare. thank you. who can i give this

to? >> thank you. >> and i also want to introduce -- [inaudible] another board member. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> the sda about the senior and disabled and embody it, but have been there long enough to see the evolution of realization of

society meeting the needs, trying to meet the needs of seniors and disabled. >> it's just not catching all your captions. maybe we can move her mic. thank you. yes. closer to the mic. >> thank you. i just repeat what i said. in a way i embody the [inaudible] disabled senior action for parapaledgics and have been along enough top experience how society has tried to meet the needs of seniors and disabled. and they have done

quite well with disabled you but we're overwhelmed with seniors i think, and anyway but the value this group is that they focus the needs of both. they really worked to meaningful programs. they really do, and they are honored for that reason and they're assets to this society. thank you. >> thank you. >> just to wrap up. i actually forgot. i will show the last slide here which is our contact

information so our office is located at 1660 mission street on the fourth floor. right between ninth and tenth. it's the mercy building and if we could show the slide that would be great. i thought maybe they could read my mind. >> it will pop up. >> i will keep going if that's okay. anyone that wants to check out the website. it's sd action .org. we are working on a new website that will be up in the next few months so what is there -- it's out of date but it will be updated and it's a landing page for now and my contact information is on here jessica lehman and i can be

reached at this website and i want to thank you to share who we are and what we're doing. we appreciate if people can spread the word to check out any of our programs or the general meeting, but even beyond showing what we do we would love to hear either now or another time how we can collaborate with the council. if anyone has a card and pass on their contact information we will add you to a mailing list. i will do a better job at sending notices to the mayor's office of disability so they can pass it on to the council and how we can work together on various issues we would love to have that opportunity. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> and through the chair i would add one more to ask the control

room to display the contact information for senior disability and action. could we have the control room please. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. okay. we have public comment just on this thing. bob. >> i am bob planthold. i was a proud member of the board of directors of the predecessor for 10 years. i wanted to point out that the merger of the two groups is upon play upon their strengths. they have with trying to teach people to empower themselves and advocate for themselves, but there's things you folks also can do, and i will go back to the very formal legalistic approach. last year the department on the status of women did a survey about the demographics of the appointment of commissioners and that included looking at how

many people with disabilities were appointed to commissions. far too few in terms of the overall percentage of the population, and i put that in contrast in context to the fact that the city's voters passed a charter amendment several years ago when jake mcgoldrick was supervisor, an amendment saying that the supervisors when they make appointments have to take into diversity consideration disability as well as gepder, sexual orientation, ethnicity and so forth. it ain't happening folks. even after that was passed some supervisors who some thought progressive pushed for rea appointment to the elections election of an commissioner who pushed through a resolution saying they would never pick or buy any touch screen technology ever, total absolute ban, and these

progressive supervisors pushed the reappointment of that person. i want you to understand there is education need for the supervisors to take us into consideration. your advisors to the mayor so you could say "how many are you appointing? why isn't there somebody on the planning commission that is knowledgeable about senior and disability needs? why aren't there someone on the human rights commission?" shocked us to hear there was somebody -- not everybody here understand or worked well with but that person has since left human rights. there are commissions we have understandably a vested interest if not even a formal seat so you can talk to the mayor. what are you doing? as well as talk to your district supervisor. what candidates are you trying to get on the different commissions and boards that the supervisor's

appoint? thank you. >> thank you. donna. >> [inaudible] >> oh okay. okay. so we're going to close that part -- no, not yet. this is for that teen. is there any more public comment for this particular item? this item, i mean. sorry. >> yes. about physical assets. my name is larry edman juice. i live in the ambassador hotel. i am a person with disabilities. i am part of them for years. [inaudible] as i listen to the president and speaks that we have to be smarter in managing things. i know our assets and sro's isn't that great for

people when i need my home care worker, assistant or others. it's hard to separate the physical assets from the physical abuse. good thing we danced last night on that, but i definitely know that it's time in the next four years we have to be a smarter government and agency to work and make this a better world. we have four years to do that and i hope this is the start of something great. there are a lot of people who are seniors and disabilities at the sro hotels that look like me and i encourage them to go out. sometimes they don't get a chance to participate and scared and other things that go on in the city, but it's pertd nanlt because we have 260,000 people out of the population of san francisco who receive social security benefits and a lot of us sro's and medicare and

medicare and i have a thing really to help make better physical assets. i have been thinking about some that create new jobs. everyone in the nation we would have to walk in, sit down in a bathtub made in america, by americans. i think that would cut health care costs and we talk always about jobs and safety and health and i like that we be able to be san francisco, the city that knows how to put things out, get these balls rolling and have a diverse perspective to get things done because i know i would like to just like each one of you would like to have that walk in tub where you sit down where you don't have to fall and break nothing and you feel much better to volunteer and spread some happiness and joy so thank you and i hope this physical assets will be diverse. thank you.

>> thank you. is there anymore public comment on -- yes for this item? >> this item if i am correct is senior disability action. >> yes. >> thank you council. my name is michelle schultz and i came here to support senior disability action previously senior action and planning for elders. i'm a member of this group and as far as being a senior goes i'm not sure technically --could be 50, 52, 62, 65 but i am disabled, and this place that meets once a month where you can go for empowerment and organizing of the seniors and people with

disabilities. it's so key and so valuable, and especially the advocacy work that it does for human rights for seniors and people with a disability and i am just here. i can't praise it enough they have the senior university. they have a computer lab and just to reinforce that the next meeting march 14 is the town hall on social security because there is a lot of misinformation out there, and we will set everybody straight. okay. please attend if you can. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. are there anyone more public comments on this? seeing that there is no more we're going to close public comment for that and we are going to go back to item five, the director's

report. am i right? >> thank you. did the council have any comments on this agenda item? >> i'm sorry. does anyone on the council have any questions? seeing that there's no questions we will go back to the director's report. >> thank you so much chair wilson. i am carla johnson the interim director for the mayor's office on disability and i wanted to give you a briefing on some of the things happening in the last month. our mayor, ed lee, gave his state of the city address on january 28, and this was actually the first state of the city address that he's given since he's been in office. rather than hold that meeting in city hall he choose to take the message to the south eastern neighborhood of san francisco at

college track and college track is a nonprofit in the bay view that helps students from under served communities develop the skills that they need to thrive in both high school and ultimately in college, and the college track facility on 3rd street was one of the projects that our office worked on with our architectural access program. we did the plan check and the field inspection so i was particularly pleased to be able to visit the site for the state of the city and make sure it was fully compliant with the ada. the mayor used the speech to focus on his priorities for local business, local employment, opportunities for youth, health care, pedestrian safety, transportation, and affordable and accessible housing, and all of these issues affect people with disabilities whether it's the traffic calming initiatives, and traffic signal changes that make it easier with

people with disabilities to cross the street or new buses that have been ordered under this administration with low floors that make it faster and easier to board the buses without using the wheel chair lifts, but the mayor gave special emphasis to what i know is a council concern and really what we have been talking about at today's meeting which is our need for housing and hour need of housing of all kinds too especially affordable and accessible housing. and for example the hope san francisco fund is using funds to built the inaccessible units in hunter ary view and we have looking for

the most accessible housing as possible and we know that the southeastern neighborhood has some of the highest levels of living with mobility disabilities or seniors so we know there are some of the highest greatest need in that neighborhood. the first block of homes in hunters view opened in december and the next two blocks will be opening within the next five months. the housing authority i think you heard bevan dufty speak to has under gone a dramatic change under mayor lee and i think that is -- we have a lot of hopes for the new housing authority to really address the conditions of the housing stock for some of the people who are truly most vulnerable. the mayor also talked about his program to address homelessness but i think bevan dufty really covered that better than any of us could and

overall the mayor gave a good speech that was well received by our audience. i will skip over my briefing on the single room occupancy grab bar legislation because i think senior and disability action covered that pretty well. what is coming next with the grab bar legislation it will be going before the board of supervisors for their final hearing on february 26 at which time when it passes, and i expect it to pass because it was unanimously approved at the first hearing. after the board of supervisors make their ruling then it would go to the mayor to be signed, and our office will be providing assistance to the department of building inspection, housing inspection services by developing a technical assistance manual to help the sro hotel owners make a grab

bar installation that will be truly safe and secure which can be kind of difficult in these older buildings so we want to give them step by step directions how to do it right. for the last two months i have been giving the council reports about the accessible parking advisory committee so i wanted to keep you posted with the latest developments. a quick summary is the municipal transportation authority convened advisory committee in october and our task was to look at current, state and local laws and policies around accessible parking placards and our goal is to look at possible legislation or policy development in order to increase the availability of accessible parking because we have heard over and over that the people who need it the most can't find it and they can't find it close to their

destination. the committee has broad representation from the disability community and the mta director ed riskin and i are co-chairs and i want to talk a little bit about process with this committee because it's been very method cal and we're moving into the final phase of the project. the committee has been analyzing policies and laws developed by other cities and states around the country including new york, houston, detroit, and arlington, virginia. we have been reviewing stakeholder interviews by people in the will disability community that live in those cities so they have the opportunity to give us a sense of what's worked or what hasn't worked. have people with disabilities gotten better access to parking as a result of the policy changes? at our next meeting on february 26 we are going to be discussing the

merits of adopting possible policy changes here, and as soon as the committee agrees which policies they think should move forward we would like to bring those options to the mayor's disability council as well as the access ree committee for feedback possibly through a joint meeting in march or april with this physical access committee and the maac so none of the policy options are fixed in stone yet but we hope to get your feedback from them. another project that our office has been working on is bike lanes and cycle tracks, and i know that the council remembers from earlier meetings that the city has plans to transform certain streets like market street and second street in order to make those streets safer and more desirable for

both pedestrians and bicycles and after we heard feedback from the disability community about the cycle track installation in golden gate park our office saw the need and initiated a project to develop some accessibility building blocks for bicycle facilities and this project is necessary because the ada is silent on this area. it's a new feature. there are no design standards for bicycle facilities, but we can use the ada as well as the draft policy right-of-way accessibility guidelines to develop some accessibility building blocks that make sense. some of the questions that have come up during the discussion is if you have a barrier or a buffer zone that separates a bicycle lane from a parked car then what should be the minimum width of the barrier or buffer zone so where a person with disaiktd

has room to exit their car and travel to the corner crosswalk? another question is where do you put the blue zones, white zones, when have this type of facility? how do you fit para-transit boarding into the design and what does the bus stop look like with this different traffic and needs intersecting? so to further that process the mta is hosting a workshop on monday february 25. they're going to be using the second street project as a working model to help us start to work with the community on some of those details, and our office as well as the dpw ada coordinate ors and provide assistance and it's an ongoing process. last i wanted to

finish my report to also honor ken stein. at the last meeting he let you know he was retiring and yesterday was his last day with our office and it was good to hear from him today and to hear his message and we are going to miss him and i know that you will too. so that concludes my director's report, but at this point i would like to ask heather kitel to go over the complaints we received last month and the request for service for accommodation that came in within the last month. >> thank you. >> good afternoon council. this month we received 102 inquiries. 85% were from the public and 14% of these inquiries were from city departments. our office

provided technical assistance for 24% of these contacts. we also provided information and referrals for 66% of these contacts and we conducted service requests for 24% of the contacts. the topics of the inquiries were about service and support animals and disability accommodations and housing, businesses and education and employment. contacts also requested information about affordable housing, benefits and case management services. people also called to report bed bug infestations. in the month of january we received three ada complaints, three curb ramp request, one request for accommodation. the request for accommodation we received was for an individual who are seakt concerns about the garfield pool and it's code

compliantd but it did not meet the access needs of this particular individual. our office has been engaging in an interactive process with the individual to find a solution that works. all three of these complaints that our office received involved the homeless shelter system. there were reports of staff being unresponsive to the needs of people with non visible disabilities. our office has been working with the human service agency to set up additional training to address these issues and that concludes my case summary report. thank you. >> thank you. okay. we will move on to item 10 which is information team of update of the muni system by roland wong who is excused absent today so

we will get that report next month. we will move on to item 11 on any agenda item that were on the list today. do we have any public comment? >> hi. this is jessica lehman again. i am embarrassed in the director's report i was remiss of mentioning something in the senior action report which was extend a sincere thanks and recognition on the mayor's office on disability staff and the installation of phone jacks in the sro's. i don't think through the land use committee and the first reading of the board of supervisors unanimously without all of their work, particularly carla and joannaa, for thinking through the issues and putting grab bars in bathrooms in sro's and working

on the technical assistance manual which will be invaluable to make sure that property managers and landlords can put in the grab bars that work best for the buildings and seniors and people with disabilities that need grab bars so they're safer so thank you very much for all of your work. >> thank you. and this is public comment for items that was not on today's agenda. thank you. >> hello. i am barry ed man. uc ed mand and i am a ambassador for 10 years today and today we losing a case worker who is going to work -- we prepared her to work with teenagers in san mateo and i told her around sro and the people like that how quiet she was through different