aware and i'm constantly in contact with them on any problems they may have as far as taking out the permit. so you're probably all familiar with the wonderful job that carla's group did putting this together with photos and materials and any question that a property owner or operator could think of asking. they covered most of it, at least 99.9 percent of that. we get to come up with a survey and i have the housing inspectors to go out and there and take photos and give carla information so they can prop out what we're going to see. we continue the outreach and to encourage the property owners to put these in and also that is also included attending the senior and disability action monthly meeting. we have supervisor mar here for the

building inspection commission who may want to say something about that. he's been supportive of this and he's been attending those meeting and i will let you know that the housing inspectors as they're constantly in the residential hotels on a day to day basis, we're seeing the grab bars installed and if you see any problems then we're work with the property owner and the building inspector to make sure we continue this progress so when september 4th comes, which is the compliance day, we want to have as many as of these installed as possible. if we do need to do code enforcement, we'll start that at in particular point in time, but we push the outreach and making sure the information is out there. we do troubleshooting when somebody's trying to file a permit if submission comes. if there is an ongoing code enforcement action from the property, we do not let that stop the issue of this permit. i don't have too

much top add, but i know mr. mar may have comments on that as well. >> thank you. good afternoon, council members. i'm the vice president and we don't like to waive fees because our department is totally self sufficient. we don't get anything from the general funds. all of our staff is it paid totally from the fees we collect. we were happy to waive these fees because we think that it was an important issue but i wanted to share that this program has been, i feel, the most successful fee waiver we've done with over 100 plus permits being applied for already. mainly because of the partnership we had with the disability community, with the senior action network because people did the outreach. a lot of times we get approached by the board of supervisors, the mayor's office saying we should

waive fees because it's small business month and they want to do some work on their businesses and we waive the fees for a month and we get three applications for a permit. how many permits did we get rosemary? almost 150 permits and that's because the collaboratives, the people you work with went out there and did the outreach. so i really think that if anything, i want to commend people here for those partnerships and we're happy to waive the fees even though we're going to probably pay for it later when we go to our budget and the followup and i said this at the scene yore meeting and we want to make sure the bars are in and done right. so we look forward to that followup too, so with that that's all i have to say. thank you.

>> any questions for either rosemary or i, we'll be happy to discuss it further. >> chip. >> i have a question for rosemary. you said, i believe you said 170 grab bars have been i stalled? 170 permits. >> many more grab bars than that. >> okay. so what percentage do you an -- anticipate and enforce. some -- >> the compliance day is early september so we're keeping the momentum so we get as many permits filled so in september -- we have inspections occurring as we speak, as we get close to september, then we will start assessing who is not

in compliance and begin the code enforcement process at that point in time. >> thank you. i understand now. >> to the chair also, i was wondering if tony robles is in the audience. he was one of the speakers. i would suggest that you want to hear what he has to say before you switch to public comment. >> thank you. >> is tony robles here? no >> he may have stepped outside. i can't see past the podium, but thank you. >> thank you. he was here earlier, i do know that. >> if we can come back. >> public comment. >> good afternoon counsel council, my name is cd johnson. i did the collaborative and

private hotel organizers, one of the things we do is we go out and we educate the managers and owners about what the grab bar laws are about and why it's important that they need to do it and also encourage them to also to apply for those waive fees so our second thing is for us to find out who has the bars, who complied and who didn't comply and come back with a report and closely work with the two people who were just up here. so i'm kind of happy because i'm disabled myself. i suffer with diabetes and it's hard for me to stand up for long periods of time when i'm in the shower so this helps me so i'm behind this and definitely going to look forward working more closely and making sure that this

happens. thank you. >> thank you. this is public comment. anyone else who would like to public comment? is the other presenter here or no. >> i don't see too many. he was here a few minutes ago. if the item passes, it passes. i was wondering if i can make one final comment. i appreciate hearing the kind words from boski about the grab bar manual, but i wanted to direct the good will where it should go which is everybody at the mayor's office under disability helped out on this project. i may have been the name, but john put a lot of that effort and really shepparded this

through the different drafting stages and joanna gave me fabulous feedback on how to format it so it was one of those team efforts that he i want the team to get credit for. >> thank you. and they are important you guys. for real. those grab bars are important. i've noticed that. i need one in my house. can you all bring it to the houses? no. okay. seeing that there is no public comment, we're going to take a 10 minute break here and be back. thank you.

>> thank you very much. thank you everyone for those presentations in the beginning. we really appreciate you guys time and taking the time to come to the council. welcome back everyone. let's get started on the second half of our meeting. so next up we have action team number 7 of discussion and possible action item adopt in a resolution

regarding guiding principles for the construction and affordable housing for seniors and people with disabilities. and presenting is chip. oh, denise. denise and then chip. >> thank you chair. welcome. the mayor's disability council throughout the month has some segments on housing and the issues and concern affecting the disability and the senior community. and through public comment we want you to know that, you know, we heard you and the resolution that i'm about to read i hope reflects those issues and concerns and i want to thank you joanna and chip. they're apart of the committee with me and we worked on this and i look forward to the feedback from the public and the council. so i'm going to go ahead and read the resolution now. okay. this is

resolution 2013-01. san francisco mayor's disability council resolution recommending guiding principles for the construction and maintenance of affordable and acceptable housing for seniors and people with disabilities. whereas available affordable and accessible housing has been a prominent issue that affects the disability community in the city of san francisco and whereas the supply and funding of available, affordable and accessible housing have severely diminished due to the recent elimination of redevelopment agencies and whereas providing housing available in the community for people with disabilities is not just an urgent need, but is a

-- going onto the second page -- manual civil right as affirmed by the united states state of the supreme court of 1999 and the mayor's disability council have heard from community members with disabilities and from their advocates who share their frustrations and disan appointment with the state of -- frustrations and disappointments with the state. being resolved that funding resources for affordable and accessible housing be found to help offset the funding gap created by the loss of the city's redevelopment agency and further be resolved that the construction of new, adaptable and accessible housing be a

priority over rehabilitating older, existing buildings and it be constructived rather than renewing sor building and further let it be resolved that it be developed by the maintenance of the features including elevators along with incentives for maintaining accessible features and sro where affordable housing exist and let it be further resolved that a single accessible data base be created with people with various disabilities can be matched with the appropriate housing unit and let it be resolved that low income housing is contracted with feature that promote and enhance mental health of tenants such as the use of natural light, full spectrum

lining fixtures, cheerful color schemes and community space and be further resolved that a percentage of existing and new accessible housing be allocated for people with multiple, chemical environmental sensitivities mcs, that will be smoke free and constructed with environmentally safe materials such as low, voc paints and carpet glue and that housing be dispensed out the city on the community resides in their community with satellite. >> is chip next or public comment first? >> sure. thank you denise for

reading and for the contributions you made to the working of this resolution. we did a lot of work with joanna and we believe we have a comprehensive document and some of these things will take years to get to, some can be done rather in a short period of time, i think. but it covers, i think, very well and develops the core needs of the community. so i'm proud of our work. and i welcome public comment. >> yes. and i did put a little input on that resolution too. okay. so we are going to welcome public comment right now. >> thank you chair. >> we got some cards. i'm sorry. >> it's still public comment.

>> charles menstor. >> council members, i'm charles menstor and i'm a member of the city, district one and i'm a member of senior disability action and the california launch of retired americans. i want to support this resolution. it's a needed step forward in this city where we're getting older and with disabilities and all the things that go with that. i'd like to bring it to this -- therefore it be resolved that funding sources for affordable and accessible housing be found to help offset. we have a mayor and administration that is on their knees in front of the sillicon valley and the real-estate interest giving tax breaks for up to five years for

some of these interest. these banking interest released figures of gaining profits that they've seen in their history and they've been bailed out by us. the real-estate interest in this city are seeing a highest medium price for housing. i don't think they're paying any extra tax or going to support this issue without a fight. and so you should prepare for a fight to gain this money and it's there. it's in the banks. it's in the real-estate interest and in the housing that have stolen billions from us and been supported by this government and like i said, mayor lee is on his knees in front of him. so this is the barriers that you're going to have to deal with and you're going to need allies to do that. so thank you. >> thank you. bill hersh.

>> good afternoon. my name is bill hersh and i'm the director of the aids referral panel and i serve on the coordinating council and share their housing committee and been apart of the disability advocates and i've worked with disability rights organizations for many years, probably too long at this point. but i wanted to thank you for your work on this resolution and offer an opportunity for us to kind of join forces. one of the things that has been frustrating for me over the years is having many of these conversations in smaller venues without having the coordinated city response that we really need in order to address many of these issues. when i saw the list of items in the resolution, it reminded me of many of th