>> 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 the items that we

included most recently in the living with dignity plan that was done through the department of aging and adult services and we added a couple things that i think totally dub neatly with your work trying to insure that accessible units pows people who need accessible units layers subsidies on new construction, accessible units so that they are also affordable. often new construction buildings are not subsidized with section 8. they're tax credit buildings so while they're lovely and new and accessible, they're not affordable to the folks at the very lowest income level whopz need those units. we've tried to get funding from a person and could be housed with the mayor's office and you heard about the number of complaints they received, how many of them

came from housing situations. we'll love to see an effort to resolve the issues at the lowest conflict level. so i want to offer to join forces. i also want to say that there's a lot of work that unfortunately has gone into many, many, plans over the years and it's frustrated sometimes to see those plans take a lot of time and energy to develop and sit there on the shelf. most recently there is the latest analysis of impediments of the housing that the mayor's office put out. many of those issues haven't been addressed including more money for fair house outreach to help keep people in their homes. i made copies with "living with dignity."

goals. and you can get the recent one with the mayor's house of housing and there's a lot of stuff that i think you would get behind in and i look forward to working with you. >> thank you. >> thank you. next sgl next we have warren mar. >> warren mar, again. vice president. i didn't plan to stay and speak on this, but when i saw it on the agenda i couldn't resist. we know that low end housing are being lost. i want to echo you and thank you. here's another problem that has come to the inspection building, i know that the city is trying to house homeless folks and house very poor or low income folks, but we are

putting them in sro's that do not have access, so this is the irony. we have seen working with senior action network, disabled folks, senior folks being put in some very bad sro's that we don't even want able body folks in. they're here and senior folks locked in their rooms with no elevator access on the second, third floor. so it's -- with tons of notice of violations from our department, okay. so these are situations. i know that it's touchy politically, but, you know, this is something we have to address because we're using tax money to take these folks off the street, but we're putting them in places that are maybe not even much better than

the street. so and paying the rent. so this is something that our department just go crazy and we see this. we don't know what to do either because we don't want to say, they can't live here. we fight with the landlords and fight with them to fix their elevators and fix whatever the problem is, but that takes a lot of time. so that's all i have to say. good luck in your efforts. again, it's going to take a big coalition, but we want to make sure the money is put to the right use. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tony robles. >> good afternoon council members. my name is tony robles. i work with senior and

disability action. we advocate for better housing, better health care and those things that would allow elders to age in place. i want to read something that was said at a recent housing rally that took place on mission street about two weeks ago. it's about a younger disabled gentleman who live in the tenderloin. he says i'm 25 and never spent a third on my income on rent. for four years, i live on ssi. in san francisco now a market rate department in the tenderloin will rent for $1500 a month. that means there's no way for people with disabilities in san francisco to live in this city without some form of public housing and public housing isn't what the city is building. we have section 8, which is a wait list and hasn't been updated in a

decade. we have thousands of people on the streets and yet mayor lee says that san francisco is experiencing an exno, -- economic book. it's a crisis for san francisco resident. we need the city to focus on addressing the crisis and addressing affordable housing so san francisco maintains a place for all its resident. we know that the crisis in the public housing has been very bad. there are new developments springing up in the mission inn and we know that those developments aren't, you know, for low income people. i think there's one that's where the old new mission theater is and that's going up. i think that's 46 units and i think to get in there you have to make a

minimum of $56,000 a year to qualify for a one bedroom. so it's slowly but surely an epidemic and you know, i think this is just a reflection on really the neglect that's been going on for many years. whose folks that are forming these -- this policy, their values do not reflect ours as all. as bill from arlp said, getting an coordinating efforts, and we're not duplicating our times but managing our resources to work together to get a list of affordable housing to get more affordable housing and to get folks who are in need of accessible housing, getting them into newer developments

and layering the funding. those are the things that can be done and we've tried to get those things done in years past, but it has gotten to an unprecedented situation that that's going to have to be done. fda is happy to work with mayor's council man on disability's act and we look forward to meeting minds and trying to solve these situations and circumstances. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there other public comment?

>> madam chair and members of the council, my name is peter mendosa and i'm with the force center in san francisco. access to housing is an important issue for our consumers that we serve. i want to urge -- first of all i want to commend this -- moving this resolution forward. i think this will bring the city together to work on this issue. i don't want to echo what has been said but i want to strongly urge that as we develop housing, we develop housing for people would are very law income -- people who are low income. the maximum rent that i believe a person

who receives section 8 can rent for is around 1850 roughly. i may be off by a little bit, but the average rent in san francisco as we all know, it's higher than $1850. people with -- that are on housing on section 8 public housing, when they do get assistant through section 8, often have to move out of the city in order to find housing. that means we're losing san francisco residents who want to live here but can't live here because there's no housing available. i also would like to remind everyone that if someone moves in to housing that's an accessible or physical access, that's a civil

rights issue so i feel and i know we feel that the agents -- that it's important to address these issues. again i want to commend you for your work on this resolution and -- i hope the stakeholders revolve this issue and we look forward to this being the catalyst to make changes happen. >> thank you. any further comment? >> my name is dw johnson. i want to say are you trying to explore cities that had to do with the loss of development and what they're doing about housing? i think that's one thing that should be explored

and how the other cities are dealing with the situation. and two, housing is needed. i'm disabled myself and i've been here over 25 years. i finally got a chance to move to a studio apt on 1/3 of my income for a very small place and i get a chance to move and i find that every penny i have is spent toward rent and bills. so i really -- i rather get to go out and hangout with my friends. i can't take myself to a movie because i'm watching every pen sxee -- penny. me quality of my place got better but the quality of my life didn't get better. we need to advocate how quality of place and quality of life goes hand and hand. thank you. >> thank you. other comments? >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is

walter park. i live here and i've been doing disability work for 30 years and i have become my own client. thank you for this resolution. i think these are excellent issues and i'm glad to see them brought to light in a disability way. i would like to make a couple of suggestions. i could like to concur with the first speaker. we do have a lot of money in this country and in this state and in this city and it's not being spent on the people we care about. i wouldn't leave the term "on his knees" but the reality is it's still working. you say in your -- we heard from community members, i hope you can strengthen that by saying that you have accepted public testimony. this was more than just a conversation

on the sidewalk. this was official testimony and i'd like to see that stated as strongly as possible. in the resolutions, you ask for additional funding sources. i don't know how to set the bar because obviously it will need to be negotiated if it's taken seriously in city government. something like a ten percent increase and what's being done and the tens of millions of dollars that's being done. i hope that six months from now and again a year from now, you will come back and read this resolution again to yourselves and invite those who would be involved in implementing it and say what has happened. i think a one time year frame is more than an enough even though this is an ambitious program. but

if you don't set the bar, how do you know if it will succeed. on the question on rehabilitating older buildings instead of new construction accident of course new construction is expensive. we have to do both and i'm glad to see you ask for a new construction because it's easier and cheaper to make accessible. accessible features are cheaper but the housing cost more. in the first resolution or the next paragraph of resolution you ask for stricter enforcement but you're not specific. do you mean on the expenditure of moh money, how would that happen? i don't know how to change this language during this hear, but i like to hear more guidance so the people who you're expecting something from know who they are. this is too vague in my opinion. and finally i think the suggestion to have an

accessible data base is a great idea. the company i ran with had state funding and that meant that we had a half time staff person every month to call all the lower income private and subsidized sources and see what was out there and put it on data base and make it available to people. that can be done but it does take money and it has to be low cated some where. where are you suggestion that it's located. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. is there anyone on the bridge line? >> no. >> any council members.

>> chip. >> thank you sarah. i think that i would like to suggest that we take some time to incorporate some of these suggestions and comments into the document and come back in september. in that time also we can reach out to other people which is bill and the otc and others to collaborate on a document that is truly comprehensive. so that's my suggestion. >> i just wanted to say something too. thank the three of you on working on resolution. i want to say that i cold hardedly support it. everyday my job -- my day job is to support individuals with

develop mental disabilities to live in their home but to find housing most importantly. i can't find any for them. they are living on ssi and there's not a lot you can afford with ssi. forget section 8, those are closed and to echo something that howard said about people having to leave their housing. i'm finding them in livermoore and that means that san francisco are leaving from their community. so i support this resolution. thank you. >> thank you. i support it too. housing -- it's key to your whole body of health. for real because if the housing is messed up, i think everything comes out of line on that. okay. is there any more staff,

do you have anything? >> carla johnson intern director. i think i support what council member supanich said which is to see the value in the public comment that we heard today and to want to find a way to incorporate that into a final resolution that i think could be better than it is right now and i think it's a really beautiful resolution that you've crafted. >> may i please. carla, i would also like to welcome others who are interested to come to our next meeting. i don't know if this would be -- this will be taken up at our executive meeting which is this coming monday or tuesday. from what times? >> 4:00 to 6:00. >> so if you're interested in

digging in a little, we'll probably have it on the agenda to take a look at it and discuss more. so i welcome everybody to come to that. that's it. >> yes, we have our executive meeting this coming tuesday and it is hold in room 421 on the 4th floor here at city hall. public, you are welcome and i just want to say thank you guys for coming out and giving us a whole bunch of other information we need. we will bring this back later. i really appreciate everyone for coming out and talking on this. we're going to see that there's no public comment. staff, we're going to move onto the next item which is item number 9. 8, sorry.

information report of the disability disaster preparedness committee and golden guardian exercise which took place on may 15, 2013. presentation by council member chip and denise. >> thank you. >> the disability disaster preparedness committee on or the ddcp met on friday july 5th, 2013. attendieses were city agencies, community based organization and the general public. there was a lengthy and detailed discussion about the recent golden guardian exercise in may. several topics were covered and some conclusions made. a good number of disabled people participated in the exercise acting as shelter resident in the after math of a destructive

disaster. people described their experiences acting as disaster victims showing up at the shelter for help and they had a wide variety of reactions from shelter workers and different experiences dur the exercise. people using wheelchairs had difficulty maneuvering through registration tables and there just wasn't enough room and there wasn't enough room between cots for wheelchair users to get by. several disabled shelter resident after registration were taken to a cot and they never saw another worker again. no one came to assess their needs if anyone and no one provided any information whatsoever. a request from asl interpreter fell on deaf ears for a lack of better terms, that request went unfilled. one person using a wheelchair with multiple needs

was told she would have to be transferred to a medical facility where her needs were met. she wasn't given a choice or was able to find a care taker person to help meet her needs. a woman who was legally blind had a good experience at the shelter. she was listened to and her needs were met and given a tour so she would know where the foods and bathrooms were. several other people thoug the intake process went well, but after words they were shown a cot and left to their own devices and didn't know how to get their emotion and physical needs met. given the blunders that occurred, it's obvious we need to do more educational exercises with the red cross. our observers noticed it was difficult to stand by and watch these happening to folks with

disabilities and it was a concern that people with hidden disabilities wouldn't have their needs met without an advocate present. the human services agency department operation center or doc was open as part of the exercises. participanted at that location mentioned there wasn't enough information come to go the doc. at the end of the day, they weren't sure which sheltered had open and the status of those shelters were. there weren't adequate procedures in place so their information would flow from the sheltser manager to the red cross and the county doc. the emergency operation center or eoc is the city's command center. participants here felt under utilized and they were accessible issues for wheelchair people as well. it

was accomplished at the meeting. one, attending the after action review meeting which occurred on the 17th. the commit fee thought it wise to have someone from the mod or the mdoc to be a guest speaker at a red cross monthly meeting. finally a member of the mod mayor's office on disability will meet with a red cross representative about the experience that people with disabilities had at the exercise. there was a short discussion about establishing a standard operating procedure check list for sheltering for the disabled. included in that list was items was insuring minor children and what to do with [inaudible] that arrived and determining the special needs of the shelter. a more

comprehensive information will be accomplished. they heard the presentation on the role of social immediate in a disaster. we went to text or multimedia shared on on online environment such as a blog, forecast or forum. social network is the ablth of socializing in an online community and using facebook, twitter or you tube. social media imbed in each posting. during recent disasters people have posted photos and videos to online communities. this information along with the imbedded stamps allows relief workers to make charts of the affected areas and see where the greatest needs lie. there are challenges to using social media with those with disables.

folks with visible impairment, and dyslexia and other learning disables may have difficulties. we have software available for the visual impairs and facebook is having its captioning ability and translating into different languages. this is helpful . right now there's no standard on social media for a disaster and further work is needed. the next ddpc meeting is on friday september 6th in room 421 at city hall from 1:30 until 3:30 p.m. please join us. thank you. >> thank you. is there any questions? council members? staff? okay. thank you very much. chip. we're going to go

on the next item which is item number 9. is there any public comment? i'm sorry. i'm getting it down packed. i'll be rolling by september. thank you. >> good afternoon council. i'm ben and i'm the emergency response coordinator for the human services agency and i'm a member of the ddpc. we have heard the issues that have happen at golden guardian and i know members of mod and my agency are taking this very seriously. unfortunately members of the red cross aren't here. this is something that they definitely need to hear and will be hearing. one of the things that i do want to point out to the group about the way that we structured golden guardian was that at the

sheltered location, it was a training for city disaster service workers from my agency to be trained in the red cross model on how to be a shelter worker. there are several levels of staff at the shelter and we're training to the basic level. the incident that we have talked to chip and other members of the mod about -- came from staff members within the red cross. so that is definitely a concern. it's being addressed. and additionally my responds to shelter -- when there's a disaster that will displace low income people from their housing, so such as a residential fire, if we open up a