>> >> good morning, everyone and welcome to our september meeting. i am chair wilson today and we have acting chair, miss kostanian. i think she's going to try to figure her microphones out. do you have it? okay. we are going to let miss kostanian get started and we will start with the reading of the introductions from harriet. good afternoon and welcome to

the mayor's disability council this friday september 20, 2013. in room 400 of san francisco city hall. city hall is accessible to those with wheelchair and other devices. wheelchair access is provided at the grov van ness and mccaller street. the entrance is temporarily interrupted due to chairlift repairs. we appreciate your patience at this time and ask you to use the many other entrances when entering city hall. our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. our agendas are also available in large print and braille. please ask the staff for any additional assistance. to

prevent electronic sound system and to respect everyone's ability to focus on the presentation, please turn off all cell phones or set these devices to vibrate mode. your cooperation is appreciated. we welcome the public's participation during public comment. you may complete a speakers card available in the front of the room or call our bridge line. 5549632. where staff will handle the appropriate time to speak. mayor's disability meeting is friday of each month. the next meeting is october 13, 2013, from 1:00-4:00 at san francisco city hall in room

400. please call the mayor's disability office for more information. or411 554-6799 t ty. a reminder to all of our guest today to speak slowly into microphone to assist our captioners and interpreters. we thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. and now roll call. >> chair adele wilson, cochair, kostanian, present, councilmember sarah burgett, absent. council den

ny's, councilmember chip supanich, wong, wong has an excused absence. >> thank you very much. now, we'll have the reading and approval of the agenda. >> item 1. welcome introduction roll call. item 2, action item and reading and approval of the agenda. >> item 3. public comment. >> item 4, information item. report from the chair. >> item 5. discussion and possible action item. maishs

disability council bylaws amendments. discussion of possible amendments to article two, section 4 of the mayers disability council's bylaws making attendance at the executive committee meetings mandatory establishing attendance standards and ability to attend council proceedings via conference phone or bridge line. >> item 6. information item, accessibility of the san francisco public library system. presentation by marty god ard. accessible services manager, san francisco public library. >> item 7. action item. co-chair election. in correspondence with the mayor's

disability council bylaws article iii, section 1 #shgs there shall be two cochairs elected to serve as officers of the council and elections will be staggered by at least three months. the present election will be to fill the vacancy due to cochair james resignation. >> break. item 8, information item, san francisco ada transition plan for curb ramps progress update and future projects presentation by ken spiel man, project manager, san francisco department of public works. public comment is welcome. >> item 9. information item san francisco municipal transportationation program updates. parra transit program

updates presentation by kate tore an, nul >> item 10. information item, report from the director of the mayor's office and disability. >> item 11: information item. report from the disability disaster preparedness committee. >> item 12: public comment. item is not on today's agenda with the jurisdiction mdc. >> 13. information item correspondence. >> i would like to put this off until next month until further investigation. i don't need to second it. i'm just putting this one off as chair until further

investigation. so, can we have the agenda read again and maybe we can get a second? >> you can make the motion, but it must be seconded once it's on the floor in order for the council to vote on it. >> i don't think it needs to be a motion. as chair, i can have an item removed from the agenda. we have the rules of order. i received a phone call from an a councilmember. if we want to discuss it here, we can do that. but there is some misconduct in voting and i would like to have an investigation or we can talk about it in executive meeting

or we can talk about it up here. >> excuse me, adele, go ahead and make the motion. >> i motion that we take this off the agenda until further investigation. >> okay. so if further investigation is needed then i second the motion. >> may an ask a question? >> when did you receive this phone call? >> i don't want to discuss that right now and i don't have to. all i can say is we've had a second on the motion, you have a question, i don't think this is the time and place to get into this. >> we are just having a discussion of the motion, not a discussion of the content of the irregularity. generally, the chair would discuss with staff

taking off, amended the agenda prior to the meeting. i was just wondering about the timing and now we have everyone's mind racing what's up. >> exactly. at executive meeting at get a third party. i think we need a third party which is an investigation as i was saying. so, it's two parties, here. so we need an investigation. we have an agenda today. so i think we need to move on with the meeting. thank you very much. >> can we have the agenda read again? >> the clerk: item 1 #shgs welcome introduction and roll

call. item 2, action item. reading approval of the agenda. >> item 3. public comment. >> items not on today's agenda. each speaker is limited to three minutes. >> item 4, information item. report from the chair. >> item 5, discussion and possible action item. mayor's disability council bylaw amendment discussion of changes to buy law. mandatory establishing attendance standards and ability to attend council proceedings via conference phone or bridge line. >> item 6: information item. san francisco public like system. presentation by marty goddard. san francisco

public library. public comment is welcome. break. the council will take a 10 minute break. >> item 8. information item. san francisco's ada transition plan for curb ram ps, progress updates and future projects. presentation by ken spiel man, project manager san francisco department of public works. >> public comment is welcome come. item 9: information item, san francisco mta program updates. progress update on accessible key stop for the light rail system. presentation by annette

william. item 10. information item. report from the director of the mayor's office of disability. >> item 11. information item. report from the disability disaster preparedness committee. >> item 12. public comment. >> item 13, correspondence. item 14. discussion item. councilmember comments and announcements. >> item 15. adjourn. >> do i have a second with having just briefly said that item 7 has been taken off with the motion and harriet second it? do i have a motion to approve the agenda? thank you.

>> motion needs to be voted on. it's been seconded now it needs a vote. >> okay. let's vote. the approval of the agenda. we have a vote. tonya, i approve. tonya. denise? chip? >> i don't approve it. >> harriet? >> yet, let's go forward. >> we have three that say yes and two no. we will move forward. >> line 3, public comment, please. public comment nod on today's agenda but with the jurisdiction. each speaker is limited to three minutes.3 minutes. m dc

>> howard chapman? >> good afternoon, councilmembers. i can't see the timer. can someone move this so i can see the timer. good afternoon. i want to talk very briefly about a few items related to the city 's cars and pedestrian safety over bicycles. i sent several things about the masonic which will remove a lot of parking and reduce the number of traffic lanes during rush hour and will create congestion and hardship for many people in the neighborhood. particularly,

seniors, disabled people, people with small businesses, and people with children and so forth. i'm involved in the campaign against this project and we have a welcome back sight save masonic.com. i invite everyone to go to the website and find out more information and we have an online petition where you can petition from the website. we have almost a thousand signatures in about 6 weeks plus 150 hard copy signatures and then various other hard copy signatures. almost 1200 people opposed to this project. i think the clock still hasn't started. it's not showing here. anyway. that's the same masonic.com. there is a similar on polk street that would remove a lot of parking that makes it hard

for people. that one is save polk street.com. the other thing is throughout the city, munis, mta is removing parking spaces and trying to put more and more meters. we have a friend in his 80s who is an accomplished photographer. he had a studio in the mission. he gave up his studio recently in large part because parking has become so difficult there. i should also add that he used to be able to take one bus to get from where he lives to a studio in the mission, now it requires three buses. so whether it's parking or buses, things have become too difficult for him. this is an example of what munis or mta is doing to harm people. finally i would

like to, again something i have talked about many times, as a pedestrian i live on fell street. and there is bicycles zooming all the time. there is a nice paved path in the panhandle about 50 feet away. just yesterday as i was locking my door, two bicycles within about three men's zoomed by the sidewalk and i have written the mta about this and it does not seem to be a priority to protect pedestrians from cyclist. thank you very much. >> hi. i'm here and thank you

for letting me speak. i'm here to make announcements to talk about activities that will interest the disabled. we have a guide dog event. bring your dog to our community garden right across from the lighthouse at 165 grove. we are going to provide refreshments for the entire guide, the human and the k9 guide and the money we raise will be used to start a fund for people who have guide dogs, who have extreme veterinary bills and are low income. not all guide dog schools pay the veterinary

bills. we want to make sure these guides have the care they need. the second item is the lighthouse is a lighthouse for the vision impaired is an annual walk. it's on october 15th, have extreme veterinary bills and are low income. not all guide dog schools pay the veterinary bills. we want to make sure these guides have the care they need. the second item is the lighthouse is a lighthouse for the vision impaired is an annual walk. it's on october 15th, from 1:00-230.: the purpose of this national event is to raise awareness and to raise the accomplishment of the community. we are hoping the community comes out as well to strengthen the message and heighten awareness. we are going to see if you are

cited and would like to join us we are going to do human guide as well so you can experience a sleep shade. we'll put you on a sleep shade and we'll do some guiding and this will bring a lot more awareness to what the white cane can do for us. afterwards we'll have snacks. we can't have something without snacks. i think that's it. i hope you will join us. let me give you my e-mail address and my phone number to contact me. my phone number is4155 694-7322. e-mail is: bbereson at lighthouse.org. i

home many people as possible can make it. what do i need to repeat? >> your information slowly. >> my e-mail address is: bberenson @ lighthouse-sf.org. phone number:

415-694-7322. thank you. >> morton b smith. >> my purpose for being here today is to get an agenda item put on the agenda talking about the 311 calls coming in for the hearing impaired. one of our members was mentioned that he had trouble getting 32 you to them and had trouble communicating over the system and it was antiquated. if we can get an agenda item put on the agenda for the disability council that are trying to upgrade the 311 to more modern service. it's about 10 years

behind. thank you. >> thank you. >> bill raise, people with disabilities foundation. and april. do you want to come together or separate ? we'll separate them. this is april. people with disabilities foundation. >> hi. >> can you hear me now? >> good afternoon, cochairs and council members. my name is april pangea and a manager for public awareness with the disabilities foundation. it's a non-profit with the san francisco center that provides education and advocacy for people with psychiatric and developmental disabilities.

empirical data shows people with mental illness has a life span of 30 years shorter. this life span is due to physical illness. in response, people with disabilities foundation is providing a free seminar on the topic of identifying and overcoming barriers to physical health care access. the speakers include psychiatrist, consumers and an attorney. the seminar will be held on september 30th, from 1-4 p.m. at the san francisco main library. it is free and open to the public. please see the events page on our website at siet at siet at site at ww. pf.org or call for more information. thank you and we

hope to see you there and please let others know about this as well. www. pwdf.org. >> the phone number: 415-931-3070. >> thank you. >> now, bill ray, people with disabilities foundation. >> good afternoon, my name is

bill reyez and i'm the program manager. i want to let people know that disabilities foundation holds a monthly legal clinic to address people with psychiatric disabilities who are on social security benefits on ssi or ssdi. we can help if social security is conducting a work review or income or resources redetermination. this clinic is for claimants, for claimants representative such as attorneys or advocates and other service providers who have questions regarding social security post entitlement and disability issues. our next meeting is september 26. our general meetings are

held the 4th thursday of the month. it's going to be that wednesday of november. claimants can meet with a staff attorney for 30 minutes and discuss any post entitlement or eligibility issues. it's done by appointment and we ask that you call. our number is 415-931-3070. we can take the information and see if the claim anti-meets the criteria. the web page. www.pwdf .org and please if you know of anyone who is experiencing issues with post eligibility issues and

having difficulty communicating with social security, please have them give us a call. thank you very much. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i want to thank you for the attending our meeting. i want to apologize. we must move on with a true council. in saying that, i would like to thank everyone who sends us invitations. we don't get a lot of them, if you send them i will try to be at your event. keep sending them. next month is our council appreciation month. we will be

appreciating every councilmember that sits up here and we will ask you guys to come and get to know us a little bit better. please bring your information for us, bring your questions that you would like to ask us. as councilmember we are holding an appreciation and get to know your council which is us up here. i think that is it. very short again. i apologize. and we will move on. the director is not here. do you want to move to another? >> item 5 is the bylaw amendments and after that is followed by the accessibility of the public library sy