program actually builds curb ramps, describe the projects and constitutional right in a that gets set. -- criteria. anytime a paving project goes through an intersection they are required to construct curb ramps to make that area fully accessible. any project, not just paving projects, but other projects, sewer projects, any project that trenches within 8 feet of a corner. they have to upgrade that corner. there are various requirements. paving projects, if they end the intersection or actually enter the crosswalk, they are generally going to pave through intersection but they have to upgrade that full intersection with curb ramps. >> all right. i have a couple of pictures here. many people like pictures of

what we've done around the city. first is, a before picture, a corner at athens and excels yoir. this shows no curb ramps which is not ak sybls -- accessible and they have the after pictures that shows the new sidewalks and detectable tiles the yellow tiles and new curb and gutter and the street paving just outside that gutter to make a good transition from the new work to the street. this is carla because i always have to say something about

curb ramps. what's helpful to note here is that the city set a standard that we were going to construct curb ramps because it's important to align them with the crosswalks so people with low vision and so people are not unsafe in traffic areas. looks like the ada follows the rule and this is the national standard. it will be two required in the future. >> right. that directionality as well. we've been doing that for nearly 10 years that's part of our standards to putten. if there is a crosswalk we need a curb ramp with that crosswalk and it's directional with the crosswalk. now

this chart shows the request that have come in to the city to dpw for curb ramps. this is a count by intersection. certainly at the end of my presentation, we can always go back and check some of these if you have any questions on the numbers. but this shows the request that have come in and whether they are open, which means they have not been addressed yet. so they are on our books and we are working to take care of them if possible. and then the next line shows the intersections that have been assigned to projects. current projects that are either in planning, design or construction. then the bottom line shows that they are resolved or closed. usually they have been constructed and those corners are now accessible and there are some cases where

curb ramps can't get in and/or it's been sent to another department because it's in their jurisdiction. so, but anyway, this shows the kind of a general summary of where we stand with request. if you notice the line that's open, they have not been ascend to project. the no. 40 stands out. most of them are sidewalk base ments that are considered technically and feasible for us to comen and dig a hole will there in the sidewalk and break into someone's base many. that's been a problem over the years where we break into basements. we have been addressing those

issues and working with the property owners and trying to make changes to their basement structure in order to get curb ramps into those locations. that is an issue we are working on. as you look out, let's say the most current year, this past year 2013, you know there is still a lot of locations that are opened and we have not gotten to them. in our prioritization meeting we are taking care of those as quickly as we can. we have some outreach items that i just wanted to go over. the mod website has a service request link. so anyone that wants to put in a request can go to the mod website. we have wer try the to update the website for

mod sites. we have information cards that we hand out. i have some here at the front table. we've had 3 x 5 and went up to 4 x 6 and now we are going to have 5 x 7 cards to hand out at meetings and give to supervisors at our offices. a couple years ago we put bus ads in the munis buses and we had requests come in. so we are going to do that again. mod put a one page add in the voter pamphlet last november. we'll work with mod with trying to do that. that seems to be a great way to get the

word out. so here we have this next one, we have a photo. this is from a recent sunday street. first the outreach i have is for utilities companies on curb ramp design an construction and we met with pg & e to talk about better design options. that's an on going issue that we have with companies putting incorrect programs if we have to. we recently did a seminar for dpw engineers for disability awareness. so that had a great response. then this photo goes with this item, sunday streets. we've been to the last couple of sunday streets. there has been in a last couple of weeks on mission street. we are going to have a table out this and

trying to meet with some of the citizens out on the street. some new initiatives that we have coming up.. i mentioned this already. our subsidewalk basement abatement program. that's always been a problem for us. putting in curb ramps, making them as assess i accessible. we have identified locations where there are subsidewalk basements. it's going to be a large program and take a while for us to work on this. along market street, the curb ramps along market street were built about 20 years ago. they are nice looking but they have some issues with them. the market street, the better

market street programs coming up soon and they will be redoing all the of market street and all the programs. all the ramps are built with a lip at the bottom of the curb ramps. they are a problem for people with wheelchairs. we are looking at them that are greater than a half inch and putting a patch so to make it less of a barrier for wheelchair users. we are about half way done with those on market street. then the photo goes with this initiative to replace the worn out plastic detectable tiles with concrete tiles. over the last almost 10 years we've been putting in the plastic tiles but we found they are not

holding up as long as we had hoped especially in high pedestrian traffic and they are wearing out and breaking. so we have a program for replacing those as they wear out and now all projects that involve curb ramp construction should be putting in the concrete tiles rather than the plastic tiles. that's been a change in our program. and that photo shows the plastic tiles along the left and the concrete tile on the right. again, it's the same bright yellow and actually when it's in place, it's very difficult to tell the difference. and then the last slide is information of how to contact me if you need to. again, i also have my business cards here on the side table. >> read it out for the record.

>> ken spiel men, department of public works project manager. my e-mail address. kenneth do the spiel man @ sfgod.org. my phone number: 415-437-7702. with that i will conclude. if there are any questions? >> yes. we will take questions from the council first and then the public. we have comment cards over there. if you would like to sign up and do public comment. we will take your questions after. tonya?

>> thank you. i wanted to inquire, your presentation was wonderful. do you ever have community meetings for the public to tell them what you are doing? i think that would be very informative and that you are showing them and bringing the new age facility to our city >> about once a year i go to the physical access committee and give a more detailed update on what we are doing, where and provide a list of curb ramps throughout the city that we've constructed recently. i go into more detail on the projects. we don't have

kind of general community meetings, but we meet with supervisors on occasion if need be. i think often, the mayor's, the mayor's office on disability has more contact with the community. it's more on a case by case basis. i work closely with the mta on many of their projects. i know that they go out and they have community meetings. sometimes i participate in those. >> how about schools? >> we don't have anything that -- again, our outreach program involves attending community meetings as needed. i will be going to a community meeting out at west portal in a couple of weeks. we've done a number of curb ramp up

graems -- grapes grades in the west portal area. usually it's when the community invites us to come out rather than us sending out an invitation. >> thank you. harriet? >> thank you for your presentation, mr. spielman. i have a couple of questions. can you give us a location where there is a corner of a subsidewalk basement so we can see what they look like? >> it's pretty hard to see what they look like since the basement is underneath the sidewalk. there are certain things you can tell on the surface that indicates there is a subsidewalk basement. i can get you a couple of locations if you like and you can look at them and you can seement sometimes they are the glass circles that allow light

to get in from the sidewalk down to the basement or there is the place where the sidewalk opens up. there are metal doors that open up for access to get into the basement or there aren't any utility boxes in the sidewalk. so there are different clues that tell us there is probably a basement there, but to know definitely there is a basement we have to go inside and look at it which requires us to get permission from the building manager and property owner and we have to go in and measure the size of the basement and see whether or not the sidewalk is right above the ceiling. or we can request from the department offen expectation to -- inspection, the plans of the basement. that's hard to rely on. we like to go in the

basement and measure it as much as we can. >> is it like where you see in china town where the panels come up and the retailers inventory down the shoot? >> yes. >> thanks for answering that. how much is it for the cost of the ramp? >> that corner, that would probably cost, it would be less than $20,000. maybe like $18,000 to plan, design and construction. that whole project to put those curb ramps in is about $18,000 on the average. that includes the sidewalk, curb

and gutter and roadway patching that has to be done and utilities boxes. if we have to move the storm water inlet. if that has to be moved, that can be an extra $10-20,000. it can be very expensive? >> what's the cost to the home owners? >> at this time, nothing. i had that funding slide that was up, that's city funding that constructs these programs. >> i'm the type of person that looks at everything out in the street. so, it's good that the tiles are being replaced from plastic to concrete. is there, do you have any idea of slip and fall reports? because i fell

hard one time on clay street. but it was a rainy day and it was sliply -- slippery and i fell very hard and my daughter didn't understand to pick me up because she has special needs. >> clay street is a steep, was it a steep area? >> it's right on that corner. >> i'm familiar with that intersection. there are a couple of corners there that have subsidewalk basements and the basements are right there. there was someone else, an engineer recently inside the basement at the southwest corner. >> it's right at the street of folsom square. >> this is the reason for why we want to replace the vinyl

truncated zones. they are more slip resistant. >> if we notice anything, should we have them contact your phone number? >> i would say the best thing is to go through 311. but also you can contact the mayor's office on disability or you can contact me. any request goes to kevin jan son for that initial evaluation request. >> thank you very much for your report. >> thank you. i wanted to ask a question. are you guys going to do the whole city? >> yes. >> are they priority areas? how do you know which ones need to be done first, second, third? >> that one matrix, the

prioritization matrix gives the idea of what is the highest priority. essentially we are doing the whole city. we are looking mainly at areas where there are a lot of pedestrians, where there are a lot of people with disabilities. we are looking at areas where we have not done as many curb ram ps in the past. >> i think this is a good time to wrap things up and to summarize that we -- rely upon members of the public and use the system to call our office at 554-6789 to know which ramps need to be built. it is important to get the word out as you mentioned

councilmember at community meetings that people should call 311 to get it into the system. that is our highest priority. that's why it's important that we have a good communication outreach to the community. i think with schools and children, they are very perceptive and look to see how they can help. this would be a wonderful program to involve them in. >> part of our program is looking at schools and making sure there is access from the school to the local transit. so that's been very important for us in the past and future. i work with mta and they have their

safe routes to school system with federal and state grant funding for looking at accessibility around the schools. >> thank you. staff? thank you very much. public comment and bridge. we'll do the bridge line. is there anyone on the bridge line? >> no. >> okay. public comment? >> i'm bob. this is a request for our constituency to be involved in the reporting of this. but also i have a question of mr. spiel man because i recently encountered an amazingly bad situation that has been neglected. it's surprising. last week i came back from a lawfirm

representing me. i rant into a corner where there is no curb ramp. instead there is an expectation from using access of a driveway into a parking lot. today i witnessed something more egregious. at san bruno, a transfer point. at the same time the department of public health. there is two curb ramps. there is none for either of those intersection. so people are expected to use gas station drive ways. i called that in. how could that have happened for so long that nobody noticed it. i'm just suggesting that our constituency who see these. even if you don't need it,

somebody else might. my question to mr. spiel man. he mentioned a training for engineers at dpw. is there any communication to city staff widely public health staff, mta staff? city hall staff? requesting them to pay attention or is there an unstated expectation that is only people with disabilities who would be concerned and report it. mr. spiel man, is there any communication request that city employees actively observe and report these when they see them? >> thank you for those questions. first of all with the silver, i just want to talk about silver and san bruno because that's an easy one. that intersection has been designed and it will

be constructed very soon under the silver avenue paving program. i know that's been designed and it's coming up soon. in terms of drive ways. whenever, that's not part of our standards to allow drive ways to be used for accessibility. if any situation like that is pointed out, we'll address that. and then in terms of the awareness of the city employees, certainly my staff in our curb ramp program we are actively going out and looking at what our needs are if we notice that there is something that is a real problem. we put that on our list. but, again our highest priority, our request coming from people with disabilities and we kind of

have a backlog in terms of requesting those. but we do encourage all of our city staff to report any kind of problems out there especially the most difficult places where if they see someone in a wheelchair that is having difficulty getting across the street, then we try to take care of that. >> councilmembers. my name is

peter mendoza. a quick question. i'm wondering when there is a request for an accessible curb ramp that should go to another jurisdiction if the data base i believe you said it's called chris. what are those request for track and what is the success rate of getting those issues addressed with the other jurisdiction? >> thank you for the question. the only data we don't have is presidio. so rec's and park, we have those and we would address any others with the request that comesen and we work with

the mayor's office in disability in determining whether our program should do it or whether rec's and parks should do it. we make sure that request is addressed. >> thank you. >> is there anymore public comment? okay. seeing there is no more public comment. we will move on to line 9 in informational team by the san francisco municipal transportation agency program update. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your inviting us here. i'm with the mta and i have staff here. kate toren is our project manager in the blue, virginia

is our coordinator for capital projects. sandra padilla on the other side is our new and ak -- accessible coordinator and jonathan chang is our parra transit planner. the other thing i wanted to mention before is kate is going to talk to you about things in the transit area. we have two very active advisory committees. one account parra entrance council. the dates are on our website and there is many in that community. so you can be as active or not as you like. the other is a mobile advisory committee which advises us on all of the

other areas under mta other than parra transit. that meets every third thursday from 1-3 at one south van ness. that's at the corner of van ness and market on the 7th floor. let me give you our contact phone number for our program is 701-4485. let me give you kate toren. >> hello, thank you for inviting me here an getting me out of the office and out of my chair. it's nice to be here. i'm going to give a brief big picture of parra transit services and then get into some