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 system. >> i'm sorry, i apologize. still new at this, you guys. we are going to move to line 5. which is an action team. mayor's disability council bylaws amendment.

did all you counsel -- councilmembers receive the amendment? councilmembers? we would like to know if you have any questions, councilmembers? heather, would you like to read it if that's okay? >> cochair, wilson, if you give me a minute i will get the bylaws so i can read it. i don't have that, i'm sorry. >> mayor's disability council bylaw amendment, friday september 20, 2013. note,

deleted language is noted by a strike through. proposed additions are in bold and italic. original language article 2. section 4. attendance required. attendance are regular mayor's disability council meetings is required. official duty: a council member is subject to dismissal if that person is absent for three meetings out of 12. a council member not present for at least 51 percent of a meeting. proposed language. article 2. section 4. attendance required. attendance at regular mayor's disability council and executive committee meetings is a required official duty. a councilmember is subject to dismissal if he or she is absent from three scheduled

regularly council meetings out of 12 or three executive committee meetings out of 12. a counsel table -- member can be marked present if she or she is available via conference phone. if not actually present for 51 percent of a meeting. >> thank you. councilmembers are we ready to vote on this or are we just amending it? it's discussion, okay. discussion? for you out there, we have the paper sitting there for the public. it's mayor's disability council bylaws amendment. if you would like to

follow along with us. we have that out there. so do we leave it open for discussion for other councilmembers, are we voting on it today? >> it is listed as discussion and possible action item. so, there needs to be a discussion. somebody has to put a motion to put the amendments through. it has to be seconded and voted. >> i would like to put a motion on the floor that we still discuss this with other councilmembers. because there are some that are not here and i know, i thought it was a little more amendment that we were going to

do on amending. >> i do have a question. what is the rational behind amending the original language? >> it came from your leadership meeting in august. >> well, if it's open for discussion i would like to say something. i have been a councilmember for about five years. and i think that it is really official duty that you show up for a meeting today, but as far as the executive committee meetings, i think that if you can make those meetings, you should definitely help plan the next meeting. to my knowledge, within san francisco, this is the only commission that does not receive a

stipend. and we have denise here who has been on the council for 10 years. so i think that basically we are all volunteering our time and our time away from work, our time away from our families, so at this point, if you ask me, i would go with the original language. >> tonya? >> i have been here as long as denise and i agree with you. >> chip? this came out of a lengthy discussion at the leadership conference. sarah was not present but roll and wong was. >> not harriet.

>> okay. i'm sorry. if we want to send this back to a committee discussion, i guess i could live with that. but the intent harriet was not to punish so much as encourage people to attend more executive committee meetings because attendance has been low. so we can work on that language with the details a little bit. that's where the discussion came out of was that subcommittee meetings are not being attended by councilmembers. >> we should just in in courage that more. >> i will second this. we'll take it back to the committee on tuesday. >> do we have a vote? we

already had a second. now do we have a vote to send it, tonya? >> i vote that we. >> i vote that we send it. >> i vote that we send it. >> chip? >> i vote for the motion. >> harriet? >> i approve. >> so an approved. we'll take it back to the next meeting. thank you very much, council. let's move to line six. information team: as assess built at the san francisco public library system by marty goddard. if you can inform everybody i would appreciate it. thank you so much marty. i use the library. i'm there on a daily

basis. >> where is it and how do i get to it and control it? i see it on the floor here. thank you very much. okay. so my last name is goddard. i'm marty goddard and the access service manager and ada coordinator for the program and services at the public library. i want to invite -- thank you for inviting me here today. thank you control room for doing that without me asking. i thank you for inviting me here today. i want to give special thanks to adele wilson because she suggested this a couple

months ago. i'm going to talk about the mission of the san francisco public library. the san francisco public library is dedicated to free and equal access to information, knowledge and independent learning and the joyce of reading for our diverse community. i like this mission statement very much because i believe it shows the diversity of our disability communities also should be recognized. but you will see on the slide, the red line that says that accessibility programs of the library will assure that no patron is denied access. this line was actually proposed and added just for our use in access services by a group called the accessibility advisory panel soon after the main library opened. that informs the work of access

services program. how do we do this? on the screen people will see a blue and white sign that are like other offices. we base this service to the sign when it was developed by the mayor's on disability. this actually is in all of all of our branch library and main library. it's all over the system and simply informs people that all buildings are wheelchair ak -- accessible and braille is accessible. we can provide materials in braille. we have many many closed captioned material and the ability to view them in our library. we

have assistive listening devices and we have one tty for people to call in on. there are very few people who still regularly call us and mainly people who are blind and deaf. those are our tty users and we have a public paid tty in our main library. we have a videophone in the booth in the deaf services center. we have video phones for our deaf staff members and people call us using those very frequently. realtime captioning can be providing for any of our programs upon request and sign language interpreters available upon request. it says would you like to have access to san francisco's public services, let us know. we

hope people are not feeling they are limited to only services indicated by icons on the sign. hope this will open to ask whatever accommodations they have. or they have need for. the san francisco public library has 27 accessible buildings including the main library. we have one branch library that is still not fully accessible that's our north beach branch. because that's true, we offer all public programs offered by that librarian in the george demaggio house. a $5.9 million fund was

funded in 2000. this effort included renovation of 16 branch libraries, replacement of four lease facilities with city owned buildings. replacement of three branches with new buildings and construction of what was our first brand new library in a neighborhood, the mission bay library. that was our first new branch in 40 years. that was very exciting for us. so, as i said all of our buildings are accessible and there are pictures on this slide. one of the women with the scooter using a ramp to go into one of our branch libraries and there is a sliding door entrance to the main library shown. so, saying that our buildings are accessible means that people can enter them and move through them freely and have access to

collection, public service programs, etc. we have automatic doors at all of our buildings and we have a lot of talking signs. at each of our libraries there is a talking sign so that people walking down the veet will be able to know where the entrance to the library is and the public service desk at each of our library is indicated by a talking sign. in the library, there are more than 300 talking signs in all of our water fountains, restrooms and ramps. other features are water fountains and service counters that work for people. our great desire that people will be able to use the library independently. there is a picture of one of your former councilmembers using the public library. the little graphic

doesn't show well. it simply shows that our designs were based upon regulations, ada regulations. you can see what this reached to use a shelf to pick books up yourselves. how we designed that. we have integrated seating in all of our library. in reading and study areas for both children and adults and thinking of integration or inclusion. right now we have a story team effort funded by a grand. we are going to have wonderful story time for children with all kinds of needs. this summer, our summer reading program was really for everybody in san francisco, including a special program for adults with developmental disabilities. the people who ran that program had

a great time welcoming peoplen and they weren't expected to read for 40 hours as were other people in the summer reading program but they can talk to somebody, they can have a tour of the library and get a library card for the first time. we figure out ways to get people comfortable with using the public library. we are really excited about that. going to talk about assistive technology throughout this you will see examples of it. i just want to tell you what our definition is. assistive technology is a device or accommodation that provides equitable access to persons with disability. that's our goal in the library. we are now in the

process of replacing a bunch of old computers. so i expected today that there might be public comment about problems with our computers and i just have to face that very straight forwardly. i'm very excited that we are going to be replacing all of these old machines with new ones as soon as we can. i don't have a complete date for this project, but we are hoping that we can actually make our computers based a team more flexible by including all of the software in all of the computers so that people will be able to choose which room they want to use them in and this is sort of a new experiment. we'll see how it goes. i appreciate people's fore bearance as we move forward. there is a picture on the side of the plastic tub. i wanted to talk about that for a moment. that's what we call an accessibility tools

kit. that was funded through grant money from bay area library. each of our libraries and again all the major desk in the major library have this tub that has magazine -- magnifyers and some pens and are easy for people to see. so really simple stuff, pencil grips. if kz in our san francisco history center 1 day people can only use pen -- pencils in that room. for a tool kit to adapt a pencil and allow people to write. the person was able to do all they needed to do this after starting out. pretty upset that

they couldn't tuesday pen -- use the pen they brought with them. besides these available items, we have service centers in the main library. i will talk about those and assistive technology offered through each of them. the desk services in this center we have services for people who are hard of hearing and friends and we have material for people of all ages. for parents with little tiny kids who are trying to make decisions about education for their children, for people our age who have aging parents who have losing their hearing. there is a whole range of print and dvd and

materials and referrals for other places. this slide shows on the left a television with a closed caption decoder activated. this is the deaf services center is the only place in the main library where people actually can view dvd's and video. people can only watch our deaf services collection or deaf people can bring in movies from our collection and view them using that closed captioning decoder. on the right is a picture of the program in the library that was a lot of fun. there is a table, someone with a stenographer keyboard, a gentleman standing at the podium and in the very back, a large screen. so we had a deaf author come talk about his book. he actually requested this assistive

technology. he requested the realtime caption for the program and we had a lot of adults with cochlear implants who came to listen about his book and this is one instance where somebody said they needed accommodations and we figured out how to provide it. in the center people can use a videophone booth. this is used by many people everyday by deaf people whose primary language is the sign language and other asl users directly or they can call their doctor or tax person or mom who is hearing and they are deaf. whoever may dial the number and our videophone recognizes they are a deaf caller and directly links them to a sign language interpreter.

that's our videophone booth. on the right is a picture of a variety of assistive listening devices. we have a number of possibilities for people. our library for the blind on print disabled is a talking library referred to. it's a talking book's player. one of our digital talking book machines. 30 a tape with a round circle in it. that's a digital book. people used to have to use many many cassettes to read an entire book. at this point those little digital books include a whole book that might have taken 12 cassettes to read it. people can read straight through. we lend those machines and the books to not charge for people who

qualify for this service. this is for people who have no vision, have low vision or difficulty holding or reading books. they have to apply specifically for that service in that room. you also see in this picture a woman and two children reading print braille books. that's our newest most exciting collection in the library for the blind. these are regular story books that have over lays of braille so people can read together. assistive technology for users who are blind or visually i am pardon. -- impaired. there are a couple here as well. probably the most include the braille display and use the dots. this computer has a

braille embosser as well. one of my favorite uses of this machine was by a person who was deaf and blind who was coming in weekly to make shopping list. so he could type out his list emboss a copy so he knew that he included everything he wanted to shop for and there is a conventional printer there and he printed out a shopping list for every person. it was so much fun to watch him using this machine because deaf and blind, you know, he was flying through the internet and making documents and it was all a mystery to me. i just couldn't see how he was doing it. he was very good at it. there also is a picture of a cctv on here. we have cctv's in the library for the blind and

print disability on the 4th and 5th floor. these are machines where you put a document on the table and they can enlarge it and have it, actually the one in the picture is scroll text. it's a really slick machine. also in our library for the print disabled is a program called friends for life. it began in a community for people with hiv, aids, it's one for one living service. we have volunteers that bring materials to people's homes but thankfully so many people are so healthy that our hiv community doesn't need this service anymore. of course people are welcome to sign up for books by mail if they need it. at this point, we provide materials via mail

for san francisco residents who are homebound for long-term disability. we send information back to them at no cost. some people also ask not to do the books by mail for a variety of reasons but they can designate a second user for their library card and we have people all over the city who have friends or neighbors or caregivers that can pick up books for them in all of our branches. large brin print is available through the san francisco public system. the biggest collection is at the main library. we have them at all of our branches. i don't know if any of you are large print readers. we have little collections that stayed in the branch and got refreshed occasionally. we are excited that we are

going to start floating the large print collection which is library lingo but it means you can request materials and return to any of our branches. it doesn't have to travel home. they should be more readily available for people. something we are very proud of is a resource collection for learning differences. this is a very large special collection for people with reading and writing disabilities, adhd, etc. so mostly at this point it's books for people of all ages and shown in the slide is a sign at the end of a stack. i want to talk about that sign for just a moment. it's black with very large white letters. there is really good contact. we actually have this kind of sign throughout our building because people with ld, when we first built them said,

they couldn't read our signs and they had a hard time finding their way through our library. and one of the interesting bonuses, is people with mobility disability told us they loved it because they can stand at a distance and see whenever they needed to go instead of getting close to each one of our shelves and climbing along them to look for something. that's our collection learning differences. software for our computers is 3,000 and read and write. we have them scan things and highlighted as they read on the computer. the users mobility. mostly going back to those doors and push button door op