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 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