daily processing is round $1100 million. our project group is lead by rebecca thank you for your hard work here doing a grow job. our property tax group led by phil and thank you for your work. our tax paper group the first line of defense is led by grace and our banking group that's handling the transactions is led by janet. that's the team of managers that run the incredibly important jobs and i sincerely want to thank those folks for they're hard work. i want to recognize my senior management team let me introduce

our tax collector david arguing steno thank you for being here (clapping) our cohesive assistant treasurer pauline (clapping.) our policy and ledge manager greg thank you for your great work. and our deputy director i t and about half of everything we did thank you. (clapping.) i get to stand in front of all of you and get some praise and a attention but honestly, i want to share all of that with this incredible team. many work on the first floor of the city hall that means the world to me. i want to take a minute to help

the folks that helped me with my re-election campaign it was tough thank you folks for sticking with me the guy who (clapping) third time around didn't have an on the but still you put together a great race. i'll bring this to an end but i thank you each and everyone for your energy mr. mayor and a lieutenant governor thank you. i want to invite everyone to stick around and have a bit and thanks to everyonee and thanks to everyone

>> >> >> thank you very much, everyone. happy new year's to you everyday. this is our mayor's disability council meeting of 2014. i'm excited. a new year. we are going to have, welcome, introduction and roll call, please. oh, before that, sorry, harriet. harriet is going to read. thank you. >> good afternoon, welcome to the mayor's disability council this friday january 17, 2014.

in room 400 of san francisco's city hall. city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. wheelchair access is provided at the van ness. the polk street access is provided via a wheelchair lift. assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. please ask staff for any additional assistance. to prevent electronic interference with this room's sound system and to respect everyone's ability to focus on the presentation's please silence all mobile phones and pda's. your cooperation is appreciated. we welcome the public's

participation during public comment. you may complete a speakers card at the front of the room or call our bridge line. 415-554-9362. staff will speak at the appropriate time. generally these meetings are held the third friday of the month. our next meeting is february 21, 2014, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.. please call the mayor's disability for any information or to request accommodations at 415-554-6789.

or 415-554-6769. tty. thank you for joining us again. >> thank you, harriet. roll call and reading and approval of the agenda. thank you. >> cochair. sup niche, absent, williams, council denny's absent, councilmember harriet c wong present. roll and wong absent, sard a present. item 1: welcome introductions and roll call. item two. action item. reading and approval of the agenda. item 3. public comment.

items not within the agenda but within the jurisdiction. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. item 4. information item. report from the cochair. item 5, information item. report from the director on the mayor's office on disability. item 6, information item. walk first. implementation of the pedestrian's strategy and it's relationship to people with disabilities and seniors. presentation by cronenberg san francisco's controllers office and reynolds, section leader livable streets san francisco municipal transportation agency. break. the council will take a 10-minute break. item 7. the transit and

accessibility and tradeoffs. presentation by chester fung. project manager san francisco county transportation authority. public comment is pensacola. item 8, information item. light rail accessible boring platform, past present and if -- future. public comment is welcome. item 9. discussion and possible action item. the mayor will discuss the possible resolution to increasing the number of way side platforms in the light rail system along with enhanced passenger amenities. public comment is welcome. item 10, information item, report from the disability's disaster preparedness committee. item 11, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc, each speaker is limited to

3 minutes. item 12, correspondence. item 13, announcements. item 14, adjourned. >> >> thank you. we will have councilmember derrick do public comment. he will call you by your name and the time limit is automatically done. thank you. >> hello, i'm councilmember derek zarda. the first person is bob planto. >> good afternoon, i'm bob planto. i want to announce and invite you councilmembers who are here or watch this on the phone or anybody else watching or listening. next wednesday the cal train accessibility

advisory committee will have a meeting with many topics. they will be held at the san carlos headquarters from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.. very said only -- seldom do people from san francisco come. i think it's helpful because we don't see members of the disability council going to other access related meetings. there is a train leaving cal train at 10 a.m. to get there in time. if you have time, juggle your schedule, try to attend to find out because san francisco has votes on the body of the cal train and so many people don't show up to this which deals with the services. next wednesday, the 22nd from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.. you can take

san carlos too if you don't want to take the train. thank you. >> next, we have richard robin. >> hi, good afternoon, my name is richard rossman on p sack and chair for one year. i just wanted to encourage the council and the staff a few years ago, there was at least two meetings where the mayor's disability office and sf walk and the bicycle and mta staff all got together and had some meetings. i went to the first one and i thought they were very useful and we divided into groups and there was a representative at each group and there seems to

be some tensions in the city and i just thought that maybe having another one of these meetings or having them every three months, would be good because if we can sit down and talk about the issues and hopefully we can come to some kind of agreement because we all have to live in this city together. thank you. >> next we have john alex loel. >> good afternoon members of the mayor's disability council and staff members from the mayor's office on disability. my name is john alex. i hold a seat on the advisory representative committee. three things i would like to bring up. the first point is an announcement to occur next

wednesday. sheriff is recommended people to attend a training forum on how houses of worship in san francisco can address the needs of people out of jail. this will occur at 140, 14th street. here is a flyer if you wish to turn it on. there will be a functional event. the public is welcome to go. i have an e-mail information for you to retain a copy of it. >> john if you could read out what is on the flyer for access. >> yes, in collaboration with the san francisco inter faith counsel invites you to town hall wednesday january 22nd,

2014. to find ways for the sheriff's department to work together with congressional people returning to our community and how we can facilitate your services both in and out of our jails. >> thank you. >> my last point to bring up is the functional discrimination that's occurring in collision reporting by the san francisco police department. they use a california highway patrol form called traffic collision 555. that does not allow for police officers in the city of san francisco nor any city that uses that form which is all of them to report that any party in a collision have a disability. that is what i brought up at the hearing yesterday evening as did carla johnson. there was some slight good news that the police

commission did report to look into how to fix it. a problem has been discovered and a means to address it. so there is more to be done. thank you. >> thank you. next we have -- pardon me, shelby bryceon? >> good afternoon members of the council, visible and invisible. staff and carl a my name is jackie bryson and i have glad tidings to bear. i'm

a member of the matt committee access advisory committee and i ask our mta staff. we have a person who comes and interacts. this thing is not moving. yeah. somebody time me, then. you know i'm very honest. so i ask her if she can look into finding out where the signs that i had seen in the mission district stating that skateboarding, bicycle riding, in line skating was prohibited on the sidewalks because i wanted to know what constituted a business district. and where are the signs and how can we get them put up? sandra padilla did find the gentleman

who did the signed and she asked me where would you like to have the signs put up initially, and i said 8th and market street. this is what has happened. as you can see the theatre right over there. and here -- [inaudible] that's the burger king. here you have the beautiful sign and 1 person asking the right questions and continuing to ask the right questions, finding someone who actually can implement, i did that. it's doable. 1 person can make a difference. it didn't really cost us anything. and we are going to be saving some people getting almost creamed by these bicyclist from you know where believing they have

the right to ride on a sidewalk. they are riding on the sidewalk and they have no helmet. i have no helmet. i have a walker and my balance isn't that good and i'm not supposed to be twisting and turning. because i have a walker, they can see me. they are not going to see joanna. they are so up there that they just don't see. >> 1 minute. >> so i want to let you know that this is here and sandra was kind enough to have the pictures taken and bring to the meeting and i wanted everybody to see. go visit these signs and look out for those cyclist and skateboarders and happy new year. i hope this made somebody's day. >> thank you very much. next we

have david w dippel. >> hi. my name is dave dippel. i do note there is a presentation by miss fung on the calendar and i was not aware of that when i put the card in. i'm concerned about senior and disabled access to the brt with the center lines and the fact that they are going to be eliminating a lot of the stops. that means people are going to have to walk that much further. we are no longer going to have the curb drop off and pick up and essentially the center lanes were abandoned in the 1950s because of safety issues. >> mr. dippel, if you wish to speak on an agenda item, that public comment will be when the

agenda comment comes out. >> i eluded that to the evening. if you would like i can continue at that time. okay. item 7, then. thank you very much. >> okay. thank you. seeing that there is no more. this is regular public comment. okay. >> good afternoon, councilmembers and staff. my name is walter park. i attended the california council on disability access here and last week in sacramento. it was by telephone. i wanted to report to you on that. the item of concern was the parking policy from san francisco mta, also

mod staff and gave lengthy presentations and about 14 people from the public spoke. everyone of those was opposed to the proposed limitations on the use of placards and blue zones except one from ilcrc. most said they consider this to be a reversal or betrayal of that. another said and many actually said that a major theme was to divides the problem of the misuse of placards. not by people with disabilities. yes we have fraudulent use. that must be addressed. some suggested the responsibility for addressing that lies with the dmv and mta. they do not have in place right

now for placards or for people that have died and people are abusing these. they need do that. one person referred to the fact that you can go to a placard mill and buy one. charging for parking is not going to fix that problem. one person said the dmv needs to get their acts together. several people it was about money. as you know, seniors and people with disabilities of whom there are over 60,000 in san francisco tend to have low and fixed incomes and not only is the $5 an hour parking hardship, but the $74 ticket for parking is catastrophic for many people. one disability advocate i have known for many years says she would have a difficult time coming to san francisco because of the

parking fees. she submitted a letter and i will refer you to those documents. it appears the fees are paid for high tech accessible meters. this is where people with disabilities are asked to pay for reasonable accommodations. rather than spreading that among the whole society, everyone whom benefits is integrated to pay these fees. i would like to include the chair spoke and he said that if it weren't for disability placard parking, he wouldn't be able to become a lawyer. i would ask you to hold the well publicized hearing. if you have, please hold another one. correct the resolution presented and thirdly please connect with the dmv. they have

to do their jobs in a way they are not doing it. fourth, would you please request a hearing from the board of supervisors and 5th provide the mayor of these concerns after these activities. mobility and all of these forms are critical. i have four pages of my remarks today for you and a couple copies in large print if you need that. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon, mayor's of disability council. turn around. bright city eyes. every now and then i get a little discouraged. turn around bright city eyes. every now and

then i fall apart. there is nothing i can say. a total clips -- eclipse of the total broken power chair card. we need you more than disability ever. and we need you right now. nothing i can say. a total eclipse of the disability heart. then i want to wish you a great new year start. >> thank you. we have a couple more actually. we have walter park next. >> that's him. >> okay. good. eugeneia perez?

>> i did not have time to prepare for this. i want to talk about disability on the homeless. it is a real issue. people with disabilities are on the street and left to fend for themselves and completely unassisted. this is a very shameful circumstances happening here in san francisco because most of these people are suffering from mentally debilitating issues. we are talking about mental illness here. we are talking about people m society who really need your help as supposed to

be an emphasis to get their shit together. please excuse the word. to be able to rise above the sickness and know how to heal and move forward from that. it doesn't work that way. when sickness is around your neck and especially inside your head it permeates and pollutes everything. it defeats everybody's belief to survive and makes you feel very bad about yourself. so now the question i have for you, since we have many veterans and many many mentally ill people and we do not have enough shelters to take care of them, is it possible to claim a piece of land in which people are then allowed by their birth given right to be surround by the

only force that seems to be there to be able to help them. by the way, the middle of the nature is the most profoundly positive impact to help them. allows us to be free among the trees. by the way, the trees are the only ones that don't seem to be minding them. it is clear by now in 2014, for this city to stand here and pretend to be the best of human rights, we are going to have to rise up and rise up the bar really high right now. the circumstances of the weather are changing, radically, strongly and very impact fully. it cost less money to have a couple of private militias, private security guards, it takes less money to pay attention than a

land area in the park than it is to have the structures that are supposed to be there to help and by the way, i will say that to all of you. the shelters in san francisco are nothing but a very abusive and completely completely -- it's not adept. people in there are actually extraordinarily abusive. i'm a three time cancer patient. when the streets become more friendly than the shelters, that is a problem. i ask for land. >> thank you. >> if you would like to do a public comment, we have the cards sitting on the table. if you can fill it out and it