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 asks

you the section that you would like to talk on. if you can fill that part out, it gives a number or we have regular without on the agenda like right now. we have two more left. this is regular. and then we'll get into -- okay. that's fine. >> my name is eugene perez from russia to new york to knob hill and i fell in love with a boyfriend in tenderloin. now i'm in tenderloin. i will be here at the next meeting to share my hair raising experiences to talk about what it's like to be still an attractive woman alone in the streets of san francisco. as i

understand our budget not doing so badly. let me get my money right. we got our money right. let's use it right. i will be back three fridays from now. several fridays from now. >> yes. >> and wonderful pleasure meeting you cochair, yesterday. >> thank you very much. >> next we have susan pfeifer. >> thank you. hope i can reach this and you can see me. >> you can get the next. yes. >> that's my disability, i'm vertically challenged. my name is susan. >> is it a backup or feedback? >> is the bridge line on?

>> is that better? >> no. it's not. >> sorry about that. >> that's okay. my name is susan pfeifer and secretary of the fbr democratic for seniors and people with disabilities. i was part of a group that did travel to the commission on disabilities in sacramento last week. the gentleman spoke about it and we spoke. i have concerns about the movement to allow municipalities to charge for the disabled for the placard and time limits. the

other recommendations i think are reasonable but those two particularly charging i think is inappropriate as many people with disabilities are also low income and i don't think that's fair. so let's take that off the table. move on with the other recommendations the dmv definitely needs to, there there is fraud and abuse out there. let's move on with that and let's work with the disabled and not charge for parking or time limits. it's just not fair. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, my name is

thomasita. most people with disabilities have challenges, economic challenges and for those of us who can not walk more than half a block, the issue of the time limits is really unfair. because let's say we have to go to a doctors appointment and we are in a waiting room and we have to keep coming back to feed the meter and it's an extreme hardship for some of us to even have to walk any distance at all. so those two parts of the suggestions are very troubling and burdensome to us with disabilities. please remove the charge for the parking and when it was proposed at a public meeting, a lie was told because they said that -- it's very hard to verify that a person has a parking placard issued to

them. that's not true because 1 day i parked in front of the post office and forgotten my wallet and two officers came to me and i didn't have my license with me. i gave them my name and they made one phone call in two minutes they had verified i had a placard. it's easy to verify. my only suggestion is that the department of motor vehicles coordinate to be notified when people die. the coroners office notify and send to the dmv. other than that, no charge for those for disabilities and no time limit. thank you. >> thank you. and that was the last comment for now. we have to continue to move with our

agenda . our cochair is absent. next we have information item from our mayor's with office with disability. >> thank you, i'm carla johnson the interim director on the mayor's office of disabilities. i want to welcome you back. it's good to see you. we saw many of you at our last holiday event. i have four topics i would like to discuss on the directors report. the first is the briefing on the mayor's state of the city and next, a brief discussion about the housing issue that the mayor discussed in his meeting and then i will talk about the budget season and pedestrian safety. first, the mayor had his state of the city speech this morning. he chose to hold that out of the ship yards in the eastern and south part of our city. this speech was delivered

live on sfgtv and can be seen in the play back and there was american sign language interpretation for his speech. mayor lee chose to draw from his civil rights background as an advocate and zeroed in on the issues for the low income and middle income families and residents. he quoted matterrtin luther king jr. and nelson mandela and that we should support each other. he set out his priorities for the next year and primary needs are for the need to build more housing and affordable housing and he set a goal of 30,000 new and rehabilitative units by 2020. he also stated his intention of

the ellis act because to protect existing affordable housing is also important. he committed to revitalizing the public housing and redirect resources towards housing affordability and job training and local hiring ordinance as pact to economic stability. unemployment rate is 5.25 which is low in the nation. we still have income inequality. he is going to have in the ballot to raise the minimum wage in san francisco. we'll all have an opportunity to vote on that. and he announced a new zero

goal to eliminate all traffic deaths in san francisco. he announced a 500 000-0000 general objection voucher and increasing license fee. this will go on the november ballot for voter approval as a way to fund transportation initiatives which came out of the 2030 task force which i was a member. we concluded our work this year. he expressed support for city college and will be asking the state to continue funding it and to lift the cloud that is there because of the accreditation concern. and the school district at historic high level to improve the public education system including access to universal preschool. over all the economic structure is looking

very good and the mayor with his commitment especially with community base health care programs. that is a brief overview speech and a very positive speech and i want to go into greater detail about some of the housing issues. >> one quick question for you regarding the announcement today in the state of the city address. you just said now that you were in the task force early this year that might be happening so that money comes to addressing the concerns while in the task force. what would be one of the main issues, one of the main goals that you would like to see from the task force be addressed with some of that funding coming in? >> the task force met at length to really look at all of the programs and also capital needs for transportation services. so just as a quick example, the pedestrian strategy is something that many people here

worked on over the last year. it includes traffic engineering changes, many changes , etc. although this is a strategy, it's an unfunded strategy. bundling that together with capital needs for things like new buses, improvement for existing transportation facilities, things like putting in elevators to market street for subway stops, those are all the things the city would like to do but the price tag is $10.1 billion. this task force made recommendations to funding to possibly fund 1/3 of that. those are my priorities.

the mayor issued an executive directive. it's entitled housing preservation of stock. mayor's don't use a lot of directives. he established a working group in the permitting department in building, planning and fire along with the other departments such as the mayor's office of housing and the rent board and he asked these departments to expedite to allow more affordable housing construction to go faster and to promote and reserve rental housing, to implement a mandatory discretionary review hearing and housing to be removed from the market. so this workgroup has already started to meet and they actually have a meeting a little bit later today that i'm planning to join and the

recommendations you due to the mayor in early february. the board of supervisors is also looking at housing but they are looking at the quality of housing and how well it's maintained and this week supervisor wiener asked for a hearing to the department of building inspection, planning and fire to report on inspection and enforcement of city code violation of san francisco's buildings. they want to know what kinds of cases are coming in and what are procedures for achieving compliance and how well do the city departments coordinate their efforts. they also want to know the spotlight how easy it is for the public to track this whole process. if you are a tenant, for example, and you turn in a complaint to the department of building inspection, you should be able to understand what the outcome is, what the corrected measures are. so the maintenance of

existing housing is really an issue that you've heard many concerns about over the last year here at the council. so many of us live in these older buildings and affordability sometimes means the buildings are not well maintained. so i think that this future hearing which will be before the land use and economic development committee is a really good opportunity for this council to integrate the great work that you have done especially around the housing resolution and to discuss that at a larger forum. so i will keep you posted on that schedule and would encourage you to join us there. especially around issues of maintenance of accessible features. my next item is to talk about the budget and the budget season has begun and the mayor has given all the departments the instruction and the good news is the city is doing pretty well because of the

property transfer taxes and what that means is that our reserve funds are growing back to acceptable levels and the rainy day funds are getting restored. but the bad news is that there are areas in the budget that are arising and that's typically more in the labor and personnel and health services and pension departments. and because of that the mayor is asking us all to put forth a very conservative budget and what that means for the department on mayor's office on disability is that we are all being asked to make budget cuts this year specifically a 1.5 percent budget cut in this fiscal year for 14/15 and then an additional one for same cut for fiscal year 15/16. and this is on top of the 5 percent cuts that we took last year. with that said, i have already taken a look at the numbers and i don't believe that you are

going to see too much of a change from the council's perspective but it is for you to understand the over all context and the pressures that our office needs to operate under consistent with all the other city departments. so i will keep you posted and also want to remind you that in spring, in march, april, the mayor always takes his budget on the road and sets up budget town hall meetings and it's always really helpful when the community speaks up and shares their priorities at that time. my last topic is pedestrian safety. we are going to have a really great presentation from croneberg and they are going to tell you about walk first. i wanted to give you a big picture summary and talk a little bit more about what one of our public comments was about earlier. just to always make the point that pedestrian safety is a disability rights

issue because we are more likely to be hit by a vehicle in this city and when we are hit we are more likely to be severely injured by that encounter. so you might recall that our deputy director joanna fergly sat on the task force earlier and sat on the safety strategy. this strategy that has been outlined is that we want to reduce injury and fatalities by 15 this year, 25 percent and 50 percent. and a look at variety of solutions is looking at traffic engineering but also looks at things like public outreach and enforcement as well. this has been a really bad 30 days in san francisco for pedestrian fatalities and

just a bad year in general. we have seen more fatalities in 2013 than going back to 2007. for those of us in the disability community i think one of those accidents that was so upsetting to us was brian goodwin. and he was struck by a car at the intersection of market and octavia and that was a fatal accident. he was himself both a disability rights advocate and pedestrian safety activist. in response to all of these concerns, the board of supervisors neighborhood service committee held a joint hearing last night with the police commission and there were a lot of people who spoke as well as a lot of senior and disability community advocates. one of the issues i raised is what we heard our public speaker john loel speak on is that we don't have statistics about people with disabilities being involved in

these accidents. it's just not on the form. botswana baus -- because it's not on the form it doesn't get asked about in investigating about access and doesn't get into the data base. it was disheartening to see the police pick up on that. we need to change that even if it means we go to the state level to change that form. we also heard a lot about the need for veteran enforcement. one of the outcome of the broon goodwin case is that the police department issued 40 citations on market and octavia. they did a sting. i think they are hearing you. lastly, the city

needs financial support for all of these recommendations and that's why we are going to be seeing the $500 million general obligation fund measure on the november ballot and a vehicle license fee tax on the ballot. so you will be hearing a lot more on that. that concludes my director's report and now i want to turn things over to mike alonzo from our office to tell us a little bit about what we've seen at the mayor's office on disability in the last month. >> good afternoon, councilmembers. in november and december, our office received 125 inquiries. 91 percent of these inquiries were from the public and the rest from the city departments. additionally we received 14 complaints, 14 curb request and one for accommodation. we moved our

office to the fourth floor on market street. due to construction on the building we had a reduction of walking clients during this time. we can attribute a drop in contact to the holiday season as well as the continued construction on our building. records in the past have shown a decline in the number of contacts during the season. we have now moved back to our permanent office on the first floor. the majority of our complaints was about non-compliance barricades, damaged curb ramps and sidewalks. other concerns was denied service with their service dogs and para transit and accessibility at sro's and mostly about people seeking case management and affordable and accessible housing and service and support animals and how to file a reasonable

accommodation request in housing. many of those services and support animals inquiries were from people facing eviction by private landlords. we have a success story that i would like to share, during a cold snap in december, a client reported that the heat and hot water had been out for several days. we gave the clients number to call to address the issue and we called the department of building inspection to investigate. the sro was properly cited and scheduled. the caller thanked us for support during this time. this is an example of how the city can help to better serve the public. thank you. >> thank you. next up we have a presentation. the walk first

presentation by cronenberg about the implementation of the pedestrian central -- strategy and it's relationship to seniors and people with disabilities. >> good afternoon, my name is java cronenberg and with me republican old from sf mta. we are here to talk about walk first. the timing is obviously very coincidental. this is a project that we started in march and even before that there has been a huge amount of work about pedestrian safety and there have been tragedies that have happened in the last few weeks and brought attention

about pedestrian safety. as a city i'm very proud that we have an answer for what we'll be doing on the capital improvement side and this project is that answer. so this is not a knee jerk response to some of the tragedies that have occurred. instead it's been a very thoughtful and clear approach about how we are really going to target improvements and prioritize improvement to actually bring our injuries and fatalities down. i know this is an issue that is very important to the disability community and to the senior community. so we are very excited to present here today. many people in the audience or some have heard this presentation, i apologize. we'll be taking questions at the end. so let me start. so, walk first is a prioritized

capital safety list. what that means is the physical improvements on the streets that the city will be making in order to reduce injuries and fatality that result in collisions between vehicles and pedestrians. this is a process that we have been thoughtful about and tonight repeat every two 2 years with the sf mta and the capital improvement program. another aspect of is outreach and engagement. we have from constituents about their understanding and knowledge and feelings about pedestrian safety and we have been talking to anyone who will listen to us. we are excited and hopefully we have a lot of people listening and we are going to take the outreach and ideas that we have heard and the discussion that we have heard and look at the

prioritized list to make sure we have a lens and attacking the problems that people are understanding in the city. so this is not the first time we've looked at pedestrian safety for those of you who have been working with the city there have been a lot of sort of steps that we have taken and this is one of many steps. this builds on the goals of the pedestrian strategy. there are pedestrian strategies to look at capital improvements of 5 miles per corridor per year and others goals around senior centers or schools and these capital improvements will meet those goals. one of the sort of discussion points that happened in the last year is that many city agencies are responsible for pedestrian safety and in

years past there has been an organization. this is a very organized effort across city departments. you will see there is four city departments working day-to-day, the sf mta, planning department and department of public health. other city agencies directly involved in this work and who are brought into this program are capital planning, department of public works, transportation authority, mayor's office and sort of different side of sf mta. so to be clear the work is focused on what we are calling the high injury corridors. those are 70 miles of streets in this city. they represent 60 percent of the collisions that consider. and your eyes will immediately focus on the tenderloin and south of market. this is not news, but what we

have understood is those areas are going to be clear needs for priorities. so now i'm going to hand it over to reynolds and we'll learn more about this process. >> my name is salta reynolds and i work in the sf subdivision. our project is to be the subject matter expert. she showed a slide chart. about that chart is that it really represents one of the first times there is a true collaborative partnership between public health, transportation and finances. you have the controllers office over seen the whole thing, sf streets providing the safety and expertise and department of

public health providing a lot of the data analysis. this is something we talk about a lot and a lofty goal that public health and transportation intersect and this project is unique which has made it a better project. we showed you what i call the safety streets, that is the 70 miles or 6 percent of our streets that account for the pedestrian crashes in the city. in addition to the network that you saw which focuses on the street in soma, tenderloin and mission and third street and 19th street, we also identified several intersection that are not on the network but that still represent a pedestrian safety concern. so those are sort of scattered around. many of them intersect with freeway on ramps