functioning as a beta test site for the exhibit to make sure that our folks are comfortable interacting with the exhibits. and providing sites, you know, both our sites with the arf san francisco and community partners. we are really excited to be part of this. what i thought -- i just wanted to mention to you folks, you're probably thinking way ahead about the a-d-a anniversary and highlighting section 504. but for our part at the arc and just supporting longmore institute, this is a real opportunity to think about celebrating it as a city ~. i mean, a 25-year anniversary doesn't come along every day, and particularly with the intense involvement and the legacy involvement in section 504. i mean, this is historic. it just -- it's absolutely a one of a kind opportunity in many of our lifetimes. so, i just wanted to suggest that we start thinking about a

discussion of some kind of city-wide initiative, city-wide activities about this. maybe we think about announcing it as a very special day. maybe it's a very special week. there's a lot to talk about. i think all ages would be interested in this, as cathy mentioned, a lot of us don't know about this. even people who are living here in spite of how high profile all the activities were. we were thinking that we can involve many other, you know, activists and artists in the community, access dance and bus buddies and the a-d-a and how it impacted people with aids and so on and have resource fairs. my main point is that i think we can perhaps start thinking about this as a real opportunity to educate and inspire people and this doesn't happen too often. and maybe this puts all of your experience -- i already mentioned we were thinking about that. we'd love to sub poderth and have a seat at the table when

you start planning because, you know, people with intellectual and disabilities are often kind of side lined, you know, from the discussion around a-d-a. longmore has been way out in front on inviting us to participate and just wanted to make the point that any discussions the city is having around that, we would wholeheartedly support. and whatever we can do to facilitate greater awareness at the city-public level, we would support that. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. hello, my name is bruce wolf. i was an old friend of paul longmore's and a student at san francisco state in the late '90s, early 2000s. i want to thank catherine for keeping his name alive ~ and vibrant in all the work it's been doing. i support all the work that you're doing and what the arc had suggested. i think it would be great to have the board of supervisors pass a resolution brought

forward by you folks to name a day or a week or however, just to celebrate paul's contributions. thank you. >> thank you. ♪ have a great a-d-a silver anniversary and i hope all your rainbow dreams do come true and i wish you all the magic this world has to give and i hope you last for days and years and even more and more happy anniversary to anniversary a-d-a to you ♪ all i can say to a-d-a, 25

years, i've been here 25 years. so have san francisco housing development corporation. and, you know, i was sitting there and sometimes i hear the word disabled and disability and i start wondering, which one makes me feel bad? sometimes people who have disabilities, people think that we're disabled and it's amazing those two words in the world they mean different. someone can say because i have a disability, i am still someone, i can still do something. i know about this 504, when they took that over because we learned that through [speaker not understood] s da, we used to have a banquet over at the hilton ~. i thought about my years i been work,. 1979, i started working at the

[speaker not understood] ~ colony, arkansas for kid with disabilities. when you get your printout, you'll see a work history [speaker not understood] from '79-2006 at the san francisco jazz [speaker not understood] local 2 ballpark. i look at all those years, it's almost 30 years, will be 30 years in 2009. when i look at your work and when you cannot be respected in disability or been a disabled person and other in this world go, when they took over that building and when you mentioned glide, i have glide on me, i have black panthers on me. it makes me feel a sense that when i find that glide church was once a publishing company, they printed a book called [speaker not understood] the land grab in the city. and, so, i know today i'm right where i need to be. i've always knew i'm a humanitarian. i was born in the month of may. and i know that our purpose in

life is to up lift the human spirit and the human ability in this country. and today i'm going to walk away, and i want to thank sail here -- i mean pal. i never say ptsd ~. i always think [speaker not understood] was my only disability. i often know posttraumatic stress affects me a lot. today i'm going to learn today one of my disabilitied is posttraumatic stress and that i'm someone, and that i acknowledge it. i can help myself and others, but disability or disabled, sometimes i think -- i get it confused with mental health. i think we should also have a mental health disability parade. just like san francisco, we have a lot of [speaker not understood]. we need to honor ourselves and come out and make it as great and wonderful as all the people who come to this city. thank you.

>> all right. i'd like to thank catherine for coming out today and informing us. we're on the next agenda item. we're going back to agenda item number 5, which is general public comment. first card i have is jerry grace. thank you. [speaker not understood] don't know who i am, i am jerry grace and i am here [speaker not understood] people first. why i'm up here, to let you know my friend sarah is the president from [speaker not understood] people first.

she needed a lot more people come to the people first because the arc [speaker not understood] -- i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i have the wrong thing in my brain. i'm sorry. i have to say the [speaker not understood] 3:30 for one hour to 4 o'clock, really 4:30. we need to get more people to arc. now, the last thing i needed to say, on september 21st at the state building -- and it is hard for me to say this word. at the state building we have something going on down there. i forgot what the name of it. the golden gate.

somebody need to help me with this one. but i don't know where to point it out, but [speaker not understood] on september 30th, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the state building. and they call it the grc -- call it grc. they call it something with a different -- i can't think of the name of it. [speaker not understood] on my cell phone. 209-66 29. again, 209-66 29. please call me. if you want to come, great. [speaker not understood] city hall and the civic center. [speaker not understood] the state building, please join us on september 21st.

not 21st, 30th. september 30th on tuesday. thank you. bye. >> thank you. i now have louisa cisseros. hello. i have to really bring it down. hello, chair and councilmembers. my name is louisa [speaker not understood], i'm a district 6 commissioner. i sit on the house [speaker not understood] education committee. right here in front of me, i have a draft of a proposal that we have that we've made up in our committee and it's to implement a disability awareness curriculum at the san francisco unified school district. so, we've noticed that there are a lot of young people in high school that do not understand other young people that do have disabilities and we thought about this and we

even made some surveys to ask why they don't know about them, why don't they know how to address young people with disabilities. and it was amazing to know that a lot of them just don't know about it because they see this other class of, you know, totally separated in the high school and they don't know how to communicate with them, especially because they don't know how to address what a disability is, how should you act upon someone that you will consider different from you. and we thought it's best to, you know, implement a curriculum that will educate them and actually met with derek wednesday. and i got a lot of great feedback from him. and, you know, at first -- i even made a mistake. we were so used to in high school to learning that these young people are called special education, and derek, you know, corrected me. i was so happy he did because we want to make sure we're making everything correct in

our draft once we present it to the board of supervisors that we have everything correct. and i have some copies. i don't know if i handed to you guys yet. so, it really is just a draft and it's just talking about how we want this to be implemented. we do have some student advisory councilmembers in our committee. so, they get to -- they're going to be able to present this to the board of education while we present it to the board of supervisors, urging them to, you know, pass this. we just think that this, even though it's a really small step into special -- in disability awareness, it's still going to be really helpful in the future if we want to get better inclusion programs for young people. my little sister has cerebral palsy. so, just seeing her personal experiences in high school, elementary school, middle

school, it's been dramatic and crazy because for me -- [speaker not understood] her mother. so, it's really hard and i just don't want other young people going through this experience she had to face and is still facing. and which is as a whole body of young people we want to create better equal opportunities for all of them. so, we are open to any feedback, comments and i even have some cards on our staff member that you can communicate after reviewing the draft. and, again, we are just so [speaker not understood]. thank you. >> thank you very much. next i have bruce wolf. good afternoon, mr. chair and members of the council. my name is bruce wolf.

i have two items. they're independent of each other. first item is, as you may or may not know, i was the person with disability that was appointed to the sunshine ordinance task force and was not reappointed in 2012, and that led to about sick months or so of the body not able to meet because the law requires a person with disability. and that was unfortunate because i reapplied twice and was denied twice for reappointment. so, justice was not served for that period of time. since then, a colleague of mine that i know well, bruce oka, has been serving and he equally has been very good there. now it's appointment time to come up again, and mr. oka is

not applying. i would gladly step aside if someone else was interested in doing it, but i feel incumbent upon filling that role so that the body can do its work. and i'm very interested in open government and that kind of work as it is. it's part of kind of the work i do in my regular job. so, i have applied again. i just wanted you to be aware that the appointments are coming up again. if for some reason i do not get reappointed, mr. oka will continue to serve until somebody is. i want you to be aware that seat absolutely needs to be filled. we shouldn't make people serve longer than they desire to serve because the appointing body is unable to appoint somebody. so, i think it's kind of a serious matter when it comes to

civic engagement and public service and being able to create bodies, commissions, what have you, to serve the public and they're not able to do their job for those reasons. on a completely separate note, i wanted to announce that alcohol justice and riders in treatment are having the first annual san francisco real recovery film festival at delancy street from april 21st to april 27th. tickets are very inexpensive and we won't turn anybody away. the website you can get more information is film fest sf bay.org. film fest sf bay.org. and you can buy tickets online, too. i left some reminders on the table also, little magnets. so, thank you very much for your time and your attention. >> thank you.

walter. ♪ well, no one told me about her in the meeting past due well, no one told me about her and those items, too but it's too late to say you're sorry and now what should i do and why should i care please don't bother trying to find her she's not there the way she looked the way she acted the colorses all in her hair her eyes were clear and white and she said good-bye all right but she's not there ~ but it's too late to say you're sorry and what i do and why should i care please don't bother trying to find her she's not there the way she looked the way she acted the color's all in her hair

her eyes were clear and white and she said good night but she's not there ♪ thank you. >> thank you. all right. we're moving on to item number 6. my name is larry juicy ed ~ edmonds and this is public comment. i notice it's at item 8 and i would like to talk and say what a great inspiration i met her at city college campus, we were taking classes there. she told me when she was born in san francisco general, she was dropped in the hospital and they didn't really want to take care of her. i miss her. and i see the board do have spaces here. but it's very important that you know that she's a very important woman in this city and county of san francisco.

even though i moved here from arkansas, what a great person to know, you know. and more than anything, my main public comment is to be that i really hope that more people who have disabilities and that's disabled will be able to come here and know that we are here and serve as well as educate. because when i think about the stay stop -- i have a book i found on my cabinet. it said church, state, and edge indicationv. ~ education. and i think about church, today is good friday. the earthquake, celebration remembrance today. tomorrow is earth day. and i think about institutions [speaker not understood] prisons, penitentiary states, our jails, our hospitals. i look at us as being disabled. we are more of an educational level. and we must educate ourselves and others about who we are, where we want to go and i

really hope this city and this board always remain where it reflects that and do that job. the other thing i always want to have a mental health parade to come to san francisco. now i'm thinking maybe we should have it the a-d-a parade since it was [speaker not understood] in 504. it would bring so many people. i know i stay in s-r-o's where people with disabilities and are disabled, we don't talk about it. we go to these things and i get to get out. they don't get to get out and, you know, i find sometimes i'm being harmed or not appreciated because i get out and go participate in life, you know. and those people who are there who are not participating in life and doing other things, you know, it's like [speaker not understood]. that would be great and do good things for your country and your world, but they see you as

funny different and disabled. but the people that aren't disabled are killing themselves, drugs, isolation, and i really hope that this become a day where, since it's good friday, city roads, we know he wants us all to be on this green earth. and i love earthquakes because they're a reminder to me of my first one in san diego. thank you. >> thank you. okay, we're going to move on to item -- agenda item number 6, report from the chair. one of the things i do is i attend meetings of the long-term [speaker not understood] coordinating council and look for ways this council and that council's work might overlap. the long term care council, ltcc is an [speaker not understood] to the mayor's office. they evaluate issues to long-term care and supportive services and make policy

recommendation about how to improve service coordination for persons with disabilities and for older residents. members of the ltcc have been meeting with various city supervisors over the last few months in order to raise awareness on the board about the issues facing seniors and persons with disabilities. one of the topics they are covering is funding for the community living fund. this fund provides case management to help people find ways to fill in the gaps and funding and services that are necessary to allow them to remain in their homes. in effect, this program keeps many folks out of institutional settings and reduces public health costs in the long run. the efforts of two of the ltccc's work groups are of particular interest to this council and to all people with disabling impairment. the first is the age and disability friendly san francisco work group. this group is working on an application to the world health

organization's aid friendly city's program. this program is to certify that cities are physically, socially, and economically friendly for people with disabilities and seniors. many aspects of the city are considered before certification can be given, including transportation, housing, and integrated care services. this process will continue over the coming months. the second work group is the housing and services work group which has met twice so far. they are a member of the work group and we have seen a presentation from the mayor's office of housing and i've had discussions about what might be housing priorities for the council to pursue. i will continue to keep you posted on their proceedings. edth long-term care coordinating council meets the second thursday of every month ~. the meeting from may has been canceled. the next meeting will therefore be on thursday, june 12, 2014,

at the main public library in the civic center in the latino hispanic conference room at 1:30. members of the public are always welcome to attend any upcoming meeting of the ltccc. this concludes my report. agenda item number 7, director's report from carla johnson. >> thank you, co-chair supanich and councilmembers. i have about six items on my report today. a couple of them are quick because they are announcements. but i think i wanted to start with the most important announcement of all, which is to welcome our new staff member nathan web who is seated right behind me today staffing our bridge line. nathan just joined our office two weeks ago, and he is doing the work that mike alonzo had done before him. he will be the face you see and

the voice you hear when interacting with our office. nathan comes from a strong customer service background and that's already been completely evident in his first two weeks here. so, we're just delighted to have him on board as part of the mod staff. and i wanted to welcome nathan. the next topic i wanted to talk about is something that our public comment touched on a little earlier, and that's that today, april 18th is earthquake day. it's an anniversary of the 1906 earthquake, the 106th anniversary. and this is year of 2014 is also going to be the 25th anniversary of loma-prieta. and, so, anniversaries are always just that fabulous opportunity to think about what we need to do personally and also as a community to get prepared. so, i want to give you those reminders about checking your

stash. one of the most important things to really check always is that list of contact numbers for friends and family to make sure that we can reconnect if we get disconnected from our housing. and keeping that clear list of medications, too, you know, current and a few extras laying around. along the lines of the disaster preparedness, you know, we did have a tsunami exercise this last month and tying into earthquakes again, tsunamis are caused by earthquakes. and what the city did was we had a three-day exercise where we practiced alert and evacuation and notification, then disaster response, and then after that long-term planning for recovery. and joanna fraguli played a very important role on behalf of the mayor's office on disability because she was embedded in the joint

information senterra long with our interpreter, our american sign language interpreter jennifer mantle who worked with the public information officers to make sure that effective communication that would reach really the entire community was a big part of how the information officers would plan their proceedings. they helped the joint information center create very simple messages that could be easily understood by all of us. i think my best example that joanna shared with us is that they started to give an evacuation out -- warning that said if you live at leavenworth or if you live west of this block and you need to travel four blocks southwesterly to get out of the inundation zone, really kind of complicated instructions. and between jennifer and joanna they were able to come up with a message that says, go five

blocks away from the water. just to make it clear and simple. so, having american sign language and the joint information center is just part of that createding a new normal for our emergency alert systems. and, so, we were delighted to be part of that. also this last week, joanna and i participated in a conference call with marcy roth who is the head of fema, disability integration and coordination. and also on that conference call was richard [speaker not understood] who heads up the disability section at the california office of emergency services. and joanne scordino who is our fema representative in fema district 9 over in oakland for disability integration. and the take away from that

conversation is that community is the key here for truly being prepared and supportive to us all. we can't really assume that the government is going to come and rescue us or that the government is going to make effective plans would you tell us. and, so, if we have one take away from that, the most basic is get to know your neighbors. agree to support your neighbors, and get involved in the city's efforts, and especially get involved in our disability disaster preparedness committee meetings. we will be meeting next on friday, may 1st -- friday, may 1st, here in city hall at 1:30 in room 43 1 -- 421, excuse me. also touching a little bit on some of the ~ discussion that we heard earlier, i wanted to

talk a little bit about elevators. and i don't know if the council remembers them -- sure that you do -- there was a story in the chronicle a few months back about the housing authority, and specifically the clementina towers and the need we have in our older housing buildings to invest in the infrastructure to make sure that we have a sustainable and reliable accessible path of travel with functioning elevators. and, of course, the housing authority is not actually owned by the city of san francisco. it's owned by our u.s. housing and urban development properties. but what the city has done over this last year or more is really stepped up to try to provide resources to the population that lives in the housing authority properties. and remember that many of the people who live in public housing are our older adults and are people with disabilities.