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. and, so, our mayor today announced in a press conference that through the mayor's office of housing that they have identified $4.5 million worth of money to do these incredibly critical elevator renovations to make sure that those elevators are going to be reliable in the future. and there are nine specific properties that they have identified as being buildingses where they're going to be making those improvements. also over the next few months you're going to be hearing more

from our office about the housing authority because the housing authority properties taken under the umbrella of the mayor's office of housing are going to start contracting out the management of the housing authority properties to some local nonprofit housing providers. and what those nonprofits will be doing is putting forth plans to actually renovate and repair those properties. and our office does the quality control permit review and field inspection of those. so, we'll be very much involved and i'll keep you posted as that program develops. also this week, for those of us that see transportation as being an important part of our universe, i wanted to highlight that the san francisco municipal transportation authority held their annual hearing to discuss their capital and operating budget for the next two years, and that one of the items that the

board was considering was free muni for low-income seniors and people with disabilities. and this is a program that was identified really building on the success of the free muni for low-income youth that has rolled out over the last couple of years. and it made a lot of sense to expand it to older adults and to people with disabilities, especially because the role that transportation plays as a life line here, that our public transportation system is really part of what allows us to live independently here. it gets us to work. it gets us shopping. it gets us to our appointments and it connects us to each other. yet the people who ride public transportation are often the people who have the fewest resources. and we really don't want to see people making those hard decisions between rent, food,

and being connected to the community. well, the mta heard this proposal. they gave it a lot of support conceptually. honestly, they don't have the money in the budget this year, but they did commit that they would be bringing it back forward in the next budget year and their hope is that with the transportation 2030 bond, that that would give them the flexibility to be able to finance this program. at the hearing, there were a lot of members from the disability community that spoke and advocated very eloquently. it's a good hearing to watch on the play back. i really think that they swayed the councilmembers and also the letter writing campaign by senior and disability action, independent living resource center i think had a huge influence. last of all, i have two quick announcements. on may 4th, the national council on disability or the

ncd is going to be in the bay area for their quarterly meeting and that will be running from sunday, may 4th until tuesday, may 6. and the topic is sharing great ideas, pioneering the next wave of disability policy. and i really want to encourage people to participate in this process. it's going to be at the ed roberts campus, which of course is the ashbury bart. and it's a very grassroots, ground up identify your issue and pitch it to the crowd type of structure, similar to [speaker not understood]. in fact, they have a goal. they want no spectators, just participants. what they are looking for are people or groups that want to lead a session to share what you're working on, what your goals are, and your issues. so, sunday, may 4th, starting at 4 o'clock is when the

reception begins and access dance company is going to be performing that night at 5:30. and again, the meeting will be at ed roberts campus, ashbury bart, berkeley, california, and the best site to learn more about the national council on disability is to go to the ncd.wikia website. that's like a rookie website for independents. and last of all, speaking of access and art, this week i learned about a new film festival that's planned for october 15th to the 19th, 2014 here in san francisco, and we heard catherine speak earlier about quick fest and super fest which is coming up a little bit sooner. but this film festival is called real abilities and it's

real, r-e-e-l and it's going to be held in 12 cities nationwide. it's dedicated to promoting awareness to the lives and stories and artistic expressions of people with disabilities ~. and we'll be hearing more from the reel abilities folks as we get closer to october. what the council might consider signing on as an endorser or supporter. and after talking with kathleen o'harra, i thought the council might even want to consider using one of your council meetings to really focus on art and disability and the intersection of those. so, just a suggestion. but to learn more about the film festival, go ahead and look up reel abilities and that's r-e-e-l a-b-i-l-i-t-i-s.org and that

concludes my director's report. but at this time i wanted to turn things over to the deputy director for programmatic access joanna fraguli for a quick announcement. >> good afternoon, councilmembers. as some of you may know, i have served 24 city departments and [speaker not understood] we're going to go over some of the a-d-a training that i present to city departments. this time around we launched an a-d-a training coordinators academy which is a series of four two-hour long individually organized sessions that are open to our a-d-a coordinators and they address some of the most common a-d-a questions and concerns.

if you remember, each city department or most of the city departments have a designated a-d-a coordinator who interacts with our office directly and also our liaison when we have complaints or issues or training questions that come up with very specific departments. now, really quickly i just wanted to mention the four sessions that we have slated. the first one took place already on march 20th and it was an introduction to overall jenna. d.a. requirements, a little bit about the history, and gave a good sort of background for folks who may have been new to the role of the a-d-a coordinator. ~ general a-d-a the next session is coming up april 25th and it's all about information access and universal access -- it's about how we communicate.

anything from access or information for deaf and hard of hearing individuals, blind individuals, but also individuals with cognitive and intellectual disabilities as well as a little preview in assistive technology in the electronic and -- electronic accessible information technology, public events and meetings. section 3 would focus on our [speaker not understood] accessibility and hopefully our director or deputy director for the access would be able to help with that. and finally, the last session would be proper ways of addressing complaints or concerns from the public. a grievance procedure, how to write a good resolution letter and how to evaluate reasonable accommodation requests.

so, again, the session is open at this point to a-d-a coordinators, but it's something that we're hoping to institute on an annual basis and hopefully make them open to the public. thank you. >> thank you. all right. we're moving on to agenda item number 9, co-chair elections. i will now call for nominations. councilmembers may nominate themselves or another member. councilmember wong. >> yes, i'd like to nominate derek to be a co-chair or candidate. >> thank you. does anyone second the nomination? >> i second it. >> great. are there other nominations?