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 sticker card available in the front of the room or call our bridge line at 415-554-9632. where a staff -- excuse me. person will handle the requests to speak at the appropriate time. the mayor's disability council meeting is held the third friday of the month. our next regular meeting will be held on june

20, 2014, from 1 :00 p.m. to 4 :00 p.m. here at san francisco city hall in room 400. please call the mayor's disability office on disability for further information or request accommodations at 415-554-6789 voice or 415-554-6799 tty. a reminder to all of our guest today to speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captioner and interpreters. we thank you for joining us. >> thank you councilmember wong. now we proceed with

roll call. >> cochair chip supanich, present, cochair derek zarda, present. councilmember at tatiana kostanian, absent. councilmember star laura, absent. councilmember denise, present, harriet c wong, absent, councilmember roland wong. present. >> item 1. welcome introduction, and roll call. >> item 2, action item and reading and approval of the genetic. >> item 3, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction

of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. >> item 4, information item. report from cochair sup initiate. >> item 5: information item. report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. item 6. information item. bart new train cars, design and public input. the presentation will provide an overview of the fleet of the future project which will replace bart's aging fleet and expand the number of cars to relief crowded conditions on the bart system. it will include an overview of outreach that has been conducted and information on accessible features of the new trains that have been included in the design based on the input from the bart accessibility task force and other disability organizations over the last 3 years. presentation by aaron wine

stein, bart chief marketing officer and lead design are on bart' new train cars. >> break. the council will take a 10 -minute break. >> item 7. information item. feedback from the disability and senior organizations on the bart new car design. brian bashin, executive director, lighthouse for the #3w4r50i7bd and visually impaired sfravenlt jessie lorenz, executive director, independent living resource center, san francisco. jessica lehman, executive director, senior and disability action. >> public comment is pensacola. item 8. information item. report from the disability disaster preparedness committee. >> item 9. pensacola comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. >> item 10, information item.

correspondence. item 11, discussion item. councilmember comments and announcements. >> item 12, adjourn. >> >> thank you. next we proceed to agenda item no. 3. public comment. items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mayor's disability council. i have three cards here. we'll start with john lowell with the safety and advisory council. >> good afternoon, my name is, thank you derek for the introduction. my name is john alex lowell. i hold the seat no. 4 on the disability organizations. i come to you

on my public comment on this section to make some announcements regarding p sac. the acronym for the selected advisory committee. it selected a new chair to carry out the rest of the term for 2014. her name is sonya kauf. she's in south market housing services for seniors. her name is sonya kauf and she's very well engaged in the community. that's my first point to inform you on piece act. the enact is timing on pedestrian safety signals. there was a general bill introduced to the state legislature but it was not in time to find a legislator to care it. it would change the default time from signals from 3.5 as the

default and 2.8 exception to transform it to 2.8 feet per second with 3.5 feet being the exception. we could not find a legislator this year. there is some debate whether it could be a tagalong amendment to the transportation bill or will it wait for 2015. that will be a general improvement for pedestrian safety. for we who have disabilities and age and other increments which slow us down. those are provided by the safety committee. thank you. >> next we have bob plan hold.

>> i'm bob plant hold. i came to publically sg -- suggest for all those listening that the city council handle the lack of accessibility for the #2r7gs -- transportation network company such as sidecar, wings, uber. who knows what else. there is a great deal of neglect here in city hall and state capital about this problem. the california public utilities commission even said, well, they is survey passengers this fall to see if the needs of the disabled are met by current services to see if they consider anything about tnc. none of these officials thought to ask are their websites accessible? that the fact that you can only get

through the service for smartphones and those with no smartphone are denied services. you can hail a cab. those are ignored here at city hall as well as sacramento. there is even instances where there have been people who use a guide dog denied service after asking for a ride. they are biased. no one is taking action against them because it seems the city attorney thinks it c puc service and they are ignoring it all. i'm asking for you to get publicity about the services they do or don't meet. they are a public accommodation. that is a term and concept that just hasn't occurred to c puc. they don't understand and they don't deal with and they don't respond

to that phrase. thank you. >> thank you. moving on to agenda item no. 4. information item. report from cochair supanich. >> thank you >> my apology. is there anymore public comment for item no. 3? my apology. >> hello, my name is keith dennis. councilmembers, i would like to say god bless you and god bless the city and county of san francisco. this has been a pet peeve of mine long when i worked as a caregiver. i was taking care

of people in wheelchairs and people with disabilities. you know, it is really time that we check businesses that do not have door openers. at 1st of was like you have to let these things roll off your back. but then, it deflates you, it makes you feel less of a human when you have to ask someone or look around for some help instead of them having a door, things for people with disabilities. i believe i need to start putting companies on blast. i hate to do this because i am an all american boy, but the

united states post office, the one on gary and steiner, needs a door opener. there is nothing that frustrates me more when i have a package that i need to deliver and there is a line of people there and then i'm embarrassed because somebody has to come open the door for me and i'm dropping all these things out of my hand. so businesses beware that keith dennis will put you on blast. you just need to do what's fair for us, the community and for people with disabilities and make it easy for them to access your business of service. thank you very much. >> thank you. is there anymore public comments for agenda

item 3. that's items not on today's agenda? >> represent the people in the cmdc housing complex. i put together a petition here of people that would like electronic pest controls. i think this should be a necessity. these people are disabled, and you know, we are all just trying to get by. well, i think that the pest control that's there is bad for the pets as well as the disabled people and senior citizens that are there and i think the electronic sonar

devices should have been implemented a long time ago. also, i think there is a lot of uneducated and disabled people that are there and have the ideas in mind to have their own small business or something like that, but they are unable to, they are unable to run a business or anything like that. i mean, of course they can't have a business address at their home. it should be on the contract and the contract has no address and they have shut off all wifi and there is no service in the room. i think it's abuse and neglect for people that are psychic and hyper

sensitive to that sort of thing. i would also like to comment on the new bart trains. i think there should be also some kind of barrier in between the seats. there should be a barrier in between the different seats for people that are hyper sensitive and psychic. there should be in each car a monitor of what's going on because people i have seen on a documentary they can hypnotize an entire train. i think this is up and coming in the future and you should beware of these things. >> thank you. is anybody available on the bridge line who would like to give public comment at this time? >> yes, thank you. my name is

bruce wolf. i apologize for not being able to attend in person today. as i'm recovering from surgery last week. that said i'm still pretty sore. i attended and testified in public comment to you all at your last meeting regarding upcoming appointments to the sunshine ordinance task force. this appointments were being considered yesterday. the topic for you that i testified at was regarding the requirement of a person with a disability to be appointed in order for the task force to meet. this is a high bar at the framers of the bament -- ballot initiative to recognize the importance of the community to be included. that

ballot was approved by 80 percent of the voters. i did leave my bed to attend the board of supervisors rules meeting yesterday despite the pains of surgery. the rules committee did not make any appointment of a person with a disability despite there being only one applicant fitting the requirement after a lengthy application period. that person being me. i am well qualified and experienced for this position as i have served on this body previously. my concern this time around is that there were no applicants with disabilities and i feel it is my responsibility to apply so that this very important body in our city government can continue to operate. i would urge the council here today to send a

message and hopefully report to the mayor that the appointment for any applicant with a disability be made immediately. i submitted my application on time and did attend the rules committee despite the distress i'm currently in. i feel it was inappropriate to be overlooked despite my experience and abilities to serve on this committee. i have had an excellent attendance record for previous years i served on it and again, i would appreciate any help that you may be able to provide. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other comments on the bridge

line? okay. we'll proceed to agenda item no. 4. report from cochair supanich. >> good afternoon, i'm going to be pretty brief today. i normally would report on the long-term chair coordinating council, however they didn't meet this month. then i thought i would report on the ihs task force, however i didn't make that meeting this month. to assure you that i have gone to a meeting this month. i went to the housing workgroup coordinating council. i just want to reiterate and pad ourselves on the shoulder that our resolution is having a large impact on the mayor's office on five 5-year plan. you shall be very proud of that. that's it. >> thank you, cochair supanich. moving forward for agenda item no. 5.

information item, report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. >> thank you councilmembers. i'm carla johnson from the mayor's office on disability. i will also keep my report brief today. i was out of the office for the last 2 weeks. i don't have much to report. i do have three items i would like to tell you about. those three items are the budget, an update on the mod office and an announcement about an mod staff. first on the budget, the city is moving forward on its annual budget. the budget gets developed by city departments in march and april. we collaborate with the mayor's office during that development process and it goes to the board of supervisors in may and june. and what the board of supervisors does is they hold hearings so they can hear

from members of the public and learn about our priorities and then they try to meet those priorities as well as their own and make some minor tweaks to the budget as it goes forward. then, in july, the mayor signs the budget and it goes into effect. now, the mayor's office on disability has two budgets. one of them is an operating budget that covers, you know, our office operations and our salaries for staff. but the other budget is the capital budget. the capital budget pays for things that get done at buildings and more importantly it pays for our ada transition plan projects. and in this budget cycle, we requested capital funds to finish the elevator project at the hospital in building 8090, two clinics at maxine hall and

sexually transmitted disease clinic. to build a ramp to the entrance of the youth probation administration building which is next to the youth guidance center. to repair some of the pavement in the civic center plaza and to do some accessibility maintenance renewels at some of our homeless shelters. the mod budget is going to be heard by the pa board of supervisors june 16. th. we have excellent feedback from the capital planning group. while we didn't get support for everything that we asked for, i feel we did get what we needed and we are hoping that the board of supervisors will be supporting our budget come june. with the council's permission, what i would like to do is agenda i was and

item on the june mdc meeting to really go into greater detail about the ada transition plan. what we've accomplished so far as well as what we still need to do and when we think we'll be finished with that. my next item is to talk about our mod office. i wanted to provide a brief update on the remodeling work at our office at 1155 market street. awe you know we've been at the center of an active construction site for most of the last year. our building facade has scaffold which makes it difficult for people to find us. we had a construction barrier out front which made it difficult for people who are blind and low vision to navigate around that and our lobby had a construction did you -- tunnel in place. it hasn't

been very easy on us this last year. we had to move out of our office because we got dusted out because of construction work and we got to listen to jack hammers and screw guns and contractors talking and it made it really hard to have phone conversations and talk with our clients. the really great news is that this month, last week, it's done. [ laughter ] the contractor substantially finished and our visitors no longer need to walk around construction barricades and the loud dust and noise is over and best of all we finally have our conference room at the ground floor at the front of our space. i encourage you to come visit us and see our lovely new environment, improvements. i

would in the future appreciate having you come to have further meetings or if you need some space with an organization to meet with or if you need a place to be able to get together with internet and television screens and all the good things that can make a meeting happen. we love our location being right across the street from bart. so then my next and last item is to talk about mod staff. i wanted to share the good news that very soon we are going to have two new staff members. they will be starting in june. i'm not going to use any names until they are actually on board. the first position will be in our program access section, and that person is going to be the replacement for ken stein who has been gone now for a year and 3 months. and our second position will be in the architectural access section. this is back filling my old

job which we haven't had filled in two years and they will be working on plan checks and field inspections and primarily on our affordable public housing. once these two staff come in june it's the first time that mod has been fully staffed in the last two years. we are both excited about this. both of the candidates are very excellent. we had a competitive recruitment and interview process. i look forward to bringing our new staff members to our next mdc meeting for introduction. you will get to meet them. we are going to have a little bit of a transition time while people learn their new role. that's to be expected. once we are up and running with a full staff it will allow us to reach out and do so much more. we have ambition. generally around things like policy development and more training. we really

feel that we can fully extend the reach of this office if we can be out and about in the community. so, that concludes my directors report. at this point i wanted to turn things over to heather kittel who is our intake coordinator and our director of programmatic access because they have a report on what's happening in the program section. thank you. >> good afternoon, council. in march and april our office received about 155 inquiries, about 85 percent of these inquiries from the public and 15 percent from city department. we received 7 complaints. 5 curb ramp request and one request for accommodation. the majority of complaints were about non-compliant barricades and

new construction zones and public right-of-way. another complaint included a power door opener not being turned on and lack of accessible restrooms in a public meeting location and a question about physical accessbility in a physical stabilization room program. people contacted our office looking for information about disability benefits, affordable housing, mental health services and rights to have service and support animals. most of the contacts we received from the p be were people that wanted to contest their parking and traffic tickets and traffic violations. can ustomer service complaints about muni drivers and taxi drivers not accepting debit cards as form of payment. we were also made aware of by sf mta that the

current contract is under noithsz with -- negotiations with the drivers. both parties are had at work with the strike. if this occurs there is transportation available for medical appointments. if a strike would happen, information provided on the para transit website at wchlt website at wchlt sf para transit dom .com. www. paratransit .com. through the trip info automated phone system to pair a transit kathy n entrance can -- transit can ustomers. call

415-351-7052. the number is 415-351-7052. this past month there has been an increase this calls regarding issues around effective communication for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. we provided a lot of technical assistance to departments and public accommodations about the necessity and legal requirement to provide effective communication in their services and programs. joanna federal -- of our office last month trained the city's ada coordinate or about ada coordinators. 18 coordinators participated in this training. we think information about communication this past couple months have been connected to the awareness from