holidays and evenings and parking ticket rates. mta has suspended sunday meters for the bond measure. after the election it's likely that sunday meters will be reinstated. moreover most holidays are still subject to meters. for example martin luther king jr. day, labor day, memorial day, you still have to pay. when the mta was established it's only job was to over see muni. it made sense that only regular muni riders were represented and no motorist. later mta took over jurisdiction and parking and taxis and sidewalk design and street space. yet there is still no

representation required on the mta board. requiring that one member be on the board is the affection democracy. proposition calls for equal enforcement of traffic laws. there are certainly terrible drivers in san francisco and traffic laws must strictly be enforced against them. but there are also many cyclist that disobey the law. disabled pedestrians are particular at risk. traffic laws should be enforced for everyone and drivers and cyclist. please vote on the november ballot. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment at this time? all right. we are moving on to the report from the director of the mayor's office on disability, carla johnson.

>> thank you cochair supanich and councilmembers, carla johnson on the mayor's office on disability. i have two items on my directors report. one is a quick announcement about staffing changes and second will be a little tour of the mod website. i wanted to let you know that john paul scott, our deputy director for architectural access has chose n to take a promotional appointment at the department of public works working as an access coordinator. john scott has been with us for 10 years and accomplished many amazing things especially around our ada transition plan. he is well-known throughout the city for his skill, his mentor ship, his ability to

move a project forward in spite of the many bureaucratic hurdles we face. it's going to be a great loss for our office to say good-bye to john paul. he's not really gone from us. what we have now is a very huge additional resource at the department of public works. he'll still be doing access work for dpw. he's gone but still very much with us. he's also agreed to work with our office 8-12 hours a week as a transition planning to help transfer some of his responsibilities to it's and also bridge that gap while we seek his replacement. i hope the council might consider honoring him perhaps at the october meeting. i know he's been a very good friend to the council and just an in incredibly hardworking

dedicated soul. we are going to miss him. my second part of my report is i wanted to introduce the mod web page. the first thing i wanted to say about our new web page is that i want to thank our department of technology staff, bill coal rick and mark bruno because whe they developed a new web page, they created a project that is 508 compliant the rehabilitation act that addresses electronic communication. when we describe a website as 508 compliant what we are saying is that website, content and the documents, everything that appears visually on the page can be read by someone who is blind or low vision or using

screen reader soft ware from their computers and making sure the videos posted have closed caption so the person with a hearing disability can follow the video. there can be caption but we want to make sure that information is delivered to all and that there is equal access. so in the department of technology's work on our website make sure it's compliant and also introduced some very unique features. on the upper right hand corner, where you can't really see because of the captioner, there is a button that says accessibility. if you select that

accessibility button you have a choice of 5 different tabs. one is site guide and another is font size and listen now and text only. the site guide instructions explains how to use the different disability features. the font size tells you how to enlarge the font on your own computer using a pretty standard control plus sign combination. the viewers allow you to download the software like pd fshs's and word document and the listen now feature is quite unique because it allows you to have the computer read out the content that you've selected on the page as if you had screen reader software. so when you click on the listen now feature, it gives you a little control panel and as you go through your page and you select some texture able to

use that control panel to actually play back the information to you. i will see if i can demonstrate that very quickly. also, while i'm bringing that feature up, i wanted to tell you that there is a google translate feature also and the google translate feature allows you to access the information by translating into different languages. you know, it maybe that i don't want to slowdown the meeting by clicking through those buttons but i'm going to describe the way the site is organize to keep things moving. in talking about the organization, it was really our effort with this web design to be more of a resource both for people in the disability

community as well as people working within the city family, other city departments as well as the people who come to us with plans and permits looking for our quality control quality assurance program for accessibility plan check, and so we structured our web page so we have some quick links that allow you to go directly to the information that you might need. down near the bottom of the page there is a shortcut quick link called the ada coordinator tool kit. the graphic that you can see on the page shows a little toolbox that is cute. in the tool kit there is everyone of our city and ada coordinator may need to do their job, listing the coordinate oris of the city and instruction about ada grievance procedure and link to actual text in

the ada describe what our access and public meeting checklist. all sorts of things that our ada coordinators would use and we have our service and support policy there and information for how to work with public information officers and so on. another shortcut button at the bottom in the center is a graphic for our disaster preparedness for people with disabilities. that's a link to numerous resources whether they are external through fema, red cross, videos like how to prepare for a disaster as a person with a disability and some of the different work that this council through the disability disaster preparedness committee has published, most specifically that appendix to our care and shelter plan how to

bring ada into emergency response. our last coverage are review forms because we know our clients have a hard time navigating through the system to find the forms for a process. over on the left side of the page are the standard tabs and those tabs are designed so that you can quickly display information from a smartphone. so they have a pull down collapse. we have an about us tab, the mayor's disability council has a direct link on the tab, ada program compliance which not only has the ada tool kit, but so much more. all kinds of training, for example that jonah has done over the

years. we have those so people can review the power points at their leash. under the architectural plans we not only have the plans and forms but also links to resources for how to get code interpretation and access board and most importantly since we were talking about earlier about john paul scott, we have the full record of our ada transition projects up there including current status and reports on that. it's still needs a little bit of editing, it's a work in progress, but a great reference and resource to access. and then, we also have resources. this is part of my outward looking plan here. i want people from the small business community to be able to come to the mayor's office on disability web page so that they can get information about how best to comply. what are the tools that are out there so they can make their

facilities accessible. we have handouts and resources to help them in that process. and, one feature that i think the council will find very useful here is that we now have a google calendar that will be posted, and the google calendar currently has the mayor's disability council meetings. what i would like to do with this calendar in the future is to be publicizing events of interest to the disability community. it could be a special training that might be taking place at independent living resource center. it could be information about the ada 25th anniversary celebration. there is just so many different possibilities for the type of information that we can post on this calendar and it's something that we can do at staff level without having to bring a lot of

dt staff into it. on that note, i would ask that all councilmembers please keep our office informed as there are events that look important that you want to advertise so we can use our vehicle here to spread the word. i doen encourage you all to go to our website and give us feedback on what might be intuitive and clunky. we have the ability to tweet things. that concludes my director's report. i would like to turn things over to donna atkins, she has a report to share with us. thank you. >> good afternoon, councilmembers, staff and members of the public. i will be providing two 2 months of reports from the mayor's office on disability. for the month of july our office received a total of 66

inquiries. of those, 43 were request for information and referrals, three were request for accommodations. 87 percent of those inquiries were from the public and the remaining 12 from city departments. additionally in july we had 4 program request and nine complaints. of those complaints two were related to construction projects blocking public right-of-way and four complaints remaining to elevators and lifts and terminals. in the month of august we received a total of 61 inquiries. two question request for accommodations and 43 were referrals. 18 percent from other city departments. many of those inquiries were about service and support animals to city

funded programs. two of the complaints during that month were directly related to city issues events. additionally our office has received two request for accommodation for accessible pedestrian signals known as aps. with that, i would like to give the council some background of those signals. those that came out of the draft of the public right-of-way guidelines, those are released in november of 2005 but are not yet publiced as the final rule which means those guidelines are not yet enforceable. it was adopted by the access board by the independent federal agency that promotes equality for people with disabilities by ensuring access to fully funded facilities.

the current signal failed to provide communication known as effective communication. the walk, don't walk signals don't satisfactory that criteria. we have seen son of the signals which are the visual signs of pedestrians and the rapid ticking noises or other tactile indicators that are used at those crosswalks. the sf mta has a problem by which a member of a public can request at a location. that is prioritized what is called a safety and access tool. there are many variables that an evaluator must look at recommended an installation as well as what type of aps should be installed. those could include push about the -- button devices

and rapidtext and vibrator tones. once the person has requested aps, mta will provide that person with the following information. a preliminary prioritization score and preliminary test for the intersection and other that were requested and whether or not any work is being planned at that intersection and whether any aps will be installed within the next three years 3 years and the name of a phone number with a contact information. if you would like to request installation of aps intersection you may submit a request by phone, 415-701-2311 or you can contact our office, the mayor's office on disability 415-554-6789. please have the following information available.

the intersection you are requesting for the aps installation, your name, contact information, and the format in which you want to receive a response to the request either by phone or e-mail. if you experience or witness a disability access issue in a city facility or program, please call our office at 415-554-6789 or 311. that concludes the report. >> thank you and thank you executive director johnson. our thanks go out to our friends at it for doing our website. all right. next on the agenda is transportation 2030. we have alicia john baptist staff of san francisco municipal transportation agency. >> hi. good afternoon. i'm lisa john baptist here to

talk about a program called transportation 2030. so, for most of us who try to get around san francisco we can find that experience to be somewhat stressful. we know that our streets, many of them are cracked or have pot holes. anyone of us who take muni find it unreliable, crowded, slow. the average running speed of muni at this moment is 8 miles per hour. it tells you something for people trying to move around the city by bicycle or foot or wheelchair, we find that there are a number of safety concerns. there are almost 900 pedestrian accidents each year, a hundred are severe or fatal. in the last year 2013, 24 pedestrians died.

there are a number of concerns that the city is trying to address with respect to the transportation system today. keeping all of that in mind and taking that into consideration, a year ago in 2013 mayor ed lee called together a transportation task force and he called it transportation 2030 task force. there are about 45 people who served on the task force and representative of variety of interest and backgrounds and number of policy makers and officials as well as transportation experts, finance experts and representative of large and small business and transportation stakeholders as well. that group met for about a year and looked at given where we are today with the state of our transportation system and all of the plans and strategies that have been developed over the years by the city in coordination with communities and stakeholders, what is it we

need to do to make our transportation system work. both today and looking forward to 2030. and that forward look to 2030 was important because as we look around the city, anybody who has stepped outside has seen the number of contemporaneous and number of buildings going up we see a population increase, growth in employment and we are anticipating as a region for another million people to come to the bay area in the next 15-20 years. about 200 ,000 of those are expected to reside in san francisco. to consider where we are with being able to take care of our transportation system and move around safely today we have to take into consideration the fact that there are going to be more people trying to do that same thing going forward. the task force looked at what needs to be done to make things work in the next 15 years.

the task force did folks primarily on infrastructure. so there are of course questions of how do you operate the system, but with the infrastructure being such an xornt important component and the way the operations work, they felt that should be the primary focus. so, after about a 10 month or so process which i should mention carla was a member of the task force as well, the task force identified in total a need to invest about $10 1 0000 000-0000 and that is with a b in the city's transportation system over the next 10 years. the good news is that out of that $10 billion, there is $3.7 billion identified revenue coming to san francisco to invest in the

transportation system, but that clearly leaves over $6 billion of need that somehow needs to be addressed. and just to give a sense of how it is that we are in a situation where we could be in need of $6 billion, the types of sources that have traditionally funded transportation system improvements funding comes from the local, regional and state and federal level. at the federal level, the primary source of funding is the federal gas tax. that tax has not been increased since 1993. the purchasing power of the dollars raised through federal gas tax has declined dramatically over the past 20 years and the highway trust fund where that funding resides is in danger of going bankrupt shortly. the state level, funding has

been very unreliable, there is peaks and value ley. only 6 percent that san francisco makes into the the transportation system comes from state sources on average. the city does have a local saelz -- sales tax which generates about $75 million a year for transportation investment and it has been a real critical source of funding adopted in the 90s and funds the majority of the transit program, for example. but it is clearly insufficient to meet all of the needs that we have with respect to the transportation system here. so, with all of that, taken into consideration, the task force reviewed on the order of 30 or so different potential revenue sources to

start to figure out how to close the gap of $6 billion in need. they ultimately recommended four different funding sources taken together if each of these were to go forward and be approved by the voters, each would require voter approval. they would generate about $3 billion over 15 years, so meeting about 50 percent of that unmet need in terms of investment into the system. one of the things that is likely to happen if san francisco does generate significant additional local funding is much greater access to other types of matching money either at the regional level, federal level and state level and in fact when the task force completed this process, the metropolitan transportation commission which is the regional body that directs state funding to

local jurisdictions came forward and said, okay, if san francisco can really generate these funds, we will provide matching money of over $550 million timeframe for the local level. what the task force recommended the first is $500 million general obligation bond. that is only ballot for this november. the second was a restoration of the local restoration of the state vehicle license fee to two 2 percent. so the states vehicle license fee was at two 2 percent about 50-60 years and reduced to 5 percent under the schwarzenegger administration and this proposal was to reinstate it

to 5 percent in san francisco and keep that funding generated in the 1.5 percent differential to invest in the transportation system infrastructure improvement. that is not on the ballot at this point. it for consideration for the november 2016 ballot. the third recommendation of the task force was for policy makers to consider an additional half cent increase to the local sales tax that would generate about $75 million a year as would the vehicle license fee increase and the fourth and final recommendation was a second gentle -- general obligation bond of $25 million in 2040. so 20 years after the first one. in terms of whenever this funding would go, this was something

again when the task force met they really looked at a lot of work that had been put together by city agencies and community partners over the years to understand where the priority investments are in the transportation system. one of those that was identified was road repaving. that's something that really doesn't matter how you are getting around san francisco if the roads are pot holes, it has an impact on your ability to travel. it's also an area where we know that the cost of keeping the roads in decent fair condition, is much less expensive than trying to fix something after it has really deteriorated. so if you are paving a road that is in fair condition, it cost about $350,000 a block. if you are paving a road in poor condition, it cost about $1 million a block. so that san francisco can raise

it's street to fair, the city would be saving a lot of money in that routine maintenance. the second critical area is in transit. muni does provide about 730,000 trips daily. so very critical component of sort of congestion management and people's ability to move around the city but faces challenges. the transportation 2030 program would direct muni that would allow for improved travel tierjs -- times. improve reliability, newer vehicles, cleaner vehicles and more stops, those types of things. finally the other key category identified for investment is in safety and these are pedestrian improvements, separated bike ways. we find that preferred both

bicyclist and people walking and driving there is a preference to have bicyclist separated so there is no chaos in trying to share the right-of-way and safer for folks that way. on the pedestrian safety side, the city with again community partners went through an extensive process to understand where a pedestrian collision is happening and why are they happening and what can be done to fix those. we know that about 60 percent of all pedestrian accidents happen on six percent 6 percent of the city's streets. so they are very heavily concentrated and we've done a whole analysis to show the specific engineering types of improvements that can be put into place to make things safer for people trying to move around on the sidewalk or crossing the street. this program, if fully realized