money thank you nadia and so many more it's an how shall to work with all of you our next speaker an interesting guy he has cruising in his blood a sea captain from italy and has sailed around the world and worked for 3 cruise lines and now the president of the metro shore services please welcome steve no (clapping.) >> thank you, monique as opposed to the prudes speaker i brought notes and that i'll follow them good afternoon mayor ed lee and distinguished guests i'm honored to represent metro

and on behalf of the metro management team please allow me to express our gratitude and how they've we are to have those partnerships in place metro has indeed a unique history as a company to the city goes back to the 1800s to the gold rush indeed it's enforceable to conceive our emotion as we subtract the opening of the jane kim russ johnson herbert terminal this is a beautiful facility that was built living and breathing by the sea like if i others in the world while the journey that was remarked to get here was

challenging the journal to build this cruise terminal was challenging we now look at one of the greatest ports having a first class facility and we celebrate that what makes it special is the xhoird location along the waterfront and it's large and spinach transportation area that is unique as well as the flexibility of the law out san francisco's was a spectacular cruise location i'm ouch asked what makes a port a special support san francisco sums it up it is what a cruise port needs or ever needs what is missing a cruise structure to accommodate and welcome large vessels built

today as opposed to as the ones built as liners the james a. herman cruise terminal has fixed that's it's incredible now as the negotiation and work has end construction is over and it is now time for us to execute flawless operations to maximize and time to go to work and come ply and exceed the preparations of our customers we're welcoming here today we will do so working closely with our partners and certainly starting with you o w providing the labor and low barging badge stores and we'll work with local

91, local 24 and many partners we intra face everyday and thanks for their coordination we couldn't do that without them we'll also rely on the sfooz a leader in special events in the bay area to help us russ produce and deliver the special events when we have vessels alongside we rely on import a leader in the business that will manage the parking activities and the strength of this cumulative rifrpz is essential to the facilities going forward and in closely closing we couldn't be more excited about the opportunity and we can't waited to begin maximizing them thank you.

(clapping.) >> thank you very much steve no for all your work and world knowledge i know our guests appreciate it i want to recognize the leaders nancy pelosi and all she's done with us she's represented by her daughter christina peeping i see the fire chief chief joanne hayes-white coming in and a small plus for my neighbor pier 23 cafe if you haven't been there get over there it's the greatest place next to the term eternal back to the 19 hundred everything was grand cruz was our guilt procure in the united

states and i'm sure you're aware of we had the great depression's and world war ii but in the 1970s when the tv show came along the love boat who could effort the cruise director and others filmed on a cruise ship the prince sister our last speaker spent the last to those as a cruise director sailing in and out of san francisco who better to have here today with a magnificent sheriff deputy this is the vice president to sailing the world 33 hundred and 50

cruise workers and his job to go around the world to find pleasures who best estimate to welcome (clapping.) thank you gunslinger i owe you won for that but everyone i want to thank you very much for inviting prince sister to be a part of celebration i could not think of anything that is more appropriate to have the grand prince sister here so thank you for inviting us (clapping) i know in speaking of special events in 2015 prince sister celebrates it's 50th anniversary yes (clapping) you know we begin in 1965 with one small ship cruising from la

in 1969 we made our way north to san francisco and from here we paranoia cruising you know how fitting that our city histories backing began with the gold refurbish would be the starting point for many years to come today prince sister is the largest premium cruise lining line in the world we have 18 ships and carryover $1.18 million passengers but over 15 years we still call san francisco our home we're very, very proud to be part of our maritime tradition and to contribute to our leading industry tourism and honored to participate r with blue ribbon panel that helped to design this

on our iconic waterfront and also honored to call you not only business partners but friends so we congratulate you on our crews terminal and look forward to being with you for many, many years to come bonding voyage. >> thank you, thank you (clapping) and so boning voyage ladies and gentlemen, that's the theme today i'm sure you're aware of it's a word of greeting and goodwill as you embark on a trip for a new journey and our new journey is about to begin mar will you do us the how shall. >> are you all ready are p i handgun officially declare the opening of the james russ johnson herman cruise ship

terminal of san francissan fraf (clapping)

>> city of san francisco >> mayor's disability council >> >> all right. welcome, everybody to the september 19, 2014, meeting of the mayor's disability council. i'm chip supanich. cochair. welcome to all. we have councilmember wong leading the introduction. >> good afternoon and welcome to the mayor's disability council this friday september 19, 2014, in room 400 of san francisco city hall. city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. wheel chair access is provided at the grove van ness and mcallister

street. entrance is provided via wheelchair lift. assistive listening devices are available and open caption and our agendas are available in large print and braille. please ask staff for additional assistance. to prevent electronics interference and to respect everyone's ability to focus on the presentations, please silence all cell phones and pda's. this is appreciated. we welcome public's participation during public comment. you may fill out a speaker card or call the bridge line 415-554-9362.

where staff persons will handle the request to speak at appropriate times. the mayor's council disability meeting is held on the third friday of the month. our neck regular meeting will be on october 17, 2014, from 1:00 to 4:00 in san francisco city hall in room 400. please call the mayor's office on disability for further information or request accommodations. 415-554-6789 voice. or 415-554-6799. tty. i would like to remind all speakers to speak slowly on the microphone to assist our captioners and sign language interpreters. >> thank you.

role call please. >> good afternoon, cochair chip supanich, present. derek zarda, taste -- at that time i can't kostanian. harriet wong, councilmember roland wong. >> thank you. now we'll have the reading of the agenda. i want to make one change to the agenda. cochair derek zarda has been detained. he will give his cochair report before item no. 11. so we are moving item no. 4 to in between 11-12.

>> reading of the agenda. welcome. agenda item no. 1, welcome introduction and roll call. agenda item no. 2, action item. reading and approval of the agenda. action item no. 3, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to three 3 minutes. agenda item no. 4. information item. report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. agenda item no. 5. information item. transportation 2030. presentation on the mayor's transportation task force 2030 findings and recommendations including a $500 million transportation

and road improvement general obligation bond on the november 2014 ballot. funding identified by the mayor's transportation task force 2030 would pay for critical transportation infrastructure projects including accessibility improvements. presentation by alicia john baptist chief of staff san francisco municipal transportation agency. public comment is welcome. the council will then take a 10 -minute break. agenda item no. 6. information item. list -- lyft accessibility. lift is a mobile application matching drivers with passengers seeking rides. lyft will share details of

their technology and capability. lyft. public comment is welcome. agenda item no. 7. no. 8. information item. better market street transit priority proposal for improvement is surface transit facilities on market streets between octavia and stuart street. presentation by simon prince george county manager department of public works. sf mta. public comment is welcome. agenda item no. 8. action item. cochair elections. in accordance with the mayor's disability council bylaws article 3, section 1, there shall be two

cochairs elected to serve as officers of the council and elections will be staggered by at least 3 months. the present election will be to elect a cochair to the position currently held by cochair supanich whose term just expired. agenda item no. 9. information item. report from disaster preparedness committee. agenda item no. 10, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. agenda item no. 11. cochair report. report from cochair zarda. agenda item no. 12. correspondence. agenda item no. 13. discussion item.

councilmembers comments and announcements. agenda item no. 14, adjourn. >> thank you. donna. okay, the next item on the agenda is public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. first i have mike hot us. if anyone else wishes to comment at this time, please fill out a card. >> i thank the council for the opportunity to make this presentation. i have a question regarding the ada. as you all know 2015 is the 25th anniversary of the ada and was wondering whether council had done anything in particular to celebrate that momentous event. i would like to offer a suggestion that certain pioneers in the ada for

the city particularly those that are not with us to be honored. i would like to offer suggestion of the late loadey, who was asked to become a member of this council but did not want to split her energy between the museum and this council that she be within -- one of the people nominated for her help in implementing the ada. i put together her resume of items she accomplished in her short life and would like to give this to council when possible. i rest my case. >> thank you. next i have charles >> good afternoon. i'm charles, i want to direct

your attention to this document. i only printed out one copy. this is proposed regulations for taxi cabs and hired vehicles. they being presented this we can't to the international association of transportation regulators at the conference in new orleans. i have seen a couple of these thing go through the pipeline. the chances are good that they will look good to the model regulations and cover everything from the disability to training for drivers, every conceivable detail. as you may know that the regulations for accessible vehicles and service elevator a -- vary a lot from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. this is an attempt to give vehicle manufactures some kind of solid set of standards to follow when they are building the vehicles and

also for regulators to establish a training program and other services that are related to this. one that i would like to draw your special attention to is on the last page where they are talking about how do you fund these services? they are obviously i'm sure it's no secret to you that accessible services are quite expensive to provide and funding is a key issue. this is especially so in these days with the so-called ride shares and having a very large impact on the market. one of the recommendations and i'm quoting from the proposed regulations is the transportation network companies such as uber car and lyft must be mandated to contribute funding in order to confirm they are being held to the same accessibility

regulations as properly licensed taxi cabs and higher vehicle fleets. obviously this is not something you can do today on this spare of the moment, but you may want to consider it down the road a recommendation perhaps to draw some of these other operators into the services for accessible services if not that, at least get money out of them to provide the services. it is available on the web where the people are indicated at the bottom there. thank you. >> thank you. howard chadner?

>> good afternoon. many people with mobility disabilities rely heavily on cars. san francisco's campaign on cars is making it more difficult, time consuming and expensive for us to move around the city. that's why i supporting proposition l. it's called restore transportation balance, yes. it's a policy declaration not a charter amendment. it would start a dialogue with mta and city officials. it's a way for voters to give mta clear message that their policy is not protecting.

mta has been trying to install meters where no meters currently exist in my neighborhood around usf and along the perimeter of john adams campus. mta backed down but they will continue to try to impose meters. proposition l proposes it before and mta in stalls meters where they don't exist. proposition l calls for free parking for meters on sundays and 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 enfoce