market street plan. i want to compliment and point out the staff throughout the various departments involved in this have been quite responsi to people with disabilities both in meetings and follow up e-mail suggestions. they had an extensive focus group last year. we get answers from the staff and not silence and and i -- contrast that to item 6. i want to make sure we keep a careful look at the design. now they are going to increase the distance by two times from 96 feet to 2100 feet. that's a full block or more longer. i want you to think how many people when they come out of a store, nordstroms or whenever are

going to want to get on one local bus to go two stops to then be proximate to a rapid stop. that's a lot of back and forth between one and the other. i'm going to suggest there is going to be an energy factor where people are going to say, where is the stop that i want. i don't think that has been carefully addressed. as far as the seating, there is also an option for some of these islands to have a crosswalk at the front and maybe a crosswalk at the back end so when you are coming out you can go e to the back end and may not have to travel so far. this is one i hope gets some awards. >> thank you. do i have any other public comment? yes, sir?

>> hi. my name is marty zach. i want to mention there is clearly look loot of work being done and not in the interest of better market street proper since it's not under the sf mta jurisdiction but in making market street accessible and escalate ors and elevators are a great importance to this community. i would like to make sure it's possible to the level and interest engaged with these exciting developments to also bring to bear on making sure the underground stations are accessible and always functioning so seniors and the disabled are always able to access that. >> thank you very much. anymore public comment?

>> hi. my name is wendy. the comment that i have is on market street there are a lot of bikes. i have seen a lot of them. the comment that i have is that the more bikes there are, there are more and more of them migrating onto the sidewalk. they do not disembark at the curb and that can be an issue. okay. people coming back behind me, zipping biechlt it's a high startle fact ofrment thank you. >> do i have someone on the bridge line? >> yes. i name is gita.

i have a problem that deals with a couple issues and i'm going to try the old deal with the disability and getting around the city. so i was hit by a car which caused my disability. so i just want to make sure that you know with lyft and with uber that they really do have the proper insurance, not just when the cars are, you know in process and for their passengers, but also when the cars that they are using are just roaming around waiting for a call. because i know that they always say they have $1 million insurance and when i provide the stories

and provide links to these things, i know it's a meeting about lyft but they say they are not responsible and they just provide the software. i know there is a big difference where we taxis whether they are on call or off call, if they hit a pedestrian or somebody who is in another car, there is always coverage of $1 million. if someone became disabled as a result and if someone who walks a lot slower as other people, for me, that's a huge issue. i know that there is the box, the box initiative going on right now that was publicized in the san francisco chronicle where they are starting to give tickets to cars that

block intersections and i'm glad to see that's happening because six 6 months to a year ago i called the mayor's office and the local police department. >> mam, i'm sorry, your two 2 minutes is up and we need to move ahead. thank you. if you have further comments you can contact the mayor's office on disability. thank you. all right. next we have a cochair election. i will turn it to cochair zarda to lead it since i'm the one up for reelection. >> so the next item on our agenda is the cochair election. i will now call for nominations. councilmembers may nominate themselves or another member and this is for the current open position held by cochair supanich. do i have any nominations?

>> i would like to nominate chip supanich for another term. >> do i have a second for this nomination? >> i have had a second. councilmember supanich, do you accept the nomination? >> i do. >> do we have any other nominations? okay. seeing no other nomination. the nominations are now closed. do counsel -- councilmembers who have been nominated wish to speak. >> i will not speak. >> okay. anybody opposed?

thank you again. congratulations. i look forward to reelection of his term. thank you very much. >> okay, let's move on to a reports. let me just mention that it looks like we are going to run over by a minute or two. i want to apologize for that. next is a report from the disabilities disaster preparedness committee given by councilmember denise senhaux. >> good afternoon, the meeting met with representative on people with disabilities. the first discussion with respect to the department of public health. dph and list of agencies serving people at risk after a

disaster includes the disabilities , and seniors, dph's representatives will be added agencies as discussions progress. another topic of interest was about how in the event of a disaster news and information as well as public service announcements on all media forms need to be fully accessible with website update, captioning, video and remote interpreting and asl. members of the ddpc are hoping to get a demonstration of the vri at the november meeting. the next topic about a study being held by the national institute on testing and standards. the study will focus on the use of elevators for evacuations in very tall buildings. the nist will hold interviews

in october with persons with mobility disability who work in high rises. if you are interested in participating call the mayor's office on disability. the ddpc then had a conversation about appendix e to the city's emergency response plan which covers explicit evacuation, sheltering and care plans for people with disabilities. these are some simple editing needs for the appendix mainly formatting. there are month major changes in language or content. the revised version will be posted on the website for the department of emergency management at some future date. we will keep you a pprised. this completes the report of september. the next meeting will meet

friday november 7th at 330 . >> next we have public comment for items not on the agenda. do i have any? seeing none we are going to move on to the cochair report. there is one on the line. >> my name is rita again. i have had a couple of issues that i have brought to the attention of the mayor's office. when i do have concerns they item me to come to the mayor's meeting and when i come to the mayor's meeting i go over two 2 minutes because i have a number of issues i want to bring to your attention and one is the boxed intersections and one is disability passes for parking and category of disabled people and rent control buildings and obviously you can't address all of these issues

that affect disabled people in a two 2-minute period. so how can i get my voice heard because when i try to raise these issues, and some of these i believe violate the california and state law, and when i try to raise these issues with the mayor's office they don't hear me and when i talk to advocates they say they do violate the law and the mayor's office doesn't help me and i'm really disappointed with the back and forth that i end up getting. so what is the proper venue, is it this venue or mayor's office or should i go through the state or supervisors office or through the monthly city hall meetings? >> we don't answer questions

during public comment, but i would encourage you talk to your advocate friends and others about ways to get your voice heard in the arena. as for issues with mayor's office with disability those are not subject to comment at an mdc meeting. >> okay. i think i will go through organization because i think those are more powerful and maybe get some critical power around that then because i think this has been very educational for me. thank you. >> gida, this is carla johnson director of the mayor's office on disability. it's clear to me that there are a lot of issues that you would like to talk about and perhaps the best forum for that would be if we could set aside some time for you to come to the mayor's off disability to hear your complete list. i agree that two 2 minutes is obviously not

enough time to be able to get an understanding of what you need so we can better understand how we can assist. >> thank you, carla and thank you caller. >> now we have the the cochair report from cochair zarda. >> thank you, cochair supanich. what i will be discussing is a brief overview for our annual leadership meeting. we reconvened all the counsel as well as the staff and mayers -- mayor's office on disability. this year it was a great success. cochair supanich and my goal was to increase participation from all councilmembers and to ensure we understand their needs and

encourage their full participation. it felt like a really great starting point for the coming year. during this meeting, we managed to discuss some major revisions and to our bylaws and that will be finished within the next month or two and should be up for voting for approval. we also discussed about recruitments and outreach to make sure that this council's presence is known more in the community, not just to organizations bus to -- but to the general public so they understand what it is we have the power to do because i feel there is a misunderstanding and that is on our part and we developed strategies and ways to incorporate for increasing the outreach and getting people to understand what we

can do and how they can participate with us. and leading to the possibility of creating new subcommittees to address some of the concerns from the public. as you heard today and the previous meetings about the growing needs for addressing transportation needs, also about understanding the needs of members of our community, such as those who have none visible disabilities to and they also have a stake in our meetings. lastly we spent time discussing goals for this coming year and really making sure that each member of this council takes it upon themselves to have personal goals as well as goals as this council as a whole and everyone on this council is doing their share and their part to really work with the city, work with the public as well. that includes for us reaching out to the board of supervisors more, connecting more with city departments

and making sure that we can get out into the community and really help incorporate us and the public. so that this body is for the public, it is not for us to sit up here and dictate to the people in attendance here as well as out in the community. it's for us to work together as a team. and that is what i have for now. >> thank you very much. >> next item. is there any correspondence? none? okay. then it's councilmember assessments and announcements? >> me. >> mr. zarda? >> no go ahead. last night i had the privilege of attending the california public utilities commission, one of the opportunities to have a public forum about the issue of transportation network companies. we had the commissioner there from the c puc as well as two other members and we had good attendance from

the public. we had members speaking on behalf of lyft and ride share as well as members of the taxi driving community. i myself gave a comment regarding some of the issues that we have seen at our meetings from presentations and ways we feel that needs that need to be addressed better. i'm ha epito say that i was asked back up to provide more questions for the commissioner as well as help council create an analysis report in depth for the c puc so that will be something that we can look into further. and for those who are interested in going to the second opportunity for providing public comment there will be another one in ovenlth -- october. you can contact the mayor's office on disability for more information about this opportunity. >> thank you.

councilmember senhaux? >> the workgroup for seniors and people with disabilities and single room occupancy hotels are sponsoring a free screening and the film about the lives of people living in sro's and the efforts made to improve the elevator situations so people don't get stranded out of their rooms. the screening is held tuesday october 21st from starting at 2:00. it's going to be at the san francisco main library at gart auditorium. it is wheelchair accessible. for any accommodations, please call senior and disability action organization at 415-546-1333

or e-mail them at info @ sdaction .org. if you need any accommodations call them no later than october 14th. and they ask that you not wear any fragrances. thank you. >> okay. we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>