she's on a she's on a well deserved vacation so today i'm filling in and i'll update you on 3 items that the mayor's office on disability has been involved in over the last couple of months and a summary report on on complaints and inquiries and first off your previous october and november meetings focusing on employment for people with disabilities the department of human resources heard you loud and clear and has convened an advisory panel. the members of the panel include the state department of rehabilitation and lighthouse for the blind and visually

impaired positive resource center and other community based organizations and of course our office. over the course of the next several months the panel will address a number of issues such as such such such as enhancing a disability friendly culture into the department are the goals of recruitment and retention and promotion with people with disabilities and perhaps you can consider inviting them back to have a follow up meeting. >> speaking of timing 2015 also marks the 25th anniversary of the passing of the americans with disabilities act and of

course it's a big anniversary and deserves a bay area wide celebration and mod along with a small group of community based agencies such as the legal referral panel and public authorities have initiated a bay area wide effort to promote disability events related to the 25th anniversary and in fact reaching out to independent living centers in adjacent counties and other disability rights groups across the bay and when the process of developing a new website, ada 25 bay area the one stop shop for events happening throughout the region and so please stay tuned for more exciting

information in the course of the next couple of weeks and months so my third update is about our staffing levels here at mod you all know that since september 2014 we've been filling feeling the very grave loss in terms of the workload that is piling up so i'm happy to report that we have made a selection for a new deputy director for physical access from a large pool of very well qualified applicants and as as a department unfortunately the department of human resources is going through the background check and final stages of the hiring process i can not yet reveal the individual's name but we expect him or her to start in early february and at that point we'll introduce them

to you at the next meeting and the final part of my report includes a summary of complaints and over the holidays we received a drop in calls and received just over a hundred inquiries and requests for technical assistance and the majority, 86 percent from members of the public and the rest were from city departments and we also received 16 complaints the majority of which involve public right of way access issues and here the education part of the report. public right of way access means having a clear path of travel which includes a

continuous un obstructed way of travel crosswalks curb ramps or pedestrian ramps and the majority of of the complaints and non useable temporary curb ramps in this case our department cooperated with the department of public works to investigate and resolve the issues promptly often times within a few hours. our office has contacted the department of public works for additional training assistance for staff and contract ors to help prevent future complaints but as as you can imagine this is a problem that keeps happening since there's several crews and

several construction projects happening throughout the city. another public right of way case was actually quite interesting had to do with portable toilets and the portable toilet was used by the election staff in front of a voting garage and so they had to provide the portable toilets for the workers however they placed it on the sidewalks and cut the path of travel for people trying to get from one side of the sidewalk to the other so to prevent the situation from reoccurring and also requested special permits to allow the portable toilet to be parked on the street temporarily instead of the sidewalk basically took out a parking space to allow the portable toilet to be on the

side of the street. the sidewalk and walkway remain clear and accessible to all. if a site requires a portable unit, the department of elections will survey the site and identify the specific measurements if the site will require permits to actually get a parking space and the position of the portable toilet on the street and not on the sidewalk. i thought you guys would appreciate the work the amount of work and planning that goes to even a temporary election site and that concludes my report this is a reminder to our public watching today that if you experience a disability access issue in a city facility or program feel free to contact the mayor's

office on disability 415-554 -- or send us an e-mail mod at sfgov dot org we look forward to hearing from you. thank you. >> >> thank you. we'll move onto agenda item 10 report from the disability disaster preparedness committee. >> thank you. the committee met on friday january january 2nd, 2015, representatives from community based organizations, city and county departments. the mayor's office on disability and the mayor's disability council were in in attend ance as well as members of the public. the mvc

disaster preparedness committee accomplishments reviewed the new the new york city ada lawsuit for lessons learned transportation plans and evacuations from multistory building accessibility communications and updated the san francisco shelter database participated in 2 exercises adding a disability component including vehicle evacuation issues and disability sensitivity and tsunami exercise and civic center active shooter drill and created the chemical the list of lists and develop tracking agencies that serve people with disabilities along with maps that locate vulnerable populations such as people living in residential kerosene i care, senior housing and

demonstrated how technology and equipment can support emergency plans such as video remote interpreting vri striker evacuation and participated in testing and standards, elevator assisted evacuations from multistory buildings and the san francisco card participated in the international disaster conference and expo and issues with asl interpreters and service interpreters and discussion items. suggestions that the agreement with sfmta to provide accessible transportation during emergencies must be formal

ized and integrating chairs. chairs already available -- [inaudible] carla has applied for a grant to fund 12 more chairs to go to fire emergency search and rescue and there will be training. did that currently already happen? okay. thank you. additional items we prioritize for 2015, mod and earthquake safety programs are working on draft legislation to make evacuation chairs mandatory in some buildings need data to help support this. the group made a commitment to update a list of i say wills annually spear headed by -- and include a map

of senior housing by district and a list of vendors for durable medical equipment and celebration of the ada's 25th anniversary and follow up on the study and recommendations and increase the number of community based organization that participate in ddph for example red cross senior disability action. use vri in a mock emergency and coordinate with francis zoomie and preparation for 2016 superbowl events and red cross shelter training. this concludes the report for january and the next meeting will be held on friday, march march 6th, 2015, at city hall in room 421 from 130 to 330 and the public is welcome to attend and we look

forward to seeing you there. thank you. >> thank you. okay. we now have public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the section of the mdc i have e r.n. estine pat er son. >>. . . >> i'm ms. paterson and i'd like to ask officially the

assistance of the mayor's disability council and staff to help those of us still working to to locate some part-time perhaps slightly stipend mentorships. i've in the past written to high schools to no avail. i have a ba and ma and did teach in san francisco state from 1984 to 1987. i've done other work as well including proof reading but i'd also be good to mentor some of some of some of the disabilitied young people to know what kind of things to look out for and what kind of things are important. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? is there

anything from the bridge line? no? no? oh, yes. >> jacki bryson and i wanted to raise an issue that i raised originally back in 2004 that i believe that the city and county of san francisco needs to have a a department on disability rather than a mayor's office on disability so that there's permanence and that the department would have the authority to take complaints not just grievances and have complaint numbers and an investigator assigned and findings which would be

produced and depending upon the findings, the matter to be forwarded to the district attorney's office. i appreciate the existence of the mayor's office on disability i've been coming to the various inca rna tions of it since 1998 and it continued to be a problem to have the body have the authority to punish -- i can't think of another word -- i hate to use the word punishment but sometimes that stick needs to be out there to get people to come into compliance with our national and state and local laws so that's all i wanted to say and get this on the record again. thank you so much. >> thank you. all right then we'll move onto item number 12 correspondence. donna?

>> there is no correspondence. i do have an announcement as the next agenda item. >> okay. next discussion item is councilmember comments and announcements anything from councilmembers? >> no. >> i think we're at we're tapped out on information so donna. >> i've been asked to make a quick announcement regarding super fest the international disability film festival cable channel sfgov tv's channel has been given an opportunity to screen some some of the films on saturday and sunday and monday throughout the rest of the month. the interviewer and restraint and seclusion once again everything is incredible

and juggle and cut again those are super fest films screened on sfgov's second channel and if you are interested in scheduling details you you can call 415-554-4188 or go go to the web go to the web page sfgov, tv dot org. >> and if you are interested in all of the films at super fest the screening, there's information about upcoming festivals http colon back slash back slash super f fest film.com. >> with no further business ahead of us, i'll adjourn this

meeting thank you all for coming. >>

>> you're watching quick bite, the show that has san francisco. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we're here at one of the many food centric districts of san francisco the 18th street corridor which locals have

affectionately dubbed the castro. a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940. it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market. he installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really made it a place where chefs look forward to come. he created community through food. so we designed our community

as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those components who really support each other. and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> valley creamery was opened in 2006. the two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sam's wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. they found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream kind of came as an afterthought. they realized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner. so, that's been a huge success. in 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community and event space where we do

five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. >> 18 reasons was started almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. and we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement and education in a way that allowed for a more in-depth conversation. we grew and now we offer -- i think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher training workshop where san francisco unified public school teachers came and learned to use cooking for the core standards. we range all over the place. we really want everyone to feel like they can be included in the conversation. a lot of organizations i think which say we're going to teach cooking or we're going to teach gardening, or we're going to get in the policy side of the

food from conversation. we say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really community oriented where you can be interested in multiple of those things or one of those things and have an entree point to meet people. we want to build community and we're using food as a means to that end. >> we have a wonderful organization to be involved with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. coming into 18 reasons which even more community focused is such a treat. we have these events in the evening and we really try and bring people together. people come in in groups, meet friends that they didn't even know they had before. our whole set up is focused on communal table. you can sit across from someone and start a conversation. we're excited about that. >> i never worked in catering or food service before. it's been really fun learning about where things are coming from, where things are served from. >> it is getting really popular. she's a wonderful teacher and i

think it is a perfect match for us. it is not about home cooking. it's really about how to facilitate your ease in the kitchen so you can just cook. >> i have always loved eating food. for me, i love that it brings me into contact with so many wonderful people. ultimately all of my work that i do intersects at the place where food and community is. classes or cooking dinner for someone or writing about food. it always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderful experience. empower their want to be around people and all the values and reasons the commitment, community and places, we're offering a whole spectrum of offerings and other really wide range of places to show that good food is not only for wealthy people and they are super committed to accessibility and to giving

people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food. it's so natural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is that when people leave here they understand how to achieve that goal and feel that they have the resources necessary to do that. >> are you inspired? maybe you want to learn how to have a patch in your backyard or cook better with fresh ingredients . or grab a quick

bite with organic goodies. find out more about 18 reasons by going to 18 reasons.org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market.com. and don't forget to check out our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick bites.com. until next time, may the fork be with you. ♪ ♪ >> so chocolaty. mm. ♪ >> oh this is awesome. oh sorry. i thought we were done rolling. ♪

>> we love our parks, but we love... >> and the community who is really the core of it all, came together and said what we need is a place for our teenager to play, not just play grounds for the kids and soccer fields but we need a skate park that will keep the kids home in the neighborhood so they can play where they live. >> the children in the neighborhood and it will be a major boone. and we have generations, the youth generations that will be able to use this park in different places. >> the best park in san francisco right here. >> creating place where people can be active and lead active,

healthy life styles that are going to just stay with them for life. ♪ good morning ladies and gentlemen, to introduce mayor ed lee please welcome san francisco resident nicole banks (clapping.) good morning, everyone good morning. >> welcome to the bayview. >> thi