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yor's disability on council were in attendance as well and members of the public. these were some of the highlights from that meeting. we had a presentation by brenda mass skin and dr. nerven from the homeless outreach team which we usually abbreviate as the hot team. the hot team is a program with the department of public health. the hot teams role is to assist people with disabilities during a disaster. brenda and dr. neville started to address the hot teams mission and by reconstructing service. the hot team is a group who would address everything about the homeless including medical intervention, when someone was ill on the streets. intervention case management and transportation to shelters and health care and transition to supportive housing to stabilization rooms. under the new reconstruction,
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the hot team now focuses on the highest users of emergency services. and the people who are the most vulnerable. this is only a subset of the homeless population as a whole. important to keep on training shelters workers to help them make the distinction. james gump from white house and the blind and visually impaired talked about repeating out volunteer youth corp partnered with the red cross to develop a hand book for people who are blind or low vision. this is enhanced information for the visually impaired. what was lovely about this new handbook is that it's printed in a format that has language print and brailled
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text. tera connor from the department of public health together they shared a list of list who serve seniors and people with disabilities. the intent with this list is to use the limited number of key and current contacts who can disseminate or distribute information about emergencies and resources to their clients or e list similar to the old phone concept. these key contacts can also send information upwards to the emergency operation center to let emergency managers know what might be needed to serve people with disabilities in the community. tara also talked about the mapping process that identifies dialysis treatment in the city. and places that will provide services when sites are damaged after an emergency or
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disaster. collectively the services main -- maintain a 1-800 number plus a number to somebody -- something we would want to publicize on our website and through three -- 311. i have a little bit more here. i was trying to cut this down. the client have one or more cases ranging in multiple disabilities from mental illness to mobility conditions. the hot group works everyday with people living with addiction to
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drugs or alcohol and long-term elk -- exposure to their condition. they may need help finding clients who have scattered due to the change in landscape. the client will be transmitted and separated from their support systems including key medications which may include methadone that helps them manage their disability. the cdc talked to supportive workers who may receive services after receiving specialized training. the hot team client will not probably do well in a general population shelter will be ill equipped to provide the support they need. cindy from the department of public health gave a presentation on the
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medical shelters and people who require medical daily support which is quite different from person care assistance. a medical shelter would serve those who would require wound care or access to equipment especially equipment like ventilators that require electricity. a medical shelter would been intended to reduce the burden on hospitals which should be to referred to people with acute needs. this is for people with functional needs. we agree that this is important to keep on training shelter workers to make that distinction. the next ddpc meeting in may will be devoted to a more intense conversation with the key list. the purpose is to talk about how we would
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activate the list and expectations or agreement for how information will be shared. this concludes the ddc report finally, the next meeting friday may 1 from 1:30 to 3:30 in city hall here. >> thank you. next we have public comment on items not on the agenda. mr. brown? >> thank you. i want to thank the disability commission, the mta for these new boxes that are disabled accessible and seating for seniors and used in a number of route. i saw a poster on a two command bus the
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other day who say they plan to include these in the next few years. i hope they service all the people. now bad news, i was at the library 2 weeks ago and noticed on the men's floor that the two stalls that served accessible people are out of order and two2 units were out of order there. i would hope that the library, i know the funding is over for the year now but i hope they can get funding to maintain these facilities for the comfort and safety of all people going to the library. i commented on this a few years ago and you did a great job in getting this rectified. i hope you can do it again for the safety and comfort of
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the public. thank you. thank you, is there any other public comment at this time? come forward. >> hi, my name is keith dennis. i'm a long time resident of san francisco. god bless you auchlt what i want to speak about is the roads that need to be more accessible to people with disabilities. that street i'm talking about is divisadero street
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between gary and sutter. i went there to see my doctor and i was amazed how bad shape the street was let alone the curb cuts are too high and sometimes my vision goes bad where i need the yellow, i don't know the strip, but i know you smart people do, the yellow strip with the bumps on it so i know i'm not running off into the curb into the street. i ask the council members to please look at the streets on divisadero between gary and sutter. there are a lot of people with disabilities who go see their doctor at ucsf or moint zion. it's only fair that we can go there to see our
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doctors. thank you very much and god bless you. >> thank you very much. >> carla, did you have a response? >> i just want to let the public commenter to know that we will log that for existing curb ramps to be built and to make sure they are a safe path to travel. physical truncated domes or detectable warnings. >> yellow bumpy things are just as good. >> it's a good description. [ laughter ] >> any further public comment? seeing none, we'll move on. correspondence? >> there is one item of correspondence to let the public know that the connor house inc., a non-profit organization has three vacancies on their board. if you are interested you can call
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them at 1415. 864-7333. or r at connor at org. >> next we have council member comments and announcements. do i have any announcements? none? very well. before we adjourn i would like to say as we mentioned derek zarda a couple times in our meeting and he was council cochair. he died tragically late in january and we miss him dearly. today we are going to adjourn in
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silence in the memory of derek zarda.
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>> good morning, everybody. welcome to beautiful delores park. this is a long time coming. back in 2008, voters approved a clean and safe neighborhood parks bond which allocated about $14 million to improve this incredible park. our goal together we are going to build the new dolores park that is going to be built to last. it is going to retain all of it's important features, all of it's historic qualities, all of it's essential beauty. but yet be built with the idea that this is whenever people come. >> we are going to be renovating all six tennis
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court's, replacing the basketball court with operations underneath so the staff has the ability to maintain the park. we are completely renovating the irrigation system and in addition to the operations we are building two new restroom buildings. this fund was part of the park renovation fund. we knew community was very supportive of a renovation fund. we engaged in a community process which we began with the park to do a detailed assessment of the condition of the park and very details conversation about what we can do in the park and utilize what we can.
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>> parks are where people can gather and where to relax and a lot of people in the city don't have back yards and this is where we come to be with our community. >> 1, 2, 3. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> the work begins.. >> hi, i'm frank jorge golden go up a utility supervisor for the distribution system i offer seizing see the personnel that install water maidens and water carbon monoxides i've personal proud to work with city and distribution place whether a fire or main break those folks come on scene and get the job done 3450r7b9 what time they're
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here to take care of each other and make it so a safe and secure way i was encouraged to learn to deal with the services and breaks and i wanted to move into understanding how to do main connections one the great things that the sfpuc to move to different sections in if you're tdr in learning a different job you have the ability to move up i courage anyone to step out of their comfortable zone and work on a system as large as a our water system we started from one end and keep on going it's a fascinating job and i'm going to stay here because i'll never learn everything to learn about this systemyou.
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>> what do you think about working at an airport and i love it is busy all the time. >> we want it to be an those away was this is a venture if i didn't love it i'll be an accountant. >> we want the experience that is a non-airport experience the negative stigma we're trying to erase that. >> everything is in a bad food
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to excite them about the food and they have time to learn about us. >> people are imitated by traveling and the last thing to do is come to a place fill of chaos. >> telling me how the extent of napa a farms came about. >> it was a vision of the airport director he had a suspicion of a really cool gourmet speciality market locally friendly products this market local flavors this is the best. >> can we get a little tour. >> absolutely (laughter) ♪ ♪ >> so first on our tour. >> we have the clock we like to call it. >> this is coordinating it is
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made in san francisco. >> what about the customer presence. >> we like to get the permanent farther i love the cappuccino and you have to go to multiple places for the cupcakes the cup a cakes from kari's people want to live here they're longing phone call for one thing in one spot in you know anything about san francisco the cheese the most popular cheesy think a lot of the people from the west coast say so this the real san francisco sour dough and they're curious. >> you find people respond to the idea of organic and absolutely. >> this is autumn. >> thank you, thank you and there's a lot of personal touch. >> i see san francisco.
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>> it's very hands on. >> what's the most popular items. >> this is quite surprising our fresh jotting this is the chronicle special a bowl of warm oats and coconut that's mites farther. >> and speaking of drinks tell me again the cocktail scenes is that one, the things your known for . >> the cocktails are fantastic. >> really. >> fresh ingredients we don't have a mixture it to order this is our marcus bloody mayor. >> farmer's market bloody mary the bloody marys in the airport
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are great shikz it up. and then we're going to garnish it with olives. and some lime and a fresh stalk of selly. right on. >> we like >> the annual celebration of hardly strictly bluegrass is always a hit now completing itself 12 year of music in the incredible golden gate park. >> this is just the best park to come to. it's safe. it's wonderful and such a fun time of the year. there is every kind of music you can imagine and
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can wander around and go from one stage to another and just have fun. >> 81 bands and six stages and no admission. this is hardly strictly bluegrass. >> i love music and peace. >> i think it represents what is great about the bay area. >> everyone is here for the music and the experience. this is why i live here. >> the culture out here is amazing. it's san francisco. >> this is a legacy of the old warren hel ment and receive necessary funding for ten years after his death. >> there is a legacy that started and it's cool and he's done something wonderful for the city and we're all grateful. hopefully we will keep this thing going on for years and years to come.
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. >> good evening and welcome to the march 18, 2015 meeting of san francisco board of appeals the presiding officer is commissioner president lazarus and she's joined by our vice president commissioner vice president honda's and commissioner fung and commissioner wilson to my left is robert ryan the deputy city attorney and provides the board with advise at the board is mr. pacheco and i'm sdng the boards director we have departments with cases before the