from 11:30 to 1:30 in city hall. we'll have entertainment. speeches, awards and proclamations and more. you will hear more about this in the coming months as we give you details. speaking of events i want to tell you about our fabulous website, ada bay area.org. nathan web, our mo d staff is the one who should get credit for this and it's updated on almost a daily basis. the website is the place where we'll be using a calendar to promote celebration events that are happening throughout the year and throughout the bay area. for example, we've already had a number of art event at the young museum and an upcoming event at the sylmar, one of the art

commission neighborhood sites coming up next week, is that right, joanna and our art list is on that website and the exhibit at the ed roberts campus. that event focuses on first person account of the 504 occupation of the federal building back in san francisco in 1977. the list all the supporters and on the political side we have the board of supervisors, we have the mayor, senator mark leno, assemblyman, tom yann oh and administrator and we have 20 different disability advocacy representation and also things as widespread as

our local independent living centers and the california cfilc. california foundation for independent living centers. so it's very impressive. it changes as i say daily. so i encourage you to visit the site. it has some disability history and links to ada resources. the address is ada 25 bay area.org. my deputy director joanna reminds me that we encourage everybody to tell us about events that you know about so we can list them on our website. anything that has a connection to the ada and speaking of connections to the ada, early whier this week our entire office attended an ada conference in oakland. it was organized by the

specific ada center which is a local ada technical assistance center of the western region of the u.s.. the conference had distinguished speakers from the access board, the department of justice, civil rights commission, california equal and fair housing, equal employment division and yahoo and many more and we had breakout sessions on housing and technology and accessibility standards on the ada and california and the building codes. there were 200 people attending including all seven of us and an at some point to meet all aspects of ada and meet our representative throughout california and civil rights enforceers and advocates. >> last of all i want to talk

about derek zarda. i wish to close an update on our former chair of our mayor's disability council. we september -- sent you a lovely obituary about clic.org. and repeat again the website where you can see derek's obituary. cfilc.org. derek passed away in january in taipei in taiwan. it's taken some time for the family to take care of the business. last we're jessie wrote the tentative date for the memorial is april

18th, the plan location is the independent living resource center sf located at 825 howard street. i want to emphasize that we don't have that date fully confirmed yet. but we will commit to bringing you updates as we learn them. that concludes my report. at this time i would like to turn things over to joanna for a brief announcement and after heather for a report on our activities >> may i ask a quick question. will we be posting the website the exact date of derek's memorial service oovment >> we will be honored to post that on our website. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, council members, cochairs. i just have a brief

announcement. this is this year actually this past month for the second year in a row we initiated the ada coordinator's training academy for occf departmental ada coordinators. this year we are conducting five sessions two 2 hours a piece and they will be focusing on different themes relevant and pertinent to access and to the department's last session focused on technological advancement and communication access including section 508 of the rehabilitation act, accessible it and video remote interpretation services. we had about 20 people attending and there is a lot of buzz and excitement as we build capacities throughout the department.

now i will turn it over to heather to give you a little bit of the past couple months report. >> good afternoon council and members of the public. i'm heather kittel on the mayor's office on disability. i'm going to be giving you some information today about the different trend that we had related to the complaints that we received, request for accommodations and different types of inquiries that we received from members of the public as well as other city departments. so, this will focus on the months of january and february. in those months we received 15 complaints. and they fall into two major categories. one being public right of way access and maintenance of accessible features in city facilities and programs.

the majority of these complaints involved obstruction to the public right-of-way to the various construction activities with non-compliant barricades and none usable ramps. another obstruction to right-of-way are caused by curb ramps, debris cause by a fire and a door for intruding from a sidewalk and blocks of sidewalk. in these these cases collaborated with sf mta or public works to investigate or revolve the issues. the maintenance of accessible features complaint involve inoperable elevator. in this case a work order to repair the elevator was issued. we also received 5 request for

accommodation for individuals requesting that trees for the project not be installed outside of their homes due to respiratory condition or environmental sense itivity. there is a request from an individual to have a lower bunk and a support animal as an accommodation to their disability. this is a reminder to the public if you experience any type disability access issue to contact the mayor's office on disability at 415-554. 6789 or you can simply call 311 to file a complaint. our office also received 131 inquiries which involved information and referral and request for ada technical assistance. 92% of these

inquiries were from the public and 8% from city departments. the majority of these inquiries involve questions regarding reasonable accommodations in private housing. specifically related to service and support animals as a reasonable accommodation. i'm going to take this as an opportunity to provide some general information around this area, and if there is further questions that folks such as tennants and/or landlords have about this, please feel free to contact our office at the number i provided earlier. 415-554-6789. so there are two primary fair housing laws that apply to private housing. one being a federal law called the fair housing amendments act. the other is a state law called the fair employment and housing act. both of these

laws offer protections for individuals with disabilities. and this protection is both for individuals who require the use of a service animal as well as the support animal. let me go into a little bit of detail about what those terms mean. first off, a service animal is an animal that is trained to provide a specific service related to the individual's disability. while a support animal offers mere emotional comfort just by being present with that individual. that comfort is due to a disability related to reason. that distinguishes and support animal from just a general pet because there is that disability connection. both of these animals can be considered a reasonable accommodation for a person with a disability. when we are talking about housing, a simple term to use to refer to both animals is assistance animals. so, if a person is applying to

a unit that has a no pets building or living in a unit that has a no pets building and need to file accommodation request, the status for usually accommodation to be to contact the landlord of the property management and this can be done verbally and/or in writing. it's a good idea to do it both and if you have it in writing it's for yourself to remember how you initiate that request and the landlord my request a letter from the professional so to confirm that you have a disability. if that connection is an obvious connection between what it provides and the disability, there would not be

any necessary further inquiries necessary. so you might not need to even provide that letter. there are in some cases reasons that a request could be denied. and one of that would be if there is a health or safety issue. and this is something that landlords should keep in mind as well as tennants. that the animal should be under their control at all times. and if there is any further questions like i mentioned earlier, please feel free to give us a call back. my name is heather kiter. at 554-6789. thank you and that concludes my report. >> thank you, everybody. next we are going to hear a report from the disability disaster preparedness committee from denise senhaux

and recent cochair. >> okay, this is the disaster preparedness report. we met with the mayor's office on disability and the mayor'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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 silence in the memory of derek zarda..

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