management. in fact the department of emergency management is actually talking with the media and television stations to see if we can patch asl interpretation into their television feeds as a tool during emergencies to be effective in our communications. there is a lot of really exciting things happening with video remote interpreting. speaking of emergency management team. tomorrow is the 109th anniversary of the san francisco earthquake. i'm going to be at the fountain at 5:00 a.m.. if anyone would like to join me. i want to acknowledge that the city has been doing so much to try and build an earthquake resistance environment here in our infrastructure . we have our own city hall that was severely damaged in

the loma prieta earthquake. we have the new san francisco hospital building that will be opening in 2016. the retrofitted fire station and the water supply system and the soft story mandatory retrofit program that is going to be upgrading some of our most important vulnerable affordable housing. the city can't really do it all for everybody. i always like to use the anniversaries of these big disasters as a reminder that each of us need to take this responsibility and make us as prepared as possible. this is my reminder that i give you probably at least twice a year to make a plan, especially communication plan and a reunification plan. put together a kid with your basic grab and go features and remember to include your important medications or assistive devices and think about the ways that you

too can become an emergency respond tore help out our friends, our neighbors and our families to get through a difficult time. the way we do that is by training. if you haven't already taken training through the nerd program, i want to remind you that it really easy and fun and all you do is go to the nert website to find out when that starts. that concludes my director's report and at this time i would like to ask heather kittel to give us a quick report on ada. >> good afternoon, council member an members of the public. i'm heather kitten the ada office of mayor

on disability and will be discussing complaints on reasonable accommodations. in the month of march we received a total of 18 complaints which is an increase in the amount of complaints from the months of january and february. combined. these complaints fall into two major categories. the public right-of-way access and maintenance of accessible features in a city facilities and programs. many of the complaints involved obstructions to the public right-of-way due to construction projects and over grown vegetation blocking the sidewalk. in these cases we collaborate with the public works to investigate and remedy the issues as soon as possible. we also received complaints about steep curb ramps that were difficult to use and the

absence of marked crossings. the list involves broken power lifts and broken elevators. in these cases reports for repair work orders were issued. if you experience difficulty with these items, please call the office at 415-554-6789 or you can call 311. we also received calls for accommodation. i'm going to talk about a request inform accommodation. it was filed by an individual who had a learning disability who requested they be granted additional time to speak during public comment at a public meeting inform this case they reported they direct connection between their

disability and that need and due to the learning disability it takes a while to communicate what they are trying to say t board did grant this accommodation. they reasonably modified their policy to grant them some additional time. we also received 77 inquiries which involved information and referral and request for ada technical assistance. out of these 99% we received from the public and 1 percent from city departments. most of these inquiries involved questions about reasonable accommodations specifically related to housing and service animals. we also received a lot of inquiries about reasonable accommodation related to employment. and for those who don't understand what a reasonable accommodation is. what it is is a change or an exception to the way we usually do something in order to afford a person with a disability an

equal opportunity. if you are interested in learning more about reasonable accommodations, there is actually a great resource out there, it's called the job accommodation network and it's a service that's true the u.s. department of labor. there is a technical assistance center and they provide information to not only employees but employers about their rights and responsibilities and they have a great online tool where people can search a data base for different accommodation options for different types of disabilities. let me provide you that information. the website is https: //ask jan.org/. you can contact them directly. the

voice 1-800526-7234. 187. 9743. we do not see for compliance employment related issues. if you are an employee you can contact the department of human resources. if you work for a private business, you can contact the state office. the california department of fair employment and housing. let me give you their voice number and tty number. the voice number is 1-800, 884-1684. the tty number. 1-800, 700-2320. and the resource for the federal

government, the office is called the equal employment opportunity commission. 1-800, 469-4000. or tty, 1-800, 269-6800. this concludes my report. >> thank you, director johnson and ms. kittel for your report. we are going to move on to no. 10, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc, each speaker is limited to three minutes.3 minutes. >> i have rue krofs.

>> thank you. i have three items today. my name is rue krofs. i have been a cab driver since 1973. i only quit driving last year. my first item is about the phone app for cab drivers. it's called flywheel. at the present time probably 90% of the cab drivers are using this. you use the fly wheel app. you can get almost every cab in town except for this little problem. fly wheel recently increased the amount that they are taking from drivers from 10% to 13 and change. from the drivers point of view it was completely arbitrary.

you got a message on your phone that says, say yes to the contract and it was over. it was 18 pages long. i don't know how you read it that fast. nobody i know did. a lot of drivers were using the phone that flywheel allows and assigns to the driver in the cab so one driver would see this thing and the other drivers never saw they had been signed up for it. they didn't post anything with the cab companies. so lots of drivers only knew it when they realized they were making money off their flywheel. drivers are not using the flywheel app because god help us they are making more money and being treated with more respect by uber. well, if

you've got a para transit debt card, uber doesn't use that. it could cost you more. cab drivers would like to ask you to write a letter to flywheel saying you know, we don't like this increase in the personal that you are taking for cab drivers and could you meet with cab drivers. we actually had one meeting with them. so that was actually one of my items. the other two are really short. if we can have curb cuts at every bus bulb so cabs with rear loading

ramp taxi can pull in front of the bus bulb and unload directly onto the sidewalk and the other, if the elevator information font bart on the ground was included in every radio traffic report. i leave my home in the morning. i have no idea if i can get on the bart. thank you. >> thank you. jerry grace? >> i have to point out something to let you know very soon i'm going to get a flyer to you about september

20, the golden gate thing is coming up. at this point i have no flyer yet. very soon a flyer will come to you. second thing i want to say, if they have the show, the new buses come and i am wondering. i don't know if it good or not, but you discussed it in a meeting about this to see if they show this in front of the city hall and the next time you have a meeting talk about people think about the bus and what they think do they like it or not like it and come down and check it out and then you guys, we will come back and talk about

it on tv live and tell them what you guys think about it and all you guys talk about it and we will talk about it to see if it's good or not good. it's what we did to alameda county and maybe change things around or maybe not. we don't know what the buses look like. we'll check it out. if the bus do show up and we check it out what we say. what we think about it. or have any other questions about any of the buses that do show whether they change or what it would look like. we don't know anything

change and we don't know what the bus looks like. one last thing i want to say something else very important. if people go to from col on sunday to august, they are working on the track. it's very important from now to august. every sunday working on it all day long. that's very important. thank you. >> any further public comment? okay. >> we are going to move on to information item no. 11. is there any correspondence? >> there is no correspondence. >> thank you. we are going to move on to discussion item no. 12. any

council member comments or announcements? council member wong? >> yes, just to respond to mr. grace's comment. you know, you are certainly invited to the muni advisory committee. that's how we find out other information about the future buses and the trains that is coming out too. so we can invite you to those meetings and it's held on every third thursday of the month from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at 1 south van ness avenue. i can get your information, i think i got your contact information. i can send you the information about when the next

meeting is. okay? >> thank you. so we are going to item no. 13. to adjourn. thank you everyone for being here today and have a nice weekend. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> watching. >> ever wonder about programs the city is working on to make

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with the new take dial initiative they're getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today san francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring their used clothes to the store and deposit off.

>> textile will be accessible in buildings thought the city and we have goodwill a grant for them to design a textile box especially for families. >> goodwill the well-known store has been making great strides. >> we grateful to give the items to goodwill it comes from us selling those items in our stores with you that process helps to divert things it from local landfills if the san francisco area. >> and the textile box will take it one step further helping 1230 get to zero waste. >> it brings the donation opportunity to the donor making that as convenient as possible it is one of the solutions to

make sure we're capturing all the value in the textiles. >> with the help of good will and other businesses san francisco will eliminate 39 millions tons of landfill next year and 70 is confident our acts can and will make a great difference. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. >> whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the greater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle

damn and thanks for watching join us >> hi, i'm with building san francisco. and we have a special program of stay safe today where we're going to talk about what you can do to your home after an earthquake to make it waterproof and to be more comfortable. we're here at spur in san francisco, this wonderful exhibit of safe enough to stay. and this is an example of what your home might be like after an earthquake. and we have today with us ben latimer from tvan. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we'll talk about things you can do you don't have to be a professional contractor to make your home more livable after an earthquake. >> i want to talk about things

a homeowner can do. we have comfort and we have things like a little bit of maybe safety if your front door is ajar and waterproofing if you have a leak in your roof, or if you have broken glass on the window. >> so unr, one of the most important fib use is keeping outside out and inside in. let's look at windows. >> let's assume this window is broken in the earthquake. we have wind and rain blowing in. one of the most important things you need to do as a homeowner is secure the plastic properly. if you just take staples or nails and put them into the plastic, we're going to get a strong wind and rip it right off. what i'm going to have somebody do is they're going to have -- this is an old piece of shingle. you might have -- everybody has a piece of wood in their basement. it doesn't have to be fancy. they take out this rusty screw begun, and hopefully you have one of these. >> there is one at the neighborhood support center. >> at the neighborhood support center. you're going to wrap this plastic around this board, take

your screw. and then screw that in. >> you need a permit for this? >> you do need a permit for this. and you can contact the former head building inspector to get that permit. that's it. now when the wind blows, it's tight and it's not going to pull through, having a single point of contact. >> great. what about this door? take a look at this door. what can you do? let's say it doesn't shut tight. what can you do? >> for the sake of argument, we're on the inside. i can't lock my door at night. i have a very similar, very similar idea. i'm going to take my 2 by 4. i can put it across the jamb in the door. one. two. maybe i want another one up here, maybe another one down there. but i can go to sleep. and

that quickly, i can get it off in the morning. >> terrific. what about the roof up here? we see people throw blue tarps over their roof after an earthquake. that seems reasonable. >> i think the blue tarp is reasonable. the things that people want to know that they need to know is if you have multiple tarps, how you overlap. starting from the bottom and moving up so that you're overlapping this way. so, rain running down doesn't slide under your tarp. >> right. >> and the same technique we did over here, as silly as it may sound, wrapping the end of that blue tarp with your board and then securing that if you can underneath, if you have to on top is fine. but making sure that you don't have an area where the wind is going to get under and bill owe that tarp. >> the wind can rip it right off. >> and then you're back up there again. >> let's go inside and check out what we can do inside. >> old fun. here we go. >> so, ben, i see you have nails, universal tool right here. >> man's best friend. duct tape. let me show you a couple things we can use this for after an

earthquake. this window right here, because it's off kilter, we have open seams all along. i have a lot of air coming through. i want to stay comfortable at night. i want to keep that air out. it's as simple as that, all the way around. >> excellent. >> now i don't have any air coming in. let's say this one is one that would annoy me. everything is a little off. my doors won't stay closed. i take a piece of my favorite duct tape here, close it up. and at least it will stay out of my way when i'm trying to live throughout my day. if we're not talking about pressurized water, we're talking about just the drain, sometimes they're going to get a crack here. >> right, sure. >> and you're going to get a leak. duct tape around that is going to help us get through until we can get a plumber out and get that fixed as well. let's say we only have electricity in one room, so we're running extension cords across the house. if i'm going to run an extension cord from one room to the other, i don't want kids tripping on it. i don't want to trippon it. i take my trusty duct tape,

tape it to the floor, and i don't have to worry about it getting kicked. >> great, great. look at this. let's look at the duct tape here because we see a big -- >> yes. in the event of an earthquake, i don't think we're going to have too many -- too much debris that's safe to put into a plastic bag, even as strong as it might be. these are called vice bags. this is what they use to put rice and things when they ship it. this is something where i take my glass, i can take broken pieces of wood, i can take anything sharp and fill it. and it's not going to puncture and come out. it's not going to fall all over the floor. i've not going to have it sticking out, maybe scratch myself, cut myself or anything like that. these are a great thing to have. >> you have a little go-to box for emergencies. that's great. thanks very much for joining us, ben. it's really been interesting. and i want to thank you all for joining us here at the spur urban center. and we'll see you again

>> good afternoon and welcome to the thursday march 12th special meeting of the san francisco transportation authority board. i believe we will be joined shortly by other members of