the other direction across the street is our provider enrollment center for inhome support. that is a confusing block because that is where mission plits and turned into ottis. we'll have more accessible parking for people who are dropping off so it will be better site than the county veterans service office has now because on van ness they are at 27 van ness and don't have a area for people to come be dropped off or park, so we should have a little better access there. the door is on gough, but the building is mainly on ottis. >> the big yellow building? >> i think it is brown. >> there is the parking lot along- >> there is parking they will

use for 2 gough and recurb it or make it so that it is not for public parking, it is just for parking for 2 gough >> loading and unloading >> right and disability parking. >> great. i want our viewers and audience to know where this will be because i wandered around the block looking for it >> we just put the sign up so we have the city seal and name the site. benefit and resource hub. it is beautiful building and a great space. it will feel like a nice welcoming environment and won't feel like i'm coming in to handle my head cal application, it will be a lot more than that. very excited about it. >> my other question is respect

with community liaisons you have inside the building helping people get oriented and to do satisfy action surveys, do you think you will hire people with disabilities and older adults that reflect the population that use the suvss? >> that is exactly the hope. we will contract with community based organization. we haven't selected that agency yet but that is the scope of service they will hire people with disabilities and/or seniors so they reflect the people coming to the site. it is no wrong door motto so people who may not have a disability or senior or adupt without a disability may come in because we are also part of a network of sites in the city that provide benefits assistance. but it is a center that we are really

targeting serving seniors and adults with disabilities >> great. that is it for me. >> um, i want to open public comment. anyone on the bridge line? okay. thank you. >> i thought i left out staff. my apology to staff. any questions >> just a very brief comment. i would like to echo jasons comments. it is a lovely space with a little signage it will be a lot easier to find. for those that know the neighborhood it is where the power exchange used to be so that is a interesting rebranding. [laughing] it is one of our mod architectural so it is a space

i'm familiar with doing the plan and field check. i'm intersested in the lei ozen that help people navigate the space and i am delighted to hear that is part the plan and will work with cbo's to find folks like that. in light of the general focus of the meeting about employment wouldn't it be wonderful if the staff members could become city employees instead of just member thofz cbo company? we would love to see more opportunities again for older adult squz people with disabilities >> point well taken. thank you. >> to the chair as well. jason, thank you so much. i know we have

been talking about the idea of hiring or employment opportunity for seniors and people with disabilities. we had also talked about the communication access and connection with assistive technology, adaptive technology which i understand is part of your computer lab, what about tablets and vri capability, are your folks going be able to get connection to communication access for folks or assistive listening devices for folks who they need assistance with communication other than language. >> we have a video interpreting that will be set up all the interview room jz our tablets and we-that is fairly easy from a it perspect positive just a matter of getting the licenses but we

have a commitment from hsh to have that. listening devices i put in aordser for that. i talked with people at mod to get ideas so we are looking at having material in braille, those listening devices, the video interpreting, making sure thingerize in accessible print and also just in the buzzers are another example of just how we want to make this a really welcoming environment and not have to worry if someone can hear over the intercom there number is being called or don't have to worry about seeing their number over a large screen tv. that is something i have been concentrateing on making sure it is aachy sssable site as possible. we are suving seniors and people with disabilities so it

is important and i'm sure we will learn there is more we will need to do so we are thinking of that and if you have other recommendations happy to take those on. >> i hope in your contractor selection process you choose perhaps a number of groups rather than just one that can address and offer you liaisons that reflect both younger adults with disabilities and seniors. often times organizations tend to focus on one or the other, so i would like to caution you to set basically performance standards for numbers of peep youngal adults with disability versus seniors or vice versa so there is a good mix

of abilities and visibility and all. >> i think for the next time i will talk about 2 gough when it is real and it will be, i promise, i think having the contract monitor for the community leaiz anh project talk about be a great idea. they are the hand on and i won't be the contract monitor but you point is well taken and bring that back. we are not looking at hiring just a couple people but the idea is hiring a pool of people so i don't know what the number may be but it isn't just a couple people. we want to rotate a number of people into these positions. >> that's great. thank you. >> does staff have any other questions? thank you. >> thank you very much. >> we will go on to number 9,

report from the cochair and chip supanich donated his time to me >> i have it 2 things per taining to the long term care council which is a advisory body much like this one that advises the mayor and board of supervisors pertaining for long term services for people with disability squz look at thijs for people to stay in their homes as they age with our without a disability and they are up to a couple things now. first of all, for those that follow local government and government politics, the budget season is about to begin the begin thofg year and they are trying to get a

head start lobbying for these very important funds . in fact, their ask is quite large this year, it is seberal million more dollars than they received this past year. not the council but the organizations that provide the services so if you have something you would like tholong term care coordinating council to know about i suggest you come to next meeting or lrf r after that. they meet the second thursday every month including december and the next meeting is december 10 from 1 o'clock to 3 o'clock in the afternoon in the building address is 1 south van ness which is the b of a building on corn of van ness and market. it is on the second floor and as you go up to the second floor are thereare signs directing to

the room. i suggest sth disability community sow show up and speak out and com#7b89sd on matters pertain toog the suvss we need so badly. also with the long term care coordinating council is they have a work group working on hiv and aging and they will get a report at the december 10 meeting about their findings, research and what they find is the needs for a aging community of hiv positive people. very interesting and pertains to the larger community as well. the lgbt community and larger community of all of us. i encourage you to atened and comment. thank you. >> thank you cochair supanich. for time same we'll move to item number 10, report from the director of the mayors office on disability. >> thank you cochair

[inaudible] it has been a long time since we met. it means there were so many topics of events that happened between it was hard to choose what to talk about today. i'll focus on just 3, but i hope that everybody got a chance to atened the ada summit and the disability unity festival held in san francisco in september and i also hope the people got a opportunity to atened the super fest film festival. ardana atkins was a jur or judge to select the films and it was great experience to see films that are either made for people with disabilities or by people with disabilities. broad spectrum. my 3 topics i want to talk about today are a disaster resilience summit. i also want to gave briefing on

superbowl 50 and update on affordable housing. so, 2 weeks from now on tuesday december 1, here in city hall there will be a disaster resilience summit in the north light court running fraul 8:30 to 1 p.m. and there will be remarkess by mayor ed lee and nayoma kelly and [inaudible] from the city of new orleans. the focus will be how we can work toort on a neighborhood level to prepare and respond to a disaster. the city has a program called the ecp or emplowered communities program and there are 7 different neighborhoods that have signed up. the first resilient neighborhood is diamond height followed by bay views

[inaudible] brotherhood way. diamond height is the leader. they organized around the needs of the neighborhood residence including a large number of people who are older a dulted or people that live with disabilities and in the organizing they brought in neighborhood merchants because diamond heights has a shopping center and there is a drugstore and in the stropling center there is a supermarket. on the perimeter of the shopping center there is a church and what that brings all together is really the supplies needed to help support people after disaster as well as a play to be able to create a neighborhood shelter location. so, one the things that the resilient diamond heights talked about was well being checks for their

neighbors and how we can evacuate people living in multi-story buildsings who may need help after power outages. the planning under the epc project is following that philosophy that comes out of the disability of nothing about us without us and that is why it is so very important to participate in these summits because when this summit takes plains 2 weeks, there will be a series of workshops that occur after the program. these workshops are a opportunity for people to identify the gap and needs and to start making this relationships with their neighbors so that we can be self sufficient on a neighborhood basis after a disaster. there will be asl interpretation for this summit as well as captioning for the speakers but if people want

toper tace in the workshop and like asl our captioning thaig should contact 98ing web at the mayors office of disublth which is 415-554-6789 thmpt date is tuesday december 1 in city hall san francisco from 8:30 to 1 and for other details go to the website, which is www empower sf.org. the next topic is superbowl 50 and if you haven't heard san francisco is host thg superbome february of 2016 and this in light that the game is played in santa clara. in san francisco there will be a lot of events. they will start on january 29 which is a friday and they

will end with a big game february 7. here are a couple basics about the superbowl 50. san francisco isn't the organizer of the event t is the sfr bowl 50 host committee and nfl. i mention that in terms of managing expectations because we have a lot of input in this but it really is a event that is thrown by a private party. there will be 2 primary venues, the fist is called the nfl experience and that will be at the maus connie convention center north and south and west and what will hapson this will be a by invitation or ticket only event so it is a private party. they will close down howard street very similar to what they do for the orgical world so any the traffic

disruptions you experience with oracle world or sales force is replicated for the nfl experience. the second venue is called, superbowl city and this is open to the public. it will take place on market street along the embarcadero and there will be a closure of market street from beale to the embarcadero and partial closure of embarcadero. there will be different vendors and entertainment and information that will be setting up in market street itself as well as along the embarcadero at justin hurmen plaza and around the baunchy courts. what that means for people who live or work in san francisco is that there is going to be traffic disruptions because most the

transportation systems actually terminate at the end of market street. we have good transportation planners who are carefully putting together the rerouting of different bus lines, most of them will be going down to mission street, but what is really important to understand if you commute by either the fairy or embarcadero muni or bart station you can expect some delays because in light of security concerns we have seen around events lake boston and paris there will be security check points you have to pass through to join the superbowl experience and during the rush hour times that may be a lot of people to manage. what our office will do is issuing a lot of communications,

adviseries telling people how best to continue with their daily living without being disrupted by a big party. our office is working closely with the host committee around the issues like permitting depails as well as making sure that the plan will be maintaining accessibility at all times and also making recommendations about effective communications. so, we'll have more details to share at the january meeting and might even find it helpful to get a briefing from the host committee as we get close to that big party. my last update is about affordable and accessible housing and we had such great news in november that proposition a passed. it will be providing 310 million dollars for both the reduction and the acquisition of affordable housing. what i love about

publicly funded affordable housing is that means our office gets to insure that will be accessible housing as well because of our architectural access program. other great news is that the transfer of the former housing authority propts is taking place under the rental assistance demonstration project and under this new housing and urban development model, non profit housing providers will take over these properties and have the opportunity to make very long needed repairs and improvements to 32 sites and about 4500 units. they are investing 1.4 billion theres into upgrading our former housing authority sileths. one the big

improvements after big repairs like whetherization by putting iproofs and sideings and painting is we are fally getting fully accessible mobility dwelling units as well as communication units in addition to accessible paths of travel that connect the different buildings to things like our community center. this work is going forward in phases. our office is working for what seems like around the clock during plan check on phase one which has 18 sites and then phase 2 will be arriving in a matter of weeks. it has been a huge effort city wide to process all these permits but what has been a incredible opportunity and privilege is the chance to really improve the quality of life for so many residence with such great need. so, that concludes my directors

report and at this time what i would like to do is turn things over to nathan web who is the mayors office on disability office operations manager and he will share with you information about a recent event. >> thank you. >> thank you carla. good afternoon council. thank you for allowing me the chance to talk about the community forum, my offices, the mayors office on disability in partnersure with sf public library [inaudible] held at the cor etauditorium last night. this community forum was for the deaf and hard of hearing communities. our office wanted to hear from these communities and get a better understanding of the challenges this dem graphic faces when trying to obtain city services. i worked at mod the

last 18 months and i had a few client with hearing impairment both deaf and hard of haerbing tell he how up setting it is to try to get services from other departments. i had a number of deaf and hard of hearing clients sit down and talk to me and share stories with the problems they encountered when trying to take care of business or when trying to participate and enjoy simple pleasures offered through the city. throw these conversations i sigh a common position of where the individuals stand. a position all most to the point of dispair and resistant. resistment and dispair fueled by local government agencies or city contractors not providing adequate communication written or lip readen or slowly lip readen or exclude them entirely from activities or programs they are

entitled to participate in as well. many the deaf and hard of hearing clients know their rights of the ada which should bring them hope. yet constant denial of service or exclusion of participation left many of deaf and hard of hearing feeling disheartened because they are in a ever lasting battle fighting for joiths ookual opportunities. i want share a second story real quick a. few week ago our office had a city agency sen over a deaf man for us to talk to in regards to services they provide. this agency tried communicated with the man but it was far from effective. by the time this individual got to our office he was furious with the treatment from the other agency mpt to help deescutate the frustration i assisted the man by use thg little sign i know but primary uses

the video interpreter. vri is video conference and electronic technology inconjungz with high-speed internet that provide interpreting mpths i was able to talk with the client understand what the problem was and what able to assist by calling the other department to figure things out for him. the client was the office took the time with communication when the other office sent him off confused. after the fact after our office discussed with this with the aijs this individual was tolds by the same department if he wants services he has to provide his own interpreters thmpt disdenial to effective communication is enough to discourage anybody. with these type orphcases and the few we have happen to

hear about it made me wonder how many deaf and hard of hearing individuals experience this same treatment. this prompted a initiative to holds a community conversation, a conversation ato allow the opportunity to discuss access right, communication access right, effective communication, the type of work mod does and how we want to be better allies. we talked about advocacy and mdc as well in this discussion we wanted to hear from these individuals first hand what problems they face with the city and how we can best serve them. we received pretty good feed back. some feed back is what we can do to make our suvls more widely known to the deaf and hard of hearing communities. we received feed back on treatment as well as access and effective communication issues in everything from employment to public accommodations to local

government. through this feed back we not only hope to become better allies for this group, but gain a better understanding of the level of accessible by the deaf and hard of hearing communities in the city of san francisco. i believe my deputy director may have more to say in regards to some the feedback we received. >> thank you, nathan >> staff, thank you, nathan. actually i don't. you have done a great job and want to publicly cu-mind you for taking this under-for this be a hard project for you. your baby. i just follow along with your leadership so this was your opportunity to shine so thank you. by the way, he did a lovely signing on

stage with-he is quite comp tent asl signing, so it is a pleasure to have someone in our office who is getting a warm welcome to to a community that doesn't aunch get seen >> i just want to chime in and thank [inaudible] for sponsoring this at the library and the mayors office on disability having the council there, it was a good tonight because the council wanted to reconnect and outreach with the deaf and hard of hearing community and nice to new and old friends eve wn the technical difficulties we had. we began a dialogue in addressing the communication access issues, so i hope the difficulties don't continue but the partnership still does and welcome you to the meetings and working with you and thank you for being here.

>> we will go on to the next agenda item which is reports from the disaster prepairdedness committee thmpt cochair which is myself. the ddpc had 2 meetings and i did have notes from september and november because of time constraints i'll review the november notes. hold on, please. mayor disabilities council subcommittee on disaster prepareardsness met november 6, 2015 and focused on el 9o. the meeting was well attended and included memberoffs city deerment pas, public helt, emergency management, human sunchss as well as community organizations in home support services, public

support, sf card, aging and disability, friendly sf. the first part the meeting including a presentation from roger [inaudible] from national weather service in monterey who shared the updates on the el 9ee information. we can't be concern certain on the mass of storms expected from late december and up to manch. for san francisco some of the implications can include lands slide power outage due to fallen trees or flooding, city aijss pg & e and public utilities are hard at work preparing for increased rain. the human service ages talked about efforts topoid emergency support for the homeless population that resist comes into the homeless filter system. some of the ideas included ericting

temporary structures that provide a dry and warm place for anyone to come in during days of anticipated storems. the next meeting will be helds friday january 8, 2016 from 1:30 to thre3:30. room 141. this will include information on for superbowl 50. everyone is welcome to attend. for more information about the disability disaster preparedness committee contact the mayors office on disability at 1-415-554-6789. e-mail, mod @ san francisco gov.org. thank you. this concludes the reports. now

we'll go on to item 12, public comment. is there any public comment on todays agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mayors disability council? anyone on the bridge line? any public comment? no? okay. thank you. we will go ahead and close public comment. we will go to information item 13 any correspondence >> no correspondence >> item 14, discussion. council member wong. >> it is a very simple comment just like to wish everybody happy holidays and looking forward to seeing you all

in 2016. >> cochair supanich. >> i believe there will be no ndc meeting in december in lou of that there may or may not be a holiday party, we have yet to decide, but call mod office the number we have given you 10 times today, 554-6789. and many of you will receive invitations as well so look forward to that. thank you. >> thank you everyone. so, the last agenda item which i know there won't be changing is to adjourn and thank you everyone for being here and have a nice weekend. [meeting adjourned]

>> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that

it is all their own work. >> what happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. as the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. that is how sought after the spaces are. you might get as many as 150 street artists to show up for 50 spaces. >> what other areas can a licensed street artist go to? >> they can go to the fisherman's wharf area. they can go in and around union square. we have space is now up in the castro, in fact. >> how many are there? >> we have about 420. >> are they here all year round? >> out of the 420, i know 150 to

sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many. >> how long have you been with this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion comes and goes. >> i think that you can still find plenty of titis perhaps. >> this is because the 60's is retro for a lot of people. i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program.

i'm excited to go shopping. >> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products that use cell? >> we have these lovely constructed platters. we make these wonderful powder bowls. they can have a lot of color. >> york also using your license. -- you are also using your license. >> this means that i can register with the city. this makes sure that our family

participated in making all of these. >> this comes by licensed artists. the person selling it is the person that made it. there is nothing better than the people that made it. >> i would like you to meet michael johnson. he has been in the program for over 8 years. >> nice to me you. what inspired your photography? >> i am inspired everything that i see. the greatest thing about being a photographer is being able to show other people what i see. i have mostly worked in cuba and work that i shot here in san francisco. >> what is it about being a street artist that you particularly like?

>> i liked it to the first day that i did it. i like talking to mentum people. talking about art or anything that comes to our minds. there is more visibility than i would see in any store front. this would cost us relatively very little. >> i am so happy to meet you. i wish you all of the best. >> you are the wonderful artist that makes these color coding. >> nice to me to. >> i have been a street artist since 1976. >> how did you decide to be a street artist? >> i was working on union square. on lunch hours, i would be there visiting the artist. it was interesting, exciting, and i have a creative streak in

me. it ranges from t-shirts, jackets, hats. what is the day of the life of a street artist? >> they have their 2536 in the morning. by the end of the day, the last people to pack the vehicle probably get on their own at 7:30 at night. >> nice to me to condemn the -- nice to meet you. >> it was a pleasure to share this with you. i hope that the bay area will descend upon the plaza and go through these arts and crafts and by some holiday gifts. >> that would be amazing. thank you so much for the hard work that you do.

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