>> you're setting up. okay. let me know. okay. i'd like to welcome all of you to the january 19 meeting of the mayor's council on disability. and i had a welcome letter that i usually read and somehow on this device that i have i couldn't find it, so i -- and i

know that usually denise reads it. she's on the bridge line. but let me -- let me just say that our meetings, i can paraphrase, are held on the third friday of every month. today it's the 19th and in february it will be on the 16th. our meetings are accessible to people who are in wheelchairs at the polk and van ness entrances. i believe on the -- one of the entrances it's wheelchair-lift only and that's on the goodlet street side. we would appreciate it if you would not use -- if you could turn off your cell phones and any pda equipment so it would

not interfere with any of the equipment here in the room. that would be greatly appreciated. if you are on the bridge line and need some assistance, please let the staff know and they will be glad to help you. when it comes time for people to speak in the audience, if you would just step up to the microphone, that would be great. if you need any assistance during the meeting, just let our staff know that. so we would like to officially welcome you to the meeting. it's very special today. let's go forward and have the roll call. and i believe that's done by heather. >> yes, it is. [roll call] denise senhaux is participating via the bridge line today.

[roll call] >> okay. i believe that does it for the council. let's move forward to the reading of the agenda. >> item 1, welcome, introduction and roll call. item 2, action item. reading an approval of the agenda. item 3, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the

mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. please approach the microphone or give your comment card to staff. item 4, information item. co-chair report. item 5, information item. report from the mayor's office on disability. please note that the director's reports can be found in the "what's new" section of mod's website. item 6, information item. co-chair elections in accordance with the mayor's disability council bylaws, article 3, section 1. there should be two co-chairs to serve the council. officer terms shall be one year. co-chairs may serve no more than two consecutive terms unless by vote membership allows the co-chair to serve beyond the two-year limit. item 7.

home care subsidy pilot program. increase awareness of san franciscans 18 years or older who have unmet home care needs of the home care subsidy pilot program and eligibility requirements. presentation by jane caruso. public comment is welcome. breaks. the council will take a 15-minute break. item 8, healthy saturdays overview. overview and discussion of healthy saturdays, partial closer of j.f.k. drive and golden gate park. presentation by gary mccoy. policy and community affairs manager, san francisco recreation and parks department. public comment is welcome. item 9, ceremonial item. the late mayor edwin lee, councilmembers, and members of the public are welcome to share thoughts, stories and memories of the late mayor, edwin lee.

item 10, public comment. items not an today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. please approach the microphone or give your comment card to the mod staff. item 11, information item correspondence. item 12, discussion item. councilmember comments and announcements. item 13, adjourned, in honor of the late mayor edwin lee. >> okay. thank you very much for reading the agenda. i appreciate that. is there a motion to approve them? >> i move to approve the minutes. >> second. >> motion moved to accept and seconded. those in favor, say aye.

any opposed? okay. it's done. number 3, public comment. items not on today's agenda, but within the -- all right. if there is anyone who would like to -- do we have any speakers' cards? >> we do not. >> we do not. okay. is there anyone from the audience who would like to make a brief comment that's not on today's agenda? >> there's no one. >> no one, okay. then we're moving on to number 4. and that's the co-chair report. well, this is the beginning of a new year of 2018. and i'd like to just give a brief report on what we did in 2017. we brought on a number of us, a

number of us were brought on as new people in february, appointed by mayor -- the late mayor ed lee. and i think we've been very active. just so outline a couple of things. i think it was in late summer-early fall, the issue of concerns about bart came up. and we had some lively discussions about that. as a result, we sent a letter to the leadership people in bart. there was someone that had -- that was deaf that brought to our attention that there's some accessibility issues in particular when it comes to being on the platform of bart. and so in our letter, we outlined those concerns, as well as the elevators. sometimes they're not always

accessible. there's some cleanliness issues in the elevators and in some bart stations. so we sent that off to bart and we hope to engage them in dialogue. second letter, the council that was sent out, had to do with employment. in october, in our meeting that was specifically related to employment, it was a lively discussion. it was great. sent a letter to mayor ed lee. and talking about the ace program. some of you were here in october, you know that ace is access to city employment. we briefly discussed that in our letter and asked the mayor that -- if we could be in conversation about expanding the ace, improving it, and looking at other avenues of bringing disabled persons into employment in san francisco city

government. there was another letter sent out to department of rec, recreation. and someone brought to our attention that they would like to see more swings on the playgrounds for children and we addressed that issue as well in terms of equipment. so those are three letters we did send out. i thought you ought to know about that. and those are some of our accomplishments. going forward, we want to do a lot more. and you will be hearing about that as we go forward. so that concludes my report for today. and now we're going to have --

our next information item is a report from the director, nicole. it's all yours. >> thanks so much, councilmen brachsten. hi, everybody. thank you for being here. so i'm going to highlight some items from my written report, which, as mentioned, you can find on our website following this meeting in case you missed any details that you would like to go over again. so i look forward to today's conversation on access to golden gate park and the supported home voucher program and our public remembrance of mayor ed lee. as always, please don't hesitate to recommend any action items as they relate to our discussion today. the december, 2017, engagement of the mdc, was a successful

holiday meet and greet. here are some of the opportunities and things that mod has been engaged in since the last time we met in november, 2017. the first item i want to talk about today is the accessible business entrance program. information about the accessible business entrance ordinance, which was legislation passed by the san francisco board of supervisors in 2016, to help ensure that all primary entrances of san francisco businesses and places of public accommodation are accessible to people with disabilities, was distributed to san francisco property owners last month. and the mayor's disability council is encouraged to add this as an update or update item from the program as an agenda item from the hearing.

next item for today is an update about accessible voting. voting accessible committee or v.a.c., highlight ed that we really need timely feedback. the california secretary of state office of voting systems technology is looking for user-testing of two vote-by-mail systems. they're specifically looking for people with disabilities that may provide feedback from any home or other computer system, where you have web browsing capability and internet access during the week of january 22, which is next week. to sign up, please call the secretary of state office of voting systems technology assessment at 916-695-1680.

or voting.systems@ sos.ca.gov. second, the san francisco department of elections seeks feedback on the implementation of remote accessible vote by mail as well as accessibility of san francisco voting and election services by next friday, january 26. this timely response will help the department of elections incorporate feedback in time for publication of their materials and other critical deadlines. you can get a link to the survey by visiting the mod homepage or contacting the department of elections. the next item for today is an upcoming at&t park evacuation exercise. the san francisco giants in collaboration with san francisco

department of emergency management will be holding an evacuation exercise following fan fest on february 10, 2018, and they're looking for volunteers with disabilities to participate in the evacuation drill. volunteers will receive a giants-branded gift and special entry into fan fest and will have opportunity to provide valuable feedback about at&t park's evacuation plan. please subscribe to the mod email news feed at sfgov.org/mod for updates on how to register for this. the next item is the bay area arts collective. they're introducing their community spotlight series, which engages community members with disabilities in accessible

design of the museum experience. the next workshop, which is on february 8, will focus on museums for inclusion, which is a program at the california academy of sciences, that targets the employment of persons with museum settings. you can look for the title, "museums for inclusion." my last item for today is a note that ed roberts day is tuesday, january 23. mod will be marking the remembrance of the birthday of ed roberts, who many consider as the father of the modern-day disability movement through a retrospective of his career and commentary on his impact. please look to your mod email subscription and facebook feed next tuesday for this. once again as mentioned, this report posts to the mod homepage following the meeting. for questions or comments or to get involved or to provide feedback on many of your items

mentioned in the report, contact mod at 415-554-6789. or mod@sfgov.org. thank you very much. >> thank you, nicole. we appreciate that. all right. let's move on to our next item, which is the co-chair elections. as noted in the reading of the agenda, we have to have these elections about once a year. however, in discussion with staff, i don't think there's enough of the councilmembers here in person to have an election. in fact, i had a discussion with denise, my co-chair partner. and we agreed that it would

probably be better to hold off these elections until february when everyone will be here. let me ask the council, is that in agreement with you? >> fine with me. >> i agree. >> you agree, kate? >> orkid? >> i agree. >> carlos? >> alex. >> sorry. >> it's fine. >> all right. let's move on to item number 7, which is the home care subsidy pilot program. and the presentation is to be made by jane caruso.

please welcome to the mike. we'd love to hear from you. >> thank you. please let me know if i should slow down or repeat anything. >> can you speak up a little bit, please? thank you. >> is that better? >> yes. >> okay. as jim said, i'm jean caruso. i also go by jeannie. and i'm the director of the pilot program funded through department of aging and adult services. it's a financial subsidy for home care for adults in san francisco age 18 and over. it's from may, 2017, through april, 2019, and the goal is to serve 175 to 250 clients. and there will be pre, mid and

post evaluations throughout the program. eligibility requirements besides being a resident of san francisco county is to have a need assistance with two activies or two instrumental activities of daily living and income up to 100% of area median income, assets up to $40,000 excluding one house and one car. information about the program foundation, our goal is to have 50% of our clients be adults age 18 to 59 and 50% older adults, 60 plus. the providers will make $15 an hour. there is a client co-payment, which is on a sliding scale, and a client orientation. and then in the independent provider mode, there's a

mandatory, independent provider training. there are two provider modes. the first is agency mode. at this time, we've contracted with compassionate community care and ioa's home care program. and then there's independent provider mode, where someone finds their own independent provider and enrolls as the employer of that provider through a payroll service that we've contracted with called home work solutions. this an overview of the enrollment process. first, someone is referred to support at home. referrals are take through ioa connect team, either over the phone or through our website. if there's a determination of eligibility at that initial referral and that comes to me for review for whether there's room for assessment, if there's

room, then there's an assessment by one of our assessment coordinators and that's done in the home. that's a financial and functional assessment. while we are confirming eligibility after that assessment, the client is asked to finish -- go through the client orientation. and then if eligibility is confirmed and orientation is complete and they would like to enroll, we go out for another in-home meeting where they sign a service plan, which determines their co-payment and voucher amount and the total amount they have to spend on home care. i mentioned that there's pre, mid, and post-evaluation. we've contracted with uccf to do those evaluations. here's how you would make referrals. ioa connect is at 415-750-4111

or at our website, web form submission, www.ioaging.org. i think i have some time for questions. >> all right. thank you for that. i appreciate it. so first of all, what i'd like to do is open up any comments or questions to my fellow colleagues who are councilmembers. if any of you wish to speak, just let me know and we'll let you go. >> i have a question. >> okay, sally and then alex, i think. >> and orkid. >> all right. >> everybody. >> everybody.

kate? >> yes, kate, too. >> let me start with sally. >> is this self-referral or referral from a doctor? >> both. people can refer anyone that they know or people can refer themselves. >> and how many people are eligible -- how many people is this program eligible to help? >> the goal is to serve 175-250 clients. because the co-pay is -- and the vouchers are at different amounts based on people's financial and functional need, that's why there's a large range of clients we may help depending on who applies. >> what are the vouchers? >> the financial subsidy that comes at support at home. the client contributes the co-pay and support at the home the voucher amount and that's the total amount. >> i will go next. >> okay. go. >> can you please talk to us, is

it in-home support services? can you touch on that? >> of course, yeah. so it looks in many ways similar to ihss, where there are two provider modes, but we're a separate pilot program with a similar model in which we to have two provider modes. one other difference is ihss is based on hours and then people have to have medi-cal and ours is a subsidy.

so once they're eligible, they get this subsidy and get to spend it however they want. >> and if, let's say, someone has in-home supporter er ier e services can they access the program or the program can access to the in-home support servic services? >> that's a good question. the lower limit of eligibility is if someone is eligible for another subsidized program, for instance, ihss with no share of cost. there are instances, though, that someone may be eligible for ihss with a high share of confident, where they would decline that and apply for support at home. >> thank you. >> orkid, you're next.

>> so suppose that -- this is a pilot program and we have a deaf-blind individual, do we have providers that can sign for them or access because there are a wide range of client and client needs. >> understand. great question. the staff will go out with interpreters, translators. we don't find the independent providers, but the agencies have committed to have various language and different accessibility capabilities opening their staff. does that answer your question? >> because it is a pilot program, i know that some people will be interested, but they're

working with private, nonprofit organizations. so it's a good and useful program to support their financial needs. >> i'm not confident that i understood the question. >> okay. we'll try with the other interpreter real quick. >> i'm just wondering, regarding nonprofit organizations if you have a client that is deaf or blind that's established with these organizations or has multiple disabilities and they're working, for example, with the private nonprofits in san francisco and will these organizations -- i'm wondering how they would coordinate with your service snz is there a financial portion that needs to be considered? what else is there? >> i think i understand better. we are working closely with the client's consent with whatever

organizations or advocates that they're connected to, one that helps us communicate better. and also allows us to most efficiently use these city dollars. so we are doing that. and then if that's not -- if they're not connected, then we are providing whatever is needed so that the program is accessible. >> thank you. >> all right. kate, you're up next. >> forgive me if i'm asking you to answer some questions that you may not be prepared to answer at this time, because my whole world is about employment, so i'm going to look at the other side. those care providers, the people you will be hiring to give the care, are you going to be doing that through the city, for instance, through the a.c.e. program? how are you going to recruit for those individuals who will be providing the services? >> thank you for your question. so to clarify, we provide the

subsidy to the support at home client and the client either engages as a client of one of the agencies who does their own hiring or the client finds an independent provider. we are doing outreach to programs like the a.c.e. program to let them know that this opportunity exists. so we hope we have gotten that awareness out, but support at home itself does not hire or provide a list of independent providers. in many cases, people already have somebody and this is an opportunity to formalize that care. we are one of the great advocates for the program with senior and disability action and along with hand in hand are providing resources to our clients to help them with that process as well. >> and specifically, what are the services that you can provide? is there a limit? i don't mean limit to the money or time, but actual, physical care? >> uh-huh. domestic services are covered.

and that includes errands and laundry, cleaning and general housework, accompaniment to medical employments. the limitations of a home care agency. so it's not nursing care or that sort of thing. >> right. okay. thank you. >> all right. sally, you had one more question? >> yes. i have a question. young adult who lives with his or her parents but is over 18, would the fact that the -- would the parents' income play into the eligibility? >> that's a good question. we are finding in this pilot program that a lot of things have to be taken on a case-by-case basis, but my initial thought would be no and that person should apply to find out. >> and if i understood alex's question correct or your

response to his question correctly, if one has ihss and no share of cost, that would be a duplication and they -- >> that's correct. >> okay. thank you. >> all right. i have just a couple of questions here and then we're going to open it up to the staff. tell us now, you said that there's some sort of shared cost or co-pay that each person has? what amount of money is that? >> it's a co-payment that on a sliding scale. it's determined based on their financial needs. currently, it's a pilot program, so to start we've broken it out evenly. people may fall in high, medium or low financial need. the co-payment would be either 20%, 33% or 50% of the voucher. >> and i know that the ihss

program, they have a mentorship program that they're putting together where they have mentors that go in and provided training and coaching to the consumers, both in person and follow up by telephone. do you have anything like that? >> i'm aware of that peer mentorship program. hand in hand is a domestic employer's nonprofit that's connected with disability action. >> lets open it up to staff. >> thank you so much for being

here. so you mentioned that you had -- the program has a target goal of 50% folks under 60 and 50% over. is that correct? >> correct. >> could you say a little bit more about where you are with that target if you were going to close out the first phase of your pile and be able to say i had the most ideal pilot experience ever, what does that look like for you and what is still missing? i'm getting at, how can we help to meet and promote some of the goals of the program? >> great question. thank you so much. currently, we're not close to the 50% breakdown, 50-50 breakdown. we have quite a ways to go to get to 50% young adults in the

program. so we are targeting a lot of our outreach and will continue to. anything that mdc can do to get the word out -- i know it's on your webpage and i appreciate that. any suggestions now is very appreciated. >> one more question down here. >> nicole? >> joanne. >> we're doing the microphone juggle here. through the chair, hi, jeannie, thank you so much for your presentation. i would like to state -- i would like to take us back a little bit to the basics, because i'm not sure that the presenting audience is getting what is at

stake here. can we get the context of why the program is important and what do you mean by 100% of the median income and how is it different? so a younger person with a disability, what would that look like? >> okay. i will do my best. this was a program advocated before i joined the program. but people with disabilities that had informal caregivers. and it was also -- it came out of the 2016 doss needs

assessment. about 14,000 seniors live in san francisco and are unable to pay for home care and are ineligible for ihss. that needs assessment found that the cost of home care can be $29,000 a year. that was based on a wage of -- a cost of $23 an hour and 21 hours a week. so there is a huge need for this program. we hope to show a great need through serving that number as well as having a waitlist. 100% of the area median income is $80,700. this is a very progressive program, first of its kind,

helping in that respect. and i think that -- is that $80,000 a year for a household or individual? >> single adult. mayor's office on housing -- yes. mayor's office on housing has a chart that shows that up to a household of nine what the 100% median income is. >> so basically to re-emphasize that, again, it would really help for recruitment strategy, we're talking about individuals with disabilities who could perhaps be employed at a livable wage, who actually have some savings, up to $40,000, who are

able to own their home, and a vehicle, who can just use a subsidy to supplement whatever their paying out already for home care? is that correct? >> that is exactly correct. >> so i know for a lot of folks with disabilities, we're in the work force, home care can be a very expensive proposition because you have to have stable, reliable, therefore, high paid work force, for the demand of the job. so contracting or working with employment services, referral services that employ people with disabilities would be a great marketing opportunity. especially to deal with -- with

adu adults. and the activities of daily living that are available for that subsidy. are they only limited to domestic tasks? >> no. it includes bathing, grooming, meal prep and cleanup and the domestic services are more instrumental activities like grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning, general housework. >> wish i would dare to say that if you have an overutilization of that program by seniors, perhaps it's an assumption on my part, it's for services like this, the cleaning and laundry and driving around and errands.

whereas, if it's younger adults with disabilities, it could be something to enable them to go to work, which may have to do with bathing, grooming, assist answer with the restroom. i would encourage you to include the specific tasks in your list because not everybody knows the lingo. so to make it as specific as possible so folks that will be eligible or you are trying to market to will be able to hit on those words. >> okay. thank you for that feedback. >> and one more thought. >> and i would highly recommend if you haven't already done so to reach out to our bay area colleges and universities to

look at that population, many of whom are just trying to start out in the work force and making that choice about whether they're going to get full-time or part-time employment and a lot of that is based on that choice around income eligibility around home care. so we'd be willing to connect you to talk to folks and college and universities also employ a fair number of people with disabilities as well. so you have a very captive audience there, i think. >> i'd appreciate those introductions. thank you for that idea. >> alex, one more brief question? >> yeah, i do. can i ask for clarification/question? say someone has in-home support

services and some of them are not enough hours, but has some inco income, can they reach out to and -- >> i believe i understand your question. so if someone is receiving ihss with 90 share of cost, they would not be available for care at home. if it's ihss and not enough hours, they would ask for a reassessment at ihss. if there's a share of cost that's exhorbitant amount for the hours, but they cannot

receive both. does that answer your question? >> no. if someone comes to us and, let's say, i have services and have some money and i'm working and i need more hours. can i reach out to you and pay out of pocket. >> that's a good question. currently in the structure of the current pilot program, that question has been asked before, it currently is not covered by the pilot program. that's good feedback. >> thank you. >> thanks, alex. okay. so what i'd like to do is open this up to the bridge line. is there anyone on the bridge line that has a question?

no. no one on the bridge line that wants to speak. >> okay. let's open it up to the audience. is there anyone out there with any comments or questions to ask? >> we have one person. >> one person. okay. please come up to the mike and tell us who you are. >> i'm jorge -- >> can you speak closer to the mike? >> i'm jorge mester. i had a comment about -- i was wondering how this is affecting people with mental health challenges and if they are getting any of these services and a comment on hoarding or cluttering or collecting behavior is something that could use a lot of this help. there are 41,000 people in san francisco that suffer from hoarding and collecting. that's all i want to say.

>> thank you for your question. so there are no rule-outs of eligibility for the program. if someone has a mental illness, substance abuse issue, cognitive impairment, they can refer to support at home and we encourage that. to the other comment of cluttering and hoarding, while home care agencies don't address that issue specifically, i do think that someone being in this program and having ongoing services can assist with that issue. >> all right. very good. anyone else from the audience? >> no one at this time. >> okay. so according to the agenda, we are moving on to -- >> what? >> thank you. that was very interesting. i can't imagine you will have too much difficulty meeting your quota of people.

[laughter] >> i appreciate that. thank you for your optimism. i hope so, too. >> the ihss, i know they have thousands of consumers and quite a few home care providers. they provide training and support. i would strongly recommend that you try to follow their model, because it's an excellent model. and the mentorship program is just being developed, as i understand. and that's real important, because being able to mentor consumers, many of them are confused. they just don't know what to do and how to do it. it's kind of like throwing you out into the deep end of the swimming pool. and that's not easy. so i know we've given you some good feedback and recommendations and we hope you will take it. >> i definitely will. thank you so much for your time. >> is your email on this

material? >> if it's not, i can provide it. >> would you? >> yeah, that would be good. >> thank you. >> our next item, i trust the speakers here, healthy saturdays overview. and the speaker is gary mccoy. policy and community affairs manager, san francisco recreation and park department. welcome to the council. >> hi. good afternoon. one moment. let me open this presentation. >> good evening. i'm gary mccoy, policy manager with the parks department.

i wanted to briefly -- hopefully briefly on my end so i can receive as much feedback and questions, go over the healthy saturdays program. before i get into the closures, background on how we got here. healthy saturdays was legislated 10 years ago with the board of supervisors -- sorry, 2017 was the 10th year. last august, august of 2016, mayor lee gave an executive directive to our department and the mta to look at long-term and short-term improvements for golden gate park. we began doing an outreach process as a member of san francisco initiative to see what we would do to make sure it was

safe for pedestrians and bicycles. that was on the tale of a couple of fatalities that we had within the park. we began doing outreach with a lot of the stake holders that are within the park that use the park frequently and some of the immediately adjacent groups, including supervisors. we started getting feedback from a lot of folks that we spoke with. we did on-line surveys. we found the top five responses from the surveys as well as through a series of open houses that we did. most folks were asking for car-free streets, number one. in creased speed humps, number two. protected bike lanes. better signage. and raised crosswalks. we also on the presentation under healthy saturdays, there was the possibility of expanding healthy saturdays, which is a closure that happens saturdays

between april and september. some of the near-term improvements that we ended up move forward with with the feedback we received, are listed here. 10 speed humps, 15 raised crosswalks and speed tables. four new striped crosswalks. and better visibility intersection striping. and 57 upgraded striped crosswalks. to try to address a lot of the -- well, number one feedback of car-free streets in golden gate park, we're not ready to move forward with car-free streets in golden gate park. folks need to access various parts of the park. there are activities, events, things that happen. we have been very vocal that we would prefer golden gate park to

not be a thoroughfare. they're parks, destinations, where people can recreate and enjoy themselves. so we looked at expanding healthy saturdays. i have two maps, so you can compare, the sunday closure that's year-round runs transverse to the foot of j.f.k. it has the yellow line. and the current saturday closure that happens april-september is .74 miles, a shorter closure that takes up about 284 parking spaces. the museums still have access, buses have access, for the saturday closures. parking in golden gate park, because this came up a lot during our outreach, while there are 284 spots that would be unavailable during healthy

saturdays that have been unavailable, 3,357 parking spots golden gate park. and there are another 1,500 around the perimeter. and 800 spaces in the concourse garage. with the exception of one or two special events and museum days throughout the year, there is an average of 120 vacancies in the parking garage. access to golden gate park on healthy saturdays, we provide a shuttle and the frame after this one, i will show where the shuttle stops are. we have a shuttle that runs healthy saturdays and during the sunday closure and there is also access from several muni lines as well and then access to the parking garage, music concourse garage.

on this slide. tough to see. i probably should have picked different colors the green dots represent shuttle stops. blue line represents the healthy saturdays closure, april-september. and the accessible parking that we have, i believe there are six spots that are not available. so we added 10 years ago, multiple spaces before the closure at transverse and then at the end of the closure at key garden and j.f.k. just a couple of things of note. i've been meeting with myself and bicycle coalition and disability advocates to see how we can improve the existing healthy saturdays, as we continue our outreach for the expansion. we're looking at adding a couple

of shuttle spots. one at key garden and j.f.k. and probably one or two more in the middle of the closure so there's less distance in the middle of the area. and i'm looking into increasing the accessible spots that we have on both sides of the closure. right now, we don't have a timeline on this. we're still doing outreach. i would love any questions or feedback. >> all right. thank you very much. do any of the councilmembers have any questions? alex? >> thank you for coming. can you -- when you say accessible, are you talking

about sidewalk accessibility? and the second thing, have you talked about putting more lights at nighttime? >> when i was referring to accessible spots, i should have clarified, it's for wheelchair access, so more disabled parking spots. and we're not looking at adding lighting. currently the closure is until 6:00 p.m. so lighting would be another

question. >> are you looking into more accessible sidewalks? >> yes. >> for people that have mobility devices? >> yes. i can go back. part of our raised crosswalks and speed tables we're putting in, some are midblock, where people are crossing more frequently that are not necessarily intersections. we're looking at the long-term phase of this project to be curb cuts. right now, we didn't have the funding for the near-term improvements we were given the directive to get done pretty immediately. it's part of the long-term strategy. >> thank you. >> thank you, alex. all right. sally, you're next. >> i would just point out, as i have to you in the past, that

the concourse garage is expensive. and that's probably why there's 120 free spots in there at any given time. but i did have another question -- how is the outreach done? and how is it continuing to be done? >> right now, i am providing technical data and assisting where i can for presentations, such as today. in terms of any expansion, the bicycle coalition is doing a lot of the outreach. and they're coordinating the meetings. we did all the initial meetings that i listed her. it was led by our department. and then there were folks that were more into the neighborhoods that we didn't reach out to, so we're expanding that now. and that's what we've been working on. >> i know. i live 1/2 block from the park and no one has ever asked me my

opinion and i will tell it to whoin that wants to listen. >> we appreciate that. thank you. >> excellent. orkid, i understand you're next? >> yes. i'm a parent. and i take my son there pretty often on the weekend and i give presentations, so i attend golden gate park for a number of reasons and events and one challenge is always parking. and it's constantly challenging. if there's more -- if there's an elimination of more parking spots, it's impossible to get to the recreation all areas, because i have to park so far away and it's a long walk to get to that event. and, you know, for me to get from my home to golden gate park, it's a distance. and also in terms of, you know, my schedule is very busy and the

crosswalks, great ideas, i strongly advocate that, but eliminating parking spots, i have a concern about that, because then the park, in terms of access, becomes smaller for some people. >> thank you. i -- i've heard that from many folks. we unfortunately don't have parking meters in the park. we allow free parking for the spots that we do have. we could probably do more outreach with the museums. i know people are coming to the park because of special events that happen in the park. while we have a lot of parking, i'm not sure that we'll able to figure out how to maximize parking in the park. we're going to be doing