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(♪) (♪) >> okay, we're good, all right. good afternoon, and welcome to the mayor's disability council. this friday, march 16th, 2018. and in room 400 of san francisco's city hall. city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devic devices. wheelchair access is provided at the grove, vanness and mcallister streets via ramps. wheelchair access at the polk street, and goodlet entrance is provided via wheelchair lift. assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language

interpreted. our agendas are also available in large print and braille. please ask any of our staff for any additional assistance that you may need. to prevent electronic interference with this room's sound system and to respect everyone's ability to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and p.d.a.s. your cooperation is most appreciated. we welcome the public's participation during public comment. you may complete a speaker's card available in the front of the room, approach the microphone during public comment, or call our bridge line at 1-415-554-9612.

where a staff person will handle requests to speak at the most appropriate time. the mayor's disability council meetings are generally held on the third friday of the month. our next regular meeting will be on friday april 20th, 2018, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. right here at san francisco city hall in room 400. please call the mayor's office on disability for further information or to request accommodations at 1-415-554 1-415-554-6789, voice, or you can send an email to mod@sfgov.org. a reminder to all of our guests

today to speak slowly into the microphone, to assist our captioners and interpreters. we thank you for joining us. all right, let's move on to the roll call of the council members. >> clerk: co-chair denise senhaux. present. co chair jim blacksten, present. council member tatiana kostanian will participate via the bridge line. council member alex madrid. >> present. >> clerk: council member sally coghlan mcdonald. >> present. >> clerk: council member orkid sassouni will participate via the bridge line. council member helen smolinski. >> present. >> clerk: and council member kate williams is absent.

>> thank you very much. let's move to action item, this is number two. reading an approval of the agenda by staff. >> clerk: item one, welcome, introduction and roll call. item two, action item, reading the approval of the agenda. item three, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the m.d.c. each speaker is limited to three minutes. please approach the microphone or give your comment card to the m.d.c. staff. item four, co-chair report. item 5, information item, report from the mayor's office on disability. please note that the director's report can be found in the what's new section of the m.o.d. website at

sfgov.org/sfmdc/whatsnew. item 6, information item. co-chair elections. in accordance with the mayor's disable council by-laws article 3, section 1, there shall be two co-chairs to serve as officers of the council and the councilship elect these officers. officer terms shall be one year. terms of co-chair shall be staggered by not less tan three minutes and co-chairs may serve no more than two consecutive terms unless by vote, membership chooses to allow a co-chair to serve beyond the two-year limit. item 7, information item. san francisco's curb ramp program, a brief overview much the curb ramp program with the status of the work accomplished in the last decade, work remaining, how work is prioritized and how requests can be submitted. presentation by marci camacho, the curb ramp program manager, department of public works. public comment is welcome. break. the council will take a 15-minute break.

item 8, information item. vision zero san francisco. a presentation on the city's initiative to eliminate traffic deaths and activities to analyze and to address the traffic safety for peoples with disables. also an overview of an emerging program to be delivered by the sfmta that will have targeted engineering improvements to address safety and comfort among our most vulnerable road users, seniors, people with disabilities and youth. presentations by megan weir, the san francisco department of public health, director of programming on health, equity and sustainability and vision zero co-chair patrick golier. san francisco municipal transportation agency, senior transportation planner. public comment is welcome. item 9, information item, overview of the arks saysible business entrance program. this presentation will focus on

the assessable business entrance program. a local ordinance requiring property owners of buildings with places of public accommodation to make entrances and entrance routes accessible to people with disabilities. we will cover background information about the ordinance, outreach and education to businesses and property owners and a high level overview of compliance stats and timelines. presentation by regina dick-endrizzi, the director of office of small business. public comment is welcome. item 10, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the m.d.c., each speaker is limited to three minutes. please approach the microphone or give your comment card to the m.o.d. staff. item 11, information item. correspondence. item 12, discussion item, council member comments and announcements. item 13, adjourned.

>> thank you very much for the reading of the agenda. number 3 is public comment, items not on today's agenda within the jurisdiction of the m.d.c. and i think we have one speaker's card? >> we do, jim. zack karnaskis has put in a request to speak. >> co-chair blacksten: can you approach the microphone? >> good afternoon. should i start -- i have prepared a statement so i'd just like to read from it. just let me know when i can start. >> co-chair blacksten: yes, go ahead, yeah, go ahead. >> okay, dear mayor's disability council, thank you for having this important meeting here

today. as a san francisco resident who requires a wheelchair to a.m ami am happy to see people care about these issues. we have the same goal in mind, access for those in san francisco. i have questions that may be addressed in the course of this meeting. question one, is there an online map or database of wheelchair and a.d.a. access in san francisco? if not, would you consider creating one for the public? question two -- does the city of san francisco have any employees on staff who have the job of traveling around and investigating missing ramps, broken automated doors and curb cuts,etts etc.? would the government consider having such a position? question three, to provide more restrooms for disabled. question four, if an automatic door for a public building is broken or missing what is the required timeline to fix it? how can we report it to city

officials? question five -- is there any local agency or office doing checks and balances on muni to make sure that it is properly handling a.d.a. related complaints? and finally question six, how can disabled people and the general public learn about these meetings for the future and stay updated on any changes in dates or rescheduling, like a mailing list or something? so thank you so much for your time and attention to these important issues and i look forward to building a constructive conversation on improving access to all. and i'd love to leave a copy of these questions with the secretary if there's an email or something like that and feel free to reach out to me at zkarnasis@gmail.co in everyone. i have a lot of back pain and i wonder if it's okay for me to lay down in the back during some portion of the meeting because i'd love to hear it but otherwise i have to leave to lay down somewhere. so i might be coming and going, but i mean no disrespect in any

way but i am in a lot of pain right now. >> co-chair blacksten: i think that would be fine. thank you very much for your comments and that's very much in-depth and we look forward to working with you as well. are there any other comments to be made by people from the audience? if not, then let's move on to number 4 which is the co-chair report and since i'm the person in charge of chairing this meeting, yes, it's my turn to give you my brief report. we of the council spent some good time i'd say a few weeks ago after the february meeting putting together a plan of presentations that we'd like to bring before the public during

the year 2018. and i think that we've got a pretty good idea of the agendas that we'd like to see come forward to be presented to you, not only in march but also in april, may, june and july. and you can see just today the items that we have on this agenda we think are really very pertinent and we want to bring them to your attention. the purpose really for having these meetings is so that we can have a substantive dialogue and have a conversation about issues of concern to the disabled community. and so i -- i invite you to enjoy the presentations and we want to work with any and all of you going forward. i just want to also say that we

need to have more people come to our meetings and we're really looking into ways of reaching out more to the community. we would ask you to invite any of your friends and colleagues and even family members or co-workers to come to the meetings and to participate. and to make this a very vibrant conversation as we go forward. so that is my report for today and let's move on to information, item number 5, which is a report from the mayor's office on disability and i think that is nicole bone, the director. welcome, nicole. >> thank you, counselor member

blacksten. i wanted to thank everyone who is here today and everyone who is watching on tv and everyone who is part of our bridge line conversation today. my report this time is in note form and my full written report will be distributed to the m.d.c. on monday and posted on the m.o.d. home page at sfgov.org/mod under "what's new" on the home page. and this link is provided through the m.o.d. distribution notice for our next meeting. if you're not already signed up for our news feed and distribution on m.o.d. you can -- this is where we get all of the updates on things happening in the city that pertain to access and also notices about our meetings and any changes or agenda items, please sign up on our home page under our subscribe to news feed button. the first update that i have for

today is about accessible voting and the voting accessibility advisory committee met on tuesday, the 13th, with our next full meeting on may 8th from 3:00 to 4:30 here in city hall. at our most recent meeting we discussed creating remote accessible voting sub-group that would look at the accessibility of remote accessible voting as it's implemented through state law for california through our june elections and also the accessibility of our future voting systems, our colleagues at the independent living resource center have offered to host an in-person feedback session. although some of this may also be able to be done online, especially around remote accessible voting. the group, that group, continues to ask for participation from voters with disabilities and we are especially looking for feedback from our blind/low

vision community. so if you're interested, please contact us, we want to have you on the distribution and part of this very important effort. my next announcement is about the dignity fund needs assessments. several months ago the mayor's disability council received an update on the dignity fund and now the needs assessment report has been recently been published as of this week, which then is also distributed and available online. a reminder that the dignity fund provides services and supports for people with disabilities and older adults. so, please, be looking for that report. and related, the dignity fund coalition and home bridge which are two non-profit collectives are going to be hosting a mayoral forum on thursday april 26th from 10:30 to 12:00 and that's going to be

specifically be focused on issues pertaining to older adults and adults with disabilities. so, please, mark your calendars for that. and to provide feedback of that very important event as well. and another announcement that i have is the better markets day project which i believe that the council is looking into having a presenter here in april is now in the process of soliciting feedback from specific interest groups pertaining to accessibility. tomorrow there's a presentation specifically to the california council for the blind by myself and also one of our colleagues from public works who is helping to coordinate the project. so please, again, look for opportunities through our distribution to participate in those information sessions. my next announcement is about

the aging and disability friendly implementation group. the aging and disability friendly effort has moved from task force mode to implementation mode and our next meeting to start to implement the goals across eight different domains that pertain to people with disabilities and to older adults is coming up on friday, april 13th, from 2:00 to 4:00 at the -- at the department of aging and adult services which is at 1650 mission, 5th floor. this meeting is also open to the public and we're really looking for participation and feedback on the 27 or so goals that have been identified by the task force as areas for improvement and additional support pertaining to adults and folks with disabilities. i was also asked to announce

that the aging and disability friendly effort is hosting a panel at the american society on aging conference on wednesday, march 28th, from 1:00 to 2:30 and it will be focused on engaging non-traditional partners as part of that effort. my next updates are legislative updates. the first one is related to senate bill california, senate bill 1376 which is an act to amend part of the public utilities code and to provide improved access to transportation network companies. this is very exciting legislation which is now available and open for public comment and participation. i will provide a link to the legislation as part of this

report. and, finally, i wanted to mention that if the mayor's disability council is interested in engaging, it is very timely to express your opinion around legislation h.r.620, which is the a.d.a. education and reform act which is currently in the senate and you're encouraged to contact your elected and express your opinion or comment on this legislation. you might want to consider a response. those are my updates for today. >> co-chair blacksten: thank you, nicole. that's great. and i might only mention one thing is the deal that you just referred to of the education -- the bill to amend the a.d.a. there has been a lot of

discussion about this particular issue. it has caused a bit of an earthquake in the -- if you will -- in some parts of the disabled community. so it may be possible in a future meeting that we'll address that issue. all right, so let's move on to information item number 6. co-chair elections. we have been scheduled to have the elections today. technically we have enough council members present to hold the election and i think that there's two coming on the bridge line and one that can't be here, and in discussion with the staff and the mayor's office on disability we've decided to -- it might be better to postpone this -- these elections until

april. we want to get some clarification on it to make sure that it goes forward very smoothly. so i would like to offer a friendly amendment to this item that we hold off on doing the election of the co-chair until april. yes? >> this is denise. so to amend to move it to the april meeting agenda. >> co-chair blacksten: is there anymore discussion? >> can we go forward today? after the elections? >> co-chair blacksten: well, we're just offering an amendment

to hold off until april. >> the question is why and what can we go forward on today? >> in the email originally we were going to have low attendance so we wanted to give everyone the opportunity to be here to offer comment and show an interest to be able to run for the position. and those people are not here today. so that's why we wanted to give everyone a chance and i believe that there were some behind-the-scene things that needed to be checked out with our by-laws as far as the terms and there's some additional stuff that we need to research so that's why we're moving over to april at this time. >> through the chair.

>> yes. >> that's the reason, we need to check in for clarification regarding term limits for some of the council members and we want to make sure that it's a fair process and thorough process as far as the co-chair elections. >> thank you. >> co-chair blacksten: thank you for the comments and the questions, we really appreciate that. so it's just going to be rescheduled for april. i would hope that it wouldn't go beyond that time. so let's move forward then to the next -- yes? >> go ahead, sorry. >> co-chair blacksten: all right. information item number 7, and this is san francisco's curb ramp program and the -- let's see... all right, there are presentation that is going to be by marci camacho, ramp program

manager, department of public works. welcome to the mayor's council on disability. >> hi, good afternoon, thank you. oops. sorry. thank you for inviting me to give a presentation today. i think that i'll have to figure out how to move this slide forward. >> one moment. >> thank you. technical challenges here. just click this or -- how do i go backwards? sorry. >> it's no problem. >> thank you. i'm going to see if i can move over here to be closer to the computer to move the slides. i'm with san francisco curb ramp program and my name is marci

camacho and i work for public works and i'm the curb ramp program manager. and we have a lot of information to cover today. so if anyone has any questions i would appreciate it if we waited to the end of the presentation. so some of the topics today that i'd like to cover -- this is the outline for the presentation -- i want to do a program overview, work that we have accomplished in the last decade, curb ramp funding and expenditures, curb ramp prioritization, and last but not least, how to submit a curb ramp request. starting with the curb ramp program overview, the program is a city and county of san francisco general fund effort facilitated by public works and prioritized by feedback from the mayor's office on disability. public works and the mayor's office on disability work together to prioritize curb ramps to be constructed or

upgraded each year by doing the following: we execute the design and construction of the curb ramps identified through this prioritization process. we manage and execute replacement of the deteriorated or damaged detectable dome tiles. we maintain the database of all curb ramps and potential curb ramp applications in the city. we receive and investigate and respond to all curb ramp requests. san francisco began installing curb ramps in the early 1970s. san francisco public works developed the first formal curb ramp program in 1989 in response to federal and state regulations at the time. public works undertook exhaustive field review of intersections and curb ramps. this review was completed in 2007. san francisco's standards for curb ramps are above and beyond the federal requirements which

i'm very proud of. there are approximately 9700 intersections in the city. there are approximately 50,000 potential curb ramp locations in the city. we have about 30,500 existing curb ramps. 82% of the existing curb ramps have a condition score of 70 or greater which is our acceptable standard. this is also very good. we have about 19,500 remaining locations to work on. 9700 of the remaining locations are suitable for curb ramp and yet they do need curb ramps. here's just a very brief list of why we may not be able to build a current ramp in a particular location. sometimes the slope is too steep. it's an unsafe crossing. it may not be a legal crossing and it could be a t-intersection

and there's some other reasons. oops. uh-oh, sorry, i just got my slides out of order. so i'm just one ahead. thank you. >> this one? >> yep. a word about our database. what we do with all of the information and what we did do with all of that information -- public works develop and maintained a geographical information g.i.s. map and database of curb ramp conditions city-wide. the curb ramp information system database is finally known as cris and it does the following. in cris we track -- it identifies all of the locations where the curb ramps do and could exist, identifies whether the curb ramp exists at each of the locations.

cris also does the following -- it tracks the condition of all of the existing curb ramps including data on approximately 40 attributes per ramp. it attracts -- it tracks curb ramp requests. it tracks results of curb ramp investigations. it tracks when the work is done and the inspection results of that work. it contains photos of all locations and the data from cris is used to make g.i.s. maps. cris is updated when there's new the day aoften daily. the data in cris is used in the prioritization process. and the next topic is what work has been accomplished in the next decade -- or the last decade. the new curb ramps and the current goal is 1300 new carb ramps, from 2004 to 2017 we installed 21,000 curb ramps.

in other words we exceeded the goal by 16% or 1900 ramps over 14 years. during the last seven years we have exceeded our yearly goal for building curb ramps by 43%. and this table shows a number of curb ramps built by the curb ramp program during fiscal years 2015, 2016, 2017. the curb ramp program built in fiscal year 2015, 198 ramps, and in 2016, 393 ramps. in 2017, 274 ramps. the number of curb ramps reported per year varies as it is dependent on administration of when the construction contracts are closed out. of the approximately 1600 curb ramps installed per year, 20% are done by the curb ramp program and the remainder by other programs as part of their

projects. this table shows the number of curb ramps built by other agencies during fiscal year 2015-2016-2017. and in fiscal year 2015, the paving program built 1,223 ramps. p.u.c. built 47 ramps. s.f.m.t.a. built 145 ramps. and other projects built 135 ramps for a total of 1,550 ramps for the fiscal year of 2015. in 2016, the paving program built 1,214 ramps. and the p.u.c. built 97 ramps, sfmta built 114 ramps. and other programs and projects built 151 ramps for a total of 1,576 ramps. in fiscal year 2017, the paving program built 931 ramps.

p.u.c. built 138 ramps. searchfmta had 1 -- sfmta had 137, and the decrease in 2017 was due to the paving program's funding timing, so several projects were delayed. tire replacement program. in 2012, the curb ramp program added tile replacement to its overall program. it ongoing project installs and/or replaces yellowiel detece tiles and the number of ramps that have had tiles replaced has increased from 39 ramps in 2014, to 225 ramps in 2017. the next topic is curb ramp

funding and expenditures. curb ramp funding comes from multiple sources. the curb ramp program is approximately $7 million annually. public works' paving program, p.u.c. and sfmta and other sources are $16 million annually. expenditure rates each year match -- roughly match the available funds with little carryover. other projects may build and fund locations that the curb ramp program has selected and this enables us to move down our list to build more locations. this table shows all funding by fiscal years for 2015, 2016, and 2017. for fiscal year 2015, for the curb ramp program the general fund was $4.6 million. we also get every year we apply

for and usually get grants for $951,000 and the tile repair is general fund and we receive $250,000, other funding was $18.5 million. so from all of the groups for fiscal year 2015, it was about $24.5 million. and when i say "other funding" we have an estimate of all of the other funding sources which could be the paving program, p.u.c., sfmta and others and others could be permitting and private developers. so for 2016, the curb ramp program's general fund was $5.2 million. t.d.k. and prop k grants for the curb ramp program was a little over one million. and tile repair which was the general fund was $369,000. and, again, other funding for the groups was $19.1 million.

so for fiscal year 2016, about $25.7 million. for fiscal year 2017, the curb ramp program from the general fund received $5.5 million. for t.d.a. and prop-k grants the curb ramp program received a little over a million. and for the tile repair program we received $450,000. for other funding approximately that we estimate is $15.8 million for a total of $22.8 million for fiscal year 2017. and when i talk about the other funding sources, those groups actually build their own ramps. the next topic is how the annual prioritization process works. the curb ramp program continues the city's process which was started by the 2008a.d.a. transition plan for curb ramps.

this annual process determines priority ranking of the curb ramps to be constructed with program funds. this does not include grants installed as part of the other works such as paving or p.u.c. or m.t.a. priority factors include is there an existing curb ramp? what is the condition of the ramp? is the location in a quarter near the public facilities? what are the number of requests at that location? does the requester have a disability? what is the number of requests per district? and what we also look and review the path of travel. coordination with other agencies allows the curb ramp program to continue to build more locations on the list as the other projects have their own funding sources. additionally coordination with other agencies and projects may allow us to further reduce our

list. last but not least how to make a curb ramp request. within san francisco dial 311 to make a request for a curb ramp. go to sf311.org to make a request on a computer. download sf311 mobile app for android or iphone to make a request from your phone. or contact the mayor's office on disability at www.sfgov/mod, and select "curb ramps and sidewalks" and click on to file a curb ramp request online. once your request has been received the location will be inspected. the requestor will receive a response with the results of the inspection. the curb ramp program tracks the request. the request will be included as part of the prioritization

process. the curb ramp program maintains the database cris to keep track of all of the requests and future construction. and as for point of contact for more information, it's me, marci camacho, curb ramp program manager and i'm located at 30vaness on the 5th floor and the best way to reach me is email because i can get the email almost anywhere which is marcia.camacho@sfpew.org. and my office phone is 415-558-4015. please note that the data that i showed you today was collected in it from our database from february 16th 2018. thank you for hearing about the san francisco curb ramp program. >> co-chair blacksten: thank you for your presentation.

so if you can just stay there for just a few minutes i'd like to open it up to any council members if they have any questions. alex. >> thank you, marci, for coming and talking to us. a question that comes to mind is what if someone called 311 and requests a ramp, how long it takes to pass from end to end. the second question is when you say about other funding resources, i do know some are

not on there, how do you determine where the funding and the resources to do the work? >> essentially if you contact 311 and the request goes in and we acknowledge the request, we try to get back to you within 30 days with the results of the investigation. we have people who actually go out and we measure all of the slopes of the site, measure the condition, really look at it and take photos and then we have streets and highways engineer make a recommendation. then the request -- so then at that point once we have our findings we let you know and it's input in the database, all of the information about you. and that particular request.

so then once a year we do the annual prioritization process. so let's say that we collect -- let's say that -- i'll use these dates but our new fiscal year 71, so we request all of the requests for the year and then in our next process we -- we analyze all of the requests and look at all of the data and we do g.i.s. mapping and we look at each request on the map. we have that automated system where it takes into consideration, you know, the score, is there a ramp or not, who the requester was and all kinds of attributes and then we with m.o.d. sit down and look at each map and make a priority. and then we finalize the list and we label them a plus, a -- different location -- the priority of the locations and we keep the list. and we work off of the list. we try to usually do -- we always have more on the list because what happens is that everybody asks us about cris and

looks at the database so there's a give-and-take with all kinds of projects because paving may go through and say here's the limit for this street. we'll do everything through here. so if we have some locations on the list and the paving takes those locations from us, so then we move further down our list. so i would estimate that once somebody has requested and it's prioritized it takes one to three years to actually construct. >> oh, okay. >> and i'm not sure because i get nervous -- i wasn't sure about the other question with the funding and also i think that you were asking about street jurisdiction. >> yes. how would you determine the street to fix it? >> what we do is also when we look at the request is that we -- if we aren't clear that it's our street from b.s.m. mapping you could look up and we look up the street jurisdiction. if it's not our jurisdiction, let's say it's navy property, i

maybe could negotiate with them to build a ramp there but we aren't allowed to maintain it if that makes sense. so then that becomes -- if it's another jurisdiction, let's say that park and rec or golden gate park, what we do is we forward the request to them. usually once a request comes into 311 i believe that they try to send it to the proper jurisdiction but if they aren't sure and we realize that i can't build something there, then we find out who can and forward it to the person and then also let the person know. >> thank you. >> okay. >> co-chair blacksten: thanks, alex. any other council members? before i go to staff, can you -- yes? >> orkid is on the bridge line. >> co-chair blacksten: i'm sorry, can you hold on just a second? all right, we'll come to the

bridge line. >> go ahead, orkid. >> okay, yes, hi. i just wanted to say that in general it's not a specific ramp or anything like that but i wanted to just let you know that the 311 or the 211 is not accessible for deaf people to call through r.r.s. they're -- v.r.s., so they're not allowed to do that. so i'm letting you know that that advertisement is -- is not good for deaf people. >> thank you for letting me know and 311 has monthly meetings that i -- somebody that i work with we try to attend the meetings and i could talk to them about it to find out -- offhand i don't know, but it should be accessible to everybody. >> it's not necessarily about resources and i guess that it's letting a deaf person to have input -- kind of like

able-bodied people don't really think about the other groups of people. so my suggestion would be to have a deaf person to come and to explain because nobody knows why. so the 311 and the 211 numbers are not accessible to deaf people and we wouldn't be able to call that. so many, many agencies and services that say to call this number and we, you know, it's on a number that we can't call. i think it's a bigger problem than just this. so the phone system for deaf people is just very different, unfortunately. so just keep that in mind. >> okay, thank you, thank you for the information and i appreciate it. >> through the chair if i might add that is very good feed back from orkid and there's a number that is available to contact 311 and that's a full number but it's good feedback to get in the process of -- get in the practice, rather, of always providing that number along with

the general 311 number. >> co-chair blacksten: thank you, orkid, for that. any other council members? all right, i just quickly want to just follow-up one thing that caught my attention -- you had mentioned something about there's some areas that you can't put in curbs such as we have a slope that's really steep or in certain intersections like key crossings, can you elaborate a bit about that? >> yes. absolutely. what happens when something is really steep slope, for me to make the slope less steep i need a length of flatter land. so, in other words, to make a slope less steep i need to make a longer line to do that. i don't know if that makes sense.

i don't know how to explain it better. so if you come down at a 20% street, a concrete street, that has stairs and we put a ramp here it might not be feasible for me to do -- when i say "me" i mean collectively all of the designers -- to be able to design it so that it hits code and is usable if the slope is too steep. because sometimes there's not enough room to make a more level slope. >> are you talking about the degrees of the pavement? >> it's what it is is -- it's some areas and surfaces are so steep that i -- usually if something is steep and there's room we could draw out, you know, a path that travels or a landing or something so that it's within the legal code for a curb ramp and then sometimes

there's just not enough room to create a level area that meets our code. the other thing about safe crossings, sometimes there are a major street and there is a signal with really well marked crosswalks and curb ramps and sometimes some alleys t into that and at the alleys people could jaywalk but i wouldn't want -- it wouldn't be a place necessarily where you would want to put a curb ramp to encourage people to cross where there's no crosswalk and it's not safe. you know, if you could go down to a light and it's timed with all of the, you know, the modern features, sometimes you will see signs posted -- no pedestrian crossing, unsafe -- where they really want you to go around. so there's different situations in the city where sometimes even though logically you think that

you could put a curb ramp but if i put one would it be safe and would it connect to something across the street. so we have to look at each location's intersection on a case-by-case basis. so sometimes there's situations where it's not good or we're not able to build a ramp. >> co-chair blacksten:, yeah, thank you, that makes a lot of sense. and i'd like to go to staff. anyone on staff that have any questions or comments? >> not at this time and we want to thank marci for your time in giving all of this information to us. >> thank you. >> co-chair blacksten: all right. anyone else on the bridge line? all right. well, we would like to thank you, marci, that's a great presentation. so that will conclude our questions. we do have a public person from

the public that would like to make a comment. >> zack karnasis. >> thank you. i want to thank marci, that was an incredible presentation and i feel that i learned more in the 10 minutes or so that presentation was on than living 10 years in san francisco. a really wonderful presentation. just, yeah, a couple questions came to me while i was listening and i thought that i'd share them. one was -- i noticed that sometimes when ramps are built that it removes a parking space and i actually have had people get angry at me for that. like at disabled people in general. and i was wondering if there's any part in the program which can accommodate the drivers with like an additional parking space or something if a ramp does replace a parking space? and the other question that i

had was -- is there a way to add more than one curb ramp for public parks or public places? and i was wondering what the limit was on curb ramps for parks or public areas. (please stand by)

it reads, dear nicole, kevin and marcy, thanks for gathering so much information in response to my sunshine request. i looked through much of it, but have not looked at everything. i appreciate the amount of work you and your colleagues put into assembling information. hopefully having done so will refine your ideas on how to

proceed with the program going forward. dpw has an impressive amount of curb ramps. also the ada transition plan should be updated, it's been many years since the previous update. much progress has been made in constructing curb ramps, but much remains to be done. according to the february 20, 2018 board, there are 9701 locations in san francisco with no curb ramps, where a curb ramp could be constructed. meaning there are no physical constraints that prevent construction. there are 5511 curb ramps with scores below 70, which means many of those are physically dangerous and present a liability risk for san francisco and need to be replaced with new ones. all told, 15,212 new curb ramps need to be constructed and at

this time pass some existing curb ramps with 70 or above, need to be replaced. if the goal of 1300 curb ramps per year, it would make 12 years to construct all the new curb ramps that are needed. if 1500 are constructed, it would still take a decade. considering the ada was passed in 1990, it is simply not right that will take san francisco at least 10 or 12 more years to construct the required curb ramps. per the dashboard, more were constructed in 2015 than any subsequent year. it's hard to tell how many will be constructed during the

current fiscal year. but extra from the year to date number on a straight line basis would indicate that still fewer will be constructed during this fiscal year than in 2017. dpw has the expertise and talent to do the job, but it and mod do not have sufficient resources. this is a matter of political will and prioritization. considering san francisco's $10 billion annual budget and the other considerations mentioned in my e-mail of december 9, 2017, there is simply no excuse for continuing the current state of affairs. dpw must be allocating more money and additional permanent staff to complete the job and make the sidewalks and intersections of san francisco fully accessible to people with mobility and vision disabilities. i won't be able to attend the meeting, marcy, if you have flies i would appreciate a copy