departments, we were able to create an accessibility criteria. to establish what information should be displayed to the public. so going from left to right, we have a ramp that connects onto the play structure. accessible picnic table. accessible parking spots, accessible fountains, sensory play elements, play structures, adaptive swings and transportiers. for the need for my project came about due to the lack of easily accessible information on the website. so this is how the page -- this is how you would access any accessibility information on the website currently. so at the top of the page, you have the disability questions section. once you press that, it will lead you to this page.

and then on this page, there is only one link -- or there was only one link that would lead to the accessibility index. once you click that link, it takes you to this page here. right now this page has several major issues. the table is formatted incorrectly. the information is outside of the margins. and generic descriptions that offer no real insight on what the parks have to offer. and once you click on the detailed page link, you would get that same generic description at the top. you wouldn't have any photos. and you would have no information on equipment or amenities. and so if you go back to the disability questions page, you would get a new link titled

children's play areas with our new page. and so now the pages have been updated with the new table. you can use filters to access the type of equipment you'd like to see. everything has been formatted correctly. and if you go to the detailed page now, you'll have -- everything should be screen reader accessible. the photos have text. you have a list of amenities available at each location. and you have a side bar icon to provide more visual information. and so on this slide, i have a preview of what the photos would look like once you access the details page. going from left to right, you have the accessible play structure, accessible fountains, the accessible picnic areas,

accessible parking, accessible bathrooms and ramps connecting onto the structure. we did find a few problem areas with the san francisco rec and park children play areas. for example, we have a photo of adaptive swings that are missing harnesses and the seats are actually placed too low. on the second photo, we have an accessible picnic table that has been blocked off, thus making it inaccessible for a wheelchair. for the last photo, we have sandwich is an inaccessible play surface. i found more issues. here i have a pie chart of the types of swings in the 55 children's play areas. only two of them had an adaptive swing with a harness and seven with belt harness and six with a

disk swing. out of the play areas, only 10 of them had a ramp connected to the structure for wheelchair access. and so sfrpd, they do a lot of things well. so for example here, starting from left to right, we have an adaptive swing with a plastic harness. in the middle, we have a ramp that connects to the structure. on the right, we have a disde dis-swing. these are all good starts, but we should look to other examples that exceed ada standards. so here i have a map circling san francisco, paloalitio and san jose. early on in my internship, my supervisor told me that a lot of

parents would drive down to these two locations in san francisco to find play equipment that would suit their children's needs. so the first one here is a rotary play garden in san jose. they have wheelchair accessible equipment. and the surface is relatively flat to ease the transition from playstation to playstation. and then we have magical bridges playground in palo alto. when a kid in the wheelchair needs to get back on, they can easily do that. on the right we have six adaptive swings in one location providing more swings for everybody. and so, the next steps that we want to take is to -- so

basically we want to be the standard of what an inclusive playground should be. currently we do enough to meet the standards for our children's play areas, so that involves a lot of education and just public outreach and engaging the community on how we can improve. i've done that, i've presented this project to san francisco rec and park's head management and general manager phil ginsburg and i'm continuing to advocate for just designing a truly inclusive playground for everybody. that's all i have for you today. >> next, one of the questions that came up, was about how rec and park outreaches to the public about capital projects. so pauline was going to talk about that. we did have slides for that as well.

>> good afternoon, council. i'm a project manager with capital division. and i also am access coordinator for physical access. i've been the coordinator, i think, for the last 10 years. i am very pleased that we got lucas on the program side to get the internship for these very, very eye opening great projects, especially for the capital division. the capital division, we are about 10 to 12 project managers that undertake the renovations of the existing facilities and new facilities that come to the

rec and park department. and lucas and anthony are going to come to capital division to really get to the project managers. they need that we have to be able to work with the tight budgets that we have as much as inclusiveness and accessibility that we can have in our playgrounds and facilities. with that said, you know, this is a very exciting for us. and nicole has been, in the last year, been an advocate for us to really open our eyes at the funding, that we have to be able to add accessibility, because basically all of our projects have accessibility, but the more that we can do for projects that

are not bond projects or projects that really depend on general funding, that is something that nicole and the ada accessibility program at rec and park is trying to increase. with that said, nicole asked about our quarterly meetings at the capital division, about our community planning process. because when a new project comes in the pipeline, the first thing that we do, once we have determined budget and scope of work, we have three or four community meetings, which basically, we outreach to the community to let them know that we have a new project and we want to hear about their thoughts about the project, what is needed, what works, what doesn't work, what are the priorities? and then, we have another --

this is the first meeting. the second meeting, we come and we hear them and we have a plan, kind of a concept plan that we work together to be able to come out with renovation of a new project. so how do we get people to come to these meetings? first thing that we do is traditional mail. we have resident 300 radios of the park property, that is extra livingsal. we also -- traditional. we also go to associations that are key and basic for the communities. for example, magic, in the bayview district. they do monthly meetings, so we go and notify about the upcoming projects. we also post signage. you know in the park, on the

fences of the park, on bulletin boards of the neighborhood. so depending on the neighborhood, we make sure we go to starbucks and grocery stores to be able to notify and we ask, can we post a notice here for your clients to see it? and then, of course, after we do this on-site posting and traditional mail, we depend online. online is what people are doing these days. and we have the website which we have new letters that come every week. and they advertise all our projects, all our meetings, all our programs that we have. and we also have that website and the news letter. we communicate very closely with

supervisors and get in their news letters. the social media, we have a facebook. we have next door, hoodline, all the projects that our community outreach staff recommends that we do. and, of course, for our stakeholders, we depend so much -- we have good relationship with them. so basically, they are supporting the projects and they're advocates for the new renovations so the new projects. so we go, our stakeholders are at the local community groups. organizations, schools. our city departments, mta, you know, dph. we are projects that are in the same area. we work together with them.

we work also with mod, mayor's office of disability projects. we like to come to these meetings where we can inform the public and inform yourself of what we're doing. and we have volunteers, lots of volunteers that work with rec and park. and persons that have worked with us in the sports. and in the space we're renovating. so this is basically the core element that we do for our out reach. each outreach in the community is never the same. you have communities that are more responsive, you know, when there is a community. but they have other communities as we have experience in the bayview that there is a lack of trust or some don't believe that

the projects are happening, so what we do, we go to them. we drive to the events they have on the weekends and present our project to the different organizations, meeting after school programs. and we try to be able to get everyone involved in the way we have a project that is successful, that everyone can feel they have participation. >> co-chair senhaux: thank you very much. just because we're at time, i wanted to just do a check to see if we can run a few more minutes? but i don't know if our interpreters are available. thank you. >> that concludes my presentation. and we're open for any questions. >> co-chair senhaux: thank you for a very detailed and thank you for answering our questions. i'm going to answer up to council member questions. this is the line of order we

have. council member helen, orkid and alex. please go ahead. >> council member smolinski: just quickly, thank you all for coming. we really appreciate it. anthony, great job. okay. i hope it was a good experience for you. please know as a parent of a child in a wheelchair, that this is an issue that is near and dear to my heart. in fact, it was other parents who, while my child is -- has multiple disabilities, other parents have come to me with this very issue that they were planning birthday parties at san francisco parks, and had gone online on park and rec's website to identify a park to make sure that the playground had accessible equipment. and that's how we got here

today. thank you. you and your whole department. lucas, et cetera, for being so expensive to this need that our council identified from the community. so that's huge. glad to see there is such progress and we're going to get to the rest of the playgrounds, right? okay. okay, because that is really the question that i hope maybe was in your head while you were doing all this. you're not banned. you can come up. because it was really about, hey, i want to plan this birthday party for my child at a san francisco playground. not only is it accessible, but we're going to assume it's wheelchair accessible to get in and out, but is there playground equipment for my kid and his or her peers to enjoy? that was something that was needed. the information needed to be more easily accessible on your website.

it sounds like there is a lot of progress toward that. that should be the question in your mind. that was the goal. and then just lastly, with regard to the outreach, again, it's all about, i feel like the website to a great extent. if you can make your website. there was an excel spreadsheet and i love your use of the word generic. it had so much generic information next to every playground it made the excel spreadsheet meaningless. so a long -- you go a long way for your outreach if you just improve your website. my specific question for lucas, why isn't your department keeping track of the numbers? you mentioned a couple of times, we haven't kept track of that, but there was the one about kids who need accommodations and inclusion services. i would think keeping track of the request for that and the

number that are fulfilled would go a long way toward informing your services and service delivery. >> and i think what i meant, maybe it wasn't clear, we're not keeping track of the percentage of people who need accommodations, but we do keep track of who is requesting accommodations and what accommodations we're providing. and the other piece of that is just registration in general, how many people with disabilities are registering for programs. so we do have records and our rec therapists have files on all the participants. and you know, what their assessments say and what accommodations they've requested and what we've provided, but it's not -- i don't have those numbers in our rec stat system to show how many total we've

served, but that is something we could tally up. we do it each summer or each season, but not total numbers. so i mean, you're right. there are all different ways we need to tell our story and present those numbers. and some we have not done yet. >> council member smolinski: to be frank, i would be curious to see if the number of kids with disabilities that you're serving at rec and park is proportional to the number in our school district. you know, i think those numbers tell a story of whether park and rec is meeting the need. or if there is an outstanding need and you need more budget, right? >> so, yes, absolutely. >> council member smolinski: thank you. >> truth is, it's a tiny percentage and the schools have to serve all kids and we're serving a tiny percentage, so we do want to increase that.

>> co-chair senhaux: thank you. >> council member sassouni: yes, okay, thank you so much for your presentation and especially for the asl programs. the summer registration is always filled and i learned from the newspaper, it said that first priority is low, that quite often the summer camps are full. and this is the fifth year that i couldn't register for as much as i would like to. i was only able to get my son into one program. i notice often that other parents, you know, sometimes parents -- the kids are saying it's not enough fun, so if you could add more diversity or variety within the program, that would be great. and just in summary, in terms of the deaf-blind program, how often do you offer that program? once a week or two times a week?

i was wondering because my understanding, it seems just once a week. two times a week would be great. and also for those individuals with developmental disabilities, for example, it's capped at one week, it would be great if it was longer than one week. asl learners. i have not seen a lot about that. it's like once every couple of months. and then families with babies who want to learn asl, it's limited. is it because there is not enough numbers? but i think it's great that you offer the twice a year, the deaf gathering in spring and winter, right? is that correct? i think that's great, continue that. that is a big positive. i just wish that there were more after-school activities at the play areas, because it seems they're just right now just located one place. and my son goes to school in a

different area and so to get there, it eats up a lot of time. so that is another thing. i wish there were more asl programs offered around the city as opposed to just that one location and wondering if that is a possibility. i'm just throwing that out there. >> not sure if i remembered all the question about the different programs, but the asl learning program is definitely one of our biggest goals is to provide a place for parents who have a deaf child to come and learn sign language. we would love to get parents in there with deaf babies to come and learn with us. we did expand that program to every week. it's every tuesday afternoon now and will continue through the summer. oh, the asl, the program that is for people who are deaf and blind is once a week. and it's a really tiny program. we'd love to grow it. and if it expands more, we could do it twice a week. the program we offer for the

tool works clients is once a week, on wednesdays. it will continue through the summer. but one of the cool things, as far as inclusion, those clients through tool works are signing up for other -- they do water fitness and yoga and water aerobics and they do like five different programs during the week. so we are providing a lot to those clients through inclusion services as well. i think i got most of the questions. >> co-chair senhaux: thank you. >> council member sassouni: after school? >> so, the one that is the asl after-school program, that is tiny as well. we only have eight kids in that program and that is just in the mission. i would love to expand it, too, or at least provide staff who sign more of our programs to make them accessible to signers and families who use asl. we do sometimes have staff

people at some of those programs, but we don't have specific asl programs at any other locations right now. >> co-chair senhaux: thank you. council member alex. >> council member madrid: a couple of questions. one, how come on our data i didn't see any -- particularly on mobility -- disability. are there any data for that? and making accessibility for all parks and kids. i just wondered even though you

guys are trying to make playgrounds more accessible, i just want to emphasize the area has to be accessible, too. getting in and out. our park needs to be accessible. >> it's true, i don't have any specialized programs for people with mobility disabilities, but that is something that we really want to offer, some sports. adaptive sports and hopefully competitive sports and opportunities for people with mobility disabilities. so that is an area we're hoping to expand into more. and, yes, the accessibility at facilities is really important. and that is something that paulina and her team works on. like anthony's project shows, there is lot more we can do with

play areas and physical areas to make them more accessible. >> council member madrid: i was just wondering, you guys making the facility more inclusive. thank you. >> i just want to say that, we did analysis of the san francisco recreation department accessibility for recreational elements included in the 2010ada standards, which included playground, golf courses, pools, courts fishing piers, all the ones that go through the department of inspection when we do renovation projects. we did a presentation here to the council around 2016.

and we -- they were really happy to see that in our playgrounds, when we analyzed this, the study was based on accessibility to the playground itself, through the recreation, but also there are many that serve them, like the restrooms, the parking. you know. if they were connected to recreation center. and our playgrounds run at 75% that we have accessibility, physical access. of which i think it was at least 50% or 65% that included not only the recreational limit, but the many that serve it. so in capital, when we do capital projects, renovations,

new playgrounds, facility is one of the key elements we work with. that makes it. but everybody, there are things, we need to put more swings that are accessible. but the fact that sometimes we're limbed by the space -- limited by the space that we have for the playground to create these traveling elements like in st. mary's park, you know, st. mary's, we have where a person can get into a structure with a wheelchair,

it's a very long area. that is something we have to do and we have renovations in big areas to do it. but, yes, it is on our mind and we can do more of it. >> nicole: your point is well taken. i want to add. i know we need to end very soon. that as part of the planning, we are also looking at the path of travel in and out of the parks. and play areas as part of what we're analyzing so that all of the features can be connected in the best way possible. >> co-chair senhaux: thank you, presenters. i appreciate your time. and waiting. so thank you so much. i want to open up public comment on this agenda item. and i want to thank the people that were waiting to speak for their patience.

>> thank you for waiting. >> i want to thank mod for going late on this, i appreciate it. i want to address a couple of things about access with parks and rec. first i want to say that paulina during her presentation was talking about outreach and said that the average people near the park, 300 feet radius, that does not seem far enough at all. i would think that if you're going to do construction in a park, at least three blocks would be reasonable. 300 feet is nothing. also, paulina has been very hard to get ahold of over e-mail. very hard to reach. it seems necessary to copy mod staff every time i want to reach them for something. it seems like a huge waste of resources. they could just respond and that would make life easier. i want to talk about the access of holly park, which is an important park to me. it has five entrances for

able-bodied people and one for wheelchair users. that one requires me, once i get to the park, i have to go four city blocks around the park to get to the wheelchair accessible entrance. then i have a go up a huge hill and another couple blocks just to get to the bathroom. so i could be at the park with the bathroom in sight, 100 feet away from me and i still have to go four blocks across the hill to get to the bathroom. that is crazy. i would love to get to this park and access it like able bodied people, without having a travel eight blocks to and from the non-accessible entrance i live near. also that park in 2013, my local monastery was killed by a park and rec worker driving a truck. i want to know if park and rec will make any sort of guarantee that they will stop driving trucks and motorcycles through

our parks while we're laying down and relaxing and feeling safe. i see no reason motor vehicles should go through a tiny park like holly park. golden gate park is a huge park, but especially after someone has been murdered. i saw trucks go through that park and it's insane and unsafe for people with disabilities, especially because i can't run out of the way of a truck. thank you. >> co-chair senhaux: anyone on the bridge line for public comment? okay. we're going to go ahead and close public comment. we're going to go to public comment number 9, item on the agenda, but within the jurisdiction of mdc. i understand that we have someone that would like to speak. >> yes, mr. bruce stier, california senior legislator. >> thank you, mr. stier, for waiting for your time.

>> thank you for allowing me to speak. i know it's past adjournment time and i'll try to keep my comments to the required three minutes. my name is bruce, i'm a retired navy doctor living in san francisco. i'm here to talk to you about a california building code standard that is that all public staircases must have handrails without exception. 20 years ago, when i was only 68, the giants opened up their new stadium. and i became a fan. i noticed in the first game, i sat down at field level and no

handrails, but i was 68, so i was able to skip, jump, hop down, even holding a beer and hot dog. but as i got older, i couldn't do that. nothing to hold onto to go down 24 steps. sometimes as i got older, i would hold on the their shoulder, but sometimes i would come with an older person like myself, i have to get the usher. if there wasn't an usher, i had to put my hand on the strangers sitting in the aisle. as a member of the california sea legislature, i was suggest ed to get in touch with the

american disabilities act people, and i did. someone who could arbitrate. and i met with him and four attorneys representing the giants at the stadium. four attorneys. and they prevailed, because they decided that they had hooked up the ada rules -- looked up the ada rules and if the disability is only for -- [bell ringing] -- not just disabled people, but people who have disabilities, they don't require -- it's not in their jurisdiction. so i'm here today to let you know, that without handrails, seniors, vulnerable people in the community are at risk for falling and dying and it's time

that the giants put up handrails. they do have handrails -- [bell ringing] -- upper grandstand but the field level ones, they did not feel they needed to put the handrails there and i asked, what is your objection? it's not that costly for you people. and their objection was, it may block the view of people sitting on the aisle. all they have to do is move their head two inches and they'll be able to see if the handrail wasn't there. i implore that this council and maybe the board of supervisors to act with haste to make the giants understand that they are not exempt from the building code. thank you. >> co-chair senhaux: thank you, sir. we're going to go onto information item number 10. any correspondence? oh. my apologies. zack, please proceed.

>> co-chair senhaux: do we have a comment on the bridge line? i'm sorry. okay. no problem. thank you. thank you, sir. i meant to say this at the beginning of the meeting, but i wanted to extend an invite to an event i was hosting. featuring five lightning talks from entrepreneurs. you can register for the events at diverseability.

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represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary. >> when we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the

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that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue rescue it also. that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know?

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are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. >> our next event will be in march, we don't yet have a date set. we typically sap set it six weeks out. the way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. we always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. >> a lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they don't know how they can help, and defence like this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. [♪] better.

san francisco department of environment is a place where climate hits the street. we know that we don't have all the answers. we need to support our local champions, our local community to find creative solutions and innovations that help us get to zero waste. >> zero waste is sending nothing to landfill or incineration, using reuse and recovery and prevention as ways to achieve zero waste. the grant program is a grant program specifically for nonprofits in san francisco to divert material from landfill. it's important to find the san francisco produce market because there's a lot of edible food

that can be diverted and they need positions to capture that food and focus on food recovery. >> san francisco produce market is a resource that connects farmers and their produce with businesses in the bay area. i think it's a basic human right to have access to healthy foods, and all of this food here is available. it's a matter of creating the infrastructure, creating jobs, and the system whereby none of this goes to waste. since the beginning of our program in july 2016 to date, we've donated over 1 million pounds of produce to our community partners, and that's resulted in over 900,000 meals to people in our community, which we're very proud of.

>> carolyn at the san francisco produce market texts with old produce that's available. the produce is always excellent. we get things like broccoli, brussels sprouts, bell peppers. everything that we use is nice and fresh, so when our clients get it, they really enjoy it, and it's important to me to feel good about what i do, and working in programs such as this really provides that for me. it's helping people. that's what it's really about, and i really enjoy that. >> the work at the produce market for me representing the intersection between environment and community, and when we are working at that intersection, when we are using our resources and our passion and our energy to heal the planet and feed the people, nothing gets better than

>> good morning, everyone. welcome to the may 20th, 2019 meeting of the rules committee. i am chair of the committee. seated to my right is our vice chair, supervisor walton. seated to my left is rules committee members supervisor gordon moore, and we are joined by supervisor rafael nadal him and today -- supervisor mandelman today. i would like to thank san francisco government t.v. for staffing this meeting.