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welcome, everybody. i'll remind guests today to speak slowly into the microphone

to assist our captioners and interpreters. the agenda -- [inaudible] >> media services, can you assist? okay. good afternoon, everyone. thinks the mayor's disability council public meeting. friday, february 21st. a reminder to all our guests today to speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captioners and interpreters. the agenda is as follows. public comment. initial public comment is open to all items not on today's

agenda. but within the jurisdiction of the mayor's disability council. we welcome the public's participation during public comment periods. there will be an opportunity for public comment at the beginning and end of the meeting as well as after every item on today's agenda. each comment is limited to three minutes. to address the council, please complete a speaker's card available at the front of the room, or approach the microphone during public comment, or call the bridge line at 1-415-554-9632. the clerk will handle requests to speak at the appropriate time. council will respond to inquiries after the meeting to commenters providing their contact information.

co-chair report. report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. our first presentation is presented by mohcd. there will be time for council questions and public comment. there will be a 15-minute break after the first presentation. the second presentation access to city employment, the ace program, is presented by the department of human resources. there will be time for council questions and public comment is welcome. then there will be time for open public comment. correspondence to and from the council. council member comments. and announcements. and then the meeting will be adjourned. >> good afternoon, i'm helen

pelzman, i'm co-chair of mayor's disability council and both myself and stephen herman serve as co-chairs of this council. this is my first council chair experience, so please bear with me. thank you. >> co-chair pelzman: good afternoon, and welcome to the mayor's disability council, it's friday, february 21st, 2020, city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assisted mobility devices. listening devices are available and our meeting is open and sign language. ask staff for any additional assistance. to prevent electronic interference with the sound system and respect everyone's

ability to focus on the presentation, please silence all phones. the mayor's disability council public meetings are held on the third friday of every other month, although that is changing a bit since we have now increased our meetings from 6 to 9 annually. please call the mayor's disability council for further information or request accommodations at 1-415-554-6789. or by e-mail at mod@sfgov.org. thank you. we're starting this morning -- excuse me, this afternoon. what did i forget? >> reading and approval of the agenda? >> oopsy. >> co-chair pelzman: okay. do i read the agenda? or is the agenda submitted?

is there approval of the agenda? is that how this works? roll call first. okay. let's see. roll call taking from the front page. herman here. pelzman here. madrid. marshall-fricker present. senhaux? sorry. she's not present. orkid here. smolinski? here. williams here. yu present. and we have a quorum. so reading and approval of the

agenda -- we've already done that. so item -- do i even -- is there public comment? >> there is one public comment. just step up to the microphone. are you jennifer? you're jennifer? welcome, jennifer. >> i am the integrator at the community campaign. have you noticed that sidewalks get lost around construction

sites? have you noticed that san francisco departments are not enforcing safe pedestrian passageways around construction zones? we have to create a search party for sidewalks. the sidewalk search party has been meeting since may 2019 on making sure temporary pathways around construction areas are accessible for all types of ability. now we are taking to the streets. i want to invite you to the sidewalk search party action. on wednesday, march 18 at noon. we are meeting on the corner of 12th street and south van ness across from the paratransit.

we will provide you with rubber ducks. everyone should download the 311 app onto their phone before coming to the action. 311 also has a website, or you can call to make a service request. if you call, remember to mention seeing rubber ducks at the sidewalk. to stay updated, please join our search party facebook group. we hope to see you on march 18th. thank you for your time. >> thank you for that. it sounds like a fun event. >> we hope you come.

>> and just speaking from my own experience, my current -- my road is completely torn up right now. so i feel your pain as well. all right. now what? >> co-chair herman: anybody else? >> anybody else commenting? >> co-chair herman: did you submit a card? >> i have not, i can do it if needed. >> co-chair herman: it's okay. >> i'm linda, cofounder of vitality health. a mobile social support platform for people's health, caring and wellness journeys. what we do is create personalized circles of support around our users, their loved ones and community. i'm here to share that vitality is actively recruiting for research participants for beta testing and support for our

ongoing development of our platform. more specifically, to solve specific issues around aging and disability in the city of san francisco. i am from here. and hope to be able to help solve some of the specific issues coming up here today. i can be reached at info @ vitality.co. i can also be reached by phone at (415) 494-7926. you can also text message us at that phone number. thank you. >> could you spell your name for

us? >> absolutely. minda and last name, aguhob. and our website is vitality.co. thank you. >> any other public comments? then we will -- we have a co-chair report? >> co-chair herman: i don't have anything. >> co-chair pelzman: i don't either. we can move on with our agenda. our first presenter today is maria benjamin, the deputy director of housing and community development. the presentation will be addressing accessible housing for people with disabilities.

hi, maria. >> good afternoon, commissioners. again, my name is maria benjamin. i'm so happy to be here. we were supposed to come earlier this year, so i'm glad to be here now, and to provide information about the affordable housing units that the mayor's office of housing and community development is sponsoring. there are part of those tornup sidewalks are because of new construction of affordable housing developments. and there are the mayor's plan is to have 10,000 new affordable units by 2025. we are well over halfway to make that goal. in fact, we're close to it now. and so that's the good news.

there are -- affordable housing comes to -- city-sponsored affordable housing comes from different places, right? so we have affordable housing that comes to us through inclusionary -- the inclusionary ordinance, where a developer, it's the law here that the developer either includes the units in a new building, or they pay a fee. and what the mayor's office of housing and community development does with the fee when they pay the fees, we take that money and then we turn it around and lend it to nonprofit developers who build 100% affordable housing. and in that 100% affordable housing, we have a requirement to provide accessible units. mobility and communication units. in the inclusionary buildings, we call those bmrs, below market

rate units, in those buildings, those are in privately owned buildings and they do not have a requirement to provide mobility and communication units in those buildings. so what i'm going to talk to you about today is the affordable housing units that are in the multifamily buildings that we call 100% affordable buildings. in those new construction builds, new construction codes say that 5% of those buildings have to -- the units -- have to be mobility. and 2% must be communication units. we double that as a requirement. and we use tax credits to help fund those buildings. and so our requirement is 10% of

the new units need to be mobility and 4% have to provide communication and -- communication units. all of the units in a building, in 100% affordable building, must be adaptable. all of the units must be adaptable. but only 10% and 4% have to actually have full features in it from the jump start. we also have been rehabilitating units through the -- red stands for rehabilitation rental assistance -- thank you -- demonstration. i'm glad you're here. [laughter] we also have been rehabilitating units that were

formerly owned by the san francisco housing authority, public housing. those units, we call it rad, there are over 3500 of those units we have rehabilitated and they're in very old buildings. when we rehabilitated them, we had the requirement to make 10% of those mobility and 4% communication, however, they're very old buildings. some of them don't have elevators. and so we received a waiver on that 10% to go down to 5%, which is to be able to make 5% of those mobility and 2% communication. we were very successful at doing

that. 27 of the 28 buildings that we rehabilitated reached that 5% mobility in the rehab. and we were able to make the regular standards of 4% communication units in those rad rehab buildings. shifting gears. in our marketing of opportunities, i know that's mostly part of my presentation here to you today, is to talk to you about how those units that i mentioned are going to be marketed. okay? and how we ensure that they're really going to the people they were intended to go to. the marketing is key. since 2016, we have devoted -- we've made so many improvements

since then. the dahlia system, database of affordable housing listing and information, that's the system i'm going to talk you through and walk you through. that system is only part of the changes we've made since then. we've also really standardized the eligibility criteria in some of the buildings. you could go -- if you were looking for affordable housing, you can go to one building and they'd have one set of criteria and one application and different and then you go across the street, if it was another nonprofit development, they have a whole another set of criteria and a whole different process, and we have completely mitigated that and made one process here in san francisco. one process, one application

process, one way of resident selection, and we have resourced the -- the mayor's office of housing and development have resourced our ability to monitor and track and make sure our non-profits are actually doing what -- what we intended them to do -- for them to do. we have staff that ensure that they're conducting targeted marketing activities to community groups where people that need those units, people with mobility impairments, communication impairments can get that information where they're going already. we're sure that the developer is sending information to those folks. we also ensure that they are

appropriately reporting to us at the onsite of a building. on site of a construction of a building exactly which unit is mobility-enabled and which units are communication units. they put those into the dahlia system so that the public can see which units are identified as mobility and communication units. we also ensure that each resident selection criteria has reasonable accommodation information. how does somebody make a reasonable accommodation request? if they live in one of these buildings or they're applying to one of these buildings. and grievance policies and procedures. we have the capacity now to

actually look at those things before people are applying for housing. and so we link the resident selection criteria to the application so people can see before they apply what they're getting into. i'm going to actually walk you through -- sonya is helping me here -- there we go. -- a dahlia application. actually, take me to the link. there you go. we're going to go away from the power point for just a second. i think you have to actually click open. yeah. dahlia is helping folks across the city with one way of

applying and one application. and a shorter application. we're not requiring all of the income documents and all of the other documents that we used to require up front before somebody even had a chance in the lottery. we were requiring all that. that is no longer. so -- can you just show them the home page? that's what dahlia looks like. you have the opportunity to apply for either a rental opportunity or an ownership opportunity. if you click on the ownership, there are several ownership opportunities available right now on dahlia. they range in price. that one on top i guess is $187,000 all the way up to $599,000 available to different

income eligibility requirements. >> maria, i have a question. sorry to interrupt your presentation. could we see what one of the units looks like? >> on the inside? >> exactly. no. and i know that emily from digital services came and did a presentation and let you know that is in our pipeline and it hasn't happened yet. it hasn't happened yet. currently the system can only have one picture, so folks actually have to go to the buildings during the open house or info sessions to be able to see the interiors, but it is on our pipeline of adjustments that we're making to the dahlia system. we have so many things that we want to change with that system. we're very blessed, we're very happy we have it, and it's not complete yet. but that is one of the things that we have on our list of amendments to make to the

system. >> i was the one that asked for the images and we asked in september of last year. >> and it might be not until next year that we get that