okay, i think we can start.

>> co-chair madrid: okay. this is the mayor's disability public meeting for november 20, 2020 at s 1 p.m. my name is alex madrid. >> thank you, alex. >> i'm deputy director of m.o.d. and serving as clerk for this meeting. this is a virtual meeting. it's being broadcast to the public on sfgovtv. it is open caption and sign

language interpreted. the mayor's disability council holds nine meetings and generally held on the third friday of the month. please call the mayor's office of disability at (415) 554-6789. or by e-mail, you can contact us at mod@sfgov.org with any m.d. c. business. our next regular meeting will be on friday, january 15, 2021 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. this will also be an online meeting and will be broadcast on sfgovtv. thank you for joining us. we'll now do roll call. and -- >> helen, joining the meeting.

sorry. >> great. so i'll go through the list? >> can anybody hear me? >> yes, we can hear you. >> great, thank you. >> please say present when i call your name. alex madrid? >> co-chair madrid: present. >> co-chair pelzman: present. we know denise is not here today. she e-mailed us. >> council member yu: present. >> council member sassouni: present. >> council member smolinski: present. >> council member williams: present. >> council member veavea: --

alex lucas? present. >> i know neo was on earlier on the phone, so i will e-mail him and see if we can get him back. so at this point, i know as part of the roll call we wanted to give an opportunity for new members to introduce themselves. so, alex, please. >> yes, sorry, i wasn't sure. i'll be brief. my name is alex lucas. i use he as pronouns. i work as the director of employee engagement at the age

foundation and organizing in the community around disability justice with my consulting and consultation work. >> co-chair madrid: very good. welcome. >> thank you. >> co-chair madri >> co-chair madrid: okay. >> we're reading the agenda next. okay. so the order of business today we've done item number 1. welcome, introduction and roll call. we're reading and hopefully going to be approving the agenda now. next there will be public comment on items that are not on the agenda, but within the

jurisdiction of the m.d. c. then an information item, enforcement of accessibility requirement for shared spaces. presentation by robin of the shared spaces program, director. then there will be a break. then there will be a presentation on the economic recovery and resilience task force report. especially looking at opportunities for recovery for people with disabilities. presentation from heather green who is one of the staff support leads for the work of the task force. then there will be co-chair report. then there will be a report from the mayor's office on disability. director nicole bohn. then public comment. and there will be public comment

after each of the presentations or programs. then any correspondence that has come in to council and then council member comment announcements and adjournment. >> co-chair madrid: i would ask for improvement aprooxt /* /- /* -- approvement of the agenda. >> through the chair, with the agenda topics changed, that's all we needed to announce. i think they're okay. you don't need to do a formal

approval. >> co-chair madrid: okay. thank you. so with that, we go into item number 3. items not on the agenda but within the jurisdiction of the m.d. c. >> i'm ready to introduce that, alex. we're now open for public comment on topics that are not on the agenda. for deaf individuals and others who may prefer not to use a telephone, for making public comment, you can send an e-mail to mod@sfgov.org with your comment.

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okay. do we have callers? >> we have no one in the queue. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. >> clerk: and i will check to see whether we have any by e-mail. okay. i do not see any, so we can move on. >> co-chair madrid: i'm going to ask you to read my report. >> so, we've actually rearranged

the agenda today. the co-chair report and the director's report will be following our presentations later on in this meeting. >> co-chair madrid: okay. so we're not going to go to -- it is confusing because we made changes to the order of the comments as well as the presentations. the first presentation which was going to be the second one is now enforcement of accessibility requirements for shared spaces. presentation by robin abod, director of the shared spaces program. >> co-chair madrid: okay.

is robin on the line? >> yes, co-chair madrid. i'm here and i'm ready to commence if we're good. >> co-chair madrid: go ahead. >> thank you, co-chair madrid and director bohn and deputy director caplin. this is robin, coordinator of the shared spaces program. i'm joined by other members of our team, my deputy program manager monica from sfmta, gregory slocum from the department of public works as well as jonathan vang from the department of public works. as well as larry mclen done from the office of economic and

workforce development who leads a lot of our work in equity neighborhood, especially bayview, and also will be coordinating a number of city-wide projects and funding those as well. we're also joined by nicole linler from the office of mayor london breed. i just wanted to thank the council for having us here. we are really grateful for the opportunity to engage with you more intentionally as our program grows. so we'll talk a little bit today, three topics. one are our current ada design guidelines and operating parameters for shared spaces. the second topic will be a little bit of sort of explanation or narrative about how we enforce and abate compliance issues, specifically

those associated with ada concerns. and then lastly, we'll close off with a little bit of information about statistics on the rate of abatement and compliance that we're seeing. so, with that, i'll just start on the first topic, which is talking a little bit about what our design guidelines and operating parameters are for shared spaces, and specifically those pertaining to ada. so first and foremost, it is a requirement for shared spaces to accommodate a six-foot wide, clear path of travel through the shared space. often, as i'm sure members of the council are aware, these are on sidewalks, the shared spaces are on sidewalks or in the parking lane.

and quite often a combination of both. so we do recognize and acknowledge that it's a lot of new activity, a really, you know, kind of -- not quite a brand new kind of use, but definitely a use that we haven't seen to this magnitude and prevalence before out on our streets and sidewalks. and we know that has been impact, in particular, for members of our disability community who, you know, rely on wheelchairs or other mobility impaired. first and foremost, we do require a six-foot wide clear path of travel on the sidewalk and shared spaces. the second point i would like to emphasize around accessibility, we of course require equivalent facilities for patrons who wish to dine or access services. i'd say it might be a cafe or a restaurant.

so where outdoor seating is provided, sometimes that's in the parking lane or out on the sidewalk, we want to make sure there is an equivalent seating for someone in a wheelchair. quite often what this looks like is providing a dining facility at sidewalk grade. so -- or indoors when indoor dining is permitted. it's currently not allowed as we know. last week we rolled back the ability for folks to operate indoors. but when we are allowed to operate indoors, of course, an equivalent facility could be provided for an interior of the restaurant. when neither of those options are feasible and the shared spaces operator is locating their facility in the parking lane, for example, we do require

that there is either -- that there is a level surface and that there is sufficient radius for a wheelchair turnaround. for example, also so that the platform surface is accessible. i will be honest in acknowledging that there is not as much consistency as the city would like with those facilities on a deck over gutter. we also will be transparent there are a lot of design issues with these rapidly deployed platforms or dining facilities that we would like to see corrected. not only those that are -- have

to do with a.da, but that we have clear sight lines and we're not impeding the drainage of drain water. so we are working very, very carefully and diligently to resolve those issues as much as we can, but we do recognize that there isn't consistency and compliance across all the sites to the degree we would like. so that's just a little bit about the design provisions that we have for shared spaces. i'll quickly move through the next two bullet items -- or discussion topics so we can get to question and answer. and that myself and the rest of our team, you know, can address any questions. regarding compliance and enforcement, i know this is a question from the ada community

from us and director bohn has been really, really critical and essential in helping us ensure that we're, of course, thinking about accessibility before sites are even implemented, but as we have to engage in enforcement activities or compliance activities, that we're communicating the correct information and we're bringing people into compliance. in general, we have a strong proactive outreach and educational approach. we really want to try to address these issues before they become issues. deputy director who runs our program does have team of folks who go out and do education on a range of issues. you know, on public health compliance, but as well operations and sort of facility

design for shared spaces to ensure that folks know what the standards are for making sure they're safe and accessible. and so when that doesn't happen, of course, there are many different ways that the city might receive a complaint or a concern, not the least of which is 311. and we are very grateful to anyone in the community, whether they identify as disabled or not, letting us know through 311 if they perceive an issue or think an issue is at play at a site. so we also have members of a couple of our departments that partner on shared spaces out at sites doing inspections and that's another way we're able to flag if an issue is -- once we

register that, it goes through our -- it's referred to one of two of the city's departments or organizations. one is the community engagement response team. cert or public works. the site is investigated. and much of the time the issue can be resolved right there on the spot, you know, often involve rearranging moveable fixtures like tables and chairs. but in the cases it's not able to be resolved immediately, then our city staff team works with the project sponsor to sort of put them on a plan to either, you know, make their facility accessible or acquire the materials that are needed or make the physical adjustments that are needed to bring that into compliance. so finally, and then i will stop

talking because i know we want to get to questions and discussion. just a little bit on statistics. so shared spaces opens on july 1st. that's when we first started accepting applications. and since then we received somewhere in the neighborhood of 225 complaints that can be -- that have been associated with some kind of ada concern. i can say that about two-thirds of those have -- we've been able to successfully abate and bring into compliance. and others, as i said, have taken a little more time in working with the sponsor to ensure that they are adhering to the guidelines. we found a lot of responsiveness to when the department of public works or the community education

and response team or the cert goes out and talks to folks. you know, by and large, the operators of shared spaces want to be doing the correct thing. they want to be serving all members of the community while at the same time operating outdoors as part of this economic survival strategy that the city has helped them set up. so with that, i will stop talking and we can move into questions. again, i'm joined by deputy program managers from m.t.a., the department of public works, our community engagement and response team and o.e.w.d. >> co-chair madrid: thank you for that wonderful presentation. i'm going to ask are there any

questions? from the public? >> well, first, we open it up to council members. >> co-chair madrid: sorry. >> for questions and comments and i'll go through the list of council members. let's see, helen pelzman? >> co-chair pelzman: hi. okay. sorry, i'm doing this on my iphone. yeah, i have a couple of questions. the first is, we understand that this shared spaces strategy may become permanent. and considered by the board of supervisors as permanent, and then sort of, i guess they're kind of related to one another.

-- situation we're in sort of bordering on category purple, which would shut down all dining, am i correct? there would be no outdoor dining? i'm a little unclear about that. but given the current status of this increase in covid, what is the plan for these spaces if nobody is going to be sitting in them due to curfew and restricted access? so those are two questions. >> thank you for those questions. i think i can definitely answer the first one. and then my deputy director at the m.t.a. can address the second one about the purple. the first is that, correct,

mayor breed did announce last month that she would like elements of the shared spaces program to become permanent. that does not mean every single shared space site that we see in the city is going to remain in its present configuration forever. far from it. what that means is that the program which is created out of emergency decree and was an emergency response to both the pandemic and the economic crisis, that we will move the program out of the emergency phase and make it a more -- essentially, a permanent opportunity for small business owners to be able to access the provisions of the program. as part of that process of figuring out how to make it permanent, it is our opportunity to make design standards, operating parameters,

enforcement, protocols and -- i don't want to say penalties, but consequences, to articulate those with more clarity and permanen permanence. so the overall effect of making the program permanent will not only be to give small business owners more, i guess, security and assurance about their ability to survive, but importantly i think we're going to see better and more consistent quality in terms of the shared spaces that are out there, consistency across the compliance with regulations. so in general, i think we're going to move to, you know, a better and better version of the shared spaces program that we're seeing. now i'll say just a couple of words on the second question and

then maybe, i don't know, monica, if you have more insight. we didn't get a chance to talk about purple yesterday. but certainly curfews mean that, you know, if there is a curfew imposed, then no one can be out past that time. you can't be out in the street. everyone has to be home. so last week when we -- when the mayor announced we were rolling back indoor dining, it did not mean that outdoor dining was prohibited. monica, do you have any thoughts or anything to add to that? >> sure. oh. helen? >> co-chair pelzman: follow-up question to the first part. if that's okay, the first answer. i apologize. so when you say you're looking

to transition this emergency response for the restaurant business, the hospitality restaurant businesses, will there be an opportunity for specific communities to weigh in on what their current concerns are? is there going to be some kind of a community outreach effort -- [indiscernible] -- concerns and needs? >> absolutely, thank you for asking that question. >> co-chair pelzman: let us know and make us aware of when and how and working with mocd and other associated groups representing the disabled community to let them know how they can weigh in and

participate. i'm done. >> great, thank you. yes, to confirm, as we -- as the city thinks about how we transition from emergency program to a permanent program, we will definitely be doing engagement and outreach and, of course, the disability community is a really essential and key contributor to that conversation. so we will certainly be working, you know, in collaboration with director bohn to connect with this council. and the broader disability community and disability advocate community so that we are framing the program in a way that, you know, accommodates everybody. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. >> co-chair pelzman: thank you. i think there was another colleague who wanted to address

issues what we anticipate will be transitioning into a purple whatever? purple state. >> yeah, so, m.t.a. this morning, trying get more details. the state guidance of purple is not transferrable. san francisco could decide to do something more stringent. so my understanding it would be a department of public health call, because it's sort of a health issue, so if public health did determine curfew aside, but that dining is closing down outside, then m.t.a. and the shared space program would need to follow suit. we would need to figure out how to communicate to our existing permit holders about that news. we're anticipating more results for shared space pickup zones.

that would still be allowed. so shared spaces could be pickup or the curbside dining are two of the few uses. so thinking about already what that would look like, that demand. but, yeah, you all know probably as much as i do in reading that it wasn't called today, but it could be as early as sunday. i think there is a 48 hours that it would have to go into effect, so by next week we could be looking at needing to oblige by it. >> co-chair pelzman: what does that mean in terms of shared spaces? i understand needing shared pickup, but you won't have outside dining. i recognize these restaurants and what they've incurred in creating these spaces.

we're very impacted by restaurants with shared spaces. so i understand there has been significant investment. and what happens if there is a long -- well, i guess nobody knows. this kind of speculating here. will those spaces remain indefinitely unused or will they transition back to parking spaces? does anybody know? >> great question. so i think if an outdoor dining moratorium is implemented -- and that's an if because right now that is not the policy that we're operating under in our city and county -- then what will happen is that operators will simply cease to -- restauranteurs will cease to operate in those spaces. that doesn't mean we're going to ask anybody to remove these.

we don't know when outdoor dining can resume again. and the reason we're trying to help people migrate their activities outdoors is because it's their livelihood, their ability to support their families, and it's a huge contribution to our employment and city tax base, so it's really important that within the parameters of public health directives, we're obviously helping our san francisco small businesses survive. so i don't think that will result in these -- immediately going away. if we were to put a moratorium, indefinite moratorium on outdoor dining, that doesn't mean that the facilities themselves are removed from the streetscape. >> co-chair madrid: thank you for that. i just wonder how -- the council

members ask the questions. the next question. >> thank you. tiffany yu. any questions for comments? >> council member yu: hi, this is tiffany. thank you for the presentation. i guess my question is, you shared there are 200ada complaints and two-thirds of them have been addressed. i'm curious what the general theme of the other third that haven't been able to be -- i forgot the word you used -- haven't been able to be addressed? >> yes, thank you for the question. i think i'll turn it over to kaetlyn and gregory for this. >> hi, folks. i'm kaitlyn. i'm the deputy director of cert and the entertainment commission. we're a proactive group of

disaster service workers who respond to 311 complaints. i want to clarify that we don't have any enforcement authority and we're education only. so i think it makes sense for me to speak on this first and then for gregory to speak from public works as they do have enforcement capabilities. the complaints that have not been abated generally from the cert perspective means that the business was unwilling to correct on site or when given an opportunity to come into compliance based on the sert team's recommendation how to comply. an example could be there were no diverters present. these are just examples. we've seen a whole host of

violations. so the way that cert works, we respond to a complaint and we provide solutions to the business owner while we're there. ideally, they'll correct while the inspector is on site. maybe they'll relocate the table or move a sandwich board out of the sidewalk. of course, if it's a diverter issue, they have to obtain those and they can't fix that generally right there on site. from there, we can conduct a follow-up inspection where we actually go back and give them an opportunity to comply. come back and see whether or not they did follow those suggestions. if they haven't, or if it's egregious violation, we would send it to public works for their further follow-up and enforcement. i think from there it makes sense to pass it over to gregory

for his enforcement input. >> before we go to gregor robertson , /* /- -- greg, could we take care of things with access to the meeting. please, if you're not speaking if you could have your microphone on mute. if you could all double-check and make sure your mute is -- because we're getting feedback. and the same thing on the phone. and also, we'd like to try -- i know in the beginning we said keep your video on. i think we need to try turning off if you're not speaking. and see if that helps our interpreters right now who are communicating inside the meeting. thank you very much. >> co-chair madrid: okay. >> please continue. >> hi, good afternoon. this is gregory slocum with san francisco public works.

first of all, thank you all for having us. great to be here and receive this feedback. it helps us do our job to the best of our ability. speaking to the point that was raised and -- escalations in many complaints that cert can't speak to for lack of enforcement ability are escalated to public works. public works is well equipped for this. the inspectors we're sending out in the field are very familiar with pre-existing programs like tables and chairs and merchandise. so they have an eye for the public right-of-way and what constitutes adequate accessibility. and unlike kaitlyn's program where it's ad hoc crew coming in doing and learning while they're educating, as kaitlyn indicated,

some complaints are very easy to remediate. it's as simple as removing a chair or sandwich board. but in an instance, where they have to order diverters, it may take longer and that would constitute some of the complaints we're still working on closing. our team will go on the site and review the occupancy, whether that's just simply placement of furniture or a structure in the public right-of-way. and if they determine there is a violation of the public works order or the shared space program guidelines, they may issue a notice of correction. notice of correction, not like a harsh punitive measure. there is no fine associated with it, but it is formal documentation of what the deficiency is on site. it's trackable. it can escalate to a notice of

violation which is in fact a punitive measure and may have fines associated. we have not -- of the ultimate -- revocation of the permit, if we had someone that was unwilling to comply with the directives given to them in the correction notice and subsequent notice of violation, and if the permit was revoked and the occupancy continued, there could be daily fines administered. we haven't fortunately, gotten to that escalation in our program, but as kaitlyn mentioned, some of the changes that we're requesting folks to make in that correction notice, for instance, like a platform that has been installed, if someone has to order materials or hire a contractor, we're going to try to give them time to do that and make a good faith effort to remediate the issue and we'll follow up with them with correction notices. the duration for which they have

time to rectify the matter is probably based on the scope of the issue. if it's something like, they have to move a chair and there is a diner occupying it, we may give them a day or two. if they're dismantling a platform, or something to that effect, they may have as long as two weeks. it's going to explain that one-third that we're working through. we have been fortunate in that -- that's all i have to say to that, but i'm happy to do another lap if i haven't answered the question adequately. >> co-chair madrid: any other questions? >> council member yu: that's all

my questions. thank you. >> co-chair madrid: what is the next question? okay, go ahead. >> council member sassouni: hi, this is orchid. i'm not sure where i'm looking here. i can't see my interpreter which has been happening. so, yeah where is my interpreter? the asl. i don't have anyone on screen. i'm wondering if you can see me.

>> council member sassouni: i hope you can understand me now. regarding the sidewalk, yeah, walking is quite an issue. and the city has issues with the tables and how they're set up on the sidewalk. there is freezing from the interpreter. just a moment. i'm wondering if that will include restaurants or other potential places where there is foot traffic, and if crowded sidewalks will be accommodated? this is the interpreter, i'm missing some of the information, the screen is freezing. when we're talking about tables -- i notice -- there are dark colors and we can't see

them at times. so i think there is some issues with the tables in the corners, again, the screen is freezing. so i'm wondering about some of the dark tables that are harder to see as far as walking goes. i'm having trouble. the screen is freezing with the interpreter. >> i think orkid's question is talking about the contrast of the tables, many of the tables are very dark in color. and if it's past sunset, it's easy to trip or run into those. especially if you have a visual impairment. so it would be great if the furniture was painted in a contrasting color brighter so that people with vision impairment or even anyone would be able to see the furniture as they were walking through that area.

>> thank you for the feedback. >> yeah, because that furniture, you know, is part of the problem. and i think it's really important to be able to see, because people will run into that furniture. a lot of them are dark brown or black. and if it's sunset or dusk, it's difficult to see. so i just want to put that out, that it's one comment. and also for deaf people who are walking along, sometimes, you know, with masks, it's difficult for us to communicate and so we're not necessarily paying attention to the traffic or the thoroughfare. so, you know, also that area between the front door of the restaurant and the parklets, i think it's really important to think about -- that's another

area of traffic, is people coming in and out of the restaurant to provide wait staff or service to those diners. that's it. thank you. >> co-chair madrid: thank you, orkid. who is next? >> next is helen. >> council member smolinski: hi, thank you for the presentation. i don't have any questions at this time. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. next. >> kate williams. >> co-chair madrid: kate on the line? going ahead. >> council member williams: thank you very much. no questions at this time. they've been answered. thank you for your service. >> co-chair madrid: thank you,

kate. >> okay. i'm wondering if neo has been able to join? i don't see him. so alex? >> thank you for your presentation, robin and tiffany asked my question. i'm all set. >> co-chair madrid: okay, thank you, alex. is it my turn now? >> yes. >> co-chair madrid: okay. thanks to robin and your team for coming to this meeting. so my question a couple of things, is that one, before you guys approve this device to put

on the sidewalk, are there any training or education and information to the businesses? and how they should be conducting this device? and do they know that accessibility is the most important? and last thing is, why the device is in the sidewalk, do you guys frequently check those devices and see if there are

complying before people complain, when people complain and after the complaint has been resolved? go ahead. >> thank you, vice chair madrid. so, yes. a few different questions there. first of all, we do have some very clear guidance on the design and site design for shared spaces. so some of the concepts i talked about earlier like a clear six-foot wide path of travel. you know, an equivalent facility. those are all articulated in our -- on our website and in a pamphlet. so i can actually put a link to that also in the chat, in case

folks want to see what the regulations are. and a form that we ask applicants to sign confirming that they understand the guidelines and that they'll adhere to them as they deploy, as they design. so with regard to your second question. we do inspect the site when the complaint or the concern is submitted, often through 311. and i don't believe at this time we have the capacity to go back to every single site another time. there are in excess of 1800 shared spaces on the streets of san francisco, and we definitely

don't have the ability to visit all of those proactively, even if a complaint hasn't been submitted. but i will defer to gregory and kaitlyn who might have a little more information about, you know, the frequency of other follow-up visits, like secondary or third visits? >> co-chair madrid: i just want to say on my second question which is before you guys approve the project, who is according to the guidelines because what

i'm -- if someone checks, it should be not an issue if accessibility is done the first time. >> totally. that's an excellent point. at this time, we don't have the ability or capacity to check every single site before it becomes active. the overriding directive we have received is to help as many small businesses begin operating as soon as possible, so traditionally, we would go through a much longer process. you know, a week long, maybe

even a month long to develop a site plan, review a site plan and do a lot of intensive pre-deployment approval. this program is very different from usual city programs in that it was created during an emergency and reflect a lot of those emergency provisions. so, unfortunately, we're not in a position, nor do we have the capacity to do site review for every single one before the operator begins operating. i would note though that of the 1800 or so sites that we've received, i gave a number earlier, somewhere in the neighborhood of 225 have had issue with accessibility at their shared space. so the vast majority of sites that are operating right now, we

have not received an ada -- specific ada complaint about. i know that's not exact and doesn't give a precise sense of really what the prevalence of the potential ada issues are, but i think it's an important number to keep in mind. certainly one that i look at. >> co-chair madrid: thank you for that. i think that's all my questions. again, thank you for coming. and i'm going to pass it to clerk. if there are any public comments or questions from the staff. >> right. >> hi, this is nicole speaking. hello, everybody. thank you, robin and everyone

for coming today. just a general comment to the council. i think everyone's comments are well taken. and as the city starts to think about which elements if any of these become permanent, i think we'll have opportunity again to think about how we're approaching this work. so, if maintaining accessibility continues to be a priority, which it has been, i think we'll be in good shape. but i want to encourage the council, if this is an item that you would like to follow up on, that you really do that. because the mayor's office needs to hear everyone's concerns from the disability community. and i've been fortunate enough to work with this team on multiple calls per week and in a

lot of different materials since the beginning of this program. and everyone has been incredibly responsive, but i do think that, as we think about kind of longer term, we have an opportunity to look at, again, how we're approaching the accessibility elements. so then that leads to my question, which is, robin, do you have a sense, or does anyone on the team have a sense about when will we'll be thinking about this kind of longer term phase? i know we're in the beginning of the conversations, but can you say a little more about that? >> yes, director bohn. could you just repeat the tail end of the question. my internet is -- >> no problem. so i was just wondering if you could speak more to the time line for when you think the city

will start to have conversations about a long-term process that would involve more disability community engagement and things like this? >> yes. in the new year, certainly early in the new year and potentially earlier than that. so i think that could certainly involve coming back to this council in this setting. and maybe having other meetings or interaction that we could collaborate on to make sure that we're engaging appropriately. >> nicole: thank you very much, robin. >> co-chair madrid: are there any more staff questions? >> i don't think so. >> co-chair madrid: okay. i'm going to public comment. >> right.

so are there any callers on the line? >> we have two callers on the line. >> co-chair madrid: go ahead, first caller. >> hello, my name is richard. i tried to speak under general public comment but was not recognized. what i want to say is this meeting is not noticed on the web page. i don't even know how you can have a legal meeting when it says the next meeting is october 16. you can check your web page. so somebody didn't update the web page for the meeting. i'm lucky i got an e-mail notice about it. the other thing about item 4, enforcement, is about having these, you know, in the street, you make it harder for people who have ada issues that need to drive, where are they supposed to park if you take away all

these parking spots? what if i have to take my wife to the dentist who is next to a restaurant? that takes up all the space for cars, eating in the street, where am i supposed to park if we need to take somebody to a medical appointment? you know, these things might be good, but i'm a senior citizen and it's making it harder and harder for seniors to live in the city with all these -- you know, it's just harder to drive around the city. you need to think about the seniors. everybody is going to get old one day. i think you need to either have seniors in your staff, which they probably all retired, but you know, talk to seniors and see how these affect seniors in the parking and how we can park if you're going to take up all the spaces for restaurants.

you need to look at these items. thank you very much. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. next caller. go ahead. >> this is bob. in all the discussion staff have been telling us, none of you have provided any contact information of any sort of who to contact, how to file a complaint. weeks ago i sent an e-mail to d.p.w. staff about a specific park where the wood posts are flush against the curb meaning there is no drainage flow along the curb in the street and it's going to then flood up onto the sidewalk. in addition, i also mentioned how the lane -- that street lane is barricaded off that even

bicycles cannot ride there and bicycles are forced into the muni-only red lane. nobody is responding. it's not just you folks today that didn't tell us contact information. the actual online brochure, there is nothing. it says such and such a program. it doesn't give an e-mail address. doesn't give a phone number. you're making it really difficult, because i never heard of in any of you folks regarding enforcement about travel access. totally new to me and i've been around making complaints for decades, literally decades. you're going to have to rectify your neglect of making yourselves easily available for the website. that means putting it on the website, putting it in the brochure, posting on the m.o.d.

website and so forth. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. thank you so much for coming in. can you please say to us, to the public, how can public can complain or voice their concerns? and how they would be addressed? >> thank you, co-chair madrid. there are several ways to lodge a complaint. if you see one like those that were described by the last caller. you can either call on the phone, 311. and i believe there is tty assistance on the phone. you can also on 311 website, lodge a complaint for shared

spaces as well as on the shared spaces website itself, there is a link to the 311 form. so those are the best ways for us to receive and track a complaint and make sure that it's addressed is by submitting that to 311. >> i would like to ask a question. related to that, alex? >> co-chair madrid: sure. really quick. we're getting out of time. but go ahead. >> would it be possible in response to the most recent caller's question to also add that information in what would be an appropriate and logical spot? i don't know if it's on the m.o.d. website. i certainly know it's not on the

m.d.c. website. i would suggest we would be happy to host it. would there be any issues that you would have in coordinating with us around that? i think it would be an appropriate use of our website and our social media presence. >> nicole: this is nicole speaking. there is a page on shared spaces website, specifically devoted to making your shared space accessible. and on that page, it's directly linked to how to file a complaint. we can do right away, if we can get that -- we can put that direct link on the website. that's no problem. >> which website are we talking about just so the public understands? >> nicole: we'll put it on the home page of the m.o.d. website for now. and then if we need to duplicate it again, we can do that.

>> okay. is it possible to put it on the m.d.c. website? >> nicole: there is no problem doing that. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. i just want to, again, thank you all for coming to the meeting and talking to us regarding this important issue and, robin, i would ask you to please keep us in mind going forward and we'd like to get an update in the near future. i hope you're willing to come in again in a couple months time. >> absolutely, co-chair madrid.

i'll collaborate with director bohn to make sure we schedule a follow-up, not only here at the council, but also just on the engagement around the making a program permanent. so i think there is a lot of conversation in the future. i'm really grateful to be here and to be able to engage the m.d.c. more intentionally moving forward. so thank you for helping us make it a success. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. and with that, we will go to the next item on the agenda. i think we're going to have a 15-minute break. at this time. >> okay, so we will resume the meeting at 2:25. >> co-chair madrid: thanks, everybody.

>> thank you.

>> co-chair madrid: thank you very much. this is san francisco mayor's disability council, november 20, 2020. we are going to item number 5,

which is task force opportunities for people with disabilities. i'm going to pass it now. >> i think we're good to go, alex. heather can begin. >> hi, everyone. thank you very much for having me. i'm so glad to be here. my name is heather green. i'm the c.f.o. at the public

library, but that is a recent change. but before that i was resiliency officer in the city administrator office. in that role which i held for five years i was working with the economic recovery task force to deliver the content that you are going to hear today. i'm one of two staff leads on the army of folks working on this effort. you can hear my children banging on the door even though they know i'm doing this now. a -- i apologize. yes, it's hilarious. i need to pause, i'm so sorry, to tell them to stop. please forgive me. >> no problem. take your time.

okay. the economic recovery task force has concluded and i will just share with you up front the link where you can find all the materials to the task force work. that is 1 san francisco -- onesan francisco.org/covid-19/recovery. i can put that in the chat if that would be helpful for the record. i'll do that right now.

i'll fix it later. i apologize for that. anyway, thank you very much for having me. i'm so happy to be here. i'll tell you a little bit about the task force itself. the work took place over the course of spring and summer. this was announced back in april and the first meeting was at the end of april. the task force had over 100 members, a combination of local business owners and leaders, non-profit and community leaders. a very diverse table. this body was convened in tandem by mayor breed and president yee to advise the city and provide recommendations to support programs and budget development attuned to san francisco's need for recovery. there were four cochairs for the

task force. our assessor carmen chiu, our tax assessor and then the president and c.e.o. of the san francisco chamber of commerce rodney fong and the labor council. the four of them worked to orchestrate everything that we did and our final report was published in october with 41 prioritized recommendations and additional ideas. it's important i think for me to note for everyone's benefit straightaway, that the product of the task force was as i mentioned, recommendations. this report does not necessarily in and of itself constitute a road map to economic recovery all by itself. these are not new laws, not new rules. they are suggestions and

recommendations gathered through the work of the task force and are very robust community engagement and listening process which i'll talk about a little more in a second, but i wanted to make that very clear. these were presented in full to the board on october 27. you'll see that the city's recovery will be -- i think there is a lot of interest talking in preparation with debbie about this presentation. of course, a lot of interest amongst us all, what recovery will look like. what comes next. and i think we can see already many efforts. you heard, you know, about shared spaces already. there are plenty of recovery efforts that the city has tried to deploy even as we're still in response. and many still to come. this recovery will take time certainly. a reminder in case you're unfamiliar with the task force overall, just where we came from

and how we got to the final result. as i mentioned in late april the task force was convened. in may we heard strongly from task members there was a need for safe reopening and that's where the task force and staff focused. a road map that continues this day to inform the d.p.h. communications and efforts to help our businesses open safely and operate safely and know what that is. translating state guidance and rules in a timely fashion in a sector-specific way so that our business owners know what is recommended for them. in june, we broke into four policy groups. one on jobs and businesses. one on economic development.

one on vulnerable population. and one on arts, culture, hospitality and entertainment. the sector in some ways uniquely affected in this time. each of those had a group of about 20 members and they each articulated problem statements, prioritized recommendations for recovery strategies and all of that was woven together into the final report published last month. i'll talk a little bit about our community engagement and listening efforts. so the table of the task force was a big one, more than a hundred people. but there was also a dedicated community engagement and listening staff as part of the task force who did -- we all collectively did a lot of work to bring even more voices to the process and hear perspectives underrepresented. we know that our task members also supported this and more

than 30 of them conducted their research and outreach. which reached an estimated 900 individuals. over a thousand public surveys and e-mails were received from san franciscans. we had intake survey for the task force itself, but also a public version of that and got a lot of input there. heard a lot about challenges and opportunities. the community engagement and listening team conducted about 40 hours of interviews and conversations with nearly 100 community members through formal focus groups. and during the run of the task force, we did presentations at the commission of the environment, the small business commission and the commission on the status of women, needless to say the outreach and communication is ongoing as i'm here today and further presentations are expected to continue. i also want to highlight and acknowledge the important role

of staff that we had working throughout the process. dozens of people from departments across the city were involved in developing and refining the ideas that ultimately fed the report, including m.o.d.'s debbie, i want to say thank you for your work throughout. it was great to have your input and it really helped make the final report product as strong as it is. you know, we heard throughout -- i'll kind of highlight, take away from that engagement, was how important financial assistance to businesses was. that was the most desired category of action we heard in the survey. and also about health and safety concerns. but we also heard a lot of other things. remembering to think about the digital divide, anti-asian violence, accessibility, public health and safety, immigrant needs and so on. the input we heard through staff

ideas, was fed to the task force and helped to inform the ideas they wanted to prioritize as recommendations. all together we worked through a process through those four work groups to come up with the recommendations. and i'll highlight here some of the themes that we heard at the tables. many of them are consistent across the four groups, so the report that was published in the end did not keep the ideas in the silos. there was a lot of overlap, so we tried to organize the information into sections and buckets that would enable different groups to talk to each other. we heard across the board to center economic challenges, considering the magnitude of economic pain and the scale of effort needed and felt to be explicit about the roles that

partner organizations, institutions and businesses can play so we could ease the strain that businesses are feeling. we heard repeatedly to have specificity for target audiences and groups in need. i'll talk about that. that's a very important part of our work. we were told to keep an eye on short-term survival needs and looking to the future and being concrete and ambitious. i think the group as a whole is extremely ambitious in the best possible way, so we would have a meaningful and equitable recovery. we were -- we heard to call out challenges and opportunities for arts and culture as i mentioned before, and really to think about how we can do things differently, inspire confidence, show a path forward to a thriving future. the report itself, i'll talk

just about the body content a little bit and i'll try to be brief and leave time for questions. but you know, following introductory letters from mayor, president and cochairs, we tried to encapsulate as much as we heard and learned from you in the process. it's structured in eight priority areas. that is local economic stimulus, job connections, promoting safe reopening, preserving operations and lessening regulatory burdenses, pursuing economic justice, investing in housing, meeting the basic needs of the vulnerable and imagining and building stronger neighborhoods. so those are the eight core ideas. there is also a section for additional policy ideas. as you might imagine, recovery of this nature has never been in our recent history.

this is all new ground for all of us. and so the ideas just kept coming. we tried to honor both the need for us to continue to hear new ideas and to be flexible, but also acknowledge the prioritization work that groups did over the summer. so we did include place to register additional policy ideas and also to think a little bit about looking ahead, which as i mentioned, recovery will be the work of the city and the elected leader for the foreseeable future. i will -- i think i will at this point go ahead and talk about the other sections of the report. and then i'll come back and do a little more details about the eight sections and then take your questions. so just want it highlight in addition to the body of the report with its 41 strategies, for the narratives, they are relatively brief and even in the brief form, we have a 72-page

report. so we also have several -- and the work there is extremely important, so i wanted to highlight that. appendix a we document the reopening plan, the road map to recovery that included sector-specific information in may. in appendix b, there is the shared spaces detail program. you heard about that from robin. apendisies, the work groups, the challenges raised there, the recommendations, priorities and also our community engagement and listening efforts detail about the work groups and that input that we heard through subject matter experts, focus groups, surveys and so on. i want to highlight appendix e which is the detailed policy recommendation. this is a really huge document. it's hundreds of pages. and for each one of the 41

priority recommendations from the task force, we went through as the core staff team and subject matter experts from the different departments as i mentioned and tried to make some really actionable detailed concrete guides for the departments that will take on the recommendations and try to do something with them. so these include, you know, more detailed description of the problem, the challenges. more detail on the idea itself. in some cases we could capture in the report for length. it also each one includes an equity analysis that we had a lot of from the office of racial equity as one of the members of the core team with us. who helped us to design analysis that we did for each and every recommendation that analyzed the barriers, burdens, opportunities for community input and so on that we, as city staff, should

take into account as we implement. also consideration of feasibility and costs and all of the details can be found in appendix e. that's where you see a lot of detail to targeted audiences and so on. it's so important to so many stakeholders in the city, especially amongst our vulnerable population. and then lastly, appendix f, we have a survey of all department heads that assessor chiu's office ran to document departmental covid response and recovery efforts to give that holistic picture of what the city has been doing all this time. i've been talking a while and i know people have questions. i'm happy to pause here. or would you like me to do more detail on the recommendations? >> co-chair madrid: i just want

to ask, how long is the recommendation so we can pause for that and ask questions? >> sure. so i should pause now and have council ask questions? >> co-chair madrid: no. what i'm asking was, how long is -- how long do you need for tell us about the recommendations. if it's long, i would suggest pausi pausing. >> i understand. thank you, i'm so sorry. i think to go from the level of detail we started with, the next level of detail gets very

detailed very quickly. i think perhaps what i'll do is summarize and then open for questions and i'm happy to rattle through the recommendations one by one if anyone would like. >> co-chair madrid: yes. i think some of the council members would like more information. so go ahead. >> okay. >> i would suggest through the chair that, heather, maybe you think about some of the recommendations that you would anticipate have specific impact on the disability community. i know they all do, but specific ones that you would like to highlight. i think that would be helpful for the group. >> sure. absolutely. thank you. i think in the end insofar as these are things that affect san

franciscans and we have san franciscans with disabilities, i don't pretend that any of these don't affect us at the table here today. but when i look at what we've got, i think broadly speaking, i think as we heard in the presentation about shared spaces and the comment thereafter, there is a bit of a tension between the heightened speed with which the city strives to deal with recovery and its response, and the needs of some of our more vulnerable populations. i think what i saw throughout this process was really good and careful attention to that tension, acknowledging it, calling it out. and then we have in our report, you know, recommendations that run the gamut. and i guess i want to highlight that. not every recommendation had 100% consensus. there may be thing in here that

are much more weighted to one group's interests or another. but what we tried to do was to highlight those that had strong consensus enough as priority for the overall task force in the work groups. when i think about the individual, i think there is important right up top. there is a recommendation to invest in public infrastructure and support major projects. from my old job as planning director and work with nicole, we know that san francisco's built environment has accessibility challenges that will continue to have them until we invest adequately in them. i think that one really represents a strong opportunity for the disability community to see improvements in the built environment that we need. there is also suggestion to partner with communities to

deliver and what the message of that recovery is and informing that seems like an important one for this community. so when we're appealing for federal, state and private funds to support the things we need to do, that we make a part of that accommodating the needs of this community. under job connections, i think helping people find the work that suits them best in this time. that is safe and accessible. we heard a lot about pivoting and making sure that people have the training they need to get to their next best opportunity if what they had been doing was no longer available to them. there was strong emphasis making sure that the training was accessible. physical access in language access. and access for those who are blind or deaf or might have

other challenges receiving content without support. the third one on promoting safe reopening. this is something that really applies to all of us, but again making sure that we have clear language and accessible communication and ensuring safe work environment for all. and again we did a lot of work defining vulnerable populations and certainly people with disabilities were included in that. and so when it says for all, that's what is -- that's part of what that means. there is also an important one on supporting cleanliness, health and safety in public spaces. this is really about street conditions, which i can imagine is an important issue for this community. and you know, thinking about how we do that thoughtfully and humanely in san francisco remains one of the top orders of the day. and the fourth about preserving

operations and lessening regulatory burdens. we heard the shared spaces program. we heard about that and i don't want to belabor that, but part of a larger recommendation to rethink the rules that restrict flexible and temporary uses. when we do that making sure spaces are accessible to all. under pursuit economic justice. this is where we registered the efforts under way in the city. for example, back in budget season, it was big news about repurposing the $120 million from the police budget to invest in the black community ensuring low-income and other vulnerable school children have access to education program, the kind of things we're seeing through the hubs and bridging the digital divide. i think in that last one, there is an important piece for the disability community, making sure that the people have the

devices, the connectivity and we're reaching people who are suffering from greater isolation even more than normal times. under invest in housing, i recall we had a lot of input about making sure that the housing we build and the permanent supportive housing we build is accessible. i think that's an ongoing conversation at the board and as we build. meeting the basic needs for the vulnerable. that's where we have the sites fort permanent supportive housing and ensuring accessibility of those. also preventing renter evictions and displacement. this is very tenuous time in the city and the city continues to do what it can to keep people from falling into homelessness. lastly, imagining and building stronger neighborhoods. you know, i think this is where we try to register the neighborhood-based efforts that

could help, especially the arts community, but all of us. i think we have here the opportunity to reenvision ourselves a little bit. so this is a section where there is more opportunity for creativity and build us back better. those are the eight. i think i'll pause here. happy to have conversation and take questions. >> co-chair madrid: thank you, heather. and i'm opening up to questions. i see that the first person raising their hand is kevin. >> thank you, and thank you for the presentation. i appreciate it. i had to check back at the agenda to find out what agenda item this was. and what we had invited you to

speak of on. there was so -- there was so much setup about the report and i know nicole interjected and asked you to give specifics. i guess what i'm looking for from our community, are kind of more concrete things that the task force is offering to the disability community in san francisco. for example, you mentioned getting technology to folks to facilitate, you know, jobs, keeping jobs and finding new jobs in this environment. how is the city doing that? >> so, the task force made the recommendations. the task force doesn't have to offer -- delivering -- >> sure, it just all sounded so kind of generic. forgive me to say that.

it all sounded very, you know, things that we -- things that the city has been working on outside the pandemic as well. i understand they become more important during the pandemic, but did the task force also make recommendations about how, then -- if you're not getting the technology to people i understand, is there anything more proactive or directive? >> well, so, directive -- so the recommendations like to do the thing is directive. it's directive to our elected leaders and decision-makers to make them happen. it's not a mandate. that's what i was saying in the beginning. in terms of is there more? yes. for every single one of the recommendations there is a multipage document about how to do it, what resources and individual program manager might build on or considerations. it's a little bit to present in

this for mat at the level of detail you're interested in, which i so appreciate because we put a lot of work into it. in terms of who is actually -- like for that one specifically about devices, the recommendation was that was a good opportunity to seek partnership with the private sector since there are so many devices and obviously tech industries locally to see about partnering and how can we leverage tech recycling efforts elsewhere. and then in terms of who would do that. there is -- i'm sure that the mayor's office of housing and community development, there is a digital access accessibility coordinator. so the recommendation was for that office to take the lead. but in terms of -- but the exact status of that one right now,

i'm afraid i don't have it. but that's an example of the level of detail. >> that's good to hear. that level of detail exists. lastly, my question is there a body that is monitoring or follow-up or anything like that? >> not a formal convened body. so the recommendations were made jointly to the mayor and the board. so in that sense it becomes kind of the order of the day to our elected officials for each recommendation there is a lead agency identified. so that at least in the implementation it's clear who would be lead and who would be convening. and then as the recovery task force was under way, the mayor's office did appoint a recovery

coordinator within the mayor's office. so in terms of like logistics and day-to-day. there is a point person responsible for kind of the coordination there. but, really, it's the whole team, right, think being this all the time at this point. so you know, it's ongoing, but, no, there is not a single point -- a single body that is responsible for the management of the task force's report per se, because as i was saying in the beginning, you know, it's a wonderful set of recommendations. it's a very robust set of recommendations. there is a lot there. but also it's not alone, complete as a road map to recovery. there are notable areas. we talked about it all through the task force. there are multiple efforts going on at the same time. so for example when it comes to transportation, there was a whole transportation group meeting convening and think being the future of the -- the present and the future about the

city's transportation in the context of covid and recovery that was already doing that work. so we do not have transportation-related recommendations in our report, even though, of course, san francisco needs transportation, transit to recover economically. so you know, as full and deep thinking went into the report, it's not going to be enough by itself. so you can't really treat it as a checklist, but it does capture a lot of ideas. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. do you have a question? >> that's all, thank you so much, alex. >> co-chair madrid: the next person i see is orkid.

do you have any questions? >> council member sassouni: yes. this is just brief. i wanted to -- i recently went to a restaurant -- i recently went to a restaurant and they were unfortunately had to close because of covid. they were not able to keep open as a business during this time. and so their resources ran out and so the deaf community specifically in the bay area, but in general, has been devastated by this as it was a deaf-owned restaurant. i'm just wondering if -- -- if there are ways to set up parking and viable parking sources and places where the public can access businesses like this? because i believe that part of it was due to accessibility for people to be able to get takeout

from them. i think not being in place where there was easy public parking for people to access them in the restaurant, despite their best efforts, caused their closure. and so i think at this time it's really difficult for a lot of small businesses, especially businesses owned by people's disabilities and minorities, it's difficult to maintain being open. >> yes, i read that story in the paper. that was so sad to hear. so in terms of are there things to do? yes. i think that the most relevant from the task force's report is the recommendations that are making sure that our business community has clear, accessible, concise, up-to-date information about the supports that are available to them. i mean, it is a hard time. and there is no money falling

from the sky, federal stimulus has been tied up for months now. and so that cash that so many people just need to get through, you know, ultimately, that would solve some of our problems here, but that level of intervention at the federal level, and it seems very slow in coming. but the information that might have helped in terms of how to apply for the kinds of parking, you know, clearances that you might need, the permits with m.t.a., any kind of loan program that they may have been eligible for, you know, the office of economic and workforce development through its small business office has created a good one-stop shop. but you know, so that would be a good place to start to make sure that people are aware of that resource internally making sure that it's up to date and remains, you know, as helpful as

possible. and then making sure that everybody who needs that information can access it through whatever -- for whatever they need. i think those were the most relevant things from the task force. >> thank you so much. thank you so much for your comment. >> co-chair madrid: the next is tiffany. tiffany, do you have any questions? >> council member yu: hi, this is tiffany. thank you again for the presentation. i was really excited to see this economic recovery task force being put together. and i do know that rodney fong is one of the advisory members on the san francisco disability business alliance, so it was

nice to know we had a little bit of representation on the task force. my question is around -- so the report was submitted in october. thank you for the in-depth review on the recommendations. i do agree with helen, i think as a task force it is difficult to come to a council meeting and have made these recommendations but not be able to show what has actually been implemented. my question is with a potential second wave of covid and the pandemic, do you know if the task force will come back together to reassess if there are new recommendations that need to be made? the longer our economy is impacted? >> that's a good question. i don't know the answer to that. i have not heard anything about that. but i just don't know. >> thank you.

>> co-chair madrid: any other questions, tiffany? >> council member yu: that's all my questions. thank you. >> co-chair madrid: the next is kate. >> council member williams: yes, thank you. my goodness what a broad report, so many topics to cover. i, as a citizen, disabled citizen, i'm a bit confused. i heard the overview of the recommendations, but specifically where can we go to find out if and how these recommendations are being implemented? is there a central place we can go to find out where our area of interests might be? for instance, with employment. is there some place we can find out what is happening based on your recommendations? a central place? or is it -- how do we access that? >> there is not. there is not a central place

where this document is being used as a -- >> how are we to measure -- or how are we to get the assistance that we may need? >> those are different. so how do you measure the city's recovery? >> there are two separate questions. >> so how do you measure the city's recovery. it's a wonderful question that i think every single person who has been involved in this effort has asked and will continue to ask. i don't mean to put you off. but that is -- i keep saying it's like the order of the day. it's all of the city's work to deliver this and they do not yet have -- they do not yet have a clear answer to that. so i think it's a really important question to keep asking how will we know if we're recovering, if we're recovering

equitably, who is recovering in what ways? these are all tremendously important questions and i think that the answer you seek does not yet exist, but i hope that it does soon. >> council member williams: thank you very much. >> for the question about the assistance that you need, could you just be a little more specific what you're talking about? >> when you were speaking about job loss, people finding jobs. are there resources where these recommendations that you did make -- i'm just using that as one subject matter. where can one -- the communications, the devices and so on to assist people in job search, where can one go to see what is being implemented or how we can implement those for our people that we are working with that actually want to avail themselves of pieces of devices and what not. where can we go? just using that as an example. >> yes, i understand.

i think -- do you mean for council or for the general public or both? >> i'm talking about implementing a recommendations that people that are isolated need to have equipment to be less isolated whether that be job search for maybe support in their mental health. where can one go -- there are so many agencies that we have in the city. it's difficult to know where our -- how we can connect with those resources. >> yeah, so the city's digital services office has been since this started to try to create as much user friendly content as possible to help people connect to the resources they need. it still not one answer. i'm sorry i don't have the url off the top of my head.

but i'll be sure to e-mail it. there is a couple of websites that the city has put together as landing pages for the people to find out about covid itself and the health emergency before us. and then as i mentioned, the office of economic and workforce development has a strong set of resources published for small businesses and so on. when it comes to some of the services for vulnerable populations, it's still human services agency by and large that is the lead on the recommendations presented in the report. and i think, as i'm speaking, probably the general answer to your question is if you were starting from the report and wanted to find out more about a particular strategy and its status, for each recommendation a lead agency is identified. there is a table for that. and so -- >> where do we find that?

that list? >> in the report. >> how do we access the report? >> that is the -- i'm sorry, i have slides that i'm unable to share. there is a url that i read out and i put in the chat. >> i'm sorry. >> no, it's okay. >> council member williams: the m.o.d. office can send that out to the council. >> yes, we will do that. >> yes. i thought it did. thank you, kate. any more questions from you, kate? >> council member williams: thank you. >> co-chair madrid: the next person is neo. okay. alex? do you have any questions? >> thank you for the report. this is alex.

my question has been answered and i'll have to review the material for future questions. >> co-chair madrid: the next person is helen pelzman. helen, are you on the line? do you have any questions to the presentation? >> co-chair pelzman: i do. hold on for just a minute, sorry. hi, heather. i'm the other co-chair. i wanted to thank you for your -- i can only imagine what

a monumental amount of work this has been. i think the other members have touched on some of my concerns. the first -- and forgive me if you already said this and i forgot, is there a place where this report is posted that our community can access it? and the second is more related to what orkid was discussing. there is a newly established san francisco disability business council, which is a business council that is comprised of people, business owners who also happen to have disabilities. the restauranteurs that orkid referenced were part of that group initially. they're brand new. and i'm just wondering if they had any role in this effort? and is there a way that you can

continue to loop in -- or whomever is in charge of administering, continue to loop in and engage that community? and i'll take the rest of this off, close my mic and wait for your answer. >> sure. so yes, there is a place where everyone can see the report. nicole, you're going to have to help me about the best way to distribute the url. it was in the slide that i sent in advance and i popped it in the chat. but -- >> co-chair madrid: this is -- i just want to emphasize that after this meeting, i would ask the staff to send that

information to the council and the public. >> nicole: i just wanted to make a point that it is posted in the october director report from last month. which is how this item got on the agenda. so you can look there, but we can post it as its own individual link. you might want to read the url one more time. >> of course, it is onesan francisco.org/covid-19/recovery. one is spelled out, o.n.e. the 19 is the number 19.

>> co-chair madrid: thank you. >> i know helen had a second question specific to the disability business council. i, myself, did not lead the community engagement and listening efforts, so i am not sure if that group directly was engaged with or not. but i certainly can -- i'll get back with nicole and put her in touch with the right person at o.e.w.d. who has been doing the outreach and to the extent there is continuing outreach to small businesses to ensure they're in the loop if not already.

>> heather, i just wanted to acknowledge i'd appreciate from one policy nerd to another, how -- i appreciate how granular you got and it sounded like a monumental outreach effort. so i applaud you in surviving it and i hope your new job at the library is better -- or you're happy there. >> little quieter. [laughter] >> co-chair madrid: thank you, heather. my question to you is i know that you had a lot of working groups and hundred+ people in

the group. are they related to disability when it comes to this recovery effort? of course, everything that you mentioned is related to disability and vulnerable population, but are there any specific groups that relate to people with disabilities as we speak and go forward?

is there any type of disability-related -- >> so as you mentioned, the group -- these issues, really some of them -- all of them, span across san franciscans. there was not a disability-specific work group. we did not have any kind of demographic-specific work groups as part of the task force. the most specific one that we had was sector-specific. and that was the arts, culture, hospitality and entertainment group that i mentioned. but the vulnerable population group did define vulnerable populations for the purposes of this broadly. and that did include people with

disabilities. so to the extent that there was -- to the question, was there a group where those needs would have been wrestled with directly as a function of the demography, yes, but not specific to people with disabilities. in terms of going forward and how do you -- how does the city attend to the needs of people with disabilities in recovery? i think it falls to the offices that we have, the staff, this council, to stay abreast and, you know, to inform through the processes that the city has established to advocate for those needs. there is not -- there is not a work group specific to this population, but there is not any work groups specific to a population. i'm sorry i keep saying it

really is the ongoing work of the government to figure out all of its next steps and to make sure that those are equitable and helping the people who need help the most in ways that will actually help them. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. this is the last comment i'm going to make for this. i think it would be good for your department and for the working group to see if as we go forward, are there any specific groups that we're going to have? because as you know, with covid-19, it's going to be --

we're going to reopen at one point and shut again, but i think going forward, the group has to really think about opening up or creating a couple of groups and specifically a group of people that -- a certain group. so i just want to mention that and hopefully you can take that back and ask the group if there is a good going forward.

that's my last comment on that. thank you so much for coming. and i hope you can come back later on once you have more information. >> thank you very much for having me. >> co-chair madrid: i want to offer up to the staff if they have any comments or questions. >> this is nicole speaking. thank you very much, heather. i know heather is on a time schedule, too, and she readjusted her time on the agenda to help us out. i'll be brief. one thing, the comment in debbie's work that you've been doing on the task force work group, m.o.d. did a lot of

outreach to the disability organizations, individuals. we had focus groups. so i really want to be clear that in that work we really heard from a lot of people through this. so i didn't -- i want to make sure people understand that we did incorporate the perspective of many people. and debbie can talk to the members perhaps, but that did happen. my question is, heather, was your recommendation -- obviously there is a lot of thinking around how do we make sure that these things that are important to us, like employment and housing and technology and all of these initiatives, and how are they addressed and followed up on? if the council were going to write a letter or make a request to a particular entity to

emphasize this work to greater degree, who is the best person to bring that to, do you think? or what organization? what section of the city? o.e.w.d.? carmen? >> i think to the extent of what you're asking for it's clear reporting on the city's recovery efforts and progress. i believe that is the best place to address that is to the mayor's office. >> nicole: okay. thanks. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. are there any more staff who has comments or questions? seeing none, i am opening for

public comment. >> let's see if there are public comments on the phone. have any public comments on the phone? >> i want to remind them to hit star 3 if they want to be in the queue for public comment. i'm seeing nobody in the queue. >> okay. i have not seen any comments come in by e-mail. so on this item -- so i think we have reached the end of this item. >> co-chair madrid: i'm closing this item. again, heather, thank you very much for coming. and hopefully, we can get in touch and an update when the time comes.

>> the council has been increased and in terms of the numbers of people and we've let

the mayor's office know we're looking for members until this group settles in and we also there have been meetings of the by-laws subcommittee and and that results of that work will be brought planning meeting along with the work of the employment subcommittee. yesterday we have a meeting with h.i. and and the subcommittee

and everyone and in planning. excluding making and that is my annual report. thank you for that. and so today's item on the agenda is the report from the mayor's office thank you, everybody. >> thank you everyone for joining us today and for all of your engagements. it's really, really important and to that i want today do a little bit of follow-up from the last meeting that we had and just to let everybody know what has been happening since the last meeting regarding where we

heard about jfk drive and also from our colleagues at the mta. so, i wanted to let you know that we, in addition to the call-in that we had last month, the call-in comments we had over 70 written comments that came to mod and we read through all of them and are now in the process of getting these comments to the appropriate department who needs to work on some of these things and as a matter of public record request, we have done some work to synthesize the comments and so they're distraught able and

they have asked to see the comments specifically regarding jfk drive. so, the temporary closure, immediate steps are being taken to improve parking signage and then mod will reach out to all of you who have indicated that you would like and we anticipate that work is going to be getting in the next week or so so, please, know that we'll reach out to folks on that and we'll keep the council updated as we have more information available for ways tone gage. your concerns have been heard and we're taking them seriously and working with our departments across the city to make as many immediate improvements as we can

and again, engage community members in the long return and it's still underway. so, if you did submit a comment and you would like to be engaged in that work, if you could, let us know either by e-mailing m.o.d. at sfgov.org or calling us at (415)554-6789 and that would be great. next i wanted to highlight deputy director kaplan already talked about the virtual platforms work that they were doing as part of covid responses and virtual platforms like this meeting we're on right now. as you can tell, things are improved but there's more than we need to do so, i just wanted

to highlight again that is a very high priority for us. i wanted to speak a little bit more specifically on covid response and some of the things that we've been working on the next weeks around response and a recommendation so in addition to the virtual platforms, we've been working with the department of disability and aging services on some of the -- there was a lot of talk on the technology and needs assessment so there's an effort underway to really start to look at what the technology needs of people with disabilities are as part of

covid response and do people have what they need in order to participate in meetings, participate in telehealth and in order to function and work from home and being successful. so that work is underway and it's -- we'll reach out to the disability community about that in the coming weeks. also, several weeks ago, the long-term care coordinating council met again and talked specifically about response initiatives impacting seniors and people with disabilities and they'll be meeting again in another two weeks to go through how the long-term care coordinating council, which is a policy recommending body through the department of disability and

aging services, what they may be able to recommend and policy made up of representations and and so, those that work is underway. specifically to covid response and public-health, i want today say a few things. so, mayor's office on disability continues to be actively working with the covid command center, which is the emergency response hub for everything related to cove and i want to speak to a couple of things, specifically related to public-health. first of all, the messaging that

is going outright now and that hopefully many of you have seen that's really encouraging folks to get your flu shot, if you haven't got your flu shot already, as we know, there's a surge in cases and hospitalizations and so if we want to make sure that people who are -- people stay healthy and that the flu shot is part of that messaging, if that's something you are comfortable doing, we highly recommend it because many symptoms of the flu it's another way we're trying to encourage, especially vulnerable populations to take care of themselves. next week, though, m.o.d. is going to be collaboratively starting our first conversation

with the covid command center around vaccine distribution, covid vaccine distribution and i want to be clear, it's not available, yet. we're going to start getting on the front end of strategies so that we can help be prepared and reaching our most vulnerable communities, folks with disabilities and seniors as soon as that becomes readily available. so that is definitely underway. the other thing i want to encourage is if -- part of the primary way that we engage with the public, as part of covid response, is when we hear directly from you, as members of the public, and thank you to all of you who have been consist

enter loconsistently reaching oo m.o.d. and helping us elevate issues around covid response. if you haven't done that or you would like to, i really want to encourage, again, that you contact us and let us know if there's -- if you are seeing a gap that you want the city to be addressing, specific to covid response and disability, m.o.d. wants to know about that and so does this council. i'm sure. so, again, mod@sfd.org is the e-mail and leave a message at (415)550-6789. the mod is also working on a presentation specifically for covid command that will be -- it's still in progress but it

will talk about what we've done but we want to elevate some of the concerns that we've heard through these meetings and through our other engagement with the public so that disability is continuing to be elevated within covid command so we'll be working on a presentation and i would encourage the council to think about, as you do the planning for your next meeting, to perhaps have our representatives from the department of public-health and covid command to talk with you if you are interested in bringing these concerns to the public and also hearing about what they're doing for folks with disabilities and how we might improve that. so, with that, that's where i will stop for today and we will post -- i will post a report as i did last month, on the mod and

home page and it should be on the mdc home page as well and then, that will be up, hopefully, by end of day on monday. that concludes my report. >> thank you, director. let's go to item number 8 which is public comment on items not on the agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. david, do we have any public comments? >> sorry, i thought i was muted

but i wasn't. so, we do have one comment that came into the m.o.d. website specifically addressed to mdc and i will read it. my name is christine fitzgerald. i am on the human services commission for san jose, california. i am in the process of restarting our commission on disability. this commission was decommissioned in 2013 and actually reconstituted in 2017 or there abouts for a short while and subsequently folded into the human rights commission. now the human services commission. there's no longer a dedicated body commission to work on the

marry add omyriad of issues peoh disabilities face on a daily basis. i acknowledge the hard work the hsc has tried to do to address these issues, the majority of the other commissioners do not have the boots on the ground, lived experience as i and so many others have had to do on a bailey basis. nothing about us without us pretty well says it all. that's part of my commission duties, on the human services commission, i was asked what i would lick to take on and champion. the commission on disability is what i decided to focus on. i would very much like to speak to the commissions on the council to better understand the procedures, and structure of the mayor's council on disability. any information that can be

provided off line would be greatly appreciated. thank you, christine fitzgerald. so, that is the content of that one. we will ford i forward a at the december 1st executive planning meeting and i now will turn to the people who are monitoring the phones to see whether there are any other public comments from the phones. >> no one is queued up for public comment. >> ok. >> thank you. >> alex -- can you see me?

this is helen. >> yeah. what's up? >> my screen, i don't have any images of anybody right now on my team connection. debbie and nicole, i just wanted to make sure and the council as well, that we advise our public that we will not be holding a december meeting and so given the increase in covid cases and the winter months coming up, i was just wondering, aside from planning for a public meeting where we will be able to discuss and i would encourage us to consider nicole's recommendation, i was wondering how does the community if stay up-to-date with information

related to their health and services and things that are available to them through out this city as we potentially enter into whatever wave it is and it's not great. just let the people who are participating, our public, know what is up for the next couple of months. >> yeah. can we hold on that and on item 10, which is -- >> sure. where ever it works in the agenda. >> thank you. >> and everybody can -- i mean i've already row laid what i wanted to relay. that's it. thank you. >> thank you. right now we're going to item number 9, which is

corresponding. are there any corresponding right now or any time. >> no, there is none. >> ok. >> this is nicole speaking. i just want to highlight that we did get the majority of the public comments on the jfk drive after the last meeting and so i just want to highlight that again that does constitute correspondence and i believe that that has been forwarded to the council where it's about to serve so do look for that. >> thank you. >> you got that in public in the excluded planning committee and rit noright now we're going to m

number 10 which is commissioner member comments and announcements and i want to go back to what helen said, if you don't mind, helen said that this is increasing covid levels. just that we continue to provide updated information about resources and in addition to getting your flu shot, et cetera, issues for our homeless, disabled community and what kind of medical resources are available and we have that information and updates to that information in a place where it's easy to find.

either on the mod website or the mdc website. i just think that given that we won't be having another meeting until january, in an effort to try to provide the most current support and resources available in the city, i would like us to make sure that that is done and i was inquiring as to how we could achieve that. >> yeah. >> so this is nicole speaking. i think a couple of things, we can -- there's a couple places to stay the most current on sf gov, specifically on the covid-19 page put up by sfgov and also, the get-help seniors and people with disabilities page is still active and the initiative on that page are updated also. that is another place.

so, i'll make sure that, i believe these links are on our website and we'll make sure that they are, they're not right now. those are the best places to stay updated at any given moment and then i think as we get information that is especially pertinent and time sensitive to this community the best way to stay up to speed as things change and evolve is by subscribing to the distribution on our web page again by going to sfgov.org/mod and signing up to receive the updates as they come out. >> thank you, nicole. helen, are there anymore council

members that have any comments or announcements? >> i wanted to follow-up on nicole's mention. can we have those web sites that you just referenced posted on both m.o.d. and mdc's web sites as well? so it's just one department to remember as opposed to all these other departments? it just makes it easier for people to find. >> right, it's just one page. we'll do that. yes. >> thank you. >> are there any other questions? >> alex, this is helen s, if i may. >> go ahead. >> hi, everyone. let me put my camera back on. i'm just wondering, if other folks have appreciated having the presenters go first in our agenda and whether this is something we would want to take about doing at future public

meetings? >> i found it very helpful and kind of, you know -- i liked having the presenters go first. >> yeah, this is o orchid. i liked having the presenters first. >> vote yes too. >> well, we can take that up at the executive planning meeting. >> i think that executive council meeting is the time to discuss this. >> yeah. >> but, thank you for bringing it up. >> i think helen s. is good. i like it too. so they get things started quick. thank you. are there anymore council members that has comments or announcements?

if not, i would ask the staff member if there is any comments or announcements that they would like to announce? >> i think we've covered it all. i think for myself, i hope everybody has a very safe and enjoyable thanksgiving. putting safety first. >> yeah. >> it's at least time where we get to pause from the regular busyness. >> yeah. >> i would also like to extend that out to the rest of the holidays as well. i hope that everybody stays healthy and relatively sane and

is able to navigate the next couple of months with some degree of d, oh, i guess, happiness, tranquility? fill in whatever word you would like to include in that. >> thank you. so with that, i just wanted to thank you for sticking it out in this meeting and thank you for allowing me to proceed this public meeting and i want to rewind people that we are not having a public meeting next month. we have the next meeting in january 3rd.

so, please, and mod if you have questions and concerns. with that, again, thank you everybody. happy holidays! and i'm going to adjourn this meeting. you need to move to adjourn. >> i'm moving to adjourn. >> one more thing to the chair, i just wanted to point out that orchid would like to say thank you to jeannie and rick and staff for all of your work helping us today with interpreting. thank you, very much. >> thank you! >> thank you. i see you on the chat, alex, like i said, thank you for the great meeting. so, i'm going to. >> i second alex's move.

>> ok. so with that, i'm going to adjourn this meeting. >> bye. >> bye. guys! >> thank you, alex! >> thank you, alex!

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but the businesses, and without all these establishments, you wouldn't know one neighborhood from the other. el toreador is a unique restaurant. it's my favorite restaurant in san francisco, but when you look around, there's nowhere else that you'll see decorations like this, and it makes you feel like you're in a different world, which is very symbolic of west portal itself. >> well, the restaurant has been here since 1957, so we're going on 63 years in the neighborhood. my family came into it in 1987, with me coming in in 1988. >> my husband was a designer, and he knew a lot about art, and he loved color, so that's

president ann will be the lead tonight. also present is rusty that will provide the board with any legal advice this evening. al and legal assistant katy sullivan. i'm just had i did it executive director. we will be joined by the representatives scott sanchez with the administrative department and the san francisco department of inspection. the board meeting guidelines are suppose to follow and turn off for silence on my cell phones and they shouldn't disturb the proceedings they are each