>> and the [indiscernible] today is friday, october 15, 2021. welcome to the mayor's disability meeting. i am going to -- i want to just mention that i'm going to have [indiscernible] for the items of the meeting on the agenda.

>> clerk: all right, this meeting is broadcast to the meeting on sfgov-tv. and it is open captioned and sign language interpreted. the mayor's disability council holds nine public meetings yearly. they're generally held on the third friday of the month. please call the mayor's office on disability for further information or to request accommodations at 415-554-6789. or by email at modi@sfgov.org. >> co-chair madrid: let's do roll call. >> clerk: okay.

so... [roll call] that is all for the roll call. >> commissioner tandon-verma: apologies, present. i think that my internet was

off. >> co-chair madrid: and i i will call the meeting to order. and can you go to the item agenda. >> clerk: okay, so for our agenda, we have item number one as welcome and roll call. and item number 2 is an action item, which is reading an approval of the agenda. and item 3 is public comment. at that time the members of the public may address the council on items of interest to the public or that is in the subject matter jurisdiction of the council that are not on this meeting agenda. item number 4 is an information item, the co-chair report. and item 5 is another information item. muni 2022 bus network options. with a presentation by steve bowlin from the san francisco municipal transportation agency and item number 6 is a 15-minute

break. and item number 7 is an information item on golden gate park access and safety program at j.f.k. drive. and with a present by lucas tobin from the san francisco rakeiation and parks department and maddy ruvolo from the san francisco municipal transportation agency. and item 8 is an information item, which is a report from the mayor's office on disability. and item 9 is correspondence. and item 10 is general public comment and discussed by council comments and announcements. and, lastly, item 12 is adjournment. >> co-chair madrid: are there any commissioner's questions or comments about the agenda?

if you approve the agenda? >> move to approve. >> co-chair madrid: can we have a second? >> second. >> co-chair madrid: any reports? approved. we are on item number 3, public comment. >> clerk: okay, we welcome the public's participation during public comment period. there will be an opportunity for public comment at the beginning and end of the meeting as well after specific items on the agenda. each comment is limited to three minutes.

if you want the council to respond to your comments following the meeting, please provide your contact information by email message to mod@sfgov-tv.org. with the subject "mdc, comment, reply request." to make a public comment while using the zoom platform, if you are using the zoom app, you can click on the three horizontal balls and then click on the raised hand icon and you will be recognized when it is your turn you can also just click on the raised hand icon. you can additionally use the q and a feature to be recognized or to make a comment. if you wish to be recognized, type into the q&a box that you want to make a comment and hit "send." you can also type your comment

in the q&a box and the clerk will read it for you if you're joining by phone dial star, 9, when you want to be rex niced. and -- recognized. and you will be prompted when it's your turn to make a comment. we welcome suggestions on how to make the mdc meetings more accessible, so send an email to mod@sfgov-tv. if you need assistance accessing the meeting, please call 415-919-9562 or send an email to mod@sfgov-tv.org. at this time, members of the public may address the council on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council that are not on this meeting agenda. with respect to agenda items,

your opportunity to address the council will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the council for up to three minutes. the brown act forbids the council from taking action or discussing any item not appearing on the posted agenda, including those items raised at public comment. >> co-chair madrid: thank you for that. do we have any public comment at this time? >> clerk: yes, i see a few people lined up. so i will allow them to speak. all right, you are allowed to

speak. >> caller: thank you. i will ask the council to look into and to consider changing a practice or a policy whereby complaints about muni get referred to muni. it strikes me as ludicrous and illogical. more than once i have sent a complaint about muni denying access or causing access problems which were not addressed by mta staff. i sent to mod and i get the response, we pass those over to muni. you're asking the people who are accused of the problem of, if you will, adjudicating the complaint and they're self-absolving and they're not really neutral or independent. how many people at muni are going to say, yeah, we really screwed up? in my experience in the past three years there's never been a time when mta staff after getting a referral from mod --

a, said they screwed up. b -- they often don't respond. i think that the council ought to look at revising, revisiting that policy, because do you -- when there's a complaint against pdw about, say, sidewalk problems and another complaint, do you refer it over to them? it seems that somehow there's a special status given to muni, again that, allows them to absolve themselves of any responsibility. and that is not appropriate for a disability council to do this with a complaint sent to you. >> co-chair madrid: thank you for your comment. .is there another one? >> clerk: yes. you can make your comment. >> caller: thank you, can you hear? >> clerk: yes. >> caller: my name is matt rowe

and i'm speaking on behalf of a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in san francisco whose mission is to build confidence through simple accessible and transparent election technology. voting works is the only non-profit vendor and the only open-source voting system deployed in the united states elections. we also develop and implement arlo, our open-risk audit software used by nine states, including california, where it's the only tool approved by california state for audits and to confirm election outcomes. i am currently coordinating a pilot of our open source voting system in partnership with the department of elections for the november 2022 election. during the pilot, we will be deploying and usability testing our marketing devices for in-person voting which are being developed with the voluntary voting guideline, version 2.0,

that established modern accessibility standards for voting systems. these standards are the first major improvement in accessibility standards since 1.0 in 2005 which is a standard that all voting vendors, including the dominion system used in san francisco today, are certified to. i'm commenting to express our interest in collaborating with the council on this pilot and understand the council's interest. this would give you an opportunity to use the ballot marking device whose accessibility features exceed those of the current dominion equipment used in san francisco you would also be involved in the design and development of these procedures and advance the pilot. other vendors, including dominion, have publicly stated they will not submit these accessibility commitments until after the 2024 election cycle. san francisco and the mayor's disability council would have the opportunity to be at the forefront of driving requirements forward for the

entire industry if participating in this pilot. i thank you for your time and consideration and i look forward to hearing your thoughts and hopefully collaborating on this effort to improve voting accessibility in san francisco and nationwide. >> co-chair madrid: thank you for your comment. next. >> clerk: allowed to make a comment. >> caller: hi, i am zach, and i'm a disability advocate and journalist in san francisco. my question is how do you all sleep at night? like, seriously -- how do you all live with yourselves? you have completely abandoned the disability community during this pandemic and have acted in the most selfish and egregious ways. i don't know where to start. i still cannot get information on the home vaccine program for booster shots by emails, they are routinely ignored. i was told to stop emailing them about vaccine matters and matters relating to these meetings which is appalling. for the first seven months of

the pandemic, mod, the mayor's office of disability, abandoned us and stopped hosting these meetings virtually. we did not have a way to participate. we still don't have a way to participate visually. on may 22nd, i believe that it was, 2020, there was an emergency response covid information meeting that was hosted by nicole bohn with the mayor's office on disability. the information from that meeting is not available because the video was deleted. it was a recorded meeting, it was illegally deleted by the mayor's office on disabilities, though i requested during that meeting to have a copy of the recording -- that is illegal. i then filed a public records request earlier in 2020 for my own disability records because the mayor's office on disability has not been following their own procedures outlined on their own website on how to handle disability complaints. you heard that just recently today how muni complaints have not been responded to and i had to actually file a lawsuit against the city of san

francisco just to get on the bus because the mayor's office on disability does not protect our right to public transportation and did not file a complaint like they should have. my public records requests were denied and ignored for almost a year -- think about that -- almost a year to access my own disability records and i had to make a formal complaint with the sunshine ordinance task force. the sun shine ordinance task force on june 2nd, found a unanimous -- unanimous verdict -- that the mayor's office on disability had broken the law by not providing me my own public records. this is disgusting, this is deplorable. you have blood on your hands. people are dying during this pandemic because of your inaction and your refusal to address and to make sure that people have access to this vaccine and the services that we need. these p.r. emails that say, go talk to your doctor like we can always get ahold of our doctor without providing resources and information that we desperately

need to protect our health and our safety. people are dying. and people are suffering. and you can do better. my name is zach karnazes. you can reach me at zkarnazes@gmail.com and give my email to anyone interested in communities and working on these matters. >> co-chair madrid: thank you for your comment. next public comment. >> clerk: i do not see any other public commenters at this time. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. item number 4 information item. co-chair report.

it is important, if you don't mind introducing yourself and tell us what issue that the [indiscernible] tell us what you wanted to consider for this meeting. >> clerk: who would you like to start? >> co-chair madrid: [indiscernible]. >> hi, i am annana. and i'm an industrial engineer by training and a management consultant. and i have been the president of a national non-profit and a team of 85 coast-to-coast.

and we serve community organizations as an advisor and leader in spaces across intersections of disability, social services, social justice, education, and economic development. i have been passionate about building communities that allow and enable marginalized voices and lives to flourish. on a personal note, the world of disability came into especially sharp view for me as a young person when i experienced it as a caregiver and then on my own. when i entered into this world, i was told to expect that life after would be a new normal. and i was startled by the many people and structures that seem to very readily accept that it would be a diminished normal, and we're asking for more that

is often out of reach. so with the council i hope to bring both my professional and personal experiences to serve, to help to challenge that narrative and structures that hold it in place. and i think that also to extend that conversation to be -- to be for the disability community but also as commonplace dialogue on these experiences that are very human. on what it takes to find and uphold dignity, to find acceptance for others and for ourselves, resilience, and ultimately finding belonging. and i'm so grateful to be able to serve. >> co-chair madrid: thank you for your comments. next [indiscernible].

>> sure, so my name is shashna woods. right now i'm a ph.d student at u.c. berkeley in special education. before that i was a special education teacher and so a lot of my advocacy has been in the education field, making school fun and accessible for children and i hope to continue that with mdc and i'm looking at how just san francisco can become a more accessible city for children with disabilities as well as a lot of my work is also with children on the autism spectrum

i'm on the autism spectrum myself, so i notice, like, a lot of children in that space don't really get to work with adults who are like them. and so that has been very much a pleasure for me to do that and also to just do research. so what i'm hoping to just bring here is just ideas and prospective and also and always to listen and learn far more than i speak but also to speak up for those who may not have the access or maybe are too shy to. so that's what i'm going to be

bridging mdc, and i hope to learn much while i'm here and also to give back. >> co-chair madrid: thank you, we welcome you, and thank you for your time and to advocate per persons with disabilities in san francisco. now i would like to ask [indiscernible] please. >> all right, so for the co-chair report, since the september meeting there are two items to report on involving the mdc and mdc business. the mdc staff and the board of supervisors, a letter in support of the extension of the business entrance program.

initially co-chair sassouni attended a meeting with supervisor chan and staff to learn more about supervisor chan's beach-to-bay proposal that would affect access to golden gate park. and we also have a report from alex madrid from being in the san francisco authority, and the california -- the state of california mandate was just released that will require all providers to be vaccinated in california. the local authority is working in partnership with dos, and iss on outreach and communication to make sure that the entire ihss community knows that these rules will be going into effect in november and encouraging providers to get vaccinated in order to still work. the state and county will not be tracking vaccination status.

the california department of social services that oversees ihss on the state level is trying to require all counties to have an emergency backup sentence for care providers. and san francisco ihss authority has had an on-call care program for nearly 20 years and receives high praise from the ihss social workers with the ability to send providers out when necessary. the public authority presented its on-call program to the california department of social services, along with three other public authorities, to have some kind of back-up system to give them more clarity on the level of staffing, funding, and administrative support programs to be successful. the public authority has been working on an expansion of the video training and ihss consumer handbook, both which are available on their website. and have added a helpful training video on how to hire a home care provider and updated

the ihss handbook which is now available in english, spanish, and chinese. the public authority is collaborating with ihss on a pilot project to enhance ihss model and permanent supportive housing, to integrate and enhance the ihss model on housing stability and health outcomes of permanent supportive housing tenants with medical and psychiatric conditions. and one of the goals is to increase access to ihss and build a supportive system within each of the three buildings in the pilot for the public authority's community coordinator to provide training to building case managers on how to assist the residents to navigate the ihss system and obtain support from the different public authority programs. >> co-chair madrid: thank you so much for that. i hope that you can continue.

now moving to item number 5 which is an information item. [indiscernible] we have more than transportation agency, we will have that right now. >> yes, hello, can everyone hear me? >> co-chair madrid: yes, we can hear you. welcome. >> thank you, thank you for having me. may i share my screen, please? >> co-chair madrid: yes. one moment.

>> this is nicole speaking. you should have access now to share your screen. >> thank you very much. okay. can everyone see my presentation? >> co-chair madrid: yes, we can >> thank you. good afternoon, everyone. my name is steve bowlin, and as has already been said. i am a planner at muni, working on what we call the winter 2022 muni service network. that is what i am here today to talk to you about. i'm joined by mariana maguire from our communications team who can speak to any issues regarding our public outreach effort. i'm going to give you a brief presentation focusing on our proposed changes to the muni route system that would occur early in 2022.

so we have developed three different alternatives for discussion with the public of how we might expand service from our current level of service which is approximately 75% of what we were operating prior to the covid pandemic, to about 85%. this is the level of service that we're able to provide right now based on our available funding and the number of operators that we have available. we do have seven routes that previously ran all day that have not yet been restored since they were discontinued at the start of the covid pandemic. as well as portions of two other routes. those routes i will name them, they are the two -- the three, the six, the 10, the 21, the 28r, and the 47.

the two routes that we have mostly but not yet fully restored are the 31 and the 43. we have developed three options as i said for how we might expand service early next year. one of those options would fully restore all of those routes to their previous routes at the same frequency they ran in the middle of the day on weekdays. we have also developed two other options that would make some changes to those routes, in some cases would not restore segments of those routes, or the entire route, and, instead, would use those resources to provide more frequent service on alternate or parallel routes. and i will talk more about that in just a moment. getting back to my slide here, within those three alternatives, anytime that changes are made to one of those routes i mentioned, the resources are reallocated

within the same area. it is a resource constrained plan as i mentioned, however, we will be back talking to you hopefully quite soon in two or three months about expanding service, and the reason for that is that as i said, you know, the current plan is based on our available funding but we are now planning a ballot measure for some time next year in which we would ask voters for additional revenues to expand our operation, potentially to 110% of the service that we provided prior to the covid pandemic. so that will be we hope a fun conversation to have. this conversation today involves some tradeoffs and choices and decisions, and in some cases the changes to routes that people might not like. and we are here to get your feedback. so a brief background of what

muni has been doing for the past 18 months or so during the covid-19 pandemic. we have restored most of the service and as everyone knows, is that we cut about three-quarters of our service. we have now restored as i said about 75% of our service. but we've actually increased service in busy corridors that serve what we call equity neighborhoods, which are neighborhoods with large numbers of low-income riders or riders of color. for example, mission. we've created some new lines that did not exist prior to the pandemic, such as the 15 bayview hunters point express. and we have made some modifications to some existing lines. here you can see some examples. the j. church is currently not operating in the market street subway. we reconfigured the 23 monterrey so that it was not operating on slopes boulevard and instead going to westportal station.

and the new route 58, lake merced took its place and it was altered to not go around the route. that route 58 operated on the west side of the lake instead. and the 31 balboa as i said we have mostly restored and it's currently not running on market street all the way into the financial district. it turns around at powell station. and the 35 and 48 were rerouted for short segments. and the 43 masonic is not covering its full route. it is only going as far north as california street and not on to the persidio and fort mason. and the 42 and 66 have been extended to take the place of segments of the 68 parnasis on the west side. so this is what our current fixed route service looks like. i mentioned that we are expanding service based on operator availability and in

addition to pursuing additional long-term operating funding, we have also been working very hard to hire and train and retain more operators. which would allow us to expand that service. and so here you can see a little bit about those three alternatives that i had mentioned before. you can also see if you can see the map, you can see in orange those seven routes and parts of two other routes that were all-day muni routes before covid that have not yet been restored in the familiar scenario as we call it those routes, again, would be restored and they would operate about as frequently in the middle of the day, monday-friday, as they did before the pandemic. we have another scenario called frequent scenario which is very different. it would actually not restore five of those seven routes, mainly the two, the three, the six, and the 21 and the 47.

and it would take those resources and put them into parallel routes such as by fulton which we have historically experienced overcrowding and there is a need for more frequent service. we have a third scenario called the hybrid, as its name suggests, it is sort of midway between those two. it would not restore two routes, mainly the 3 and the 47, and it would not restore segments of some other routes. there's a lot of information in these proposals, and we are not going to cover everything, every detail today, simply because we don't have time. but i would encourage everyone to visit our website which has very, very detailed information and it is fully accessible. that is at sfmda.com/2022network. there are some things in common across those scenarios that i

want to highlight. they would cost roughly the same. they would continue to provide muni fixed route service within a quarter mile of 98% of the population of san francisco. the 28r, the rapid service on 19th avenue, would be restored. and the 43 masonic would be restored at least to the presidio. the 10 townsend would also be restored between san francisco general hospital and the financial district. and if it did not continue into chinatown, route 12 would be made more frequent so that service in that corridor was not reduced. i have some maps here, which i won't dwell on because i have explained in general the alternatives and, again, there are more details on the website but if you can see this map, this is a map of the frequent alternative that shows where service would be not restored and where service would be improved. the gold on this map is service

not restored. the pink is where service would get more frequent on existing routes. and here's a similar map for the hybrid alternative. so why are we going through this process? why are we not simply restoring the routes the way that they were before the covid pandemic? one reason is that we have seen a dramatic change in travel patterns. we no longer have tens of thousands -- hundreds of thousands -- of commuters to downtown office buildings every morning and every evening. our system has historically been built around serving those commute trips during peak hours or rush hours. that's why you see so many muni routes that kind of radiate out from downtown. what we have seen during the pandemic is that our cross town

routes that connect neighborhoods have remained very strong, particularly our busiest corridors have continued to be very busy, even during covid. so, for example, muni buses are still very busy and so on. all of those long routes that connect the neighborhoods across the city. so while we're not operating our peak only services, our express routes that used to go downtown, or additional service on routes during those peak periods, we are operating, again, relative frequent service in our busy cross-town corridors. that is one reason why we wanted to have this conversation with the public about how our service might change early next year. the other reason is that we know from rider surveys in the past that riders value many things, but two of the things that they care about in particular are access to destinations, and by that we just mean the range of

places that you can get to within a reasonable amount of time, using muni. and related to that they value frequency and they don't like long waits at bus stops and, of course, when service is less frequent, then the buses get more crowded. so in that frequent alternative that i mentioned, there would be a much larger number of people who would be within a quarter mile of a stop where service was provided every five minutes or more often. it would increase from 33% of san franciscans under the familiar alternative to 42% under the frequent alternative. this would also allow us to expand what we call our five-minute network. this is a term that we just recently started to use. we do -- >> co-chair madrid: um-- >> yes? >> co-chair madrid: if you don't mind describing the image, how

the public [indiscernible]. >> understood. >> co-chair madrid: if you don't mind explaining it. >> understood, i will do my best to describe it. what you see here on screen, if you can see it, is a map showing routes that operate every five minutes or more often throughout the day on weekdays. they are corridors where two or more routes combine to do that, such as gearry with the 38 and 38r. and right now and under the familiar alternative, those routes mostly go in and out of downtown and there are a few of them. under the frequent alternative there would be more corridors where that five-minute service would be offered, including some cross-town corridors that don't go downtown such as the 22 philmore. and this image, one last image

about the five-minute map, what we hope to be able to provide in the near future -- this effort could put a down payment on it. and this map shows a grid of frequent corridors, very dense, and extending all throughout the city. not only would service be every five minutes in those corridors, but if you had to transfer, your wait time for that transfer should be relatively short. we would also focus on these corridors and investing in what we call transit priorities, to make our buses and training more reliable. so i'm going to skip through these next few maps. we have did some analysis that shows under the frequent alternative, the range of jobs or hospitals that users in a large part of the city could reach within 30 minutes, including both the walk or roll time to the stop as well as the wait time for the bus and the travel time on the bus, the

range of destinations that would be available within that time frame would expand. and that is with the frequent and the hybrid concept. the hybrid concept, there would be some improvements but also decreases in range in certain areas of the city. i will stop right there and i am happy to answer questions about specifics, but all of this nftionz information is on our website at sfmta.com/2022network. and i will answer any questions that anyone has and i will stop sharing my screen. >> co-chair madrid: thank you for that. i would like to ask the commission members, if you could

raise your hand or put it in the chat if you have any questions so i can see you and call on you. i see a question. >> thanks, alex, and thank you for the presentation. i hadn't realized that three-quarter of muni's service his stopped because of the pandemic and it's impressive that you're back up to about 75% of what you were before. so thank you for that. and thank you, muni, for the good work. i'm curious, is the public going to be deciding this? or are you just gathering input on the three options right now? >> great question. and, you know, thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk a little bit about our

outreach process. i apologize. there had previously been slides in this presentation that talked about all of the different kinds of outreach that we have been doing, including many meetings like this, about three dozen to date, with different stakeholder groups as well as hanging posters all over the city at about 600 locations. we have a survey on our website which has received over 5,000 responses, and, of course, we have been presenting to our board, the board of supervisors, and so we have had a fairly extensive outreach process in a relatively short amount of time. to your question -- i think that i mentioned a couple of times in my presentation that we wanted to have a public conversation or a public discussion and those words were carefully chosen. we do -- coming in we did not have a strong bias among the

alternatives and we want to hear from the public what is more important in terms of the tradeoffs and the choices and priorities that we talked about and we created three alternatives that looked very different in order to foster a conversation about those tradeoffs, because there's some clear choices, particularly around the issue of having a stop closer to you in certain cases where service may be less frequent, versus a stop a few blocks away where the service would be more frequent. and so to directly answer your question, we are absolutely taking all of the feedback that we have heard into account in our decision-making process. in fact, we have an open house tomorrow at noon and there's call-in information available on our website. at that open house we'll review some of the major themes from the feedback that we have heard to date that we are currently using to shape the final proposal that we hope to provide

details within the next couple of weeks. we also had a slide that i inadvertently left out of the presentation that talked about our timeline. all of this will go to our board of directors on december 7th, and so there's still about six weeks to get feedback both on these initial proposals and the final proposal before our board takes a vote. you know, there's going to be a couple of hearings before the board of supervisors committees the first weekend in november. so there will be many, may be my opportunities remaining for the members of the public to provide feed back and to give us direction. >> co-chair madrid: any questions? >> no, thank you.

>> thank you so much, steve, for your presentation. i'm a frequent user of muni. at the same time, i know that there are some areas in san francisco from my home -- there's no public transportation available. it's much, much too far for me to use muni. i live in the richmond district and riding the bus number 38, it takes about 45 minutes from my home to some locations because of the frequent stops. that's one thing that i never really -- it's one reason that i don't appreciate using muni, and it is very, very crowded. and so i hope that -- this is

from the richmond district downtown and i think that it's one of the busiest routes and i hope that route can be improved and also getting to mission area, bus number 14 and 49 is a frequent bus. and that one is great because there's less traffic. but the problem on that route is to get to the other side of san francisco. this forces me to drive. if i want to go to golden gate park, for example, and if you want to change that route, how do you get through from richmond all the way to golden gate park? or outer richmond. it's very, very hard. that's where i live and it makes driving very, very difficult because we can't drive through the park. there's no public schools in

that area. so all of us are forced to use muni and there's no way for my son to independently take a bus to his school, there's no way, because of all of the time. i hope that san francisco muni will better plan for route 38. i know that it's not easy. there are not enough drivers, you have to train them, and there are many, many challenges i recognize that. some routes like the j-line has changed tremendously. and there are not many people riding it. it is empty. so instead of using bus 24, which is faster, j-line is not utilized. if i want to -- oh, there are a lot of buses -- 24 are so crowded that they drive past me because they don't have room.

so another challenge is the schedule. i used to rely on the app that would tell me when the bus is coming. and it would tell me that the bus is coming but then the bus would not show up. so i'm wondering if that app can be improved, because, you know, we're relying on the bus for an appointment. often we rely -- we arrive late so we try to make the plan a day before, based on the schedule. but sometimes the schedule is not even available for the next day. so many of us who live in the city don't drive at all. those of us with disabilities don't have that option. and so we rely on public transportation. and the scheduling, the unpredictability and unreliability is one area that i

hope that is improved. that is my feedback. i thank you, and i thank muni for all of the hard work trying to improve the system. >> thank you for that. i do appreciate it. i'll just address a couple of points. one is about next muni. we're in the process of upgrading that system. it is quite old now. we actually had one of the very first systems of providing predicted arrival time information, or wait time until the next bus anywhere in the world, but while we were an innovator in that area, that was quite some time ago. and we haven't yet moved on to version 2 of that system. we are currently in the process of doing so. the second point was about long trips across the city. we understand that, and that five-minute network map that i showed and that i talked about to everyone, those would also be corridors with what we call our

rapid lines. so there is a 38r, that is much faster, but that is in part because it makes fewer stops. and so it's a longer distance for some to those stops. we try to put those stops at the busiest locations, but it does skip a large number of stops. if you have access to that route, it is quite a bit faster, and it has proven very popular, just like the 14r, and the 5r, and the 28r, and the 9r. we currently have five rapid routes. part of what we would like to do if we did additional revenue for operation is to introduce new rapid routes. so, for example, another project that i'm working on that may be relevant to you in richmond, would be for a 29r rapid route on 25th avenue in richmond on sunset boulevard in the sunset. and then it continues across the south part of the city all the

way to bayview-hunters point. it's our longest route. it takes about an hour from end to end and we would like to provide a rapid option in that corridor as well as some others, like, for example, philmore and 16th street where the 22 currently runs. so, again, we are hoping to expand service in ways that will respond to customer needs that we've heard about over time, that we know that are -- that we already know are priorities for san franciscans and that we hope will be very popular when we unveil those proposals. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. >> hi there, thank you so much for the presentation. i had two questions. and the first being i understand that there's a decision that is forthcoming here. what is the timeline or how often will the service model be

revisited is one. and the second question that i had was -- of course sfmta provides para-transit services so i wanted to understand in the areas where routes will be scaled back, is there some sort of alignment with para-transit or in partnership, some collaboration, to think through also the service provision model to continue serving those areas or, you know, push or pull resources where needed? >> thank you. those are also great questions. i'll answer the first question first. the changes that we are currently discussing that would take effect in february or possibly early march would remain in effect only through the spring. we are returning to our -- during covid, we made service changes frequently, as we were trying to incrementally restore service as soon as we could based on available resources.

we are now sort of exiting out of the covid pandemic, the covid era, and we're returning to our regular cycle of services per year that are timed around the school year. so you typically get one at the start of the spring school year and the start of the fall school year, as well as the start of the summer. so the next change after this upcoming one that we're discussing would be at the end of the spring, sort of the start of the summer. if we had additional resources available at that time we could expand service then. we don't yet know exactly what that will look like. to your second question regarding para-transit -- i don't work in that group, but my understanding of ada is that para-transit service must be provided within i believe that it is one half mile of fixed route service. someone please correct me if i'm wrong, as i am sure that there are people in this call who know that regulation. i don't believe that anything

that we are proposing would impact the coverage area for para-transit service, but i cannot absolutely confirm that at this time. >> thank you for that. i don't think my question is just more around one would expect that the demand may change if there are folks that otherwise rely on muni, but now the stop is too far. there may be an impact there. so just a consideration they would pose. >> that's an excellent point. thank you. >> thank you. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. next [indiscernible]. >> hi, this is tiffany. and i wanted to just comment. first, thank you for your presentation. always like to have a good relationship with mta since i know that many of our community members rely on public transit. so i live in the downtown area,

which means i have access to the transit center and i just love muni and so i'm very excited about many of the lines being restored and the frequency restored as well. and then i also wanted to share before some of our attendees who weren't aware -- i think that the free muni for people with disabilities is a really great program that i actually only learned about a couple of -- after a couple of years of living in san francisco. so i just wanted to say they think that it's a great program for our disabled san franciscans. and that i appreciate you being here. so i don't have any questions. >> co-chair madrid: thank you for that. opening itup to staff. can you make sure that if you

notice if access was halted [indiscernible] trying to assist people with disabilities if you need to. >> yes, that's a very important part of our operator training. and, you know, if anyone experiences issues with that, we would absolutely encourage you to please report those. i believe that you can do so using the city's 311 system. >> co-chair madrid: thank you. now i'm opening it up to you for any questions.

>> this is nicole speaking, the director of the mayor's office on disabilities. thank you, steve, for being here today. i had a couple of questions. so how -- is it possible for you to summarize some of the points that you have heard or some of the feedback that you have heard from the disability or the adult community so far? whatever you could share about that, i think that it would be be helpful for us to hear. and then my second question is, what is the best way if after this meeting that the council has additional feedback on the proposals, what is the best way to provide that to you? >> thank you for that, nicole. it's good to see you. i'll start with your second question which is that, unfortunately, we had another slide that didn't make it in that provided all of the

different ways that members of the public can provide feedback one of those is our email address which is tellmuni@sfmta.com and there's a phone number that i believe that mariana is still on this call that she might be able to provide for those who don't use email. i will speak briefly to your first question and then mariana may want to add some information. you know, we will be talking at our open house tomorrow about some of the feedback that we have gotten. you know, specific to the disability community. we had an unusually large number of respondents to our survey who identified as persons with disabilities. it was both larger than the proportion of muni riders who identifies as such, based on our most recent rider survey. as well as larger than the share of the overall population of san francisco.

so there were certainly great interest in terms of filling out the survey. you know, i believe that we found, you know, we asked questions in the survey around that key tradeoff that i mentioned earlier between distance to stops and frequency of service. and we found strong interest in frequency overall, but that was much reduced among both persons with disabilities as well as seniors. we saw as you might imagine a greater interest in, you know, all populations with mobility challenges around having a stop closer by. so i think that was probably the number one finding that emerged for us. mariana, did you want to add anything to that? >> yes, thank you. good afternoon. if possible, i think that i can

share my screen also to share the slide with how to prevent -- [indiscernible] i will try to do that right now. >> co-chair madrid: can i give you access? >> it looks like i can share. okay, so you should be seeing it now. >> co-chair madrid: we don't see it. >> you do not see it? >> co-chair madrid: no, we don't. >> oh, okay. >> co-chair madrid: nobody can. >> so nothing, huh? >> co-chair madrid: we can now. we can now. >> okay, good, good.

just a little bit of a delay. so it is -- this is the -- this is the main slide for how to provide additional feedback the tellmuni@sfmta.ca. and we're working to respond as quickly as we can, and even if you don't hear directly from us, right away, we are looking at this and we are incorporating it and sharing it with our planners daily. so they will be aware of what you are sharing with us. then we will get back to you and

respond as quickly as we can. and then the other option is to call our 2022 network hotline and you can speak to staff or leave a brief message on our voice mail. and that number is 415-646-2005 and, again, we have staff working to answer that hotline throughout the day. but our staff are mostly volunteer, so if you don't get a response from staff, there is -- or there should be a voice mail where you can leave a message. we have been testing it to make sure that it still works. hopefully there's no problems with it. and we do check the voice mail. oh, i'm sorry. i'm sorry.

and then we do have three additional public meetings that we're going to be hosting. a virtual open house on october 16th -- tomorrow at noon. a virtual open house on october 20th at 6:00 p.m. and office hours, virtual office hours, on october 21st. the slide should say 6:00 p.m. the number is missing right now information to participate, because these are virtual meetings, you can go online and find our information on the project website, sfmta.com/2022network. and you can click links to join directly via zoom for our virtual open housing, and

there's also phone numbers that you can dial into these meetings if you don't have the ability to join by video or join virtually, you can have the call-in option in fact, for our virtual open houses, in order to provide comment, in order to provide system we are using a phone bridge so you will have to call in to the phone bridge phone number regardless to be put in the queue for comments and questions. >> co-chair madrid: if you can put that link into the chat, that would be great. >> yes, i'd be happy to. i'll put -- i'll put a summary of this information in the chat so you all have that. >> co-chair madrid: thank you.

>> that would be great. and if you could -- nicole speaking once more -- if you could include the slides and the slide deck that steve presented so when we post this information for the public that piece is available as well. >> yes. and i apologize, i don't know what happened to these slides. they were in the original slide deck. so i will make sure to rectify that and send it over corrected right away -- right now. >> thank you, we very much appreciate it and we appreciate your time. thanks. >> co-chair madrid: are there any others who would like to ask questions at this time? seeing none, let's open up the meeting for public comment on

this agenda item. >> clerk: yes. so i do see that we have at least two people interested in making public comment. as a reminder, if you are makine zoom platform and you want to make public comment, you can click on the raised hand icon to be recognized and you will be prompted when it's your turn. you can also use the q&a feature to indicate that you want to be recognized for public comment or to share your comments to be read by the clerk. additionally, if you are calling in to the meeting you can dial star, 9, to be recognized and you will be prompted once it's your turn to make public comment. first commenter, bob, you have been permitted to unmute. >> co-chair madrid: where's bob?

>> clerk: i think just a moment we're trying to reconnect. >> do you want to go forward in the queue and then we'll come back? thank you. >> clerk: well, he's on now. >> caller: nothing happened for a long time except recycling. this is bob. i wanted to point out that some of what you have said about the changes muni considers -- mixed information and offers illogical

alternatives. like, for example, when you hear, well, there's a possibility of adding extra service to lines that are nearby. that is irrelevant and non-functional for people with disabilities regarding the 21 line that serves st. mary's hospital or the 6 line, the western parts restored but not the eastern half. and the 6th line serves the campus. so to say, well, you're going to add more service on the 5, it doesn't help to us get to the 21 line to the hospital. and there's a requirement that key destinations such as a hospital need to be called out. so omitting the real importance to people with disabilities of service on the 6 and 21 for the eastern part of the city is critical. beyond that, you also heard it about the j-line. well, before covid there was no pressure, no request from many

transit rider groups to stop the j from going into the tunnel. secondly, you hear, well, there's too many different lines that the system can't take it. what's ignore side that there was a prior practice where the j and the n would hook up together to go into the tunnel and then coming out of the tunnel they would separate at van ness. that practice could be restored i asked that question for over one year -- over 12 months -- why can't that be done? total silence from mta, from julie kirvebom and the mta board of directors up and down the line. no one will respond to that option. there's no good benefit to having people with disabilities get off where they wanted it ended and have to cross all of market street and hope that the elevator into church works. this is just impractical for people with disabilities. and there was no prior request

for it. finally, since i'm a member of the paratransit council i would just say that the requirement is service within a three-quarter mile distance so that it's not half a mile. i just want to clarify for those who are listening or anybody else who may not know about paratransit, that three-quarters of a mile covers a wide swath of san francisco and would overlap many lines. but, again, not restoring the 6 and the 21 to serve st. mary's and to serve u.c. parnasis makes it harder for us, people with disabilities, to get to and from those centers for health care or to visit a friend or family member or neighbor who might be in that hospital. thank you. >> co-chair madrid: thank you for your comment. does anyone have any public comment at this time? >> clerk: yes. helen has been permitted to

unmute. >> caller: yeah, hi, i appreciate the presentation. i was happy that there was an inclusive perspective in some notation of what the diverse community of persons with disabilities need that has gave me a little bit of relief. but on a personal perspective here, just like one of your members, i am an individual with a disability who takes care of my folks who live out in the sunset district. i do not drive. i have low vision and have multiple sclerosis and i rely solely on public transportation to get where i'm going. between meetings, appointments and working, and then assisting my parents, from the sunset district to downtown areas and other places, it is sort of like a huge gap.

it takes over 48, 50, to an hour to get downtown. and i appreciate that they have been working on ramps but since the buses are running, it is problematic. there's no places for me to rest while i'm waiting for a bus. so i just wanted to point out that also that there is this alternative transportation, most with uber, and it's hard to find anything that is accessible for a person like me with a disability if i'm really in a rush. i would like muni to be aware just as bob said in terms of certain perspectives here that are important for the community, and i think that it is vital. i would like muni when they're making decisions to make sure

that the disability prospectives and the laws that are being met as well as understanding that we are persons that are commuting to work and taking care of our parents and visiting friends and wanting to have that accessible inclusive access to the city. so that's my comment. but i did appreciate within the presentation that i did hear that there is a consideration, but i would like to see more considerations to the needs of the transportations of persons with disabilities and seniors, especially when we're working on getting people out of their cars. and i have been a public transportation rider my whole life and it is not set up in a way that is accessible or provides me an opportunity to work and to care for my parents and enjoy the city. thank you. >> co-chair madrid: thank you for your comment. are there any more public comment at this time?

>> clerk: yes. a caller ending in 39 -- or 79 who has been permitted to unmute. >> caller: hello? >> co-chair madrid: hello. >> caller: am i un-muted to speak now? >> co-chair madrid: yes. >> caller: thank you. good afternoon, everyone. this is tomasita mcgill. and i would like to request that when the muni makes any kind of decision that you seriously think about what it would be like to be disabled and trying to get to a bus stop. i have been appalled along mission street where you put the red zones.

and eliminated many bus stops, because for those of us with disabilities, even having to walk one extra block is a very great hardship. and, two, it is an impossible hardship that not only has impact upon the seniors who need to shop at the shops along mission street, but i'm sure that it's had a great impact on the stores themselves where people no longer can go to them because they're too far to walk to. so when you have -- i'm sure that the comments that are coming from the disability community, as you have mentioned, have been strong in saying to restore as many stops as possible because what's been happening in the last 10 or 20 years, it seems that muni wants to get the worker bees downtown faster and get them to serve their corporate master faster, but the consideration for providing service to the local people, to the people who live

here, to the elders, to all of the community, has not been the priority. it's been the corporate priority that has been the priority. and that's just wrong. because all of us who live in san francisco are paying taxes, and whether or not we are paying taxes we have the right to be respected. so stop focusing on speeding people to get them downtown, and instead focus on serving everyone in the population to help them to get to where they need to go. so once again, please restore all of the bus stops that have been eliminated in the last 10 years and make muni to be a service, not a corporate tool. thank you. >> co-chair madrid: thank you for your comment. next public comment. >> clerk: there are no other public commenters at this time. >> co-chair madrid: very good.

again, thank you very much, steve, and mariana -- i forgot her name, sorry. but thank you very much for coming and i hope that we can work together in the future. with this item i'm going to go to item number 5, and to the next item, which is we're going to take a break for 15 minutes. and once we come back we have

public access and safety program. again, we are going to take a break for 15 minutes. th >> co-chair madrid: okay, today is friday, october 15th. now today have item number 7, information item, golden gate park access and safety program of j.f.k. drive. we have presentation by lucas

tobin of san francisco park and rec, and maddy ruvolo, san francisco m.t.a. >> thanks, alex. as alex said i'm maddy ruvolo, on the accessible services team on sfmta and i'm here with mr. tobin. >> i'm lucas tobin and i'm the supervisor for therapeutic recreation and inclusion services and ada coordinator for programmatic access with s.f. recreation and parks. i'm happy to be here. >> co-chair madrid: thank you, both of you. the board needs the screen

share. >> i will be screen sharing and it looks like i'm able to share so if it's okay with you, i can go ahead and share my screen. >> co-chair madrid: go ahead. >> okay, great, thank you. so, again, welcome, everyone. i'm really excited to be here to talk to you all today. and i have a background in disability advocacy and i have a disability myself. and so i'm always really excited to come to mdc. we're here to talk about the golden gate park access and safety program. and we're here for a couple of reasons. one, so that lucas and i can share some information about the current options for the future of transportation and specifically focused on accessible transportation in the park. and we're also going to talk a little bit about the feedback that we have received thus far from the disability community.

and, finally, and most importantly, we want to hear from members of the council and, of course, also we want to hear public comment about what people think of these options. so without further adieu, we will move forward. so i am going to start off by giving a little bit of background and context. i should note that there is additional background information on the story map on the project website that we sent to the council members in advance and we can also -- perhaps someone can put a link to that in the chat so that if the public wants additional context, and for the sake of time we'll dive right into the disability community feedback and talk about the project proposals, discuss some of the outreach and stakeholder engagement that we have done and continue to do. and then we'll have time for comments and conversation. so here is some program

background and context. so to start with, we want to share some information about the current state of things which is that 75% of traffic through golden gate park has -- is currently custom traffic, this is traffic that doesn't have a park destination or purpose. these are people driving through the park and using the roads as a thru route. and we want to note that almost seven million walking, rolling and bike asking strolling trips have happened on the car-free section of j.f.k. since april 202. which is a 36% daily increase in park visits. >> co-chair madrid: if you don't mind -- >> describe the images, right. >> co-chair madrid: yeah. >> my apologies. i was thinking about this earlier and -- it slipped my mind. i will go back.

>> co-chair madrid: you are doing great. thank you. >> thanks, alex. okay, so this image that we're talking about cut through traffic, we guessed at some of the larger questions around the purposes of the streets in the park. and there's an image of a road through the park that has a number of cars on it, and it's a photo from above. and the next image where we talk about how there's been a large increase in people walking or rolling or biking on j.f.k. since the closure, there's an image of it appears to be a father and a daughter riding their bikes. and then we're on to our next slide, where we have a photo of a man bending down to light a candle next to a white bike which is known as a ghost bike. and these are bikes that are

installed in places where cyclists have been killed. and here's where we want to note, of course, that the streets in golden gate park have been designed for speed, for driver speed. and that has had some deadly consequences. and this is in particular a ghost bike for heather miller who was killed while cycling on j.f.k. in 2016. and so again this gets to our goal around vision zero where we want to have zero traffic deaths in soon fran. and we know that -- san francisco. and we know that vision zero is of particular importance and interest to the disability community and older adults because older -- or older adults and people with disabilities are more vulnerable pedestrians who are more likely, unfortunately, to be hurt or even killed in a collision. and so we've had zero injury

collisions since the closure along these stretches of road. but in the five years preceding the closure, there were more than 100 injury collisions involving people walking and biking in the park. so part of the reason that we share this information is to say that, you know, the status quo before the closure was also inequitable and it was also something -- there were issues there that we wanted to change. so the image that we have here is a map of the park and it shows -- it's where car-free or slow streets are highlighted in purple and then there are circles showing areas where there were larger number of collisions and it shows that 38 of these collisions occurred on the current car-free street. so a little bit about the program scope. so we know that there are a lot of accessibility issues in the park that, you know, we've been hearing about and that we want

to see addressed. unfortunately, not all of the accessibility issues in the park are within the scope of this project and so we want to be clear about what we're asking for feedback on and what we are able to change and fix within the context of this project. this is not to say, of course, that you should not talk about -- or tell us about other accessibility issues in the park and, in fact, other comments about accessibility issues in the park can also go to mod and to rec park as well. but in terms of the decisions that are being made, evidently there's a decision being made about the closed streets alignment. so, essentially, which streets, if any, will remain closed to cars in golden gate park post-pandemic. we're also making decisions about and also actively making changes around supportive transportation policies and projects to make it easier to access the park by all modes. and then there are some

decisions that are beyond the scope of this project as they said, so capital improvements and larger city operations. so, apologies. okay. so now let's talk a little bit about the feedback that we have received to date. as you perhaps know, there was a focus group around golden gate park and the streets in the park. we have also been doing a lot of outreach in the past couple of months where we've gone to a number of specific disability organizations, including the transit justice group. we've also gone to the max meeting and at mta and we've had in-person and even one live streamed tour, accessibility tour of the park, to talk about some of the features that we'll be discussing here in a few minutes. and then there's also been, of course, the survey that's been the general survey, but we have demographic questions. you know, so we can break out

the responses from people with disabilities and from older adults. so this is all to say that we've been receiving and soliciting a lot of feedback already so we wanted to share some of that with you today. we're not at the end of our outreach process but, of course, because we have already done a good chunk of the feedback we wanted to talk about that. so here are some of the things that we posed and, of course, this is not -- we can't possibly encompass everything that we have heard but here's some of the large pieces. so we have heard from people that previous approaches to disability community outreach as a city have had people feeling that city planners are not taking into account the perspectives of people with disabilities and older adults, and not seeing things through the lens of accessibility. we have heard there some people with disabilities and older adults use their cars as mobility devices. this is a really key issue for a lot of people and then a lot of people have told us that they

rely on their vehicles as a disability/mobility device to get around. we've heard that there is a huge need for additional way finding signage to assist all park-goers, including paratransit and pick-up and dropoff. this is something that came up, especially in our in-person tours throughout the park, where we've seen how some of the signage is really confusing or is missing. and it does not have all of the information that people would need in order to understand how to navigate through the park. and also at the same time, that there should be more information online available so people can do more advanced planning and know where they're going to go before they get to the park. we've also heard from some people and older adults who say that the lack of cars on streets make them feel safer. and, of course, you know, the disability community is not a monolith, so we have been hearing from people who are, you know, concerned about traffic safety and really feel like the closed streets are an

improvement for them and increasing their accessibility. we have heard that the current park shuttle is not reliable or user-friendly and that there's not shelter and we will talk about more about the park shuttle in a little bit. and we have heard that many people with disabilities are low income and have concerns paying for parking. and we've heard that out-of-town people with disabilities or families with children and older parents with mobility devices express that finding parking close enough to where they're going in the park is challenging. so as we have received this feedback we have also started making some accessibility improvements right now. and so there are some decisions that, you know, because we have heard from so many people that accessibility is such an issue in the park, we went ahead and started, you know, with using that feedback and started making

accessibility improvements. and then, of course, there are other things that are still in progress and things that we are still actively soliciting feedback around that we'll also talk about as well. and we will talk about each of these -- or some in more detail and the new on-street parking spaces and to pick-up and dropoff zones in front of the academy of sciences. and we re-opened conservatory drive west, which provides access. and we have the parking lot behind the bandshell and the music concourse and we will have maps, and i can specifically point out where they are on the map. but there's a large parking lot that is being completely converted into disabled parking and if you go now you will see that there's some disabled parking space and that it's kind of broken up with the pavement. so that will be completely changed and re-done and it will

be a large segment and we expect to yield 14 to 19 new disabled parking spaces from that. so that is still in design, but funding has been secured, which is a huge step in the direction that we need to go in. so that was recently secured. and so that is moving. and in addition, you know, there are operational accessibility improvements so we have our adaptive bike share events every sunday and we have done outreach and we'll do additional outreach through these events. we're exploring the parking rates and the concourse, which essentially means looking at options so that the parking garage can lower some -- we can lower prices when the parking is in lower demand. so hopefully that would allow more people to park in the garage, because the parking would be cheaper. and then, again, the shuttle, the better routeing and higher

frequency. so here is a photo of two -- or actually three new -- disabled parking space. and we understand that challenges regarding accessible parking -- this is for a while now, pre-dating the closure that have felt more challenging with the closures, we have completed well order five new spaces, and three on nancy pelosi. there are four spaces in the bandshell parking lot that are now free and available seven days a week. and then as i said, you know, the music band shell parking lot which was primarily used for tour buses, will be converted to new free disabled parking spaces, which is more than the number of spaces lost on j.f.k. and then here for our passenger loading and unloading zones, we

have a photo of the loading zones in front of the dion and in the music concourse loop. and there are -- the curbs are painted white and there are programs along the way so that people are able to get out and load -- unload. and so we want to reiterate for folks that vehicles can also access the passenger loading zones in front of de jong and the academy of sciences. so these remain open and you can still be dropped off or picked up right in front of the de jong and the academy of sciences throughout the closure there is also a 15-minute free dropoff and pick up in the garage which can be accessed from both sides of the park. so if you're coming from the north side and you don't necessarily want to drive all the way around to get to the music concourse, you could go into the garage. however, we know that there are accessibility improvements that need to be made to make this drop-off option more accessible

to more people so we're currently exploring that as well. and we are actively working to improve the information on how people can get to park destinations now. and this is something in particular that rec park has been working on and additional information will be available on their website by the end of the month. so there's a photo here of a set that is high contrast and it's easier to read and more accessible. it shows people where there are currently disabled parking spaces available so people can more easily plan their trip. so these improved maps and also directions on how to find accessible parking and dropoff zones will be posted on our website. as i said these will be available by the end of the month. >> maddy, can i just chime in? this is lucas from rec and park

yeah, this is something -- a lot of the feedback that we have been getting is that people are just not aware of how to get to the destinations they want to get to and that there are actually ways to get to these destinations. so this is something that we're really prioritizing and making happen right away, because it's clear that the information hasn't been clear enough and hasn't been available enough for people. so like maddy said, we are working to get this posted as quickly as we can. >> thanks, lucas. yeah. we -- so here's a larger map of the whole park and the accessible parking and passenger loading zones. and so, again, this will be available on the website and on our website at the end of the month. and we hope that this will provide better information for

people who are looking to come to the park and don't know where they're able to park right now. so, again, you will have some of these and they might be hard to read on the screen, but we hope that you will be able to zoom in and they're designed to be as readable and as legible as possible. so -- and we're going to go over some of the text, so examples -- i won't read through each of these examples, but we wanted to just show what some of the examples of the text directions that will be on the website will look like. and so the first example here is, you know, the conservatory of flowers, the dahlia garden and tennis center. so it provides, you know, several sentences of text to share, you know, how many more accessible parking spaces are available, which block they're

on, and the one space is located in front of the tennis center, and three spaces located at the end of the block. and so we hope having directions like these will also make navigating to the parks easier and will help people to feel more informed and more empowered to make decisions about their transportation needs. so in addition we have been hearing a lot from folks about getting to the parks with paratransit and i have an image of several paratransit vans. and so we wanted to let people know that we have confirmed with paratransit that their vehicles can enter the park at 8th avenue entrance for faster access to the music concourse, which is the academy of sciences that are located right there. and, again, 8th avenue is currently closed to private vehicles, but paratransit is allowed through. and we have been hearing from

paratransit that not many people are dropped off around here and we are concerned is that people do not realize that they can be dropped off here. so we want to make sure that people know that you can take paratransit to these locations and you can take paratransit and be dropped off there. so the project proposal -- so these are the three proposals -- and, actually, there's another one that is currently newly under consideration that i will also mention, but these are the proposals that we are discussing as options for the future of j.f.k. and surrounding streets. and so i will go over each of the proposals. and each of the proposals has benefits and each of the proposals have drawbacks. so for you all as council members and as the members of the public, the question is -- which of these proposals you feel like works best for you. which would you like to see? and that is currently one of the

main reasons that we're here today to discuss. so before we share the proposal, some of the considerations that went into selecting these as our final three options to bring forward. so the first is engineering considerations. and so, you know, whenever we're looking at a new street alignment, it's really important that it works from an engineering perspective. so it needs to be legible, it needs to be easy to understand for people who are navigating the streets whether they're drivers or pedestrians it. needs to be safe and it needs to work from an engineering standpoint it just needs to be feasible. and we also looked at which option provided the most additional ada or disabled parking spaces. so which -- which options provided more options and there

were some options that we looked at that reopened the parts of the streets to cars that didn't really provide many disabled parking spaces, so we put those aside. we want to maintain delivery access to parks and institutions. so museums. and we want to improve pickup and drop-off access and we know that is not how everybody gets to the park but we do know that is how some people get to the park so we want to make sure that is an option that really works for people. and we are of course, interested in the park experience. we want to minimize disruptions to the current park use. we want to prevent or minimize cut-through traffic at the park because, again, cut-through traffic causes more traffic collisions and degrades the park experience. so here is the first option. this is the existing car-free j.f.k. option. this is the map of the east side of j.f.k. and so we can see on this map

that streets that -- that j.f.k. drive and a couple of streets off of j.f.k. drive are closed to vehicles and then there are a couple of shared streets off of j.f.k. drive as well. some of the outcomes of this option are that we prevent cut-through traffic and enhance the park experience. we have zero injury collisions since april 2020. we have more reliable transit service. and in particular more reliable service on the 44 of shaungessey and for the excelsior. and to get to the park as easily as possible. we also have emergency vehicles that can use the car-free space, that is a benefit. (please stand by)

>> in has very similar benefits and drawbacks to the car free space. so in addition to that alignment option we're also looking at project proposals to make transportation access to the park easier and more accessible. again, we want to revamp the subtlele to make it more usable. access on fulton street. this would be a number of disabled parking spaces along fulton and make the sidewalk wider and more accessible. the path is a little steep at the moment. we would look at adding hand

rails and landings to make that path more accessible. this something we have already got feedback on because of the accessibility tours. cars can go very fast, we do understand that this might not work for everybody who is parking. we think it might work and want to solicit feedback from folks for whether it would work for passengers to get directly out on the sidewalk. we're looking at the possibility of setting up a new taxi stand. as you all know, those of you who use para transit, you use taxis for your para transit

vehicles. these are all things that are under consideration. no decisions have been made. these are also things we would like to hear your feedback on. the shuttle, this is something we've heard a lot about. we wanted to get this into more depth. we have a photo here. as you can see, it's a high floor vehicle that has stairs with a lift on the back. it is accessible via the lift. it is a high floor vehicle which we've definitely heard comments about, that's not as accessible as people would like. that's the photo of the shuttle.

we understand ourselves that it's not currently working well for park visitors. we're committed to improving it because it could be a valuable transportation option of navigating through the park. we're looking at improvements to make it better. we have divided these into short term and long term groupings. in the short term, we would maintain the current route. increase weekend service from two to three shuttle vehicles. it would come more frequently. we would add weekday service. right now it's not running everyday, we've heard comments about that. this would increase the

usability. how there aren't benches or concrete landing pads. these are all things we're committed to improving in the short term. we're talking winter 2021 to 2022. the end of this year and beginning of next year. in the longer term, we want to do more out reach about the shuttle. we want to hear and work with the disability commune knit more depth to hear about where should the shuttle go, how often does it need to run in order for people to want to use it. do we want the shuttle to share

a stop with muni. these are all questions and trade offs involved in all of these decisions. this is something where we are going to be doing additional out reach specifically focused on the shuttle to get people's feedback to make longer term bigger picture decisions about the shuttle. we're pursuing a low floor shuttle vehicle and procurement and new shuttle management. these are big picture ideas, that time line is a little bit longer. we have also here our project proposal options all on one map. this something that you may want to go back potentially and revisit later because there's a lot of detail on here.

we have a park shuttle route. this is a potential route outlined in orange here. we have taxi stands near these circles. this is the academy of sciences. this stretch here is where we're looking to add the new disabled parking and doing sidewalk extension and improvements to the path of drafl. travel. loading zones outlined here as well. we wanted to put it all on one map for folks to view. that was the first option and some additional transportation

options. this is the second car alignment option. this is the private vehicle access loop option. this is the option that would allow private vehicles, just people driving their cars to the park to enter from eighth avenue go westbound one way to transverse drive. this loop here and there's a map here and an orange line that has an arrow direction showing which direction the route is which is westbound. where people could drive their cars along this route. one of the major benefits of this option is that it returns 16 disabled parking spaces on jfk. it returns spaces that are close

to the young museum. it retains the safe streets benefits by continuing some spatters of the closure of jfk. it does create transit delay, that is a concern. if you are somebody who is excited about the car free experience, it does produce that car free experience. a wide car free promenade does include having most of the parking. this is the second option that we're looking at. the third option is the no project option. this is the option where the road would be completely reopened to vehicles in the park. all of the parking spaces would be available for use. the down sides, of course, is

there would be substantial cut through traffic activity which has ramifications for the traffic experience. it would create substantial delays for the 44. >> quick question. how many slides do you have left? >> probably about four? >> okay. because -- yeah. >> i know this is a lot of information. almost done. i also wanted to mention and this is new news but some of you may have heard about supervisor chan's proposal to allow access through to the music concourse. we're studying that option for

engineering feasible. they're doing an engineering analysis which is something we have to do for the potential options to see what the feasibility is. more information on that coming soon. that is currently in the works. just wanted to share a little about our out reach and stake holder engagement. a lot of stake holders throughout this process. i want to as i have been saying extend an offer, if you have a specific organization or group of people and you want to see this presentation or some form of this presentation and have a discussion with that group, we're more than happy to do that. we'll have contact information at the end.

you can go to the project website which has more information about out reach opportunities that are happening. here are some more stake holders. folks in the neighborhood, all across the city and bay area. with that we conclude this presentation. thank you so much for your time. we're going to have a discussion now but feel free to send us an e-mail or go to the project website. i encourage everyone to take this survey. we're taking into account all of the feedback in all the forums. it's helpful if you are providing feedback via the survey as well. >> this is nicole speaking through the chair if i may, we don't want to rush this item. we know this is very important to the community, we have

interpreters and captioning available until around five today. we want to make sure we hear and learn from everyone. could you please for folks who do not have access to the chat through zoom and might be watching but not able to see. could you please read the address and the place where you go to find the story map and provide additional feedback. thank you very much. >> yes. thank you. you can e-mail users at ggp access at sfmta.com. you can go to the project

website to take the survey. >> : do you have a phone number for people that don't have an internet or e-mail? >> that's a good question. i'm going to ask our colleague chris kid who i believe is on the line. i think we do. just put it in the chat. thank you.

>> just one moment please. for ease of the interpreters, could we stop screen sharing. >> yes. >> thank you. >> i'd like to share a story that someone shared with me. i'll do my best to briefly share my comments. this person is deaf. they are older and work with other deaf people with cognitive disabilities who rely on para transit, somehow para transit

-- so these people take art classes in the middle of golden gate park and there's no way to get there. the driver told the group, that's my stop. have you to walk this far in order to get to class. there's no way for me to drive through the park. the driver apologized. the person who shared this story with me, had had to walk with this group, some of them are using -- used a mash that mact ran out of battery. she had to charge it. some of them were not able to walk up the steep hill it get to class. they arrived very late. the instructor said you arrived too late. this person was laid off or

fired because of this experience because she brought them too late. it was a very unfortunately situation with a huge impact. we're not feeling a lot of support to the disability community. we feel unseen and unheard. the main reason for golden gate park is it's free to go there. it's free for residents. people need private vehicles or vans. there's a free program on saturday for families. but people don't have access to it. they can't afford private parking. thirty-three dollars is quite a bit for some families. they are excited to take advantage of this free program.

think about people who will show up and from the entire bay area. from berkeley, sacramento, south bay. it's so important to remember these people. they are driving to get to golden gate park. we want golden gate park to be green, i understand that. it's not necessarily built that way if we're thinking with equality. why don't we revamp the sidewalks. the sidewalks can be much wider for runners and psychists. or have areas only for cyclists and riders.

golden gate park, i know people run through it. i live in the richmond area. i have to drive through the park. i can't take highway one. sometimes it's closed and not even an option. there's a huge detour in order to get to our destination. golden gate park is literally the heart of the city. i know i have a lot of points here, i'm going to try to be brief. when you think about all of the people that go to golden gate park, over 2 million people. where do they go. is there enough parking, disabled parking, for all of the

disabled people in the bay area. we're talking about 19 parking spots for thousands of people. there's no rule or time limit for disabled parking. people might be parked there all day. people who go to golden gate park, a lot of them are volunteers and need a car because someplaces are not open 24 hours a day. people are working there. they need to be tiebl park there for eight to nine hours. if you think about the area off of eighth avenue. there are many cultural events. science and art. people go for science and art to

enjoy and thrive and learn, that walk is so long. no everyone can cycle. not everyone can walk. golden gate park is very large. we have to think about everyone. why don't we redesign the sidewalk. one for walking, one for cycling on either side. those are the things we should consider. i understand that amsterdam has that type of approach to make streets safe. why don't we learn from them and redesign. those are my abbreviated comments. i should allow others to talk. thank you for listening. >> thank you so much for those comments. i know you sent me an e-mail

earlier on. i appreciate how much you thought about this and are thinking about folks who have multiple disabilities and are deaf. or cognitive disabilities and deaf or older. the para transit incident. i'm sorry about that. that shouldn't have happened. i would like to follow-up with you specifically about that. they should be taking people to their destinations in the park. they can and should go on some of the closed sheets to do so. i want to understand that situation more. i really appreciate your comments about how a lot of folks do need marking. i want to clarify a couple of

things. we talked about adding the 19 spaces. there are other spaces in other parts of the park. we've heard it's not enough. there are additional spaces as well. we are looking at these options do exist because we want to look at -- we want to make sure the option that ends up being selected works well for the disability community. that might be the access loop or the option that is reopening. i want to also make it clear that decision have not been made yet. this feedback is helpful for us. we hear you and thank you so much for being part of this

process. >> hi. thank you so much for speaking today. your presentation was really informative as always. thank you. i have to say, i love your virtual background. i'm going to steal it. i think you touched on it but maybe i didn't understand. do sfmta and rec and park, are you partial to any one of these options. maybe you can't say -- i'm asking because my family filled out the survey. i imagine, one, this is a very difficult job and to please everyone. i imagine that a lot of us

answering the survey, when my family was answering the survey our point of reference was access for our ten year old daughter in her wheelchair. we can push her and we have our full mobility. i felt like it was that influenced our choices obviously. i'm assuming that you all have a birds eye view about what makes the most sense for the most people with this eye and keeping it accessible. is that true and that the options you presented to the public are equally accessible from a city perspective? >> that's a good question.

from the city perspective we're putting forth these opings optis because we think all three of them are viable. we know we don't have all of the information and perspectives. when talking about disability. there are so many different kinds of disabilities and broad range of needs. we're not coming forth with a favorite option now. i think part of this whole process is designed to gather as much feedback to understand ultimately which does make the most sense. that isn't a decision that has been made yet. i have felt like part of the reason it's been important is

there's so much people have not heard of or people don't understand on a visceral level. i know for the disability community in particular, sometimes it can feel like people in local government just care about code compliance. that's why we wanted to come forward and hear about what people's actual experiences is. which options are compliant and what we need to do to come into compliance, that's also very important to do that. we want to know what is usable and what works in practice. there's not one preferred option right now. that's what we're trying to get to from this process.

>> a question in the chat earlier in the presentation, i don't know if you'd like to come off mute and ask your question or if you'd like me to read it. >> that's fine if you want to read it. >> his question was how you have been able to keep track of every biker, stroller it to notice a

36 percent increase. >> we have a large batch of cell phone data. it's how we understand the cut through traffic. if you go on the story map there's information about which neighborhoods people are coming from. all of that is through anonymous cell phone data. it does give us a pretty accurate sense of what is going on there. >> chris had a comment too. >> i just wanted to add onto that as well. the rec park owns and maintains counters that actually passively count the people that pass by

them on the roadway. there's one on the intersection of concourse and jfk. when we look at the number of people using jfk drive, that's the data we're relying on. this is sophisticated enough to differentiate between pedestrians, bikes, cars, trucks. this was able to collect data both before the covid closures and after.

>> people with mobile device, several in golden gate, most of them are not wide enough for people in wheelchairs. how are you going to change that? the second question, we asked in

the past if there is any work workinggroup specifically for disability, like a working group specifically having them park to make sure those accessible issue is heard and fixed. my last question is that -- i forget my last question. let's start with those two.

>> just to make sure i heard you correctly. the first question was about expanding and fixing sidewalks. >> : yes. >> i think i'm going to turn that over to l uc as. >> sure. there are some sidewalks and some paths of travel that would be potentially effected by some of these proposals. like getting into the park from fulton street. some improvements there. as far as generally in the park, we know there are a lot of areas that need to be addressed. there are areas with cracked

sidewalks and too narrow or too steep, we have gotten a lot of information from the public about areas they are concerned about. that's an on going process to prioritize those. if there are specific areas you're concerned about, you can let us know, myself or alex is. those are the kinds of projects or feedback that she is taking in. as far as your other question which is about a working group or panel. it's something that we talked about several months ago when we first talked about the golden gate park issue. you brought up that suggestion. it's something that debbie and i

have spoken about. a group that helps to work with rec and park. because there's so much overlap. maybe it's something that we work on together. to have a dpreup that helps work with us on these projects could be really beneficial and make sure that we're getting the feedback and input and perspective of the disability community. >> there is no working group? >> that's correct. generally for this project is currently the big out reach effort that we're making.

we don't specifically have a working group that's working on in general on projects. i do think it's a great idea. >> : thank you. i just remember my last question. my last question is pork, reduce projects, do you guys do a test run or do you guys rely on the public input before changing or making improvements.

meaning. >> you're asking if we're soliciting public input. >> i'm asking if you do a drive through before making changes [indiscernible]. >> i think it depends on the context. sometimes there are programs that have pilots first. we use the public input from the

pilot to inform the permanent decision. sometimes we solicit public input and use that before any changes are made. in this case because the closure was during the beginning of the pandemic when the city wanted to open up more green space, it happened pretty quickly. now we're doing the process of soliciting public input. we learned sometimes it's challenging what a situation will be like until they see it. that's one of the benefits of trying something out and getting feedback. before we make big changes, we want to solicit input.

>> thank you. opening up to the staff for questions. >> this is nicole speaking again. thanks again for coming. i wanted to clarify one piece around the community engagement working group, we've taken as mod every piece we've heard from the public and funneled it back through the group.

working group representation across a lot of community organizations in the district and around the city that helped give us the framework for some of the primary disability concerns that were talked about today. i just wanted to clarify that. we have been bringing every piece of feedback that mod have received directly. to recreation and parks and when appropriate to the county transportation authority as well. we'll continue to do that and be a resource in addition to everything that's been mentioned today. that said, i think moving forward i want to emphasize in agreement that mod has heard from various members of the public and various community

groups that direct engagement of people with disabilities in the disability solutions is of critical importance. i want to emphasize that moving forward that would be a good approach to continue to consider. please do continue to let us know through the mayor's office of disability and all these other mechanisms that have been mentioned today, give us feedback and we provide that. i also want to mention that we are in as mod, we have been involved architectural review to the degree that's been necessary for covid compliance. for some of these solutions happening right now.

we're also in weekly meetings and sometimes more frequently than weekly on the process for people with disabilities. very engaged and will continue to bring every piece of feedback we receive forward for consideration in these proposals. your feedback is very important an please continue to provide it. >> thank you. any staff member questions or comments? hearing none. i would ask the clerk can you open the meeting for the public to comment on this item.

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nothing is dealing with the area substantively west to the museum complex. there's all sorts of facilities and that's relevant in terms of being able to take not just your car or taxi or para transit van or any number of other facilities. private vehicles.

because you're going to need parking for us to also picnic or go to the fly casting pool. during the discussion we heard somebody named christopher kid. is he with mta or rec and park. we didn't get any contact information. we heard -- these quick oral statements of xyz. i don't know which agency you're with if i have a question or somebody says what's going on.

contact christopher kid. you ought to put it in chat. you have to afterwards send us contact information. thank you. >> i just want to clarify. i will ask you to please put everybody in the chat, everybody's contact information. i hope everybody including bob can find that information. going forward, next public

comment. >> hi. appreciate the presentation. it's a lot to digest but similar to what bob just said. there's other places in the park that what's being presented doesn't really create accessibility an inclusion for people with disabilities. i appreciate mod is trying to take in the feedback. you did out reach by doing tours and will continue doing that. i think as we work together we'll move through this together. i believe there are still some critical concerns here that we do need to address.

i'm going to come from a perspective now that i am a person with a disability and care for my parents with disabilities. it's very difficult to access the park. bus systems don't provide access to get there. i use an adaptive bike that's an ebicycle. when i'm looking at bike racks and other things that have been mentioned, there isn't bike racks for people who may ride a anebike. i'm going to come from a per

perspective of someone who doesn't drive. it would be important to have slow lanes and fast lanes because there may be cletions with different modalities being used. one other consideration, charging stations would be very important. when i think about all three perspectives here with the park and getting people out of their cars. that person's mobility device is electric, if they are traveling all the way to visit the park, they're going to be using up

more battery to get there because modes of transportation. are we considering charging stations in the park so that people do not get standed. stranded.just to point out. >> thank you for your comment.

>> hello. my name is richard. i want to talk about two things. first is conservancy of flowers. i've been up there twice and that is not ada accessible. i don't know how rec and park can say that. there are no blue parking spots there. there's no sign saying how to get into the conservancy there. i don't know how you can advertise that's ada accessible. if i'm missing something, i'll

be happy to meet you up there. i saw regular cars parking there. that's the regular way to park there. i had a car with license plates and one is too close to the barricade. it's too hard to get out. the conservancy of flowers. is having one westbound lane closest to the north side just open to cars so cars with handicap issues can drive from canyon street to conservancy west turn right and go out. they have the tree lighting this year, how are people with disabilities supposed to see those. we have to learn to shared the road. as far as golden street, you

need to have a transit lane only. so people can feel safe getting out of their car. you have to work on the hill there. we have to learn to share. the park has to be open to everybody no matter what the disabilities are. what's going on with the garage. we don't hear anything about the garage. the lady from mta said she is going to get back to me about the garage. can we reduce the fees in the garage and the accessible doors. so you can push the button to

get into the dia. there doesn't seem to be one overall. it seems to be a scattered process and not overall koord coordinated. >> good afternoon. i'd like to know how many members of the disability council are at this meeting because we only see two members.

are there other members present? okay. i'd like to know where you get your idea that the five fulton line is by any way effected of whether there's a closure or not. you're showing your bias because the park and rec commission and mta you're pushing this on the disability community as if it's a done deal. i would like to remind the entire city and the disability council that we have a right to say no. it's your duty of representatives to say it is none of these plans are acceptable september to fully reopen jfk drive to everybody.

you're trying to force us to take all these turns and have to wait for a shuttle that we can't get into. how dare you be so mean and cruel to us. and treat us like we're not human beings. you want us to wait out in the cold for a shuttle. you deprives us from seeing the light show. the art piece inside the park last winter. this is not equal treatment of other human beings. this park belongs to everybody not just the able bodied and the young. the staff people are pushing an agenda that is completely oppressive to the disability community.

you say things that are not true. you talk about some studies, you said it said p pedestrian accidents and collisions in golden gate park east of drive. twenty accidents. forty. that's 31 vehicle collisions. stop changing the facts to suit your purposes which seems to deprive users access to the park. there's no better solution than to restore the agreement which is to keep the park open

everyday except for every sunday and holiday and closed to cars. that's already a compromise. that compromise should be rein reinstated. thank you. >> thank you for your comment. all of the members are present for this public meeting. do we have anymore public comment at this time. >> we have a question that came in to the q and a. it says can all members of the m

dc publicly disclose any affiliations with park institutions including but not limited to the museum and volunteer programs and access advisory boards. >> i will defer that -- >> we can discuss that as part of public comment debrief in your executive planning meeting. >> we do have another public comment. >> thank you.

i'm one of the lead organizers for kid safe sf. that has been advocating for kid safe jfk. we've been working with mta to increase access to the park. through reform on the museum an the garage which is drastically under utilized. i just want to emphasize that i've spent countless hours on jfk in the past two years many of which with our two year old

daughter as she was able to live freely without worrying about a car hitting her. i've talked with people with disabilities who travel as far as fremont to visit jfk, the western end car free sections of the park. they came here specifically for the fact that these spaces were car free and they were smooth. they were able to use them without fear of getting hit by a car and peacefulness of not having car noise or exhaust nearby. there's a good chunk of the disabled community who supports spaces like this. we are continuing to advocate for increase access especially

around parking for people with disabilities. mentioning the museum garage it's been miss managed. the board hasn't met in years. if there's anyone that can do something about the museum garage, it's the museum. we'll continue to advocate for the park including for jfk and increased access. our focus is keeping the space peaceful and safe for kids and people with disabilities without the fear of getting hit by a car. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comment.

>> there are no other public comments at this time. >> okay. now we give ten seconds before next item for last call for this item.

thank you so much for l uc as and mary. i hope we can work more on this issue in the future. let us know if you have more updates. thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> now we are moving along to item number eight. nption item report from mayor's office on disability.

>> hello everyone. i think i'm spot lighted. i'm going to pause one moment. okay. i'm going to be reading some highlights from a written report that i have this month which i will make sure that john from the mod office gets to all the council members following this meeting and it will be poafed to posted tothe mod website on whad monday morning. i've organized the report a little differently this time. legislative updates, resources, and items for m dc consideration. regarding the legislative

updates. those are explicitly listed in the report. improvements and out reach happening there. let hand use and transportation committee is going to be hearing the item it heard last month an the program item is complete. i posted the resolution from supervisor chan to the car free connection. i've listed details on the car free spaces program. also an item housing needs needs

assessment and seniors and people with disabilities. thp council will be hearing that item at the november 19th meeting. take a look at that legislation and details related to that when you did can. at the state level. i urge you to look at senate bill 639 which is to end minimum wage in california. if you would like to prepare a supportive response or not in that particular legislation. i've also listed updates on the transportation network company access for all legislation which is conditioned to the public utilities commission and currently focused on of set offt

requirements. yet was the first annual disability awareness month sell operation. we did highlight the work of an m cd employment subcommittee. the council may consider hearing an update at an upcoming meeting so we can hear more about that. this weekend starting tonight is the film festival, they are interactive live events. for more information, it is a live digital festival.

october 16th is the california master plan for aging master plan for ending homelessness amongst seniors and people with disabilities. this is another virtual forum. you can register via the community living campaign website. a few resource updates. if you're experiencing dift wit difficulty with rent.

you can access this information if you don't have access to innet or e-mail by calling thre. covid 19 vaccine available. we expect a launch of a disability san francisco vaccination clinic. it will be open to all light house clients. an update on the home vaccination program. that program is still available by conducting the call center around the best way to access the covid 19 vaccine.

the focus on the home bomb program is still on. anyone previously vaccinated who would like a third dose will be place on a wait list for more information for when we have folks available for that process. the number is (628)217-6101 i wanted to highlight a few items for future hearing items in addition to what was heard today. the better market street may be a potential topic. virtual meeting post emergency order request is a potential

topic. as a reminder mod forwarded to the council the advocacy letter from the arcada asking for a continuation of virtual meetings. if you haven't had a chance to look at that yet, please do so. questions raised in the letter and the virtual meetings of the m dc will continue until at least december 31 of this year. two more items is the empowered san francisco technology needs assessment and older adults is

about to be released with formal recommendations with public review that expected release date is october 18, 2021. this council has been interested in that. we may want to invite folks to discuss those results. finally another agenda item for consideration could be a visit again from the department of children, youth, and families about the summer together program. the sf prize program and how we're accommodating and working with children and youth specifically with disabilities. that for now concludes my report. if anyone from the public would like to engage with any part of this report or has any questions, they can e-mail us at

mod at sfgov dot org. or call (415)444-6319 you can visit our home page at sfgov dot org/mod. i'll forward this report immediately following this meeting. thank you very much. >> thank you. we'll go to next item general

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council for up to three minutes. with that i see one person interested in making public comment. >> thanks for this opportunity to make a general comment. my general comment is going to be on data collection. several years ago i've been attending your meetings and speaking on communications areas which i'm glad to see that way finding and other kinds of things are being thought of now. i want to introduce something else i've been trying to bring to light. everything is data driven when plans are made in municipalities. because technology not being accessible and we're using

different modalities. many of our base lines we're working off of is coming from an able bodied perspective. i want us to be cognizant of that. i appreciate hearing there's out reach to go out so seniors can provide you. when data is taken off of cell phone data and we have a digital divide, we may not have accuracy of people with disabilities and elderly and people who may not use different technology in our parks. it's not an automatic pick up with the data.

i just want to reiterate that we need to be really aware of this and understand the frustration of the disability community. if we're not there in the data, our voices need to be stronger as you're hearing. i hope we can continue to work together. we need to be aware that technology should be addressed at some point here so when things are data driven we're getting more accurate base lines that aren't from an ableist perspective. there's inclusive. make sure you are aware of the accessibility in this new age. i'm going to stop there. i know we can continue working on this. i just want to bring the light to the area of -- to understand why the community is upset.

i am also upset. we're willing to work but we also need these improvements to happen and our voice heard stronger than it is. you can't be relying on data collection all the time when we were left out because of inclusivity and accessibility issues. >> thank you for your comment. any other public comment at this time. >> thank you so much. i just wanted to chime back in. i meant to mention in my previous comment, i put this in the chat as well. i would be happy to connect with any members of the public and members of the council regarding jfk that you feel i or kids sf for the disabled community

including standing in solidarity with you. i put my contact information in the chat. i'll repeat it here for anyone who is listening. luke @ kid safe sf.com. i welcome anyone to reach out to me. especially happy to talk about how accessibility can be improved in the park. thank you again for all your work. >> thank you for that offer. we'll get in touch with you. thanks. are there any general public comment at this time?

>> jennifer put in the chat another announcement regarding the october 26th forum that was mentioned in my report again. october 26th call the california state master plan on aging. ending homelessness among seniors and aging. community living campaign or also the dignity fund. sf dignity fund dot org for more information. >> thank you.

are there any general public comment at this time? >> there are no other public comments at this time. >> thank you. now we'll go to item ten information item. can you please read any comments received by mod in the past month. >> public opinion remains two to one to reopening jfk boulevard.

i'm writing to alert all of you to the fact that an online pole conducted by the san francisco chronicle continued to show that by a margin of two to one to open jfk to car traffic. it show that's keeping jfk drive closed remains deeply unpopular with san francisco. that is the only piece of correspondence we received. >> through the chair, if i might

remind folks that we did receive that advocate letter. if you don't have it or need us to send that again, that is formal correspondence we're sending to you around the express need for the continuation of virtual public meetings. please take a moment to review that. if you do not have it, john from our office can help get that back to you please. thank you. >> thank you. with that we move to next item. item number 11. any council member comments and announcements at this time?

>> yes, this october 15th, this is world white cane safety and awareness day. i just wanted us to encourage people to recognize canes which are often used by folks with vision loss. that's all i wanted to say. >> thank you. i think that's good information. any other members has comment or announcement at this time? >> i just wanted to let the public know that i am hosting an event on october 20th on

disability careers in tech. it's going to happen from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. pacific time. it will have asl and zoom's captioning feature. >> can you also put that in the chat. >> it is, it is free to attend. >> thank you. any other council members have any other comment at this time? i have a comment or announcement to make.

i forgot [indiscernible]. our cochair for this council. >> thank you for giving me the opportunity to be your cochair for the m dc. i will continue throughout this year and into next year 2022. we hope that as things will calm down all will go well. we can all work well together. thank you everyone. have a great day. >> thank you.

if there's no things that announcement from the council. i want to say thank you very much. mod staff thank you for your support. and sfgovtv and of course my

fellow council members. of course the presenters and public participation. with that i want to say have a great day and good weekend. >> i just wanted to announce that the next meeting is friday november 19th. that meeting will also be a virtual meeting. the agenda items are set as housing needs assessment data. thank you everyone. >> thank you.

with that any opposed? >> : and thank you to the thank you all so much for coming. i'm very excited about today's programming and i'm so grateful that you all came out for this important event despite the much needed rain. i am deeply honored to be here. my name is jeffery tumlin and i'm the executive director to have the san francisco mu