disability san francisco. i like to welcome you to our zoom public meeting for september 23rd, 2022. okay roll call we have madrid. >> here. >> sassounis.

>> absent today. >> albers. >> present. >> senhaux. >> present. smolinski. >> present. >> woods. >> present. >> verma. >> absent today. that concludes the roll call. can you police read the agenda. >> today's upon agenda, we have item 1, welcome and roll call. item 2 reading and approval of the agenda.

>> item 3, general public comment. item 4, the cochair report. item 5 is report if the mayor's office on disability. item 6 is vision zero strategy update. presented by vincent romero from the sfmta. item 7 is visions san francisco safe street for older adults and people with disabilities presented by patricia erwin. item 8 is possible increases and taxi meter rates and impact on paratransit taxi fares boy forest bans from the sfmta. >> item 9 correspondence. item 10 is general public

comment. item 11 councilmember announcements. item 12 is adjournment. >> thank you and now we will go to public comment. can you open the meeting for general public comment. >> okay. we welcome the public participation during public comment period. an town for public comment at the beginning and end of the meeting as well as after specific items on each item. each comment is limited to 3 minutes. comments men limited to 2 minutes when there is a long queue of people waiting to make comments. at the end of the period, we will move to the next commenter. if you want council to independent after the meeting

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>> take the first caller. commenter, please. >> all right. so, the first commenter -- albert you are unmute. >> hello. mayor's office of disability council. i would like to thank you for i know that sacrifice and hard work do you to help the disabled community and i am very looking forward to hopefully being appointed boy the mayor's office to the mayor office mayor disability council. to help you fulfill the needs

and service for disabled community and born and raised in the city. and there is a great node for this and i was a carpenter for 26 years. that is different in construction management and berkeley and got 2 course and all the courses 2 an ad a and i have a passion for helping disabled. [inaudible] meeting in person. i help arc legality of kids in the pool and art and 2 kids that are disabled. now 50 years old and i'm getting older, i would irrelevant like to be [inaudible] and i want to [inaudible] well is a great need for this service. the public but it is extremely cumbersome now that it is web

cam i believe as soon as possible, that get back live in public. i watched on tv every meeting you have. i know next among you are not having one. we need to get back to normal. nobody is [inaudible]. i want to make sure everybody knows gotta be getting time to go back to work and everybody shows up on market street. i encourage it for everybody and we get back and that's out of my control. i understand but praying and hoping that happens. this is cumbersome i have been up since 1:30 in the morning catching up to everything going on. so that's all i have and look forward to working with you guys if possible you and not have a lot of experience with ad a and

advocate. thank you for your work i know you have been on it for arc while. thank you. thank you for the comment. before we go to the next [inaudible] is it okay to pause the timer so the people can and then if i need to step. >> i have a problem. i will have that up in a seconded. thank you for your patience. let us know when you are ready you can move on to the next commenter. thank you. who i we are waiting for the

time are i like to remind the public if you want to make comment at this time you can raise your hand by clicking on the raised hand icon. or if you are calling by phone dial star 9. i do realize [inaudible] ready for the next commenter. >> yes , sir. one more minute. sorry.

i think we can continue wrrnl public comment is 3 minutes. let's continue. please. >> all right. the next to the next commenter. >> all right. haurd you have been permitted to unmute. thank you, people can you hear me? >> yes, key can. haurd, good afternoon. since the 24 by 7 closure of the jfk driveway it hen a big hardship for disabled people, seniors, people who live far from golden gate park and need cars to get there include being people in the bay vow and hunter's point. but also people outside of san francisco. it has been a hardship for

families with children and carrying things. also the great closure of the great highway to cars has been a hard help it has been reopened part of the time it is also -- had it is closed people climb over the dunes and the sand suspect getting all over and there are 20,000 occur in sunset district in what used to be neighborhoods. together with other disabled people i have been involved with prop i. prop i would be on the november ballot. and it would bring thanks to the way they were prepandemic with jfk drive open for cars except on sundays, half of saturday's and holidays. and the great highway open for

cars 24/7. i would like to invite everyone to support prospect i. you can do this by going on our website access4allsf.com. there you is volunteer and do nit. i way to rememberer bell on the prop i, i for inclusion.

there is a dom peating measure that would make 24/7 closure of jf circumstance permanent, yes on, i, no, on j. i for inclusion. thank you. >> thank you. do we have more public comment at this time? >> i don't see any other members of public indicated than i want to comment at this time. >> thank you. at this time, we are moving to item 4, which is old [inaudible] report that last. month in august, mayor's of disability council didn't have a

public meeting. but we have a -- and that retreat is out come the -- identify of topics that for the -- some of those topics are on going. like park accessibility and enforcement of accessibility requirement for shared space, sidewalks and accessibility in -- of -- on sidewalks and

also some topic on accessibility employment for people versus -- living in san francisco. government housing accessibility and establishment of the disability community be could -- accessibility and others. also on the retreat there were

issues of -- mayor's disability members to champion for this topics. the last thing i want to report is thatmented to make sure people are aware that the announce the position of the -- the award next month at the public meeting your nomination from the public can be made on 9 or [inaudible] the phone number

415-554-6789. that is include my report now i go to item 5 which is reports from the mayor's office of disability. nicole? which is nicole bohn which is the mayor's of disability director. >> thank you cochair madrid. i will pull up my report. i thank you everybody for being

here and for listening to today. and i pulled up the wrong document. hang on a second. okay. so -- um the full report for today september 23 will be posted on our the mayor's office on disability website under, what's now. and part of the mayor's disability council's website. for full report do refer there. we will have it up hopeful low by early next week. now i will highlight a few. things that occurred over the last month. starting with some legislative updates. this is not a complete list of legislative updates. that will be posted as part of the report but there are a now

things i wanted to mention. specific low to some of the legislation we have been tracking we feel the last month. related to share the space. out door dining program. legislative [inaudible] this requires full accessibility about applications for permitings for legislative program, which begins in march of 2023 are under way now. we have also begun a public service announcement specific low about disability access. and filming of that is to be scheduled. may be approaching a few of the mayor's disability councilmembers for that. effort. related to e scooter safety. upon that -- cochair madrid

mentioned, there is a revised resolution from supervisor peskin. the reference number will be in the posted version of the report and wanted to let you know this resunrised new resolution further works toward speed reduction and sidewalk violation improvements around not allowed to be on the sidewalks. the next thing i will move to state legislation. so00 autoones i want to highlight today are we are continuing -- work together with us at mta on advocacy and information around a publicities for accessible vehicles. this rule making the -- process rart is regulated a remindser by

the puc and the department of motor vehicles not the city. so the way that we are able to participate is through public comment. public comment is in the yet been announced for the upcoming proceedings it will be enough and do track the mayor's office on disability announcements for that as a reminder to sign up if you don't receive them. you go to sfgov.org/mod and then click on subskroib to our news feed. related to transportation network companies, those are the vehicles like uber and lyft. these are on going. we are part of this proceeding as the mayor's office on disability and sfmta and along

with the county transportation authority as well right now they are focused on on goingom time and reduced wait times performance for people with disabilities. this month there are a few federal things i wanted to make you aware of. spring of 22 agenda of d. justice was announced. and that they plan to pose regulations on the following. advanced notice of proposed rowel making on several things one is medical equipment. other is other equipment and furniture. and then there is also notice of proposed rule making on web accessibility and on sidewalks, curve ramps, street crossing and other pedestrian facilities. you have the notice of proposed rule make thering is opportunity

here to make public comment as members of the disability and deaf and disability community. if you like to sign up to get alerts when that public comment period is available. you can go to ad a. gov on the bottom right a place to sign up for e mail updates. i encourage the public if you are at all interested in this level of participation, to do so. so that folks are hearing from as many people with disabilities as possible. i wanted to say on the federal level that the mayor's office of disability has been is part of the national group of other mayor's office on disabilities in the country. we are working on a collectsive national request to department of transportation secretary

accessibility of airlines, taxi and vehicles and other things. . we expect this letter to be complete and ready to be endorsed and sent to the department of transportation in the next few weeks. i will happily report back on that in the october meeting. now i like to move to a few coming events and announcements. first i'd like to introduce tess bartlet. if you are on and willing to bh on camera that is grit if you don't have access if you can say, hi. i will announce a bit of what tess is doing. tess bartlet is the mayor's office on disability 22-23 san francisco fellow. she'll be with us for a year. we are excited. this is our first san francisco

fellow that mod had. tess will work on architect tracking based on identified by departments and those elevate complaints. and she will make recommendations to the departments and to the capitol planning committee and then also she'll be working on complaint and concerned based plan for training for departmental ad accord narrators. we do participate youville she will have an opportunity for public enblaj gagement with concerns especially related to the need for training. she'll be part of the meetings as well and i hope that mdc can consider allowing time for tess to get a presentation when we are ready for that. and are the updated as to what we are doing. hello, tess. i don't know if you want to say

anything more or just wave and say hello it is up to you. we are happy you are with us this year. >> yea i will hop on and say that i'm really excited to work with the mayor's office on disability. and i'm excited to be able to make an impact in the disability community. and it has been great working with everyone so far. looking forward to more meetings. >> great. thank you very much, and i will say the fellows process for those of you who don't know, is extremely competitive. both in being one of the 26,000 and also finding the right match. we are excited to have tess with us and welcome, tess and thank you for being here today. i have a few more and we will move to agenda item and that will be all from me. few more, though. first of all.

the request for proposal for the operation of the disability community cultural center is under way the city now is in the process of verifying the accessibility of some of the internal documents and the final due dates may be adjusted to that. and as soon as we have the all of finalized information, we'll post it to the distribution list. it is open to groups of individuals and organizations to apply. final application dates are november of 22. this is very exciting. as far as we are aware, this is the only municipal disability community cultural center in the country, alcohol be happening with the kelsie housing development project. and then no date to be announced yet the city of san francisco is

having a career fair specific low for people with disabilities which is expected in october. as part of national disability employment awareness month. be on the look out for that date. few more things i want to mention. as you consider your agenda for the coming months. ageing and disability affordable housing need's assessment the draft is near complete. mayor's office on disability has been part of the steering committee along with the mayor's office on housing and community development. disability and aging serviceses and homelessness in supportive housing. and so there are -- finings and mull pull recommendations under each finding which is expected to be presented to the board of supervisors in november. i hope that you hold space on your agenda for that. when it is ready to be presented

to the public. it will have deep impact on folks with disabilities and so -- we want them to know what is happening there. similarly the digital inclusion policy includes website accessibility is under way. and -- so -- police consider agendizing that. and then the remaining items i have for the report on ones i mentioned before, which is to keep an eye on hybrid public meeting participation. and accessible public comment efforts. and then the also -- as november rolls out and understand more about what will happening with streets. the continue eggs of slow streets efforts. and the final announcement i want to make for consideration

is to think about safe passage in your planning efforts in august, the mayor's office on disability presented to the emergency management policy group on disability impacts of street conditions for those trying to pass on the sidewalks and for those who are living on the street who is have disabilities. progress is being made but council encouraged to accomplice it on an upcoming agenda so you can learn more. that is where i will stop for today. thank you very much. >> very good. thank you. and -- on behalf of -- tess -- looking forward welcoming you.

now we are moving along to item number 6. which is presentation by -- vincent from and -- they are going to discuss -- >> great. thank you very much. good afternoon. i'm lynne. i am she and her the vision zero acting program manager here at

sfmta. also joining me is jamie partials who is our direct and romero will copresent. other reminds vision zero a commitment to eliminate [inaudible] and i will move on to the next slide in a second. the action vehicle is released by mayor's office and that what steps the city will take to reach vision zero. the lasts was last year in 2021 and our fourth update. today we share updates on the zero 21 action strategy. i will pass it on for the next couple slides.

so i'm going to present updates on 3 items. the program, high injury and traffic calming and i will pass it on to [inaudible] and she will update on other [inaudible]. one of our bandwidth commitments in our action strategy was to make sure is that we get through all the entire high injury network with quick building improve ams. by 2024. that is where we are focusing our efforts and seeing that the program started in 2019 it has been 3 years. we have completed 27 corridors. there is one now in construction

phase on evans avenue and 15 more in the planning and designing phase. all together it is around upon over 70 miles of traffic safety improvements throughout san pran and the goal now is to work on the remaining 80 miles of the network. so -- the projects are lower cost and reversible projects and consists of paint, parking or loading adjustments. and you see here through this program we installed 12 transit islands, 120 safety zones and more than 12 miles of new or upgraded bike ways. now the quick build program changes so but at the moment these other projects we are

working on. i said before the project in evans avenue crediting now bike facilities and intersections. franklin street we focus on period of time safety and reducing peds and bayshore improve traffic safety and strengthen biking around the area this . is another project we are about to start. we are trying to get the full high injury network and want to apply the right safety tool and street. we design and pilot the templet to assess conditions on remaining 8 miles or so of the high injury network. we hired a consultant and should

be ready in 6 months. the high injury network guides the city's investment in infrastructure and programs. and makes sure that vision zero frequents are in neighborhoods of people most in need. so this is the data driven program and high injury network where we focus the work the first this we had it in june of 2015 and used public records for that network. the first update happened in 2017. and that time we used police record and hospital records. which accounts the hospital records data a counsels for 20% of our data. the data captures injuries not reported to the police. now we are working on the second

update. we are using records and medical and hospital records with 2019 and 2021 data, if for this we department with department of public health. they havearc sesz to the police records and the hospital data. now we are working on inconsistencies in the city departments. we set up a comment internally where we are reviewing the new draft and the methodology. and witness we completed that internal reruwe expect to reach out to the community in october or november. to participate in our community advisory commenting. the last piece i will cover is

traffic calming program. and another commitment that we made in the action strategy is to make sure we install at least 100 traffic calming devices every year. traffic calming devices are bumps in the road that make it difficult to slow down. speed humps or cautions or raised crosswalks. you see here in the graphic as of august of 2022, we have already completed nearly 200 traffic calming device in 2022 and we are now on our way to break our record as 2021. the traffic calming program start instead late 70s from residents had applied for the sxrm we measured the speed and we apply speed humps or traffic calming device. it is important to us but we recognize waiting for people to be identified problems creates inequities in terms of which

neighborhoods are likely to apply. in addition we have the proactive traffic calming program that started in 2018.

another commitment in the zero vision strategy is develop a speed management plan. this draft is urn way and identify tools we can deploy to slow speeds and save lives whether that is through education, or traffic calming they mentioned or will engineering treatments. road diets or speed limit reductions on streets. that is what we will be included in the plan. but we don't want to wait per it to be finalized. at the same time as we draft the plan we're out in the street. and implementing tools we will believe will am help slow speeds on our streets. such as the speed limit reduction work, 20 miles per hour implementation. ltz we have 70 miles of 20 zone

planned the work that we did in the whole neighborhood of tenderloin, which is in the gold shaded lines on the map on the left. in addition to the new legislation are authority under bill 43 allows local jurisdictions throughout california to slow speeds and ecstasy. so that is shown in the left in the blue and red. we're leading the state in this implementation in addition to oakland and san jose. as of mid-september, we already completed 15 corridors with new speed limit signs and another 8 that are in construction and are working hard on the next set for legislation and review.

with that 20 mile in your neighborhoods we are also with education and out reach. so similar to the tenderloin you will see transit shelter adds. these minibillboards. we will be doing direct out reach. you will see digital advertise nothing mull pull languages if you go to the dmv to get your real id or paperwork you may see this vision zero speeding psa. we are able to put in all california offices under dmv. yop one of our other commitmented in vision wherevero sole judge is make sure high injury intersections have visibility crosswalks and daylighting. we are making good progress. happy to report that 90% of our

intersections have daylighting or this red striping notoriety intersection you see in the photo on your left this is over 250 intersections on the high injury network have that and at 95% of intersection that have continental crosswalks. similar to that on the right that you see. we have several commitments in the action strategy related traffic signals. so whether it is slowing down the timing to a walk speed of 3 secondeds or having a crosswalk head start leading pedestrian intervals with the crosswalk sign before the light turns and period of time count down signals and pedestrian signals. these other latest we have from the traffic signal team of we

have commitment and action strategy to evaluate the no turn on red pilot in the tenderloin. we are happy to report the studies from this pilot were positive for keeping crosswalks clear and reducing close calls with people walking and vehicles. so given findings we'll go ahead and expand the pilot to the 20 miles per hour work that i shared in the previous slide. we are excited about that because we think these restrictions will be most impactful where there are a lot of people walking. the business corridors with the 20 miles per hour signage are good candidates. we are also expanding our left turn traffic calming project we piloted. we secured funding to expand it.

and under way. we have an initialling list that we are vetting with the many internal teams at mta the engineers are transyit and paratransit groups and the fire department. and we hope to be installing them soon. this is on ellis and leavenworth from the pilot. >> the photo for some people's can that center photo. vehicle. >> the photo has an example of the pilot treatments we put to slow drivers turning left. so for example, we will harden the center lane with the minirubber speed bump treatments and at the corner of intersection if you are

imagining the car turning left, we have like a slow turn wedge we have rubber speed butches 90 degree angle. to encourage drivers to slow down when they turn. moving on to the motorcycle safety program. motorcyclists are vulnerable road users. when we look at traffic fatalities. they often rise to the top. we have a graunded program. that is with the police department to provide 3 half day urban skill safety riding trainings. gear toward beginners or motorcyclists returning to riding versus another way of getting around the city. and in the photos on the left you will see photo from one of our august trainings.

with people riding on motorcycles. practicing going very slow and on the right is another photograph as well with the motorcycle traffic company. where they have set up traffic cones and circuits for people to practice skills like starting and stopping or other maneuvers. completed 8 trainings this year. and we are excited continue that progra employing another part of the program is advancing vehicle safety. sfmta sent a letter to the u.s. department of transportation in the new car assess am program. we called out studies.

documenting links between the vehicle size or speed and weight in contribution to the traffic we are seeing. am we are encouraging this new car program in addition to incorporating the technology changes that they are planning to which but to encourage them for their 5 star safety rating system to make sure the vehicle does receive a 5 star they score high on other safety features that are important to eulogist traffic fatal ities. intelligence speed assistance installations that reduce high speeds or unsafe speeds. or addressing giving more marks to cars that address blind spots when cars turn left am a blind spot in your windshield area.

in is the severe injury's report produced by public health partners every year and looking combines again police and hospital data. to look at injury trends. the last one publish in the september of last year and we are anticipating to have that data set soon and the next report in spring of 23. that is the end of the thank you very much. >> thank you. and now i'm going to take over to -- for questions. please raise your hand or tell

me if you have any questions and [inaudible] a question? no.ing. thank you so much for that wonderful presentation. really. it makes me feel good to be a san francisco resident with young kids and having lived here for over 20 years and you know the joke in my family our second car is me walking. i literally walk every where. so this makes me feel good and i want to say kudos to you and the team. for all your good work. know it is appreciated and it is saving lives for sure. one of my children is in a wheel chair. we take public transportation and certainly the wheel chair accessible uberers and lyfts my

preference is to walk with her and push her in her chair. and simple things from curb cut outs to less simple things like the barriers you mentioned about helping people turn a protected left. make a difference. thank you. >> thank you very much. alex. i like fellow councilmember sassounis said thank you for your presentation and how vision zero in an attempt to make the city safer, people with disabilities and seniors i thank you for that. i'm excited and you talked about your speed management plan around your program around ab43?

and educating to address the speed. you know in association with the fatalities that still exist. that was one of my mirj concerns beside the existing education you have now around traffic devices and et cetera. i think this is a very point around -- speed issues to educate drivers to be safe and understand seniors, disabilities, children special dogs, everyone needs to cross the street. i have a -- i [inaudible] we lost you. do you see me now? no. i will -- you are cutting off.

>> oh . we are cut off. can you hear me at all. >>iel. i can hear you now. >> okay. >> okay. i'm sorry. so any how where i left off is i'm excited about the you coming back and give us the data and feedback from the speed and management plan to see you know the numbers about safety around education, driver awareness. no audio. you cut off again. >> thank you. >> are there any commentsers or questions in at this time?

no. okay. before i turn over to the staff i have some questions to one of them is that i know barriers -- sidewalks or the bicycle and barriers to vehicle in the there was a discussion or some things related to that and some barriers is are is is hard to see or -- can you -- um tell us about what did you find out of

how do you implementing those things when it come to making sure all of people with disabilities can use or and identify the barriers. between the vehicle and the bike. the bikes station. >>il make sure i understands your question. about bicyclists and people with disabilities and how to prep vents the conflicts between bicycle and vehicles. >> no. >> the barriers. the -- the barriers name? the you know -- on the sidewalk and there was -- and next to the sidewalk well is an a lane for the bikes, right?

and then the bike and the vehicles there is -- the barriers. and well is is a lane with to identify. don't cross this or go to the vehicle side or to the bicycle lane? and will i'm talking about the bike. if someone has me say the word i'm trying to say. may be the parking protective bike lanes. >> yes. >> yea. and how are we making sure that people sdwablts can hopefully use the road safely. >> yes. and make it so that, that, that

lane or that -- particular thing is accessible. >> i know we had the question and i might ask jail tow help me provide more information i know we had a working group through watch sf on parking protected bus lanes or -- parking protective bike lanes and how to ensure where keeping people with disabilities in minds where building them. and i will pause to see if jamie has additional information. why this is through the chair. we are a getting to the curb document. that walk sf presented to -- sfmta that was a bunch folks with disabilities worked on the document. if you can speak to how you are

incorporating those recommendations in your planning, i believe that is what alex is referring to. if i'm misrepping you alex, let me know. >> yes. yes. and just want to would like to nicole as the just bring it to work that projected thing is reasonable and known to trip or -- could someone make it so it is -- accessible to all people with disability. or none be people, too. jamie or vicinity or -- so.

of over see our liveable streets division. i think we are with which names and i don't know if i can rename. i think weigh use the same. there. okay. so -- if we have been building the parking protected bike lane in san francisco now for 5 years. as we started in 2016. 6 years approximate learned a lot in that time. nicole mentioned we did work with walk sf and a number of advocates on a report, getting to the curb in 2019. i tried to slip that in i don't think i can mix messages with everybody i sent typeset to

nicole. but we looked at that report that has been a guiding principle for us. a few thicks we do when we design protected bike lane system one is where we have transit stops the boarding islands make sure they are marked crosswalks across the bike lane from the island and the transit stop to the sidewalk. we have the crosswalk and narrow the bike wlan it gets to the island it forces people to slow down when they get to [inaudible]. and then a long concern with tripping hazzards and access from parked vehicles to the walk across the bike lanes. we worked a lot on the specific designs of what we call the buffer space. the bike lanes and parked cars and a buffer space with the

parked cars and the bike lane. with that, we have made sure we have no tripping hazzard there is and make that buffer wide enough that i person in a chooel wheel chair can navigate with the parked cars and the bike lane. >> i question to is that of i want to make sure that protected area is accessible to all people and make it for people would can -- identify it. and getting in the street. that's when i'm trying to get at. so -- that is i shared goal we

have and without trying to explain too much. we have worked hard to do that and i think and -- we also are always tweak the describes if there is a bike way or location not working for whatever reason we are often changing how many [inaudible] we have or where they are placed or how wide the bike lane is. we are happy to take feedback on locations that may not be working for folks as well as they should. >> thank you for that. help is the last question on this not a question. related to the or -- um -- we

may have hopefully we may have designs that indicate to cyclists what to do. more than signs we used pavement markings. we'll often in addition to the crosswalk marking and the bike way itself we'll put in central say, slow, pedestrian crossing or we have a school loading zone on valencia, load, school. we use pavement markings more than signs even though i said signs. we found what people bike are likely to see what is written on the ground in fronts of them than they torlockup at a sign on the sidewalk they may not see. >> okay. thank you. >> now would ask the staff

questions for the president. >> i will go, first am thank you alex for the questions they are important and i'm glad we spent time on that. one thing i wanted to say that if someone who has access can put getting to the curb document in the q & a box or the public chat so other folks tracking the meeting can see that document. for those of you who are watching on sfgovtv it is on walk sf website getting to the curb report final 2019 document if you are interested in looking it up. >> i was justmented to echo everybody, thanks and for all of the good work you are doing and really my question is mostly for members of the public who might be curious that is the best way to take public feedback

especially from people with disabilities? how do you want to receive that. i love to hear youri preferences and also want to continue to encourage you as you give public presentations we do we are really on the grounds with a lot of this and we are just encouraging everyone to make sure we are presenting had information in as many different ways as possible and not just visually but in we are speaking and talking about so that it can be as accessible to as many as you can be. if you could speak a minute to the best way for the members of the public to provide feedback about vision zero that would be excellent. >> thank you. >> thanks nicole we are happy to get e mail to the vision zero

sfmta.com e mail and happy to take e mails through the mayor's office on disability. i'm sure you have a closer ear to the ground on the top concerns. so that's another way for the members of public to pass on feedback. >> if you don't mind turn that information to the chat. thank you. >> are there any other comments on staff? members has questions? there are none. open up to public comment. okay. if you would like to make public comment raise your hand by clicking on the raised hand i

conor if you are cal nothing dial star 9 and you will be prompt when it is your turn. i see one member of the public interested in making public comment. at this time albert you are unmuted. >> hello you know i live in the southeast all my life in visitationvilley for 18 years and i moved excelsior district 9 and 10 and 11. i own a house in port ola district. [inaudible]. and am we have an issue with all the schools and the parks that they put lines down in the mission on the street thick lines and also slow down. we need that in the [inaudible]

visitation. and we need it by the public and private schools. the privatized the school and it is i don't know [inaudible] you know it is all rich kids and family are well to do. there are no lines there. i go to church every day and i have to help the elder low walk. i know they put the slow down the little things and slow streets that is not working. they need more bright yellow lines. also on 24th street. i go to a there by [inaudible] and st. peters and it is the same rich kids the lines need to be thicker the kids go to school in the morning. people rush to get to work and the hospital. i recommend that night time it is scary down there. because people are using substances and don't see as well and in a hurry. i recommend especially in the

southeast districts 9, 10 issue 11. thousands more people there they are going to the schools. so -- i guess it it is -- middle school. then the elementary school down there by mission valley play ground and church of visitation. this is a great need and then you go up there you have the other school. the ramps are greatest will we needed to cut out long the cut out on the corners. and that's great we need go further with the thick lines it is life and death situation. people with stroll and wheel chairs, i use a cane periodically. thank you. thank you for your comment. is there any other public comment?

i don't see other members of public who indicated they want to comment at this time. thank you. again, thank you very much. i hope this is the first time that we can work together and let's give us an update if well is any updates you want to share to us. thank you very much for coming. thank you for having us. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> now i will move to the next item 7. visions zero san francisco safe streets for older adults and disabilities presented by that

trishia erwin the san francisco department of public health. that pa trishia, welcome. >> good afternoon. slides will be coming up, thank you very much. >> thank you. so. again i'm patricia erwin with the know freshman d. public health with equity and he promotion branch. and the community promotion branch we impelement the vision zero engage am work focused on -- older adults and adults

with disabilities. if you could move to the next slide, please. to so far we arc briefiate our branch. i say that at times the community and promotion grants our focus on community engagement direct engagement to

inform the populations and organizing neighborhoods around the issues that may be happening. informing community members how they can be involved and support

making changes and other solutions that people may have or agencies may have- the funding began july of 2022 with an initial term of 3 years. possible extension up to 6 years. and -- next slide, please. a major focus of our work and branch the department of public health and in this work on the vision zero work of community engagement, is focused on equity. and in this work, what that means for us is focusing on the most vulnerable road users i previously stated as well as communities generally experiencing dispariies and safety in the streets. that includes black and people of color and limited english

proficiency. connection. if you go -- back up like -- a little bit you cut off. i'm sorry. can you -- yes. is this -- is this a slide that i should repeat. >> yes. >> okay. i apologize. >> no worries. >> again a key part of our work is focused on equity theis out line in the the vision zero action plan and i know a key important area of focus for us in the department of public health as well. for our branch which does work on community engagement for vision zero. what that means is focusing on most vulnerable road users. again older adults and people with disabilities. other communities experiencing disparities such as the black,

indigenous people of color and limited english profortunate communities and a focus on streets in the high injury network. this was the equity focus a key element of the proposal review and the selection of cbo's. and next slide, please. the proposals were reviewed and a decision of made to award 4 communities based organizations. of each receive approximately 50 thousand dollars per year. and you can see here on the slide the 4 agencies are senior and disability action network. china town community development. curry senior center and lighthouse for the approximate blind and visualy impaired they are all working with seniors and people with disabilities and at

times on specific subgroups. blinds are visually impaired or other subgroups may be an area of focused depending. china town communities living in this neighborhood. again the focus is educating communities, supporting them sxndzing more about safe streets educating them and also teaching you know involve providing opportunity for them to be involved in improvements. the communities engage am opportunity community input through mta. there are different opportunities on how they can provide input. and -- we are looking for the grants they are just getting storied they start in the july of 22 it takes arc while to get it r.ed up. we are looking forward to working with them and supporting them as an implement the

programs and mayor's office on disability and mta. this slide i'm provides a brief snapshot of past accomplishments. from 2018 through 2022. june of 20224 years we -- also supported funded cbo's. and through this work, over 41,000 older adults and people with disabilities were reached again through education, workshops, social media and other engagement and some had opportunity to engage in activities to support improvements and changes. this work includes what was done during the covid-19 pandemic, a lot of the work continues. much of it was virtual during the initialling period of the

pandemic which had an impact on the direct out reach and engagement. but the work continued and so we are really -- pleased that we were able to continue it and funds a new round of cbo's again starting this past july. so -- my final slide i would like to acknowledge seth who leads vision zero san francisco for d ph and julie wong, the lead in this work and currently out so could not be here today. as well as jennifer dough who support this is in your branch. and our important partners at mayor's office on disabilities and mta. and i'm happy to answer questions if time allows. next. i am opening up to if fellow

councilmembers for questions raise your hand or -- let me know if you have any questions to patricia. i have a question. i know that in the past -- there was -- vision zero with this topic. came to us and i raised a question. in the past. that -- our specific how many people would disability?

incident when it miss to -- market and -- and -- one of the reasons for rememberment to reminds -- and taking now my question to you is do we have a need -- numbers or -- um -- data

or how -- many people by now are in the past. >> so i understand approximate way have data on the number of people with disabilities who had dintss in the street where there were injuries or death. >> when it come mobility meaning wheel chairs -- and things like that. right. would need to ask my colleague in the department of public health our lead and i can get become to you. i do know although the numbers are high there is relatively

sxhaul there is protected health information and to ensure that people are not identified. so -- we may or may not be able to provide that. i will connect with seth. and get back to you either way. >>you know get you the information or if we are not able begin what i said. >> thank you so much. and i'm openingly up the question to the staff. [inaudible]. >> i was going to say through the chair. to your question, one of the things hi patricia, noise to see you thank you for being here. one of the things we have done in the past because of -- restrictions we have around release of information for specific low that hospital sensitive data is aggregate

disability and older adult members. and in order to get to something to start i wanted say, the mayor of disability remains interested in helping to figure out how we can best present this information to be transparent to the public and still -- protect the information that needs protecting. so i want to offer that forward. and then -- to my other question is that and i'm so excited we have the grantees we have for this coming cycle. i wonder if there is -- any plan or opportunity and if there is not then you would be happy to help. but it would be great to convene the awardees who are working on disability in senior and i know there are old issues to learn from each other.

what they are doing and how everything can be worked together. i had the pleasure of being able to review some of the proposals and there is -- really excellent individual work the grantees will be doing but there is a fair aim they have in common. and so -- it would be that would being great to really convene sxefrn talk about disability in san francisco and safe streets. so i wondered if there were plan or opportunity for that. >> yes. that's a great idea nicole thank you for raising that and we can we are just getting the grantise going and finalizing the subcontracts. but let's be in touch. we would loch to do that jewel whoa leads the work is out through the end of the year may

be in early 2023 men we can work together and figure out when might be good timing. initial low and then periodic check in's that's a great idea i appreciate you bringing that up. thank you. >> it would be absolutely happy top help with that. thanks a lot patricia, so much. >> are there other staff members ask questions? >> okay. -- open up to public comment. >> a reminder to the public you can make public comment by raising your hundred and clicking the raised hand i conin the zoom platform or dialing star 9 if you are call nothing over the phone and you will be prompted when it is your turn. you can indicate you want to

comment by writing in the q and a box or texting your comment in the q & a box to have it read by the clerk. i do see one member of the public interested in commenting. >> you will hear my voice a lotteen fidon't get elected to the disability council. you know, i want to make a comment and i want to ask for manzel one up from the [inaudible] to what happensp what happened they put this walk and separate and took the separation away.

which that was originally designed to keep the cars separated with the island in between. they made a walk way on the i guess would be the westbound side in the east side is open to both only a one lane like a mark it is just a lane. yea a lane. separates the cars. so we had head ones and rec and park people guy from getting head's on when they first did temperature at visit you know and manzel they have the blinking lights like to manzel station. they did by when the kid goes to the trail they walk and they don't get killed.

i seep close calls than i need the blinking lights and the thick lines and put some also all over the mc clarin park. jerry garcia nothing not even cut outs and there is [inaudible] okay if you go to the big park i mean they call at this time group picnic your there is no line.

>> thank you. are there public comment at this time. >> i don't see other members of public indicating they want to make comment at this time. >> again, approximate trisha thank you for coming today and i hope this is first time first and come more to come [inaudible] and please let us know if you are have more updates [inaudible]. >> thank you for the

opportunity. >> thank you. >> now we are on item time councilmembers have opportunity to take a break. for minutes now it is 2:35. we will come back in minutes which is -- 2:50, i believe? again. we are taking a break. we are coming become at 2:50

members cochair for san francisco mayor's on disability today is september of 23. and welcome back to the break

now we are proceeding to item 8. which is the increasing [inaudible] rate and paratransit taxi fare. and presentation from for give me. -- um -- admissible mta. welcome [inaudible]. >> thank you. i'm forest barns i planner at the sfmta and taxi access mobility services division. and i'm here today to discuss will a proposed taxi meter

increase. and the ways that might be changing for -- all riders and the paratransit program. if i could have my colleague brady -- pull up the presentation this would be helpful. >> yea. >> one of the hosts give me screen sharing, please. one moment. no worries. go ahead i believe you are a host now. thank you y. thank you. all right. can you seat presentation? yea. thank you. go ahead, forest. so go to the next slide.

so, i want to talk about today why is it that the sfmta prosecute posing to raise the taxi meter rate. taxi meter rate has not been increased since 2011. and the rate increase goes to the driver and since 2011 inflation in the bay area has been 45% and it hen upon even higher for transportation and fuel and in particular. we locked at increasing fuel surcharge or other increases to ensure drivers can still ford to live on the wages they make from driving -- we decide today is time to raise the rates over all. so -- concern, had our taxi

meter rates are 3 opinion 50 for the first mile or flag drop. each fifth of a mile after is 557s and each minute of wit nothing traffic or delayed time is 55 cents. we are proposing to increase these rates to 4.15 to start a trip. 65 cents per fifth of a mile and minute of delayed time. that come out to an 18% next over all. which is still less than inflation. some of the characteristic over all for the median trip the first 5 months of the year. you see the vast majority. total component of the final fare the

customer pays is distance. next slide. so. as you see that changes are for short, medium and long trips. trips less than 2 miles the job is 44% of the total cost. and for long trip its is upon even higher percentage didn't. the reason why i'm showing the slide is because we have considered in other jurisdictions they only raised the flag determine or other fees and we unfairly short trips and for our paratransit debit card users in this program. >> i wanted give you a come parrison for a 5 mile trip in an finish that is 19 dollars now

and tell be 4 unsubsidized trip 24 dollars in the future which is higher than other cities and the u.s. but the same time so is the cost of living here. next slide. other jurisdictions in the past few months have raised fees and so trips surcharges considered boy staff. you see houston, seattle, las vegas and chicago all did a flat trip surcharge. next slide. while other cities raised the base drop and toronto and new york. and then other cities like mont roll and los angeles increased fares across the board. which based on the last time san francisco raised rates and based on various equity considerations

we decided it would be good to raise all of the fares at the same rate. forest this is nicole can you explain for the group what base drop is and a flag drop again, please. go back to the initial that one. and so everyone knows and i continue is taxi terminology. a flag drop is the initial fee that you pay to get into the cab just to start the trip at all. and then after that there is distance and time. you can other cities have different names for it. but you request consider flag

drop and base fee to be equal costs. >> thank you for reiterating this again. why yes and the other thing not jurisdictions are fuel surcharges. which -- we believed would become per minute innocent if not an over all change in the fare structure was appropriate. we also looked at time of day or how long trips are structured. and we are not supposing other fare ref structure but may consider this in the future. as of now, drivers are really hurting -- with the increase in costs and inflation over all that is why we are propose to raise 18% now and to look in the future and see what might be other changes to the fare structure at a future date.

so. here is an update graded cost impact for a typical unsubsidized trip. the median trip you have your current flag drop. distance and wait time and tip. that will cost the median 16 and 4 cents. proposed new cost are subsidized 80% by the sfmta.

and additional low -- the proposal we would increase the a lotment that could request. confidentialing the median paratransit taxi trip. the propose the increase is 15 upon 99 and the rider share after taking the subsidy is 3.20. this will impact paratransit taking taxis next slide. and additional low the sfmta would increase the allotment for

paratransit riders and the essential trip card program and min tain the ratio, which i mentioned before 80% of the trip was paid by the sfmta and 20 percent boy the rider. and so this is a quick over vow about 15% of all taxi trips were pid for out of the paratransit debit card program. in the last year. on to the next slide. so out reach and feedback we conducted we have gone to the sfmta citizens advisory council the taxi industry out reach meeting we of course talked to the drivers and taxi worker's alliance. meeting with the paratransit and [inaudible] and at the paratransit coordinating council the multimodal advisory committee and as you see here at

the mayor's disability council, we have reached out to the board of supervisors offices and checked and the -- feedback we got was from the groups. that the increase was reasonable and compared to inflation. and that -- taxi drivers are in need of a raise in 2011. next slide. so just for a quick note the approval process for this proposed change now we're getting feedback and taking comments which you e mill to us at sftaxi @sfmta.com must approved by the sfmta board. it says late fall meeting i would say now we are hoping a

board meeting of mid october. to take to the mt aboard approximate rate change 30 days after that board approval should the board have to staff resolution and -- that would start in mid november. so -- i wanted to make everyone aware of this proposal and take time to answer any questions that anyone might have. thank you. >> thank you. >> now opening up to councilmember questions. are there -- [inaudible] >> next for this presentation. it seems reasonable. right? i get it. i don't know if you can answer this but i noticed that --

transportation network companies like uber and lyft are starting to charge a premium if you reserve or order a car in advanced. do taxis do that? do you know if taxis do the same? >> for taxis there is there is an amount you pay based on the meter rate. generally. and the um -- the -- the calling dispatch ahead to arrange a roadway should not cost you additional fees. >> okay. should not, you don't know for sure. have you heard this from the companies it used to be the same amount now they are charging more for scheduled rides. >> i have not heard of that with

uber and lyft. but i certainly believe you that is happening. and per the taxi rate, it is based on that your pick up spot or in the app it is liability of the taxi arrived. and it should be based on what the meter rate these flag drop distance time fees we discussed. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you for your help and presentation and for the out reach have you done to the other community and stake holders. >> thank you. >> are there councilmembers with questions? at this time? >> this is shari. >> go ahead. >> i need to voice an opinion ofir don't feel had is reasonable. i feel this 18% is quite

burdensome for riders with disabilities. i don't know anybody who receives social security disability who received an 18% increase in their s sd i18% increase in that time frame. yea. inflation is -- off the charts right now. if you compare anything to inflation, you can say, that that is a reasonable increase. and rationalize it that way. um -- not everybody used paratransitit or has the taxi voucher available.

and using paratransit is not always an i can -- go into -- if you like -- because some of them are not pleasant. riding paratransit is not always -- a pleasant -- adventure. for that reason really cannot use paratransit for their purposes. so to say that you know, subsidizes the trip 80%, well in order to do that you node to endure a lot of -- you need a lot of patience and -- have

plenty of time to take a trip on paper transbecause you could take a 5 mile trip and going 20 miles or 30 miles out of your way in order to do that 5 mile trip. sfmta will fork out more monetch who will take the fall or why is that going to go. um -- i just feel like the disability community is going to be the one hurt the most. that is quite a hike -- and so i'm opposed to that.

thank you. >> thank you. are there councilmembers ask questions? at this time? i have a question taking to the staff. i see no cost [inaudible] paratransit is an issue and sometimes if someone paid -- 10 dollars and during added about -- 50 or so dollars in the

cost. please confirm that so now -- increase of pay, how you could see raising that after [inaudible] because of not in case of 18% less start from that concept. >> yea. so you are correct about the car like the 10 dollars to the 40 dollars. as we said. the way it would work is that the total amount of funds that you can put on the card and you sfmta will match will increase. you have been request a higher

allotment. and do you know how much is that? um -- i wish i had my colleague jonathan to answer that question. but it is like at least 18% more to make up for the increased cost. and -- so -- wield still maintain that 20% to 80% subsidy ratio and then -- increase the total amount that you put on your card with that. >> all right. and then the second question i have is how many percentage of people prior to answer paratransit are -- because i'm speaking on my experience. i use paratransit and i have a

taxi if i want to but i don't use it. as much because every time i call the taxi, the time i wanted. do you have a percentage of the people that use paratransit are utilizing that service and with that, like -- if someone is using that, are they plenty of raising the fare of paratransit? moving forward? >> okay. so we are a few points when one of we hear about the taxis.

not being available at the times people need that is unfortunate and -- part of that is that during earlier in covid, drivers stopped driving. that was an issue before. and in terms of how many paratransit users use taxis i don't have that off the top of my head available. we know it is a popular service and that previously last year it was up to 25% of all taxi trips were paid for with sfmta and debit card. so i can say like as a percentage of total taxi trip its is a popular and -- um --

this program does generally -- help with that with the -- with this paratransit routes. >> yea. i don't that number. >> i'm sorry to disappoint you can -- contradicting yourself that a lot of people use and a lot of this is popular. that a lot of people complain about not getting rides. so you could think to yourself but i'm wanting to point out that i would suggest looking

into improving the service of the taxi before quiet first. thank you very much and we are going to ask the staff if there is a questions for the staff. >> i hear you i guess i will say the program is very popular and people wish that it worked better. >> thank you. >> that's. and -- then additionally -- yea. we hear you about the issues of service and part of the request to increase the fare is that drivers are have not had a raise in 11 years and made less and so -- part of that is that they

are just not as many drivers and -- you might know there is labor shortages for drivers. throughout the industry and so like part of the increase is to ensure that drivers can make a living wage and they there are more of them. thank you for your comments. >> thank you. >> i'm going to comment on a portion. >> yea. i didn't want to step over you alex is that all? we are going to the staff. >> great. thank you, forest and for being here and to the council and to our presenters i recognize that our paratransit and taxi colleagues are not here but encouraged the council for the

questions that forest has not been able to provide with specific upon answers want to follow up with a letter or a request and i think that would be happy to get information. toward that ends. so i would encourage the council to follow up on this and i would say a couple of things. one, being that i hope that as you are presenting is the plan to present final findings of the public opinion in some format before as part of the presentation to the sfmta board or what is the plan from here? >> so, e routing began today to sends this to the sfmta board. and -- we have communicated what we heard in all of the other out

reach meetings. which general low was -- understanding i guess not cognitive people don't general low like increases. and i think people understood the drivers predicaments and increased costs and so over all, we heard general low they were favorable -- feedback on this topic and that it is reasonable and in fact, significantly less than had inflation has been and so -- we will be presenting this feedback to various supervisors. and then as this goes to the board we will present on when we heard here and other out reach meetings. >> that will be great. i think i don't think there is a doubt when that i heard that

people understand and empathize with the predicament of what it is like to be a driver and make a live nothing san francisco. but i think also it is good to also present when there is not unilateral agreement. and then also in the places where we have opportunity to make think about subelemental things that are we are hearing from the community like -- yes, and the availability of ramp for taxi is a challenge, which we know. and that sometimes paratransit routing can not to the advantage of the rider. which we know. so -- and really you know working toward being transparent around those things to make

sense in the areas as well. i do think that and -- i heard from wheel chair users i am myself, it is getting harder to get around with -- on demand transportation model because of few are options and i'm a proponent of public transit and all of that as well but sometimes you need to go somewhere door to door. and so -- really -- taking the time to present the different pregnancy we hear on this and see what else we can do. from the other feedback that arc rises. when we have an opportunity to do that it is a good thing for the community as a whole. so those are my thoughts and

whatever you can do to help with convening folks or -- the other issues related we do that. that's where i will stop and i see that deputy director cap listen is on. go ahead debbie. why thank you. so -- as i'm understanding what is going to be proposed to the mt aboard. paratransit riders. this change would not and -- reducing the total amount of paratransit subsidy they would be. there would be an increase in the total amount of paratransit for the vouchers so that this

change would not ends up reducing the amount that is available. but it would have the impact of increasing. the cost each ride. is that accurate? >> i say both of those are accurate and that is -- subsidy would go up and then rider portion of the cost of the trip would go up. >> right. it would not reduce the number of trips available but still would increase the out of pocket cost that have had have to be paid for using paratransit for each ride. i think in -- your presentation -- it obviously is a pretty compelling argument that there has been a very

negative impact on drivers -- of inpopulation. and that is is not fair and also -- endses up making driving taxis less attractive as a way for people to make a living and reduces the drivers that are available. i think, though. you know what struck me is -- that inflation had a major impact on people who are living on public benefits or under -- the very, very low income to start with -- inflation that had the same impact on people who

are living at probably on an among to mont basis. they are not able to afford things the end of the month. which is often what happens when people don't have enough to live on that is trough for many people with disabilities who are relying on public benefits and use paratransit. i'm wondering whether it seems like it has been a given that if there is an increase that increase would also the taxi users and wonder if there has been consideration. paratransit riders, taxi users and the riders would not have to

pay any increase out of pocket. by finding another fund of money or going to the board of supervisors or whatever. that has been discussed. that has with our accessibility team this is the proposal we can come up with the funding available but i'm certain that, that something that we can take a closer look at to see if that is possible to find another funding source. that has not been considered based on the funding available. of the

>> thank you. now -- i have a follow up question. on public comment. i just came up to mind that i know that it is so suddenly drivers and and seemed to -- to see that -- this [inaudible] serving many the service would meaning would have opportunities to to get more taxi to

contournaments and sad to see that -- that we needed to tell be good going forward. did they -- times you do this? more teleing people what can we then finish. of the drivers. and the initial -- >> thank you. i apologize i realize the time for councilmembers to make the comment passed. >> thank you. i wanted say something with regards to debbie's question about alternate funding

resources to consider. rather than impacting a population that already has difficulty such as mentioned have not received an increase now transportation is more important than ever. it has been said before, i support the drivers and in getting the necessary and i know you are propotion the 18% is up to inflation but next for drivers if we get more they come back i like the idea in the future if not late to consider alternate funding resources and seconded low if it does psdz and the increase is passed on to the programs to seniors and people with disabilities i would like to see as mentioned services improve. so if we have to pay for the

services. on the population that has the most hardship we should have access to the programs. i think as recommended before we need to continue to do out reach and w with you on these program catharsis pomp lawyer so people have access to what form of transportation. the program with taxis or paratransitor whatever. they need to be improved. i like that in looking at program and huwe improve service. thank you. >> now we are moving to >> one more alex i'm sorry. this is nicole. what is the best way i then and there is going in from the board soon what is the best way for the council to be aware of when it will go to the sfmta board

for i volt and members here that would want to participate monopoly this meeting or if they had follow up concerns they wanted to presents to the board. they would have you know time to do this if they choose. what is the best way for them to learn when this will happen? when the vote might happen. upon i'm sorry for interrupting you, alex. >> i'm looking the mid -- october meeting currently. when it is scheduled. >> and that was -- yea.

if we could get a closer date or -- you know move it. >> i'm sorry we are hoping for october 18th to be the meeting that we present to the mt aboard currently. and that's when we are planning on but -- we -- i guess in an e mail the council and let you know if we get bumped to a later meeting. but currently our date is october 18th and the way to if there is comments that folks think of later, they can e mail us at sftaxi @sfmta.com and ask to confirm we are still on the october 18th board meeting. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> now we are moving to public

comment. and -- okay i would like to reminds the public this you can indicate you would like to make public comment by clicking on the raised hand icon within the zoom platform if you are call nothing by phone you can dial star 9. to indicate you want to comment and you will be prompted when it is your turn. you can indicate by typing so in the q & a box or in the box to be read by the clerk. >> thank you. at this time i don't see any members in the public indicating than iment to make public comment. >> all right. >> thank you for that. again, thank you forest and

again i just want to -- revoice that this is a big change but think about what would impact. for the thank you and i hope to see you soon. >> thank you for you having us. >> thank you. >> now we are on moving along to item number 9 which is [inaudible] can we have [inaudible] at this time. >> yes. there -- is one female that was sent to the mayor's disability council and received on september 22nd.

it is from mike poedas. who wrote. i read with interest about the know bob plant award what about establishing an award for disabled peoples diseased but dedicated most of their adult life to improving access in san francisco and state wide. perhaps it can be a [inaudible] it is a shame that so few people disabled and dedicated a good part of their lives to improving access for san francisco but get forgotten. >> and again that is from mike hoodas. that is the only pose that came in the last month. >> thank you. >> now we are moving to the general public comment.

we have any general public comment at this time? >> as a reminder raise your hand by click on the raised hand aircraft conor dial star 9 you can time it in the q & a box to be read by the clerk or indicate you want to make public comment. there is one member of the public interested in making comment at this time. >> gabriela you are permitted unmou >> good afternoon i'm gabriela and i am the community program specialist two with the state council on developmental disabilities. and just a reminder to everybody

that the state council health connect people to needed services and support. strife to improve services and support. and help people with intellectual and developal disabilities be a part of their community. i will share my contact in the q & a in case the council would like to share that with any community partners or support groups that may be interested in any of our services or training. that we can support the community with. will also we do have an advisory committee for the bay area. and -- we will be meeting on wednesday september 28th 6:30-9 p.m. i can put this link in the q & a if anybody would like to share

it. that will be via zoom. can you finds that agenda and zoom link on our website. scdd. co. gov and lastly one more thing i would like to share that we do support community groups and service providers and securing ppe for people with disabilities, families and their dsp and e mail us if you know of a group that could use help securing ppe. feel free to send an e mail to the bay area office and that you e mail is bay area @scdd. ca. gov. and this is all. thank you. >> thank you for your comment and that information.

thank you. >> now are there council numbers comments on [inaudible]. all right. we are moving along to the last item and that is adjournment. if there is objection we'll adjourn the meeting but before that i just want to say thank you for -- councilmembers and

mayor of disability staff and interpreters and the community and -- public comment i want to say thank you to all for coming and going to adjourn the meeting. and the next meeting will be october 21 at 1-4. we will be on zoom. thank you and see you guys next month. >> thank you, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you alex. >> thank you. >> everybody have a nice weekend.

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>> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as

feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking

features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender

hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives.

>> still a lot of people wonder since the trees have a lot of issues, why did we plant them in the first place? >> trees are widely planted in san francisco. with good reason. they are workhorses when it comes to urban forestry. we have begun to see our ficustrees are too big and dangerous in san francisco. we have a lot of tree failures with this species in particular. this is a perfect example of the

challenges with the structure of the ficustrees. you can see four very large stems that are all coming from the same main truck. you can see the two branches attached to one another at a really sharp angle. in between you can't it is a lot of strong wood. they are attached so sharply together. this is a much weaker union of a branch than if you had a wide angel. this is what it looks like after the fi c.u. resolution s limb l. >> we see decline. you can see the patches where there aren't any leaves at all. that is a sign the tree is in decline. the other big challenge is the root system of the tree are

aggressive and can impact nearby utilities, and we can fix the sidewalk around the tree in many cases. we don't want to cuts the roots too severely because we can destabilize the tree. >> in a city like san francisco our walks are not that wide. we have had to clear the branches away from the properties. most of the canopy is on the street side and that is heavyweight on those branches out over the street. that can be a factor in tree limb failures. a lot of people wonder since these trees have a lot of issues. why did we plant them in the first place? they provided the city with benefits for decades. they are big and provide storage for carbon which is important to fight climate change and they provide shade and really i think

many people think they are a beautiful asset. >> when we identify trees like this for removal and people protest our decision, we really understand where they are coming from. i got into this job because i love trees. it just breaks my heart to cut down trees, particularly if they are healthy and the issue is a structural flaw. i have also seen first hand what happens when we have failures. we have had a couple of injuries due to tree failures. that is something we can't live with either. it is a challenging situation. we hate to lose mature trees, but public safety has to always >> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san francisco.

south vanness runs from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness, seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and fresno in his honor. in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo. in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989

earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission. it will display the history of the city. van ness avenue. women's networ sustainable future . n's networ >> san francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement

to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street

first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to

revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. >> there's a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more

engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv.org [♪♪♪] >> i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldn't just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [♪♪♪] >> i would say i am a multidimensional artist. i came out of painting, but have

also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. i always have an interest in public art. i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. you shouldn't just be something in museums. i love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. public art is art with a job to do. it is a place where the architecture meets the public. where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. we commission culture, murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. it is not just downtown, or the big sculptures you see, we are in the neighborhood. those are some of the most

beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and recreation centers a sense of uniqueness, and being specific to that neighborhood. colette test on a number of those projects for its. one of my favorites is the oceanview library, as well as several parks, and the steps. >> mosaics are created with tile that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. you need to use a tool, nippers, as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can get them to fit incorrectly. i glued them to mash, and then

they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the mash with the tiles attached to it, and they stick it to the wall, and then they groped it afterwards. [♪♪♪] >> we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very just barely pictorial, and to have a picture broken up like that, we were not sure if it would visually work. so we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was, and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [♪♪♪] >> my theme was chinese heights because i find them very

beautiful. and also because mosaic is such a heavy, dens, static medium, and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its, and i work with the theme of water a lot, with wind, with clouds, just because i like movements and lightness, so i liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard material. so one side is a dragon kite, and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [♪♪♪] >> there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me.

during the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school student. there was a day where i was on the way to take them to school, and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that he made to. it is a little bird. the relationship with a work of art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing, and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place. [♪♪♪]

>> launch upon clean air snernt bay view hunter's point. i want to start with the chair of the board of directors of the air quality management district. john bauder. i want to welcome him up he is also the mayor of emrealville. he has been supportive of this event and of this launch and so chair, i will hand it to you. [applause]. good morning. thanks for joining us today for this event to celebrate the launch the first clean air center in california in san francisco. yes. clean air center providing public accessible buildings to resident as a refuge from wildfire smoke. climate change caused increase in frequency of wild fires which resulted in significant impacts

to the air quality. many residents lack access to clean air in their homes during the smoke events which is a hazzard to health. they will be in historically under served communities the most vulnerable to impacts so that everyone has access it clean air. we are froud have worked with buffy wiks. experience the 836 to promote for wild fires and impacts they cause. governor newsome fined and approved 5 million dollars toward the program, 3 million allocated to serve the 9 county region of the bay. in partnership the 3 million dollars in funding provided by the california air resource board will upgrade the event lagz system. purs that charge airfillmenters like this guy here.

replacement fitters in smoke events and replace h vac filters with helpa or higher for public buildings. 9 counties asked to coordinate with the cities and community based organizations to help identify the cites for clean air centers deployed. the air district asked for input on the potential locations for the cites. >> we looked to the san francisco neighborhood efforts to establish cooling centers as a model to work with community on the citing of clean air center in san francisco. children are the met vulnerable to the health impacts of wildfire smoke. we encourage schools to help protect students and children. lean air centers in schools issue libraries, community, senior and rec centers. veteran facilities.

community colleges and wildfire evacuation centers. we hope to have more than 300 clean air centers across the 9 area bay area alone. with increasing impacts of climate change on air quality, these clean air centers will be a vietsdz tool to protect health from wildfire smoke. i would like to introduce davina the vice chair of our board and also a board member of the california air resource board and from bellmont, join mow in welcoming her. >> good morning. the california air resource board. and it is the capacity i will speak to you today i really thrilled be here with all of you celebrating the opening we can't say enough of not only the very first clean air center in the

bay area. for vulnerable population program. we are proud to lead the program partner with air districts including bay area qmd. now in addition to announcing the opening of the facility we are also unwill veiling the new clean air center logo you see here. it was developed by staff to help the public easily identify clean air centers. just imagine this pilot program will fund a network of clean arab centers and vulnerable communities across the state. and this loco is ment to provide a visual identity. that will make it easier for people to find a safe place during wildfire smoke events.

this is an exciting program we are taking action to help people breathe easier. and might i add these are communities that bear disproportional and unfair burdens with air pollution impact. we remember in 20202 years ago this month. when a thick layer of wildfire smoke blankets the bay area upon turning the sky orange. know thanksgiving can occur again we are fortifying our public spaces to protect public health. now this pilot will be expanded in the years ahead. and california is committed to continuing to fight climate change. and address increaseingly intense wildfires for years to come. we are working hard along side state, federal and local

partners to future proof california. and in addition to investing enforced management and wildfire resilience it is vital we prepare in any way for smoke events. this is not a future problem this it is today's reality. and response our staff is again working hard to provide tools to help people protect themselves from wildfire smoke. cars, smoke ready california campaign is publicly available social media and web campaign. includes sharable graphics in different language that have actionable steps people can take to protect themselves during a smoke episode in an easy visual format. now anyone in california can get wildfire alerts and smoke forecasts right on their phone.

thanks to an upgrade to carbs california smoke spotter mobile app. >> new features personalized alert. wildfire incident information and air quality information from purple air sense ors. to provide users with near real time smoke conscience. these tools are all part of efforts by carband the governary office to memory and protect california from the impacts of wildfire smoke. we are proud to stand along side the bay area, air quality management district. san francisco and the bay view hunter's point community to allowance the lodge of the vital program and the addition of another tool to help protect those who need it most. during the wildfire season. we like to thank member buffy

wiks for her leadership and all those who med this a reality today. congratulations j. let us continue to do rable things together. our environment and future generations require this of us. >> i would like to invite my colleague and friend tyrone of the san francisco department of the environment. am i'm delighted be here today's upon event is grounded on 3 principles. one climate change is real. 2. the affects of climate change are happening right now within our communities especially within communities that are most vulnerable. and 3 we must take action on climate change both in mitigating or affect to dampen

the affects and to prepare our communities to make sure we are resilient in the face of climate change when it come to air quality and extreme heat. high role here is to represent mayor breed. and many city diameters involved in this effort in san francisco. starts at the top with our mayor. and starts with our board of supervisors you will hear from next with the district 10 supervisor. board member and president of the board walton. it started with the many city diameters involve friday d. emergency management. libraries as well as our many community partners. this is many years in the making involved many people at the table. upon we are joined by our deputy direct from the libraries we are joined by the city librarian. both will present us on a tour

later o. i will say something with the librarian. libraries are a center of knowledge for our community. a place of res spit where teem people learn and grow. through the nobodying us on making them a beacon of libraries throughout the nation, these accomplices are a center of safety for our communityip want to thank the city librarian for his role in doing that this does not happen without communities. this has to be community driven and lead. in the bay view the department is leading this effort with the supervisor's office through the bay view program. we have a lot of partners there involved at the table. parker from the y and many others who you will hear from

later on. but this center is not vehicleful unless you have community support. you have community buy in because these centers are center this is become not utilized without them at the table. with that, i want to thank everyone for gather here and everyone that put in the hard work in today's announcement. i will pass it on to fellow board member. you will -- supervisor district 10 as well as president of the board of supervisors walton. [applause]. du want to say something. >> good morning issue everybody. >> good morning. >> welcome to bay view hunter's point where the sun is always shining and amazing for community to come together. i want to start off one by not

upon only thanking the california air resource board and the bay area quality management and the community representatives here we do work to make sure that we have clean air in our community. so i want to thank bay view advocates and the marie harrison foundation and danielle with the neighborhood empowerment network and the communities members that are present. like the director said earlier. if you remembered twenty 18 i remember like it was yesterday we had that orange haze in our skies. we had to shut down schools. people could not go to work the air quality was that horrible and most vulnerable suffered more than others. having a place where people can go to breathe clean air in community is extremely vital and important. we are excited have the first

clean air center in california here in our community in bay view hunter's point. it is important that we demonstrate the commitment to our communities that have been isolated disenfranchised and most vulnerable to the negative impacts of air quality this . is a demonstration of folks coming and care to make sure we take that step to get this done. on national voter registration day i appreciate everyone. i want to thank our director, director lam berg and working with the communities and with leadership to allow for spaces like this to happen in our libraries. thank you all so much i hope you have a beautiful day it is national voter registration day. do everything you can to give people to register and exercise their rights. thank you very much. >> [applause].

>> i want to thank all of our speakers so far especially the air district board of directors who shown out in numbers. you see the support this we get at the air district and i'm grateful for it. i want to especially thank supervisor walton, as you know he is on our board of directors. and president of board of supervisors. and represent from sdrakt 10 and he always ensures his constituents are at the table watch that i want to introduce his conscientist wentful arian harrison born and raise in the bay rowel hunter's point. a community organizer the utd reach coordinator at united council and also in the last couple of years established a

foundation in her mother's name. she was on the environmental just move inspect bay view hunters point, san francisco and a national leader temperature is a delight to know there is a foundation in her name and so let he introduce arian the found and executive director. >> i'm arian harrison i'm the founder of the community foundation for social and environmental justice. can we live. org. [inaudible] i'm not polished but i do say hai mean and mean what i say. i'm very glad to see this program getting started. i would like to see it dub indicated in district 10 because it is the biggest districts in

san francisco. we have pollution and chemical waste and things that are creating body burdens for residents. to have the the places put in place, it is good. we will get it together. y'all with me. yea. i would like myself to see this program duplicateed go in not just into the space but place like united council and our schools. because those are where the vulnerable citizens the kids and the senior center. those are places that are null nearable that hold the most people and people are not guaranteed to make it here to the safe space we want to make sure our community is protected. i wanted to sends this message. we gotta do everything we possibly can guard the health of our residents i'm the founder of

marie foundation inc. a shout out to walton, really, really you know listening to the community. and putting forth the efforts to make sure we'll have solutions to some of the issues we have been in san francisco. and san francisco because it is in the just bay view residence denials having the issue. this is in the a bay view hunter's point issue. i think we have been able to dismiss the problems happening to too easily it is the people over there. the problems we are having here in our district are things that will affect all of san francisco. so it is in the just the bay view resident issue it is a san francisco issue. we are do it first city and profess to be the leaders in the u.s. so we have to move forward and push forward in that effort to actually be when we say we are. andir hope you were joining mow

on this mission to have clean air, water and land. i will leave you this message i'm trying to do is live. >> thank you. so, naconcludes this speaking part. of the press conference.

>> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond

for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation

in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help

at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of

>> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. >> one of the main drivers is a one stopper mitt center for -- permit center. >> special events. we are a one stop shop for those three things. >> this has many different uses

throughout if years. >> in 1940s it was coca-cola and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. the permit center is little working closely with the digital services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. >> the digital services team was created in 2017. it is 2.5 years. our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. >> one of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have

heard that from many people we interviewed. our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit.

you have to speak to different departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they canshay what they are here to. it helps them workout which cue they neat to be in. if they rant to run anker rapid she can do that. we say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your

appointment. >> we want it all-in-one location across the many departments involved. it is clear where customers go to play. >> on june 5, 2019 the ceremony was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. six months later construction is complete. >> we will be moving next summer. >> the flu building -- the new building will be building. it was designed with light in mind. employees will appreciate these amenities. >> solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good

view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling in forms. they will have good conversations with our staff.

september 14let hybrid meeting of the san francisco board of appeals president swig will be presides joined by vice president lose em, commissioner lemberg and commissionering trasvina and deputy city attorney john gibner brad russell join us remote for a portion of the meeting. alec and i'm julie rosenberg the board's executive director. we beoi