>> francisco mayor's disability council (mdc) meeting this afternoon at 1:00 pm., friday, march 17, 2023.)

>> hello the san francisco mayor's disability council (mdc) meeting this afternoon at 1:00 pm., friday, march 17, 2023.)

>> supervising the centering the interpreter ready to begin go ahead for for the today's

friday, march 17, 2023. please initial. >> sure. >> so for roll call we have co-chair madrid here. >> co-chair sassouni here councilmember albers. >> councilmember senhaux present. >> councilmember smolinski is absent. >> councilmember lewis woods is absent. >> and then have councilmember tandon-verma i believe is also

absent. >> um, participating remotely today? >> no? >> okay. >> go ahead. >> thank you. >> you're next alex (unintelligible). >> all right. so item. >> 1. welcome and roll call. and and item 2. >> 2. action item: reading and approval of the agenda. approval of the agenda. approval of the agenda. access to public meetings, post emergency order presented by sophie hayward, legislative and

public affairs director, office of the city administrator then take a 15 minute break and four general public comment and >> 5. information item: co-chair report and. >> 6. information item: report from the mayor's office on disability. accessible passage on san francisco sidewalks. presented by lauren bell, sam dodge and robert smuts, department of emergency management. >> 8. information item: correspondence. 9 general public comment >> 10. information item: council member comments and announcements. >> 11. action item: adjournment. >> thank you and project

>> thank you and project >> thank you and project >> thank you and project >> thank you and project access to public meetings, post emergency order presented by sophie hayward, legislative and public affairs director, office of the city administrator. okay. >> the minutes. >> hello, everyone i'm going to say typically we have people in in-person and give a welcome we're located in city hall room 400, city hall you're welcome to join the members of the committee and it is hybrid today. >> and i was saying to the

public that there is - front of the of you can always make a comment in-person i forgot to put it down. and again, for project number 3, 0 remote access for the public meetings post emergency order by sophie hayward, legislative and public affairs director, office of the city administrator. and from up to (unintelligible). >> thank you very much. i want to make sure that people will be

able to see my slide if we don't know how to get them into the screen. >> perfect. [off mic.] >> perfect. >> i'm not as interesting as is slide. thank you very much. co-chair madrid i'm sophie hayward, legislative and public affairs director, office of the city administrator. and one second control room please um, are you able to put the slides on the screen? >> there they are. >> okay. go ahead >> thank you very much. my name is sophie hayward, legislative and public affairs director, office of the city administrator.. thank you very much for inviting me to join you today, i'm here to speak about the guidelines and the requirements recommended to the public hearings now that the mayor's disability council relate to covid 19 has sunset. and in starting give you a road

map of what i'm be presenting today and you'll see all the slides on the screen. next slide, please. or until i - >> okay. >> first, i'll go over quickly background information how we get here. and i will touch briefly on the - that we have to follow when it comes to conducting public hearings and touch on guidance issues been by the mayor and including the minimum baseline requirement that is for the technology and note that the (microphone feedback) applies to all of you commissioners and members of policy body and specific guidance provided to members of the public how to participate in the meetings remotely and finally check in to let you, you know, and when i finish for this

large overview united kingdom to director nicole bohn and she'll provide that for the mayor's disability council. >> so as promised by way of background on this slide a connection for the guidelines we issued. and this information is, of course - i want to start. >> so first, the mayors emergency order related to covid 19 expired the special rules at the start of covid 19 to allow the remote programmers by everyone in public hearings will no longer be in effect and the rules that govern the public hearing are made at the state and federal and local level and as march 1st approached the mayor and the city administrator

saw this misinformation how to go about the rules during covid 19 and so the guidance here was provided essentially this stopgap if hopes to have consistent practices across the bodies as a little bit of irony over one point or hundred and thirty commissioners and board of supervisors and chief executive officer the consistency is for the guidance e gielgz is on two groups first, the body and then on members of the public who wish to make public comment before a commission report. and again, i mentioned those but want to make sure have i a slide that covered them. >> what are the roles that govern us? say is the fell americans with disabilities act and the brown act and the

ordinance and the board of supervisors impacts robert's rules of order and robert's rules of order enacted by the supervisors and the rules by the city administrator. so what the base line or three slides i'll go deeper into the combines that the mayor and city administrator put out that start, of course, with the base line so officially as of march 1st, the barging is in-person and however the guidance clarifies that all meetings should be established as hybrid to in-person and remote programmers can be supported. >> hybrid meetings require

certain technology and the ald. murphy screens and all of you saw that action before the meeting started we can confirm the technology is support the hybrid meeting another city hall is secured throughout all the public meeting rooms. >> and then getting more to the nuts and bolts i mentioned the giemgz from our office and is the 345irz office is two distinction groups for commissioners how you operator and the public by asphalt the commissioners must participate in-person and this is pursuant to the brown act and at sunshine ordinance of san francisco there are certainly exceptions and commissioners may request to participate remotely pursuant to the americans with disabilities act and the consideration is a

reasonable accommodations and specific other except codified for then public comment. >> as has been the case continues to be case co-chair madrid noted meetings must allow for public hearings and further authority not required by law the guidance from the mayor's and the city administrator recommendations anyone regardless of attending in-person to participate remotely and make public comment. and in the acknowledge the commissioners are volunteering their time and our officers recommendations the

total amount of public comment is time limited unless a request for the time and it should be equally applied across the agenda. okay. that was a little bit of a deeper dive into the issues by the mayor and city administrator and make sure we connected in as of march 16th over two weeks in the new world order of public hearings how it is coming o going the board of supervisors passed a rule that allows remote public comment by any member of the public and the robert's rules of order didn't include a time limit an interim rule needs to pass as more permanent rule by april 15th and the reality while the guns guidance is out they're not

binding and back in the day the commission and boards are forging their own way and making their on rules i want to note several federal, state, and local rolls that expand this for commissioners and board members and those exceptions are limited and maybe expanded through the legislation and that's my overview of the guidance that was put out and director nicole bohn and i'm available for questions. after the presentation. >> i need to make sure that the mic is working and there we go.

>> this is director nicole bohn from the other side of the for all. >> today and talk about more about what the mayor's disability council has been working on related to hybrid meetings and we followed generally accessibility guidance and commission and public both sides that talk about how to maintain by best practices of these meetings in a hybrid format i would like to call out to include some of the things that we have mower to cover specific to communication expects for people who are deaf and hard of hearing and finding did h he bred format is a work

in progress those are the best practices and anticipate to continue to evolve we receive more feedback how hybrid meetings are going and in self will be helpful for us in advancing and including our recommendations and guidance for that. >> so we go on over our we consider the specifics helping our colleagues understand that captioning is for sign language and a way for what sign language says and one that was requested getting sign language whenever possible and needs to be a way for hybrid resolution and sign language interpretation this is one of the various as we been

working with the public body board secretary and representatives and made good progress i think in helping our colleagues understand um, some of the basics of what sign language is an effective communication is all about and in addition, we make sure that they understand the sign language interpretation is available in spanish and chinese and provides realtime captioning at meeting and as we see before us in the room and now. and again, we should be always providing it by request but when we know in advance that the sign language is needed always better to have that sign language interpretation service come

therefore. >> and so i'm going to wait for one anyone o moment we have interpreters in the room. >> all right. sign language interpreters can be present in the meeting room and will be visible on the screen and when the meeting is broadcast. >> sign language be interpreters can be added via remote podium and one of our sign language troerpts is working the remote platform and have two troerpts in the room. >> and the remote spot is visible to deaf participates can join the video platform or be present in the room on camera in the room and um, and then we can will be voiceing available for

the public. >> and then also, we recommended folks that deaf constituents may not have a device to delay the video have phone access and then in those cases the deaf community knows that the commenter will first identify themselves and so those are just some of the basis we have been able do go over with the board secretary and the books helping to run the meetings related to the communication access we also reminded them of other things in maintaining wheelchair characterize access and the devices and any other accommodations requests that

indeed will be made available in advance of the meeting. and one of the things we also done is publish this on the website and have this part of my director's report i'll talk about that and know you can request and receive the guidance we are provided available on our website. at sfgovtv/mod under the section and see o array of guidance provided. >> and that concludes my presentation. but 19 any and i are available to answer any questions. thanks. >> thank you for the

introduction i'm going with councilmembers questions and discuss with the public on san francisco and have - >> thank you sophie. >> thank you testing the microphones. >> now everyone can hear me sophie thank you for the presentation. >> and i appreciate you going over the would guidelines and talking about and also mod talking about the public accommodations and how mod is working together because more importantly full inclusion and appreciate that for the hybrid meetings address technology for the period of inclusion so hasn't the timeframe response in getting back to someone when they put in a request this is a

request. >> this is sophie sophie hayward, legislative and public affairs director, office of the city administrator. i believe that the guidance calls for a request from the accommodation to be made - okay. >> i'm going to defer to nicole she'll have that right (laughter). >> so, thank you. >> north bay negotiating /* no problem talk about the accommodation so just to be clear, as of 0 right now what we that is (clearing throat) that um, the public we made a recommendation that all public both sides have a hybrid option. and that there is a couple of ways you can um, make the meetings assessable one way to do what we've done for this

meeting publish the link as part of this and in the public choose not to have feedback we ask that the public body members who want to make remarks request no later on one hour before the meeting and 33 in order to do this need a sign language interpreter remotely we need more the most public comment a minimum of four hours and language services we have available to us in the city. if you need an in-person interpreter or any other accommodation not related to more public comment then we ask that the folks for the public body secretary at least 48

business hours before. thank you, nicole. >> that makes this i mean (unintelligible). >> alex there we go okay. thank you sophie for you presentation and nicole. i just want to make a comment um, being a councilmember um, and a disability which is - city here at the podium table and using a screen as my interface to the meetings have already worked out accommodations for today but there are command on this screen

for me to or anyone here in the council to mute or unmute raise hand or lower hand i don't know what it is but i don't have assess for the command for a blind person i don't know if i feel like this city didn't put thought into um, this as accessibility for blind people so i am happy we worked out an accommodation for you today but feel like this system here so not accessible for all. thank you. >> . okay. >> microphone? microphone, mic

check. >> great. >> okay. i want to say thank you, for you presentation and i wanted to say and recommend um, this is the first time for disabilities but maybe as opposed to at the back. and - [off mic.] >> the first few people that are asked are should be, you know, in those have the special needs i hope that make sense for the meeting

[off mic.] >> pull the microphone up. >> the tech issue. >> okay. >> okay. >> sorry ryan okay. okay. the interpreter line i want to say. thank you very much for the presentation. and my point has to do with with ada patrolling for the meetings and the proposal is that they ask for example, if a deaf person that is approaching, you know, have a link line of people and, you know, the interpreters have requirements for charges so if we could do i feel um, before we

add to the policy i'm hoping this makes sense that people are deaf or have disabilities go to the front of the line. >> or any person would have disabilities can't sit for a long period of time can't sit all day have the option. >> mayor i'm going to respond to that if that's okay. >> thank you. >> thank you, thank you for your comments and i want to acknowledge and suggests for the follow-up if you choose to at the council towards our point we recommended as part of the our guidance that people o people with disabilities ar go first, we don't know what the public

commenter remote commenters will be taken. so that is something to consider we have recommended that we really welcome and courage any feedback if you want to look at the guidance we published on line have feedback and let us know we can make that clearer. for everyone and then to the point of general room accessibility i think that is something that um, the council can take on as a recommendation in terms of improvement. we do have policies in place that is accessible for experiments if an offer site one of the things we can do respond to that and work

towards responding and encourage us to think about that as something we want to work on and as part of the our working together. >> good. >> i have before i go to the staff, i have a question to sophie my question is can you - this public hybrid public bringing on the of us it is - somehow that people with quote/unquote implications need

to stay on zoom can be specifically new public making - and we're in the san francisco city can you educate as of how that applies to one hundred plus commissioners - sorry. >> sure sophie hayward, legislative and public affairs director, office of the city administrator. i think one thing to remember is that the guidance addresses two different be stakeholders one are the people

participating in the meeting as commissioners or as policy body members and opportunities to join the meeting remotely. more restricted if you are a commissioner or a member of policy body. need to either have disability and request accommodation or several other limited categories to allow the commission from the dias via and exculpatory more ways for the public to make comments and fewer legal restrictions at this time this is confusion- and to be participate remotely for the members of the body and there are some pending at the local

level. does that help to differentiate the two? >> yeah. and so can you - i should ask the second question can you - has to do with with accessibility when it comes to public participation. for councilmembers i noticed that some members the public members may need help in public meetings. and does i know that

(unintelligible) has recommended on that the institutional at some kind of modifications when it comes to implementing this policy going forward? i - i know that is only two weeks with this new mandate. >> we have very much looking at seeing how each one of the public school meetings procedures in real life and adjust the guidance. after some period of time a few months to sort out what works but not working and getting feedback from you and other commissioners. as well as from the board of supervisors.

>> thank you. >> now i'm going to chime in to discuss if any questions from the staff? >> at this time? nope okay. i'm going to - we're going to the public comment now. and i'm going to ask public comment in the room first and then i'm going to ask if there is any public comment on zoom. >> are there any public comment in the room at this time and one second we have read have a script want to read let's read the script. >> public comment only on that

participate item and- >> (multiple voices). >> at this time we welcome the public participation. >> there we go on this item specifically. and then will be two other opportunities for general public comment during the meeting each comment is limited to two minutes and comments will be permitted for a time and people who are comfortable to identify themselves with a people with disabilities and after this comment concludes the period of

time will be for people with disabilities and two additional minutes per commenter if you're interested in right now and like to make a comment come on to the podium and we'll allow you to speak. >> didn't look like anyone in-person or like to make my comments at this time. [off mic.] >> sure so, yeah [off mic.] >> okay. >> if you want to make a public comment remotely join the

your turn. you may also use the q&a feature in webex webinar to make a comment. it is located on the top part of the video after touching the screen. >> if you are using a desktop or laptop computer, “raise hand” and q&a icons are located at the bottom of the video screen. >> if you join by phone, dial *3 to indicate you would like to make a comment. the clerk will prompt you when it's your turn. [off mic.] >> all right. so two people like to make remote public comment the thursday commenter in the queue. >> unmute the first caller and i'm going to turn it over to the control room at this time. >> excuse me - i don't mean to

interrupt i know that is a new commissions i understand the captioning on the screen is to the reviewed but none on our panel. >> i want to make sure sorry about that the interpretation. >> control room go ahead with the public comment. thank you. >> and um, i'm challenged and i do participate in most of meetings. um, we need to establish a pop up consent for the administrator and um, the part point of contact from the challenged individuals who like to participate in a meeting.

don't captions to be sent to the state. right now our challenged persons is difficult for the individual to - in the commissions meeting right now is very difficult for many of the challenged to participate in the many commission meetings. and difficult to participate in cement that the board of supervisors meets. when it comes

to the challenged individuals for the democracy. >> so on the website actually - where we can contact them without options to sacramento and have guidance in the (unintelligible) we need good guidance from the state of california. and over the course need to uplift the county of san francisco that has not looked at this issue in a humane manner. thank you very much. >> thank you thank you for your comments and next callers? >> and hello this is jessica

with the senior 12kr5ik9 action i. >> yeah. three minutes. >> okay. >> wonderful. >> so i wanted to thank sophie hayward, legislative and public affairs director, office of the city administrator. and the city administrators officers for the work along with jessica and the members of the committee and the folks with the technology really appreciate all the time and attention you put into this issue. so senior and sdashth action working to ask for remote comment stay to open and assessable to all we have working hard as the board of supervisors to make sure we have a separate process for people with disabilities as a reasonable accommodation the big thing i think everyone understands that disabled people i myself are included tired of having a separate board meeting

and pathway that is accommodations and not necessary to separate us over here and everyone else over there we should be looking at universal design and what works for everyone we have three right we have that right now with public comment and available. as far as the requirement for people to contacted ahead of time not everyone identifies with that sharing that pubically of not public people to think of themselves that way and arena that not everyone about do that and the department of health is an example of where to go forward and they're meeting last week those this pop up for the first time they explained that they had a two tiered system two

people on one line and people with disabilities on the other like or line makes people feel different than they said okay. we'll have the identification i think not necessarily the plane can be worked but. >> example of the problems with that system. >> that shouldn't be happening and remember that non-disabled people having algae's (bell ringing) and people with 0 domestic violence and parents with children so all be better off keep this open and available for everyone and (coughing) we have issues with als termination and not fair to require to be to center interpreters we make sure the interpreters are available at

major meeting (bell ringing) >> the feedback is not a reason to not have this thank you for your comments. >> and anyone else for public comment at this time? >> no other members of the public that would like to make a remote comment at this time. >> okay. i think. thank you very much for coming in and i hope this is a start of a conversation. give us some updates hybrid and again, thank you and thank yo - role for participating. >> i did some we'll take a 15

minute break and go to um, [off mic.] >> then go do general public comment and after have 15 minute

break (short break) ( in recess). >> we're back from the break

and demolished and san francisco really - today's friday, march 17, 2023. and the board will proceed want to acknowledge with us via web x and public

public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council which are not on today's meeting agenda. each member of the public determines that, in the interest of time, comments may be limited to a shorter time when there are a large number of public comments. items, your opportunity to address the council will be afforded at the conclusion of each discussion item, before council discussion begins. forbids the council from taking action or discussing any items not appearing on the posted agenda, including those missed at public comment.

council, please provide your contact information by email message to mdc@sfgov.org with the subject “mdc comment reply request,” or call 415-554-6789. at this time we'll be starting with in-person public comment and you can come up to the platform if you like to speak if public comment we can fill out a public comment card at any time [off mic.] >> one second thanks for working out the kings there are ways to response from the council to our public comment and if you're in the room we recommend if you can fill out a public comment card or feel free

to send an e-mail to sfgovtv i like a response to your comment and with that, we will go with the people that are lined up and folks who filled out the public comment cards please proceed. >> if members of the public would like to speak your microphones are unmute. >> my name is allen jones i've never be able to walk i been in my wheelchair for three years and noticed an issue to bring an wheelchair that i think would greatly help electrical wheelchair users in san francisco. last november i had a meeting with um, mod director

director nicole bohn and discussed public electrical wheelchair charging stations. i learned that there were some in other cities. and san francisco being what it say, i think san francisco should take the lead which we're talking about ev charging stations for cars and um, not for - those of us who use electrical wheelchairs and billions of dollars that the biden i see this is a reasonable accommodation for those of us in wheelchairs. the problems i had when i first got mine have been corrected by expensive batteries

i now use i don't have this problem for myself i've been all over the city i know there are some who like me have sweated going home on a low battery and this can be alleviated i know that san francisco board of supervisors is willing to jump on board with that reasonable accommodation. i have sent the council and letter via e-mail stating my position on this. and it requested by the directors of the mayor's disability council that a member of this council put for the resolution and i have not heard back this has

been two weeks since i sent my letter he predator you answer my letter that has been set back and let me know your feelings on this and this is something that you can get behind. i appreciate all that you do for those of us who have various disabilities but i heard this request i'm making now, was made two years ago. >> thank you. >> are public or any comments at this time? >> loosens another member of the public coming up and the microphone is unmuted begin whenever you're ready and hello, everyone i'm martinez and i'm a san francisco rec and park interim and wanted to quickly introduce myself and the project

i'm working on that is the event access for school kids focuses on creating - that would be like to host an event in san francisco and in order to make sure the event is assessable to people with disabilities. this is important because anyone who would like to go to an event should be able to go to and this is filled with resources and to use instructions and works this project was started and published by interim on the sfgovtv website and to revise this page as well as in order to make sure that all the information and resources are update. and additionally clarify the public permit process and further develop access plan requirement and guidelines. i love to be able to come back and

present to you the final result of this project if possible. thank you. >> thank you for your comments yes. >> councilmember albers. >> are there public comment at this time? >> yes. we do. >> good afternoon planning i'm a san francisco of the environment i'm the affairs coordinator for the department i worked in policy - for policy to be well-represented we have - sorry feedback. >> we have (coughing) updating policy we want to incorporate with the

disabilities community feedback. so we're going looking for the mayor - we have is disabilities and ada focused group many march 24th of from 2 to 2:30 and a interpretation will be provided and we have additional information that is becoming available to you shortly. and also, we the other san francisco group is in early april. how can you find this commission? shortly and in deed encourage you to register and make sure we have enough people to comment and make sure you request accommodation so this is the first time we are hosting a focus group in the community

feedback. >> so your input is crucial. >> thank you for your comments. >> any public comment at this time in the room. >> didn't look like anyone else has public comment in in-person and it looks like we have one member of the public would like to comment remotely and a remind you, make a remote comment through the web x and click on the horizon icon or the raised hand button and recognized. >> you

your turn. you may also use the q&a feature in webex webinar to make a comment. it is located on the top part of the video after touching the screen. >> if you join by phone, dial *3 to indicate you would like to make a comment. the clerk will prompt you when it's your turn. control room allow the first member of the public to make a comment. >> good afternoon. this is will and i'm commenting on behalf of the accessible san francisco. accessible san francisco is an unincorporated association. i would like to revisit the issue of outdoor dining issue this is in the outdoor area were constructed during the covid 19 and off the pack let's and city shared spaces and mentioned the emergency has ended as the

statewide declarations and not that matters in no woo any order justify taking steps recruitmenty with people with disabilities and the discrimination is exactly what has occurred and still occurring as many of those facilities were newly constructed don't provide proper access. the legal context in the court is 50 years since the california legislation required all public accommodation are accessible and 40 years was implemented in california for the standards and been over thirty years since that was passed and anything new after those dates have to be assessable so it is disheartening to see hundreds of those new structures throughout the city still discriminated we see a few

fixed and no assessable tables now has one but many are mate permanent without proper accessibility, so how that happening especially, when the many city stiff doing their best and parklet other than owners where why there are hundreds not provided building code accessibility sob o could be the city is only acting on complaints without accented on those that are others city property and may be the city has um, several (bell ringing) great certified specialists but not available they're not doing the inspections and the city

didn't have the proper um, expertise available might be time to contract out to have the accessibility of these inspected it is really been long enough at that point progress is made is much too slow. thank you. >> thank you for your comments (bell ringing) any other commenters at this time? >> so on web x. >> i don't believe there is any other members of the public that would like to comment at this time. public comment is closed. period and thank you. >> we are now going forward to item 5. >> 5. information item: co-chair report yes i'll be

reading the co-chair report and begin the co-chair report by recognizing staff of judy on march 4th. judy was one of the most important leaders of disabled rights of the 20th century a 21st century servant lived in the san francisco bay area before she moved to wondering and order the protest and take over at the federal building a block away from city hall that was resulted in the implementation of act for people with disabilities. and of the rehabilitation act and americans with disabilities act is based on we have too short have i'm

sorry one short video we would like to show. >> okay. >> i was as my friends were and people i didn't know around the country we have to be our own advocates need to fight back. if you have disabled equality was not part of equation we were learning from the civil rights about their activism and to come together

adopt and what was born we call the 12k5i7b89 rights movement and so i'll tell you a couple of rid e and on mason avenue in rush hour in new york 50. >> one zero. >> 50 people and no potty weeks ago had to deal with that (laughter). >> how many people did that take to staff a bus in new york when they were roosted a ride because of a wheelchair. you

have to take your wheelchair (laughter) on the right place right in front of the this and give it a little push underneath and that bus will move (laughter). >> any of you want to learn how to do that talk to me afterwards (laughter). >> all right. thank you. >> (clearing throat) and february meeting or a joint meeting with the disability and angling service commission on the aging and disability affordable housing assessment as a followup will convene a housing committee on implementation that were included in the report and that

concludes the co-chair report. >> we're a state that really in the crisis of housing and people can for the record been presented in san francisco too active - provision item the boards from the mayor's disability council. >> good afternoon, again everyone. thank you for those of you been here in-person it is good to be back and good to be existed and focus on a few things always our official

report will be available on line. and then mod website is also at the mdc website an today it is first in-person in 2023 and the first in-person thanks for the agency and mod welcomes our feedback this is an experience for everyone so the legislature update first. so we have covered as part of the earlier part of this meeting the legislative items related to the end of the emergency ordinances

and the legislature item 2210 limiting remote public comment. by board of supervisors and the committee - and the status that the legislation didn't pass, however, supervisor duocy introduced an amendment and remote public comment as reviewed again by april 15th so, please view i encourage you to keep your eyes on that. the mayor's disability council as mentioned in the presentation issued e on accessible hybrid public hearings and on the website under the new section. and concurrently the city guidance reviewed earlier for

three meeting as well. the next item that i'd like to call to our attention the shared spaces i outdoor dining i see no legislation it passed the program is now in effect as of march and legislative amendment that are specific to the program and currently in front of land use and education committee it didn't impact the ability to enforce disability actions of violation, however, that will need to continue to track the accessibility and enforcement progress of this program as we had public comments about that today. and this month mod assisted the shared spaces program with beginning with the accessibility information which

was on the website on make our shared spaces possible and it also featured the accessibility public service anonymous features the co-chairs and a great video now need to make sure that people continue to be doing what a they're supposed to be doing. >> regarding maintaining assembly. the final look at the legislation i'd like to announce not posted yet but the resolution that is transferred by supervisor melgar in recognition of women's history month for the - we heard from commemorating the old federal building site and of the 1977 protests by members of disabilities community and it is exciting especially for the

commemorations and expected to go to the land use and as soon as we will have more information we'll let you folks know. which you, join by calling mod call 415-554-6789 or you go to the home page at sfgovtv/mod there is a bum you can click on to join this. with regards to state legislation wanted to have continuing items for the report i'd like to highlight the newest item which sophie hayward, legislative and public affairs director, office of the city administrator. alluded to as part of the her presentation around the map and potential legislative reform which the council is interested in capping that and bringing that to

awareness and in terms of federal legislation in addition to the rule making comments period that i have been announcing from the deputy thought just and this information will be available and mention that federally myself and my national colleagues in 6 different cities including chicago and boston and los angeles and st. louis and i'll forgot one but met today with the representatives from the department of transportation and talked about the state of disabled assess not airline and in the down transportation and definitely interest in continuing conversations and

advocacy amongst you see this is existing and like to engage in any of that items please let me know. >> i'm going to move now to some news and announcements. so we first talked about the department of environmental focus group meeting march 24th and april 25th was the focus group will be talking about is legislation related to reusable in the public and making sure that those reusable will be assessable to members of sdrablth community and older adults and highlight that again, we are looking forward to the first participation from the public and feedback how we

reusable in public spaces and dining opportunities impact you. this remember we had will successful conversations that resulted in change alluded to the assessables and want to announce that golden gate park project is curable underway with some of the san francisco fellows of your current amazing fellows and expect we'll have some way finding solutions in golden gate park and prevented we see this in our community and april mdc meeting so look

forward to that and finally in terms of announcements i wanted to mention that the second annual department of human resources citywide career fair will be taken care of over saturday april 15th, 2023, from 10 to two in the civic pleasing put out more information to and active on district distribution i wanted to mention that here that was before the next mdc meeting. and then a few more items. for consideration i believe next month will be hearing about the city and county of san francisco digital inclusion standards and consider the future agenda items learn about the city's process how

accessibility works within that or when improvements might need to be made and urge urge through the disability employment updates and currently citywide data collection for the disabilities underway and other employment related issues through for reasonable accommodation and talking about that today. and the interpretation citywide support. so there is a lot to be discussed to that. >> that's where i'll end my report for today thank you for listening. >> [off mic.] >> thank you. >> nicole and now alex

admonished i'm meals on wheels a discussion accessible passage on san francisco sidewalks. presented by lauren bell, sam dodge and robert smuts, department of emergency management. >> we are ready for your presentation. >> am i on? >> perfect. >> we'll do. >> hi, everyone i'm lauren bell representing the staff and director had a consist i'm here to represent the whole crew thank you for the members of the

board and director nicole bohn and once again i'm lauren the coordinator but work working closely with a whole range of very dedicated department that focused on effective responses. [off mic.] >> i do yes i wasn't sure yeah. >> i sent them. i did not bring them i thought they would be here [off mic.] >> thank you, thank you everyone control room if we

could get the slides on the screen that would be great. >> perfect. thank you very much.. so what's only agenda today, the slide includes information on secretary response team or references developing ada and blocked spaces effort when number the public to report a black sidewalks concern and the pueblo be expected to respond and through the data tracking and reporting. this slide gives us a high-level summary and shows a picture of one of the pictures mod required me to show a quick

update and not quick in addressing the public spaces the work with people that are unsheltered is a critical part of response network. there are an array of the community providers and teams. >> 7c. presentation on leadership hermosa beach class project. and the fire department and public health, homeless for supportive housing and community partners. >> she pause or - >> um, when calls and circumstances also involve serious theatres wasn't we're grateful for the fire department and street response teams can be bucketed in could you areas and crisis response and outreach so what the different it was an the

two, crisis is activated through 9-1-1 and someone potentially experiencing or a person that appears to under dress in a cold day or perhaps a person with an open and very skerj we have quorum and any situation a street response team call f brt response for the bovl or the street overdose team may respond. those teams will address the need the slated moment and have supervise and conduct a screening and when appropriate provide light medical triage and help with the team or the post overdose case

management team and, of course, the shelter services and an important note when seeing a crisis for medical needs the public didn't need to think outside the box is a fire or medical cause or for a street cause call 9-1-1 and share the information and the dispatchers will handle that. >> on the outreach not activated through 9-1-1 and planned outreach include the homeless outreach the healthy streets operation center and castro to name a few those efforts deploy teams or set geological areas don't take third party calls but accessed in a couple of ways a person experiencing homelessness in the neighborhood the person in need can call the hot team directly

at 6286528 thousand and leave the location and name the hot team checks the mail or triaged the call to get out to meet the person as soon as possible and the person can contact three 11 for conditions around encampments. and there are collections and street responses to meet an array of needs and in summary the street responses broadly include the crises and activated through 9-1-1 or planned outreach in coordination with outside of 9-1-1 system. so let's get to the topic at hand in the next few minutes talking about the reason i'm here san francisco is erotic to the ada

and the public spaces. and san francisco always been committed to save accessibility for people of occupying all abilities the 20/20 settlement highlighted continuing need to balance the responses for the need of people experiencing homelessness and ada violations. people involved in the lawsuit were instead of not meeting the homeless communicated for people with disabilities. there are many interconnections and the city should be erotic to the array of people that spirit continues throughout ongoing strategic conversations. city leaders remain focused on the balance of responses. over the last several months the city leaders the mayor's office and three 11 the police department and the city attorney's office will have met to discuss the ada violations specifically and has to make

sure the effective responses and conversations focused on public guidance the best number to call the city responses and data tracking and reporting. and spend the next couple of minutes summarizing the conversations. >> the city leaders recognize the frustration and inconvenience experienced when a person is trying to get into point a to b on the sidewalks we recognize the whore accessibility for sidewalks and public spaces and person will struggle in a unique way when the sidewalks are blocked we need to make sure the safe and clear access for entrances. we recognize that people and structures may result in blocked sidewalks. our commitment so effectively kwhouf clear package

a minimum of 4 feet of package and public spaces empathy and respect and here's the public guidance on what number to call. when a person needs to report an ada violation a blocked situation or public space we request that the person call the cities non-emergency number at 41555 three 012 three this goes to the new any call center. san francisco's o san francisco's 9-1-1 call center unlike online all cities and counties dispatch a array of services and and dispatcher may request police or male like the one i mentioned earlier o r t and i'm going to talk about in that minute. calls to non-emergency will address

the ada or a blocked sidewalks other needs related to encampments call three 11 and an important project in a caller somehow tracks an immediate moment is should call 9-1-1 directly. this is the short summary of any any for immediate safety and non-emergency for immediate access in any event calling should provide a array of details. >> this slide provides some details how best to communicate ada or blocked situation when you call the non-emergency number. clearly is that a fair statement and be clear what you are observing is blocking a

sidewalk or public space we don't expect the public to measure will be helpful when applicable so is i believe the area blocked is not allowing for 4 feet of clearance requirement that a person be required to provide details but the more details the better the 9-1-1 operator will not. okay. to call the non-emergency number more than one time and we'll respond to your call maybe a new program and the response team i'll talk about in a second for or the san francisco police department. again, the operator or dispatcher at 9-1-1 call center will carb the array of providing details and calls to the non- emergency number go to the community response team arrest the san francisco police department. the goal to get the

most timely response and the community response team a lot launch in the next month that city funded and led project fully integrated with the san francisco 9-1-1 call team and the community response team will provide a rapid response and call an ada violation or blocked public space and to engage with people it is this a scenario who tents and belongings have creating a blocked area and explain to the city is making an effort to balance a range of need with a clear need to make sure that all people are clear and safe package on to sidewalks and city. this team will set a clear concept what is need to address the violation and those conversations will also be an opportunity for the community

response team to learn about the needs of people and coordinate with other teams to address and chief the safety. in the community response team could not achieve the clearance the team will to the 9-1-1 call and the san francisco police department will be the next response. while the community response team will rapidly response for the but the first response to many of them respond to call that have a blocked entrance to a home or calls that involve safety or people feel trapped will call the command outside of respondents team hours. >> we recognize the complexity and a lot to learn along the way and we're committed to tracking the data and producing reports

that illuminate where there are challenges and opportunity for improvement. and this spirit that the department of emergency communication the division of department of emergency that operates the 9-1-1 call center is codes for blocked sidewalks and sharing the number the 91 code for it is a number that the public needs to know. by deceasing a code we'll be able to more easily pull data by the volume of calls and the location and calls to the division this information will be part of report that department of emergency shares. the mayor's office and it don't make any difference and mayor's disability council will receive this report and in summary want to use the data to understand

how we can improve. >> this that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you very much. thank you so as mentioned i assume now we're going to have comments from the public at this time? >> public comment followed by council questions yes. >> okay. >> . thank you. >> yes we'll start with the members of the public who are here in-person that would like to make a comment and on this agenda item. and number 7? >> don't believe we have any

public comment cards and no one coming up to the said podium so a reminder to the public you can make a remote comment by ooutz raised hand feature on the right on the webinar or joining by phone dial or use the q and a feature [off mic.] >> at the moment no one in line i can see. >> close. >> public comment is closed. >> and no members questions. now we'll open.

>> hi there say, i have a moment. >> moment we are going to and going to say. thank you. >> thank you. >> control room put the camera on councilmembers please. go ahead. >> okay. >> we need to make sure we can

interpreter. >> yeah. put the camera open please. okay. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> there was a lot of context there and i've seen you working here before and the struggles. the hand as well, you know, and the challenges and the balance; right? and solve an issue and a lot of people as though they don't have that opportunity. and being deaf myself i - >> you know, because of block.

>> you need to go to the next caller. >> one second. >> yeah. >> so just to add to the interpreting that when people are lost on the street and having to walk into the street because i'm deaf it is cars driving by. and, you know, like the different areas and the situations that we deal with so, so have to go, you know, walk around there in that area. it is very small area too so and busy - biz quite a busy area. so maybe some (unintelligible). >> feedback training we can do

in particular there or (unintelligible). >> a lot of people are not paying attention when they're driving so it is just, you know, food for thought to add. >> i learned a lot about thank you for adding the 9-1-1 i thought they were separate and i've got role confused was what so i learned a lot about that so thank you very much. >> and - [off mic.] >> and now to other councilmembers. >> thank you >> and reach to 9 mcds to learn about the training

that might be helpful and certainly we can and should be able to short let's do that the more information we get out to the public the better. and also glad the 9-1-1 information was helpful. i know especially in my group of friends i asked them what do you think happens when you call 911 people think that is a call to the police department and extremely important part of 9-1-1 call center for the the only option available to the public when you call 9-1-1 i'm glad that information was helpful. >> thank you. >> and go and going to

control room. >> thank you and apologizes for adjusting this like the interpreter it is hard to see you at first thank you for your comments and thank you for the presentation credibly help and glad it is underway. and have two questions. regarding how we're empowering the public and individuals who might benefit from everything you talked about one, just creating awareness. and where all the ways you're disseminating information and then second, related to act we know doesn't matter is really on a group anyone can join at any time so there are times i imagine anticipated for me in my

personally experience don't know about violations and bvr to for example, have a list of violations so that individuals understand they're right and what the disability those are the two questions what are we doing in general to - let folks know what they asked for and what did - . thank you. >>. thank you very much for the questions. the question comes at a good time. the department of emergency management is actually work with satisfactorily city departments including the mayor's disability council on a public awareness campaign specifically around street responses. and it start off focused on crises response and

got it gotten a lot of feedback from the city colleagues and community colleagues and now the public what the public needs and um, to the question person i'm sorry, i missed your name. there is a lot of questions about what services are available. so we are continuing to reiterate the public awareness campaign the goals to make that clear what numbers are the right numbers to call when there is a variety of needs. what some of the expectations around what happens when a person calls. and have been consulting with the director nicole bohn to make sure the information is includes um, details and information that is responsive to the disadvantage community and still plenty of time and a reasonable amount of work that needs to be done to make sure we are

providing the requested information so the comment about more clarity on what constituents an ada violation and what work is available. we can more than that that into the publicly awareness campaign and i can follow-up with director nicole bohn and we'll keep it moving. >> thanks we have for the role - we haven't designed the public awareness campaign yet this is the first public thing we've been doing over the last month so i think the public awareness campaign is really yet to come we are appreciating your feedback and the council and other members of the public so the council is interested we'll

definitely take that we are very early in the process. >> thank you. >> next, we have sherry. >> thank you. >> go ahead. >> hello. >> oh, good i'm here. >> um, thank you, lauren and this is very important to have um, a place i've encountered situations for so i understand to help to address that. my concern is when a person calls 9-1-1 and to report this situation i heard you say they're asked a question about

the person who is violating the ada. compliance. and i thought i heard you say they're going to be asked does that person have a disability or can you describe the disability i - i don't feel the public is in that situation to describe a handicap and in the public person is squared or heightened alarmed state being made over estimate or xaeg the people with disabilities at least i feel most people would think that is crazy or - so, so maybe more of a response a

heightened response might be other than normal conditions for this person that that is one concern why are we are asking the public to assess a disability i don't feel that a fair thing to ask the public person. number two, what training do the teams that are sent have in addressing some of the encounters if they have a mental illness and how - what is there their tactic or kind of tactics going to use when they encounter someone with a mental illness is the person with the mental illness an assessment to be done? and have those people using any force i hate to use

the one should but what kind of force in this situation if noted as - >> that's a great question. for both of them and especially the first one i want to clarify the comments was not a request for the public. to determine what the needs are of somebody who might be unsheltered or on the street the comment was more about the caller if a caller for example, is in a wheelchair and going down a sidewalk and there is something completely obstructing the sidewalk that person can call 9-1-1 or excuse me - call the non-emergency number and report that um, the observation that the sidewalk is blocked ideally that person might be able to say i believe there is and not at least 4 feet of clearance but not required.

and my comment was in regard to statement about disability that the caller themselves that person didn't need to say i have a disability just saying a blocked sidewalk or a blocked public space enough to compel a response we have to go out and assess the blocked public space in the caller want to addresses the disability i'm in a wheelchair i have anywhere to go i can't goat through that kind of detail is helpful in assessing the urgency. >> thank you. i my understand. >> no worries i appreciate the question so thank you for asking it and the second important question is how we address the needs of people with mental illness in crises on the streets and i would love to in a different the time if that makes

sense to the council and mayor's disability council bring folks back to talk about the street crises response team and the approaches that are used to help meet the needs. i can imagine there is a lot of training that folks go to make sure the ways that we're addressing someone in an alcoholic moment a team arrives on a street and a human being in depress and use an extreme example takes a very calm and very threatened approach to help that person deescalate and that person shares a little bit about their needs in a moment the skills from trauma approaches to desolation training to understanding the social

determine of homeless and to finding the system disappear and the shelter and providing clear and active information to people at the right time so a lot goes to challenge the team that is doing the important work i love to spend a lot of time on this in the future. >> thank you, lauren >> got it. >> before i go to - i have a couple of questions for lauren is that sorry about that the introduction but a couple of questions one, is that does ct -

um, i don't know how to say that but, but so much homeless people and on the street and very scary so call 9-1-1 or non-emergency um, response when you see someone losing and - when they

going to do that and when the response might not be pace able to them that's one and the second thing right now as we speak i noticed that some i think someone today dials 9-1-1 or tried to push homeless people away from the civic center between 7 and 8 on fridays usually tends to be more people

on the street and what now going forward to address these scary times? >> yes. you hit so many of the critical points and concerns and complex and i'll right off the bat i don't have a perfect answer the balance of addressing the needs of someone experiencing homelessness or using drugs along with um, community of people sheltered and community of people in the disabled community so many factors to settle and a i think a misconception but a desire to make sure that there

is respect and dignity and not city government missing people for struggling to get oust of homeless and immediate responses to the needs that you see on the street include from the street response team that i mentioned the street crises response team the homeless outreach team and other teams i'm sure that council knows that the ambassador team that the mayor's office talked about in ways to train the teams out to address those complex more effectively

and another way to connect and learn it is complicated and when there is moments of feeling nervousness we recommend the call to the new any call center to 9-1-1 or non-emergency i think a lot of people are noefrs to call and families. people are noefrg not going to say the right thing or don't know the situation they're in worth of a 9-1-1 call and people do love things to think about whether or not they should call and really in the a simple we are but we encourage folks to call and your point about their safety after you make the call for someone will they be upset or respond in a negative way. up and running i think we need to take steps to

make sure you're safe call in distance and report or got out of vicinity if you feel unsafe. and for a better moment. >> we've public health services out there in different departments you know very well hard to bring them on line and certainly a law enforcement and pufth and homelessness and response that all have to work together to both make that and provide a strategy. and, you know, we're doing it day to day and it is not perfect but there's a very need to do that and heard from the mayor's office the highest priority in the mayors office and we we have to dig deep to learn what is working and not working and trying to make changes and use

the resources better and respond differently. so that folks who are unsheltered their need are addressed and that person's need is addressed and so forth and to integrate role strategy enforcement strategies and the whole picture and. >> i think for - had was like during at this time you can people can go to that - right now will be people on the street and i found that there is people there to push people away but

lit do you know how come there is only southern dates of time and time that people tend to quote/unquote push them away? and i noticed fridays that people using on the streets are lead in a way no response or that the city has to wait when someone had to call non-emergency or can we suggest that pretending that happening?

>> that is a definite part of the plan the prevention piece of it i think, you know, the scale of feed right now i think it how weeks ago the resources available so it will require an expansion of resources that are responsive to the needs. >> and when our resources are more right sized to the need prevention strategy get more and more effective we need to be working towards that to your question has happening immediately? >> the call when there is a blocked area specifically the calls to non-emergency and the next step for - more broadly the teams to work on people to try to, you know, i think we all know relationship building is a

motivational space to have trust and opportunity for people to believe that services that are provided are really going to be available. and have going to be helpful. >> that it takes time so not immediate. and when someone is violating a law and there is kind of really clear violations that is symptom when an improvement response will be noted. different levels of with the various responses and the range of resources we still see this incredible need and just isn't a perfect answer i don't know if i'm fully answering our questions but happy to follow up with an e-mail to continue whatever is helpful. >> about and saefrpdz i just

want to strongly suggest a group of us are the groups on the table to discuss the issue when it happens so thank you, such for that. >> yeah. a pleasure to be here a great suggestion and we'll be working think that and spaces where we can improve. >> i go into south. >> go ahead. >> denise did you have anything to add. >> in the experience council and i run into some issues have

been brought to me attention i told the person i'm trefshl visually impaired but they were able to call and communicate when i call three 11 i can't see or answer the questions i want to help the individual so when i did, i rallied the information or with someone taking as much information without getting close to that person in the process so and they come across someone else something else but don't want to leave the person in crises it is helpful to identify an issue and get as

much information that is helpful for people to help and at the same time i gave an honest assessment. so that's all i have. >> thank you. >> denise. >> now we're going to staff comments i think okay. thank you for coming lauren and thank you, this has been a topic that we have known in the city and needed to work on this and i told them i'm glad that we're at a place we are really seeing good people to think about this in a different way and encouraged by the community responses and just want to offer that support for that we might need to consider to understand the disability experiences and some of the primary concerns

that have been definitely elevated to mod so pubically offer that and it comes from you, you choose to do any kind of of a followup on this item and that courage you and because your suggestions will be taken seriously that is definitely something that the group has been working on and very open to involving the mcds and people with disabilities and really helping to shape a piece of this which is the community campaign because it circumstances can improve in a market way unless we're working together and needs

thought about how to, you know, best advance so certainly we're happy to do a table for that in the mayor's disability council. >> thank you again for coming. >> definitely going to take you up on the training we're working on the only thing the service. >> i hope that is a new. >> agree i appreciate being here. thank you very much. and have a great weekend everyone. >> thank you. >> you as well. >> where are we going to item number 8? and.

>> 8. information item: correspondence. >> move the microphone around a little bit. >> and got a lot of wires on this table i forget about that. >> one second. >> hang on one second. >> when the microphone is on. >> is that on. >> now it is. >> the only corresponds is from the gentleman that provided the public comment about the whore access and his comments were the letter he sent sent as a public comment. >> thank you. >> we're going to item 9 the

general public comment. yes, so at this time determines that, in the interest of time, comments may be limited to a shorter time when there are a large number of public comments. brown act forbids the council from taking action or discussing any items not appearing on the posted agenda, including those missed at public comment. call

415-554-6789 public comment card here if you're joining us in in-person and we'll get back to so we'll start with members of the public who are here in-person like to speak in public comment and one person. >> yes. go ahead. >> thank you. >> i just wanted to come up once again i feel, you know, more comfortable just citing versus than calling at the same time i see members and with the environmental department of the department and looking forward

to representing the department to include you all um, the disability community in a focus group coming up on friday say april 6th. and the thursday. so if you are available if you can register for this event and focus group will be proposing a policy rewarding the reubldz and the dining and restaurant facilities around san francisco. >> and really want to briefly mention our proposal which is for dining facilities to reusable cups whether that is large or part of service vendors we want the option to use

non-disposal utensils and so we have two separate groups the policy is different than the one in 2020 and really excited to get our feedback and your ideas and we are commented to advancing racial and disability justice and inequity in terms of the areas of the environment and to make sure that is included how we're approaching i appreciate all of you coming next friday and as any accommodation that you need if, if you include in advance because i'm so new to this and moving many effort. >> using the webinar please let me know if you have any

accommodation is requests e-mail me my economic and workforce development department is c r e dot g a (clearing throat) ta m e nc e u r g at sfgov.org or feel free to call me 4152555870 thank you all. >> thank you. >> for thank you for your comments and i know that - yeah. thank you. >> and other other comments. >> i don't see any other public comments are public comment cards and at this time i don't believe anyone on the webb x wanted to comment.

>> have one person um, would like to make a public comment. >> and a reminder if you would like to make a comment >> if you are using a desktop or laptop computer, “raise han”" and q&a icons are located at the bottom of the video screen. >> would you mind unmuting the public comment. >> my name is rothman i don't know at this time, i was discussed in general comment i got home and listening to the end of the meeting but i'm concerned about public comment and, you know, since the pandemic ending and different commission has different criteria. i think the most is

mta will have the minutes of public comment and i think this is a disadvantage and people who live like i do in the outdoor richmond close to city hall i talked about to the city attorney and have a strict definition of when a people with disabilities and i wish you advocate for a 9-1-1 and other commission and do have any restrictions on people calling i think should be a uniform policy and i just wanted to, you know, people to - about again friends

are gettinging i hope you ask the chief administrator officers to come and have a

discriminatory. thank you very much. >> very appreciated and i just want to add another - which is

sherry as going forward i acknowledge above you and any other councilmembers have comments at this time. >> can we say a few more words before we do that? >> this is nicole speaking from the members of the committee and i wanted to extend any association for all of the work you did as co-chair and for all you do and continue to in increasing awareness for people with disabilities and especially the deaf and disability experienced thank you. the work

a lot of work for co-chair and both you and alex know and many meetings and have had some interactions with the board of supervisors and i i can't say enough for your participation i know you'll continue with the council and we're glad i want to say thank you, personally for everything yourself done and for your leadership and continuing to lead on the council and sherry welcome to our new role we're excited you'll be reading the mayor's disability council council along with alex thank you. very much it is your work is really appreciated and needed so thank you, thank you to you both and thank you, alex. >> for another job well done as

part of the our meeting today and wanted to also so sherry if you see where anything additionally you'd like to say. >> yeah. >> turn on one second get the microphone. >> we get the camera on me, please. >> control room please move the camera. >> to orchid. >> hello. >> there we go. >> autism sew somehow first of all, i wanted to say thank you to the staff at mod with that's a name i've given you. thank you very much. nicole as well and happy you're still here working with us and also want to say thank you, to john and another

staff member been working corresponding and wouldn't have done it without them with all the people and all the staff involved and everyone has been to several meeting and also to the councilmembers as well alex and admonished and sherry and dennis us and helen members of the commission and we've been working together and correct co-chair sassouni and thank you, nicole so thank you very much for everybody and all the councilmembers without the collective work um, we wouldn't be able to do the access collecting and make sure that

everyone has access not easy. not easy but to be able to be part of that we see and once we see it have to break down the areas have to breakdown we have to work around and have to respect to make things equitable and the city is able to do that we are able to be flexible and the work here that we've done on the council, i really appreciate we are mac changes and it is great and everyone here has an open to hear the feedback and opinions from the community. and your everyone comments and opinions i feel like everyone has done it thoughtfully and have great discussions with the council. and the last few years

done so much virtual meetings and finally, feedback has been different (laughter) so really thank you, everybody. thank you very much for your had recollected and i know 90 come is here so thank you to everyone. >> thank you. >> any. >> we're going to unmute sherri rise microphone now. >> thank you to the council for allowing me for this privilege of co-chair and have big shoes to fill with orchid and now you tell me a lot of work and as co-chair nicole after i expected the position i know but um, i

accept that wholeheartedly so thank you very much. and looking forward to it i have a lot to learn. >> and i would like to also um, i have an announcement alex may i proceed with my announcement. >> yeah. >> i have an announcement that on monday march 20th no - yeah. >> at 2:30 the lighthouse for the blind is hosting a zoom webb in charge discussion with the san francisco multiple transportation agency. by christopher kid a transportation planner for complete streets and he's seeking feedback on phase one of the active community plan and he is wanting to know how

the new network they're planning is going to effect people with disabilities and we want to make sure that it will be a welcoming use of the space for all to be and need people with disabilities to hear our concerns march 20th an zoom can get the zoom like to me, sherryy and have to commissioner taylor send a request to miranda e-mail at s a l.b. as in boy lighthouse sfgov famously and go to the lighthouse website and the calendar and see see description

and have seeking the information there. i hope to see you all there with the information needed by sf mta and the question specifically for councilmember quintanilla that identify we have the entire will disability community. and the entire disability community is welcome and give our feedback thank you for the notification and so that's which is it coming monday 3:30. >> thank you and when it comes to the message i thank you now we have denise. >> thank you. >> go ahead. >> do it from there or from here (coughing). >> i'll be brief i want to

welcome sherry after her offline and congratulate her and not frightening we'll put you through our pays and thank you to alex for you leadership and this thing orchid i learned a lot from orchid and on the deaf culture and provided a lot of insight and appreciate that. and as well as your leadership and your leadership and to answer questions and working with council and happened reaching out to you a pleasure working with you and glad you're serving on the council still and alex we'll continue to do with what we do we work well together and thank you, mod for your support. >> i think you got it right under the worry. >> thank you >> thank you.

>> the council does have vacancies for anyone that is watching or following us on webb x if you're interested in the council please soak mdc we'll give you guidance how that review processed works and he wanted to mention it. >> any burning comments he mentioned? none. >> this is very - i just wanted to say thank you for this time. debbie and nicole and john and for the interpreters and

fellow councilmembers so this is wonderful and so i just want to say thank you and today's public hearing will be next month any attendance call it adjournment (gavel) [meeting adjourned]

>> in the bay area as a whole, thinking about environmental sustainability. we have been a leader in the country across industries in terms of what you can do and we have a learn approach. that is what allows us to be successful. >> what's wonderful is you have so many people who come here and they are what i call policy innovators and whether it's banning plastic bags, recycling,

composting, all the different things that we can do to improve the environment. we really champion. we are at recycle central, a large recycle fail on san francisco pier 96. every day the neighborhood trucks that pick up recycling from the blue bins bring 50 # o tons of bottles, cans and paper here to this facility and unload it. and inside recology, san francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cans, and different type of plastic. san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san

francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it

downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it is cheaper for the oil industry to create new plastics and so they have been producing more and more plastics so with our ab793, we have a bill that really has a goal of getting our beverage bottles to be made of more recycled content so by the time 2030 rolls around t recycle content in a coke bottle, pepsi bottle, water bottle, will be up to 50% which is higher thatten the percentage in the european union and the highest percentage in the world. and that way you can actually feel confident that what you're drinking will actually become recycled. now, our recommendation is don't use to plastic bottle to begin w but if you do, they are committing to 50% recycled content. >> the test thing we can do is vote with our consumer dollars when we're shopping.

if you can die something with no packaging and find loose fruits and vegetables, that is the best. find in packaging and glass, metal and pap rer all easily recycled. we don't want plastic. we want less plastic. awe what you we do locally is we have the program to think disposable and work one on one to provide technical assistance to swap out the disposable food service to reusables and we have funding available to support businesses to do that so that is a way to get them off there. and i believe now is the time we will see a lot of the solutions come on the market and come on the scene. >> and is really logistics company and what we offer to restaurants is reasonable containers that they can order just like they would so we came

from about a pain point that a lot of customers feel which wills a lot of waste with takeout and deliver, even transitioning from styrofoam to plastic, it is still wasteful. and to dream about reusing this one to be re-implemented and cost delivery and food takeout. we didn't have throwaway culture always. most people used to get delivered to people's homes and then the empty milk containers were put back out when fresh milk came. customers are so excited that we have this available in our restaurant and came back and asked and were so excited about it and rolled it out as customers gain awareness understanding what it is and how it works and how they can

integrate it into their life. >> and they have always done it and usually that is a way of being sustainable and long-term change to what makes good financial sense especially as there are shipping issues and material issues and we see that will potentially be a way that we can save money as well. and so i think making that case to other restaurateurs will really help people adopt this. >> one restaurant we converted 2,000 packages and the impact and impact they have in the community with one switch. and we have been really

encouraged to see more and more restaurants cooperate this. we are big fans of what re-ecology does in terms of adopting new systems and understanding why the current system is broken. when people come to the facility, they are shocked by how much waste they see and the volume of the operations and how much technology we have dedicated to sort correctly and we led 25 tours and for students to reach about 1100 students. and they wanted to make change and this is sorting in the waste stream they do every single day

and they can take ownership of and make a difference with. >> an i feel very, very fortunate that i get to represent san francisco in the legislature and allows me to push the envelope and it is because of the people the city attracts and is because of the eco system of policy thinking that goes on in san francisco that we are constantly seeing san francisco leading the way. >> kids know there's a lot of environmental issues that they are facing. and that they will be impacted by the impact of climate change. they will have the opportunity to be in charge and make change and make the decisions in the future. >> we are re-inventing the way the planet does garbage founded in the environmental ethic and hunger to send less to landfills. this is so many wonderful things happening in san francisco. i feel very fortunate and very

humble to live here and to be part of this wonderful place.