■l and welcome to the mayor's disability council this friday, june 21, 2024. this is in person and virtual public meeting.■. this meeting is to the public

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can you please conduct the roll call? >> yes.going to call to do the roll call now. council member alex madrid, here. cochair sheri albers, absent. council member orkid sassouni, here, present. council ■member senhaux, present. council member patricia arack, present. thank you. go ahead cochair alex. >> could you please read the agenda? >> yes. at this time, members of the public--i'm sorry, the agenda. sorry about that.

number one, is welcome and roll call. two, is action item, reading and approval of agenda. number three, general public comment. number four, information item, number five, information item. report from the mayor's office on disability. six, discussion ite integrating disability access and functional needs into the city emergency planning. then we will have a break, 15 minutes break and we'll proceed with number seven, discussion item, next step implementation of leckric charging station report. and number eight will be

information item cor spawnance. correspondence. nine, general public comment. council member comments and announcements. number 11 will be action item, adjournment. >> thank you. >> cochair madrid, if i might-- >> yes. it is on. >> if i might have a slight change in the agenda. microphone does not appear to be on] move their presentation

[indiscernible] right after the cochair report, and [indiscernible] after that. >> alright. any objection? seeing none, go ahead. so, at this time, we are going to action number public comment. please read the instructions. n >> at this time, members of the public may address the council on items of interest to the public within the subject matter jurisdiction of the

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mdc comment reply request. or call, 415-554-0670. and now, let's see if there is any cards. no cards. are there any persons in the public? there is zero right now. >> online? >> online. and there the phone or the chat. we can proceed back to you council member alex. >> thank you. now we are going to item number] 4, my co-chair report. since last meet members and

mod staff have been actively■4■÷ --we encourage any members of the public contact us if interested at mdc@sfgov.org, or by calling, 415-554-0670. give me one second.

the mdc sent a letter support recommending that the new public park located at--might be named-hf -disability advocates of san francisco.■0 the mdc also sent a letter to department of public health

recommending to resolution to protect everyone from covid exposure at --to pulation is left behind. the mdc also sent a letter to the board supervisors strongly recommend keeping the annual dignity

fund--allocated in the 24-25 budget. continues to focus on-hf-do inspections from the department of inspection. we are going to it number 5.

>>lr■ht. the next item is integrating our presenters andrea and jenny, you may join us, please. weargoing to have the presentation on the topic, integrating disability access and functional needs into the city emerncanit will be presented-copresented ■by andre jorgensen and jenny. >> thank you. i think these are working. okay. thank you. that working better? you can hear me? great. wonderful. on dislt inviting us here. we are pleased to share a brief overview of we integrate access and functional needs into our city .

we will do sort of a general overview of what it means to be setting and training and jenny has justnew emergency operation's plan. we are excited about so she'll talk about that a bit. first, i wanted to-- really briefly give people a idea of some the efforts that we are doing in our department.:v we have the responsibility of watching over training, our exercising and drills, our credentialing efforts and then of course, our plans. there are many kinds of plans that are efforts done across the city. this is specific to emergency response pls, so just to keep that in mind. training does provide knowledge skills and abilities that are helpful for us to understand and perform tasks

as we are depi our exercises and drills give a 2ólow risk familiar nt, so we can become with those plans, and it also helps to validate the plans, so we know we've-- >> sorry. >> there we go. so we have written them that people understand them and can exece the we do have a credentialing program, which helps us train our people to be qualified to respond to our emergency operations center and perform the tasks at hand, and the plans document, how we will implement our concept of operations. so, i will pass thisto jenny to talk about emergency planning. >> next slide, please. alright.

so, andrea introduced about the emergency plan we have in the city. we will talk today specifically about our emergency operations plan or eop, which serves our the core base plan for emergency management as coordinated by department of emergency management in partnership with all our city departments and other partners across the whole community. attached to the eop we also have some 18 emergency support function pls, also speak to a bit. for the eop ■8vzin particular, we did want to lay the groundwork about what it is. it is our core base plan that speaks to how the cityany type of incident or event that may happen, either a no notice incident, anything flooding to u th earthquakes to other type of hazards to pre-planned events like the pride parade events coming up or any

city wide event. that eop described very broadly who was involved in the city and the structure e to coordinate activities and actions across our city departments and our whole community partners. this is very broad. it isn't meant to be a super detailed exactly how something will happen, but it does describe all the actions that different city departments take to include a big piece of it, we'll talk about this as well, but a large piece of it is speaking how we activate the city emergency operation center, eoc, which is our central coordination point for multi-agency response operations in the city. and we do activate that any sort of incident or event that may have city wide impacts so we'll speak to that a bit later in the presentation, but pin a nutshell, that is what the eop describ is how we might respond to any sort of incident

in the city. and then, as i mentioned, we have these esf attached to the base plan described discipline specific concept of operation. while the eop broadly describes the operations, these go into more detail about different disciplines. we'll go through a couple of them as well ■■■in a bit that really describe mo detail about different aspects of response operations. >> great. so, i will ese three slides rather quickly. i don't expect capture all this in memory, but because the emergency operation base plan is detailed abou■rauthority and other things that are important to all of our response, but there's so much information in a city our size that we

use a methout into other emergency support functions,b which is that fema gives us, which is federal emergency management agency. esf1 is around tranorion, esf2 is communication, esf3 is public works and engineering and esf4 fire fighting. to continue on, we got esf8, which is our public health and medical annex. the urban searchis esf9. i also will io and should have said esfbe working carefully on, because a lot of these plans have been languishing a bit because of response to the pandemic, so we are trying diligently to catch up and get all the plans refreshed. we learned a lot from our response to covid. esf10 is oil spells. 11 se, 12,

water and utilities and 13, law enforcement.of these annexes, we write with our partrs who are the subject matter exserts so we don't in a vacuum and that is partly what we wanted to today is how we incorporate other agencies and particularly the community. and just to continue on, esf--did i miss? esf14 is recovery annex. 15 is joint information system, which is really important plan because getting messaging to everyone is critical so that is community at large understands what the city is doing. esf16, community support. 17 is volunteer donation management and 18 is cyber-unified command are unique to san francisco. country and in the state that do this a little differently and e added

other annexes to their eop, but for us these have been very important i think i will pass over to jenny. this is why you are here.7d we want to talk about how we involve the whole community. >> thanks andrea.out the emergency plans, like andrea mentioned we involve partners. it is a joint collaborative effort to update plans, to also train and evaluate and on plans. when it comes to involving our part ners to include our disability and functional need uapartners do this in a couple different ways. we engage trust community partners specific to the development of our recent update to the emergency operations plan.

dem are advisory groups to provide targeted input. we stood up disability access and functional needs advisory committee with partners at mod so thank you debbie and alicia for being on that and also being able to bring other partners into the group as well. we stood up a community advisory group that brought some representatives from different community based organizations together as well. so, we have worked with those two groups, the last couple of few nths to look at the draft eop together anjust collaborate on what went in there to insure we are really prioritizing responding to the needs of our most vulnerable populations in a emergency. as a city thad would be is our first priority because we understand great majority of people can sort of--would be able to respond to a

incident and they would ■be able to sort of figure out those with the resources on hand and we want to make sure we are prioritizing any communities or additional that may face challenges in response in recovery. we set up the two advisory committees to insure our plans are inclusive of all these different diverse community needs. we are also meeting so california state requirements with that inclusion as well. the next way we engaged our thr city wide efforts, so whole community departments that come together in a emergency. the city has a disaster preparedness coordinator program that identify individuals in various city departments to regularly meet and engage on emergency planning efforts.

we also have other city lead work groups that target and focus on specific emergency issues to include evacuation that we are working on now. and lastly we wanted to touch on how we activate our emgey operations center, eoc. as we mentioned, we activate our eoc when there is a incident or event that ■w may have city wide impact. either no notice events, the severe weather events like major-like the winter stoms we had in the last year or extreme heat days. we also activate for the large pre-planned event like the pride parade coming up. we activate for apec last year. that was a major activation for s as a city. within our eoc organizainclude

couple really critical positions. one equity officer in our eoc management section as well as a disability access and functional needs advisor. those two positions sit in that management cell of the eoc to insure those issues are prioritized considered across all the kinds of emergency response activities going on in the eoc. we also have stood up a mmty branch within our eoc. the intention of the community branch is to have a team th really focuses establishing two way communication when there is a emergency. one was the esf16 for community support annex and that is very unique to san francisco, something i think that the city is really proud of, because it prioritizes and pushing to for front that communication and engage ment with

our communite"&y members. >> grailt. lastly i want to talk about improvement planning and one things we discovered and while jenny was talking about engaging community partners there are things when we do action improvement work, we often discover we missed things and that's the work that needs to be done, so we can correct those gaps the next time we have to respond to something. some of those things we■!tu kno still need improvement. i think we have done a good in progress towards things like language access for insnce. understanding debbie and her team have been working really hard to get us to understand that durable medical equipment is priority for people if they have to evacuate. do they take it with them or leave it behind and the another resource? these are things we are ha

constant conversations about, because we do this afr action or improvement planning work. when we have a activation, whether it or like a special event that is planned, or if it is a storm or no known event we have a after action meeting when all involved in the response can talk about things both that went well, because we also need to documings that go well so we continue to do this, but the things that may not sl ■?gone as well. in apec, we obviously noted there were some fencing issues that had gone up and the people that needed to access their rides for instance, paratransit or something like that were not ■;necess or didn't know they wouldn't be able to g appointment they had scheduled, so those are things we can help with ity branch and also through documentation of the gaps that exist. we try to be very honest with the and not white wash them and make

sure they are brought to the policy groups or the departments to have some sort of authority to make change. that's really importais called corrective action. we docume■knt those, try to assign to a particular department to help make those changes and we try to assign a date when we expect those changes to be made. our plans are really living documents, even though we complete them, we just completed this eop is about 150 pages without the attachments. it is very involved document and it is going to be going through the approval process now, but even that docume, once the stamp is on there and the director of our department, mary ellen carol says it is good tago and mayor says it is good to go, even then we can still make adjustments, so why we want to make urconstantly do improvement documentation and adding to our plans or making changes as needed. i think that is everything for us now.■r i don't know if you want to do questions?

>> yes, we >> hold on one sec. thank you. we are going to a public comment please read the instructions for public comment. >> so, we are going to unmute now. one person from the public. control, please unmute. mrs. sheila gunn, go ahead. >> is this me? >> yes. okay, hi. i am not well webexat all. my one experience with it was horrible two years ago and i dreaded this. i never tried it on

i'm sheila gunn, the emergency preparedness coordinator at center for independent living i'm working from home in my office on fruitvale avenue and i came to say hello and i came to learn about san francisco's emergency preparedness planning as regardfolks with disabilities and access and functional needs, and older adults and other folks who fall into the category. assuming nothing. i didn't know where this was in the process or if it had been seen by this mayor's disability council or t. by the way, hello debbie. debbie and i wod in

emergency preparednessregarding power outages, so haven't seen you in a while, but good hear your voice. but, i stand ready i know--the center for independent living is a sister g the independent living resource center of san francisco, which i'm sure you all are aware of. i'm not interested in taking over or any that. i feel that we can all learn from each other and maybe san francisco is doing stuff that cities in alameda county should be doing that aren't and maybe we are doing stuff that you aren't and just think that shar and

bad thing. the one thing the folks at the emergency preparedness departments probably already know is folks with disabilities and access and functional needs can very much be a resource in many ways during emergencies. we know a know a lot about mutual aid- >> mrs. sheila, you have 30 seconds left. >> i just will put my e-mail and phone number in the send it to [indiscernible] you are welcome i'm done. thanks. >> thank you for your comment.d comment at this time? >> no more comments council member. >> thank you.

now we're going to ask council members questions? >> hello everyone. hello council members. k your presentation today. i know that this is a new area for us and i have seen the content ow. one thing i still have concerns with is related with electrical power outages, especially for deaf individuals detechnology and cannot hear any way and would not be able tohear a siren and who might not know if this is order to evacuaformation, so it can be a real chks

individuals in the community who are not hearing for either of those contexts. i am concerned that we n't have enough information, context, education around this, and i might be true that part of equality and equity for all for us up. something as on earth day we didn't have any access and that was funny because it was a very public event put on the police department, the fire department, everyone there, but we didn't have any kind of access for a public event, so that was one thing i concern for. for the residents here in san francisco, and another part is i am ployee, and the daw does require me to have that part of my job, so i'm hoping-they have not been able to provide access either, so there is

nothing we can do and we are kind in a spot where workingwith ■hthe city and-hf- [audio cut out] or training and i feel the deaf individuals have been left behind and how can we elimate thatand at this point it is a little murky but we need to start thinking how we can catch up oices we have. for example, some people are wo what do we do with that part and what will requirements look like for that? it is becoming a little convoluted for who is possible and what we can do versus what we are told we can't do. so, i think might effect the policy and we might need to do

revamping, but i think dsw does not have all that information and management might need to then w far as how we break down those categories, so if we have a dsw in one and the residents in a separate ■q context, how are we making sure that those connected and we are getting that access? because, in all honesty, they said, i'm soy, we just don't have that so it feels we are still in the dark ages with that and i wanted to put that information out there for you for thought. >> do you have a comment? >> for my part, we work with e department of human services, but i would li bring that back and have more conversation with them. i'm not sure

training is directly in my wheel house, but i can connect to the people who are there and orkid, i believe that you and i worked some together during the pandemic and you taught me so much, because there were things i did not ki learned by working directly with you, so these are the kind of relationships that help make progress. so, i will bring it back to ■vo leadership and i know that jennifer, conversation about this and so this is really imrtant information for me to hear and to bring back to the conversation, so thank you. >> thank you so much. >> the next one is denise. >> thank yocochair madrid. my information is more historical around training and outreach. years ago, pre-covid, the mayor's disability councilhad a

subcommittee in dealing with disaster preparedness, and on the subcommittee, we had key advocates for different agencies that provide programs and services for of clients with disabilities, and at that time we were working on a communication plan. naturally depending on the disaster and where it is happening and what's going on and at that time it wasn't completed by the time i left the committee, but they were putting a key communication plan around training and how to deal with depending on the na■wte of the disaster how to deal with clients not only in the shelters, but the community who are deaf and hard of hearing for them to get information. i think at that time there was a national and sorry, cant remember the name, database, where people could sign up to receive text alerts or an event of any emergency that was one of the

plans they were looking at to have people register. i said this it was years ago. and some of the things we dealt with is on the plans you have drills and exer■4cisedifferent drills for fire, earthquake, i hate to say it, active shooter and participation because i was a part that. we kind of covered drills around what disasters natural or otherwise. we also dealt with the advocates in dealing with people that would have to be placed in shelters, and the training nerent types of disabilities. ranging from vision impaired to mental health issues and if they had service animals or support animals, et cetera. i don't know the time. we also dealt with city all having evacuation chairs for people that needed to be evacuated where at

that time, if the wheelchair wasn't working or they didn't have access depending where they are in the building we had evacuation chairs. i don't know if that is helpful but i appreciate you revisiting this and coming to council and if we can help and give int more then happy to reach out. thank you for your time and listening. >> you are absolutely welcome. it really is good to know we have you a resource. bb light and same with alicia. i think our d greatly over theest layear. some things you are talking out pre-dated my work in this particular area of emergency work, but i am familiar with it. i know that carla johnson years ago worked on the evacuation chairs and i will say for the lifts like to be-the registrations have always been a problem, because they so rap idly we can't necessarily count on them, but the discussion does

come up periodically. people who have rely honesty, with pg&e i'm not always sure we'll get that list. there are other lists. there are legal efforts that have to be gone through. department of health is usually in the lead for those ■type of efforts because of health information et cetera, et cetera. having you all as a resource and be able to work as closely as we started help us, so if you look at our population, i think i was censu say it is like a 10th of people.■ fairly large number of people in the city and that is just the people that live here, because we have so many torests and are ■egvisitors and you know, commuters who have issues we may not have any familiarity with but

still need to support during a emergency, so let's continue the conversation and the more you speak out and we'll try to be good listeners and carry that through and that would be my commitment to you ■jat . >>--do you have any questions or comments? >> yeah. i-this is my first introduction ever to emergency planning, so i guess my question would be on a very simple practical level., let's say someone is disabled and live in a house and they have a stair lift and all the-there is a emergency, a storm or tsunami or whatever, stuck there. they can't get out ofthe house and they have no way to contact

anyone. could you talk about a situation like that in terms of your emergency preparedness plans? ■ó >> what -my response is that we really do need to continue to make more effort to have people prepared for themselves-there is self-preparedness we expect from our residents because we know as a city-for instance city workers could also be effected so we don't know quickly or how many will be able to respond. there arthings in place with human services and s that will do som wellness checks with people they are already engaged with, as far as day to day services, but i think our preparedness is really important. as many people as can

possibly get prepared in small ways to have a cash of some water and some food. your prescriptions, to have numbers of contacts you need, those efforts will make a big difference, but you are right, there are going to be people who are stuck in their home and without help. the fire department is usually our primary go-to as they are every day if we have a fire and someone needs rescue, and it is a situation that we can't hundred percent prepare for, so the more that you can prepare for yourself, the better. but we alsorecognize not everybody can do that, and that even if you are prepared, like i mentioned durable medical equipment, if you are prepared but you have to leave like you may not be able to carry the heavy battery or get your wheelchair down the stairs, so there are efforts that still need to be done to determine how we respond. some of this will happen in the moment, depending on the incident. that is the other thing,

incidents are ervadifferent. a earthquake is different from a storm, very different potential cyber-incident that might cuere lots of work to do and the good thing is san francisco as a whole is always making efforts towards that. we dont ignore it, we keep working with it. i would offer we can come talk again or have smaller group talks to determine how to fix some of these things. >> so, just to follow-up--what if someone is nts to get in touch with your office? >> we would invite you to probably talk throuthoffice on disability and then we have work groups that might be appropriate for that individual to join for instance. you could reach out to me and our contact information i think is being shared and we can talk about work groups that are open to input.

often the work groups are mad up rather then individuals, they are made up of organizations, so with a organization is usually a really good way to connect the city. >> okay, thank you. >> before i go to the staff, i have a lot of questions. i'm going to do one by one. one basic question i have for you both is, with a emergency, as you know, shelters are not wheelchair

accessibility to the city, so how do you mitigate and what is the to insure that those places that supposed to be emergency-- are accessible? >> so, we work with human service agencies when they celt up a shelter and that is a requirement they have been checked for accessibility. we are working on a new project that identifies all kinds of locations within our city that might be used for shelters, or other things, like of distribution, or when we had vaccine locations, that type of thing, and that list we are developing will have check lists on it so we can quickly goand see that they

have initially been checked with accessibility. will do oo just in time check for accessibility. their list. they use a red cross training so we are lock step with the red cross. >> so you tm■zdon't do it--some does it for you? >> to check the facility? >>. >> someone with better understanding of check the facility. >> your department-- >> our department does not do that. the human service agency is the accessibility. >> okay. the second one i have is, i'm curious-- you guys-you mentioned that

there is no individual--there aris only organizations that sits on working groups. how many--just curious on ■=■[l kinds of all kind th disabilities, or of types of will say, abilities? the last thing is, i how often you guys practice--how many of those-- that involves people with disability to identify those--

like you mentioned covid a minute ago. there i think it would be good to fy those gaps while--correct? your first question was about a individual, so i'll go there first. >> yes. >> we did work with the mayor's office on disability to identify organizations that represented a wide group of people, invited-i can't say everybody we invited joined us, invited those who are deaf or hard of hearing. from the vited people senior community. we invited people from you know, vulnerable populations that have different language access and that type of thing. we tried to grab a-everybody is

very busy now so grateful to have a number of people. >>-- >> well, debbie help me remember. i think we had a group that represents disability as well. we had independent living center. >> [indiscernible] >> okay. >> yeah, and we have been ing closely with debbie too to try to make sure we have a broad range of people. there is always open-a open door to ■ increase that group and the advisory group for us should be an ongoing group, so we are happy to talk who else you think should be representing that. and then the second question i think you had was about gaps and whether we've found some gaps? >> during exercise. during exe

>> yeah. >> we have. >> how many exercises do you do? >> do we do? >> yeah. >> we do many many exercises. right now we are focused on san francisco fleet week, which is coming up. that is a exercise we work with the military and the department of defense to understand when we overwhelmed and the state is overwhelmed and even the federal government, when they need to reach out to department of defense to send the things you see at fleet week like the ships and that sort of thing. we are doing that now, but regularly exercise the plans we developed, so the emergency operation plan is the new one, so at some point next year we will probably start doing exercises to test the plan to make sure the things we put in accurate and yes, there is a opportunity to invite people who have disability to be a part that. >> in to my question, have you

guys identified those gaps? >> we identified them during the response or the exercise. so, we go through the process of the exercise and exercise is based on a scenario, so generally we use something that storm, is likely to happen, and we havewhat who are the people who practice the exercise, and then afterwards, that after action meeting i talkeou later or two weeks later we gather those same players and we sit them down in or virtual meeting and talk about, how did this work? hodid other thing work? what did you see that was a problem and we keep them together in a master improvement plan and assign to departments. let's say they set up a shelter that was not accessible, then in the

after action meeting, we would say, look, hsa, that shelter you set up did not have access for wheelchair users and so then we would assign them to make those corrections the next time. that is a very simplified way to explain that, but that is kind of what happens. >> thank you for that explann.■6 next we can-- my question is-- you guys have a plan in place. i just curious, is there any information saying that if you have any issue or any questions about any need to call

x, y or z? >> i'm not sure i follow the question. >> you mean when the city activates the eoc to respond to incident? >> no. the question. for example, next week is pride parade, and you mentioned that you guys work with those big events just in case if an issue or anything like with those events, are there any place ys if someone, like myself, how to access accessibility or--let's say i'm

new to the city and i have only flier, are there any information that i found that i can contact? >> yes. what we do with special events like this is, generally not ou department, but another department works with the event-there is generally a event planner that is coordinating all ties. so, there is an event planner, and our city representative requires that event put out messaging and put out information. generally it is website. i can't speak for every event, but generally there is a e sort of information that information you are looking for. that would be my answer.

the city does work with these planners to make sure and i know on the site on our city site, there are guides for special events, like what you need to set up, what pathways you need so our city directs those event planners to follow those directions, but thereat isn't our department. thank you. any follow-up questions? >> yes. just short i think my input or my suggestion, i don't know if your policy would apply to this, but i feel like after considering it, maybe the emergency department might want to consider another priority for example if the housing--perhaps we need to think about prioritizing seniors if we are concerned about the housing not able to come down the stair in a emergency, so it is hard to know without a specific number, but important we think

of some kind of priority who comes first and i xoe know that would be a challenge, and i don't know how you might be able to strategy that, but prove to be difficult, but for me it is red cross. i tend tobe resisant. i know they are good and pride lot of things, but at the same time, there are other things happening. i hear other people who do use red cross and it caused a lot of or. for example, if there is a d wh? i'm totally stuck. that's one good thing to think about or have prepared on the back-end to have that community involvement with. k it would be good to have the community involvement to give you the feedbacks for your plan. just putting it out there, i think it is good to invite others and i think for fleet week, it doesn't have any access, so it it is just like a

last minute thing. how are you going do do something like that? >> okay. so that's a lot of things.think to continue his-jenny and i can bring back . for fleet week there should be accessibility and should be information on the web site and because we are planning with them, i have been told there is not. i will make sure our next planning meeting to talk to fleet week. so, those again, these kind of connections are great for that. >> thank you. >> did i answer the question now we are going to go to staff questions. >> i don't have any. >> okay. thank you andrea and jenny

reach out to us for any support and help that we might do something for you. >> this has been a really good opportunity and excited to meet you all, because again, our interaction with each other will really make this work anso, we'll talk to director johnston and get more stuff going down the pipeline. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> now we'll going to item, 6. the mod director's report. before i introduce, i like to introduce the council members. you have a opportunity meet with us.

i'm going to start with patricia. patricia, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? so the directors can know a little bit why you joined the council? >> control, would you please unmute patricia. >> i'm patricia aracand been a member of the council since last september. i joined the council because i'm concerned about disability access for disabled people in san francisco and i felt there was a lot of things that needed to be done. i am retired and i spent 43 years as a teacher, the last 25 as a esl teacher at city college of san

francisco, and that's about it. >> thank you patricia. now, i'm going to--just tell us little about us, briefly. >> hello everyone. council member orkid sassouni here i'm joined because i a■m involved with the city board and the only one that is deaf, so i am a resident of san francisco as well. san francisco for many years now, and i joined because i believe that we need to make some serious improvements and city wide for our services for individuals with disabilities and i'm a continuous advocate for that and i believe we can make these changes and those changes will have a huge impact down the chain and for good

reason. i'm happy we are making changes to the city for better and it is not for nothing and once we are able to help the city be able to see and hear our voices, we will make this ■zbetter and we will do better. that was the reason i joined the board. >> thank you orkid. we are going to denise now. >> thank you cochair madrid. i'll try to make it short, since i had the pleasure meeting the new interim director. basically i'm semiretired. i have been on the council 20 plus years . my disability advocacy background came from the private sector.alt wit implementation issues in the private sector. i was a lead steward. i worked on policy,

reasonable accommodation, education and sensitivity awareness for people with disabilities and on the board of a non profit i started representing employees thisabilities in the workplace and addressing those issues. the issues i'm interested on council is disaster preparedness, employment-it is a whole list and won't bore you. glad to be work wg people on the council and mayor office on disabiliissues and concerns important to our community. do to help make equality and better life here in the city for those populations. i did my best to achieve that goal. thank you foyour time. >> thank you denise. a i am alex madrid. i'm--since 2017 and i have been

self-advocate since i was in college at uc berkeley and now i work as a housing specialist in the non profit of san francisco. pa -- the physical aspect of accessibility and the programming accessibility. --anytype of events and involving people ywith disability and--

the city does a lot of--issue among stores that doesn't understand thatzr--that is a issue i'm interested in. i'm so excited to work with you and make a change for the better for the people with disabilities. maybe if you don't mind, can

i-- this is jennifer jensen and she's the new mayor's disability interim director. >> thank you very much and thanyou all for your introduction. so, little about myself. i worked for the city little over 20 years. during that time, the first 10 of it i was a chief of policy for the department of human resources and then i spent a few years as executive director of the civil service commission. i know very well the city's emp processes and systems. and then for the last 10 have been deputy city administrator and to educate you on what the city administrator does, the city administrator oversees about 25 to 30 depending how you count them, agency programs. my carmen chui is the city

administrator and has been a few years now and she reorganized the office to have for the deputies overseeing particular functio■ns. my function i oversee the public facing primarily public facing offices that includes, 311, animal care and control, medical examiner office, county clerk, treasure island, a number of them and mayor's office on disability. and office on disability during my entire time with thcity administrator fice so little over last 10 years so familiar with the work of the office and the staff. did you have any questions so far? okay. as you noted, i'm the interim direct, which means i'm not the permanent director. i focus on undertaking the search. it will be very difficult to find a unicorn like nicole bohn who

was wonderful, so with very large focus for me. in the meantime though, i am really committed to continuing to drive the office towards change and to make sure that accessibility is incorporated into the fundamental fabric of the city and how h residents, visitors, employees. so, with that, i guess i can go out of order. one clarification for the agenda item that was relayed earlier. i think the meeting in july is going to be canceled, but so we can have a strategic planning with the council to really talk about you know, the focus of the plan, the list of to to-do's the council already identify and also adding new things to the

towards the 35th anniversary of the ada so, i really want to focus on using portunity to put like i said, new things on our list, and then also talking to the council about how your time can be used more e productively so that you know, you can really help drive the initiatives we are talking drive what initiatives we drive. sorry, that was duplicative. we will be reaching out to you to schedule those kind of more impactful and focused meetings soon. this is all to say, the regular meeting of the mdc will be resume in september, but in the meantime, we will have a lot of work to together. and just additional adminirative logistical housekeeping for the public information the mod office

location we are on market street. the permanent office will be 1455 market street but we are in the swing space. it isn't ideal for productivity, so we are doing both virtual work, and also in person work in the office. this is to say that we are currently havi the public, for anybody when everybody will be in the office and individuals wishing to come to the office during other days can certainly call, e-mail to make an apointment and we'll happily meet th them. let's see-- i k that does

for the logistical administrative items. any quon >> okay. yes? [unable to hear speaker]

>> sorry, go ahead. >> sorry, quick question. normally the mod has tjthe publ video phone service set up in the office, but now it seems it has been removed, is that correct? so that means the person who is deaf who needs to use a video call would not be able to go to that aufsh. office. >> i have to refer that question to deputy director kaplan. i don't know how to answer that. >> we still have ■0 [audio cutting in and out] [unable to hear speaker] so, let's ta together with

john and figure out how we can do that, orkid. >> thank you. thank you.as ind space presents challenges. my hope is to--to at least be out of there before december at the latest, so really focused on driving that project. >> i have a question. the direc up. -- people who are staff members that would be interviewing the

perspective are there any thoughts on potential public participation, or any council members participation that selecting that individual by having a --? stion. i have not had the opportunity to discuss the process with the mayor or the city administrator yet. we are focused on closing out the budget, which is another part of my presentation, and that's a good ques we do not ever allow public participation in the process, because it is confidential personnel matter. obviously, people who are candidates

don't want to be outed to their employer that they are looking for other employment. i appreciate that and i think certainly what we can have additional conversations about, at least bringing you in and at least keeping you informed, absolutely. >> thank you. >> thank you. yeah. okay. les see-- next ■on my list for everybody's information--sorry, before moving on about the mdc. as you indicated earlier, focused on filling the mdc vacant positions is another of my goals and so i ilbe trying to focus attention on that as well. there is just a lot happening and everybody has been focused figuring how to solve the massive budget deficit. i renewed focused on tt and will be

pushing that. okay. so, policy issues on which mod is active or focud. we are currently in review of recent federal rule-making on disability rights, so that includes digital accessibility, that includes access to healthcare and accessibility as medical diagnostic equipment and--insuring access t39o sit a ehall for persons with mobility disabilities while the lift at the plaza entrance is being replaced. we are focusingon updating our ada grievance program and that includes the creation of a new database to enable better tracking of and resolution. we are focused on updating informational form consistent with roont update to the california building code, and we are also really focused on updating our website, which is i think

out of date, but also i like to focus with the council intention and assistance on making it more useful let's see--and alicia currently is working on updating our list of sites for prioritizing plan reviews and future capital funding. okay. let's see-- less then happy news. the san francisco budget and impact on disability issues. as you noted ier, the council sent a letter to the board of supervisors advocating for the fund to include the full $3 million in th year's budget for 24-25. the mayor did include that in the budget and so that has been included. i unfortunately have to report that won't necessarily áxresult in expanded

services, so much as retaining servicess. yeah. so it would be nice, but that is to make up for short-falls that we are dealing with. no-i will say where we are in the process for your information as i said we are going through the mayor submitted her budg we are in the middle of negotiation with the board of supervisors to make sure they don't cut further from what ■p■/ we have submitted. funny, not funny. but, so as of now, the $3 million has been included. to the extent individuals want to provide input on the process mment day at the budget appropriation committee, and individuals wishing to provide input, i believe it room 250 starting at 10 a.m., there is a ■ overflow

room downstairs in the light court in city hall. for more information welcome to reach out to the clerk's office or to our office and we'll get you that information. and of course, it is always televised on s fgovtv.ments. f happier things. et's see, so july is disability pride month as you know. july 11th, there will be disability pride celebration event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. hosted by the community living campaign. for more information you can reach out to staff. the website? >> [indiscernible] we sent out a publ announcement about it. >> great. thank you. 4o okay. another happy news, so thank

you mrs. kaplan. the kick off of disability cu now it is just virtual. next year they aim to coordinate to have the physical center unveiled with the 35th anniversary of the ada so exciting news. there is number of activities happening, so i believe the link is going to be-it isn't active yet but believe it is disabilityculturalcenter.org. we will put the information on the website. make a note that. a number of virtual program scheduled, there is night of disability cultu, the actual day the kick-off, july 12. cafe crip, july 26.bility portr and super fest family showcase, sounds fun, august 10. wewiwebsite for individuals interested

in learning more. let's see, the community alliance for disability advocates is beginning to plan for the 35th anniversary of e ada next july. as is the city. as i indicated i be looking to you for your advice and council and support identifying initiatives we want to drive leading up to the 35 anniversary. more to come on that. does anybody have any questions? i think i feel i went through a lot, but happy to answer questions and go over anything again if you like. okay, great. and that concludes the director's portion of the report. >> thank you director. now wea 15 minute break. it is 2:22 exactly.

please come back at 15 minutes. see you guys in 15 minut >> welcome back everybody.is al cochair for the mayor's disability council. today is friday. we are gointo item number 7, discussion item. next steps in implementation of charging stations report. presented by deborah kaplan,

city and counof san francisco, mayor's office on disability. >> so, as you may recall, in the april mdc meeting, you heard from the san francisco fellows, who had done a project looking into the feasibility of wheelchair ar the city. and i have a few slides for you to revi what you heard from them in april, and m several recommendations and presented options that were directed at you, the

mayor's disability council to determine what the next steps should be.■ so, what i've done is taken some of to just review and remind you of what they found and what their recommendations are and then i'll wind up with some specific questions for your consideration, hoping that by the end of this part of the agenda, we'll have some direction of where we need to go next to bring this concept closer to reality. as you recall, several community members submitted requests, say it

would reallymake a big difference in their lives and the options that they have for being able to be out in the community to have publicly acs wheelchair charging stations. and, i think for tho of us who use mobility devices, it's no surprise that the devices don't always take you where you want to go and leave you enough electricity to get back to where you came from. battery life can be unpredictable and sometimes i had this happen to me, you go out and only you realize, oh, it didn't fully charge last night.lower then i thought. so, in order tomeet that need and

provide for better safety for people with mobility disabilities, this concept is under consideration. there is one producer of wheelchair charging stations, and it includes a charger and other equipment in order to make it useful public use, and costs roughly $750 per chgi doing case study research, fellows found that there have sful wheelchair charging station programs in

new york, oregon, bellevue and mississippi. smaller jurisdictions then ours, but this idea definitely has proof of concept behind it. so, the fellows conducted outreach to many different sasco departments. the list includes, mta, the port, department of emergency n, the management, department of homelessness and supportive housing, recreation anpublic health, and also the fellows talked with the office of supervisor melgar. there was a great deal of interest. also met with the community alliance of disability

advocates and they conducted a survey of the public and received 82 responses, peop wheelchair or ■n mobility device users. and what they found from their is, people were interested in both indoor and outdoor proposed locations. there is support for the initiative widespread and more community outh would be useful for masure that all the possible catio are in alignment with the goals of particular projects.

the key take-away from the fellows research are that, because of their interest from several different city departments, it would really be ideal to have ■a lead agency to resolve challenges regarding ownership over instillation and maintenance, and to turn it into a cohesive program, rather then just individual instillations across the city without somebody carefully coordinating and monitoring how it is going. there is interest in pursuing legislative action and looking for support from the board of

supervisors. [indiscernible] allow for a broader platform for city departments to participate in. and there is a funding especially during this time when the energy people are putting into budgets is to find money to cut, not looking for ys to add new projects, but several of the programs that exist in smaller jurisdictions made use of grants and funding for their programs, so that is a possibility. and thi said earlier, indoor locations are preferred due to

concerns for user safety, better ability to deter vandalism, and higher potential to have staff nearby to provide assistance. outdoor locations arless feasible, however, there are people who want outdoor locations, because they might have a need for charging for recreation where it is an outdoor location or not during business hours. there are concerns that were raised by several people about safety and vandalism as something that needs be taken into account in designing the eventual program. the recommendations that came to you from the fellows are to either

individual agency implementation, or multiple agency implementation. individual agencies that expressed interest in the program and taking it on were the mta, recreation and parks and the public library, and individual agency leadership would allow for more discretion and control of the project without having to take into account different ways of doing things and different departments with different and faster implementation if it is ájust one entity involved in decision making, but if it istm project, there is lack of a

city wide approach, and some reinventing the wheel byindividual agencies doing the same project themselves, rather then in a coordinated way. multiple agency implementation strategy would include more departments and establish the possibility of adding more departments in order to ■ú expand the network more readily. but it would need a lead agency to oversee the project in terms of

funding and maintenance. a weakness of this approach is, there would be more need for more coordination and communication. and then, there were some slides that were in the presentation about the different commitment of specific departments. the mta is strongly committed to the project several potential locations to place wheelchair charging stations. recreation and parks is also interested and has several locations at different parks that would and the public library, particularly interested in having something

at the main branch. ■x and then, one interesting aspect of the research that was done was, the bellevue washington implementation of the project. they implemented 6 stations and it was done by their office of emergency management for disaster preparedness for wheelchair users. and similarly, the san francisco department of emergency management uld be involved, possibly as a lead agency, but certainly for the ■4 emergency management aspect of a project like this. departments that are interested in the project

anyhow, like the ■library, are also acting a shelters during emergencies. pursuing multi-agency implementation could occur under the auspices of the board of supervisors. hearing c an incentive for collaboration between the different entities involved in the project, and an ordinance or wo longevity and structure for a project. it is not likely during the current funding season that funds would be found from the current budget.

all gh the cost of the individual units is not very high, it would be to the possibility of finding money from existing programs. so, the recommendation from the fellows for further research included, looking into additional locations, to understand the feasibility, continuing outreach with city agencies, community based organizations and looking at whether there are any other jurisdictions ■that have projects or considering projects like this. and then putting together a plan with edneeds and costs and developing a ■funding

strategy.bx so, questions for you. which approach do you prefer? the individual agency implementation, or multiple agency implementation? should the board of supervisors hold a hearing, and what steps do you recommend being taken next convening a meeting of all interested departments, development of a more specific project proposal, research into potential funding sources, or other research or other next steps? and that's where we are.

>> are you looking for-- >> looking for discussion. >> for me, i think%■-- is no confusion who is doing what.■ñ comes to funding, i think multiple agencies would be beneficial. --i think i'm very interested ií

when we sit down with mod to discuss some kind of short-term and long-term ideas, implementation.think i w advantage having a■-- city administrator, i think it would be beneficial to see c

city might do or can do at will be beneficial. denise. >> thank you cochair madrid. thank you for the presentation, debbie. after reviewing the different and recommendations i was trying to find a happy medium with all three plans, because i'm look ing at a legislative perspective getting buy in from city agencies and i know funding is a tabu. grant resources from agencito a

funding. so, i guess if i have to pick one, i would probably think of the multiple agency buy-in, where you get city departments, such as-not speaking for top of my head, having conversation and probably already done so, with the department of emergency management and then working with those individual agencies and? ■ taking your recommendation into forming a partnership with them and then legislative wise to bring in the board of supervisorsor any of the departments from the city are interested in this so you have legislative buy-in and funding resource because you said this is worst possible time during the budget to ask for might have other avenues getting some sort of funding, because that key

thing besides getting legislative buy-in is where the money comes from and who will provide it,b and the agencies can maybe come to agreement with dement heads who says who wants to spearhead this once we give input and have a plan in place. those decisions can come later. that is as much as i can think about it at this time. i probably will have more thought later, but thank you. >> patricia. you have any thoughts? >> thank you alex. i agree with denise. i think this should be a multi-agency pursuit. if individual agencies are responsible they are in ■;5áa8their own lit silo and there should be uniformity related to

would definitely go with the multi-agency plan to the board of supervisors. it might take a little more time, but sense there is not a highly expensive project, it might go a little faster and might be easier to find money when you have all these agencies working together. thank y. -- >> say again? >> back to you, debbie. what's your next steps and suggestions to the questions? what to do next? >> i think-i understand what you said alex. i interpreit as, making sure

that there's a lead agency, and that there's one department that is overseeing and managing the whole thing. and, i think that's possible with a-and it essential with a multiple agency approach. it is really encouraging that there are so many departments that want to be involved and want to figure out how do this, and i think you know, another reason for having a multiple agency approach is, that the way the charging stations operate from a user perspective should be uniform because it is highly confusing if you t and these were the rules, and you go to another one, and it is a

entirely diffenuse it. and so, i think that's just another factor to take into account. i think this is also a kind of project because it is really low cost, it might be possible to implement a very small pilot with one departmaninto a that's going on in order not to wait until everything is all set ■■in stonñ >> is it possible to have a mod

to be the lead and have those three part of planning? >> i differ to the interim director. ■ [laughter] >> i'll speak to that. thank you mrs. kaplan. and thank you cochair for raising that. i do think at the very least pull the information together with respect to how much it cost, how it is installed, because i don't have enough information to that, but it may be simple as a spreadsheet understanding where these have been deployed, where the policies shed be and setting uniform kind of guidance and then if we have agencies like the library, understanding where they lrb installed and having regular maintenance and expectation. given the fact they are so low

in cost i think it is manageable trying a pilot program. absolutely, d we are happy to pull because frankly, the agencies are not going to be willing to implement either unless they have a better understanding of you install them, but at does this all mean. i think that is manageable and something we can try to focus on. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> are there--so, back to the presentation. do you have anymore discussion questions? >> no. we haven't yet gotten public comment on this and there may be some, and i think it would be very interesting to hear what people think. >> if you can read that information. >> we'll be happy to. if people joined recently to

make a comment, if you joined the webinar using your tablet or smart phone, webex app, click on the 3 horizontal dot icons and then click on, raise hand. the clerk will recognize you when it is 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 question and answer icons are located at the bottom of the video screen. if you joined by phone, please dial star 3 to indicate you like to make a comment. the clerk will let you know when it is your turn and now we have one person waiting r turn control, please unmute mrs.

sheila gunn. >> thank you. i assume [indiscernible] >> that is correct and you have three minutes. >> i was laughing very hard when debbie said that bellevue had connected funding to ems. the emergency department, because i going to say, i raised my hand to say before she said that, that the office of emergency services, oes has a program called, [indiscernible] that's the spanish word for ready, and they work with cbo's whorefolks who are adversely impacted in

emergencies. basically folks with access and functional needor disabilities. this funding, it is pretty open or can ■b, and i two cbo's to start with that i know about, but i'm francisco. i would recommend the senior disability action network and i would ■ral recommend, ilrcsf. much about [indiscernible], but it would be a ally i'm certain. i think that other agencies and orgs could get the funding and or

fema state and federal, but i don't know all the if, and and buts about i g would have to be done, but i would recommend that. i want to actually add public comment at the end of everything, because i agree webex is not accessible. that is for another meeting. that's all for now. >> thank you for your comment. are there any public comment at this time? >> there is another caller. control, please unmute mrs. allison lee. >> hi. are you all able to hear me okay? >> yes, we can. >> great. my name is allison and working for department of aging and adult services

and very fascinated with this topic here. i am attending as a guest. in the presentation it was mentioned that are three agencies that were interested in implementing the implementation, which was municipal transit agency, [indiscernible] san francisco public library. i am curious, have any of these agencies started next steps or planning or anything to this implementation started? >> not yet. is that the plan for that of the [indiscernible] next steps are? >> this is debbie kaplan. well, mod will

that and we will definitely make sure that we bring das into the loop. >> [indiscernible] >> i did-i was on the review panel for a oject that received das funding that went to the independent living resource center for wheelchair repair, and so, that is also something to think about, and talk with das about whether there is any synergy there. >> thanks so much ■mfor the update, debbie. >> thank you. >> thank you for omment. do we have anymore public comment at this time? >> no more callers and i don't

see any other persons. >> anything in q & a? >> nope. >> thank you, debbie. keep us p >> definitely. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> now, we are going to item number 8. have any correspondence at this time? >> we do not. >> thank you. now, number 9, general public comment. >> let me double check, because i'm waiting for clarification. apparently there is one more i cannot see here. would you please confirm or

the person? the person went away. >> okay. >> thank you. >> should we a general public comment at this time? >> i'm sorry, there is another person. >> okay. >> control, please unmute the person. >> me again. so, i'm sheila gunn and i'll say my contact info, it public anyway, here because i tried to put it in the chat and i could not figure out where the box was.is not accessible. it is not accessible on the computer as it was my android, but there

are much better meeting platforms then this, and i am not a accessibility trained expert or certified in anything, i have just been the web since 1995 and problematic access needs to happen, especially at places where folks ma■y not be able to get there physically and they want to come virtually and one question i like to know at some point is, how you guys got to manage to let people comment virtually, cafigured how to do that, which is embarrassing? anyway. so, i put the information in the q & a and had to figure how to choose one person because i wanted to send to all catalyst, but apparently couldn't, or maybe i misunderstood the way

webex works, because it is a long paragraph my screen reader has to read, so maybe i wasn't patient enough. the paragraph is about a minute long. so, sheela gunn, and i'm the emergency preparedness coordinator at the center for independent living in berkeley, and my e-mail is sgunn@thecil.org. my phone number is 510-422-5068. i would have happily put it in the chat so everyone can see, but tried and

i like to--i heard a lot and glad i was here and maybe more collaboration in the future, or brainstorms or whatever. >> thank you for your comment. >> [indiscernible] >> will be--oh. debbie kaplan, i just like to say thank you sheila and we will be in touch with you, particularly about your specific issues that you had with webex, because hopefully we can pass that on to cisco, and because we have been communicating with them about accessibility and so this would useful to us. thank you for your participation in the

meeting. >> now, we are going to item 10. information item. comments and announcements from the council. >> none at this time. thank you. >> do you have any comments? patricia? >> control. >> sorry. i do, but agree with sheela, webex is not particularly user friendly online, and especially for disabled people and older people who are usually the disabled people who are not computer internet natives.

yeah. john has been great help with me today to ring out a problem just for the general public, it is a bit difficult. zoom is a lot easier. >> thank you, patricia. for me, i don't have any )b announcements or comments. now i am going to do the last thing. journment■ before i do that, i want to give thanks to the interpreter, the public, the staff, and-- i hope we will

work together going forward and with that, without any objections, we are going to call it adjournment. again, thank you and see you next time. [gavel] [meeting adjourned]

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and it's something that i'v■■% or. [♪♪♪] >> i started working for the city in 2005. at the time, my kids were pretty young but i think had started school. i was offered a temporarily position as an analyst to work on some of the programs that were funded through homelan se. i ultimately spent almost five years at the health department coordinating emergency programs. it was something that i really enjoyed and turned out i was pretty good at. thinking about glass ceiling, some of that is really related to being a mother and self-supposed in some ways that i did not feel that i could allow myself to pursue responsibility; that i accepted

treading water in my career when my kids were young. and as they got older, i felt more comfortable, i suppose, moving forward. to step forward. i wish that i had earlier stepped forrd and i feel really strongly, like i am 100% the right person forhisjo. i cannot imagine a harder time to be in this role. i'm humbled and privileged but also very confident. so here at moscone center, this is the cod command center, or the c.c.c. here is what we calledun -- call unified command. this is where we have physically been since march, and then, in this unified structure. so it's the department of emergency management, the department of public health,

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honestly, i'm not sure how 're getting through it. this is beyond what anyf ever expected to experience in our lifetime. what weare, and really, the de of our that for every single city employee that has been working around the clock for the last 11 months, and i also speak about myself. every day, i have to sort of h okay, i'm really tired, i'm g going. it is, i would say, the biggest challenge that i have had personally and professionally to be the best mom that i can public certify chant in whatever role i'm in. ■ i just wish that i, as my younger self, could have had someone tell me you can give it

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qualified before we tend to step forward. i think we need to be a little more brave, a little more exploratory in stepping up for positions. the other thing is, when given opportunity, really think twice before you put in front of you the reasons whyou should not take that leadership position. step up so that we can show the person behind us that it's doable and so pow changes for other women that is going to make the possibility for their phs easier than ours. other women see me in it, and i hope that they see me, and they understand, like, if i can do it, they can do it because the higher you= get, the more

leadership you power. the more power and leadership we have tha can put out you are watching san francisco rising chris manor. today's special guest is sarah phillips. >> hi, i'm chris manors and you are watching san francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and eare imagineing the city. the guest today is sarah phillips the executive directoro ofworkforce development. welcome to the >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed

released the roadmap comprised to ■9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang impact. changing by the covid 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out busine them remember long-term structural impa■ework. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how people shop. we have seen a lot of progress rchlt we are 9 months in and

significant things we have seen is efforts creating permitinant seicpeople experiencing homelessness is dramatic. we increased the number of shelter beds dramatically and take-up of thds dramatically, and there is more work to do. safety side there are exciting things that happened. we increased our police pay among the highest in the bay area which is a important thing for recruitment. police recruitment across the country is down so recruiting the best we can means we need to give a high pay set. august the highsh return in te. we see 75 decrease in retail theft and 50 percent reduction in car break ins which is

quality of life crime san francisco experienced so there is real progresses we are seeing on clean and safe sides. one thing important in the mayor roadmap we are not trying to get back to 2020 vision. ink covid showed havi a with p offices isn't the best downtown it can be. life use t is a opportunity to downtown. >> music and a great way to bring people to a specific location. golden gate park we had lots of events in plazas throughout the city. can you talk about those and if there is upcomi■ng ents too? >> i think you touched on something key to the mayor road map. for san francisco and particularly san francisco downtown to move forward and be successful as a great american

city, it is about bringing people together because they want to be together not because they center to be together and music is a strong part that. the planet concert sear zb■ries coming up and happening throughout the city not just golden gate park but downtown locations are a great example. there arsmaller examples as well. the landing at--is a za we constructed in the mayor roadmap where two streets come together akwraisant to a couple restaurants cled to cars in daytime, chairs and seating and throughout the week they have bring people together after work. they participate in atrking on setting up for next year which is really exciting is our sf live program and that will bring a ■%full 2024 concert series where we match local

venues bringing their work and partnership to useian square, music center plaza and embark cadero. we will be able to announce concert series through the sf- >> you mentioned vacant to vibrant, that program has a lot of attention lately. can you talk generay what exactly that program is? >> yeah. so, we opened a program where we put out a call for landlords willing offer groundfloor space for free for 3 to small storefront operators who had a proposal what they would do for 3 to 6 months. it is pilot. we had a incredible amount of interest. we had--i'm forgetting the

number of landlords, but more then we expected because we are in a place where commercial real estate understands they need to come to the table tomak lively and resulting in a transition where the groundfloor is seen less as a money making operation, but more as a leader to lease upper floors. if you have a active ground floor yields better on the other 80 percent of the ■x building you are trying to lease. that was great, a lot of cooperation scr over 700 small business or operators responded to at call. it is pop up. there is no intention this would result in forever small businesses, but there is certainly a hope and i think what we are hearing, i don't have the final data, but there different spaces, some are colocated, which is why the difference, and out of those 9 spaces that are being leased fo7 of them are in discussions for long-term

leases so the spaces continue. it is the program. a second and third traunch and hoping to pilot in ■■"her neighborhoods with other partners. it is not an inexpensive program because there is a lot of capital th■vat goes into popping up for short amount of time but what we are seen is they visit the businesses, the businesses are successful and san francisco want to support this activation so hopeful to expand it. >> that's great. can you talk ■ca bit about why piloting programs and testing things is so ■l÷u >> absolutely. you know, i would say not only the important generally but important in san francisco specifically. the benefit of pilot programs in the reasons they are really important here is, it lo us to try something and say, there may be consequence but let's understand those in real time rather thenwastart a strategy while we think about them on paper and if they are

too great we can modify the program as we mta has ed the strategy whether a bike lane or other to figure how best to use the street? is this working? is it working for bikes and cars and buses? maybe not, let's switch it around and pilots have been important to oewd to particularly because we tend to have the ability and the mayor's support through the budget process to pilot infor p or rfp process where we can put out a small amount j.of fundin try activation and small public think the benefit there is, if it doesn't work we tried it and had the benefit of seeing real time and when it does work, we are able to uplift that and move into a permanent strategy and that is where our agency

turns over something we piloted to another agency because it is part of the city operating pilots also give people hope. when we have the short-term whether it is physical public plaza or activation that shows change is possible and allows them to vote for what they like. >> lastly, in lith light of the current ai boom, do you think there is a way to leverage those new changes to take a bunch of san frcisco's status as a tech hub? >> i do, i think they work together. san francisco right now has a strong vacancy problem in our office space. and there is a back-story to that. our zoning downtown has not prevented other uses, in terms of permitting uses of the

multi-story building has been open including allowing residential but we put other barriers, cost and code barriers et cetera and what happened also during thpreeviou the amount that tech comp■

just in 2023 alone and there is still more demand out in the market, more ai companies looking for space so that is a growth spot abrbing someof the vac ancy. e opportunity too is prices for downtown lease s have also dropped and that opens up a breath of opportunity to a breath of companies that were priced out in 2018, 2019, 2020. always been great at starting companies and allowhere. when our prices are too high it prevents that growth so now we are a super fertile ground for more start ups and invasion on the smaller end of the sector because they can come and enter our market and we have the space to offer. to talk about san francisco's assets and leveraging that, we sit at the epicenter of really great university and educational institutions. we are between uc berkeley and stanford. the graduates produced just

from those institutions alone stay in the bay area and want to rise up and work here, provide a real opportunity for companies and companies to grow absorb a certain amount of office space with ai tech. with that, we are interested in increasing our human capital growing graduates. downtown university is something the mayor is open to pursuing and we are in conversations with uc berkeley we love to have as a partner in our downtown and then residential conversions are a great partner to that. as we build back the office space, people will want to live downtown again and we have a number buildings that can be converted to residential. the costs are high. mayor breed and her panwrtners the board made significant changes to reduce the we waived fees for change of uses in the downtown area. there are code changes that will make the conversions

easier. there is a ballot measure on the march ballot that will attempt to reduce costs for those as well. it is ongoing process and none of those changes we talked about absent ai growth but inst growth downtown, arts growth downtown■■ and residential conversions downtown are long-term changes so t i do think there is a opportunity per your question, but we also need to be patient because what we are talking about is is a real shift to the make-up of the downtown since from the growth it has been starting at since the turn of the century so that isn't a 2 year change, that a we center to watch as it goes. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate you spending the time here today and your creative vision and positivity, so thank you so much. >> thanks so much for having me and hope you all downtown and shop. >> that is it for this episode.

for sfgovtv i'm chris manors, thanks (music). >> i started the o w a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start and retire and i did was important to me so i bought them oust and two wes later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them i■nt a

space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employer$" on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think

also for everyone to do something. we hadn the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that hadqd terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound we could do. >> we got ourselves back and dew how for that people will ow up if i was

blown away but also had the comi can't let anyne down i have to make the space serviceable s while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this building used to be a- and one of the first one weq started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us

putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those more fabulous. and inspires otherf people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and ■hostili we change the

abatement appeals board.ng of i like to remine everyone to mute yourself if you are not speaking and is roll call. president chavez, present. vice president neumann, here. commissioner alexander-tut, here. commissioner meng, here. mmissioner shaddix, here. commissioner sommer, here. commissioner williams, here. we have a quorum. next is land acknowledgment. >> the abatement appeals board, we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestl ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in co