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it will be also hybrid meeting. thank you for joining us. can you please conduct the roll call? >> yes. i'm going to call to do the roll call now. council member alex madrid here. sheri albers, absent. council member here, present. council member denise senhaux, present. council member patricia present. thank you. cochair alex. >> could you the agenda?

>> yes. of the public--i'm. sorry about that. number one, is welcome and roll call.action item, reading and approval of agenda.public comment. number four, information item, cochair report. number five, information item. report from the mayor's on disability. number six, discusintegrating disability access and functional needs into the emergency planning. then we will have minutes break and we'll proceed with number seven, discussion item, next step implementation of leckric wheelchair charging station report.

and number eight will be spawnance. correspondence. nine, general public comment. 10, information item. council meand announcements. number 11 will be item, adjournment. thank you. >> cochair madrid, if i might-- >> yes. it is on. >> if i change in enda. [difficulty hearing speaker. microphone does not appear to be on] move their presentation [indiscernible] right after cochair report, and

[indiscernible] after that. >> alright. any objection? seeing none, go ahead. so, at this time, we are going to action number 3, general comment. the instructions. item >> 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 council, which are not meeting agenda. each member of the public may address the council for up to 3 minutes, unless the cochair determines thatin the interest of time, comments may be limited to a shorter time when there is a large number of public comment.

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>> alright. the next item is our presenters andrea and jenny, you may join us, please. we are going to have the presentation on the topic, integrating into the city emergency planning and it will be presented-copresented by andrea jorgensen and jenny. >> thank you. i think these are working. okay. thank you. that working better? you can hear me? great. wonderful. thank you to mayor's office on dislt inviting us here. we are pleased to share a brief overview of how we integrate access and functional needs into our city emergency planning efforts. we will do sort of a general overview of what means to be setting

up for planning and training and jenny has just finished our we are excited about so she'll talk i wanted to-- really briefly give people a idea of some of the efforts that we doing in our department. we have the responsibility of watching over traiexercising and drills, our credentialing efforts and course, our plans. there are many kinds of plans that are efforts done across the city. this is specific ncy response plans, so just to keep that mind. training does provide knowledge abilities that are helpful for us to understand and perform tasks as we are developing our capabilities.drills give us a opportunity to work in a low risk environment, so we can become familiar with validate the plans, so

>> sorry. so we have written them train qualified to respond our emergency operations and perform the tasks at hand, and the plancument, how we will implement our reconcept of operations. so, i will mpass this to jenny to talk about emergen >> next sle, please. so, andrea introduced about the emergencth about gency operations plan ich serves our the core base plan for 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 function plans, esf that will bit. for the eop in particular, so we did out what it is. our core base plan that speaks to how the city responds to any

type of incident or event that may happen, either a no notice incident, anything think about flooding to earthquakes other hazards to pre-planned events like j]the pride parade events coming city wide event. that eop described very broadly who was involved in the city and the structure we use to coordinate activities actions across our city departments and our whole community partners. this is it isn't meant to be a super detailed exactly how something will it does describe all the actions that different city departments take to include a big piece of it, well talk about this as well, but a large piece of it is speaking how we activate the city emergency operation center, eoc, our central coordination point for multi-agency response operations in and we do activate that when there is any sort that may have city wide impacts so spthe

presentation, but pin a nutshell, that is what the eop describes is how we might respond to any sort of incident in the city. and then, as i mentioned, we g have these esf attached to the base plan described discipline specific eration. while the eop broadly who, how what of response operations, these go into more detail about different disciplines. we'll go through a couple of them as well in a bit that really ilnt aspects response operations. so, i will run through these three i don't expect anybody to capture all memory, but because the emergency operation base plan is detailed about authority and other things that are important to of our response, but there's so much information in a city that we use a method breaking it out

into other emergency support functions,b which is also a guide fema gives us, which is federal emergency management agency.d transportation, esf2 is works and k engineering and esf4 to continue on, we got esf8, which is our public health and medical annex. the urban search and rescue is esf9. ion that esf8 and have said esf5 are the next plans we will these plans have been langbecause of response to the pandemic, so we are trying diligently to catch up and get all the plans refreshed.a lot from our response to covid. esf10 is oil spells. 11 is animal response, 12, law enforcement. a lot i should mention, many with our partners who are the ct matter exserts so we don't do this in a vacuum and

that is we wanted to talk about today is how we other agencies and particularly the community. and just to continue esf--did i miss? esf14 ry 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 is doing. esf16, community support. 17 is volunteer management and 18 is cyber-unified command are unique there are jurisdictions in the country and in the state that do this a little differently and have added other annexes to their eop, but for us these have been very important to add. i think i will pass over to jenny. this is why you are here. we want to talk about involve the whole community. >> thanks andrea. so, to-as we talked about the

emergency plans, like andrea mentioned it is a joint collaborative effort to update plans, to also train and evaluate and exercise when it comes to involving our part disability access functional need partners we do this in a couple we engy partners specific to the development of our recent update to the emergency operations plan. dem are visory groups to provide targeted input. we stood up disability access and fu committee with partners at mod so thank you debbie anand also being able to bring other we stood up a community advisory group that brt k]some representatives from different community based organizations together as well. so, we have worked with those two groups, the last couple few

months to look at the draft together and provide and just collaborate on what went in there to insure we are really prioritizing responding to the needs of our most vulnerable populations in a is our first priority because we understand great majority of people can sortof--would be able to respond to incident and they would be able of figure out those next steps with to make sure we are prioritizing any communities or individuals that may face additional challenges in response in recovery. we set up the two advisory committees to insure our s are inclusive of all these different divermm needs. we aremeeting some californiathat inclusion as well. the next our whole community partners is through city wide efforts, so whole community

also means all our different city departments that come together in a emergency. the has a disaster preparedness coordinator prog 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 on specifto include evacuation that we are working on now. and lastly we wanted to touch how we activate our emergency operations center, eoc. as we mentioned, we activate our eoc when there is a incident or event that may have city wide impact.hn either no notice events, the severe ke major-like the winter stoms we had in the last year or extreme heat days. we also activate for anned event like

the pride parade coming up. we activate for apec last year. that was a major activation for us as a ci within our eoc organizational structure, we do 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 and considered across all the kinds of emergency response activities going on in the eoc.up a community branch within our eoc. the intention of the community branch is to have a team that really focuses establishing two communication when there is one was the esf16 for community support annex and that is san francisco, something i think that the city is really pr because it prioritizes and pushing to for ment with

our community members. >> grailt. lastly i want to talk about improvement planning and one discovered anwhile talking about engaging communite things when we do action improvement work, we gs and that's the work that needs to be done, so wecan correct those gaps the next time we have to respond to something. some of those things we know still need improvement.e done a good job in progress towards things like language access for instance. understanding debbie and been working really hard to get us to understand that durable r people if they have to evacuate. do they take it with them or leave it behind and the city helps find another resource? these are things we are having constant conversations about, because we do this after action or improvement planning have a activation, whether it is a event or like that

is planned, or if it is a storm no known event we have a after action meeting when all involved in th both that went well, because we also need to document the things that go well so do this, but the things that may not sl gone as well.we obviously noted there were some fencing issues that the people that needed to access their rides something like that were not necessarily able to do so or appointment they had scheduled, so those are things we can help with through the community branch and also through of the gaps that exist. we try to be very with those and not white wash them and make sur groups or the departments to have some sort of authority to make change. that's really important to us. and that is called the corrective action. we document those, try to assign to a particular to help make those changes and we try to assign a we expect those changes to be made. our plans are 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 document once the stamp is on there and th director of our department, mary ellen carol says it tago and mayor says it is good to go, even then we can till make adjustments, so why we want to make sure we constantly do improvement documentation and adding to our plans or making changes as needed. i think that is everything for us now. i don't know if you want to do quhave someone in-- one sec. thank you. g to do a comment right now. please read the instructions for public comment. g 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 versed at webexat ce with it was horrible two years ago and i dreaded this. i never tried it on a computer though. i'm sheila gunn, the emergency preparedness coordinator at center independent living in berkeley. from home in fice on fruitvale avenue and i came to say hello and i to learn about san scss planning as regards folks with access and needs, and older adults and other folks into

't know where this was in the process or if it been seen by this y council or not. by the hello debbie. debbie and i worked in emergency preparedness context regarng ven't seen you in a while, but good to at least hear your voice.dp but, i stand ready to assist. i know--the center for independe living is a sister org to the independent of san franci you all are aware of. i'm not interested in taking over or any that. i feel that we can all learn from each francisco is doing stuff that cities in should be doing that aren't and maybe we are stuff that you aren't and i think that sharing ideas and thoughts is never a 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 lot of resources, we know a lot about mutual aid- >> mrs. sheila, you have 30 seconds left. >> i just will put my e-main the chat and i will also send it to the e-mail recommended. [indiscernible] you are welcome to reach out. >> thank you for your comment. do we this time? >> no more comments council member. >> thank you. now we're going to ask council

members questions? >> hello everyone. hello council members. thank you so much for your presentation today. i know that this is a new area for seen the content grow. one thing i sthave concerns with is related with electrical power especially for deaf individuals dependent on technology cannot hear any radio or communication that way and would not be able to hear a siren and this is order to evacuate or have that information, so ita real challenging for deaf individuals in the community who are not hearing for either of those contexts. i am concerned that we don't have enough n,t, education around this, and i also feel that it might be true that it's part of uity

for all for us to have something set up. something as on earth day we didn't have any access and thatvery public event put on the police department, the fire department, everyone there, but we didn't have any kind of access for a so that was one thing i have a concern for.residents here in san francisco, and another part is i am a city employee, daw does require me to have that part so i'm hoping-they have not been able to provide access either, so there is nothing we can do and we are kind a spot where working with the city and-hf- [audio or training and i feel the deaf individuals have been left behind and how can we eliminate that and at this point it is a little murky but

we need tothinking how we can catch up and what choices we have. for example, some people are physically unable to at do we do with that part and what will requirements look li 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 that might effect policy and we might need to do revamping, but i think dsw does not have all that information and management might need to be taken more in depth then how we break down those categories, so if we have a dsw in one and the residents in a separate context, how are we making sure that those connected and we are getting that access? because, in honesty, they said, i'm sorry, 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 >> for mywe work with the department of human services but i would th i'm not sure that the dsw training is directly in my wheel house, but i can connect to the people who 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 know that i learned by work with you, so these are the kind of relationships that . so, i will bring it back to our leadership and at jennifer, you and i can have futher conversation about this and so this is really important information for me to hear and to bring bathe conversation, so thank you. thank you so much. >> the next one de >> thank you cochair madrid.

my information is more historical around training and outreach. the mayor's disability council had a subcommittee in dealing er preparedness, and on the key advocates for different agencies that provide programs and services for a variety of clients sabilities, and at that time we were working on a communication pl naturally depending on the disaster and where it is happening and whtime it wasn't completed by the time i they were putting a key communication plan around training and how to deal with deon the nature of the disaster how to deal with clients not only in the j-shelters, but the community who are deaf and hard of hearing for them to get informtion. 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 emergency

that was one of the planey were looking at to have people register. i said this all changed. was years ago. and some of the things we the plans you have drills and exercises. we had different 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 with people that would have to be placed in and the training around dealing with different people with different types of ranging from vision impaired to h issues and if they had service animals cetera. i don't know if that is helpful. that was at we also dealt with city all having evacuation chairs for people that needed to be evacuated where at if the wheelchair wasn't working or they didn't have access depending in the building

we had evacuation chairs. i don't know if that is helpful but i iting this and coming to council and if we can help and give input more then happy ur time and listening. >> you are absolutely welcome. it really is good to know we have you a resource. debbie has brought this to light and sa i think our efforts improved greatly over t you are talking about 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 change so rap idlycan't necessarily count on them but the discussion does riodically. pg&e has some records of have rely on electricity, but honesty, with pg&e i'm not always sure we'll get that list.

there are legal efforts that have to gone through. department of health is usually in the lead for those type of efforts, because of health information et cetera, et a resource and be able to work as closely as we over the last year or 2, it does help us, so if you look at our population, i think i was looking at the census data, i are want to say it is like a 10th of people. mber of people in the city and that is just the we have so many torests are visitors and commuters who have issues we may not have any familiarity with but st emergency, so let's continue the conversation and the more you sp try to be good listeners and carry that through and that would be my commitment to you at this moment. >>--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 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 or whatever, and they stuck there. they can't get out of the house and they have no to contact anyone. could you talk we really do need to continue to make more effort to have people prepared for themselves-there is self-preparedness we expect from our resideas a city-for instance city workers could also be effected so we don't know how quickly or how

many will be able to respond. there are things in place with services agency and disability adult services that will 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 we can possibly get prepared in small ways to have a cash of some water 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. thusually our primary go-to as they are every day if we have a fire and someone needs rescue, and it is a that we can't hundred percent prepare for, so the more that you can prepare for but we also recognize not everybody can do that and that eyou

are prepared, like i mentioned durable medicayou have to leave like you may not be able to 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 very different from a cyber-incident that might cut off electricity, so there is still ing is san as a cis that. we dont ignore it, we keep working with it. i would offer again or talks to determine how to fix some ofth >> so, just someone is disabled wants to touch ffic probably talk ce on have work groups that might be appropriat that individual to l@join for instance. you could reach out and acthink is being shared and we can talk groups that are open to input. often the work groups are mad () up rather dividuals, they are made

organizations, so connecting with a organization is usually a way to connect to 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 you know, shelters are to the city, so w do you mitigate and what is the plan to insure that those places th

supposed to be emergency-- are accessible? >> so, we work with human service shelter and that is a requirement is they have been checked for acceility. we arworking on a new project that identifies all kinds of locations within our city that might be used for shelteor other things, like commodity points when we had vaccine locations, thing, and that list we are developing will have check lists on it so we can quickly go and see that they have initially been checked with accessibility. but before hsa sets up a shelter they will do oo just in time check for accessibility. it is very much on their list.red cross training when they are setting up a shelter so we are lock step with the >> so you don't do

it--someone does it for you? lity? >> someone with better understanding of accessibility will check cility. >> your department-- >> our department do the human service agency is the department that will check >> okay. the secondf one i have is, i'm curious-- you guys-you mentioned that there is no individual--there is onworking groups.l2 how many--just curious on all kinds of people with disabilities, or all kind of types of i will say,

abilities? the last thinis, i am just curious how often you guys practice--how many those-- that involves people with disability to identify like you mentioned covid a minute ago. there is always gaps.it would be good to identify those gaps while--correct? >> yes. 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, so we invited-i can't say everybody we invited joined us,

but we invited those who are deaf or hearing. we had invited people who were from the senior community. we invited people from you know 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 member. i think we had a group that represents disability as well. we had independent livi >> [indiscernible] >> okay. >> yeah, and we have been working 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 we are lk who else you think should be

and then the second question i think you had was about gaps found some gaps? xercise. >> during exercises? >> yeah. >> we have. >> how many exercises do you do? >> do we do? >> yeah. >> wemany 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 defense to understand when we are 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 e ships and that sort of thing. we are doing that now, but exercise the plans we developed, so the emergency operation plan is the new at some point next year we to test the plan to make sure the things we pu opportunity to invite people who have disability to be a part that. >> going back to my question, have you

guys identified ps? we identified them during the response or th dn so, we go through the process of the exercise and exercise is based on a scenario, so generally we use earthquake or a storm, something that is likely to happen, and we have what we call, players who are the people who practice the exercise, and then afterwards, that after action i talked about, that's when maybe a week later or two gather those same players them down in or virtual meeting and talk about, how did this work? how did this 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'shelter that was not accessible, then in the after action meeting, say, look, hsa, that shelter you set up did not have access for wheelchair

users and so then we would assign them to that is a very simplified way to explain that, of what happens. >> thank you for that explanation. 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 issue or any questions about any type of disability, you 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. let me repeat the question. for example, next week pride parade, and you ed that you guys work with just in case if an isthat, right? ose events, are there any place that says if myself, don't know about how to access accessibility or--let's say i'm new to city and i have only flier, are there any n that i that i can contact?

>> yes. what we do with special events is is, generally not our department, but another departmeth the event-there is generally a event planner that is of those activities. so, there is an event planner, og and our city representative requires that event planner to put out messaging and put out information. generally it is website. i can't speak but generally there is a website that has those of access information that information you are looking for.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 you need to keep clear, our that type of thing, our city directs those event planners to follow those directions, but thereat isn't our department. >> thank yo any follow-up questions? >> yes. just short. i think my input or my

suggestion, i don't know if your licy would apply to this, w@bufeel like after considering it, maybe the emergewant to consider another priority for example concerned about the housing not able to come down the stair a emergency, so it is hard to know without a specific number, but important we think of kind of priority who comes first and i xoe know that would 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 to be resisant.good and provide a lot of things, but at the same time, there are other things happening. i hear other people who do use red and it caused a lot of complication with the plan or.there is a housing fire and where do 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. and i think it would be good to have you just putting it out there, think it is good to invite others and i think for fleet week, 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. i think you are right, we need to conversation, and this-jenny and i can bring back . for fleet week there should be accessibilit information on the web site and because we are planning with them there is not. i will make sure to bring that back in our next planning to fleet week. so, those again, these kind connections are great for that. >> thank you. e question? >> yes. now we are going to go to staff questions.

>> i don't have any. >> okay. thank you andrea and jenny for coming. reach out support and help that we might do something for >> this has been a really good excited to meet all, because interaction make this work and so, we'll to going down the pipeline. >> thank you so much. >> now we'll going to item, 6.mb the mod eport. bei introduce, i troduce the meet i'm going to start with patrici patricia, can you tell a bit about yourself? the directors can know a

little bit about you and why you the council? >> control, would you please unmute patricia. >> i'm patricia arack and been a member of council since last september. i joined the council because t disability access for disabled people in san francisco and i felt there was a lot of thingsto be done. i am i spent 43 years as a 25 as a esl teacher at ege of san and that's about it. >> thank you patricia. now, i'm going to--just tell us a little about us, briefly.

>> hello everyone. council member. council member orkid here i'm joined because i am involved with the city board and the only one that is deaf, so i am a resident of san san francisco for many years now, and i joined because i believe 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 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 better and we will do better. that was the reason i joined the board. >> thank you or 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.retired. i have been on the council 20 plus years . my disability advocacy background came from the private sector. i dealt with policy issues, ada implementation issues in the private sector. i was a lead steward. i on disability accommodation, education and ople with disabilities and on the board of a non profit employees with disabilities in the workplace and addressing those issues. the issuesinterested on council is disaster preparedness, employment-it is a whole list and glad to be work wg people on the council and disability and addressing issues and concerns important to our unity. and what we can do to help make ality

and better life here in the city for those populations. to achieve that goal. thank you for your time. >> thank you denise.alex madrid. i'm--since 2017 and i have been self-advocate since i was in college at uc berkeley and now i a housing specialist in of san francisco. -- the physical aspect of accessiby and . --any type of events and

involving people with disability and-- the city does a lot of--issue among stores that doesn't understand t is a i'm interested in. work with you and make a change for the better for the people 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 thank you 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 and then i spent a few years as executive director of the civil service commission. i the city's employment processes and systems.10 years i 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.chui is the city now ganized the office to

have for the overseeing particular functions. my function i oversee the public facing primarily public facing offices that includes, 311, animal care and control, er office, county clerk, treasure island, a number of them and mayor's and i have oversee the mayor's office on disability during my entire city administrator office so little over last 10 years so familiar with th the staff. did you have any questions so far? okay. as you noted, i'm the interim direct, which means i'm permanent director. i focus on undertaking the very difficult to find a unicorn like nicole bohn erful, so with that in mind, it is 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 city and how we approach visitors, employees. so, with that, i guess i can go out of order. one clarification for the agenda 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 the list of to already identify and also adding new things to the list to drive towards the 35th anniversary of the ada next july. so, i really want to focus on using this opportunity to put like i our list, and then also talking to the council about how your used more effectively, more know, you can really help drive the initiatives we are talking about and drive

what initiatives we drive.was duplicative. we will be reaching out to yo to schedule those kind of more impactful and focused meetings soon. l to say, the regular meeting of the resume in september, but in the meantime, we will have a lot of work to together. and just additional administrative logistical housekeeping for the public information the mod office location we are on market street. the permanent office be 1455 market street but we are in the swing space. it isn't ideal for productivity, so we are doing both virtual and also in the office. this is to say that tly having drop-ins for members of the public, for anybody when everybody will be in the office and individuals wishing to come to the office during other can certainly call, e-mail to make an

apoint gistical administrative items. any questions? >> no. >> okay. yes? >> [unable to hear speaker] >> sorry, go ahead. >> sorry, quick question.normally the mod has the public video phone servicin the office but now it seems it rect? so that means the person who is deaf who needs 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 the equipment.

[audio cutting in and out] [unable to hear speaker] talk together with john and figure out how we can do >> thank you. >> that thank you. i should say, as indicated, the space presents challenges. my hope is to--to at be out of there before december at the latest, on driving that project. a question. the director search is -- people who

that would be interviewing rspective candidates, are there any ts on potential public rticipation, or any council members participation onthat selecting that individual by having a --? >> that is a good question. i have not the opportunity to discuss with the mayor or the city administrator yet. we are focused on closing out the budget, which is another part of kímmy presentation, and that's a good question. 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 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 ed, abso >> thank you. yeah. okay. on everybody'about the mdc. as you earlier, focused on filling positions is anotofqso i really be that as well. there is just a lot happening has been focused figuring how to ssive budget devset. deficit. i renewed focused on that and pushing that.issues on which active or focused. we are currently in recent federal rule-making on disability rights, so that cludes digital accessibility, that includes accessibility as

medical diagnostic equipment and--insuring access to sit a ehall for persons with mobility disabilities while the lift at the plaza entrance is we are focusing on updating our ada grievance program and that includes the creation of a new database ')to enable better tracking of complaints and resolution. we are focused on updating informational form consistent with roont the california building code, and we are also really updating our website, which is i think out of date, but also i like to focus with the council intention and assistan on making it more useful to individuals. let's see--and alicia currently is working on updating our list of sites for prioritizing plan reviews and okay. let's see-- happy news.

the sansco budget and impact on you noted earlier, the council sent a letter to the board g for the dignity fund to include the this 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 result in expanded serv servicess. yeah. so it would be nice, but that is to make up information as i said we are going through the mayor submitted her budget. we are in the middle of negotiation with the board of supervisors to make sure they don't we have submitted. funny, not funny. but, so as of now, the $3

million has been included. to the extent individuals want to prthe process this coming monday is public comment day at the budget appropriation committee, and to provide input, i city room 250 starting at 10 a.m., there is overflow room downstairs in the in city hall. for more information you are certainly welcome to reach out to office or to our office and we'll get you and of course, it is always televised on s fgovtv. okay, other announcements. f happier things. let's see, so july is disability pride month as you know. july 11th, there willbe disability pride celebration event from 11 a.m. to hosted by the community living campaign. for more information you can reach out to staff. do we have information about that on >> [indiscernible]

we sent out a public announcement about it. >> great. thank you. okay. another s, so thank you mrs. kaploff of disability cultural center will be july 12. now it next year they aim to coordinate to have physical center unveiled y of the ada so exciting news. there is number 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 culture, the actual day cafe crip, july 26. disability portrait day july 2 and super fest family showcase, sounds fun, august 10.

we will put some of the information on the website learning more. let's see, the community for disability advocates is beginning to plan for the 35th anniversary of the ada next july. as i indicated i will be looking to you for your advice and council and support 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 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 we are taking éza 15 minute break. it is 2:22 exactly. please come back at 15 minutes.

see you guys in 15 minut-& >> welcome back everybody. my name is alex madrid, the cochair for the mayor's disability council. today is friday.we are going to item number ol7, discussion item. next steps in implementation of electric wheelchair charging report.ty and county of san francisco, mayor's office on disability.

>> so, as you may recall, in meeting, you heard from the san francisco fellows, who had done project looking into the feasibility of wheelchair charging stations in the city. they have done research and i you to review what you heard from them in april, and they made several recommendations and presented options that were directed at you, the mayor's disability determine what the next steps should be. so, what i've is taken some of their slides to jureview 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 ne go next to bring concept closer to reality. as you recall, several community merequests say it would really make a big difference in their lives and the options that they out in the community to =jhave publicly accessible wheelchair ons. and, i think for those of us who use mobility devices, it's no

surprise that the devices don't always take you where you and leave you enough electricity to get back to wh came from. battery life can be unpredictable and sometimes i had this happen to me, you go out and only then you realize, oh, it didn't fully charge last night. or, the charge is lower then i so, in order to meet and provide for better safety for with mobility disabilities, this concept is under consideration. there is one producer of wheelchair charging stations, and itudes a charger and other equipment in order make it for public use, and $750 per charging

station. doing study research, fellows found that there have been successful wheelchair programs in new york, bellevue washington and mississippi. smaller jurisdictions this idea definitely has proof of concept behind it. so, the fellows e udes, mta, the ks port, public utility commission, the library, department of emer and supportive housing, recreation and parks, department of public health, and talked office of supervisor melgar.

there was a great deal st. theyalso met with the community alliance sability advocates and they of the public and received 82 including 45 people who are electric wheelchair or mobility device users.and what they found from their research is, pein both indoor outdoor proposed locations. there is support for throughout the city, and more community outreach would for making sure that all the possible locations are in alignment with goals of particular projects. the key take-away from the fellows search are that because of

their interest from several different city departments, it would have a lead agency to resolve challenges regarding ownership ov turn it into a cohesive program, rather then across the city without somebody carefully coordinating and monitoring how is going. there is int in pursuing legislative action and looking for support from the board of supervisors. [indiscernible] allow for a broader platform for city departments and there is a funding gap, especially during the

energy people are to find money lo add new projects, but several programs that exist aller jurisdictimade use of grants and their programs, so ility. and then as indoor c locations are prdue to concnsbetter ability to deter vandalism, and higher potential to have to provide assistance. outdoor locations however, there who want outdoor locations, because they might have a r recreation where it is an outdoor location or not during business hours. there are concerns that were raised by several people about and vandalism as something that needs to be

taken intoaccount in designing e eventual program. the recommendations that came from the fellows either have individual agency implementation, or multiple individual agencies that expressed interest in the program and taking it on were the mta, recreation and parks and the public library, and individual leadership allow for more discretion and control of the project without having to take into account different ways of doing things d different departments with different operations and faster implementation ifjust one entity involved in decision making, is

individual department running a project, there of a city wide approach, and some reinventing the wheel by individual agencies doing the same project themselves, rather then in coordinated way. a multiple agency implementation strategy would include more departments and establish the possibility of order to expand the network more readily.uneed a lead agency to oversee the project in terms of and maintenance. a weakness of this approach is, there would be more meetings involved basically and ne

coordination and communication. and then, there the presentation about the different commitment of specific the mta is strongly committed to the project and has ntial locations to place wheelchair charging statio recreation and parks is also interested and has several locations at different would and the public library, particularly interested at the main branch. and ting aspect of the research that was done was, the bellevue washtiof they implemented 6 stations and it was

done by their office of gency management for disaster preparedness for wheelchair users. and similarly, the department of emergency management could be involved, possibly as lead agency, but j0 emergency management aspect of a project departments that are interested in the project the library, are acting as emergency shelters during . a public hearvide an incentive for collaboration between the different entities involved in the project, and an ordinance or

legislation would insure longevity and structure for a project. it is not likely during the funding season that funds would be found from the ent budget. all though, since the of the individual units is not very high, it worth looking into the possibility of finding money from so, the recommendation from the fellows for further research include into additional locations, to understand the feasibility, continuing outreach with city agencies, community based organizations and looking at whether there jurisdictions that have projects or considering projects like this. then

putting together a plan with predicted maintenance needs and developing a funding strategy. so, questions for you. which ap the individual agency multiple agency implementation? should the board of supervisors be asked to hold a what steps do you recommend next convening a meeting of all interested departments, development of a specific project proposal, research into potentia or other research or other next steps? and that's where

>> are you looking for-- >> looking for discussion. >> for me, i think-- multiple agency-- so there is no confusion who is doing what. when it comes think multiple agencies would be beneficial. --i thinki'm very interested in --public library sit down together and

when mod to discuss some kind of long-term ideas, implementation. i think i want ke this advantage having a-- y administrator, i think it would be benef what the city might do --i think what will be beneficial. se. cochair madrid. thank you for presentation, debbie.

after reviewing the different and recommendations i was trying to find a happy medium with all three at a legislative perspective gettin agencies and i know funding is tabu. grant resources from agencies that may have access to alternative 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, king for them, just off the top of my head, having conversation and probably already done so, with the department of those individual agencies taking your forming a partnership with them and then legislative wise to bring in the board of supervisors or any of the departments who are interested in this so you have

legislative buy-in and funding resource this is worst possible time during the budget to ask for money, but since the agencies might sort of funding, because that will be the key thing besides getting legislative buy-in is where the money comes from and who provide agencies can maybe come to agreement with department heads who says who wants 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 t have more thought later, but thank you. >> patricia. >> thank you alex. i agree with denise. i think this should a multi-agency pursuit. if individual they are in their own little silo and there should be to this project, so i would definitely go

with the board of supervisors. it might take little more time, but sense there is not a highly expensive project, it might go a little faster and might you have agencies working together. thank you. >> -- >> say again? >> back to you, debbie. what's your next steps and suggestions to the questions? what to >> i think-i understand what you said ex. i interpret it as, making sure that there's a lead agency, and that there's is overseeing and managing the whole thing. and, i think that's with a-and it essential with a multiple

agency approach. it rtments that want to be involved and want to figure out how do another reason for yhaving a multiple at the way the charging stations operate ro pertive uniform because it is highly confusing if you went to one site and it worked this wawere the go to anotherit a entirely different way to and that's just another factor to 3vtake into account.this is also a kind of project beis really low cost, it might be possible to implement a very small pilot one department and work it into a larger project while that's going on in to wait until everything is all set

>> is possible to have a mod to be the lead and have those three agencies part of planning? >> i differ to the interim [laughter] thank you mrs. kaplan. and thank you cochair for raising that. i do think at the very least mod does need to pull with respect to how much it cost, how it is installed, because i don't have enough information to that, but it may a spreadsheet understanding where these have been deployed, where the policies shed be and setting uniform kind of guidance and 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

absolutely, and we are happy to pull together some resources, because frankly, the agencies are not willing to implement either unless they have a better understanding of you install them, but what does this all mean. and something we can try to focus on. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> are there--the presentation. do you have discussion questions? >> no. we haven't yet gotten public comment on this and there may be some, would be very interesting to hear what people think. >> if you can that information. if people joined recently to make a comment if joined the using your tablet or smart phone, webex app, click on the 3 horizontal then click on, raise

hand. the clerk will recognize you when it is your turn. you may also use feature in webex webinar to make a comment. it is located on the top part of the video after touching the scusing a desktop or laptop computer, raise hand and question and answer icons are located 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 person waiting her turn. control, please unmute mrs. ank you. i assume [indiscernible] >> that is correct and you have >> i was laughing very hard when debbie said that bellevue had

the emergency department, because i was going to my hand to say before she said that, that the office of emergency s, oes has a program called, [indiscernible] that's the spanish word for read work with cbo's who reach who are adversely impacted in emergencies. access and functional needs or disabilities. , it is pretty open or can be, and i recommend two cbo's to start with that i know not well versed in all i would recommend the senior disability action network and i also

recommend, ilrcsf. i don't know much about be a ally i'm certain. i think and orgs could get the funding and or fema related g, possibly dhs funding state and federal, but i don't know all if, and and buts about all those things so i guess studying would have to be done, but i would recommend that. i want to actually add public comment at the end of everything, is not accessible. that is for another meeting. that's all for now. >> thank you for your comment.blic comment at this time? >> there is another caller. control, please unson lee. >> hi. are you all able to hear me okay?

>> yes, we can. >> great. and working for department of aging and adult services and very fascinated with this topic here. i in the presentation it was mentioned that there are that were interested in implementing the municipal transit agency, [indiscernible] san francisco public library. i am curious, hathsteps or planning or anything to get this implementation started? >> not yet. >> okay.lr1for that of the [indiscernible] next steps are? >> this is debbie kaplan. well, mod will be working on that

we will definitely make sure that we bring das >> [indiscernible] >> i did-i was on the review panel a project that received das funding that went to the independent resource center for emergency wheelchair repair, and so, that is to think about, and talk with das about whether there synergy there. >> thanks so much for the update, debbie. >> thank you. >> thank you for your comment.anymore public comment at this time? >> no more callers and i don't see any other persons. in q & a? >> nope. >> thank you, debbie. please keep >> definitely. >> thank you. >> thank you.

>> now, we are going to item number 8. correspondence. do we this time? >> we do not. >> thank you. now, item number 9, general >> let me double check, because i'm waiting for clarification. cannot see here. would you please confirm or unmute the person went away. >> okay. >> thank you. we have a general public comment at this time? >> i'm sorry, there is another person.

>> please unmute the person. >> me again.i'm sheila gunn and i'll say my contact info, it is public anyway, here the chat and i could not figure out where the box was. webex is it is not accessible on the computer as it was my android, but there are much g platforms then this, and i am not a accessibility trained expert or i been using the web since 1995 and problematic access needs to especially at places where not be able to get there physically and they want to question i like to know at some point is, how you guys got to manage to let people mment virtually, because [indiscernible] hasn't figured how to do that, which is embarrassing?

anyway. so, information in the q & a and had to figure how to choose one pesonndbecause i waall catalyst, but apparently couldn't, or maybe i misunderstood the works, because it is a long paragraph my screen reader has to read, so maybe the paragraph is about a minute long. so, sheela gunn, and i'm the emergency preparedness coordinator at the center for indeliving in berkeley, and my e-mail is sgunn@thecil.org. my number is 510-422-5068. i would have happily put it in

the chtried and couldn't. so, --i heard a lot and glad i was here and ma in the future, or thoughts or brainstorms or whatever. >> thank you >> [indiscernible] >> we will be--oh. debbie kaplan i just like thank you sheila and we will be in touch with you, particularly about at you had with webex, because hopefully we can pass that on to cisco, and because we have been communicating with be very useful to us. thank you for your participation in >> now, we are going to item 10.

information item. comments and announcements from >> none at >> do you have any comments? patricia? >> control. >> sorry.ry, i have to agree with sheela, webex and especially and older people who d people are not computer internet natives. help me today to ring out a general public, is a is a lot easier. >> thank you, patricia. for me, i have any or comments. now i do the last thing. adjournment.

before i do that, i want to give to the interpreter, the public, -- i hope we will worgoing forward and with that, without any objections, we are going to call it adjournment. again, thank you and see you [gavel] [meeting adjourned] t every day not

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>> i started working for the 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 homeland security. almost five years at the health department coordinating emergency programs. it was something that i really enjoyed and turned outetty good at. thinking about glass ceiling some of ta rel mother and self-sup i did not feel that i could allow myself to pursue responsibility; that i in my career when my kids were young. and as they got older i suppose, been asked to step forward. i wish tad earlier stepped forward myself, and i

feel strongly, like i am 100% the right person for this i cannot imagine a harder time to be in this role. privileged but also very confident. so here at moscone center this is the covid command center or here is what we calledun -- call unified command. have physically been since march,) and then, in july we developed this unified structure. so it's the department of emergency management health and our human services hughesing partners so primarily the department of housing and human services agency. so it's sort of a three-headed coordinating and operating everything related to covid response. and now of course in this final phase it's mass vaccination. the first year was before the

pandemic was extremely busy.the fires, obviously that both we were able to provide mutual support but also the impact quality. we had in 2018, the worst air quality ten or 11 i'm sure you all remember it and then, finally, the day the sun didn't come out in san francisco, which was in october. the orange skies, it felt apocalyptic super scary for people. of those things people depend on government to say what's happening. are we safe? what do i do? department of emergency management's role is. public service is truly that. it is such an incredible and effective way that we can make change for the most vulnerable. i spend a lot of my day in problem solving mode so there' of conversations with people making connections,

identifying gaps in resources or whatever it might be, and trying to adjust that. the pace of the has been nonstop for 11 months. it is unrelenting, long days more than what we're used us. honestly i'm not sure how we're getting through it. this is beyond what any of usd to experience in our lifetime. what we discover is how strong we are, and really the depth of our resilience, and iat for every single city employee that has been for the last 11 months and i alsomyself. every day i have to sort of have that moment of, like okay i'm really tired, i'm weary, but we've got keep going. it issay, the biggest challenge that i have had to be the best mom that i can be but public

certify chant in whatever role i'm in. i just wish that i, as my younger self could haveyou can give it and to give a little more nudge. so indirectly, people have because they have seen something in me that i did not see hadi data that women have lost their jobs and their income because they had to take care of their safety nets. all of those things that we depend onsharing, you know being together with other kids isn't thought oh, if my kids were younger, i couldn't do this job but that's a person that's younger than me that has three children we want them in leadership positions, so it shouldn't be hat they're more capable than they think they are. men will go for a job whether they're qualified or not.

be 110% qualified before we tend to step forward. i think we need to b more brave a little more exploratory in stepping up for positions. the other thing is when given an opportunit think ut in front of you the reasons why you should not take that leadership position. we all need to step so that we can show the person behind us that it's doable and so that we have the power to make the changes for other women that is going to make the possibility for their paths ours. other women see me in it and i hope that they see me and they do it they can do it because the higher you get, the more leadership you have and power. the more power and leadership we have that we cansf3m

you are watching san francisco rising with chris manor. today's special guest is sarah phillips. you are watching san francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and eare imagineing the city. the guest today sarah phillips the executive director of economic

welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the cityture. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed ed to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang laby the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small them relong-term structural impacts. how often we are in and how much office space had headquarteraed in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there b-5ehas been a long-term change up a how we performs and covid-19 took a would probably take 10 to 15 years happofern the e to 2 years so saw people shop. we have seen a lot of progress

rchlt we an09 months in and significant things we have efforts creating permitinant services and homes for dramatic. sed the number of shelter beds dramatically and take-up of the beds dramatically, and do. on the safety side there are exciting things that happened. we increased our police pay among the bay area which is a important thing for recruitment.g0 police recruitment across the country is down so recruiwe need to give a high pay set. august the highsh return in graduates. we see 75 decrease in retail theft and 50 k ins which quality of life crime san francisco experienced so there is real progresses we are seeing des. one thing important in the p7 maroadmap we are not trying get back

to 2020 vision. i think covid showed having a downtown sitting at offices isn't the best downtown it can be. i think it is a opportunity to bring 24 hour life use music and concerts is a great way to bring people to tion. golden gate park we had lots of events in plazas throughout the city. can you talk about those and if there is upcoming events too? you touched on something key to the mayor road map. for san francisco and particularly san francisco downtown to move forwgreat american city, it is about bringing people together because they want to be together not to be together and music is a strong part that. concert sear p and happennot just golden gate park but downtown locations are a great example. there are smaller examples as well the landing at--is a new plaza we constructed in the mayor roadmap where two streets come

together akwraisant to restaurants closed to cars in daytime, chairs and seating and throughout the week they have lunch time and evening music to bring people together after work. they participate in that. something we are working eñon which is really exciting is our sf live program and that will bring a full 2024 concert match local work partnership to useian square, music center plaza able to announce concert series through the vacant to vibrant, that program has a lot of attention lately. can you talk generally what exactly that pryeah. so, we opened a program where we put out a call for landlords willing to offer groundfloor for free for 3 to 6

month jz small business or storefront operators who had 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 me to the table to help make our groundfloor lively and resulting in a transition where the a money making op more as a leader to lease upper floors. if you have a floor yields better on the other 80 percent of the building you are trying to lease. that was great, a lot of cooperation scr or operators responded to that call. it is pop up. there is no intention this would result in forever small businesses, but therhat we are hearing, i don't have the final data, but there are 17 activators in some are colocated, which is why the difference, and out of those 9

spaces that are being leased for free, now 7 of are in discussions for long-term leases so the spaces continue. it is the program. we are hopeful to have a nch other neighborhoods with other partners. it is not an inexpensive program because there is of capital that goes into popping up for short amount of time but what we are seen is they visit the businesses, the san francisco want to support this activation so hopeful to expand it. >> that's great. can you talk a bit d testing things is so important? >> absolutely. you know, i would say not only the important generally in n ancisco specifically. the benefit of pilot programs in the reasons they are really important here is, it allows ing and say, there may be consequence but let's understand those in real time rather then waiting to start a think about them on paper and if they are too great we can modify the program as we go.

has absorbed the strategy whether a bike lane or other use the street? is this working? is it working for bikes and cars and buses? maybe not, let's switch it around and rtant to oewd to our office particularly because we tend to have the ability and the mayor's support thto pilot things through request for proposals or rfp process where we can put a funding, try activation and small public plaza, see if it works and i think the it doesn't work we tried it and had the benefit of seeing real time and when it does work, we are able move into a permanent strategy and that is where our agency turns over piloted to another agency because it is part of the city operating procedure. pilots also give the short-term whether it is physical public

plaza or activation that shows possible and allows them to vote for what they like. >> lastly, in lith light of boom, do you think there is a way to new changes to take a bunch of san francisco's status as >> i do, i think they work together. san francisco right now has a office space.is a back-story to that. our zoning downtown has not prevented other usterms of permitting uses of the multi-story building has been o residential but we put other barriers, cost and code barriers et cetera and what happened also during the height of our the amount that tech companies were willing to pay for office space bid everything out so we-without intentionally zoning single use downtown, we de facto became a single use downtown and thereat is the

opportunity you are out. now because downtown was so convertible from work from home, particularly as tech based downtown was and how muthe market in the office spaces we are seeing high vacancy now, all most 30 percent so there is of square feet but that presents a lot of opportunity. we have the ability to absorb expansion of the strong at. we have seen over 800 thousand square feet of ai space leased just in 2023 alone and there is out in the market, more ai companies looking for space so that is a growth spot absorbing some of the ancy. the opportunity too is prices for downtown lease s have also dropped and that opens up a to a breath of companies that were priced out in 2018, 2019, 2020. san francisco has always been eat at starting companies and allowing them to grow here. when our prices are too high it prevents that growth so now we r

more start ups and invasion on ñ, the smaller end of the sector because they can come and enter our market and we have the space to to talk about san francisco's assets and the leveraging that, we sit at the epicenter of really great we are between uc berkeley and stanford. the graduates produced just from those institutions alone stay in the bay area work here, provide a real opportunity for the start ups to build their companies and companies to grow here so we confident certain amount of office ace with ai tech. with that, we are interested in increasing our capital growing graduates. downtown university is something the mayor is open to pursuing and we are in las a parter in our downtown and then residential conversions are a great partner to that.the office space, people will want to live downtown again and we have a number buildings that can be converted to residential. are high. mayor breed and her partners on

the board made significant changes to reduce the costs. in the downtown area. there are code changes that will make the conversions easier. there is a ballot measure on that will attempt to reduce costs for those as well. it is ongoing process and none of those changes we about absent ai growth downtown, but institutional growth downtown, arts growth downtown and residem changes so one thing i want to say recollect i do think there is a opportunity per your question, but we also need to be patient because what we real shift to the make-up of the downtown since from the growth it has been starting at since the turn ofn't a 2 year change, that is a 10 year change and we center to watch as it goes. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate you spending the time here today 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.

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