trouble accessible. restaurants only have to be accessible if they are available to your customers and clients. and actually does not cover employee access to the restrooms. we have other priorities that come into play. [inaudible] you want that inspected to come out before you get a that letter. it is not only your obligation, but it is the right thing to do. you want to be disability accessible. you want more customers. the best way to do that is to start planning. when you are choosing, ideally, your inspector would have a background in inspection, design, and construction. that means we have some excellent general contractors out there that could be excellent task inspectors or building inspectors as well. in order to get the legal benefits, the protections that are important, you want your inspection to be under that theory that is how you can get that 90-day [inaudible] as you start to interview your inspectors, i would ask them to a lot of questions. do not rely on just the resume. what you're rea

unfortunately, they had access issues, visibility access issues. we have been working closely with many of our partners year today to educate about these -- many of our partners year today to educate about these issues. also in terms of board guidance. i want to thank all of you for coming. many of you may have assistance. i know many merchants could not be here. please do it share this information with other merchants in the area. we have virginia from the office of small business. we have roger from the bar association. no carla johnson from the office of disability. -- we have carla johnson from the office of disability. i want to especially it acknowledge my colleague to help us get the resources and brought legal expertise to the table. i do not want to take too much of your time. thank you for coming. >> thank you, supervisor chu. i want to express my admiration for a supervisor chu's commitment to you. so, from our office, what we heard, many small businesses were receiving lawsuits regarding it the ada. tonight we will hear about the legal

it is ada accessible and is reached by the 28, 30, and 91 bus lines. with its rotunda, columns, uncut the reflecting waters against the eucalyptus trees, it is one of the most romantic settings for special dates, and memorable proposals. it is also a perfect spot where you can relax with that special someone while listening to the water and fountain in the lagoon. beautiful to view from many locations, and inside is an ideal place to walk around with your loved ones. the palace is the most popular wedding location in the city park system. reservations for weddings and other events are available at strecpark.org. shakespeares' guard and refers -- has plants referred to in shakespeare's plays and poems. located near the museum and the california academy of sciences, shakespeares garden was designed in 1928 by the california spring blossom association. flowers and plants played an important part in shakespeares literary masterpieces. here is an enchanting and tranquil garden tucked away along a path behind a charming gate. this garden is the spot to woo y

units pows people who need accessible units layers subsidies on new construction, accessible units so that they are also affordable. often new construction buildings are not subsidized with section 8. they're tax credit buildings so while they're lovely and new and accessible, they're not affordable to the folks at the very lowest income level whopz need those units. we've tried to get funding from a person and could be housed with the mayor's office and you heard about the number of complaints they received, how many of them came from housing situations. we'll love to see an effort to resolve the issues at the lowest conflict level. so i want to offer to join forces. i also want to say that there's a lot of work that unfortunately has gone into many, many, plans over the years and it's frustrated sometimes to see those plans take a lot of time and energy to develop and sit there on the shelf. most recently there is the latest analysis of impediments of the housing that the mayor's office put out. many of those issues haven't been addressed including more money for fair house outreach

support is there and they don't see why they should access those services. it's difficult for them to file a complaint. there are not going to be putting in complaints if they don't understand. if they don't try they don't understand they can file a complaint. but if they file a complaint there's no solution are they're maybe a fear of retaliation. so one of the things we want to suggest we need multiple channels to be talking about the city services in the different languages and that includes local media and a also talking through organizations and also through elected officials and city agencies. i think it's important that 311 continue to do their outreach and a lot of times people think that 311 is they see that's how they get the bus schedule. so talking about the 311 and many things it involves especially, if it came from city departments and city officials and i think we maylize our quorum by noon i'm trying to be respectful to you you started up the language network but i want to make sure you understand our time constraints. and that's perfect we h

they're not accessible. the machine itself, you know, there's a kind of a post, it has what has a hose sticking out the side and that's the connection. the machine i think it fine. i think the manufacturer has done their fact and it's easy to use for someone in a wheelchair. i don't think we're talking about blind people and others with disabilities, however the charging all happens in parking spaces. state govern's office of opr which is the office of planning and research produced a guideline which doesn't really require the ada minimum nor does it address california building code minimum for parking spaces or for any special feature that the public uses either in a private accommodation or in something that is city funded. the ones out front, look at them when you leave. there's three. there's no place for someone to get out of their car or van because they're regular sized parking space without accessible parking spaces. the code i read have to provide accessibility and we have an odd situation right her

i want to continue to see the language access as a priority for the city. i think lots of great points were made and a putting our money where our mouth is in priorities to the city. i see how we're a disrupting english culture by helping our folks and it's great that san francisco and oakland p are leading the way on this. i want to say that by a number of the points raised increasing the translation and bilingual staff hiring was critical and also utilizing partnership and expanding the outreach by departments is incredible as well. i think highway the city complies with the departments it's uneven and i think better consistency. and also continuing the great partnerships and a leadership programs by occ with community based groups is critical. and as a final step the points about considering the tier two departments this should be tier one departments is critical as well. i'm looking forward to working with others from occ and the community in advancing some of these improvements to strengthen our language access ordinance and our language policies in th

how does health reform propose to expand access too insurance? it requires that people have insurance and it gives them more options to obtain it. the requirement for people to have insurance is called the individual mandate as the supervisor mentioned previously. most but not all u.s. residents will be subject to the mandate which becomes effective on january 1. those that are not subject to the mandate include undocumented individuals, that will be the largest proportion of individuals not subject to the mandate. those experiencing hardships such as homelessness, people with incomes below the threshold for filing federal tax returns which is about 9750 dollars per year, the incarcerated, those are the religious exemptions. >> my apologies, do you have copies of the slides for the committee. >> i'm sorry, i do not, i apologize. >> continue, please. >> anyone who is subject to the individual mandate and fails to show klein which will be done through their tax return, financial penalties will apply, the penalty in the first year is $95 which is lo

health care, and having access to health care is a human right. as a city that is strong to have equality for all, please show this regulates to how we treat san francisco residents health care. >> thank you. i just want to note for the audience, we want to move the meeting along, to i would ask that you refrain from applause, you can do hand signals if you want, but we want to make sure we respect your time and we give everyone an opportunity to speak, so thank you very much for your patience, go ahead. >> hi, supervisor, my name is susan fang, i'm a health policy [inaudible] with the chinese progressive association, i was also born and raised in san francisco, i'm currently a medical student, so you know, i'm really proud that san francisco, having been born and raised here, that san francisco has taken leadership to making health care accessible to everyone and achieve health equity. so, we talk about how folks are being left out and how some people are still not going to be covered and not be able to afford health care even with the subsidies,

and you have access. >> the access is already there. >> and in what way? >> the door on the side of the house. >> you already have access. >> it is build with the house. >> so there is no property there that you could open the door on to? you just... >> it is the property that i am responsible for has always belonged to someone else. >> so things were done... >> don't talk over me. i have a question for you. >> okay. >> which is you have a door to the side of your house. >> right. >> and you open it. and it goes on to what? >> it goes on to a little landing and up to mars street. >> with stairs there currently? >> yes. >> that is an existing stairway. >> yeah. >> i didn't put it there. >> okay. >> but the door is framed into the house. >> i understand the door part. i meant that i guess that i am maybe, what is going on here then? is it that you already have the permit and you built it already? >> no, i bought a house with it there. >> and could you i am missing something, here. and i think that... >> and should we have them come up and you can finish the

it is important we have access to clean drinking water. i saw the map of the tap water stations and i'm concerned i didn't see any in the southeast sector, right. and we know that's where plenty of african-american and latino folks live. we also know that it's important for us to be out reaching to immigrant communities so that they have the benefits of the [speaker not understood] basin as folks mentioned. also we notice chill green adolescents in san francisco are drinking 2 or more sweetened beverages per day. in latino community it's a third of children. in the api community it's a quarter of those children. two or more sweetened beverages per day resulted in obesity, heart disease, diabetes, et cetera, given what we know about the science behind that type of consumption. i really encourage you all to look at making sure we get tap water stations in the bayview and the mission, chinatown, and other communities that are experiencing disparities with regards to obesity and overweight. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other members

>> there is not a designated accessibility coordinator. there are a number of event professionals with specific expertise in ada, who are familiar with all the various guidelines. but there is not a one single ada coordinator. >> maybe next year put that on the agenda. thank you very much. is there any more questions? >> sure. and through the chair, thank you for the opportunity. thank you adam for a very comprehensive overview of the accessible future at the america's cup. we heard a lot of great things about the event last year and i know that some of our council members attended and got to view those beautiful boats out on the sea. and i just appreciate the willingness on your part to take the lessons learned from last year, and to just make this event so much better, too. so i am very, very appreciative of that. i think we have heard some good suggestions today, too about having a single point of contact and that is a good suggestion and i hope you take that back as well. >> i am happy to share that, thank you, director johnson. this e

a stands for access. b stands for basic skills and c stands for content. and unless we have all three, the monolingual chinese seniors are never going to be able to use the computer or the internet. >> a lot of the barrier is knowledge. people don't know that these computers are available to them, plus they don't know what is useful. >> there are so many businesses in the bay area that are constantly retiring their computer equipment that's perfectly good for home use. computers and internet access are helping everybody in the community and people who don't have it can come to us to help with that. one of the biggest problems we see isn't whether people can get computers through programs like ours, but whether they can understand why they need a computer. really the biggest issue we are facing today is helping people understand the value of having a computer. >> immediately they would say can i afford a computer? i don't speak any english. how do i use it. then they will start to learn how to do email or how to go back to chinese newspaper to read all the

accessible paths to travel, transit, seating and signage. presentation by adam van de water, assistant project manager, office of economic and workforce development. at 2:10 the council will take a 10-minute break. 7, information item, mental health awareness month, spot light on psychiatric disabilities, support service and recovery. a, language matters. discussion about the relationship between the stigma surrounding mental health challenges and the language we use to talk about them. presentation by terri byrne, solve program coordinator and gillan plumadore, community advocate mental health association of san francisco. b, resources and supports for hoarding and cluttering challenges an overview of the services, supports and resources in san francisco for both individuals with hoarding and cluttering challenges, stakeholders and advocates providing services. presentation by michael gause, deputy director meth health association of san francisco. c, mental health and veterans an overview of various mental health conditions affecting veter

we make sure that our children can access our services we work closely with other departments. all of the services we provided are done through partnership with the community based organizations. so one of the ways we mayor to get out the information to the community is by working with our cb o partners. so if all our partners have to meet some minimum standards and language it one of them. so all programs and resources have to assure effective communication and with the - the way we do this is we require all the applications and rules and scheduled etc., to be translated into the community that's being being served. we are require that the comment show an respectful attitude towards the residents. we work throughor operation to make sure we're getting the information out correctly is through a variety of ways. all the information we do have translated into different languages. for example, when we did our assessment we went to different communities meetings we make sure we had the interpreters present. as i stated before including the surveys are pushed the english, spanish an