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

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

yes, may 16, the fiscal access committee had a joint meeting with the joint module accessibility advisory committee. we got to the same presentation that you just heard. one of the most important things for me as a member of the mayor's disability council, the mac and accessible parking advisory committee and the mac is importance of hearing public comment. i also wanted to share with you a summary of the mac comments from yesterday. mac -- one member recommended that the sfmta convert a parking garage to disabled parking only and run para transitentrance service to this to deliver transportation services and discussed limited income individuals maybe negatively impacted by having to pay at the meter. a member committee member expressed that the dmv should review all placards be certified that they are valid and continues to be. one member felt that time limits and payment are good ideas and be fairer. the members pointed out that many low income people ride the bus. a couple of members expressed concern, some areas do not have enough blue zones for people who need them. areas of judea an

accessible parking improvement. we'll have two speaker and take council member questions and then public comment and we have interim thank you. normally you see me on the other side. this day i'm here as carla johnson, coy chair of the advisable committee. i'm here to take an at some opportunity to introduce everybody. i will be speaking and bob will be speaking and so will jessie lorentz. in the room we have bob in the community. we also have bonnie of access northern california over here to the house left. we have christina here at the house right. jessie lorentz from the living resource center and via hale representing seniors and my cochair ed ruskin. and of course role and wong who is part of our accessible advisory committee. can i have the slides on the screen please. so in our presentation today we are going to be talking about the problem, the process and the recommendations. and our first slide up on the screen is a good visual image of part of our problem. what we see is a man in his car. a person with a

since we have an at some point to create full accessible units for new construction. rehabilitation which is a smaller portion of our pipeline, about 10 percent, we are still required the 5 percent accessibility for mobility impaired as well as additional 2 percent for visually and hearing impaired and we always strive to have an adaptable goal with our rehabilitation projects, but unfortunately it various -- varies a lot because of the conditions of the buildings. a lot of buildings we are rehabilitating are older buildings from anywhere from 1910-1980s. those units were built with different codes and we are trying to balance and maximizing accessibility in those rehabilitated units with not losing a lot of affordable housing units. it's a fine line trying to strive to maintain a balance of those. i just want to highlight a few examples of housing we have produced in the past year. 150 otis, a city landmark. it's 75 brand new studio units with full baths and kitchen. it serves homeless veterans. we managed to achieve a hundred percent of the units hundred percent acc

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

>> 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

we do not participate in any kind of a program that gives the government any access to-- access to our servers, direct or otherwise, nor do we allow the government to place any kind of equipment on our systems. what we do do and what we have been transparent about as much as we can is that we comply from time to time with these government orders. we take them very seriously. we review them very carefully, we push back if they are overbroad. and here's the important thing. we serve hundreds of millions of users. the only a tiny, very tiny fraction of our users have ever been subject to one of these requests, national security requests. so this idea that we are sort of participating in a broad program here is simply false. we want to make that clear and we want to make that categorically clear. >> brown: how do these requests work do you get a court order, without sees it on your end, who approves it? >> these are the court orders that you've heard about. and we have a team that handle these directly. we have experience with those. as i said we review them very, very carefully. and when

a view of the public access follows on the next slide.this is a vision for the new public promenade outdoor seating facing the brannon street wharf with a greatly improved dock, providing an exciting opportunity for the public to enjoy the experience of the waterfront either by dining outdoors or messing around in boats or just hanging about. the facility will be upgraded and expanded to include a small craft launch, water taxi and kayak landing, it has the potential of releasing the port of its bcdc obligations of the brandon street wharf. alicia will address the -- for the area. >> the majority of the phase i users on the ground floor will be dedicating two visitors for restaurants. it allows bulkhead tenants to remain operational during phase ii construction. the tone of the quality of the project as with most projects will be set with public's experience with the ground floor uses. we want to provide a casual beer garden and light dining restaurant and secured a letter of interest from local operators to execute this concept. to the s

lafayette park is also easily accessed from the 47, 49, and 90 buses. it is ada accessible. we are here at the historic palace of fine art in the marina district. originally built for the 1950's exposition, the palace is situated on san francisco's number waterfront. it is ada accessible and is reached by the 28, 30, and 91 bus lines. set against the reflecting waters of the lagoon and eucalyptus trees, the palace is one of san francisco post most -- san francisco's most romantic spots to relax with that special someone while listening to the water and gazing at the swans. a beautiful to view from many locations along the mattoon, an ideal place to -- all -- lagoon, an ideal place to walk with a loved one. reservations for weddings are available at sfrecpark.org. discarding contains plants referred to by william shakespeare's plays and poems. welcome to the shakespeare garden here in the famous golden gate park. located near the museum and the california academy of sciences, the garden was designed by the california spring blossom and wildfilower association. here is a truly

it's access his access being provided to the state or not? what about the u.k. likes there are reports that the u.k. service -- secret services are allowing access to the data of european citizens. we need clarity from the british government. we need common standards, joint standards. the commission is working on a framework agreement for judicial cooperation. this is good. this is something we welcome. perhaps we also need a framework agreement on the private data. we need local state standards agreed with u.s.. that is something that we should work towards for personal data. we need the european cloud. if european data is to be stored in the cloud it should he held in europe. then we can guarantee to our companies and citizens that the state is being stored and secured according to european standards. we need the modern e.u. data protection legislation. we cannot call our u.s. friends to order if we do not have the highest most modern standards implemented here in europe. there are developments that i have concerns about that regards the quantity of data being

what is the digital divide. >> the gap between technology access, broadband being part of that accessino americans. >> but the gap is real. >> the gap is real. 50% of americans have broadband. 65% of white americans have it. when you talk about lower income communities, underserved communities, that 50% number drops almost by half. >> what are things we can do to close the gap between those who have it and those who don't. >> i think looking at where we are. there is a high level of smart phones for americans. that's where we need to look at resources available to grow a business or compete effectively from a career standpoint with your actual smart phone. there are a -- >> like bhak berries, iphone. >> blackberry, iphone, android. really want one of those. in terms of technology, start to look at where the value is outside of tweeting and liking, from looking at facebook. if you have a small business, can you run your business from your smart phone. >> it is an ability that we have, it is just accessing information to leverage is is where we are limited as well. >> one place i know b

it's access his access being provided to the state or not? what about the u.k. likes there are reports that the u.k. service -- secret services are allowing access to the data of european citizens. we need clarity from the british government. we need common standards, joint standards. the commission is working on a framework agreement for judicial cooperation. this is good. this is something we welcome. perhaps we also need a framework agreement on the private data. we need local state standards agreed with u.s.. that is something that we should work towards for personal data. we need the european cloud. if european data is to be stored in the cloud it should he held in europe. then we can guarantee to our companies and citizens that the state is being stored and secured according to european standards. we need the modern e.u. data protection legislation. we cannot call our u.s. friends to order if we do not have the highest most modern standards implemented here in europe. there are developments that i have concerns about that regards the quantity of data being

the formercry -- on -- former -- how could a guy like that have such access? of the ordinary. we can go back quickly and look at the most recent and that's bradley manning. how does a private get access to the most sensitive information the united states and the united states military have? how does a guy with a high school diploma -- without a high school diploma, and that's not to -- there's a risk indicator that has to be done on anyone who applies for a top secret clearance, and that has to be done at the very minimum of once a year, and then they have to be put on the box or on the truth detector, and try to evaluate whether or not their affiliations have changed, whether or not they have fallen prey to the big three, sex, drugs, and alcohol, and so somehow, some way, that has not been done because i promise you, done their job, they would have ferreted this guy out. >> neil: tim, the cofound of home depot was on here saying he was a hero. >> and i think respectfully, my friend judge napolitano, who i love dearly, has also taken that position, and i vehem

we know people can get access to this stuff. they find out, because they'll know, that someone's daughter went to an abortion clinic when she was 16. they'll know some candidate's wife went to see a psychiatrist. somebody is going to nypd that -- going to find that information and in the heat of a political campaign the day will come when someone will release information they could only obtain by secret means. and then we have a whole new world. >> just a little bit more time. the fbi says it's okay because they're thwarting terrorists. you buy it? >> no. you can thwart terrorists. i want them to look at foreign sources. we talking about spying on americans and i think that the fourth amendment prohibits that. >> what is coming up on your. >> rick santorum will be with us with an important announcement. also have doctors talking about ways to deal with obamacare without having to go into obama karr. something worth watching. >> thank you, mike. so, thank you trust the government? it's something we're going to get into quite a bi

convenient stores and convenient stores in those parts of san francisco where there is a lack of access to healthy food. again, that right now would primarily be in the tenderloin and bayview districts, but we are also looking at other areas of the city where the program could be expanded. the outer richmond, which we discovered through the work of the department of public health, where there is had a lack of access to healthy food and visitation valley, where there is a lack to healthy food and in the future we would like to expand into those areas. but for now, what we're going to be doing is focusing on where resources are currently being deployed by the city. the way the legislation works is fairly straightforward. we are going to be working primarily with the department -- i'm sorry with the office of economic and workforce development and using the resources that are already at play through the invest in neighborhoods program to help store owners who wish to turn their stores around and become less reliant on alcohol and tobacco and really become healthier, not just in terms of wh

he could not get access. the review process was basically a government employee or contract employee coming in and going through, question by question, where he was in the private sector business in a similar process, and the process of just asking five questions, they had a 99% reveal rate in terms of that person committing fraud. in the private sector, we can get to a process that works. why can't we get that in the government? hopefully, this hearing is coming up with a standardized process that works. i agree with all three of you -- this is critical, if we are going to maintain this process. >> what was the name of the document? without objection, so done. for witnesses, i would like to welcome all of you here today. we extended an invite to the office of the director of national intelligence. there were not able to provide us with a witness. i know they are under huge demands right now, and i acknowledge the notice was short. hopefully, it can happen next time, because i am sure there will be a next tim

go to a court and say we need to access those records. by and large the guys working at the nsa are american patriots who have put in decades at the silent service. there's a wholesale exaggeration, the potential for evil doing is huge as it is in the irs. but there is no single example yet that this has been abused. >> what is a fesi court. it authorizes -- >> is it an invisible court. >> yes. >> why are you talking about an invisible court. >> because that's the court that the national security agency goes to -- >> why don't have they have cabinet rank. >> because it's sort of the like -- >> is it an agency,. >> yeah. it's under the clapper. >> what is clapper. >> the head of national security overall over the cia. >> reporting to whom directly. >> to the nsa and the president. >> where is his office? in the white house? >> it's a secret place. >> is it in the white house. >> he's the director of national security. >> i believe he's in the white house. >> , i don't this so. >> he is in obama's ear; right? >> of course. >> please continu

luckily, i was able to access a grant in enough time to access the information i needed in order to assesshether i had an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer. in my case it turned out i did have a where mutation, so i was lucky to be able to access the test when i did, but it did take there arer-and-a-half definitely other women in massachusetts with the same issues. argue thisark, you before the supreme court. >> this is a huge victory. but we had here up to this point was a company that monopolized two human genes. with that monopoly, dictated the terms of testing. ist you heard from lisbeth they decided the price with no competition. they also decide which mutations are looked for, the quality of the test, and we now know that there are many laboratories capable of offering this type of testing that would offer it in different ways so that they would be looking at the many genes connected with breast and ovarian cancer, and not just screening two. with the ruling today we fully expect much better access and options for patients, as well as for scientists who want to look a diffe

>> they have access to aol's records, verizon's records, all the rest, but they can only access these records if they have found connection to a terrorist and if they go to a court and say we need to access those records. by in large, the guys working at the nsa are american patriots who have put in decades in service. i think there's an exaggeration, potent for for evil doing is huge as it is in the irs, but there's no single example yet that this has been abused. the foreign security intelligence agency court. >> what kind of court is that? >> it's a federal court that authorizes warrants. >> is that an invisible court? >> it is an invisible court. >> why are you talk about an invisible court? >> because that's the court that the national security agency goes to the get authority -- >> how come they don't have cabinet rank? >> it's because it's sort of like the -- >> is it a spook agency. >> but it's under clapper. it's under the whole -- >> who's clapper? >> the head of national security overall, over the cia. >> reporting to whom directly. >> to the nsc and president. >> where is

that will be difficult. >> zagreb is pending great hopes on eu accession.he has a mountain of work to do. >> i will be with my family, i do believe, over the weekend. >> the croatian parliament can count on receiving 11 billion euros -- through 2020. for that, he would be happy to move entirely to brussels. >> for now, on the eu's external border, where strict security checks still apply. the frontier will be moving south between croatia and bosnia-herzegovina. croatia has campaigned for their membership as well. but bosnia-herzegovina, a multiethnic society, is a poor country, and many croatian citizens have already packed their bags and are ready to leave. >> her parents are not optimistic about her future prospects. they are desperate to see her escape poverty. the family lives in the southwest of bosnia hope that -- bosnia-herzegovina. >> there is no work here. >> the area has still not recovered from the devastation of the balkan wars of the 1990's. but the people here, most of them bosnian croats, lead rutledge lives compared to other parts of the cou

to increase timely access to data. the electronic health record integration program was funded by samsa. this complements existing federal efforts by improving realtime access to pmp data into existing technologies such as electronic health records. samsa is also engaged in the efforts to prevent and treat prescription drug misuse and abuse through education programs, prevention, treatment of prescription drug abuse as well as through regulation. we support the education of current prescribers through continuing medical education courses and other less formal efforts such as webinars. the referral treatment program is an important tool for the early identification of persons who might be at risk for opioid abuse and other substance use. samsa provides grants to states, territories and tribal organizations to implement -- [inaudible] for adults in primary care. we have a residency grant program to address future prescribers that include screening for prescription drugs. we support prevention and early intervention throu

. >> let's take a listen to what type of access mr. snowden had. he was nothing more than a contractor for the u.s. government. listen. >> i had access to, you know, the full rosters of everyone working at nsa, the entire intelligence community and undercover assets all around the world, the locations of every station we have, what their missions are. if i just wanted to harm the u.s., then you could shut down the surveillance system in an afternoon. but that's not my intention. >> so go ahead. >> so i'm saying if i'm a terrorist, i say you and i are going to meet soon and i would take him and torture him, get all of the information and access to any files. say i will do something to your family unless you cooperate and give us everything. he is bragging, saying he can get key strokes of admirals, all these things that put our national security and intelligence in jeopardy, making himself a walking human target. >> i think he also said he may have access or could find some key strokes of the president of the united states, very concerning. >> does

that will review resumes and support young people to get access to these great opportunities. thank you very much. (applause) >> moderator: thank you. i want to remind everyone that while we are not going to have time to go through every question card those cards are going to be transcribed by the supervisors' office and shared with all the departments that are here today. know all information will come back to the city for consideration. next we'll are going to have one minute comments. the first person is >> i'mi am representing and also lyrics. >> (spanish) >> good morning she is an outreach worker, her work is to reach out to the community. >> yo vengo en la voz de todas mis hermans translatinas para decirles que necesitamos recursos. >> she's here to speak on behalf of her trans latina sisters who need resources. >> estamos hambrinetas de conocer >> we are human beings. we want to grow; we need to grow and we are not just here to be forgotten. i am paraphrasing a little bit. they re here to come out and let the world know that they are here >> (spanish) >> they don't have

access. >> i thank you. i would point out, mr. chairman that i've heard about electronic medical records and the concern are warning that is a broad interpretation and smith versus maryland in which the nsa relies on its current standing with you if you shared your medical records with a third-party insurance company, you would also not required a search warrant to get this record. i don't think that's right, but that's another day. >> the gentleman from pennsylvania, dr. murphy for five minutes for questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the panel being here. i want to follow up on question about drugs used to treat opioids. the information published by the fda allows for the use of generic buprenorphine in the context of that are patient during decision. however, there's a concern from psychiatrist to treat persons with addictions that the indications are big enough to allow interpretation. i've heard from doctors misinformation about wine a doctor will prescribe generic versus the box and stri

to a fisa court and say we need to access those records. by and large, the guys working at the nsa are american patriots who put in decades in the silent service and i think there's a wholesale exaggeration. the potential for evil doing is huge as it is in the irs, but there is no single example yet that this has been abused. >> what's a fisa court? >> that's the foreign intelligence security agency court which authorizes -- >> what kind of court is that? >> it's a federal court which authorizes warrants to go in -- >> is that an invisible court? >> it is invisible because it's got one or two -- >> why are you talking about an invisible court? >> because that's the court that the national security agency goes to to get authority -- >> how come the national security agency doesn't have cabinet rank? >> it's sort of like the -- >> is it -- >> it's under clapper, the whole umbrella, the head of national security overall over the cia. >> reporting to whom directly? >> he reports directly to the nsc and the president. >> where is his office, at

they don't like it because they are worried about voter access or black voter access.lack voter registration in the south exceeds what it is in other regions. last election, black voter turnout exceeded white voter turnout. >> hard to make the case. >> they like this law what it can do, racial jergerrymanderin blocking voter i.d. laws. s that why they are so wedded to the provision. nothing to do with ballot access which was the original intent of the voting rights act. >> huge success on that. >> let's move on to the fisher case where there was a more ambiguous ruling on racial preferencing. the court said in education basically said texas and the lower courts must read this and their formula for admitting students and not make race as prominent a feature but -- victory for the plaintiff, fisher. it did not declare racial preferences were unconstitutional. >> well, it said that they have to make justice kennedy argued, the previous decision which said the diversity was a -- was -- >> justification. >> justification. and they had to -- test called strict scrutiny and w

that no maintain government agency has access to its servers. new poll numbers are telling a different story. president obama is in northern ireland for the g-8 summit. as he tackles the number of issues, his approval rating is the lowest it has been in years. only 45% believe the president is doing a good job of handling controversies. this in the midst of the tyra scandal,-- the irs issues with conservative groups, etc. and the u.s. supreme court has ruled on a controversial law and arizona peter should voters have to show proof of citizenship when they had to the polls? in arizona. should voters have to show proof of citizenship when they had to the polls? >> the kottkamp -- the court voted 7-2 against arizona's requirement. that would be a need to show citizenship before using a federal wet -- registration system to vote. not stop non-ill americans from voting, but beonents argued it would difficult for immigrants. 12 other states are looking into similar legislation. on other no decision big cases, like same-sex marriage, affirmative action

>> they may have direct access but that doesn't mean they have direct access to everything and what usually in a situation like this is that the federal government make as case, in this case they make their case first through the legal authorities. they work with the companies and very often the companies will push back and say, no, we don't think that's appropriate and they work it out to the point where it finally gets legal authorization. only in those instances do things move forward. david: here's the thing. i'm a non-geek, okay? i may be asking a dumb question here, forgive me but that is the extent of my knowledge here. one gets the impression, a non-geek gets impression, once somebody like the nsa with these supercomputers, get into a system they can rome around and get about anything they need is that a correct perception or not? >> no, i don't think that is a correct perception. there is all sorts of security in these systems and there are all sorts of arrangements the gove private sector in order to do these things. the private sector is very sensitive to this sort of thing. goog

access. >> i thank you. i would point out, mr. chairman that i've heard about electronic medical records and the concern are warning that is a broad interpretation and smith versus maryland in which the nsa relies on its current standing with you if you shared your medical records with a third-party insurance company, you would also not required a search warrant to get this record. i don't think that's right, but that's another day. >> the gentleman from pennsylvania, dr. murphy for five minutes for questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the panel being

psychiatric services and group -- our access to resources of prenatal care ensures regnant women get connected to have a healthy and safe child. in addition the parenting department offers parenting education, one-on-one counseling and support. interventions are and integral part of creating a change in the parent/child relationship. they are able to leave the foster care system and returned to the family of origin where it is a safer, nurturing environment. cutting even four beds at women's hope puts all of the above services at risk; it means losing staff. our children need to be a priority. women's hope program of healthright 360, needs to be a priority. >> moderator: we are relying on technology as a timekeeper helper. next we have district 8 representatives to speak about lgbt youth and -- >> as a director of lyric- based initiatives i have seen firsthand -- i have seen straight identified students who wants partook in bowling behavior in our class understand the intersection between race and gender and how a trans-student access to bathrooms without harassment is not too far fr