accessible options here. that's a big priority for us. another area of accessibility is for senior citizens. we played a major role for assisting mobility for seniors and able to provide transportation to and from all neighborhoods. it's a non-discrimination policy. your driver is to take you wherever you decide to go. same for pick up. that way we serve the traditionally under served by public transportation and by taxi areas. seniors typically request for themselves or through relatives and friends and care takers who can do that on their behalf. it's an economic opportunity for a person that can drive. maybe they are retired and they can do this on their free time. the only other thing about the app, you don't have to have a smartphone, it's web enabled even from your home computer. so, now i want to talk a little bit about feedback because this is very important. the accountability aspect that i mentioned before. uber requires all of it's partners to comply with accessibility laws. uber's technology allow

access is key to that kind of savings. but i make it very clear, many of the investigations including some you will hear today are not about money. they're far more valuable. they're about liberty. they're about your government not trampling on your rights. so when agencies withhold information and their records from these watch dogs, it impedes their ability to conduct their work thoroughly, independently and most of all timely. it runs up the cost to both sides of the ledger, the inspectors general spent many, many, many millions of dollars temperatu simply trying to get access, what your government spends millions and millions of dollars trying to impede. this is one of the greatest wastes we can possibly have. when agencies refuse or deny access to the agency's records, it undermines the intent of congress and the ig's abilities to oversee these respected agencies. today we're going to hear from three widely respected igs who have experienced challenges accessing the necessary records to what they do in their work. at

lyft accessibility. we have emily castor. >> good afternoon, my name is emily castor director at lyft. thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you about lyft. i want to be clear about the fact that i come here humbly, not just to speak but to learn and hear ideas about the council. we are a driven company and focused on helping cities and we are always guided by the community feedback that we receive from people who live in those cities and by our values. lyft was founded with a vision to expand access to safe friendly reliable transportation using the resources we have in our communities. over the last two 2 years since lyft launched in san francisco 10s of thousands of people use this to give people a ride. proic db providing new mobility. among these passengers as well as drivers. for those of you who are not familiar with how lyft works. please forgive me if you are already familiar with lyft. >> can you talk a little slower? >> certainly. lift is a smartphone and people log in with their

list -- lyft accessibility. lift is a mobile application matching drivers with passengers seeking rides. lyft will share details of their technology and capability. lyft. public comment is welcome. agenda item no. 7. no. 8. information item. better market street transit priority proposal for improvement is surface transit facilities on market streets between octavia and stuart street. presentation by simon prince george county manager department of public works. sf mta. public comment is welcome. agenda item no. 8. action item. cochair elections. in accordance with the mayor's disability council bylaws article 3, section 1, there shall be two cochairs elected to serve as officers of the council and elections will be staggered by at least 3 months. the present election will be to elect a cochair to the position currently held by cochair supanich whose term just expired. agenda item no. 9. information item. report from disaster preparedness committee. agenda item no. 10, public comment. items not on today's agenda

it's providing an accessible vehicle fully accessible with wheelchairs and with a trains driver to go with it. i suggest that you advocate for a city fee or tax if you will, a is surcharge on every trip that lyft provides. that money should go to provide accessible services by other operators who are actually willing to provide the services to you, not just to their idea of what a special client is which means just about anybody accept you. so, provide those funds to operators that do provide the services. contrary to what you may have heard the city does have extensive authority to regulate these vehicles. the public utilities commission code provides reasonable regulations. we have today in service a seven wheelchair accessible vehicles. we have 10 unused in our lot today for lack of a qualified driver. make no mistake about it, members, that every time that lyft draws another driver away from a taxi service, they are taking service away from you and making no compensation at all for the damage they are doing to the services that do serve you. out of time. thank you. >> thank you, b

-- or the access issue at the peace corps. and so it has not been resolved. and quite frankly i look forward to the departure of the general counsel as part of the problem. either this committee or the ig committee should be wasting time and resources attempting to gain access to records when the ig's have not just a legal entitlement to, but a sworn obligation to this. for nearly six years we have seen the administration make unprecedented efforts to fight transparency and block investigation. that is not what we are here for today. we are not here because the press wants to do this, we are not here because article one in congress is trying to look over the shoulder of the president and his administration, but we are here because of the men and women who work for the ig's and those not here today, and part of this for efficiency and transparency and an honorable service by all that has not been getting what they wanted. it is my intention upon the end of this hearing with my ranking member, if at all possible. urging him to u

such, we provide such access.estricting or delaying access to key materials deprives congress and the american people valuatey information to and agencies performance. is at odds with the necessary independence of inspectors general and is contrary to congressional intent. we will examine whether agency components at the department of justice have undermined the independence by withholding or delaying the production of essential records based on a novel interpretation of the inspector general act. in each of the three entrances of interference, we will hear a review of correspondence with the oig. it reveals an agency that believes that the oig must ask for and received permission to review the department of justice data and material and that sanctions investigations as necessary to advance its own a supervisory responsibility alone. the mission of doj's office of inspector general is to detect in the terror waste and abuse and misconduct in for grams and personnel and to promote economy and efficiency in those pr

of our counties they don't have the means to access services even if with the affordable care act 2, 3, 4 many community when a person becomes aware of their hiv status ouch they have to diagnose hiv i aids or within a twourgdz period this is a human impact and also and then justice this is a huge thing expanding access to prep we're providing 10esh8 justice and taking democratic action because i'm asking for preparing to all community we're being democratic. >> thank you very much i'm going to read a couple of more names (calling names). >>>> next speaker. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello well, the one things i hear are good things for the future and community it's not for us only community to help and protect i have hiv for almost 14 years and i don't accept this one we can protect and help more community not just one or two people more for all the community because we are human we're not people like just oh, i did this and it's done i think there are good things to give it to other communities i know it is expensive but i think it is to bring to the people or take i

access to agency documents. in response to inquiries about the letter, peace corps told "the washington post" it is committed to working with the inspector general to ensure rigorous oversight while protecting the confidentiality and privacy of volunteers who are sexually assaulted. suggesting that privacy and oversight are mutually exclusive. they are not. my office is bound by the same rules. it is trained and experienced in handling sensitive information. and there is no sighted record of my office ever mishandling such information. the agency has also suggested that fewer volunteers would report sexual assaults if oig had access to the information. when pressed for a factual basis for this, the agency had none. as the daily beast reported, it's hard to imagine a case where volunteers declined to report sexual assault because the agency's internal watchdog will be provided information to determine there is no negligence or wrongdoing. the agency argues policies and procedures are victim centric. we ask that c

access is key to that kind of savings.lear that many of the investigations, including some you hear about today are not about money, they're far more valuable. they're about liberty. they're about your government not trampling on your rights. so agencies withhold information and their records from these watchdogs, it impedes their ability to conduct their work thoroughly, independently, and most of all, timely. it runs up the cost to both sides of the ledger, the inspectors general spend many, many, many millions of dollars simply trying to get access, while your government, the same agency spends millions and millions of dollars on lawyers trying to impede. this is one of the greatest wastes we could possibly have. when agencies refuse or deny i.g.'s access, it undermines the intent of congress and the i.g.'s ability to effectively oversee these respective agencies. today, we are going to hear from three widely respected i.g.s who have faced serious challenges from their agencies to access the necessary records to what th

spaces that are non-designated as accessible. this change of width is more to illustrate the different minimum requirements that we have. it does not mean necessarily that the buffers would barry in width like that. the accessible parking space will be parking wide. it can be a minimum of 8 feet wide. places that are not designated as accessible, it can be four 4 feet wide and essentially it's five 5 feet wide. in this next slide, we have a similar set up where we have a sidewalk and a green bicycle lane at the street level and on the other side of the bicycle lane, a raised buffer that's at the same level as the sidewalk. with a ramp leading towards the crosswalk at the beginning of the buffer. and on the buffer is a transit stop. so the buffer serves also as a transit island. and we also have a crossing, a pedestrian crossing both at the middle of the block. so at the far end of the transit stop and one at the beginning of the transit stop which is at the crosswalk. so two ways for pedestrians to get from the sidewalk to the tr

and safer for people to access. because much of the investment makes changes to the right-of-way to protect muni to allow muni to move without having to move in and out of traffic, it also allows for changes on the street that make it safer for people to board muni and also make it safer for pedestrians in that area. things like the bus boarding, the pieces of the sidewalk that kind of bulb out for safety improvement and reliability improvement. the other funding in this bond would go towards achieving the city's goal of vision zero which is a goal to reduce traffic fatalities to 0 by 2024 and really would put the majority of funding into pedestrian safety types of improvements. the bond itself does include a number of accessibility improvements. there is a heavy focus of the bond for elevator improvements at the shared muni downtown where the sclat -- escalators and elevators are. if that elevator is out of service and someone in a wheelchair has no way to access that station. to provide elevators there and another

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the implication of agencies refusing, restricting oar delaying access to ig's access to documents.ace corps told "the washington post," it is, quote, committed to working with the inspector general to ensure rigorous oversight while protecting the confidentiality and privacy of volunteers who are sexual assaulted, end quote, suggesting that privacy and oversight are mutually exclusive, they're not. my office is bound by the same confidentiality rules as the agency. it is trained and experienced in handling sensitive information and there is no cited reported of my office ever handing such information. the agency has also suggested that fewer volunteerings would report sexual assaults if oig had access to the information. but when pressed for a factual basis for this assertion, the agency had none. as a daily beast reported, quote, it's hard to imagine a case where volunteers decline to report sexual assault because the agencies internal watch dog will be provided information to determine there is no negligence or wrong doing, end quote. the agency argues it's policies and procedure

and language access. i just wanted to make a couple of comments relative to finding 1 and 1 b regarding language support. departments are required to post notices in a public place, informing limited english proficiency citizens and it requires city boards and commissions and determines to provide oral interpretation of any public meeting or hearing, if it's requested within 48 hours in advance of the meeting or hearing. and meeting minutes should not have to be always translated, but only if requested and if the legislative body approves the minutes within a reasonable amount of time. so there is no reference in the lao to any requirements for website information. however, we totally agree with the grand jury's findings that this should be readily available and we're working on this with the departments. and relative to the languages that should appear on city websites. so the lao specifies which languages are required for support by authorizing our office to determine whether 10,000 residents share a la

as you put forward in your testimony, they provided access information that the oig has had trouble accessing despite the language of the statute. so what is your understanding and that what is forthcoming to the documents and materials to these other entities as opposed to oig? >> our presumption is because wore independent and they're not and there appears to have been a conclusion that there does need to be a finding that our reviews are consistent with the leadership. it is self evident because they are working for the leadership, we are stater to torely indepen. congress set it up that way. it pairs we need to go go through the process. it is clear that our needs are being -- that is entirely inconsistent with what congress set up. >> thank you. i give back. >> recognize the gentleman from texas, mr. gomer for five minutes. >> thank you. we appreciate you being here. we appreciate your candor and efforts in trying to get records. we had the attorney general testify earlier in here as tenure as attorney general, and there was a reference about how close he was that he made it, about how c

but the amount going to access is i -- accessible services. i'm not going to vote to give mta a $500 million blank check. thank you. >> thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? >> good afternoon, honorable councilmembers. my name is arnold wong. when we heard about the transportation task force we followed it carefully and attended some of the meetings and were surprised that 21 of those members were government employees, many department heads, many reporting to the mayor, about 11 were from the business community. so very lopsided. no neighborhood people, no advocates from your community and week before this report came out we wrote a letter to them and predicted what their findings would be and what their recommendations would be. we said you are going to recommend a $500 million bond, new transportation taxes and a vehicle license fee. well, we were close. there were two $500 million bonds. so the whole process actually everybody knew it was about funding. but yet this report, what's the funding in this report? only 49 per

it delays us getting access.te example of what that means in a review we are doing, we asked one of the sub components within the fbi for an organizational chart. they told us they couldn't give it directly to us because the standing requirement within the fbi that materials have to go through the office of general counsel first. we were delayed for weeks getting organizational charts so we could figure out who to talk to in the course of a review. that should not be happening. that's a waste of money. we have entitlement to the access to the records. i'm not sure what use there is of the resources of the fbi to go page by page through records before giving it us to. >> thank you. my time has expired. i recognize the gentle lady from illinois. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> the ig plays a key role in making the government more effective in ensuring wise issue of taxpayer money. obstruct of the work is not acceptable. i take the concerns being aired here today very seriously. hopefully the message that my colleagu

we should be able to get direct access to information. the witness, the whistleblower, the witness at the fbi wants to come to us with information, with documents, they aught to be able to do that directly. we shouldn't make have to make a request through legal council, get them eventually, hopefully, and then as i said, learn from other witnesses there are more materials out there relevant for their review. >> thank you, mr. chairman for the time. and i hope condemnation is not coming forward. i yield back. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio, five minutes. >> mr. horowitz, i want to make sure i understand your last statement. every single request, information you are trying to get access to, goes through the department of justice council. >> sorry, fbi, office of general council. >> the fbi has? and you're saying that is not political? >> the office of general council is not a political appointee. >> i understand, but -- >> to send it through office of general council -- >> how long ago did that practice start? >> within the

that is prioritized what is called a safety and access tool. there are many variables that an evaluator must look at recommended an installation as well as what type of aps should be installed. those could include push about the -- button devices and rapidtext and vibrator tones. once the person has requested aps, mta will provide that person with the following information. a preliminary prioritization score and preliminary test for the intersection and other that were requested and whether or not any work is being planned at that intersection and whether any aps will be installed within the next three years 3 years and the name of a phone number with a contact information. if you would like to request installation of aps intersection you may submit a request by phone, 415-701-2311 or you can contact our office, the mayor's office on disability 415-554-6789. please have the following information available. the intersection you are requesting for the aps installation, your name, contact information, and the format in which you want to receive a

access at the polk street/carlton b. assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. our agendas are also available in large print and braille. please ask staff for any extra assistance. to prevent interference and for everyone to focus, please silence all mobile phones. your cooperation is appreciated. we welcome the public's participation during public comment. you may complete a speaker's card in the front of the room or call our bridge line. 415. 554. 9632. where a staff member will handle request to speak at the appropriate time. the mayor's disability council meetings are held on the third friday of the month. our next regular meeting will be september 19, 2014, from 1:00 p.m.-4 :00 p.m. at san francisco city hall in room 400. there will be no regularly scheduled meeting for the month of august. please call the office of mayor's on disability for information or to request accommodations. 415. 5546789. or t ty 415546799. please speak slowly into our micropho

access to services. women are still having sex and becoming pregnant and they still need services in the eliminated. >> when away return to inside the reef, we'll look at the powers given to the states by supreme court decisions. thidecisions not been a static frozen part of our law. stay with us. >> now available, the new al jazeea america mobile news app. get our exclusive in depth, reporting when you want it. a global perspective wherever you are. the major headlines in context. mashable says... you'll never miss the latest news >> they will continue looking for survivors... >> the potential for energy production is huge... >> no noise, no clutter, just real reporting. the new al jazeera america mobile app, available for your apple and android mobile device. download it now >> you're absolutely right, that the state has been trying new ways to limit access within the confines of the constitutional standard that we have by using this facade, as we discussed earlier, of women's health. because they will

recommendation, as well as the language access recommendation. and wanted to just explain that we are d our office would only have jurisdiction over the disability access piece, but you director adriannepon of officer of civil engagement and immigration affairs is here to respond to recommendation 1b. the civil grand jury surveyed 32 commission sites and unfortunately didn't list which commissions were part of their survey and so we went straight to the source and contacted the city attorney's office and based on the city attorney's information, we actually found 39 commissions that were created by city charter. so as a result, our efforts were to reach out and survey all of those 39 websites or seven more than listed in the report. now finding no. 1 states that a statement that informs the process of requesting accommodations for physical disability, and/or language support is not easily found on many commission websites. and our response is that we partially agree with this finding. providing a notice of the right to request disability accommod

received access to the material he seeks in each before us today. attorney general eric holder and deputy attorney general james cole are not the problem. they are both intervened personally on multiple occasions to overcome the fbi's objections and to compel production of the materials in question. i commend them for that leadership. but i do not know who will hold these posts in future administrations. we should not be willing to entrust this key oversight matter to men and women who may feel differently about the effectiveness of the office of inspector general. attorney general cole asked the office of legal council to issue a formal opinion resolving this dispute. i hope the principle deputy assistant attorney general karl thompson and his team would adhere to the plain text of the statute and to our obvious intent and grant the inspector general unfettered access to every document in the department's position. if the office of legal counsel find ambiguity to hold in place any of them on the inspector general's access to information, the house

for patients providers will have ongoing access to training and communication to support them in the roll out of preparing including ward 86 treatment and prevention and from the department of public health as well the uninsured those who remain uninsured despite ac a we cover the preparing for san franciscans in a medical supported homes and those in non-medical homes may work with their medical care provider to access prep through the mustered medication in the program and access for all san franciscans at risk is another major roll we'll develop training for all providers including in our network but more broadly throughout the city the providers are targeted group we'll continue to provide access so the san francisco clinics know that the people needing serves for the infections and sex all health are major candidates we do this with a illogical for insurance and primary care and supporting the resources as well is a goal many efforts are being put into many partners we're going to continue the research as leaders as we've shown and educating metrics for preparing in san francisc

>> we should have access to non research report. a problem as the default position for peace corps is every report of sexual assault that is filed as automatically restricted until a volunteer the term is to make an otherwise. so the universal restriction reports is quite large. >> thank you. >> mr. chairman, i want to end by saying that this is a particularly troubling case says congress on a bipartisan basis actually addressed this topic, the peace corps in the incidence and management of sexual assaults of volunteers abroad. and to find three years after passing that act that we are still finding problems internally with the peace corps that directly affect the victims because their cases are not being managed efficiently and properly and sympathetically and the ig has not had until the mou full cooperation from the agency is troubling, indeed. and to me it circumvents the letter as well as the spirit of the law of cars past to try to address this sensitive but real issue affecting our peace corps volunteers. thank you, mr. chair

the oig should decide which documents it needs access to. not the leadership of the agency that is being overseen. third, while current department leadership has supported our ability to access records, agency leadership changes over time and our access to records should not turn on the views of the department's leadership. further, we understand that other department components that exercise oversight over department programs and personnel, such as office of professional responsibility continue to be given access to the same materials without objection. this treatment is unjustifiable and results in the department being less willing to provide materials to the oig presumably because the oig is stat torely independent while the opr is not. this treatment once again highlights opr's lack of independence from the department's leadership which can only be addressed by granting the statuer toly independent oig with jurisdiction to investigate all alleged misconduct of the department. the independent nonpartisan oversight made the same recommenda

newer housing is more likely to have accessibility features. even though the slope is upwards it is probably not as deep as it needs to be to make sure the new housing we are adding is adding greatly to the accessible stock. we have an issue in terms of how well suited the current stock is to meeting the needs of an aging population. and this chart compares the likelihood of living in a home with a least three accessibility features versus the likelihood of having a disabled family member. you can see for younger households about one in five are likely to have a disability, a person with disabilities in the home and about one in five are likely to live in a home with accessibility features. these are kind of the odds. it goes up a bit for 65 to 79. by the time you hit 80 the incident of disabilities goes up to 60% and the likelihood of living in a house goes up to 30%. there is some indication that you will move to more accessible housing. moves are rare and not enough to offset the rise in disability. a big mismatch between needs for accessibi

access to services. women are still having sex and becoming pregnant and they still need services in the areas they have been eliminated. >> when away return to inside the reef, we'll look at the powers given to the states by supreme court decisions. thidecisions not been a static frozen part of our law. stay with us. >> you're absolutely right, that the state has been trying new ways to limit access within the confines of the constitutional standard that we have by using this facade, as we discussed earlier, of women's health. because they will be more acceptable to the public, and even perhaps to the courts reviewing them, and now we're seeing the courts behind it realizing what's going on, and they are imposing an undo burden to reduce the constitutional standard for a women's right controversy. >> since roe, more than 40 years ago, that decision hasn't stood unstressed since that time. have there been other cases that have brought it? >> there have been many decisions since that time that have altere

it delays us getting access. and the concrete example of what that means, in a review but are doing, we asked one of the subcomponents within the fbi for an organizational chart. they told us they couldn't give it directly to us because of the standing requirement within the fbi that the materials have to go through the office of general counsel first. that should not be happening. that is a waste of money, as ig elkins just said. we have entitlements to the access to the records. i'm not sure what use there is of the resources of the fbi to go page by page through records before giving it to us. >> thank you. my time has expired. now i recognize the gentlelady from illinois. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the inspector general, the key is making the government more honest and effective. i have seen firsthand their work. and obstruction of their work is simply not acceptable. so i take the concerns being aired here today very seriously. and hopefully the message my colleagues and i are sending today are loud and cle

and language access. i just wanted to make a couple of comments relative to finding 1 and 1 b regarding language support. departments are required to post notices in a public place, informing limited english proficiency citizens and it requires city boards and commissions and determines to provide oral interpretation of any public meeting or hearing, if it's requested within 48 hours in advance of the meeting or hearing. and meeting minutes should not have to be always translated, but only if requested and if the legislative body approves the minutes within a reasonable amount of time. so there is no reference in the lao to any requirements for website

another barrier is health care coverage san francisco is a appearance and some people have to have access what are we doing as i said based on my informal discussions less than more like 8 hundred are receiving prep at this time based on the numbers needed to treat published this year by susan and extrapolateing we should be giving prepping to 6 thousand san franciscans and we might expect the number of new infections to drop to less than 50 those are informal calculations we are 6 to tenfold off the mark and need to expand our use of preparing awhile continuing to provide early treatment who is going to do this well, the san francisco magnet clinic is tooling up to provide prepping to it's clients we know people want it and start 6 hundred thousand people in the next year's by expanding our clinics and we're grateful for the support to make that possible we also applaud the kaiser clinic in san francisco which has the largest prep clinic in the world giving propelling e prepping to 3 thousand people we have prep clinics a at ucsf and the community health center and the bay center which p

wheel chair accessible vehicles are expensive. when the city allowed uber to compete directly with taxis without the expense of serving disabled people, it began a process of undermining the taxi company's ability to provide accessible services. two years ago analects -- luxor offered several accessible cabs, now we have fewer than 10 in service on the streets today. i assure you that it is due 100 percent to the city and now the c puc allowing uber to skim the cream off the top to cherry pick the most profitable rides while giving disabled people promises about service later. just very briefly, uber is accountable to no one. you have to accept their word for everything. we heard today about the on boarding process. a few months ago did an investigative report. the vehicle inspection was an uploaded photograph of the vehicle. nbc did an investigative report in three cities. the background checks were virtually non-existent. you have to take a lot of what you heard today with a big grain of salt. any ways, there is a lot more to sa