item 12, adjourned. >> co-chair blacksten: thank you very much. i have just been informed that council member kate williams has made her appearance. and is here. >> council member williams: thank you. >> co-chair blacksten: so we have four out of eight here today. all right, let's go to item number 3, which is public comment. items not on today's agenda, i understand we have a speaker's card. >> we have two, the first one is zack. >> good afternoon. thank you for giving me the opportunity for speak here today and all the wonderful work you and your staff do. i appreciate mod very much. i want to talk about a discriminatory hearing i had at my hearing at the sfmta office. getting on buss in a wheelchair is very difficult, a lot of drivers don't want to pick us up and a driver told me to catch the next one. i had to argue with him to get on the bus, i was able to, not too full. a made a complaint, but it was ignored for a month. i had to argue with staff to get an ada hearing. when that happened, i found out they had lost half of the video footage f

>> co-chair blacksten: thank you for your comment. i think we have a second one. >> we do. >> hi, everybody. golden gate regional center. mstion is first it feels like education, community engagement, accessibility weren't weaved into the fabric of the business plan from the beginning. it sounds like the companies know that government and legislation is slow, so you just did things and then asked for forgiveness. is this the first conversation you've had with the city, with disability communities? how many of these conversations have each of you had to gher feedback before launching? >> co-chair blacksten: we appreciate your comment. are there any more comments from the public? >> no. >> co-chair blacksten: all right, well this has been a great time to have a conference with you. we expect to continue this conversation going forward. so i think that's going to conclude the 8 information item on scoers a now let's proceed to number 9, information item. improving the quality of muni/bart elevators at powell and civic center stations. ou

>> co-chair blacksten: yes, i'd be happy to do that. >> thank you. >> co-chair blacksten: the next councilmember is alex. >> council member madrid: thank you for coming. quick question. i know that people with disabilities sending out for electronic voting and my question is, when someone has disability and mobility issues, can they still come to voting location and someone will assist them? >> yes. both at the polling place and city hall. so if someone requests assistance, poll workers are trained to provide that assistance at the city hall voting center. >> >> council member mcdonald: you indicated they have to have eligibility, but is there any way to check that? >> other than the affirmation sne meets those requirements is required to vote on that ballot style. >> council member mcdonald: i wondered if i missed something, ok. >> co-chair blacksten: all right. so i will ask you one question here. a number of us from the blind community use adaptive technology on our computers in order to access websites. and one of the programs is job access and speech. what are you currently doing to m

. >> co-chair blacksten: i see. ok. that's excellent. i'd like to go to staff. do any people, joanna or anyone else have questions? >> lieutenant molina, thank you so much for this presentation. it's always a pleasure working with your office. i keep contact with your accomplishments through donna and it's always a pleasure to hear you come back and report. it's wonderful work indeed. being located in downtown and market, we've seen your officers in action and it's been wonderful. i have a couple of questions about the makeup of your calls. do you do -- i would imagine you do quite a bit of work with the homeless population? >> there is. >> and crisis situations. would you say what the percentage is between responding to somebody's home who is trying to kill themselves or harm household member, versus people on the streets? >> i don't have that percentage for those numbers, but i can tell you that based on my conversations with the director of the pes, he says that it's 70% of the people that come to psychiatric emergency services are homeless. 70%. >> so that's

joanna, i take it you're on. >> thank you, co-chair blacksten. i am the deputy director of the mayor's office on disability. on behalf of director bohn who is sorry to not be here in person, she would like to ask you to recommend action to items related to any part of this presentation, or other items discussed in this report as a follow-up to today's public hearing. since the may 2018 meeting and some important upcoming opportunities for public engagement by san francisco bay area residents with disabilities. number one, is accessible bike-sharing. the oakland mayor's commission on people with disabilities, you're counterpart, will be discussing accessible bike-share programs monday, june 18, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. p.m. at oakland city hall. the mayor's disability council may consider partnering with this effort and try to bring that effort also in san francisco. accessible building entrance ordinance or abe, with the support of district 4, supervisor tang, the department of building inspections abe program compliance deadlines is extended by si

. >> co-chair blacksten: alex, we need to move on. make it quick. >> council member madrid: this is pretty much for sfmta possibly give those individual ticket or what possible will you do? >> for the mta, we would not issue individual citations to the users, we would documenting citations of the vehicle parked improperly. it would be up to them to decide to follow up with the user, or not, but we'll be tracking the amount of citations and the amount of tickets. we'll be tracking those. >> co-chair blacksten: any other colleagues her oethe council? sally? >> council member mcdonald: you say you could pull their permit, and that seems drastic. and i wonder if there is anything in between, any kind of deterrent in between yanking the permit, because i don't see that. >> first of all, based on that repeat infractions, we wouldn't say, oh, your permit is revoked tomorrow, we'd say we need to see this improvement in this amount of time. but we're also thinking about and asking the companies to provide information about this in their applic

i hope you come. 1:00. >> co-chair blacksten: thank you very much. do we have any comments on the bridge line? no comments. all right. this is a very interesting and compelling subject. as i said, mental health is absolutely a leading issue of our time. and we really appreciate everyone's comment. however, we're a little bit behind schedule. we're supposed to be at break right now after the second presenter. >> to the chair? this is joanna, i am wondering if we can actually go ahead and give a break for the interpreters and captioner? and proceed with the presentation after the break. >> co-chair blacksten: i really appreciate that. that's great. so according to my watch, it's 2:16. let's come back at 2:30. we'll se of our program. we're ready for number 7 on the agenda. presentation by tanya mera, jail health services, director of behavioral health. and re-entry services, department of public health. welcome to the council. >> hi. i'm melanie, i'm the deputy director of the re-entry services, tanya had to go home very sick today, i'm sorry, she apol

. >> co-chair blacksten: i want to thank you for your presentation. and this is of real interest, what you're doing in the jails. it's fantastic. i know that there are some community organizations which includes religious groups that come in and try to help as well. so you're all out there doing good things. i want to open this up to the council. are there any members, colleagues, who would like to ask questions? >> council member madrid: i do. i have a question. a couple of questions for you. one question is i know that the problem is that -- >> could you repeat the question? >> is my primary work with jails? >> yes, or community? >> my job is interesting, it's a bit of a hybrid. my office is in the jail. and i'm in the jail every day. i'm also in court every day. and i'm often in the community every day. and i sort of follow people from the time they get arrested until we get them into some form of stable treatment that will address their needs. and then i'll follow up with them during the court process. >> council member madrid: so my question is,

>> co-chair blacksten: this one, ok. ok, is this good? all right. good afternoon, and welcome to the mayor's disability council this friday, may 18, 2018 in room 400 of san francisco city hall. city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. wheelchair access is provided at the grove, van ness and