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 requirements, what has been in place. any small businesses that nderst informed as far as their obligations for the ada, there are the mechanisms to provide that information to you. so, we are tasked with providing the information. there have been about 300 small businesses that have received the lawsuits. knee individuals who use this mechanism and come up -- the individual to use this mechanism. while it is important to have ada access, but we want you to understand there are individuals out there taking a look at your vulnerability. we have a packet of info

from the port commission, mell murphy is here with us, from the mayor's office of disability, carla johnson and her staff, from the port, a number of deputy directors, tom carters, susan reynolds and elaine. and from dpw, our city engineers. next, we are honored to have a city representative who has given us a great deal of support to this project and many improvement projects that the city enjoys. he's also someone who values partnerships and works to seek out ideas from san francisco residents, business owners and entrepreneurs and community leaders. he's the president of our board of supervisors and supervisor for this district 3. please welcome supervisor david chiu. >> the sun is shining on jefferson street. everyone excited to be here? let me say, we proved them wrong today. i came to san francisco as a tourist. i want to thank all of you who are part of this incredible community. mayor lee and i talk about how important it is for folks to come together. this is a project that for years has involved a lot of community conversations and some community debate but i really need to tip my

we could not have gotten anywhere near here as far as what we're doing without the help of carla johnson and her office as far as creating that wonderful informational manual that was included, a mailer we sent out. it's on our website. we give it out as much as possible and giving it out at the counter. we have our outreach contractors giving it out and it includes our -- collaboratives. and they are aware and i'm constantly in contact with them on any problems they may have as far as taking out the permit. so you're probably all familiar with the wonderful job that carla's group did putting this together with photos and materials and any question that a property owner or operator could think of asking. they covered most of it, at least 99.9 percent of that. we get to come up with a survey and i have the housing inspectors to go out and there and take photos and give carla information so they can prop out what we're going to see. we continue the outreach and to encourage the property owners to put these in and also that is also included attending the senior and disability action monthly

>> carla johnson intern director. i think i support what council member supanich said which is to see the value in the public comment that we heard today and to want to find a way to incorporate that into a final resolution that i think could be better than it is right now and i think it's a really beautiful resolution that you've crafted. >> may i please. carla, i would also like to welcome others who are interested to come to our next meeting. i don't know if this would be -- this will be taken up at our executive meeting which is this coming monday or tuesday. from what times? >> 4:00 to 6:00. >> so if you're interested in digging in a little, we'll probably have it on the agenda to take a look at it and discuss more. so i welcome everybody to come to that. that's it. >> yes, we have our executive meeting this coming tuesday and it is hold in room 421 on the 4th floor here at city hall. public, you are welcome and i just want to say thank you guys for coming out and giving us a whole bunch of other information we n

. >> thank you coach chair wilson and i'm carla johnson the interim director of the mayor's office on disability. and i wanted to start my director's report today with some very good news and some introductions. we have a new employee, michael alonzo, who is seated behind me and operating the bridge line and he started this week. is he is going to help us with a broad range of duties and when you call our office, he is probably going to be the first voice on the line that you here, and also easing into our client services and information and referrals. and he is a law school graduate, with the very strong civil rights background and also a strong background of working with tenants through the housing rights committee. so we want to welcome mike and very happy mike is now on our team. it's my pleasure to welcome our new internal, iman, who will be helping people with speaker cards and whatever assistance they need. iman started this wednesday and will be a senior in high school come this fall. we have already been very impressed with her professionalism and we're just delighted to have

from the port commission, mell murphy is here with us, from the mayor's office of disability, carla johnson and her staff, from the port, a number of deputy directors, tom carters, susan reynolds and elaine. and from dpw, our city engineers. next, we are honored to have a city representative who has given us a great deal of support to this project and many improvement projects that the city enjoys. he's also someone who values partnerships and works to seek out ideas from san francisco residents, business owners