>> present. >> councilmember star lara, absent. >> councilmember denise senhaux? >> present. >> councilmember harriet wong? >> present. >> co-chair supanich. >> present. >> reading and approval of the agenda. item 3, public comment. items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to three minutes. item 4, information item. report from co-chair zarda. item 5, information item, report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. item 6, information item, impacts of transportation network companies on the disability company in san francisco. transportation network companies such as uber, lyft and sidecar allow passengers to use an app to request a pickup in a privately-owned car. the tncs are regulated by the california public utilities commission. the disability community has raised concerns that these new transportation services may not be accessible to people with disabilities. presentation by christiane hayashi, san francisco municipal transportation agency, deputy director for taxis and accessible services k

councilmember harriet wong? are you sure? okay. so first we have john alex from the pedestrian and safety advisory committee. >> thank you ms. o'neal for representing uber in san francisco. i have a question regarding service intervals. is it a functional request that you state you will have a service animal when you register the car and if so, do you state it's a registered, licensed service animal because there is a difference between over the years of exist some are and some aren't. do you specify? >> we don't specify. if someone says they have a service animal. they have a service animal in our book. that's not something that we require anyone to show any proof of. we take that at face value. >> we have charles raf bon. >> good afternoon, councilmembers. i am charles rather born from the cab company. we have been serving all the people of san francisco for more than 80 years and recent decades have been leading provider of accessible services. i would like to start off by saying to the people with disabilities of san francisco,

thank you. >> any other councilmember comments? anything from staff? donna. >> john, one of the things i have heard is the surfacing on the playgrounds and the concerns about having to replace it after it was been used over and over again? do you have a sense of how often that happens and what the costs associated with that is? >> like any surfacing, things will wear out over time, especially if they get a lot of use underneath the swing on a playground. the carpet, for example, wears out and we have to replace it, but the rubber surfacing, which is all impact-attenuatation material, that is how we design the things from a 6' fall. i would say in typical use areas, anywhere from 5-8 years, but what recreation and parks will do is. patch in the areas that are worn more quickly and in some areas putting in more durable pads in those areas. we use two types, the rubber that is mounded and creative and adding color to it and have some fun with it and the second one is accessible artificial grass, which has not been used very frequently, but it's in a coupl

councilmember comments and announcements? councilmember roland wong? >> yes, i just kind of like to remind the audience that please join us at the independent living resource center of san francisco. we are going to have a grand opening. we are relocating and a commemoration of the ada. it's this saturday july 26th, from 10 :00 a.m. to 3 :00 p.m. at 825 howard street. the ground floor between 4th and 5th street. there will be lots of fun and have food, free food. and a second thing i would like to kind of mention is that we had the van ness brt, the bart rapid transit. we would like to see that we can write a support letter regarding the shelters on the route. thank you. >> thank you. with that. we move on to item no. 14. we shall adjourn. thank you again for those who stuck it out and we went to over time here today. we had a lot of great discussion. we will have our next meeting third friday in september. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> this is in memory of veil. let's observe one 1 minute of silence in her honor. please. >> thank you. with that, w

councilmember johnson. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya and commissioner fung is expected to arrive later this afternoon. conspiring is your consideration for items for continuance item one at 1423 osha request for discretionary review authorization is proposed for september 11, 2014, there are no speaker cards. any public comment on the continuance calendar any public comment on that item? >> move to continue item one until september 11th and second. >> commissioners a motion and second to continue on that motion. commissioner antonini. commissioner hillis. councilmember johnson. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 6 to zero and places you under your consent calendar all matter listed are considered to be routine may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items there will be no separate discussion of these items of the commission, the public, or staff so requests removed from

councilmembers, thank you for being patient with me. we have mr. supanich? >> my question is for both of you. i went to drive through jfk boulevard or parkway and when the pilot program began and it was clearly evident that people did not know what to do. you go down and these green lanes are already on market street and i have on several occasions seen cars in those lanes. so i am concerned that we will revamp a radical new system of transportation in this city without adequate signage and without adequate community education before hand. can you give me assurances that there will be an adequate budget to educate the public. it's really messy when a car gets in a bike lane and of course tempers flare and there is already enough an animosity between drivers and bicycles. is there going to be a system and how will that work? >> that is a much more broad issue than specifically related to the guidelines and that is something we are cognizant of and working on and partnering enforcement and education and working with non-profit partners. we do have some coming

. >> good afternoon, councilmembers and cochairs. last month in june our office received 64 in inquiries and we provided information referrals, service request and ada technical assistance. 81 percent of these inquiries from the public and 19 percent from the city department. there were also four curb ramp request and 3 request for accommodations. the request for accommodations involved blue zone parking request outside of homes and we also received 7 complaints which is in addition to two complaints we received from the previous month in may. we believe the increase is due to the large number of construction projects that are happening simultaneously in the city. the majority of these complaints that we received mostly involved disruption in the public right-of-way due to the construction vehicles blocking access to crosswalks or on street disabled parking. in these cases we were able to interact quickly through sf mta which included the street inspectors. this is also a reminder to the public, if you notice construction activity bl

good afternoon, councilmembers. i want to really thank christiane hayashi and think it's one of the most comprehensive analyses of the problem and just the whole dynamics of regulation versus non-regulation. one thing to sort of add or what is basically that taxi companies operate under public convenience and necessity. these tncs do not at all. i also echo bob planthold's comments and walter parks. i'm a little pessimistic, because i feel the train already left the system, unlike north carolina north new york city where they result in 50% of taxis being accessible and others are protecting the taxi industry, which means that they are also protecting the consumer. i'm afraid california and san francisco, the train has already left the system, even before the tncs become so big and powerful. the ramp taxi service and i'm speaking of private taxi as opposed to the paratransit program, because that is what i have familiarity with. it has been goingcoun hill. i have some personal examples, which would take more time tha

good afternoon, councilmembers. i want to really thank christiane hayashi and think it's one of the most comprehensive analyses of the problem and just the whole dynamics

good afternoon, councilmembers. i want

councilmember muriel bowser. pern each case, the thief tended to be a cable repair man to get access to the house. a the thief pretended to be cable repair man to get access to the house. jennifer donelan has the story. >> we have new video justin from metropolitan police. this is new video of the imposter who targeted at least two homes in north michigan park. >> we started a journey on the doorsteps. >> the parents of city wereilwoman muriel bowser the victims of an imposter who -- who stole from them. >> my family was no different than other families who were victimized. >> it appears her 78-year-old father and 75-year-old mother were the first targets yesterday morning in northeast. their home surveillance video shows him walking to the house. he told the family he was with comcast. once inside, he asked them to turn in the next room. he stole their cell phones and a wallet. we spoke exclusively with the next victim, a retired 75-year-old woman who lives three blocks away. >> he said i'm the cable guy from co

councilmembers announced the legislation today. they say it will create more transparency and accountability. they say because of the current procedure is councilmembers who are set to vote tomorrow on the extension are underprepared and underinformed. >> the city council needs to be brought in at the beginning of the process and needs to be a prize of. >> the proposal is set to go before the city council on thursday. >>> republicans want to send the national guard to the border. it is part of recommendations a republican group is drafting and plan to federalize. john boehner is leading the group, which also wants to scale back the president's request for $3.000000000 in emergency funding. there are 77,000 immigration cases waited to be heard in california. >>> in san francisco they want the city to take action to help the migrant children who are trying to enter the united states. today a rally was held outside city hall. is save the children qualify for aid under the cities safe haven for central american refugees. >> these child

councilmembers want to rename the stretch. find o >> you are watching abc 7 news at 11:00, on your side. >> one of the most recognizable addresses in the world could be changing. >> we are talking about the one and only 1600 pennsylvania avenue in this case. adc councilmember is proposing inaming the blocks right front of the white house. tom roussey is there tonight with a look at the new names being proposed. "d.c.n, it would be statehood now boulevard." some on the council want to rename this to-block -- tw o-block stretch that name, including the treasury department behind me and the much more famous neighbor. 1600 pennsylvania avenue -- should it instead be 1600 d.c. statehood now boulevard? >> i would support it. >> that is crazy. >> at the council meeting, the override of the veto was lost in the press of the proposal to create d.c. statehood now way. someone on twitter said it could be misread as d.c. statehood no way, so he decided d.c. statehood boulevard is best. some people are not crazy about the idea. breaking fr

councilmember johnson. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 6 to zero and places you under your consent calendar all matter listed are considered to be routine may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items there will be no separate discussion of these items of the commission, the public, or staff so requests removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. . item 2 case 2013 c at 836 irving street request for conditional use there are no speaker cards. is there any public comment on item 2 >> (inaudible). >> the consent calendar seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini. move to approve item 2 >> second. >> commissioners there is a motion and a second with that commissioner antonini. commissioner hillis. councilmember johnson. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes that motion passes 6 to zero

thank you. >> good afternoon, councilmembers and cochairs. last month in june our office received 64 in inquiries and we provided information referrals, service request and

. >> councilmember wong? >> hi, there. i saw you yesterday at the committee. today i have the second round at hearing the presentation and finally it's sun ken in. i was looking at the bike lane that should be 8 feet minimum. page nine. i like the idea of the improvement of the double crosswalk. currently most of these islands, we could not get to the intersection because of the crowds. like market street. when we board on the island or get off the island and there are crowds in front of the intersection, we just wait patiently but having this improvement will be great and better factor market street to have double crosswalks. and this observation, i noticed that most of these don't have guard rails. you know, parentally market street had guard rails to guide them and once they get off the bus, they don't know where to go and they have an aid as a guard rail that will be helpful and also for safety. people tend to want to jaywalk anyway. so anyway, i just kind of throw that in for the time being. i'm sure we'll have further discussion about it. thank you. >> c

the first is a newsletter to the councilmembers from ihhs public authority. the second is a letter written by our director carla johnson, to the bart board of directors regarding the bart car, the new fleet and accessible design. and that is all the correspondence that we have. >> thank you very much. and next item is councilmember comments and announcements. to do we have any? no? okay then this meeting is adjourned. >> i love teaching. it is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. >> this really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. this is very enriching as an artist. a lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. >> there are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. that is a really big draw. >> this is a signature piece. this is the bill largest darkroom in the u.s.. >> there are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. >> i think it is the heart of this place. you feel it when you come in. >> the

. >> councilmember wong. >> hi miss hayashi and thank you for coming today. i have a few questions and the first one is the taxi driver that owns that taxi or medallion, have they rent it out the taxi after their shift? >> so there is a taxi driver permit which just allows you to drive a taxi. there is a taxi medallion permit, which if we have 6,000 active taxi drivers only about 1700 of them actually have their own medallions, which is the right to operate a taxi vehicle. and yes, that taxi vehicle is -- we're trying to make maximum efficient use out of that vehicle. so it's required to be on the streets 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. we certainly hope that the medallion holder himself or herself is not driving it all of that time. so by necessity, it is leased out to other drivers, who drive it by the shift and some of that profit goes back to the medallion-holder. >> who screens that driver? >> the sfmta screens that driver and that is what i think is the defining characteristic of our system. and that is it's government oversight. tha

so last night councilmembers voted unanimously to approve an ordinance that requires its three medical marijuana dispensaries to give away 2% of the amount of cannabis they sell each year free to low income patients. >> the question i would have is what is low income. >> reporter: the answer to that question, $32,000 a year for an individual or $46,000 for a family. councilmembers are working on how to verify eligibility. >> the most solid, easy proof is your tax return, if you file a tax return. >> reporter: the berkeley patients group already gives out free cannabis to the poor. it's something it's done for the past 15 years. >> sort of a cruel thing that when you are really ill and you do have a serious illness, it's often hard to work. kit be hard to maintain a job. and when that happens, your finances suffer and you can't buy the medicine you need. >> reporter: almost everyone we talked to about the ordinance thinks it's a good idea. >> i think it's a great idea. i hope they give to it the people who absolutely need it. >> reporter: the ordinance has to go through another reading.

. >> and i know mayor in new york cityand many of their city councilmembers are looking closely at our city administrators, naomi kelly and others to set our system up. so, i think they greatly benefited by our several years of work, but how many homeless people also have the fee waived? i guess that came up when i was conversing with some of the new york city councilmembers. >> let's see. from july 1st, 2013 to the end of may 31st, 2014, we have waived the fee for 125 applicants. >> okay, that's great. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> colleagues, if no other questions for mr. rose, why don't we move to your report on item 6. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee, this is in the separate report on the city administrator's office. it's on pages -- we reported on this on pages 6 and 7. and the bottom line is our recommendation. we say approval of the proposed fee adjustments is on the top of page , is a policy matter for the board of supervisors. however, the budget and legislative analyst notes that the proposed [speaker not understood] based on the assumption that the pr

councilmember davis pr the vote is 4 to zero >> item 4 is appeal number 4 christopher for the other parties vs. the department of public works upper of forest the subject is essence as incident i image i am street to richard price of a tree removal trees and for the removal of 6 trees and replanning of 9 new trees on the hearing today. we will start with the appellants. you have 7 minutes to present your case >> as i said to commissioner fung i'll start with 3 minutes talking and ray will talk. we're here solely to hear the appeal that focuses on the removal of 2 eucalyptus trees we're not here to discuss housing or whether it's a good or bad thing or renters or anything this is simply about two trees. and this is what i'm asking you to focus on. i will also say that the required street trees in question do not mitigate the removal of street trees they wouldn't compensate for the removal there's not an issue of those trees being dangers to motorbike there's been no issue we will now have are exerts ray that has worked with our the risk assessment of the trees and caltrain construction impac

councilmember muriel bowser.ern each case, the thief tended to be a cable repair man to get access to the house. a the thief pretended to be cable repair man to get access to the house. jennifer donelan has the story. >> we have new video justin from metropolitan police. this is new video of the imposter who targeted at least two homes in north michigan park. >> we started a journey on the doorsteps. >> the parents of city

>>at a town hall meeting thursday evening, the fire department joined councilmember libby schaaf at thed recreation center, telling residents to take the extra steps to protect their homes, in case a fire starts nearby. >>make sure your doors and your windows are secure. its that extra air that allows fires to spread. >>fire chief teresa deloach reed says in order to catch the arsonists, and prevent more fires. residents need to be vigilant. >>when they're out and about, when they're walking the trails or riding their bikes, walking their dogs, just keep a lookout. any whiff of smoke, any smell of smoke, they're gonna have to make sure that they make that call into 9-11. >>and, on the heels of the fourth of july, residents are reminded that fireworks in oakland are illegal. >>12 years ago, the trees caught fire in our creek in the sausaul creek and it was quite frightening. >>and, margurite fuller says that fire was caused by fireworks. >>which are a huge problem where i live. >>that's why the fire chief says through the fourth, 24 fire crews teamed with police officers will drive up an

councilmember davis. commissioner honda. thank you. the vote is upheld with that condition. thank you. >> thank you. so the next item appeal golden gate heights with the mapping the property on canning terrace street for the bell engineering of a excavation permit to install a new cabinet the public hearing was held and this is on for further condition for the permit holder and dpw to submit conditions on the location on 12th avenue. >> commissioners, i must recuse myself and asked commissioner hurtado to chair the meeting. i'll start with the permit holder and the vice president consents you'll have 3 minutes >> i miss foster johnson where is he. >> he's on vacation. >> on here on behalf of the at&t we're here because the june figuring out hearing we were asked to support our statement that the proposed site was not a viable site because of the landslides so we submitted the inhabits last week i'll highlight a few of the inhabits exhibit a the mark 2013 amending e-mail in that e-mail mr. wilson talks about the preinspection determined the danger of the land slides is danger

councilmember zaph hearsay been excused absent. before we get starting bio today just a few reminder we ask you turn out of our electronic sounding devices and ask you take my secondary confidence outside and you will have two minutes >> how many people are here to testify or speak on general public comment. yeah. i think we'll do 12 manipulates per person >> we ask you fill out a blue card i'll call the cards in then each person will have two minutes to speak own each item today you can speak on general public comment if that item is not on the agenda we have a 15 minute limits on the first part of the meeting if you're unable to speak it will be continued to item 13 and please address our comments to the commission during the general public comment neither the commission nor the staff will respond to my comments in order to allow equal time the commission may ask the questions after the it is closed. with that, we'll go to item 2 which is the presidents report >> very briefing i want to congratulate the staff on the america's cup

councilmember is holding the of two public hearings about a proposed stadium for d.c. united soccer. plan it would be built -- buzzard ynton point in southwest. very soon drivers in arlington will have a new way to pay for parking. ribbon cutting ceremony for the park mobile program. drivers to pay through their cell phones. you can do there in d.c. it will be rolled out beginning with shirlington and crystal city this month. i guess tonight would be a nice night to go utah in a convertible. you won't get wet a it will be comfortable. not many times in the summer you cool with the top town. weekend will be back to summer. now skies are cloudy, but clear.nd west skies are this is a live camera looking it is into the city and brighter than it has been all afternoon because several drier air et up the is washing p. some of you may sunshine west and north before the sun goes down. all the action is to the south. in parts of the middle peninsula, virginia and start oust heavier -- farther south heavier rain all the way back to greensboro, north carolina. it will get out of

councilmember and candidate for mayor. there's a warning for others. >> reporter: police say this man caught on surveillance video is their suspect. according to the police report, he tells the homeowners his name is mr. joe, and he is there to upgrade their cable signal, but he has to come inside to reboot their tv. one of the victims we know about turned out to be the parents of d.c. councilmember and mayoral candidate muriel bowser. here today at her offices she said her parents are doing fine, but understandably, upset. >> they're fine. they're shaken up, of course, and they're mad, but they're like me. they're very grateful for the rapid response of npd and the concern of a lot of neighbors. >> police say he stole two expensive cell phones from her parents. one of them from their bedroom. >> it reminds us that there are people out there that will prey on our neighbors and my family is no exception. >> reporter: police say yesterday morning he hit two homes. within about an hour. both in the northeast neighborhoods nea

councilmember davis. commissioner honda. thank you. the vote is upheld with that condition.hank you. >> thank you. so the next item appeal

. >> freedom of information act, councilmember gary ouza finally found out the truth. >> they cannot spray it in their own country. they're using tons of it in our state in our community. >> so they lied to you? >> they lied to me, repeatedly they lied to me. >> ouza won a council be motion for the chemical companies to disclose. none of the companies were prepared to be interviewed for this report. >> they do not want us to set an example for other communities around the world. >> reporter: this is not a lawsuit about the safety of genetically mofgenetically modit the right to know what is being sprayed to help them grow and the impact of those living next door. >> shia britanski. al jazeeral jazeera, kauai, hig. >> many plan to open their doors to customers as early as 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, recreational pot was approved in last positive's election. election. >> i'm dave warren. we are looking at the radar again for severe weather to develop this afternoon and this evening. along this line here in the midwest, severe weather possible with that, curves into the dakotas, even the potent