we have questions from councilmembers as well. to follow up on what chip said with the request regarding the wheelchair accessibility. when you have uber lifts in this city providing competition with taxis and limousines and making it a little bit more difficult sometimes to have access to some of these wheelchair accessible vehicles. there is a regulation in place that there needs to be a certain amount of wheelchair accessible vehicles. when you say we are great on wheelchair accessibility and proud of this, but i don't see this in place. it's solely dependent on finding the drivers to even purchase them. what you are doing is you are really betting the farm so to speak that there are going to be these drivers out there and more than enough to be able to accommodate. you are amplifying but you are also competing saying that we are going to provide this service that's all based on the drivers that come forward. that to me doesn't speak to any measure in place to actually provide that service. more so, it's just the drivers will b

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,

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

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

. >> on the motion to approve it matter councilmember sharp. commissioner hillis. commissioner johnson. i'm sorry, i didn't hear you >> commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes naming 7 to zero zoning administrator what say you >> close the public hearing i'll take it under as time the possibility of placing bicycle parking to reduce the needs for any parking and note condition 5 of the motion requires a liaison be identified by the sponsor. >> that places you on our discretionary review calendar one remaining item for case and 2013 d and v. may or may not discretionary review authorization and the request for the zoning will consider >> good afternoon jessica the planning staff ms. a questioning for the it demolition of a self-same the department is recommending not to take dr and approve that as proposed as mentioned this has had a recent situation that the existing property is not affordable and meaning that the property and land value is greater than 80 percent of the c

. >> 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

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

it's a task that one councilmember feared they couldn't do. the west oakland-based company already collects part of the city's recycling but has yet to take on the full system. up until now, texas-based waste management has held the garbage collection contract. both companies submitted proposals for the contracts which include rate increases. california waste solutions came in at $36.82 a month, about $7 less than waste management. city council approve the new contract last night in a 7-1 vote and oakland-based company says they're ready for the challenge. >> we've worked in this community for 22 years. we believe we always had had the local advantage, we always -- waste always believed it had the largest advantage because it was the largest waste company in america. >>reporter: the new contract is 27%. but the councilmember who oppose the deal says that's not why he vote no. we'll have in our next report why the councilmember vote no. i also spoke with a waste management driver. we'll have more on their concerns over the contract change. live

councilmember roland wong? yes. thank you for the information. i grew up in an era with special education that we were educated from the mainstream of the school district. of course it's always good for improvement and they have come a long ways of stream lining kids with disabilities into regular school setting and with the accommodation. it's been very successful and now i'm glad to see that it has gone a long ways. i will support the youth commission and people with disabilities all the way. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> cochair supanich? >> hi, i want to thank you for your advocacy and activism and to remind you that altruism is not dead. also i want to as a cochair i can suggest that we write a letter of support for your resolution and get that to you soon so that you can include it when you go out there garnishing support for your work. that's one way that we can collaborate with you. i would also encourage you if you can to come to one of our executive community meetings. that's where we roll out ideas for presentations and areas w

councilmember marion barry has been involved in a car accident.his happened earlier this evening along pennsylvania avenue a few blocks from minnesota avenue in southeast. you're looking at a live picture of that area right now. sources are telling news 4 there were no severe injuries. but we're still working to determine if there was one car or multiple cars involved, who was driving, details like that. we're going to keep working our sources. if we get information before the end of this newscast, we're going to get to it you as soon as we learn it. also, we want to update you on a story from earlier tonight. police have arrested a man in southern virginia and he is now charged with murdering two women in maryland. earlier today, officers found the victims in a home in oxen hill. derek ward has more from that neighborhood along chloe drive. >> reporter: police have arrested 54-year-old malcolm paul thomas. he was arrested in wakefield, virginia, his listed address here on chloe drive in oxen hill where bodies two victims were found. after someone

we have rooms for i don't know how many people but we plan to grow beyond the 3 hundred and 60 councilmember krekorian people in the building it's a gem of a building i don't know if you notice the big columns the beautiful things you'll find it's original california the pine from the beginning of the 19 hundred i'm sorry 19 something, you know, laura. and it housed originally housed the eating man company so is a a very popular department store the carpets on the top of the building. the renovation truly strikes live on mid-market literally because we have 4 hundred new lights on the facade of the building that lights up every everything but not only did vibrancy of the building and the mid-market neighborhoods that wanted to us to expand but build what we call an urban campus as we designed the new company we wanted to make sure we open our doors to the neighbors this serves the company but as an event space for the many neighbors we have in the neighborhood. we're working with local nonprofits to host events and start are start with family dinners for the children's development center and

says the flooding is a symptom of what he calls the city's infrastructure crisis and another councilmember says he was told that replacing the city's water lines would cost about $4 billion. >>> a black bear cub burned in a washington wildfire earlier this month is making a slow recovery. the back bear was discovered under a horse trailer in north- central washington where a fire burned about 400 square mileses and destroyed 300 homes. the bear still has third-degree burns and is on pain medication and antibiotics, but her appetite is good. it's still too soon to tell if cinder can be returned to wild. >> notre dame head coach brian kelly expressed shock and disappointment at the academic scandal that is taking out four of his players. the school is investigating the players for allegedly submitting homework haun papers that someone else worked on of it's the second year in a row that the team has been affected by accusation of cheating of the kelly says that notre dame holds players to a very high standard. >> we don't -- we don't look the other way. if we find improponents we'll address

councilmembers at that at tatiana cost kostanian, starlyn lara. denise senhaux, roland wong. present: >> thank you. now we'll proceed to action item no. 2. reading and approval of the agenda. city clerk: item no. 1, welcome. introductions and roll call. item no. 2. action item. reading and approval of the agenda. item no. 3: public comment. items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. item no. 4. information item: report from cochair supanich. item no. 5. information item. report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. >> item no. 6. information item. uber and future efforts to include people with disabilities. uber will share details of their technology and how their services can support customers with disabilities. presentation by caitlin o'neil, public policy associate, uber. pensacola comment is welcome. break. the council will take a 10 -minute break. item no. 7. information item. draft building blocks for accessible bicycle facilities. san francisco municipal transportation agency sf mta will p

>> want to update the breaking news about councilmember marion barry. he was involved in a car accident this evening around 9:00 in the 2900 block of pennsylvania avenue southeast. we just spoke with the police department. they are investigating this accident. there are reports that at least one of the vehicles may have been travel in the wrong direction. that is part of this investigation. we understand there were no life threatening injuries, only nonlife threatening injuries, minor damage in this accident. as we get more information we'll of course bring it to you. bryan joins us on set for a last check of the forecast. >> maybe' stray sthour or two. tomorrow, i think a little better shot for stray showers. it will be warm and muggy, in the middle 80's. next week, the first full of august, it will feel like near 0, with isolated afternoon storms. stay with us. there's saturday news extra ahead. we showed people a survey that stacked fios up against comcast. what's it like paying for internet rated 6 out of 7 in customer satisfaction? not good, it's n

i see school board members and councilmembers. mayors and supervisors.on saturday, members of gress. we keep coming and we have a governor who embraces us when we do. thank you, governor brown. is the attorney general for the state of california. harris. are we lucky to have her in this capacity. her career began in 2003. she won election and defeated the incumbent to become the district attorney of severn cisco. -- san francisco. in 2010, she was elected the attorney general and became the first african-american and to hold the post. a powerful job and a busy job. it speaks volumes of her commitment and her values. it is her relentless fighting against financial institutions to provide justice and restitution for families, latino families, who were impacted by the foreclosure crisis in america. i will let her talk about that. a lot of people call her a rising star in californian politics will stop she is a rock star for us in california. -- californian politics. she is a rock star for us intel for you. -- in california. please welcome kamala harris ♪ [c

in an interview today with dz councilmember jack evans, he said if snyder chooses d.c., they could tear down rfk and have the new one built within five years. horace holmes, abc 7 news. redskins buildhe a new stadium, it would be the sixth stadium the franchise has called home going back to its first five seasons in boston. rfk stadium was by far the team's longest serving home. the team moved to fedex field in 1996. for answerss search is still ahead on abc 7 news at 6:00. see what happens only minutes after 7 on your side goes hunting for answers. why 300,000 americans could soon lose their health care coverage under the affordable care act. 's crucial role in stopping the deadly ebola outbreak. beautiful weather today, but some big changes on the horizon for the upcoming holiday weekend. >> you are watching abc 7 news at 6:00 -- on your side. >> bethesda will soon be the front lines in the fight to contain the ebola outbreak in west africa. the national institutes of -- willegins to land plan experience of trials next week. news of the trial comes as the world health organization est

no details are available on what led up to the crash or the councilmember's condition. we are working on getting an update for later in the forecast. >> growing calls for criminal charges against a new york city police officer who placed a man in a chokehold. the medical examiner ruled eric garner's death a homicide saying he died from the officer's chokehold prohibited by nypd. garner can be heard telling officers he can't breathe. today his family said the father of six deserves justice. gemini met with the prosecutors -- i met with the prosecutors and i want them to do the right thing. >> the officer involved was relieved of duty and a second officer placed on desk duty. nypd plans to retrain the police officers on the proper use of force. nearly 500,000 people have to wait until tomorrow to find out if their water is safe to drink in toledo, ohio. the city warned residents not to drink tap water because it may be toxic. lab tests showed the presence of a toxin that may come from allergy on like eery. additional test results were expected tonight but will now come to

the democratic councilmember faces david catania and carol schwartz in november. both are running as independents. there is no republican candidate. and voters will get a chance to hear from the candidates. they are vying for the 48 the strict in june. david foster and richard sullivan will be aired tonight at 7:00 in founders hall auditorium on george mason university's arlington campus. that election will be held next tuesday. meantime, the corruption trial of bob donnell and his wife, maureen, injuring its third week now. the governor's chief of staff is on the stand. we were there as he walked into court this morning. he testified that the former governor was visibly upset after they interviewed his wife. i asked him not to drive a ferrari from jonnie williams' home. the governor remains optimistic. >> we're about halfway done. i am looking for to presenting our case. >> they are charged with accepting more than 155 thousand dollars in gifts and loans from williams. they could face decades in prison if convicted. jeff goldberg is still in richmond and will hav

i see school board members and councilmembers. mayors and supervisors. come saturday, members of congress. we keep coming and we have a governor who embraces us when we do. thank you, governor brown. [applause] our next speaker is the attorney general for the state of california. kamala harris. are we lucky to have her in this capacity. her career began in 2003. she won election and defeated the incumbent to become the district attorney of severn cisco. -- san francisco. in 2010, she was elected the attorney general and became the first african-american and south-asian to hold the post. [applause] it is a powerful job and a busy job. it speaks volumes of her commitment and her values. it is her relentless fighting against financial institutions to provide justice and restitution for families, latino families, who were impacted by the foreclosure crisis in america. i will let her talk about that. a lot of people call her a rising star in californian politics will stop she is a rock star for us in california. please welcome -- californian politics. she is

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 marion barry out of the hospital after a wrong way crash in southeast.very who suffers from diabetes said he had a hyperglycemic attack and became disoriented. he ended up going the wrong way on pennsylvania avenue and crashed into another vehicle. a passenger who was with him in the car was not injured. d.c. policing gave very three tickets, including driving the wrong way, failing to have insurance, and having an unregistered vehicle. following another story from overseas -- china specifically -- more than 350 people are dead tonight following a large earthquake. it was a magnitude 6.1 that struck in the southwest part of the country. landslide and heavy rain or slowing rescue efforts. the chinese government sent thousands of soldiers to the region and the red cross is sending food, water and other supplies. here on the homefront, as far as the weather is concerned, as we look outside you can see it's a beatable day. sun and clouds, but what is ahead for the work week? typical summer weather numbing our way. this is a live look at our nation's capital

councilmember johnson. commissioner moore i really would like to support this i believe it requires further discussion i can't forward it to the had particular moment >> that's a no. >> commissioner sugaya (laughter) president fong arrest so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 4 to 2 with commissioner moore and commissioner sugaya voting against. shawl we >> we left off under your regular calendar and two items pulled off for consent. that were placed after your after item 17 and this is item 4 at hiding street request for conditional use authorization arrest planning staff staff to allow for a conditional use authorization in order to develop is making restraining order television facility on hyde street the project street on, on the southeast corner in the hidingville neighborhood mixed use development developed in 1907 with the ground floor market and two residents above and the zoned mixed medium density along the high street line it will economist of through 3 elements for the battery back up to r

and the departments going back to councilmember kersey comments are smoking gun sometimes the problem if there's no really atmosphere if the department that filing this is even worth an effort or even worse someone senior? department didn't file their own and everybody else is saying why should i that's a real problem that employees have to confront so what i'm saying i agree strongly that to be the the recommendation or the proposed change i don't know you should recommend an action it should be up to the authority they should be the one to look at the human resources or the city attorney or the unions the contractors or whatever to simply say we're going to recommend this if they fail to meet the requirements of the law it will be a big enough issue to the body. i'll give you an example they don't want someone like ray heart of the san francisco government walking in with a list saying here's the people in your department that have not filed your statement and why is it and why are you not doing something about it we're talking about public shaming it's sometimes appropriate. but it

there are there other announcements from the councilmembers >> yes. president chiu. >> frail a comment and question first of all, i want to thank everybody and echo i want to say what occurred to me after the earthquake happened we've spent a lot of work prep and wonder if that was worth it we know it was i want to thank everyone for paxil the earthquake bonds in 2013-2014 there was a lot of work mayor ed lee and the fire chief's it was amazing and the angst we felt from volunteer to a may or may not seismic retrofit regive this it's worthy it i've had a lot of conversations i notice there are community that are additional things that seniors may want to thank about and the immigrant population may want to think about i know your materials are broad but are there efforts to educate those niches. >> so we'd be happy to work with you and just to let everybody know we have different components within our team we work with nonprofits to reach out to the individual communities and have somebody that worked with the private sector and the focus on this indi

thank you >> councilmembers i'm a professional working here for san francisco while i don't rent out my apartment it's important to understand what those companies bring so inform is new life people who have been living here for 57 or one hundred years those people get to learn about all the beautiful things from a native resident. that speaks had more than any sort of antidote about trash in our composite or misplaced bottles it's important to understand that people who use the b and b love the places they're sharing and i and b b will continue to share their experience let's talk about antidotes not facts they want more regulation people really time to be taxed on the money that comes through b and b that's railway people say they want to pay taxes on the money they're getting, however, those people are happy to rent out their places and building their terms are somewhat interchangeable but to reinvest in their communities it's wonderful thank you. >> hi, i'm nelson i was born and raised in san francisco and currently a san francisco my mom and pop own a chinese restaurant my mom a

councilmember sharp. commissioner hillis. commissioner johnson. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero. and commissioners - take a 5 minute break. >> audience to silence any mobile devises state your name. commissioners we left off or completed our regular changed and on items 17 abc for cases and 2012.00775 those are may or may not discretionary review authorization and a may or may not discretionary review. >> good afternoon. commissioner president wu and commissioners doug the items before you are may or may not discretionary review for demolition and new construction. and a request are for discretionary review for the remnant structure on duncan street those were continued made known to the department it was not properly post. the project is to demolish a single-family dwelling it was looked not noah valley neighborhood and a 40 foot height district. the subject property is on the south side of duncan street that is a sleeping slope the property has 25 feet even if

councilmember sharp. commissioner hillis. commissioner johnson. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero if we could have a motion for item 2. commissioner antonini >> yeah. i'll propose item 2 to october 9th any public comment? 2014 >> second. >> on that motion to continue testimony two arrest commissioner antonini. commissioner hillis. commissioner johnson. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and and places you under your consent calendar may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member 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 3 case c at 9 one west portal discretionary review authorization and 487 c request for discretionary review authorization and item 5 at 401

councilmember zaph hearsay been excused absent. starting bio today just a few reminder we ask you turn out of our electronic sounding devices and ask you take my secondary confidence