councilmember senhaux? >> the workgroup for seniors and people with disabilities and single room occupancy hotels are sponsoring a free screening and the film about the lives of people living in sro's and the efforts made to improve the elevator situations so people don't get stranded out of their rooms. the screening is held tuesday october 21st from starting at 2:00. it's going to be at the san francisco main library at gart auditorium. it is wheelchair accessible. for any accommodations, please call senior and disability action organization at 415-546-1333 or e-mail them at info @ sdaction .org. if you need any accommodations call them no later than october 14th. and they ask that you not wear any fragrances. thank you. >> okay. we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> please give it up for our teacher of the year (clapping) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ we're really excited about the leadership in san francisco there's no doubling doubt he's serious about public education please join me that welcoming mayor ed lee.

thank you. >> good afternoon, councilmembers, staff and members of the public. i will be providing two 2 months of reports from the mayor's office on disability. for the month of july our office received a total of 66 inquiries. of those, 43 were request for information and referrals, three were request for accommodations. 87 percent of those inquiries were from the public and the remaining 12 from city departments. additionally in july we had 4 program request and nine complaints. of those complaints two were related to construction projects blocking public right-of-way and four complaints remaining to elevators and lifts and terminals. in the month of august we received a total of 61 inquiries. two question request for accommodations and 43 were referrals. 18 percent from other city departments. many of those inquiries were about service and support animals to city funded programs. two of the complaints during that month were directly related to city issues events. additionally our office has received two request for accommodation for accessible pedestrian sig

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 zarda? >> i would like to thank you for your presentation. in the independent living resource center they had members of the community come out and partake on services to make sure we can increase that to show the commitment that you have towards improving access. just a few questions, though. regarding the bicycle improvements and your talking about different ways to entourage better more positive bicycle behavior, i have heard that come up a lot in the past year, you know trying to encourage or entice or someway to softly handle that situation of bicyclist driving down fast lanes, what on your options, what is in place to slowdown, i know there is some things about bumps to slow them down, what is in place that they will slowdown for people getting off these islands and trying to walk the cross ways. some can't move as fast whether through mobility impairment or you are elderly too. what can pe done to ensure besides just betting on the bicyclist improving. what can be in place to ensure that these pedestrians can be safe? >> that's a desig

councilmembers comments and announcements. agenda item no. 14, adjourn. >> thank you. donna. okay, the next item on the agenda is public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. first i have mike hot us. if anyone else wishes to comment at this time, please fill out a card. >> i thank the council for the opportunity to make this presentation. i have a question regarding the ada. as you all know 2015 is the 25th anniversary of the ada and was wondering whether council had done anything in particular to celebrate that momentous event. i would like to offer a suggestion that certain pioneers in the ada for the city particularly those that are not with us to be honored. i would like to offer suggestion of the late loadey, who was asked to become a member of this council but did not want to split her energy between the museum and this council that she be within -- one of the people nominated for her help in implementing the ada. i put together her resume of items she accomplished in her short life and would like to give this to council when poss

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 h 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, we

are there any councilmember questions. cochair zarda? >> okay. councilmember harriet wong? >> hi. thank you for your presentation. i was wondering for the transportation 2030 project, so how did they select your committee? >> the mayor's task force? the mayor's office was, the mayor's office determined the participation on the task force as the mta. we helped to staff the work that was done there, but the participation and who specifically was part of those 45 people was determined by the mayor. >> did the bring that to the attention of the mayor's office on disability at all? >> yes, in fact jeff johnson was part of that task force. >> chair zarda? >> thank you for participating in this council. earlier in this presentation you mentioned during the key investments through 2030 you mentioned the roads through transit and safety you mentioned an analysis done regarding how the money should be allocated in each area. is this analysis available to the public and if so how would we have access to it. >> yes, there is two different websites. one is called sf transportation 2030 .com. a

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

do i have any councilmember questions or comments? cochair zarda? >> first of all thank you for coming here today. the council and the general public appreciate when you show up to our meetings and can talk a little bit more and open up a dialogue about accessibility and working with the senior and disability population. what is the current access training and vehicle inspection that is in place? >> so with respect to the vehicle inspections, as i mentioned rides that are fulfilled on our platform are provided through our standard vehicle supply. those are our typical lyft vehicles which to my knowledge don't require any special equipment. they are not vehicles equipped with a ramp or lift, they are for meeting the same mechanical requirement and go through that same inspection process that has been required by us and the puc which complies with the general population. there is not special training with respect to the provision of rides to individuals with disabilities and i certainly would be open to conversation about any content that you would re

. >> 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

former councilmember carolyn independent,o an came in third.hree candidates will square off for the first time in a debate at american university tonight, and we will have highlights at 11:00. transportation officials are now testing electronic equipment on the i-95 express lanes. those lanes will run from the district to a, and you will see vehicles on the hov lanes checking tolling and traffic management systems. inspectors will test new entry points, exit points, and a nine mile extension in late september. that will help them determine the toll rates. those test drives will take place during off-peak hours. news, a landmark on the national mall isbout to get a big overhaul. we will tell you about the price tag and what is going to be done. doug hill has the latest on some moving across parts of our area. >> stray showers. the nationals look to hook the fish. the eagles take it to the limit. at redskins park, it is desperado. action jackson is back. desperado. action jackson is back. they wermarried for 53 years. she was his everything. he c

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 ada technical assistance. 81 percent of these inquiries from the public and 19 percent

councilmember muriel bowser is the democratic candidate facing off against fellow councilmember david catania, and former council member carol schwartz. we will look at the weather now and take you outside. we continue this next stretch of decent weather. what is in store for the rest of the day? meteorologist jacqui jeras has her look at the forecast. -- notbad this noon hour so bad this noon hour. we're keeping our eyes peeled for a little bit of rain. a couple of showers over harford county, north and east of baltimore. is approachingnt the region along with a disturbance overhead. that is keeping a close around today and there will be the threat of isolated showers. there is only about a one in 10 chance you will get wet in your backyard. a fairmont of cloud cover. 75 degrees at 2:00 p.m.. by 6:00 p.m., we will cool things down at 75, 68 degrees at 10:00 tonight. sunsetted 7:12 p.m., as the days get shoulder. we have a good-looking seven-day forecast and a warm up. i will have more from the belfort furniture weather center in just a few minutes. >> thank you. fairfax county animal

. >> 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

do i have any councilmember questions or comments? cochair zarda? >> first of all thank you for coming here today. the council and the general public appreciate when you show up to our meetings and can talk a little bit more and open up a dialogue about accessibility and working with the senior and disability population. what is the current access training

. >> councilmember kostanian? >> i heard you saying about that you had drivers that were deaf and one thing that we right of way, if they are driving how are they aware of ambulances and sounds? >> through sight. they are legal drivers in the state of california. it's not illegal to be a driver when you are deaf. the state decided that is safe and there are things like the flashing lights that emergency vehicles have which are detected by our stoplights that will make it safe for them to drive. >> thank you. >> go ahead. councilmember senhaux? >> one quick question, what was the criteria. i'm interested in being a driver. so i want to work for you whether it's short-term or long-term. what's the criteria? >> sure. this criteria is accept set up by the puc with respect to our standards. there is a requirement that drivers be at least 21 years old, that they have a vehicle that is fewer than 10 years old, that it be current with their personal auto insurance and in good mechanical condition and level of cleanliness

. >> reporter: councilmember and mayoral candidate sam liccardo is looking to push the special permit to allow the building to operate as a bar. he is looking to start that process in about 2 weeks. live in downtown san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. >> the state department of alcohol beverage control has filed formal complaints against the bar. a disciplinary hearing is set for november. >>> new details on tesla in nevada. the state's governor signed off on tax breaks worth $1.3 billion for the automaker. the deal was sealed late last night. it paves the way for a $5 billion battery factory near sparks. the "giga factory" is expected to create 22,000 jobs and it will also inject $100 billion into nevada's economy over the next 20 years. >>> developing news. a cold-blooded killer is back in prison after a few hours of freedom in ohio. 19-year-old tj lane and two others climbed a fence to escape last night. this morning, all three are back in prison in custody. lane was caught just a few yards away from the prison. >> with the help of the sheriff's office and the troopers that were in the area

and park department ucsf and san francisco agencies plan to remove thousands of healthy stresses councilmember our parks and street for no good reason i've met with supervisor yee who i took on a walk on mount davidson i met with roger kim who's the mayors aid on the investment i met that phil ginsburg and his staff and other various commissioners and staff i and others of the san francisco forest alliance have sent reports to the rec and park department to ucsf and the mayor demonstrating that the trees are if not month maybe the vast majority are healthy and viable and that the tree removals will be bad for the forest and environment they came bat global warming and provided wildlife habitat and san francisco has a very much smaller tree canopy than the rest of the country yet most of the trees have been replaced by grace and shrubs thousand of san franciscans have protested those plans i've attended neighborhood meetings is it is clear the vast majority of people in attendance were opposed to the tree removed and community organization like 9 west of twin peaks have written opposition lette

hours excuse me. 72 hours notice to the public that the parking is going to be taken off as a councilmember curls compromise i've included what is the line. >> page 3 lines 18 and 19 in the all the time. >> a yeah. in the all the times we're discussing so supervisor wiener is saying. >> page 3 line 18. >> line 18. >> on the printed version. >> you're looking at my version the printed version is the most current version. >> so i'm happy to withdraw my motion to withdraw the feasibility clause and keep it in there and keep the legislation as i have it in front of you as you've reviewed the most important is the 72 hour noticing and i too the compromise included the feasibility class so that it will remain flexibility there's a lot of discussion and questions around it feasibility is important to maintain so we don't stifle the commission i'm asking our permission from the noticing of 24 to 72 hours at the start of the production. >> the city and county hours makes sense i don't have an issue it's good to have notice but at issue is the one feasible right if you can do it in 72 hours i should

>> 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 percent of it goes to muni which is i guess okay for some people. but the bond measure is even worse. the $500 million general obligation bond has $500 million interest according to the controllers statement

. >> councilmember david grasso said publicizing names of everyone with a concealed carry license. like she might have an issue with somebody or maybe you want to develop a relationship with somebody for a long-term, you might want to know whether they are carrying a pistol. >> without it, the emergency bill went to a final vote. >> a federal judge who struck down the city half law stayed his ruling until october 22, so if the passage of this emergency legislation, the city should have a law in late by then all stop even as the city does that, the city is planning to appeal the judge's ruling and the attorney who successfully struck down the city's old law is x acted to challenge this new law as well. >> a former prince george's county police officer convicted a university of maryland student after a basketball game and now has a clean criminal record. james harrison was convicted two years ago on one count of second-degree assault. he served 30 days of home detention and now a judge has overturned the conviction at harrison's. the student beaten in this video says it is frightenin

there are concerns -- but councilmember sam liccardo says, the new camera network does not infringe on people's right to privacy. the hunt to catch a mountain lion that attacked a 6 -year old boy. will resume tomorrow in cupertino. kron 4's scott rates shows us the extra steps biologists are taking. to track down the dangerous cat. the gulf >> the point of the cameras is to get into areas that are good now online habitat but where we cannot lay traps. there are areas where the melamine maybe walking but we just cannot set a trap. at least five infrared cameras and like traps have been placed along the trail. the biologists hope to track down a 90 lb. mountain lion. there probably are a whole lyons. usually there are one male and several females. this cannot be the male cat in the area. biologists have used dna testing to get more information. we know what the cap was male. our trackers are in the field with their dogs who can treat a cat. we can use a dna test to match the exact path. we will be seen the footage of these cameras tomorrow possibly. the unrest in iraq and syria. is hitti

we have councilmember wong leading the introduction. >> good afternoon and welcome

moderate focus that passed through the mta in 2013 how did he define it i know that the demand councilmember alvarez said for the free muni for youth was for all students how do we define i i guess free and reduced lunch would be the easiest for low to moderate income. >> the definitions is one hundred percent in the bay area medium income significantly higher than the free to muni in this. >> what's the bmi. >> so for a family of $497,000 and then i know there's commitments to extend to low to moderate seniors and know know what the recent budget 18-years old were added in i'm just it looks like this is for special ed students ease their transitional age between 18 to or 19 to 22 what happened so the 18-years old are already covered so you would. >> yes. in the budget dilatation 9 board of supervisors approved the budget for the 18 years old and that's moving forward we're in the process. >> thank you. >> thanks very much city attorney can we describe it. >> yes. john gibner, deputy city attorney again under the charter the board of supervisors has limit the budget you can reject the budget

of kansas city at the convention city, and another good friend of the library and also a city councilmember at the time who sported the most perfect afro ever worn by anyone in the history of hairstyles. bob greene, who also had a pretty good head of hair and makes me very jealous, is the professor of history and humanities at cazenovia college in new york. he has taught there for the past 35 years. he also serves as the college archivist, and he has written or edited 17 books, three of them the basis for talks here at the kansas city public library. george h.w. bush in 2012, betty ford in 2013, and gerald ford tonight. bob's book, "the presidency of gerald r ford," will be on sale following tonight's talk courtesy of k.u. bookstores, and so is his book of betty ford. you may notice a young man who kind of sort of has a passing resemblance to me. don't do a double take. it is for real. that would be my first-born son, soon to be a senior at the university of kansas and majoring in history, of all things. he is working his way through school, so by as many copies of "the presidency of gerald

and so councilmember and mayoral candidate sam liccardo is working to yank the special permit that allows that building to operate as a bar. he is looking to get the process going in two weeks. live in downtown san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. >> the state department of alcohol beverage control has filed formal complaints against that bar. a disciplinary hearing is set for november. >>> it is 6:03 right now. time to check on our morning commute. elizabeth. >> we have a special live look this morning at traffic coming into san francisco. everything looks good through hospital curve. greg our photographer standing by on the free of giving us his live traffic shot. we just saw reports of a tire blocking one lane of northbound 101 near vermont street or in a lane. anyway, we're not seeing it in our traffic cams. so if it is causing a slowdown just veer to the left. all right. let's go out live to westbound 580. you can see it's starting to get crowded through the livermore valley now. drive time kind of holding steady though. it hasn't budged much in the last 15 minutes. it's still 23 minutes from

become a giant beacon as you can see the steel structure you'll be able to see it from the freeways councilmember west and east from the east that it's a beacon you'll want to be a participant in all your friends to see what what it's about fantastic for tourism in you're in the tourism business it will boom and the food business will boom and hotel it is great and for your personal pleased the museum is designed to just be a big magnet for visitors and also coupled with that is our education program for the youngsters we're going to double and triple the effort the 3 things i want to emphasize that are important to you'll you have you here as a public this entire museum has been built by private fundraising it's really pretty incredible (clapping) and mayor ed lee who i'll introduce here in a moment he's very happy we didn't go into the city coffers there's another part of the story about the partnership between the entrepreneurs and people who have been successful in life that give back but the city's also has the first new firehouses in 40 years over on. fulsome street the firemen all love it

councilmember david catania had formal councilwoman carole schwartz. was relatively tame, but fireworks erupted when bowser brought up an ethics bill she helped craft. >> what she did was assemble 10 bills other people wrote. >> i have to correct that. >> i didn't interrupt you. >> you said something that is not actually factual. >> cheryl schwartz took them both to test. unfortunately, the january 1, 2015 effective date -- that thosethat this election, loopholes are still wide open. at americanditorium university, most were the already converted, but we found a few undecided voters. >> i haven't done too much research. >> some are still looking to hear more details. >> affordable housing, no matter what candidate, what does that mean? answerss didn't get tonight, there are three more mayoral debates before the november 4 general election. prospector, abc 7 news. >> meanwhile, an historic vote as scottish citizens decide whether their land should remain part of the united kingdom or break away form an independent nation. more than 4 million people goin

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

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