debbie kaplan are you around online somewhere? >> just a moment. >> hello. >> yes. we can hear. >> you all right good morning, commissioners.. um, i'm debbie kaplan acting director of the mayor's office on disability and can speak to the concerns and interests of the people with disabilities. who we consulted with and addressing the issue of the future of the ad p. >> many people people with disabilities have been concerned that as um, supervisor mandelman stated that um, the a b e that is extremely has been extremely important. um, does not address many different kinds of access issues experienced by people with different kinds of disabilities other than the mobility disabilities require the agricultureal modifications and express strong desires to support small businesses at that point in time when many small businesses are recovering from the covid epidemic and the economic fall out throughout the city caused by um, the pandemic. one of the questions or one of the challenges looking at the future of dba has been is quake on sma

former director nicole bonn who was very helpful and the current director debbie kaplan as well as members of the mayor's disability council and then in the city administrator office, jennifer johnston, sophie hayward and angela yip all were important contributors. we have help from city office [indiscernible] vicky wong and calvin ho. in my office did lots and lots of cat herding to get us here and then many many thanks to small business and disbability community advocates who gave us their time and attention and good thinking and i can try to answer any questions or make t a te hannah come up and address them. >> thank you very much supervisor. let's see, are there any comments or questions? from commissioners? i'll give it a second. i want to appreciate you for tackling this situation in a different kind of with a different lens. i feel this is something that i know we talked a lot about obviously with businesses individually as well as collectively to figure how to make the landscape less fear based and scary and check box driven, but really to think about accessibility and disability

former director nicole bonn who was very helpful and the current director debbie kaplan as well as members of th mayor's disability council and then in the city administrator office, jennifer johnston, sophie hayward and angela yip all were important contributors. we have help from city office [indiscernible] vicky wong and calvin ho. in my office did lots and lots of cat herding to get us here and then many many thanks to small business and disbability community advocates who gave us their time and attention and good thinking and i can try to answer any questions or make t a te hannah come up and address them. >> thank you very much supervisor. let's see, are there any comments or questions? from commissioners? i'll give it a second. i want to appreciate you for tackling this situation in a different kind of with a different lens. i feel this is something that i know we talked a lot about obviously with businesses individually as well as collectively to figure how to make the landscape less fear based and scary and check box driven, but really to think about accessibility and disability i