the disabled access is expensive upgrade requirement. the green building stuff we will see a lot of green building regulations in the next 10 years and start affecting restaurants as well as every build negligent stay. have to do with lighting and envelope efficiency. it will tighten up the rooup rules more. it's not just the state and local legal the bay area air quality management district passed a law with restaurants where you have a broiler of more than 10, >> 10 feet. >> you have to have a special way to burn off the grease and vent. very expensive. there are regulations coming from every direction and mostly ending up in the building code. whether they are social issues or health and safety issues they'll be in the building code. yes , sir. >> on the exiting, you have 2 fire exits do both have to be disabled access or can you have one? >> the code just changed. it used to say an accessible entry and now you need accessible exits as well. for new accessible for remodels red you with use the second exit. >> the lift, ironically we g

certainly tons of disabilities. we are mainly a group that just loves sailing, and we are so excited to support sanford's is the's bid to host the america's cup. i wanted to just echo or say did it to the previous speaker's, and also the speaker from treasure island sailing organization. we think that this will do an enormous amount to bring sailing to all sorts of people in the bay area and the world when we showcase our beautiful, accessible, and inclusive bay. behind me, i have a view of the members, and i think they are going to speak. if any of you here have not sailed, come out and sale with us on sentences go day. we would love to have you. we look forward to working with you on making this happen. [applause] supervisor mirkarimi: next speaker please. those who i called up, please come on up. when i ask people to take the podium, please. >> i run the deprogram. i teach disabled and disadvantaged to sail. how can having the america's cup here benefit the disabled and disadvantaged? besides the tangible assets

that's sort of the global picture of the disabled access. restaurants eshg specially are sensitive because they have been the target of many lawsuits for accessibility for entrances and restrooms. not too many about employee work spaces. >> [inaudible]. >> no. if you are over 116 thousand dollars this little exception we are reading that exception would not longer apply. you would have to go back to let's see -- look at section 1134 b.2 general on the top left second paragraph. it says all existing buildings and facilities when alterations or repairs are made shall comply with all provisions of division one new buildings except as modified by this division and the modification is the part that says where you are less than 116 thousand dollars you get the exception. basically it sends you back to the regular code for new buildings. there a few other exceptions which are technical and in the building department we will be happy to help talk with you about it. we have a lot of people who spend a lot of time and money trying to figure out how to

the world needs to be open. >> people on disability has the task of addressing all the disability. when we are talk about the sidewalks, ramps, we have very specific issues. for people blind and low vision, we have the issue of knowing where they are and when the cross. it can be hit or miss. >> at hulk and grove, that sound the the automatic -- it helps people cross the street safely. >> now we have a successful pedestrian signal. >> i push the button, i get an audible message letting me know that i need to wait. when it is safe to cross, not only am i going to get an audible indicator, this button is going to vibrate. so it tells me it is safe. there is the driller sound and this trigger is vibrating. i am not relying on anything but the actual light change, the light cycle built into it. >> it brings san francisco from one of the major cities in the u.s. to what is going to be the lead city in the country. >> city working on all sorts of things. we are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada says and make life more successful for people. >> disability rights moveme

the people with disabilities in the office. we have gone from having three accessible people -- accessible services, and we have gone from the siren system, people who have been desperately hard of hearing, people did not know the hurricane was coming into the water. this is accessible for people. we have identified the triple liabilities -- with the finding that they have provided. the vulnerable buildings, and the vulnerable populations of people with disabilities in the area. there has been a huge amount of work that is happening under the leadership here i want to thank you. we have a lot of people coming here after hurricane katrina. we all have to come together and so many different agencies come in, and they will connect to the data base together. and we have all these different private partners. we are trying to set things up at st. mary's. as if this was a project can act. we have the intake process, and we knew how to deliberately organized. and this is an important discipline. this is almost an exercise in and of its

we talked about disabled access. seismic upgrade don't get into a problem by getting a lease on a building that needs a seismic upgrade. i attached a copy that talked about where the change of use triggers a seismic upgrade. an increase of 10 percent to the occupant load and increased the occupant load by more than a hundred have to do a seismic upgrade. really expensive. don't get into that without knowing it. >> [inaudible]. >> okay. thank you. that's back there in disabled access. the california building code says that you need to provide access to all areas. but it has an exception to restaurants you may have a mezzanine up to a certain size without providing an elevator as long as all the services provided in the mezzanine are provided at main level. you can't have a dance mezzanine where that's the only place you go to dance. regular foodservice and the size of the mezzanine is restricted according to the building code, you don't have to provide disabled access to that mezzanine. it's an exception under the cal

tips for respectful communication for people with disabilities brochures are available. call sfmta accessible services at 415-701-4485 for copies. >> welcome to "culturewire." for the past year, the arts commission has been participating in the city's effort to revitalize the central market street corridor. in addition to the thursday arts market and are in store front, the art commission recently launched the artery project. for the next year, the artery project will bring energy and excitement to market street, recalling the st.'s heyday as san francisco's vibrant and bustling theater district. >> un.n plaza during business hours seize hundreds of passing office workers and students, but the activity winds down at 5:00 every day. theater productions bring some but traffic, but central market is more of a thoroughfare than a destination after the sun goes down. on december 9, the artery project's launch brought a party atmosphere to market street, led by mayor gavin newsom, city officials flipped the switch on three new art installations that light up the st.'s architec

tips for respectful communication for people with disabilities brochures are available. call sfmta accessible services at 415-701-4485 for copies. >> welcome to culturewater. in 2001, the san francisco arts commission and tampa does go public library established an arts master plan for the city soon to be renovated branch library. almost 10 years later, the san francisco arts commission has integrated a collection of vibrant new artworks by bay area artists into five new libraries, and there is more on the way. here is a closer look at some of the projects. >> the branch library improvement program is a bond funded program undertaken by the san francisco public library to upgrade each of the branch libraries throughout the neighborhoods. one of the great benefits of this opportunity is that each of these branches has a unique artwork that has been created specifically for that branch, based on input from people who live near that branch, in the surrounding neighborhood. >> trur- minded. there was a lot of community support for the project. i try to make it about the true

, elevators -- indicators of mental disabilities for. we have pulled what was positive and effective from a longer version of training in house and presented more frequently. going to the 24 hour model will allow us to present for once a month. this is three times the number of officers per year than we were able to train under the old model. >> thank you. as you are aware, we will have a meeting tomorrow. the commission has decided that his mental health issue is a priority given the need to walk down the block here in san francisco. the officers are encountering many more health issues than any outside the country. i think that our officers are well-trained and they appreciate the training. it has taken a lot of time and energy for the officers to deal with these issues. we cannot have psychologists on the street. this is a priority for the commission. thank you for this report. i know that the commissioner has a question for you. >> good evening. i want to understand the time line. march of last year, the chief made presentation to th

tips for respectful communication for people with disabilities brochures are available. call sfmta accessible services at 415-701-4485 for copies. >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills better than a cable car. nobody wanted to live up here because you had to climb up here. with the invention of the cable car, these hills became accessible

it is important for the disabled as well. over here is the controller. but this does is it provides information to the elevator where to go. receives commands from within the elevator and from the destination dispatched central -- dispatched central. these elevators are precisely the electronic breaks, so they need to be very precise. in accordance with the vfd to supply power to the elevator motor, which is right here. these are original d.c. drives. d.c. was in place at the beginning of elevators. it was easier to control. currently, new elevators are ac drives. but they are so expensive to replace and waste of materials. we have made it more efficient by providing aid to the electrical system to drive it. this is controlled by the same transistor that controls the toyota prius. when the elevator is empty, the counterweight polls the elevator and it generates electricity by breaking. the same thing as in your toyota creosote or another hybrid car. -- prius or another hybrid car. here inside we have the ibtv drive. this is important for landing of the e

discrimination against persons with disabilities. title two of the ada addresses access to public services, including public transportation for persons with disabilities. it requires transit operators to call out stops at transfer points, major intersections, and major destinations, and to announce particular stocks requested by customers with disabilities. stop announcements are especially important for passengers who are blind or have low vision. these individuals cannot travel independently if they are not assured of getting off at their intended destination point. of business is called to business and roll- call. [roll-call] commissioner o'connor invited staff he would be joining us later in the meeting -- advised staff he would be joining us later in the meeting. give we have a certificate of honor recognizing the director of the human services for the work on the jobs in the program. >> commissioners, the executive director is stopped in traffic on his way back from sacramento so it is not here to join us, but i am going to sta

as you know, we had a very large rally about the police and the disabled. i want to raise my concern about trying to separate the issue of tasers and mental health. to me, it would be like asking a politician to deliver babies. we know that those issues are intimately intertwined, including prop l about to be implemented on the street now. this was the purpose of the rally on monday. the mental health association, the commission on homelessness, and the agencies to follow-up on the policies in general thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. >> commissioner, i would like to talk about the mental health trading that was discussed previously. to preface this, i would like to give you a little bit of my background. i spent four years on the staff of the commander-in-chief for army-navy and other members and also for federal employees associated with all of those branches. i then went into the private sector and private training for the state of hawaii, and this was implemented the first time they changed their system since 1959. i then went on all seven campu

he is actually disabled. we plan to install a garage underneath our home to guarantee parking for antonio. this requires the removal of two trees. and you can see on the right hand side is the sidewalk tree and behind it is a tree on our property. so, we actually received approval to remove both of these truce on september 27th. -- both of these trees host. it could become a significant tree which is the way that the juniper is currently defined and how the building code works. the removal of the sidewalk tree is necessary to provide car access of the street. removal of the tree on our property is necessary to enable activation of the garage which would be at the front of our house. after evaluating approaches, we decided the only practical way to install the garage involves removal of both trees. we do plan to replace one of those. mr. hardy has proposed an alternative approach. this is the goal of leaving the two trees in tact. his goal is similar to solutions we have already evaluated but does not meet our

discrimination against persons with disabilities. title two of the ada addresses access to public services, including public transportation for persons with disabilities. tips for respectful communication for people with disabilities brochures are available. call sfmta accessible services at 415-701-4485 for copies. >> one more week, we will know our fate as relates to the america's cup. we have made tremendous progress over the last couple of weeks organizing bids for the america's cup which will allow us to host the cup as early as 2013. on this has got the support of the board of supervisors but also the people of the city and county of san francisco. we are at a point where we need to call into question on december 13th, we will have clarity on the final vote of the issue and that will allow us to move forward. shortly thereafter, the america's cup and their representatives will make a decision. we would like to think the entire team for support. many have done a magnificent job in my office. many that are in our advisory committ

public transportation is not always accessible to people with disabilities. what most people do not know is that almost 95% of our paratransit is operated through yellow cab and luxor cab. it is almost as if there is this area that has been privatized almost. buses are difficult for people with disabilities, particularly people who use wheelchair's. the part of our system that runs along the embarcadero, the beautiful old historic trains or cars, are virtually inaccessible. there are parts of our system not have been cut off to the disabled community, so i just want to bring that to your attention. it is something that i have spoken to mr. ford about. he has always been very receptive, but we do need a few more movements in that direction and in that area. most people with disabilities have a hard time finding employment because they simply cannot get to work. transportation is considered the single most important issue to the disabled community. i just want to bring that up. the second thing is that through the passage of prop a few years ago, as members of

regarding those unable to care for themselves, and in particular the elderly and the disabled, i would like to advocate a prioritized plan for the elderly and shut ins who are subjected to spring with pesticides. it cannot be good for your he alth. my friend ended her days in an sor room at the granada hotel. she suffered social isolation. she was treated as if she were imagining the problem. i would just like to conclude by saying -- to use pesticides in the rooms of the elderly and the disabled is completely unacceptable. a cost-effective non-toxic grid that works as a physical barrier is readily available as an alternative to pesticides. another thing -- with a building wide approach, complete city- wide eradication is possible. that is, if we do not forget the street dwellers and other businesses. thank you. president murphy: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is richard. i'm with the housing rights committee of san francisco. before that, i was a property manager in the city for over 10 years. before that, i inten seattle. i saw maybe five complaints about bed bugs. in the few ye

disabled programs took about a 3/4 of a billion cut. mean, the people that are getting hurt by this, unfortunately, are the people who are the most vulnerable. >> well, it seems that listening to him when he was presenting the budget, it was surprisingly plainspeak. budgets are incredibly complicated when you start delving down into the details and reading all of it. it was very clear he put all these cuts on the table and said double that if we don't pass the ballot initiatives, which is very plain and clear. but the reality is there's a lot of question marks in this budget, there's a lot of things that still need to be worked out, and the legislative analyst's office questioned some of the savings that he had in this budget. so how -- if, let's just say, his proposal passes and we get the june election, are we there? or are there still too many question marks? exactly. >> i think at this point you're bailing out the boat. no, the boat is not in perfect working order. but i think at this point what they're saying is they extend these t