and also our very own disability disaster preparedness committee of the mayor's disability council. we profiled how we integrated disabilities expertise into disaster planning and we listed many of the dcp's accomplishment including the evacuation chair project and the ada technical assistance manual for the care and shelter plan. we also talked about our offices role as disability access coordinator at the emergency operation's center. we offer this perspective from a city side, but there were other speakers that included richard zelder from the california office of emergency services who spoke about his work at the state level. we had another speaker who provided a regional response and yet another who came from another smaller city perspective, the city of fresno that has a lot less resources than we all do. so richard delveder and california oes asked you to participate in a workgroup webinar that took place yesterday, july 17th. that workgroup is going to be looking at best practices in order to develop a comprehensive evacuation plan for people with disabilities. in looking at

to people with disabilities. presentation by christiane hayashi, san francisco municipal transportation agency, deputy director for taxis and accessible services kate toran, san francisco municipal transportation agency agency, paratransit manager. there will be a break, the council will take a 10- minute break. item 7, information item, ada transition plan capital projects for fiscal year 2015 and fiscal year 2016. an annual update on requested capital funds to provide design and construction on the remainder of the city's ada transition plan projects. information on other ada transition plan projected that are currently in design and construction, presentation by john paul scott deputy director for physical access, mayor's office on disability. public comment is welcome. item 8, information item. play area ada checklist. an overview of the play area ada check lift for new city playgrounds and recommended design policy. this policy will impact nearly 30 new accessible play areas scheduled for construction in par

the first model of disability states that disability is a bad thing that should be fixed or put away causing ableism or discrimination against a disability. as you can see from a picture is an a little bit of a drawing of what a medical model looks like where the individual is a problem and the impairment of chronic illness impose real difficulties but not the main problem. the traditional view shows disability is caused by physical, mental impairment. if the person is impaired, it's a problem. the focus on the medical profession is a cure or lessen the effect on impairment. the social model states that it says disability is neutral. neither good nor bad and normal part of life. disability isn't need of treatment. it's ableism or social barriers that are the problem, there is a social model that are societal barriers for an individual and environment and languages and communities and attitudes and prejudicism and stereotyping and the organizations are flexible with procedures or practices. from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, parents were encouraged to institutionalize

the first is four youth in disability to be seen more than a youth with disability but to have the same potential as someone else to make a positive difference in this world like we are up here to make sure that they are able to do this and that they have the equal opportunity. san francisco is one of those rare cities where you accept a lot of people no matter how they look, what background them. we want to make sure that san francisco continues towards that pathway and make sure that young people with disabilities are equally accepted and we create that value and norm of respecting one another. our third goal is to create better inclusion, tolerance and acceptance for all students no matter where they come from, how they look and what digit they might have and to continue and grow as anyone else. >> our resolution is to support the sf ufc implementation and promotion of programs that build understanding, acceptance and friendships between students with disabilities and students in general education. encourages the student to further prioritize and expand existing programs and curricul

it's women with disabilities, physical, intellectual disabilities who are the subject of maltreatment, mistreatment, sexual abuse. all we're saying is they have got to be treated the same as any other woman without a disability under the laws of that country, so if a country banned all abortions, that's their -- that's their right to do so. they cannot then say oh, except, except you can have abortion if your unborn child is disabled. you can't do that. you can't -- you can't make exceptions. or if they provide any kind of services, they can't say to one woman because you're not disabled, you get this service, but if you're disabled, you don't get it. no, no. equality of access. i want to point out that 71 countries, 71 countries that have absolute prohibitions or significant restrictions on abortion have signed the treaty without reservations about reproductive health. imagine that. 71. they felt that no harm would come for a reservation because they correctly determined that the treaty is no threat whatsoever to their sovereignty and their national laws limiting access to abortion.

the next update is on the mayor's office of disability website. i wanted to give you a quick report on our project. about 7 or 8 months ago i gave you an introduction to let you know that our office started conversations with our city's web master to do an overhaul of our city's website. many of the city's web site is currently getting reformed. if you go to the mayor's office on disability website today you will see there is a new but ton at the top for accessibility. if you click on that link, it provides many new options including the ability to read, selected text out loud and to enlarge text without having any special software on your own computer like jaws or zoom text. the city's new standard format is also easier to read on a smartphone and tablet because it expands the different tabs that are there. along with this new city format, i found the opportunity to make our mod site more friendly and moren intuitive and better links to information and resources. our office started a major overhaul. we decided it wasn't enough to just move inform

disabled as well as our veterans. my volunteer services is for the advisory committee and where i served as officers of the chair of the subcommittee and was definitely involved in the finance committee. i also was revolved with the study of barriers of transportation in the city which is about a year ago. in addition for 3 terms i served as is pedestrian safety act under opposed folks. with that, i can say without hesitation my commitment to the quality of life concerns and my ability to be a good listener and i do plan to continue my involvements with any community district 67 as well as other areas i've lived in i assure you i will make this happen >> thank you, m smith. >> as someone who served on the pedestrian safety advisory committee what are the paralyzes around the disabled and seniors and one of the great high rate southerners will be disabled persons they don't have enough time to be able to filter into the mainstream of san francisco but we have innovation for the needs and the upkeep of the passageway th

culture and disability needs is not going to work online. you are going to have to get in a room with people. i would like to see your plan on that some time soon. >> we have one more comment michael better rnick and then we are going into break. >> mr. chairman, i wasn't planning to speak. to tell you the truth, i was just here to see my daughter make the presentation. we've never met. i have nothing to do with uber. i have been on the board of bart and transit for many years and i think a lot of the questions that have been raised including by our friends with the taxi industry are good questions. but one thing i'm very involved with now is our autism community. we have a group calls ascend. which i'm going to invite you. very few of them driver. some of them have started using uber and it's opened up a whole new world in new options. it's a young industry here but all of us in the disability community should look at working with uber, the other ride sharing companies. i think it opens up in terms of transportation options, a lot of option

we have from the leaders disability community. let me back up. and came together to identify what are some priority issues and that must be tackled as we figure out how to design protected bike ways. this next slide we have five issues that we identified. so the first is distinction and clarity to separate the spaces between people and bicycles and pedestrian. a second is slower pedestrian crossing and third access to bus stops along bike ways, fourth, para transit drop off on curb and accessible parking on blue zones. after we convened and identified these five sets of priorities. we came to the agreement that the best way to do this was to address these issues in one place rather than starting from scratch at the beginning with each project. and to do that we created an inter agency working group with the partner that i mentioned earlier, the mayor's office on disabilities, public works and the planning department to present to you the document today. to your knowledge this is the first in this country. because of this well make the same living

uber and future efforts to include people with disabilities. uber will share details of the technology and how their services can support customers with disabilities. presentation by caitlin o'neil and policy associate. >> i have a powerpoint here. are you able to see that somehow? great. >> can i have the control room place this up. look at that. great. thank you. thank you so much for having mi. my name is caitlin o'neil. i work on policy issues for uber. we are do wn the street on market. we are glad to be here so we can engage in these types of conversations with everyone. i'm here today to discuss issues of access for disabilities. we want to continue to have these discussions to talk about how we can improve mobility in san francisco. my presentation today is called uber mobility ability. we want to talk about the services we provide and also get feedback about what we can do better because there is always various rooms for improvement. >> can you speak into the microphone? >> sure. is anyone here familiar with uber or used the services b

, especially a non-visible disability. so anna came to our office about two weeks ago and has been quite a treat to work with her. you will hear more about her in a few minutes when she will introduce herself. but all i want to say is that she has infused our office with the youth and vigor and kind of inspiration that some of us old bureaucrats need sometimes. [laughter ] so i'm very happy to introduce her to you, and hope that you would find her as fun and refreshing and fun to work with as we have. so maybe anna can come up. >> good afternoon my name is anna burnec, 16 years old and a stative to e nationive to san francisco and i'm also in the autistic spectrum and diagnosised with pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified or ppos, which is one of the three autistic spectrum disorders. although i live a normal life, it can make things a little more complex. for example, i have problems with comprehending not so simple directions to places and i have to write them down. i don't really watch many reality sh

our heroes should not have to prove cancer is job related while they are disabled and struggling. their families should not have to two through the drama approving that they're grieving the deaths of their loved ones due to cancer. in the city of saint francis, this is important to make sure we're protecting those who are protecting us. i want to thank the men and women in uniform who are here who are working with us on this issue and with that, i know our fire chief is expected to come to say a few words, but what i would like to do is bring up the head of retirement system. jay, if you can come up and say a few words given the analysis that you provided under our city law, our retirement department is require today do an analysis of the impact and i'd like to ask for your comments on that. >> thank you president chiu. jay, the president of the retirement system. as required by the charter, with he submitted this proposed ordinance to our action. we prepared a report that you have a copy up. it's very difficult and impossible for them to project what the impact into the future ha

of disability, end quote. information technology, including internal weaknesses in information security and physical infrastructure. i would note that the lack of funding was not identified as a key area of management challenge. gao wrote that, quote, ssa has ongoing planning efforts, but they do not address the long-term nature of these management challenges, unquote. now, ms. colvin, if you are confirmed, how would you handle the modernization, information technology, and physical infrastructure? >> senator hatch, we have recognized that the agency does need to have a long-term vision. we are in the process of doing that right now. we have the national association of public administrators that were commissioned by congress to help in this process. they have submitted their report. we will use some of that report to inform decisions as finish our own planning process. we expect to have a long-term vision plan around the first of the year. we need to make sure that we've got extensive engagement with our stake

education act, other things dealing with disability rights, the disability act amendments that we passed in 2008 -- so, senator mccain has long been a strong supporter of enhancing and improving the rights of people with disabilities to have a full and meaningful life here, to be able to have the opportunity to go to school, to learn, to be educated, and to have meaningful work and to live independently. so here's what senator mccain said this morning in support of this disability treaty: "ratifying this treaty affirms our leadership on disability rights and shows that the rest of the world our leadership commitment continues." senator mark kirk, not a member of the committee, but has said this about the treaty. "he want to say, as a recently disabled american, how important it is to adopt this convention. too often we have a problem of thinking of our veterans as victims, but they are victors. this convention allows people to become victors instead of victims." end quote. and again, one of the true giants of the senate, former senator bob dole, whom i mentioned is today is his birthday,

and i had many many disabilities and i had no programs like this, nothing. so, i think every person that comes with a disability no matter what year it is, they are looking eagerly to find people to comprehend, understand, have concern and love and enthusiasm to encourage them to keep going forward. by what you are doing, you are not only doing that for the people that you are working with. you are doing that for your city, for the parents and for all people who are involved with that to really be collectively involved in going forward to help people with all disabilities. so congratulations on what you are doing. thank you. >> to the chair? hi, guys. first of all, we are all back here feeling like the proud parents of all of you and we truly, the council truly saves the best part of the meeting for last both with anna's presentation with the history and your presentation and your activism and we couldn't have asked for a better celebration of the 24th anniversary of the ada with you guys. we also want to let you know since we are running really late to stic

disability issues, including the need to put in a "more modern cop concept of disabilities." internal weaknesses in formation security and infrastructure. i would note that the lack of funding was not identified as a key anywhere of -- area of management challenge. "they have ongoing challenges but they do not address these challenges." how will you confront those challenges in human capital, disability modernization, information technology and fiscal frain structure? >> we have recognized that the agency does need to have a long-term vision. we are in the process of doing that right now. we have the national association of public administrators that were commissioned by congress to help in this process. they have submitted their report. we will use some of that report to inform decisions as we finish our own planning process. we expect to have a long-term vision plan around the first of the year. we need to make sure that we've got extensive engagement with our stakeholders, with congress, and our advocates and customers, etc. we're looking at making sure that all of that ha

representing senior disability action and manila heritage foundation. i'm in support of the housing balance measure that's been introduced by supervisor kim. majority of san franciscans now are overwhelmingly rent burdened. 43 percent of all san francisco house hoeltdz -- households are rent burdened. individuals are paying more than their income on rent. not to mention the burden on elders, the impending fear of evictions that have plagued our city while at the same time you have developers and you have speculators that are totally oblivious to this crisis and we are shouldering as working people the majority of this tremendous burden. i think 30 percent as previous speakers said is moderate. we definitely need more. contrary to popular belief by some folks, building market rate housing is not going to bring down the rate for housing. we need to bring accountability in this process. there are elements in this city. they are acting with complete impunity and lack of regard. quite frankly the real estate industry, is completely immoral and causing much p

disability treaty appears to have been modeled after the americans with disabilities act, it utilizes a very different concept of disability. for more than four decades american laws in this area have defined disability as an impairment that substantially limits a major life activity. the disability treaty, however, states that -- quote -- "disability is an evolving concept" involving barriers that hinder -- quote -- "full and effective participation on an equal basis with others." in other words, the u.n. committee would use a subjective, fluid concept of disability to evaluate compliance with the treaty of u.s. laws that utilize an objective definition of disability. i'm pleased to note that even without united states ratification, no less than 34 nations ratified the u.n. disability treaty since it was sent to the senate on may 17, 2012. 15 of them since i spoke on the treaty a year ago. yesterday the senior senator from iowa asked someone to explain to him why the disability treaty before us today raises concerns about sovereignty that the 1999 child labor treaty did not. well, i

disability. i ended up in an s-r-o. i've been in the s-r-o for 10 years. thank god for the subsidy because i live in -- without the subsidy i couldn't afford to live in -- where i'm living now, $700 for an s-r-o. i've been in there on the waiting list for social housing for two years trying to get a place. you know what, i haven't had a bath in ten years. you know why? because i live in a room. i have a desire to have an apartment where i can sit in a tub instead of standing in a shower. right now i have a daughter who makes $18 an hour. she has one child. she lives in public housing because the rent is so high in san francisco. she can't afford to have a place. she can't afford a first-time home buyer program we looked into. right now i have a brother who has been living in a house that my parents deceased, they've been living there for 25 years, okay. in san francisco the person -- somebody else purchased that house. my brother right now is handicapped and he's being displaced. we're trying to

a disability program is a vital part of this country safety net. not only of immediate importance for those who depend on them to meet everyday needs, it protects all insured working americans who would need to rely on this program to replace their income if they become disabled. we of these individuals is securely financed program that provides timely payments. at this time let me introduce. [indiscernible] >> i would like to begin my remarks by thanking secretary lou, per well, perhaps the acting commissioner, all of our staff as well as the many dedicated staff of the offices of the chief actuary of social security and administration and the cms medicare hatchery office. since i am the sole republican i sometimes feel that i bear a special personal responsibility to vouch for the object to the integrity of the process by which these estimates are produced. in particular would like to think that capable staff of the treasury department for managing this process barely and skillfully identified the areas. most of all, want to thank my fellow trust

la voz serve low-income family, single mothers, the homeless and people with disabilities. everybody else is welcome, too. we create workshops, training, [speaker not understood], empower, skills, skill to create leaders in the community. but we [speaker not understood] your support and consideration. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> good morning, supervisors. i'm jonathan wernick, the executive director of baker places where you've worked for 30 years. i'm here today on behalf of the human services network. the only problem in coming and testifying and asking for money is coming and testifying and asking for money. and it may seem to you that we are always asking for money and always asking for more money. i want to be clear that actually what we're trying to do is keep pace with the rate of inflation, keep pace with the increased costs of food, of housing, of health care, of the requirements that the city puts forth, both in terms of the agency, ao, new requirements which we support in terms of increased wages, and all of the rest of