co chair jim blacksten, present.ncil member tatiana kostanian will participate via the bridge line. council member alex madrid. >> present. >> clerk: council member sally coghlan mcdonald. >> present. >> clerk: council member orkid sassouni will participate via the bridge line. council member helen smolinski. >> present. >> clerk: and council member kate williams is absent. >> thank you very much. let's move to action item, this is number two. reading an approval of the agenda by staff. >> clerk: item one, welcome, introduction and roll call. item two, action item, reading the approval of the agenda. item three, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the m.d.c. each speaker is limited to three minutes. please approach the microphone or give your comment card to the m.d.c. staff. item four, co-chair report. item 5, information item, report from the mayor's office on disability. please note that the director's report can be found in the what's new section of the m.o.d. website at sfg

i want to thank the co-chair jim blacksten for your telling story of what you experienced personally, because it's not uncommon and i've had experiences where i've been afraid for my safety crossing the street. it's actually not uncommon. and so this affects a lot of us and it's great we're having this conversation. i had a couple suggestions that i just wanted to offer. one is, i share the call in concern with lyft and Über driving fast because they have incentive to, financially, for their work. and my suggestion would be maybe to start a conversation with those companies around providing maybe some kind of incentive for their workers to drive a little safer. i know that lyft and Über drivers do not make a huge salary and so maybe some kind of incentive would help with that. the other suggestion that i had was possibly working with the dmv and their educational program they have. as someone who has gotten a driver's license, there was not a great amount of information given to drivers about people with disabilities. and the different kinds of disabilities you might come across when