now we'll tv introduction read by council member roland wong. >> good afternoon. happy first day of spring. and welcome to the mayor's distribute council this friday march 20, 2015. in room 400 of san francisco city hall. city hall is an accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. wheelchair access is provided at van ness street via ramps. wheelchair access at the pope street/carlton entrance is provided. wheelchair lift. assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is close-captioned and sign language interpreted. our materials are available in large braille. please ask staff for any additional assistance. to prevent electronic interference with this room sound system and to respect everyone's ability to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and pda's. your cooperation is appreciated. we welcome the public's participation during public comment. you may complete a speaker card available in the front of the room or call our bridge line at 1415-554-9632. >> let me repeat that. 1415-554-9632. where

council and i believe councilman roland wong has requested to speak first. >> yes, thank you. the time i have known and worked with derek at independent living resource center, san francisco, and council member at the san francisco mayor's disability council. he had really inspired me. derek is one-of-a-kind in this universe that cannot be replaced. a young man with so much potential and talent that there are endless words that describe him. he is mature, very enthusiastic, very compassionate and very professional. an advocate, good educator and even a great

so i'm going to open any questions or comments to the council and i believe councilman roland wong has requested to speak first. >> yes, thank you. the time i have known and worked with derek at independent living resource center, san francisco, and council member at the san francisco mayor's disability council. he had really inspired me. derek is one-of-a-kind in this universe that cannot be replaced. a young man with so much potential and talent that there are endless words that describe him. he is mature, very enthusiastic, very compassionate and very professional. an advocate, good educator and even a great politician. most of all, a true human being. you will never be forgotten, derek. thank you. thank you very much. >> thank you, council member wong. any other comments from the council? if not, i think i will chime in. let me put in a request to speak. all the sentiment that have been said by roland wong so articulately what derek brought to the council and what an amazing man he was. and i was honored to know him, to be a friend to work with him on the council. he taught me a lo

roland wong? >> yes. >> thank you, we'll now proceed with the agenda items. >> agenda item no. 1. roll call. agenda item 2. reading and approval of the agenda. item no. 3. public comment. items not on the agenda for today, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. agenda item no. 4. information item. report from cochair supanich. agenda item no. 5. overview of the mayor's office on housing opportunity, partnerships and engagement, hope, presentation on the role of hope, it's services, programs, projects and including the new navigation center. presentation by bev an duftey. director. public comment is welcome. agenda item no. 6. ceremonial item. kathy zarda, in honor of former mayor's disability council cochair, derek zarda, kathy zarda, derek's mother, will provide the council with information regarding a community memorial to be held in derek's honor on saturday, april 18, 2015, at independent living resource center, san francisco. from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.. council members and members of the public are welcome to share thoughts, memories a

we have questions from the council and the first one that had questions was council member roland wong. >> hi. i have two questions. it may not fit in this discussion but i want to maybe make a comment about it. first is the 28 line. currently it kind of runs in a hot limited. sit to run on a hot day. >> roland is referring to the 20 limited really only operates. it's basically a school tripper. it operates in the morning and midday and relieves that stress for the schools getting out. the eventual proposal is that we are going to increase that to an all day service on 10-minute head ways to overlay the 28 local which will be an all day service as is on 10 men head way. there will be a lot more service on 19, not just for schools. >> i wasn't clear. sometimes i see it and sometimes i don't. there was more servicing during school hours. so in the future it will be all day. >> yes, but just to be clear, that's not happening april 25th. >> okay. the second part, i had a chance to visit the portrero division to see the new trolley coaches. it's very impressive. the thing i kind of glared o

i would like to start with council member roland wong. >> thank you, mr. franklin. i have two comments. one of them is when we deploy the first phase of the new bart cars, i think it may get very confusing when you have two older existing cars with two doors and the new cars with three doors. i can't really picture how people can actually navigate to figure out which door and you know even with signage, announcements, it's very hard to picture that. so, i know we brought it up at the task force the bart accessibility task force. i'm still really confused at how we are going to manage that or bart will manage that. the second one, i attended the loop, it was wonderful. you can hear everything through the head set it's just a good technology. those are my comments oovment briefly we are going to be indicating displaying on the platforms whether it's a new or old train and creating a symbol by it to be tied to the marking on the flat form. so there will be an audio, visual, a color coding tie in between the designated cars and the cars will have a symbol. it will be a

now we'll tv introduction read by council member roland wong. >> good afternoon. happy first day of