i'm going to talk about the mission of the san francisco public library. the san francisco public library is dedicated to free and equal access to information, knowledge and independent learning and the joyce of reading for our diverse community. i like this mission statement very much because i believe it shows the diversity of our disability communities also should be recognized. but you will see on the slide, the red line that says that accessibility programs of the library will assure that no patron is denied access. this line was actually proposed and added just for our use in access services by a group called the accessibility advisory panel soon after the main library opened. that informs the work of access services program. how do we do this? on the screen people will see a blue and white sign that are like other offices. we base this service to the sign when it was developed by the mayor's on disability. this actually is in all of all of our branch library and main library. it's all over the system and simply informs people that all buildings are w

san francisco public like system. presentation by marty goddard. san francisco public library. public comment is welcome. break. the council will take a 10 minute break. >> item 8. information item. san francisco's ada transition plan for curb ram ps, progress updates and future projects. presentation by ken spiel man, project manager san francisco department of public works. >> public comment is welcome come. item 9: information item, san francisco mta program updates. progress update on accessible key stop for the light rail system. presentation by annette william. item 10. information item. report from the director of the mayor's office of disability. >> item 11. information item. report from the disability disaster preparedness committee. >> item 12. public comment. >> item 13, correspondence. item 14. discussion item. councilmember comments and announcements. >> item 15. adjourn. >> do i have a second with having just briefly said that item 7 has been taken off with the motion and harriet second it? do i have a motion to approve the agenda? thank you. >> motion needs to be voted on. it's been seconded now i

live at the san francisco public library, mark kelly, kpix 5. >> the library also has a social worker on staff to work with some of the patrons. >>> the bay area's red-hot housing mark may finally be cooling off. research firm dataquick found the median home price slid to $540,000 in august. that's down by $22,000 from july. sales were also sluggish around the region. >>> the san jose earthquakes' new stadium won't be open for the 2014 soccer season at all. construction crews had to deal with debris at the site near the airport. now they are dealing with water and sewer issues. so the team will keep playing at santa clara's buckshaw stadium through next season. >>> it costs more than $4.5 million to put out that big fire on mount diablo. the 3100-acre fire is now contained, but it took about 450 firefighters to do it. investigators determined a target shooter started the fire on sunday. but so far, it's unclear whether that person actually did anything wrong. >>> first i was kind of like worried that there were people working in there. >> high drama above the financial district. how t

and next month think the 26th at the san francisco public library there's the overhead thank you. i just came from a meeting with the current poet of san francisco. i'm reminded this is a city of brave positive expression and has been known as the city of poets other than the world. each of the supervisors earlier in the month received a book of poetry to join the students of envied and high schools across san francisco at the public library on saturday 1 to 3. some of you have long been enthusiastically jumping on board. the event is to envision a positive future together in solidarity and from the supervisors we're asking you to either come and drbt the certifies or participate by finding one to 25 lines of poetry at least one word in solidarity with the young people in san francisco we can converge in a positive future. in addition to the other supervisors the other san franciscans are visited and it's going to have music and bring people into a conversion and a sense of community. we heard from a number of speakers to surge forward. we'd like for you to come. >> thank you. nex

able to do if not for the 12-year-old's composure and n.a frightening situation. >> the san francisco public libraryeceived a huge donation of chinese language books. the library was given nearly a thousand books valued at over $20,000 librarians say more than 21% of the san francisco population is of chinese decent. there are countless scholars -- scholars of the languages in the area we're celebrating not just donations of the books but cultural enrichment our chinese community brought to us. >> approximately 186,000 chinese books are in the public library system. a milestone with the first official visitors center located in jack london square. the center rub by visit oakland. >> coming up next, nasa crosses a new frontier. >> plus, don't hold the cheese. how it may be used to remover ice off roadway autos looking for mount tam down towards ocean beach, a few low clouds but lots of sunshine across the bay area. get ready for a warm up. i'll vaft coming up in just a moment. >> and taking a look traffic. creeping towards lower deck of the bay bridge, it's very heavy for drivers heading south toward

live at the san francisco public library, mark kelly, kpix 5. >> the library also has a social workern staff. >>> a real cliffhanger in downtown san francisco. a 2,000-pound window washing rig dangled 41 stories above the financial district. it slipped just after 7 a.m. as window washers were preparing to get in it. no one was in the rig at the time. >> i think there was some kind of latch or something that was supposed to be engaged when they were going to lower it over the side and they didn't engage it. >> amazing, incredible, wow. >> first i was worried there was people working in there. >> firefighters used ropes and pulleys to hoist the flat form back to the top of the embarcadero one. osha will investigate to find out what went wrong. >>> parents of children with autism are celebrating a victory tonight. randy paige shows us why state public employees and low-income families are getting new support for their children. >> he cried almost all the time. he couldn't be in most public settings. he was not a happy kid. >> reporter: kate is describing her son as a young child imprison

i am marty goddard, the access service manager at san francisco public library. my direct phone is 415-557-4557. my e-mail address: mgoddard @ sfpl.org. thank you all for inviting me here today. >> thank you very much, marty. councilmembers are there any questions for marty? seeing there is no questions for you, oh, denise. excuse me. >> hi marty. i don't have a question. i just want to compliment you on your presentation. it was excellent. it showed total inclusion in how you serve the disability population no matter what aspect and i thank you for that and i have a complete comprehensive overview exactly what you provide. so you did an slept job. thank you for what you do and the serves you provide there. >> thank you very much, denise. it's really is my pleasure and my passion. >> thank you. any questions from the staff? >> thank you, marty. i just want to add my appreciation. i think the accessible services that you provide at the library continue to set the bar in other departments could try to reach. it's just clear that you have so much passion and that yo

theses san francisco public library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading community. >> a lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground writers. they're just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. coming in to the library is awesome. very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. at first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really? things like that. >> as a documentary, there are interviews -- [inaudible] >> radar readings are focused on clear culture. strayed all others might write about gay authors. gay authors might write about universal experiences. the host creates a welcoming environment for everybody. there is no cultural barrier to entry. >> the demographic of people who come will match the demographic of the reader. it is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every mo

secondly, a new exhibit has opened up at the california historical society spur, the san francisco public library, the college of environmental design archives in berkeley, maybe one other venue. it's called unbuilt san francisco and it's an exhibit of those kinds of visionary or maybe not so visionary projects that have been proposed for san francisco and the bay area. there is a really interesting and gorgeous model at california historical society of a project that was proposed in marin called the marin cello and it was -- if you're driving to marin from the city and you go through the tunnel, if you can vision everything from that hillside over to the ocean was proposed for development. and i don't know how long -- i don't know who kept the model. it's at least 8 by 8 or some huge dimension like that. but it's been kept all these years since i guess the '50s is maybe when it was proposed, in the '60s. and i think it's now in the possession of ggnra, but i'm not sure. there wasn't a label on it that said who was in possession of it, but it's really interesting to see. there are other visions f

public library. don't give money to the friends of the library. don't accept money from the friends of the library. what is at stake in the san francisco public library is one of the great privatization scandals of all time. except it is business as usual. i have pointed out for a number of years the city library in san francisco has received from the friends of the library both a discretionary fund and [speaker not understood] fund totaling $65,000 a year. these used to be called slush fund. these funds were never reported in the city librarian statement of economic interest nor are there any 801 gift to agency reports filed. i filed an official complaint with the california fair political practices commission on april 17. despite having the power to investigate without informing the perpetrator, they sent a letter to him anyway on april 24. at that point, the letter had first been sent to jim sutton. the decision to actually investigate was sent to me on may 7 with a cc to the law firm only. the city should ask itself why does the california fair political practices commission in san francisco know in advance that if there is a viola

what else is happen at san francisco public libraries coming up. >> we have been slaving over a hot weather computer all morning to bring you a pretty hot forecast, temperatures nearing but not quite at record highs again. coming up. >> and we have delays already at the bay bridge toll plaza with traffic backed up beyond the 880 overcrossing. we also have problems in san jose along 101. i'll have details with traffic in just a few minutes. ,, ,,,,,, i love having a free checked bag with my united mileageplus explorer card. i've saved $75 in checked bag fees. [ delavane ] priority boarding is really important to us. you can just get on the plane and relax. [ julian ] having a card that doesn't charge you foreign transaction fees saves me a ton of money. [ delavane ] we can go to any country and spend money the way we would in the u.s. when i spend money on this card, i can see brazil in my future. [ anthony ] i use the explorer card to earn miles in order to go visit my family, which means a lot to me. arsenio hall returns to late night tv after almost two decades. the arsenio h >>> wake up,

my name is diane gray and i'm one of the newer board members of the san francisco friends of the public library. i'm wearing a hat today. that organization i'm here with two of our other members, lydia vincent and ferjie newman. we get some funding through the san francisco foundation and we had commissioned actually a project that you will see in the library, in the courtyard of a tile project. it's a lovely project. we have some monies left over and we said we want that to be gifted further to the library moving forward for programs and anything else that the facility needs. so we decided as a group that $12,000 is going to be donated to the bay view library. [ applause ] >> thank you, diane. i also want to make a special thank you for funding the opening today and for their support for today's opening. louis? >> you know, i know it's tight here, crowded. what does that say? it says there is true ownership in our neighborhood for this library. fantastic. i want to take a moment to acknowledge some other partners. we've already mentioned the fellows who were terrific in help with planning and

library of what works and what don't work. i think there will be an increase public voice about how they look at the cumulative aesthetics trying to shape the roofs in san francisco. i'm making that as a positive suggestion to start creating a library for yourself what works and what doesn't work and what's itself critical trigger for this commissions feedback >> is it doesn't look - can i address your comment? we've stent a lot of time with the planning department and engineers and addition trying to come up with designs. every building in san francisco is unique. it requires something completely different so to say if the difficult were to tell you we want you to facade mount every one of your antennas or put evidentially in a penthouse we'd love to distribution but unfortunately you can't provided that to you to us so we work with the planning department way beyond the limitations in trying to find a solution. i think we brought a very scaled down version with a pipe that matches with the characteristics in this surrounding area. good i'm happy to bring back the original design in a couple of week and we can further the conversation >> what ultimately the comm

library of what works and what don't work. i think there will be an increase public voice about how they look at the cumulative aesthetics trying to shape the roofs in san francisco. i'm making that as a positive suggestion to start creating a library for yourself what works and what doesn't work and what's itself critical trigger for this commissions feedback >> is it doesn't look - can i address your comment? we've stent

over ten institutions in the city of san francisco including the air film festival the arab culture and committee center but also with the tamp pais public libraryo have two events showcasing the rich arab america culture that exists here in the city of san francisco and i want to thank you all for coming and i want to introduce joaquin for resident who ska great member of our community and has helped organize this event. (applause). . thank you very much and good evening everyone on behalf of mayorly who will be joining us in a few moments i want to say thanks to all of you for being here tonight it's always a pleasure for you go to welcome the community into city hall - because you remind us our purpose in government so to serve and you you certainly bring life and culture and community into our very state halls and bring life to us, so thank you again. i want to thank the nominating committee and the planning committee for their excellent work in ensuring that those very important community members who do so much to ensure that our communities remain strong and vibrant, those who are under served typically continue to be served that our commu