council member orkid sassouni? >> council member sassouni: hi. yes, i have a question about accessibility regarding providing asl interpreters. there are number of deaf individuals who are homeless and have a mental illness disability and potentially substance abuse of either alcohol or drugs. and they don't receive services because typically places are not willing to provide interpreting. and it's actually takes them years to get services and they often, we find that individuals pass way before that actually happens, because people are unwilling to provide interpreting services. i think there are a lot of cultural conflicts as well in providing services, so how can you address that? >> that is a very good question and i think the system has largely been deficient when it comes to the individuals who use asl. we have the ability to get interpreters for those hard-of-hearing or deaf. i'm happy to announce we're piloting our video interpretation service which will assist us in -- video interpretation service, for individuals who are asl users, so t

council member orkid sassouni? >> council member sassouni: i have a few things. the problem with having a lack of community socialization between police officers and the deaf community is that there is not a lot of interaction when deaf people see officers, they know -- you know, they can't touch them to get their attention for communication, so there is a lot of cultural misinformation. and officers -- so officers sometimes need to leave for safety reasons and we'd like them to wait and give out information before they move on. so the challenging part is there are safety issues in terms of information access, so i'd like that to be addressed. the other thing is how to improve cooperation between those communities, how to share information. they don't know very much about each other. that is difficult and it leads to communication breakdowns. in sacramento they have socials between deaf community members and police officers where they can have more contact with each other. and the police officers are able and willing to take the time to learn some communication s

. >> co-chair senhaux: council member orkid sassouni? >> council member sassouni: hi, this is orkid speaking. thank you so much for coming. just a brief comment. i'm hoping that the center will be equally supportive of all parts of our community. and i'm really hoping that will be so, so all can have an educational and learning experience, including something like a museum. i just wanted to put that out there to you. >> great idea. keep it on the radar. we won't ultimately make the decision. as you know, orkid is on the leadership council part of our advisory group. but you know, we won't be putting the actual plan into implementation, but keep that idea floating because it will be interesting to see. we can list it and promote it and all of those with our foinl report. thank you for that. -- final report. thank you for that. >> co-chair senhaux: any other questions? >> any idea of a time frame? [inaudible] >> in terms of time frame, we hand in our final report with its recommendations and all of that at the end of april. and then it goe