report from cochair supanich. >> thank you >> my apology. is there anymore public comment for item no. 3? my apology. >> hello, my name is keith dennis. councilmembers, i would like to say god bless you and god bless the city and county of san francisco. this has been a pet peeve of mine long when i worked as a caregiver. i was taking care of people in wheelchairs and people with disabilities. you know, it is really time that we check businesses that do not have door openers. at 1st of was like you have to let these things roll off your back. but then, it deflates you, it makes you feel less of a human when you have to ask someone or look around for some help instead of them having a door, things for people with disabilities. i believe i need to start putting companies on blast. i hate to do this because i am an all american boy, but the united states post office, the one on gary and steiner, needs a door opener. there is nothing that frustrates me more when i have a package that i need to deliver and there is a line of people there and then

item 6, information item: report from co-chair supanich. item 7, information item: report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. item 8, information item: the paul k. longmore institute on disability and the ada's silver anniversary. the presentation will provide an overview of the planning process and solicit the council's feedback to promote and engage the san francisco disability community. presentation by catherine j. kudlick, director paul k. longmore institute on disability. public comment is welcome. item 9, action item: co-chair elections. in accordance with the mayor's disability council's bylaws, article iii section 1, there shall be 2 co-chairs elected by the council to serve as officers. this election will select a co-he chair to replace the seat previously held by idell wilson. item 10, public comment: items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to three minutes. item 11, information item: correspondence. item 12, discussion item: council member comments and annou

report from cochair supanich. >> thank you >> my apology. is there anymore public comment for item no. 3? my apology. >> hello, my name is keith dennis. councilmembers, i would like to say

cochair supanich that it's always a great sight to see in person and the bridge line people taking advantage of that access for their means. today hopefully moving forward whether it be about bart, whether it be about housing, whether it be about any other issues affecting our community that you know that you have a place not to just come every third friday, but for a place to go afterwards. this is a hub that we can create here to go forward outside of this council and do good work. and comments? councilmember? >> did i just cancel myself? i want to thank the organizations and the disability community coming out today. i'm really glad that we could provide a forum for these issues and concerns about bart and access issues. and i hope this begins the dialogue between the disability community and bart. and going forward, i would like to see a future updates from bart and from the disability community to see handout you -- how this partnership goes forward with the recommendations. i look forward to hearing more. thank you. >> thank you. and with that, agenda item 12. adjourn. thanks for comin

one is a letter from co-chair chip supanich from the oakland disability commission. the second piece of correspondence is a notice of board vacancy from conard house, inc., a private california nonprofit corporation gives notice that two director positions on its nine-member volunteer board of directors are vacant. >> thank you, heather. agenda item number 12 is councilmember comments and announcements. are there any councilmember comments or announcements? there is, councilmember zarda, co-chair zarda. >> i just wanted to thank the commissioners and the representatives from the s.f. youth commission that came here today during our earlier public comment to bring up their draft resolution for including disability history curriculum into the san francisco unified school district. i believe that that's characteristic that i want to see more of within this council and their commission and in reaching across and kind of seeing where our partnerships lie and how we can overlap and help each other out. so, i just wanted to thank them for coming. >> thank you, co-chair zard

cochair supanich? >> hi. thank you very much for your presentation. unfortunately i was unable to get to a real new bart car, but this presentation really made it clear to me what the challenges have been and continue to be. and i just had a few questions about the design. are the cars the same size as the old bart cars, the dimensions inside and outside? >> the outside dimensions are almost exactly the same. on the inside, we did lose some space. if you look at the figure on page 10, you will see some shaded areas at the very ends of the car. not the cab so much as the other, the non-cab and all the cars. in that shaded space is a safety buffer zone that is in response to emerging safety standards. that's for crash safety. the ends at that shaded space is meant to be a collapsible section of the car that protects the passenger compartment. as a result you can see we lost almost a whole row of seats on each end. we did design the seats to be more space efficient to cover the row we lost. that is one different in terms of the interior dimensions of the

so, in looking over some of the goals, co-chair supanich, i'm seeing that there's different categories we can use to prioritize which ones are the most important. one of the ones that popped out initially was number 10 the city pursue development and maintenance of a single accessible and affordable housing portal. that to me touches on information access, and that is one of the biggest key issues that is preventing a lot of our community from being able to access and go forward with pursuing housing. and, so, that is probably one of the major goal to pursue and being one i believe could be pursued. other ones are disability specific. still are important as far as trying to categorize and prioritize these such as that one, pops out as being crucial. >> others? well, i have one. i -- you know, it's a bugaboo about the whole thing, the feuding. ~ funding. and we're seeing federal sources of housing funding decline rather -- well, regularly. and, so, i would like to see some activity around creative sources of funding for affordable and accessible housing that might include -- and that ex

. >> thank you, co-chair supanich and councilmembers. i have about six items on my report today.e of them are quick because they are announcements. but i think i wanted to start with the most important announcement of all, which is to welcome our new staff member nathan web who is seated right behind me today staffing our bridge line. nathan just joined our office two weeks ago, and he is doing the work that mike alonzo had done before him. he will be the face you see and the voice you hear when interacting with our office. nathan comes from a strong customer service background and that's already been completely evident in his first two weeks here. so, we're just delighted to have him on board as part of the mod staff. and i wanted to welcome nathan. the next topic i wanted to talk about is something that our public comment touched on a little earlier, and that's that today, april 18th is earthquake day. it's an anniversary of the 1906 earthquake, the 106th anniversary. and this is year of 2014 is also going to be the 25th anniversary of loma-prieta. and, so, anniversaries are al