Continued. At this time members of the public may address the commission on items that are within the subjectmatter jurisdiction of the recreation and Park Commission and that do not appear on the agenda. As a reminder if you spoke on item 4, this is a continuation. Im back. I would like to bring to your attention the mclaren corridor project which you may or may not have heard. Dawn mentioned at the last prosac meeting that members had a day during our philosophers walk to enjoy corridor. I know commissioner low joined us one afternoon and experienced parts of the park as well. Two things, were in the competition for the one bay area grant, which is needed to fund what looks to be about 6. 6 million to fix mansell, a 45 Miles Per Hour zone through the park and it connects to the excelsior district to san bruno. Were very pleased and i also mentioned this to dawn that her staff has been terrific. We have been working with karen and tony moran and they have bent over backwards to get information from us, what we want and they have been listening with all ears of of course were working with a couple of other departments. But its refreshing to work with groups who want to know how to transform these areas into the wonderful areas of San Francisco. We really appreciate being listened to. And we hope to invite you at a hopefully a grand opening, not too soon i mean not too far in the future not too soon, that is probably the truth. But anyway not too far in the future, so you can see transform mclaren park. Thank you for your support. Thank you. Is there anyone else who wishes to make general Public Comment . Being none, this item is closed, item 13, commissioners matters. Commissioners, do you have anything . Commissioner low . Perhaps im getting sentimental, because my Junior High School track coach testified. [ laughter ] it shows my age, i still call it Junior High School. And if calvin welch is watching this, i would like to see the march meeting for what he can doo for kezar. Is there funds for the track replacement . What can we do as an informational hearing for Kezar Stadium . Its a great facility. Even old guys like me still run and do timetrials on that track, so i would like to see an informational hearing on that matter. The second item would be sometime in april or mayor, perhaps having an informational hearing on what we could do for highneeds districts. What was pretty telling on the controllers report was the southeast portion needs some love. So i think we should have an informational hearing. I know karen has done quite a bit of work on d6, but we should broaden that discussion for what we do on highneeds issue. Thank you, commissioner. I would sec that on the kezar issue and i think that its going to cost more to wait longer and we ought to think about driving that home pretty soon. With that yes. Is there any Public Comment on this item . You can comment. Hi dennis moskovin, district 5 representative and native San Francisco and i was one of those people who helped not only build the commons across from kezar, but helped to take down the old walls and build the new stadium and insist that the Department Keep them open not for corporate events, but for the public. I live near there. I know this has been an issue and i heard it for a number of years and im glad what you said, commissioner low and im glad to hear from the coaches and folks from the kezar advisory committee, but i know i have heard it for 7, 8 years, and its very important and its a worldclass field and you are able to run championships on that turf. I knew and people talked about it in the community, if they let it go, it will no longer be able to be used for that purpose and then it will cost us a fortune and now here its seven, eight years past the point and im very appreciative hearing what the two of you just said. I want to say one more thing. I know we just kicked out the Department Just kicked out hank and spent a quarter Million Dollars so far or going to in taking down the recycling center. Just as a reminder it has to be on items that they have discussed. Oh, okay, thank you. So i would encourage you to do something about this and i know that district 5 people will support you in that effort. Because were the ones who live most closely to that site. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else who wants to comment under commissioners matters . Being none, that item is closed. And we are now on item 14, new business agenda setting. Commissioners, is there anything . Any Public Comment . Being none, Public Comment is closed. 15 was communications. Public comment . Being none, that item is closed and we are on item 16, adjournment. So moved. Second. We love our parks, but we love. And the community who is really the core of it all, came together and said what we need is a place for our teenager to play, not just play grounds for the kids and soccer fields but we need a skate park that will keep the kids home in the neighborhood so they can play where they live. The children in the neighborhood and it will be a major boone. And we have generations, the youth generations that will be able to use this park in different places. The best park in San Francisco right here. Creating place where people can be active and lead, active, healthy life styles that are going to just stay with them for life. This friday, february 15 oh just a minute you all. Have to wait for the caption and then we will be starting. Okay. Were on. Well, welcome to the show Mayors Disability Council this friday february 15 in room 400, San Francisco city hall. Council member will skip ship, sorry. I am nervous. You have to bear with me. Chip will now read the introductions. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday february 15 in city hall. Please note that this meeting is accessible and ramp at polk street at the entrance is temporarily disrupted due to repairs. We appreciate your patience during this time and ask that you use the remaining entrances when visiting city hall. Assistive listening devices are available and our meetings are captioned and agendas are available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for additional assistance. To prevent interference with the sound system and help everyone focus on the presentations please turn off all owns and pdas or in vibrate mode. We welcome the public to comment. You may get a speaker card or please call us and you will be recognized. The meetings are the generally the third friday of month. To assist peoples with allergies, environmental illness or related disabilities please refrain from swearing scented products or when visiting the Mayors Office disability office. Thank you for helping us to provide meetings that are fully accessible to all people with disabilities. Our next meeting will be on march friday 15 from one to 4 00 p. M. Here in city hall in room 400. Please call the Mayors Office for further information or tty4 one five5554, 6799. Or you may email us at modat sof. Org and please speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captioners and interpreters. We thank you for joining us. Thank you skip. And now heather from the Mayors Office on disability will now call the roll. calling roll . And sary berget will be participating by the bridge line and mr. Wong is excused absense. Now the reading of the agenda. Welcome introduction and roll call. Action item, reading approval of the agenda. Three, Public Comment, items not on the agenda but within jurisdiction of the mdc. Each speaker is limited to three minutes. Four, report from the chair. Five, report from the director of the Mayors Office on disability. Six, presentation by bevan dufty, director of the Mayors Office of hope. At 2 30 p. M. There will be a break. The council will take about a 10 minute break. Seven, senior and disability action, a presentation by jessica lehman. Eight, action item, cochair election. Nine, report from the physical access submit. 10, a presentation from the sfmta advisory committee. 11, Public Comment, items not on todays agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. Again each speaker is limited to three minutes. 12 correspondence. 13, discussion item, Council Members comments and announcements. 14, adjourn. Thank you. I have made some changes to the agenda. Team six will be prepared before team five at 115 to accommodate our speakers schedule. Can i have a motion to a approve the agenda. I move it. Second. Okay. Public so were were back on Public Comment. Oh i am sorry you guys. This is my first time. We are definitely going to agree. We had a second. I second the motion. Thank you very much. We all agree . Aye. Next is the Public Comment, and i have our Public Comment cards in front of us, so up for Public Comments you guys, and we might have to cut it a little bit short for our guests so you guys can be prepared out there. If you if we dont call you in time come around for the next one. Thank you very much. Today for Public Comment first we have ken stein. Mr. Ken. Thank you very much. Hello. Its good to see you all. I came to the last meeting and speak for about a minute or a little more than that to say that would be my last meeting. I didnt have an opportunity at that time to tell you why i was leaving to talk about what was going on. I have a prepared statement they would like to read to the council with your her mission. It will run a little over but i would like to read the entire statement. I think its important to hear, the public, the council, as well as very important for me to say. Yes, you have permission. Thank you. My name is ken stein. For the 10 years i have been the Program Administrator for the Mayors Office on disability which is the ada Compliance Office for the city and county of San Francisco. I retired from city employment yesterday. On thursday february 14. My full retirement age under Social Security is not for another year and i had much and expected to work at mod for at least a few more years. It is impublic for me to do that. There is a fundamental contract between employees and employers. Employees have the obligation to do their jobs well and employers have the obligation to keep their employees safe and protect their rights. My employee has violated that time and time again. For the past three years the city of San Francisco has engaged in a blatant pattern and practice of discrimination. It has repeatedly violated my states under state and federal disability laws and its own written policies. Time again the City Attorney who has a sworn duty to enforce the law has advised the city to do things that against the law. In spite of clearly failed accommodations and multiple pleaos my part the city Human Resources director and ada cord nailtors refused to meet with me and modify my accommodations as they are required to do by law. This for almost an entire year until i was made sick from paint exposure without advanced notification yet again this past april 2012 for the third time in three years. Throughout this entire ordeal i made my appeals virtually known to every willful of government and i didnt have my rights or health protected. The citys behavior is reprehensible. It lied and covered up or seriously investigate or even to acknowledge or contact me regarding serious and documented claims of harassment and charges of discrimination as it is required to do under its own civil rights complaints procedures. From day one the city of San Francisco has seen me not as a human being but as a legal problem and demands for my rights as an annoy ansz. It has seen as the primary responsibility not the protection of my health but the protection of itself and the employees and legal staff. As a consequence my health has been unnecessarily and permanently compromised. I have very much enjoyed the work i have done at the Mayors Office on disability for the past 10 years and i have done it well. I am proud of the work that mod does to ensure compliance with the ada on the part of city departments with respect to city departments, and i have the greatest respect and admiration for all of my coworkers at mod, every single one of them. Particularly as someone who has had the honor of being part of the movement for independent living, Disability Access and disability rights from the earliest beginnings 40 years ago and i couldnt work for the municipality that repeatedly and ashamedly violated my rights. In the United States constructive discharge has different meanings depending on the jurisdiction. In california the California Supreme Court defines it as follows in order to establish a constructive discharge an employee must plead and prove by the usual preponderance of the evidence standard that the employer either intentionally or created or knowingly permitted these conditions that were so intolerable or aggravated at the time of the employees resignation that a employer would realize that a reasonable person in the employees position would be compelled to resign. No one in their right mind would continue to work under these most sorry circumstances. The city could have easily done the right thing all along and it consistently chose not to. I have done through appropriate state and federal legal processes throughout all of this, and these will take years to resolve. There will be a full federal investigation of my eeoc charges and i have every confident that justice will prevail at some point. There can never ever be any just compensation for what i have had to go through. The cost to my physical and Mental Health and successful career being pulled out from under me and all so unnecessarily. For now i thought it important to go out with whatever dignity i am able to maintain, and to publicly charge the city and county of San Francisco with discrimination and constructive discharge. As many of you know the most difficult thing for an advocate is advocate for one oneself. As the former director herb levine wrote me recently i am happy for you in your decision. You are being a role model by not sacrificing your health as you have been an advocate and spokesperson for others all these years. In closing i would like to thank my friends and colleagues in the city and in the bay area and around the country for all your kindness and support throughout this ordeal, and most especially my wife ingrid. Without her love i dont know how in the world i could have gotten through this. Indeed i dont think i could have. Thank you for giving me the time to speak today. Thank you. Skip. Okay. Donna will. Donna wilma. [inaudible] i apologize if theyre not in order. I just get them. Im sorry. Hello council memberrings. Good afternoon. I am donna welmerand with consumer action and i am an advocate there. This is an emotional moment. I came here to say how much im going to miss ken stein as he leaves his position at the Mayors Office on disability, and when i first started doing this work four years ago ken was one of the main go to people for me. He was someone who was available to guide me around ada issues to give help and support whenever i had a question i couldnt answer and i am very sad to see him go. I feel like i have been in many, many meetings with ken, and i feel like hes always been the conscience of the meeting regarding disability rights issues. I feel he never fails to raise the question on the top and i can how does this impact the Disability Committee . And i just wanted to say that we will miss him and his leadership. Thank you. Thank you. Bob plant. Eye bob planthold. I was fortunate some years ago to be given the beacon award from the disability council. Some of you werent on then. Thats why i am reminding you of that, so now i want to turn around and ask you folks to consider what level of active involvement and advocacy youre actually showing , and i will suggest what to me is a simple project. Here at city hall over the past few years i complained repeatedly that not all of the elevators on the floors ding and its a varying situation from one time to the next. As you folks come in and out of the building for these and other meetings test them out and make a log. I made complaints over the years to ken. I have given up just because its more than one persons data can provide and thats a simple thing. But when
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