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City of San Francisco okay. Ooul welcome, everybody. This is the march meeting of the San Francisco Mayors Disability Council. I am chip supanich, cochair of the council. Now well tv introduction read by Council Member roland wong. Good afternoon. Happy first day of spring. And welcome to the mayors 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 ...

Wider pursuant to the California Building code. Weve teddy tested it out a lot. We are in the station right now. It will be useful in my opinion to passengers travel by wheelchair. There is also always a conflict to providing between a pathway for blind users and wheelchair users that have to divert across this. There is a wider space between the dots and we are also making it all yellow. Right now there is black. So the purpose behind that is to comply with ada federal and state standards, but ...

We need a motion to recuse. Director heinicke. Motion to recuse. Second. All those in favor, say aye . Aye. You are recused. Members . Just a couple of questions for mr. Carr. Thank you. I think it looks like were setting a new standard for Community Outreach and this time we have loads of compliments for you and last time we had loads of compliments for jay robinson and thank to the Community Members who served on the board. That is wonderful. One clarifying question. Its just the speeding hump...

From. Please recognize that we didnt get here you know, from anybodys particular choice or what has happened, but everything evolves. If you have got an iphone, you are constantly getting updates and using windows if you are using a computer, updates, things have to constantly change to keep pace with progress. So its important that well reevaluate the Transportation System and the best possible outcomes we can get is when they are informed by people like you, who are experienced and are taking ...

Have concerns. For instance, some of more significant measures will go to Detailed Design with direct input from the Fire Department and other stakeholders on the transportation advisory safety committee. I would like to talk a little bit about how this project was conceived. This was a communityrequested project. We looked at a compilation of trafficcalming requests from residents in the neighborhood. In advance of the total and during the planning process for this, we received 15 resident requ...

This and thank you very much. Thank you, appreciate your participation in the committee. Next speaker, please. [ reading speakers names ] [ inaudible ] come forward, please. Good afternoon, sir. Thank you. My name is dan mckew and im a resident of the area that this particular matter concerns. I have live d there for 20 years with my family. You kind of thing you go into a neighborhood there. Pachenko street, the way people get from southeast San Francisco to the golden gate bridge. So what look...

May 16, 2014 Mayors Disability Council meeting please stand by. All right, everybody. It seems we got our issue resolved. Our interpreter is being featured. If everyone can take their seats we should begin momentarily. First of all thank you for coming here today. Welcome to Mayors Disability Council here on may 16, 2014. My name is derek zarda. The new elected cochair. I will be handing it out to mr. Wong. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday may 16, 2014, in ...

Now battery trains bart trains do open from both sides. Its almost like i need to do 2 cases. If it opens from the bottom of that drawing, the left side of the car, as you board, you would have a double side ways facing green on the left and that would be for seniors and people with disabilities. A little bit to the right is a tripod pole right in the middle of that area but offset a little bit off center to open up a wider aisle. Sort of diagonally to your left about 45 degrees will be the whee...

Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have Jessie Lorenz executive director, senior disability action San Francisco. All right. Thank you council and thank you mr. Wine stein for the wonderful presentation. My name is Jessie Lorenz and im the executive director of the independent resource living San Francisco. Im here to talk about an issue about but of the critical avenues of the issues of our center and also for the California Foundation for independent Living Centers. A stat...

Seats will be a different color. One of the things that we heard early in the project when we put out that solicitation, i referenced earlier what you like or dislike about the old train cars . We often heard people say that can ustomers dont frequently enough yield to senior and disabled seats to those who need them the most. One of the improvements we are making is to make those seats a different color and to improve the signage of those seats to help encourage people to stand up and yield tho...