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One rig. Theres parking on both sides of the street its about thirty feet wide and parking took up feet so we had 18 feet in front of the fire this show us looking down the block we had one fire truck so the picture above on the right thats randolph were 3 wide with the rigs those people are fighting the fire but if we had to make a rescue with an aerial ladder and if its 3 feet all around we have instances in San Francisco this is candle stick point its one hundred blocks of a project so if you...

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...

This was 20 feet and the two blocks were 80 feet it wouldnt wouldnt be done i think this is important to see the photos in my district since ive seen a number of fires on extremely narrowed streets and your department has been heroic do you also have photos of pedestrians who have been killed oirs Department Responds to the pedestrian accidents i didnt see that in my district or supervisor cowens or supervisor breed district do you have those. Because of the act we cant show the pictures of vict...

People that have all three of those conditions and we have a lot more detail if you are interested and how many people are doing the diagnosis and so forth. But, as you can see, the percentage around women and certainly around transgender women are quite a bit over the general population. And i want to highlight some of our service and programs. And again, these for the homeless women, and the homeless families, and the Community Behavior Health Services and so that includes our Mental Health an...

To another. Slide 7 talks about features for individuals who are blind or have a vision impairment. One feature that will continue from the old cars are the external inter car barriers that are meant to help protect people with vision impairments from inadvertently stepping off the flat form and being in danger. Those were retro fitted into old bart cars after ada was passed. But these will be built in from the ground floor to the new cars. I mentioned earlier that we often have people on bart t...

Adapt it but the Fire Department adapts it saw the fire code weve adapted did International Fire code and laws us the authority to have the increased width size if we are looking for a guideline and using appendix d as a guideline thats sound judgment. Okay. You can go on im sorry supervisor cowen. Not quite yet San Francisco has adapted the International Guideline or standard . Okay. So the local jurisdiction is able to. When you say the local jurisdiction you mean San Francisco. Of the board o...

Their income, and how that relates as a percentage of area income and so right now, we are limited to 35 or 30 percent of the Median Income and a lot of the families who need our help are in the 40, 50 and 60 percent range and the resources are not sufficient to be able to handle that. And so, and at the end, in conclusion, i would like to say our goal is for families to be securely and safely housed with a stable source of income and a rent payment that is appropriate to the income and i think ...

Long term success for the familis that we are serving as well as the Community Agencies work with the city funded programs we advocate for a universal system to coordinate the services for the families and providers who aim to help to secure stable housing. So efficient and Creative Solutions are necessary to address the issue, and considering that we have significant challenges for individuals at all income levels in our Community Today and all of us speaking today are open to exploring way to ...

Topic one point two Million School aged children are homeless in the united states, about quarter of a million of those live in california and 2200 live right here in San Francisco and i know that the homeless count, said that there is 679 members of families that are homeless in the city but there is discrepancy in the numbers that our School District did a report saying that the number is actually 2200. You all have seen many of the problems and one thing that i wanted to point out is right no...

Contrast the color strip to the pole to provide greater visibility for lower vision individuals. Slide 8 talks about a few other major improvements on the new train cars. First of all, i talked already about having more doors. Thats going to make getting on and off the train faster and easier and take away for some people that feeling of panic that the doors may close before you have an opportunity to exit. Its going to have a secondary effect of reducing the volume of people going through each ...