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Thank you. All right everybody, hi. This is the Mayors Disability Council meeting on friday, july 17m, 2015. Welcome to everybody. May i have the introduction read, please by Council Member wong . Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday, july 17th, 2015 in room 400 of the San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs, and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk carlton good lett is available with lift. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is opencaptioned and signlanguage interpreted. Our agendas are also available in large print, and braille. Please ask staff for any additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this rooms sound system and to respect everyones ability to focus on the presentations please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome Public Participation during Public Comment. You may complete a speakers card available in the front of the room, or call us at 14155549632. Where a staff person will handle requests to speak at the appropriate time. The Mayors Disability Council meetings are generally held on the third friday of the month. Our next regular meeting will be september 18th, 2015, from 1 00 to 4 00 p. M. At San Francisco city hall in room 400. Please call the Mayors Office on disability for further information, or request accommodations at 14155546789, or 14155546799tty. The council would like to thank those of you who attended the july 1st celebration of the americans with disabilities act. Special thanks to mayor ed lee, city administrator naomi kelly and supervisors eric mar and scott weiner for attending as well. A reminder of all guests today to speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captioners, and interpreters. We thank you for joining us. Happy ada month thank you, Council Member roland wong. May we have the roll call, please . Cochair supanich. Present. Cochair senhaux. Present. Councilwoman kostanian . Here. Council member harriet wong . Present. Council member roland wong . Present. Thank you. May we please have the reading of the agenda. Agenda item no. 1. Welcome, introduction and roll call. Agenda item no. 2, action item. Reading and approval of the agenda. Agenda item no. 3, Public Comment. Items not on todays agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. Each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. Information item no. 4, report from cochair senhaux. Agenda item no. 5, information item. Presentation on mandatory disabled access improvements legislation. Supervisor katy tang will summarize legislation introduced at the board of supervisors meeting on tuesday, july 7th, 2015. The legislation creates a new Citywide Program requiring owners of a building with a place of accommodation to take steps to ensure that primary entris are usable by persons with disabilities. Presentation by supervisor katy tang, district 4. Public comment is welcomed. Agenda item no. 6. Informationitem. 25 years the americans with disabilities act, ada. A brief overview of the historic capital crawl. And section 504 sitin at the San Francisco Federal Building and how these events affected the passage of the ada. Presentation by the Mayors Office on disability. Agenda item no. 7, information item. Reading of mayor ed lees proclamation of july as ada month. Agenda item no. 8, information item, reading of the Mayors Disability Council ada proclamation. Public comment is welcome. Break. The council will take a 10minute break. Agenda item no. 9 information item. What the ada means to me . Mayors Disability Council member will tell their personal stories about how the passing of the ada has affected thim. Presentations by chip supanich denise senhaux, harriet wong, roland wong and tatiana kostanian. Public comment is welcome. Agenda item no. 10, information item, report from the director of the Mayors Office on disability. Agenda item no. 11, Public Comment. Items not on todays agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. Each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. Agenda item no. 12, information item, correspondence. Agenda item no. 13, discussion items. Council member comments and announcements. Agenda item no. 14, adjourn. Thank you. Next we have Public Comment. This is for items not on todays agenda. When making Public Comments we ask a few things of you. Please speak slowly so the interprets and captioner can go smoothly. We ask that you not ask questions directly at presenters, and that you be respectful to presenters. And please stay within the time limits of 3 minutes. Thank you. Any Public Comment . Okay. Yes . I came back after over the year good afternoon to everybody. My name is terry Vice President of the jf kennedy towers. Over a yearago, we were still car owners until our parking lot was sold. Now we are downsized to five only. There are only four available parking cars, only 4. One member is also a disabled and just goes around the street to park her car. You can imagine somebody who is disabled and wake up early and my concern also is for the elderly to be loaded and to be picked up. The manager doesnt like the idea that the cars go inside our parking area. Of course there is no specific there is no available but can you imagine an elderly during the wet season . They should be nearby our entrance. They have to go all the way outside the door, and here is the chinese elderly in our building. I think she is 92 and the son doesnt want to go inside to pick up his mom, because he knows that they are prohibited into parking while to pick up his mom. And he happens to be absent on that day, just so que he can pick up his mom. So i dont see justified for our parking lot to be sold. And when it was sold we were just told we just saw construction now and told us move the cars and from nine downsized to five and one doesnt have a car right now. Thank you. Thank you. Is there more Public Comment . Come forward. Good afternoon, Council Members. My name is april bannergee and im the Program Manager for Public Awareness and education for peoples with Disabilities Foundation or also acronym is pwdf. I want toddle you about pwdf because were a resource in the civic center area. Its a public nonprofitings that provides Legal Services for people with psychiatric and or developmental disabilities. As well as so this population can achieve equal opportunitis in all aspects of life. This summer were proudly marking our 15th year of anniversaries in the center. We represent clients on a sliding scale and do not turn down clients. We provide Legal Services to clients to assist them with Social Security disability benefits. We are also willing to provide legal advice and representation to combat discrimination in employment, education, health care, government benefits and housing. Including representing clients in discrimination cases under the americans with disabilities act. As part of this work, over nearly nearly sixyear period, pdwf sued the Social Security administration on behalf of two San Francisco residents who have a combination of developmental and psychiatric disabilities. Pwdf brought the suit under the rehabilitation act of 19 73 claim that the Social Security administration failed to provide the plaintiffs are equal access to the Social Security disability programs many attorneys and agencies and we believe that it includes some of those funded by the city, will not take cases where the client is already a Social Security beneficiary, but is being terminated from benefits. Pwdf fills that void, specifically in the area of work reviews, where beneficiaris are trying to work and still retain their benefits to the extent that they can. And now we hold a monthly legal clinic, specifically to advise these beneficiaries, and we also hold educational workshops on the topic. I have brought some brochures and fliers about our agency to handout. And if you would like more information, you can see our website at www. Pdwf. Org. Our phone number is 4159313070. Thank you for your time and attention. Thank you. Any more Public Comment . Okay then. Well move on to agenda item no. 4. Report from cochair senhaux. Thank you, cochair supanich. I wanted to do Something Different for my cochair report unione and one of the goals that i had was to do more outreach to the Disability Community and all the communitybased organizations and agencies that serve people with disabilities. So i wanted to give them an opportunity to showcase and highlight the efforts and what they are doing in the community. So this was the best way i could think how, was to bring them to a council meeting. And i want to introduce scott blanks, who is the Deputy Director for the lighthouse for the blind and visually impaired. He is my first victim to come up and give the cochair report. I want to thank him for being here today and taking time out of his schedule. Thank you. First act was to pull the microphone off the microphone stand. [laughter ] there we go. Im the guinea pig, so you can figure out how it how old should and shouldnt be down. Thank you, denise and members of the council for having me here today. I am working at the lighthouse for the blind down the street on van ness for now and i serve and currently serve as the chair of the ac transit Accessibility Advisory Committee Northeast Bay and have served on the oakland Mayors Commission for persons with disabilities. So i am very much appreciative of the work that do you and thank you for it. Here to talk about the lighthouse for the blind. We are an organization that has been in the San Francisco area for over 100 years. And in that time, weve had our home in many parts of the city. Weve been on van ness now over 25 years. But that time is coming to an end. We are moving to a new location that many of you are familiar with, at 1155 market. So i will be seeing many of you more often and many of our staff will as well. As we move, were going continue to offer the services and programs that we have for many years, but there also be a number of changes. We are a fullservice organization that provides Rehabilitation Services for people who are blind and visually impaired. If somebody has multiple disabilities, including a visual impairment, well absolutely serve them as well. And we serve people from really age 1 to age 100. We have a Youth Program that has a number of regular outings, educational and recreational events in the city, and around the city, which is open to any youth up to mid20s. We dont have a hard upper limit. So were pretty lax about that, but we like to be, because we like to help people pawn and make sure that folks are getting the social and vocational and Educational Opportunities that they need. We have an older individuals who are blind grant that allows to us serve people in San Francisco over the age of 55 and also others in alameda, marin and a number of other bay area counties. At our Current Location and on our market location we have our adaptation store that provides a number of products for people who are blind and visually impaired, everything from kitchen aids to braille paper, to tech devices hightech devices like coloridentifiers and currency identifiers. Were also very active in engaging a lot of hightech companies that are creating products and services that frankly, are not consistently accessible to people with disabilities. One of our goals is to regularly engage these companies, like the googles and yahoos and ubers, et cetera. We have our access to Information Services department is very busy producing a number of accessible documents, including tactile and audio tactile maps of different locations including bart and muni stations, caltrain station and really we can produce a tactile map of anything in 2d and soon in 3d form. Well be diving into the world of 3ds printing. Were an organization that has done a lot of Good Services for a number of years and were going to continue to offer these. As time goes on, there are things that will change and were trying to change with the times, and make sure that what we are offering to folks is valuable to someone who is 15, someone who is 35, someone who is 80. And whether or not someone is living paycheck to paycheck or well todo or anywhere in between. What we consistently know is that we are seeing an increase in people who are blind and visually impaired as the babyboomer generation grows older, as medical Technology Gets better and better, were seeing more people come into the world that are disabled in multiple ways westchester also we also know there are opportunities for those folks out there. Last i would just mention that we do have a very active Employment Services program that has done a lot of great work with the Civil Service rule 115 comes and were excited about that. I will stop there and if you have questions, you are welcome to throw them out for me. I have a few business cards that i will pass out as well. Thank you to the council and denise for the work that you do and giving me the opportunity to speak with you today. Thank you so much. Beautiful job and welltimed. I didnt even coach you on that one. I appreciate. It im going to make the rest of my report short, so we can go on with our agenda. I just want to touch briefly about the ada celebration. I guess the word i could use was prideful. It was a great day. The entertainment was fantastic. We had different city officials, some of the board of supervisors, and basically shared their experiences and stories about San Francisco and the journey we have come a long way with access. There is still a lot of work to do around employment and technology and of course, affordable housing. But it was nice to be able to interact with the community, and it was just a wellrounded great day. Supervisor mar had introduced which mayor lee made a proclamation for Disability Awareness month Going Forward in july. So that will be our ada celebration. So it was nice to see Council Members there, and to interact with the community. Heard a lot of great things about the events, and everybody pretty much liked the slogan, which is it doesnt stop here; there is a lot more work that we have to do. I want to commend the Mayors Office on disability and the Community Alliance of Disability Advocates for the work in the committee in putting such a fantastic event together. So that is about it. Thank you. Thank you cochair senhaux. Well move on to agenda item no. 5. We are honored to have supervisor katy tang to talk to us about recent legislation she has led. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. I wanted to first of all start by thanking our wonderful carla here for helping us with developing the legislation. It took about almost two years for us to get to this phase here. So i want to thank you and your entire office, as well as the many city departments who helped us figure out how it is that we can as a city in San Francisco be much more proactive and how it is that we handle ada matters . I know that a lot of the conversations about ada issues and especially in conjunction with our Small Business communities, were sparked by fears about lawsuits. But really we wanted to do something that not only addressed those issues, but really put San Francisco at the forefront of how it is that really we can be proactive in helping our Business Community and wherever there is a public place of accommodation to really address ada issues. Excuse me, supervisor, im sorry. Can i get the control room to bring up the asl interpreter, please . There we go. Thank you. No problem. And so just in a nutshell i wanted to share with you today what the legislation will be doing and it was introduced at the board of supervisors recently. So what were doing were going to be breaking down our buildings with places of public accommodation into four different categories. The first category are generally buildings that are probably in compliance already and have met the 1998 California Building code. Then you go into the various other categories and they are differentiated about whether you have a step, perhaps, more than one step . And then there is a timeline for when you would have to comply with certain things. So one of the first things that will need to be done is submit a compliance checklist. That will need to be done within 12 months, for example, for the category 1 buildings, and all the way up to 30 months for category 4 buildings. We modeled this Program Offer the citys very successful seismic safety program, so that no. 1, were trying to give everyone a checklist to fill out and lets see what the landscape look like . Lets see how many people are able to say, you know what . Were able to comply with ada . The second thing that will be asked of them to file an application for any required Building Permits. If it is required that they do additional work. And there is a range between 15 months and 33 months that they have to do that work. And that is im sorry, from the the store of the timeline. So essentially they have three additional months to file the application. After that, if they actually need to obtain the Building Permit to begin any sort of construction work, they have an additional three months to obtain that. Of course the legislation built in for any sort of delays that may be experienced, due to any sort of department issues. So that is the overall structure and the meat of what this legislation is doing. And it will also setup a compliance access team. Access compliance unit, that is. So that there will be better interagency collaboration. We hope by doing so, the process will go a lot more smoothly. One other really important function is in a we are going to be empowering the Access Appeals Commission to do a couple more things than what they are currently able to do. They will be able to make determinations on equivalent facilitation, technical feasibility, extensions of time and other matters that are allowable. So that at least, if a business or a Property Owner is having issues with meeting some of these requirements, it can demonstrate that they have made an effort. There is formal documentation for them to show that their making this effort and we felt it was very important to include because we understand San Francisco is very challenging. We have a lot of great historic buildings. We have got an interesting topography. So we wanted to make sure at least people are making a goodfaith effort to try. And if there for some reason, some way they cant meet it, that they go to the Access Appeals Commission, and are able to get that formal documentation. So i think that that is in a nutshell unless carla has anything to add . That is in a nutshell what we were able to develop through the legislation. So again, we feel its a very proactive approach. So were not just waiting for something to happen. And again, its not just about the lawsuits. We really want to make sure that people, all people from all communities, can access all of our businesses here in San Francisco. So with that, then im happy to take any questions that you might have. Thank you. Any questions from Council Members . I have a couple. I will start. First of all, this is for Small Businesses only . Its actually for all places with public accommodation. So that would include old theaters, or other places where the public is welcomed . Yes. Okay. And who now is it the business owner, or the Property Owner that is paying for these improvements . So the legislation specifically refers to Property Owners. However as we all know, the relationship and the specification of duties and responsibilitis is between a Property Owner and a tenant a business tenant. So for example, even though we write that into the legislation, that it should be the Property Owners responsibility; they can in their lease agreements decide privately through their own private contractual agreement with the tenant, that thof shared responsibility, or some sort of compensation for that

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