Informed and something that everyone in the city supports, we couldnt implement it without changing state law either. Council member williams thank you. Long winded answer, but were with you. Council member williams just to clarify if i may, the city is engaged with California PublicUtilities Commission on this, right . Yeah. I mean, its kind of a loaded plate there. Im not privy to those conversations, but i would say that the outcomes we have not had any different outcomes. Cochair senhaux i dont have a question, but a quick comment because the rules apply to me, too. I appreciate with regards to enforcement youre listening to our concerns around driver behavior. And second thing youre doing education awareness around, you know, safety rules for people on scooters, you know, safe streets. And on bikes. Because we all share the rightofway, we all share the sidewalks and everybody has to be respectable. We all have to share these areas. So people with disabilities and, you know, seniors sometimes get overlooked. Im not saying one population is more important than the other, but we should all be able to travel the streets safely. So i think Everyone Needs to be considerate of everyone using the streets and cars and bikes. Because without any type of enforcement or education and i commend you in the work youre doing i dont think the goal is going to be reached. With that in mind, thats my last comment. Im going to open it up. Thank you very much. I think you had a second question. Cochair senhaux im sorry, with time constraints, i need to close it and open it up to Public Comment at this time. Can we, before we do that, would you mind to give your Contact Information to the group. Its up on the left. So if we can go back to the there we go. Nicole great. Thank you very much. Im going to open up to Public Comment. I want everybody to know that the interpreters are only here until 4 00 and we have one more presentation and i want to give everyone a chance to speak. So please lets be mindful of the time. So i understand we have Public Comment on this agenda item. Yes, from zack. We have a bridge line participant as well. Cochair senhaux okay. Thank you. Hi, thanks for your time. I have a couple of things i want to say. I want to commend Kate Williams for her statement. I agree with that, with the problems with uber and lyft. Ive lived in the city for ten years and as a wheelchair user, ive noticed an increase in my own safety. I want to point out in 2017, British Parliament in london, the Regulatory Agency of transportation banned uber for a lack of corporate responsibility. That ban was overturned in 2018 and, of course, this is not British Parliament, but i would like to appointment out there is point out there is cities taking measures to ensure that pedestrians are safe. I would like to point out that i have friends that work for uber and lyft and they do not pay their employees a livable wage. There is a lot of document documentation. Driver are not paid enough to drive slowly. Theyre paid to drive quickly to get from point a to point b to make enough money to live. If you dont pay them a livable wage to do that, yeah, theyre going to drive dangerous and were paying the cost for that. For vision zero, i think this is a great idea. I think we can all agree that Pedestrian Safety is super important. I wanted to throw out ideas i just came up with, you know, maybe they wont happen tomorrow. But we can think about them. One is i can only travel as fast as as this scooter will take me. A lot of times that is not enough when the light counter starts counting down. What would it look like to increase the counters or a button for disabled people to cross the street safely . Second idea. What about lights on crosswalks . I know other cities actually put lighting along the asphalt so that cars can see visibly, especially at night. The third, is what would it look like to create some funding for people with disabilities to afix reflective pieces of material on our mobility devices . The city could have a budget for that. Led or other types of things that would help mobility devices. I have a black chair, its super dangerous at night when im crossing the street. Lastly, im a driver. Im a california state driver. I went to driving school. I learned almost nothing about disabled people getting my drivers license and things i should look out for and the different types of disabilities. I think there could be a conversation with people on the state level about that. And lastly, i want to make sure that vision zero also is taking care to look out for communities of color and atrisk communities. Not just affluent communities when were talking about Pedestrian Safety. There is something that died at a crosswalk near my house and nobody did anything about it for ten years. Now that my block has a porsche and a tesla and a land rover, now all of a sudden were getting a traffic light. I would like to see those changes happen before millionaires live in the neighborhood. Cochair senhaux our next Public Comment. Helen walsh. I am helen walsh. Im from the berkley commission on disability. I also am an advocate on areas of inclusive. Listening to the presentation, the zero vision is also something were working on, vision zero in berkley. So in regards to the state issue, im wondering if municipalities would Work Together so that maybe we can do something about the issue looking at it more outside of the box instead of exclusive. Its a full area problem. So i want to emphasize consideration in those areas if all our different municipalities and different areas of disability meetings ive gone to within layers of city areas, which in other municipalities, if we could share our information, maybe we would be able to target this in a way where we could move forward with more inclusion and voice of the Disability Community as well as how different cities are conquering some of these issues. My other bit of other comment would be, outreach and educational materials reflective and being inclusive of seniors and persons with disabilities as pedestrians or as drivers or as bicyclists in terms of your information so that we have a way to communicate considerations to the Large Community of diverse individuals with disabilities out there in our communities. And im speaking about Senior Citizens when im speaking on this. I think im just going to leave it to two. I have a lot more, but i think consideration of information and being inclusive and working together in our municipalities might help with state areas, thank you. Cochair senhaux thank you very much. Any other Public Comment on the bridge line . Please go ahead, bridge line. Okay, i have a comment. My name is richard rothman. Im talking about fulton street. While vision zero is fine, but its time for action. Why do things take so long . 43rd and fulton, somebody died there at least five, six years ago. And they still havent upgraded the lights there. You know, its a shame. And fulton is a speedway. A number of years ago i asked the vision zero staff to put the electronic speed radar signs on fulton street and nothing has been done. I dont know why they cant get the mta staff to get things done. All the reports you do are fine, but if they dont have action and help lives, they dont mean anything. The other thing im concerned about, the mayor wants to have all these protective bike lanes. There is one on polk street. My wife and i go to the eye doctor and my wife has a hard time walking. If there is a protected bike lane in front of the eye Doctors Office, how is my wife supposed to get there . Are we supposed to park the car in the middle of the street and then walk across the bike lanes to get into the Doctors Office . We all have to live in this city and Work Together and the final thing is i dont think mta muni should have a veto over Pedestrian Safety issues. I found out theyre being blocked by muni staff and i dont think thats right. And thank you for having this hearing today. Cochair senhaux thank you, richard. Thank you for your comment. Im going to go ahead and close Public Comment. Were going to go to item number 8, informational item, San Francisco recreation im sorry. My apologies. Staff, any comments . Okay. Im sorry, information number 8, San Francisco recreation Parks Department, Disability Access and Inclusion Services. I want to welcome and thank you, mr. Lucas tobin, for his patience waiting to appear. He is a supervisor for Inclusion Services. And i want to welcome the ada coordinator im sorry recreation and Parks Department and anthony, who is sfu intern for park and rec. Thank you for waiting. We look forward to hearing your presentation. Go [laughter]. Thanks, ill try to be speedy because i know were running short on time. We want to hear what you have to say. Cochair senhaux trying to make light of the situation. Take your time. Im supervisor for therapy recreation and Inclusion Services with sf rec and park. Im also ada coordinator. Shes with our Capital Division as well. Like you mentioned, anthony is here, hes an intern who is going to present his project on childrens play area accessibility. So i want to get through mine, because his really the great exciting presentation for today. But, the council sent some great questions. Here we are. Looks like theyre coming up. So the council sent great questions. Im going to use that to guide my part of the presentation and do it as a q a, reading the questions and answering them. So the first question was a great one. The first question, what are rec and parks philosophy and how does rec and park make it happen . I thought that was a great question. The first part of that, im going to list off our programs. And so for Summer Programs and camps, we have camp mather inclusion week. For our day camps, we have everybody plays, everybody travels, everybody chills, which is a 2day camp to fill the gaps of summer school. Team city which is teen city which is a teen camp. Inclusion at eco camp and inclusion at silver tree. Next we have for our yearround programs, we have our access academy, which is programs for the access program. And those are six programs. And also swim times that are available for the access students. Sfusd access students. We have the adults programs which includes the American Sign Language art program, for adults who have disabilities. We have the v. I. P. Expressive arts for adults blind and visually impaired. Tactile exploration for deaf and blind. And social Network Program for adults with developmental disabilities. And more programs for children. And teens with autism during the school year. We have our everybody plays day. Our teen time which is for children and teens with autism. Our swim. And our Brand New Program starting this fall, which were really excited about, which is called astep. After school therapeutic enrichment program, its a program for children with developmental disabilities. The next part of the question was what is our mission . The San Francisco recreation and Park Department is to provide enriching recreational activities, maintain beautiful parks and maintain the environment for everyone in our diverse community. Im happy to say in 2015, we added the everyone to the mission statement. To continue with rpd philosophy, ill just read that, it didnt get on the slide. So we promote a personfirst philosophy in our language planning and our attitude at rec and park. We strive to do that and that people with disabilities, just like everyone, should have the right to choice, which is why we offer therapeutic and adaptive programs as well as Inclusion Services so people have access to both. And then the last part of the question, actually there was one more slide. Our departments motto is get out and play. Part of our philosophy is that everybody should have the chance to get out and play. With recreation and parks. And how does rec and park make it happen . Well, i ask myself that question every day i think. We make it happen because we have a great team of staff to help out with our therapeutic Inclusion Services. We have a supportive executive staff and general manager. And also because of partners, like the mod and the Mayors Disability Council and other partners, like support for families, lighthouse for the blind. And also with all the families that we work with who use our services. Last one is how is rec and park including kids with disabilities . So we do that through our specialized programs which ive already listed, using our Inclusion Services. And we do that because of our great staff. We have two certified therapeutic therapists who work with us, as well as two recreation specialists who actually do the direct services for the programs. And dozens of parttime staff who work daytoday with the kids and other people in our program. And we have an inclusion process in our certified therapeutic recreation specialists manage that process for Inclusion Services. Next question is, are there any kids who are considered too disabled to be included . What is rec and parks policy around kids with multiple disabilities . We dont look at it that way, that anybody is too disabled. We have limitations with our staff as far as personal care and administering medication. Sometimes the parent will provide somebody if they need that assistance, but we dont look at it as anybody being too disabled. If we can include them, we will. We have a lot of children and people in our program with multiple disabilities. Who does Inclusion Services serve . And how many people with disabilities . So our biggest numbers really, autism, we have a lot of kids and young adults with autism in our programs. We also have a big population of people who are deaf and hardofhearing and people who are blind and visually impaired. But we havent broken up our numbers by disability yet. But, we have started to really look at numbers overall. And the numbers that im putting up here are people with disabilities who are actually registered in our programs. And have selfdisclosed, that they have a disability. This does not include people who are deaf or hardofhearing. We started this in 2017. In 2017, we had 112, but that is not complete because we didnt start until summer of 2017. So this really only includes summer and fall. And then 2018 was our First Complete year of inputting those numbers. But still not totally complete because that is when we were actually catching up with inputting the numbers. And so far this year, we have 127, but that is only up through winter. So that doesnt include our spring and of course, were just putting in the numbers for summer camp right now. What percentage of programs participants require disability accommodation . Again, that is not something weve tracked the percentage of people who have requested a disability accommodation. Our biggest accommodation requests are for support staff. Sort of like what the school calls para professionals or aides, oneonone aides. We have a huge number of requests for those accommodations, as well as sign language interpreters. So those are our biggest requests that we get. But part of the reason that we do our specialized and adaptive recreation programs is because accommodations usually are not an issue with those programs. The adequate staffing is built in. If its a program that is run in American Sign Language, we dont have to worry about interpreters and providing accommodations, so it can be a more efficient way to provide our services. Do you think you serve everyone . Thats another good question. And no, i wish that we could. And were continually trying to serve more people. And wed like to serve a bigger range of people with disabilities. One of my personal goals is to do more for with disability sports and were working on that. We recently purchased two stateoftheart standup and play golf chairs that are going to be available at our golf courses. And we purchased a lawn bowling chair and got 10 basketball chairs. So were working to try to increase those opportunities. What programs are available for sal users . I didnt list those earlier because this is a different question. We have the American Sign Language after school, our summer day program, our leader in training program. Explorations, which is an asl class, but thats with a recreation side to it, so people come and learn the signs and they do an activity like cooking for playing games or Something Like that. We have a program for adults who are deaf and hardofhearing and also have disabilities. And a program for people who are deaf and blind or visually impaired that we partner with the lighthouse for the blind to provide. And we also offer Inclusion Services for asl users. For any program that theyre interested in registering for. All right, this is a big question. Why are the camps almost always full when Registration Begins on a specific day . Often the announcement