Her to continue her medical treatment. And she passed away because of that denial of treatment. And im here to raise your attention to how discrimination can impact the disabled community when theyre dealing with an organ transplant. And i dont know if your office has ever had to deal with a situation like this. I only recently learned of your council over the summer. And i spoke with heather in your office. And, heather, you were wonderful and provided a lot of information. I, unfortunately, didnt know about your office over the past four years. When i was faced with having to deal with a decision that my sister was being removed from a transplant wait list because she could not speak and could not move half her body, i felt trapped and there was nobody i could talk to. The hospital made the decision. It was only one hospital in this city that performs lung transplants. And we had no choice to take her to another hospital. And i just dont want what happened to my sister to happen to another resident of San Francisco. And i have some ideas as to what we can do to perhaps give a voice to this very vulnerable patient population. And i certainly have more time to do that since im no longer a caregiver. But i just wanted to raise this issue to your attention. It is shocking that it could happen in this city. And i remember feeling so trapped in that situation and i hope there is a way that we can help this population. If you have any questions, im happy to answer. Im on the mailing list as well. Ms. Senhaux chair thank you. I have a question. Is that how this works . Ms. Senhaux chair not during Public Comment. Go ahead real quick, helen. Remind me of your name. Alka airy. Through the chair sorry. And did you have any insurance . Yes. Can you share with us what that was . Ms. Senhaux chair excuse me. I apologize. Can we talk offline to get this information . Okay. Nicole thank you for coming. Did you complete a speaker card today . I did. Great well have your information and we can follow up after the meeting today. All we have is your name, but, heather, you have an email. Ms. Senhaux chair thank you. The next speaker is zack kay. Hi, thank you. Id like to speak slowly, but im going to speak fast because there is a threeminute time limit unless the Council Gives me another minute. Ms. Senhaux chair if you need it, we can give it to you. Id like to speak slower so everyone can hear me. Im here today because, for a few reasons, i have concerns about recent changes in this council. I received an email in Early September that response times for issues around disability from this council will be five days. And i was five business days, which is quite a long time. I asked about that and was told in an email that we are short staffed, almost working on bare bones. When i received that, i sent email this is september 9 or september 10, that i would be open to volunteering for this council or working for this council to help people with disability earn more rights. I had to send multiple emails before i got a response. I didnt get a response until this morning and it told me that m. O. D. Is not looking for volunteers at this point. Im wondering why a council that has a fiveday response time, working on bare bones, is not accepting volunteers that only want to help people with disabilities. Im also concerned that these meetings i mentioned this before are happened bimonthly. That feels like a real slap in the face for those of us who are part of the public and dont get our voice heard. We only get three minutes once every two months. If were sick or cant call it, its four months before we can share what is a serious usually a serious access issue. In my case, there has been multiple access issues that ive brought to the attention of the council, the secretary. One of them is the accessibility of notices that are put on trees by department of public works. Theyre doing this to hundreds of trees. Im asking that disabled people have an option for those notices. Because if youre blind, low vision, disability mobile struggle with mobility or sick in bed for a long period, you come out of the house and 30 days later, a dozen trees could be gone from the block and you have no say in it whatsoever. I asked m. O. D. If they would ask d. P. W. To respond to suspend cutting down the trees until the notices are accessible. Ive been waiting for five weeks for a response and m. O. D. Told me that they might be in meetings. For five weeks . That seems to me a strange unwillingness to protect the rights of disabled people. All im asking is that we have a right to see these notices and file a protest if we want to save a tree. Im not saying that m. O. D. Has to agree to save the trees or not. I just want disabled people to have the option. And i just im concerned because, you know, people with disabilities, we dont have the energy to be filing lawsuits and we dont want to make enemies and be, you know, arguing with people. Were sick. I should be in bed right now. And im just asking for help from this council. Thats all. So that you know we can get the rights we need. Thank you. Ms. Senhaux chair thank you. Any more Public Comment . Thank you very much. Were going to close Public Comment and move onto Item Information item number 4, cochair report. First of all, id like to make a couple of announcements. We have two Council Members that have decided not to reapply to the council. Nicole would you mind speaking into the microphone . Ms. Senhaux chair sorry. Thank you. Id like to repeat my announcement. There are two Council Members that have decided not to be reappointed to the mayors Disability Council and they are jim blacksten and Sally Coughlin macdonald. So they will be missed. I want to thank them for their work on the council for the last couple of years. And im sorry to see they werent able to reapply to the council. Id like to welcome our new Council Members that are here today with us. And let me theyve already introduced themselves, but id like to give your names again. Stephen herman. Lily marshallfricker. Helen pelzman. Id like to welcome the new Council Members and give them an opportunity if theyd like to say something. If not, thats okay. But i wanted to give you the opportunity. Okay. Go ahead and move ahead. We look forward to working with you. And again, congratulations. Okay, were going to move on to information item number 5, report from the Mayors Office on disability. And id like to welcome our director, nicole bohn. Nicole thank you for the introduction. Hello, everyone. Thanks for being here today. Thanks also to everyone watching on sfgovtv and to folks listenings on our bridge line today. I have a number of updates and announcements that i want to draw to your attention. Its been a very busy month for us and a lot of the work weve been doing since the last Public Meeting youll hear about today through our presenters who are here to give us more information. But there is a few other items id like to draw your attention to. One, on august 29, we had our first city meeting regarding the response that is specific to people with disabilities and vision zero. And so on that particular agenda we began conversations specifically addressing our bike lane strategy and accessibility and the citys strategy for accessible pedestrian signal installation. And this is the first of a serious of meet series of meetings were working toward vision zero strategy 2. 0. There will be additional opportunity for Public Engagement on this, but i wanted to encourage the council to invite our vision zero colleagues to come and give an update on where we are regarding our response to vision zero, especially as it pertains to the request that came from the vision zero coalition. And also in terms of our response to the safety and wellbeing of people with disabilities. We have also, this month, as denise mentioned, welcomed our new Council Members. I want to send my thanks and congratulations on behalf of the city and on behalf of the mayor to our new members for your appointment. And thank you very much for being here today. Were very glad to have you. The next few things that i want to talk about are upcoming engagement opportunities. And all of this information has either gone to and through the Mayors Office on disability distribution who have signed up to receive alerts, or will be shortly. First event id like to announce we just learned today is happening monday, september 23rd. And what that is, the update on the work with the development of the Disability Community cult cultural center. There is a webinar you can take part in on monday at 2 00 in the afternoon. For the purposes of Public Information, im going to give you a phone number today which is 415 3386010. If youre signed up to the Mayors Office on disability distribution, through our website, you will have received that as of this afternoon. The next item that i want to draw your attention to is actually an item that is happening simultaneously with our Public Meeting today at the high i cant tell hyatt. The reason i bring it up here today, is to encourage Council Members to remain engaged as this plan at the state level is developed. I know several of you have already gone to a few Public Meetings about this. So i encourage you to remain engaged regarding this state master plan. Next id like to announce an opportunity for another its another Community Meeting from our colleagues at sfmta on the mobility permit harmization plan. This meeting is happening this coming wednesday, september 25 from 6 00 to 7 30 p. M. At 1 south van ness. And the purpose of this Community Forum is to give the Public Information about mtas permit program and the purpose of this is to make sure that as more new and emerging Mobility Services and mobility devices are engaged with our public rightofway, that were developing a plan to address the issues and the maintenance of the public right of way and our safety in a way that is coordinated. I encourage you, if youre interested, to also attend that meeting there specifically, encouraging feedback from people with disabilities. Next there are two engagement opportunities happening the following evening on september 26. The first item that i want to bring to the councils attention is the transit reliability presentation focused on equity, which will be happening in the Public Meeting of the Human Rights Commission on september 26 in this building, at city hall, room 416. The Human Rights Commission will be hearing from sfmta on communicating service updates, language access, access for seniors and adults with disabilities, and latenight muni access in particular. And the commission has asked the mayors Disability Council specifically to attend. If youre interested and if you would be available to let the Mayors Office on disability know so they can acknowledge you publicly in their meeting. Also on the evening of the 26th, is a followup to an event that happened last week at the San FranciscoArts Commission. Im pleased to announce that this year, for the first time, our San FranciscoArts Commission has included people with disabilities, specifically in terms of targeted outreach for their grant recipient program. It has been available to people with disabilities before, but this year they identified people with disabilities specifically as an Underserved Community when it comes to the arts and our focusing attention this year and in subsequent years on more strategic outreach for folks with disabilities. I had the privilege of moderating a Panel Last Week of artists, where the theater attendees learned quite a bit about accessibility and access to the arts. Thanks to our panelist who were representing the community. As followup to that, if youre interested in learning more about Art Commission grant opportunities, there is going to be an informational session on thursday, september 26, from 6 00 to 7 00 p. M. At the contemporary jewish museum. You are welcome to attend that as well. There are a couple of more announcements. Public events happening. Next i want to announce that the following week, thursday, october 3rd, there will be a meeting specifically for Disability Community members regarding an update on the better Market Street accessibility plan. This meeting is going to is cosponsored by the department of public works. Sfmta, and with the generous contributions from the white house for the blind and support for Mayors Office on disability. So this meeting is happening thursday, october 3rd, from 4 30 to 6 00 at the lighthouse. If you would like to r. S. V. P. For this meeting, you can contact miss jennifer blut. And this information went out to the Mayors Office on disability distribution as well and will be posted to our website. Finally, i want to announce that speaking of the lighthouse for the blind, in conjunction with the Longmore Institute on disability, is announcing their festival. Another twoday, really great event that is happening saturday, october 12, at the salvage in berkley. And day two is sunday october 13, at the contemporary jewish museum. For those of you who dont know, these are all jury selected films that talk about the disability experience and its a very wonderful process that features films for and by and about people with disabilities. So i highly encourage you to attend that very exciting and Engaging Community event. And those are all of my announcements for today. Ms. Senhaux chair thank you, director. Before we move on, can i ask a question . Ms. Senhaux chair sorry. Thank you. Were going to move on to our next item, information item, which is pg es Public Safety power shutoff program. I would like to welcome our presenter. I apologize if i dont announce your name bijan karimi, acting Deputy Director of San Francisco department of Emergency Management. Good afternoon, Council Members. My name is bijan karimi. Im assistant acting Deputy Director for San Francisco department of Emergency Management. Ill be talking to you about pg es Public Safety shutoff. Psps. Ill be talking about four things today. Information about what psps actually is and about three different exercises that the city has participated in and facilitated. One with other city partners. One with private sector and also with regional partners. Many people may want to get a better understanding of what psps is. Pg e will turn off electricity transmission lines because of a perceived concern for starting some additional wildfires. There has been tremendous destruction and damage and loss of life that happened over the last two years in this sonoma area and as a result, pg e has explored what are the ways to decrease the likelihood of another event happening . So based on different factors that pg e uses, things like heat, wind, humidity, fuel levels, and individual observations, they may decide to turn off transmission linings. The difference between a transmission line and distribution line, distribution brings power directly to your home. Where transmission are the big power lines we see running across the major arteries of the city and are in the area and are typically on top of large power aframelooking buildings. And one of the concerns that we have is what impact is this going to have on the city . The primary transmission lines that come to San Francisco come through the east bay and up the peninsula. The cpuc, the California PublicUtilities Commission have identified tier 2 and tier 3. It identifies two different areas in the bay area. One is those that are elevated and those considered extreme. The elevated is yellow. The extreme is red. And the areas that are transmission our transmission lines come through for San Francisco come through some of the red areas in the east bay, and then may also come up some of the yellow areas on the peninsula. So while San Francisco, itself, does not have tier two or tier three exposure, where we get our power from, does. So thats why were paying particular attention to this. We need to prepare for any potential power outage, whether its a significant one as described with psps, or it could be what happened this morning. Earlier today, a contractor hit a pg e transmission line here in San Francisco. Over 22,000 people did not have power starting right around 8 00. So whether its the entire city because of a psps. Whether its a smaller incident, certainly 22,000 is not small.