The third option, which is to cut their own budget. Theres thousands of people in city departments who are making sixfigure salaries. You think they could tighten their belts, quite frankly. Its not too much to ask when so many other businesses, people have lost their jobs or businesses have entirely had to close. I dont see anything thats going to create 2,000 jobs is pie in the sky speculation. Taxing the information sector . Thats whats been driving the San Francisco economy years and years, the tech economy. Theres real risk of losing losing the goose that laid the golden egg, tech being driven out of town if they continue unfriendly policies. Thank you. Thank you. Were going to go to the next question, and well start with star child. The question is San Franciscos child care and homelessness taxes has been challenged in court, and the money thats ae been collected through these taxes has not been spent by the city. If this prop is passed, that will free up these funds for the city. Whats your position on that . Well, we dont believe those propositions should have been passed in the first place. I think theres academic questions about the ledger being written illegally skprks that should skprks and that should be allowed to finish winding its way through the courts. The government should not be rewarded for doing things illegally. Theres a number of places where they did not follow the law in the language in terms of how measures are presented in the ballot handbook, and in some cas cases, theyre presen them in a biased manner. They shouldnt sweep that under the rug and allow them to take this money and keep imposing the tax going forward. You know, its its good to have child care, but if people dont even have jobs to go to, theyre not going to need child care, and theyre going to kill jobs by raising taxes. Theres no reason why this shouldnt have been written revenue neutral. Theres no reason why taxes should be going up. Sorry to interrupt you. We need to move to jennifer. First, a rebuttal. This would replace the payroll tax with a gross receipts tax and increase the number of Small Businesses that are exempt, and it would also reduce Business Registration fees. Now onto why child care. Early care and education chaz high quality is demonstrated to be more effective antipoverty strategies than any other on children, on parent, and even their grandparents. We need to increase and continue our investment in this essential service. We need to be able to shore up the programs that are at the brink of collapse at this critical moment, and we need to invest in proposition f. Thank you, jennifer. So at this point, were going to move into the closing comments, and well start with star child. Yeah. Again, the bottom line is that this is a major, almost 100 million year estimated tax increase per the controller, and the measure is 125 pages long, very confusing about exactly what the effects are going to be, and, again, confusing legislation tends to have a disproportionately bad impact on Small Businesses because they dont have armys of lawyers working for them to figure this stuff out. Its, again, going after the wrong target. Its going after businesses in the voluntary sector rather than the coercive sector to cut their budgets. Of course, the supervisors making six figure salaries can be return today what it was not that many years ago, you know, under 100,000 a year. 99,000 i think, is enough to be made in city government. They dont need to be paid at citizens expense. If it they want more funding for child care, again, reducing the payroll tax would be great, but theres no need to impose greater taxes that are going to unfavorably affect the Business Climate at a time when businesses are already struggling. I have not heard a good reason why this particular measure is is the way, why they could not have made another measure that doesnt raise taxes overall. Thank you. Closing statement from jennifer. Thank you. So San Francisco was also facing a crisis in child care and education and unbalanced taxes for Small Businesses even before the pandemic, and the pandemic has always exacerbated each of these challenges. Ive done my homework. Proposition f will address our immediate needs while addressing longstanding programs that have become more apparent during the pandemic. Struggling businesses need tax relief, parents need child care, and children need Early Learning and our economy needs a stimulus to restart and recover. Proposition f will enable us to help Small Businesses who are struggling, unlock voter approved child care funding, balance our local budget, and create jobs, and that i why i think we must say yes on f. Thank you both fof for your comments and your time. We hope that this discussion has been informative. For more information on this and other measures in this years election, please visit sfelections. Org. This year, all voters in california will be mailed a vote by mail ballot starting on october 5. If you plan to raurn your ballot by mail, your ballot must be post marked by election day, tuesday, november 3. Alternatively, you may drop off your ballot in person starting on october 5. You can always drop off your ballot at the City Hall Voting Center starting two weeks before election day, 8 00 a. M. To 5 00 p. M. , and if you dont mail in voting, vote in person at one of the 500 locations across the city and at city hall on tuesday, november 3. It is captioned and sign language interpreted. Mayors Disability Council i did not hear. Generally held on the third friday of every month. Please call the Mayors Office for disability for further information or to request accommodates at 4155546789, for voice mail or email at mod sfgov. Org. The next meeting will be held on friday, november 20th from 1 00 to 4 00. [inaudible] also for our Council Members, we hope that members of the public will take advantage of this calling opportunity to participate remotely. [inaudibl [inaudible] if email, its at mdc sfgov. Org. You can also watch the cable cast on your television by going to channel 26. When youre ready for your public testimony, please turn your television down so you can follow the prompts on your telephone. You can listen to the meeting and be in sync with the live meeting when you make your comments. To provide your comments, the telephone number is 4156550001. When you hear the prompts, please enter the meeting id number. That number is 1469958608, press pound twice and you will have joined the proceedings. I am hoping that somebody who is helping us with our tech will running some sort of a banner on those instructions because i dont know if everybody was prepared to write them down. Were working hard to not leave anyone out of these proceedings. If you are experiencing problems, we do have a person to assist you. Their number is 4155546789. You can also email mod sfgov. Org. There will be plenty of opportunities to provide Public Comment during the meeting. Public comment is limited to three minutes and we will let the participants know when the three minutes have expired. I will be identifying those opportunities for Public Comment when i go through the agenda, which i am just about to do right now. So, we will have lets see. We will have a presentation from 1 40 to 1 55 from the Mayors Office on disability. Nicole bohn will be reporting to us on what shes been up to and then we will have a presentation on Public Transit changes related to covid by muni services, sandra, the mta by aaron and jonathan as well. One presentation will be on essential trip cars and para transit resources. Public comment is welcome after that m. T. A. And muni presentation. Then we will follow with the closure of the Golden Gate Park, the j. F. K. And golden gate drive and park and that will be presented by sarah jones and Public Comment will be welcome as well there and following Public Comment related to the presentations, there will be even more Public Comments scheduled from 3 35 to 3 45. So those of you who are interested in participating, please make note of that and i will also announce Public Comment availability when the presentations have completed. All right, back to the agenda. Are you going to do roll call . Ill do roll call. Okay, thank you. Thank you helen. So when i call your name, if you are here, please say present. Helen pelzman, youre here. Present. Alex madrid okay, alex is present. Denise senhaux. I believe denise is going to be on the phone. You may need to unmute yourself from the phone. It may take us all a while to get use to this. Do we know her phone number at all . Yeah i got it. Sam, i dont think [inaudible] i can just share it with you. I need the number so i can tell who needs to be unmuted. I dont know. Okay. Okay, well do that. I just got a text from denise and she said shes on the call. Okay, thank you. You need to be unmuted . No. Ill text her back. Im need her six numbers of her phone numbers to know who to unmute. Okay, im sending you the contacts right now. In my email . Okay, while were doing that, tiffany yu. Present. Orkid sassouni. Present. Helen smolinski. I know helen has been having difficulty getting in so james, when you get a chance, i know youre busy with stuff. Can you try to connect with helen by email and find out how to help her . Helen smolinski . Yes. Ill send her another invite right now. She says its not recognizing her email. The next person is also probably on the phone is kate williams. Kate will be participating at 1 30. Okay, so shes not here now. Okay. Then we are done with roll call. [inaudible] i need to get denises number to james. Just a second. Im the only one with everyones Contact Information. Im sorry everyone. I guess i should just apologize to whomever is participating from the public because this is our First Virtual meeting and were kind of learning as we go. Okay. Reading an approval of the agenda. I pretty much read the agenda. I think usually something thats done by the clerk. Okay. Why dont you go ahead . Ill do it formally and it doesnt hurt to do it more than once. So, just at the beginning, a reminder to all of our guests today to speak slowly to assist our captioner and interpreters. So following the reading and approval of the agenda, there will be open Public Comment for items that are on todays agenda and within the jurisdiction of m. D. C. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment period. There will be an opportunity for Public Comment at the beginning and end of the meeting that helen has already gone over, as well as after every major presentation on todays agenda. Each comment is limited to three minutes and the council will respond to your comment following the meeting if you provide us with your Contact Information. You can do that by emailing mod sfgov. Org. Ill repeat that. Mod sfgov. Org. Put comment feedback in the subject line. Helen has already gone over how to provide comments. Ill do it just one more time. To provide your comments, dial the telephone number 4156550001. When you hear the prompt, enter the meeting id 1464845905. Then press pound twice and youll have joined the proceedings as a listener. Youll be prompted when its your turn to make comments. Following Public Comment there will be a cochairs report and then a report from the Mayors Office on disability, and then well get into the substance of the meeting with a presentation on Public Transit changes related to covid and the impact on people with disabilities. Then there will be a 15 minute break. Then there will be another session on the closure of j. F. K. Drive in Golden Gate Park, followed by Public Comment. Then there will be another time for general Public Comment for items not on todays agenda. Then a respondent that has come into mdc will take Council Member comments and announcements and then we will be adjourned. Okay. So we are we need to ask for an approval of the agenda. Who would like to read approval of the agenda . Second. All agreed . Probably use our voices, i dont know how i even count people. Okay, moving on. I also want to take this time to acknowledge our privacy [inaudible] he unfortunately had to resign his position for personal reasons and i have been joined by alex madrid who has rece recently just to take stevens place. Alex, you can wave your hand or something so people there you go. We look forward to working with alex and the council. Excuse me helen . Sorry to interrupt but i believe were scheduled to take general Public Comment before the cochair report. Oopsie, youre absolutely right. That was my mistake. I apologize. Is there someone who would be interested in making a Public Statement . Anyone interested should hit star 3 on their phone. We have one person with their hand raised. I can unmute them. Hello caller. Hi, my name is will. Im calling on behalf of a Nonprofit Organization thats dedicated for advocating for more accessibility and preventing lawsuits. I really first would like to say i appreciate all the efforts you are making to create this virtual meeting. I realize that its difficult to get the kinks out and its really worth the effort and its wonderful to have this meeting opportunity available despite the crisis. I today just wanted to throw out a few ideas for potential future discussi discussions of council, with respect to your interest and priorities of course. Okay, sure. You have three minutes. Okay, so i will be brief. All right. So first then, there were news reports yesterday that General Motors who has been testing driverless electric vehicles on the streets of San Francisco with a safety driver at the wheel and apparently yesterday General Motors announced they had been given permission some time this year and San Francisco has removed the safety driver. I know that im certainly we heard concerns from people who are blind and those with low vision about the onset of driverless vehicles in the city and of course silent electric vehicles are perhaps of even more concern for people with vision difficulties. So, im sure there will be much discussion in the city about this announcement, so i wanted to express some concern about how this may play out for citizens with blindness or low vision. Second, the City Shared Spaces Program you are probably familiar with with the parks and sidewalk dining. Those are two programs that have been in place for years and have very strict permit requirements and accessibility requirements. The shared Spaces Program now for the crisis has some very good guidelines for accessibility. The issue of enforcement seems to be night and day. There is a lot less compliance, frankly. So weve been looking into ways to encourage better compliance so everyone can take advantage of these shared spaces and i did find that there is a 311 page which people can submit complaints when they find an accessible outdoor area in the city. Apparently thats then being referred to the Entertainment Commission for investigation and if they are not able to attain accessible compliance, then they can refer the case to the public works or to the Mayors Office of disability. So i hope the Mayors Office of disability will be in touch with the Entertainment Commission team on these cases and you know, we plan to start submitting some of these requests ourselves on the stuff that were observings and hearing from members about. Lastly, measure h is on the ballot. Its designed to sort of streamline permitting for Outdoor Dining and spaces like that. It seems like an a goal. If it does pass, i hope there is follow up to make sure the enforcement of accessibility doesnt suffer from the streamlining of the process. Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak to you and i look forward to listening to the rest of the meeting. Thank you. Yeah, i appreciate your comments. Those are all really, really important issues. If you leave your Contact Information, we will i would really like us to follow up with you before our next scheduled meeting. So, look for us to be reaching out. Thank you very much. Okay, any other Public Comments . We have more, ill unmute the next one. If i would like to make a Public Comment, can you hear me . Yep. Im a resident of San Francisco and i have a movement disorder, a disability. I have a placard. I really rely on j. F. K. Drive, any of the Parking Spaces on j. F. K. Drive to have access to Golden Gate Park. It would be disastrous for me, i wouldnt be able to go to the park unless i could have access to a nearby parking space. So i really object to j. F. K. Being closed. I think that Golden Gate Park should be welcomed to all of our residents, not jus