Sfgov. Im trying to make sure i have this email right mod at sfgovtv. Org or call. Phone number 1 415 6550001 access code 2661 582 4119 thank you. The Mayors Office on disability meetings on the third friday more information about past or up and running meeting please vital of website at sfgovtv. Org forward md. Our next regular meeting will will be on friday october 20th, 2023, from 1 oclock to 4 oclock it will be a dr. Wood that meeting and broadcast on sfgovtv. Okay. We thank you for joining us today and before we call the roll income um, id like to take a moment to acknowledge our member our member helen this will be her last mod meeting shell be moving on to another vantage which testing on. Thank you for your service seven years of service on the council. Thank you wholeheartedly for your work and service so clapping. oh. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everyone, and thank you, sherry yes, im happy to report im moving with the Mayors Office on disability and still working with you all and look forward to that and the appreciate all the good work. We as a community along with the Mayors Office on disability in the city have been able to do many years. Thank you. Well were going to miss you laughter okay. So multiple voices. through the chair if i may, i want to make sure the interpreting is. Okay. No were good youre welcome clerk do the roll call, please. Yes. Recall have cochair madrid here. Cochair albers present. We have councilmember senhaux present. And councilmember smolinski present. That concludes roll call we are going over the agenda i want to let everyone know we have um, a change in the agenda the original agenda was going to include a discussion item on the Autonomous Vehicles present by the mta but because of the last minute change in scheduling, this will be postponed to a future agenda. Okay. To clerk, please read the agenda. Yes. For item one welcome and roll call. Two is roll call and three general Public Comment and item 4 is the cochair report from cochair albers. Item 5 is a report from the Mayors Office on disability by bourlg and 6 then move to a 15 minute break and item 7 have a discussion on the digital framework and adults with disabilities and older adults in San Francisco presented by karla suomala, San Francisco tech council. Item 8. 8. Information item correspondence. Being given by mod deborah and 9 general Public Comment. Item 10. 10. Information item Council Member comments and announcements. And move to item 11 adjournment. Okay. Thank you. Clerk and do i have a motion to accept the agenda. Make a motion to accept the great. Say aye. Aye. Opposed . Okay. I laughter . Motion passes at this time Public Comment please read jurisdiction of the council which are not on todays meeting agenda. Each member of the public may address the council for up to three minutes, the cochair determines that, in the interest of time, comments may be limited to a shorter time when there are a large number of Public Comments. Items,your opportunity to address the council will be afforded at the conclusion of each discussion item, before Council Discussion begins. Forbids the council from taking action or discussing any items not appearing on the posted agenda, including those items raised at Public Comment. Council,please provide your Contact Information by email message to mdc sfgov. Org with the subject mdc comment reply request, or call 4155546789. If i join the webinar click on the three icons and click on the raised hand well recognize you when its your turn and use the webex on the top part of video. Bottom of the video screen. If you join by phone, dial 3 to indicate you would like to make a comment. The clerk will prompt you when its your turn. Joining us in person fill out a comment card in the front of room and may line up at the podium and ill wait to see if anyone joining us in inperson want to make a comment at this time and then the Public Comment. Give me just one moment. All right. Whenever youre ready. I attended a previous meeting online and i heard you were talking with varies Department Heads about accessibility and specifically about civic center and the tenderloin at and at crosswalks filled with event and things like that those officials said theyll get back im hoping to hear the reports some that meeting if not in the future. That a terrible, terrible problem and its getting worse of the sidewalks in the tenderloin are impartial and even worse at night and i think that um, this commission should be pushing San Francisco official to do something about it. Thank you for your comments whats your name, sir. Fox. All right. I dont see anyone else joining us inperson so go to webex if anyone is joining us webex and want to use the raised hand feature to do so. All right. Not on that time this concludes Public Comment. Thank you. Okay. Our next item is the cochairs report in august the council held the and heres some of the topics we discussed which will be held clearing throat on future agendas. We will have a hope to have an update on accessibility enforcement for shared spaces. Which i believe is what mr. Fox is talking about. Vision zero for pedestrians and elevator outrageous singleroom occupancy and increasing employment and promotion opportunities for people with disabilities in san jose and reusable food war in restaurant and Pedestrian Safety and rightofway access to San Francisco. Now those are some of the future agenda items i think we want to see happen at our Council Meetings and it took up pretty sure of our retreat in august. This is the end of my report and now sending the podium down to nicole who is to give the reports. Thank you cochair albers thats director nicole bohn the director of the Mayors Office on disability and have has been typically quite a bit to share today encourage if you have questions, choublz ask. In terms of the local legislation and resolutions to a reminder august was there are a couple of items you may want to continue to monitor. Specifically the um, the come a ration thought to mortuary to make sure we have information to happen and does happen. Related to the shared spaces legislation, just a reminder that the Outdoor Dining program expired on march 31st one had the 80 grace period was approved that conspired at the end of september critical localities continue to be prioritize but the council may wish to continue with the items on your list so that is great. And in addition to my apologize in addition to the items we need to monitor and related to state legislation the xrup california utilities voted for two Autonomous Vehicles in San Francisco. Right now the city is requesting a rehearing on that item. And as cochair albers 34e7bsz we were not able to is what we were anticipating but encourage this is a have a good interest to the community as im sure you know. As a reminder the city didnt have Regulator Authority over Autonomous Vehicles thus, the California Public works and the dmv do we can city participate through comments. The federal there is more the full report will be posted on online on mod website and the motion carries. Sfgovtv. Org take time to read the whole report. In terms of federal legislation had i want to highlight for today is that as of yesterday, december 14th discrimination on the housing. Human services preamble accepted Public Comment on a proposed rule was posted on federal render or go, go to the federal website the information is there. This notice of proposed rule marking is taking comment on or before november 13th. And really had pretty substantive elements to it. Including nondiscrimination in medical treatment the accessibility of assessable of medical equipment web kiosk and help environments and clarifies the obligations as well around integrated setting and the need of accessibility a lot to comment as individuals and the organizations are courageous to comment. No news and announcements. Marks the three three anniversary on july 26th im very pleased to report the mod support for the Public Library and state of florida and rec and park and aviation podium for the coordinators and had over 60 inperson attendees and held fundraiser panels on the yearend review and 8 coordinator for best Practices Panel and then had breakdown sessions on the strategies for the city departments and the city digital accessibility and inclusion and also a status report on the citywide barrier removal efforts that was presented by the clerk a fellowship work before they came on board so that worked we hope to make this an annual thing and the council is encouraged if you want to know anything where the items thanks to testing and to Deputy DirectorDebbie Kaplan and also as mod in coordination with the policy folks in Human Services agency over the last two months submitted comments on the non sdroimgs on the yu79s for housing for regulations. So what i mentioned earlier the Human Services and health care is the one we designated to housing im glad too, so the government moving open some of those updates so we submitted comments on behalf of the city. For that. clearing throat okay. And then let me i lost my place. One moment. One second. Okay. Okay. And then a lot of the agenda items we have already mentioned and priorities for your upcoming agenda i want to highlight a few oat ones we have not mentioned. One it has been over a year since mod has provided a public report to you and so we will be happy to do that and provide to the ada coordinators and very happy to repeat that and have an engagement with the public on that and get feedback. The assessable Business Program over the last two most has had a lot of activities. We continue as a mod to work exceptionally with the department of building inspection with the citys obligation for the program and also assisting with um, efforts related to Public Outreach and training. So registration is currently under some amendments that are considered to this legislation the timing is good. Sometime in the coming months to consider requesting an update on this item. Um, as well as the golden gate participate way finding project another one with extreme interest. A few more things. Youve already mentioned the disability employment updates as one of the agenda items this one to announced that with october national segregate awareness month. There are 0 voluntary citywide Data Collection launched today is exciting you may hear from the department of Human Resources for their effort and information on reasonable accustoms for employees a interpretation support citywide for the accessibility training mod july a lot to hear from and advocate for. You mentioned that the audaciously in the legislation in the coming months and the work that um, the Comptrollers Office launched ill say a little bit more about that launched this month a drop off weeks ago the Controllers Office as agreed to the assessment and evaluation singleroom occupancy elevator assessment launched in september this month. Conversation advocated for by mod. Well be looking at over one hundred and tenacity loaned or funded elevators and with the stakeholders look for this stone complete and may you may consider placing this on your agenda. This is not in any written report but mayor that goes up to the mode distribution. The city in conjunction with the department of Emergency Management as launched and. Okay. To call Public Awareness program which in conjunction with what we heard la last month from the colleagues in Emergency Management and heart team it to engage with the public encouraging them to help by calling on behalf of 6 those in crisis so helps to clarify when you can call for three 11 for other assistance rolled to public rightofway barrier removal and other things well be sending some public support and i encourage the council to keep that on their agenda thats where ill pause for now and in the councilmembers have any questions. I do um, director one of the question is providing accessibility. A question should people who are challenged i just want to ask if you have any um, submit a motion that you can tell us todays regarding more information regarding inputs. The information im able to share is when i shared as before. I would encourage you to have them give you a more detailed update if thats something sour interested in. There currently are doing a lot of outreach and thinking how to shape and move through the program in a way that works for people with disabilities and members of the public. So really encourage them to put that on the agenda if thats something youre interested in. Thank you and you bet. Others. Please. About the citywide antiable training who would be um, writing this curriculum like do you think in our mind i know you have a fantastic presentation. You yourself but where will that originate from. That would be great if we invite our colleagues from the department of Human Resources we have in partnerships with them. Yeah. Thats something that if the council can advocate for and im hoping we can get things move forward forward. It is very permity discussions right now so did you council can advocate for that. Thank you council. Any other questions or comments or anyone from the public has questions about this report, please dont hesitate to reach out 4155546789 or reach us at sfgov. Org. Thank you very much. Okay. Again, thank you Director Director nicole bohn. Were going to move on to our first discussion item on the agenda you and that is going to be on the better Market Street accessibility improvement update presented by cristina olea, San Francisco public works. And christine welcome you if you have is a power point to share i ask request that um, any illustrations be descriptive as possible. Good afternoon, everyone my name is cristina olea, San Francisco public works. And im the better Market Street project manager. I have a power point presentation. And im joined by ben petersen will be sharing his screen with the power point slide and the project manager from the mta q s. Thank you ben. First slide shows what better Market Street will look like over the inception one of the Main Improvement a back up phase in which Traffic Signals will be more visible and will have new grants that meet the ada standards as well as twice as wide as though are today. Our Standard Program is 4 feet wide and those are 18 feet wide. Were also redoing the curve intersection this shows the curve lane. That is nicole youre fading in and out and im wondering if you can get closer to the microphone. I dont think i can get closer but ben you want to take over the slides and have a better connection . Um, yes hi, im ben petersen a Public Information officer working on better Market Street project and i will take the presentation if a here. So cristina olea, San Francisco public works. Gave a presentation on the first slide im going to. Next slide, please. Where he weve aligned a little bit of accessibility going on the projects thus far. So far we have no reportable incidents regarding saeblth in and around the project area. Um, we have received some feedback before certain areas of the concern. However, prominently from the owners of businesses have not heard from my folks people with disabilities with things theyve had with controversy in the construction area. A quick list of a couple of areas have come up. One, outside of 1,000 Market Street the market fully engaged on the north side of market we are doing some work on the sidewalks and also around the curve in conjunction with Market Street so between those two projects space for pedestrians to today verse as a certain time. We have the building on market reach out to see if any additional um, space we can create. Double check the ramping to make sure they are correct slopes be as smooth as possible. Similar this came up on the block between 7 and 8 streets open market we will be doing similar types of work on the sidewalks and also construction constructing some new curb ramps in front of the market with the chimney building and where the mod office are and across the street with the theatre with the sidewalks construction and also preparing for the planting the street trees and did take up a good amount of sidewalk con restricted the pedestrian path of travel and since this was a little tireer than we initially it out and Market Street the San Francisco public works was circus at t