Good afternoon everyone. And welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting. My name is sheri albers and this meeting is now in order. Today is friday, may 19, 2023. This is a inperson and virtual hybrid meeting. This meeting is broadcast to the public on sfgovtv, and it is open captioned and asl interpreted. The Mayors Disability Council holds 10 Public Meetings per year, and they are generally held on the third friday of the month. Please visit the mod website at www. Sf. Gov mod or call the mayor office of disability at 4155545678. For more information or email sorry. Mod sf. Gov, for any accommodations you may need. Our next regular meeting will be friday june 16, 2023. From 1 oclock to 4 oclock right here in this room, which is room 400 in San Francisco city hall. I dont know if i mentioned that is where we are at. It is also going to be hybrid meeting and broadcast on sfgovtv. We thank you for joining us and we are glad you are here. Okay, mary, could you please conduct the roll call . Yes, thank you chair. Well have the roll call. Alex madrid. Here. Thank you. Orkid sassouni, i think is absent. Sheri albers. Present. Denise senhaux she will be here momentarily. Okay. Helen smolinski present. Thank you. Jason lewis woods is absent. Tandon verma is absent. That is the roll call. Council members, i know will be joining virtually momentarily. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. And we now need to have mary if you could read the agenda for approval. Sure. Our agenda today is the first item is the welcome and roll call. Our second item is action item, reading and approval of the agenda. The third item is general Public Comment. Our fourth item is cochair report. The 5th item is information item, report from the mayor office disability. And second item is escooter Safety Campaign presented by kate toran and mona chui. There will be a 15 minute break. When we return the 7th item is discussion item active Community Plan update on disability outreach, presented by christopher kid San Francisco municipal transportation agency. The 8th item is information item, sda budget item for the public to comment on proposed city budget with the board of supervisors senior and disability action is here to present their budget advocacy agenda. The 9th item then is the correspondence. Our 10th item is general Public Comment. The 11th item is Council Member comments and announcements and the 12th item is adjournment. And thats our agenda. Do i have a motion to approve the agenda . Make a motion to approve the agenda. Do i have a second . Second. Great. The motionthe agenda has been approved and passed. Thank you. Alright. Now well move to general Public Comment. Of course first we have any Public Comments from people who are in the room with us. Do we have anybody mary . I dont believe we have anyone for Public Comment in the room, no. Okay. I do believe we have to read the yes i can read that if you like. At this time members of the public may address the council on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter 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 unless the cochair determines that in the interest of time comments may be limited to a shorter time when there are larger number of Public Comments. With respect to todays item discussion items, the opportunity to address the council will be affordedat the conclusion of each discussion item before Council Discussion begins. And a reminder that the brown act forbids the council taking action or discussing any items not appearing on the posted agenda, including those items raised at Public Comment. If you would like a response from the council, please provide your Contact Information by email to mdc sfgov. Org or call 4155546189. If you join the tablet or smart phone webex, app click the icon and raise your hand. You may also use the q a feature in webexon the top of the video. If you use a desktop raise hand and q a are at the bottom of the screen. If you are joining by phone, dial star 3 to indicate you like to make a comment. Well prompt you when it is your turn. And as i said, we lookif there is any inperson commenters, which we do not have, and i dont know if weanyone remotely . There is no one remote. Okay, thank you. Okay. Public comment will be closed, chair. Sorry mary . Public comment is closed. Thank you. Well move on then to the cochair report, which will be given by me sheri albers. We have a very brief report this month. Since the april mdc meeting we it scheduling challenges which caused a delay in having our Housing Committee and our Employment Committee meetings, but we expect that these committees will be meeting before the next public mdc meeting. So, thats really all we have to report for this month. But i would love to turn the floor over to our director of mod, nicole bohn, who will give us our directors report. See if we can organize the microphone for a moment here. Try to get a little closer. One second, please. Thank you cochair albers, and thank you everyone who is following along on sfgovtv today. Im nicole bohn, the director of Mayors Office on disability and first i want to thank our colleague from the Veterans Affairs commission, mary murphy for helping us in the clerk role today while we have folks traveling and away so welcome mary and thank you very much for your help today. So, todays report will be posted following this meeting to the mod website at sf. Gov mod. You can also engage with this report by calling us directly at 4155546789 and there is quite a bit in this months report so i do encourage folks to seek out this version, but i will give you some highlights today. First of all, in terms of legislative updates, since our last meeting in april, the Affordable HousingNeeds Assessment this council heard about in february was referred to Public Safety and neighborhood services. That is referral number 221218 and that was the report as you recall that directed the disability and aging services, mayor office on housing and Community Development, the planning department, the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, and mod to look specifically at the needs of people with disabilities and old er adults. This item was heard as part of the april 27 meeting and was filed, and we do encourage the council to continue to monitor this item, and consider periodic updates around how that effort is proceeding. Secondly, resolution 230269, was heard just earlier this week honoring judy human n and the un indiscernible of 1977 which enacted federal disability rights legislation and the resolution passed with recommendation as amended and is now w the Mayors Office and it directs public works to install a commemorative plaque in honor of judy humann in the disability rights protest. This will be the first public recognition of a disability leader in San Francisco history and because of that, i really do encourage the council to work with Mayors Office on disability to make sure we support an accessible instillation of this very important commemoration. The next item that i will highlight today is moving to federal legislation. So, as Council Member sassouni mentioned last month, the air carrier access Amendment Act of 2023, senate bill 545 and house of representative bill 1267, these identical bills require the department of transportation to seek consultation from the access board and redefine minimum accessibility requirements that have been needed for a long time, including, but not limited to, the way that equipment is handled, indiscernible captioned and audio description of Inflight Entertainment and safety communications, visual displays. It also speaks to appropriate stowage of assisted devices, wheelchair, accessibility of all gates, ticketing areas, Customer Service desks and software and websites and mod and the San Francisco airport are in the process of drafting joint support letter for this federal legislation, and then for those in the public who may be interested, a sample of template addressing these issues specific to the Deaf Community may also be found at the National Association for the deaf website as well. I have a number of news and announcements of things that happened over the last month i also like to share. Thursday may 11, m od attended the office of Digital Equity connect San FranciscoAffordable Connectivity Program launch event. This Program Provides direct vouchers to qualifying households. San francisco residents with disabilities are encouraged see if you qualify. Information is Available Online and there is print information in the hearing room for folks or call the office of Digital Equity at 6286525888. Next tuesday the 17th, mod presented to the Public Health commission on remote Public Comment for non board public bodies. The council is encouraged to continue to monitor accessible remote Public Comment city wide, something people with disabilities are still having questions about, but i will say the meeting with the Health Commission was very positive and productive one. Yesterday thursday was global accessibility awareness day,b and mod hosted a great conversation called first person. A conversation about websites and the disability experience. We had over 90 participant who learned firsthand from panelists with disabilities about their experiences using websites and technology and thiswith their permission will be posted soon on the mod website. Another piece of exciting news, the coalition of mew unicipal office for persons with disability which includes San Francisco, new york, boston, saint lewis and others have been invited and will meet with the department of transporpitation, secretary indiscernible in washington dc on june 1 of 2023 to discuss our january request letter and collective accessibility agenda related to air travel transportation paratransit on demand services and autonomous vehicles. I provided the Coalition Letter as part of this report is this will be posted to the website as an attachment along with this report and happy to talk more about this at your june hearing if you like that and finally, to announce for the public june 26, 2023 is Public Comment day at the board of supervisor at the budget and appropriation committee. The Mayors Disability Council members may consider providing Public Comment on behalf of persons with disabilities as it the board considers the final budget allocations for the next fiscal year which starts july 1. A couple other items i wanted to bring to your attention i havent mentioned previously that you might want to consider for future agenda items are first, i suggested if you would like a public report from mod about what we have been up to for the past year and some of the challenges and successes. Happy to present that again. It has been about a year since we talked about those things. Also, some of you were involved in feedback related to dining reusable and upcoming Legislation Department of environment. I want to highlight that particular item for you as well. The rest i mentioned publicly previously so ill stop there for now and happy to entertain any questions the Council Members might have. Thank you. Thank you nicole. Any questions from the mdc . Yeah, i do. Thank you nicole. Reuseables from the restaurants. I think it is good to invite them and i just want to ask if we get any correspondence regarding Plastic Straws and that department handles all receipts that issue any sorry, happy to answer that question. So, to my knowledge we havent received direct correspondence through the Mayors Office on disability regarding Plastic Straws, and so if not since the original legislation that allows Plastic Straws for folks with disabilities in public establishments was amended and passed so that has been at least three years now i believe, so there hasnt been other correspondence im aware of since then, but certainly it is something if the council would want to learn more, i do encourage you to invite the department of environment to talk more about that, and the reusable issue. Thank you. Thank you alex. Thank you nicole. Anyone else from the mdc . Denise, are you there . Do you have any questions . It doesnt appear shes here yet. Shes here. I got a message from her. She is on mute. Okay. This is sheri in the meantime. Nicole, the air carewhat is it called . Air carrier access. Thank you. It is a lot of as. It is amazing what is in that bill. I read the letter that was written. It was so carefully crafted and when the public reads it you will be amazed what is contained in it. It is so comprehensive, and it is so long time coming. Whateveri will be talking to the council here. We definitely will support and will issue a letter in support whenever that needs to go. I dont know what the timeline is for any of the committees, how it has to go through the legislature, but i would not want to miss the date for support of those committees, so very very much needed. I know how long it takes the access board to do things that process, so however we can support that, we will do it. Wonderful. My understanding is they hope to enact changes as early as september, so the sooner the better and for the council and also for any other members of the public who might want to be supporting this act by writing to your Congress People and asking them to support this. That would be great. This is sheri again, i am wondering if it is needed yet for specific suggestions, because i made a laundry list already offor instance, labeling the row numbers even. Besides the obvious to me at least, the kiosks when you go up to the arrival counter and you want to just print your boarding pass independently, trying to find the gate as you are going down the long hallway where all the grates are on each side and dont which one is which. And then on the plane, what row am i at . If i go to the restroom, first finding the restroom and thenwhatever. But then getting back to my seat, finding the row and have to ask. Disturbing people. There is a lot of ideas that many people have. I dont know if they are asking even for those suggestions yet. There are specific implementations in the bill, so i would first recommend that you take a look at the bill, but im happy tomod is happy to work with the council on any other kinds of comment and figure that out with you in terms of howwhat is the best way to proceed here and certainly i want to talk more specifically before we go to dc, which is in a week. So, lets talk soon. Thank you. Thats great. Yeah, and very very happy to see another attempt to straighten out the issue of what is a Service Animal and what is not. I dont know how many times this has to be defined or examined, but hopefully once and for all this can do it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate your engagement. If we are ready to move on we are going to move on to discussion item, and this is on escooter Safety Campaign, and this is going to be presented by kate toran and mona chui, sorry if i got your nameplease tell me if i pronounced it wrong. And they are from the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. Good afternoon. Im kate toran and copresenting with my colleague mona chui. Thank you. Mona is remote and im in person and we have either the preezentation on a thumb drive or mona can share her screen if there is any preference. John said they already upload the file and going to show. On the computer already. Great. Thank you, john. It is it scooter presentation. Thank you, john. Great. Thank you. Wait a minute for that to get loaded and ill introduce myself with my title and kate toran, the director of taxies access and Mobility Services for the sfmta and very happy to be copresenting with my colleague mona chui, who is a data analyst and who is also our resident artist and Graphic Designer. Mona will be copresenting with me and talking about phase one of our scooter Safety Campaign. And, we are also joined by alex murray and he is with the scooter Evaluation Team and well get into that as we go through the presentation. Thank you for making time for us on your busy agenda to hear about scooters. Ill provide a brief update about the Scooter Share Program including the Program Evaluation currently underway and mona will fill you on phase one of the scooter Safety Campaign and we are excited to share this with you and to get your feedback on phase two which is a upcoming phase of the Safety Campaign. When we were last before you this past november talking about scooters, we let you know that sfmta at that time was planning on engaging a consultant to do a Program Evaluation and so, happy alex murray is here today from the consultant, faren pierce and the evaluation is underway and happy to share the status where we are at with the Program Evaluation and to hear your thoughts and comments. To give a brief update on where we are at with the Scooter Share Program, in april the mta board approved a one year permit Term Extension, so the current permits are good until june 30, 2024, and along with the extension of the permit term for the Scooter Share Program, the mta board also added specific sidewalk detection requirement tuesday the transportation code at that same time. Prior to this, the mta had not set specific requirements, because the technology is so new, but we had requested that applicants propose solutions to sfmta on how they would handle safe riding, safe scooter riding, and since they submitted those applications and we selected the existing permitees, mta has been working with the permitees to test and demonstrate and develop best practices on sidewalk detection technology, so this past april as mentioned the mta board approved the specific requirements now which are in the transportation code. We currently have two scooter share permitees, indiscernible last time we were before you there were three scooter share permitees, bird was the third. Bird decided to stop providing service in San Francisco in february, so currently we have spin and lime in the program. As i mentioned, the Program Evaluation is underway, and our overarching goals are to evaluate the Scooter Share Program and make sure that the program is helping mta meet our goals and then we are looking to see recommendations on any potential upgrades to the program. The evaluation includes a number of key elements, including look at sidewalk detection technology, Vehicle Design with safety in mind, the consultant also conducted a peer city review, there is a rider survey that will be underway shortly. We are also looking at the Adaptive Program. The consultant has reviewed a number of relevant data sets. There is actually a lot of very rich data related to scooter share on the mta website. We have dashboards that show trips, we have maps showing trip locations, we also have enforcement information related to citations, complaints and we have those mapped as well, but the consultant has been reviewing in addition to the publicly available data sets, there is a number of other types of data they have been reviewing inclusioning collision data, travel data, monthly reports. The rider surveys that will be coming out soon will be available in spanish, chinese and tugolic. Peer city interviews have been withwe expect the final report and recommendations to be out later this summer and so we look forward to hearing your comments at the end of our presentation, and now im going to pass the baton to my colleague, mona chui and shes going to fill us in on phase 1 of the scooter Safety Campaign. Thank you kate. Hi, this is mona. I have been working with sfmta all most 5 years and im very grateful for the opportunity to do the Graphic Design campaign. The scooter Safety Campaign start may through july this year. We are consolidating the feedback from the public, including the Disability Council last november. Riding a scooter should only be fun when it is safe. The Design Concept using eye catching visuals for the young demographic. Phase 1 we focus on the top three golden rules to improve scooter safety and we want to remind the public what is legal scooter riding. The first one, riding on the sidewalk is illegal. I use a rabbit that rides in the bike lane and everybody is happy. The rabbit rides on the sidewalk which will scare pedestrians and may hit the vulnerable pedestrians like the elderly turtle that falls down. The second Design Concept is how a scooter cannot exceed 15 miles per hour. I use a tiger and stopped by the bear police. The third design is about double riding, which is illegal and dangerous. Just like the poor little rabbit falling off the scooter crying for help, so dont put your loved one in danger. One scooter for one people only. Next slide, please. We are working with the sfmta Communication Department for the media channel, including muni on the exterior banner and interior. The digital display in the central subway. Also we are hosting the block and social media. We are providing poster and postcards to hand out at Public Outreach events. We have qr code scan to indiscernible scooter complaints and back of postcard with a qr code. We are working with the sfpd on scooter safety. From january last year to march this year, there were 117 warnings and 151 citation issued to scooter riders. So, we will continue the campaign into the next phase 2 and i will turn it over to kate. Thank you. Thank you mona. So, for phase 2 of the campaign, we are starting to develop concepts now and hoping to collaborate with the mayor Disability Council on additional key safety messages and the scooter Safety Campaign is to address all scooter safety and all scooter riders with the Scooter Share Program and those riders we have a lot of enforcement tools and we work with the permitees, but for individuals who ride private scooters, we have less ability to enforce and so the intention of the Safety Campaign is to get the messages out broadly for all scooter riders. For phase 2, what we like to do is to collaborate with the mayor Disability Council if there is interest to develop additional key messages and then also explore developing Public Service announcement videos. We are really excited to see the shared spaces video that directed bohn shared with us and we think that is a really great model and so we are here today to ask for engagement and collaboration with us on this phase 2. Let me see if i missed anything. What we are thinking is establishing a Small Working Group where we could discuss script development, safety messaging and maybe recruiting local talent like the shared spaces video so that is something we are excited to hear back from the council on today. So, hand in hand with the scooter Safety Campaign, mta is focusing on building out the safe riding and parking infrastructure for scooters and bikes and know later on your agenda you will hear from our colleague Christopher Kidd who will talk about the active Community Campaign and this is a important effort and we see it as part of the Safety Campaign, a lot of feedback we hear is, mta, if you dont want us to ride on the sidewalks with our scooters, please make sure we have more bike lanes, so that is very important to us, it is very important for us to hear from the community, and mta has been committed and has been working on adding additional bike racks. There are 3,000 bike racks installed over the past couple years, and the scooter permitees actually pay a rack fee to support the addition of new bike racks in the city and there are about 11,000 bike racks city wide. Mta has been expanded bike lanes over 45 miles added in the past few years and again, my colleague Christopher Kidd will tell you more about the active Community Plan and all the exciting work happening there. As we presented at the meeting in november and as we discussed before the scooter permit terms and conditions require an Adaptive Program and the adaptive devices have to comprise at least 5 percent of the onstreet fleet, and they have to be available for reservation through the app. In addition to the onstreet fleet requirement, there is also a complementary Adaptive Program and both spin and lime participate in the adaptive Complementary Program and that allow said them to test additional features and then offer device said for longer rental periods and those are offered for free for the community to test out. As part of testing out additional features and i mentioned testing as part of sidewalk detection, because these devices are fairly new for this type of use, there is also been testing of adaptive features to try to understand what safety features, what balance features meet the needs of a variety of riders, and so this past january the team at mta tested adaptive devices out in the field with students and teachers from the sf access program, and there is a great blog post written by our colleague at mta maddie indiscernible and with more details about types of features tested and the feedback, so it is a iterative program, it is a iterative process we are learning as we go, again a lot of this is new, the technologies are new squl best practices are unfolding. So, i think that is it for our presentation today and we are happy to answer questions and take comments. Again, we do have alex from faren pierce to hear specifically about the Program Evaluation. Okay. Thank you so much kate. Thank you mona. And at this time, we are going to move to Public Comment. That is correct. Thank you. We welcome Public Comment on this item. If there anyone in person here with us, if you step 250 the podium if you like to comment. It doesnt look like we have anyone in the room. And control room, is there anyone on the remote side for Public Comment . One caller. There is one caller. Okay. Please go ahead. Please unmute the caller. My name is francisco decosta, and from time to time i Pay Attention to what is being discussed about the Disability Community, and the outreach has to be done and what segment of the population that is left out are the homeless. The many homeless who are in wheelchairs. Mta should do something about this too. Talk about the scooters on the street, but have those in the wheelchairs move from one place to the other. And also, we have to have a mechanism where we offer the outreach in various languages, and before i stop, i want to make it very clear that we may have a day for Public Comment, but after every agenda item, Public Comment is important. It is sack risanct so Public Comment isnt a joke. We the people in any democracy have a voice to stand up and speak. The Disability Community canyou can go to any other city, but we have had president s like fdr and others who fought for the community that is physically challenged or mentally challenged and grateful for that work. Im 75 years old. I was part of that movement, not only the United States but all over the world. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comment. Is there anyone else on no more callers. Okay. Now well move to comments from the council, fallowed by mod staff. Anyone from the council have any comments . Okay, helen. Hi. Thank you sfmta for the presentation and all your good work around the issue. I know it can be complicated and lot of different interest. Curious though, who is that campaign that Safety Campaign aimed at, the one with the cartoon animals . Are we talking about children riding scooters on the sidewalks . Its aimed at all riders, sothe graphics are intended to be catchy and eye catching for the younger demographic, but it is really aimedthose are important messages aimed at all riders, so thats the intention and the follow up with the phase 2 is think about how can we continue getting those messages out in different formats and forums. Okay. Because, my understanding as a parent of young kids is that children on scooters are allowed on the sidewalks, much like the exception for biking on the sidewalk. Is that an incorrect understanding among parents in San Francisco . If we are talking about electric scooters, like powered scooterssqulrks we are not. You are talking kick scooters . Yeah, kids dont ride a motor scooters. The kick scooters are separate and apart. We are talking about the electric powered scooters so on the images we put in the battery back to make it clear these are the electric powered scooters and often the state law gives the maximum speed limit of 15 miles an hour, but a lot of those go faster, so that is what we are talking about with the campaign. Okay, because i did notice you made the distinction of motorized scooters, which in my opinion i like to see any future ad campaigns aimed at the adult 20 something male who i see riding on the sidewalk on motorized scooters speeding in San Francisco. I dont know if there has been any analysis of who is fined or stopped in any of the enforcement activities, but i think thats our demographic of who needs to get the message, if we are looking at what people are seeing on the streets. Thank you. Sure. Thank you. Alex, any comments . Yes. Thank you. Couple questions for you kate and mona. One is that, i notice you give some numbers withif there is any relationshipdo you guys have those data or just that is one question. The second question i have is that, with enforcement, this is a tricky subject to discuss is thatthey can not stop using scooters, but again, talking about enforcement, there is a thing that we can do for some San Francisco to enforce the law. I just want to ask you to touch on how mta enforcing the rules with regards to users. The last thing is about the meeting on these two companiesi know that 15 miles per hour, but i just want to know from the status and analysis how many of those are not only riding on sidewalks, but leaving them in the sidewalk. Okay. Great. Thank you. Taking notes to make sure i got the questions. Thank you. Thank you. So, those are Great Questions. Ill start with the big issue that you brought up about private scooters and that you are spot on in that mta has very little Enforcement Authority over private scooter riders and that is why we are focusing on Safety Campaign and getting the messaging out as educational efforts and so thats really important to us, and then also enforcement manager who has been before you in the past, phil my colleague had a relationship with sfpd and we work in collaboration with sfpd because sfpd is the Proper Authority to stop private scooter rider if they are engaging in illegal activities such as riding on the sidewalk or such as riding faster then 15 miles an hour, and so mona shared some of the statistics that we receive from sfpd and mta has a work order with sfpd that includes a type of work and you notice that there is a lot of education happening from sfpd. They want to stop the behavior, not necessarily issue a citation, and so our mechanisms for dealing with private riders are to collaborate with sfpd to get out the safety messages and just to continue getting the word out. We did actually bridge some of the hard copies of the Safety Campaign postcards. Mona mentioned we had postcards. We do have hard copies and we are making sure when mta staff is going out and doing Community Outreach events that they have a supply of those postcards that they can get the word out as well, and for access, we have all the information that is linked on our blog with all the same safety messaging, so thats Available Online. In terms of the data, i think you asked about the data, and we doi mentioned in the presentation, we have a number of dashboards that are publicly available, and so mta staff can Issue Citations to Scooter Share Companies for improper parking, which we do and then can Issue Citations to the companies when the riders are riding on the sidewalk or riding improperly and so i will looki think i have that is what i was trying to ask is, if you have any numbers of those data in hand about how many of those are citations right now and what to do about it. Okay. Yes, i do have some numbers. Im looking at a presentation the mta staff gave at the mta Board Meeting in april when we requested the permit Term Extension so at that time when we looked at a snapshot of the program from july 2021 through march 2023, there had been a little over 3 million trips provided in the Scooter Share Program. The have been all most 19,000 citations issued and all most 11,000 311 complaints about the Scooter Share Programs so that gives a sense of the 3 million trips, 19 thousand suitations rchlt. These are infractions administrateb in nature. They are not moving violations, but this is for improper parking for the most part, some improper riding issued to the company and the complaints are about little less then 11,000. So, that gives youi will look at the presentation. I think i might have a little bit morelet me see what else i have, if you still are interested. I think it would be good to the public to know. I found it. You ready . Yeah. Okay. So, about 18 thousand impaurp parking citations issued. The fines that represents a little over 2 million in fines. The fine for improper parking was hundred dollars per citation from july 2021 through february 2022, and then in march 2022 it increased to 150. These will look different now. The mta recently established a fine Incentive Program to we are interested in the devices moved quickly because if they are blocking an accessible path of travel that is a certain so we are lowering citation amounts or allowing the permitees to pay less in citations if they need certain thresholds to move the devices more quickly. Back to the numbers, for improper riding, sfmta started issuing those citations to the permitees starting march 2022, midmarch 2022. It took a long time to figure out how to establish the authority for mta to issue those citations and sois that the bell . No. Go ahead. [laughter] go ahead. Okay. Continue. Okay. If you need to go quicker no. Go ahead. Okay. You got time. Okay. So, about 850 improper riding citations had been issued by the mta during that period, so from march 2022 to march 2023 representing about 125 thousand in fines and again, those were for a certain time period. Those citations are now 500 per citation. Good job. Yeah. I think does that answer all your questions . No, couple more. Didnt you make a notemy question . Yep, you had a question about the data on the tickets, which i think we just covered. Private users and enforcement. You had a question about the two companies and the 15 mile per hour maximum and if we have demographics on like whos doing the infraction. Yes. No, because mta issues the citation to the companies themselves, not to the individuals riding, so we dont collect that type of information. I guess my last followup question, the last question i have just want to ask about the companieswe have two companies right now lime andif there are these companies are repeating whats thewhat does mta have i think mta should think about anyif the company is repeatedlyespecially when it comes to accessibility and those devices on the streets. Yeah, it is really important and we do validate the data and we do have a really top notch Data Analytics team internal that mona is part of as well, mona chui who is presenting with me today, and they built a lot of tools for our Enforcement Team on the street and they also built tools for the permitees, and so through the use of these tools and online apps, when the Companies Move the devices they submit it into the app and so then we can track, so that does happen. There is a lot of automation in the system we built over the permit term. I guess my question is, what do you guyswhen it comes to renew the contract . If the companies is repeating thethe policy of the rules i see. What other further disciplinary action like if the companies are consistently out of compliance . Yeah. We are tryingwe have a lot of enforcement, 6 in the toolbelt and adding incentives what if you dont want to terminate the company . No, if there is a bad actor that is really egregious we would, and there are tools in the permit terms and conditions so there is the ability for the mta to samarally suspend so if we had a Company Running roughshot and it was danger to Public Health and safety to like the worst level, we could immediately pull the permit and then there is also progressive discipline, so there is the opportunity to revoke a permit. To samarally suspend and revoke. At this point we have two that are very engaged. We meet with them biweekly and they are interested in providing good service and work on rider accountability so we feel we are adding more incentives and we are seeing improvements in the service. Thank you very much. Thank you. Testing. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Those are Great Questions alex. Very important. I have one quick thing to add. So, for the campaign, i see no sidewalk riding. The speed limit. Dont double ride, and parking, where to park the scooter. Has any consideration been put into making sure or educating the users to possibly take note to the Traffic Signals as they fly through them . Especially the ones in the middlemidblock crossings, like as in the one i always cross at Market Street between 7th and 8th as im specifically crossing and scooter are just flying through that midblock crosswalk there. It seems there is absolutely no regard for Traffic Signals at that point. That is a great point. Glad you brought that up. Thats been a location of interest for us and we actually discussed that with sfpd and we are engaging in dialogue prior to the pandemic about doing some kind of outreach activity, safety messages at that specific location for the very reason you mentioned and then the pandemic came along and things went crazy. We have started reviving that conversation internally at mta and making notes here today and i think that would bemight be a great one for phase 2 of our Safety Campaign and if theres anyone who would like to participate with us like those real world experiences, i think will be really helpful, because fori think some of the riders, there is selfinterested like we all are and to ride in what feels the safest place to them and may not be mindful of how their actions are impacting others, so having those real world stories to bring the safety messages home, i think will be really important. Fantastic, i appreciate that. I think this brings us to the end of our time. My goodness, how could i forget the mod comments, mayor office of disability . It is okay, i will be brief. Nicole bohn. Sorry. I are think is my mic on now . Okay, thank you very much. This is nicole bohn speaking, mayor office of disability. Thank you kate and colleagues for being here today. As the Council Knows and kate knows, very personal issue for me due to my own injury and so thank you to the council for continually bringing visibility to this topic and helping kate and everyone be held accountable and also do more, which we have been so thank you. And i will also support sheris comments in that the midmarket crossing, which is right across from the Civic Center Bart elevator and also home to the lighthouse and mayor office on disability, definitely still a issue. Also with the bikeicals bicycles by the way, it may be time to reeducate the bicyclists especially during heavy commute times where it can be really tricky as more of us are thankfully returning to offices. I just want to express the mayor office on Disability Support for any other kind of public psa kind of messaging. We have found that the shared spaces psa is very well received. Thank you to Council Members madrid and albers for starring in the video. It has really been effective. That leads to my question before we break which is, what are some of thedo you know yet what some of the indicators will be that this messaging you are rolling out is working . And what measures are you going to be using towards that . Thanks. Thank you. So, noted again on the midmarket issue. I will bring this back to the team. In advance in prepping for the meeting we were anticipating the question of how do we measure effectiveness. It is not easy to measure on this type of Safety Campaign, so i think that is a question well just have to keep noodling on internally. We feel like it is so important to get the word out even if at this point there is not a direct methodto measure. We would look at different vision zero data, crash data but we couldnt tie it back to the Safety Campaign and trying to target a survey to people that may have seen the saturday messages and then change behavior just gets really tricky, so at this point we dont have the perfect method to measure, and we are committed to continue doing this and continue thinking how do we measure effectiveness, but thankfully because we have such talented staff internally, mona and her artistic skills and Graphic Design and our communications team, it doesnt cost us a whole lot to put a Campaign Like this together. Thanks for that. Again, i want to express my support. I really do hope we can figure out how we can figure out if it is working. I think that measure is really important, so just to emphasize that again and last thing im wondering if you wouldnt mind if you have it, if you could just say for the public, where that dashboard link is in case people want to look for it. Okay. Im looking to my colleague sitting here and hes going to take a quick look. I know we in the last presentation we gave in november we included in the link to the dashboard, so we couldwe all happy to resend it, but im 95 percent sure we included it in the presentation to the mayor Disability Council in november. If you have it and can reread it, that would be awesome. Sfmta. Com shared mobili ty dashbo ards. Thank very much. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. Thats the end of my comments. Thank you so much. Thank you again mona and kate. It was a great presentation. We look forward hearing from you now. It is now time for a break. We are going to take awe stick to the 15 minute break . Right on time. I was thinking that too. If we can make it in 10. Everybody, be back at 2 25. Lets go for it. Thank you hello everybody. Welcome back to the Mayors Disability Council meeting. Hope you had a good break. Okay, we are going to continue with a presentation. This is a discussion item about the active communities plan. This is a update on their outreach. The disability outreach, and to present this is going to be Christopher Kidd, from the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. Hey christopher, how are you . Hi, good afternoon. Thank you everyone for having me at mdc today. One second. Go ahead chris, sorry i wanted to make sure we could see you and we can. Sorry about that. Go ahead, please. Thank you nicole. Good afternoon to everyone. Commissioners and public attending. My name is Christopher Kidd a complete streets planning with sfmta and im the project manager for the active communities plan, which is San Francisco first city wide bikeplan update since 2009, which is quite a long time. I did present at mdc back in november but i wanted to come back to you all to share what we have been doing since then and what is coming up, and really engage with the mdc on how we can best bring the Disability Community into this discussion and create a plan thats really representative of their needs. So, i have a presentation i can put up on screen. There we go. Full screen here, as i present. So, today i wanted to give a update on the active communities plan, what it is and what we have done. As mentioned the active Community Plan is the first city wide bike plan update since 2009, that means it will represent a 10 to 15 Year Investment plan for the agency. Once it is adopted. Not just infrastructure but policies and programming as well. It will include a new proposed network for what we call the active Transportation Network. We call that for a specific reason and in this plan differs from a traditional bike plan in two specific ways. The first is we want to really be inclusive of all devices that can use the bike network sot that means not just scooters and e scooters and skateboards and e skateboards but power chairs and adaptive bikes and adaptive scooters and other electric device said that can improve mobility for people with disability. The other way this is different then a traditional bike plan, we are trying to center our work within equity priority communities in San Francisco and communities that had historical bad relationship with bicycle and bike projects and we want to insure that we are really centering the needs of those communities to help bridge all the gaps and barriers they experience to active transportation. This is a plan that will be adopted in the spring of 2024. We have a caltrans Planning Grant for this project with matching funds from proposition k from the sfcta. Christopher, this is nicole, im sorry to interrupt, if the control room can move the interpreter bubble to the right. We had a request for that. Thanks so much nicole, i can wait until that is taken care of. I think that is better. I think so. Great. Please continue. Thank you. Thank you. I also want to briefly touch how the active Community Plan fits into larger city goals and projects. So, right now the city is in a process of developing a update to its transportation element, which is a piece of the city general plan, which is supposed to dictate the policy for how the city is run. The active Community Plan will once adopted fit inside that transportation element which well look at transportation in a comprehensive level for all modes and we have a lot of work that has gone on feeding into the active Community Plan. First is work on connect sf the long range visioning multimodal transportation including the transportation study and also the Investment Plan that the sfcta put together for 2050. We also have vision zero the policy to try to achieve zero serious and fatal collisions within the city and that is part of the Action Strategy the mta updates every 2 years and also have adopted city of San FranciscoClimate Action plan and the complementing roadmap is how sfmta contributess to the goals so those things set the stage or feed into what the active Community Plan needs to accomplish and represent. We have existing programs and guidelines, specific to Disability Community that we want to make sure we are calling out and we are lifting up and incorporate into the work and the first is the guidelines for accessible Building Blocks for bike facilities which is a series of design guide lines to insure bike facilities can retain accessible curb space for people with disabilities and especially when we design parking protective bike lanes we do so in a way that accommodate access and vehicle loading needs. We also have as you heard just from kate just now our scooter share permitting and program work, including our mechanisms to enforce better behavior, but also to introduce adaptive scooter programming. I lastly, we have our borp program the adaptive bike Share Program made permanent and now going to be available in both Golden Gate Park and along great highway which we are excited about and hope to expand in the coming years. To briefly go over the plan goals for the active Community Plan, first foremost advance equity and increase mobility for those the most sus ceptable for transportation challenges. Also support safety for all the road users specifically through the vision zero work. Support Climate Action. We have our goal of 80 percent low carbon trills by 2030 and the city of San FranciscoClimate Action and the active Transportation Network can contribute towards that goal. We also want to support access for all residents and so that is a wide range of needs where people experience different kinds of barriers to access the active Transportation Network, whether comfort or education or affordability or parking. There is a lot of different barriers. We also need to deliver real results. We have urgency behind our work and we need to create a better safer more accessible city and we cant have a plan on the shelf. And lastly, we need to work on developing new approaches. We need to figure how we can develop and deliver projects more quickly and effectively, but we also need to develop new approaches how we work with communities in developing projects that people feel are really supportive of their needs and their values. Along those lines, we have commitment working in the equity priority communities. We developed our grant application, in partnership with 5 Different Community based organizations and equity priority communities and have them inform our work from the ground up and they are equal partners in this work and these communities we are working within are in bayview hundreder point, the mission district, outer mission, exsels polk, tenderloin, Western Addition fillmore, soma and outreach work through one of the subconsultant interethnicu. Just as brief christopher, hisorry, if you could please slow down just a tad that would help the interpreters. Absolutely. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. So, to reiterate what the active Community Plan represents and will produce is it create a 10 to 15 Year Investment plan focus on 4 areas. The first is a new network so a new proposed network for active transportation facilities, bike lanes, protected bike lanes, neighbor ways, slow streets and include recommendsations for parking and facilities. Not just bike parking but also for other types of devices. Do we need to provide charging facilities for electric devices . How do we create supporting facilities so people have access to those options . We also need to create programmatic recommendations around things like education, around creating supportive events like things like sunday streets, and partnerships with other city agencies and organizations within different communities. Lastly, we also will create a set of policy recommendations, and that is for where we can use and leverage policy to help improve people access to active transportation, things like how we do regulation of our scooter share and bike share permits. How we conduct Transportation Demand management. How we work with developer Jz Development to provide facilities and investment to help improve active transportation in the communities. And so to briefly touch over what we have been doing so far, we launched our Public Outreach process in january of this year. Well do Public Outreach engagement through january next year, and to date we reachedat this point probably closer to 2,000 residents in this slide it says 1500. We also have a commitment to all our project materials being available in english, chinese, spanish and filipino. So, in addition to that, complementing that, the outreach work we have done bethe Disability Community so far is we have representatives from the Mayors Office on disability on our Technical Advisory Committee which meets about every 2 months to inform how we do the project work. A presentation at the mayor Disability Council november last year and in march we held two separate events, one with light house for the blind and one with the senior Disability Working Group to get direct input from the Disability Community. In addition to that, just by matter of who showed up our work with Community Partners and equity priority communities had very strong representation from folks with disability. So through those events we were able to get really good direct input from people on the specific challenges they face in those communities. In addition to our Public Outreach, we also done a wide range of analysis. The link on the top right of this slide goes to a interactive web map that we have that shows off a bunch of different analysis we have done. We is been able to map out todays existing conditions for the bike network and also where every bike rack is located throughout the city and a few other things. Weve conducted a analysis to analyze the perceived level of comfort or stress someone experiences on every street in San Francisco, which we have been able to map for every street, but also for mapping for todays bike network. We have done analysis of mode share of where people are living, who commute to work by bike or scooter. We also have done an analysis of collisions involving bicycles or scooters. The map in the bottom left shows a color coded the different types of collisions that we mapped. The blue representing bicycle car collisions, the green representing what we call a solo fall when a bike or scooter rider falls off of their device and injures themselves, and the pink representing collisions with pedestians. In addition to that, we have been able to map where unreported collisions are taking place because we get data from sf General Hospital for collisions that are not reported through a Police Report and because of hipaa rules we are not able to show those locations exactly, but been able to mape the neighborhoods in which the collisions are taking place most frequently. We also looked at volume data for micro mobility users so for escooter and ebike users map the streets they ride on most frequently as well as which bike share stations have the most activity. Lastly, we have been able to model trips for people riding on bikes and scooters and looking at within the city network, within the bike network, where are the most trips taking place and where are they not. And so christopher, this is nicole, one last time i thinkif you wouldnt mind very briefly, because not everybody can see the colors on the map, can you just speak to the concentration a little bit . It looks like a lot of the activity is concentrated to me in the northeast of the city, but if you could speak to that a little that would be helpful. Absolutely. For the Network Analysis map and i highly encourage those who are able to explore the map online, because there is many more ways to look at the analysis and data, but yes we certainly have seen that for the model data we have for trips, is we see a really high concentration of trips in and around the Downtown Core in the mission and soma. We also see a high volume of trips on streets like jfk and Golden Gate Park, and there are some kind ofsome streets in the city southwest that also have comparatively high volumes, but we largely see fairly low ridership volumes in the city south and southeast neighborhoods. I think that that largely corresponds to neighborhoods that are relatively flat and neighborhoods relatively close to downtown. So, last to talk about what we are doing right now, we are currently in what we call, phase 2 of a four phase outreach process for the calendar year. We have a survey that is out and live right now that will be available through july 31. We have a link here on this slide and also available on the website and i can share it through the chat on this meeting. We have since the start of may, because we are now in midmay, we have over 30 outreach events on the calendar across the city. These are events that are both online and in person, and really what we are seeking is to understand peoples needs, their barriers and the amount of comfort they need to feel safe riding a bike, a scooter, using a wheeled device and so really we are focusing on understanding what the people need to be able to bike scoot or roll more and what type of streets make people feel comfortable or safe enough to use active transportation. The type of things we are asking to identify needs and barriers is we are asking if people need better information like more wayfinding signage, or access to route apps on things like phones or computers. We also are asking people about different avents and celebrations. Things like sunday streets or this is a photo of the norcal ride with 400 folks in a big group ride that started in the mission. We also have questions about education and enforcement and do people need additional Education Opportunities or information about biking or scooting . Do people need more enforcement and if that enforcement related to car drivers, related to scooter users, bike riders. We also have questions about parking needs because parking can be a very critical barrier to being able to use active transportation. I think of People Living in sro housing in the tenderloin where they dont have room to store a bicycle in their apartment, and if they dont have overnight parking option, they dont have access to active transportation. We also have questions about affordability and access. Are people able to afford these different types of devices . Would they want to use them if they could afford them, if there was a Rebate Program, would people want to buy a e bike or sit down electric scooter . We want to have questions how we design our facilities and it could be as simple as putting a scooter stencil on a bike lane but could be something much more complicated and inclusive how we redesign our bike facilities so that they can be inclusive and welcoming to the broadest range of potential users. I think that i would think many people would agree that the current bike network is not friendly or accessible to much of the Disability Community, but i think that there is a opportunity through this plan for us to think about what does a friendly Accessible Network look like for people in the Disability Community where they feel safe and welcome and invited and included in those type of facilities. To that effect we have on our survey the opportunity for people to rank and rate different types of bike facilities that are in San Francisco today where people can rate their comparative level of comfort or stress and using those different types of streets and facilities and really what we want to do is to understand what are the types of streets that people would actually be willing to ride on so we can recommend those type of projects, because the last thing we want to do is build a bike lane no one uses. In terms of what is next for our project, we are in the middle of phase 2 where we are looking to get input on peoples needs and barriers and the relevant comfort they experience on different types of streets. In the fall of this year, starting in september we will be bringing draft recommendations to the public, so a draft network, but also draft programmatic and policy recommendations and we will spend all the fall into the winter working with the public around how do we change and update those recommendations to reflect peoples needs. In the winter this year we will bring our draft plan to the public, and we will then be in the spring next year be moving that draft plan to our final plan for adoption with the sfmta board. In terms of speaking with mdc today, i think we want to really get input from you all about first of all how we can make active transportation more inclusive and accessible and welcoming to people with disability, and especially how we can design the active Transportation Network to be a asset to people who have a disability. I think we also want to get input on how we can overcome other barriers to participation for people with disability. It is not just the network, it is Everything Else around being able to access and use active transportation, and we also want to get feedback how we can continue engaging residents. I know that there has been a lot of change in turnover with some of the key organizations with folks like fda and lighthouse, and i think one other thing that i dont have on this bullet point list is we are also convening a what we call a policy working group of members of the public to help inform and get into the deep details of the active communities plan and we would really love to have representation from the Disability Community within that group. Our attempt to solicit folks for that have not been successful yet but anybody attending the meeting today who have interested or have recommendations we have our first meeting next thursday and will be honored to have somebody represent this community in that working body. And so, with that, that covers our presentation for today. I would be thrilled to take questions and comments from you all, and i would be happy to leave up the question slide in case people need to refer to it. Okay. Thank you very much christopher. At this point, we are moving to Public Comments. First in person if there are any, which i dont think there are, and now towe do have Public Comment . We have people in the room. We have people in the room thank you marry. We will open the discussion for Public Comment. Well start with those joining in the room and also go to those joining remotely. For those using a tablet or smart phone webex app click on the three horizontal dot icons and click raise hand. We will recognize you when it is your turn to speak. You may also use qa feature on the top part of the video after touching the screen. If using a desk top or laptop computer raise hand and q a icon are at the bottom of the screen. Joining by phone, dial star 3 to indicate that you like to make a comment and we are prompt when it is your turn. Well start with inperson and i dont see anyone inperson, so control room, is there anyone remotely who would like to make a Public Comment . No remote Public Commenters. I think at this time, well close Public Comment for this agenda item and move to comments from the Council Members. Okay. Any mdc Council Members that have comment . Alex. Thank you. Thank you chris for coming in and telling us about this. Focusing on key errors in the city. People using the scooters or bikes. Any ideas on that . The second thing is, when it comes to information on what types of sidewalks or devices that people might have or want to use, and how do you guyshow do you study them and have some amazing walking groups, but are there any things that you can share with us today and the last thing is, i would offer my time to doto join you when it comes to walking group, so you can please pass that information to me and to some of the Council Members might be interested in that. Go ahead. Thank you. Yes, i will absolutely share through nicole and debbie information for our policy working group, and if there is someone able to participate from the mdc that will be fantastic, that would be wonderful. I think there were two ort questions other questions for our plan for information and what we are doing with devices that might be on the sidewalk. I think one of the things we really want to pursue through active communities plan is how we create the type of network where scooter riders and other people using devices on the sidewalk feel safe and comfortable enough to use the network instead, and part of that work means we need to look how we design facilities in a different way, because scooters are very different from bicycles. They have much smaller wheels, people end up having different sight lines because they are higher up or lower down, depending on the device they are using, so they can see things differently and they are also more or less visible to other road users. These are all things we need to think about when we design the bike facilities so they can be not just safe, but also comfortable and intuitive for use and so i think thats one element, but we also need to look at what are other Enforcement Mechanisms to make sure people are behaving in safe and appropriate ways, and i think some of the work kate is doing speaks to that, but there is also a discussion to be had around what other enforcement we need to be looking at to create not just safe bike lanes but Safe Sidewalks as well. And then, if you wouldnt mind repeating the first question, i think it had something to do with families . So, the first question was, what is your plan when it comes to howbike lane or scooter lanes when it comes to neighborhoods . Areas you mentioned like in the residential i see. Areas that im sure people use the bikes and that. We dont hear anyfamily residential areas. Thank you. So, in addition to the work we are doing in our target communities with our 6 neighborhoods with our Community Partners, we are also doing city wide outreach work, so we are doing outreach work and events in every supervisor District Across the city, and we definitely want to make sure that we are reaching as broadly as possible across the city and when we do create our plan recommendations in september, that will be inclusive of the whole city. That wont just be for our target neighborhoods, that will be recommendations for the whole city and we want to continue engaging across the city on how those recommendations grow and change and better reflect community needs. We dont have any idea how to go about residential areas at this point . Am i correct . Well, weve been doing a number of outreach events in residential areas. We have been present at many farmers markets across the city. We have been organizing group rides in different parts of the city, and we have been doing Partnership Events with different organizations and Community Groups to give presentations in different areas of the city. Thank you. The last question i have is, when it comes to sidewalks, i think it would be good for how to engage the public to make sure that people using devices have some need to move to the side but be cautious on the safety and having someone with wheelchairs or with a cane allowing them to have room to pass. I dont know how to explain it, buti hope that makes sense . Yes, i understand, yes. We do need to work oni think it can be very scary when you are passed closely by somebody moving class. Not just carry, but dangerous and think we need to focus on how we create the conditions where that doesnt happen and also work on how we educate people to be aware of that. Thank you. Thank you alex. This is sheri, we are running time, but i have a quickthis is more a observation that just came to me. If i understand this correctly, there are scooter riders that have fear when they are riding in the bike lanes, is that something you said christopher . I think thats something that we heard often. I think the other thing we heard is that due to pavement quality with those smaller wheels that people end up prefering to ride on the sidewalk. Therefore, they ride on the sidewalk where it is notthey are not allowed to ride on the sidewalk. Okay. You know what, in my opinion, maybethey shouldnt ride the scooters. If they dont feel safe riding in the streets, then what right do they have to put people in danger when there is children, when there are people with disabilities, when there are seniors, what right do they have to go flying down a sidewalk and put pedestrians in danger and that is my opinion. They should not ride the scooters at all. Thank you. With that, i thrink well move to the Mayors Office on disability staff, nicole. Do you have any comments . I do. That is a hard act to follow. Thank you for coming christopher, we really appreciate it. The mayor office on disability is part of the Technical Advisory Group on this effort and we appreciate being included, which we have been from the beginning, which is nice, so i want to say thank you for thinking of us first, instead of after problems arise. It is very refreshing for us so thank you christopher. The survey is live now, correct . Thats correct. And it will be open through july 31. Im sure yousent this to us before, but if you could along with your policy working group information, resnd the information about the survey. I want to make sure that we refresh and send it out again to our distribution, if you wouldnt mind. Absolutely. That would be great. And then i would say, in terms of other things that kind of come into the Mayors Office on disability around this issue, there is kind of three topics that just mention briefly. One is theres a lot of desire for some sort of return to a topographical map that helps different pedestrians wheelchair riders and other folks to understand what the hills and terrain is like in San Francisco so i want to voice that as something mod heard and heard it again recently. Also, desire for i know this has come up, accessible biking in the bike lanes are not really wide enough. You do have accessible bicycle to use it, so i know that has already come up but wanted to say that again publicly. Lastly this and this might be newer, we are anticipating that finally after many years the public right of way accessibility guidelines will be adopted during the administration. We are getting very close. However, unfortunately the guidelines dont address getting to the curb in multiple conflicts between bike lanes and curb ramps and parking and so i just wantedi know that weve mentioned that we are using getting to the curb principles, but wondering if you can briefly speak to how we are reminding everyone in the city that thats a important priority for us, because unfortunately the pro ag isnt going to help in terms of a guideline that comes out. Something we still need to work on federally. If you have any thoughts on that or willing to bring it back to your group, that would be great. Thanks again for coming. Thats all. Thank you. Thank you nicole. Thank you christopher for coming today. Thank you for your presentation and we look forward to more updates. Thanks so much. Okay, moving on. Next on the agenda is the sda advocacy budget agenda in advance of june 25 hearing date for the public to comment on the proposed city budget of the board of supervisors. We have the senior disability action report and of course to present that is jessica lehman. Thank you so much. I am honored to be here. Im jessica lehman, she her, executive director of disability action. There i am. indiscernible my microphone isnt on. Can you hear me now . indiscernible the captioner is hearing me it looks like. Okay. Wonderful. So, ill start over, jessica lehman, she, her the executive director of senior disability action. I am going to be leaving my position in about a month. One of my colleagues was going to come today and isnt feeling well but i know that senior disability action has worked for years with the mayor Disability Council and mayor office on disability so definitely looking forward to continuing that with other folks. So, i just wanted to start by the first slide says senior disability budget ask. It has my name and the senior disability action logo. Alright. Just wanted to share a little bit about sda. Recent work and wins. We have worked very hard and wanted to particularly thank the mayor Disability Council for your support in our work to insure Remote Access would continue to be a possibility for board of supervisors meetings. This is so important to members of our community who cant come in person, not only because of continued covid risk, but for all the reasons that it has always been a issue, transportation, health, a variety of things that come up that mean disabled people can participate more effectively own the phone then in person. So, we are really glad that is continuing in the board of supervisors we do need to continue to insure Remote Access in all of the other meetings that happen in the city. We also recently did a resolution at the board of supervisors for free wifi in city of San Francisco and they brought in the supervisors brought in executives from some of the Major Internet Service providers working to hold them accountable because of the money they make in the city. And lastly, masking is one of the other issues we continue to work on. Recently masking ended in most Healthcare Settings including in San Francisco putting disable people and older people at risk. Just want to share those. On the right side is a picturei was thinking i remembered it was like the bottom third of the screen that needed to be blank for captions and asl but think it changed. This is a picture of a bunch of sda staff and board and members at our general meetings which we have every month. Want to always invite seniors and people with disability to attend. This was a hybrid people some in person. This is us eating outside where it was safer and then we also had a option for people to join by zoom. Moving to the budget ask for this year. These are actually all about housing this year, because it is such a huge issue for seniors and people with disabilities in San Francisco. I just realizeit isnt a typo. We are asking the city to put in 500 thousand for a disability operating subsidy pilot, and we are really excited about this. So, seberal years ago we worked with Program Organizations to create senior operating subsidies, which is when you take a unit in what is called senior Affordable Housing, but we know many units that are called affordable are not actually affordable to People Living on ssi or Social Security or very low income. The idea of senior operating subsidies is to further subsidize those units to bring them down to 15 percent of ami or 25 percent of ami. This program has been very effective in the last few years and making units that are deeply affords that people can afford. We dont have enough so you see we are also asking for additional 4. 5 million for senior operating subsidies. Disability operating subsidies is a Brand New Program and so folks at the city often said, we cant do this because we dont have buildings that are set aside for Affordable Housing for people with disabilities the way we have for seniors. We had two answers to that. One is that there is no reason that we couldnt take other units that are set aside as affordable whether or not for people with disabilities and bring them down to a level deeply affordable and require somebody who is at that ssi level. We are not talking just about accessible housing, we are talking about people with Mental Health disabilitiess, people with chronic illness, a variety of disabilities where people need housing at a very deep subsidy to affords it. The second way we know disability operating subsidies can work is in a building where there are units designated for people with disabilities and we are excited about the civic center i imagine you all heard about. A new development the Ground Breaking is happening in a couple weeks i just heard. Near city hall. The kelsey is it name of the non Profit Housing partner that worked out this very creative way to do what they call disability forward housing. And so, we talked to them about the cost and so 500 thousand would cover 19 units to be brought down to 15 percent and 25 percent ami. We are pretty confident that if we can get this program started, everyone will see that it is going to be effective and we know we need it, so we hope it will lead to more. We are also asking for 3. 6 million more for portable rental subsidies for seniors and people with disabilities. Portal rental subsidies mean that somebody can use it not just in a certain building, but wherever they need. If somebody is in housing and they are having trouble paying it, maybe there is a rent increase, they can get a subsidy and if they move they can take that subsidy with them if they need to. And this is the same ask as homeless Emergency ServiceProvider Association who we work closely with. This is a program that has been very effective but every time subsidies are made available they get use up because the need is so huge, and we know once people have a subsidy, they stay there. People with disabilities who are living on ssi are very rarely able to get off that subsidy and pay market rate rent or even what is called affordable rent. So we need more funding for that. Lastly, we are asking for additional 5 million for sro elevator replacement. This has been ongo issue elevators in sro go out all the time. We know we have a highly disproportionate number of seniors and people with disabilities and particularly people with some kind of mobility impairment or chronic illness where it makes climbing stairs challenging. Living in sro. We not only need to repair elevators, but they are so old and this happens so often they need to be replaced and updated. And there was 10 million allocated last year that has not yet been spent to replace these elevators, and so that money needs to be spents but we dont want to stop there, we need to be adding money every year. Those are our priority housing asks. I also want to highlight other asks for disability and senior communities. Community alliance of Disability Advocates is echoing the senior disabilities action ask as well as the hespa for 3. 6 million for people with hiv and aids. There is a bunch of separate pots of subsidies for different communities. This is critical. Funding for Mental Health and safer consumption sites. I apologize i donts have a dollar amounts, but that is really important. And then, we are asking for 500 thousand to develop end ableism campaign. Folkerize excited about this. I dont have to tell this group that we need to do a lot of work to end ableism in San Francisco and everywhere, and we have been talking about the reframing aging campaign that the department of disability and aging Services Lead a few years ago, and we have been talking about kind of a corollary building a end ableism campaign and we got a lot of ideas but Public Awareness and events, and so we are looking for fundsing to get that started. Also, the coalition of Agency Service the elderly is asking for 400 thousand for Behavioral Health services at Community Centers like senior centers. We know that Mental Health issues are continuing to grow, inquluding among seniors and people with disabilities so we need to recognize that, and fund it. And then i also want to mention that senior disability action is part of the Budget Justice Coalition, which is a coalition of a lot of different groups of people from marginalized communities, not only people with disabilities and seniors, lgbtq people, people of color, low wage workers, et cetera et cetera, and the idea of the Budget Justice Coalition is we know this is a rich city and we are not going to allow one group needs to be pitted against another but we are putting forth a vision of a society where we can all have our needs met and that is the kind of society we need and so senior disability action also supports the overall ask of the Budget Justice Coalition and we hope you will as well. And ill stop for questions or comments. Wow jessica, thats a lot. Beautiful stuff. Okay, at this point we are going to move to Public Comment. Mary. Comments for the public for this item for those joining in person and remotely, if using a tablet or smart phone webex app click on the three horizontal dots, icon and then click on raise hand. We will recognize you when it is your turn to speak. You may also use q a feature in Webex Webinar to comment. It is located on the top part of the video after touching the screen. If you are using a desktop or laptop computer, raise hand and q a icons are at the bottom of the screen. If joining by phone, dial star 3 to indicate you like to make a comment and well prompt you when it is your turn to speak. Well start with inperson comments and i dont believe we have anyone joining in person. Control room, is there anyone waiting to comment remotely . No Public Comment remotely. Thank you. Turn to you chair. Okay. Do we have any mdc members that like to make a comment . Okay. Alex. Thank you. Thank you jessica for coming and im very sorry you are leaving. We would like to know where you are going and what is your next step . Before you takei just have a couple of questions regarding the presentation todayi just am curious on any updates onmaybe you can enlighten us of that information. Thank you, sorry i cant be at the microphone and see alex at the same time. First, as far as where im going and what am i doing next . I dont know yet. I wanted to be able to really focus on leaving senior and disability action as well as i could, and to not be kind of having to put time into what is next. Fortunate im able to take a little bit of time. I will still be around, very very committed to fighting for change in senior and disability communities, so you wont get rid of me. And then as far as updates from last year, that is a great point and i wish i thought to include what did we win last year and why are we asking for the same things. So, i dont have those figures in front of me, but we have gotten some additional money all most every year for senior operating subsidies and because of our work with mayor office of housing and Community Development, they were actually able to seek and secure additional funding from the state level for senior operating subsidies. Portable rental subsidies we have gotten small increase every year so we are just trying to keep growing that pot, and then mentioned for the sro elevator last year was the first year we had a big win getting the mayor to recognize how important that was and set money aside for elevator replacement and Capital Improvements in general, but disappointed the money hasnt been spent. Happy to share details later on the amounts of fundsing secured last year. There were also wins around funding for Digital Equity training and some other things. Can we followup on the elevatorsit hasnt been touched, but are there anything that you thought of from last time thatelevators are not working from the last time you came to us . Im not sure i fallowed. I guess my question is, the last time you came here there were complaints regarding the elevators, and you got 10 million to fix them and that 10 million hasnt been touched, so i guess the question is, if it hasnt been touched, are there any issues when it comes to accessibility on elevators . Okay, so if i understood right, ill tell you a little bit, tell me if this is helpful. The 10 million was actuallyit is not go toog senior disability action. I should have clarified. None of this is funding we request to go to our organization, it is money we are asking indiscernible i know. And so, our understanding is there was work to figure which department it was going to come out of and been going through the process in the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. I think there is some progress, but one challenge is that it is through the homeless Stability Fund oversight board, maybe recommendations and how the mayor chooses to spend money doesnt always follow what some of the other groups intend, and so it is something that we are continuing to fight. We continue to hear about huge access issues with elevators and sro and people are frustrated and are it is very hard and i imagine this is what you are getting atthe work is about bringing together senior and people with disabilities people directly effected who know what we need and changes we need in the community, so it is wonderful when the city responds and people feel like okay, that work was heard and it hatered mattered and when we dont see the change and cant say this building is now more accessible to people who live there, it is very hard for people to believe that the city cares about them and that they should keep fighting. I hope that city Decision Makers start to recognize that. Thank you. Thank you for the clarification and sorry you are leaving, but we hope to work with you in other capacities. Thank you so much commissioner. Thank you alex. Helen, would you like to take a question . Thank you. Thank you, appreciate all your good work over the years and your collaboration with this body and the Mayors Office on disability. Thank you for your presentation today. How can the mayor Disability Council help get your budget request approved . How can we be of assistance . What a wonderful question. There are a lot of different ways if you are willing to write a letter to the mayor and board of supervisors, encouraging them to fund these things, that would be wonderful. I think honesty inviting us to come today and sharing this is a huge step to invite members of the public to reach out to the mayor and to their supervisors to ask for these things, and i think with some of thesepart of it is this is a little more vague, but for you all to continue to talk about the importance of some of these issues. I was talking earlier today about one challenge that we face in terms of housing for people with disabilities is that the department of disability and aging services doesnt build housing and doesnt do housing policy directly, and then there is the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and department of homelessness and Supportive Housing who do all that work around housing, but are not necessarily focused on disabled people and seniors, and dont always understand exactly what our communities need and so i think for you all to be able to keep raising these issues and talking about what disabled people and why it is possible and why it is critical for the city to focus oen them is a huge way to contribute. Thank you. I just want to check with denise. This is denise, can you hear me . Im supposed to be unmuted, but i dont know. You are loud and clear. Sorry, didnt mean to yell. Thank you for checking in sheri. Appreciate it. Okay. Okay, so i have a comment. So, this is sheri. Some of these things seem so frustrating that whylike with the elevator thing. Im all most thinking should i start going to Elevator School with this 10 million just sitting there, it is like ill fix them. But i understand now what you just said about where the fundswhat department and everything, but and then it makes me think about well, if we are now going to ask for funding for housing for disabilitythe Disability Community, well, hopefully their elevators will be working. It just seems very frustrating how things work or dont work, andanyway, but i do love the idea and wondering jessica, has it been funded before for the vouchers, the ones that people with disabilities are able to take with them for subsidies when they move . Yes, so the portable rental subsidies was a pot of funding that we actually first gotgosh, i wont remember the year. It was some time precovid. I want to say must have been maybe 2016 or 17. It has been a little while. At first some folks in city departments said, this is not the approp we want to take, we dont think this is an effective way to make sure people have housing, and i get that one of the criticisms that i think we all share is that, this is money that is essentially going to private landlords and Property Managers when they are often charging more then they should, but the realty is, we have shown and i think it has been clearly demonstrated that it is an effective way to keep people housed and keeps people off the streets when they can pay their rent and when they know that that subsidy will be there to help them pay their rent. I want to also make a quick comment about Elevator School. Yes, you should absolutely go to Elevator School. I in the last few years have learned far more about the elevator repair world then i ever thought i wanted to, and there are so few companies that do it and so few technicians who are trained in repairing elevators and of course fewer that know how to repair the elevator said built in 1911 and so to have more people more companies, i keep thinking why dont more people go into this because clearly there is money there. But the other thing is, so, we did a study on conditions facing seniors and people with disabilities in sro that came out in 2012. Sound like a really long time ago now, and back then we knew elevator repair and replacement was a huge issue, and for years we couldnt figure what to do, because we knew it was so expensive to replace elevators. It got to a point where we just said, we have to get the city to spend this money. Yes it is expensive, but we are worth it. There is no way around it and it is only going to continue to be a issue. I think one role we all play is letting people know first that they there are lot more of us disabled people around then anyone realizes and sometimes things cost a lot to make them accessible and that is still worth it and that is effective now and decades. What about the new housing will the elevators work . Building a elevator now versus trying to repair one from literally a hundred years ago is totally different, so we can be assured that those new elevators will work much more effectively. Thank you. I just wanted to followup one little comment about having a portable voucher. One important aspect to that is, it gives us the ability to choose where we want to live, and not told this is the Affordable Housing for people with disabilities in this neighborhood on this street in this building, and only these units. Any time we are given the ability to choose is a big within. Win. Thank you for adding that. Now we move to comments from the Mayors Office on disability, nicole. Hello jessica. Thank you for coming today and thank you for the very robust discussion. I wanted to make twothree comments first. One, i have some ideas if the council is interested in how the council might be able to elevate the sro elevator conversation. If that is something the council would want to take on, mod is happy to help facilitate conversations with the right people to do that. Many years ago as jessica mentioned, we did have a sro elevator repair and Rebate Program that was moderately successful. It did some good things and then because of facilitation changing hands and other issues and it seems like this is one of the many things that just kind of we lost track of it a little during covid. A decision was made during the pandemic to get rid of the elevator repair program, knowing people were paying less attention. Thank you for reminding us. I do think though that theres are ways we can use the council to elevate no punt intended, the Elevator Program and mod is certainly happy to help with that conversation. Before you leave jessica, i really do hope we can have a conversation about that and see what we can do there. The other thing i want to mentionas you remember i mentioned in the beginning of the report, we had the hearing sponsored by supervisor stefani about the disability and older adult affordable Needs Assessment report, so a lot of the budget funding ask, i want to point out that a lot of that is also direct recommendation in the city report itself, and so there is a lot between what senior disability action and what Disability Advocates are asking for that is recommended in that report so i want to continue to encourage the council and senior disability action and your team and your the shoes that follow yours to really continue to track that, because i think we do have a opportunity now to really pair up some need and some requests with very concrete things in this very public report that there is a lot of interest in, so i just wanted to mention that as well. And finally, i wanted to say two more things. One is, mayor office on disability, i dont know if your interim leadership has been determined yet, but not yet. I encourage senior disability action to continue working with Mayors Office on disability. I alluded to this in the hearing regarding the commemoration for judith humann, was it this week . It was a while. It was this week. [laughter] and my point is, not to make light, but my point is, it takeswe need to Work Together with Disability Access as a community from inside the City Government and advocates. We need everybody in order to make all ofwe need to make work and that is one thing that jessica i think you really understood that in your leadership through your time with us so thank you very much and i hope that this partnership can continue, because it has been really invaluable to me and to the city and just so excited for my other city colleagues to learn even more about senior disability action moving forward and jessica, yes but also jessica and a whole lot of other people working in disability advocacy right now and so thank you and i am excited for the future and you have my public appreciation and hope that we can continue collaboration. If you want to work with the city thats okay with me. [laughter] anyway, so thank you very much jessica, thank you. Thank you so much for that director bohn, i really appreciate it and i particularly appreciate your comment about people may often know me from senior disability action, but it is a Community Organization and we got so many wonderful people not only staff and board but hundreds of Community Members active in the work, so please reach outd any time if you are not sure who to talk to after im gone. They will help you figure it out. Thanks so much for having me today. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay. Director bohn, do you know if there is any correspondence this month that needs our attention . No, there is not public correspondence for this month. Thank you for asking. Okay. With that being said, at this point we are going to move on to general comments. Mary. Thank you. Well open the meeting to general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public may address the council on items of interest to the public within the subject matter 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, unless 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. Reminder that the brown act forbids the council taking action or discussing items not appearing on the posted agenda, including those items raised at Public Comment. If you like response from the council, please provide your Contact Information by email to mdc sfgov. Org with subject line mdc comment reply request. Or you may call 4155546789. At this time well open to general Public Comment to anyone joining us in this hearing room. Jessica lehman again. I just wanted to make a couple announcements. First, i cant believe i didnt actually mention ways to get involved on budget advocacy, so one is we have a senior disability university about budget advocacy and if you are interested please email indiscernible tuesday afternoon, i 2 or 3 more sessions coming up. Tomorrowsorry, the other thing on the budget is that Public Comment day, which is one day that is just set aside for Public Comment on the budget is monday june 26. Looking for someone to correct me if thats not the right monday. It is definitely monday. That is correct. June 26, and we will have talking points about these asks. There are also hearings in advance, feel free to get in touch with any of us if you have questions at sd action. Org. Im not responsible for this, but excited tomorrow is a power soccer tournament in San Francisco. We think it might be the first ever power soccer tournament. It is the first at a rec and park facility. I saw a smile. It is the golden ducks i believe and it is a Gene Friend Recreation Center from 10 to 4. I used to pay power soccer. I dont get to play tomorrow but hopefully will see folks there. Thank you jessica. Okay. Are there any Public Comments online . We have no Public Commenters online. My goodness. Okay. Well, we are going to move on to the council. Does anyone on the council have any comments or announcements . Alex. Helen. Denise. Sheri. No thank you. I do not either. So, with that, i need a motion to adjourn. So moved. Okay. With that said, all in favor . Aye. We will adjourn. Thank you very much everyone. [meeting adjourned ] once i got the hang of it a little bit, you know, like the first time, i never left the court. I just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didnt have to ask twice. You can always find me on the court. [ ] we have been able to participate in 12 athletics wheelchairs. They provide what is an expensive tool to facilitate basketball specifically. Behind me are the amazing golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state led by its captain, chuck hill, who was a National Paralympic and, and is now an assistant coach on the national big team. It is great to have this opportunity here in San Francisco. We are the main hub of the bay area, which, you know, we should definitely have resources here. Now that that is happening, you know, i im looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that needs that these people are here for everyone. I think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as ablebodied, to be able to see and to try different sports, and to appreciate trying different things. People can come and check out this chairs and use them. But then also friday evening, from 6 00 p. M. Until 8 00 p. M. , it will be wheelchair basketball we will make sure it is available, and that way people can no that people will be coming to play at the same time. We offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusion programming, but this is the first time we have had our own equipment. [ ] everybody is happy today it is money day [laughter] well, thank you for being here im mayor breed and im here to talk a little bit about the next 2 fiscal years in our budget. Let me just