We have closed captioning. Thank you. All right. Well convene the Mayors Disability Council for friday september 18, 2015. Im cochair chip supanich and asking harriet wong to read the introduction. Good afternoon, welcome to the Mayors Disability Council, this friday, september 18, 2015. In city hall. City hall is available to provide wheelchairs and access. Wheelchair access at the polk street is provided via a wheelchair lift. Assistive listening device are available and our meeting is opening captioned and sign language interpreted. Our materials are available in large print and braille. Please ask the staff for assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this rooms sound system and for everybody act to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment. You may fill out a speaker card at the front of the room or call our line 14155549632. Staff will be available to handle those request at appropriate times. Our next meeting on october 16, 2015, in San Francisco city hall in room 400. Please call the Mayors Office on disability for further information or to request accommodations at 14155546789. Voice, 4155546799. Tty. A reminder to all of our guest today to speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captioner and interpreter. We thank you for joining us. Thank you. May we have the roll call. City clerk cochair supanich, present, senhaux excused. Kostanian excused. Harriet wong, roland wong. Can we have the reading of the agenda. Agenda item no. 1. Welcome introduction and roll call. Agenda item no. 2. Action item. Reading and approval of the agenda. Agenda item no. 3. Public comment. Items not on todays agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. Each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. Agenda item no. 4. Information item. Report from cochair supanich. Agenda item no. 5. Information item. Food nutrition and other reto sources for adults with disabilities. Information about low cost Resources Available in the city to address Food Security and other needs for adults with disabilities. Presentation by linda lau, nutritionist, department of aging and Adult Services. Office on the aeblging and jason adamek Intake Services manager, department of ageing services. Pmp Public Comment is welcome. Agenda item no. 6. Information item. Food security in San Francisco. A plan to increase Food Security in San Francisco by the year 2020. Presentation by an acquaintance and member of San FranciscoFood Security task force chief programs and Government Affairs officer, meals on wheels of San Francisco. Public comment is welcome. Item no. 7. Information item, understanding the links between Food Insecurity and health. Melodically tailored meals to individuals with critical, chronic illnesses are crucial to maintaining health. Especially to seniors and adults with disabilities. Nutrition is vital to the Health Stabilization across the communities served. Presentation by Simon Pitchford. Cochief executive officer, project open hand. Public comment is welcome. Break. The council will take a 10minute break. Item no. 8. Information item d. A. Transition plan Capital Projects for fiscal year 52016 an annual update on requested Capital Funds to provide design and construction on the remainder of the citys ada transition plan projects. Information on other d. A. Transition plan projects that are currently in design and construction. Presentation by afraraz khambatta. Public comment is welcome. Agenda item no. 9. Information item. Report from the director of the Mayors Office on disability. Item 10. Information item. Cochair election. In correspondence with the Mayors Disability Council bylaws, article three resume section 1, there shall be two cochairs elected to serve as officers of the council and election will be staggered by at least 3 months. The present election will be elect someone to the position of currently held by cochairmanship soup. Agenda item no. 11, report from the distribute sdatser preparedness committee. Agenda item no. 12 ks item not on todays agenda. No. 13, correspondence. Item no. 14, Council Member comments. Agenda item no. 15. Adjourn. Thank you very much. Next is Public Comment for items not on the agenda. Public speaker good afternoon, Council Members. My name is caroline allegere. For the Nonprofit Agency that provides Legal Services for psychiatric and or disabilities as well as Public Events to achieve equal opportunity for all aspects of life. Our Advocacy Program provides information for those with Social Security benefits. We provide representation for clients on a sliding fee scale. We do not turn down any clients if the case has merit and we are able to provide and combat information for housing and clients in discrimination cases under the americans with disabilities act. We would like to invite you to an Upcoming Event for reasonable accommodations event for people with disabilities. It will be held at the auditorium in the main library october 6, which is a tuesday, 1 p. M. To 4 p. M. This event is free and open to the public. We also plan to live stream the event over the internet for greater access. I have brought some flyers for you about this seminar. For more information about the services that pwds provides please see our web siet at site at ww. Pwds. Org. Thank you for your time and attention. Thank you very much. Next i have debra benedict. Public speaker good afternoon, councilors. My name is debra benedict. On the 22nd of august about midnight i was outside with my dog on my very quiet street at that time. A San Francisco flofr came whipping around the corner off howard street. My street is a freshly paved street as a cut through street for four one way street that are four lanes each. This is the picture of my dead Service Animal still warm as it was struck and killed by a San FranciscoPolice Officer who was only racing to about the middle of the block about ten more feet ahead of where my dog was to drop off someone at the adu, an adult diversion unit across the street. I have done all the necessary things to try and arrange for traffic calming. But i understand its going to take approximately one 1 year for the sf mta to arrange to do studies and what not. Meanwhile another dog in my building was blinding when it was struck by another dog on the street. This is a picture of the note that i taped with yellow tape onto the roadway which was removed and im going to be just fyi using spray chalk to mark the place where my dog was killed almost half the block. The deputy was at least speeding and going at least 50 miles an hour as he rounded the corner. Pedestrian safety is a very big issue right now with walk San Francisco, district 6 has Citizens Group that is working on signage to tell people to slowdown, but meanwhile i live on a 1 block street with fresh pavement that every single day that people race up and down that street. Having lost my dog, i can tell you its a huge loss in my life. But in addition to sharing information about that, i do want to bring up two other issues. One is about the handicap access walk area that is crossing the street at ninth and Mission Street on the mission side of the street, next to the doughnut shop. There is a poorly ramp there facing the wrong direction if you are crossing from the howard end of Mission Street to cross there. It is really difficult to get baggage, wheelchairs and any kind of mobility device up the single ramp thats there that doesnt have any of the bumps and not been improved. I have called three 311 multiple times to get that i improved and nothing is happening. We have at least 10 people in our building that are disabled and half of the people are our wheelchairs. And they have to go up that street. Every person is letting me know and everyone has complained about that particular ramp area. Those are the two issues that i have come to. If you have ability to get with sf mta to get traffic calming bumps on either door that would be a huge help. Thank you. Okay. Next item on the agenda is the report from the cochair. I would just like to say that my efforts at building a coalition of bay area Disability Councils has reached a milestone. We actually have a name. Its called the bay area disability alliance. We went through about ten names. So im still a little bit confused. Bada. B ada. We are restricting membership right now to members on the commission of disabilities. But anyone is welcome to come to the meetings on the fourth wednesday of the month at the Mayors Office on disability from 3 00 p. M. To 4 30 p. M. Other than that i have nothing from the chair. Next on the agenda is the food, nutrition, and other resources for adults with disabilities. Linda and jason . Good afternoon, Council Members. My name is linda lau with the department of ageing and Adult Services. Im going to share Information Services that are available to adults with disabilities and my colleague will share other resources as well. The department of aging of Adult Services we are designated as the area agency on aging. This is just a state term that basically says that we are in charge of and signing, coordinating and providing and advocating for services for seniors and adults with disabilities in the community. In terms of Nutrition Programs there are five different programs that we currently have available for adults with disabilities. That includes the home delivered meal program, food program, home delivered groceries and Health Promotion programs. I will share a little bit more about each of these programs. I wanted to note that for seniors we receive both federal state and local funding to support these programs. However, for the adults with disabilities, 100 of the funding is local. The Home Delivered Meals Service for adults with disability is either one or two meals a day, 5 days a week, depending on the clients need. These meals provide the 1 3 Dietary Intake and the meals provided must meet the nutrition requirements we set and the food safety requirements. In terms of eligibility for seniors it is age 60 and above. For adults with disabilities from age 1859. They are either homebound whether its mental or a physical disability. They have no healthy alternative for meals. There is no income requirement, but there is a suggested donation and whatever the client can contribute and donate, it goes to help support the program. No one is denied service because of their contribution level and as long as there is Space Available and they are eligible after they are assessed, then thats recall all the eligibility requirements. Also the participants are reassessed or assessed on an annual basis to see what their needs are and if they still qualify for the program. The congruent Nutrition Program where the meals are served at a Senior Center or Senior Housing or another facility. It offers the participants opportunities to socialize with other participants and have access to other Community Service activities like they might have exercise programs there, we are going to have arts and crafts classes. Both the seniors and adults with disabilities are served the same meal. This is how we can afford to keep the cost as affordable as possible. Again these meals meet 1 3 of the Dietary Intake reference to be adults and all the meals must meet our departments requirements as well as the states requirements. For eligibility for congregate programs they regardless of age they can participate. For adults with disabilities is age 1559 with a disability. There is no income requirement. The suggested donation is 2. Whatever the person can afford and donate, thats determined by the participant. This is just some photos of some of the meals that are served at the congregate nutrition sites. We provide different meals according to american style meals, russian, chinese, latino. Another program that we offer the serve the adult food disability is the Food Pantry Program. We work with the Marines Service and this was developed in 1981. Most of the food pantry provides weekly distribution to their participants and any interested consumers can call 211 for more information, also for intake and to be added. Currently there is, this program is maxed out because of limited resources. We are looking to increasing the service. This year our department has had added funding for this program. A part of the food bank also we have started a program called sro, stands for single room occupancy Food Outreach Program concentrated in the chinatown north beach area at 5 different sro hotels. Mainly because when we did a need assessment we found that a number of these hotels dont have elevators. So it is very difficult for someone who is disabled or senior to be able to carry groceries up flights of stairs. We have been able to serve about 180 clients in these buildings, these are both seniors and adults with disabilities. They partner with youth to help volunteer to help with this project. Thats how we also leverage some resources. Another program and this Home Delivery groceries. This program we are actually expanding. Starting last year and this year we are looking to expanding too because of added funding from the board of supervisors. Basically the francisco marine food bank, they help to get a lot of the donated food from different vendors and they work with a lot of Community Based organizations in the different food pantry sites and they basically recruit volunteers to help deliver the food bags to participants who are unable to go to a pantry site because of age or other disability and for someone who is interested to see if they qualify, they can call our intake line which is listed here. 4153556700. Another program just wanted to briefly mention even though dos does not fund it. But it is the cal fresh program, the food stamp program. Hsa Human Services administers this program. This program serves a lot of low income families as well as individuals who qualify. Its a great way to get an additional supplemental income to help purchase food and groceries at participating cal fresh vendors and to find out if you are eligible, they can contact the number at 4155581001. Or they can go to the website. Www. Benefits sf. Org. There are other nutrition resources just wanted to mention in case people are not aware of it. There is a free eats chart. This chart is basically a list of all the different types of nonprofits including churches that offer free meals whether its breakfast, lunch, or dinner throughout San Francisco. I listed the website where people can download the chart. It is in english as well as in spanish. Also leahs pantry provides food and nutrition. Eat fresh. Org. It helps people to learn nutrition, how to eat healthy on a low cost budget and offer services throughout the city as well. Just briefly in terms of Health Promotion programs that we offer. With the Health Promotion program, our goal is to keep the seniors and adults with disabilities healthy and with different wellness programs. There is a few programs. One of them is called healthcare living. This is a model developed by stanford university. Basically, i will get more into details later. There is another program called always active. This is a physical fitness program. A third one is the tai chi for arthritis. The self Living Management program is provided by stanford and its a 6 weeks program. 2 hours long and they learn different kinds of information, including how to manage pain, stress, fatigue, frustration, we all experience those things, right . When we have Chronic Health problems and how to communicate better with your doctor and being able to set goals and solve them so you can make those changes. The goal setting we find is one of the most important pieces of information that people can come away with from these workshops. Even though we might know it, but if you dont practice it, you may do it. Also being able to be more fit. How do you exercise