Good afternoon and welcome everyone to the Mayors Disability Council here in room 400 here at city hall. Excuse me, hold on, please. Control room i need to caption. There we go, thank you, donna. Lets start again. Welcome everyone to the Mayors Disability Council meeting here at city hall friday, september 16 in room 400. From one4 pm so welcome to our audience and anyone are ridgeline and watching at home. I would like to turn over the introduction to our cochair chip supanich councilmember supanich, thank you good afternoon and welcome. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the grove van ness and mcallister streets bob via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk st. , carlton b goodland entrance is provided via a wheelchair lift. Assistive listening devices are available in our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. Our agenda are also available in large print and braille. 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We thank you for joining us. Thank you cochairmen supanich good will move onto action item number two meeting of the agenda. I believe the next action item through the chair is my apologies. We need to know who was there. Please take roll call then reading of the agenda trends supanich, present. Penzvalto, present. Kostanian, present. Thank you could now move onto action item 2 meeting of the agenda. Thank you agenda item number one, welcome introduction and roll call. Agenda item number two, action item reading and approval of the agenda. Agenda item number three, Public Comments. Items not on todays agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. Each speaker is limited to 3 min. Agenda item number four, information item should cochair reports. Agenda item number five, information item. San Francisco Department of aging and Adult Services. The San Francisco department of aging and Adult Services provides social services for seniors and adults with disabilities through programs operated directly by the department and also via partnerships with communitybased organizations. The das executive director will highlight key services and provide an overview of future directions for the department. Presentation by serena mcspadden executive director San Francisco department of aging and Adult Services. Public comment is welcome. Agenda item number six. Information item. The San FranciscoPublic Authority today. The current state of the Public Authority, our programs, resources, and efforts to connect low income seniors and people with disabilities to qualified ihss providers so that they may live healthier happier and safer lives at home engaged in their community. Presentation by Kelly Dearman, executive director, San Francisco inhome support services Public Authority. Public comment is welcome. Break. The council will take a 15 min. Break. Agenda item number seven. Information item. San Francisco PoliceCrisis Intervention Team, cit, this presentation will provide an update on the cit curriculum. It will also highlight the efforts of cmdr. Robert moser, metro division, and his ongoing work with ascend on creating a training video for patrol officers responding to crisis calls involving Community Members on the autism spectrum. Presentations by the tenant Mariel Molina and sgt. Laura collen. Public comment is welcome. Agenda item number eight, information item. The office of citizen complaints and its work with the Community Advocates and San FranciscoPolice Department to respond to crisis calls. The presentation will provide an overview of the office of citizen complaints, its complaint and investigative process, and its roles in making recommendations to the Police Commission and the Police Department to improve Police Community relations. The almost complete San FranciscoPolice Department gen. Order on Crisis Intervention Team response to individuals in crisis will also be highlighted. As envisioned by Sandra Marion policy attorney for the office of citizen complaints. Public comment is welcome. Agenda item number nine. Information item. Collaboration in the Mental Health and criminal Justice System. The success of the San Francisco cit program is an example of how criminal justice partners can step outside of their traditional roles to better serve people with Mental Health disabilities in our community. Presentation by Jennifer Johnson, deputy public defender be Haverhill Health courts. Public comment is welcome. Agenda item number 10, information item. We poured from the disability Disaster Preparedness committee. Agenda item number 11. Information item. Report from the director of the Mayors Office on disability. Public comment is welcome. Agenda item number 12. Information item. Introducing sign all, the first automated assignment which interpreting software that signedall developers automated sign language interpreting software that translates American Sign Language into english and will launch its services in the us at the end of next year. The budapestbased company is a Computer Visionbased research and Development Start up having received funding this year from a consortium of International Venture capitalist. Presentation bycofounder and ceo sign all got us and nora zealous cmo sign alt. Us. Public comment is welcome. Agenda item number 13. Information item. Zerosaid small would share toler platform. Now technologies has developed the first commercially available smart wheelchair controller integrating a number of assistive listening functions from navigation through Environmental Control to speech synthesis as well as featuring thegiro set wireless headset for wheelchair and computer control. Cairoset enables to users with high levels of injury to work create and move again. Presentation by mark is then founder and ceo and martin julys founder and cto. Public comment is welcome. Agenda item number 14, Public Comment. Items not on todays agenda within the jurisdiction of the mdc. Each speaker is limited to 3 min. Agenda item number 15. Information item. Correspondence. Agenda item number 16, discussion item. Councilmember comments and announcements. Agenda item number 17, adjournment. Thank you, don. Before we move on to Public Comment number three, i like to read this brief announcement. You may have noticed that during the reading of the agenda some of the administrative items have been moved. We have done so in order to accommodate two presentations that will occur at the end of the agenda due to time constraints. Thank you now we will move on to Public Comment. Item 3, items not on todays agenda within the jurisdiction of the mdc. Each speaker is limited to 3 min. Transparent supanich will read the speaker cards. Thank you cochair commissioner supanich. [calling Public Comment cards] we will share. So i am Camillo Drexler cochair of ascend. On Matthew Mcintyre [inaudible] on the autism spectrum we are here today to update you could we have not been here for a while. To update you on our organization and upcoming conference and will do our very best to finish in 3 min. So, ascend and its aa ascend is an Adult Autism Group for advocacy and really action should we want to get things done. We were pleased to hear about the work with San FranciscoPolice Department because weve been working very closely with them to educate them about our members to keep our community say. So what does this do . Were all volunteer organization. We are adults on the spectrum friends and family educators and professionals and we need needs as peers to help see how we can help each other. R board is on the spectrum. We have our regular meetings. We run a job club. We do social events. We have a Television Show on Public Access tv show that matt is point to tell you about in a minute. Our big thing thats coming up is october 8 we are having eight conference, therell diversity leaders 2016 and we are doing a conference in partnership with the San Francisco state autism spectrum studies department and the conference will be at 7 hills conference ctr. We want to get the word out and we hope the council will help us get the word out. Half of the presenters will be adults on the autism spectrum. One of our morning keynotes is a woman who do not speak until she was 13 years old and has really a remarkable story of coming from not having language, being abused, and now being in her almost 50 being a National Speaker and leader in the Autism Community. So we are very excited about this. We have a very generous sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. So, we would like people to know about the conference and register, and join us. Join us there. Matt, do you want to tell us about our tv show . Ascend tv tv is basically about people who are on the spectrum with their lives within the spectrum and we just talk about Different Things such as housing issues, support for them and whatever is under the sun. Its on wednesday 7 30 pm if you have comcast is channel 29 a tdd is [inaudible] on sf comments and were available on youtube. Com present sf with two as. He was our producer is on the spectrum in our interviewer on the spectrum. So we invite you to watch. Thank you so much thank you. If you go to a ascend. Org all the Conference Information is a good i forgot to say that paulette is going to be on two panels at the conference. So, one about this amazing autistic greenland track and another one where youre going to be representing Community Organizations to seek we can find common ground. Thank you. Thank you very much. We will close Public Comment and we will go on to information item number for a report from cochair supanich. Cochair supanich one item today. That is the dignity from. For those of you who dont know anything about it, its going to be on billions of dollars of year in additional funding for services for people with disabilities and seniors. It is ballot measure i on the San Francisco ballot. It sets aside a certain percentage of property taxes for services and increases over time. As the burgeoning population of seniors and adults with disabilities grows as well. There isthey are having a dignity day on september 23, which will help promote the ballot measure and includes public understanding of the needs of these populations. Mayor ed lee will be there as long as community leaders. They will be visiting seniors and Community Sites all across the city talking about that proposition and educating voters. So, its on friday, september 23 from three5 pm. Itll be at the Western AdditionSenior Center at 1390 turks st. At fillmore. Thats dignity day. If you would like to jointheres 45 organizations in the dignity fun coalitions it if you would like to help by all means, or to rsvp to dignity day, we may call 415 543 62 22, extension 1106 or email at fifan at [inaudible] dot org. One last thing. Election day this year is on november 8. Please, vote on opposition nine. Thats it. Thank you cochair supanich. We will now move on to information item number five. Presentation on San Francisco department of aging and Adult Services in our like to welcome shearing mcspadden. Good afternoon commissioners. Good afternoon interim director. Thank you for so much for inviting me to come today to present. I think its been a couple of years actually stuck him to present but i know some of my staff have been here talking about various programs. I want to start out today by saying that one of the things that we do at the department is we do and Needs Assessment every four years. And we do that Needs Assessment really because we are whats called the aaa. Were the area agency on aging and the federal designation that we have. Federal and state designation. So, we are required as part of that designation to doto look at the senior population every four years and then kind of plan accordingly around what we find. So we look at demographics. All of that stuff. One of the things that we do know in our plan when we do the Needs Assessment is we also include a look at adults with disabilities week because we serve people 18 and older, we look at, take a look at the overall population of adults with disabilities and then we look at adults were 60 plus. Sometimes those things are different and sometimes the same. I want to just talk to you a little bit about some of the Needs Assessment could finance we had about because i think San Francisco there gets relevant to what youre talking about obviously, but hope six plane house we decide how to focus our funding how to focus our advocacy efforts or work with advocacy groups around things and also, how a lot of our Community Groups focus themselves and organize themselves the population size. In i just want to point out this is like census data basically. The census asked people to identify if they have difficulty in key areas such as bathing or dressing, walking were connoisseurs are making decisions are concentrating. Theres some data from that and there some data from other sources that we gathered and we have a really good Planning Team and they pulled all the information they came together but of course, its not always dont always have as accurate data as we would like. Im sure we may be under representing when certain areas or whatever but we use this as a planning tool for us. About 87,000 adults age 18 and older in San Francisco report disabilities. Its about 11 of the citys population. Most of the group is seniors, age 60, plus good about 52,000 people of that overall number are 60, plus. There are about 35,000 adults between 18 and 59 that report disabilities. So, just separating out the 60, plus population, those 52,000 people , they represent about a third of the overall senior population. So its a pretty sizable number of the overall 60, plus population. Most commonly, that particular Group Reports the following. They report, if they report a disability they are saying basically, there generally is a ambulatory difficult. Walking or climbing stairs is reported about about 21 of the population. Independent living which is defined by the census specifically as difficulty doing errands alone due to a physical or mental or emotional condition. Its reported about 80 of that senior group. Selfcare and hearing difficulties are reported by about 11 , of the 60 population. Disability rates increase significantly with age in the which is probably not surprising to anyone. Among younger seniors, which i know is not a great term, age 6064 the disability rate is about 20 selfreported disability rate. Among older seniors, age 85, plus its about 74 . So, then, theres disparities and distilled rates like key demographic factors. Gender, although women tend to have higher Life Expectancy than men, in general, they are also more likely to experience disability in older age compared to men. This disparities especially apparent is seniors reach old age could 62 of female seniors 85, plus, report independent living difficulty compared to 42 of men in that same age group. Ethnicity about one third of San Francisco seniors report disability. However the disco the rate is much higher among African American and that tino seniors. Perhaps of African American seniors to dq, plus and 36 of latinos seniors report disabilities. So again thats all from the census data and we did very much think about doing a deeper dive and looking at some of the kind of why some of these things are the way they are and think about funding but i want to give you an overall idea of some of the things we looked at. Adults with disabilities, 1859, 35,000 adults like i said before, its about 6 of the total population of city adults. The most commonly reported types of disability in this group are cognitive difficulties. Thats reported by about half the group that selfreported. Inventory difficulties reported by about 39 of the population of that group and then independent living difficulty reported by 36 . Again, i say the word difficulty, and this is how the census is using this, so i just want make sure that is clear. Thats how its put in there unfortunately. Then, demographic gender mostly male im a 50 of that 1859 population is male and ethnicity, most commonly, white. 36 of the population. Although, i minorities are overrepresented among those with disabilities in particular, africanamericans are 17 of adults with disabilities in that age group which is 5 of the overall adult population. Latinos are 20 at 50 of the overall adult population. Then, white and asianpacific islander adults are very much underrepresented among males with disabilities compared to the overall numbers in the Larger Population of adults. So, thats just information that we then use to figure out how do we best serve people. One of the other things we know about this population is thatand this is the senior population, two. The senior population and the adult with disabilities age 1859, tend to be lower income than the general population for ever idea reasons and they also are very likely to live alone as our older adults. Compared with a regularthe Larger Population of adults. So, thinking about things like isolation and what that does to people and think about things about what to people with disabilities need if they dont have the money to get the things they need . How do we plan for that . How do we think about that . I come here to a few times and talked about all of the things we do in dos i dont want to do that again. But i do want to talk about a couple Different Things that were focusing on right now. Really, to kind of better serve the population of adults with disabilities. I think the first thing is really thinking about employment and so, we kind of made this little foray into Employment Service at good it certainly not what we do by ourselves am a but we know that when wewoodworking about employment at aging and Adult Services working about employment specifically the dolls disabilities and older adult. That little bit of a different book than say whati forget im sorry its an academic i can remember what it stands for the Workforce Development or our own Human Services agency Workforce Development program which is really focused on the medicaid that account population. So birth really think about what do seniors need forthey only fulltime employment made. They need the parttime employment. They may need Different Things. Whether they have a disability or not i might need to get younger adults with this book as many different support. So, we are really starting to look at that and i think it something that at least for me is the new director in that apartment, its part of my vision over the next five years is to figure out how do we provide more and more supports. One of the things were doing this here thats very exciting is mayor lee put in his Budget Program money for a program called reserved. We serve is essentially program thats been used to provide older adults employment in places like new york and boston and other cities. Were going to be watching it in San Francisco but our focus is not just going to be older adult could it would be older adults and adults with disabilities its basically, a program where we will contract with a Nonprofit Organization will go out and build relationships with potential employers did the program tends to focus on nonprofit employment in government employment. For some reason. Im not exactly sure why the model has not gone out. Why it has not worked or created relationships with business. There may be a reason. , but that is how it was set up and so we can kind of look at that and see that something we want to do a kind of extended beyond what the way its been done before. But, creating those relationships, finding if there are good job, i guess, jobs where people can go and get training but also offer their expertise. Then, there is a the caret is there so little bit of a subsidy to bring that person in and we hope that after a while, that employer will keep that in cooley on as a regular employee. So, were excited to get out launched and will be doing a request for proposal for that in the next couple of months. The other thing that we recently did, and i think it isi was excited about because i think it fits better in dos, we took over the contract with the art for supplemental Waste Services and recycling services, which is a service that art clients do. We took that over from the department of Human Services and i was under the part of aging and Adult Services that is a good fit for us because its something as we start think about employment, they fit really well together and we can then take that and learn from that and ranch out. Try to figure out what other programs fit really well into that. So, we will be looking to work with the community and stakeholders to figure out as more funding comes down, then, are there ways we can kind of bolster those programs are at to those programs or add new programs that are going to better serve the community. The other program that i want to touch on is a pilot, and mayor lee and the board of supervisors mike together, put in money for program that we are going to port it home. Its very much a pilot. If you think about inhome support services, in San Francisco, we have 22,000 Inhome Supportive Services clients. Right . We have 19,000 providers. Its a huge program right. Its 180 million. So, thats just the part thats in the dos budget. Its huge. We got i think its about 1. 5 or 1. 7 million for each of two years to really look at, is there a way that home care can help a different population . A population of people who dont maybe you dont qualify for inhome support services but who could probably use home care is a way of helping them stay at home or having him state employed. We know when supervisor mar had a hearing a number of months ago, and people came forward and talked about their challenges, i guess they kind of fall into different buckets but one of the challenges that we heard was people needing homecare and going to work and having to spend half their paycheck on their home care. So, thats one population that we want to look at. The other population is really older adults who may not need as much. They might have super conflict medical needs but they may need some hours homecare to release days safe at home and we think that can keep them from ending up in hospital or needing more expensive care and also care that they should i need it have the right amount of homecare. Its really exciting to launch this. We are really grappling with what its when to look like bigots not a huge amount of money. So, we are talking about a pretty small numbers to study. We are talking about 50 people, maybe or it small. Its very small. But it should really inform us, and again, if we get really good data from this in really good Lessons Learned from this, then, in a year or two in a couple of years, with this pilot is over, we can go back to Funding Sources, whatever they be. In may not be the city. It may be other Funding Sources come up [inaudible] they want to see why that makes sense for us to pay for that because were not going to see the expenses on the other end that are much higher. Because thats usually how payers think it its not like they think about just the goodness of the wellbeing of the person, but thinking about where we could go with that. So, i think those are two new things we are doing. Im very excited about. I know i dont have a huge amount of time but i want to talk a little bit about another process that we are doing called aging and disability friendly San Francisco. So, one of the things thattheres a concept called Age Friendly Cities and it was put out by the World Health Organization, and there is a way that cities can apply to the World World Health Organization to say that theyre interested in becoming a age friendly city and they can takethey can go through a number of steps and get a designation as an age friendly city. So, in San Francisco we got a number of years ago there was a group ofthere was a workgroup longterm coordinating council thought this is a great idea. We need to have we need to be an age friendly city. Not only do we need to be an age friendly city, we need to be in age and disability friendly city. So, mayor lee apply forwe applied to the World Health Organization to kind of start this process. We had a workgroup that some great work for a couple of years, we started thinking maybe it would be nice to speed this up a little bit and make it a bit of a formal process so that we can get Department Heads and we can get Business Leaders and we can get nonprofit leaders together to kind of like, one, assess our sons of the city with perspective disabilities and aging, and the other is to make recommendations on where we can improve. So, we are going to be launching this task force in the task force is going to meet for less than a year and are grabbed very specific meetings on very different areas that we need to focus on and theyre going to come up with a plan that we can start implements a good Kelly Dearman, who is there is then a talk to you later is actually one of the cochairs of that group which we are excited about. So, kelly and Annika Chaudry who works in the Mayors Office argument cochair it and were still working out the rest of the membership but basically, the city, it is Business Leaders. Nonprofit leaders and consumers will sit on that task force and as all of our meetings are, they will also be open to the public so people can come in specific meetings or specific topics they are interested in and we will also be doing a lot of Stakeholder Engagement during this year. I think really, this whole plan is about a lot of it is about the built environment and so we are always worried about that. Think about that and how can we do better. I know the Mayors Office on disability does a whole lot of work around that. Something you will be very interested in how this walls out and will be a part of it. I think its also about thinking just every zero time we do a big plan in the city, thinking about doing things with an aging disability friendly lands which we should be doing because it for think about it, that means its friendly for outing is friendly for children. Its friendly for people whatever a disability. People who have ongoing disabilities. People with chronic illness. People who dont have any of those things. Its like its really about being inclusive and thinking about community as a whole and its exciting to me because i also think it starts to help us get rid of some of the isms we often appeared able as him, ageism, those things. I think its a fantastic framework especially for me as a new director and its a fantastic thing to be able to talk about. These are things we need to convert and this is one way to help develop a framework around that. So, we will be comingi mean i or somebody else be happy to come back and talk to you about that, but hopefully, not hopefully. There will be you guys will be involved in some way and probably in many ways. So, you might just be coming back and reporting on your own. I want toi just want to throw that out there and say im excited were going to get thisthere has been a lot of great work done but were really can move forward with developing a plan. So, i think that is all unless anybody had specific questions for me . Thank you. Im an open the questions up to the counselor. Cochairman supanich thank you for your presentation at you mentioned ageism at the end of your talk. Specifically around Employment Services. Ageism is rampant and people look at anyone with a wide space and figure they cant theyre washed up. Too old to do the job. Will you have specific programs reaching out and to combat that . Also, the issue of underemployment for people with disabilities is big. We know that there are several factors contribute into that, but one is the restrictive income requirement. If you get Social Security disability you can only make the minimum of the money. Without losing their benefits and eventually losing medicare. But theres other reasons, too. Discrimination and inability for people to be accommodated in the workplace. Refusal to accommodate people in the workplace. So, those are two issues i just want to make sure are on your mind and have you specifically thought about strategies for them . Yes. We had talked about that now so i dont know if i can answer that completely, but those are two things that we are certainly think about and we have also gathered some information about those and what other cities are done around some of those things. Itsi think a lot of it is aboutthis white talk about changing the framework because i think the average person doesnt think about these things. Right. We dont want to talk about aging. Nobodywe have this thing about not wanting to talk about being afraid of it. We need to really change that. I think we do the same thing with people disabilities. We dont want to think about it unless, as i think everyone here knows, most people dont have a disability at some point in their life. At some point whether temporary, whether its ongoing, whatever. So, there is a tagline that the state is using this as aging is all about living. Its a the same with disabilities. So, its about life and how do we get to that. I mean thats not answering your question specifically, good but the reason im saying that way is because is very very very hard to make a case for each dissemination in employment. Its very hard to do with disabilities. So, i think yes, we are talking about that in ways that we can partner with organizations that are open to ringing people in because of their expertise and we are also wanting to have this bigger conversation as a city about how we talk about aging and how we talk about disabilities. He was the thanks thank you thank you so much for being here. Ill [inaudible] Important Mission finding meaningful and impactful work for older adults with disabilities. Im really interested in this reserve program. Also sort of what is the general age range of individuals who are interested in our good i think chip made an interesting point about the challenges around income maintaining a certain level of income, to have access to resources. Stuart do you address that in any way were additional benefits . Then, i also want to mentioni dont know if youre awarein terms of home care resources i note you are city office on aging has on sharing program which allows older adults to age in place and it allows for an individual may be of lower income to come and assist in some of those home care responsibilities. Just a thought. Something i saw worked very well there. But, yes, in general id love to hear your thoughts, and also i love to note if you plan to work towards opening up towards the corporate world. I work in the corporate world. Something thats interesting interesting to me is the reserve program. Id love to hear your thoughts on that. Sure. I think were still figuring out howi mean the people who advocated for that reserve program are really thing about older adults. Think about ageism in the workplace. Think about parttime employment because people may need can work fulltime because of their benefits and so its very similar to what a lot of younger people with disabilities are doing with if they [inaudible] can make certain amount. I think there are ways that we can try out because i think again, this is not a pilot. His ongoing money but it is in time its not a huge amount. So i am guessing at some point we are going tothis can be a way to expand that that we find its working really well. Well be asking ourselves those questions like how do we continue serving a Larger Population. How do we serve people with different needs . The Home Share Program. San francisco Just Launched a Home Share Program and it was supervisor tang and it was really supervisor tangs advocacy that got it going but supervisor tang and the Mayors Office, and Mayors Office on housing in this case, is administering this program. Its exactly what youre talking about. So, its people with homes with space in their homes can rent to somebody else if they have an excerpt room or whatever, and they canthe people who are renting will pay but there is a way to exchange for services. So, is written into get it might even be a good idea for you to have somebody from the Mayors Office of housing or their contracting with episcopal Senior ServiceSenior Community episcopal Senior Community in Northern CaliforniaPresbyterian Health services for the program. So, it may be a good idea for you to have, if you want to have somebody come present on that. Thank you they Just Launched last month. So theyre just getting off the ground. This is the issue. They modeled it on one of thats been done in san mateo for a while called, i think its called hip. Of course, there are more people seeking housing than there are people seeking people to live in houston. So thats going to be an ongoing issue, but if its successful, even for a few people, it provides housing stability. Absolutely. Thank you thank you. I dont have a question. I pretty much have a comments. When you are talking about this Employment Program and it was brought up about accommodation and discriminations for older adults with disabilities, one of the things we discussed is how and when to disclose to employer with regards to reasonable accommodation that can be uncomfortable. Back and tie into the discrimination because, im not saying for all employers, but some you might be a hardship or burdened cost association that may contribute to that factor. So, itin this program also a clients are going through this is there to be training on how to interact with employer when you disclose what they may need around the accommodation . Thats a great idea. Take that back. Im hoping that it is but if it isnt all make sure that we discuss it. Thats a really good point. Okay. I know you talk about older adults but im sure people would still want to, especially talking about a corporate environment whatever their age aye will climb up the ladder. How can they do that if they have the skill set and can do the essential functions, how they can move on to different positions or higher positions if a qualified and not just a entry level. Thank you im also curious to know if theres resources or support from individuals for forced early retirement with their current employers and the transition into parttime or some sort of a transition into another role . Yes. I think again, thats a small amount of money. Were to try something we need to have a bigger conversation about it. I think your points are all good. Excellent. I think we need to think about if this works were able to start this with the next step. What questions what expertise do we need to be able to negotiate well with employers potential employers and how to help educate them around some of these things. I would say thats probably the next step were excited to get the money to get started and its new for us. And i think will make sure that when we when we think about for future programs expansion that will find a way to bring in community to Start Talking about that because we dont want to create those things in a vacuum at all. Sounds like we are moving in the right direction. Thank you i like to open up to Public Comment. Anybody like to come up . Im going to quest if you have any questions for the presenters to talk to them at break time or whatever. Excuse me for that. Staff them at you have any questions . Just a quick question and comment and charlene, thank you for staying because i know your time schedule and kelly is waiting but you mentioned the assessment earlier. How do you go about doing outreach for the assessment . Other people you find this . Are they of a certain demographic . Are they in a certain neighborhood . One of the things we talk about in a couple our communities is that some seniors and people with disbelief that are not connected to services so they fall through the cracks. Im just here is how you go about doing that type of outreach . Yes. Thats an issue for us and always has been genetically of a limited capacity to do that. We do stakeholder meetings and we work with various organizers through the. We also we try to find people who are less connected but usually were finding whenever organizations of their connected to [inaudible]. I think if commissioner supanich mentioned that they gave him. If the dignity fund passes one of the things it requires is that we do a really extensive a Needs Assessment and gap analysis, and it would be a different level of Stakeholder Engagement with that process. I think thats one we would be resourced if that were to happen that one would be resourced to do something much different than i think we would go out and really try to figure out, really work with everyones best thoughts about how to engage in people who are not engaged in a normal way. As weve tried to work it i just have one comment and ill join has a question. So, im on my way actually next week to go see my parents and my dad is actually getting sort of the new mexico version of home care. It comes in tears and he just started just the person i need somebody to check his vitals a couple times a week. Whats critical about that it frees up my mom. It really darestheres the caregiver aspect of that. She does not worry about taking care of her and taking care of him. Its one of those things to keep in mind thats going along its equally as beneficial to the person that is living with a person trying to [inaudible] as the person actually getting the care. Right thank you so much for this presentation. Its always exciting to have that apartment come up with the new initiatives because really, the direction of dos has taken over the last pew years is really more about a Community Integration approach rather than keeping things as they are. Taking care of people but allowing people to give them the tools to thrive with this revolutionary approach [inaudible] and the question i had for the or suggestion i have for you, whether theres going to be a job Resident Program associated with employment at first. Specifically targeted to seniors with disabilities. So, issues like disclosure is an issue that many other Employment Programs dont deal with or learning computers for the older generation. Not a technologically advanced. So, whether you contact with an agency i would urge you to get the job readiness skills to a very targeted way as part of your program. Finally, the other question i have for you is where do you see mdcs role in partnering with the department and also the councils role in partnering with the department on bringing for some of those amazing initiatives, whether the Home Share Program, employment initiatives, or supportive home . Well, i see a great role for the Mayors Office on disability to be involved with us. He working on all this and i think as i said, earlier, some of these things come up and we dont get them we get them and their gives for not really ready to having you know how it happened we get money and wow this is great. We need to get it out the door. I also think though were starting to really think more strategically in these areas about how we i guess how we want to spend a dollar. How we want to study with the results are and so i see us working much more closely with your office. Up front around some of this planning. Again, we have this to enter and 50,000, for example for employment but thats a cd. As far as im thinking, is a seed. What are the other needs . We need to work very closely with your office to plan for the next phase of that. So im willing to do whatever that means. Whether means having regular meetings, certainly, in thinking about the aging and disability family landing process we need to be very involved. So, but, yes i would like to see about a very close relationship. Well, thank you we look forward to working with you. I would like to open up now to Public Comment. Will go to information items six. The San FranciscoPublic Authority today. Id like to welcome our presenter Kelly Dearman. Thank you for waiting, for your patience. Thank you good afternoon. Thank you councilmembers for inviting me and the thank you interim director khambatta. B my name is Kelly Dearman [inaudible] and i also love eileen orman who is our new Deputy Director is also here. So we thank you very much. Im going to tell you a d Public Authority and i can answer whatever questions you might have. First, the Public Authority we are staff of 17 and that includes six counselors and Mentorship Programs and administrative staff as well as our benefits and fingerprinting project could also you a little bit about that. First of all, we were created over 20 years ago to connect though income seniors and people with disabilities to qualified Inhome Supportive Services providers. So that everyone can stay at home and live happier, healthier, lives without having to move into institutional lifecare. So, the way we do that is through these following programs which i will discuss. First, we have the fingerprinting project. This is for our providers could all providers have to be screened and they have to follow a criminal background check, and to our fingerprinting project, we make sure that they do that and that they pass and that everything is fine. Next, we are benefits in San Francisco we are lucky that we are able to provide benefits to all of the independent providers and as you heard that about 20,000 folks. They receive medical and dental benefits as long as they meet the requirements. They just have to work a certain number of hours in a month, 25, and then they can receive benefits through healthy workers. Next, we have our registry. The registry is where we connect consumers with providers. We currently have 250 providers on the registry. Those providers of all received 48 hours of training including cpr and how to be a homecare provider. Our providers are very diverse, speak many languages, most of them are women. We find that it takes about eight days from the time that somebody calls and receives the list of consumer calls, receives the list of potential providers get once they receive that with it takes them a day to actually hire a provider. To be clear, of the 22,000 or so consumers in San Francisco, we do with about 15002000. The rest of those consumers have friends or Family Members who actually providewho are there providers. We work without consumers who do not have a friend or Family Member or cannot find it friend or Family Member who are willing to do it. We also been on call program. This is our Emergency Services. San francisco is unlike most counties throughout california, that if your provider does not show up, or if you are being discharged from the hospital, and do not have a provider we will provide Emergency Services for you on a temporary basis until you can find a permanent provider. So, just as i already mentioned in terms of the oncall provider and the independent providers, our oncall providers are separate employees of the Public Authority. The independent providers are contract workers. Those on the registry are contract workers. Theyre not our employees. Everybody, as i said, has been trained and interviewed and has a tb test. Lastly, we have a Mentorship Program. This iswe are proud of our Mentorship Program. These are current or past consumers, who work with current consumers to show them the ropes basically. We do this through several ways. One, we have a onestop Resource Center so you can come to our office. We offer trainings and workshops and resources for our consumers, and we have mentors there were also there to talk to you. Then, we also do direct oneonone mentoring. So, for example, if a consumer calls the registry and says, i want to hire a provider, we talk to them and said have you ever done this before . No. Great. We want you up with a mentorship or him and a mentor will help them sift through this list of names they have received. We will sit with them through the interview prospect we will help them call to set up these interviews and really talk to them about being in employer because whats important for us is the sustainability of those relationships. We find that through the Mentorship Program in this oneonone connection, thats happening. The other thing that we have is at laguna honda, we have mentors who are at laguna honda work with ihss consumers were eligible ihss as consumers were being discharged. We make that connection with them and talk to them about hiring a provider. How to work with their provider. Keeping the communication open. How to take care of yourself so that youre able to better show someone how to do care of you. The goal being if we work with them before they are discharged and we keep up with them for at least six months after discharge, the rates of them returning to laguna honda goes down significantly. So, those are the major programs. We also do a fair amount of advocacy in sacramento and around town in i also want to mention that were doing a series of three symposiums. We just had our first one last week for consumers, which we are doing in conjunction with home bridge and ihss to talk about her different programs, where everybody fits in, how you can get help and answer any questions. We are doing our next symposium for providers in october at correct library at the main library in the correct auditorium. Excuse me and im happy to divide more information when the flyers come out. So, im open for questions. Thank you. Culture supanich first comment which is how do you do all this with 17 employees be one i know, right thats amazing. Thank you so much. It must be very hard work. Everybody works hard and we focus and get it done. Im curious about the workers that you have. Is there a high level of turnover . What is that and because i know that i have friends who have workers and there seems to be a turnover and how can you combat that . Two things. I might have said iran. [inaudible] so, we deal with 15002000 consumers. We do have 250 providers and theres a lot of turnover and this is a problem that we are seeing not only in San Francisco but across the state because they are paid minimum wage and its really taxing job and we are asking them to care for folks who might need a lot of care and its hard work. So, what we try to do is first of all, we are appreciative of all our workers. One thing we realize a few months ago was we need to be nicer to people when they come in. When folks come in and say they want to be a worker, we need to really be jumping up and down and saying, im so glad that you came here. So, for our oncall workers we now provide them with scrubs and we give them a badge and we have incentives that happened quarterly. We will put you in this raffle. Forget have a luncheon. That honor you because we cant pay you any more, but we can let you know how valuable you are to our team. And for our registry workers we provide them all with tshirts and they also get badges good this is helpful to them because in a lot of places where they are going to building managers wont let them in because that no identification. So, we found by doing this its like raises their value, raises their just how people feel. So, until one of bigger scale we figure out how we can pay providers for the work that they do in a real way, we are doing these Little Things to hopefully help combat some of that turnover. Thank you, kelly. Shirt councilmember penzvalto its incredible. I think he efforts the city goes through that the providers feel valued etc. Im sure greatly benefits the consumers. I think the Mentorship Program sounds incredible. Im also excited to learn more about the [inaudible] at the library if you care to share that at some point. Yes. As soon as the invitations i think well be ready this coming up and i will make sure you all get the imitations. Excellent thank you for your outstanding work. I like toi like to open up for questions for staff if they have any . Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. Of course, be [inaudible] ih ss facility has been on the forefront and policy and legislation change. And advocacy. So, you bring that experience and expertise, not just providing services to people. Actually, something that im curious about is a lot of the home care workers appear to be doing more, you know, escorted to dr. Support or assistance with cooking and cleaning. Do you have any data as to how many consumers we have that are actually using realthey are all realpersonalcare things like transferring, bathing, feeding and those kinds what i call more heavy dirt work Home Care Services . The was i dont have that data but i will tell you that one of the things we are now doing is really looking at surveys and trying to get that type of information on an ongoing basis. So, if you invite me back next year i can guarantee ill have that information. However, i will talk to dos and find out what information they collect in terms of who the consumers are and what they need, but we find the consumer has changed in the last 20 years significantly. Theres a lot in the beginning it was a lot of home care, but now its a lot more personal services and personal care, and we find a lot of consumers for better or worse given the circumstances, theres a lot more Substance Abuse and Mental Health issues that weve had in the past. So, theres a lot more training that has to go into the providers just so they know what theyre going into in a lot more training or our mentors so they can really assist folks in the best way. Also, the other question i had is the registry 11 250 providers independent providers. Its given to ih hss before the climate we generally had to be a client you have to receive ihss us from the state [inaudible] income eligible. Do you offer services to those for folks who do not receive that subsidy . Yes. We have a small private pay program as well which, dont talk about much because its very small and we, for us, we want to make sure we hurt it all the ihss consumers first and then we hit help those doing private pay that home bridge which of the contact mode also offers private pay which is cheaper for all of us than the other agencies that are doing it. So we operate on a sliding scale. Yes. Thank you thank you anymore questions . Staff . Okay. Inc. You again for being hereexcuse me interim director khambatta has a question thank you for this wonderful presentation it either real quick question regarding any kind of Clients Satisfaction survey that you conduct and how that relates to Incentive Program for the contractors who are [inaudible] sure. I will let eileen into that. Can you report your questions . Sure. I was cruise about the Client Satisfaction surveys and how theyd incentivize your contractors . From doing a better job of course. Yes, we are just about to increment new satisfaction surveys for all of the both the consumers and providers that we serve. In terms of the providers specifically, were definitely looking at their satisfaction with our services that weve also provided and how the process was for them to be hired on because in addition to providing these valuable services, seniors and people with disabilities we are also providing a valuable service with having Employment Opportunity here in the city. We want to make sure that we are doing our best to makeas kelly said, make this is valuable position where people do feel valued and cared about as providers in the city. Thank you. Thank you very much and youre always welcome to come before the council with any updates. They do so much. Thank you. Will open this agenda item up for Public Comment. Any Public Comment . Anyone on the bridge line . Okay. Well will go ahead and the council within a take a 10 min. Break so we can get our next presenters in. Thank you so much. [recess] is the captioning on yet . Can we have captioning, please . Thank you. We are now going to go into information item number seven. The San FranciscoPolice Crisis intervention team, cit. I like to welcome our presenters, lieut. Mariano molina, and sgt. Laura . Thank you for being here. Good afternoon counsel im sorry im lieut. Mariano mullane. Coordinator for the cit program for sfpd and sgt. Colleen. First of all, id like to thank the council for allowing ms. Donna hawkins to be our star is doctors of cit. She joined about a year or so ago and she has been great. She gets good reviews by the officers during the training, so thank you, thank you, thank you. We really appreciate that. So, what ill do im going to do a brief introduction, with the sfp does at the Academy Level when the officers go through the academy. The of a seven month academy and they are subject to a 16 hour class. I used to be eight hours but now senate bill 11 has passed which made the class xvi hours. Basically, touches on different subjects would have to do with [inaudible]. They learn about the american with disabilities act passed in 1990. There instructed about it. What the rules are what they need to abide by. They also learn about the Disability Services and what they are and what they need to do. They learn about intellectual disabilities, how to respond to calls involving intellectual disabilities like down syndrome, factors to look for and how to talk to consumers and members of the community. They also learn about intellectual disabilities such as down syndrome, how to talk to especially how to talk to a consumer using simple language and speaking slowly and clearly and normal tone of voice and so forth. Lately, i would say the last five months or so we have been working with ascend and instructional video. San Francisco Police department cmdr. Moser and sgt. [inaudible] adult San FranciscoPolice Academy and other members of sfpd with assistance of a son. I know we had [inaudible] here has put a video together. This is a great project that we are hoping to be rolling out in a few weeks to all our Police Officers eared basically, its instructional video on how to respond to calls involving members of the autism spectrum community. We are looking forward to that video. I think it can be great on acid to our officers and the community. With that said, im the coordinator for cit. To give you a little history about the Crisis Intervention Team, it was enacted back in 2011 as a resolution that the Police Commissioner past and ever since then, we arebefore last year, we were Training Classes to be times a year. Now, we are increasing the classes a year. Sgt. Colleen will give you more information about our program and what are classes entail. Good afternoon am sgt. Laura kalina San FranciscoPolice Department, sgt. Assigned to the crisis intervention training program. So as a lieut. Briefly touch on, in the 2015 calendar year we were looking at 34 crisis intervention Training Classes for just that calendar year. This year, so far weve had seven with three more upcoming before the end of the calendar year. The next classes at the end of this month. We have earlier in the year we actually trained all our tactical teams and are specialists back in april. So, they are up to speed as to what the department is looking for in terms of crisis intervention training. We will be rolling out a team concept and that will be forthcoming. That will require additional training. We are hoping to add a portion of that training into our current 40 our curriculum. So, currently, we have a little over 600 sworn members trained in crisis intervention. Roughly 2 to 50 of those were trained this year, so weve made a lot of progress in the amount of officers we been able to get through the class. In the earlier months we were training recruit officers and we have now had the opportunity to switch over to veteran officers and we are, our focus is patrol sergeants because they are the lead at any station when it comes to issues arising out on the street. We also have included every class we have at least two dispatchers even a couple park rangers. As i mentioned to a couple of you earlier, we work so closely with our rangers that it is important that they also receive the same training so that we end up on a call together that we all have that equal and same training. Of course, our dispatchers are truly the front line. Its important they be uptodate on what we are doing. So, we in terms of curriculum, we, of course as lieut. Mentioned, we are donna atkins. She is in fact one of the favorites which is huge for us. When of the great things donna does it she comes in and talks about development to disabilities and the autism spectrum and then she gives helpful tools to the officers as to what can you do when you encounter someone who is on the autism spectrum. So that has been incredibly helpful. Again, donna, thank you. We brought in a professional role playing company and this professional company, the owner of the company specializes in Mental Health issues. That is her background. She also, that company also teaches for various Law Enforcement agencies throughout the bay area. The scenarios are becoming more equal across the board overthe agencies because shes teaching the same across the board. So, its kind of nice to have it. We also brought in overtired Law Enforcement officer who iswas a Hostage Negotiator and now is a police therapist. He is one of the founders of the First Responder support network and he teacheshe just joined us a few months back and he teaches suicide by cop, suicide negotiations intervention techniques and case law. Hes been acid to bring onto the team. We also have an instructor from Palo Alto University. Hes a doctor at Palo Alto University and he teaches veteran trauma and ptsd buddy weve also asked him to bring in a snippet of implicit bias, which has been amazing. He is probably one of the most amazing instructors ive seen on this particular subject. So, we brought this and originally with technical and specialist teams. So, that is kind of caught us up to where we are good of course, we also up the nami and the Public Defenders Office is also here, they are one of our instructors as well. That is kind of where the changes have occurred over the course of this last year. I joined in the team back in january. This is kind of what weve been working on along the way. So, i think that is pretty much covers the gist of the training if anybody has any questions great thank you. Id like it to open up to questionscochair supanich inc. Youthank you. I think we saw you about a year ago. Yes. It sounds like you really stepped up the training. I just want to know is there any evaluation process for what the difference on the street is now that they have those trainings . Are using less confrontations . Are using less reason to handcuff people or use force . Less arrests . Less injuries . You know what we are seeing is because we had not been collecting data we should have been collecting and that its been a long process so nami has helped in analyzing the data. As a sparrow he was a candidate for the doctors degree and now he is a doctor. I would say, a small percentage of this the data that he has analyzed shows that, yes, if you s cit train youre likely to use force to resolve an issue. But that is just a small percentage of the data that we have seen. So we are in the process of assigning a template that officers are going to have to complete after every call, and that template has all that information. Was forced used . Is there cit training . What were the signs and symptoms you saw . With the incident result . Once we get that in place we will have more specific data. I know for a fact that our crime Analysis Unit can provide rough data on the calls we go to and we chose a specific categories like check on their wellbeing. Another category is a person in crisis, attempted suicide. So, an average Police Officer in San Francisco as a department we respond to about 30004000 calls. A month. So its a large number get some of those calls come back as not merit meaning that no one was there or the person was gone. I would say every three months i get the data here is about 1112,000 and of 1112,000 about 1000 are no merit or unfounded but the rest are actually the opposite we still go even though Nothing Happened this officer still went to the calland dealt with whatever situation there was good its very powerful numbers. We know that apartment is [inaudible] the number of calls the department is responding but once we get all this data in place i think well have a better handle on the amount of police work that is being done on this the streets of San Francisco im glad youre going to use a template because not only do you have to evaluate the effectiveness of the training, but also see if theres a real difference for residents yes. We also [inaudible] at the beginning of the training ap test about Mental Illness and the stigma around Mental Illness and how the abuse of it. Its anonymous so people feel free to answer this. Your name is not attached to it and at the end of the training we do the same and we see a difference and we asked him, did this training help you to change your views or are they still the same . To feel more prepared to deal with a situation like that on the streets . So, we sparrow we have not collected it. Thank you. Councilmember penzvalto to have question . Certainly. Thank you. This is an excellent presentation. Certainly, dressing that unconscious bias around such a vulnerable population. Certainly, it makes the officers feel at ease but am sure it also improves as chip inquired, the outcomes in those interactions. I am interested in knowing a little bit more about the scope is of your work regardingyou mentioned the video, training, etc. Are you working with other local or National Authorities or security teams in other cities to basically, replicate some of these processes . What sort of work are you doing in that regard . Yes. As a matter fact i got back from seattle on wednesday night. We traveled to seattle. Myself and another sergeant evaluate their program and we had so many good ideas about from what theyre doing to we have a lot of similarities, but they are doing a little bit more than what we are doing as far as roleplaying and that concept. So, that is in the works right now. I had viewed the program before going up there and now i have more information i see how they deliver the training and i think that something that San Francisco is going to be doing soon. We are going to a Team Approach when we respond to a crisis situation. So a lot of things are happening for the department, for the city, and were looking forward to it. I also, [inaudible] sfpd san mateo county, san jose pd, Mountain View pd, we do the cit program together so sometimes we share our instructors because we want to be on the same page. We want to be teaching the same thing across the border lines. So, im still in contact with them and i just met with atf in seattle, salinas pd and madison wisconsin. So we are sharing ideas on how theyre doing their thing and how were doing it in San Francisco. That so important to network with these other agencies. Because we feel we dont have to reinvent the wheel absolutely. Certainly thats very important and im glad youre hearing you are doing that. I know from individual might be interested in your work [inaudible] as well. When you mentioned the roleplaying games are any of the individuals he worked with on the autism spectrum or on these roleplaying teams that you work with . No. Sgt. Colleen mentioned the roleplaying we do we hire actors to do it and sometimes Police Officers do it. They are not in the spectrum. The video features in somerset members of the community the Autism Community and their willing to be in the video and tell their stories. We also do that the training we have two classes for consumers to come in and share their stories. Good or bad when they were contact contacted by the Police Department and that is very powerful for our officers because like people said to me you dont know if somebody sparrow until you talk about and that you act differently once you know what he or she has been through life and how it got to that point. You change the way how you handle things. Absolutely. Thank you. He was i dont have a question but a comments. I look forward in the future once you have this template build and you can kind of review the data on the training and come back and share with us best practices in what the officers learned and how the interaction is with the community. I think i would be very exciting to hear about. So, i thank you. Any questions from staff . I have a quick question. Not just a question but a comments. First of all, thank you for all the accolades. I really enjoyed being part of the workgroup but i want to go back to german supanich is question about data. Being part of the workgroup im pretty to some incidents that happened that probably dont get as much press as other incidents do. So, just want to say, i actually wasi believe joanna was there, too. I actually witnessed an incident right outside of our office by the civic center life station where there were a couple officers cit trained and they were fabulous. The not too long ago probably about a monthsix weeks ago, the gentleman was ought with autism in the triangle where theres holding a knife and the officers sort of waited him out for almost 24 hours good so, there are some snippets of things im a good work that dont always get the praise good i just want to say that. Thanks thank you, doug your work just to add to that [inaudible] for the officers who showed excellent the escalations bills and come to a peaceful resolution when dealing with members of the community and we awarded 12, actually 13 officers this year. You mentioned that incident we had another incident with a member of the Autism Community in the Mission District and so theres about 24 hours to resolve the situation with out the use of force. Thank you very much ffor your presentation. I hear a lot about the cit team and donna is a direct supervisor. I am so pleased it performance evaluation time. But, aside from the joe, isdo you do any work around people who are deaf or hard of hearing . Does your cit curriculum include information about a deaf individual may be approached by the police and may not hear that, stop, hands up or whatever when we have tragic results . We address that in the basic academy. We address deaf, visually impaired and other disabilities and we teach the officers to slow down. To look for whatever sign that the person is displaying if you see no verbal communication. They try to communicate another way or they can go out in the air on the radio channels and ask for a sign language interpreter. If they dont have one, then our department will contact one if one it needs to be there. We asked if you have anyone who can call or talk to us, so we have a smart bunch and Weekend Research things but we are do to include that in hard introduction to intellectual disabilities intellectual disabilities . We have the whole spectrum. We talked about [inaudible] we talked about our aging population and we talked about what devices they might have, a cane, a wheelchair. Glasses. All kinds of things. Actually, we put our officers through what its like to be at that age. What its like to be to have the clout,. Weve givenucsf thats a portion of the class for us. They they are teaching how to button their shirts with gloves on. Thats what feels like when you have arthritis. How hard it is. How to tie your shoes when you cannot get down there how to use mechanical arm to do that. How do you walk slowly with [inaudible] because theyve got to meet that person at that level. To deliver the services that person he or she needs, you have to be at that level. To understand what he or she is going through. So, we make it personal for our officers so they have a better understanding great work. Thank you. Any other questions from staff . We will move on to be public. Thank you so much for being here. No Public Comment. Is there anyone on the bridge line . Okay. Im in a go ahead and close Public Comment. We will go onto information item number eight. The office of citizen complaints and its work with Community Advocates and sfpd to respond to crisis calls. I would like to welcome our presenter, sandra mary on. Thank you. Thank you very much. Sandra mary on from officer of citizen complaints that i feel was five months ago you asked to come and make a presentation in 2015 get it was a great expense to think about whats happened over the year. Also early highlight is the joint [inaudible] was only its also been a year with is been tragedy across the nation and in our own community. The good part of that is its really raise to the forefront on different kinds of policing a different kind of interactions especially with people with Mental Illness, different kinds of disabilities different kind of challenges and how to communicate a different kind of way. How to use deescalation and most certainly, in Police Department across the country, theres been a lot about deescalation in the past but right now, theres the opportunity to really systemize it. So, in part what i want to talk about today was a little bit about her agency mostly for any members of the public that dont know what we do. I just want to briefly give up thumbprint sketch of that and to spend some time talking about really rate changes that have in the works around how to with that apartment gen. Order that puts in some procedures in a longterm way. So, those were the two areas i was then spent some time on. In terms of our agency, were city agents get were separate from the Police Department to our name is opposite of citizen complaints will certainly dont need to be a citizen and as a Ballot Initiative in november to change our name and i think there will really help to clarify. We are separate. We are civilians and individuals in our office can never work for the San FranciscoPolice Department. What we do is we take complaints and investigate complaints concerning misconduct involving the Police Department. The other thing we do is we do policy recommendations and outreach work with Community Groups. A lot of the work, talk about today has to do with the policy aspect of what we do. Another thing that we do is for every officer involved shooting our agency now is also involved in administratively regardless of whether or not theres a complaint and we also run a mediation program. So, in complaints with civilians and Police Officer theres another way thats different than a complaint process where individuals get to sit down and talk with an officer about the situation. In terms of individuals want to file a complain, they can do it online. They can call, come in. They can send in their complaint in anyone can make a complaints. We take anonymous complaints could an individual does not have to actually see the misconduct they could have been a witness. They could be concerned. They could have read something in the custom concern about allegation of misconduct in our agency will do that investigation and thats kind of a thumbnail sketch of our agency. Part of what we have been doing through the years in addition to the investigation parts of cases, we love to see other waste when hands Police Community relations, and so because of officer involved shootings particularly, involving mentally ill individuals, we work with communitybased i would make sure the caption was caught up thank you im sorry that i speak quickly. My apologies. So, part of our work involves making policy recommendations. For years, we worked with Community Organizations and the Police Department to implement Crisis Intervention Team work could divert some fabulous progress on that. Part of that also means having written procedures that really put into place how this will operate well beyond all of us and so part of what donna has done in addition with the Police Department, myself, and other communitybased organizations we work on a general order for the Police Department could general orders are the operating procedures. There would really captures the spirit of interaction between the Police Department and the individuals in crisis. This is a particular general order for working with individuals in crisis. So, this department general order we been working on it for over a year. Its very close to being completed. When its completed it will go in front of the Police Commission for their adoption. Itll be an opportunity for the public to also make comments to the Police Commission about the department general order could itll be a time to again we assess the progress thats been made and that apartment gen. Order is important again because it captures a lot of the spirit and it really changes how Police Officers interact. I would say, overall, in the past you could see in Police Department said there was really a command and control mentality and many of the operating procedures were about officers coming into a situation, rushing in and taking command. Most certainly, this department general order as well as the parts use of force order which is another important order, it built into it the ideas of stopping when appropriate. To make time and distance. To communicate and to bring in resources and individuals with our specially trained to be able to negotiate deescalate and work through a situation when thats feasible and appropriate. So, i want to read one section of the Crisis Intervention Team procedure where it talks about the permits committed to the highest level of services to all communities but especially individuals diagnosed with mental elements and other disabilities an individual suffering from adverse consequences of Substance Abuse and personal behavioral crises. It then goes on to talk about that the department committed to before building communication, crisis intervention, deescalation principles, before the resort to force whenever feasible. This policy statement again was one that many Community Advocates parts of the working group, with the Police Department, we spent long time crafting this language to try to capture the spirit of a real change in the way that police will be interacting with members of the public especially those in crisis. So, thats ken my overview comments. I welcome your questions but theres also use of force procedure that the department has put forth with the commission they voted on that and the use of force department general order also includes these really Core Concepts around deescalation, before building, time and distance, the ability to use and bring in specialized and vigils who can help resolve situation without using force which is our hope when thats feasible. Thank you. I like to open up any questions of the council at this time . Thanks you so much for your sharing. I appreciate it. I thought it was very interesting thoughts of really shifting some of the command and control mentality to considering first implement in deescalation principles before the use of force but id be interested to know what is that point when you get into interactions prior to that use of force, what are you asking folks to consider . What are those deescalation principles and practices . In part, i think the question would be better served to the Police Department. This a few comments i can make about that in terms of what this whole system looks like. It really starts with dispatch. So that there is athis is Mental Health working group that includes dispatch and includes the Police Department and part of that is identifying those calls so that dispatch immediately is asking those questions where its clear this is a person in crisis. So that, then, as First Responders, there will be the cit trained officers who then go to the scene. So that they are already in the mindset of these kinds of techniques and because there that specialized training they then are able to have an individual one of their officers is the person whos making contact and using a different tone of voice and establishing that report building, and then the other other deescalation tactics that are appropriate theres an opportunity to use those topics could be was taken. That answers my question. Thank you councilmember penzvalto. Any questions from staff . Ive a quick comment. Thanks for coming. I appreciate it. From a year ago its really really different just having you here is different the environment about talking about this is different. Once the dj ko gets approved it be interesting to see where we are next year and having this conversation did so, thank you any other questions from staff . Thank you. Thank you for being here. I like to open up this agenda item for Public Comment. Do we have any Public Comment . Please, dont rush to the podium. Okay. Anyone on the bridge line . Okay. Thank you. We will go ahead and proceed to information item number nine. Collaboration in the Mental Health and criminal Justice System. I would like to welcome our presenter, Jennifer Johnson. Thank you for being here today. Thank you. Good afternoon and thank you for having me here today. I just want to start by saying i feel grateful to come to this body because a number of years ago i came to you and asked for your help and you graciously supported Behavioral Health court and the very first study that we did on our outcomes. I am Jennifer Johnson get with the Public Defenders Office become one of the founders of Behavioral Health courts am also a member of the crt work group. The funding that you helped provide us has led to our Behavioral Health court with leasing one of the first Mental Health court studies in the country. It has been cited hundreds of times in its web two a whole new world for us in terms of what we can do for federal grants, state grants, local grants it were even know going into private foundation funding. So, you give us what we needed. I dont say this that there is a reason because it leads to my conversation about cit. In 2011, i was asked by the Police Commission to attend some workgroups to talk about crisis intervention training. In my work in the Mental Health court it was honestly something i was well aware because its National Public policy. Its happening all over the country. It seemed to me to be unnatural extension of my work in Behavioral Health courts. It was a way to intervene at an earlier point in time before someone isnt enmeshed in the criminal Justice System. By the time to they get to my caseload that a felony charge. They the serious Mental Illness. They are really in a very bad place and undoing that damages very difficult. It seems to be the naturally that we would now start to move to how can we prevent this rather than just try to get our head above water with the mess we have created for ourselves. Because of some bad Public Policy thats went to this flood of people with Mental Illness on our streets and in the system. I will say, when i asked my office to fund my trip to memphis with the Police Department it was a little shocking. 10 years ago this would not have happened. The Public Defenders Office and the Police Department, if you be the news in San Francisco, come on, you know. Were not always the best of friends and thats the way the criminal Justice System is and will continue to be but as it relates to people with serious Mental Illness and other developmental disabilities, autism spectrum, whatever it may be, the battle lines are and should be different. We should all be coming from the same place which is that as a community, we dont want people who have needs that are unmet in the community to end up in our jails and prisons. The Public Defenders Office the District Attorneys office, the Police Department, we are all in what i call heated agreement about that. So, the importance of this collaboration cannot be under emphasize. What i am asking of you is to not only support cross Agency Collaboration but insist on it. It must happen. Because, if it doesnt do but were not to make the progress we want to make. I will continue to teach at crisis intervention training at the cit training. I also will continue to be part of the workgroup and part of the curriculum. That said, its not the easiest thing to walk into a room full Police Officers and introduce yourself as a public defender, but its a sign of change and i am hopeful that we are going to move forward and continue in the last two years has been said already devising such a shift in the way the Police Department is embracing us and really taking ownership. So, that said, while i have tremendous hope for cit and our collaboration, i think that there are couple of things that as a community we need to do or we are not going to succeed. I dont want to be dramatic or pessimistic but right now, if we are collecting data within our own agency well that is great. If we are not collecting data and comparing it across agencies, we are not there know where the gaps are. We will not know how to fill them and their government continue to exist. People will continue to fall through the gaps in the system. When someone is released from San FranciscoGeneral Hospital after they been on a 5150 and kept media date would do they go . When someone leaves the county jail at 2 am where do they go . These are the same people tapping into multiple systems and unless we start to compare our data and hold departments accountable for Public Safety outcomes we are not point to make any progress. Behavioral Health Courts is a Public Safety program. The police are not the sole protectors of the public. They cannot be. What they have been doing with is really more than they ever signed up for an more than they should have to. So all the training in the world isnt going to happen unless, number one, we know how to fill those gaps and in the second point is, and this i hear all the timethe Police Department need somewhere to take people. They need resources. Its really great if you just wait a situation. You take a person to the hospital and then there turned out the same day. They are back to where they were. We need to have resources and we need a place for the Police Department to go. You asked the question about other communities. We all traveled to memphis in 2011 to see what the memphis cit program look like. They have a centralized facility where police can go. Its police friendly. Its efficient. People are immediately in the hands of Mental Health system. We dont have that here. Unless we can really put some resources into that, i think were going to continue have the same problems. The problems of people Mental Illness on the street its not getting better. Its getting worse. Ive a higher caseload than it ever had before. Ive 137 clients. The acuity and the seriousness of the charges is not getting better. So, we have to not only focus on the quality and the content of the training, but also how the training fits in a larger context and we need to make policy in San Francisco that addresses more than just one single department. So, i just am not here to talk about this a paper that i wrote but i will just mention it. The District Attorney asked for a number of us to come together to professors, one from stanford, one from uc santa cruz. Myself and Kathleen Lacey was the director citywide Case Management forensics to make a proposal that instead of a jail what should we have. We put together about a 20 page proposal. Its not a proposal. Its really a concept paper i just would say its on the District Attorneys website. But, we workedi workedclosely with lieut. Malina and sgt. Colleen to make sure that what we were recommending was going to fill that need for the San FranciscoPolice Department. So the paper is called justice that heals and i apologize i did not get it to you ahead of time but its justice that he is promoting behavioral safeguarding the public and ending our overreliance on jails. So, thats really what i wanted to talk about today. Im happy to answer any questions or comments. Thank you. Will open up to counsel questions . Thank you so much. Its heartening to hear the progress thats been made especially along the cross Agency Collaboration to break down those silos to benefit this important [inaudible] people with mental disabilities. Im excited to read the concept paper. Certainly, i hope youll send is that resource he was absolutely, no problem. Thinks for sharing. Great work. Any other counsel questions . Staff . I just a quick comment thank you, jennifer being here. I actually have a paper and am happy to submit it to the councilmembers thank you. That would be great. Thank you. I the final comment as well. Its that we actually look at crime and police force in light of the larger social justice issues. This is, again, a way to really intensify the message that Disability Justice is really social justice. So, thank you for making that connection because its not always obvious. Youre absolutely right. As long as we continue to homelessness skyrocketing prices and displacement, and gentrification, those things are not going to get better. Theyre only getting worse and we see [inaudible] even larger number of people with either physical or Mental Health disabilities that arethey are vulnerable and are on the streets. And end up in jail. Yes. Its definitely in the 15 years and the Mental Health courts are i guess 13. 5, since we started it, this is the most acute and most rheumatic ive ever seen. So, ive seen a lot. So, i do think we have a window of opportunity where we have people working together like the public defender police and da to achieve something every dont take advantage of that record to lose that opportunity to make lasting meaningful policy change. All of our systems are impacted at this point. Thank you. Thank you. Id like to open up this agenda item. Is there any Public Comment . Anyone on the bridge line . Okay. Thank you. We will go on to our next information item and number 10, report from the disability disaster fairness committee. That would be me. Okay. The jdbc met on friday, september 2, 2016. The committee decided to begin a new alternate month schedule beginning in 2017. Priorities for the next year were discussed. Some of these items included installation of additional stryker evacuation chairs and creating assessment teams to visit people in shelters may have functional needs. The department of Emergency Management will test the functionality and capabilities about reach to the list to determine the effectiveness of reaching Partner Agencies during an emergency. The list itself will be updated prior to the deadline of the test which is tentatively scheduled for october shakeout exercise. Dem also gave an update about his plans to have an accessible communication coordinator as part of the joint information center. This position will assist in ensuring that disaster and emergency information is accessible for people with disabilities. Kathy ivanfor the Fulton Institute dinner presentation on open channel a device thats been tested to see the can assist people with functional needs during a disaster. The next dd pcp meeting is scheduled for friday november 4, 2016 from 1 30 pm3 30 pm in room 04 21 of city hall. We hope to see you there to join us. Now we will go back and resume to our next information item 11, report from the director of the Mayors Office on disability. Interim director, welcome thank you. Good afternoon. For todays report of a couple of items to report to the council on. First off, an update on ongoing elevator assessment of Single Room Occupancy Hotels or sros. Then after a brief update on the transition plan. As youre probably aware, late last year mot was passed with administering the 250 not to enter 50,000 ad back for assessments of elevators and sros. Initially, we collated and information on the sros from various sister agencies and departments including the Building Department, public health, and Human Services agencies. To prioritize elevators in disrepair and to include those with a known liability issues in the first phase a pilot phase of these assessments, we sought input from Community Groups and stas Emma Azzarello elevator workgroups your and use their survey data in identifying sros with major issues and liability issues. Other data sources included citations that were made by the Building Department as well as an ods on the complaint log. In may of this year, public works on called elevator consultant was provided notice to proceed with these assessments did the pilot phase included five sro properties and we are in the process of identifying an additional 25 though that next phase of the assessments. We hope to have all of these assessment reports completed by the end of the year. These elevator assessment reports provide the sro owners and Property Managers with a detailed condition reports recommending elevator components and systems that need repair or replacement. The report also includes estimates for repair work to improve usability and reliability for the residence. Typically, theres more kneejerk need to replace the elevator door systems. To address the increasing frequency oh yours and entrapments and longterm depending on the property and depending on the elevator in question, there are two likely options. One, renovating and modernizing the existing elevator to improve reliability and rider safety as well as comply with the act accessibility regulations and applicable elevator life and safety codes. In this option, some mechanical components could be refurbished and retained so as to keep the costs off the project down. The second option would be reconfiguring with a new elevator albeit with it being exact same existing chat to replace obsolete mechanical and Electrical Systems should of course, this would be the more expensive of the two options. An additional 500,000 at dr. Sro elevators was also included in this fiscal years budget. Currently, moh cd is coordinating with other arms including mod to increase protoprogram options for the utilization of these new funds. The second item is the next phase of ada transition plan projects we now pick up the next 10 years Capital Planning cycle. Just to go over some of the 88 burial removal projects that will be going into construction this fiscal year during there is a accessible parking and path of travel upgrade to the Golden Gate ParkSenior Center. That project, the design phase is complete and its currently awaiting ceqa approval. There is a new elevator plan to be installed at the maxine hall neighborhood clinic. This was part of the first phase of the transition plan where the neighborhood clinics were receiving accessible accessibility upgrades and some of them elevators. The third a new ramp at the entrance of the youth guidance center. Another project that should be in construction before the end of this fiscal year as well as the ramp to the entrance of the car auditorium that sf general. Finally, the installation of 16 stryker evacuation chairs at various city facilities. The project will go through the design phase by the end of this fiscal year include phase 2 of the payment of grades right outside city hall at the civic center plaza, europe i knew elevator at [inaudible]. Path of Capital Improvements at the Golden Gate Park conservancy of flowers and archery medal. And accessibility upgrades to rest rooms on each floor of the white ec. As these projects move forward, we will need to identify and prioritize the next phase of transition planning projects. In doing so, mod staff will of course collaborate with real estate to identify Neighborhood Community centers and other facilities that were not included in our first phase. As always, we would look to the council and the community to provide input on the prioritize of this phase of the transition plan would like to discuss those options at our next executive planning meeting. With that im happy to address any followup questions from the council or the public. Thank you. Be things. Counsel, any questions you want staff . Any Public Comment on these items . Any questions . Anyone on the bridge line . We are getting going to our next presentation, information item number 12. Sign up, the first automatic sign language interpreting software and i like to welcome our presenters, [inaudible] cofounder in nora zahl is good thank you for being here. I apologize about not pronounce your name. Thank you. So thank you for the opportunity. We are sparrow because the project is but i will start this way. Its our honor to be here. We have [inaudible] and the team after us will introduce the technology of the smart future but so let me jump into it. Usually i start with some introduction about sign language and how important it is to communicate in sign language and white [inaudible] to communicate with deaf people. Im pretty sure that all of you are aware that though let me start with a short personal experience. So, i know that sign which is important and this is an appropriate weight to communicate. I need an interpreter because im not very good in sign language. So once [inaudible] hes a member of our team get we had to wait two weeks because there were no available interpreters in budapest because it was flu season. That shows a big barrier in the communication. We really appreciate the work of interpreters. They are amazing people. There are too few interpreters and of course its very expensive. So we believe to reach the level of full accessibility we need the technology that enables communication between deaf and hearing people. We are [inaudible] and we are doing this. We evolved the first working [inaudible] interpretation system. Its a simple device, for cameras, actually and our software. A deaf person steps in front of the cameras and starts signing. The system interprets the signs into complete sentences. So you can imagine for the first [inaudible] a customer [inaudible] and the camera is installed into the desk and that scrabble can communicate with the system. The background communication will be enabled [inaudible] back into sign language. So, this is what we call the twoway communication and full accessibility for those people. We reach this level and we have the first working prototype. We can provide the tool into the hands of deaf people to communicate to everyone everywhere which we [inaudible] will mean real equality and excessive though. Ive a demonstration of the prototype. So, this is how it works. You can see our colleagues signing on the left. Of course during the [inaudible] see if you [inaudible] because the translation is made weight puts down his arm and finishes the sentence. So, of course, from the beginning we aimed to provide real solution and thats why we are any to translate on the sentence level. [inaudible] we address the whole change that needs to be taken into account [inaudible] not only the handshake, not to hands but the whole upper body and even facial exertion is very important. This is why projector is very unique. We collect all the information and thats why we need for cameras, actually. To process all the data needed for the translation. Second, [inaudible] you dont want to translate on the hands. We want people to communicate in all sign language. On behalf of our project recognition related to the Computer Vision technology. After gobble we need a translation engine and we also developed this did half of our team computational linguists because this is also a huge challenge to develop the Machine Translation with the two languages. So, i can summarize the technological part get we started six years ago and we really wanted to [inaudible] that provides interpretation between deaf and hearing people so that is why we [inaudible] all the aspects. This is thethis is the time on. This was a huge project. We started through a research grant. The project was funded by the European Union and through that we introduced a year ago the first working prototype the type of limitations that works with 300 signs. This is why the prototype was about a year ago when we introduced it could its limited dictionary but it translates exactly as out on the sentence level. After introducing we try to raise money and in this march you raised 1. 7 million to finalize the research and reach the product level. That means, we want to achieve the level of starting the first pilots next year. We will stepbystep we of a roadmap ahead of us and the first solution will be installed at the Customer Service desk work can be at an office where the conversations are limited. This helps in the translation of course because in the dictionary and whole domain is limited and this has to reach the level that is useful and can provide real translation. So, after raising money we attended a few conferences here. We are familiar with the fact that our [inaudible] different sign language is and we work with American Sign Language. We are based in budapest. And translate between [inaudible] so this is the first step and of course here is the most developed circumstances [inaudible] but after the first [inaudible] we will let you add other languages as well. We achieve a level of different sign language is which were also interested in. So we are working on the development now with our team. 25 people and the first level of the product will be a Customer Services that we will provide with our partners [inaudible] who know this market and who can help us in this process. Of course, we need feedback here we need the experience and they can also act [inaudible] if we install a system somewhere and the First Solutions fail we can add on it and we can provide a Service Provider perhaps. So this will be the start of the system but we are looking forward to the first pilots next year and we are here because we know that San Francisco is [inaudible] early adopter so we believe that the first system will be installed in this area. Just a few words about our team. Our team is about 25 people most are , all of them are researchers. Mathematicians and computational linguist. And of course we have [inaudible] was quite proud we have a colleague who moved to budapest. She [inaudible] she is a linguist expert and she joins our team and now she was in budapest to participate in this project. She is called don crossman and we are proud to have her aboard. So thats the introduction and am really looking forward to your comments and feedback. Thank you. Councilmember jan also, any questions be one thank you for coming here today. I think that this is a terrific concept could i looked on google i work at google and we provide the [inaudible] the only individual at any fortune 500 company so theres also a need for this. Certainly, also i definitely i see this value really in especially for startups smaller organizations that cant afford fulltime staff interpreters and there really is a barrier to employment for individuals who are deaf at Smaller Companies even if they are very well meaning, sometimes that funding is a barrier. Im interested to know a living more about the technology could you mentioned there are four cameras. What is the price point . What is your target once you launch this product, is it something that a Smaller Company would conceivably be able to afford or is that the much more expensive endeavor . The strategy behind using the four cameras was that no single device can provide accurate measurements but we believe that this technology [inaudible] fast so from a technical point of view [inaudible] so we really start our process after the 3d measurements. I believe that soon its going to be three cameras and one camera will be enough. That wont able them [inaudible] is we dont want to wait until the [inaudible] six years after the technology so we are ready to provide this but for the four cameras we are close to put install the first insulation as well. So [inaudible] not special cameras. It wont make it expensive. Its [inaudible] to discuss pricing. Thats why we know that ada there so Many Organizations and companies that can provide access and sign was. So the [inaudible] is strong but [inaudible]. We heard about this in the newark city Police Department. There is a death individual not serve. We believe that we need this technology [inaudible] situations are needed. The price of the hardware it wont be too expensive. Our model is a [inaudible] ekstrom. Thank you councilmember penzvalto. Questions from staff . Thank you for making the long trip across the atlantic. I opened the conference you are attending was a success, too. Thanks for the wonderful presentation. I did have a question about the hardware. If i understood you correctly, before camera requirements, is that for basic webcams and canadian position anywhere or how is that set up . How is the hardware set up. Could you elaborate on that wednesday [inaudible] camera vendors but [inaudible] one connect from microsoft. Its gesture control it provides 3d measurements and three additional simple webcams. Its trained other webcams but the reason behind the [inaudible] two cameras on the side and one on the top. Theoretically, when 3d camera in the front could be a enough because this is what we have with hours. But there are measurements [inaudible] it might be expected the location of the cameras are 5 feet because that enables to measure accurately. Just a quick followup question to that. In terms of i dont use the word competition, but competing technologies out there for the vri, where perhaps youre a live person connected to broadband providing the same were equal translation, how do you think signall willhow does sunall a better solution . Could you get to speak to that . Its a very good question. Thank you. Vri the providers they do something similar but they still need labor which makes it expensive and this is one of the reasons why vri is not use these days so even if [inaudible] so providing a technology will make this cheaper and maybe even more situations to be translated. The other reason that there are so many situations where deaf people want immediate [inaudible] even the interpreters are professional. Still in embarrassment and many conversations where the two sides dont want to involve any other person. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Im sorry. Thank you for coming. Glad we were able to work it out. I was fascinating. You talked about i think you said 300 words of vocab are you currently have. Im just curious how you went about choosing the vocabulary you chose . This is important task thats why we have gone on board and we also negotiate an agreement with [inaudible] university itself. Its a huge task to get tomorrow conversations and make statistics about the use of times and so its made by hand. Its huge task. Thank you. Any other questions from staff . I like to open up this information item. Any Public Comment at this time . Thank you. Im going to assume theres no one on the bridge line at this point. Okay. Thank you so much. We will go onto information item number 13. Roanokeva. Gov councilmeetings smart wheelchair controller platform. But like to thank our presenters markand margin for being here today. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Its a pleasure to be here in front of the council. We made a trip here to participate to showcase our technology but weve also been around the bay area visiting people investors, hospitals because were looking for partnerships. Then it was a price we got invited here and we were glad to come. I decided not to show you a presentation, a normal presentation good because i think a video can speak 1000 words so all show you the video and let you comment on that. Hopefully, you will like it. Youll enjoy it and you will see the benefits of this technology. Lets see. [video]. What we have here is we have developed the worlds first commercially available smart wheelchair controller. By smart wheelchair controller what we mean is it Software Upgradable and its integrated could weve integrated or number actually a few Dozen Services that are mostly available for highlevel injured people quarter critics and other injured people. And use it. What we have done we actually integrated them into one module one controller and thats what youre seeing is our special control if they had controller we use with a blank sensor. Actually functions as a mouse, which enables people to drive it will chairs and at the same time they can control the computer was your finished our note wheelchair you can control your computer. One of our really big goals was to enable it to work and feel useful again. So this way those people were otherwise confined to their beds they can actually do work, translate, do whatever you can do in all computer just by the time [inaudible] this is how we drive a wheelchair with it. Zach slater place [inaudible] technologies of chin controls, head arrays and other things that devices which we believe are quite outdated. We want to bring the 21st century solution to this [inaudible] because our competitors actually providing wheelchair controllers to wheelchair manufacturers are using 3040yearold technologies and designs and everything. It is something that we want to change and make it more userfriendly. So, i could go into details about the functions but we have integrated Environmental Control systems am a synthesizers, navigation and communication platform so you can controlyou can surf the internet you can make phone calls. All from your controller. We are actually working on a self driving wheelchair which is enabled by this platform which [inaudible] but the we we imagine it is wheelchair is aware of its surroundings and in the living room i can tell the chair, okay, chair, please take me to the kitchen and i dont have to touch anything and it will drive me to the kitchen. This is something thats very exciting for some of our test pilots, test users. And our partners. So we have partnered with a number of wheelchair manufacturers mainly in europe because we are in europe. But also we sellers and hospitals. We have Clinical Trials in the uk uk and hungry and weve now come to the us looking for partnerships. Mainly charities and hospitals, the va, veterans, and we are invited here so i hope it scored to be interesting for the community here. We have created this to bring great benefits to wheelchair controllers and we understand that is the normal wheelchair controller can be seen as just fixed so people can use their hands. They can drive but we have a number of features like electronic stability and things like that. Which are now very commonplace in lets say, cars, but nobody cared about will wheelchairs. There are solution. Nobody cared about stability of wheelchair driving we know how hard it it is to keep a Straight Line not only on services and things like that. All that is integrated into the wheelchair controller and article was also to free people from the burden of putting also sorts of auxiliary boxes. With sega but basic will chart control that we want some additional features. Currently what they do is take it to the wheelchair repair shop or your jeweler and they will fit another box and another cable. Another box and another cable. So we combined everything into one. [inaudible] so you have a touchscreen and the remote control. So you can be remotely set up. Maven of the possibility when youre sitting in your bed, lets say you can call the chair to yourself via remote control. You can sit in the chair. So, these are the features that we have something i want to share with you. I think thats a. If you have any questions am happy to answer them. Either quick question as far as clarity. When you are talking under different trials that test users would actually be with disabilities the one i was taking notes maybe i missed the people who are the people in the video testing out the controllers . This video was shot a few typing it was shot before and an exhibition that we have test pilots like to bring the video because its not on youtube but those test pilots are actually in the budapest Rehabilitation Center in the National SpinalInjuries Center in the uk group we are trialing its. Okay. Thank you. Do you have any questions the one i appreciate. Its a brilliant idea. I appreciate your working to update Outdated Technology and i think the idea of a soul serving wheelchair sounds very interesting. As a google employeeim definitely i would be a big proponent of that. I think its definitely Something Interesting and very possible so i commend you for that and wish you all the best good thank you. Staff, any questions . Mark, thanks for coming. The three links you sent with those the other [inaudible] no. It was just two other videos. I think this is the essence. Thank you for your present it. I have a question for you. Is your system integrated with a backup camera . Like many cars nowadays . We can do that. Weve trialed it with a back camera. We can do that. I do not mention that but we have options to actuallyokay a big difference to existing wheelchair controllers is that our architectures open in a way that you can actually plug in additional components not manufactured by us and by that usb ports. Weve tried backup cameras for the usb ports but our next step will be to make it able to support thermal centers in a way that we are planning to put pressure centers on two wheelchair mass. Other sensors in the arm resting because people who spend most of their time in a wheelchair will be able to monitor their life science or other signs of pressure, looking for signs of danger could maybe we can allow the person sitting in the we can alert the character mode we can alert the Family Member. We can file the information into the crowd and make use of it as ain these, what is it called the centers were they remotely monitor people. So, theres a lot of possibilities that we can do with this [inaudible] platform. In the video you demonstrated the person was driving a wheelchair in operating the computer. Was that done with either movement . No. The reason why we are not using moment is because there are other companies trying to do either movement. Theyre reasonably successful in manipulating computers but they never managed towe talk to some of the permanent developers of id technologies, and day for the past 15 years have not been able to manage to drive a wheelchair safely and reliably. The safety and reliability is the key here. Love all sorts of things like e. G. And other brain control and things like that but they never really took off because the technology is just not there to make it safe. What we want to create a safe and usable commercially viable product that can be put out there and people can safely sit in the chair and drive it. So we are using head gestures. Very tiny movements of your head. Most people can do it. You need to be very very seriously injured not be able to move your head. [inaudible]. But yes, thats the reason. We have the blank sensor. We are using blank it is actually facial gestures could you can use it with your your mouth. Actually thats a click and we can distinguish by the dozen Different Levels of clicking despite the tiny sensor we have their. So it enables people with using head gestures and your additional sensor to have a range of options to control the computer. Impressive. Do you always have to wear that ugly headpiece . Its not ugly its about style, two. We try to make it as subtle as possible. Certainly, better i think that a henna rate or [inaudible] which doesnt allow you to see anything or [inaudible] device. So we came up with this and you can actually hide it under a cap or hat were under your hair so it will be [inaudible] but we will working on the second version would be much much smaller. This Technology Works by putting stuff on your head and there are other technologies which put things around your head but thats not what we have here. Anyway, we tried and tested it with the number of users and ourselves specifically during it for days and it was a verythere were few but very few people that had palms with wearing it from an extended period of time. Thank you good thank you. Id like to open this information item for any Public Comment. Any Public Comment . Anyone on the bridge line . Okay, thank you good we will go want to Public Comment item number 14. Items not on todays agenda within the jurisdiction of mdc. I dont think of to dull the speakers is only 3 min. So do we have any Public Comment were not in association with todays agenda . Im going to say, no. Okay go ahead and close Public Comment information item number 15 we have any correspondence . No correspondence thank you, donna. Discussion item number 16 any announcements from councilmember . No, i do not have any announcements. So when going to go ahead and adjourn the meeting. I think everyone for being here. The presenters. Anyone viewing and i hope everyone has a nice weekend. Thank you so much for your time. Adjourn. [gavel] [adjournment] good evening, and welcome to the San Francisco board of appeals. Wednesday, september 14, 2016, meeting of board of appeals the presiding officer officer is commissioner president honda and joined by Community College and commissioner lazarus and commissioner wilson to my left is brad providing the board with any leg advice were were joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. This evening sitti