Budget budget to loot and invest in ways that reflect our San Francisco values my budget submissions and the boards deliberations in the coming weeks it city halls way to menu our priorities our city is facing challenges we cant deny that neighborhood crime is up and homelessness is visible and preying concern, the need for reform in our Police Department is evident i hear from resident about those issues they want safe and clean neighborhoods they want us to address homelessness they address it in a humane way 2 respect San Franciscos values and want worldclass City Services well, this budget addresses those needs it invests in answers to homelessness and housing, that invests in Police Reforms and Pedestrian Safety and quality of life in our neighborhoods and the wellbeing of our people were using this unique time to make the lives of all the residents and the city stronger homelessness is a top priority we all know that there are far too of people on the street in fact, in and aroun
You are 26 new parra transit vehicles are dedicated to parra transit advocates that have worked hard in the system. And you may have seen these vans going by in the community. They have a new striping system. They look real nice. They have big white stripes and they have red on the doors. Both sides driver and passenger. Parra transit advocate name and this is something that contributed to the program and who has sinced passed away. Also inside the van is a poster with a person in the picture who has it to honor in their community. Look for those because we are really proud of those and its nice to see someones name and who you may know. There is a Software System with parra Transit System and allows new scheduling and allows us on the on Board Computers on the van system. Now that those are all in place we have 120 on Board Computers and we have a van, the next step is branching out to a phone call system and we are piloting it now as we speak. This is for sf access riders who would l
Now battery trains bart trains do open from both sides. Its almost like i need to do 2 cases. If it opens from the bottom of that drawing, the left side of the car, as you board, you would have a double side ways facing green on the left and that would be for seniors and people with disabilities. A little bit to the right is a tripod pole right in the middle of that area but offset a little bit off center to open up a wider aisle. Sort of diagonally to your left about 45 degrees will be the wheelchair designated area. To your right as you end would be two blue side facing seats that would be general seating. Then about 45 degrees to your right as you enter are more of the green priority seats. So that gives you a general sort of 360 sense. We are thinking about ways to Better Community with people with Vision Impairment and blind folks, this diagram. I have recently as today been in touch with the lighthouse for the blind and talked with them about possibly doing an tactile version of
Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have Jessie Lorenz executive director, senior disability action San Francisco. All right. Thank you council and thank you mr. Wine stein for the wonderful presentation. My name is Jessie Lorenz and im the executive director of the independent resource living San Francisco. Im here to talk about an issue about but of the critical avenues of the issues of our center and also for the California Foundation for independent Living Centers. A statewide organization that is comprised of independent Living Centers from all around the state of california. We have some issues with the current bart car design and thats why we are here today. I want to premise my comments by saying barts got a problem in this community. Im hoping when all is said and done, we can get to a place where we are all talking to each other an listening to each other with more clarity and more insight and more respect. The Disability Community is broad, vast and the m
Disability council. Im trying to bring up their significant agencies represented working with seniors and people with disabilities having the most passengers. We didnt hear about it. There is a defect, a flaw. Even in earlier feedback. Myself and janet were part of people among a focus group asked about seat design. We said keep the poles by the door. That was before 2011. I dont know what happened to that focus group and response and feedback. The point is they are helpful, not just for people to hold onto but when you are sitting near the door, it helps to have a pole to pull yourself up rather than trying to leap yourself up from the seat. The pole have a value to us as well as those that need something to hold onto while standing up. Thats been ignored. Im going to suggest to julies question about the response to Emergency Needs to be taken care to. Thank you. Next John Alex Lowell with the fdr democratic club. Thank you. I have drawn a proposal. May i lay it down to be displayed f