situation in this historic building about accommodation, and if you value without any bias to statements made by some of the supervisors, you will see [inaudible] is accessible. for you, who think you are an expert at ada, looking at this date, it is not ada-accessible. i would have to make it wide so that two wheelchair s could go in. if i try to consider that, then this desk would have to move backwards. so let s not blow this out of proportion, okay? let s not blow it out of proportion. because there are a few people who basing they are doing the right thing, who may think that speaking on behalf of all the physically challenged and i pay attention to all our deliberations, and you have not. you are not a commission, but as a body, you do serve the constituents who are disabled, especially the elderly. i appreciate that, and you should not give any cause to the press and to those who really do not understand about ada issues to have a debate that does not take us to a be
say no reason we cannot say that is what we want. i think that is a much better designed for people who are here all the time. as opposed to the folks just talking about it who really are not hear much. supervisor chiu: i have a couple of questions could you talk about some of the options you did look at over the last four years, and specifically some of the options to make the hire former president s dais less operational in the way the supervisor daly is suggesting? what i can tell you is that there were a number of approaches that were vetted to try to put some large blocks on the president s podium so it could not be used, to try to but bars across if so it could not be used. the challenge is that this is a historic landmark, and the historic preservation community is very committed to not marring the historic landmark, so there s nothing that could be down that would not be reversible. we would have to do nothing that could be done that would not be reversible. e
those groups that would be the time and effort, not generating the construction documents with this. supervisor daly: i know a little bit about how government works at this point. you know, look, if we had a design that has been half vetted, that is not the preference of some stakeholders but that actually would work for the board of supervisors and would be more accessible than the current design and we said this is what we want, i believe that unless there is friction between the mayor s office and the board coming to a decision, but if there is some agreement that we should deliver that, going through landmarks, going back to the disability community, this should not take that long. it is correct to say that the cost and the timeline to get that work done is not that significant, so i did not see that our hands are bound. it seems to me that we would not be delaying this worked to make the president s seat fully accessible, and we would be working in terms of our vision of