[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] good morning. This hearing will come to order. Let the first start by thanking secretary kerry for being with us today for this second hearing on the ratification of the crpd, and i think, first, you have the thanks of us for the incredible work you have been doing on behalf of our country, and your presence today sends a strong message about the importance of this issue. We appreciate you taking the time to come back to the committee to support the treaty. We convene the second hearing on ratification, having received the support of thousands of people and organizations, all of whom are looking for us to finally take the treaty over the finish line. We have received compelling letters of support and Companies Like adobe, cocacola, nascar, and the Consumer Electronics association with over 2000 member committees. The u. S. Chamber of commerce, and i believe the chamber is re
Trapped in their homes or trapped outside of their homes but not able to go to the store or appointments or to visit or to engage so an elevator out age really has a big effect on people. By raising this issue im not trying to single out the Housing Authority because the Housing Authority is really just one example of a Property Owner that is faced with this problem. What we have in San Francisco besides multiStory Building is a lot of older building and the average life span of an elevator is about 35 years and many of our buildings are much older than that and you will see this problem with elevators is repeated in privately owned buildings as well as publicly owned buildings and the challenge to try to find the funding for elevator replacements is really whats coming up and i raise this issue because i think that elevator repair and replacement is rapidly becoming the next big issue for the Disability Committee and i know the counsel understand this because this is one of the pieces
Information item, report from the disability Disaster Preparedness committee. Good afternoon, the Disabilities Commission met. The first meeting held march 26,27, and 28 transportation was one area of many exercises. It was Community Based organizations and city and county government, muni and private enterprises to solve the problems with transportation during a disaster. The next topic the committee took up was the review of the city shelter database. Which roughly 50 percent of the city shelters are fully accessible. Many others are unusable but not ada compliant. There were many efforts to make shelters fully accessible or at least unfavorable for people with disabilities in an event of a disaster. There are three categories of shelters in the city. One is City Owned Properties and schools, two churches, three, private schools and the work base organizations to work on accessibility issues. There are no requirements for private schools to be accessible. The committee thought import
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
Additional room for a dog to take up enough space for 1 person. So im wondering if there was some ability underneath to provide underneath the seats enough space. I have not entered a car yet with my dog. I do have a disability and have a service dog for balance. I would appreciate any consideration you can make for those of us that require dogs to be functional. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any other comment on the bridge line . Okay. Moving on. Going to agenda item no. 8. Information item, report from the disability Disaster Preparedness committee. Good afternoon, the Disabilities Commission met. The first meeting held march 26,27, and 28 transportation was one area of many exercises. It was Community Based organizations and city and county government, muni and private enterprises to solve the problems with transportation during a disaster. The next topic the committee took up was the review of the city shelter database. Which roughly 50 percent of the city shelters are fully acces