Have captions on the large screen here in the room. We are going to hold now until we can get this resolved. Thank you for your patience. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday july 18, 2014, in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchair and other persons with mobility devices. Access at the polk street carlton b. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for any extra assistance. To prevent interference and for everyone to focus, please silence all mobile phones. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment. You may complete a speakers card in the front of the room or call our bridge line. 415. 554. 9632. Where a staff member will handle request to speak at the appropriate time. The Mayors Disability Council meetings are h
The disability action. What came out of this hearing was a commitment to the citys budget propose by supervisor kim and supported by our mayor to set aside 250,000 for Revolving Loan fund and this fund will be available to sro Property Owners that can take out a loan, fix their elevator and payoff the loan and tap that fund. This is a very important first step to address the needs on the private side on privately owned buildings and this is in conjunction with the mayors upgrade for the housing properties. I think our policy makers have heard your advocacy and they are taking action. The next update is on the Mayors Office of disability website. I wanted to give you a quick report on our project. About 7 or 8 months ago i gave you an introduction to let you know that our office started conversations with our citys web master to do an overhaul of our citys website. Many of the citys web site is currently getting reformed. If you go to the Mayors Office on disability website today you wi
Rapids will be maintained from 900 feet to 2100 feet and those interested in walking a little bit further. Simon went into this liblt but all of our stops would be modified. There would be a minimum of eight 8 feet wide so they are all wheelchair accessible. Half of them are not accessible for the f. In the future all the stops will be modified to accommodate wheelchairs at all locations and in addition well be extending the islands to accommodate more buses. Some of the stops can only accommodate one or two buses at a time. On first street we have 85 burse in buses in an hour. By extending the bus stops to accommodate 3 or more vehicles at a time we can get people on the bus faster. When people are going in the same location. Going web, outbound, we know that people care where they are going, we want to make sure they get on the 5 or the 38 and that is the two buses which is our standard length throughout the city. This is a graphic that does not show up very well so i wont spend much
San francisco Mayors Disability Council meeting please stand by. Hello july 18, 2014, good afternoon, and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday july 18, 2014. Are we seeing captions. . Control room . Captions . Okay. Control room. Can we have captions on the large screen here in the room. We are going to hold now until we can get this resolved. Thank you for your patience. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday july 18, 2014, in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchair and other persons with mobility devices. Access at the polk street carlton b. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for any extra assistance. To prevent interference and for everyone to focus, please silence all mobile phones. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics pa
Website. I will keep you posted. My last item really is to give a shout out to the independent Living Resource Center in San Francisco about an Upcoming Event and ilrc sf is celebrating the 24th anniversary by signing the ada at the fully accessible headquarters. The details on saturday july 26, 10 a. M. 3 00 p. M. The public is very much invited. The location is on the ground floor on Howard Street between 4th and 5th street in the south market area. There is food, disability quilting, kid friendly events and will have sign language interpretation. I hope to see everybody there. So that concludes my directors report and at this point i would like to turn the microphone over to heather kittel or ada compliance coordinator to hear her reports on complaints and Service Request for accommodation. Thank you. Good afternoon, councilmembers and cochairs. Last month in june our office received 64 in inquiries and we provided information referrals, Service Request and ada technical assistance.