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 you included in your housing resolution but i wanted to give you an opportunity to know
Big issue for the Disability Committee and i know the counsel understand this because this is one of the pieces you included in your housing resolution but i wanted to give you an opportunity to know about a meeting that is coming up. You heard jessica here talking about a meeting next thursday that is addressing food security, but there is another meeting that same day on thursday thats a special meeting to talk about elevators and seniors and people with disabilities who live in single room occupy ancy hotels the time is 3 to 5 p. M. The location is the department of aging and Adult Services office, 1650 mission street. And we hope that some of you may be able to join that discussion next week. I have another announcement to make today, too, as i think many of the councilmembers may recall i served as one of the chairs on the accessible Parking Advisory Committee and our Councilmember Wong was also a member and it was made up largely of people with disabilities and we met for 6 month
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
Service to place in the lag u. N. A honda a hospital. I was shocked earlier in the fall when the department of Public Health emailed to me a copy of the rsp to outsource dialysi s. It had never been discussed or voted on by the full Health Commission. Indeed it had only been discussed at a Health Commission subcommittee and the joint Conference Committee which is com posed of several Health Commissioners and senior managers at sfgh i worked with some of the ucsf staff who staffed the renal center at supervisor cam poss hearing was in front of the Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee and supervisor campos asked roland pick ens chief operating officer if it had been voted on by the Health Commission. It was never discussed at the full Health Commission, they never took a vote on it. Most of the speakers during that october 17th hearing i should say all 40 of them opposed moving dialysis because of the burdens of the patients to face longer transportation times. Places a huge burden
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 you included in your housing resolution but i wanted to give you an opportunity to know about a meeting that is coming up. You heard jessica here talking about a meeting next thursday that is addressing food s