Captioning starting. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday may 17 in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the grove, van ness and mcallister street via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk street, entrance is provided through a wheelchair lift. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is real captioned and sign language interpreted. Please ask staff for assistance if needed. To prevent electrical interference with this rooms sound system and to respect everyone, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment period. There will be an opportunity for Public Comment at the beginning and end of the meeting, as well as after every item on todays agenda. Each comment is limited to three minutes and the council will respond to your co
Informed and something that everyone in the city supports, we couldnt implement it without changing state law either. Council member williams thank you. Long winded answer, but were with you. Council member williams just to clarify if i may, the city is engaged with California Public Utilities Commission on this, right . Yeah. I mean, its kind of a loaded plate there. Im not privy to those conversations, but i would say that the outcomes we have not had any different outcomes. Cochair senhaux i dont have a question, but a quick comment because the rules apply to me, too. I appreciate with regards to enforcement youre listening to our concerns around driver behavior. And second thing youre doing education awareness around, you know, safety rules for people on scooters, you know, safe streets. And on bikes. Because we all share the rightofway, we all share the sidewalks and everybody has to be respectable. We all have to share these areas. So people with disabilities and, you know, senio
Meeting remotely. Members of the public who are calling in, the number is 4156550001. Access code, 24855929788. Followed by password 7221. Press pound then pound govern and added to the pound and added to the line and listening mode only. When your item of interest coming up, dial star three to be added to the speaker line. If you dial star three before Public Comment, youll be added to queue. When its your time to speak, youll be prompted to do so and Public Comment is limited to three minutes per speaker and an alarm will sound when finished and speakers are requested but not required to statement their names. Sfgovtv, show the office of Small Business slide. Today shg well begin with a reminder that the Small Business commission is the public forum to voice your opinions and concerns of policies that voice in San Francisco. Before item one is called, i would like to thank Media Services and sfgovtv for coordinating this virtual hearing and helping to run this meeting. Call item one,
Streets by people who recognize the street is narrow to make it all most untraversable. They would come up to sussex street and by the time they are diverted two blocks out of the way, they are not pleased with their situation and they are not driving safely and i have seen a lot of near misses on sussex street. Chenry street is a throughstreet. It has two dedicated lanes. It was always the emergency route so now if there are emergencies with the slow street, the emergency vehicles have to take a longer time to get to where they need to go because they are diverted but cant go down the narrow streets. I actually agree with a lot of the people who were talking about slow streets that they actually are not as safe as they are proported to be and would not let my kids ride the bike down the middle of chenry because i would be worried cars angry cars would come down. Please think before you vote for chenry slow streets. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Next speaker, please. I have maps
There we are. Thank you so much. Good afternoon everyone. Hold on one second. Sorry. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting. Today is friday april 19, 2024. Today is athis meeting is broadcast to the public. This is a inperson and hybrid meeting and broadcast to the public at sfgovtv. It is open captioned and asl interpreted. Sign language interpreted. If you need any other accommodation, and have difficulty attending this meeting, please send an email to mod sfgov. Org. Or call 4155546789. Did i mention to say that my name is sherry albers you cochair for todays meeting . Thank you. The Mayors Disability Council Meeting Council holds ten Public Meetings per year, and they are generally held on the third friday of the month. For information about past or upcoming meetings, please visit the mod website at www. Sfgov. Mod. Our next regular meeting will be on friday, may 17, 2024 from 1 to 4 p. M. And it will also be a hybrid meeting and it will also be broadc