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
Microwaves and refrigerators and not real cooking facilities in room and see lack of Community Kitchens dont exist or they are not open and clean and useable and so many people on ssi who cant afford rent and food and i hope that some of you are planning to attend and you may want to join us thursday around 10 Oclock Somewhere around the second floor. Thank you. Thank you. Okay back to my report. Ive become aware of a piece of legislation and this is close to my heart because im chair of the disability Disaster Preparedness committee. But any way, ab 918 went through the legislation this summer and its the counsel of Emergency Services act which sets forth the duties of the office of Emergency Services with respect to Emergency Preparedness response activities within the state. This bill would require that the state update the state emergency plan to include proposed best practices for local government and non governmental entities to use mobilize and have evacuate people with disabili
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 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 accessi
Thank you. Is there anymore Public Comment . Seeing there is no more Public Comment. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for the opportunity. We will move on to team 11, discussion and possible action team. The council will discuss a possible adoption of a resolution regarding principles and over all recommendations for the construction and maintenance and financing of housing for people with disabilities and seniors. The Disability Council formed a Small Working Group to develop a resolution. Now i would like to turn it to councilmember chip. Thank you. We started on this resolution i believe in june of this year after about 10 months of presentations on various topics for people with disabilities and for seniors. In july we presented a draft version at the mdc meeting and that was, and we received Public Comment at that time. We went back to the table and met with several Community Based organizations and got their input and then we reconvened and we rewrote the resolution and w
Velshi starts now. Welcome back, im ali velshi. It has been five months since the novel coronavirus, which causes covid19 was first transmitted to humans, and since then more than 102,000 people have died of the disease. New york is now the covid capital of the world. The state itself has more confirmed cases of the disease than any other country reporting positive test results. The death toll in new york now stands at 7,844. Heres how several er residents at new york citys st. Barnabas hospital described the situation. Ive into intubated more patients in the last week and a half than six months before this all started. Were seeing the worst of the worse. Were seeing the 20yearolds, the 30yearolds j it looks like a war zone. Our Emergency Department has turned into an icu. Essentially the hospital is turning into an icu. What normally goes into like a small area of the hospital comparatively to the rest of the hospital is now essentially the entire hospital. Joining me now live from ne