>> >> >> >> >> >>supervisor london breed: good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors for september 6, 2016. madam clerk, please call the roll. >>clerk, please call the roll. supervisor avalos, present, breed present, supervisor campos, present, supervisor cohen, present, supervisor farrell, present, supervisor kim, present, supervisor mar not present. supervisor peskin, present. supervisor tang, present. supervisor wiener, present. supervisor yee, yee not president. madam president, you have a quorum. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. all right. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> i have none to report. >>supervisor london breed: colleagues any changes to the minutes of july 12th, july 19th, july 26th, august 2, 2016, regular board meeting minutes shall or july 19th, july 28th, july 28th, july 29th, july 29th, or july 29, 1035, a.m. special board meeting minutes? seeing none, is there a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor mar and peskin. can i take those without objection. those meeting minutes are passed after public comment. now, madam clerk, let's go to the consent agenda. >> items one and two comprise of the consent agenda. these items are considered routine unless removed separately. >> please call the roll. >>clerk: on items 1 and 2. supervisor tang, aye, wiener, aye, supervisor yee, yee aye, supervisor avalos, aye, supervisor breed, ay! campos, supervisor farrell, ay! supervisor mar, ay! supervisor peskin, ay!. 11 ayes. those ordinances are passed. >> item 3 >>clerk: ( reading code )... >>supervisor london breed: colleagues can we take this colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. without objection this item is approved. >> item 4. ( reading code )... >> madam clerk, please call the roll. >>clerk: supervisor tang, aye, supervisor wiener, aye, supervisor avalos, no, campos aye, breed aye, farrell aye, supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor peskin. aye. there are 10 ayes and one no with supervisor avalos in the dissent. >> the motion is approved. please call item 5. (reading)... ( reading code )... >> all right, seeing no names on the roster call the role. >>clerk: [roll call vote taken] there are 11 ayes. >>supervisor london breed: the motion is approved unanimously. all right. let's go to -- >> madam president? >> supervisor yee? >>supervisor norman yee: seeing that we are ahead of schedule, i would like to ask that we take the consent votes. agenda votes. >> you voted on the consent agenda, supervisor yee, you did not vote on the meeting minutes. we can rescind that vote. >> please. >> supervisor yee has made a motion to rescind the votes on the meeting minutes. colleagues, can we take that without objection. the vote on the meeting minutes have been rescinded. is there a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor mar, second by supervisor yee. colleagues, can we take that without objection. without objection those meeting minutes for the board meetings and special meetings will be passed after public comment. all right. madam clerk, let's skip over to committee reports. >>clerk: items 12 and 13 were considered by a special meeting at 9:30 a.m.. the committee forwarded these two items as committee reports. item 12. 10. 160880 [hearing - street vacation order - parkmerced development project] hearing to consider an ordinance (file no. 160851 item 13, madam present? >> no. item 12 is fine. colleagues, can we take this colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. without objection this item same this is adopted. item 13. >>clerk: 13. 160900 [assessment ballots for city-owned parcels - central market community benefit district - modify the management plan and engineer's report] sponsor: kim >>supervisor london breed: colleagues can we take this item colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. without objection this item is approved. >> supervisor wiener. >>supervisor scott weiner: thank you. today i'm introducing legislation that is part two of legislation that i authored and the board unanimously passed this year. the solar rooftop mandate. you will recall that the legislation requires that for buildings between one and 10 stories, the roof tops must be covered by solar panels. this is a first step in the future for the city to adopt this requirement. the other part of the legislation is that we initially intended to combine the 2 pieces of legislation and for a variety of reasons, we split it into two. this particular legislation will allow the solar rooftop requirements to allow for a green roof instead. the solar roof requirement requires that 15% be covered by solar panels. this legislation allows that instead of the solar panels, that 30% of the rooftop can be covered with a green roof. we expect that many of the developers will have a combination of solar and green roof tops. green roof tops are an in incredibly important piece of viable sustainment in the future in san francisco. using rooftop space to have more greenery will have many benefits. it will help clean the air and absorb carbon and in addition green roof tops absorbs storm water in order to reduce the amount of storm water run off for the combined sewer systems and solar increase the energy efficiency in buildings. we worked closely with the department of the environment and the planning department on this legislation as well as other stakeholders including spur and i like forward to moving this legislation forward. i want to thank my office for working on this and in particular on this power and the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor yee? >>supervisor norman yee: i just want to say some good news since we met the last time that i'm now a first time grandparent of a granddaughter born august 18th. [ applause ] the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor yee, supervisor avalos? >> submit. >> supervisor campos. >>supervisor david campos: i have a bill senate bill 489 to prevent properties in detention facilities that require them all to provide human rights. since 2003, more than 100 people have died in immigration detention here in the united states. many of these deaths were caused by a lack of medical care, including a failure to adhere to basic detention standards. privatization is driving over in -- incarceration to maximize their profits. 72% of beds in the u.s. are operated by private business companies. local lock ups where facilities are incentivized to fill beds are written into contracts including here in california. heavy lobbying in california by private corporation such as cca have increased this detention and throughout the country. this bill will show those more accountable and legal standards for immigrants that are suffering under these conditions. this bill 1289 will make california the first state in the country to create enforceable standards related to immigration in detention facilities. sb 89 and lgbt rights and other arenas. when it comes to lgbtq detention they are cast to the side. they are subject to the same abuses as other immigrants and higher rates of solitary confinement and sexual abuse. this provides additional protections for the members of the lgbtq facilities. 1289 will be able to protect those who are regularly submitted to this type of treatment and transgender detainees. such practices affect mental health and other traumas. i ask you to support this bill. i would like to thank avalos, mar, cohen for your support. the second item. i would like to remember gloria best. she was born in detroit, michigan, september 6, 1927. she has three brothers, two sisters, three children as well. allen, dana, paul and two grandchildren. jerald and doreen. gloria loved going to church and dancing and arts. she worked as a medical assistant and raised her three sons. she was crowned in 1951. sadly she developed lung cancer a few years ago and passed away friday august 12th. she was a community leader who dedicated so much time to the holly courts community and served for many many years. she always had a smile on her face and a biggest heart for her neighbors. she always attended the meetings until she was no longer physically able to. her presence will be missed by that community especially by residents of the council team and our committee in holly ports. her memorial is wednesday at 5151 court land avenue. rest in peace gloria. lastly, in memoriam a legendary artist from mexico, an icon really of mexican culture. juan gabriel. he passed away a few days ago. he was born alberto aguilera in michoacan. his mother was committed to a hospital and unable to support her family, she placed juan gabriel in a home when he was 5. he met juan contreras, a deaf musician who played in a band. he chose the stage name in honor of both his father and mr. contreras. juan gabriel said the pain of his childhood was through his music. i think it's hard to explain to people who don't know who juan gabriel was. how in a country that is so macho and has very typical views of what it means to be male, straight, to be a man and what it means to be human, that in that country, someone as flamboyant who was essentially as gay as you got would become a national hero. and even though he never technically came out, through his his work in a very subversive way. he challenged our notions of sexuality, masculinity and femininity and to really educate an entire country. what is remarkable about juan gabriel is you see in a family generations that have been impacted by him. even though he was a mexican artist, his influence went beyond mexico and it's safe to say that the entire spanish speaking world has been mourning his loss. i have had the pleasure and honor of seeing juan gabriel in concert. i could never understand how, and i think as a gay man, i can say this word. one of the biggest queens that i have seen have had the following of some of the most macho tough guys around. that was really the artistry, the humanity and the unique nature that juan gabriel was about. i know that a lot has been said about him, but as a gay man and as a latino gay man, i especially want to thank him for making it possible for so many of us to actually be accepted in a culture that at times seemed apprehensive about sexuality and certainly questioned whether or not you could be a man and still be effeminate and flamboyant. juan gabriel was an example at how at the end of the day, the connection that we as humans have with one another and the ability to relate to one's experiences really transcends our own biases and stereotypes. with that i want to do an in memoriam to juan gabriel for when he meant in mexico and music throughout the world and art throughout the world. may he rest in peace. >> thank you, supervisor campos. supervisor cohen? supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor mar? >>supervisor eric mar: thank you, i want to congratulate the new grandpa, norman yee. congratulations. coming up this sunday is the annual 5k run by kaiser permanente. sunday september 11th from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.. it's in the beautiful mountain lake park that's been upgraded thanks to neighbors. they run along the sea cliff to the edge of the richmond to linkin park. please join us. it raises money for richmond community based organizations like ymca. it's fun. many people walk it as well with family. enjoy one of the most beautiful places on earth in san francisco. also jog in the fog.com. i want to give a special shout out to christy, and the staff from ymca and many of us putting the effort into building this community in richmond. >> and i want to thank supervisor wiener and peskin for championing this issue of other periods on this board. these management plans are critical in ensuring that large special events for example the outside lands and the upcoming bluegrass festival don't create unpleasant traffic jambs and delays for residents in the district around the park. in march of 2015, this board passed a similar resolution to adopt the commuter shuttle operators. san francisco parks and recreation has in it's application process for a transit management plan. the mass transit vehicles have a significant effect provided that operational cost and permitting be enforced and monitoring the events are put in place. transportation plans that shuttles must not adversely affect transportation. shuttles that have participated to and from large events will likely result in the disruption of ordered mass public transit and prevent rider access to mta vehicles because there is a likelihood of a disruption of a labor dispute involving a private shuttle service as is providing for labor harmony with respect to their shuttle amenities. the goal is to prevent unnecessary disruption. i'm urging this resolution to speculate the process in requirement of labor harmony conditions with respect to the shuttle providers and completion of the application process to where an applicant can ensure labor harmony to minimize public transit. it also urges the recreation and parks department to label it broadly so it's not affected by the method of labor harmony. i urge your support. the rest i will submit. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor pes kin? >>supervisor aaron peskin: thank you. today i'm submitting a resolution to provide for earthquake relief to communities of italy in the wake of the devastating earthquake in central italy that took almost 300 lives. as a city that is situated on the san andreas fault, we know the outpouring that we received from all over the world, we have the history of coming to the aid in cities around the world in 1991 and in 2001 where we appropriated funds for earthquake relief. what comes around, goes around. today, i'm introducing a supplemental ordinance for the amount of $100,000 for earthquake relief to be vetted out by experts of the department of emergency management. i know we have a representative from the italian consulate today. i would like to acknowledge him for his work and his colleagues work in acting quickly in organizing relief efforts here in san francisco and around the world. i ask for your support for this appropriation and please help spread the work about the on going relief efforts that are happening in san francisco. i specifically want to acknowledge those who put together in the italian athletics club which was very well attended where i was asked to identify how our city could help in the relief efforts and this is my answer to that. speaking of earthquakes and seismic safety, i think we are all aware of the revelations in regard to the building tower and asking for seismic fitting in all the zones. the city has rezoned city for height and death -- depth and would like to know about the city requirements and would like to have everything done to the highest of building standards. finally i would like to adjourn this meeting in the memory of three individuals. first one of san francisco's characters warren hinnkle, his memorial service was last week. it was a vivid reminder of the indelible mark he left on our city. he was a raucous and flamboyant editor and left a powerful voice in the 1960s and later champion the voice of the investigative and satirical journalism. he was 77 years old and survived by his daughters hilary and pia. i would like to also adjourn this meeting in the memory of delia, a great philanthropist and involved in many san francisco causes. and finally, a nun, who spent decades organizing support for refugees as well as organizing protest against the united states military training center for latin american military leaders and the rest i will submit. >> thank you. madam president, no other supervisors on the roster. >> thank you, add my name to the warren hinnkle in memoriam. >> can we do the in memoriam for warren hinnkle on behalf of the entire board? >> so moved. >> without objection, we will adjourn on behalf of warren hinnkle. with that, this brings us past 2:30. that brings us to commendations. i'm happy to present the first commendation. we have a special guest of the san francisco's team. the san francisco giants, the president and ceo larry baird is here today along with other members of the giants for this special presentation. i'm going to ask mr. behr to come up along with the special director and counsel for the giants, jack behr along with the government relations manager. thank you all for being here. now, we are not here to present the san francisco giants with an award because they continue to win world series, we are here to present them with an award because of the work that they do for the community on occasion of the san francisco giants named humanitarian awards for san francisco. the board and county of san francisco extends its highest commendation in san francisco to the giants for a decade of community outreach including those through the junior giants program. today, the san francisco giants as we all know, they are an integral part of an institution in the city arriving here in 1958. an mlb baseball team has the opportunity to be an informative voice to create improve human life across the city. it established the non-profit giants community fund in 1991. the giants community fund collaborates with san francisco giants in the use of baseball as a form to support under served youth and their families to promote a health life. this is a great baseball program with 25,000 participants statewide and over 1300 of them in san francisco. the flagship program of the giants community fund, called the junior giants, was created as a free non-competitive program for under served girls and boys and girls ages 5-18 to specifically help in the cycle of violence and in impoverished areas in the city. while baseball participation has increased since 2008, has increased 52% in participation since that time. that is truly amazing. the junior giants program offers a chance to learn the basics of baseball while discovering the importance of self-esteem and respect and educating and which includes confidence, integrity, leadership and teamwork. in incorporating fundamental life -- lessons and removing bullying. the program is implemented thanks in partnership to the bayview hunters point ymca, the mission ymca and the san francisco recreation and parks department as well as many other community organizations. giants, posey serves as a junior giants commissioner and the other giants players alumni and front office staff contribute to the success of the program. it is because of this extraordinary success of the community fund and the reach of the junior giants that the san francisco giants was named the recipient of the 2015 commissioner's award for a philanthropic for manford jr.. this program was recognized once again this year when the san francisco earned the 2016 sports man of the year award presented by espn that honors legends, teams, individuals and those that use the power of sport to make an impact on communities. it was an amazing honor. we are so fortunate to have not just an amazing team, but amazing folks who care about doing what's necessary to give back to the community. so on behalf of the city and county of san francisco and the board of supervisors, we commend the san francisco giants for its work in this regard. thank you very much for being here today. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, president breed. i would like to thank president breed and the board. it's a humble and honor to receive your commendation and the humanitarian award. it really is a testimony to the people that we have as giants. i think many of you have worked with them. these three wonderful folks on the frontline. peterson, as mentioned the head of our foundation, roscoe maps, who does a lot of work for us in the community, we have jack behr who handles the general counsel and works with our board and city hall. i think that one of the things that really stands out to us in today's world and it's a world that has a lot of challenges to be sure. is that sports has a unique role and opportunity to inspire and in communities. it's a spirit of gathering in town square, a community center. there are numerous occasions where people come to our ballpark not just to celebrate games or championships but also to support for aids epidemics, the human tragedies and to honor tens of thousands of kids that come to many games with the junior giants. these are kids from low income neighborhoods. they have experienced not just the joy of baseball but life -- lessons of growing up in a challenging environment. when i think about all the heart wrenching events that occurred in our country and in san francisco, that we as an industry have the responsibility to step beyond our comfort zone and to do more than the games, but ask the question, how can we help, how can we unite communities? i'm very proud of the giants who are constantly asking questions. we ask that you come with whatever needs you have so that we can help the community. thank you very much. [ applause ] [ applause ] >> >>supervisor london breed: all right. now we will have our second commendation from supervisor john avalos. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you, president breed. now i would like to commend president berl. please come to the podium. [ applause ] berry has worked for the city for 33 years with the last 20 at the san francisco public utilities reviewing commission and complying with complex rules and environmental regulations and something that we here at the board of supervisors are very familiar with. categorical exemptions under ceqa. he started in november of 1983 in the planning department where he followed leads to verify complaints such as illegal commercial uses in residential areas and other property inspections. over the years, he has helped the city and reviewed every city complex rules and regulations. when he first started working at planning, the planning code was one volume with about 400 pages, and today it's three volumes covering more than 2,000 pages and counting thanks to many of the board of supervisors. in 1996, barry moved to the san francisco public utilities commission environmental management where he deals with environmental review documents for a variety of san francisco public utilities commission projects. he also prepared permit applications for the city's planning department in regional and state resource agencies permits such as the bay conservation and the valley commission. before joining the city, barry worked for the u.s. department of interior at the heritage conservation and national park regional office in san francisco. he was the regional environmental review officer assessing environmental impact statements for compliance with the historic preservation act in land and water conservation fund. barry is a third generation native san franciscan with 2 degrees. a masters degrees in public administration earned at the age of 50 and a bachelor's degree in theology. he lives in ingleside with his wife and four cats. nina, margaret and goldie. are they here? they are working in the district helping to build a non-profit with home safety and repair projects. in district 11 there have been so many projects helping so many elderly and disabled residents. it's great that you have been involved in this work. he also leads free tours through san francisco city guides. with his retirement, we hope to see more of you out there as volunteer and with lending your expertise. you are welcome to say a few words. >> thank you very much. thank you president breed, supervisor avalos. i would like to thank the members of this board for this great honor today. as a son of a commissioner and the security administration, i was destined to serve the city that i love. those that i have known for 30 years in the county of san francisco. it's been a privilege to be a member of this government. in my retirement, i will continue to be a volunteer to serve this community, not only with city guides and rebuilding together but involved in other activities every time i turn around. i do have to say it was a little hard act to follow the san francisco giants, but i am definitely honored and humbled by your recognition of my service to the city. thank you again and i will continue to help this community as much as i can. [ applause ] side >>supervisor london breed: thank you again for your service mr. pearl and congratulations on your retirement. [ applause ] >> okay, now we will return to our regular business and go back to, madam clerk, let's go to public comment. >> >>clerk: at this time the public may now address the entire board of supervisors for up to 2 minutes on items within the just -- jurisdiction of the board. without addressing items 16-21. pursuant to the board's rules, please direct your remarks to the board as a whole, not to individual supervisors and the audience. speakers using translation will be given twice the amount of time. if you would like to use documents on the overhead projector, please take it to sf govtv. first speaker? public speaker: on the screen, is from your own website, the san francisco charter section 2108 states that the board of supervisors will liberally provide for the public's access to their government, meetings. that is an example of frank herbert's quotes politics is the art of appearing candid. >> it was reported in june that this question was asked by supervisor cohen. i would like to take this opportunity to answer the supervisor's question sharing it with all members of this board. >> sometimes when dealing with city representatives and they are antagonistic condescending and over all it is necessary to reply in kind. this including five board of supervisors, it is the public's right to access documents which is completely critical. president breed, supervisors farrell and mar don't give a damn about your rights under the law. if you make a public records request, they will not apply. when you file a complaint, they won't reply to the task force. they won't show up to the hearing. the only time they show up when they go to the ethics commission. >> next speaker, please. public speaker: our people leading them to follow-up the holy way and to engage onto holy works of mission. therefore with collective efforts come to save the peaceful kingdom. certainly we can depart from human forces of destruction and stopping forward to joyful true success. the recovery of true self nature and spiritual accomplishment of family, social are prisoners of all aspects of achievement as well as two principals. with the protection of human nature. good virtues and true principal. an establishment of great one holiness. to enhance people. we can achieve great prosperity for holiness for the new century. amen. >> next speaker, please. public speaker: sf govtv. please begin, sir. i will start the timer. >> you know what i'm thinking? i wish i could find a way where i could give this book into the hands of everybody in the united states. that's what i'm thinking. and honestly, roger stone is the answer to my prayer. roger stone has known donald trump for 40 plus years. he's the guy that actually got him to run for president. you say how is he the answer to my prayers? for years i have been holding up a sign on street corners asking the public to google the interview with senator john decamp. the franklin cover up has been quoted four times in chapter 27. praise god, thank you, lord jesus. when you pray, shut the door and pray to thy father. i have been selling this book in salas. we have a situation here where basically he's going to indict the four presidents. i pray that you protect donald trump and i pray that you make him the next president. lord, i pray that the christians will get out and preach the gospel. >> next speaker, please. public speaker: my name is charles kessler. i live in supervisor kim's district. over the weekend i had a domestic violence issue. i called 911 in the afternoon. where i had an individual holding a knife to my neck. on my right and left-hand i have visible wounds from pulling the knife from the individual. no officer responded to this. i walked to the police station where i verbally assaulted the officer where i found out that only 4 were assigned to the beat. ms. breed, i called your office. i have spoken to her numerously. i want to know why the officers are being transferred out of the station? i can't give you names because the officers are afraid for retaliation. i have gone to the police commissioner and the police union and how you can over ride their contract amazes me. no individual should have to do that. because of this incident and because of this report, i will probably lose my housing. >> thank you. next speaker, please. public speaker: hi, good afternoon. my name is kate west. i live in the upper haight. in june i was given a notice that my rent was going up from $3105 to $8500. that happened august 6th. some friends pitched in. i got a 3-day to cure for august. i haven't been able to come up with the difference from $3,000 to $8500 for this month. i'm expected to -- and this is unlawful. i have been in my apartment for 22 years. in my neighborhood i have given lots and lots of hours of community service for that time. i help babies at san francisco general intensive care unit. i was in that program. i sat with dying people at john hospice for years. in that program, i have given a lot of service because i believe in it. but i don't know how do you justify taking a woman's rent. it's just a railroad plot. it's not a special big deal thing. how do you justify $8500 from $3105. i'm going down. i have no more money to give my attorney and he can't work anymore without money. he can't do anymore bono for me either. i'm terrified. i'm just a woman trying to keep her home. i came here because i want you to see me. >> thank you, mam. next speaker, please. public speaker: thank you, president breed and all. my name is christopher dall and i live at 600 howard. still above sea level. your crohn'sey faction has lost consistent supportive members from the mayor to the super kroeney is losing goals. of course painfully reserve the national coalition testimony republican party and complaint they have lost their majority but thought they still deserve to rule. member wiener was loudly shocked and dismayed by arithmetic by democracy that he is comfortable with. i speak with charming consortiums of arguments in the bay police accountability measures. the crohn'sey's try to hold sf p.d. liable. the anti-crohn'sey tried to strip him of the powers. in the process, the city were the losers. we the people in general and the police community in particular all deserve to be able to share confidence in a police force that is civil, sustained, professional and prepared. but you didn't even come close. we all lost. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. public speaker: good afternoon, all ladies and gentlemen. >> mam, please speak into the microphone. thank you. public speaker: i'm here to protest and tell all the supervisors how this law no transparency is deadly. my neighbor doesn't let my contract to finish their work on do their job. it has been holding for almost 3 years since my house was in renovations. most san francisco residential houses are built side by side and attached to each other. if some ill or unreasonable neighbor are using this law to prevent people to maintain the other people's property, it's not right. one of the inspector of the department told me there is a chapter 14 on first floor. that is called california building maintaining code. but i can't find any supportive information beyond the department. i'm the property owner. i have the right to maintain my building. i don't have my house to be damaged. please help me to my contractor get this done. i need the painting and repair. these are the pieces that are missing. i need to fix it. my neighbor to cross the line. >> ma'am, please use the microphone. >> thank you very much . >> thank you. next speaker, please. public speaker: hello, i think you guys all know me. a lot of you do. here is the conundrum real quick that i ran into. it took me a long time to get my ssi money on a card. someone stole my card, right? so i have been trying to recertify my ssi. they are telling me i need to have an address and i tell them i don't have an address. they say without an address i can't get my ssi anymore. and without money, how can i get an address? they told me there is nothing i can do. the money is in the account but i can't get it because i don't have an address. so some of the things i would like to say, you always support the fire department because let's see, yeah, can you do a quick thing on here if i put it down. the fire department, they are the guys that take care of the fires. there is one guy outside. nobody gives him a commendation. he was the guy that marches outside. his name is dennis. i like him. he's a good cop. and then i do cartoons. this is my take on kaepernick. i don't know if you saw it. for sports fans, that makes him look kind of skinny. anyway, all of these things i do just running around for months because i haven't been able to get my ssi completely back. it's a conundrum. i have no idea how to solve it. i'm not politically conscious. can someone give me a trump button. i don't have one. does anyone have a button in their office. i love you all. i really do. by the way, i like the mayor too. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please. public speaker: good afternoon, supervisors, peter war field, executive director of the library association. on april, the library commission met and as part of the report heard about a little thing called "750 bran street lease". they didn't vote to approve this deal which is good for 25 years at a million dollars a year rent and a million dollars of improvements. the minimum term initially is 10 years with 35-year renewels. we have this handout that came to the library commission meeting on august 18th which i would like to show you. well, it needs to be blown up. one of the bullet items say potential space for friends of the library. and then it goes on to say that the lease was approved 2 weeks earlier by the board of supervisors on august 2nd. and that's all we know about the fact until we look at the board of supervisors agenda and find out that yes, it was on the agenda august 12th, and presumably passed. this was a sweetheart deal to bailout to friends who your legislative analyst said were facing a major rent increase. what your harvey rose report did not say was something they brought up at the commission. they plan not to only have their executive offices there, they plan to do their book collection and book sales from that location which is not a public library publically open space. i think that's an outrage and i think that you need to know what's going on and so does the public. the library is not telling. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. public speaker: tom gilberte. i just recently heard somebody say that they had some consternation about some words that i spoke here. they were never meant that way, they were never aimed that way. in an area of this part of the season and the opera coming up again. we move on. when i was a kid 5, 6, 7, 8, growing up in doctrine aetd. i still have a consternation of freedom of speech, what we do here. one of the few places we can do this. and the people that lined up today, you know. they are part of us. this is the only avenue basically you can have for 2 minutes, two 1/2 minutes i would prefer. a voice is important. twitter, whatever the screens. i was raised with a screen, howdy and mickey mouse. having this avenue unrestricted. if you want to campaign for yourself, you have more experience here in this chamber in the government office than i do. i don't think it would be harmful. it was good stuff that we got here today. i want to thank the clerk for being as generous as she is. i would also disagree. i would like to sign a petition. 28% mayor doesn't ring. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. if there is anyone else who would like to address the board under public comment, this is your opportunity. madam president, i don't see anyone else lineup for public comment. >>supervisor london breed: all right. public comment is closed. let's go to the first 3:00 p.m. order. >>clerk: item 6-9. 141018 [public hearing - appeal of tentative map - 639 peralta avenue] hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the decision of public works, dated september 18, 2014, approving a tentative map for a 2-unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessor's block no. 5634, lot no. 014. 141018 [public hearing - appeal of tentative map - 639 peralta avenue] hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the decision of public works, dated september 18, 2014, approving a tentative map for a 2-unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessor's block no. 5634, lot no. 014. 21. 160951 [final map 8594 - 100 van ness avenue] 141018 [public hearing - appeal of tentative map - 639 peralta avenue] hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the decision of public works, dated september 18, 2014, approving a tentative map for a 2-unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessor's block no. 5634, lot no. 014. 21. 160951 [final map 8594 - 100 141018 [public hearing - appeal of tentative map - 639 peralta avenue] hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the decision of public works, dated september 18, 2014, approving a tentative map for a 2-unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessor's block no. 5634, lot no. 014. 21. 160951 [final map 8594 - 141018 [public hearing - appeal of tentative map - 639 peralta avenue] hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the decision of public works, dated september 18, 2014, approving a tentative map for a 2-unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessor's block no. 5634, lot no. 014. sf 2112349. 141021 [preparation of findings related to the tentative parcel map - 639 peralta avenue] motion directing the clerk of the board to prepare findings relating to the board of supervisors' decision to disapprove the tentative parcel map for a 2-unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessor's block no. 5634, lot no. 014. no. 014. sf 2112349. 141021 [preparation of findings related to the tentative parcel map - 639 peralta avenue] motion directing the clerk of the board to prepare findings relating to the board of supervisors' decision to disapprove the tentative parcel map for a 2-unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessor's block no. 5634, lot no. 014. (clerk of no. 014. sf 2112349. 141021 [preparation of findings related to the tentative parcel map - 639 peralta avenue] motion directing the clerk of the board to prepare findings relating to the board of supervisors' decision to disapprove the tentative parcel map for a 2-unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessor's block no. 5634, lot no. 014. (clerk of the board) >> you have issues that involve questions that should properly be resolved by a court. the continueances that have happened have been done in anticipation that at some point those issues would be resolved by the court. unfortunately the timing hasn't worked out as we expected and procedurally there are still open questions as to when a substantive decision would be issued. with that in mind, it appears it's going to take a lot longer for us to have a court resolve the underlying legal issues that need to be resolved. so my goal and my intent would be to continue this for as long as possible to give the legal proceeding an opportunity to go forward. as i understand it from the parties, it's going to take actually a long time, several months, for us to have that resolutions and after checking with the clerk of the board, it seems that even though, the appropriate thing would be to continue it for a long period of time, that the longest we can continue at this point is to december 13, 2016, because at that point we'll have a better sense of what the calendar for the board will be beyond that. with that in mind, i move to continue this item open december 13, 2016. and again, i thank my colleagues for their understanding of this very interesting and complicated matter. >> thank you, supervisor, campos. has made a motion to continue this item until december 13, 2016. it was seconded by supervisor peskin. is there any public comment on the continuance? seeing none, public comment is now closed. on the continuance, madam clerk, can you please call the roll. >>clerk: supervisor tang, aye, supervisor wiener, aye, supervisor yee; supervisor avalos, supervisor breed, supervisor farrell, aye, supervisor kim, aye, supervisor mar, aye, supervisor peskin. aye, there are 11 ayes. >> that is continued to december 13, 2016. madam clerk, let's go to our next 3:00 special order. items 10 and 11. >>clerk: items 10. and 11. the 10. 160880 [hearing - street vacation order - parkmerced development project] hearing to consider an ordinance (file no. 160851 >> ( reading code )... >> >>supervisor london breed: okay, colleagues, we are discussing this as a committee as a whole discussing the vacate order of this development project. let's open up the hearing. supervisor, would you like to make opening remarks? >>supervisor norman yee: thank you, supervisor breed. as most of you know, this development has been in the books for a few years now. for several years, it had not gone too far. but more recently there is a movement in this and there has been community meetings around different issues that are presented to the residents at this moment. the other thing is once this is getting started, it's not one of the these immediate completion of a project. it's going to take many many years to complete. so, this particular item is something that has always been in the development plans or the agreement. so, i see this as more of a procedural issues that we need to take. the only e-mails i have gotten from residents on this particular issue is that they didn't quite understand what it really was, and we tried to explain to them and it seems okay to them. but i would urge the management of apartments to maybe do a better job in reaching out to the residents and explaining these little steps because i think once you explain it, they will be fine. i urge that we will hopefully pass this resolution. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, supervisor yee. and seeing that there are no names on the roster, we will open this item up to public comment. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. all right. this hearing has been held and is now filed, and we will reconvene as the board of supervisors. madam clerk, let's going to the item. on item no. 11. can you please call the roll. >>clerk: item 11. supervisor tang, aye, supervisor wiener, aye, supervisor yee, aye, supervisor avalos, aye, supervisor breed, aye, supervisor avalos, aye, supervisor cohen, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, aye, supervisor mar. there are 11 ayes. >> this ordinance is passed. let's go to items 16-21. >> supervisor mar? >>supervisor eric mar: i would like to continue 16, 17, 18. >> i think we will call these all individually at this point. item 16. >>clerk: 160902 [supporting california state proposition 55 - california tax extension to fund education and healthcare initiative] sponsor: ma ( reading code )... >>supervisor london breed: supervisor mar? >> thank you. i would urge the board to continue this from back in 2012 to ensure up to $9 million a year to k- 12 schools and community colleges. it's about 10% to community colleges and some years where health equity where low income kids and families are supported. it's a millionaire's tax for education and an equitable tax that would help so many schools. that's why it's supported by our school districts and school boards and medical professionals. i want to give a shout out to the chinese production, in san francisco and ace and many on the grass roots level for this millionaire's tax break. i urge support. >> madam clerk, on item 16. please call the roll. >>clerk: item 16. supervisor tang, aye, supervisor wiener, aye, supervisor yee, supervisor avalos, aye, supervisor breed, aye, supervisor campos, aye, supervisor farrell, aye, supervisor kim, aye, supervisor mar, aye, supervisor peskin, aye, there are 11 ayes. >>supervisor london breed: the resolution is adopted. item 17. >>clerk: 17. 160903 [supporting california state proposition 56 - california healthcare, research, and prevention tobacco tax amendment] sponsor: mar >>supervisor london breed: supervisor mar? >>supervisor eric mar: thank you, i want to thank supervisor campos and farrell and wiener. this is a no brainer, increasing the tax on a pack of cigarettes by $0.87 including e-cigarettes and nicotine. while the american heart association and many medical entities support this. it's holding tobacco companies accountable while it's hooking teens on tobacco products. don't be fooled potentially by misleading ads. i urge your support. and want to thank the tobacco youth coalition. i urge support. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, colleagues. colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. without objection this item is approved. >> item 18. >>clerk: 141018 [public hearing - appeal of tentative map - 639 peralta avenue] hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the decision of public works, dated september 18, 2014, approving a tentative map for a 2-unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessor's block no. 5634, lot no. 014. >>clerk: sf 18123418. 160904 [supporting california state proposition 58 - multilingual education act] sponsor: mar >> >> >>supervisor eric mar: another important statewide proposition. the urging of language education on this multi-language initiative. this is an anti- bilingual bilingual measure. now introducing a measure that would increase local control so that districts with large numbers of ell or english learners can have enough funding, local control funding and removes mandates including expensive waiver requirements for multilingual and bilingual education programs. san francisco has been stated by numerous resolutions and policies. we want to provide our students with the highest quality of education and promote language equality so immigrants can main tain their language. prop 58 supports english instruction for all students and broader opportunities to offer multilingual programs and to be bridge builders and successful people for the 21st century global economy. i want to thank the cta, the california association of administrators, the latino school board members and the latino, the latin america teachers association along with many others that have been advocating for language equality for many years. i urge your support for putting this on the record for the prop 58 and multilingual education. >>supervisor london breed: colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. without objection this item is approved. item 19 and 20 together. you are going to ask for a continuance on both on the same date. please call them together. >> >>clerk: 141019 [approving decision of public works and approving the tentative parcel map - 639 peralta avenue] motion approving decision of public works and approving the tentative parcel map for a 2-unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessor's block no. 5634, lot no. 014; and making environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101. 123419. 160905 [supporting california state proposition 67 - referendum to overturn ban on single-use plastic bags] sponsor: mar >> 141020 [disapproving decision of public works and disapproving the tentative parcel map - 639 peralta avenue] motion disapproving decision of public works and disapproving the tentative parcel map for a 2-unit new construction condominium project located at 639 peralta avenue, assessor's block no. 5634, lot no. 014; and making environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of >> sf 201234 >>supervisor eric mar: i want to thank former supervisor kraemey and former sheriff and our environmental coalition for taking the lead and now a statewide protecting our environmental policy like the plastic bag ban. i urge continuation until september 13th meeting. for item 20, i want to thank supervisor tang for raising some questions that we are waiting for the school to provide how they have operated in the past. we are waiting for more information. i urge that we move these items 19 and 20. >> supervisor mar, you submitted amendments to us? >> yes. >> did you want to wait on those amendments or do you want to introduce them today? >> if they haven't been formally introduced, i will wait to look at them and probably introduce them between now and next week. >>supervisor london breed: supervisor mar has made a motion to continue item 19 and 20 for a meeting in september. 13. 2016. without objection, that will be continued to september 13, 2016. >> >>clerk: that's a motion to approve final map 8590 in a two lot locations at 100 van ness. >>supervisor london breed: colleagues, can we approve the motion. colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. without objection this item is approved. colleagues, i without objection will reopen public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to provide public comment who have not done so previously. public speaker: yes, thank you for hearing me today. i have been living in an sro for almost 4 years. in that four years4 years i feel like my body and my life has been abused more than i ever imagined were to happen to myself. i can handle the sro, rules and regulations they put on people, but at the end of the day, the tennants are the ones who are living in those buildings. i applaud what we have. i love what san francisco does for the people and for housing them. who is counting the number of people who die earlier unnecessarily in the housing that they are given? politics is something i know nothing about, but i'm eager to learn to protect the people. the eta, doesn't think about the people of san francisco. even though we have an office here. the building sick syndrome. that's the same as my building. >> thank you. someone will talk to you. are there any members of the public who haven't had a chance to speak previously? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> madam clerk, will you please read in memoriam? >>clerk: yes, for the late gloria best, juan gabriel, judith lipke, and on behalf of the entire board of supervisors, for the late warren james hinnkle the third. >>supervisor london breed: colleagues, this brings us to the last of our agenda. are there any business to attend to today? >> madam clerk, that concludes the agenda. >>supervisor london breed: we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> good afternoon and welcome to the mayor's disability council here at city hall in room 400. friday, august 19. city hall is accessible to persons choosing wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. wheelchair access is provided at the grove van ness and mcallister street via ramps. wheelchair access at the public street guarding entrance is provided by the wheelchair lift. assistive listening devices are available in our meeting is open captioned and simon which interpreted. our agenda is also available in large print and braille. please o stopper any additional assistance. to prevent electronic interference with his room the sound system, and to respect everyone's ability to focus on the presentation, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. your cooperation is a pretty appreciated. we welcome the public's participation during public comment. you may complete a speaker card available in the front of the room. or, call our bridge line at, 1415 554 9632. we are staff person will handle request to speak at the appropriate time. the mayor's disability council meeting are generally held on the third friday of the month. our next regular meeting will be held on friday september 16 2016 from one-4 pm here in san francisco city hall in room 400. please collimator's office on disability for further information or to request accommodations at 1415 554 6789 voice or by e-mail, at l mod at sf gop ductwork. as a reminder to all our guests today to speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captures and interpreters. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you councilman. [inaudible] >> may we have the color looks >> >>[call of the roll] supanich, present. senhaux, present. penzvalto, present. >> let's move onto reading of the agenda. >> agenda item number one, welcome introduction and roll call. agenda item number two, action item: meeting and approval of the agenda. agenda item number three, public comments. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 min. agenda item number four, information item. cochair reports. agenda item number five, information item. staff report from the mayor's office on disability. agenda item number six, information item: dahlia san francisco housing portal development. the dahlia san francisco housing portal is a first for the city developed entirely with the priorities and needs of housing searchers in mind. staff will discuss the particular accessibility efforts undertaken on behalf of users with disabilities. presentation by michael solomon, senior ias business analyst and mary roeder, cedar community development specialist mayor's office of housing and community development. agenda item number seven, information item. lighthouse for the blind. a presentation on the courses offered by the lighthouse for the blind, including the enrollment process and offer a low-cost meeting space at its 1155 market street location. presentation by lisa lisa marie martinez, director of community services by lighthouse for the blind and debt that there is an outreach coordinator for the lighthouse for the blind. public comment is welcome. agenda item number eight: information item. serving lgbt adults with disabilities. open house staff will present the services available to lgbt adults with disabilities as well as some of the nuances of providing lgbt welcoming services at the agency. presentation by man well martinez, information and assistant specialist, aging and disability resource center at open house, and happy from being housing courtney. of the comment is welcome. agenda item number nine, public comments: items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 min. agenda item number 10, information item: correspondence. agenda item number 11, discussion item. councilmember comments and announcements. agenda item number 12, adjournment >> thank you, donna. okay we will move on to public comment. is there-i've one slip up here. >>[calling public comment cards] >> i want to thank you for all the work that you're doing in the city with a disability, the new stripes that are on the crosswalks and been very helpful. the new 8000 buses on the 19th bulk and two other lines are very helpful with the two wheelchair portals. and these new buses which god bless the city cost $1 million of these, are coming into service and they are just excellent for people like me that can climb stairs. i just want to thank all of you and this is great [inaudible] who worked with us, god bless her tthat this is coming to fruition and we are getting better transportation. and safer sidewalks. also, the curb cutouts are done very well. thank you, folks. beaten thank you very much good any other public comment on topics not on the agenda? okay. we will move on speed and next is the cochair reported i will be doing that. many of you may have heard of the dignity fund. it's a coalition of community-based organizations that is, that serves seniors and to the built seniors with disabilities and said attempt to increase funding for these services. as we are going to see a burgeoning in the senior population in the next 10-15 years. it will be probably close to 30% of the city's population, that includes people with disability right now, it's about 23-24. so, there is a ballot proposal that was passed by the board of supervisors in june. and come i don't know the money totals that came out. was less than what was asked for, but it's more than we have now. so, i will call that a victory. it will be on the ballot in november and it doesn't use any-there'll be no new taxes but it's a set-aside from property taxes. so, it's moving forward and they will be happy to take donations to help them get the word out. advertise. once this is explained to people that almost unanimously support it. but, it's kind of it's a little intricate. so, you can contact the mayor's office on disability and they can contact me. if you have questions or concerns around the pure or if you like to volunteer. or, if your organization like to become part of the consortium. so, thank you. next item is the staff report. >> good afternoon council and members of the public. i'm heather kittle today i like to share a couple of events that i thought would interest the disability community. first off, the asian art museum invites families with death members to their family fun day. interpreters will be on-site to interpret storytelling and handphone activity could on family fun days gallery activities grade of our projects and immersive storytelling makes art appreciation into a lively family-friendly events. projects change radically. the event takes place on sunday, august 21 from 11 am-2 pm and the asian art museum is located at 200 larkin st. for more information about this event speak please contact angel mungo at 415 581 3689. or, you can e-mail her at, ime you and gal at asian art.org. another event i would like to inform you about is the death counseling advocacy and referral agency will host their annual job fair. specifically, for death hard of hearing, deaf blind and late death and job seekers. this year's decorum is probably working in partnership with the department of rehabilitation. the event takes place on tuesday september 27 from 10 am-12 pm and 1 pm-3 pm. it will be held at the edit roberts campus which is located at 3075 adeline street in berkeley and that's right up the ass pete bart station so very easy to get to. if you would like more information to register for the event, you can visit the website, www. dca ra.org. registration will be open until friday september 2. seating is limited to so to make sure to register early if you're interested in participating in this event. thank you. >> good afternoon council. staff members of the public. i would like to take this opportunity to introduce the newest member of the mayor's office on disability. her name is roxana barca's green in. she's an architectural axis compliance officer. roxana is a licensed architect in the state of california with 16 years of experience in architecture and urban design. her work includes a diverse range of projects such as affordable housing mix use development and commercial projects. prior to joining the mayor's office on disability, roxana worked as a project manager for the cities science program with the office of economic and workforce development where she implement it multiple accessibility projects for commercial buildings in san francisco's commercial corridor including the bayview, central market, ocean ave., excelsior, chinatown, and lower 24th. >> please, wednesday of the words beaten thank you, do. it's exciting to be part of the mayor's office and city team. i want to mention i'm an architect and also i work with the [inaudible] where i worked closely with small business owners providing assistance through façades and improvement programs regarding the 88 compliance and also connecting assistive upgrades for their businesses. also, as part of the my background, and i work [inaudible] architectural compliance office service. my interest is primarily in affordable housing through the rental assistance demonstration program. i am very happy to be working on this project and in a way that this project service helps poor low income communities as well as provide disability upgrades for affordable housing. thank you. >> thank you. anymore for the report? >> that concludes my report >> thank you, donna and heather. next up is a presentation about dahlia the san francisco housing portal. i have michael solomon and dairy road are. welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon councilmembers. i michael solomon and as my colleague gary roeder would must housing and community development. we are actually here to update you on a presentation from a few months ago regarding our city's brand-new we collect dahlia san francisco housing portal. which, our goal is to be an online one-stop resource for all kinds of affordable housing programs listings, and resources. to make it easier for folks looking for affordable housing in the city. heart of that is, you know one of our primary goals is feasibility and include with usability ease of use of the system, is taking into account all kinds of people using the system and including all kinds of abilities and disabilities and language and just every level of reading level. so, even taking that into consideration as we started building job we are now listing below market rate rental listings currently. we also have an eligibility tool and we currently also have list of resources for people who may need other resources. in about a month or two, were going to online applications for below market rate rentals. as well as, account creation. again, using the feedback and issues and concerns we heard from you last on, those have been incorporated it would look forward to talking about what we've done and hearing more of those ideas from you today. so, with that amount handed over to gary roeder my colleague on the team. >> good afternoon council and members of the audience in attendance. i might as michael said we been working hard on the san francisco housing portrait only speaking from this six slide deck very quickly. the first slide you see is a representation of our existing home page which is as michael indicated that some limited functionality now soon to be followed by additional subject of vibrator to the specifics michael was referring to. so, by way of reference, the big problem of coarse i think a lot of you are aware of, is that there's a lot of places to look for housing in the city affordable housing,. the good news is there's a lot of programs. the bad news is there's a lot of programs. it's very fractured. a lot of work. for what can often be not a lot of opportunity. because of the situation we have in san francisco. so the idea was to make it simpler for people to find things. also to apply for them. so, one important thing that michael touch on is that we have been focused into the development we have done has been user-centered. that is, we regularly meet with people who have either applied for our listings or intend to apply for our listings. to ask them what are the features they need. to ask them is this a site that works for you. to ask them, is this the size of the button and where should it go on the screen. those kinds of things that were pretty excited about that because that's an uncommon and government software development. the features we currently have our intend to act with our next release in the next month legally to browse listings as michael indicated some calculators to help you understand what properties you're eligible for. also, the ability to complete a short form application. you may not be able to see that on this slide, but i highlight that because the way it currently is is that if you are a real go getter you'll go all over town and fill out up to 20 page applications with numerous agencies only to be put on a wait list one rolled in a lottery. we are changing that so that you will file a short form. if it were printed it would be effectively four pages. one of those pages is actually demographic information that's optional. that application will stand in our system with your permission, to apply for a number of different properties including into the future as things become available. also, were moving all our lotteries through the system as well. that allows us to better communicate to people how they do in the lotteries. they are in weightless. things like that. there some other support provided by the system that i won't touch on but we are tying to make it a robust supportive experience for people. on the accessibility front, from the very beginning we considered the needs of multiple populations. the first thing we did is we did a research process with existing federal standards. i know atf and us digital service, you may recognize the us digital service as the entity that president obama created in the aftermath of challenges with the affordable care site. registration. but we were looking at sort of highest and best practices for government software but software in general. to make sure that we developed it for standard tools. so screen reader, screen modification. also to make sure that it's mobile optimized. so, to translate that, we want to make sure that the tools accessibility tools most often used, are things that interface well with our site. we, in fact, discovered something in the process of our development related to the building of tables in the particular type of coding language we were using. we made that discovery,, made some proposals that are national level that since been adopted and so we are grateful to contribute to that good as michael indicated we also at work on the wing which considerations. making sure we don't use the jargon the pmr and amr and this and that. then, also, were working on additional language access so that more and more of our site features are available in additional of the san francisco official languages. so, there's another aspect of accessibility that we like to think about it of course, because we are doing with physical properties, units, and buildings, that may have communication or physical accessibility issues, we are working in conversation with the mayor's office of disability to make sure that we provide information in our listings about what those units and buildings offer. so, just to not only provide information as i indicate here, on things like site arrival pointed to kitchen, bathroom, communication features, and other but also to create standards for those listings, if you will. so that, someone with particular accessibility needs can always come to a listing and look in a particular place and we sort of develop a standard language in san francisco around what units and buildings have or should have. as i indicated before, we've been working from the perspective of user centric research. that's really important good in shorts, if we in our office or in a relatively isolated group design something without rigorous and thorough and regular testing with people that actually need to use it it won't be a success. we need to make sure it something that as we launch it, which we have, and as we continue to build on it is something that truly of use of the population we seek to serve. we are looking to build our site accessibility testing. we have done some work things to the help of the lighthouse for the blind staff. we are seeking additional end-users as we call them for additional research that provided my e-mail address there. barry, dot rotor at sf g.org and my phone number 415-701-5568. we would very much like to speak with you if you be interested in becoming part of our testing team. thank you. >> this i conclude your presentations. live questions from councilmember? no? i have a couple. i've written them down here. on page 3, you were talking about the listings and the applications the short-term, short form application. and how much easier it will be to know what's available. so, say you fill out your application. now, will the system notify you if a property comes up that you're eligible for or do you have to go back and look through the listing every week? >> the notification feature is not yet available. but it is within scope. so right now you would have to go back and check. however, we have a 30,000 , plus, a look housing alert e-mail list that people immediately get notified once whatever kind property they're interested in becomes available. >> great >> if i could add to that the translate scope, it is in our vision and on our budget, etc. to build a feature that would say, hey, you apply for this. and you said it was okay to keep your information. this listing has come up that matches would be applied for before. are you interested in hitting eight, yes, with perhaps checking your income and household to state the same and then you are good. >> that sounds great. next question came on page 5. you list all of the accessibility features that you are including. but i was wondering, will you also include information about homes that can be modified for people with disabilities as so they can age in their homes and communities? >> we certainly can add any kind of information and in fact that's one of the reasons why here to hear that kind of feedback. i'd like to learn more about that at some point but we certainly could add that information very easily >> yes that it prevent institutionalization or people having to leave their homes and communities for somewhere else. great. then, my last question. if i can find it. i thought i had another one. maybe not. yes, i do. on page 4, will there be a smartphone app? >> it already works very well on your smart phone. >> wonderful. >> we ashley talked about it being user-centered. we know most of the users will be using it on smartphone gets it works best there and happens to work on your desktop as well. >> okay. >> one of the things we like to do if you have it open on your screen, housing dot sf.org and you know how you can change the size of your browser window. as you do that menus collapsed and they become drawdowns and you get to see exactly what it looks like. it is designed to work on any screen size and fits itself automatically. >> terrific. >> just courteous regarding the end-users can you elaborate on the profile? [inaudible] were to be looking for? began sure, thank you. so, our focus to date has been on finding potential users that aligned with the listings we are developing could for example, we focus on pmr listings. within that we try to touch on different segments of the population that would be potential in this case emr applicants. because of the first lease had limited functionality only showing listings. we were able to live again with our sincere thanks on some help from staff at white house for the bind some of whom are present today to get their thoughts on some of our development efforts. but we want to expand that as we launch online application because we think it's very important to get some more detailed feedback. so, we would ideally looking for home seekers in the most broadest sense who have given accessibility needs than the standard population. so, folks that would access the site through screen readers can access the site whose ring magnification, or any of the standard sort of screen accessibility tools. we would want to know their experience to make sure that the site is in fact accessible to them. >> thank you. >> any questions from staff? >> do you have any outreach material available to distribute two numbers of the public to recruit the end-users? because that something our office could probably assist with. we could e-mail that? >> sure, that is great. thank you. mr. come by that had offered in an e-mail exchange i believe we had that [inaudible] an e-mail list and we had a couple initial conversations about how we might access about. i think we should repair some things to send you. once about current concerns we have is figuring out how to-we would hate to have thousands of people respond and not be able to use their services, but that sounds at something we can work out but thank you for the invitation and we need to follow that up. began great. another question you mentioned is going to meet resources available on the portal. what type of resources are you looking at adding to the portal? >> sure. right now, we ashley work with a number of agents we call them housing counseling agencies that people looking for affordable housing or work with. we are able to refer people to those. we either way be with extra help finding listings one application or need a language oh. our housing counseling agency is at least one for each language. also, we also have right now, kind of pdf sheets and the different languages to instruct people with that we need to.. we are going to have a whole site in all the multiple san francisco languages. but that takes a little time because we had to make sure everything is working . so we will get there but in the meantime we do have those kinds of resources. down the road, like i said earlier, we'll to be a one-stop shop so much as have property listings, but also hopefully, you be able to put in your entire situation the system will be able to recommend, hey, this is nonprofit out in the sunset that does something you may need. so, really, we want to expand this to our goal. our goal is to expand this to every nonprofit resource in the city whether we fund them or not. the 10 great. i think it would be c coupled to of resources on their about people's rights, how various housing laws. rights to reasonable a commendation and reasonable modification for their [inaudible] based on disability. because there's some extra recommendations beaten legal resources, perfect. >> i just want to thank both michael and barry for being here and just to follow up with heather's question, that barry and i should be in touch in the next week or so about hoping we get some more end-users to help you get this so i thought. so thanks for being here. >> thank you so much. >> just one comments. talk about what had talked about. i think it would also be good to have more legal information about eviction defense, the ellis act, and so people know they have rights around these things. and what they are. even if i may just add come i think that's an excellent comments. we are in a parallel process, although it is behind our work on dahlia that housing portal to completely revamp our city website to do a clearer job of explaining some of those rights . to do a clearer job of exciting what we do as in the department. to help people find services that apply to them through eligibility tools. so, you tell us just a tiny bit about who you are and we can show you not only be him or and units but also these other programs such as eviction of defense. we are figuring out as we go how much of that lives on the portal and how much of that lives on the website. but to make sure in either case, it's easily accessible. >> great. thanks. do i have any public comment? yes, sir. >> could you come forward and speak into the microphone, please? thank you. >> i want to ask a question that i don't have a computer and i [inaudible] at the downtown senior center could we be co-operating with organizations such as these at senior centers on things so the person can put in an application or other required paperwork with the means you have? >> absolute. there's two things were doing. thank you for that question. because you remind me to underscore that although this is an electronic system, we will never require an electronic application we walls happy birth applications available at our offices, available at the developer site specific to the unit being offered and also available at the housing counseling agencies that we fund and on top of that, and when you mentioned is one of them-that we work with-on top of that, we actually have a budget in this current fiscal year to do a training with the counseling agencies in san francisco exactly about this system and how to use it and address questions they have. so, absolutely. >> is there any further public comment? anyone on the bridge line? okay then thank you mr. solomon and mr. roeder. we are going to move on to item number eight, serving lgbt adults with disabilities. i'd like to welcome and well martinez and abby, nine. >> are they not here yet?i skip one. i am sorry. i turned the page. anticipation. so, we are going to have a presentation from lighthouse for the blind by lisa maria m penis and that the arab veterans in. >> >> hello. good afternoon. my name is lisa marie martinez and i am the director of community services at the lighthouse for the blind. with me today i have my colleague, that berenson who is our community liaison. i knew fresh title given were two days ago. so, were here to talk about a little bit about the lighthouse and what we do. we recently moved to midmarket as many of you know we are now located on the top three floors of a 1155 market street. we have been there for 3.5 months now and we are so happy to be there. we really were outgrowing our previous location and we are so happy to be in a much more spacious and beautiful location. so, the lighthouse we have been around for 114 years. we primarily are here to promote the quality and self-reliance of people who are blind and low vision in northern california. we have sites in eureka, marin, berkeley, san andreas and headquarters are here in san francisco. we also have a [inaudible] location. so we promote the quality and self-reliance blind and low vision people by providing linus for trying and things such as cooking, braille, orientation and mobility and access to technology training. we also change the life of blind people by providing them employment skill training and we work in job coach with blind folks to find their own jobs. in fact, we have a employment immersion program that's been around for almost 6 years and in that time, we have employed over 40% of our participants, which is a high rate of placement. their combined salaries equals to $2.2 million. we are very proud of that. we do, as i said, a lot of rehabilitation gibner serve about 3000 people throughout the year. i would say maybe our crowning jewel of our rehabilitation services, the independent living skills we teach them are changing vision, changing life. some people call the blindness boot camp or blindness 101. it's a weeklong training that sometimes takes place in our napa camp location and now that we have residential quarters in our new building we been holding changing vision, changing life retreats in our new location. but, during this weeklong training you learned basically, you get introduced to assistive technology. you get introduced to braille could you get introduced to using a long white cane. and you get used to thinking about ways to adapt your life or changing things around you so that you can be a little bit more self-reliance as your vision changes. people come to us up in gradually losing their site in their later years, and are coming to us because all of a sudden, their vision has progressively or all of a sudden their vision has changed and now they want to continue to lead the new york times or they want to cook french toast or play with their grandchildren and they want to do it safely. so, that's what we do and most the time we have students who come out of that retreat and we do more extensive follow-up and more one-on-one training. so, let's see here. i talked a little bit about orientation and mobility and braille. we do a lot of the assistive technology, and i want to expand on that a little bit because many times people think of assistive technology as a computer with really big print on the screen. that is one thing computers can do for blind low vision people, but we also introduce people to screen readers or accommodation screen readers and screen magnification. we also work a lot with folks who want to start learning how to use tablets and smart phones. so, we might have someone come in and they only want to use an ipad to vacant face time with her grandchildren and we can teach people how to do that. we enjoy teaching people how to do that. so, we can go on and on about all of our wonderful rehabilitation resources we do. but, i really want to give back a stab at some of the things that we also do that are not necessarily under the umbrella of blindness skills training or the hard skills training. maybe the more softer skills during the confidence building and so alternate over two bath. because okay. hello. so there's a lot of other fun things going on at the lighthouse. lots of stuff. so, what other questions you're probably asking is, okay can we all do this place of that lisa marie just told you about but how do i as a san francisco residence, pay for that? lots of services are free to people who are over 65. in living-i'm sorry, over 55. it's new york. my head in my mouth don't work together. for people who are over 55, or, a person with a disability who lives in the city and county of san francisco. a lot of our services are provided by a grant from the department of aging and disability. aging and adult services. we also get money from the state, state department of rio the location for people who are over 55 who live in the bay area. we cover the counties of san francisco alameda, contra costa and marin. we had an information concierge. so, if you have any questions about what the lighthouse does about what your rights are, you can always call us because we work with people who are just blind or visually impaired. so, were sort of the experts in in this. and, you can reach our information concierge at info@lighthouse -sf.org. you can ask her almost anything and she can give you the answer. you can reach her by phone at 415 694-7323. we also have youth programs. our youth programs work with preteens to early adult, young adults. we have outdoor activities. we have mentorship roles. we have one of the big things is we have cooking classes and we have a lot of family nights. we want the families to get involved and also mentor each other. we have lots of things for people who are working age. we have a group called, 30% and growing, and that title refers to the 30% of the blindness population who are looking for jobs to have become employed. so, we want to grow that number to over 30%. they do happy hours, movie nights, game nights. we also love counseling services to help people either one-on-one or with families to adapt to vision loss. we have camped. camp is held in napa at enchanted hills. it is for adults and youth. we have several different specialty camps including music, horse camp, we work with people who are blind and also have developmental disabilities, as well as people who are deaf-blind. there's a camp for you and family camp, where one person in the family needs to be blind could be the children. it could be the moment that it could be everyone. basically, you just have fun. my favorite part you get to go swimming. we also have a death-blind program that serves-let me read it. service the entire state had one of the big features of that program is the death-blind communications grant and that is a federal grant that the lighthouse in partnership with helen keller national center helps to administer. it basically gives people who are not able to communicate because of deaf blindness a piece of equipment in training on that equipment so that they can communicate with the outside world. to get an application and find out if you are eligible for it,, you can call [inaudible] which i am going to i think you can e-mail silky. i will spell it for you. sookheechoi. i will also give you an e-mail.schoi@lighthouse-- sf.org. we also have a store. we have a lot going on. we have a store that sells low vision aids and also sells braille tools. it sells some technology. everyone is welcome to come in. it is located at 1155 market st., 10th floor. our hours are 10-5 pm weekdays. they also do mail and phone orders. so give them a call at 415 694 7301 good >> on the jumping really quickly and starting those in-i can tell you exactly when i can but soon work that one date a week with extended hours into the evening to 7 pm and one saturday a month when the store is open. >> wow. see, more things were doing. we also have media accessibility laboratory. media accessibility design latitude. i would've just said mab lab but you would not have understood. they do tactile mapping. they do 3-d imaging. they have done mapping for burning man. if you've got a burning them anyone to a map. talk to us. also, uc berkeley has requested mapping and if you're going to disneyland, please asked him for tactile map because we have done all the us properties for distant. other things that would be of interest here we have this gorgeous new building and we have lots of space. one of the things we are doing is we are renting out the space at very reasonable prices to both government, nonprofits, and private businesses or private individuals. so, that is something if you would like to come see what it looks like and talk out room rentals, please let me know and i'll give you my direct line. 415 694 7322. also, are enchanted hope camp is also rentable and it is becoming a huge venue for weddings and you can--simply want to check out. you can contact dave fletcher@lighthouse -sf.org. other services that we offer. we offer technology user groups. if someone is, like the dahlia people, if they want one of the things we could've done is we can help them recruit users to see how it works, how their website works with individuals. individuals who are blind or visually impaired. and come i think that is it could we we glad to answer questions. >> thank you very much. speed and really exhaustive list. 11. can you name three of the things we do? >> do i have any comments or questions from councilmember? >> sure. thank you so much a great overview of services and what you do. how you do impact the work. i was interested in two things. one, you mentioned you had a blindness skills training. is that open to anyone or do you have to be a person who is blind or visually impaired? secondly, it just in case you want to have that information or experience [inaudible] secondly, i'd like to hear a little bit more about your mentorship program that you also mentioned with the mentorship specifically [inaudible] >> can i answer the first question? our trainings offer people blind and visually impaired, but one of the services we offer is that we do offer training to different, either private businesses, government organizations, and blindness-the best way i can explain this. blindness etiquette. so, get in contact with me is that something you would like to have some additional information on. we can absolutely, thanks. >> to answer the second question, we have different levels of mentorship that go on depending on the program. for instance, in our youth program which is one of the programs i oversee, we are constantly looking for professionals and college students, anyone who may be just a little bit ahead or a lot ahead in life of where our youths are currently so that they can come in and talk with our students were given presentations, or read an activity. you know, yesterday we had our 30% by ms. professional network night and blindness professionals and friends of blindness professionals, they were both fair and are used coordinators was there and he came back with five business cards potential speakers. so, our youth program is constantly looking for any type of person who's willing to give a couple hours of their time and their talents. we also do mentorships in some of our other classes like vision changing life class. we have students who have done the program, or have done skills training at the lighthouse who come back to student teachers. so, it's really-it's very powerful to see, they just want to this class a year from now and look where they are at now. i can get there, too. so those are some of the mentorship programs that we have. >> that's wonderful. very helpful. thank you for that. >> any other questions from councilman was? i have a few. i try to keep it to three. the first question is could you talk a little bit more about the residential units at 1155 market spirit who they are forced on how many there are, and when they'll be available? began yes. they are available ticket we have 29 beds although one of them is for overnight staff so we can accommodate up to 28 students. and they're a mixture of doubles, triples could we one quad. if i ever get evicted from home that's my family going to move to. i love that. we can pick up to 28 students and, right now, about once a month they are reserved for our changing vision changing life class which is a week long i might and they can also be used for various other reasons. we have the first week of november we have a group of people coming to learn how to safely [inaudible] as a blind person and some people are coming from out of town. so they need overnight accommodations and we can provide that. our youth programming is saturday youth employment workshops, and some of our students come from the school from the blind and the school for the blind is a residential school and they usually the students go home on the weekends. they're there to participate in something here locally during the week and they need overnight accommodations we can accommodate those students. there are also meant to be there for people who might want to come from a far distance but they want to come to us for intensive skills training and maybe technology or oh and him and prevail and for whatever reason, they feel like lighthouse is great. i want to go to lighthouse and go to dedicate a month of my life to this. so we can have a room for them while they're doing intensive skills trained. because, for the most part, we are just a training center, a daytime training center we are not a residential training center but we do intensive immersion retreats. he didn't think. one other question. you mentioned that one grant funded by [inaudible] the state city and the feds for various services. the deal with grandson they sometimes go up and they sometimes go down. they're not a reliable source of income completely. do you do fund raising? to have eventually try to get some unrestricted funds into your organization that you can help balance this? do you see that is becoming more of an issue? >> we have a very active development department, which i was in for five years. the answer is, yes, we do a lot of fundraising is a lot of hard work. we do several appeals a year for specific programs and for just general lighthouse funds that are unrestricted and we raise, we used to raise about three quarters of 1 million-$1 million just for individual funds alone. we get grants from many other places. we get requests. you know, you can't rely on request but we have not, to be quite honest, we are have not been known ourselves in the last eight years i've been at the lighthouse to host our own fundraisers. we have a lot of board members or patrons of our camp who might host fundraisers of their own to raise money for the lighthouse and we are very successful in supporting those individuals who want to do that. but, i see our department our development department going towards realizing the necessity to put together events meant to raise funds. we actually had a lot of luck in raising funds by mail appeal. >> thank you. just a quick comment. i want to commend you on pending to the mental [inaudible] needs of folks. but sometimes discounted in this country and it's essential for a happy life. >> absolutely. thank you. >> by cochair has a question? >> i don't have a question. i just wanted the menu on your services. as a consumer, i've been going to go through the process of the department of rehabilitation in acquiring services and employment program and him on a time frame and also received some equipment and some training, and i've been very impressed and appreciative not only from a funding resource although services of the lighthouse. early, i am very pissed off is so accommodating so knowledgeable and any questions i have about adaptive technology, resources, employment services, besides what you have mentioned. so i thank you for the work you do and support you provide to the blind and visually impaired community. certainly, it opened my eyes into all the good work that you can get of course, i been familiar to the association on the council but i've never actually gone through the prospect so, as a consumer i thank you for being there and i look forward to you continuing to work with you >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. other questions from staff? >> i just have a couple questions and make comments. lisa marie, and that thank you for being here and for the around for 114 is. you guys look fabulous. >>[laughing] i actually was a super supper last year which is enchanted hills and it is, i will say a fabulous spot. when i was there there were blind science campers there. yes. it was really cool which leads me to the question, do you partner with like the school district or nonprofit agencies work with people with maybe developmental disabilities or is that just sort of a hit and miss? is that an ongoing thing you do? >> i've been with community service two years now and i know one of the things i'm really striving for is to do more partnerships with other agencies across the bay area because my goal in community services is to make sure that the blindness community isn't coming to the just come into the lighthouse for services but going out into the community and becoming active, successful independent community members. to me, it's really important to demonstrate our belief in blind people integrating and being independent by joining forces with other agencies and saying, hey, you can do this. this is cool. this is just a really long of saying, yes, we do partner with people. we partnered with folksy do the chemistry camp. that's a partnered with the school for the blind mice able to do wilderness education camp and i'm in conversations with the superintendent at the school for the blind in fremont for our use folks to go out and do a monthly workshop on career building and college success at the school for the blind in fremont. we are consulate looking for partners. you know, in every aspect of the community and so if anyone has bright ideas, brilliant ideas, let me know. i'm always happy to see what we can do in terms of programming or services together. >> in my old role as information and resource coordinator, i got calls on a pretty regular basis from regional centers for people but multi-disability. we work with the regional centers are pretty regular basis and we have several clients of yours that are also clients of ours that, on all kinds of different basis is. we also have a camp, the camp specifically for people with developmental disabilities . we were blind babies on a camp. so, like greece lisa marie said were always looking for more people. >> so the thing is due where are the experts of blindness and low vision but binders are a cross-section of society and by people of other needs another stability's and other abilities and so it's important for us at least in my mind to partner with people by the experts and specialists in those areas. >> thank you. >> anymore from staff? public comment. anyone like to make a public comment? yes, come up to the podium. >> bath->>[laughing] you never know who you'll meet at these meetings. >> hello everyone my name is [inaudible] and i work with it and every jewish museum as the accessing community engagement manager. i'm also the cofounder of a professional learning network that focuses around accessibility and empowering using atoms and cultural organizations become more welcoming. i want to speak specifically or make a comment specifically about our partnership through both of those capacities. with the lighthouse for the blind. someone had mentioned super fast and for the last three years which is our 30th anniversary, and we are really a very very proud institutional partner to host superfast and i think it is allowing us to grow our organization to also be an ally in changing views of disability and museums but also to become an ally also in supporting disability arts and culture in the bay area. so, i wanted to thank the lighthouse for the blind not only for bringing superfast and special disabilities in san francisco to the cj him but also they been instrumental in training our staff so all of our front-line staff, security. we've coasted to trainings. that was there and she mentioned disability etiquette around blind and low vision. but also, they have provided, helped us market and create outreach to the community so that were putting a message out there that we are welcoming and we want our museum to be representative of the diversity of our community. so, i just want to do a plug for superfast but also do a shout out to the amazing amazing work that their entire team is doing and there building is phenomenal. yes. so, community partnerships, i would say, really really phenomenal work. i hope that more using atoms and more cultural organizations can consult with the lighthouse for the blind because i feel it's a really important service that's often not representative and not given enough weight. so, thank you >> thank you. >> through the chair, if either lisa marie or bath would like to talk about for people that don't know what super-fest but before you do that i'll tell you i was actually at super-fast. i can be timed out on the person->>[laughing] >> at the enchanted hills, there's a group of us that literally in one weekend watched about 45 films. it was really fantastic and affords limb not able to do it this year but if you would be so kind as to tell the audience and people may be less than what super-fest is that would be great >> absolutely. super-fest is the longest running international film festival and lighthouse for the blind and [inaudible] institute on disability has been working the last couple years to host super-festival and as you heard we worked with [inaudible] museum to jewish community museum as the site that shows the movies that has made the cut. they're really great films made by or made about people with disabilities and it's really cool and really fun and october 22-23rd is super-fast i think the website is superfast.com. if not you can go to light house page and find it should be super-fest.com. i'm not in development anymore. i don't know the things. >>[laughing]. it's great and we have trailers online that you can take a steep peek at some of the movies that have made it to the final cuts. >> thank you. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? anyone on the bridge line? okay, think. thank you, ladies very much. now, we will move on to information agenda item number eight. this is a presentation by open house. serving the lgbt adulthood disability on a welcome man well marketing is and abby calming- >> thanks for having us to do i am abby and this is man well. we are here today from open house. open house is an agency that serves lgbt older adults and adults with disabilities that leave in san francisco could we have a variety of social services that we offer and today were going to give a brief overview of our services, talk about little bit about why lgbt older adults and adults with dispose might be more vulnerable and what we do to cater to those populations in our office in the castro and also in our new building at 55 [inaudible]. so, one of the reasons why we are here today is because lgbt older adults they particularly vulnerable and lgbt seniors are often also people with disabilities. they face significant health disparities compared to their heterosexual counterparts. lgbt seniors are particularly wonderful, 50% of people with hiv our 50+. 40% of lgbt seniors have one or more physical disability. 15% have seriously considered suicide in the past you. that's also accompanied by mental health challenges and is often much higher rates of ptsd in the lgbt team senior communities. so, what we are doing is catering to those communities by offering programs like a housing assistance program. i work as a housing coordinator at open house so we offer housing workshops. we work with people one-on-one to counsel them when they're facing eviction. when the housing becomes unstable or as maybe they can get their stairs anymore, they are aging and moving to a place that is more accessible based on their needs. so, we counsel them based on what they might need in terms of housing in the future. we also have a case management program and an aging and disability resource center which meant well is going to tell us more about. we have a really robust community engagement program. so some of what we do is have a really incredible calendar of events every single month. it ranges from seminars on spirituality and seminars on aging and wellness, on trans-health. we have arts groups. we have support groups. we have somebody different events almost every single day of the week at our castro office and senior centers around the city. we also have a friendly visitor program. many of the constituents that we serve the people who maybe are not so mobile. maybe isolated in their homes and we want to make that connection to the lgbt community so we offer family visitor program which means we match community volunteers who will visit them on the monthly basis, twice a month for about 45 min. or an hour each and they'll be in the community members homes and go out and outing. depending on what the accessibility needs are of that senior and those are several ways that we try to support our lgbt elders. man well is going to tell us about case management and are disability resource center >> hello everyone. i am man well mechanize the information and research specialist at open house. i do not specialist for many years before open house [inaudible] i was also out stationed at lighthouse for the blind assisting community members fill out forms and giving them resources. so, open house was funded two years ago to do one of the 12 resource centers in the city. [inaudible] what we basically do is we serve as a one-stop shop. basically community members come to us to find assistance for whatever resources whatever type of for seniors and adults with disabilities. sorry. i forgot to mention that. the majority of the people i serve our seniors but we don't relieve and ask for proof of disability. it can be anything that these people are not [inaudible] we don't ask for that. as i mentioned they can come to me, going to mention some of the resource i normally referred to did not all of them but just as some examples. some of the agencies i can refer to independent living resource center. we partner with them. white house photo line human speech center and also the senior and disability action. i provide information on food and nutrition from pantry and do home delivered meals, home delivered groceries for those homebound. also, i provide information on different places by district where they can go to get a hot plate. as abby mentioned, before, some of our community motors have a little mental challenges that we refer to different support groups including some of them we have in-house and other agencies such as good luck space and the mental health association. reduce some referrals for employment and training opportunities. i how people to fill out applications for transportation for the rtc, for people with disabilities. and for those who qualify financial assistance for the different organs that might be available to them through the city. i speak english and spanish well mostly spanish and a little english, but so i provide translation for those who need that also filling out forms for those who need that type of assistance. also, i do some referrals so services from ihss, some private pay home services also emergency ihss ashanti program emotional and practical support that is also very helpful for some of our community members that hiv-aids. also, deftly by the aging and resource center basically what i do i just provide them with the services and the client can go and do that and i do provide some follow-up but i do not open a case with them. they basically i tell them how well the resource worked out for you or not? but in case we understand for so many other challenges some of our community members are unable to connect with the service. so we're funded also to provide case management for those people were unable to connect with the services.. basically, it would be the same but the case management program will open a case. we will have goals and a plan to achieve those goals and it's also funded to service specific result of self identified lgbt seniors or adults with disabilities. so, that is basically a little bit of the big difference between the two programs. the case management is more comprehensive. it's a little more sometimes handholding. i don't want to say that but depending on the needs of the community members so they can connect with the services available to them. that's basically a little bit about the two programs. i don't know if you have questions? >> any questions from councilmembers? i have just some comments. at the beginning you talked about how lgbt seniors and people with hiv have kind of are likely to have more disabilities. some other factors play into that. they're more likely to live a loan and they're more likely to be isolated but they're more likely to find themselves in neighborhoods that have gentrified and there's nothing left for them in those neighborhoods. if they're on disability or social security there is no incentive to get out of the house and go. they often live in old victorians with a lot of steps. then, they also a lot of them don't have not had children so there is no family to help out and take care of them or possibly move in with. so, just to emphasize the needs of this population are just very high. thank you. does that have any questions or comments? >> i have a question. but abby and then well it's been a long time we were trying to get your. i'm glad to hear finally. i have a question about getting services through open eyes. this is a referral is it only people who are going to be residing at 55 laguna? how does somebody get connected to your services? >> yes. there's various ways to connect to our service. as many of you know we move into 55 laguna photo housing unit in the fall to the residence there. will be working with us if they just we also work on a drop-in and by appointment base. we get a lot of referrals from agencies across the city that someone looking for more lgbt specific care and they reach out to us. then, we make an appointment with her clients. but then well specifically also works on a drop-in basis. especially because now were in the castro. the storefront. people drop in all the time needing immediate referrals and were offer them at that moment. >> thank you. >> any other questions from staff? any public comment on this item? nathan, no? thank you very much, both of you. the next item is public comment. on anything not on today's agenda. anyone have something to say? okay. correspondence. >> there is no correspondence. speed and any councilmember comments or announcements? shortest meeting we've ever had. we are adjourned. thank you. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >> >> ♪ ♪ >> hello, welcome to the meet your district supervisor. i'm nona melkonian and we're here with supervisor katy tang for supervisor 4 which includes central and outer sunset. supervisor tang was appointed by mayor ed lee to serve as district 4 representative replacing previous supervisor carmen chu after she was appointed assessor reporter that same month. before her appointment she served as legislative aide to supervisor chiu. today you'll get to know her and the issues facing the city. welcome, supervisor. thank you for join using us. >> thank you for having me. >> let's start with a little about your background. where you grew up, went to school and what kind of jobs you had in the past. >> sure, i grew up in the sunset district. still live there. spent about 20 years living in the sunset district and just am so proud to be able to represent the district that i grew up in and where my parents still live. i had gone through the public education system and went to neighborhood schools throughout the sunset district. so, had gone to francis scott key elementary school, hoover middle school, lowell high school and am just so proud to be able to come back full circle to support a lot of those schools that i went to and be part of that community in a very integral way. >> so, you spent most of your life in san francisco. why did you choose to live in the city? >> well, first of all, my parents decided to move us to the sunset district because they really wanted my brother and i to have a really good and safe r growing up. there were a lot of children and families in the sunset district and i think they felt like it would be the best environment for us to grow up. so, we ended up staying out there and fell in love with it and have a lot of pride after especially working for the sunset district as the electricity i have aide to supervisor chiu for over five years. and working with -- very intimately with a lot of community members, the merchants, our local residents who have, you know, interest in things such as public safety or public transportation, our school communities, our parks and play grounds, just really been such a wonderful experience working with them. so, i just really enjoyed that work experience as well as my own experience growing up there. >> how has your experience as aide to supervisor chiu prepared you for the board of supervisors? >> i think that i probably don't have a learning curve on having worked in the district so long and having grown up there. i think that it's been really beneficial knowing who to go to to ask certain questions, or, you know, learning how to read pieces of legislation, for example, knowing what the issues are that the city has faced. i think that those have all been really helpful experiences during this transition. >> what motivated you to get involved in politics? >> i've always wanted to be involved in whichever community i'm in. for example, what ix in school i was in student government and, so, working in city hall was one of my first jobs, actually, out of college. and, so, i have been doing -- i have been working at city hall for over six years now and i just feel very much pride in working for the city that i live in. >> where do you place yourself on the political spectrum, are you progressive, centrist, or more on the conservative side? >> i think i'm probably more of a moderate person. i think that our district, again, lots of families and children, seniors, immigrant community, and i think that we tend to be more classified as, you know, fiscally responsible, i would say. and, again, having my experience in working for the mayor's budget office, for example, prior to working for the board of supervisors, i think that gave me a really great background in terms of how the city works, how the city's budget is put together. and those really -- that experience has really influenced my decision-making process. >> and speaking of the city's budget, the city just enacted a two-year budget and it seems the city is always dealing with complicated issues including whether or not to raise taxes and fees. how will you approach these tough choices? >> i think that when we talk about raising fees or taxes, we always have to come at it from a very balanced approach. we have a lot of homeownerses, we have a lot of tenants in the city. and, so, again balance is really key. i think we also have to approach the budget and some tough fiscal issues looking at the city-wide budget as a whole and not just looking at specific sectors or issue areas that we real have i to look at the city's financial standing as a whole for the long term. that's really important and that's definitely what drives a lot of my decision-making process. and i think it's also tougher in san francisco because we really are held to a very high standard where we have to balance the budget every single fiscal year. we cannot run into a deficit in the new fiscal year. we cannot print more money. we are held to a high standard by our charter and, so, i think that's why these tough decisions are made every year rent. >> what other issues do you feel are facing san francisco? >> i think for san francisco and also elsewhere, one of the biggest issues right now is really how do we ~ attract economic development and spur job creation. and those are two things that really go hand in hand and really is what makes the city vibrant and a place where people want to live and can afford to live. and i think that keeping those city-wide goals in mind, to really want to try to also make sure that locally we support our small businesses and all merchants, for example, give economic benefits and help create jobs as well. >> what are your thoughts on the city's economic development? do you feel we're on the right track? >> i think we're on a very exciting time right now in san francisco where we have a lot of energy in terms of businesses and especially the tech industry wanting to locate in san francisco and that's something that we really haven't seen as much in the past after the dot-com boom. and, so, we are in a very exciting time and we really see a transformation going on in our city because of that. >> what would you like to see change about the city's approach to developing its economy? >> i think that really depends on the changing times. and there isn't sort of one solution for the entire city. it real i depends on kind of what the dynamics are going on with the economy as a whole in the region. not just looking at san francisco, but really as a regional body. >> sometimes district issues are different than zvi issues. what do you feel are some of the biggest issues facing your district? ~ city >> i think because we have a lot of children, families, seniors in our district, they care a lot about your quality of life issues, right. and it's the reason why people choose to live there. they want to make sure that your streets are repaved, that our potholes are filled, that public transportation works for you, that, you know, your parks and play grounds are safe for your children to play in, students can go to local schools. i think that those are all important issues facing district 4 and will continue to. >> how have you balanced the needs of your district versus the needs of the city as a whole? >> i think that as a district supervisor, we play that balancing act every single day in our jobs. and we respond to all of the constituent needs, whether they doll us, whether they e-mail us or talk to us in person about a problem, we try to sort of bridge the resources that are in the city and help connect them with whichever department it is they might need to be connected with to resolve their issue. ~ but also at the same time we are city-wide representatives and we vote on legislation every week that impact everyone in the entire city. i think that when we take those votes, for example, we keep our district interests in mind and how they might want us to best represent them on city-wide issues. >> you mentioned transportation and muni earlier. what do you see about transportation for your constituents, is there enough needed service? >> i think especially given the fact the sunset district is located so far from the central portion of the city, that transportation is difficult for them. and as you know, there are some issues with switch backs for example on muni and folks feeling like, you know, they don't have adequate service down to the end of the line. so, i have worked with mta and we're trying to figure out solutions to address that. but i think overall our residents really just want to make sure that they can get from where they need to go from the sunset district or back home via public transportation. >> what about parking and traffic? >> i think that the sunset district typically has a little bit more pricing than some other districts. there are always pedestrian safety issues we have to watch out for. our district has boulevard, we have sunset boulevard. we were also have 19th avenue and great highway. and, so, those are actually state highways that -- except for sunset boulevard, but the three are state highways that run through our district. and, so, when you have that, we have seen some fatalities along some of those corridors and, so, we work very closely with the state agency, our local agencies to see what sort of pedestrian improvements can be made to help make it more safe for feev l. so, for example, maybe it means that we install more pedestrian countdown signals or install sidewalk build outs so that we can shorten the distance for pedestrians to cross the streets. or lowering of speed limits. so, all of those things we try to look at comprehensively throughout the district to people can travel safely whether you're a pedestrian, cyclist or driver. >> speaking of safety, what are your thoughts on how the city is dealing with crime, especially in your district and how do you think the police department is doing? >> we work very closely with our local police station which is terraville police station. we have community groups in the sunset. they have formed out of response to concern of public safety in the neighborhood and i think that generally speaking the sunset district has lower crime levels than many of the other parts of the city. however, because we are bordering ocean beach and golden gate park, we do have pockets of problem areas. and, so, our neighbors are the first to alert us and the police station when there are issues and the police has been very responsive to that. >> what kind of issues are you having with ocean beach or golden gate park? >> i think that because it's so far from the center of the city and because there is so much open space, we do see a lot of encampments in those areas. some neighbors express issues with safety and feeling safe in their neighborhood and, so, they have worked very closely with our terraville station to make sure they monitor those regularly. >> what are your thoughts on the city's economic development? >> so, in terms of economic development, i think our city is in a very, again, exciting time right now where we are able to attract a lot of businesses who want to locate here in san francisco. you know, we have seen a recent wave of technology companies that have located here in our downtown core area and it's really transformed our neighborhoods. and i think that as we continue to keep drawing talent and those kind of companies that are city's economic state will continue to grow. >> speaking of growth in our city, how do you feel about the role of the warriors coming to san francisco and the plans for the new stadium? >> so, the warriors and the plan for the new stadium, you know, the project approvals and the environmental review report will actually have to go through the board of supervisors. so, i'll have to make my decision then. but the prospect of something like that would be very exciting for the city, i think, not only as an economic engine but also in terms of san francisco's cultural history. >> to a degree, do you feel the city should subsidize the team? >> i think that negotiations are still to be sorted out and i think that all of that is in the works. but it's something that i'll pay close attention to. >> what would you like to see change in the city's approach to developing its economy? >> you know, i think that san francisco is a very creative city and we tend to be on the cutting edge of issues, right? and i think that to that extent of our administration and our various departments such as the office of economic and work force development have always thought of creative approach he that might be new for the region to, for example, attract new businesses or, you know, other sorts of financing mechanisms. and i think that we will continue to do that in san francisco. >> well, are there any other issues that you plan to concentrate on throughout your term as supervisor? >> yes, i believe that having worked, you know, for many years in the district 4 office and now as supervisor, over time we have felt that, you know, many times we are very reactive to a lot of the problems that are presented our way and i want to really make sure that during my term i would love to do some long-term planning for the district to make sure that we think maybe 5, 10, 15 years out and think ahead, you know, now and start the planning work and laying the foundation for things we want to do in the future. >> what are some of your ideas? >> i will be engaging in a community process where we focus on some of our key issue areas that we care a lot about in the district and working with them to kind of layout the groundwork for what we envision for our district in the future. >> we're almost out of time. but it's been great chatting with you. thank you so much for joining us today on sfgov tv's meet your supervisor. >> thank you for having me. >> we've been talking to supervisor tang from district 4. watch for the next episode of meet your district supervisor when we'll be back with another round of our 11 city supervisors. sore sfgov-tv, i'm nona melkonian. ♪ ♪ed and director hsu, present. director nolan. director rib key. you have a quorum. >> the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chairman may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound-producing electronic devices.