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 everyones ability to focus on the presentation, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is a pretty appreciated. We welcome the publics 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 Mayors 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 one4 pm here in San Francisco city hall in room 400. Please collimators office on disability for further information or to request accommodations at 1415 554 6789 voice or by email, 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. Lets 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 todays 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 Mayors 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 CommunityDevelopment SpecialistMayors 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 lowcost 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 todays 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 thereive one slip up here. [calling Public Comment cards] i want to thank you for all the work that youre 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. Its a coalition of communitybased 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 1015 years. It will be probably close to 30 of the citys population, that includes people with disability right now, its about 2324. So, there is a ballot proposal that was passed by the board of supervisors in june. And come i dont know the money totals that came out. Was less than what was asked for, but its more than we have now. So, i will call that a victory. It will be on the ballot in november and it doesnt use anytherell be no new taxes but its a setaside from property taxes. So, its 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, its kind of its a little intricate. So, you can contact the Mayors 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. Im 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 onsite 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 familyfriendly events. Projects change radically. The event takes place on sunday, august 21 from 11 am2 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 email 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 years decorum is probably working in partnership with the department of rehabilitation. The event takes place on tuesday september 27 from 10 am12 pm and 1 pm3 pm. It will be held at the edit roberts campus which is located at 3075 adeline street in berkeley and thats 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 youre 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 Mayors Office on disability. Her name is roxana barcas green in. Shes 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 HousingMix Use Development and commercial projects. Prior to joining the Mayors 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 Franciscos commercial corridor including the bayview, central market, ocean ave. , excelsior, chinatown, and lower 24th. Please, wednesday of the words beaten thank you, do. Its exciting to be part of the Mayors Office and city team. I want to mention im an architect and also i work with the [inaudible] where i worked closely with Small Business owners providing assistance through facades 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 citys brandnew we collect dahlia San Francisco housing portal. Which, our goal is to be an online onestop 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 weve 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 theres a lot of places to look for housing in the city Affordable Housing,. The good news is theres a lot of programs. The bad news is theres a lot of programs. Its 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 usercentered. 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 thats 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 youre 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 youll 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 thats 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 wont 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 its 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 dont 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, theres 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 Mayors 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, weve been working from the perspective of user centric research. Thats 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 wont 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 endusers as we call them for Additional Research t