Mayors Disability Council this friday september 19, 2014, in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheel chair access is provided at the grove van ness and mcallister street. Entrance is provided via wheelchair lift. Assistive listening devices are available and open caption and our agendas are available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for additional assistance. To prevent electronics interference and to respect everyones ability to focus on the presentations, please silence all cell phones and pdas. This is appreciated. We welcome publics participation during Public Comment. You may fill out a speaker card or call the bridge line 4155549362. Where staff persons will handle the request to speak at appropriate times. The Mayors Council disability meeting is held on the third friday of the month. Our neck regular meeting will be on october 17, 2014, from 1 00 to 4 00 in San Francisco ci
The current signal failed to provide communication known as effective communication. The walk, dont walk signals dont satisfactory that criteria. We have seen son of the signals which are the visual signs of pedestrians and the rapid ticking noises or other tactile indicators that are used at those crosswalks. The sf mta has a problem by which a member of a public can request at a location. That is prioritized what is called a safety and access tool. There are many variables that an evaluator must look at recommended an installation as well as what type of aps should be installed. Those could include push about the button devices and rapidtext and vibrator tones. Once the person has requested aps, mta will provide that person with the following information. A preliminary prioritization score and preliminary test for the intersection and other that were requested and whether or not any work is being planned at that intersection and whether any aps will be installed within the next three
Talk about the homeless issue and it is a big issue in the city and we have two supervisors here who sometimes when they hear about this issue and there is a same group of people that talk to them that may have a vested interest and tonight we got to hear from the people from this community it is concerned and i know that it takes a lot of the Police Departments resources and i want to thank the board of supervisors for working on this problem, and the Police Department for there are things that we need to do and so thank you from the community that brought that out. Thank you. Okay. And Vice President turman, you are on. So, captain lazar the Central District crime stats, auto theft is up and burglary is up by the other crimes seem to be dropping and i know that you mentioned that you had some idea that some thoughts about how you are going to address those issues could you share those thoughts with us at that point. Yes, auto burglary, one thing that we are doing is telling everyone
Representation required on the mta board. Requiring that one member be on the board is the affection democracy. Proposition calls for equal enforcement of traffic laws. There are certainly terrible drivers in San Francisco and traffic laws must strictly be enforced against them. But there are also many cyclist that disobey the law. Disabled pedestrians are particular at risk. Traffic laws should be enforced for everyone and drivers and cyclist. Please vote on the november ballot. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment at this time . All right. We are moving on to the report from the director of the Mayors Office on disability, Carla Johnson. Thank you cochair supanich and councilmembers, Carla Johnson on the Mayors Office on disability. I have two items on my directors report. One is a quick announcement about staffing changes and second will be a little tour of the mod website. I wanted to let you know that john paul scott, our Deputy Director for architectural access has chos
This wonderful legislation and dedicated people that have stayed here all day. Supervisor kim and i want to respond yes, im offering the suggestion your different if youre a homeowner so if youre a condo owner you would get a number of nights hosted and not hosted but if youre a renter theres a restriction this will protect the issue of protecting our rent control housing stoke in the event people are renting out it try homeowners living in are their home they can poesht rent those units out those are challenging questions i have a small concern in the future homeowners are going to start this as a business and now the house is valued at 105 million and not 1 million were not readily o ready for that concern yet. Two quick things first of all, whether or not the registration runs with the property i dont know that it does regards even if it doesnt and someone would buy a home and do a airbnb rental they could just registration in terms of the both the impact and combofshlt issues it is