san francisco mayor s disability council meeting please stand by. hello july 18, 2014, good afternoon, and welcome to the mayor s disability council this friday july 18, 2014. are we seeing captions. ? control room? captions? okay. control room. can we have captions on the large screen here in the room. we are going to hold now until we can get this resolved. thank you for your patience. good afternoon and welcome to the mayor s disability council this friday july 18, 2014, in room 400 of san francisco city hall. city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchair and other persons with mobility devices. access at the polk street/carlton b. assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. our agendas are also available in large print and braille. please ask staff for any extra assistance. to prevent interference and for everyone to focus, please silence all mobile phones. your cooperation is
of pedestrians and cars. and it used to be i have to watch even after the light turns green for me. i watch for cars. these days i stop and i watch between cars and make sure that there are no bicyclist barreling down on me. the reason i want to say this is, i had a friend who was on a motor scooter and she was hit by a car, a drunk driver. she lost her leg. and august insurance is $15,000. okay. what happened is bicyclist don t have insurance. okay. if we get hit as a pedestrian, who is going to cover our cost? okay? how is this going to affect our further quality of life? thank you. thank you. is there nin any other public comment in the audience ? any public comment on the bridge line? no. okay. thank you very much for your presentation. moving ahead to the next item on our agenda. we have item 8. a history of the disability rights movement. information item. this is a presentation of a serum internship project researching the history of the disability rights movement fr
have captions on the large screen here in the room. we are going to hold now until we can get this resolved. thank you for your patience. good afternoon and welcome to the mayor s disability council this friday july 18, 2014, in room 400 of san francisco city hall. city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchair and other persons with mobility devices. access at the polk street/carlton b. assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. our agendas are also available in large print and braille. please ask staff for any extra assistance. to prevent interference and for everyone to focus, please silence all mobile phones. your cooperation is appreciated. we welcome the public s participation during public comment. you may complete a speaker s card in the front of the room or call our bridge line. 415. 554. 9632. where a staff member will handle request to speak at the appropriate time. the mayor s disability co
are the people that you really have to sit down and say, this is very serious. the city of san francisco has to pay for these things. i think it s important to sit down and have classes and have people come and talk and ask questions especially youth. because if they don t start putting that into place, who is going to listen? thank you. now i will turn it over to comment from staff. okay. let s go to public comment. we ll start with, if you will be kind to hang back if there are questions. we have a speaker. thank you. for your presentation on accessibility on bike lanes. i have a question and concern and also a rhetorical question. will there be, should there be, could there be installed on the medians on the north south, east west, roads such as gary and van ness an aps push button on the median to assist pedestrians crossing over those routes which in those two examples are also highway 1, which is van ness is 101 but equates to lombard which is also 101. can that be
that s jason elliott thank you jason for the work you re doing here (clapping) and then i d like to thank you for the opportunity to invite any of our elected officials or members of podium to express their viewpoints and get ready for - one minute. good and if i speak - (laughter). but again, we look forward to the discussion with the voting public this is an exciting discussion something that the entire city is proud of so again, thank you very much everyone> hello july 18, 2014, good afternoon, and welcome to the mayor s disability council this friday july 18, 2014. are we seeing captions. ? control room? captions? okay. control room. can we have captions on the large screen here in the room. we are going to hold now until we can get this resolved. thank you for your patience. good afternoon and welcome to the mayor s disability council this friday july 18, 2014, in room 400 of san francisco city hall. city hall is accessible to persons using whee