Meetings - February 20, 2015 - Agenda

Meeting Date: 
February 20, 2015 (All day)
CANCELLATION NOTICE

Mayor’s Disability Council
Friday, February 20, 2015
1:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.
City Hall, Room 400


The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Mayor's Disability Council Meeting is cancelled. Instead, the MDC will hold a special executive meeting on Friday, February 20, 2015 at 1155 Market Street, 1st Floor, to discuss future agenda topics and other Council business.

The Mayor's Disability Council will resume its televised, regularly scheduled meetings on Friday, March 20, 2015 from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. in San Francisco City Hall, Room 400.

Accessible Meeting Information

City Hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the Grove, Van Ness and McAllister streets via ramps. Wheelchair access at the Polk Street/ Carlton B. Goodlett entrance is provided through a wheelchair lift. Assistive listening devices are available and the meeting itself will be real-time captioned and sign language interpreted. Agendas are available in large print and Braille. Other materials are available in alternative formats upon request.

Please make your requests for alternative format or additional accommodations to Council Clerk Donna Adkins at (415) 554-6789 (V), 554-6799 (TTY), or e-mail mod@sfgov.org. Requesting accommodations at least 72 hours prior to the meeting will help to ensure availability.

The nearest accessible BART station is Civic Center Plaza at the intersection of Market, Grove, and Hyde Streets. The accessible MUNI Metro lines are the J, K, L, M, and N (Civic Center Station or Van Ness Avenue Station). MUNI bus lines serving the area are the 47 Van Ness, 9 San Bruno, and the 6, 7, 71 Haight/ Noriega. Accessible curbside parking is available on 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place and Grove Street.

In order to assist the City in accommodating persons with severe allergies, environmental illness, multiple chemical sensitivity or related disabilities, please refrain from wearing scented products to MDC Meetings or when visiting the MOD Office. This includes perfume, scented lotions, detergents, or hairsprays, etc. Thank you for helping us to provide meetings that are fully accessible to all people with disabilities.

Mayor’s Disability Council Accessible Documents Policy

Please note that no materials may be distributed for consideration or review by Council Members at a meeting, unless these materials have been provided to MOD Staff in electronic format at least two days (and preferably four days) prior to the meeting.

For further information, please call or contact the Mayor’s Office on Disability at (415) 554-6789, TTY: 554-6799, or email MOD@sfgov.org

Meeting Broadcast & Webcast

For persons with disabilities or others who cannot attend in person, meetings are broadcast (open captioned) on SFGTV Channel 26. Call (415) 557-4293 for listings. MDC Meetings are also video streamed live and are archived at: http://www.sfgov.org/site/sfgtv_index.asp?id=13353
Videotapes of the three most recent MDC meetings are made available ten days after the meeting date in the Main Public Library.

Telephone Bridge Line at (415) 554-9632

Members of the public, who wish to listen to and/or participate in this meeting but are unable to physically attend, may call into the Council’s ‘Telephone Bridge Line’ at (415) 554-9632. Up to thirty persons may listen on this conference line, and may be recognized to speak during public comment periods. Call (415) 554-9632 after 1:00 p.m. and a staff person will handle requests to speak at the appropriate times on the agenda.