That the adequate for strong recruitment and equal opportunity for the people with disabilities that should be a priority. And if you could get that un. And i would like to acknowledge the work of the Advisory Panel and group and i know that a number of speakers, and others will speak about that experience too and some of the recommendations that you have already gone through. But in explaining the history of the numbers of the use of 115, and how we might raise awareness through your monthly Human Resource professionals meeting that Karl L Johnson and others will attend and you are suggesting that an Advisory Panel, reestablishing an Advisory Panel and it is good with dhr, but also with the Community Based organizations. Right. I want to thank you for presenting for the presenters and we want to see if president chiu will make some remarks. I want to thank supervisor mar as well as advocates from the seniors and disabled communities to come to this important hearing and i want to make
Individuals, with disabilities. And two, to allow the departments to fill the vacant positions with qualified individuals. And three, to increase the diversity of the city. And now turning the page on the overhead, and i am continuing with the bullet points in my presentation. So proposition a was approved by the voters and the charter was amended and a new Civil Service rule was implemented, i think that those are my notes. And but any way, was implemented and that was Civil Service rule, 34, that later became Civil Service 115, which is what we are speaking about today. And Civil Service rule the title of it is rules related to the employment of persons with disabilities. And so what are the requirements of Civil Service rule 115 . And it will allows for the applicanted to be appointed to permanent exempt positions and entry level classifications and it is important that i stipulate right here, that when we say entry level positions, that disnot mean that these are you know going to
We and my own office have 22 percent of our staff are people with disabilities. And we know this, because 22 percent of our staff came in on our state hiring program, which is called leap limited examination i cant remember what the a, stands for. And i will have to look it up. Limited examination and process is the p. And i will be happy to get you that information, 22 percent of our staff came in on the leap as did i. I will tell you that as somebody who came in as a person with a disability, who experienced being hired by an employer that took a chance to me to do a good job. I am more than happy to disclose my disability and i can tell you that the reason that we know that 22 percent, you know of our staff, with the disabilities because they are going to do the same and we know this by virtue of selfdisclosure. And we do, you know, the state organization, we do not coerce people into disclosing, but we have a voluntary state wide not just in the department rehab, we have the volunt
Is telling us not to track that and not be asking for that information. It might be interesting to get all of those attorneys in the same room. Exactly. I think from my perspective, if we are talking about voluntary selfidentification and maybe i will ask our deputy City Attorney if you have a perspective on this issue. You know, if the goal is to increase these numbers, it is hard to achieve that goal if we dont know where we are. And is there a way for us to understand that . Deputy, City Attorney, i am actually not familiar enough with the advice on this issue but happy to circle back with you and dhr after this hearing. All right, right. Right. So there is also gina, Genetic Information act which also prohibits us from collecting any information regarding a disability that is tied to genetics. Okay. And that is a federal law. Okay. You know what . I think that what is interesting about this conversation is that the community representing the people with disabilities is asking us as
And maybe i will ask our deputy City Attorney if you have a perspective on this issue. You know, if the goal is to increase these numbers, it is hard to achieve that goal if we dont know where we are. And is there a way for us to understand that . Deputy, City Attorney, i am actually not familiar enough with the advice on this issue but happy to circle back with you and dhr after this hearing. All right, right. Right. So there is also gina, Genetic Information act which also prohibits us from collecting any information regarding a disability that is tied to genetics. Okay. And that is a federal law. Okay. You know what . I think that what is interesting about this conversation is that the community representing the people with disabilities is asking us as a city to consider tracking and at least monitoring on a voluntary selfidentified way, and so if there is a way for us to consider that i am open to it. Sure. Obviously given the constrictions of the constitutional and legal challenge