Of the ada, past, present, and future. President George H W Bush signed the americans with disabilities act into law on july 26, 1990. That was 27 years ago. The ada was one of the First Federal civil rights laws, focused on protecting persons with disabilities and against discrimination and public accommodations and services and telecommunications. I am especially proud to hide the commissions role in the commission of that law. The disabilities focus and legislation in a 1983 report titled accommodating individual responsibilities. A former staff attorney with the commission of who was one of the primary authors of the report , described his job as statistics, social scientific, literature, legislation, legal commentary on the status of people with a disability in American Society and in the law. In conclusion of the report was society has tended to isolate and segregate people with disabilities and despite that progress discrimination , continues to be a serious and pervasive social
Cleveland in more than a half reported in our countys suburbs. And with another 16 deaths still waiting on test results, that number could grow even higher. Only on news 5. Much of the nation is searching for an answer to the devastating heroin epidemic. None so much as ohio which is number one in the country when it comes to heroin deaths. News 5 james gerard is here now. New numbers. Heroin crisis according to the New York Times americans as the aids crisis did at its height. Theyre pushing for more Major Solutions as more people are dieing from overdosing in ohio than anywhere else in the country. You use this you dont get a second chance. He works every day to make sure people dont die from using heroin but his job has become harder than its a moderate increase. 228 last year is nothing compared to what will likely be more than 500 deaths in 2016. What were missing is long term sober living environment. Not just two or three months. Six or seven months they are so overwhelmed where
The last time but to organizational some of the comments previously my concern is we are so close to the be budget process not to take supplemental victimized on their own specifically the annual listed cost associated with that not to ignore the issue that needs to be addressed in the city with homelessness but today ill not support this thank you supervisor tang we need a motion to move forward supporting this rectify. Supervisor farrell is making a motion and sending of seconded by supervisor mar. Supervisor wiener. I wanted to thank supervisor farrell so far his work which when this first came up we had challenges around homelessness and mental issues on our streets we dont have enough outreach workers and there are different problems in different parts of the city for example, in the castro and market area there are unique issues we dont have nearly enough Homeless Outreach resources so i hope and expect this will help. And ive been assured that by the author and department i hope
15 years homelessness for the people in San Francisco. Ive stated it has been made by design. Were moving poor people out of San Francisco lets be real about this. You know you ail sit here and have commissioners, you have other Board Members come before you and rubber stamp everything that comes through instead of asking questions you have the Community Come and try to give you the facts i give you facts and what occurs . Nothing. Nothing occur. You have and it was mentioned you have all those departments here at the Mayors Office. Where did those funds come from and where it is going what was it set up to do it was to help the same people that youre talking about today has that done that no they find money at the end of the year you didnt find nothing you transfer money from one side to another side and use the money inappropriately youre going to talk and nothing being done that i is there any additional Public Comment with that supervisor farrell any final comments. Thank you for p
Next speaker. Board of supervisors tom on south beach apartments. Why am i here . 6 years ago in front of the Planning Commission i had kathy republican moores ear and i said i didnt want what was happening in my neck of the woods so the same thing ill say it now were building and remodeling New Buildings and remodeling old warehouses and were creating and creating nice across the city into rooftops into other peoples homes. This is ventilation for their their halls 3 hundred and 65 days a year. Normal traffic noise becomes a relief. I can explain the ballot measure heres the ballot x the 55 and the 45 means thats the noise level it goes into our home even with our windows closed. The 5 and 8 is the new noise that a new model can drop on behalf of the normal ambient noise of our home. I dont think thats necessary. Ive go on got one over here ballot measure a all the noise is Property Owner can make and all of it hundred percent contained on their property they can do what we what they