Their Commission Also again with a stipend. Some outside contractors, the para transit coordinating council, they meet every other month or six weeks. 6 weeks. People are disabled and use the para transit and again, a stipend position. Some of us have to cobble together various pieces in order to try to survive in San Francisco. It gets harder and harder for us to survive. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Public speaker hi, i really appreciate your efforts supervisor mar in pushing this forward. I think last time you had a hearing we had folks that were partnering with ucsf with and relate that to the need for a point person. We were able to place a point person there, one of our employees at uc sf and we had Great Success with placements there for folks with developmental and intellectual disabilities. They are now making more than their job coaches are because they are at uc sf. We are happy to see that but the hires with large employees with multiple departments that dont necessa
Speaker. Public speaker gabriel with the department of disability. I want to applaud the steps that San Francisco is taking. As others have alluded to San Francisco is the leader in this effort and i know others will try to replicate what you do. Just a couple of other key success. Clear measurable high level goes that are trackable so everyone in the city and county can rally around them. 1 person designated to lead this effort and i would echo the point that making sure that person has the authority to get what needs to be don orsillo and finally making sure the person who is designated within hr to sphere head this has competencies to do job development. In my experience, its a fairly rare skill set and not everyone can do it well. There are some members in your Advisory Committee who knows that very well and hopefully they are focused on the what competencity is for that purpose. Part of our role is to gather best practices from around the state and the country. If anything we can
Particularly in light of the information weve gotten through best practices and what has worked for instance the Seattle Program has been very successful particularly with getting people with Developmental Disabilities hired with the Office Services position. Hopefully we can give some feedback towards the role of that position. Also as whats already been mentioned is making sure we establish placement goals so its really clear and that we can measure our success and last but not least one of the key things as i think we still need the mayor to do its challenge to the Department Head to keep the momentum going. And i also agree with all of the recommendations that have been made with carla and donna and jonathan as well. Thank you. Thank you. Scene next speaker. Public speaker gabriel with the department of disability. I want to applaud the steps that San Francisco is taking. As others have alluded to San Francisco is the leader in this effort and i know others will try to replicate wh
Community based organizations working with the department of Human Resources and office of Mayors Office on disabilities and employee rights. Its also to advance civil rights and Employment Rights for people with disabilities and our goal to increase employment efforts and opportunities for disabled people and also a goal to improve and implement better rule 115 which maybe called by some access sf as well. We are holding a hearing for the anniversary of the passage of the americans with disabilities act and the Disability Rights Movement occupation for the Federal Building here. The longest occupation of the Federal Building in u. S. History but also other occupations in other cities as well. The 504 actions in the movement came out in the celebrations a couple weeks ago. I think the tone and the spirit from the people with disabilities and the movement was that we are patient no more was one of the comments. Thats a great exhibit going on now at the ed roberts campus in berkeley that
Returning to his eighth straight nba finals. And remembering americas bravest who made the ultimate sacrifice, a special memorial day edition of msnbc live. Good morning, everyone. Im dara brown. Memorial weekend was a wash outfor one community. Fire officials responded to reports of buildings collapsing as the baltimore suburb was overcome by water. The governor considers the damage to be worse than the massive flood from two summers ago that claimed two lives. Its truly devastating. I would say its as bad or worse than the storm two years ago. They say this is a once ever thousandyear flood and when he two of them in two years. Our washington, d. C. Affiliates has more. Reporter the video is incredible, main street flooded again. The second time in less than two years. Dozens of people were rescued as raging floodwaters rushed through trapping workers and customers in business on this holiday weekend. Cell phone videos show the strength of the flooding causing structures to collapse