Toward 680 and so far so good through concord. Breaking news this morning in santa clara where fire fights at the scene of large fire at a card board manufacturing plant. Sandra osborne joining us live from santa clara with the latest. Good morning. A lot of people can see the smoke from a goodies tans much the smoke and a lot of water dousing the fire in the outside storage for a cord board manufacturing plant. Its an area of 200 feet by 250 feet and card board bails that have stacked and wrapped like hay bails stacked high. In excess of 15 feet in some cases. The building not damaged in all of it. Plant runs 24 hour as day so the good news here is the plant manager confirmed all employees were evacuated and all are accounted for. The fire chief out here believes that number of people was somewhere between 1520 people. They didnt have the normal amount of workers in here because of the holiday and normally the yard is completely full and the plant manager estimates about a third full
Are staff contracted from the department of, the Citys Department of Administrative Services but work fulltime at o. C. I. I. In addition, we have two parttime staff who have a very specific skillset and therefore are only work parttime. And in addition, both are retired, so they fall under slightly different rules than our fulltime staff. In addition, well spend 2. 3 million on City Departments, enact the m. O. U. S to Purchase Services from our City Partners. So if a plan is reviewed by planning or if we have a contract thats reviewed by City Attorney or our participation in the citys accounting system, s. F. P. And administration and internal controllers, billed back to o. C. I. I. 1. 6 million in nonlabor costs, other to obtain Specialized Services like the fiscal audit or nonlabor costs like the rent or our workers comp insurance, costs that are for the General Administration of the agency and are not related to one specific project. So, together those three costs, labor, costs ob
Of data. I would encourage the city to step forward and find a way to compromise to get data to help us drive this process. In closing, i want to thank the board, i want to thank you in particular supervisor march as our members uniformly said you are the loudest and steady person we have in elected office. I want to thank you for all the work you have done and your colleagues and done an ed wong and special thanks to Carla Johnson for her leadership on this and i want to thank all of my colleagues on the Advisory Committee. Too many to mention today because i will inevitably forget one. I want to thank all of them for their tireless work. Many of them live day in and day out. I will go back to my job and that will have nothing to do with this. But these people have dedicated their lives to empowering people with disabilities. Thats really what our members believe. We believe in empowerment through employment and thats what we believe the city and board of supervisors will continue wit
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