Ms. Senhaux chair any more Public Comment . Zack . Okay. Id like to request just one extra minute to speak slower for the sign language interpreters. Ms. Senhaux chair unless its disability related you can deny that request, thank you. Ms. Senhaux chair im not denying it, im explaining it. Its a request and youre denying it. Ill continue to give my Public Comment. Bruces comment hit the nail on the head. Housing is the dark cloud that face the Disability Community that we dont want to talk about, but we need to talk about. To be severe disabled. If youre disabled in california to the point you cant work, the maximum amount of money is around 600. Thats everything. If emily shore can show me any place that is available for rent under 950, ill be happy to give all the money in my wallet and the shirt on my back, because ive been looking for a long time. Especially a place that is wheelchair accessible. Thats a pipe dream as it is. Thats if its the whole amount, you know, let alone clothe
Since the inception, the Whistleblower Program has been plagued by minor complaints. The 20102011 civil grand jury found that 36 were true whistleblower complaints alleging fraud, waste, and abuse. Then the Whistleblower Program developed a Risk Assessment policy that was designed to triage the complaints and sort them out into low, medium, or high risk complaints. For example, the medium risk cases involved potential losses of 10,000 to 50,000 or they implicate a mid level manager. The medium and high risk cases are not represented in the whistleblower reports. Instead, we get a preponder remembers of cases of low level employees who use Work Computers for personal business, who leave work early, or show up late, who gamble or sleep on the job, or who smoke in city cars and park them inappropriately. Preventing these abuses is worthwhile, but wheres the beef . We dont hear about the big money violations or mid to high level official misconduct. Why not . If the Whistleblower Program d
The consent calendar please. Do you want to call for Public Comment on item eight . Any Public Comments on our comments . Thank you. Next item, please. Item nine is consent calendar. All items listed are considered to be retained by the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and acted upon by a single vote of the commission. No separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or public rate ques quests. The matter will be removed from the calendar and considered a separate item. Commissioners, would you like any item removed . All foz, i dont. Okay. General public, any item remov removed . May i have a motion . All of those in favor . The motion carries. Next item. Item ten write approve modifications of the San Francisco San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Grant program and authorize a general manager to approve future modifications to the Grant Program. Commissioners, steve ritchie, this is an item to make some minor changes to the Grant Program rules. Th
Trying to find, they can know that the information [bell ringing] theyre getting is accurate and that this coordination among the agencies, and that you know, its current and it needs to so youre not just running from place to place and finding out youre just too late. And so i mean i dont know how long its going to take me to find housing. I mean, im on waiting lists, but you know, its getting harder because its getting more expensive to live here. And if youre a senior, disabled and lowincome, youre being forced out or into areas where its not necessarily safe all the time. And so there needs to be better coordination among the agencies. And people dont, you know, can know that the information theyre getting is current. Its not two or three months old or years old. And if they got a chance to find some housing, whether theyre just spinning their wheels and hoping that something is going to come up. Thank you for your help. Ms. Senhaux chair thank you, bruce. Ms. Senhaux chair any mor
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