There we are. Thank you so much. Good afternoon everyone. Hold on one second. Sorry. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting. Today is friday april 19, 2024. Today is athis meeting is broadcast to the public. This is a inperson and hybrid meeting and broadcast to the public at sfgovtv. It is open captioned and asl interpreted. Sign language interpreted. If you need any other accommodation, and have difficulty attending this meeting, please send an email to mod sfgov. Org. Or call 4155546789. Did i mention to say that my name is sherry albers you cochair for todays meeting . Thank you. The Mayors Disability Council Meeting Council holds ten Public Meetings per year, and they are generally held on the third friday of the month. For information about past or upcoming meetings, please visit the mod website at www. Sfgov. Mod. Our next regular meeting will be on friday, may 17, 2024 from 1 to 4 p. M. And it will also be a hybrid meeting and it will also be broadc
Be joined by Vice Committee member and, supervisor katie tang and i would like to thank sfgtv for covering this meeting as well as the clerk of the committee, do you have any announcements . Silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the filed should be submitted to the clerk, today will appear on the december, 13th, board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. . Ethank you, and colleagues, and everybody from the audience, we have a long agenda, as is the annual tradition, before the holiday break, in order to accommodate the schedules we are going to make a few changes. So item 19 is going to be called out of order by 11 30, and item 17 will be called after 11 30. And also, in the beginning here, madam clerk, could you call, item 18, please . Item 18, here activation of the three publicly owned buildings, in 60, 11, 35, and 45, and including activation and construction time line and, budget is s
Friday april 15, 2016. The introduction will be read by Council Member kostanian. Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council. This friday, april 15, 2016 , thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday, april 15, 2016. In room 400 San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons use is wheelchairs and other assisted mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the venice and streets. Assisted listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for any additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this rooms sound system and to enable everyone to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment. You may complete a speaker card available or call our bridge line. 14155549632. Where a staff person will
And the picture is not fully painted unless you look at, what it is called, the Labor Force Participation, rate and i think that a lot of folks probably know what this is, this is, this is the number of, it is calculated as the number of people that are either employed, or unemployed but actively looking for a job. And in 2015, the rate of people without disabilities that were actively par participating in the workforce, was 68. 9 percent and that is compared to the rate of people with disabilities in 2013. Was 20. 3 percent. And i think that it is really important to point out here, and as the table, on this slide, and tries to show, is that while we have seen a slight decrease in the Unemployment Rate of the Disability Community, there is also a very similar decrease in the Labor Force Participation rate of our community. And so really what that, and to me, what that illustrates is that it is not necessarily the Unemployment Rate is falling, because, people are getting jobs, it is be
Moving on for to item number 7, information item,san Francisco Public Library and its successful implementation of Civil Service rule 115. Presentation by marti goddard, Access Services manager, san Francisco Public Library. The staff hired the rule, reflect the local communities of the users who are deaf and blind and those who have learning disabilities and the works are one or two part time positions for people with the Developmental Disability and presentation by marti, goddard, Access Services manager, san Francisco Public Library. That i think this meeting is a celebration and i am so happy to be able to be a part of it, thank you very much. Being a lie braeer an, as i was thinking of what to say today, i spent the time looking at and thinking about definitions of diversity and inclusion and mostly i found when related to humans Something Like the state of having people who are different races, or who have different culture and a group or an organization, and or references to peo