Connection. And that i think we have to think about who gets left out. That is not to denigrate at all the work of the Mayors Office on disability and this council. Anyway, thank you very much for your work. I think we have some things to attend to. Thank you. Thank you. Next is jerry grace. Good afternoon everybody. My name is jerry grace and i i alive across the bay in cc county, city of san pablo. The bottom line a lot of people live here in the city and most of the people really dont know who needs to get a case worker. Ggrc, that means golden gate Resource Center that helps people who have no way to get in touch with anyone. And golden gate will give you help. They will come out and see you four times a year. In golden gate the case worker will see you. The supervisor will see you first. Golden gate is very good people and they will always be around. They have off of stevenson and golden gate. And and golden gate will help other people get a case worker. I know one person on the b
Alive across the bay in cc county, city of san pablo. The bottom line a lot of people live here in the city and most of the people really dont know who needs to get a case worker. Ggrc, that means golden gate Resource Center that helps people who have no way to get in touch with anyone. And golden gate will give you help. They will come out and see you four times a year. In golden gate the case worker will see you. The supervisor will see you first. Golden gate is very good people and they will always be around. They have off of stevenson and golden gate. And and golden gate will help other people get a case worker. I know one person on the board is jim. And i come to the meetings in San Francisco. A lot of people i know have a case worker at golden gate. That is why i came up here to tell you a little bit about the golden gate. The golden gate is a very big place. You need to check it out. 375 stevenson, right off of Market Street between market and mission. Come by there. The golden
Minute this originates in sacramento, but the fact that the medical budget cuts meant that people no longer get dental care, incontinence supplies is not paid for. This is creating a horrible situation for a lot of people that cannot afford dental care. There is very few avenue to get anything done besides getting a tooth pulled on an emergency basis. So those are quality of life issues. The last thing i would like to speak to is just asking us to address the question of who gets left out of the information loop . I was struck by some of the recent Community Meetings that were sponsored around the changes that were talked about megan elliot. At both senior sites we had probably 300 people who came to hear about that. And then im thinking well who got left out of that and who maybe didnt hear about that . Because there is an existing network of Senior Centers and Senior Housing where a lot of information gets communicates, but i think sometimes we tend to keep connecting to the same peo
Any other Council Member who wishes to make a comment . All right. Break time. To item no. 8. Information item, report from the disability Disaster Preparedness committee. And denise will read that report. Thank you, chip. The disability Disaster Preparedness committee met on friday, january 4th, 2013. There was a number of communitybased organizations and city departments participating. The ddpc committee reviewed their accomplishments for 2012 and set priority fools for 2013. The discussion around 2012 accomplishments revealed that we were quite successful at meeting most of our goals, especially the ones which involved the Mayors Office on disabilities guidance and effort. It was remarked that considering the loss of manpower at mod, a substantial and impressive amount of work was produced. These efforts included, but are not limited to the civic citywide evacuation drill and activation drill. A twoday fast, functional service team, training and developing a plan for personal Assist
Information loop . I was struck by some of the recent Community Meetings that were sponsored around the changes that were talked about megan elliot. At both senior sites we had probably 300 people who came to hear about that. And then im thinking well who got left out of that and who maybe didnt hear about that . Because there is an existing network of Senior Centers and Senior Housing where a lot of information gets communicates, but i think sometimes we tend to keep connecting to the same people who already have a connection. And that i think we have to think about who gets left out. That is not to denigrate at all the work of the Mayors Office on disability and this council. Anyway, thank you very much for your work. I think we have some things to attend to. Thank you. Thank you. Next is jerry grace. Good afternoon everybody. My name is jerry grace and i i alive across the bay in cc county, city of san pablo. The bottom line a lot of people live here in the city and most of the peop