Thank you. All right everybody, hi. This is the Mayors Disability Council meeting on friday, july 17m, 2015. Welcome to everybody. May i have the introduction read, please by Council Member wong . Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday, july 17th, 2015 in room 400 of the San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs, and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk carlton good lett is available with lift. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is opencaptioned and signlanguage 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 respect everyones ability to focus on the presentations please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome Public Participation during Public
Environment. It helps to lift up the programs because you lift up San Francisco. Thank you for all the incredible work that you are doing and i really do hope that this spreads. [ applause ] good evening. This is the meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee of board of supervisors. My name is eric mar, our colleague david campos will not be here today. City clerk i think we need a motion to excuse our colleague. Its been moved that we excused david campos from this meeting. Can we do that without objection . Thank you. We have five items on our agenda, two liquor licenses at the very end. Item no. 3 is supervisor jane kim is on the health code. My understand is she wants to continue that item to the call of the chair. Well continue item 3. If anybody is here to speak on that, well hear on that during public testimony. Please call no. 1. City clerk item no. 1. Hearing implementation of Civil Service rule 115. Supervisor eric mar supervisor christensen reminded me
For the mayors with disabilities and 2 years ago we signed the americans with disabilities act and we had more than 500 people come and the theme was it doesnt stop here the reason is under the dream of the ada employment is really the portion that is unfulfilled. We really have not reached the numbers that i think the founders really expected when the ada was first signed and much of the public testimony back in 1988 and 1989 about the needs for this civil rights legislation focused on employment as an issue. People with disabilities is only 1 3 as likely to be employed from people without disabilities and their income is dramatically lower than a peer who doesnt have a disability. On average we only earn between 20 and 26,000 a year and nobody can live on that in San Francisco. We cant truly lead independent lives until we have economic independence and meaningful jobs. I want to thank you, supervisor mar for scheduling this hearing today and also for starting this conversation about
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
Good afternoon today is july 24th, 2015. Welcome to the local Agency Formation commission. My name is john avalos, the chair of the lafco, and joined to my right by vicechair cynethia crews and commissioner eric mar, madame clerk, could you share with us your announcement. Please make sure to complete all Electronic Devices and speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. That is our clerk, alisa somera and our meeting is broadcast by sfgovtv staff. Bill and jesse. I would like to ask for a motion to excuse commissioners breed and campos. So moved. And that is seconded by commissioner crews and well take that without objection. And madame clerk, if you im not sure if we need to call roll call or go to what makes more sense, 1 or 2. All right 2 is approval of the lafco minutes from the may 15, 2015 regular meeting. Okay, colleagues, any changes or comments on the minutes . Okay. Nothing forthcoming. We can open up the item for Public Comment. Any member of the public who would like t