Beach blanket babylon was right there celebrating with us. [ applause ] that is part of our history. But also, you should know this, steve silver was much more than just a great showman. He was a class act because he was one of the best philantropist the city has seen, and through the leadership he donated back to help the families out throughout the city he did it the San Francisco way and he did it because he loved the city of saint francis. The help, to the medical areas, the education, the music, the arts and the charity were all and have continued to be part of this great beach blanket babylon. So i want to say congratulations to everyone, to joe, silver thank you for keeping that spirit. Yes, that spirit up. [ applause ] you are such an embodiment of not only a great show, but to do it the San Francisco way, to share and to make this city the city for the 100 percent. Congratulations, enjoy the celebration, and happy 40th to beach blanket babylon. Now the story line of beach blan
Berkner and for the last 20 years i have been involved in the business of this hearing, which is making sure that disabled people have an opportunity to gain their education and to apply their education to a functional lifetime job that may allow them to survive in the workforce. And in life. I am here primarily to introduce my niece, over there, and she just graduated from San Francisco state with a bachelors degree in marine science. And environmental concerns. And she has been a volunteer at the academy of sciences for over 21 years. Her activities at the academy of sciences came about through an act of discrimination, she tried to sign up for a Junior Academy course. And was told by the then, person, who is in charge, that they could not have people with disabilities, because they did not know how to teach them or how to get along with them. Or anything else. So, i contacted the board at the academy, and voiced my concerns about that act of discrimination and they said that we will
Mistake were not trying to make the second mistake we dont have the money we werent born are a a silver spoon like the owners of the gold plates most of us was born with wooden spoons and no spoons but were here and thank you for supporting us. Thank you very much before we get do the next speaker ill call more cards calling names you can go ahead thank you. Im Maggie Gibson working at the oakland colosseum im a living bloment back in 1997 when center plate left our contract was taken over by ogden who didnt want to hire us we went to the Oakland City Council weve lost money and this time we felt comfortable they had to hire us thats why im here supporting my local friends this keepsoblast whether you collar jobs in this city i hope it gets passed thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello, im member of local 2. I work as a cook 18 park. I give my all to this job. I know i need this job but also i know my Company Central place needs me we love our job. And we need to know that no matter
The immediate neighbors, by that i mean that we went doortodoor and spoke to the various merchants and so forth and most of them thought that this was nothing new to them and they said that there is an Entertainment Permit there before and we are not interested and the only person that was interested is the financial district, the fine wines who was excited about something coming back in there and he said that it will be good for his business as well. Any other questions . All right, thank you. Would the police like to come up and address this application . So, steve from the central station. And the applicant said that this used to be oz and they did have an Entertainment Permit and we had a minimal amount of calls for service there and there were not any issues and i did come up with eight proposed conditions that we would like the commission to take a look at. And there is some of them are similar to shroeders although there was an extra one, and that was regarding number eight and
General manager also from the academy of sciences for being here and you are partnering with a lot of others as well what a Model Program that you have. Thank you. Mr. Roth man . Hello, supervisors, and thanks for having this hearing today, my name is richard roth man and i worked for the city for 26 years and i retired about five years ago. And i am going to have this quote and i will say it now and say it at the end, attitudes are the real disability. When i came in to the city, i did not even know i was deslexic until later on, but so i did not get advantage of rule 115, because it was or did not start when i started. But i was also cochair, of scius people with disabilities. And one of our complaints that we had from the people from our members who were in the disability community, and who were working for the city was about advancement. And they felt that 115, or a rule 134 at the time, pigeon holed people and so many, you know, if the city had a really active hiring policy, hirin