Okay. Great. Are we captioning . Great. Okay. Good. Welcome everybody to the first meeting of 2015 for the Mayors Disability Council. We will begin with our introduction. Thank you councilmember supanich happy new year and welcome to the council this friday in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheel chairs and other devices and wheelchair access is provided at the grove and access and provided via wheel chair lift. Assisted listening devices are available and our meeting is open captions and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for my additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with the rooms sound system and to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment. You may complete a speakers card located in the front of the room or call our bridge line wh
Including Proof Reading but id also be good to mentor some of some of some of the disabilitied young people to know what kind of things to look out for and what kind of things are important. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment . Is there anything from the bridge line . No . No . Oh, yes. Jacki bryson and i wanted to raise an issue that i raised originally back in 2004 that i believe that the city and county of San Francisco needs to have a a department on disability rather than a Mayors Office on disability so that theres permanence and that the department would have the authority to take complaints not just grievances and have complaint numbers and an investigator assigned and findings which would be produced and depending upon the findings, the matter to be forwarded to the district attorneys office. I appreciate the existence of the Mayors Office on disability ive been coming to the various inca rna tions of it since 1998 and it continued to be a problem to have the body ha
Impaired positive Resource Center and other Community Based organizations and of course our office. Over the course of the next several months the panel will address a number of issues such as such such such as enhancing a disability friendly culture into the department are the goals of recruitment and retention and promotion with people with disabilities and perhaps you can consider inviting them back to have a follow up meeting. Speaking of timing 2015 also marks the 25th anniversary of the passing of the americans with disabilities act and of course its a big anniversary and deserves a bay area wide celebration and mod along with a small group of Community Based agencies such as the Legal Referral Panel and public authorities have initiated a bay area wide effort to promote disability events related to the 25th anniversary and in fact reaching out to independent Living Centers in adjacent counties and other disability Rights Groups across the bay and when the process of developing a
Captioning . Great. Okay. Good. Welcome everybody to the first meeting of 2015 for the Mayors Disability Council. We will begin with our introduction. Thank you councilmember supanich happy new year and welcome to the council this friday in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheel chairs and other devices and wheelchair access is provided at the grove and access and provided via wheel chair lift. Assisted listening devices are available and our meeting is open captions and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for my additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with the rooms sound system and to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment. You may complete a speakers card located in the front of the room or call our bridge line where a staff person w
Wong. Yes. All right. Its approved. Thank you gentlemen very much and well take a break. Gentlemen very much and well take a break. 10 minutes. The city of San Francisco sfg tv meeting of the Mayors Council on disability will resume shortly. All right. Well resume now. Okay were up to agenda item number 7. Information on the proposed amendment to the citys planning code. Presentation by Kearstin Dischinger from the San Francisco planning department. Thank you for taking time for this ordinance. As i mentioned im here to give you an update on something that we have approved. Im here representing the planning department. Weve also been working with Carla Johnson to make sure this legislation represents the input from your teams as well and we really appreciate your support on this legislation. This is legislation required by the state and must be completed before we complete our 2014 Housing Element update so weve moved it forward as quickly as we could and the reason this requests a rea