Of data. I would encourage the city to step forward and find a way to compromise to get data to help us drive this process. In closing, i want to thank the board, i want to thank you in particular supervisor march as our members uniformly said you are the loudest and steady person we have in elected office. I want to thank you for all the work you have done and your colleagues and done an ed wong and special thanks to Carla Johnson for her leadership on this and i want to thank all of my colleagues on the Advisory Committee. Too many to mention today because i will inevitably forget one. I want to thank all of them for their tireless work. Many of them live day in and day out. I will go back to my job and that will have nothing to do with this. But these people have dedicated their lives to empowering people with disabilities. Thats really what our members believe. We believe in empowerment through employment and thats what we believe the city and board of supervisors will continue wit
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 employing people with disabilities. And like you, i also want to thank jonathan lions for the legwork that he put into this effort to bring this issue to all of our attention. It was also exactly 1 year ago that you held this hearing. In your june 2014 hearing was a catalyst to reignite the conversation with the department of Human Resources. The department of Human Resources donna and ed and mickey and linda, they really deserve a lot of credit for all of the work that they have put into organizing this advisory committee. If you were to go through the reams of paper and email they have distributed they have been the glue that he would this together. I really want to thank them for that. I wanted to talk a little bit ab
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
Two more squatters around the corner. Are you done with it . Crews boarded up the house today. Police told neighbors they should expect some strangers stopping by. They said that because there are known prostitutes frequenting this house we should inspect people coming and going until realizing the people are gone. Yes. This squatter about reports of prostitution. When i saw her this month. Is there prostitution . I look like a whore because i have blonde hair and im black . I dont know what people do. The neighbors are scheduled to meet with the District Attorney this evening to give sworn statements part of a formal process the house is headed for foreclosure the owner had a reverse mortgage. Are you hopeful . I am hopeful. Im hopeful now that theyre gone. Wed like the neighborhood back. Weve been getting interesting reports of other squatter houses around the bay area. If you have something we can look into, e mail me or call me. That story is unbelievable. Thank you. From the Centr
Dan noyes was there today when Police Chased away the squatters. I got a look inside of the home today. Neighbors hope this is finally coming to an end. I team arrived just in time to see two squatters leaving the house in the oakland hills. After the car pulled away police swept the house. Anyone else inside . We got a look inside. And what they left behind. Junk, trash, and discarded cloenling and rotting food. And a set of golf clubs. Crime soared in this neighborhood. Stolen cars and drug use and in may, a pit bull attacked a neighbor, biting him and breaking his arm. How many times are we going to be victimized . How long is it going to take to this these people removed . You can see one hauling stuff in a wheel barrow but they came back over the weekend. Neighbors tell me they walked until the coast is clear and two more squatters around the corner. Are you done with it . Crews boarded up the house today. Police told neighbors they should expect some strangers stopping by. They s