Where the world comes to shop in union square, where the tourists spend time on Fishermans Wharf , and the wonderful polk street neighborhoods. My district encompasses the ethnic and Economic Diversity that exists throughout the city. I think my district is emblematic of the entire city. You can find every political perspective you can possibly want in district 3. Oftentimes, the interests of my district and the city are aligned. I do not have to think about those differences quite as often as some of my colleagues may have to. Lets talk about the budget situation. We have been faced with some tough budget decisions again, including where to make cuts and whether or not to increase taxes. How will you approached these hard choices . Our budget is one of the very top challenges facing City Government right now. Over each of the years i have served, we have had to balance budget deficits that were around 500 million. This year, were facing another budget deficit of almost 400 million. Fo
Have approvals for the World Health Organization and one of the things that they are interested in is what we are going to do with the disabled because they say that nobody else has done that and has included that in their making the city disable friendly. And i hope that we will bring back in of the zeal that we had, in the beginning. We are looking at things like jobs and housing, and transportation for both seniors and people with disability. And so this, and i wanted to be here, to hear what was said in the beginning. And we will be wanting to hear more as we go on about progress too. Thank you. Thank you, miss hail. Next speaker. Hi, my name is sarah murphy and i am the director of work languages and one service for people with disabilities. And i wanted to because i only have two minutes to talk, i wanted to thank San Francisco for being a very progressive employer, for people with disabilities. But i also wanted to comment and focus my comments on people with intellectual disabi
Golden gate regional center, enrica rodreguze,. Hello my name is regina 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
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
Organizations that some of you know about and i am on a subcommittee that is working on making San Francisco more age and disabled friendly city. And one of the things. We have approvals for the World Health Organization and one of the things that they are interested in is what we are going to do with the disabled because they say that nobody else has done that and has included that in their making the city disable friendly. And i hope that we will bring back in of the zeal that we had, in the beginning. We are looking at things like jobs and housing, and transportation for both seniors and people with disability. And so this, and i wanted to be here, to hear what was said in the beginning. And we will be wanting to hear more as we go on about progress too. Thank you. Thank you, miss hail. Next speaker. Hi, my name is sarah murphy and i am the director of work languages and one service for people with disabilities. And i wanted to because i only have two minutes to talk, i wanted to th