Her to continue her medical treatment. And she passed away because of that denial of treatment. And im here to raise your attention to how discrimination can impact the disabled community when theyre dealing with an organ transplant. And i dont know if your office has ever had to deal with a situation like this. I only recently learned of your council over the summer. And i spoke with heather in your office. And, heather, you were wonderful and provided a lot of information. I, unfortunately, didnt know about your office over the past four years. When i was faced with having to deal with a decision that my sister was being removed from a transplant wait list because she could not speak and could not move half her body, i felt trapped and there was nobody i could talk to. The hospital made the decision. It was only one hospital in this city that performs lung transplants. And we had no choice to take her to another hospital. And i just dont want what happened to my sister to happen to a
Never fall in love with an investment. You have fallen in love with the investment and that is hedge funds. You have got to bite the bullet and divest from them. You are going to find in a few years there will be big losses. If any of you Board Members are politicians or want to be politicians what you are going to see on the front page of the chronicle, the San Francisco pension fund lost hundreds of millions of dollars in high risk investments like hedge funds. Once again, i think you should start divesting from them. Item 16. Next item. Declaration of vacancy on retirement board occurring february 20, 2020 and approval of election procedures and timeline. Commissioner stansburys term will expire on february 20, 2020. We notified them and they approved the timeline and schedule and they match the requirements under the ordinance. I request the retirement board approve the timeline as well as approve the fact that we are declaring a vacancy. I make the motion. Second. Any questions .
Devices. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are available in large print. To prevent electronic interference with this room sound system and to respect everyones ability to focus on the presentation, please silence all mobile phones. Your cooperation is appreciated. The Mayors Disability Council Public Meetings are generally held on the third friday of every other month. Please call the Mayors Office on disability for further information or to request accommodations at mod sfgov. Org. Our next regular meeting will be on friday, november 15, 2019 from 14 in this hearing room. We thank you for joining us today. We will now proceed with roll call. Chair denise . Present. Stephen perman . Here. Alex madrid . Here. Lily marshallfricker. Present. Helen pelzman . Present. Orkid . Helen smolinski . Here. Kate williams is absent. Council member tiffany yu. Present. Ms. Senhaux chair thank you. Well go to action
The Mayors Disability Council Public Meetings are generally held on the third friday of every other month. Please call the Mayors Office on disability for further information or to request accommodations at mod sfgov. Org. Our next regular meeting will be on friday, november 15, 2019 from 14 in this hearing room. We thank you for joining us today. We will now proceed with roll call. Chair denise . Present. Stephen perman . Here. Alex madrid . Here. Lily marshallfricker. Present. Helen pelzman . Present. Orkid . Helen smolinski . Here. Kate williams is absent. Council member tiffany yu. Present. Ms. Senhaux chair thank you. Well go to action item number 2. Reading approve. Reminder to the guests to speak slowly in the microphone to assist captioners and interpreters. Public comment. Items not on today agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. We welcome the publics participation during the Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for Public Comment at the beginning and
Meetings and electronic copies of the agenda please contact the Mayors Office on disability. Ms. Senhaux chair thank you, heather. I would like this move a motion for the approval of todays agenda. All in favor . I dont see any abstentions. So moved. Thank you, Council Members. Were going to move on to Public Comment number 3, items not on todays agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mayors Disability Council. I believe we have a couple of speaker cards. Nicole we do. The first is elka. My apologies, first time here at the meeting. Ive been a caregiver for disabled sister for four years. Shes not here today because she passed away last year because her disability was used against her to continue her medical treatment. And she passed away because of that denial of treatment. And im here to raise your attention to how discrimination can impact the disabled community when theyre dealing with an organ transplant. And i dont know if your office has ever had to deal with a situation like