Congress is also in recess. Lawmakers returning next monday. We will have live coverage of the house and senate next week. Thanks for joining us for this thursday edition of washington journal. Enjoy the rest of your day. Life programming today on cspan includes a discussion on mentalhealth or rams Health Programs for military personnel. From the National Council of Behavioral Health. At noon, the American Enterprise institute unveils a report on al qaeda and u. S. Security in the wake of the killing of dozens of suspected al qaeda fighters over the weekend in yemen. 30 a look at elections in afghanistan. As. Is live on cspan tonight at 8 00 p. M. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is joined by colleagues and friends from canada and israel. They sure what it took to rise above the odds to reach the top of their fields. Heres some of what you will see. Judges dont make agendas. Always. Eceiving, we dont make the controversies that come before us. When they arebest on our plate to decide them. Not like
Training our office conducted. Joanna will now go into further detail about some of the Technical Assistance that our office provided. Good afternoon, councilmembers, cochairs. So at the end of each directors report they try to highlight a teaching moment for you about a little known fact about ada. So this month, one of the little known facts that was something that i emphasized in my training and also to the city departments is that benefits in Effective Communication dont just apply to a specific person with a disability or a can ustomer, but also to the individuals associated with that can ustomer. So case in point, received a call from our county Clerks Office who wanted to find out the requirement of whether it was necessary to provide a sign Language Interpreter for a guest to a civil ceremony. So, a hearing couple decided, they made an appointment to come to city hall and get married in the mayors balcony. They invited family members and friends and one of them happened to be d
And county of san francisco. This has been a pet peeve of mine long when i worked as a caregiver. I was taking care of people in wheelchairs and people with disabilities. You know, it is really time that we check businesses that do not have door openers. At 1st of was like you have to let these things roll off your back. But then, it deflates you, it makes you feel less of a human when you have to ask someone or look around for some help instead of them having a door, things for people with disabilities. I believe i need to start putting companies on blast. I hate to do this because i am an all american boy, but the United States post office, the one on gary and steiner, needs a door opener. There is nothing that frustrates me more when i have a package that i need to deliver and there is a line of people there and then im embarrassed because somebody has to come open the door for me and im dropping all these things out of my hand. So businesses beware that keith dennis will put you on
Tickets and traffic violations. Can ustomer Service Complaints about muni drivers and taxi drivers not accepting debit cards as form of payment. We were also made aware of by sf mta that the current contract is under noithsz with negotiations with the drivers. Both parties are had at work with the strike. If this occurs there is transportation available for medical appointments. If a strike would happen, information provided on the para transit website at wchlt website at wchlt sf para transit dom. Com. Www. Paratransit. Com. Through the trip info automated phone system to pair a transit kathy n entrance can transit can ustomers. Call 4153517052. The number is 4153517052. This past month there has been an increase this calls regarding issues around Effective Communication for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. We provided a lot of Technical Assistance to departments and public accommodations about the necessity and legal requirement to provide Effective Communication in their ser
Be supporting our budget come june. With the councils permission, what i would like to do is agenda i was and item on the june mdc meeting to really go into greater detail about the ada transition plan. What weve accomplished so far as well as what we still need to do and when we think well be finished with that. My next item is to talk about our mod office. I wanted to provide a brief update on the remodeling work at our office at 1155 market street. Awe you know weve been at the center of an active construction site for most of the last year. Our building facade has scaffold which makes it difficult for people to find us. We had a construction barrier out front which made it difficult for people who are blind and low vision to navigate around that and our lobby had a construction did you tunnel in place. It hasnt been very easy on us this last year. We had to move out of our office because we got dusted out because of construction work and we got to listen to jack hammers and screw g