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
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 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
Fire near their home. Ktvus allie rasmus spoke to one of the homeowners, who called 911. When she saw the flames. Allie has more. Cal fire named that grass fire, the sweigert fire. Thoolg in the hills of unincorporated santa clara county. Skyfox was over the fire. Today it is 65 contained. And it did not grow. It is still at 80 acres. Some on several acres of property next to where the property was burning. One neighbor said the dispatcher on the phone told her to leave her home right away, as a precaution, which she did. I was semi prepared. I got the hard drive and backup to the computer and other things out that i needed to get out. But you know, it certainly puts a lot of fear in you. And you are determined. And to prepare better for the next time. The wind was coming in off the bay. And it was blowing that way. If we had had a santa ana, or, you know, if it was blowing this way. The fire would have come right up this hill. So yes. We are very lucky. It could have been much, much w
Always, often, sympathize find that the five year moratorium is putting the burden in the wrong place. One thing i would look for in any further developments that we have is an aggressive pursuit of meaningful and strong remedies that will not overburden neighborhoods and communities but will get ads, especially, the proverbial bad actors that are doing things wrong. Next, systematically. We all look at trying to codify anything into 50 , 70 , or 25 of a facade, what constitutes demolition . We all have problems with it, in part, it encourages people to do their filing so they come in just under. Its all fine. That is really a pretty terrible way to do things. We get something submitted to planning and it meets all of their criteria. If they have, you know, 50 is their standard and it comes in at 49. Low and behold us and as we go and open walls and see what is going on, boy, isnt this surprising . Despite all the things we thought about how dangerous and prone to problems the blind wa