Will be presented by supervisor kim. Thank you. Were actually honoring a lot of upstanding individuals today while this individual is not an official member of the city family he is certainly a member of our city and a district 6 resident. Im honoring an individual today that many of you have probably read about in the press recently. His name is ben schwart z. Ben was attacked in our neighborhood after taking a stand at the verbal abuse directed at his girlfriend he was returning from a party Early Saturday Morning and passed a man making threats to her and after crossing to the other side of the street and being followed ben asked the perpetrator and punches were thrown and ben ended up being stabbed 9 times in the back, face and neck and arms with the knife narrowly missing his spinal cord but puncturing his lung. While there are many men and women women ben made a Public Statement and he and elevated this issue and in fact one that is so pervasive that theres a consensus not even s
This issue because i think that elevator repair and replacement is rapidly becoming the next big issue for the Disability Committee and i know the counsel understand this because this is one of the pieces you included in your housing resolution but i wanted to give you an opportunity to know about a meeting that is coming up. You heard jessica here talking about a meeting next thursday that is addressing food security, but there is another meeting that same day on thursday thats a special meeting to talk about elevators and seniors and people with disabilities who live in single room occupy ancy hotels the time is 3 to 5 p. M. The location is the department of aging and Adult Services office, 1650 mission street. And we hope that some of you may be able to join that discussion next week. I have another announcement to make today, too, as i think many of the councilmembers may recall i served as one of the chairs on the accessible Parking Advisory Committee and our Councilmember Wong wa
Committee and i know the counsel understand this because this is one of the pieces you included in your housing resolution but i wanted to give you an opportunity to know about a meeting that is coming up. You heard jessica here talking about a meeting next thursday that is addressing food security, but there is another meeting that same day on thursday thats a special meeting to talk about elevators and seniors and people with disabilities who live in single room occupy ancy hotels the time is 3 to 5 p. M. The location is the department of aging and Adult Services office, 1650 mission street. And we hope that some of you may be able to join that discussion next week. I have another announcement to make today, too, as i think many of the councilmembers may recall i served as one of the chairs on the accessible Parking Advisory Committee and our Councilmember Wong was also a member and it was made up largely of people with disabilities and we met for 6 months starting last october and w
Supervisor cam poss hearing was in front of the Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee and supervisor campos asked roland pick ens chief operating officer if it had been voted on by the health commission. It was never discussed at the full health commission, they never took a vote on it. Most of the speakers during that october 17th hearing i should say all 40 of them opposed moving dialysis because of the burdens of the patients to face longer transportation times. Places a huge burden on them. Thank you mr. Monnet. Your 3 minutes has passed. Thank you. Next i have mr. Robert fitch. Hello. Thank you for having me here. I am with the city College Disabled Students Programs and services and i know you are aware of all of the stuff involved with a creditation but even on a statewide level as it relates to seniors and people with disabilities. Trying to redefine the purpose of Community Colleges narrowly pretty much wiping out all of the people who go for a class or two the classes fo
Problem. What we have in San Francisco besides multiStory Building is a lot of older building and the average life span of an elevator is about 35 years and many of our buildings are much older than that and you will see this problem with elevators is repeated in privately owned buildings as well as publicly owned buildings and the challenge to try to find the funding for elevator replacements is really whats coming up and i raise this issue because i think that elevator repair and replacement is rapidly becoming the next big issue for the Disability Committee and i know the counsel understand this because this is one of the pieces you included in your housing resolution but i wanted to give you an opportunity to know about a meeting that is coming up. You heard jessica here talking about a meeting next thursday that is addressing food security, but there is another meeting that same day on thursday thats a special meeting to talk about elevators and seniors and people with disabilitie