Individuals, with disabilities. And two, to allow the departments to fill the vacant positions with qualified individuals. And three, to increase the diversity of the city. And now turning the page on the overhead, and i am continuing with the bullet points in my presentation. So proposition a was approved by the voters and the charter was amended and a new Civil Service rule was implemented, i think that those are my notes. And but any way, was implemented and that was Civil Service rule, 34, that later became Civil Service 115, which is what we are speaking about today. And Civil Service rule the title of it is rules related to the employment of persons with disabilities. And so what are the requirements of Civil Service rule 115 . And it will allows for the applicanted to be appointed to permanent exempt positions and entry level classifications and it is important that i stipulate right here, that when we say entry level positions, that disnot mean that these are you know going to
Is telling us not to track that and not be asking for that information. It might be interesting to get all of those attorneys in the same room. Exactly. I think from my perspective, if we are talking about voluntary selfidentification and maybe i will ask our deputy City Attorney if you have a perspective on this issue. You know, if the goal is to increase these numbers, it is hard to achieve that goal if we dont know where we are. And is there a way for us to understand that . Deputy, City Attorney, i am actually not familiar enough with the advice on this issue but happy to circle back with you and dhr after this hearing. All right, right. Right. So there is also gina, Genetic Information act which also prohibits us from collecting any information regarding a disability that is tied to genetics. Okay. And that is a federal law. Okay. You know what . I think that what is interesting about this conversation is that the community representing the people with disabilities is asking us as
And maybe i will ask our deputy City Attorney if you have a perspective on this issue. You know, if the goal is to increase these numbers, it is hard to achieve that goal if we dont know where we are. And is there a way for us to understand that . Deputy, City Attorney, i am actually not familiar enough with the advice on this issue but happy to circle back with you and dhr after this hearing. All right, right. Right. So there is also gina, Genetic Information act which also prohibits us from collecting any information regarding a disability that is tied to genetics. Okay. And that is a federal law. Okay. You know what . I think that what is interesting about this conversation is that the community representing the people with disabilities is asking us as a city to consider tracking and at least monitoring on a voluntary selfidentified way, and so if there is a way for us to consider that i am open to it. Sure. Obviously given the constrictions of the constitutional and legal challenge
The volunteers and staff that have been working with the city for many, many years to make sure with we equal access to all the Cities Services and president chiu reminded me it didnt used to be called this but the continental access to all the serviced. Im a Firm Believer but were an International City and a city of immigrants the u. S. Consensus bureau said we speak many different languages and were youll san franciscans. We have an obligation weve strongly felt was a good purpose of government and i joined board president chiu and supervisor kim and Councilmember Avalos will be here they have a late night meeting debating important issues i know each of the that have a very strong filipino and other asian the minority and latin populations in their district and certainly right here in this district a extremely strong presence and with the city comes to the clear obligation we must be able to make sure our Vital Services are ones that reach all our citizens when they have a language
To amend the city charter so that the qualified individuals with disabilities could answer the city workforce outside of the competitive merit process, the goals of proposition a were to provide increased Employment Opportunities for qualified individuals, with disabilities. And two, to allow the departments to fill the vacant positions with qualified individuals. And three, to increase the diversity of the city. And now turning the page on the overhead, and i am continuing with the bullet points in my presentation. So proposition a was approved by the voters and the charter was amended and a new Civil Service rule was implemented, i think that those are my notes. And but any way, was implemented and that was Civil Service rule, 34, that later became Civil Service 115, which is what we are speaking about today. And Civil Service rule the title of it is rules related to the employment of persons with disabilities. And so what are the requirements of Civil Service rule 115 . And it will