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Welcome back. We went into recess and are now reconvening. Supervisor kim i believe will not be rejoining us so we are now on item number 7, so madam clerk, will you please call that item . Yes, i item number 7 [inaudible]. Thank you, we are joined by supervisor mar, who is the lead author. I believe were having representatives from the budget and legislative Analysts Office to talk about their report and also for the interim taxi and Accessible Services director from the mta who is here. Collea...

Welcome back. We went into recess and are now reconvening. Supervisor kim i believe will not be rejoining us so we are now on item number 7, so madam clerk, will you please call that item . Yes, i item number 7 [inaudible]. Thank you, we are joined by supervisor mar, who is the lead author. I believe were having representatives from the budget and legislative Analysts Office to talk about their report and also for the interim taxi and Accessible Services director from the mta who is here. Collea...

We went into recess and are now reconvening. Supervisor kim i believe will not be rejoining us so we are now on item number 7, so madam clerk, will you please call that item . Yes, i item number 7 [inaudible]. Thank you, we are joined by supervisor mar, who is the lead author. I believe were having representatives from the budget and legislative Analysts Office to talk about their report and also for the interim taxi and Accessible Services director from the mta who is here. Colleagues, througho...

Disability commission, welcome, everybody for [inaudible] today is friday november 18, 2019. Welcome. For roll call we have madrid. Sassouni. Present. Cheri al bers. I dont believe she is here. Denise senhaux. Absent as well. Okay. Helen smolinski. Present. Woods. Here. And tannonverma. Present. Thank you. Can you read the agenda, please. Yes. For item one, we have roll call. Item 2, is reading an approval of the agenda. Item 3 is general Public Comment. Item number 4 is the cochair report. Item...

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Welcome back. We went into recess and are now reconvening. Supervisor kim i believe will not be rejoining us so we are now on item number 7, so madam clerk, will you please call that item . Yes, i item number 7 [inaudible]. Thank you, we are joined by supervisor mar, who is the lead author. I believe were having representatives from the budget and legislative Analysts Office to talk about their report and also for the interim taxi and Accessible Services director from the mta who is here. Collea...

I mentioned certification we want to make sure our interpreters a quality and sensitive to the community. We have organizational programs and well be adding this and Technology Training for nonprofit. So in short i think weve made a lot of Strategic Programs in the community and this is for the advocacy of our Community Members were just the vehicle to get that done. I want to thank you very much for your support ill hope you will adopt the 2013 report thats great. Thank you. Thank you. And chai...

Trying to shirt their duty on filling the requirements but sometimes, its difficult so they will call our office and consultant with us and well mouth a way to get this done. The mta will call us and we have the library weve partnered with. The penalty if thats your question which is the stick we use . We dont have one and thats not at the l a o is tied to the 3wub9 process i think the departments are very much aware. We dont have any departments that that fight us on this. We look at each other...

Complaints procedures are lacking for example, 54 percent of the tier one departments dont post the complaint process. And although we have received very few complaints to our departments we have received a total complaints of lack of assess through our varies Community Organizations and partners. Ill turn it over for the accomodations in progress that is going to be a quick run through thought representations we made last year. Relative to amendments to the actual ordinance it needs a little bi...

Run through thought representations we made last year. Relative to amendments to the actual ordinance it needs a little bit of tweeting to strengthen enforcement and we need to figure out how to use our data because its not updated and thats extremely hard for us to do. Were going do o to look at how to use this better and we need to refresh some of the names of the departments which have changed in 2009 and maybe there are other departments that need to be added and we started to do this last y...