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We learn from our presentation today, really important. Visual accessibility and different formats. And then language and cultural accessibility. I think somebody earlier mentioned that when you are accessing services you also need to have people who provide linguistically, culturally competent services. So people feel welcome and they feel included. This is just an outline of some of our accessibility priorities. We could definitely use your help in identifying any gaps or anything we have not ...

I appreciate the limitations of what you can provide, and, there is a long way to go. I am concerned about those with disabilities who cannot meet the criteria. I mean, this would have a Chilling Effect on them, even seeking shelter. If they know they are not going to be accepted. If they know they cant do the care they have to, what happens . There has to be a whole population of people. I mean, there is a level of sophistication among people who are homeless. They know what they can access on ...

Is larger than in the nation as a whole and it is worse here in Santa Clara County where women earn just . 62 for every dollar that a man earns. The numbers become more distorted for workers in the tech industry. We are actively studying and trying to understand better. Reporter betty young as the manager of the newly formed county office of labor standards enforcement. She says the south bays largest county contracts about 2 billion in goods and services each year and vendors are required to he...

I think someone else had a question about users. We did an analysis of compensation data for fiscal year 18. We found that a quarter of Police Officers make 50 of their salary or more in overtime. Which just another piece of evidence of the exhaustion and the expense of the overtime when its not properly manage and controlled. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Before we break for little pause to give everyone a pause here. I know this is going to be a more lengthy conversation. I think we ar...

We have, you know, reviewed evidence after evidence that shows because theres this myth that tasers are less than lethal, that they often are used more regularly than guns and, therefore, lead to more deaths. We, you know, just from statistics from 1983 to 2017, there are at least 155 People Killed by police where tasers are a primary or contributing cause of the death, and then what we also know, its not only dangerous for the person thats tased, its dangerous for the officers themselves. Becau...

Even is it 150 new officers, how many people will retire. If you take the departments number of 75, you still only need to take 19 of those peoples time to dedicate to the number of hours that they are requesting on foot beat for overtime. Its just a choice about how to use those people. Just like it was a choice not to implement the Management Controls on overtime. The other element of staffing too, theres a charter requirement. The controller certified we have met that charter requirement as o...

Significant, exciting, and meaningful progress on police reform. We you have lowered the amount of use of force significantly and substantially. The amount of officers that have been cit trained continues to go up, and instead of, you know, what we had had before your arrival, which was a whole series of officerinvolved shootings, what weve seen lately is the regular use of time and distance that leads to the peaceful resolution of crises, often with people with mental illness, that have gotten ...

As we grew up, we eventually had a small business. I very much grew up in a family of immigrants, where we helped to translate. We went to the restaurant every weekend helping out, rolling egg rolls, eating egg rolls, and doing whatever we need to do to help the family out. It really was an experience growing up that helped me be the person that i am and viewing Public Service the way that i do. One of the events that really stuck with me when i was growing up was actually the rodney king riots....

Agenda, items 26 through 28. Clerk items 26 through 28 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee. A unanimous vote is required for resolutioned on First Reading resolutions on First Reading. Alternatively, any member may request an item to go to committee. President yee okay, would any of my colleagues like to sever any items . Okay. Colleagues, seeing none, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, the adoptions and resolutions are adopted unanimously. [gavel...

We need to focus the staff people on doing the research for whats coming next. Its the same people. Its appraisers doing market data research. Supervisor excuse me. It seems as though what im hearing from president yee is at one time the Assessors Office requested more assistance, more ftes to address the backlog for so long and through diligent work, youve gone through the backlog at an impressive rate so i think what president yee is asking is why are you keeping them in the budget and youre s...