We have closed captioning. Thank you. All right. Well convene the Mayors Disability Council for friday september 18, 2015. Im cochair chip supanich and asking harriet wong to read the introduction. Good afternoon, welcome to the Mayors Disability Council, this friday, september 18, 2015. In city hall. City hall is available to provide wheelchairs and access. Wheelchair access at the polk street is provided via a wheelchair lift. Assistive listening device are available and our meeting is opening captioned and sign language interpreted. Our materials are available in large print and braille. Please ask the staff for assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this rooms sound system and for everybody act to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment. You may fill out a speaker card at the front of the room or call our line 14155549632. Staff will be available t
Ever had was oversold. Law enforcement coming forward really wanted to know what they can do to reduce Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. And when implemented, these strategies, this guidance, will increase survivor participation because it will increase their trust. It will lead to successful prosecutions. And that will lead to increased Public Safety overall, so i want to end by applauding Law Enforcement in illinois and around the country who have truly pioneered some of these common sense strategies and they have proved how effective they are when it comes to being able to reduce crime in communities. So it can be done. And again, thank you to the department of justice and everybody involved for this very important guidance and for the training and resources that are needed to implement it. Togeth together, were going to be able to pursue justice for all. Thank you. [ applause ] definitely some key issues identified in that as well. Director tracy, your thoughts . Thank you. I t
It continues to be sluggish and i cannot give you a reason why that occurred. We are aware that mortgage credit is very tight for a wide range of borrowers and that maybe part of it. We hear about supply constraints builders are facing but i have to say i am surprised. What more do you think the fed can do to help stimulate recovery in the housing sector both for those homeowners who are upside down in the values and those to help new people qualify for homes. Housing prices are continuing to increase. And they have increased substantially and in the markets that saw the worst booms and bust that is the case. So in nevada there are a large fraction of homeowners underwater but if you look at the numbers just the increase in house prices we have seen and i think that is in part reflecting or monetary policy, maybe fewers barrowers are under water. The numbers have declined and i know the Las Vegas Area was one of hardest hit areas. I think we will see greater progress eventually in the
Coverage provisions because those are really just Getting Started now the baseline for the last four years, they dont have those provisions in them. We start with stated that does not have those provisions in and build them and. For Everything Else in the Affordable Care act of our revenue provisions, medicare and medicaid provisions, we just have a baseline that includes the affects of all of those provisions as they unfold. So we cannot go back and do an analysis and any clear way of the fsx those provisions have been an isolated sense. A map is see if we can provide information that would be helpful. Thank you. Several times this morning you and others have said that you have basically two options for addressing this long term problem. One is reducing costs in our retirement and Health Savings programs and the other is increasing revenue through taxation. But it does seem to me that there is a third way that we are not talking about nearly in half today, and that is growing the econ
Thank you all for taking the time to be here and in particular, i want to thank the folks of Balboa High School and the is assistant principal and thank you so much for the school and the captain and everyone else and the Community Members and this is for the folks to know this is the road show that we go on once a month and we have two meetings at our city hall every month and one meeting. And it is an important time for us to get out here and what is happening in the neighborhood and what is working and what particular strategies and communities are employing, and the various on whether it is working or not and it is important and it helps us do our jobs. And to hear from you guys about what is happening. And to not make folks have to come to city hall, because that can be a haul for folks. So it is gaoed to be here and we also do a little bit of a different structure for this meeting and so my colleagues will actually introduce ourselves and what we do during the day and who we are