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Good evening. This is the meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee of board of supervisors. My name is eric mar, our colleague david campos will not be here today. City clerk i think we need a motion to excuse our colleague. Its been moved that we excused david campos from this meeting. Can we do that without objection . Thank you. We have five items on our agenda, two liquor licenses at the very end. Item no. 3 is supervisor jane kim is on the health code. My understand ...

26,000 a year and nobody can live on that in San Francisco. We cant truly lead independent lives until we have economic independence and meaningful jobs. I want to thank you, supervisor mar for scheduling this hearing today and also for starting this conversation about employing people with disabilities. And like you, i also want to thank jonathan lions for the legwork that he put into this effort to bring this issue to all of our attention. It was also exactly 1 year ago that you held this hear...

Speaker. Public speaker gabriel with the department of disability. I want to applaud the steps that San Francisco is taking. As others have alluded to San Francisco is the leader in this effort and i know others will try to replicate what you do. Just a couple of other key success. Clear measurable high level goes that are trackable so everyone in the city and county can rally around them. 1 person designated to lead this effort and i would echo the point that making sure that person has the aut...

Have have negative impacts on how Greenhouse Gas get reported. Some of the behind meter solar rooftop may not be counted as Greenhouse Gasfree. I know the puc has some discussions with Assembly Member tinges office and that is another area were going to potentially see changes at the statelevel that we need to keep our eyes on that could have a negative impact on ccas and how we can go out and market and advertise programs that were trying to do that are good, clean, Green Program and because so...

Assembly member tinges office and that is another area were going to potentially see changes at the statelevel that we need to keep our eyes on that could have a negative impact on ccas and how we can go out and market and advertise programs that were trying to do that are good, clean, Green Program and because someone is trying to monkey with the definitions, all of a sudden solar no longer becomes a green product somehow. So to keep in the back of our mind as we move forward how these could po...

We have followed that policy. And we never said that it was a target, which we would i understand that. I appreciate the kauvcaveats. Youre very good at caveats, i appreciate that. That brings me to my second point. A full six and a half years after the recovery, as you acknowledged there is slack in the labor market and there are significant weaknesses in the labor market, in the overall economy. In fact, a recent investors business daily article said the over all group has been 13. 3 . Thats l...

Im an person of color and our family a people of color we know our jails are filled up with people of color as well as many formally incarcerated people are attacked by racism and oppression leading to homelessness and instead of increasing the jail facilities some of the programs will include Substance Abuse and housing and training and i think we could better use our money for that im also a registered nurse had to go to court to advocate for members of my family and community would how Substa...

Mr. Clerk your announcements. No announcements. Okay. Lets go on to to our first item. Number one roll call arrest commissioner avalos supervisor campos absent supervisor cohen supervisor kim supervisor mar absent we have quorum. Very good let go on to item 2. Item 2 approval of the minutes of the june 9th meeting an action item. Colleagues, any changes at all 0 our minutes no comments open up for Public Comment members of the public on our minutes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Peoples politics not system pol...

Environment. It helps to lift up the programs because you lift up San Francisco. Thank you for all the incredible work that you are doing and i really do hope that this spreads. [ applause ] good evening. This is the meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee of board of supervisors. My name is eric mar, our colleague david campos will not be here today. City clerk i think we need a motion to excuse our colleague. Its been moved that we excused david campos from this meetin...

For the mayors with disabilities and 2 years ago we signed the americans with disabilities act and we had more than 500 people come and the theme was it doesnt stop here the reason is under the dream of the ada employment is really the portion that is unfulfilled. We really have not reached the numbers that i think the founders really expected when the ada was first signed and much of the public testimony back in 1988 and 1989 about the needs for this civil rights legislation focused on employme...