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Really happy to have you all here the other great thing about to brag about in San Francisco we have a great mayor, i is that in part as a resident i live here my family is here i work here but also in particularly as the transportation director we have a mayor that understands the infrastructure understands transportation and design understands how these things are important to the quality of life we have here in the city and to the economy of the city he understands us number one in part becau...

Kim aye. Supervisor mar . Mar no. Supervisor tang . Tang aye. Supervisor wiener . Wiener aye. Supervisor yee . Yee no. Supervisor avalos . No. Avalos no. Supervisor breed . Breed aye. Supervisor campos . Campos no. There are 7 ayes and 4 noses. This ordinance is finally passed. [gavel] [cheering and applauding] thank you, colleagues. With that, why dont we proceed to item 10. Item 10 is an ordinance to amend the business and tax regulations code by revising and clarifying common administrative p...

Project sponsors by clearly identifying all of the areas of the city where we know these enhanced measures are needed and will be imposed as ceqa mitigation measures. This legislation has been a part of an overall strategy to help keep residents of the city, and particularly those that suffer disproportionately from a wide range of Environmental Issues because of where they live. I want to thank the department staff, particularly karen cohen from the department of Public Health, wade w. From the...

Welcome to the Mayors Disability Council, in honor of National Disability, employment awareness month, our agenda will be a little unusual in order to accommodate our speakers schedule, we will be moving general Public Comments to the end of our agenda, however, there will still be an opportunity to provide disability employment related comments after the speakers are finished, city hall is accessible to people using wheelchairs and other devices, on the van ness iva ramps, entrances is provided...

Selfreporting, educating the individual on what they are reporting on to make sure that you get the signed consent from them and then to reach out to them and get as good of information as you can and it is not unlike another effort that is happening in the disabled community where a lot of people are on the Long Term Disability policies and who are just aging off and since they are on the policy and the city wants to do that and way to create a possibly a financial step down for them so it was ...

Honestly a lot of it is exposure, and the more that we are able to get the people with disabilities integrated into the workforce, i think that a lot of those concerns will fall away. Thank you very much. Any questions for the staff . Okay. Seeing none, we will go ahead and break, shortly, for a tenminutes and, we will be back here for the presentations thank you, again for all of those who attended. [break] 6. Information item a review of Civil Service rule 115 and its implementation for hiring...

This . I think right now, the situation at city college is hopefully stabilizing and we are working closely with the city college to insure that we are keeping all of the good policy work that we have done over the past three years particularly through our bridge to Success Initiative and which is the initiatives that we the city, received moneys from the gates foundation, to build, linkages between our School District and our Higher Ed Institutions and so they can double the rate of graduation ...

With the probation department, and and the others to achieve this end and we have exexpanded Language Access for Domestic Violence survivor and that means, working collaboratively with the Police Department and the department of Emergency Management and making sure that we are able to respond and identify those bi lingual officers, who can provide critical response, and we significantly increased investments in services to women and survivors of violence and their families. And the city did prov...

And so the council met on thursday september 11th and there were three major items on the agenda, and the first was the care task force, and which is about looking at the needs in the community and identifying resources and needs. And the council heard the recommendations from the four work groups. And over all, recommendation is to have a care advisory board, and that would operate under the long term coordinating council and one of the cochairs of the task force is our very own anne hinton and...

A way of life in San Francisco. When the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. Tell me a little about the soft Story Program. What is it . Its a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. Did you the soft Story Program apply to all buildings or building that were buil...