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Mayors Disability Council this friday november 21, 2014, in room 400 of San Franciscos city hall. Today we are continuing our conversation about employment. Today we are focusing on veterans. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs or other assisted mobility devices. Wheelchair access is available at the van ness via ramps and provided a wheelchair lift. Assisting listening devices are available and our meetings are open captioned and sign language interpreted and our agenda is avai...

Impaired positive Resource Center and other Community Based organizations and of course our office. Over the course of the next several months the panel will address a number of issues such as such such such as enhancing a disability friendly culture into the department are the goals of recruitment and retention and promotion with people with disabilities and perhaps you can consider inviting them back to have a follow up meeting. Speaking of timing 2015 also marks the 25th anniversary of the pa...

You working with the state on all of these 3 points on vision zero . Please consider it for the safety of everyone in San Francisco. Thank you mr. Lowel l. Is there anyone on the bridge line that would like to comment . No . Okay then we have a handy resolution for this topic as well. Again, ill read through it. Well vote on it and support it in concept and well move on from there. This is resolution number 201502. Council resolution supporting the San Francisco municipal transportation agencys ...

Wong. Yes. All right. Its approved. Thank you gentlemen very much and well take a break. Gentlemen very much and well take a break. 10 minutes. The city of San Francisco sfg tv meeting of the Mayors Council on disability will resume shortly. All right. Well resume now. Okay were up to agenda item number 7. Information on the proposed amendment to the citys planning code. Presentation by Kearstin Dischinger from the San Francisco planning department. Thank you for taking time for this ordinance. ...

Dave christinsen, the Harvey Milk Center has prepared a short presentation of the exhibition and posters that appear on your monitor as i am speaking. Dave started with the department as a Program Coordinator august 7, 2010. Dave was nominated by his peer at Cultural Arts Nicola Alvarez. In the four years that dave managed the Harvey Milk Photo Center he has lifted the standards of the operation and developed a wide range of photography classs for beginners to pros and creates a monthly free pho...

That was filed the conditions at Union Square Plaza and garage by federal and state statutes prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities. The lawsuit was settled in 2009 and the Settlement Agreement required to remediate specific barriers to access to the plaza and garage. This was the work. The Mayors Office of disability at that time requested that the department undertake additional Disability Access enhancements at Union Square Plaza in order to respond to subsequent public c...

Under the jurisdiction of the recreation and park commission, you may speak under item 4, general Public Comment and continued again on item 12. With that, we are on the president s report. Thank you. Let me start by saying, gung hay fat choy, happy new year to all of you. The only item i have is that this month, i gave the zoo management people the option to submit a written report inasmuch as the senior staff for scheduling reasons werent available to give a personal presentation. But it made ...

Program is looking at the aids housing list which is a very outdated program which needs updating and there was very little in terms of identifying new resources either for building new Affordable Housing or as i would argue equally important in preventing homelessness so keeping people in their current housing. It is unlikely that someone in a rent control unit is going to be hard to find Something Like their rent control unit. One issue that we see very quickly is an issue where many people li...

Supervisors, we have the mayor, senator mark leno, assemblyman, tom yann oh and administrator and we have 20 different disability advocacy representation and also things as widespread as our local independent Living Centers and the california cfilc. California foundation for independent Living Centers. So its very impressive. It changes as i say daily. So i encourage you to visit the site. It has some disability history and links to ada resources. The address is ada 25 bay area. Org. My Deputy D...

The california cfilc. California foundation for independent living centers. So its very impressive. It changes as i say daily. So i encourage you to visit the site. It has some disability history and links to ada resources. The address is ada 25 bay area. Org. My Deputy Director joanna reminds me that we encourage everybody to tell us about events that you know about so we can list them on our website. Anything that has a connection to the ada and speaking of connections to the ada, early whier ...