good afternoon and welcome everyone to the mayor s disability council here in room 400 here at city hall. excuse me, hold on, please. control room i need to caption. there we go, thank you, donna. let s start again. welcome everyone to the mayor s disability council meeting here at city hall friday, september 16 in room 400. from one-4 pm so welcome to our audience and anyone are ridgeline and watching at home. i would like to turn over the introduction to our cochair chip supanich councilmember supanich, thank you good afternoon and welcome. city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. wheelchair access is provided at the grove van ness and mcallister streets bob via ramps. wheelchair access at the polk st., carlton b goodland entrance is provided via a wheelchair lift. assistive listening devices are available in our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. our agenda are also available in large print and
doing a series of three symposiums. we just had our first one last week for consumers, which we are doing in conjunction with home bridge and ihss to talk about her different programs, where everybody fits in, how you can get help and answer any questions. we are doing our next symposium for providers in october at correct library at the main library in the correct auditorium. excuse me and i m happy to divide more information when the flyers come out. so, i m open for questions. thank you. culture supanich first comment which is how do you do all this with 17 employees be one i know, right that s amazing. thank you so much. it must be very hard work. everybody works hard and we focus and get it done. i m curious about the workers that you have. is there a high level of turnover? what is that and because i know that i have friends who have workers and there seems to be a turnover and how can you combat that? two things. i might have said iran. [inaudible] so
friday april 15, 2016. the introduction will be read by council member kostanian. thank you. good afternoon and welcome to the mayor s disability council. this friday, april 15, 2016 , thank you. good afternoon and welcome to the mayor s disability council this friday, april 15, 2016. in room 400 san francisco city hall. city hall is accessible to persons use is wheelchairs and other assisted mobility devices. wheelchair access is provided at the venice and streets. assisted listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. our agendas are also available in large print and braille. please ask staff for any additional assistance. to prevent electronic interference with this room s sound system and to enable everyone to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones. we welcome the public s participation during public comment. you may complete a speaker card available or call our bridge line. 1415-55
mayor s disability council this friday september 19, 2014, in room 400 of san francisco city hall. city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. wheel chair access is provided at the grove van ness and mcallister street. entrance is provided via wheelchair lift. assistive listening devices are available and open caption and our agendas are available in large print and braille. please ask staff for additional assistance. to prevent electronics interference and to respect everyone s ability to focus on the presentations, please silence all cell phones and pda s. this is appreciated. we welcome public s participation during public comment. you may fill out a speaker card or call the bridge line 415-554-9362. where staff persons will handle the request to speak at appropriate times. the mayor s council disability meeting is held on the third friday of the month. our neck regular meeting will be on october 17, 2014, from 1:00 to 4:00 in
representation required on the mta board. requiring that one member be on the board is the affection democracy. proposition calls for equal enforcement of traffic laws. there are certainly terrible drivers in san francisco and traffic laws must strictly be enforced against them. but there are also many cyclist that disobey the law. disabled pedestrians are particular at risk. traffic laws should be enforced for everyone and drivers and cyclist. please vote on the november ballot. thank you. thank you. any other public comment at this time? all right. we are moving on to the report from the director of the mayor s office on disability, carla johnson. thank you cochair supanich and councilmembers, carla johnson on the mayor s office on disability. i have two items on my directors report. one is a quick announcement about staffing changes and second will be a little tour of the mod website. i wanted to let you know that john paul scott, our deputy director for architectural
we not only have the plans and forms but also links to resources for how to get code interpretation and access board and most importantly since we were talking about earlier about john paul scott, we have the full record of our ada transition projects up there including current status and reports on that. it s still needs a little bit of editing, it s a work in progress, but a great reference and resource to access. and then, we also have resources. this is part of my outward looking plan here. i want people from the small business community to be able to come to the mayor s office on disability web page so that they can get information about how best to comply. what are the tools that are out there so they can make their facilities accessible. we have handouts and resources to help them in that process. and, one feature that i think the council will find very useful here is that we now have a google calendar that will be posted, and the google calendar currently has the mayo
cyclist that disobey the law. disabled pedestrians are particular at risk. traffic laws should be enforced for everyone and drivers and cyclist. please vote on the november ballot. thank you. thank you. any other public comment at this time? all right. we are moving on to the report from the director of the mayor s office on disability, carla johnson. thank you cochair supanich and councilmembers, carla johnson on the mayor s office on disability. i have two items on my directors report. one is a quick announcement about staffing changes and second will be a little tour of the mod website. i wanted to let you know that john paul scott, our deputy director for architectural access has chose n to take a promotional appointment at the department of public works working as an access coordinator. john scott has been with us for 10 years and accomplished many amazing things especially around our ada transition plan. he is well-known throughout the city for his skill, his mentor
400 of san francisco city hall. city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. wheel chair access is provided at the grove van ness and mcallister street. entrance is provided via wheelchair lift. assistive listening devices are available and open caption and our agendas are available in large print and braille. please ask staff for additional assistance. to prevent electronics interference and to respect everyone s ability to focus on the presentations, please silence all cell phones and pda s. this is appreciated. we welcome public s participation during public comment. you may fill out a speaker card or call the bridge line 415-554-9362. where staff persons will handle the request to speak at appropriate times. the mayor s council disability meeting is held on the third friday of the month. our neck regular meeting will be on october 17, 2014, from 1:00 to 4:00 in san francisco city hall in room 400. please call the mayor s offic
city of san francisco mayor s disability council please stand by. if everyone will take their seats, we ll begin shortly. thank you. good afternoon, and welcome to the mayor s disability council this friday november 21, 2014, in room 400 of san francisco s 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 available in large print and braille. please ask staff for assistance. to respect everyone s ability to focus, please silence all mobile phones. your cooperation is appreciated. we welcome public comment. you may complete a speakers card or call bridge line 415-554-9632 where a staff person will handle a r
often crossed the threshold between the two communities and veterans got lost. soldiers returning from the recent conflicts, many of them with visible disabilities remind us that the connection is there and veterans with disabilities are still members of the disability community and part of the struggle for equal rights and community integration. on a personal note i m very happy that one of our councilmembers was able to organize the event for today because this is a special time to be able to connect the two communities. moving now to information item no. 3 before we get to the presentations, public comments, items not on the agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc, each speaker is limited to three minutes. 3 minutes. first we have mike with the assisted suicide opposition. thank you for your time and i m coming here today to basically warn the disabilities community of a threat that s coming soon to you. it is coming to the elderly community and those with chroni