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Hi, my name is Richard Rothman and thank you for the hearing. First i want to talk about the communication process. I asked in early 2012 to be notified because i heard rumors and i wont mention names, but it was a supervisor in mta said, oh, you will be notified and i found out about it when it was all recommended reading in the San Francisco examiner. So im just concerned about this process. And i dont know anybody except the Committee Members in the Disability Community who actually knew abou...

Party here in San Francisco, we are the local democratic voice for our communities and, you know, we are here to oppose the i believe they are recommendations 4 and 6 to impose time limits and begin charging. As was alluded, director nolan, i appreciate the comments that you made at the beginning regarding the economic impact. You know, theres another issue behind this. We believe that we acknowledge that there is fraud in this system. However, we dont believe that the fraud is so pervasive that...

Placards from paying at the meters. But the placard is meant to increase Parking Access for us. The payment exemption reduces that because it encourages or allows people to park as long as possible, up until the street needs cleaning, which can be 3 days or a week in some parts of the city. Its also important that this is a disability accommodation. Its not an incomebase the or economic benefit. The payment exemption started years ago because the Parking Technology then was not accessible. You h...

Francisco. Parking is holding up our transportation. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Ow, next speaker, please. Richard hale, espinola jackson. Good afternoon, miss hale good afternoon. My name is vera hale and i was all planned to ask you to just remove the recommendation no. 4. I was on the Committee Part of the time, too, and i have a placard and i oppose this on the committee. I was filling in for edna james, who will speak in a few minutes, and i would like to say that we dont have an easy system ...

The low income you need to think about making exemptions for people who need to go to the doctor and employment and i think the key word is we need to be flexible and this is a problem and people who misuse the disability placard should be punished to the full extent of the law. Thank you. Next speaker, please. David fasio, richard ow good afternoon, mr. Fasio good afternoon. Accessible parking policy advisory committees recommendations do not increase accessible parking. Instead they place unre...

State passed this authorizing legislation it would still have to come back to any consider that wanted to consider it for their own local decisionmaking process so there would still be lengthy hearings here or elsewhere. This next recommendation is to direct revenue to accessibility improvements and whats pictured on the screen is an audible pedestrian signal. This is one example of a disability improvement that could be eligible for these funds. The committee felt very strongly that if we were ...

Weeks so you must be doing something more with enforcement and before that id had one in 5 years. But i see more city vehicles taking up spaces that people used to have disabled placards and i dont like that. Thank you, miss hale espinola jackson. Miss jackson. Good afternoon, espinola jackson again. I just learned about this i think about a month ago when there was a meeting i attended and it bothers me where when one of the speakers said a smart phone. I dont own a smart phone. I dont know how...

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Also in san jose, the city needs help fighting its rising crime rate. Today the mayor made a key proposal. Chuck reed wants to restore a dedicated burglary unit within the citys police department. But the plan could face steep opposition, especially from the police itself. Kimberly tere joins us in san jose and why the opposition from the pd . Reporter the residents we talked to said they need more police, period. The previous burglary unit was comprised of several Police Officers, sworn detecti...

Here tonight and that he would commend this institution on its civic mindedness. Franklin was what was known as a projector. He loves loud projects, social projects. Knowledge was a social activity and that was exemplified by the program get here at town hall. I do have to say one thing. I think he would probably frown at the roman revival architecture. [laughter] again as a hel hope to make cle, franklin was an implacable foe and felt it was a real weight around the neck of middleclass and a sp...