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We are going to hold now until we can get this resolved. Thank you for your patience. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday july 18, 2014, in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchair and other persons with mobility devices. Access at the polk street carlton b. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are also available in large print and ...

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...

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 ...

Coronavirus task force tomorrow, but tell us about today and a very key phone call from a former u. S. President. Reporter yeah, ana. President elect joe biden today heard from former republican president george w. Bush. The former president releasing a statement earlier today saying that he spoke with both biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris. This is significant because there has only been a handful of major republican figures who have publicly congratulated biden as he has won the pre...

And, you know, i honestly think that and i say this and maybe its not politically correct, but i think that joe biden was the only one who could have done this and he met the moment and people trust him. Hes got so much empathy. He knows how to work with folks and get things done so im so happy, ari. But mostly its relief, you know . Jonathan . I think i also share the relief as someone whos undocumented and whos been fighting the politics of fear and hate of this administration, it is such a re...

Okay, shall we try again . Thank you for waiting, everyone. Good afternoon. Do we have captioning . Theres captioning over there, not over there. Control room, we do not have captioning on the screen closest to the sign language interpreter. Testing to see if we have captioning. Hi, were testing now to see which captioning is working. Shall we start over again . Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the mayors Disability Council. Denise, would you please read the welcome . Im almost a...

To keep doing this every month and to try to get people to come to the meeting. I think we made some really good headway through this process. So, council, you are going to have to pick a new chairperson for this committee. That will be a challenge, definitely. Thank you very much for that, john paul. One of the best things about this role is the opportunity to work with john paul and carla before you, susan, theres really some talented, dedicated people who are not just dedicated but really goo...

Thanks. [ applause ] so for those of you who came in late, if you could hold your questions, we are not going to do a formal q, and a, but i will ask each of the panelists to stick around and if you want to chat with them one on one, they will be veil for a little while to do that. Our next panelist is melissa. They earned her ba in 2005 and her ma in 2007. She worked in new york at christies auction house and the time warner center, the Museum Experience includes the Research Positions in new y...

It is sort of like a frozen world, really and there is movement of the camera, 360 degrees. But it is frozen. There are moments in time and in 2007. When this car goes by just like that and was gone, most of the time people dont know that there are pictures being taken and it really bakes into this work Something Different than the work that would be taken on the street. There is sort of visual connections to street photography and there is philosophical connections. You know there is some movem...

Anything that i wanted without any sort of limits only right here was the only limit and so the site really features other peoples work and i dont put my work on it and it is basically, i thought, what can i do Something Like interview magazine like warhol did . I have the tools and i started five years ago and it has grown into huge proportions, i think when i checked there are 150,000 unique visitors a month reading it. So it has gotten quite an audience, but really it is something that i woul...