We cant ignore international competition. The question for the committee is, if the United States isnt going to adopt some form of intellectual property bonds or patent box, what are we going to do . Are we going to just ignore what is going on in the rest of the world . It hardly seems like a good idea. But the downside and people have noticed this of the patent box or intellectual property boxes that unless theyre carefully crafted, you can have a serious problem of encouraging too much property being included in the patent box, and you get a lot of revenue erosion that way, and its pretty undesirable. The issue really is what are we trying to achieve with the intellectual property box and patent something to the answer should be we want to encourage activities we would otherwise lose, and if we find ourselves in that situation, then we should try to figure out a way to craft one of these things. The rest of the world is doing and it we ignore them at our peril. I think i have a diff
March 21, 2014, well be right with everyone. Are we ready . They havent adjusted the camera yet. Control room. Can you please zoom in on the asl interpreter so its more visible. City of San Francisco Mayors Disability Council thank you and welcome to the march meeting, you guys. Well ever welcome and introduction and roll call. Welcome and introduction, yes, thank you, roland. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday march 21, 2014, in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the grove van ness and mccall street. And entrance is provided via a wheelchair lift. Assistive listening devices are eligible at 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 the room sound system and to r
Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to present council this afternoon. Lava mae is a mobile shower and Toilet Service that is meant to address the massive shortage in showers and sanitation available to the homeless. We are not out on the ground yet. We are a brand new organization. We are working on our first bus which we hoke hope to launch in may and provide up to 45 showers a day. I will give a little bit of background on the buses and what they look like and how well be working with those with disabilities but i wanted to show a quick video to frame the issue first. We need captioning for that video as well . [inaudible] hold on, please. Denise can we pause for a second. The captioning doesnt seem to be working with the video. Can we put the microphone closer . Lets start again. [inaudible] thats okay. I dont want to log jam the schedule. You can find our video on our website which is a lava may. Org. Basically it just frames the problem. The number that was listed in the video lis
All of those have a very similar nexus reaching the population of the city. After being established for a few years, the office is really has worked in three key areas. Its a Policies Office through programs like our Community Ambassadors program and we do grant making around i am grant immigration initiatives. Thats a snapshot of the offices. The Community Ambassadors is one of our premier programs that started in 2010. Just some background on the program. It started in the bayview on the 10th supervise real district in addition to conflict happening at that time. There were several very high profile crimes against asian americans. I think they were on youtube. They were very high profile events that led to outcry in the chinese immigrant community in the southeast part of the city and they didnt feel they had access to information in their language and they didnt feel safe in their communities and couldnt communicate adequate with the city. In order to address the issue of Community
4155546799 tty. A reminder to all of our guest today, please speak slowly into microphone to assist our captioner and interpreter. We thank you for joining us. Thank you roland. Roll call. Cochair chip supanich, idell wilson, present, Councilmember Tatiana kostanian, absent. Member starlyn lara absent. Denise present. Wong present, Councilmember Roland Wong . Present. Councilmember derek zarda . Absent. Item 1. Welcome introduction and roll call. Item 2. Reading and approval of the agenda. Item 3, Public Comment. Items none on the agenda and within jurisdiction and each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. Item 4, information item. Report from cochair supanich. Item 5, information item. Report from director of the Mayors Office on disability. 92 semi 6. Information item the role of Adult Protective Services in addressing self neglect among elders and adults with disabilities. Adult protective services aps is a state mandated county administered program that intravenous in cases of adult el