Im not trying to single out the Housing Authority because the Housing Authority is really just one example of a Property Owner that is faced with this problem. What we have in San Francisco besides multiStory Building is a lot of older building and the average life span of an elevator is about 35 years and many of our buildings are much older than that and you will see this problem with elevators is repeated in privately owned buildings as well as publicly owned buildings and the challenge to try to find the funding for elevator replacements is really whats coming up and i raise this issue because i think that elevator repair and replacement is rapidly becoming the next big issue for the Disability Committee and i know the counsel understand this because this is one of the pieces you included in your housing resolution but i wanted to give you an opportunity to know about a meeting that is coming up. You heard jessica here talking about a meeting next thursday that is addressing food s
Microwaves and refrigerators and not real cooking facilities in room and see lack of Community Kitchens dont exist or they are not open and clean and useable and so many people on ssi who cant afford rent and food and i hope that some of you are planning to attend and you may want to join us thursday around 10 Oclock Somewhere around the second floor. Thank you. Thank you. Okay back to my report. Ive become aware of a piece of legislation and this is close to my heart because im chair of the disability Disaster Preparedness committee. But any way, ab 918 went through the legislation this summer and its the counsel of Emergency Services act which sets forth the duties of the office of Emergency Services with respect to Emergency Preparedness response activities within the state. This bill would require that the state update the state emergency plan to include proposed best practices for local government and non governmental entities to use mobilize and have evacuate people with disabili
Elevator replacements is really whats coming up and i raise this issue because i think that elevator repair and replacement is rapidly becoming the next big issue for the Disability Committee and i know the counsel understand this because this is one of the pieces you included in your housing resolution but i wanted to give you an opportunity to know about a meeting that is coming up. You heard jessica here talking about a meeting next thursday that is addressing food security, but there is another meeting that same day on thursday thats a special meeting to talk about elevators and seniors and people with disabilities who live in single room occupy ancy hotels the time is 3 to 5 p. M. The location is the department of aging and Adult Services office, 1650 mission street. And we hope that some of you may be able to join that discussion next week. I have another announcement to make today, too, as i think many of the councilmembers may recall i served as one of the chairs on the accessi
Will i and and of the security council. The colonization of that land continues. Well, i think that it is important to make that case and it is a very powerful and powerfully felt case among the palestinians. Their flights will only be alleviated if there is a successful negotiation between the parties. It is not possible they would not be wise to disregard all israeli concerns. Those concerns have to be made known as well. Israel has to know that they can live in peace and security, just as palestinians need to know they can live in a viable state. It is very important to understand both sides of the argument and i dont think that is where very good example of that. [inaudible] and the government over the past two years, it has been rejected by the Palestinian Authority. Yet it does require bilateral talks. I think that there is, as i was indicating a few minutes ago, faults on both sides when it comes to efforts to have negotiations of the last few years. Israel has been wanting to n
Concerned today than i was a day or two ago. In the sense at the moment policymakers are moving in opposite directions. In part thats the ways of washington and i think well see a few collapses before we ultimately get together somewhere in the days before christmas on a compromise. We have been talking about marginal tax rates, which i think are a key part not only of the budget question, but a key part of the broader economic question in terms of Economic Growth. And im hopeful that any solution that comes together is going to think a lot about Economic Growth and not just budgets. Host ethan . Guest i think i may be a little more hopeful than alex is. I think that theres a general agreement that the sequester will happen. Republicans and democrats and the president are all opposed to it happening. Theres also a consensus right and left it would be bad for the economy. So i think that when we are just looking at the tax component, there are certain things that we kev knitly definitel