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 via a wheelchair lift, assistive listening devices are available and the meeting is opened captioned and interpreted. Our agenda is available in large print and braille, ask the staff for any additional assistance. To prevent, the electronic interference with the system and everyones ability to focus on the presentations silence all mobile phones and pdas, your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during the Public Comments and you may complete a speakers card, available in the front of the room or call the liej at 4155549632, for a staff person will hand a request to speak at the appropriate time, the Mayors Disability Council meetings are generally held on the third friday of the month, the next meeting will be on november 21, 2014, from 1 to 4 p. M. Here at San Francisco city hall in room 400, call the Mayors Office of disability for further information or to request accommodations 4155546785. Or you can dial rkts 4155546799 for the tty line, and a reminder to speak slowly to assist the captioners and interpreters, and also, due to a last minute illness of one of the asl interpreters this meeting will not have full interpretation, but will be captioned and transcripts will be available on the website, thank you for your understanding and thank you for joining us here today. Next, we will have the action item two, reading and approval of the agenda. Agenda item number one, welcome, introduction and roll call. Number two, reading and approved of the agenda, agenda item three, information item, comments by supervisor eric mar district one, on the occasion of National Disability employment awareness month. Item four, informational item, transitional Public Service employment for workers with disabilities, presentation Brett Andrews executive director posive resources inc. Agenda item number five, information item, advocacy for employment of people with disabilities in city service. Presentation by jonathan lyens, president fdr Democratic Club of San Francisco, for senior and people with disabilities. And break, the council will take a tenminute break item 6, information itema review of Civil Service rule 115 and its implementation for hiring people with disabilities. Presentation by donna kotake, department of Human Resources, Workforce Development director, city and county of San Francisco. Item 7, information item, San FranciscoPublic Library and its successful implementation of Civil Service rule 115, presentation by marti goddard, Access Services manager, San FranciscoPublic Library. Agenda item number 8, information item, comments from communitybased organizations that train and place workers with a Broad Spectrum of disabilities. Terry goodwin, director of partnerships and business development, the arc of San Francisco, mark melanson, director of community services, tool works, jessy, lorenz, executive director independent Living Resource Center of San Francisco. Ilrc. Public comment is welcome. Agenda item number 9, information item, department of children youth and families, dcyf, youth Workforce Development update, presentation by maria su, executive director dcyf, city and county of San Francisco. Agenda item number ten, Public Comment items not on todays adeny da but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. Each speaker is limited to three minutes. Agenda item number eleven, information item, report from cochair supanich. Agenda item 12, information item, report from director of the Mayors Office on disability. Agenda item number 1 3, information item, correspondence. Agenda item 14, discussion item, Council Members comments and announcements. Agenda item number 1 5, adjournment. Cochair, roll call, please . Yes. [roll call] thank you. Nearly 25 years after the passage of the american with disability act, 83 percent of people with disabilities are still unemployed, according to the u. S. Department of labor the rate is at 13. 2 percent. And defined as people who did not have a job or were available for work and actively looking for work. And the Disability Council decided to devote a series of meetings, this month to mark the occasion of National Disability employment month, we will look at the city of San Francisco and the effort to employ people with disabilities and we have a number of speakers today representing advocates policy makers and City Departments. We ask for your patience and cooperation as we hold Public Comment on this issue until the end of all presentations, thank you. And now, on to agenda item three. Information item, comments by subpoenaer eric mar district one, supervisor mar addresses the council on occasion in october as National Disability employment awareness month. It to the chair, and all of the commissioners sweshlly harriot who taught me a lot about the Richmond District and the needs of people with disabilities it is an honor to be here as an allie for people with disability and Community Based organizations that have educated me, and i think that johnson and susan that have helped me understand from the lens of a disabled person the perspective of civil rights and equity and justice for people, the 83 percent that are unemployed and many more, issues to be treated with dignity and empowerment as well in our city and i want to say that on this National Disability employment awareness month, my hope is that we dont just look at it today or this month, that is becomes integrated in the culture and institutions that allow equal opportunity and equal for people with disabilities. I think that for me, as an allie, i want to support the Community Based organizations and so i am proud that there are so many great ones here in San Francisco and throughout the region as well and that we work with as partners in the city to advance our agenda for civil rights for the people. And i want to emphasize that setting goals is critical and i think that the cochairs for sitting with me and the Community Based groups as well to help me see how i can help to advance and push forward with my ten other colleagues on the board of supervisor and with the mayor and other city officials as well, and as the chair mentioned, 25 years, since the passage of the ada, is several decades that we shoulding proud of the progress made but there is a lot more work to be done and i want to focus on employment because i know that is where a lot of the community baitioned groups have put their efforts, i want to thank jonathan and the club not just for the advocacy but city wide for raising the issues for people with disabilities to my office and working with my staff and the others in the Disability Rights Community and the disabled advocates themselves to try to craft good policy, motions and the hearing that we held on june 5th, i think was a first step, and i really thank tremendously the Mayors Office on disability and the commissioners and all of the communitybased groups to help to build toward that hearing but there is much more work to be done. And i also wanted to say to that employment with the people with disability ss a key area, where so much more work needs to be done and i think that the department of labor, as of september, states that the people with disabilities are onethird less likely to be employed as people who dont have disabilities. Besides the unemployment statistics and this, it shows that we as a city could be doing much more, and i think working together to draft some goals but data gathering and i know that was an issue that came with the department of Human Resources and my hope is that we can get around the privacy concerns and survey and other methods and we can gather the data and not just the federal state data but also what is going on in our city and i think that the human stories told that that hearing is the best and most eye opening experience that the people with disabilities and the struggles that they face with training and employment it is not only enough to become employed perhaps through rule 115, or other tools, but also the support systems built into every Single Department in our city with the clear goals of support so that the people can be successful and i wanted to also, emphasize that one of my friends, john hamond was able to get support from the arc and he is a Richmond District resident and a young man with so much to give to the neighborhood and in this community. And he was hired by the academy of sciences and i was proud to be with the Jobs Alliance and so many others that are here today to acknowledge that it is not about charity, it is about solidary and equal opportunity for people and john will become a mentor to others as the academy of sciences moves from 4 people that they have hired to expanding doubling that and making better efforts too, but my hope is that other private and Public Sector employees and employers look at models like that also what came up is the number of best practices and my hope that we are looking at see at sxl across the bay that we as a city, of course, we know and we are proud of a lot of the innovations that we do and i think that we should be humble and look at other best practices in other cities as well. But i think for me, as an activist and as a legislator, it is really thinking about the broader Civil Rights Movement that people with disabilities speaking in their own voices, building their own alliances with other organization and that really drives a lot of the work that we are doing, i think, today. And i just wanted to add a couple more points and i think that the city and county of San Francisco has one way of stream lining individuals with disabilities into city employment, through the Civil Service rule 115. That has not been widely used and known recently, but it allows the qualified employees with disabilities to enter the city employment without a Civil Service exam and my hope is that we can raise awareness through the new hire in the department of resources mr. Wo ng and also clarify the percentage of time that he will dedicate, because right now in the position it might look at the Job Description, it is it and Law Enforcement and safety and there is not a clear role for support of people with disabilities and i know that a man that came in the community and the grassroots groups was at a full time position where the clear point of contact was daoet manned and we are far off from that and i am appreciative of the progress in dhr as well and i would like to ask not just the department of Human Resources but all City Departments and my colleagues in the City Government leadership to be receptive and it is one tool and there are many other tools that we can use and by putting our Heads Together we can advance it as a tremendous leader but i thank the council for all of your work and thank you for inviting me here today. Thank you. Thank you, have youer much for coming here today. Information item number four, Pilot Program, transitional Public Service, employment for workers with disabilities, recently enacted section 503 guidelines and we are seeking to develop a pie late project, for workers with disabilities and presentation by Brett Andrews executive director of positive resources inc. Good afternoon, council, and i am Brett Andrews, and i am proud to be the executive director of positive Resource Center. And i feel the need to throw some disclosures out there first, Council Person wong daughter is a supervisor i am and familiar with this and i am a ethics commissioner and so thank you for making the time for me to come and talk to you about the local and state wide efforts that we have and supervisor mar said that so much of what i wanted to say. 25 years, in to it, and it is still a challenge, and i will say for positive Resource Center who has the Employment Services program, the oldest hiv Employment Services program in the nation. I was proud to represent San Francisco when the new hiv policy director douglas brooks had a convening from the white house and wanted to hear all that they are doing in the terms of efforts of hiring people with disability and it was clear that i was gland that around the table there was not a lot of substance that was there and so it was a quick reminder that we have a lot of work to do. But representing positive Resource Center in San Francisco, and i was very pleased and not surprise that had San Francisco leads the way in so many efforts. And as you are aware, in september, of 2013, federal government, enacted section two, 503 regulation and then in february, of 2014, the Council State workforce envoftment board put out a calling for proposals through the fund to look at innovative ways to create Job Opportunities for people with disabilities specifically calling out folks with disabilities and high barriers to employment. And myself, along with some key folks across the community, michael and the former edddirector and the institute and a along with the folks in fresno came together and wrote a proposal. For that, we were funded and we are seeking to use multiple efforts and ways, not only through rule 115, but through this Pilot Program that i am going to talk to you about in the next couple of minutes to see how we can increase the efforts on a local level to have more folks employed particularly in Civil Service jobs. The project focuses specifically on workers with Developmental Disabilities who have been unemployed for at least a year. And it places them into positions in the Public Sector at minimum wage to perform useful public work that would not be performed and the participants gain the Work Experience for up to nine months with the goal of transitioning them into the unsubsidized employment in the public and the private sector. And over the past few months, we have a series of meetings and i am very pleased to say, that the city has been receptive and carla took a meeting and we had a reading with mixky to talk about rule 115 and ways that we can add more strength and enforcement to that. It was great to hear supervisor mar and i really appreciate supervisor mar and i believe that chiu coauthored the hearing in june and it is timely for all of us and i am so excited for so long we taught the 4. 7, and 4. 8 rate that we have in San Francisco and will not drill down on geographic areas and key individuals and dem graphic and so it is really nice and timely that we are having this conversation. We seek to have about 15 participants to participate in this Pilot Program which will be transitional where they will receive, some subsidy. And really working with 115 and possibly within the structure of the job Style Program with hsa and i have a call out to talk about ways in wh