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Common is this you know really wanting to be at home. And in our world we call that living in the least restrictive environment but what it boils down to as most of us want to cage in our homes and have that, what you know, the flexibility and the control of our environment and that is where we have it most. And so what we have that as an understanding of the population that lives here and really that is the truth for people whether they are in south dakota or knee or wherever they are and we hold that in common, San Francisco has really been unique in the sense that it is formed much of its P...

Had a threeday exercise where we practiced alert and evacuation and notification, then disaster response, and then after that longterm planning for recovery. And Joanna Fraguli played a very Important Role on behalf of the Mayors Office on disability because she was embedded in the joint information senterra long with our interpreter, our American Sign Language interpreter jennifer mantle who worked with the Public Information officers to make sure that Effective Communication that would reach really the entire community was a big part of how the Information Officers would plan their proceedin...

And are people with disabilities. And, so, our mayor today announced in a press conference that through the Mayors Office of housing that they have identified 4. 5 million worth of money to do these incredibly critical elevator renovations to make sure that those elevators are going to be reliable in the future. And there are nine specific properties that they have identified as being buildingses where theyre going to be making those improvements. Also over the next few months youre going to be hearing more from our office about the Housing Authority because the Housing Authority properties ta...

And maury, long term coordinating Council Member, and so to start it off we are going to have tracy famp arona. To kick this off, okay . Thank you, supervisor, yee for that, great introduction. Thank you, supervisors for having this hearing today. I am one of the cochairs of the long term coordinating council and i have a very long name and so no one ever gets it right. On behalf of the council i want to thank you for holding this meeting. It is an advisory body to the mayor of 40 minutes and the city departments and Community Agencies and the community and our goal really is to make recommend...

Percent of these inquiries from the public and 19 percent from the city department. There were also four curb ramp request and 3 request for accommodations. The request for accommodations involved blue zone parking request outside of homes and we also received 7 complaints which is in addition to two complaints we received from the previous month in may. We believe the increase is due to the large number of Construction Projects that are happening simultaneously in the city. The majority of these complaints that we received mostly involved disruption in the public rightofway due to the constru...