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Commissioner. Here. Commissioner harrison. Here. Commissioner arata. Commissioner levitan. Commissioner low. Here. Commissioner bo nilo has an excused absence and just as a reminder if we could have everyone turn off electronic sounding devices and you will have three minutes to comment on each item today unless otherwise noted by the president. When you do make Public Comment we ask that you address the item in front of you, and please note that youre making Public Comment to the commission. It is not a back and forth, so the commission at the end of your time may ask questions of staff and t...

Ideas, pioneering the next wave of disability policy. And i really want to encourage people to participate in this process. Its going to be at the ed roberts campus, which of course is the ashbury bart. And its a very grassroots, ground up identify your issue and pitch it to the crowd type of structure, similar to [speaker not understood]. In fact, they have a goal. They want no spectators, just participants. What they are looking for are people or groups that want to lead a session to share what youre working on, what your goals are, and your issues. So, sunday, may 4th, starting at 4 oclock ...

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 taken under the umbrella of the Mayo...

Feedback from him. And, you know, at first i even made a mistake. We were so used to in high school to learning that these young people are called special education, and derek, you know, corrected me. I was so happy he did because we want to make sure were making everything correct in our draft once we present it to the board of supervisors that we have everything correct. And i have some copies. I dont know if i handed to you guys yet. So, it really is just a draft and its just talking about how we want this to be implemented. We do have some student advisory councilmembers in our committee. ...

Reduce extreme poverty by half and establish universal primary education by 2015. Now the leaders are trying to figure out what to do after 2015. And as they set new goals, they want to help people with disabilities. The secretarygeneral said they want to break barriers and open doors. Musician Stevie Wonder put it another way. Im looking forward to when i can write a song about how great, not only one nation, but all of the nations of the world opens up and handles what they need to handle. Making the world accessible for those with any disabilities at all. The key words here are inclusivity ...