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26,000 a year and nobody can live on that in San Francisco. We cant truly lead independent lives until we have economic independence and meaningful jobs. I want to thank you, supervisor mar for scheduling this hearing today and also for starting this conversation about employing people with disabilities. And like you, i also want to thank jonathan lions for the legwork that he put into this effort to bring this issue to all of our attention. It was also exactly 1 year ago that you held this hearing. In your june 2014 hearing was a catalyst to reignite the conversation with the department of Hu...

For the mayors with disabilities and 2 years ago we signed the americans with disabilities act and we had more than 500 people come and the theme was it doesnt stop here the reason is under the dream of the ada employment is really the portion that is unfulfilled. We really have not reached the numbers that i think the founders really expected when the ada was first signed and much of the public testimony back in 1988 and 1989 about the needs for this civil rights legislation focused on employment as an issue. People with disabilities is only 1 3 as likely to be employed from people without di...

Its got to be much more subtle than that. It got to be about helping each side see where there might be limited areas where they could work together. Im not the great believer in the grand bargain. Now sit down and have a discussion about every in. It is unlikely to be good but they will be some areas where people have quite significant differences and nonetheless have it limited junior level of communication which delivers from a practical benefit to both sides. We will obviously return in some detail of course and the next session. The secretary has made it very clear [inaudible] there is a ...

Welcome to the San Francisco Planning Commission regular meeting for thursday, july 23, 2015, 2015 disruptions of any kind. Please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Speak id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner johnson and he wanted to attend. Commissioner moore commissioner richards additional commissioner hillis is and he wanted to be absent commissioners, that places you under your prototype for con...

Welcome to the San Francisco Planning Commission regular meeting for thursday, july 23, 2015, 2015 disruptions of any kind. Please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Speak id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner johnson and he wanted to attend. Commissioner moore commissioner richards additional commissioner hillis is and he wanted to be absent commissioners, that places you under your prototype for con...