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Importance of connectivity, the complexity of it, and the why of it. It is important that all of that be understood. Our mayor understands all of that and more. He understands the importance of it, the complexity of it, the why of it, and if you have been following the news at all, you know through what you have read that he has been very, very forceful in moving forward in this area. It is my pleasure to introduce the mayor of San Francisco, ed lee. [applause] good morning, everyone. Welcome to city hall. All right. Well, your board president david i chew and david chiu were just discussing w...

Have approvals for the World Health Organization and one of the things that they are interested in is what we are going to do with the disabled because they say that nobody else has done that and has included that in their making the city disable friendly. And i hope that we will bring back in of the zeal that we had, in the beginning. We are looking at things like jobs and housing, and transportation for both seniors and people with disability. And so this, and i wanted to be here, to hear what was said in the beginning. And we will be wanting to hear more as we go on about progress too. Than...

Significantly, from our perspective and from our members perspective and the other stuff that we have heard in the community is that it does limit to entry level positions and i know, that it was discussed earlier, i believe by the executive officer of the Civil Service commission that this is all refined, and you know, defined very specifically in the charter. And i know from my time working in the department of Human Resources you cannot, you cannot go against the super powers, and that is something that, it is also important that you know, that this body, the board of supervisors, has the a...

Believe by the executive officer of the Civil Service commission that this is all refined, and you know, defined very specifically in the charter. And i know from my time working in the department of Human Resources you cannot, you cannot go against the super powers, and that is something that, it is also important that you know, that this body, the board of supervisors, has the ability to put things on the ballot to change that. And if we are able to identify a specific package of reforms that need to be made to the charter then that is something that our organization will support wholehearte...

Organizations that some of you know about and i am on a subcommittee that is working on making San Francisco more age and disabled friendly city. And one of the things. We have approvals for the World Health Organization and one of the things that they are interested in is what we are going to do with the disabled because they say that nobody else has done that and has included that in their making the city disable friendly. And i hope that we will bring back in of the zeal that we had, in the beginning. We are looking at things like jobs and housing, and transportation for both seniors and pe...