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Good afternoon and welcome everyone to the Mayors Disability Council here friday november 20 in room 400 at city hall. I lick to welcome guests and presenters for ateneding the meeting today. Observe we get started with the agenda councilmember roland wong will read the introduction. Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday, november 20, 2015 in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the grove van ness and mcallister streets via ramps. Wheel...

Use commission and to my right is 93 joining us shortly and to my left is supervisor kim alyssa and thank you jim smith and Jessie Larson from sfgovtv that are busy broadcasting this meeting mr. Clerk could ii actually any motherinlaws devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the confess 8 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Convalescent thank you very much call number one. A resolution authorizing the amended ground lease for 99 years with the twentyfour hour associates for one hundre...

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 o...

And full knowledge and moving in a timely fashion to seek to create the programming that will address the need. Okay. And we actually have some other comments from the Council Members . Thank you so much for coming. I just want to make a comment in regards to another population, that often gets overlooked when we are talking about the Disability Community. And that is the veteran population. And so the veterans with disabilities and seeing if you are have it on your radar to connect with other veteran organizations in the city, that are doing some of the same things to insure that veterans wit...

And we actually have some other comments from the Council Members . Thank you so much for coming. I just want to make a comment in regards to another population, that often gets overlooked when we are talking about the Disability Community. And that is the veteran population. And so the veterans with disabilities and seeing if you are have it on your radar to connect with other veteran organizations in the city, that are doing some of the same things to insure that veterans with disabilities are receiving the same access to those, highly sought after jobs. I agree, and i was just talking to mi...