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Of data. I would encourage the city to step forward and find a way to compromise to get data to help us drive this process. In closing, i want to thank the board, i want to thank you in particular supervisor march as our members uniformly said you are the loudest and steady person we have in elected office. I want to thank you for all the work you have done and your colleagues and done an ed wong and special thanks to Carla Johnson for her leadership on this and i want to thank all of my colleagues on the Advisory Committee. Too many to mention today because i will inevitably forget one. I wan...

Speaker. Public speaker gabriel with the department of disability. I want to applaud the steps that San Francisco is taking. As others have alluded to San Francisco is the leader in this effort and i know others will try to replicate what you do. Just a couple of other key success. Clear measurable high level goes that are trackable so everyone in the city and county can rally around them. 1 person designated to lead this effort and i would echo the point that making sure that person has the authority to get what needs to be don orsillo and finally making sure the person who is designated with...

Thank you. All right everybody, hi. This is the Mayors Disability Council meeting on friday, july 17m, 2015. Welcome to everybody. May i have the introduction read, please by Council Member wong . Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday, july 17th, 2015 in room 400 of the San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs, and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk carlton good lett is available with lift. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is o...

Particularly in light of the information weve gotten through best practices and what has worked for instance the Seattle Program has been very successful particularly with getting people with Developmental Disabilities hired with the Office Services position. Hopefully we can give some feedback towards the role of that position. Also as whats already been mentioned is making sure we establish placement goals so its really clear and that we can measure our success and last but not least one of the key things as i think we still need the mayor to do its challenge to the Department Head to keep t...

Community based organizations working with the department of Human Resources and office of Mayors Office on disabilities and employee rights. Its also to advance civil rights and Employment Rights for people with disabilities and our goal to increase employment efforts and opportunities for disabled people and also a goal to improve and implement better rule 115 which maybe called by some access sf as well. We are holding a hearing for the anniversary of the passage of the americans with disabilities act and the Disability Rights Movement occupation for the Federal Building here. The longest o...