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The Longmore Institute of disability and ada silver anniversary. Catherine kudlick, director of the paul k. Longmore institute on disability. [inaudible]. Hello, yes . There we go. Anyway, good afternoon, everybody. I am cathy kudlick. I am director of the paul k. Longmore institute on disability at San Francisco state. Just to give you a brief overview, i know not a lot of you knew paul and worked with paul. He was in this room many times. And the Longmore Institute of San Francisco State University is kind of a it brings together advocacy, academics, culture, and the whole point of it is to ...

Make it you got the chance, go out and take it love is all around no need to waste it and i know that youre gonna wake up you might just make it after all oh, city hall you might just make it after all city hall applause okay. Hello, my name is larry juicy edmonds, and i would like to say to lrc i hope that maybe we can advertise in the central city newspaper because this i know the work theyve done and i love what she talked. I feel there is someone who [speaker not understood]. You felt wonderful with this young lady speaking on our behalf. But i think many of us in sros, we dont know it exi...

People in the community refused to help them. In the bay area, what was amazing is you had this coalition of community groups, of politicians, of people that really cared about disability rights. Or if they didnt care, they learned to care. And this was partly because of activism of the disability rights, the organizers at the protest. They had sewn seed all over the community and the bay area. So, you had this amazing phenomena where youd have like the black panthers, ~ safeway, mcdonalds, glide memorial church. All these amazing bay area institutions contributing to the protest in some way, ...

Especially input from blind and lowvision advocacy and they are seeking a meeting with the California Council of the blind hopefully at the lighthouse and well wish to invite other Council Members and the members of public to attend that presentation focus group. Our next meeting is usually planned for the sec second friday of the month and that would be february 8th here at city hall, but since we are having low attendance at our meetings and we havent had many suggestions on typicks, chairman roland wong has rented that we have a joint meeting with the multimodal accessibility advisory counc...

Anyone else on the bridge line . No. Okay. Before we move on, i want to encourage those who have joined us since the beginning of the meeting to fill out a card, if they miss to speak at the public hearing coming up. You can find cards at the front of the room here. Thank you. Agenda im item no. 5, report from the director of the Mayors Office on disability. Carla. Thank you. Im carla johnson, the interim director of the Mayors Office on disability. The first announcement that i would like to make is that as we were listening to the reading of the agenda a little earlier and the discussion abo...