>> thank you, the meeting will come to order, welcome everyone, goods morning, this is the thursday, june 5, 2014, meeting of the that i hader services and safety committee of the board of supervisors, my name is eric mar and i am the chair of the committee and we are joined by norman yee and our chair person, david campos is out today and our clerk is mr. derek evans and i guess before we start, could i just ask if we could excuse chair campos from this meeting, can we do that without objection?

>> thank you. >> mr. evans do we have any announcements? >> yes, thank you, mr. chair, silence all cell phones and electronic devices and completed speaker cards and copies of documented should be submitted to the clerk and items acted upon today will be appearing on the june 15th, agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. >> please, call item number one. >>hearing to consider that the transfer of a type 48 on-sale general public premises license for the expansion of premises located at 246 kearny street (district 3) to brian sheehy for future beverages inc., dba rick house, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco. (neighborhood services and safety committee) >> thank you. and we have a report from staff? is that right? and this is not a traditional transfer of the liquor license, it is the expansion of an existing premises, which is a

bar on kearny street and >> it resulted in us losing 40 percent of the square footage of the bar, and exchange for that square footage we are offered basement space and space at the rear of the existing bar, that space has been renovated and it is the same license. the size of the bar is increasing by about 30 percent and this is required, it is required by the abc that we go through this formal process to expand the license because of the additional square footage.

but all conditions, and all aspects of the bar continue as is. thank you. >> i am one of your customers and i love the bar and amazing drinks. could i just ask that there the main bar area and then there is the speak easy type of place in the back with the barrels, i think. is the new expanded space that space, or is it a different space? >> the new expanded space is below that space and to the rear of that space. >> okay. >> i know that there is an area where you can walk up the narrow side of the stairs to another area and it is almost like a three level bar in the back it sounds like. >> yes it will be. >> great. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and we have a report from the police now. >> okay. >> good morning, supervisor mar and supervisor yee. with the san francisco department abc liaison unit. and very simply he has applied for a transfer and technicality and it has to be that because

abc requires him to do that and however it is a simple expansion and i did visit the location, like he described and it is towards the rear and below of the main floor area. and it is a little bit larger rather close to about five or 600 square feet and i may be off by 100 or so. but, simply said, that it is just a simple expansion. and let me just go through the stats here and what we found when we ran the report and the plan is simply that the police calls for service from february 2013 to 2014, and the police calls for that location. and share the police reports as well and the plot is located on 160 and as defined, with the 2013, high crime calls, anything over 99 calls is a high crime area. and the plot had 178 police reports, reported calls for that location. and it is located in the high

crime area. the states census track, 117, population track is 1783. the on sale license is authorized for the track six and however there are 106 active, but once again we are not adding a license to that location, we are just simply expanding a current location. and there were zero letters of protest recorded and zero letters of supports recorded. the alu recommends approval and there are statutes you that he has aherd to in the past with the current license and we have never had the problems or had the license brought under any kind of disciplinary action. >> thank you, officer. >> if are there know questions, let's open up this for the public and is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> seeing none, public comment is closed and i would like to thank mr. sheehy for being here and for running the rick house

and the new trend of bars that are really interesting and speak easy history type of places i think that local addition and others are really amazing too, but rick house is a great place that is very popular and so i can see how the expansion will really benefit many people from the neighborhood as well. supervisor yee, could we get a motion on approval of it? >> sure, i will move it. >> can we do that without objection? >> thank you. >> thank you. mr. evans please call the next item? >>hearing on the implementation of civil service rule 115 for the employment of disabled individuals for the city and county of san francisco. >> thank you, and this is a hearing that i have called along with organizations led by people with disabilities, and the current day movement for civil rights and equal opportunities for people with disabilities and this is

focused on employment. and i just wanted to thank the community-based groups that are here today, and we will have a number of speakers from our local and state departments. but also, from community advocates and community based organizations. and the hearing is specifically on what we call civil service rule, 115, but i think more broadly it is about understanding and acknowledging the history of the movement of the 1980s, of people with disabilities for equal opportunity in employment. and breaking down discrimary barriers that were preventing people from having an equal and fair chance at employment opportunities in the city and also, i think that it is also a fight and a movement for dignity and not only equal opportunity, but equity in how

the city looks at disadvantaged groups of people as well. so, we are 115, we will hear from the department of human resource and mayor's office on disability is one of many tools that we use in the city to allow equal opportunity and to promote employment opportunities for people with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups. i wanted to also say that it is not only about hiring it is also about recruitment, and hiring supporting people while employed and retaining them to be successful in their jobs as well. i wanted to acknowledge that we will be hearing from our department of human resources, the deputy director, linda simon but i wanted to acknowledge that dana kuitaki is here and also we will hear from carla johnson the director of the mayor's office of disability and also from the

civil service commission, jennifer johnson the executive director and then followed by our california department of rehabilitation which makes the determinations on whether somebody is severely disabled or not. and that is im casy who is the employment coordinator with the california department of rehabilitation, and from the community side and i will just say that the movement to advance, equal opportunity and equity for people with disabilities in employment has been led by many different organizations, and individuals, but today we will have representatives from the fdr, democratic club, the president also from the light house for the blind, cath williams and julie mccarthy, and terry goodwin, and san francisco independent living resource center, jessy lorens and we will also have different examples of employers like the california academy of sciences with a great model employer for

hiring and giving equal opportunity for people with disabilities as well. and so with that, if there are know questions from supervisor yee, i would like to open it up first with our department of human resources with leslie simon the deputy director. >> overhead? it is pretty high, i am a little challenged by height here. so i am going to bring this down a little bit. thank you very much, supervisor mar and yee and i am the deputy director at the is department of human resources for equal opportunity and leave programs and i welcome the opportunity to present to you today on civil service rule 115, and more importantly on the city's commitment to equal employment opportunity as it relate to

employees and applicants with disability. is the overhead on? so what i have on the overhead is basically bullet points of my presentation. and i would like to start off and by saying that while this discussion today does revolve around rule 115, i would like for us to understand the city's effort in reaching out to our community of disabled applicants and employees. and there are many different avenues, by which we employ individuals with disabilities. for example, one of the avenues is that our on-line job application system is ada compliant. we also at the department of human resources in our lobby have computers that are ada compliant. and every one of our job announcements on the dhr website also stipulate that if an applicant requires accommodation, who to contact

for that accommodation, and we do routinely provide those for the applicants and in addition to that all of the announcements also provide contact information, regarding tty access. and in addition to that, we also have donna kataki who you have identified as leading the effort to work with the cbos in the community and particularly we have been very happy to work with kate williams for light house for the blind in reaching out to those and advising them of positions that are available that are listed on the website and also asking the cbos that if they have clients that meet any of the minimum qualifications for those positions please send us their resumes. and then we can reach out to those departments and have them identify those positions, as rule 115, so that those candidates can be considered. so we do have right now, a process, for reaching out with our cbos and reaching out with

our hiring managers that designates the position as rule 115, in addition to that, we also attend fairs that are specific to our disabled community, the last fair that we attended was on april the 13th of 2014 and that was a fair that was sponsored by the san francisco mayor's committee for employment of persons with disabilities. it is not affiliated and i want to clarify that it is not actually affiliated with the mayor's office and it is a non-profit that designates itself as with that title. but at that fair, there were over 200 individuals who attended that fair, and some who submitted applications with us. in addition to that, we are also committed not only to attracting and hiring new employees, who have disabilities but we are also very committed to retaining our employees that do develop disabilities, either industrial injury, or outside of work, develop some type of disability.

and one process that we have for that is our reasonable accommodation process. so one of our employees does develop a disability, then we will work with that employee and the medical restrictions, we will review what the medical restrictions are and we will try to locate another job that is in compliance with the medical restrictions within their own department. if that is not possible, then they are sent to a city wide search. so we actually look in all of the city departments and our 60 city departments to try to find a position for that employee so that if we can continue the city employment and so this is for the retention of our disabled employees. in addition to that, we do have reasonable accommodation coordinators in every city department. and so that employees do have a disability can go to those coordinators and request accommodations and also, any types of systems that they may need such as dragon speak, or anything else that might assist

them, again, to retain their position. and in addition to that, i would like to mention that the city and county of san francisco because of our efforts in this area was recently recognized by the department of rehabilitation as being the employer, or with the employer of the year award. and so i think that this speaks volumes as to what the city has been doing in reaching out to applicants and also to retaining employees with disabilities. with today's hear is about rule 115, so i would like to provide a little bit of history regarding rule 115 n1985, there was a ballot measure that was called proposition a and it was to amend the city charter so that the qualified individuals with disabilities could answer the city workforce outside of the competitive merit process, the goals of proposition a were to provide increased employment op