and when i did, i remember two interviews that i went to and i was actually discriminated against, and even though i asked for accommodations. and so, i think we need to have interns so the department managers need to know that they can work with people with disabilities. i don't... the problem is hr but i think that the problem is with the hiring officers that they need to be educated in hiring people with disabilities and won't discriminate against them in the job interview. thank you. >> thank you so much, mr. rothman. >> i am going to call a few more names, dan cornaho, from golden gate regional center, enrica rodreguze,. >> hello my name is regina

berkner and for the last 20 years i have been involved in the business of this hearing, which is making sure that disabled people have an opportunity to gain their education and to apply their education to a functional lifetime job that may allow them to survive in the workforce. and in life. i am here primarily to introduce my niece, over there, and she just graduated from san francisco state with a bachelor's degree in marine science. and environmental concerns. and she has been a volunteer at the academy of sciences for over 21 years. her activities at the academy of sciences came about through an act of discrimination, she tried to sign up for a junior

academy course. and was told by the then, person, who is in charge, that they could not have people with disabilities, because they did not know how to teach them or how to get along with them. or anything else. so, i contacted the board at the academy, and voiced my concerns about that act of discrimination and they said that we will wait until the regular person is here that person came back and immediately said, that she was granted access to any academy course, any junior academy course, and subsequent to that, she became a volunteer and then a student worker at the academy of sciences. right now she is trying to get me to hurry up because she has an appointment at 1:00 to do her volunteer work. >> thank you. >> and i think that is an

example of you give people an opportunity and a chance and they become valuable volunteers and member of the institution, that really good example. next speaker? >> good morning, almost afternoon, thank you for the opportunity to speak today. and for your leadership on making 115 rule a continued priority. and my name is mark and i am the director of community services at tool works, and it is opened its doors providing employment services here in san francisco in 1975, and value was throwing away the broken tools and we saw that as an opportunity to fix those tools and use them the money that they were buying new tools with to pay people and so that is how we got the name, tool works. and you know that i have not and you have heard some horrible stats about unemployment rates and those are real. you know, employment definitely gives full inclusion and it is

a big step towards that and if as was mentioned the federal 7 percent increase in disability employment is through contracts with the supervisors could also support that kind of an initiative here in the city. is that through the prokurments and bids that there be a certain amount of folks that are employed about the disabilities through those. and you know, we had an interesting time and just passed in california, there is employment bills out there that are really important that need to support. and sb55, and sb577. and ab1626. and sb 1160. all really important. and many of the other comments about internships definitely an opportunity. and the workforce is out there as demonstrated by the number of cbos that are here and the folks testifying, so thank you. >> thank you.

>> next speaker. >> hi, my name is vera honen from tool works and i worked with people with developmental disabilities for the past ten years and i am the tool works coordinator of project search which is an internship program at the medical center and the california public utilities commission and everybody has talked about internships and the project search is unique in the sense that each intern has the opportunity to be immersed in the employment setting while being supported by the on sight job coach and serves as an entry point to the agencies that have minimal contact with the people with disabilities and the partnership to bring in the internship to san francisco is one way to address the desire for the city of san francisco to be diverse in the workforce and to use the rule 115 to be in advantage of the citizens in san francisco and we have the vietable candidates, and a circle of support and will facilitate the employment group of the individual as a born and raised san francisco native one of the things that i value about the

city is the diversity and i thoep that we can continue this history as a diversity within its workforce by providing more opportunities for the people with disabilities. >> thank you. >> who were the partners besides tool works of project search. >> so we are partnered up with ucsf medical center and california public utilities commission and we also have the work link and so terry and sarah, work links that kaiser. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> thank you. hello everybody, my name is herika rodreues, i would love to work for the city of san francisco i have completed a year long internship and i have been experienced and desirable skills including clerical skills? the hr department and i can type at 60 words per minute and please promote the rule 115

program, to provide people like me the opportunity to work in the public sector. thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you. >> you are very welcome. >> next speaker. >> hello, my name is don from the golden gate regional center and thank you for having this forum today. great to be here. the golden gate center my area is supportive services the very severe people with disabilities and they get many supports living on their own and the community access and many of them do not work because they can't find work. in the interest of time i want to say that i support absolutely every comment that the young woman from the arc made earlier, the guidelines or that were mentioned from those years passed of the three pages, i believe, since you requested those, i would like to ask if you could make them available to the public so the rest of us can see them also

and that would be wonderful for us. >> thank you. >> next speaker, and the last card that i have is gabriel rogan from the area board five on the state council on developmental disabilities. >> moran from the golden gate regional center and i just want to say a couple of things, miss simon mentioned that 0.3, i think that it was in the original proposition, a. increasing the diversity and that requires a lot of action. and that requires cultural change, and the way that is going to happen, is through leadership, which is already been spoken about at every level. and we need more education, of course, and this is the kind of the, this is the good news, the silver lining is the partnership aspect, because here in this city, we are surrounded by experts in

employment, for people with disabilities and that is across the spectrum of people, or of the disabilities so physical disabilities and intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities. and so, one example which sar ra murphy had mentioned is alameda county which has a program they call step up and i actually have a little bit brief information here if you would like it. >> yes, thank you. >> and i wanted to mention too, that we had started i guess about eight months ago working with the public utilities commission, and steven curry over there about, thank you. , about, actually creating a paid internship program and we were really excited about it. it has not gotten off the ground for various understandable reasons, but that is something that we are very interested in pursuing.

yes, thank you so much really, we really appreciate this opportunity. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> i am bob planthold, we are all thankful for the publicity that this is getting city-wide about hiring people with disabilities. i want to say also that we heard you talk earlier about funding for additional positions that could help with the out reach of communication. i want to go beyond that. separate from the civil service type of rule for entry level positions is activities of the board of supervisor itself can do to model the increasing of employment of people with disabilities. we heard about culture change for agencies. supervisor mcgoldric when he was supervisor for district one had a charter amendment passed that said when they consider

appointments for diversity they must consider various categories of people including people with disabilities but how often really do the supervisors reach out and say we don't have enough people with disabilities in applying to be on the planning commission, or the building inspection commission or the police commission or the elections commission. and some years ago the school board had a chance to appoint a knowledgeable person of a disability to elections in its stead went with somebody politically connected. i am bringing this up, it is not just appointments because those are not employment, but it would help make a culture change in those departments. even within your own staff, how often do supervisors employ people with disabilities? you often employ people in other con stit entcies that have been historically discriminated against, women, people of color, people from the lgbtq communities but how many of us get employed? because it is a stepping stone

to office, they all became supervisors and the mayor chief of staff was a aid and the transportation was a aid, and the point is, we are not given the opportunities to make it visible to the broader public by lack that have employment. >> thank you. >> and the next speaker, and if there is anyone else that i have not called and you would like to speak, come forward now, because we are going to close public comment in a moment. >> gabriel rogan representing the state council on disabilities we are deeply committed to increasing the employment opportunities for the people with disabilities throughout california and we want to applaud san francisco for your leadership in this area and for holding this hearing. we understand that there are some political and bureaucratic challenges to implementing this type of program successfully and i want to say that i hope that you consider us a resource, we work closely with other municipalities i literally just came from a meeting with alameda where they were discussing this issue how

to share best practice and etc. if we can be a resource for you don't hesitate to contact us and i can say that speaking for alameda county and i don't work for them but with us, a lot of what they are doing is consistent with what your advisory panel recommended between 2006 and 2008 establishing internships and increasing awareness and top down, you know, support of this program, and so, i think that your advisory panel was right on track with the recommendations and if you can help you to implement those, let us know. >> thank you and we will stay in touch, the next speaker. >> my name is kristine daniels and i work at the light house for the blind and i was born legally blind and i did not have my first job until i was 27 years old. when i got that first job, it was a part time job for ten hours a week. and because of my attendance and not and being there on time, within six months, they

asked me to double my hours. the place that i worked at ended up closing down, due to the bad economy. and i was out of work for four years. but, eventually did find work against at the light house. and again, you know, as the morning receptionist, after three months, i was asked to work on call in the afternoon as a tech trainer and just recently i was promoted to tech training full time and i believe that even though i don't have a lot of experience, my dedication to the job, as we have said, in this meeting, disabled people do not call out sick as much and they are on time and more loyal and that dedication is the reason that i have been so successful in a short amount of time in my work history and so thank you for this meeting and i hope that you guys will consider hiring more team with disabilities and i am an example of someone and i may not have a lot of work experience, but i have a darn good job with what i have done. >> thank you miss daniels. thank you. >> i see no other speakers, and

let's close public comment. and supervisor yee? >> i just wanted to thank all of the speakers including the ones that were listed and the ones that from the public. and after hearing everybody's testimonies, i will be supporting the recommendations, i am particularly want to be supportive at the fiscal level of making sure that there is a budget process to include that position. certainly, would be supportive of deactivating the advisor group and in particular, i think that it was supervisor

chiu's comment of one of the biggest reasons why i would like the supervisor to be put together again is to gather, or to come up with ideas in which we could as a city, legally, gather better data around people with disabilities and aging. and who is employed and who is not employed and that is where i would be standing, and once again, thank you, thank you for the public, for coming today. and thank you supervisor mar for hosting this hearing. >> thank you, supervisor yee. and i also wanted to acknowledge, i have learned a lot, i think that the stories that people have told have just shed tremendous light on the challenges and the ongoing discrimination and how much more the city needs to do to insure equality and diversity as is written into our charter. and i think that we have heard a lot of good suggestions for

follow up, with alameda county and seattle and some other examples. and i wanted to say, in moving forward, i am going to do my best to convene the stake holder groups, johnson and the department of public resources folks and especially the community based center such a tremendous resource for our city and we need to be working together to achieve the vision that i think that came out of the movement of the 80s that established not only rule 34, and 115 and many other civil rights changes that we still have a long way to go to achieve. and so, with that, a lot of great suggestions and i will be convening those meetings and hopefully coming forward with other suggestion and looking carefully at the 2008 recommendations from the task force and also with miss simon and others, reestablishing a current task force that can address many of the challenges that we have all pointed out

today. but tremendous, tremendous, comments from people, that i am just very, very happy for this is the first step to achieving better equality and dignity as carla johnson said for valuable san franciscans who are people with disabilities and everybody else as well. and so with that, mr. evans, can we let's see this is the hearing and could we table this hearing without objection? could we table this hearing? >> and is there any other business before us mr. evans >> there is no more business, thank you everyone for coming up. meeting adjourned.you.

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