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and thanks to everybody coming to join us and stay over to go through a demonstration to see how to prepare yourselves for the next major event but this is not only earthquake we are aware of fire you know and other hopefully, you can enjoy and learn quite a bit from this thank you very much (clapping)

>> >> july 16, 2015 >>, >> public safety and

neighborhood services >> >> >> city of san francisco >> public safety and neighborhood services >> >> please stand by... >> >>

good evening. this is the meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee of board of supervisors. my name is eric mar, our colleague david campos will not be here today. >> city clerk: >> i think we need a motion to

excuse our colleague. it's been moved that we excused david campos from this meeting. can we do that without objection? thank you. >> we have five items on our agenda, two liquor licenses at the very end. item no. 3 is supervisor jane kim is on the health code. my understand is she wants to continue that item to the call of the chair. we'll continue item 3. if anybody is here to speak on that, we'll hear on that during public testimony. >> please call no. 1. >> city clerk: item no. 1. hearing implementation of civil service rule 115. >>supervisor eric mar:

supervisor christensen reminded me that item no. 2 will be continued too. >> i also neglected to mention that sf govtv is televising us today. i want to thank them for televising us as well. >> item no. 1 is a continuation of hearings that we've held since 2014 from june 2014 over a year ago. this is a hearing to update this is for community based organizations working with the department of human resources and office of mayor's office on

disabilities and employee rights. it's 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 occupation of the federal building in u.s. history but also other occupations in other cities as

well. the 504 actions in the movement came out in the celebrations a couple weeks ago. i think the tone and the spirit from the people with disabilities and the movement was that we are patient no more was one of the comments. that's a great exhibit going on now at the ed roberts campus in berkeley that will soon come to san francisco state for the exhibit of the activist organizers and leaders of the movements to advance disability rights. also, the slogan, "it doesn't stop here" for the ada opened my eyes how a law can be fought for and won and there is still a fight to make sure it's implemented right for civil rights in our city. i

want to thank those of the democratic club and many others of the members of the members office on the mayor's office for disability council for keeping that spirit alive and this whole month there is a number of events going on so this hearing is held in the context in on going movement for civil rights for people with disabilities. san francisco's civil service commission in 2000 enacted rule 115 which we discussed at length last year at this hearing. rule 115 was to provide a process for qualified individuals with disabilities going through the workforce without going through a civil service examination. the disabilities community is diverse in san francisco and nationwide. one of the form

of disabilities, one of the many forms of physical disabilities from physical to cognitive and many are not able to tell. san francisco is a part of the vibrant community and communities made up of tremendous organizations and leaders from our community. they contribute significantly to san francisco's politics and our progress. i see in this hearing we'll hear from a number of leaders and organizers from the disabled community. i see them as valuable resources. by san francisco government hiring with people with disabilities in all of our city's departments we can bring valuable perspective to city hall and into our city to i mprove our work culture for all in san francisco and communities. we are finding the task force that we reestablished that had done a

lot of work roughly 10 years ago and has been restarted again since december. it's been about 6 months of our task force also called employing people with disabilities. i want to thank those from the different human resources who are working with carla johnson from the mayor's office on disabilities to advise city government. the task force has met monthly since december and includes two represents of the community and leaders of the disability community many of whom will be speaking today. in a few moments we'll also hear from the various city departments and community organizations and i want to thank donna kit key, the workforce director and the management specialist with the department of human resources. and donna and ed will provide an overview of rule 115. progress reports

and department of human resources plan that they have developed with the task force to hire people with disabilities and the accomplishment short and long-term goals of the task force. also i would like to thank especially the mayor's office of disability for their amazing work and support for the task force, carla johnson is the director and she'll be presenting on the task forces four main recommendation and then we'll hear from other members of the task force through public comment and i want to thank jonathan lions from the club who really initiated this by refusing to remain silent. i will just say that and standing up for the fdr club and bringing amazing educational data and slides and really educating me and my staff on a lot of the issues. he really is deserves a lot of credit for raising the issue and in a way

that is organized in a new task force and moved the city forward in many ways. also ann steiner who has been part of the task force and a representative back in the 80s of the original task force that was established by a former mayor that really tried to address the issues of people with disabilities. i want to thank her for here participation in the task force. sienna hines at the independent living resource center. i think a lot of spirit that will come in september with the prides celebration and the movement. fiona with the independent living resource center and the movement is part of the vibe sea of the disability rights community today. kate is a leader for the lighthouse for the blind and impaired and with

the library and stephanie is a quality assurance supervisor at the golden gate regional center and i wanted to thank especially formally with the arc kelly goodwin from the task force and from our previous task force, terry now is a deputy director at best buddy jobs as well. lastly gabriel rog an, executive director at the area board 5 at the developmental with disabilities. and there are a number of leaders and task force that may also be speaking today. lastly i wanted to say and reaped us from our previous hearings that san francisco has been a leader in hiring policies and a lot of amazing work from our city government should not be overlooked. civil service rule

115 is very important for san francisco and disability rights. however, it's one people of opportunities for people, but our city departments in conjunction with the board and mayor's office i think must be vigilant to ensure that we are expanding as many opportunities as we can for people with disabilities. last year in june when we held the initial hearing to discuss employment access for people with disabilities there was a lot of confusion about what had been done 10 years ago with the previous task force. there is confusion how it was being implemented if at all and even borrow -- broch urs and others for providing equal employment opportunities in san francisco and there is a lot of work to be done and i think the task force is

credited for not only for the past but looking forward to hiring a person with a specific role of ensuring that people with disabilities have equal rights and access in our city employment processes as well. i wanted to also say that there are a number of goals that will come up at the end of this hearing and i think it's important that hiring a person with the department of human resources was the key goal of the task force. a person that would not be focused on a bunch of different things at once but really focus primarily on hiring and employment opportunities for people with disabilities. no. 2, a way to gather the data to assess the problems what they are and the tremendous gap that most people see nationwide for the lack of opportunities for people with disabilities who want to work and contribute but don't have those opportunities. so surveys and data with

a critical. no. 3, establish goals and time tables for employment of people with disabilities as a key grouping of people that deserve i think many more opportunities. so, goals and time tables. goals and setting of some bench marks and times that we would accomplish the goals. and lastly, i think continued support and a formalizing of the task force so it doesn't fade away in history after people are gone, but that it continues to build off the movement of previous generations but also the thinking and analysis of people today. those are the four current goals and my hope is that we accomplish that. first up, department of human resources. i want to thank donna cat key and ed wong for the task

force and the progress made thus far and then carla johnson from the mayor's office on disabilities. >> thank you, i want to thank you for working on this issue and i want to thank my colleagues that we've been working with in the past 7 or 8 months. they are great partners and we've established a really good collaboration and working relationship and can definitely move the issue forward. if i may start with the brief overview about civil service rule 115. as you know the city's hiring processes are governed by civil service rule which means everybody must pass a civil service exam in order to be

hired. in 1995 with the passage of proposition a, it provided increased opportunities for the hiring of people with disabilities. allowed departments to hire people for various positions who are qualified and increase the diversity of our city's workforce. it allows for people with disabilities to enter into city employment without having to take a civil service exam and put them what we call in exempt positions. positions which are exempt from civil service. to qualify the person must meet the minimum qualifications and able to perform the essential job function and the individual must have a certificate of disability from the state

and department of rehabilitation. after 1 year after successful job performance it will be a permanent civil service position. it does increase. it's one pass that people with disabilities can come into the the city employment. at the same time it's allowing our city departments to hire someone who is qualified in a very quick manner. that's kind of important for us especially as the economy improves and we have more competition for potential employees. so, if i may kind of stepping back to 2008 and 2007, hr did establish the advisory panel who did come up with several recommendations which we were calling the 2008