we also received calls for accommodation. i'm going to talk about a request inform accommodation. it was filed by an individual who had a learning disability who requested they be granted additional time to speak during public comment at a public meeting inform this case they reported they direct connection between their disability and that need and due to the learning disability it takes a while to communicate what they are trying to say t board did grant this accommodation. they reasonably modified their policy to grant them some additional time. we also received 77 inquiries which involved information and referral and request for ada technical assistance. out of these 99% we received from the public and 1 percent from city departments. most of these inquiries involved questions about reasonable accommodations specifically related to housing and service animals. we also received a lot of inquiries about reasonable accommodation related to employment. and for those who don't understand what a reasonable accommodation is. what it is is a change or an exception to the way we usuall

the remedy many situations in which accommodations are appropriate. it has never been until the hobby lobby case. what happened in hobby lobby and these other contraception cases is for-profit commercial employers are permitted to withhold what is otherwise required health care compensation. some of the players refused to cover any contraception. some refuse to cover much of it. in the case of hobby lobby, i take her word that no one has died as a result of it but thousands of hobby lobby employees are deprived of certain forms of contraception including ibe in which -- one is the most expensive form of birth control. there have been cases previously in which people had raised religious objections to social security taxes or paying the minimum wage. those claims have always been rejected. individual companies have never been able to use the religious beliefs of their owners to harm third parties, including employees. that consensus has been broken down in a deeply fractured hobby lobby decision. it will have profound consequences for the webby underst

the accommodation cases.hey often involve minority religion in the place of accommodation of minority religion in a majority society. there is another category in the news, which is what i would call religious accommodation point -- 2.0. those include cases like hobby lobby against burwell. i know since that is in the news, it is on everybody's mind. since we have counsel on both sides the case with us here today, we will as then to start off by telling us about what has happened in the area since hobby lobby against burwell. i'll start off with christina. kristina: you may wonder why my hair is messy. greg and i already got at it in the green room. [laughter] i have been asked to talk about areas of agreement. i'm working hard on that. i am sure you hear my accent. i have not been drinking. i am cuban-american, so i feel very passionate about these issues. i am the executive director at the beckett fund of religious liberty. one area of disagreement we have is the hobby lobby case. as you may have heard, ame

a modest religious accommodation important to someone ace religious beliefs and granting accommodation doesn't harm anyone. there is arguments made about threat to security but they didn't really hold up. i think that is the case where we do agree religious accommodation laws are serving their intended purpose. i think it would have been very different if i have a religious right to not associate with women prison guards. i think that would then cross over into imposing religious beliefs on someone else. there we might disagree. in sort of quintessential accommodation, doesn't hurt anyone. no reason not to grant it. yes, i think there is plenty of room for agreement about those cases. >> so the reason that one of the reasons that the supreme court ruled that this prisoner had the right to grow the beard, it was because the state of arkansas had no real reason right? there are no security reasons. the state of arkansas had said, you can not grow the beard. you have to shave just because we said so. just because we said so. that was the weakness of the argument. in the case of many of th

houses at the former ironworks accommodate some 200 asylum-seekers. most of them from syria or eritrea. without a residency permit, they cannot work. they are left with no choice but to wait it out. most people do not want to appear on camera. finally, a soldier who deserted from the eritrean army agrees to show us around. >> first off, we have to be accepted by the capital. then, we have to get education. >> as the residence manager, amy is never short of things to do. she's employed by a private company, not by local authorities. her employer operates accommodation centers for asylum-seekers all over sweden. a qualified nurse as well as a local, she's had to be doing meaning all work. >> as long as we can look after them and offer a tolerable life, they are more than welcome, but it would be that of so many came that they fell under the radar and no one cared for them. right now, the situation is good. we can provide accommodation and everything else. >> he drives a school bus in the region and every week takes residence to a village. most of them c

at this time we'll resume public commentt after the 3:30 accommodation. thank you for being here today and may is pacific islander heritage month and the boardf supervisors [inaudible] in accordance with bord rule 4.13 we'll have a total of 5 minutes for each supervisor to introduce nar honoree followed by comments from the honoree so that along with the photograph please keep it at 5 minutes per supervisor. with that i'm going turn it over to supervisor mar for a introduction. he will introduce clodeen chang and we'll start our accommodations today with supervisor farrell and followed by supervisor christensen. >> thank you president breed. colleagues last night was the asian pusuffolk american heritage month celebration. it was the 11th we have done in city hall and wanted to say that it wouldn't have come together a combination of 11 yires of hards work without the vision and leadership of clodeen chang scr the commitee. i want to say last night was a beautiful display of creativity with the honorees but also with diversity of asian and pacific islande

on the ship side we'll be able to accommodate fully loaded ships. depths will be 50 feet. current depth is 42 feet. so we have ships arriving from europe today that could use that 50 feet of water today but because we don't have it they arrive lightly loaded which is a less efficient way of moving goods across the ocean. the commodities that pass through port evergrades are distributed throughout the united states. we have a rail facility on the port and within four days materials that come through port everglades can be at the door step of 70% of the united states population. it continues to be a growing port. we have challenges as we grow within the surrounding community. and what we are trying to do is to strike that balance, to meet the needs of the region and the growth of the region. but do it in a way that makes sense economically and most importantly takes into account the sensitivities of our environment that we live in.

people who -- charity people living in poor accommodation, not complying with qatari rules on accommodation for workers, and also people who are being forced to work eventually because their employers are threatening them with withholding passports and refusing to let them leave the country. what we have seen is the changes that happened the electronic payment system has been announced. we have to see what happened. there's a six month period from february. by the end of the summer we should see how that is working in practice. the other change that happened is the number of inspectors increased to 294 inspectors i believe. however, these are small changes and do not address the core of the issue, which is that employees have a big power over workers. >>> qatar's issued a statement rejecting the conclusion of amnesty's report saying it has increased is number of labour inspectors to enforce regulations and is building new accommodation for more than a quarter of a million workers. more to come - the osama bin laden papers the u.s. releases documents from the former head of al qaeda. >> i'm

thank you for coming together to celebrate apa accommodations. i would like to call up [inaudible] this man is one of my community partners in visitation valee. please give him a round of applause. [inaudible] is absolutely amazing. not only does he do work in the asian community but works in all. particularly targ lting the visitation valee neighborhood and specifically the hard to reach young people in sunny vale. this man does it effortlessly. he does it with a team of talented staff persons as well as equally devoteed board members. i watched curt grow progressionally since before i was on the board of supervisors. he is the executive director of rock which is a non profit organization called real option for city cidez which provide academic support [inaudible] attend school in visitation vamue. curt joined the volunteer in 1998 and in 2003 he fw came executive director. prior to rock curt spent a decade in corporate sector where he held a variety of business and technology consulting positions at small and large companies. rock serves the co

and granting the accommodation does not harm anyone. i think that is a case where we agree religious accommodation laws are serving intent. it would have been different if it was i have a religious right to not associate with women prison guards. i will cross over into imposing religious beliefs and someone else. the quintessential accommodation does not hurt anyone. no reason not to granted. yes. there's plenty of room for agreement about those cases. >> the reason that the supreme court ruled that this present have the right to grow the beard command was because the state of arkansas had no real reason. the state of arkansas had said you cannot grow the beard. you have to shave because we said so. that was the weakness of the argument. in the case of many of the religious freedom cases we are seeing the ones where we are defending our client is because often times the government says you have to do this because we said so's many cases where the government had no real reason to not make an accommodation and not make an exemption. yet i

for the traffic on the ship's, we will be able to accommodate fully loaded ships that are currently arriving here. our future channel depth will be 50 feet. our current channel depth is 42 feet. we have ships arriving from europe today that could use that 50 feet of water today, but because we do not have it, they arrive lightly loaded, which is a less efficient way of moving goods across the oceans. the commodities that pass through port everglades are move throughout the united states. we have on the port a real facility, and within four days materials that come through port everglades can be at the doorstep of 70% of the united states population. port everglades continues to be a growing port. we have challenges. as we grow within the surrounding community, and what we are try to do is strike that balance, to meet the needs of the region and the growth of the region, but do it in a way that makes sense economically, and most importantly takes into account the sensitivities of our environment that we live in. >> all weekend, american history tv is featuring fort lauderdale, florida. he cit

joint investment by creating a new venture our major customers continually tells us we need to accommodate 167 thousand or more participant like the general assembling assembly of the democrat working national convention the republicans may not come here but the wba final side or one day event in order to have moscone it must be tied to hotel rooms this gives us a spectacular new scrawny user venue and the design make that easily assessable for the users of this in terms of transportation accessibility but providing assess through public transportation and in terms of crowd movement assess points are so important in providing a safe secure and enjoyable experience by providing a design that offices 4 major design points this meets it extensively e expelling well we're convinced that will attract visits from across the globe and united states and make the environment of the moscone center more enjoyable. >> mr. jane kim. >> geography i'm oscar james to the commission i'm a native and resident of bayview hunters point and this property we're talking about from the draw bridge at motorbike al

but for 29 unit it will be a challenge to get a car share company interested in that but we can accommodate them but unlivable with 29 spaces more than a car share company would be interested in users. >> pardon me before we beat this to death the infrastructure in the parking garage is the same spaces it is such an interest in demand we'll manifest accommodating. >> that's what's the opportunity there how are you running the space okay. thank you. >> commissioner we have lots of space the parking space opportunity with the reduction is actually on additional almost additional 7 spaces i believe under the podium so we have this. >> okay. thank you. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i'm going to move to approve that project i think that is very good done. >> i'll second it i was out there on a wet day happy to see you'll worked out did smoirdz with the neighbors so congratulations or precongratulations. >> if it is amenable to the maker of the motion to approve with conditions as automated with the finding read into the record by staff. >> yes. thank you. >> it is amenable to me. >> thank y

meeting after this action taken today so she continuously really bend over backwards to try to accommodate as much input as possible i agree with you commissioner president buell there is no perfect solution there are some fundamental issues that may never be addressed but the clock is ticking and we've spent a lot of time on this and this money we have allocated it is hundred and what it is. >> $347,000 if we delay this for another year or two it is going to dwindle down to having a pot of money that may not be sufficient to deal with this issue and see i think we're with what you've proposed having another meeting to finalize more of the concerns that were or some of the concerned that were combresz expressed at our walk through i think with that i think we should be able to go forward and start getting this project completed. >> thank you seeing none, no other comments i'll entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second all in favor, say i. so moved thank you very much. >> item 10 is removed from the agenda we're on item 11 the urban agricultural program.

to try a accommodate a number of policies and make them work the neighbors wanted offends and if you ask some of the neighbors that would have had strung barbed wire at the top that's how bad the situation but the police department and fire department that uber you'll bees batting the problems the ones that shouldn't be in there wouldn't be there and you'll have the law breakers inside and if that an accident or fire or someone slipped and broke a bumper-to-bumper you couldn't get anesthesia it with blocking that off the general manager advised us a park policy to connect folks that's probable in part why this unauthorized trail existed ever attempt to get rid of it was soon back operating in my opinion serving all the issues i've said that before lisa should get a badge in going beyond the call of duty there's no simple solution i don't want to discourage the community from tweaking this to the point it might satisfy more of people but i'm of the firm belief that moving the location to satisfy 4 out of 70 steps didn't make sense that is a compelling argument the buffer zones mean a

people living in poor accommodation, not complying with qatari rules on accommodation for workers, and also people who are being forced to work essentially, because their employers are threatening them withholding the passports and refusing them - refusing to let them leave the country, what we have seen is that the changes that have happened are the electronic payment system has been announced. it's not been introduced yet. we have to see what happens. there's a six month period. by the end of the summer we'll see how that is working. the other change is the number of inspectors increased to 294 inspectors. however, these are small changes addressing the core of the issue. they have a big power over workers. >> what about the international companies that operate here and exploit the abuses that you have been mentioning. how can they be rained in. >> the employer the company has a responsibility to the workers. they have to respect the rites of workers, and the way to ensure that is happening is to ensure that there are enough inspections, there are justice systems to go and complain a

what kind of accommodations should be made? people who have lives that may not be ones that are as easily accommodated by angelico's? >> well, it is a little strange. i am a noncombatant in his legal battle. i am likely to be a casualty but you know the history seems to be relevant. this was a two-part test about compelling governmental goals. the least intrusive means. because championed by justice brennan and the aclu for many years and what is in effect for decades. and it was really justice scalia who was the bad guy wrote this smith decision that overturned this and caused the congress to react and reinstate this test. it was in the house schumer took leadership. pass the senate 97 to three 's command it really was a.of agreement. it is a shame a terrible shame when issues this important get sucked into the vortex of the culture war. what we what we are talking about is not just one issue among many. we are talking about one of the great achievements of the american tradition which is the protection of a kind of religious

he wrote about whether there are mutual duties of accommodation. we have heard very strong articulations and two different positions. just because you have a right, should you exercise that? or are there mutual duties? to guarantee the clock -- cloth of societies as we go forward. eugene: i think it is possible that religious belief and conscience would dictate making the cake. in a society where he would allow very small exceptions for people not to bake the cake, that is the nature of pluralism. it is not implicate the broad accommodation for housing and businesses and other things. be that as it may, i guess what we are talking about is where those decisions are made and whether there is a decision to be made at all. the traditional view has been that there is a balancing test there. there are two rights involved in -- involved. the courts have been a place for those decisions are made. all that said, it is important that people win graciously in a democracy and lose graciously in a democracy. people are going to lose in these cases. how people

and also extra cars to accommodate for passengers as well. the trenton line as it's suspended, we have alternates if you normally try to get to the center city area take route 84 or 60. you can head for frankford. and then head for the market/frankford line after that. you can go to nbc10.com for more alternates. >>> some experts say the deadly derailment could have been prevented by a sophisticated sensors on the rails and the railcars. it's called positive train control or ptc. if the train is going too fast the computer warns the crew and if the crew doesn't slow down the train, the computer activates the brakes. >> this is exactly the type of incident that ptc is designed to prevent. >> i'm working very hard on railroad safety in general. and we need to think about how we can prevent accidents in general. >> all u.s. railroads are required to install ptc by the end of this year. some lawmakers say the deadline won't be met. and it can be extended until 2020. some tracks have ptc but not in the area where the crash happened. you can count

commissioner fewer is on her way i'd like to invite the second-rate 40 before the recognized and accommodations. >> our students mourn the loss whether in a family car or on foot or bus or muni we face traffic hazards everyday it is not coincidence we are talking about the ongoing efforts for the guard safety at elementary schools the s ac is continue all efforts to reduce the vision zero traffic safety and tonight with supervisor yee's office and sfpd sergeant phillip perry we'll be incorporating more schools for part of this wonderful s ac program we've enrolled the following schools lake shire and daniel webster and sunset and jose ortega are argon sutter are and lafayette and others also this friday will be the s ac c award banquet all our elected students will wish honored we're existed and next meeting is monday at 5:00 p.m. obviously 2015 the s ac c is a public council anyone is welcome as american people adams incentive dinner is provided for any guests if you want to attend or make a presentation or have a copy of the agenda please contact our coordinator salvador lopez thank you very

an area like this would accommodate 1000 spawning salmon when it is dry like this it can accommodate no salmon. >> it reduces the area they have to spawn in. that limits access to the river so it concentrates this fish in the smaller habitats. also water temperature is a biggest concern we have. >> these mountains should have several feet of snow. this week they -- this year they have none. that means no snow melt coming down to chill the river the perfect temperature of spawning salmon. last year it was 60 degrees devastating the salmon eggs. >> it really limits the area they can spawn in. >> this warmer water is what has everyone worried. the fish can survive losing spawning grounds but if it is warm water on top of that it could decimate the salmon. >> it has been a real concern lately. >> the salmon's future could depend on how the water gets divided up in the state. it is a delicate balance. too little water for men will call prospal's for the economy, too little water for the fish means eggs won't hatch. >> if we lost the salmon it would be bad for everyone. my kids or grandkid

recommendations in particular i'll note the occ was identified as a national mod when which is accommodated of people in new york i was bombarded with questions on occ how it works i did my best to answer how the groups are first and foremost their policies to battle and new york and looking at ways to improve their practices and several are coming to from new york to look at the appendixes and personal plug tomorrow night sfpd with in our town showing two documentaries around the sfpd and my work when i was formal a da showing two.comries to stop hates to- it is a free showing it is funded in part by the doj community if anyone it interested in attend tonight or torment night. >> thank you it's it is important to note that it is go good to hear we have most of the recommendations and an appendixes that the rest of the country is look at it and those are things in place we have other police commission and nothing if is perfect wielt try the best we can as this chief as done a few bad acts tend to ruin good officers the thousands of calls it's never end a work in progress but again, i'm prou

we do have a certificate of accommodation for lee and perhaps can do a photo for any members who would like to join in. come on up. okay, will you call item number 4? >> item 4 executive directors report, this is a information item >> mrs. chang >> good morning chair wiener [inaudible] last week i was prevologed to join the city trip dc with san francisco chamber of commerce to adhaveicate for transportation policy on a transporpation bill. the news from washington is brighter than 2 weeks ago. senator boxer said her committee will be marking up a bill with chair [inaudible] in june and that hopefully will set up a 2 month cycle and perhaps avoid another 6 month extension as some in congress have talked about to get to the long term bill that allows all of us to have a certainty to rely on transportation. 24 governor announced the may revice oof the budget and incancluded an significant increase in cap and trade revenues. this was reviceed from 1 billion to 2.2 billion and typically 60 percent of that money is for transportation so he bumped that up to 73 percent including 100 million

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area. >> reporter: they are among the extra passengers new jersey transit is trying to accommodate ons day after the deadly derailment. >> going to take amtrak. i was on my way in and heard the news report on the radio. i figured i'd come straight up here to trenton. >> reporter: some had to wait a lit bit longer. >> unfortunate for everyone involved in the accident. you'd hope njt could support it. >> i wasn't on that train and i'm sure she's grateful as well. >> reporter: i'm staying in touch with njt to find out if additional service will be needed to accommodate all the passengers who norally would be on amtrak. if i get an update i'll bring that do you. >> there's been five passenger train accidents in pennsylvania this year alone. it's the deadliest railroad accident in the u.s. this year. in february a metro north train slam into an suv. it's the first deadly commuter train accident in philadelphia since 1990. three people died when the septa subway train derailed in the tunnel near 30th street station back in 1990. nothing in philadelphia's rail history compares to the frankfo

as a way of finding accommodation for the impact we have in that area on monday, wednesday and friday further to the mid-block well out of 300 distance. we agreed not to ç hamburgers. we moved mid-block and away from the contested area that country grill it has applied for. to give you an idea of the space, this is what it looks like when it's unoccupied. we're beginning to set up the space at the beginning of the day. we currently program four trucks in the space. i think that we were surprised that the permit was actually granted through d.p.w. mainly because of the existing on opposition and that we come to you before and that you suggested that we move to the mid-block. when the space that we had been selling in before was granted a permitq of a surprise and that's the result of coming to you. i think that is what the space looks like when we run our markets. you can see it's pretty congested. we've actually had to create signage and we have a staff member on site who manages the traffic and congestion in the space. really the question is, there's two questions, number one, take o

people who are also living in poor accommodation that doesn't comply with the rules on accommodation workers, and also people who are being forced to work eventually because their employer is threatening them with withholding their passports and refusing to let them leave the country, and what we have seen is that -- the changes that have happened is the electronic payment system has been announced. it hasn't been introduced yet. there's a six-month period from february. so by the end of the summer he should see how that is work in practice. the other change that has happened is the number of inspect ors has increased to 294 inspectors i believe. but these are small changes. and they don't address the core of the issue which is that employers have very big power over workers. >> cat tar has issued a statement rejecting the report it says it has increased the number of inspectors and is building new accomodation for more than a quarter of a million workers. much more still to come here on al jazeera. show of force, we'll show you the new front line in mexico's war against drug cartels

that can accommodate 30 patrons. and 18 laptops. available for use in that room. -- 18 laptops. and one presenter laptop. which is connected to a large flat screen television. this has a hearing induction loop. with assistive listening devices. and t-coil technology. so the bridge at main. has three resource collections. so we have the project read collection. which supporter. learners. and tutors. that is available to all. we have the veterans. collection. supporting. veteran and is sis tanseses. helping them. -- contains materials directed toward children. teens. and adults are learning differences. their families. and professionals. in the field. i have been hired. in january. i feel fortunate. to expand services. and programs. for individuals with learning differences and their family. and also have programs that inform about their learning disabilities. for patron. and ld. professionals. i'm serving on a number of committees. in the library. i'm trying to help bring that perspective to make sure we're providing an inclusive service model for patrons. with learning differenc

but to accommodate people who rely on sign language interpretation. with this video remote. you know maybe that will be a good segway. maybe you can come to the task force to provide a presentation about this topic. >> absolutely. >> they would be very interested. so that's my comment. so it's very good. another way of communication to people who travel in the subway system or you know in transit. >> sure. yeah. >> yeah. different you know concept. thank you. >> sure thank you. >> maybe. can i also get your business card? i know i have your contact info. but. >> yes. thank you. >> councilmember harriet wong. >> hi. i was just wondering. is this going to replace live interpretation. of asl interpreters? >> that say good question. i'm glad you brought it up and asked. it doesn't replace live interpreters. it's meant to supplement that experience. so oftentimes. someone in the community may need an asl interpreter. and they are either like a walk in or the situation is unexpected. to an on site interpreter. could not be prescheduled to attend. this service is meant to fill that

when we would fly we would have to make accommodation for her.s mom made available. a lot of time they don't have extra food in first class to heat up and give your child. i would ask that. you don't want to child to grow up to feel like she is victim. >> i will back you up. that's what i thought if we would fly as family with daniel my mom would have hot food ready and ask the flight attendant to heat it up. not just as harris points it out they don't have the some in the back, sometimes flight attendants are not helpful in first class or coach and you ask them for things and they shut you down and can say no. where do you see the story coming down? >> you take your passenger as you find him or her. i always felt as airliner or any type of service provider you have to really go overboard to take care of your passenger and your client. you're trying to get a service. you try to continuously have them use the service. that being said, sounds like there were mistakes made on both sides. mom should have been a little more prepared in having hot meal

. >> what not in addition to accommodating the existing services new employees are noticed to have more routes sincerely downtown san francisco i'm happy to announce the agency provides the fund for a new downtown san francisco from richmond so over the course felt in relation two years our agency will move forward to have more boots we're working with various city departments to bring about the in violation of treasure island ferry service that will be implemented annunciation with the development there and finally i'd like to hostile the bindle of the project in terms of the emergency response the e and rita it was addressed the emergency response tour agency relates to two factor the first is the ability to move 0 people out of san francisco as need be in the aftermath of a disaster and the second tiff emergency respond we're more familiar with is our ability to provide the enhanced serve over the course for bart facilities and other mortgage facilities within the transportation this is could he to providing the facilities we hope will be part of our effort to triple the emergency re