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 pub

now we'll open up for public comment and thank you very much to monica and carla johnson, director of the mayor's office on disabilities. now we'll open up for public comment and the first speaker is jonathan lions. thank you very much for bringing awareness to this issue. >> thank you, jonathan lions, president of the democratic club for people with disabilities. first of all to be totally clear i am a proud city and county employee speaking on my time. i wanted to bring sincere gratitude from our members because of the support from you supervisor mar and the entire board of supervisors have added back in this budget go around to fund a position to actually mobilize and really be the sphere head, the czar for getting support for people with disabilities. a lot has been touched on already and i won't rehash them because i don't have the time. two of the biggest issues is we need to hire this position immediately. not to take anything away from the work of the department of human resources. but this issue is big enough to warrant a full time position to really sphere head this issue. 8

i'm happy to answer questions or can bring up carla johnson from the mayors office of disability for questions >> commissioner dooley >> i want to thank you catty katy for all the hard work and time you put into this. it was grailt to work with the different minds and it is really much needed and thank you so much. >> thank you and i do want to give a builated thanksgivings to [inaudible] thaums who was part of the initial discussion as well and felt this was a important issue we as a city should be tackling. >> any other comments, questions? no. thank you very much, supervisor. >> with that i'll bring up carla johnson from mayors office on disability. >> good afternoon, it is so good to see you today. i also want to start my comments by thanking supervisor tang and her aid and commissioner dooley and director regina [inaudible] because what was special and unusual about this work group is it was trying to solve a problem from many different perspective chblt the people that par tit paced in the work group included work groups and your commissioner and director and department of buil

i'm happy to answer questions or can bring up carla johnson from the mayors office of disability for questions >> commissioner dooley >> i want to thank you catty katy for all the hard work and time you put into this. it was grailt to work with the different minds and it is really much needed and thank you so much. >> thank you and i do want to give a builated thanksgivings to [inaudible] thaums who was part of the initial discussion as well and felt this was a important issue we as a city should be tackling. >> any other comments, questions? no. thank you very much, supervisor. >> with that i'll bring up carla johnson from mayors office on disability. >> good afternoon, it is so good to see you today. i also want to start my comments by thanking supervisor tang and her aid and commissioner dooley and director regina [inaudible] because what was special and unusual about this work group is it was trying to solve a problem from many different perspective chblt the people that par tit paced in the work group included work groups and your commissioner and director and department of buil

i'm happy to answer questions or can bring up carla johnson from the mayors office of disability for questions >> commissioner dooley >> i want to thank you catty katy for all the hard work and time you put into this. it was grailt to work with the different minds and it is really much needed and thank you so much. >> thank you and i do want to give a builated thanksgivings to [inaudible] thaums who was part of the initial discussion as well and felt this was a important issue we as a city should be tackling. >> any other comments, questions? no. thank you very much, supervisor. >> with that i'll bring up carla johnson from mayors office on disability. >> good afternoon, it is so good to see you today. i also want to start my comments by thanking supervisor tang and her aid and commissioner dooley and director regina [inaudible] because what was special and unusual about this work group is it was trying to solve a problem from many different perspective chblt the people that par tit paced in the work group included work groups and your commissioner and director and department of buil

now we'll open up for public comment and thank you very much to monica and carla johnson, director of the mayor's office on disabilities. now we'll open up for public comment and the first speaker is jonathan lions. thank you very much for bringing awareness to this issue. >> thank you, jonathan lions, president of the democratic club for people with disabilities. first of all to be totally clear i am a proud