a total eclipse of the disability heart. then i want to wish you a great new year start. >> thank you. we have a couple more actually. we have walter park next. >> that's him. >> okay. good. eugeneia perez? >> i did not have time to prepare for this. i want to talk about disability on the homeless. it is a real issue. people with disabilities are on the street and left to fend for themselves and completely unassisted. this is a very shameful circumstances happening here in san francisco because most of these people are suffering from mentally debilitating issues. we are talking about mental illness here. we are talking about people m society who really need your help as supposed to be an emphasis to get their shit together. please excuse the word. to be able to rise above the sickness and know how to heal and move forward from that. it doesn't work that way. when sickness is around your neck and especially inside your head it permeates and pollutes everything. it defeats everybody's belief to survive and makes you feel very

you have mta wants to put in this disability policy of making it harder for people with disabilities who work downtown. they want to put in a plan where you can only park four 44 hours and you have to pay for meters and another city agency wants to put in a bus system where people with disabilities are going to have to walk longer to the bus stop. so how can the city, does the city know what they are doing? there seems to be some inconsistency in that. i ride to 38 all the time and it's great. i don't understand why one mta wants to encourage people with a disability to take public transit downtown and the brt wants to make it harder for people to get to the bus stops. i wish the city would come up with one policy so the the people in the disability community would know what the city's policy is about people who have disabilities and who work downtown and how are they supposed to get downtown. thank you. >> thank you. next we have charles minister. >> thank you. charles minister, a member of the senior and disability action. i would like to second what the sister said earlier about t

. >> that's my disability, i'm vertically challenged. my name is susan. >> is it a backup or feedback? >> is the bridge line on? >> is that better? >> no. it's not. >> sorry about that. >> that's okay. my name is susan pfeifer and secretary of the fbr democratic for seniors and people with disabilities. i was part of a group that did travel to the commission on disabilities in sacramento last week. the gentleman spoke about it and we spoke. i have concerns about the movement to allow municipalities to charge for the disabled for the placard and time limits. the other recommendations i think are reasonable but those two particularly charging i think is inappropriate as many people with disabilities are also low income and i don't think that's fair. so let's take that off the table. move on with the other recommendations the dmv definitely needs to, there there is fraud and abuse out there. let's move on with that and let's work with the disabled and not charge for parking or time limits. it's just not fair. thank you. >> thank you. >> goo

dear members of the mayor's disability council. the action is pleased to endorse the housing resolution to improve the lives of seniors and people with disabilities we believe the housing resolution recommends changes that would increase affordable and accessible housing opportunities for people with disabilities. in particular we are focused on maintenance of features like elevators, the need for disability and rehabilitative housing and the pressing needs for deeper affordability. we look forward to working with you. the board of supervisors and other community partners in making these recommendations a reality. thank you for your excellent work. jessica layman. executive director. >> thank you. is there anymore? >> we also received some personal letters from individual and city departments to cochairs and councilmembers and e-mail from california council of the blind to pass along to cochairs and councilmans and it was about $2500 student access grant and the information can be found on our website as well as what's new. >> than

person with disability is that it may take us longer to cross the street because of our disabilities or if you're using a wheelchair, you may not be as visible to a driver because you have a low profile to the street and it's important when we think about solutions and traffic engineering that we take into consideration what the person's disability was. just to use a brief example is the person who was struck was somebody who as blind. it may be that the necessary traffic engineering at that location to prevent a future occurrence would actually be audible pedestrian signals or if a person when was struck was a wheelchair user who is in the street outside of the crosswalk, the issue may have been all it needed was to have curve ramps. >> i want to give you enough time as head of the mayor's office to finish your thoughts. it's important to incorporate the disability and senior piece. >> thank you for that extension. there is a very specific form that the california highway has developed. it formed 55 which i put on the over head just for a visible element. and this is the form that t

but, god forbid, if you become disabled and you're working -- you're disabled, you get a disability check, you go to work. you can work up to $1,070 a month and you're working, providing a little bit of extra income so you can live independently, maybe provide a few things for yourself. but you and only you -- only y you -- if you get unemployment compensation, we're going to take away your disability payments. only you. nobody else. nobody else is denied their full unemployment compensation. only people with disabilities. under the bill that we have. ret mlet me provide a real-life example of what this means to a real person. i'll call him henry. this is a real person. henry lives in the district of columbia. henry has a disability. he's deaf. and he has other health problems on top of being deaf. but henry worked, he worked for 10 years. he worked for five years, he paid into the -- he paid in. and then in his 30's, because of other health reasons, he couldn't continue to work full time so he went on disability. and qualified for it. so he's on disability and he's making $740 a month on

jasmine's grandmother contacted the disabilities foundation. >> her disability should not have played role into her gets a heart transplant. >> reporter: inconsistencies in standards were found when dealing with disabilitied children. one of the authors is a -- is a biometasist. after interviewing dr. magnus we learned that he was involved with the decision in jasmine's case. he responded with this statement. the hospital evaluates all trance plant candidates. and the hospital say, jasmine was not a viable candidate they say due to quote a low chance for prolonged survival posttransplant. confusing for jasmine's family when the original letter said she was too well. while their attorneys tried to make their case jasmine passed away at ucla medical center. >> she died away from her families. i believe that it could have been avoided. >> we also received a statement from ucla saying in part the hospitals transplantation committee takes very seriously its commitment to review each and every organ transplantation case with care. without hard numbers, frank and julie it's really left up to

if someone has a terrible disability, you don't want them to go into the disability system because theyave. if you can keep people working, they won't go in the system, we won't have to pay all that money and first put the burden on business, get those people back at work, give them three months, six months, nine months. if then they cannot work, then they go into the system. >> the idea, jared, this is nearly now 16% of social security. the idea is that the more fraudulent people that come in, it's going to not reduce the pool but certainly put the burden back on, a, the people that are actually disabled and need the help, and maybe then cause congress to react in a negative way as the numbers go up. the people that are committing fraud are not just harming their neighbors. they are harming every single taxpayer. >> right. i think one of the issues here is as jimmy suggested, ferreting out the fraudulent behavior is incredibly important, not just because of prosecuting law, but because of the messages it sends, as you just suggested. i will say, however, that the condition of the disab

jasmine's grandmother contacted the disabilities foundation. >> her disability should not have playedole into her gets a heart transplant. >> reporter: inconsistencies in standards were found when dealing with disabilitied children. one of the authors is a -- is a biometasist. after interviewing dr. magnus we learned that he was involved with the decision in jasmine's case. he responded with this statement. the hospital evaluates all trance plant candidates. and the hospital say, jasmine was not a viable candidate they say due to quote a low chance for prolonged survival posttransplant. confusing for jasmine's family when the original letter said she was too well. while their attorneys tried to make their case jasmine passed away at ucla medical center. >> she died away from her families. i believe that it could have been avoided. >> we also received a statement from ucla saying in part the hospitals transplantation committee takes very seriously its commitment to review each and every organ transplantation case with care. without hard numbers, frank and julie it's really left up to t

there is a distinction between a disability and an occupation the disability. there are certain things you can do in your regular life, walking for short periods of time, running for some period of time. that doesn't mean you could comport with the job requirement, chase bad guys, jump over fences, sit for long periods of time. that distinction will be very important. >> we are over 100 cases at this point, 104 or so cases that they are going to have to incompetent ve investigate at this point. i wanted to high lalight a coup of them. one of them is a lawyer and former fbi agent and the chief of the rackets bureau in the d.a.'s office. he is 83 years old. another one, a disability consultant, who you would think would know better, a union official and a retired police officer. does that change the metric here? when you are talking about the kind of person you are charging as opposed to just the charge that's defense i believe? >> in many cases nowadays, we charge certain people with a heightened sense of duty, whether it be doctors or police officers. even if n

charles mister, members of senior and disability actions. i know how to get a million dollars quickly from mta about transferring people that har as munis riders to find out they get. they only get one dollar. i don't see city of san francisco going after the bankers who stole trillions from us. i have been around the world as a merchant sale and have seen the traffic control officers in dangerous intersection. it's a simple matter. why can't they do it here? thank you. >> last we have jerry grace. >> good afternoon, a lot of people are watching across the street and i know the cars are going too fast. the people need a wheelchair walk a little slow and they can not wait. that's really wrong. i do agree about the cell phones. they have to walk slow. and if they do that, that would be fine, if they are no the doing that, the police or camera will catch them and if they do that, a lot of people are doing that more and more. thank you. >> thank you. that was that last comment for item 6. we'll take a short break and come back. thank you. >> >>

you have people as we've heard earlier here disabled people living on the streets. we are going to spend $240 million to make the buses go downtown faster. we need more buses on that line so people can have a seat especially the disabled people. sometimes you get two wheelchairs on a bus and a third wheelchair can't get on the bus and they eliminate a lot of seating. this is the only thing that we need to do is put more buses on the line. i want to thank, salute the drivers and the maintenance men who keep these buses running. they are the ones that keep the job going, they are the ones that we have to thank. not these people, again, the downtown business interest. if they want these buses to run downtown faster, let them spend the money. that's where you get it at. they have got billions to spend. their stocks are going way up the board. don't come to the public here and put the dime on us. thank you. >> thank you very much. if you don't mind i can clarify. actually part of the budget of this project is going towards new transit vehicles and the issue that we see w

some claim they had disabilities linked to the 9/11 attacks.xpayers as much as $400 million. jeff glor reports. >> reporter: prosecutors say that louis hurtado was starring in instructional videos as a sixth degree black belt all while telling the new york police department he was disabled with neck injuries and psychological problems. he's accused of taking over $470,000 in 24 euros. richard cosentino received $274,000 while claiming he was too depressed to go outside. glen lieberman, $175,000, also too depressed to go outside. he said after the attacks on 9/11. new york city police commissioner bill bratton. >> as a new yorker, as a u.s. citizen, i can only express disgust at the actions of the individuals involved. >> reporter: in all, more than 100 are charged, including 72 former members of the nypd. more than half the cases came from those claiming the events of 9/11 left them unfit to work. prosecutors say that ring leaders coached the men on how to act when examined by doctors and how to apply for benefits. the operation funneled by ex-

seniors and people with disabilities. >> how it will effect us. you are favoring the many and ignoring the vulnerable. by going ahead with recommending both the fullal location, but also thal location, for the out reach subcontractor that is the problem. >> thank you. is there anyone else that would like to speak? >> mr. flanagin? would you like to? >> i would just, i would just like to say that the things that i have seen on the buses and on the streets like the bicycle riders riding on the sidewalk, and when the taxis come up to have somebody that is mobility and to come on to the sidewalk, the wheelchair can't get on the sidewalk because of overcrowding bicycles. and overcrowding shopping carts. and i would like to have it safe for the these kind of people when they get off of the or out of the taxi and, out of a para transit vehicle. as well as coming out of the bus, as well. it disturbs me a little bit when i see the problem and i fry to help the individuals that have half of the problems. most of these people have vision impairments, or most

but for too many students, their biggest disability isn't a physical limitation. rather, it's the lack of opportunity to participate. that, however, is changing, thanks to a movement called adapted sports. >> adapted sports are really sports that are designed specifically for kids with disabilities. >> the white house says that students with disabilities shouldn't be sidelined. they need to be given the same chance to play sports as other students. sometimes that just means making some simple adjustments to existing programs. for example... >> if you're deaf, you could use a starting light, as opposed to the starting gun, in order to run on the track-and-field team. >> in other cases, school districts will need to set up programs that are specifically geared to disabled students. the new guidelines encourage schools to follow the lead of states like georgia. the american association of adapted sports programs has been supporting disabled athletes here for over 20 years. >> i would tell anyone who questions the athletic-ness of adapted sports very simply, "come wat

i'm a member of the senior and action and disability and california alliance retired americans. i was going to make a suggestion to the sheriff if you wanted to have people to fill an expanded jail, you could take the pady wagons and go down here on montgomery street to chase bank, bank of america, wells fargo, citibank. you have folks down there who stole trillions and go up the street to the real estate association just a couple blocks from here. probably walk them over to the jail. there's plenty of people in this city who have stole trillions of dollars out of the pockets of this country and the world and none of them are going to jail. >>> come on now. >>> supervisor mar, i want to thank you. i know you stood with me on the picket lines to defend the sf8. and, you know, the s.f.8, they were seniors like myself, all black. one of them worked in this building for 25 years and they were going to jail. i spent a year in there on $2 million bail because they were black and they stood up for their rights. so, i know that's what they want to do here because believe me, there's goi

. >> people on disability has the task of addressing all the disability. talk about the sidewalks, ramps, we have very specific issues. for people blind and low vision, we have the issue of knowing where they are and when the cross. it can be hit or miss. >> at hulk and grove, that sound the the automatic -- it helps people cross the street safely. >> now we have a successful pedestrian signal. >> i push the button, i get an audible message letting me know that i need to wait. when it is safe to cross, not only am i going to get an audible indicator, this button is going to vibrate. so it tells me it is safe. there is the driller sound and this trigger is vibrating. i am not relying on anything but the actual light change, the light cycle built into it. >> it brings san francisco from one of the major cities in the u.s. to what is going to be the lead city in the country. >> city working on all sorts of things. we are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada says and make life more successful for people. >> disability rights movement, the city

we provide services for people with disability. about 90 of those cloys we help them live individually. san francisco is a great place to live if you have a develop mental disable. our services have come to a groind halt everyone our housing unit have not helped as many as we like. this project provides 16 hundred individual to tack a huge leap in independents and i know from what i've seen and the conditions that our clients live in moving into this new or else situation they would not take advantage of the opportunity to live there >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners and a director ram. illicit pault i'd like to run briefly through the project. can we put the power point up on the screen >> oh, thank you. so the project is located on the map south of the panhandle our this is an existing site plan you can see the project and on the right and page street on the bottom. the existing building has a side yard above it is used for parking and off of page street that's use for parking. this is a view looking at the exciting

disabled? >> 2 investigates claims of discrimination when it comes to life saving transplant surgery. >> and the oscar nod ening on a low -- ending on a low note. >> a amanda knox found -- amanda knox found guilty of murder again. how the american plans to fight this latest conviction. >>> investigators think last months' fire at a recycling facility was deliberately set. the fire at sims metal management plant was back on december 17. a security worker reported hearing an explosion moments before the fire broke out. the fire marshal says investigators found nothing in the debris of the fire that indicates it could have been self-ignited and that is why it is called suspicious. sims metal management plant issued a statement saying while not conclusive as to cause the police department statement that there is a common consensus the fire may have been deliberately set is of concern to us. they are working to improve its fire prevention. >>> the department of justice announced it will seek the dea

i recommend you amend this document or propose the state do it because people with disabilities are being admitted in record keeping in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you very much, sir. next speaker, please. >> good evening, my name is edward and throughout 29 years that i've lived in san francisco san francisco i've experienced repeatedly police bias against bicyclists which creates inpunity who terrorize us and that lives our citizens afraid the right to bicycle on our city street despite the transit first policy in our charter. that policy applies to all city agencies. that includes the police not just agencies concerns primarily concerned with transportation. it requires that public transit be given priority over private cars and that quote bicycling shall be promoted by encouraging safe streets for riding, end of quote. the police has done nothing to fulfill their obligations under this long standing law. these priorities have never been incorporated into poll sea for enforcement policies where the discretion. police aren't trained in their duty to promote private car or priorit

to run them down quickly, jail is a particular hardship for seniors and people with disability. jails is inappropriate for seniors and people with disability, but most important seniors and people with disability need the services that would be sacrificed in order to finance this jail thing. the projected cost, 600 million if you include financing, could give us 20 million in services each year over the 30 years that would be required to pay that debt. the $1 billion prop c housing trust fund could be expanded by 60% so we would really start including housing for very low-income groups like seniors and people with disability. 600 of the city's poorest family could be in subsidized apartments for 30 years. mentally medical health programs that have been cutback for years could be restored and even expanded. but most important, we grape with everyone else that the space already exists in the jails even with the closure of cjc3 and 4. in fact, with new proposed sentencing -- >> thank you. >>> not even cj6 would be necessary. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> good afternoon, m

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hard to do that when you've lost someone on the street because of our unsafe streets or someone's disabled and we've all talked about how accountability is key and i would really, really like to see more of that so that when something gets done as you said it would get done we can come to you and we can say, good job. we can say to the chief, to the commission and the board of supervisors and the directors of the mta, good job and when you haven't voted your position, when you haven't funded it, then we have to say not good enough and your actions are putting us at risk. thank you. >> thank you sir, and i'm going to read a few more names. nick and birt and kelly baker. medalline and lisa and david tran. next speaker. >> good evening. i'm debbie gold and i live in district 6 and i'm on the safety committee and i'm on captain redman c-pad. i was listen to everyone during the course of the evening and i don't need it add to all the stories because we all agree on the same issues, however, i do want to say that i've been a driver for over 40 years and i learned how to drive from studying the d

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glow in the fall fest but due to the state pays great attention to citizens with disabilities in this regard representatives of the deaf association assisted us in creating special courses for employers in the summer of last year. keep listening to them. training courses are available for workers of the service center up to now. at present over seven hundred people with hearing impairments live in the region. i went to the center for documents before we had to take the sign language interpreter with this but now these problems have disappeared i'm very glad for such deviations. the regional center also provides services at home for disabled people in addition last year the center heart for professionals with disabilities it more jobs will be created for this group of people this year. a branch of the international chess academy will open up in austin. this became known today at the extraordinary congress of the chess federation of kazakhstan the president of the international chess federation to study in human genome said that today's young chess players of the country have achieved g

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