so maybe, if jessica layman could come forward. and thanks to the senior disability action for being here as well. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors thank you so much for holding this hearing. my name is jessica layman at senior disability action and we of course are concerned with the very low employment rates of people with disabilities and we have them regularly coming through the doors and the people with disabilities and seniors and a lot of overlap who are looking for jobs and anything and it is very, very difficult. and this is a civil rights issue as has been pointed out and also an issue for what is good for our city and we want the people with all sorts of perspectives working in our city and sharing their experiences. so, we are really glad that this issue is being considered. on the issue of tracking, for starters, the system piece is to know how many people with all kinds of disabilities we have working in the city, and we believe that it is not only allowed, but it is required of some federal contractors if th

jessica layman and the director mentioned the hearing on monday about elevators and to put in a plug to encourage people to attend. we're very excited and as you know i have been here a couple of times talking about elevators and we're grateful to have your resolution, including the maintenance of accessible features. we have had the senior and disability elevator work group meeting for several months trying to figure out where to go with this, and so in addition to the hearing today at the budget hearing we talked about requesting $1 million, which is supervisor jane kim's proposal, to ask for -- well, not ask for, but to get $1 million in the budget and add backs next thursday. for essentially a pilot program for some kind of revolving fund or some financing for sro owners to be able to repair, upgrade, modernize their elevators. so a million dollars may only be two, but it's more than we're fixing right now in that major way and if that goes well, that is just a step forward for much more. if it's for some kind of loan, we're talking about putting money back into the pot, so we're