items not on today's agenda but within jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. agenda item no. 11. cochair report. report from cochair zarda. agenda item no. 12. correspondence. agenda item no. 13. discussion item. councilmembers comments and announcements. agenda item no. 14, adjourn. >> thank you. donna. okay, the next item on the agenda is public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. first i have mike hot us. if anyone else wishes to comment at this time, please fill out a card. >> i thank the council for the opportunity to make this presentation. i have a question regarding the ada. as you all know 2015 is the 25th anniversary of the ada and was wondering whether council had done anything in particular to celebrate that momentous event. i would like to offer a suggestion that certain pioneers in the ada for the city particularly those that are not with us to be honored. i would like to offer suggestion of the late loadey, who was asked to become a member of this council but did not

so i urge the mdc to start a task force to do this kind of research. how much people do right the tnc and taxis especially from the disability community. they claim that they are serving the disability community, but i don't think so. i have not seen one in my neighborhood. i less invasive -- live in the disability community neighborhood and i have not seen one picked up. to me this report that's coming out i think is really kind of bogus and i was there and you heard that. i do request that the mdc actually form a committee to look into this further and then write a letter to the c puc that says our finding is different from what they did. it's very important. we are all representing the disability community. we need to have clarification on those, thank you. >> thank you. do i have anymore public comment? all right. is there anyone on the bridge line? okay. thank you, everyone. we'll move on to the next agenda item which is the better mark street transit priority plan. i have simon from dpw and sf mta. >> simon. i'm going to give the first presentati

as for issues with mayor's office with disability those are not subject to comment at an mdc meeting. >> okay. i think i will go through organization because i think those are more powerful and maybe get some critical power around that then because i think this has been very educational for me. thank you. >> gida, this is carla johnson director of the mayor's office on disability. it's clear to me that there are a lot of issues that you would like to talk about and perhaps the best forum for that would be if we could set aside some time for you to come to the mayor's off disability to hear your complete list. i agree that two 2 minutes is obviously not enough time to be able to get an understanding of what you need so we can better understand how we can assist. >> thank you, carla and thank you caller. >> now we have the the cochair report from cochair zarda. >> thank you, cochair supanich. what i will be discussing is a brief overview for our annual leadership meeting. we reconvened all the counsel as well as the staff and mayers -- mayor's office on disability. this year it was a gr

agenda item number ten, public comment items not on today's adeny da but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to three minutes. agenda item number eleven, information item, report from co-chair supanich. >> agenda item 12, information item, report from director of the mayor's office on disability. agenda item number 1 3, information item, correspondence. >> agenda item 14, discussion item, council members comments and announcements. >> agenda item number 1 5, adjournment. co-chair, roll call, please? >> yes. [roll call] >> thank you. >> nearly 25 years after the passage of the american with disability act, 83 percent of people with disabilities are still unemployed, according to the u.s. department of labor the rate is at 13.2 percent. and defined as people who did not have a job or were available for work and actively looking for work. and the disability council decided to devote a series of meetings, this month to mark the occasion of national disability employment month, we will look at the city of san francisco and the effort to employ people with disabilities and