items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. agenda item no. 11. correspondence. agenda item 12. discussion item. council member comments and announcements. agenda item 13. adjourn. thank you, at this time i would like to make a motion to amend the agenda. a break from after item no. 6, after ms. zarda's presentation. >> second. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? so changed. we will move on to item no. 3 public comment. items not on today's agenda. but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. please be respectful to the presenters and please stay within the time limit of 3 minutes. we have speaker cards on the table and staff will get them to us and we will be able to hear everyone's public comment. thank you very much. >> our first public comment comes from foina hines. >> good afternoon. thank you. good afternoon, council members, can everybody hear me? >> yes, we can, thank you. okay, i'm here on behalf of independence living resource cent

items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc, each speaker is limited to three minutes.3 minutes. >> i have rue krofs. >> thank you. i have three items today. my name is rue krofs. i have been a cab driver since 1973. i only quit driving last year. my first item is about the phone app for cab drivers. it's called flywheel. at the present time probably 90% of the cab drivers are using this. you use the fly wheel app. you can get almost every cab in town except for this little problem. fly wheel recently increased the amount that they are taking from drivers from 10% to 13 and change. from the drivers point of view it was completely arbitrary. you got a message on your phone that says, say yes to the contract and it was over. it was 18 pages long. i don't know how you read it that fast. nobody i know did. a lot of drivers were using the phone that flywheel allows and assigns to the driver in the cab so one driver would see this thing and the other drivers never saw they had been signed up for it. they didn't post anything with the cab companies. so lots of drivers

i hope to give you an opportunity to meet him at next tuesday's mdc executive committee meeting. next on offices. you might know that this office work very closely to initiate video interpreting for sign language in our language access contract. this contract allows any city department to set up a computer and a camera and microphone to bring an american sign language interpreter directly to a service counter to facilitate technology that is similar to skype and face time. yesterday when i attended the opening of the new public safety building, police chief greg suhr what is able to announce that they will be able to provide sign language interpretation to the public using our real remote interpreting, they are rolling out this service and the other office is of course the mayor's office on disability and also the county clerk, department of elections, recreation and parks, mayor's office on housing and community development t human services agency, office of citizens complaints and department of emergency management. in fact the department of emergency management is actually tal

in honor of former mayor's disability council cochair mdc derek zarda, we have kathy zarda, derek's mother will provide information on the memorial for saturday april 18, 2015 at the, at the independent living resource center. thank you ms. zarda for being here today in addressing the council and the public. thank you. first i would like to say good afternoon to members of the council. let's see if that works. i don't usually talk loud. so we'll see. anyway, good afternoon, and it feels that i know you all. i have heard so much about all of you. it's nice to see faces with the people that he's known and cared for for such a period of time. i know that when he made the decision to finally realize his goals of moving to taipei to marry his sweetheart, sydney. it was with mixed emotions of leaving this council and leaving his work at independent living centers because he really cared deeply about what this was all about. as you know he was a young man with a big heart. and passionate for what he did, not just here suddenly when he was 27 years old, but throughout his life. when he came back t

mdc officer ed pastor could be chart facing charges. he is accused of sexually abusing a six-year-old girl while working at a church in southwest d.c.. a second victim says he sexually assaulted her and d.c. police headquarters. he is active back in court on june 2. leon: the u.s. attorney general loretta lynch visited baltimore today. she pledged to work with and renovate the police department. maryland chief brad bell has some developments in the gray case. u very -- what are you carry? hearing? >> it is going to be very complicated legal battle, the prosecuting and defending will have many motions filed in court. the first of those has happened, and it is one of the officers claiming that the arrest of freddie gray was legal. not a legal as the state's attorney has contended because of the knife he involved. there will be more details coming out and we will have them as they come available. but today the talk around town was the visit of the united states attorney general loretta lynch, just two weeks on the job. she chose to come to

wilson will investigate the architecture of the anderson house and other extravagant mansion's mdc m newport -- mentions-- mansions in d.c. and newport built between the civil war and world war i. he specializes in the architecture, design, and art of the 18th through 20th century, both in america and abroad. dr. wilson has directed the victorian society's 19th-century summer school since 1979 and has served as an advisor and commentator for a number of television programs including "america's castles" and 10 most influential buildings for the pbs. he is the author or co-author of 16 books, including studies -- the prairie school in iowa, and monument avenue in richmond. his most recent book "edith wharton at home" was published in 1912 -- excuse me, 2012. dr. wilson. [applause] dr. wilson: thank you very much, kendall. can you hear me all right? ok. i want to thank kendall and the society for inviting me here. it is a little daunting to be here in this room. and i do want to also acknowledge anything i say tonight is actually built on the shoulders of other scholars who have worked

if any of you know the federal system, i had the enjoyment of being in brooklyn mdc metropolitan detention center which is truly one of the poorer facilities. for 15 minutes in court. okay? and they didn't have to do that. so what i learned, and i want to end on this, what i learned being in prison and through this whole experience is something that most americans take for granted. and that's -- and some of you heard me say this at lunch, dinner last night, i kept coming back to saying, whatever the issue is the most important thing is a person's freedom to make the choice. okay. freedom is for americans somewhat esoteric concept. all of us have been born into a free society. okay? when you go into prison and you have no constitutional rights no freedom, and they remind you the only obligation is to feed you, to house you, and to give you clothes, anything else is a privilege, okay, and when they say jump, you jump, when they say you do x, you do x, you get a real appreciation for freedom. and i hate to see what i fear is a very dangerous path this country is going down, where we're giving