item 8, information item: the paul k. longmore institute on disability and the ada's silver anniversary. the presentation will provide an overview of the planning process and solicit the council's feedback to promote and engage the san francisco disability community. presentation by catherine j. kudlick, director paul k. longmore institute on disability. public comment is welcome. item 9, action item: co-chair elections. in accordance with the mayor's disability council's bylaws, article iii section 1, there shall be 2 co-chairs elected by the council to serve as officers. this election will select a co-he chair to replace the seat previously held by idell wilson. item 10, public comment: items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to three minutes. item 11, information item: correspondence. item 12, discussion item: council member comments and announcements. item 13, adjourn. >> thank you, heather. you may notice that the agenda is a little bit -- in a little bit different order to

catherine kudlick, director of the paul k. longmore institute on disability. >> [inaudible]. o, yes? >> there we go. >> anyway, good afternoon, everybody. i am cathy kudlick. i am director of the paul k. longmore institute on disability at san francisco state. just to give you a brief overview, i know not a lot of you knew paul and worked with paul. he was in this room many times. and the longmore institute of san francisco state university is kind of a -- it brings together advocacy, academics, culture, and the whole point of it is to get people in conversation that might not otherwise be in conversation and to change attitudes about disability. so, through cultural initiatives, through academic programs, through basically changing people's minds. and the idea here is that you take something like culture and you get people to think about disability as a form of experience on a par with race, gender, social class, all the things we care about. if you can get people to think about disability differently and disabled people differently, then they will change their attitudes abou