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Mayor’s
Disability Council
Carol Patterson
Damian Pickering
Co - Chairs
Vincent Behan
Jim Brune
Sergio Alunan
Ed Evans
Michael Kwok
August Longo
Allison Lum
Frank Marone
Leroy Moore
AGENDA
Walter Park
Council Secretary
Director, Mayor’s Office on Disability
Regular Meeting of
Mayor’s Disability Council
Friday, 15 March 2002
1:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 400
1:00 p.m.
1 Roll call
2 ACTION ITEM: Approval of Agenda
3 ACTION ITEM: Approval of Minutes of February Meetings
1:10
4 Public comment on items not on today’s agenda, but within
the jurisdiction of MDC. (Each speaker limited to two minutes.)
5 INFORMATION ITEM: Report from the Co-Chairs
6 INFORMATION ITEM: Report from the Director
7 INFORMATION ITEM: Report from the Committee Chairs - Employment
Committee, Physical Access Committee and Programmatic Access Committee
1:30
8 POSSIBLE ACTION ITEM: Review of In-Home Support Services
(IHSS) in Homeless Shelters -
Reports and discussion from IHSS staff, Shelter staff,
and public comment. (45 minutes)
2:15
(The Council will recess for a 10-minute break)
9 DISCUSSION ITEM: Training regarding the Supreme Court’s
decision in the Olmstead Case and its implications for state and local governments
by Bonnie Milstein, Esq.
[60 minutes]
10 DISCUSSION ITEM: Correspondence.
11 Public comment on items not on today’s agenda, but within
the jurisdiction of MDC. (Each speaker limited to two minutes.)
12 DISCUSSION ITEM: Member requests for future agenda items.
13 DISCUSSION ITEM: Councilor elections - Nominations for
elections which will take place during April’s Council Meeting.
14 ACTION ITEM: Terms of Council Members - Drawings for
each length of each council member’s term.
15 Adjournment.
[Estimated times are only guidelines.]
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Accessibility:
City Hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and
others with disabilities. Assistive listening devices are available and meetings
are open-captioned in the hearing room. Agendas are available in large print.
Materials in alternative formats and/or American Sign Language interpreters
will be made available upon request. Please make your request for reasonable
accommodations to the Council Clerk, Jada Jackson, 554-6789, at least 72
hours prior to the meeting.
The nearest accessible BART station is Civic Center Plaza
at the intersection of Market, Grove, and Hyde Streets. The accessible MUNI
Metro lines are the J, K, L, M, and N (Civic Center Station or Van Ness Avenue
Station). MUNI bus lines serving the area are the 42 Downtown Loop, 9 San
Bruno, and the 6, 7, 71 Haight/ Noriega. Accessible curbside parking is available
on 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place and Grove Street.
In order to assist the City’s efforts to accommodate persons
with severe allergies, environmental illness, multiple chemical sensitivity
or related disabilities, attendees at public meetings are reminded that other
attendees may be sensitive to various chemical based scented products. Please
help the City to accommodate these individuals.
For inquiries or requests
for reasonable accommodation,
please call 554-6789.
Mayor’s Disability Council
Accessible Meeting Information
Regular Meetings - third Fridays (please confirm dates):
Next meeting dates: April 19th, May
17th, and June 21st
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in full view of the public. Commissions, boards, councils and other agencies
of the City and County exist to conduct the people’s business. The Sunshine
Ordinance assures that deliberations are conducted before the people and that
City operations are open to the people’s review. For more information on your
rights under the Sunshine Ordinance (Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative
Code) or to report a violation of the ordinance, contact Donna Hall by mail
to Board of Supervisors, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244, by phone
at (415) 554-7724 / (415) 554-5184, by fax at (415) 554-5163, or by email at
[email protected]
Citizens interested in obtaining a copy of the Sunshine
Ordinance can request a copy from Ms. Domingo or by printing Chapter 67 of the
San Francisco Administrative Code on the Internet, at http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=4463.
Public archive:
Videotapes of the three most recent MDC meetings are made
available ten days after meeting date in the Main Public Library. Written
minutes in accessible formats are available at 401 Van Ness, Room 300
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