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Mayor’s
Disability Council
Sergio Alunan
Jim Brune
Ed Evans
Michael Kwok
August Longo
Frank Marone
AGENDA
Walter Park
Council Secretary
Director, Mayor’s Office on Disability
Regular Meeting of
Mayor’s Disability
Council
Friday, 18 May 2001
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 April’s Meeting
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 Discussion Item: Report from the Co-Chairs
6 Discussion Item: Report from the Director
7 Discussion Item: Report from the Committee Chairs - Employment Committee and
Programmatic Access Committee
1:45
8 Discussion Item: Environmental
Travelling Companions
2:00
9 Discussion Item: Training on Disability
Rights Laws: Part Three, Transportation
10 Discussion Item: Adult Protective
Services
11 Discussion Item: Member requests
for future agenda items.
12 Discussion Item: Correspondence.
13 Discussion Item: Councilors’ comments and announcements.
14 Public comment on items not on today’s agenda, but within the jurisdiction
of MDC. (Each speaker limited to two minutes.)
15 Adjournment.
For persons
with disabilities or others who cannot attend in person, meetings are accessible
(open-captioned) on CityWatch Channel 26.
Call 557-4293 for listings.
Telephone
Bridge at (415) 554-9632.
Members of the public who wish to
listen to and/ or participate in this meeting but are unable to physically attend,
may call into the Council’s `Telephone Bridge’ at 554-9632. Up to thirty persons
may listen on this conference line, and may be recognized to speak during public
comment periods. Call 554-9632 after 1:00 p.m. and a staff person will handle
requests to speak.
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: June 15th, July 20th
and August 17th.
Know Your Rights Under the Sunshine
Ordinance
Government’s duty is to serve the
public, reaching its decisions 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