cultural heritage district. language access is very critical . every second counts and it's critical, you know, to the city's health care infrastructure, our to the city government, our government's infrastructure, to our cbos, infrastructure and everything. every second count when i say because an emergency, it's a life or death. situation and i'm the type of parent, actually, who is looking for a filipino bilingual program. when my kids

went to school like 30 years ago and i, i, i seek also help also in, in strengthening our bilingual education. you know, in the sfusd because i didn't get any help from epcc. it's critical because because i, i really i really do hope, you know, that my children would understand that, that that being bilingual or multilingual is really an asset. and in, in every case in every lives that we actually, you know, have here in, in the city of san francisco, we are a diverse, city. it's really important that language access is actually there. and thank you. i want to thank you, you know, to everybody, we, we seek your help and support and your commitment. maraming salamat po. thank you for your comments. next speaker.

good afternoon. my name is anne and i am a tenant councilor from the south of market community action network. most of our clients are filipino immigrant families, and we are advocating to close the language gap across the city. most of our clients are in need of counseling services regarding their tenancy and disputes with their landlords. as a tenant counselor, i have witnessed how most of our clients could not understand notices, legal documents and agreements that are needed for their tenancy. most of the time they are being tricked by their landlords and tenants are forced to move out of their homes just because they do not understand the english language. they do not know how to seek help from the city or rent board. because of the language barrier. we are here to support number 79, reaffirming the commitment to language access in san francisco. it is important to increase bilingual staff in the city to help the families in urgent need that that need translation services. maraming salamat. thank you so much. thank you for your comments. next speaker. good

afternoon, board of supervisor, my name is shannon lee and i'm an advocate with chinese for affirmative action. as josé mentioned earlier, we are a member of the organization of, language access network. lan sf and the network is made up of six community based organizations representing a multi lingual, multi ethnic and multicultural coalition. so the advocacy around language access, has been a long journey for us and each immigrant community. we eagerly anticipate the positive impacts of the language access resolution, which builds up upon the language access ordinance amendments, i would also like to share an experience i had last month on muni, and one day when i was on the bus, a muni fare inspector boarded and began to check in with the passengers. tickets and when the inspector reached a chinese elder, the rapidly repeatedly asked him to show the clipper card of course they asked in english only, and the elder, not understanding,

keep waving his hand with confusion and trying to avoid eye contact. and, thankfully there is a passenger who spoke cantonese and, he stepped in and helped translate it with just three simple words, and the elder immediately understood and reached to his pocket to find his card and hand it to the inspector. the whole process took only about five seconds. so this is a living example showing how language barriers exist in aspects we may never have imagined. there are life or death situations, but there are also like daily inconveniences or fractions like this. we hope the resolution won't continue to allow city leaders like you to work with the community, including but not limited to, increasing paid opportunities for the culturally responsive and community based translators and interpreters, thank you so much for your time. thank you for your comments. next speaker,

please. hello. my name is marty douglas, and i'm with tomken, south of market community action network. and i'm here reaffirming language access. so i had an experience when i had lived in japan where i woke up one day and i lost hearing in one of my ears. and to get to a hospital and speak with somebody was just anxiety inducing. and i know how that feels when i. i also accompanied a friend from ukraine who had a similar situation where she needed language like health access, but having somebody there that can speak the language makes a huge difference. so we urge in your leadership to continue building the diversity for everyone here in the city to live a beautiful life that is holistically healthy, that you don't have to

be worrying about your physical health, your mental health, nor even just daily living. like transportation and housing. and this should be a concern for our leaders. so i do hope you still and continue reaffirming this for language access for all. thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker. good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is nick g. and i'm an advocacy manager with chinese for affirmative action and we're a civil rights based organization in sf chinatown. we're also a part of the language access network of san francisco. and as you heard this afternoon, many of the sf partners and community members are here to affirm that language access is critical in this city of san francisco. i would like to express my gratitude to supervisor walton and his dedicated team for their unwavering leadership in driving forward the language access ordinance resolution. in addition to the office of civic engagement and immigrant

affairs, immigrant rights commission, human rights commission, and supervisor connie chen's office, your commitment to ensuring that limited english speaking communities in our city have access to vital resources and services is truly commendable. the lao resolution represents a significant step forward in our ongoing efforts in to enhance language accessibility and inclusivity in our city. building upon the foundation laid upon laid by the la amendments, this resolution reaffirms our commitment to working closely with the community to address their needs effectively. this resolution is an acknowledgment that all communities deserve equitable language access, because we believe language access can make our community stronger, our city stronger, and can save lives. and we urge the board to support the passage of this resolution. thank you. thank you for your comments, before you speak, mr. d'costa, i just want to invite,

if there are any other members of the public who'd like to address the board during general public comment, please line up on your right hand side. otherwise, mr. da costa may be the last speaker. welcome. so, supervisors, we have a budget of $15, $15.9 billion. and i've been listening to all of you, all listening to san franciscans who are not happy with what is happening in our city. supervisors every representative must address quality of life issues. we cannot harm our children and we harm them. we cannot harm our youth and we help them. we don't help them. people have to come here and beg

of you all to give them support. $15.9 billion budget. this nation now one third of the nation are fanatics. and it's slowly creeping into san francisco. so when you are a representative, you have to know everything about quality of life issues and set your example all. let me tell you, supervisors, we can run a check on each one of you. so all i'm going to say have your hearts in the right place to do the right thing. if you are into corruption, stay up it. and when our people come

here to ask for help, help them. thank you very much. thank you, mr. da costa. all right, mr. president, seeing no other members of the public for public comment, public comment is closed. madam clerk, would you please read the adoption without committee reference? calendar items 74 through 85 were introduced for adoption, but without committee reference. a unanimous vote is required for adoption of a resolution on first reading today. alternatively, a member may require a resolution on first reading. to go to committee would any member like an item or item severed? supervisor mandelman item 75 i assume yes. supervisor walton. thank you, president peskin, please sever item 79, item 79 on the balance of the calendar. item seven. mr. president, supervisor dorsey, supervisor dorsey. oh, i just wanted to be added as a co-sponsor. i thought i was for 75. supervisor dorsey will be

added as a co-sponsor for item 75. and on the balance of the calendar, mr. president, supervisor ronen as well, supervisor ronen wants to be added, can i please be added to item 75, 76, 80 and 84? supervisor melgar. thank you. i'd like to be added to, item 77. and also. so, 84 and 85. thank you. supervisor dorsey, you're already called supervisor safaí. thank you. i think we sent this in. i just want to confirm, please add me as a co-sponsor to 75 of item number 76, 80, 82, 83, 84 and 85. we

have all of those. okay. thank you. thank you. and, madam clerk, i think we sent this in too. but add me to 75 for confirming that i've been added to 75. supervisor stephanie. thank you. i know i sent an email earlier, but i just want to make sure i'm added to 74, 75, 77, 79, which, i don't know if we sent that in 80, 81 and 82. thank you. okay, so now on the balance of the calendar item 7476 through 78, 80 through to 85, we can take those same house, same call. those resolutions are adopted. madam clerk, would you please call item 75, item 75. this is a resolution to declare san francisco to be a sanctuary city for transgender gender non-conforming, non-binary, and

two spirit people. mandelman, thank you, president peskin. and i want to thank supervisors engardio preston walton, chan, safaí, dorsey melgar, stephanie and ronen for your co-sponsorship, of this resolution, i again want to thank suzanne ford for coming to us in the first place and to honey mahogany and all the folks from the trans advisory committee and from your office who've worked with us. thank you for that. and i also want to thank melissa hernandez from supervisor preston's office, who suggested an amendment to reference an unfortunate and ill conceived and bad report that the national health service in england came up with and then drove a change in policy there. so we've circulated by email and handed out, just an additional recital that i would like to move as an amendment to this resolution. second, okay, motion made by supervisor mandelman to

amend item 75. seconded by supervisor walton. can we take that without objection on the item as amended? same house, same call. the resolution is adopted, as amended. madam clerk, will you please read item 79, item 79, this is a resolution to reaffirm san francisco's commitment to equitable language access for all residents through city services and the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs supervisor. walton. thank you. president peskin. i just want to state that we are happy to finally pass the language access ordinance amendments earlier today here at the full board. and now we have the resolution reaffirming san francisco's commitment to language access. we want all city departments who interact with the public to comply with the law. and we hope that as a city, we can work towards improving all of our language access services, including recruiting more bilingual staff and ensuring materials and information are provided and required.

languages. i like to thank my chief of staff, natalie g. for her hard work and working with our city departments and community partners on this. i also want to thank supervisor chan and her entire team. i want to thank oca director george rivas and his staff. chloe noonan, former oca director adrian pond, immigrants rights commission and president kenleigh sarah singh from the human rights commission. our deputy city attorneys alicia cabrera and anne pearson for helping us draft these amendments. city administrator carmen chu for her support. and of course, all of our community advocates through the language access network chinese for affirmative action, poorer african american advocacy network, african advocacy network, filipino community center, psalm cam, arab resource and organizing center, and carecen. and we would not have been able to do this without community advocacy and support. and i would also like to just say thank you to all

co-sponsors, supervisor chan preston and safaí. thank you. thank you. seeing no other names on the roster, we will take this item same house, same call. the resolution is adopted. madam clerk, will you please read the imperative calendar? yes. offered by supervisor ronen. this is a motion to modify the deadline to introduce a non skeletal skeletal charter amendment under rule 2.22.8 of the board's rules of order to allow introduction on june 11th, 2024, of a charter amendment approved by the city attorney as to form to provide that money set aside for the san francisco unified school district in the student success fund cannot replace, supplant, count as, or substitute for other city funding for the school district or children and youth required under the children and youth fund, the public education enrichment fund, or other provisions in the charter. supervisor ronan sure. i'd like to introduce this motion as an imperative item. so first i'd like to make a motion certifying

the need to take this action. i need to do this right. president can ask for it. well, we need colleagues as we have an imperative item, a motion before us, which requires the board to adopt two separate findings by a supermajority of eight votes before unanimous adoption of the item itself, the first one would be sunshine ordinance, findings that the item, requires a serious injury finding. so, i believe we may find that failure to adopt the resolution today would do serious injury to the public interest, and thus, meets the standards of the sunshine ordinance, so is there a motion to that effect made by supervisor ronen, seconded by supervisor chan? colleagues, can we take that without objection. and then we need to make brown act findings. is there a motion that finds the need to take action? came to the attention of the board after the agenda was posted, and thus the resolution

meets the standards of the brown act? motion made by supervisor ronen, second by supervisor dorsey. can we take that? without objection? and now, on the substance of the imperative motion itself, madam clerk, a roll call, please. mr. president, we'll take public comment. very quickly. is there any public comment on the modification of time for introduction of a charter amendment for the student success fund? seeing no members of the public on this item? public comment is closed and on the motion a roll call please. supervisor chan chan i. supervisor dorsey. dorsey i supervisor engardio engardio. oh i supervisor mandelman i mandelman i supervisor melgar. melgar i supervisor peskin i. peskin i supervisor preston. preston i supervisor. ronen i. ronen i supervisor safaí. safaí. i supervisor stephanie. stephanie i and supervisor walton i walton i there are 11

eyes the motion is adopted. madam clerk are there any immemorially? i have none to report. mr. president, we are adjourned. >> (music).

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francisco fire department. i didn't grow up thinking i would be a firefighter. i didn't realize it was an option. i didn't see other people who looks like me in the fire service, so i didn't have an idea that this was a possibility for me. what inspired me is i had a few friends from the hip -- hawaiian community who were applying for the job at the time and they encouraged me to apply as well. we are a pretty tightknit community. we are like a family, the fire service is like a family. food is essential -- is central to our gatherings in the fire service as well. and teamwork and being part of something bigger than yourself and really having community. that is what inspired me to be part of the fire department. when i was applying for this job and i was going down that route of the hiring process, i looked around and i started looking at the different engines and the rigs driving around the street and i said, you know what, there

is somebody that looks like me. there is somebody that looks like me. to me, that was really important. and that representation, what i saw, the light bulbs went on and i could see myself in the job. for me, being in this position as a captain, and being on the track and going around to her neighborhood, even when we are doing the most mundane of tasks, it is important that they see me in the role, right? asian pacific islander woman in a leadership position, that i am in this job. and even ringing the bell for the kids in the neighborhood, they see me, they cs, they see my crew and it is huge. that lightbulbs can go off for them as well like it went on for me. it truly is important to me to be part of an organization that supports diversity and representation. being in a job where we serve the community is really

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>> good morning this meeting will come to order, welcome to the june 6, 2024 regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee, i'm supervisor dean preston chair of the committee joined by catherine stefani and connie chan, committee clerk is monique and our thanks to colina in sf gov. tv for staffing this meeting. do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes, public comment will be taken on each item of the agenda. please line up to the right, you may submit public comment in writing either in the following way, email to the oversight committee clerk.