anti-violence against women advocacy as well and much as we see with the anti-violence council where it takes a holistic approach, the community coming together with different agencies , we were able to combat homicides related to domestic violence for 44 months. and this kind of graffiti abatement takes a community approach as well and she's been a great mentor to all the students and to get them engaged, as you recognize the academy of art university has a lot of international students, it's important to get them engaged to really understand how our country works and the importance of community involvement, also reaching out to the younger students to have respect of other people's property and also to reach out to those students who might think of art as a career. i hope you give due consideration, you have seen all the great support for her, she is a wonderful community

leader, rebecca delgado rottman ?oo ?a any other public comments on this matter? seeing none, supervisor campos, supervisor tang >> well, very impressive group of candidates and i want to thank both miss ross and miss rottman for their service, this is a very important entity that oversees what happens with graffiti which is a big problem in all neighborhoods. the only problem, miss rottman, i don't know if you had enough people testifying on your behalf today. that said, it is my pleasure to move that we move this forward to the committee. >> i have never seen a group so excited to talk about graffiti before but i see jim

castille from dpw as well as mr. stinger. i think all of the work you have been doing is so great at tackling the issues when they rise and also trying to foster a sense of responsibility and pride in our neighborhood so they can be prevented as well. with that, happy to support both candidates, thank you so much for your contribution to our city. >> thank you very much, there's a motion and i'm sure both candidates are well loved, so with no objection, then the motion passes and congratulations, miss rottman i want to take a note here to say i voted for you. thank you very much. madam clerk, item 6. >> item 6, hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending february 1, 2015, and three members terms ending

february 1, 2016, to the park recreation and open space advisory committee. there are 4 seats and 4 applicants. >> great. >> okay, oh are any of the --. >> three of them. >> okay, come on up, in the order i will call you. tom. >> he's not here. >> patricia delgado >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is patricia delgado and i'm here to ask for your support to my renomination that would conclude my second two-year term and hopefully it will continue beyond that. i have been on the advisory board

since 2009 and i am pretty much a community activist. i love my mission district. my husband and i bought property in 1988 and so we've been there ever since then. and i got involved with parks, open space, when we developed the park estados unidos and i have been interested in open space in the old industrial zones in san francisco as well as other parts of the city. so it's been a pleasure to serve at the pleasure of my supervisor. thank you, david campos. >> thank you. thank you. nicholas belloni. >> it's nick belloni, chairman

yee i am the covice president of the planning association of the richmond, i have been on this committee for a while now and i truly enjoy being part of it. i work with many relations within the park as well as within the west side of the city. supervisor tang of course is the nominating supervisor for me. i will be working for her district because i'm on the, what is it, the alternate list that you have for your second chair, for your second seat for the district. i truly just enjoy being part of it and i've done a lot of stuff. right now i'm just working on trying to make sure we have plenty of open space for everybody here in our city. any other questions? >> no. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is les hilger, i am seeking reappointment for a seat i have had for the last 6 years. i

have been a chair of this committee and also vice chair and i would really enjoy being appointed for the last two years, finishing up my 8 year service. thank you. >> thank you. so there's 4 designated seats and 4 people and one of them wasn't able to come, actually it's supervisor campos's appointment. i assume you are okay? >> yes. >> any public comments on this matter? seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor tang and campos. >> great, i am happy to forward all 4 candidates to the full board with recommendation, especially on the west side of town it's really important what is it that we do with our open spaces and our parks. we have so many families and children

in our neighborhood. i also had a legislative aide who served with you on prozac before so happy to send this forward with recommendation. >> supervisor campos. >> i'm happy to join that recommendation. i just want to make a couple points about my two nominees for district 9, pat delgado, from whom you've heard. she truly is an institution in that neighborhood and what she has done for her community goes beyond, you know, she really is incredible in terms of what she does not only for our parks, open space, but for the whole community. so i'm very grateful to pat that she is willing to serve yet again. tom valtin is not here today because he had a long-planned family vacation at spring break for he and his family. i know

tom takes this very seriously, does great work and i know he will continue to do a good job for district 9 and for the two other candidates, mr. nick belloni, i know you have done a lot of good work and have a good reputation in terms of your commitment and les hilger i have had the opportunity to work with, great to see you and have the opportunity to be involved and i know the city is better off because of that involvement. glad to see this going forward. >> no objection, the motion is passed. keep our space open. okay, madam clerk.

>> items no. 7 through 14 are settlement of lawsuits. >> before we entertain a motion to convene in closed session, is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on items no. 7 through 14? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, is there a motion to convene in closed session? >> so moved. >> no during the meeting the committee voted unanimously to forward items 7 through 14 to the fupl board with recommendation. >> can i have a motion to not disclose? >> so moved. >> madam clerk, is there anything else on the agenda.

>> for item no. 3 i would ask that we rescind that vote so we can duplicate the file and separate the motions out when it goes before the board. >> say that again. >> i would ask that you rescind the vote first and then duplicate the hearing file so that we can create two separate motions so that when it goes to the full board we have two separate votes. >> okay, for item no. 3, is there a motion to rescind? >> so moved. >> no objection, so the vote has been rescinded. >> and then a duplication. duplicate the file, a motion to duplicate? >> is there a motion? >> make a motion to duplicate

file 140300, one with appointment of eddie ahn and the second with the appointment of miguel penn. >> on the first file i will take a roll call vote on seat no. 3 for eddie ahn >> cam poes, no. tang, aye. yee, aye. mr. chair, we have two ayes and one no. and for the duplicated file? >> uh-huh. >> all ayes. >> no objection, motion passes. >> anything else? >> no, that concludes our business for the day. >> the meeting is now adjourned. thank you very much. (meeting adjourned). good afte.

>> good afternoon. >> i'm naomi kelly the administer for the city and county of san francisco and i'm joined here today with me board supervisor president chiu and many members in the filipino community here in san francisco. and today, we have a huge amazement that represents san francisco value. for the fit since our ordinance was enacted we're adding a new language to the shared list of

languages that makes our city safer and better able to serve our residents this is language access for limited folks t is mandated and our city enacted the ordinance in 2001 in that 2009 the organized was required to over our ordinance to determine which los angeles's meets the threshold and that's 10 thousand san franciscans that speak a limited language and this must be made by the immigrant affairs to all the departments and the city rights commission. it is now my honor to introduce mayor edwin lee telephones the administrator in 2003 when the

amendment happened and continues to xoond opportunity as mayor to build bridges between our cultures. >> mayor edwin lee. >> and thank you to the center for welcoming us today. i practiced saying this word on a recent trip and consul general thank you for being here and all the volunteers and staff that have been working with the city for many, many years to make sure with we equal access to all the cities services and president chiu reminded me it didn't used to be called this but the continental access to all the serviced. i'm a firm believer but we're an international city and a city of

immigrants the u.s. consensus bureau said we speak many different languages and we're you'll san franciscans. we have an obligation we've strongly felt was a good purpose of government and i joined board president chiu and supervisor kim and councilmember avalos will be here they have a late night meeting debating important issues i know each of the that have a very strong filipino and other asian the minority and latin populations in their district and certainly right here in this district a extremely strong presence and with the city comes to the clear obligation we must be able to make sure our vital services are

ones that reach all our citizens when they have a language barrier by many who don't have english as the first rang indicate to the american survey under the under the circumstances keens bureau over 10 thousands of them reach the point they're not having english as they're first language we have to among services accessible to them. that means was we down for chinesespectro and spanish speaking residents we work with all our safety departments to make sure very have accurate information that's trailed and kaebltd on site when people need that service and our human services whether health or other important things are translated

when that's right written materials or big meetings we provide translators and electronically or physically or make sure that every outreach program is culturely competent. when you reach f that mask 10 thousand person level that's important to know that treld that we as a city will then make sure we give the serviced to be transmitted properly and people what make did access. gone are the days i used to translate for my mom and dad whether a hospital or benefits. i know virtual everyone standing with me today at sometime did the same things you were nerve because they didn't have the

transmission and you were nerve whether a medical term was accurate or access public safety whether effectively or not to you the filipino-americans her 90 in san francisco that went throw things i'm not that david chiu and the chinese community to help our families and county and society to get the information and services they need. now hopefully, we won't rely on you so much but the government services will reflect what we need for accessibility without barriers. i will thank all the different groups that have been recognizes so far language seas and and

list the community partners they're pushing us to make sure we doing the right things chinese for affirmative action and the air resource and organizing center and the burden heights center and the filipino center right her and the environmental economic rights they've been the heart of making sure our language access is clear and now we'll go about doing the several times. >>. your officer of community engagement and immigrant affairs will work with the departments sexual relation our city administer for the next 18 months to assess all the needs of each department and working with them working with the public safety and health to make sure their staffed and have all the support we've hired a to

going translators you he's started i know this is important and supervisor kim walked in that's important to all the communities citywide. i know that supervisor avalos is coming in now. he and i have been to the filipino community out in mission they want to make sure they get the services out there as well. we have generations of families that had barriers and with more accurate information coming out of the surveys we can do this if we set a threshold i'm plowed u proud to work with the contingent partners and get rid of the barriers. that self-say we're not doing the outreach it won't be just to the spanish and to going we need

to work with our south american communities that are growing so when we do big captions we want to reach attest to folks in competent ways this is the thrust of our city and i'll proud of this we reach everyone we can to make sure that language is not a barrier or culture. i want to thank naomi for your leadership i know the city leads this effort and over the next 18 months n reflected in our budget we'll have the resources to make sure that the to going will be the focus. in the a great city one i'm very proud of and proud to announce.

(clapping.) >> thank you, mr. mayor. next i'd like to introduce our board of supervisors president david you chiu who the the oldest of children from his us partners and making sure the departments are accessible to limited english speaking persons and everyone. thank you >> >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and bay we are noteding with each and every you have a board of supervisors they fighting with you i'm excited to be part of this because first and foremost today's announcements is an credible

vishgdz for the filipino community who has make sure in working with your policymakers we have a city government that's responsive to all of our community. i'm also excited like supervisor avalos and supervisor kim i'm the first childhood of a first-generation immigrants english was not they're first language as a civil rights center this is what we live for. when i came into office in 23450b9 i took the office of the coalition of asian-american that came to me and asked how can we moved with the ordinance in san francisco. in 2009 we made many changes to make sure our city was truly accountability with the vision seven hundred 9 billion government would be responsive for all residents we put in a

process that we knew was going to lead to today where community will come down and we'll make and certificate another language to transfer our materials to this is very special for me when i was in college i studied luke like all of us. it was amazing i get to represent the neighborhood where the former manila was there was a dark time in the 80s we were concerned with filipino and asian-americans being pushed out of our city years later that's changed to where we are today authenticity incredible we're here celebrating filipino-americans and other san

franciscans. i want to thank you you and end with one word that the mayor said. thank you very much >> thank you supervisor chiu. next i'd like to introduce supervisor jane kim who represented district 6 where we are today and she's been working diligently with the administer and the office of the k3w7b9 affairs to make sure we got her today and make sure we were able to certify to log as one language today >> thank you new mexico and welcome to the south of market it's important we celebrate this to log and filipino i'm here as a community that has celebrated

the home of betsy carmichael and this the the first school in the country to have a bilingual to log center. we represent the largest number of filipino-americans in san francisco. we're a little bit closer to city hall and it's great to be here at the center. it was really the community that pushed for the recognize of this community and to have this language recognized as one that all our departments should have to our of times could be included i want to recognize terry from our filipino center with rudy and he's here in the south market we have many south

market leaders and, of course, jess listen and mayor one of our residents long term leader. the mayor ed lee brought up the hotel. i was born the year of the fall of the eye hotel. i think everyone in the room has seen the documentary not only because asian-americans were leading the structural and have been an advocate whether voting and housing but amazing to see the coalition that fought for that hotel and chicano-americans who lived there the black panthers for our seniors to have a place to live we rebuilt this for citizens and the one thing i

can say about the community they persevere we're fighting the displacement again and the filipinos are leading this so the fight never dies and the leadership and advocacy still sustains so congratulations to every one i want to thank the mayor and naomi kelly we couldn't have done that without you and thank you to everyone. (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor kim next i'd like to introduce supervisor avalos who represents district 11 we can clap for that (clapping) district 11 has the largest

number of more than 3 thousand tagalog speakers and supervisor avalos has been a strong leader for tagalog. supervisor avalos >> thank you naomi was going to do a hearing on the certification of tagalog harassing as part of the language cease program and yesterday supervisor chiu was throbbing how many hearings we've been doing now i don't have to do a hearing because of the great leadership of the filipino community but all across san francisco i represent district 11 naomi said we have 3 thousand tagalog speakers and many more filipino speakers and in district 6 supervisor kim rival yaech in the filipino population but your government should be responsible to

everyone and canoeing had k347d in 2009 was about that it's lived up to the promise we want to make sure that the residents can take advantage of the federal benefits and the determination that wouldn't have come about without the support of the mayor and naomi and one who wasn't mentioned was a gentleman who (clapping) has done a lot of outreach in district 11 and in the filipino community and the young people that's served and thank you naomi and the may it's been a long time coming it's a great victory all the major victories that happen in the working with communities this is