calendar >> those are for a call if the member objects a matter can be removed. >> colleagues anyone wants to sever any of those. 32 and does item 34 need to be severed as well >> yes. mr. president. >> on item 33. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen. there are latino heritageizing. those recesses are adapted item 32. to declare april immigrant

family members to honor them for their contributions to san francisco >> colleagues to ask for your support given the contributions that the immigrants have made to the city and the ongoing efforts to have comprehensive immigration reform once again it's important for san francisco. to recognize cabinet families so we declare it immigrant family month here in san francisco >> colleagues, can we take those same house, same call? . we'll take that without objection.. item 334 >> it's a schedule to hold a proposal of the successor agency of the city on the resolution to consider a ground lease on a parcel on beale street known as the transbay project with the housing. mr. president, i'm asking for a

correction by sdrooik the date to approve the committee at a may 6th >> colleagues, can i have a motion to that effect to change the date that our clerk has asked for second by supervisor tang. we'll take that without objection. the amendment passes and under the underlying motion same house, same call? . we'll take that without objection. it's approved. madam clerk, call the memorials >> on behalf of the supervisor avalos. the late regina >> madam clerk, any other business before this commission? . >> no mr. president, that

concludes our good afternoon.

>> 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 one and many more good things to come. thank you >> thank you supervisor avalos.

so we're here at the bye hi, 91 had an center. one the programs is the veterans equity centers to honor the veterans in world war ii to provide culturely and listen giving justice. the leaders is a woman that should why in the community for many years please welcome the director (clapping.) thank you frrment i would like to thank the community for role moving this issue forward in a bye tin spirit we are resilient and making sure that everybody comes together in moving forward. i want to thank did leadership of the board of supervisors who

are present karen downey. supervisor avalos and supervisor kim for listening to the constitutes and your responsive to whatever they're asking for the language access. we thank you to our mayor, mayor ed lee for making sure he supports our community. i know about decades it is so telling how will i other people but a service provide out of market inform 23 years and i see the mayor smiling because i was the interim he always mentioned that but thought 23 years in my previous life i was working with at risk youth in the juvenile justice system you don't know how it's been difficult to to

the parents who are responsible for the courts system. there are at that time, i believe there was only one filipino probation officer at the center so you can image there's a lot of them and few of us to speak tagalog. let's fast forward to my work of the 15 years. language has been very, very important because a lot of them have been fighting for their benefits, a lot of them have's have been denied their benefits and going to hospitals and that's been difficult to get the service because it would in their language. and even if they say do you speak english they'll say yes, but when it comes to an official

document understanding the system they revert to their and a half tongue and a lot of them them speak tagalog what does it mean it have thank god for our languages for our immigrant community in the area of housing what side if mean how many people have not applied for available housing because of the language how many people have not been able to voice, you know, a lot of the, you know, if they have housing they don't understand there are laws and ordinances that protect them. for workers how many actually have been very silent sb about injustices in the workplace because they don't speak the language. so today is a celebration it maybe like we said it came a

little bit late but in the near future once we get a lot of the services in the city in los angeles materials in los angeles we open a lot of gates and hopefully, the number of people who are not can you tell me services in the city will come forward and that's a victory because we're truly responsive to the needs of the filipino community. thank you (clapping.) thank you luis. next i'd like to have - say a few words is the filipino consul general (clapping.) thank you administer kim and mayor edwin lee and supervisor chiu and supervisor avalos and supervisor kim and the members of the filipino community. i would i want to say you can't

imagine how appreciative we are and i'm sure it's significant for them because right here the very core and home the filipino community of san francisco we've started to take tagalog lessons from everyone starting with the mayor. serially speaking mr. mayor, we take great pride in being in the city of the care of the community. san francisco as you said is a city of diverse community. very the ordinance that's being passed rec the filipino has a third language is certainly a recollection of the transcribes of this great community the filipinos. and certainly its very significant for them because not

only is it access to language and services because it makes them open up the city to themselves and feel like a home to them. certainly for any filipinos for the first time in the bay area this is wonderful and truly different when they're far away from home. i want to thank you. again mr. mayor and supervisors ms. city administer ms. kelly for the camp poosht timing for the community >> (clapping) >> thank you next i'd like to introduce terry valencia who the founder the community center terry served as the national alliance for filipino concerns and a great partner with the

office of urban affairs part of the network and was helpful during the 2010 consensus so terry (clapping.) thank you all for being here today for spornl this press convention and i went talking about this specific, you know, issue in our community and i thank you, again, for lending our area in moving this forward. i forgot to say (speaking foreign word). i'm not a fluent tagalog speaker i want to ucla but with my limited focuscy i had to do we have to help our filipino mes