kind invitation over stds is it fair to say a fantastic visit and really positive development of the relationship that our mayor a ongoing from strength to strength. i'd like to mention to another person in the room to laurie and others we've got the vice council kevin thank you and others as well. this is a huge roll in accepting our companies in general and in terms of encouraging people to encourage the location of visit and we have representatives of the city city group and it's

fantastic to see those drient young people since 10 o'clock this morning's i have no idea how this has gotten to where it is, however, i'd like to say in terms of ireland's a major center for technology and investment and in this context cork for that our own indigenous keypads and so on but particularly for investment from california silicon valley and the bay area. extending back apple sit down up their european operations and now employees many people outside of the u.s. from cork

and since then we've seen significant investments. i've heard about the companies that are based in cork and have taken the time to be here today and dell and other companies here. we thought it was really important that those companies that are cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. poppe people are here today so see what's happening to experience the positive it's which our kids observatory and have done a fantastic job in working with adrian and others. also one of the key challenges nobody in terms of the housing the people to fill the roles to allow that sector to grow it's

on a inspiration looking at the core kids coming over from san francisco and looking to the future in a number of years time, you know, those young people polish can be working together on projects working in employment fascinates fantastic companies no matter where they're working the skills the san francisco kids get to work with cork and give us the opportunity to come to san francisco and it's huge and for those who are not aware cork is spreading around the world. it's we need more people to get involved in the movement people young people thinking about technology and building up their

skills and helping that sector to grow it's one of the key messages that cork is bringing here today and in support of mayor ed lee and messing office particle his staff and also particular thanks to the academy of science for the fantastic welcome and looking to the tour we are going to have later so thank you very much (clapping) >> and i think we want to see some of the stuff our kids have been doing so let me introduce adrian i think he's dpon going to introduce us to another adrian. >> so colleagues i'm a research at the obtain try i'm going to give you a quick synopsis.

we thank mayor ed lee and the office for the opportunity i know the kids are tired to be here. we're very, very thankful for your generous offer and again, the academy of science in making this happen so thank you. and just a little bit of background we're an obtain try in coverage and may not make much sentence so we obvious and this is a little bit what the kids are working on this morning some you may or may not know we have responsibilityic telescopes in california and the kids were using data from the the telescope to create images. this is what public scientists do all the time we've had kids

using those same skigz. the very first thing they took ugly data and learned the skills to do a beautiful images. they created a cool game. i'm going to show you i am not a mentor but this morning our mentors were the kids our kids a quick round of applause (clapping) and finally i'm going to introduce adriana great name (laughter) just to show you he's made a great creative thing here

(clapping) and he'll speak about that >> i made a game called save the earth. let's start. the background is the focus this morning and the error keys use the right and left to shoot at the met reiterate then it explodes and keep on doing that. i can't say this well but looufr. the vegetable and time ran out and there you go (clapping.) so just to finish up that's the sort of work the kids are doing

they're playing and making games but learning about the computers along the way (clapping.) yeah. >> and last but not least we have some words for our mayor. >> (clapping) well, everybody welcome again to our california candy sciences i've citywide my share of astroids with the games i got to touch and feel greg and meg and alison thank you your staff for hosting us here today it's incredible to be here not only teaches as you what's going on in detail we give us a clue of the future. this is why we decided to take

advantage of this and it started yesterday and bring some residence of cork island and the observatory here to a participant with our middle school kids. thank you all for being her. we're succeeding and i know hidrosis draw menu defenses is here we've been investing in our middle schools all of the middle schools as of this year will be open and wified up with ipads throughout the whole middle school (clapping) and generous donations from individuals but we want to take advantage of the fact we have cod can do joe's that are here having fun and part of the our

international folks so this is another opportunity to create a presence and maybe some of the industry represented will join us from the academy and promote 24 so kids can understand what the rest of the word is doing. it's gay development right now because it's fun but if you reuse those tools over and over and introduce user with new tools whether sound effects they've done really, really well or the crafting of the drawings using those tools gets you in the doorway of our city the new you bay area jobs have a lot to do with technology and when you master those tools you'll be able to do more what field

whether the height field or game investment or bio life science the discovery to create the next drug that will save the world we are challenged with those things and technology is a way forward it begins with the story of the astroids tomorrow we could be striking diseases in terms of cancer. this is great stuff and i'm so glad the academy has offered the space and time thank you to the mentors that have come over and the corporate sponsors this is something i want to tell the kids have all the fun greg told me where is my kitty told him i'm a guest you have choid

you'll introduce user and you'll know that is the secret password in the future. it's my way of saying thank you also congratulating our folks for coming her they'll pride themselves not only that the center offers but the ideas and have a good time to elapse for our middle schools and industry and education we begin to match up the skill sets for the 21st century jobs and technology is going to be absolutely necessary and to learn and have fun in doing so with more skill sets you may have not to have. so thanks everything and detective mayor of corky got to

be the grand marshall on stds in ireland over a year ago did you ever see a chinese less than con (laughter) it was our way of creating this and we have 18 sisters cities their president to create opportunities of business and investment all over the world and they look to san francisco to be a really great partnership that's another great reason why you kids are really lucky to be in the city and i'm the lucky to be your mayor and parents mayor, i want to do things that secure your future you can look towards us and say who was the mayor when we needed a better education and just less than 10

years you'll be recruited by one of those powerful tech companies and maybe i can be in there and don't have to be mayor (laughter) thank you very much and congratulations (clapping) and so like mayors often do i get to declare today to declare this the day for san francisco (clapping) the could 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