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 members access service and helped people to get food stamps and get legal assistance to fight for their reporters. a lot of the folks are doing this in district 6. i want to thank you naomi kelly for your work and supervisor avalos for proposing the amendment and passing it in 2009. your staff amy and so many folks to thank supervisor kim and supervisor avalos and april and supervisor avalos office staff and also a couple of supervisors not here supervisor campos and his office and supervisor ed mar

were helpful in the process. there are so many people that helps to make this happen we're standing on the shoulder the filipino community that's been here almost a century fighting for housing and workers to live in san francisco. i i know supervisors that have been representing their districts 6 and 11 we know we've hit the 10 thousand folk people saipg i don't speak enough english and the united states is so important there is an under count of folks so we're very happy to get thirty to this point it took sprierns are pioneers of the community we're happy we're here today.

i mention everyday nonprofit staff nurses and government employees and even school acknowledge children have translating for their parents and grandparent and they're not being recognized but they have to the tagalog the official language in the philippines is a great thing it's a city of gunpoint and welcoming of immigrants and all those english proficient consultants. the filipino center is a proud member of the language access network and we're proud to work with the network with adrian and others and our new speciality santa draw who will be working

with (clapping) going forward so. the process is new this is the first language certified under the language act and we look forward to working with other community partners to certify other languages and hope to backing make the process better so we can make it a strong step forward as possible. we looked at to working with sandra and with the burn heights center and f ad s when is our sponsor today and bishop there are members of active leadership and grassroots we want to thank everyone for coming again, this is a big step forward a century of filipinos in the united states and this is >>right. step to recognize the

contribution and the strength of our community in san francisco. thank you all for coming here today and all your work (clapping.) thank you terry. i would like to introduce grass lee for affirmative action dpras focuses on racial justice issues. c aa is part of the language access network and is with the immigrant affairs. grace (clapping.) so i'll try to make this quick i, you know, today is wednesday i'm thinking of the irony because the staff is asking for the reform so today is a wonderful celebration of how lucky we are in san francisco is

have so many supervisors and mayor here in support of the community. as was mentioned we were involved if the effort of the access language and all those were in putting in place a policy that would allow our city to adapt to the changes here we are today, we have partners with the access here the burn heights center and we have a new partner we know this work is difficult it's resource intensive it takes time and money and train but at the same time the community partners we're going to go back to our offices and continue the hard work to work with the community they feel awe ashamed

or whatever in light of that today there's no important, important to recommend that. today is exciting and as terry mentioned the community has been doing this work for a very long time. we have our elected officials it's san francisco at its best today. so thank you (clapping.) all right. well, thank you this ends our press convention and the mayor and others are here for limited questions.day.

>> thank you for being here today to welcome air lingus to san francisco international airport i'm john martin the

airport director i want to send a welcome to lingus to christofi mueller (clapping) joined by a number of digital tars including the mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee. mr. mayor (clapping) for san francisco and the city of cork the sister city has a relationship we're happy to welcome the deputy mayor laurie king stone raise your hand. and the cork chamber of commerce ceo conner healy. thank you (clapping) also present from the san francisco sister city committee the chairman during mat.

thank you (clapping) and the business committee chair jim. (clapping.) and a warm welcome to the consul general of ireland phillip grant (clapping) and we have a large irish community in san francisco a lot of those folks joined us we want to welcome san francisco former gentleman representing dianne feinstein (clapping) we're pleased to have ireland's award winning service ireland and san francisco share special connections including strong hi, tech industry and a general with

the bus community and 20u6r78 industry. on either side great connections of service where passengers fly connecting to bubonic listen and san francisco one hundred connecting flights to benefit from. we really aim to provide world-class set of standards for the industry it exceeds customer expectations and we're reviving one-hundred $2 million in upgrading our facilities including this bar-and-grill terminal to add amenity and additional services and building a new 4 hundred room 5 star hotel connected by your train system we're committed to have the services for the airline

partners to air lingus and all the passengers using the airport we're to going to make this the easiest airport connection airport. it's now great pleasure to introduce the mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee (clapping) >> thank you john. congratulations to, you know, last year, we had 16.9 million investors come electro there 0 the airport that's express or implied so i want to congratulate john. more and more i'm coming out for events this is another wonderful occasions welcome the ceo from air lingus they spent 10 hours

in the air on this flight the first and he hopefully, we'll endanger this in the future and because the relationship with e.r. land i want to see that san francisco and ireland are benefiting from our economy because of the relationship. certainly culturely and with the presence of our business community and sister city that's a strong reflection. over a year ago i had an opportunity to go on my first visit to cork a year and a another thing. we had a great time representing san francisco and being the the chairperson the master person of the parade for the stds in

coverage we're talking about where we got the responsibility name of the lee river in coverage this was one of my first invests and i also met a group of kids there when i was brought to the black castle center where they teach off-street parking projects on science my technology. i made a mental note i had a great time watching the kids and being kathy how they draw in a 3-d way and seeing the excitement. i made a mental note if we're lucky enough i ended my trip meeting with the chamber of commerce and conner reflected open that we were he will hopefully a decision to regig this direct flight and i really want to be gracious and grateful

to the a airline for making this appropriate decision i want to welcome not only the crew and ceo but on this integral flight thanks to the generosities of those we sponsored 5 of the kids for could do joe's to be in the trip they're here today, i give them some cookies with my face on them (laughter) i figured john self-we gave cookies out to the arriving passengers from the international flights we'll jump over the sky tracks someday; right? we were just laughing and celebrating we were named the third most important airport in

the world they consider our airport to be friendly if we did nor cookies co- do joe's. they're to spend 5 days here we have a lot of technologies copy companies in the be sure but we look at bubonic listen and they're considered the nation capital of the world and from bubonic listen not only from europe but from east africa and here in san francisco we consider ourselves the nation capital we have a lot of technology companies her and the kids will be visit game developments and companies their bebe at the academy of science and the "x"