>> 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