of the board of the civic american heritage foundation it's a privilege to be the chair but san francisco we don't need the federal government to announce the heritage of asian-americans we do that 3 hundred and 65 days a year and if i could just for one moment shift from my at role i'd like to ask our folks to obtain standing so thank you. i all for your hard work. i hope everyone lee will come out on may 5 it's a pleasure to be the honoring the recipients.

>> we're lucky to have more supports from target we have casey with the human resources manager at the targeted thank you. it's an honor to be here today representing target as a bay area native it's great to be living in san francisco. part of my job farther is city toward is hiring a difference and targeted team to weigh employing employ around 8 hundred team members from your san francisco community. another facetious thing of working for target we give back every year 5 percent of your income that is over $4 million every single week that goes

directly into our community. for our other thing we like to give back to our community in the form of volunteering volunteering so we've given back over 4 hundred hours from january to now. i'm thrilled to make that even more hopefully doubling that. thank you very much for having us here today, we're excite to be part of the foundation and continue our partnership thank you. necklaces we very, very excited we're excited that our outgoing sponsors come back and we also. or want to put a warm welcome we're protest of our support and hoping i'll bank with us this is chris the recreational manager

of northern california (clapping.) what a privilege for that a u.s. bank to join the list of keep in mind companies that have been supporting apa heritage we believe in giving our time and talents and checkbook too important causes i'm proud of raymond kim our district manager serving open the board as vice chair and he talked me into writing the check. i'm a second generation immigrant to to country my grandparents came ear from greece at the turn the century we share 3 common things. the importance of education being one, i remember it was never an option to go to college just where and number 2 hard

work the importance of working hard at whatever you do strife to be you're very best. my like to tell my employees if you think you're going to be successful out hard work you'll be better off going to the 7 eleven and buying a loiter ticket. we understand it takes a village and in this case, it is the world best city of san francisco and coming together 0 work together we're all about that today. so i want to compliment each of you and having the qualities to bring this together and i'll leave i with one of my 235ish9 quotes i condition to celebrate need of each of us where we are

one. thank you (clapping.) so i authenticity before we go to announcing and inviting our co-chairs asia recipients i want to backtrack and talk about the friends many of the san franciscans they really mate not have an idea the amount is for the american heritage month. i hope you'll take the posters bag to our offices and communities as we also are going to have throughout the month of may the s a on cable stations sfgovtv with china channel 2 cpu

many media partners and thank you for helping to put our psa on channel 2 of this is a 30-second p.s.a. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the main thing is asians american heritage is 1/3rd of the apa heritage month please vicinity our website wwwapa.org

and you'll find out mortar very short and simple i think it is effective >> thank you, greg is a great volunteer. chris was talking about the apa i got mentions i was really, really lucky to be in a village in a team of many, many volunteers that come together for the last 6 months and really work on aspects of how we want to celebrate apa heritage month there recent who many names to mention we have a team of 32 i know that many of you are here and thank you alleyway perez that has spent a lot of time with the process. thank you al >> and france and everybody as city hall.

now i'd like to invite our co-chair to come and make announcements (clapping.) welcome and thank you so much for being here today. this is my favorite part every year ars as part of the celebration we honor individual that have an impact and every year i'm just blown away by the nomination that we've received i've learned so much we don't hear about your heros and people achieving groundbreaking innovations that's itself theme there this year. we received a number of really

fantastic nominations and it was really, really hard. so the criteria lansz which based on the theme of innovation are that the individuals chauchl it creative and graug and historical that this groundbreaking achievement has successfully laid a foundation for the next generation of innovator and opened doors of opportunity and lastly the individual has demonstrated a comment to the asian-american community. we've received a number of nominates based on the guidelines and it's stroll challenging because everyone has accomplished so much. >> after care of consideration of the career we've come to a unanimous vote for the 3 name in

the course the first of which the the this individual has pioneered the personal chip set and architecture that continues to be 2 of the foundation technologies in every pc today he's got technologies and it regarded as a silicon valley visionary. for his tireless also efforts he's honored by the business league of san francisco and k go tv and was a metal of honor rethat is awarded to the united states citizens. he's received many addict recognized in the philippines like the first eninvoluntary of

science and technology. >> didn't i say this is amazing how many of you knew this. this is fantastic. well, i'd like to announce an honor rejonathan. over the years jonathan has committed time to serving the community he hearsay been wildly revoked for the impact in achieving the solutions to help safe the lives of aichlts who are affected by transports of stem cells. the donor program registry only had one hundred and 3 that process pecks and finding a donor was impossible it kneeled him to do the nonprofit

organized dedicated to a increasing the availability of bone marrow transports for asian-american. john then initiative approach has led to a steady increase in the be the match registry and today over 8 hundred thousand asian-american donors registered in the united states. i personally know people who have lives been saved through this program. a graduate of san francisco sate his commercial insurance has owned many businesses and a champion for businesses and a council person a a delegate to the white house small business convention. jonathan leon

(clapping.) our third honoree is grand master. he has been revoked nationally and internationally for his preservation of the japan through the art form drumming. as part of his initiative approach say g has the to this case could joe that provides opportunity for men, women, and children from all walks of life to learn about 85 could drumming. c g has been trail blaurgz and k4r5bd with music's people like tony bennet. among the many honors with his

name for the national endowment for the arts for authentic and contributions to his field. grand master say g. (clapping.) >> congratulations guarantee again, our our honorees please attend may 5th to honor them further. thank you. >> this is an oscar too (laughter). >> so i want to thank you all for coming to the press conference and come to our celebration on may at the 530 we'll have a great ceremony with

nuclear cultural performances with reception to follow. thank you and invite all our friends. thank

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>> 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