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 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.

>> hi today we have a special edition of building san francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about san francisco's earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. ♪ >> the next episode of stay safe, we have alicia johnson from san francisco's department of emergency management. hi, alicia thanks to coming >> it is a pleasure to be here with you. >> i wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in san francisco. >> well, one of the most things

that people can do is to make sure that you have a plan to communicate with people who live both in and out of state. having an out of state contact, to call, text or post on your social network is really important and being able to know how you are going to communicate with your friends, and family who live near you, where you might meet them if your home is uninhab hitable. >> how long do you think that it will be before things are restored to normal in san francisco. >> it depends on the severity of the earthquake, we say to provide for 72 hours tha, is three days, and it helps to know that you might be without services for up to a week or more, depending on how heavy the shaking is and how many after shocks we have. >> what kind of neighborhood and community involvement might you want to have before an earthquake to make sure that you are going to able to have the support that you need. >> it is important to have a good relationship with your

neighbors and your community. go to those community events, shop at local businesses, have a reciprocal relationship with them so that you know how to take care of yourself and who you can rely on and who can take care of you. it is important to have a battery-operated radio in your home so that you can keep track of what is happening in the community around and how you can communicate with other people. >> one of the things that seems important is to have access to your important documents. >> yes, it is important to have copies of those and also stored them remotely. so a title to a home, a passport, a driver's license, any type of medical records that you need need, back those up or put them on a remote drive or store them on the cloud, the same is true with any vital information on your computer. back that up and have that on a cloud in case your hard drive does not work any more. >> in your home you should be prepared as well. >> absolutely.

>> let's take a look at the kinds of things that you might want to have in your home. >> we have no water, what are we going to do about water? >> it is important for have extra water in your house, you want to have bottled water or a five gallon container of water able to use on a regular basis, both for bathing and cooking as well as for drinking. >> we have this big container and also in people's homes they have a hot water heater. >> absolutely, if you clean your hot water heater out regularly you can use that for showering, drinking and bathing as well >> what other things do people need to have aren't their home. >> it is important to have extra every day items buy a couple extra cans of can food that you can eat without any preparation. >> here is a giant can of green giant canned corn. and this, a manual can opener, your electric can opener will not be working not only to have one but to know where to find

it in your kitchen. >> yes. >> so in addition to canned goods, we are going to have fresh food and you have to preserve that and i know that we have an ice chest. >> having an ice chest on hand is really important because your refrigerator will not be working right away. it is important to have somebody else that can store cold foods so something that you might be able to take with you if you have to leave your home. >> and here, this is my very own personal emergency supply box for my house. >> i hope that you have an alternative one at home. >> oh, i forgot. >> and in this is really important, you should have flashlights that have batteries, fresh batteries or hand crank flashlight. >> i have them right here. >> good. excellent. that is great. additionally, you are going to want to have candles a whistle, possibly a compass as well. markers ifyo