share that this year we did something new, we did a spot check program so we are compiling the findings of that, but what it was was eventually a secret shopper program and our staff and volunteers were able to get a realtime assessment of how city departments are performing. we didn't do this in an adversarial manner, we just wanted to have a documentation. as the budget analyst's office testified to, there has often been incomplete information and we have been trying to find out what the community experience is on the ground and we look forward to sharing that. additionally i did want to say from our network we think these amendments are moving us in the right direction. we very much would like to stay involved in the implementation. we know city departments face a lot of challenges with resources and training and we would love to perform a perspective of what culturally competent language

services really look like to the people who are trying to access them. thank you. >> hi my name is teresa imperial, i'm for the bill for housing program. we are very appreciative of these language access ordinance amendments. kind of want to give an idea of what we do what we do is help in filling out applications having people have greater access to housing. and when the article said no more tiers, with this amend about no more tier departments and all departments would require language access as of now, there will be applications themselves are not in different languages which is such a barrier for different communities to apply. that alone for us, too, we conduct

workshops in different languages and when developers themselves conduct their workshop it's only english. so this is something that is, the nortion and even post-lottery application notices, those are also in english. having these departments required to have language accessability is really a great thing. we are in support of this language access ordinance and the amendments on this. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is chris draw officer from veteran's equity center and housing program. i am probably going to say the same thing, but i want to thank you, supervisor tang, for bringing this forward. it's something we have been struggling with. i have been in community development for 20 years now

and i have to say working in immigrant and low income communities the no. 1 issue i have seen and probably why we are organized in certain ways is because people don't have access understanding what is happening, not just access to systems that will help them but also information that will change their kpbs, their neighborhood, in very big ways. i am happy this is something that will make it a level playing feed. and with that i

want, i know you have signage at the recommendation but i want you to also look at applications, you know, access and try to bring that to (inaudible). >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hi, my name is carolyn toleron, i work for the veteran's equity but i also come here, a san francisco

resident who has applied for affordable housing and i have applied to the mayor's office of housing community development below market rate rental program and i have stood in line in some of those developments trying to drop off an application and i've seen folks who have been turned away because their primary language is not english. and i've seen families struggling like filling out housing applications so i really do want to push for looking at language access as one of the barriers to access to affordable housing. >> thank you very much. are there any other member s of the public who would like to comment? seeing none, we will close public comment. supervisor tang >> thank you again so much for everyone who came here and shared your comments. just speaking on the issue of applications, that's certainly part of the scope of the ordinance in terms of document translation. so whether you

are the planning department that has permit applications or mayor's office of housing with housing applications, those are all things we do want to see brought in line. i think our goal and why we wanted to eliminate the tier system is that it really creates a false sense of, okay, maybe i don't need to translate these things or i don't need to provide interpretation services and we thought it was important that all of us, all city departments have to be brought in line. the second component was that we really wanted to strengthen ocea as sort of the public for where we can access information, seek help for the various departments and so we're going to look to see how we could do that through this year's budget process. so, with that, i know that our nonprofit partners are going to be a huge part of this effort throughout the years, it's not going to end here. with that i would like to actually just make a motion for the amendments that i stated earlier and leave supervisor

yee's opportunity to make his amendment at the full board. if we could take that without objection. >> we can take that without objection. >> thank you very much. >> and we will forward to the board with recommendation. >> motion to move if forward to the full board with positive recommendation. >> we will take that without objection and thank you for working on this very important effort. okay can we go on back to item no. 8? i'm not sure we called that yet. we did? okay, great. so we did call item no. 8 and this item, what we can do is move forward as is to the full board. >> i don't think i did call it. i did not call it. item 8 is a motion (inaudible) supervisor david campos to the golden gate bridge highway transportation district. >> this item we can move

forward and if there are changes we can make them at that time. >> so moved. >> we will take that -- oh before taking that without objection we'll open this up for public comment. any member of the public like to comment on item no. 8? seeing no member of the public come forward we will close public comment on item no. 8 and we'll take that motion without objection. madam clerk, do we have any other items before us? >> that concludes our business for today. >> okay, we are adjourned, thank you. (meeting adjourned).

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♪ >> the san francisco playground's hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire

neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong and arts can crafts. >> you can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, community members and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪

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possibility report on action in closed session. president scott. >> i am ready to entertain a motion as to whether or not the provisions outlined in the agenda whether we wish to disclose the session of closed session. >> i move that we do not disclose closed session. >> it's been moved and seconded. is there any discussion on the item? is there any public comment? hearing no public comment all those in favor signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed? it's passed unanimously and that we do not disclose. >> number 5. >> now we're at item number 5. >> item 5 action item vote to elect whether to disclose anything from closed session.

president president. >> i am ready to entertain a motion. >> i move that we do not disclose. >> is there a second? >> second. >> it's moved and seconded that we do not discuss the discussion item. is there any public comment? hearing no public comment all those in favor signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed? so ordered. [gavel] we're now ready to move to regular session. i am disturbed they're not moving in here. what is the problem? are they going to march on the house or something? >> [inaudible] >> okay. we will take a brief pause. >> send the