while i don't speak cantonese or mandarin, i have gone out with people who do. david chen has gone out to translate for me and we were worried about the scams that people were pulling on the chinese and we went to the homes and handed out the reusable bags with the warnings printed on them. we do reach out to the community and we have an officer who is the one who meets with the merchants. it's also a functions of seniority of being able to make the day watch and we have as many people out there as we can that speak languages. >> thank you. that's helpful to know how that works. i wanted to ask about the housing unit and i'm glad to hear from some of your leaders of public housing in the community. what are some of the challenges. there was a mention of different logistics. what in terms of partnerships of getting them, it seems there has already been improvement. i'm just thinking of what other plans there are in the public housing units that you have. >> we do have housing unit by lawrence. he's doing a fantastic job. he's really engaged. people are speaking v

officers can be certified in mandarin, cantonese, spanish, russian. we are hoping and working with other divisions within the city to get the process moving more quickly. on the street patrol officers, they're using their own cell phones to call language line. on a real level of equipment, officers need a better way to ask his language line. we are working with the department and think outside of the box. bilingual officers use digital recorders because of department requires them to tape interviews with victims, witnesses and suspects. the department was able to provide 50 digital recorders. we need more. let me turn this over to deputy chief beal, a vital member of our team. >> i don't know if i am a vital member of the group. i was assigned to represent the chief on this group. is and as i walked in the door that day and saw the members of the group i knew that i was in trouble. i knew the group was going to be extremely motivated, extremely directed, i immediately began getting homework assignments from these women. it's a great cause. i was glad

they speak cantonese, mandarin, tagalog and spanish. that's important because the largest number of non-english interviews we conduct at the occ are in spanish. for languages other than the ones i mentioned we will obtain interpretation services. last year we conducted 14 cases in spanish, 5 in cantonese and one in american sign language. if there is additional information would you like to receive about the occ while you are here this evening. as i mentioned active senior investigator sherrie hall is here to answer why you questions and we have brochures available here. that conclude my remarks. thank you for your attention. >> thank you. for questions, thank you very much. please call line item 3d. >> commissioners report and president's report. >> i have nothing else to report. anything else you would like to report? any announcements? >> next meeting will be held on june 5th in city hall and that meeting we'll have a presentation on pedestrian safety. >> thank you. >> we again, we are going to public comment after the captain's pres

my buddy did acid once, and he immediately could speak cantonese.in faux cantonese] - before we get into that, though,

the back of this hall will be leaving them for the parents and this message will be repeated in cantonese right now. >> the regular meeting for the board of education will come to order. >> roll cal please >> mr. wynns. >> here. >> norton. >> here. >> wo ng? >> thank you. >> fewer. >> maufas. >> mendoza. >> ly. >> and all right, i need an approval of bore%backer board members. we have minutes from may 18th, may have are hear and motion and a second. >> moved. >> good. noe. now could i hear a second? >> thank you. >> are there any corrections. >> roll call? >> ly. >> thank you. >> fewer? >> thank you. >> yes. >> thank you. >> mr. hainy. >> yes. >> maufas. >> mendoza. >> murase. >> wynns. >> yes. >> five ayes. >> item b, presentation for the board of he had daysing, supervisor carranza. >> thank you, mr. norton, good evening before i their my thoughts for the ink [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> he just announced that if you need spanish translation services the translator are in another meeting and they will be here shortly and so despair and until then you have got me. >> thank you.

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i'm taking cantonese and mandarin classes to reach out. i hope that for members of the community this was an enlightening experience to learn more. i thank everyone for participating, and the organizational aspects by the respective staff. >> vice president marshall: i like when the commission joins meetings, some more than others. there is more of a nexus. we should do it again. much sooner than never. and that we stay on top of this. there are times when just because things happen, there is a focus on it. partly what is happening the city and elsewhere, it will stay on this, reconvene, we can really do something about not only domestic violence but the triage that we have been talking about. a bit strong support that and i know my fellow commissioners would also. >> is there anything further? we would like to adjourn in honor of -- >> i defer to commissioner -- >> if you allow me a personal moment to adjourn in memory of my mother-in-law. is rather appropriate because she was the mother of the san francisco police officer. she immigrated

(speaking cantonese) >> good evening the regular meeting the board of education of the school district is now called to order. role please. (calling names) thank you. please join me in the pledge of allegiance okay. approval the board minutes there are none together now item b the superintendent report >> thank you president norton good evening everyone. in case you haven't noticed we're less than three weeks away from our end of our school year. in particular i was particularly proud last week that tavern appreciation week was here and we honored our award recipients. as you know all of us in san francisco said thank you to all our students. the celebration of our work of our teachers can't be confined to a week but we're proud to work alongside the teachers to educate our teachers. we are were on may significant we honored our teachers at the at&t san francisco giants home game. we were extremely proud of our teachers who wore their jerseys and we had them recognized before the crowd. this week we'll be honoring our principle award folks. but i'd like to name the names the teachers a

speak cantonese to them to get them saved. this happened, by the way, to one of my relatives. jesus appeared to her and spoke to her in cantonese and she got saved, never been to church, became a godly lady reading the bible and never been to church. after that she got healed also, by the way. jesus appeared to her, spoke to her in cantonese, my mother's side. no kidding. jesus can speak cantonese. okay, so don't be surprised. he's lord, amen. jesus is lord. even tamil, whatever it is. because of you, because you are saved, all right, he will come in, even in that limbo zone, whatever it is. they are not so lost to the point that he cannot contact them, all right? look at this, drop down. the guy brought paul and silas back and tended to their wounds, but look at this, the last part. "and he rejoiced, having believed in god with all his household." so not only he believed, his whole house believed. so there's a still responsibility, of course, but it's so much easier when someone in the family believes. now there's a huge door

our offices refer small business decisions to the office of small business, especially [inaudible] cantonese, /phapbld /reupb and business owners. in addition to providing direct assistance to small business, the small business commission has heard and advised you on over 33 pieces of legislation in the past year. of these, over 90 percent were recommended for approval. when modifications were recommended, many of you took our feedback and incorporated them. we work hard to [inaudible] needs of the city. we want to sincerely thank the board of super /sraoeutz so ares for all your collaboration for making san francisco a better place for business to thrive. i would like to thank the departments that we have worked with for our matters, including public utilities commission and others. thank you. >> every time we do a ceremony like to make a presentation, sometimes alphabetically. what'd like to do today is use our seating arrangement as a way to go through the presentation, starting with supervisor tang. >> i'd like to call up our

the o cc is staffed by investigators who speak several languages including tagalog, cantonese, mandarin, spanish. our case in takes in 2012, 98 were english and 1 percent in american sign language. the types of allegations that were received by the occ in at this included unwarranted action. about a third of the allegations, conduct reflecting discredit. close to a third. neglect duties and 3rd percent racial and less than one percent. none of the unnecessary force allegations were sustained. 2069 allegations were made impact the 28 officers. of those 2069 allegations 57 percent were not sustained. 31 percent were proper conduct. 3 percent of the allegations were sustained, 4 percent unfounded, 3 percent no finding and 2 percent finding withdrawn. >> looking at sustained allegations by type, by far neglect of duty allegations were the largest percentage. 63 percent of the sustained allegations . unwarranted action 16 percent. conduct reflecting discredit, 29 percent, neglect of duty 26 percent, unnecessariary force 9 percent. the o cc avoided a backlog in 2012. it closed all but four of

oh, and he says to say (translated from cantonese) "you still owe him five bucks." your accent needs a little work. >>> there, you see the radar weather map and oklahoma city in the middle of a tornado hit by a monster tornado at least a half a mile wide roaring through the suburbs and in particular the city of moore flattening the neighborhood and disrupting an elementary school. winds up to 200 mimp, at least 51 are dead. some homes there lit ablaichlz others leveled to the ground. banks and stores, homes none were spared and all were hit. congressman jane langford, he was in a suburban neighborhood in shawnee. and congressman thank you for being with us. what you saw from yesterday's tornado is, i suppose nothing compared to today. >> what is amazing is that this is a two day storm. we saw just devastating results of that. and if this won't have been a rural area, it would have been worse. and today, even worse that it went through an urban area. so two major areas back to back. >> i was talking to a lady this morning who said they got notice her husband said i t

for spanish speakers or cantonese speakers. >> the chair has called the meeting to order. >> pledge of allegiance. roll call. commissioners. we have a quorum and also with us this evening we have the chief of the police and the director of office and city complaints. >> thank you very much, inspector monroe. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our wednesday may 29, 2013, san francisco police commission meeting and this is our monthly meeting in the community. you will hear from commissioners about how much they enjoy doing this. we go to the community once a month, we go each district station. we do 10 meetings a year and now it's time for captain falvey, who was former lieutenant falvey to watch these. tonight's agenda we are going to have presentations of two certificates for two citizens and we are going to have a report from captain falvey about the district and after this report we'll have public comment. we encourage the public from the community to tell us about your concerns of this community. we have some regulars in city hall whchl -- when we come out, we enjoy this. we introduc

we are able to provide our services, follow-up questions in english,sp cantonese, and mandarin. and then -- and then, roger, you will -- >> yes. i am an attorney in private practice. the laws in this area are strict compliance laws, and they are very specific. the federal law since 1990 indicates issues from 1998. all businesses, such as a grocery store, a dentist's office, restaurants, a doctor's office, virtually anything that a member of the public comes into the -- comes into needs to be a barrier-free. we will go over what barriers are. every public accommodation needs to be wheelchair-accessible. there are also other other forf disability. most of the issues we are hearing about are wheelchair accessibility issues. there is a small group of private individuals who are wheelchair-down that go around the city and they look at small businesses. and i dare say anybody in small restaurants have some accessibility issues. it is another attempt at making your building wheelchair accessible. i am not sure which of you may be merchants and which it may be landlords. the law applies

insult i had today, that i come in here and they have signs in the place, spanish on this side and cantonese on this side. i have lived a lifetime of negro in the black and you know it will be about our color. you see you don't know how white people do us, why we don't have nuthin now. the highest place for black people to go to jail is in california. they told us if we would let them put the train down third street, they would give us parking. that damn train has been there. you need to wake up and tell these people what we need and stop begging for trivial things that they ain't going to give you no ways. >> next group of speakers district 11, marina garero. district 10 mrs. hughes. district 11 (inaudible) and district 10 austin. marina greer? ginnesus. yes. marina garehr. denise hughes. >> hello, everybody. can y'all hear me? okay. i am denise hughes, i am a resident of hunter's view of san francisco. living in hunter's view i encourage the department leaders and effective officers to work with cbos in order to provide the desperately needed services to my community. transportation, jobs,

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house with some of our asian partners, and that was a concern not the specific incident, speaking cantonese or another language in the person realizing they cannot make the report and the person at the other end realizing that she was not making a report. i don't know the logistics. can the police service aid take a report? >> any type of sexual offense or domestic violence they're not authorized. we're coming up with the card to explain to the victim that the psa, is unable to do so, but stay there, we will get an officer to take the report and explain the process to tel then helped. >> to take up on this comment, at the neighborhood meetings that we have had in the past month, i'm glad that you are wrapping up more certified bilingual officers. it makes the victim not want to come back and make a report. certain refugee groups, particular the cambodian, laotian, and now iraqi women are distrusting of government. i would like to suggest that maybe we can have partnership with our technology partners to have particular tablets and face time, and split screen. often times when we are speakin

oh, and he says to say (translated from cantonese) "you still owe him five bucks." your accent needs a little work. >>> hi, everyone. we're live from america's news headquarters. i'm jamie colby. >>> there was a frightening scene at new york international -- newark international airport when plane forced to make an emergency landing overnight had its landing gear malfunction mid air. it happened just after the u.s. airways flight took off from philadelphia. the pilot had to perform a belly landing. crews quickly doused the plane with foam. none of the 31 passengers were hurt. the feds are working to determine the cause of the crash. >>> a potential break in a case of little madeline mckahn. british police say they're investigating new leads and they've actually identified several persons of interest who they plan to question. mccann vanished six years ago from her family's vacation home in portugal. the parents left her and her twin brothers home alone while they were at a nearby restaurant. i'm jamie colby. i'll send you back to neil cavuto on business and all your

we are people who speak mandarin, cantonese, tagalog, russian, french, vietnamese and english. we are just people there, a lot of people together. we have some developmentally disabled seniors at the scenier center. one of them plays the conga in our drum circle each month. we get our funding through a community services contract with the city. a third of that contract goes to paying our rent each month, each year, i'm sorry. and that rent a year is $50,000 approximately. i was told that i could ask mayor lee when i was here, and i would ask you to talk to our landlord. maybe you can get a rent reduction for us. that would be very helpful. thank you. thank you. (applause) >> all right, thank you, linda. so, now i'd like to call up caroline from the jewish family and children services. anyone from jfcs here? okay, all right. so, i guess we'll move on to public comment, then, or summer jobs, actually, here. >> good morning, everyone, mayor lee, supervisors, department heads. eric mcdonald chief operating officer for united way of the bay area. we are thrilled to be partnering aga

an out reach team that is going to be bi lingual in english, and spanish and either mandarin or cantonese and the parents participating in the staff monthly task forces and focus on the under served communities sort of the southeastern section of the city. we want to shift our education deliverables to be less in classroom lesson and more assemblies. we are taking up precious time in the classroom and the school climate is stressed that we should really be moving out that have and reaching more parents. so to educate the kids, we are actually going to do more assemblies. and do bike rodeos such as the weekend festivals and they will be with the family friends and so we can educate the entire family and also get a curriculum established in alamena county and purchase that and bring it to the school so if they do so choose to teach the curriculum they can do it, the teachers can do it themselves and it meets the california core standards and so they can meet those deliverables and we are going to set up bike clubs at middle schools and bike shops at high schools to teach them >> we're going