ideally this individual will speak cantonese, or mandarin. they've seen about a 5% increase in the filipino population. this individual would provide social services and translation services to people who came into the center. so catholic charities community services site also has sf connected computer lab where they have classes for seniors. they're looking to get reconnected to first train staff and volunteers at the center to provide classes for seniors and additionally get volunteers for classes as well. classes would be both individual and in the group setting. some of the courses that have been most popular are e health literacy and computer classes for beginners. catholic chair tiff to 400 unduplicated clients a year looking to increase their activity hours from 1200 a year to 1600 a year. they're looking to increase their social service units from 500 to 900 units a year. translation service they're looking to increase from 300 units a year to 500. ooa urges your approval and happy to answer any questions you may have >>any questions

us and we heard a very incredible powerful message that was delivered to chinatown businesses in cantonese around zero waste and the good thing is commissioner wald is going to recite the entire presentation in cantonese. >> i'm sorry. thoughts, colleagues? commissioner stephenson. >> yeah i think that was great. my very first job was at an ad agency here in san francisco and we were given a presentation that was starting from the culture and the language itself and the presentation was called your cow is on the ice and the thing that i took away from it was apparently in some place in scandinavia is a phrase is your barn door open and if you translate it straight across it meant absolutely nothing so i think the more we can we can do that kind of outreach where we're starting from scratch i think the message tends to be much more powerful so bravo to you guys for doing that. >> that. >> all right. thoughts before we take public comment? >> thank you mr. president and thank you for that lovely presentation and the two gentleman that was up as her assistants, jack and john, john, are wonder

most of these positions generally require spanish mandarin or cantonese. these are heavily concentrated in just a few departments. next is how much is being spent because it's important to note that although a department may have a lot of bilingual employees it doesn't necessarily mean they are being paid for it. employees are only paid for the hours they are actually using their language skills, which are then reported. so of the overall 7.6 million dollars in language expenditures, a little less than one-third of that is for bilingual pay premiums and as you can see again very heavily concentrated. we also wanted to figure out who are the bilingual employees and what kind of work they are doing for the city. in order to do that we tried to get a handle on the most common fte classifications for bilingual employees. the city's bilingual positions are heavily concentrated in public health and police. in the same way that expenditures are concentrated in a small number of departments, bilingual employees are concentrated in a relatively small number of fte

tradition everybody young and owl and in china to bring leukemia to our family you have to do it and the cantonese tradition or the mulch i didn't balls are common practice in chinatown as well as you know throughout china and the other one about a kid who is 16 years old who plays the chinese violin really, really good ritual on tv and part of the celebration this is the flier and this is the dump listing so i hope i hope julia can attend at hong kong restaurant i'm not here to brag about anything but this is the good thing good year in the year of the sheep. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello supervisors i'm speak also here to sit in solidarity i've been in san francisco for 5 years it's the best in the world i think it is really hard living in fear everyday wondering is today, the day i'll get stabbed on the bus attacked going into the clubs or groshdz as many people decided trans latinos in san francisco 70 percent feel unsafe walking around san francisco of all places in the daylight compared to 20 percent of the lgbtq population i'm here to demand no new jai

lee (clapping) we did give a shout out to the san francisco police department i have to recognize cantoneseo is here (clapping) you all know him he heads the tenderloin police station and their police officers also personally clean the streets in san francisco so thank you for doing that (clapping) 0 over 20 years ago actually in 1994 a group of young people in chinatown that noticed their alleyways were not clean so they started doing research and knows there's a difference between streets and alleys and what's the responsibility of the city yet no one was taking care of the alleys they personally went out and cleaned the alleyways and published them in local newspapers to shame the adults the property owners and the restaurant owners and the merchant and city in taking care of the alleyways in the same way we are 10 years ago this program hired me this is the second annual community set up in san francisco while the work has expanded dpw has worked with them and you'll the neighborhood clean our streets and alleyway program south of market for example i want to thank you all for your work

that live here in our neighborhood alone the claungz languages we hear are chinese and arabic and a cantonese so many people and it's amazing what the neighborhood has been able to do in the faith of a lot of deficits this is our home and i'm so proud that so many people come out today demonstrating our commitment to live making this neighborhood healthier and stronger and safer (clapping) me our sitting at community center one hundred and 70 hours for the homeless this community for the truth of the matter for this building and fought for boo decker park. >>yes. this community fought for the pit stop you fought to remove bus shuttles when there were high criminal activities and parking on the block of church street to improve the safety your activating our playground and fought for the liquor store here and fought for safe passages and more than anything any neighborhood this neighborhood has demonstrated compassion and generosity and a commitment to making this neighborhood safer now we know that we can do that that a partner in this role is sfpd and we all have positive relationship with s

i'm very proud that my three member staff can speak cantonese, spanish, french, chinese and many other languages as well. but i'm hoping that as we look at our city's departments and strengthening with this language access that we'll see much move of an improvement in other departments. as we move toward being a multi lingal city, thank you so much to supervisor's tang and three for linging this forward >> thank you. supervisor kim. >> i just wanted to thank them for their work on this. i know supervisor tang has been working on this since she was an aid and i really appreciate that you are making sure this is an integral part of the language access. i'm glad to see this in code and i would like to add my name as a cosponsor. >> okay. thank you. not seeing no other names on the roster, can we please take this item same house, same call as amended without objection? this ordinance is passed on the first reading unanimously. madam clerk, can you please call the next item >> item 13 is a motion to amend the board of supervisors rules of orders with 3.27 by renaming the neighborhood servic

be put into place different languages that all the other departments put information in spanish, cantonese, chose chinese and suffered of it that been done? to jeff suppan completed it done yet. we're working with the city to do basically major meet the requirements of the 12 hold our hands and walk us through the process. i believe it will be done before the end of the world >> is there any expenditures that you expect that might be >> we don't know because they are trying to make it easier for us. i did anticipate there would be but without knowing what it is, probably at the point we know will ask for an additional amount of money from the board and the mayor. separate from the big budget process to ship would you know that before you put in your submission? if you do need these additional amounts what i'm suggesting is perhaps you might want to make some sort of estimate and put that in there so this isn't held up >> also get some kind of number out of them but i don't know what it is. based on our conversations, i do think there's owing to be an expense. i hope sounds much as i had or

>> yes we are offering services in english, spanish, mandarin and cantonese. and it is based on the individual need. if we know there's a specific need within a language we will make sure to match the small business owners with that consultant. >> all right, thank you. >> welcome. >> thank you. thank you. it is great to be here. i'm excited. i think that there's plenty of opportunity and i'm glad to be a part of the team. >> one last question how many staff members are there? >> staff members, currently there's one, we're working on -- amy. but total consultants we have 10 and we're working to bring one additional person on board soon. >> good luck with that. >> i'd like to add that i'm excited that we have the opportunity to have angel housed at osb he's just getting here, the lay of the land, meeting everybody, meeting the consultants he's working with and we're going to be working out our internal process for cross-referrals but sbdc is managing our program out of the office of economic and work force development and as we move into developing the legacy pr

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he claims to speak fluent mandarin and cantonese. since i can't speak either, i have no idea whether that's true or not. today tom oversees the largest school district in colorado with 185 schools and enrollment of more than 90,000 students and 13,000 employees. when i left denver public schools in 2009 i said if i did a decent job, tom will do a better job. no doubt that has been the case. denver public schools is ranked at the top of the state's largest districts in student growth. in 2005 denver was dead last. just last year denver public school students eligible for free and reduced lunch had stronger academic growth than non-free and reduced lunch students statewide in math and writing. and students showed more growth in state counterparts in math by eight points. on top of that the english language learners have outperformed the states. tom happens to be responsible for educating my three daughters. as we begin to talk about reauthorizing we need to hear the voices of those fighting every day to improve our kids' education. tom