filipinos really love coffee.ughter] seriously, historically as you know, filipinos have been an essential part of the south of market area. that is very inclusive of that area. there is a church near there. there are areas there that are very important to filipino- americans. we want to make sure we keep our community intact. thank you for all of your hard work. thank you for keeping the giants in district 6. filipinos love the san francisco giants. we have heritage night on may 2. thank you. [tone!] >> my name is doug comstock. i want to talk about a block north of panhandle. we want to keep this block in the panhandle because we're stronger together. it is a beautiful blocked. it is a victorian blocked. it has nothing to do with the richmond. it is entirely panhandle architecture. it is part of our community. thank you for restoring 11 of the blocks. however, is integral to our neighborhood and battles against st. mary's and their encroachment for outpatient services throughout our residential district. if we w

there are a lot of filipinos in that area. they have the same interests as a lot of filipinos in the tenderloin south of market. we want to make sure they stay in the district to make sure they have affordable housing, adequate services. [tone!] we want to make sure they of culturally competent services that they receive from the community. we want to make sure you continue hearing the community today and a different resonance speaking to keep district 6 south of market together. thank you. >> thank you, ma'am. >> it is ok. [tone!] >> good morning, a task force members. my name is lorenzo. miami tenderloin resident and a member of the association has a membership base of over 150 filipino residents in the tenderloin. i would like to ask everyone in the task force to consider the impact on district 6. soma/mission/tenderloin has been the starting point for many filipino residents and families historically. the filipino community has been part of that district since the 1920's. this is where we could find affordable housing, ade

could we look at all populations, like even the filipino community. is your request about relative to what changed? >> we were not supposed to be looking at these issues from an ethnic, racial perspective but communities of interest and there are other communities of interest in those two areas. and in order for us to look at this community, we need to look at other communities as well to make sure we do not dilute other communities if we were going to make any changes. >> your request for information or assessment of that is what? in a specific way that we can ask commercial as this data? he said show was all -- show us all. quex in those two areas -- >> in those two areas so we have a comparison. chairman mcdonnell: thank you. >commissioner leighlam: i am interested -- as well as the last move to the ting lee andre. commissioner pilpel: i have a couple of tiny box that do have some population and applications, one of which -- couple of tiny blocks that do have some population areas. at the edge of portola. the more significant areas, south of st. lu

we have the country's only filipino bilingual school. we have health centers, parks, churches with filipino residents and their families. we still have a concern about the recent move to push the border north to 13th street. is higher than the previously proposed 15th street northern border, which was in the map as recently as april 4. it is higher than the community unity map version with the district 9 border at 16th street. it is important to filipino community stays unified and has a voice politically. [tone!] our people come out for community matters. they want to be involved. we urge you move the northern border of district 92 least 15th street and extended from valencia to harrison street. i cannot convey to you enough how important is that the filipin>> have a small businessr in san francisco. my apologies to the labour community here, i appreciate the need to create more jobs. i regularly walk picket lines in support of working men and women. i am amazed by this. i am hearing that the outcome of the race is not only for the demo

we have the country's only filipino bilingual school. we have health centers, parks, churches with filipino residents and their families. we still have a concern about the recent move to push the border north to 13th street. is higher than the previously proposed 15th street northern border, which was in the map as recently as april 4. it is higher than the community unity map version with the district 9 border at 16th street. it is important to filipino community stays unified and has a voice politically. [tone!] our people come out for community matters. they want to be involved. we urge you move the northern border of district 92 least 15th street and extended from valencia to harrison street. i cannot convey to you enough how important is that the filipino community stay together. we bear the brunt of a lot in the city in terms of policy development. [tone!] we want to make sure our voices are unified and heard. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> my apologies again for stepping in. my name is dan doat from the bayview distric

mission bay, south beach, rincon hill, treasure island, filipino community, and the tenderloin just added by ms. melara. >> are we keeping it together in district 6? >> we did not fully achieve that for the mission, either. mr. mcdonnell: we will not include the tenderloin. >> there is a planning department-recognized neighborhood. correct the spelling. replace "n" with "p." mr. pilpel: could i suggest combining those and saying south of market? that seems to be more of a neighborhood that we could recognize. >> they are separate, though. mr. mcdonnell: hold on. we have heard one proposal. i will confirm the spelling. >> no. that is not right. >> no what? >> we are not voting. >> could you repeat the question? mr. mcdonnell: silma -- recognized neighborhood? >> that was a public submission boundary. mr. mcdonnell: what is the first letter? >> p. mr. mcdonnell: ok. it is a p. >> excuse my spelling error. >> that is why we are editing. mr. mcdonnell: ok. again, we have selma, treasure island, mission bay -- >> i combined the list. i hate -- -- i have -- mr. mcdonnell: i thought we agreed, n

it supported the filipino community organization. i am here today to speak about the proposal for the cpmc hospital on and van ness and how this project will affect low- income residents in tenderloin. i know that affordable housing in the tenderloin is a very hard to find. most families in tenderloin share with relatives and friends in a small one-studio unit because they cannot afford the rent. some employees of cpmc plan to come into the neighborhood, causing displacement among low- income families. we have been in the tenderloin -- [unintelligible] wherever these people -- this will help address their housing needs. that is why it is very important for cpmc to follow the van ness and area plant requirements to build affordable housing. therefore, i demand that cpmc should it do more affordable housing in the community. we cannot add to the housing problem of the community, but in said -- but instead, we want cpmc to help our community housing needs. to help the low-income families in our community. thank you very much, commission

. >> i m director of the steel which is a filipino arts organization. i am here to talk about district 6, and i am here on behalf of the filipino american forum on redistricting. i am passing out a map right now. is it possible to use the overhead? >> is possible. >> rate. -- great. the reason i'm here, i want to say on behalf of the filipino american community that we are very happy with all the hard work that you put into this. i am happy for you that it is almost over and you get to rest. there is one concern that we do have with the recent working draft. there is a proposal to actually make the border of district 6 right here along thirteenth, and as you concede that we have a very high concentration of filipino americans that reside here. it would cut off a big chunk of the population. we wanted to bring that up and see if you can bring it up to 15 between harrison. >> i am the executive director of the japanese community council. i am here again tonight to urge you to adopt the current draft of the northern border of district 5. as an organization

idol's break down is a california girl of filipino dissent.of jessica sanchez call her an inspiration. >> reporter: they certainly do. i have to tell you, the last 90 seconds of tonight's finale completely grueling for the people who gathered here tonight. they were literally on the edge of their seats. and when the announcement was made, there was complete disappointment here. they had bonded with jessica sanchez, because like her, they were of filipino dissent. >> the winner of "american idol" is phillip phillips. >> he's still young, and she has to move on. there's so many things and so much ahead for her. >> reporter: these dispointed fans haven't missed an episode. applauding her perfect pitch and powerful vocals. >> people are just in awe of how she's able to reach those high notes more than any other filipino singer. >> reporter: he says jessica's talent, and her filipino heritage endured fans to the teen. not only here in america. but all over the world, especially in the philippines where her rise to idol fame has been covered on tele

i am from the filipino community center. one of the nine organizations that are part of the progress of workers alliance. the organization has been working in the community for many years and black latino, asian, clear, pacific islander and young worker communities. the progress of worker alliance includes the filipino community center. power, pride at work, and young workers united. together, they have been working in communication -- communities across the city with its laborers, domestic workers, including filipino care givers. we have been working closely on the ground with those that of been suffering under the wage theft nationally. we have launched a project at the sec to look into the care giver project. in this community where we have a lot of immigrants, low- income, underground workers and low-wage workers that are suffering from a wage

idol's break down is a california girl of filipino dissent.ans of jessica sanchez call her an inspiration. >> reporter: they certainly do. i have to tell you, the last 90 seconds of tonight's finale completely grueling for the people who gathered here tonight. they were literally on the edge of their seats. and when the announcement was made, there was complete disappointment here. they had bonded with jessica sanchez, because like her, they were of filipino dissent. >> the winner of "american idol" is phillip phillips. >> he's still young, and she has to move on. there's so many things and so much ahead for her. >> reporter: these dispointed fans haven't missed an episode. applauding her perfect pitch and powerful vocals. >> people are just in awe of how she's able to reach those high notes more than any other filipino singer. >> reporter: he says jessica's talent, and her filipino heritage endured fans to the teen. not only here in america. but all over the world, especially in the philippines where her rise to idol fame has been covered on

so much so that the fact she has filipino blood qualifies her as a rallying point for filipinos to idolize and make us a hero. >> what are the effects of the fact that everybody here is so obsessed with american culture? >> this is a culture which has been shaped by a hundred years or so of hollywood from the americans. in other words, the affinity of filipinos for americans is so strong that despite so many years, almost half a century of independence, the welding of these two culture is still strong in terms of sharing and in terms of development. >> "american idol" combines this country's love the united states with its love for singing. even president aquino says he's rooting for jessica sanchez. while america waits with baits breath to see who has won, those in the philippines will be doing the same thing. >> now prince charles has taken to the deck, the deejay deck and was intensive for the highness and he visited a training center in canada. you see he learned how to spin records and do some mixing. this comes only a few days after prince harry was of course in the british press to

>> my question is, is the filipino community corridor on mission street recognized neighborhood? i think there was a map submitted that was called the filipino corridor. >> i don't think we have that on our list of recognized -- of our list of submitted neighborhoods. >> yes, we did, it was submitted. ms. tidwell: i guess it was not clear to us at that time. >> i am trying to get to the member proposal. >> i'm sorry, what did you say? >> it was not clear to us that was a neighborhood a proposal, so we did not digitize it. >> so, how are we -- how can we resolve that? >> is it a neighborhood or more properly a committee of interest? >> i thought it was a neighborhood, the way the map was submitted, but i realize that was not digitized. >> so, yeah, do you have the map with you? >> i do. give me a few minutes, though. mr. mcdonnell: we can't want to hurry up and slow down at the same time. it does not work that way. for the purposes of ms. tidwell and the edits that need to be made, there is the adding of the individual member submissions as agreed upon in to the lessons and recomm

united california practitioners of chinese medicine, young filipino professional association.a round of applause to all of our community partners, please. that was a lot. >> i'm glad he had to do that. our next speaker is u.s. congressman mike honda. he has represented the 15th congressional district of california in the u.s. house of representatives for over a decade. in congress, he is a member of the powerful house appropriations and budgets committee, chair emeritus of the asian pacific american caucus, co-chair of the democratic caucus's new media working group, house democratic senior whip and original author of the equity and excellence commission now housed in the u.s. department of education. mike's district includes silicon valley, the birth-place of technology, innovation and now the country's leading developer of green technology. mike has dedicated his life to public service and is lauded for his work on education, civil rights, national service, immigration, transportation, the environment, and high-tech issues. >> he is also the greatest karaoke singer in the ha

if we could look at the filipino population in two areas, in the ting lee cayuga which removed on monday evening and the other is the no. mission. it is hard for me to read the map because the shading on this version that one of the speaker is distributed is pretty subtle but if it is possible to clarify the concentration of the filipino community in those areas. one is the blocks north of northeast of ting lee and the northern part of cayuga that we move from -- moved from d 11 to d 8. and from 14th street -- one of the speaker said 15th street. up to the freeway. commissioner leigmilar: in connection with -- if possible looking at the panhandle issue that has been presented is to look at california lake, that area to move some of those blocks from district two to district 1 to balance that out and that was put us into district two to look at the russian hill issue. if we're looking at the populations of the areas that member lee has mentioned, you have to look at all the -- the other populations, not just the filipino community. >> when you say all of

how my filipino family values education and financial needs. we will award based on their financial needs. >> for this reception, we would like to invite you, members of the board, to join us on this special event on friday, may 18, 2012. it is at the war memorial building, second floor, from 6:00 to 9:00. we hope you can join us and celebrate our students. >> because of the lack of money, we have a very basic invitation letter to the board members and to the administrators. >> thank you. it is this friday, right? 18, thank you. >> good evening. i am a teacher at civic center secondary. i just want to tell the board a little bit about the proposal about the lower level classrooms. for anyone that is not aware, that school is being renovated right now. we heard from our principal that they would like to turn the bottom level in two offices and the middle school out into the portables. we want to let everyone know that the san francisco voters voted to have the facilities for our students so they could walk into a school site with pride. if they

there's no category for filipino officers, but if you put the two together -- asian officers and filipino officers -- not far away from the 45%. languages spoken -- mandarin, korean, cantonese, hindi, spanish, and tagalog. our crime staff -- this is one of the things i used to gauge how well i'm doing. if it is going down, i think i'm doing ok. if it is going up, i think i needed to better. these are the statistics for 2009, 2010, 2011, and year-to- date 2011, year-to-date 2012. this is april 1, 2012, these numbers are current. homicides last year, 2011, we had three. year-to-date at the same time last year, we had one. right now, we have one. rapes -- total of nine last year. we already have seven this year. i look at all the reports, and am looking to see if we have any serial crimes happening. most of these are people that the victim knows. robberies have gone down. last year at this time we had 60. right now, we have 51. assaults, which include domestic violence. last year, we had 80. right now, 64. these are the part one violent crimes. our part two violent crimes -- burglary rehas g

it eliminates the distinction between regular and old filipino scouts and the other divisions. veterans that have received lump sum payments would be eligible for these benefits. we tried to sort of cover this all up by giving them a $15,000 stipend. frankly, that's not good enough. and there are still about 85 -- there are about 15,000 living filipino veterans of world war ii right now. they're 85 years old. they're not going to live much longer. but they certainly deserve the benefits that we promed them. but that we then rescinded with the rescission act of 1946. for these veterans and their families, i believe the time has come to right this horrific wrong. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlelady yields back. does the gentleman insist on his point of order? mr. cull behrson: yes, mr. chairman. i make a point of order because it proposes to change existing statutory law and constitutes legislation in an appropriations bill an violates clause 2 of rule 21 because that rule states in pertinent part that amendment to a general appropriations bill shall no

>> if you know the asian community, and this applies to chinese, japanese, filipino, korean, many of our previous generations came from countries that had a very hard, a kind of, sometimes, like for a better word, history of dictatorships. so when they come to america, and i have had these conversations with my parents, and they experience the freedom that americans have, they are going to be shy about politics. they are going to be shy about law enforcement. those are things that are not naturally things they engage with in their countries of origin. you have to know that history. once you understand that, there are generations of my parents and so forth that say we do not want you involved in politics.

. >> reporter: federal law prevented filipino women to enter. >> he went home into barracks, had very rudimentay work there. they formed an alliance with the white packing. the strike was effective for a few weeks until the white packers settled with managers. the filipinos was standing on the sidewalk in salinas september 16, and the fresh still fresh in his mind. trying to make a living on the packing ship. on that day that herb henry remembers, strikers were trying to stop lettuce from going to the shed. >> one of the trucks were sitting on if lettuce. and there was a guy on top with -- a full fledged brawl ensued. he calls for individual ran cy crashes. my uncle were patrols from shotguns. >> reporter: they hired their own security. >> they got into that. >> reporter: brass knuckles el people carried anything to support themselves. it turned out to be the most violent day. among the people watching the strike was john strike that fort's dispossessed families that looked for work on philadelphia fields. the novel was a success but he in longer was considered. >> he is considered a

we are south easton, southeast asian, and filipino.he leaders in our community who are here with us tonight, leaders of our benevolent associations, our business associations, and our commissioners. we cannot do what we do in city hall without all of you. we know we have come a long way. it was not long ago that chinese americans were excluded under our city laws. when japanese americans were interned. when filipino tenants were evicted from the international hotel. when the fbi investigated our community. for us to stand here now is amazing. i think finally we have enough asian americans to form our own dragon dance team. it would be a short dragon, but a dragon dance team nonetheless. we would not be here and be able to do that but for the support we have and the work we are all doing together. thank you all for being here, and a very happy lunar new year. [applause] supervisor chu: today, i want to welcome you to city hall and wish you a happy new year. [speaking chinese] [applause] may you have much luck and good luck in the new ye

i am also a member of the tenderloin filipino american community association. we need development of our community, but this development should also help the low-income residents in our community. cpmc continues to make super profits while giving very little of that profit back in terms of health care services for the poor. worse is that the plan to downgrade the things that so many low-income communities depend on. cpmc must operate in be sustainable and phillippe stop st. luke's hospital for the southeastern san francisco committees. it is writes for them to think of profits and service to the port. i hope that our good commissioners will ensure that cpmc do its fair share in serving low-income patients before they think up approving it. we demand that cpmc should increase primary-care access in our community and make long-term commitments to the community- based clinics in providing direct care in the hospital. we should ensure many medicare and medi-cal patients like we're able to use cpmc facilities. we have the right to health care. we demand that cpmc sh

students. -- and honor quite a few of our filipino students.we were able to give scholarships to 20 of them. it was wonderful. they were $500 scholarships and $250 scholarships. i attend in the state commencement which was the last one for the doctor. i want to do a thanks to doctor corrigan for his 24 years of service to san francisco. he is an amazingly there. they have brought on a new president of the school. doctor wong. he is coming from michigan. there he is. our very own, he was honored at the board of supervisors for his tremendous work of the redistricting task force. thank you for reayour public service. on a personal note, i want to congratulate my son will be graduating from middle school tomorrow and his best buddies. we are really persia of the boys. --proud of you boys. >> i do not know who is next. >> just to add in the order, -- i just wanted to add one more event attended, it is worth mentioning. i went to the kit with a college graduation. it was inspired scene. -- i went to the gateway to college graduation. it was inspirin

and she also claimed the actress insulted her filipino heritage.ry friedman civil rights attorney and professor. good to see you. >> hi, fredricka. >> richard herman criminal attorney from las vegas. good to see you. >> hi, fred. >> she says she was fired february of last year because of her filipino heritage because of her accent, also the actress is guilty of racial harassment, sweatshop conditions, racial determination. how difficult will this be to prove? or richard, i will say, how will she go about trying to prove this? >> well, the first mistake sharon stone made her, fred, was not to convince her nanny to make her great food, great filipino food. anyway, this is a very difficult case for the nanny to prove. she worked there for five years, fred. it's going to be her word against sharon stone's word. this was an employment at will. there's no written agreement here. five years she worked. when she was terminated she tried to get workers' compensation, disability, she got rejected on all that. eighteen months later she brings this lawsuit. i