for housing were addressed in the budget as well speaker lastly, i wanted to thank my asian pacific islanders on this board for standing strong with the asian pacific council it stooped with a strong voice for the many asians and pacific islanders so thanks all supervisors for the process and i learned a lot through this and i feel we've got a great budget i'm proud to support today >> supervisor campos. i >> i want to thank the spent e extended committee thank you to each and every one of you and supervisor avalos and supervisor mar and breed and let's see supervisor wiener, of course. having been on budget a couple times i know how much work is takes so thank you to each one of your 5 offices and staff. and chair farrell i've seen many budget processes since i've got here and congratulations for the smooth efforts. i want to note i think what's amazing about this budget it really strikes a balance to make sure we're taking care of the nuts and bolts making sure we're funding infrastructure throughout the city neighborhood needs that specific districts have and i i know there are a number of

i'm pacific islander on campus and one of the few pacific islanders advocating for all the pis [speaker not understood]. i'm happy that you're here because all of these people live in your jurisdiction. so, thank you so much and john avalos. i just want to state that six years ago i started at ccsf and this fall i'll be transferring to sf state. it took me six years, but three years throughout my six years to advocate and ask for resources and ask for implementations on policies that affect my people, my pacific islander folks. the same people who are here to attack and judge accjc were the same people who resisted change in this college. and i'm standing here as a student and as an advocate, it is a shame. for me to see this happening when we all could have just been like let's work together. that was the problem. we are judging these people that came in, that i saw that problem six years ago. they just barely got here a year ago to address the same issues that i've been fighting for, undermining the work that students who are making a change part of a whole new program to address equi

challenges of processing people transferred to the pacific island states raises a number of important difficulties for us. not only does it raise complex legal issues about compliance with these national prevent -- providinggencies, but protection to people in these remote pacific island nations. >> in the face of more than 20,000 asylum seekers who have come by boat in the last year, australia's time to persuade others not to make the same dangerous trip. >> you've got to break this new model of people smuggling. otherwise, you will occupy more and more of the immigration intake in australia. we cannot privatize our immigration program to people smugglers could we cannot allow that to happen. the u.n. has made modernizations. as a proud party to the convention on refugees that we cannot allow people smuggling to figure more and more and to become stronger and stronger. >> politics is at play. an election is due before the end of the year in australia, and how to stop the boat is a hot topic. >> it is rare for the unhcr to be this critical and public. such criticism can please austral

asian pacific islanders, 28%. latino, 25%.ut if you go by city, there's a very different break down. at the top, asian pacific islanders, and in east palo alto -- >> we put it to the voters, and they didn't want those type of electio elections. >> reporter: she's concerned lengthing people by district will faracture the county. >> we provide those throughout the county. >> reporter: in a move to avoid the courtroom, the county put the issue on the november 2012 ballot in measure b. it passed at nearly 60%. the county has been heading meetings during the summer, asking people to draw their own district lines. >> it will not be a perfect fix, however, it allows communities of interest to have their own voice and a louder voice. >> reporter: gertrude welcomes the change but remains wary. >> i used to be that voice inside. >> reporter: now she's hoping that voice is on the way to the top. stephanie trong, bay area news. >> now the suit has been settled. the board of supervisors is hoping to have the lines completed by october and

from the asian pacific islander legal outreach, executive director dean ito taylor. program director from the catholic charities cyo christopher martinez. amy wang [speaker not understood]. cheryl madrid, jewish services. and [speaker not understood], executive director from la rasa community resource center. together all the partners have invited over 30 of our clients to join us to celebrate today and they're standing in the mayor's office right now, so happy that they're part of this celebration. i think together we represent the diversity of san francisco and many of the ethnic communities that so desperately need naturalization services, from legal consultation to completion of the 10-page n. 400 forms, to the fee waiver forms to help them get a waiver for the 680 dollars application fee to become citizen. together our collaborative covers all of the major languages spoken by our clients, chinese, spanish, vietnamese, russian, other eastern european languages, burmese, tagalog and others. we urge you to attend upcoming naturalization workshop on august 10, 2013,

the asian caucus, asian pacific islander outreach, catholic charities cyo, international institute of the bay area, jewish family and children services, [speaker not understood] community resource center. as well as the african advocacy network, the arab resource organizing center, myob which is the [speaker not understood], the southeast asian community center, [speaker not understood] media, of course san francisco immigrant rights commission. well, i've often said in many speeches that our immigrant population is important. well, over a third of our population are immigrants and we acknowledge that. but i don't just want to say it as an announcement. everybody knows that. what we want is full participation. we want people to not be afraid or not be meeting as many barriers as they are today, from activating themselves in full participation. and i do want to have people of all languages and all heritages telling us how they want our parks to be managed, how they want community safety, how they want transportation to be had, all these things everybody else gets to do, and they weigh

afc pacific islanders are particularly susceptible. they got the word about the vaccine. >> young people are bringing in their families and spreading the word. the more people that understand that it is something they need to be screened for, the better off we will be. >> it is say to protect a individual for life. raising red flags about the violence in e vipt, the message these demonstrators are hoping to send to the world. twitter under pressure. several thousands signed a petition demanding that they make a change. and also a hollywood star that visited america's cup and hopped on a boat. >>> the world champion san francisco giants have a date with the president. they got to celebrate last year with a trip to the white house. president obama will honor the giants in a ceremony tomorrow to salute their second championship in three years. >>> and coming up, supportive shopping, how brides to be are getting a deal on dresses and helping fight cancer at the same time. just into the news room, video of the chaos in libya. explosions tha

african-americans comprised 26 person and caucasian were counted and latinos had 12 percent and pacific islanders 3 percent. our staff speaks several languages including cantonese and spanish. two of our investigators are bilingual spanish speakers which is important because the largest number of interviews we conduct are in spanish. for languages other than the one previously mentioned we'll get those services. we have intakes in spanish and 5 in cantonese. we're located on the corner of van ness and marketed. we're assessable by public transportation for walk in complainants but we receive complaints regarding police conduct from 12 calls by e-mail and faxes. we're open monday through friday between 8 and 5 and on the off hours we have on a answering service. you can file a complaint with the district station and they'll forward it to us. if any of you would like additional information i'm previously introduced a senior member ed and he's hear to hear your concerns. thank you >> thank you for your presentation. you know, we're very lucky director hicks has really turned the organization around

we had our first ever and we're partnered with the pacific islanders youth group in invitation valley and we're running a rug by camp. we have a famous rugby smaller fellow about two or three meters which is 6, 6 about 3 hundred pounds and he's fast so i'm glad he only that plays rugby. anyway it's a wonderful thing to have girls role models and boys role models pr i have to give the credit to the rugby folks and for the money from the san francisco police department fountains and so i'm going to stop there and defer the rest of envy comments to curtis but when the evening it over it's been our tradition we stay around it would be nice to meet everybody >> i have a comment he want to do this during to the public. i want them to understand something. we in san francisco has been blessed with a string of very good police chiefs by you feel that and i'm not given to gratuitous comments but we are we have a particular blessing with the chief we have today. if you have not heard or listened to this chief over the last year or so then you've miss the opportunity to hear from someone connect

it is hispanic, pacific islanders, white, native americans, it is everybody. when they leave that room, they go back to their communities that are segregated. they, too, do not like it. it is a barrier that has to be torn down. i know it works. being in there for the last four years, we make it a point that everybody mixes up, even the seating. you do not just sit with a black person or a white person. it is about all of us, or none of us, and that is the bottom line. it has to be that mentality. >> it is a way to control the prisoners. it takes the pressure off the guards and everybody else. they say we want to stop violence, but you promote a violence by segregating. when an individual comes, the first in the asking, where are you from? what is your nationality? that is how to divide and conquer. that is the way the united states is made up. that is how you work. north and south vietnam, for instance. they divide people so that the pressure will not be on them. that is how i see the system. i see it in prison, how they divide inmates. it is scary if inmates

it is hispanic, pacific islanders, white, native americans, it is everybody. when they leave that room, they go back to their communities that are segregated. they, too, do not like it. it is a barrier that has to be torn down. i know it works.

visitation valley, and the patral, hill and the students are african american, hispanic and pacific islanders please keep the people who support our struggling families the most. ace members and closed the gap coalition will be keeping a close eye on you how you choose to spend the additional revenues coming from the states. and we want to make sure that these resources go to school sites themselves for direct services to students. and help teachers do their jobs. we ask that you make public, the plans for your multitiered system of support. and the common core, we are very concerned about special education money, being swept from our school sites. remember, this is our, discuss me this is our footing, our schools, our children, and our future. >> good evening, board of education commissioners and superintendent carranza, i'm susan soloman, i am here representing the closed gap coalition, gordon was here and was not able to stay to speak. where many items that i will try to keep it short as short as possible. and we have a number of concerns, one is about many of the funds that are being swep

the asian caucus, asian pacific islander outreach, catholic charities cyo, international institute of the bay area, jewish family and children services,

. >>> well, the finally south pacific island of american samoa has the world's worst obesity rate.resident has started a program aimed at getting young people to slim down. >> reporter: this is the front line in american samoa's battle against obesity, an early morning exercise class at the island's only stadium. olivia comes here twice a week. >> i needed to get healthier. i had high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol. >> reporter: 75% of samoans with obese which is why the woman teaches this class. a nurse, she says almost all of her patients suffer from the effects of being so overweight. >> diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease. they're slowly killing themselves. >> it's very scare j and we need to do something -- fast. >> reporter: the doctor blames the problem on sedentary lifestyles and on islanders' appetite for high fat american food. almost all the food sim ported and fast food is popular because of their fixed low cost menus. the obesity epidemic even affects newborns of overweight mothers. >> a lot of the mothers are diabetic, so when they have

afternoon, my name is nu, i am a documented, i'm here represented aspires, a group that's with the pacific islanders as well asing prehealth dreamers, a group that's wanting to become doctors and nurses, and i'm here to really continue to add to how important healthy san francisco is for the undocumented community. originally from thailand, i lived in the bay area since i was 9 years old and growing up, my family was never rely relied on going to the doctor to treat our illnesses because we didn't think anything was out there that we would be eligible for and we lived to the best of our ability to not get sick and it was in 2007 that my mom was rushed to the emergency room after she fainted from excessive bleeding and that was when we found out she had tumors and cysts in her ovaries and you know the doctor say if we waited any longer, she could be in real danger and it was because she was uninsured and she didn't have the preventive care that would have prevented her from needing to have the surgery that she did, and healthy san francisco would have done that for her, it is doing that for thousands

our actual workforce representation is 29% african-american, 22% hispanic, 16% asian-pacific islander, 6% filipino, and 27% white. ~ 26%. so, we are very difficult verse in our staffing. in terms of the other for cultural competency, we offer our clients in terms of access, language line, we have english and spanish publications. also our reception area which is our first contact point, we have multiple language spoken in that area. in terms of overtime, we have zero overtime we we always have ceo overtime. so, keeping up the good fight. ~ zero we do community policing b we offer staff time off, and we give them time to do that. those are two things, we do pink saturday and also halloween in the castro district. but we do not authorize any overtime. staff basically look at that part of our community corrections or community relations opportunity. in terms of the clients that we service, high-risk, high-need as we talked about, substance abuse, 82% of our clients, we do risk needs assessment on our clients and 82% have a substance abuse issue or need to be addressed. vocation and educa